linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch v6.4

Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.4-rc5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2023-06-09T01:52:54Z

Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: - Fix css_set reference leaks on fork failures - Fix CPU hotplug locking in cgroup_transfer_tasks() which is used by cgroup1 cpuset - Doc update * tag 'cgroup-for-6.4-rc5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: Documentation: Clarify usage of memory limits cgroup: always put cset in cgroup_css_set_put_fork cgroup: fix missing cpus_read_{lock,unlock}() in cgroup_transfer_tasks()

cgroup: Documentation: Clarify usage of memory limits

2023-06-06T00:08:12Z

The existing documentation refers to memory.high as the "main mechanism to control memory usage." This seems incorrect to me - memory.high can result in reclaim pressure which simply leads to stalls unless some external component observes and actions on it (e.g. systemd-oomd can be used for this purpose). While this is feasible, users are unaware of this interaction and are led to believe that memory.high alone is an effective mechanism for limiting memory. The documentation should recommend the use of memory.max as the effective way to enforce memory limits - it triggers reclaim and results in OOM kills by itself. Signed-off-by: Dan Schatzberg Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: Chris Down Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

cifs: correct references in Documentation to old fs/cifs path

2023-05-24T21:29:21Z

The fs/cifs directory has moved to fs/smb/client, correct mentions of this in Documentation and comments. Acked-by: Namjae Jeon Signed-off-by: Steve French

docs: quickly-build-trimmed-linux: various small fixes and improvements

2023-05-16T18:50:05Z

* improve the short description of localmodconfig in the step-by-step guide while fixing its broken first sentence * briefly mention immutable Linux distributions * use '--shallow-exclude=v6.0' throughout the document * instead of "git reset --hard; git checkout ..." use "git checkout --force ..." in the step-by-step guide: this matches the TLDR and is one command less to execute. This led to a few small adjustments to the text and the flow in the surrounding area. * fix two thinkos in the section explaining full git clones Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6f4684b9a5d11d3adb04e0af3cfc60db8b28eeb2.1684140700.git.linux@leemhuis.info Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'for-6.4/block-2023-05-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux

2023-05-06T15:28:58Z

Pull more block updates from Jens Axboe: - MD pull request via Song: - Improve raid5 sequential IO performance on spinning disks, which fixes a regression since v6.0 (Jan Kara) - Fix bitmap offset types, which fixes an issue introduced in this merge window (Jonathan Derrick) - Cleanup of hweight type used for cgroup writeback (Maxim) - Fix a regression with the "has_submit_bio" changes across partitions (Ming) - Cleanup of QUEUE_FLAG_ADD_RANDOM clearing. We used to set this flag on queues non blk-mq queues, and hence some drivers clear it unconditionally. Since all of these have since been converted to true blk-mq drivers, drop the useless clear as the bit is not set (Chaitanya) - Fix the flags being set in a bio for a flush for drbd (Christoph) - Cleanup and deduplication of the code handling setting block device capacity (Damien) - Fix for ublk handling IO timeouts (Ming) - Fix for a regression in blk-cgroup teardown (Tao) - NBD documentation and code fixes (Eric) - Convert blk-integrity to using device_attributes rather than a second kobject to manage lifetimes (Thomas) * tag 'for-6.4/block-2023-05-06' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux: ublk: add timeout handler drbd: correctly submit flush bio on barrier mailmap: add mailmap entries for Jens Axboe block: Skip destroyed blkg when restart in blkg_destroy_all() writeback: fix call of incorrect macro md: Fix bitmap offset type in sb writer md/raid5: Improve performance for sequential IO docs nbd: userspace NBD now favors github over sourceforge block nbd: use req.cookie instead of req.handle uapi nbd: add cookie alias to handle uapi nbd: improve doc links to userspace spec blk-integrity: register sysfs attributes on struct device blk-integrity: convert to struct device_attribute blk-integrity: use sysfs_emit block/drivers: remove dead clear of random flag block: sync part's ->bd_has_submit_bio with disk's block: Cleanup set_capacity()/bdev_set_nr_sectors()

Merge tag 'docs-6.4-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2023-05-05T20:16:42Z

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, plus one Spanish translation that has been ready for some time but got applied late" * tag 'docs-6.4-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/adding-syscalls CREDITS: Update email address for Mat Martineau Documentation: update kernel stack for x86_64 docs: Remove unnecessary unicode character docs: fix "Reviewd" typo Documentation: timers: hrtimers: Make hybrid union historical docs/admin-guide/mm/ksm.rst fix intraface -> interface typo doc:it_IT: fix some typos

Merge tag 'xfs-6.4-merge-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux

2023-04-29T17:44:27Z

Pull xfs updates from Dave Chinner: "This consists mainly of online scrub functionality and the design documentation for the upcoming online repair functionality built on top of the scrub code: - Added detailed design documentation for the upcoming online repair feature - major update to online scrub to complete the reverse mapping cross-referencing infrastructure enabling us to fully validate allocated metadata against owner records. This is the last piece of scrub infrastructure needed before we can start merging online repair functionality. - Fixes for the ascii-ci hashing issues - deprecation of the ascii-ci functionality - on-disk format verification bug fixes - various random bug fixes for syzbot and other bug reports" * tag 'xfs-6.4-merge-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (107 commits) xfs: fix livelock in delayed allocation at ENOSPC xfs: Extend table marker on deprecated mount options table xfs: fix duplicate includes xfs: fix BUG_ON in xfs_getbmap() xfs: verify buffer contents when we skip log replay xfs: _{attr,data}_map_shared should take ILOCK_EXCL until iread_extents is completely done xfs: remove WARN when dquot cache insertion fails xfs: don't consider future format versions valid xfs: deprecate the ascii-ci feature xfs: test the ascii case-insensitive hash xfs: stabilize the dirent name transformation function used for ascii-ci dir hash computation xfs: cross-reference rmap records with refcount btrees xfs: cross-reference rmap records with inode btrees xfs: cross-reference rmap records with free space btrees xfs: cross-reference rmap records with ag btrees xfs: introduce bitmap type for AG blocks xfs: convert xbitmap to interval tree xfs: drop the _safe behavior from the xbitmap foreach macro xfs: don't load local xattr values during scrub xfs: remove the for_each_xbitmap_ helpers ...

Merge tag 'cgroup-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup

2023-04-29T17:05:22Z

Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo: - cpuset changes including the fix for an incorrect interaction with CPU hotplug and an optimization - Other doc and cosmetic changes * tag 'cgroup-for-6.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: docs: cgroup-v1/cpusets: update libcgroup project link cgroup/cpuset: Minor updates to test_cpuset_prs.sh cgroup/cpuset: Include offline CPUs when tasks' cpumasks in top_cpuset are updated cgroup/cpuset: Skip task update if hotplug doesn't affect current cpuset cpuset: Clean up cpuset_node_allowed cgroup: bpf: use cgroup_lock()/cgroup_unlock() wrappers

Merge tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.4-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux

2023-04-28T23:55:39Z

Pull RISC-V updates from Palmer Dabbelt: - Support for runtime detection of the Svnapot extension - Support for Zicboz when clearing pages - We've moved to GENERIC_ENTRY - Support for !MMU on rv32 systems - The linear region is now mapped via huge pages - Support for building relocatable kernels - Support for the hwprobe interface - Various fixes and cleanups throughout the tree * tag 'riscv-for-linus-6.4-mw1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux: (57 commits) RISC-V: hwprobe: Explicity check for -1 in vdso init RISC-V: hwprobe: There can only be one first riscv: Allow to downgrade paging mode from the command line dt-bindings: riscv: add sv57 mmu-type RISC-V: hwprobe: Remove __init on probe_vendor_features() riscv: Use --emit-relocs in order to move .rela.dyn in init riscv: Check relocations at compile time powerpc: Move script to check relocations at compile time in scripts/ riscv: Introduce CONFIG_RELOCATABLE riscv: Move .rela.dyn outside of init to avoid empty relocations riscv: Prepare EFI header for relocatable kernels riscv: Unconditionnally select KASAN_VMALLOC if KASAN riscv: Fix ptdump when KASAN is enabled riscv: Fix EFI stub usage of KASAN instrumented strcmp function riscv: Move DTB_EARLY_BASE_VA to the kernel address space riscv: Rework kasan population functions riscv: Split early and final KASAN population functions riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping riscv: Move the linear mapping creation in its own function riscv: Get rid of riscv_pfn_base variable ...

Merge tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2023-04-28T22:03:43Z

Pull SMP cross-CPU function-call updates from Ingo Molnar: - Remove diagnostics and adjust config for CSD lock diagnostics - Add a generic IPI-sending tracepoint, as currently there's no easy way to instrument IPI origins: it's arch dependent and for some major architectures it's not even consistently available. * tag 'smp-core-2023-04-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: trace,smp: Trace all smp_function_call*() invocations trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpu() sched, smp: Trace smp callback causing an IPI smp: reword smp call IPI comment treewide: Trace IPIs sent via smp_send_reschedule() irq_work: Trace self-IPIs sent via arch_irq_work_raise() smp: Trace IPIs sent via arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask() sched, smp: Trace IPIs sent via send_call_function_single_ipi() trace: Add trace_ipi_send_cpumask() kernel/smp: Make csdlock_debug= resettable locking/csd_lock: Remove per-CPU data indirection from CSD lock debugging locking/csd_lock: Remove added data from CSD lock debugging locking/csd_lock: Add Kconfig option for csd_debug default