linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v6.2

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2023-02-18T19:07:32Z

Pull kvm/x86 fixes from Paolo Bonzini: - zero all padding for KVM_GET_DEBUGREGS - fix rST warning - disable vPMU support on hybrid CPUs * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: kvm: initialize all of the kvm_debugregs structure before sending it to userspace perf/x86: Refuse to export capabilities for hybrid PMUs KVM: x86/pmu: Disable vPMU support on hybrid CPUs (host PMUs) Documentation/hw-vuln: Fix rST warning

Documentation/hw-vuln: Fix rST warning

2023-02-15T12:24:23Z

The following warning: Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/cross-thread-rsb.rst:92: ERROR: Unexpected indentation. was introduced by commit 493a2c2d23ca. Fix it by placing everything in the same paragraph and also use a monospace font. Fixes: 493a2c2d23ca ("Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2023-02-14T17:17:01Z

Pull kvm fixes from Paolo Bonzini: "Certain AMD processors are vulnerable to a cross-thread return address predictions bug. When running in SMT mode and one of the sibling threads transitions out of C0 state, the other thread gets access to twice as many entries in the RSB, but unfortunately the predictions of the now-halted logical processor are not purged. Therefore, the executing processor could speculatively execute from locations that the now-halted processor had trained the RSB on. The Spectre v2 mitigations cover the Linux kernel, as it fills the RSB when context switching to the idle thread. However, KVM allows a VMM to prevent exiting guest mode when transitioning out of C0 using the KVM_CAP_X86_DISABLE_EXITS capability can be used by a VMM to change this behavior. To mitigate the cross-thread return address predictions bug, a VMM must not be allowed to override the default behavior to intercept C0 transitions. These patches introduce a KVM module parameter that, if set, will prevent the user from disabling the HLT, MWAIT and CSTATE exits" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions KVM: x86: Mitigate the cross-thread return address predictions bug x86/speculation: Identify processors vulnerable to SMT RSB predictions

Documentation/hw-vuln: Add documentation for Cross-Thread Return Predictions

2023-02-10T12:27:37Z

Add the admin guide for the Cross-Thread Return Predictions vulnerability. Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky Message-Id: <60f9c0b4396956ce70499ae180cb548720b25c7e.1675956146.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

Revert "mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim"

2023-02-01T00:44:07Z

This reverts commit 12a5d3955227b0d7e04fb793ccceeb2a1dd275c5. Although it is recognized that a finer grained pro-active reclaim is something we need and want the semantic of this implementation is really ambiguous. In a follow up discussion it became clear that there are two essential usecases here. One is to use memory.reclaim to pro-actively reclaim memory and expectation is that the requested and reported amount of memory is uncharged from the memcg. Another usecase focuses on pro-active demotion when the memory is merely shuffled around to demotion targets while the overall charged memory stays unchanged. The current implementation considers demoted pages as reclaimed and that break both usecases. [1] has tried to address the reporting part but there are more issues with that summarized in [2] and follow up emails. Let's revert the nodemask based extension of the memcg pro-active reclaim for now until we settle with a more robust semantic. [1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221206023406.3182800-1-almasrymina@google.com [2] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5bsmpCyeryu3Zz1@dhcp22.suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Y5xASNe1x8cusiTx@dhcp22.suse.cz Fixes: 12a5d3955227b0d ("mm: add nodes= arg to memory.reclaim") Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Bagas Sanjaya Cc: Huang Ying Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Mina Almasry Cc: Muchun Song Cc: Roman Gushchin Cc: Shakeel Butt Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Wei Xu Cc: Yang Shi Cc: Yosry Ahmed Cc: zefan li Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Docs/admin-guide/mm/zswap: remove zsmalloc's lack of writeback warning

2023-01-12T00:14:21Z

Writeback has been implemented for zsmalloc, so this warning no longer holds. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230106220016.172303-1-nphamcs@gmail.com Fixes: 9997bc017549a ("zsmalloc: implement writeback mechanism for zsmalloc") Suggested-by: Thomas Weißschuh Signed-off-by: Nhat Pham Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu

2022-12-19T14:34:39Z

Pull iommu updates from Joerg Roedel: "Core code: - map/unmap_pages() cleanup - SVA and IOPF refactoring - Clean up and document return codes from device/domain attachment AMD driver: - Rework and extend parsing code for ivrs_ioapic, ivrs_hpet and ivrs_acpihid command line options - Some smaller cleanups Intel driver: - Blocking domain support - Cleanups S390 driver: - Fixes and improvements for attach and aperture handling PAMU driver: - Resource leak fix and cleanup Rockchip driver: - Page table permission bit fix Mediatek driver: - Improve safety from invalid dts input - Smaller fixes and improvements Exynos driver: - Fix driver initialization sequence Sun50i driver: - Remove IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY as it has not been working forever - Various other fixes" * tag 'iommu-updates-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (74 commits) iommu/mediatek: Fix forever loop in error handling iommu/mediatek: Fix crash on isr after kexec() iommu/sun50i: Remove IOMMU_DOMAIN_IDENTITY iommu/amd: Fix typo in macro parameter name iommu/mediatek: Remove unused "mapping" member from mtk_iommu_data iommu/mediatek: Improve safety for mediatek,smi property in larb nodes iommu/mediatek: Validate number of phandles associated with "mediatek,larbs" iommu/mediatek: Add error path for loop of mm_dts_parse iommu/mediatek: Use component_match_add iommu/mediatek: Add platform_device_put for recovering the device refcnt iommu/fsl_pamu: Fix resource leak in fsl_pamu_probe() iommu/vt-d: Use real field for indication of first level iommu/vt-d: Remove unnecessary domain_context_mapped() iommu/vt-d: Rename domain_add_dev_info() iommu/vt-d: Rename iommu_disable_dev_iotlb() iommu/vt-d: Add blocking domain support iommu/vt-d: Add device_block_translation() helper iommu/vt-d: Allocate pasid table in device probe path iommu/amd: Check return value of mmu_notifier_register() iommu/amd: Fix pci device refcount leak in ppr_notifier() ...

Merge tag 'loongarch-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson

2022-12-19T14:23:27Z

Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen: - Switch to relative exception tables - Add unaligned access support - Add alternative runtime patching mechanism - Add FDT booting support from efi system table - Add suspend/hibernation (ACPI S3/S4) support - Add basic STACKPROTECTOR support - Add ftrace (function tracer) support - Update the default config file * tag 'loongarch-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (24 commits) LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file LoongArch: modules/ftrace: Initialize PLT at load time LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR support LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS support LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS support LoongArch/ftrace: Add dynamic function graph tracer support LoongArch/ftrace: Add dynamic function tracer support LoongArch/ftrace: Add recordmcount support LoongArch/ftrace: Add basic support LoongArch: module: Use got/plt section indices for relocations LoongArch: Add basic STACKPROTECTOR support LoongArch: Add hibernation (ACPI S4) support LoongArch: Add suspend (ACPI S3) support LoongArch: Add processing ISA Node in DeviceTree LoongArch: Add FDT booting support from efi system table LoongArch: Use alternative to optimize libraries LoongArch: Add alternative runtime patching mechanism LoongArch: Add unaligned access support LoongArch: BPF: Add BPF exception tables LoongArch: Remove the .fixup section usage ...

Merge tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2022-12-19T13:13:33Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Add powerpc qspinlock implementation optimised for large system scalability and paravirt. See the merge message for more details - Enable objtool to be built on powerpc to generate mcount locations - Use a temporary mm for code patching with the Radix MMU, so the writable mapping is restricted to the patching CPU - Add an option to build the 64-bit big-endian kernel with the ELFv2 ABI - Sanitise user registers on interrupt entry on 64-bit Book3S - Many other small features and fixes Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Angel Iglesias, Benjamin Gray, Bjorn Helgaas, Bo Liu, Chen Lifu, Christoph Hellwig, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Colin Ian King, Deming Wang, Disha Goel, Dmitry Torokhov, Finn Thain, Geert Uytterhoeven, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Haowen Bai, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kajol Jain, Laurent Dufour, Li zeming, Miaoqian Lin, Michael Jeanson, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nayna Jain, Nicholas Miehlbradt, Nicholas Piggin, Pali Rohár, Randy Dunlap, Rohan McLure, Russell Currey, Sathvika Vasireddy, Shaomin Deng, Stephen Kitt, Stephen Rothwell, Thomas Weißschuh, Tiezhu Yang, Uwe Kleine-König, Xie Shaowen, Xiu Jianfeng, XueBing Chen, Yang Yingliang, Zhang Jiaming, ruanjinjie, Jessica Yu, and Wolfram Sang. * tag 'powerpc-6.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (181 commits) powerpc/code-patching: Fix oops with DEBUG_VM enabled powerpc/qspinlock: Fix 32-bit build powerpc/prom: Fix 32-bit build powerpc/rtas: mandate RTAS syscall filtering powerpc/rtas: define pr_fmt and convert printk call sites powerpc/rtas: clean up includes powerpc/rtas: clean up rtas_error_log_max initialization powerpc/pseries/eeh: use correct API for error log size powerpc/rtas: avoid scheduling in rtas_os_term() powerpc/rtas: avoid device tree lookups in rtas_os_term() powerpc/rtasd: use correct OF API for event scan rate powerpc/rtas: document rtas_call() powerpc/pseries: unregister VPA when hot unplugging a CPU powerpc/pseries: reset the RCU watchdogs after a LPM powerpc: Take in account addition CPU node when building kexec FDT powerpc: export the CPU node count powerpc/cpuidle: Set CPUIDLE_FLAG_POLLING for snooze state powerpc/dts/fsl: Fix pca954x i2c-mux node names cxl: Remove unnecessary cxl_pci_window_alignment() selftests/powerpc: Fix resource leaks ...

Merge tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace

2022-12-16T02:01:16Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Add options to the osnoise tracer: - 'panic_on_stop' option that panics the kernel if osnoise is greater than some user defined threshold. - 'preempt' option, to test noise while preemption is disabled - 'irq' option, to test noise when interrupts are disabled - Add .percent and .graph suffix to histograms to give different outputs - Add nohitcount to disable showing hitcount in histogram output - Add new __cpumask() to trace event fields to annotate that a unsigned long array is a cpumask to user space and should be treated as one. - Add trace_trigger kernel command line parameter to enable trace event triggers at boot up. Useful to trace stack traces, disable tracing and take snapshots. - Fix x86/kmmio mmio tracer to work with the updates to lockdep - Unify the panic and die notifiers - Add back ftrace_expect reference that is used to extract more information in the ftrace_bug() code. - Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in the tracing error log. - Updated MAINTAINERS file to add kernel tracing mailing list and patchwork info - Use IDA to keep track of event type numbers. - And minor fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (44 commits) tracing: Fix cpumask() example typo tracing: Improve panic/die notifiers ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels tracing: Do not synchronize freeing of trigger filter on boot up tracing: Remove pointer (asterisk) and brackets from cpumask_t field tracing: Have trigger filter parsing errors show up in error_log x86/mm/kmmio: Remove redundant preempt_disable() tracing: Fix infinite loop in tracing_read_pipe on overflowed print_trace_line Documentation/osnoise: Add osnoise/options documentation tracing/osnoise: Add preempt and/or irq disabled options tracing/osnoise: Add PANIC_ON_STOP option Documentation/osnoise: Escape underscore of NO_ prefix tracing: Fix some checker warnings tracing/osnoise: Make osnoise_options static tracing: remove unnecessary trace_trigger ifdef ring-buffer: Handle resize in early boot up tracing/hist: Fix issue of losting command info in error_log tracing: Fix issue of missing one synthetic field tracing/hist: Fix out-of-bound write on 'action_data.var_ref_idx' tracing/hist: Fix wrong return value in parse_action_params() ...