linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v4.5

Merge branch 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2016-02-10T19:04:05Z

Pull workqueue fixes from Tejun Heo: "Workqueue fixes for v4.5-rc3. - Remove a spurious triggering of flush dependency warning. - Officially break local execution guarantee of unbound work items and add a debug feature to flush out usages which depend on it. - Work around CPU -> NODE mapping becoming invalid on CPU offline. The branch is young but pushing out early as stable kernels are being affected" * 'for-4.5-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: workqueue: handle NUMA_NO_NODE for unbound pool_workqueue lookup workqueue: implement "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" debug feature workqueue: schedule WORK_CPU_UNBOUND work on wq_unbound_cpumask CPUs Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu" workqueue: skip flush dependency checks for legacy workqueues

workqueue: implement "workqueue.debug_force_rr_cpu" debug feature

2016-02-09T22:59:38Z

Workqueue used to guarantee local execution for work items queued without explicit target CPU. The guarantee is gone now which can break some usages in subtle ways. To flush out those cases, this patch implements a debug feature which forces round-robin CPU selection for all such work items. The debug feature defaults to off and can be enabled with a kernel parameter. The default can be flipped with a debug config option. If you hit this commit during bisection, please refer to 041bd12e272c ("Revert "workqueue: make sure delayed work run in local cpu"") for more information and ping me. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

mm: warn about VmData over RLIMIT_DATA

2016-02-03T16:28:43Z

This patch provides a way of working around a slight regression introduced by commit 84638335900f ("mm: rework virtual memory accounting"). Before that commit RLIMIT_DATA have control only over size of the brk region. But that change have caused problems with all existing versions of valgrind, because it set RLIMIT_DATA to zero. This patch fixes rlimit check (limit actually in bytes, not pages) and by default turns it into warning which prints at first VmData misuse: "mmap: top (795): VmData 516096 exceed data ulimit 512000. Will be forbidden soon." Behavior is controlled by boot param ignore_rlimit_data=y/n and by sysfs /sys/module/kernel/parameters/ignore_rlimit_data. For now it set to "y". [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt text[ Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151228211015.GL2194@uranus Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Vegard Nossum Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Vladimir Davydov Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Quentin Casasnovas Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Willy Tarreau Cc: Pavel Emelyanov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus

2016-01-24T20:50:56Z

Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle: "This is the main pull request for MIPS for 4.5 plus some 4.4 fixes. The executive summary: - ATH79 platform improvments, use DT bindings for the ATH79 USB PHY. - Avoid useless rebuilds for zboot. - jz4780: Add NEMC, BCH and NAND device tree nodes - Initial support for the MicroChip's DT platform. As all the device drivers are missing this is still of limited use. - Some Loongson3 cleanups. - The unavoidable whitespace polishing. - Reduce clock skew when synchronizing the CPU cycle counters on CPU startup. - Add MIPS R6 fixes. - Lots of cleanups across arch/mips as fallout from KVM. - Lots of minor fixes and changes for IEEE 754-2008 support to the FPU emulator / fp-assist software. - Minor Ralink, BCM47xx and bcm963xx platform support improvments. - Support SMP on BCM63168" * 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (84 commits) MIPS: zboot: Add support for serial debug using the PROM MIPS: zboot: Avoid useless rebuilds MIPS: BMIPS: Enable ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Remove unused bcm63xx_nvram_get_psi_size() function MIPS: bcm963xx: Update bcm_tag field image_sequence MIPS: bcm963xx: Move extended flash address to bcm_tag header file MIPS: bcm963xx: Move Broadcom BCM963xx image tag data structure MIPS: bcm63xx: nvram: Use nvram structure definition from header file MIPS: bcm963xx: Add Broadcom BCM963xx board nvram data structure MAINTAINERS: Add KVM for MIPS entry MIPS: KVM: Add missing newline to kvm_err() MIPS: Move KVM specific opcodes into asm/inst.h MIPS: KVM: Use cacheops.h definitions MIPS: Break down cacheops.h definitions MIPS: Use EXCCODE_ constants with set_except_vector() MIPS: Update trap codes MIPS: Move Cause.ExcCode trap codes to mipsregs.h MIPS: KVM: Make kvm_mips_{init,exit}() static MIPS: KVM: Refactor added offsetof()s MIPS: KVM: Convert EXPORT_SYMBOL to _GPL ...

mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2

2016-01-21T01:09:18Z

Kmem accounting might incur overhead that some users can't put up with. Besides, the implementation is still considered unstable. So let's provide a way to disable it for those users who aren't happy with it. To disable kmem accounting for cgroup2, pass cgroup.memory=nokmem at boot time. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MIPS: Add IEEE Std 754 conformance mode selection

2016-01-19T23:39:20Z

Add an `ieee754=' kernel parameter to control IEEE Std 754 conformance mode. Use separate flags copied from the respective CPU feature flags, and adjusted according to the conformance mode selected, to make binaries requesting individual NaN encoding modes accepted or rejected as needed. Update the initial setting for FCSR and, in the full FPU emulation mode, its read-only mask accordingly. Accept the mode selection requested for legacy processors as well. As with the EF_MIPS_NAN2008 ELF file header flag adjust both ABS2008 and NAN2008 bits at the same time, to match the choice made for hardware currently implemented. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Fortune Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/11481/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

Merge tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-01-17T19:55:07Z

Pull documentation updates from Jon Corbet: "A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc fixes and various document tweaks. One patch reaches out of the documentation subtree to fix a comment in init/do_mounts_rd.c. There didn't seem to be anybody more appropriate to take that one, so I accepted it" * tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits) thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit Documentation: update libhugetlbfs site url Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main() Documentation: HOWTO: update versions from 3.x to 4.x Documentation: remove outdated references from translations Doc: treewide: Fix grammar "a" to "an" Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions can-doc: Add hint about getting timestamps Fix CFQ I/O scheduler parameter name in documentation Documentation: arm: remove dead links from Marvell Berlin docs Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link Doc: Docbook/iio: Fix typo in iio.tmpl DocBook: make index.html generation less verbose by default DocBook: Cleanup: remove an unused $(call) line DocBook: Add a help message for DOCBOOKS env var ...

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2016-01-15T21:18:47Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Core: - Ground work for the new Power9 MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Optimise FP/VMX/VSX context switching from Anton Blanchard Misc: - Various cleanups from Krzysztof Kozlowski, John Ogness, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Gavin Shan, Daniel Axtens, Michael Neuling, Andrew Donnellan - Allow wrapper to work on non-english system from Laurent Vivier - Add rN aliases to the pt_regs_offset table from Rashmica Gupta - Fix module autoload for rackmeter & axonram drivers from Luis de Bethencourt - Include KVM guest test in all interrupt vectors from Paul Mackerras - Fix DSCR inheritance over fork() from Anton Blanchard - Make value-returning atomics & {cmp}xchg* & their atomic_ versions fully ordered from Boqun Feng - Print MSR TM bits in oops messages from Michael Neuling - Add TM signal return & invalid stack selftests from Michael Neuling - Limit EPOW reset event warnings from Vipin K Parashar - Remove the Cell QPACE code from Rashmica Gupta - Append linux_banner to exception information in xmon from Rashmica Gupta - Add selftest to check if VSRs are corrupted from Rashmica Gupta - Remove broken GregorianDay() from Daniel Axtens - Import Anton's context_switch2 benchmark into selftests from Michael Ellerman - Add selftest script to test HMI functionality from Daniel Axtens - Remove obsolete OPAL v2 support from Stewart Smith - Make enter_rtas() private from Michael Ellerman - PPR exception cleanups from Michael Ellerman - Add page soft dirty tracking from Laurent Dufour - Add support for Nvlink NPUs from Alistair Popple - Add support for kexec on 476fpe from Alistair Popple - Enable kernel CPU dlpar from sysfs from Nathan Fontenot - Copy only required pieces of the mm_context_t to the paca from Michael Neuling - Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes OPAL console output on panic from Russell Currey - Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing from Steven Rostedt - Add HWCAP bits for Power9 from Michael Ellerman - Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff from Hugh Dickins - scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc from Ulrich Weigand - Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations in modules from Ulrich Weigand cxl: - cxl: Fix possible idr warning when contexts are released from Vaibhav Jain - cxl: use correct operator when writing pcie config space values from Andrew Donnellan - cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits from Vaibhav Jain - cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x from Brian Norris - cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR from Brian Norris - cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter from Uma Krishnan Freescale: - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include moving QE code out of arch/powerpc (to be shared with arm), device tree updates, and minor fixes" * tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (149 commits) powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH prototype and usages powerpc/mm: fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff powerpc/mm: Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x powerpc: Add HWCAP bits for Power9 powerpc/powernv: Reserve PE#0 on NPU powerpc/powernv: Change NPU PE# assignment powerpc/powernv: Fix update of NVLink DMA mask powerpc/powernv: Remove misleading comment in pci.c powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing powerpc: Fix build break due to paca mm_context_t changes cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits MAINTAINERS: Update Scott Wood's e-mail address powerpc/powernv: Fix minor off-by-one error in opal_mce_check_early_recovery() powerpc: Fix style of self-test config prompts powerpc/powernv: Only delay opal_rtc_read() retry when necessary ...

mm: memcontrol: account socket memory in unified hierarchy memory controller

2016-01-15T00:00:49Z

Socket memory can be a significant share of overall memory consumed by common workloads. In order to provide reasonable resource isolation in the unified hierarchy, this type of memory needs to be included in the tracking/accounting of a cgroup under active memory resource control. Overhead is only incurred when a non-root control group is created AND the memory controller is instructed to track and account the memory footprint of that group. cgroup.memory=nosocket can be specified on the boot commandline to override any runtime configuration and forcibly exclude socket memory from active memory resource control. Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: David S. Miller Reviewed-by: Vladimir Davydov Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely

2016-01-14T20:24:54Z

People complained that setting the PCI config space access mechanism through "pci=conf1" or "pci=conf2" on the command line is not really documented. Yeah, can you blame them? Look at what we have now. So try to improve the situation a bit by explaining what those "conf1" and "conf2" things actually mean. See http://wiki.osdev.org/PCI for more info. Suggested-by: Eric Morton Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov [jc: Added the above URL to the document too] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet