For mostly historical reasons, the x86 oops dump shows the raw stack
values:
...
[registers]
Stack:
ffff880079af7350 ffff880079905400 0000000000000000 ffffc900008f3ae0
ffffffffa0196610 0000000000000001 00010000ffffffff 0000000087654321
0000000000000002 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
...
This seems to be an artifact from long ago, and probably isn't needed
anymore. It generally just adds noise to the dump, and it can be
actively harmful because it leaks kernel addresses.
Linus says:
"The stack dump actually goes back to forever, and it used to be
useful back in 1992 or so. But it used to be useful mainly because
stacks were simpler and we didn't have very good call traces anyway. I
definitely remember having used them - I just do not remember having
used them in the last ten+ years.
Of course, it's still true that if you can trigger an oops, you've
likely already lost the security game, but since the stack dump is so
useless, let's aim to just remove it and make games like the above
harder."
This also removes the related 'kstack=' cmdline option and the
'kstack_depth_to_print' sysctl.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e83bd50df52d8fe88e94d2566426ae40d813bf8f.1477405374.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced
along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to
the right places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the
syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory
areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the
documentation.
The mm side of this has been acked by Mel"
* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pkeys: Update documentation
x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used
x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches
x86/pkeys: Add self-tests
x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru
x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU
pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/
generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls
x86: Wire up protection keys system calls
x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls
x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags
mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call
x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
There are a few items that have gotten stale in the protection
keys documentation. The config option description only applied
to the execute-only support and is not accurate for the current
code. There was also a typo with the number of system calls. I
also wanted to call out that pkey_set() is not a kernel-provided
facility, and where to find an implementation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161004163857.71E0D6F6@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This is a trivial fix to correct upper bound addresses to always be
inclusive. Previously, the majority of ranges specified were inclusive with a
small minority specifying an exclusive upper bound. This patch fixes this
inconsistency.
Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
"make help" if sphinx isn't present.
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Merge tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning
on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present"
* tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1
Documenation: update cgroup's document path
Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon <iamyooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes:
- add initial commits to randomize kernel memory section virtual
addresses, enabled via a new kernel option: RANDOMIZE_MEMORY
(Thomas Garnier, Kees Cook, Baoquan He, Yinghai Lu)
- enhance KASLR (RANDOMIZE_BASE) physical memory randomization (Kees
Cook)
- EBDA/BIOS region boot quirk cleanups (Andy Lutomirski, Ingo Molnar)
- misc cleanups/fixes"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/boot: Simplify EBDA-vs-BIOS reservation logic
x86/boot: Clarify what x86_legacy_features.reserve_bios_regions does
x86/boot: Reorganize and clean up the BIOS area reservation code
x86/mm: Do not reference phys addr beyond kernel
x86/mm: Add memory hotplug support for KASLR memory randomization
x86/mm: Enable KASLR for vmalloc memory regions
x86/mm: Enable KASLR for physical mapping memory regions
x86/mm: Implement ASLR for kernel memory regions
x86/mm: Separate variable for trampoline PGD
x86/mm: Add PUD VA support for physical mapping
x86/mm: Update physical mapping variable names
x86/mm: Refactor KASLR entropy functions
x86/KASLR: Fix boot crash with certain memory configurations
x86/boot/64: Add forgotten end of function marker
x86/KASLR: Allow randomization below the load address
x86/KASLR: Extend kernel image physical address randomization to addresses larger than 4G
x86/KASLR: Randomize virtual address separately
x86/KASLR: Clarify identity map interface
x86/boot: Refuse to build with data relocations
x86/KASLR, x86/power: Remove x86 hibernation restrictions
Randomizes the virtual address space of kernel memory regions for
x86_64. This first patch adds the infrastructure and does not randomize
any region. The following patches will randomize the physical memory
mapping, vmalloc and vmemmap regions.
This security feature mitigates exploits relying on predictable kernel
addresses. These addresses can be used to disclose the kernel modules
base addresses or corrupt specific structures to elevate privileges
bypassing the current implementation of KASLR. This feature can be
enabled with the CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY option.
The order of each memory region is not changed. The feature looks at the
available space for the regions based on different configuration options
and randomizes the base and space between each. The size of the physical
memory mapping is the available physical memory. No performance impact
was detected while testing the feature.
Entropy is generated using the KASLR early boot functions now shared in
the lib directory (originally written by Kees Cook). Randomization is
done on PGD & PUD page table levels to increase possible addresses. The
physical memory mapping code was adapted to support PUD level virtual
addresses. This implementation on the best configuration provides 30,000
possible virtual addresses in average for each memory region. An
additional low memory page is used to ensure each CPU can start with a
PGD aligned virtual address (for realmode).
x86/dump_pagetable was updated to correctly display each region.
Updated documentation on x86_64 memory layout accordingly.
Performance data, after all patches in the series:
Kernbench shows almost no difference (-+ less than 1%):
Before:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.63 (1.2695)
User Time 1034.89 (1.18115) System Time 87.056 (0.456416) Percent CPU 1092.9
(13.892) Context Switches 199805 (3455.33) Sleeps 97907.8 (900.636)
After:
Average Optimal load -j 12 Run (std deviation): Elapsed Time 102.489 (1.10636)
User Time 1034.86 (1.36053) System Time 87.764 (0.49345) Percent CPU 1095
(12.7715) Context Switches 199036 (4298.1) Sleeps 97681.6 (1031.11)
Hackbench shows 0% difference on average (hackbench 90 repeated 10 times):
attemp,before,after 1,0.076,0.069 2,0.072,0.069 3,0.066,0.066 4,0.066,0.068
5,0.066,0.067 6,0.066,0.069 7,0.067,0.066 8,0.063,0.067 9,0.067,0.065
10,0.068,0.071 average,0.0677,0.0677
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Popov <alpopov@ptsecurity.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466556426-32664-6-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using restructured
text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be able to eliminate
the DocBook dependency and have a much better integrated set of kernel
docs. Someday.
Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees, the
movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of improvements to
the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection of corrections, typo
fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
"A bit busier this time around.
The most interesting thing (IMO) this time around is some beginning
infrastructural work to allow documents to be written using
restructured text. Maybe someday, in a galaxy far far away, we'll be
able to eliminate the DocBook dependency and have a much better
integrated set of kernel docs. Someday.
Beyond that, there's a new document on security hardening from Kees,
the movement of some sample code over to samples/, a number of
improvements to the serial docs from Geert, and the usual collection
of corrections, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits)
doc: self-protection: provide initial details
serial: doc: Use port->state instead of info
serial: doc: Always refer to tty_port->mutex
Documentation: vm: Spelling s/paltform/platform/g
Documentation/memcg: update kmem limit doc as codes behavior
docproc: print a comment about autogeneration for rst output
docproc: add support for reStructuredText format via --rst option
docproc: abstract terminating lines at first space
docproc: abstract docproc directive detection
docproc: reduce unnecessary indentation
docproc: add variables for subcommand and filename
kernel-doc: use rst C domain directives and references for types
kernel-doc: produce RestructuredText output
kernel-doc: rewrite usage description, remove duplicated comments
Doc: correct the location of sysrq.c
Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes
samples: v4l: from Documentation to samples directory
samples: connector: from Documentation to samples directory
Documentation: xillybus: fix spelling mistake
Documentation: x86: fix spelling mistakes
...
'cpu_has_pse' has changed to boot_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_PSE), fix this
up in the merge commit when merging the x86/urgent tree that includes
the following commit:
103f6112f2 ("x86/mm/xen: Suppress hugetlbfs in PV guests")
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Correct the size of the module mapping space and the maximum available
physical memory size of current processors.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461310504-15977-1-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Stefan Richter noticed that the X86_INTEL_MEMORY_PROTECTION_KEYS option
in arch/x86/Kconfig references Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt,
but the file does not exist.
This is a patch merging mishap: the final (v8) version of the pkeys
series did not include the documentation patch 32 and v7 included.
Add it now.
Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151214190634.426BEE41@viggo.jf.intel.com
[ Added changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This should contain important aspects of how we represent the system
topology on x86. If people have questions about it and this file doesn't
answer it, then it must be updated.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160328095609.GD26651@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes are:
- Use separate EFI page tables when executing EFI firmware code.
This isolates the EFI context from the rest of the kernel, which
has security and general robustness advantages. (Matt Fleming)
- Run regular UEFI firmware with interrupts enabled. This is already
the status quo under other OSs. (Ard Biesheuvel)
- Various x86 EFI enhancements, such as the use of non-executable
attributes for EFI memory mappings. (Sai Praneeth Prakhya)
- Various arm64 UEFI enhancements. (Ard Biesheuvel)
- ... various fixes and cleanups.
The separate EFI page tables feature got delayed twice already,
because it's an intrusive change and we didn't feel confident about
it - third time's the charm we hope!"
* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/mm/pat: Fix boot crash when 1GB pages are not supported by the CPU
x86/efi: Only map kernel text for EFI mixed mode
x86/efi: Map EFI_MEMORY_{XP,RO} memory region bits to EFI page tables
x86/mm/pat: Don't implicitly allow _PAGE_RW in kernel_map_pages_in_pgd()
efi/arm*: Perform hardware compatibility check
efi/arm64: Check for h/w support before booting a >4 KB granular kernel
efi/arm: Check for LPAE support before booting a LPAE kernel
efi/arm-init: Use read-only early mappings
efi/efistub: Prevent __init annotations from being used
arm64/vmlinux.lds.S: Handle .init.rodata.xxx and .init.bss sections
efi/arm64: Drop __init annotation from handle_kernel_image()
x86/mm/pat: Use _PAGE_GLOBAL bit for EFI page table mappings
efi/runtime-wrappers: Run UEFI Runtime Services with interrupts enabled
efi: Reformat GUID tables to follow the format in UEFI spec
efi: Add Persistent Memory type name
efi: Add NV memory attribute
x86/efi: Show actual ending addresses in efi_print_memmap
x86/efi/bgrt: Don't ignore the BGRT if the 'valid' bit is 0
efivars: Use to_efivar_entry
efi: Runtime-wrapper: Get rid of the rtc_lock spinlock
...
Pull x86 microcode updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change in this cycle was the separation of the microcode
loading mechanism from the initrd code plus the support of built-in
microcode images.
There were also lots cleanups and general restructuring (by Borislav
Petkov)"
* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/microcode/intel: Drop orig_sum from ext signature checksum
x86/microcode/intel: Improve microcode sanity-checking error messages
x86/microcode/intel: Merge two consecutive if-statements
x86/microcode/intel: Get rid of DWSIZE
x86/microcode/intel: Change checksum variables to u32
x86/microcode: Use kmemdup() rather than duplicating its implementation
x86/microcode: Remove unnecessary paravirt_enabled check
x86/microcode: Document builtin microcode loading method
x86/microcode/AMD: Issue microcode updated message later
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Remove unused arg of get_matching_model_microcode()
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_in_initrd
x86/microcode/intel: Use *wrmsrl variants
x86/microcode/intel: Cleanup apply_microcode_intel()
x86/microcode/intel: Move the BUG_ON up and turn it into WARN_ON
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_intel variable to mc
x86/microcode/intel: Rename mc_saved_count to num_saved
x86/microcode/intel: Rename local variables of type struct mc_saved_data
x86/microcode/AMD: Drop redundant printk prefix
x86/microcode: Issue update message only once
...
Pull x86 asm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"This is another big update. Main changes are:
- lots of x86 system call (and other traps/exceptions) entry code
enhancements. In particular the complex parts of the 64-bit entry
code have been migrated to C code as well, and a number of dusty
corners have been refreshed. (Andy Lutomirski)
- vDSO special mapping robustification and general cleanups (Andy
Lutomirski)
- cpufeature refactoring, cleanups and speedups (Borislav Petkov)
- lots of other changes ..."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
x86/cpufeature: Enable new AVX-512 features
x86/entry/traps: Show unhandled signal for i386 in do_trap()
x86/entry: Call enter_from_user_mode() with IRQs off
x86/entry/32: Change INT80 to be an interrupt gate
x86/entry: Improve system call entry comments
x86/entry: Remove TIF_SINGLESTEP entry work
x86/entry/32: Add and check a stack canary for the SYSENTER stack
x86/entry/32: Simplify and fix up the SYSENTER stack #DB/NMI fixup
x86/entry: Only allocate space for tss_struct::SYSENTER_stack if needed
x86/entry: Vastly simplify SYSENTER TF (single-step) handling
x86/entry/traps: Clear DR6 early in do_debug() and improve the comment
x86/entry/traps: Clear TIF_BLOCKSTEP on all debug exceptions
x86/entry/32: Restore FLAGS on SYSEXIT
x86/entry/32: Filter NT and speed up AC filtering in SYSENTER
x86/entry/compat: In SYSENTER, sink AC clearing below the existing FLAGS test
selftests/x86: In syscall_nt, test NT|TF as well
x86/asm-offsets: Remove PARAVIRT_enabled
x86/entry/32: Introduce and use X86_BUG_ESPFIX instead of paravirt_enabled
uprobes: __create_xol_area() must nullify xol_mapping.fault
x86/cpufeature: Create a new synthetic cpu capability for machine check recovery
...
The Intel Software Developer Manual describes bit 24 in the MCG_CAP
MSR:
MCG_SER_P (software error recovery support present) flag,
bit 24 — Indicates (when set) that the processor supports
software error recovery
But only some models with this capability bit set will actually
generate recoverable machine checks.
Check the model name and set a synthetic capability bit. Provide
a command line option to set this bit anyway in case the kernel
doesn't recognise the model name.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/2e5bfb23c89800a036fb8a45fa97a74bb16bc362.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Huge amounts of help from Andy Lutomirski and Borislav Petkov to
produce this. Andy provided the inspiration to add classes to the
exception table with a clever bit-squeezing trick, Boris pointed
out how much cleaner it would all be if we just had a new field.
Linus Torvalds blessed the expansion with:
' I'd rather not be clever in order to save just a tiny amount of space
in the exception table, which isn't really criticial for anybody. '
The third field is another relative function pointer, this one to a
handler that executes the actions.
We start out with three handlers:
1: Legacy - just jumps the to fixup IP
2: Fault - provide the trap number in %ax to the fixup code
3: Cleaned up legacy for the uaccess error hack
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f6af78fcbd348cf4939875cfda9c19689b5e50b8.1455732970.git.tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add some text and an example to Documentation/x86/early-microcode.txt
explaining how to build in microcode.
Tested-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1454499225-21544-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Make it clear that the EFI page tables are only available during
EFI runtime calls since that subject has come up a fair numbers
of times in the past.
Additionally, add the EFI region start and end addresses to the
table so that it's possible to see at a glance where they fall
in relation to other regions.
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sai Praneeth Prakhya <sai.praneeth.prakhya@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1448658575-17029-7-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The dominant change in this cycle was the continued work to isolate
kernel drivers from MTRR legacies: this tree gets rid of all kernel
internal driver interfaces to MTRRs (mostly by rewriting it to proper
PAT interfaces), the only access left is the /proc/mtrr ABI.
This work was done by Luis R Rodriguez.
There's also some related PCI interface additions for which I've
Cc:-ed Bjorn"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86/mm/mtrr: Remove kernel internal MTRR interfaces: unexport mtrr_add() and mtrr_del()
s390/io: Add pci_iomap_wc() and pci_iomap_wc_range()
drivers/dma/iop-adma: Use dma_alloc_writecombine() kernel-style
drivers/video/fbdev/vt8623fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/s3fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/arkfb.c: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_iomap_wc()
PCI: Add pci_iomap_wc() variants
drivers/video/fbdev/gxt4500: Use pci_ioremap_wc_bar() to map framebuffer
drivers/video/fbdev/kyrofb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
drivers/video/fbdev/i740fb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
PCI: Add pci_ioremap_wc_bar()
x86/mm: Make kernel/check.c explicitly non-modular
x86/mm/pat: Make mm/pageattr[-test].c explicitly non-modular
x86/mm/pat: Add comments to cachemode translation tables
arch/*/io.h: Add ioremap_uc() to all architectures
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and ioremap_wc()
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Replace MTRR UC hole with strong UC
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Clarify ioremap() base and length used
drivers/video/fbdev/atyfb: Carve out framebuffer length fudging into a helper
x86/mm, asm-generic: Add IOMMU ioremap_uc() variant default
...
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main x86 bootup related changes in this cycle were:
- more boot time optimizations. (Len Brown)
- implement hex output to allow the debugging of early bootup
parameters. (Kees Cook)
- remove obsolete MCA leftovers. (Paolo Pisati)"
* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/smpboot: Remove APIC.wait_for_init_deassert and atomic init_deasserted
x86/smpboot: Remove SIPI delays from cpu_up()
x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_callin_map
x86/smpboot: Remove udelay(100) when polling cpu_initialized_map
x86/boot: Obsolete the MCA sys_desc_table
x86/boot: Add hex output for debugging
The effort to replace mtrr_add() with architecture agnostic
arch_phys_wc_add() is complete, this will ensure write-combining
implementations (PAT on x86) is taken advantage instead of using
MTRR. With the effort done now, hide direct MTRR access for
drivers.
The legacy user-space /proc/mtrr ABI is not affected.
Update x86 documentation on MTRR to reflect the completion of
the phasing out of direct access to MTRR, also add a note on
platform firmware code use of MTRRs based on the obituary
discussion of MTRRs on Linux [0].
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438991330.3109.196.camel@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: airlied@linux.ie
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
Cc: bhelgaas@google.com
Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: vinod.koul@intel.com
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440443613-13696-12-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The IRQSTACKSIZE was renamed to the IRQ_STACK_SIZE in the
(26f80bd6a9 x86-64: Convert irqstacks to per-cpu) commit,
but it still named IRQSTACKSIZE in the documentation. This
patch fixes this.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel does not support the MCA bus anymroe, so mark sys_desc_table
as obsolete: remove any reference from the code together with the remaining
of MCA logic.
bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-55 (-55)
function old new delta
i386_start_kernel 128 119 -9
setup_arch 1421 1375 -46
Signed-off-by: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1437409430-8491-1-git-send-email-p.pisati@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The paths mentioned in this file weren't updated through some file
rename commits. Fix them to refer to the correct path.
Signed-off-by: James C Boyd <jcboyd.dev@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: trivial@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1435781606-3037-1-git-send-email-jcboyd.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
"There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
collected into the 'x86/core' topic.
The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
end.
The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
have fewer dependencies).
The main changes in this cycle were:
* x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
Gleixner)
- This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
domains:
[IOAPIC domain] -----
|
[MSI domain] --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
| (optional) |
[HPET MSI domain] ----- |
|
[DMAR domain] -----------------------------
|
[Legacy domain] -----------------------------
This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping. It's a clear
separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
and the vector management.
- Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
injection into guests (Feng Wu)
* x86/asm changes:
- Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations. This
is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
Brian Gerst)
- Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)
- Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)
- NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)
* x86/mm changes:
- Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)
- New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
Write-Through cached memory mappings. This is especially
important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)
* x86/ras changes:
- Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)
This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
poisoned data. That means roughly that the hardware marks data
which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
form of a deferred error. It is the OS's responsibility then to
take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
far as possible.
- Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)
- Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)
* x86/platform changes:
- Intel Atom SoC updates
... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
shortlog and the Git log for details"
* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
...
Pull x86 EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
"EFI changes:
- Use idiomatic negative error values in efivar_create_sysfs_entry()
instead of returning '1' to indicate error (Dan Carpenter)
- Implement new support to expose the EFI System Resource Tables in
sysfs, which provides information for performing firmware updates
(Peter Jones)
- Documentation cleanup in the EFI handover protocol section which
falsely claimed that 'cmdline_size' needed to be filled out by the
boot loader (Alex Smith)
- Align the order of SMBIOS tables in /sys/firmware/efi/systab to
match the way that we do things for ACPI and add documentation to
Documentation/ABI (Jean Delvare)"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
efi: Work around ia64 build problem with ESRT driver
efi: Add 'systab' information to Documentation/ABI
efi: dmi: List SMBIOS3 table before SMBIOS table
efi/esrt: Fix some compiler warnings
x86, doc: Remove cmdline_size from list of fields to be filled in for EFI handover
efi: Add esrt support
efi: efivar_create_sysfs_entry() should return negative error codes
Rename the following system call entry points:
ia32_cstar_target -> entry_SYSCALL_compat
ia32_syscall -> entry_INT80_compat
The generic naming scheme for x86 system call entry points is:
entry_MNEMONIC_qualifier
where 'qualifier' is one of _32, _64 or _compat.
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Initialize and prepare for handling LMCEs. Add a boot-time
option to disable LMCEs.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
[ Simplify stuff, align statements for better readability, reflow comments; kill
unused lmce_clear(); save us an MSR write if LMCE is already enabled. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Now that reserve_ram_pages_type() accepts the WT type, add
set_memory_wt(), set_memory_array_wt() and set_pages_array_wt()
in order to be able to set memory to Write-Through page cache
mode.
Also, extend ioremap_change_attr() to accept the WT type.
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-13-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add ioremap_wt() for creating Write-Through mappings on x86. It
follows the same model as ioremap_wc() for multi-arch support.
Define ARCH_HAS_IOREMAP_WT in the x86 version of io.h to
indicate that ioremap_wt() is implemented on x86.
Also update the PAT documentation file to cover ioremap_wt().
Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Elliott@hp.com
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: arnd@arndb.de
Cc: hch@lst.de
Cc: hmh@hmh.eng.br
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: konrad.wilk@oracle.com
Cc: linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: stefan.bader@canonical.com
Cc: yigal@plexistor.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1433436928-31903-8-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
As part of the effort to phase out MTRR use document
write-combining MTRR effects on pages with different non-PAT
page attributes flags and different PAT entry values. Extend
arch_phys_wc_add() documentation to clarify power of two sizes /
boundary requirements as we phase out mtrr_add() use.
Lastly hint towards ioremap_uc() for corner cases on device
drivers working with devices with mixed regions where MTRR size
requirements would otherwise not enable write-combining
effective memory types.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <syrjala@sci.fi>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1430343851-967-3-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-10-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Hold it down for future reference, as the question about the
question mark in stack traces keeps popping up.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-18-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150521101614.GA10889@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Update the documentation after
6f442be2fb ("x86_64, traps: Stop using IST for #SS").
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-17-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
... to Documentation/x86/ as it is going to collect more and not
only 64-bit specific info.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: live-patching@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1432628901-18044-16-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Documentation/x86/boot.txt labels the bit in
boot_params.hdr.loadflags as ALSR_FLAG while it should be
KASLR_FLAG.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1429011324-7170-1-git-send-email-mbenes@suse.cz
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431332153-18566-4-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The cmdline_size field in setup_header is listed as read-only, and is
never read by the kernel. Therefore, there is no need for it to be set
by a boot loader implementing the EFI handover protocol, so remove it
from the list of fields required to be set by a boot loader.
Signed-off-by: Alex Smith <alex@alex-smith.me.uk>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Commit:
e2b32e6785 ("x86, kaslr: randomize module base load address")
made module base address randomization unconditional and didn't regard
disabled KKASLR due to CONFIG_HIBERNATION and command line option
"nokaslr". For more info see (now reverted) commit:
f47233c2d3 ("x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation")
In order to propagate KASLR status to kernel proper, we need a single bit
in boot_params.hdr.loadflags and we've chosen bit 1 thus leaving the
top-down allocated bits for bits supposed to be used by the bootloader.
Originally-From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull misc x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"This contains:
- EFI fixes
- a boot printout fix
- ASLR/kASLR fixes
- intel microcode driver fixes
- other misc fixes
Most of the linecount comes from an EFI revert"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm/ASLR: Avoid PAGE_SIZE redefinition for UML subarch
x86/microcode/intel: Handle truncated microcode images more robustly
x86/microcode/intel: Guard against stack overflow in the loader
x86, mm/ASLR: Fix stack randomization on 64-bit systems
x86/mm/init: Fix incorrect page size in init_memory_mapping() printks
x86/mm/ASLR: Propagate base load address calculation
Documentation/x86: Fix path in zero-page.txt
x86/apic: Fix the devicetree build in certain configs
Revert "efi/libstub: Call get_memory_map() to obtain map and desc sizes"
x86/efi: Avoid triple faults during EFI mixed mode calls
This patch adds arch specific code for kernel address sanitizer.
16TB of virtual addressed used for shadow memory. It's located in range
[ffffec0000000000 - fffffc0000000000] between vmemmap and %esp fixup
stacks.
At early stage we map whole shadow region with zero page. Latter, after
pages mapped to direct mapping address range we unmap zero pages from
corresponding shadow (see kasan_map_shadow()) and allocate and map a real
shadow memory reusing vmemmap_populate() function.
Also replace __pa with __pa_nodebug before shadow initialized. __pa with
CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y make external function call (__phys_addr)
__phys_addr is instrumented, so __asan_load could be called before shadow
area initialized.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <a.ryabinin@samsung.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany <kcc@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov <dmitryc@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Konovalov <adech.fo@gmail.com>
Cc: Yuri Gribov <tetra2005@gmail.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This causes all non-NMI, non-double-fault kernel entries from
userspace to run on the normal kernel stack. Double-fault is
exempt to minimize confusion if we double-fault directly from
userspace due to a bad kernel stack.
This is, suprisingly, simpler and shorter than the current code. It
removes the IMO rather frightening paranoid_userspace path, and it
make sync_regs much simpler.
There is no risk of stack overflow due to this change -- the kernel
stack that we switch to is empty.
This will also enable us to create non-atomic sections within
machine checks from userspace, which will simplify memory failure
handling. It will also allow the upcoming fsgsbase code to be
simplified, because it doesn't need to worry about usergs when
scheduling in paranoid_exit, as that code no longer exists.
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Pull x86 MPX fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three updates for the new MPX infrastructure:
- Use the proper error check in the trap handler
- Add a proper config option for it
- Bring documentation up to date"
* 'x86-mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, mpx: Give MPX a real config option prompt
x86, mpx: Update documentation
x86_64/traps: Fix always true condition
Give MPX a real config option. The CPUs that support it (referenced
here):
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/topic/402393
are not available publicly yet. Right now only the software emulator
provides MPX for the general public.
[ tglx: Make it default off. There is no point in having it on right
now as no hardware and no proper tooling support are available ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183836.2569D58D@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
I was writing some MPX test programs and realized that the
current design makes it tricky. I did something like:
bndcfgu |= bnd_dir | BNDCFGU_ENABLE;
xrstor();
printf("xrstor done");
// #BR bounds exception here
prctl(MPX_ENABLE_MANAGEMENT);
and then compiled the app with "-fcheck-pointer-bounds -mmpx"
to enable MPX instrumentation.
The problem is that there is MPX instrumentation inserted in
to the area of the printf(). The kernel gets a bounds exception
and since management isn't yet enabled, it SIGSEGV's.
Add a bit to the documentation to explain a way around this and
where apps need to be careful.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141212183835.8C581B3E@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Misc fixes (mainly Andy's TLS fixes), plus a cleanup"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/tls: Disallow unusual TLS segments
x86/tls: Validate TLS entries to protect espfix
MAINTAINERS: Add me as x86 VDSO submaintainer
x86/asm: Unify segment selector defines
x86/asm: Guard against building the 32/64-bit versions of the asm-offsets*.c file directly
x86_64, switch_to(): Load TLS descriptors before switching DS and ES
x86/mm: Use min() instead of min_t() in the e820 printout code
x86/mm: Fix zone ranges boot printout
x86/doc: Update documentation after file shuffling
Peter Anvin says:
> 0xffff880000000000 is the lowest usable address because we have
> agreed to leave 0xffff800000000000-0xffff880000000000 for the
> hypervisor or other non-OS uses.
Let's call this out in the documentation.
This came up during the kernel address sanitizer discussions
where it was proposed to use this area for other kernel things.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140918195606.841389D2@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fix the documented sysconfig location of 'tlb_single_page_flush_ceiling'
which is under /sys/kernel/debug/... not /sys/debug/kernel/...
Signed-off-by: Jeremiah Mahler <jmmahler@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407484195-1441-1-git-send-email-jmmahler@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Most of the logic here is in the documentation file. Please take
a look at it.
I know we've come full-circle here back to a tunable, but this
new one is *WAY* simpler. I challenge anyone to describe in one
sentence how the old one worked. Here's the way the new one
works:
If we are flushing more pages than the ceiling, we use
the full flush, otherwise we use per-page flushes.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140731154101.12B52CAF@viggo.jf.intel.com
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Pull x86-64 espfix changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is the espfix64 code, which fixes the IRET information leak as
well as the associated functionality problem. With this code applied,
16-bit stack segments finally work as intended even on a 64-bit
kernel.
Consequently, this patchset also removes the runtime option that we
added as an interim measure.
To help the people working on Linux kernels for very small systems,
this patchset also makes these compile-time configurable features"
* 'x86/espfix' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Revert "x86-64, modify_ldt: Make support for 16-bit segments a runtime option"
x86, espfix: Make it possible to disable 16-bit support
x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML
x86, espfix: Fix broken header guard
x86, espfix: Move espfix definitions into a separate header file
x86-32, espfix: Remove filter for espfix32 due to race
x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack
The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer. This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space. We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.
In checkin:
b3b42ac2cb x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels
we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.
This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart. When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace. The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.
(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)
Special thanks to:
- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.
Reported-by: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski <amluto@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan.van.de.ven@intel.com>
Cc: comex <comexk@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@fastmail.fm>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # consider after upstream merge
Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.
New 00-INDEX
- spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006
Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
- dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a0 ("dmatest: run test via
debugfs")
- this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d6 ("percpu: add
documentation on this_cpu operations")
- ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a3710 ("mutex: Add
support for wound/wait style locks")
- bcache.txt was added by commit cafe563591 ("bcache: A block layer
cache")
- kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb404
("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
kthreads")
- phy.txt was added by commit ff76496347 ("drivers: phy: add generic
PHY framework")
- block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc03 ("null_blk:
documentation")
- module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea3076 ("Add
Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
- assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c ("Add a generic
associative array implementation.")
- arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
- arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e8
("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
- arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77 ("ARM: Add
interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
- arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a0524 ("ARM:
7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
- arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cf ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
(Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
- arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e ("ARM: mcpm: Add
baremetal voting mutexes")
- blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
4b60779d5e ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
gptimers API")
- devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc68 ("dt:
Linux DT usage model documentation")
- fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f428 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
format configuration API")
- fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a0498071 ("video, sm501: add
edid and commandline support")
- fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864af ("fbdev: move udlfb out
of staging.")
- filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48
("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
- filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
8a4c6e19cf ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
configuration")
- ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413e ("ide: add
warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
- laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc
("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
- leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f ("LEDS: add
BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
- leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cd ("leds: add
oneshot trigger")
- leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e7 ("leds:
add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
- m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
- networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
40839129f7, c4e84bde1d, 5a4faa8737
- networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b ("i40evf: add
driver to kernel build system")
- networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36 ("xfrm: Add
file to document IPsec corner case")
- networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
3cd7920a2b ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
- networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c39
("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
- networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e159
("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
- networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7 ("net: introduce
ethernet teaming device")
- networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d ("vxlan:
virtual extensible lan")
- power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a0 ("PM: Introduce
core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)")
- power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56
("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
- RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa ("rcu:
Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
- s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
- s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b3 ("qeth: bridgeport
support - basic control")
- scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9 ("sched: Add
documentation for bandwidth control")
- scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f356 ("[SCSI] advansys:
Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bd ("[SCSI] bfa: add
readme file")
- scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10ea ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
driver documentation")
- scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464eb ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
- scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
ca77329fb7 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
- scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621de ("[SCSI] osd:
Documentation for OSD library")
- scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb11
("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
- serial/driver was part of the initial repo
- serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122e ("n_gsm: add a
documentation")
- timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812 ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d ("KVM: s390:
diagnose call documentation")
- vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2cc ("mm:
dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
page")
- w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2 ("w1: Add
1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
- w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6 ("hdq:
documentation for OMAP HDQ")
- x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a8 ("x86, doc:
Documentation for early microcode loading")
- x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade4788 ("x86/doc:
mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
- x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b5 ("x86-64: Document
some of entry_64.S")
- x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874 ("x86: PAT
documentation")
Moved files
- arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
commit 37b8304642 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
the source code")
- efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
commit 4172fe2f8a ("EFI stub documentation updates")
- laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
efcfed9bad ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
- commit 5616c23ad9 ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
Doc/x86/i386"):
* x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
* x86/boot.txt
* x86/zero_page.txt
- power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df1
("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")
Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
- memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aa ("memory.txt: remove
stray information")
- gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfc ("Documentation:
gpiolib: document new interface")
- networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26
("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
- serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0b ("tty: esp:
remove broken driver")
- s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f6693 ("[S390] remove tape
block docu")
- vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2 ("mm: documentation:
remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
- laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e ("acer-wmi:
Delete out-of-date documentation")
Typos/misc issues
- rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
030d794bf4 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
authentication.")
- commit b88cf73d92 ("net: add missing entries to
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
* generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
* spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
- w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f7 ("w1: add
1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
- s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a40
("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
neighbour.h: fix comment
sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h
slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex
doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation
of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/
mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling
lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements
thermal: rcar: comment spelling
treewide: fix comments and printk msgs
IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart()
Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description
Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf
arm: fix comment header and macro name
asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/
mtd: onenand: fix comment header
doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo
drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text
doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm)
treewide: Fix typos in printk
drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text
...
Old kexec-tools can not load new kernels. The reason is kexec-tools does
not fill efi_info in x86 setup header previously, thus EFI failed to
initialize. In new kexec-tools it will by default to fill efi_info and
pass other EFI required infomation to 2nd kernel so kexec kernel EFI
initialization can succeed finally.
To prevent from breaking userspace, add a new xloadflags bit so
kexec-tools can check the flag and switch to old logic.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Removed obsolte parameters from boot-options.txt.
Verified by grepping around in arch/x86/.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
groundwork for kexec support on EFI - Borislav Petkov
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Merge tag 'efi-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi
Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming:
* New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is
groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer.
Very useful for debugging boot problems.
- EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries)
- EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM
platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into
drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM.
- Documentation updates
- misc fixes"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support
boot, efi: Remove redundant memset()
x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination
x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence
x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps
efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile
efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.
efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization.
efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files().
efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0
efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86
efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.
efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures.
efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file.
efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.
efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions
efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions.
efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location
...
We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously,
with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down
for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime
services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use
them.
Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute
the kernel namespace.
Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous
options and chicken bits from the command line.
While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as
a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's
some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to
hold up the sarcasm here...).
Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Move efi-stub.txt out of x86 directory and into common directory
in preparation for adding ARM EFI stub support.
Signed-off-by: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"The usual trivial updates all over the tree -- mostly typo fixes and
documentation updates"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (52 commits)
doc: Documentation/cputopology.txt fix typo
treewide: Convert retrun typos to return
Fix comment typo for init_cma_reserved_pageblock
Documentation/trace: Correcting and extending tracepoint documentation
mm/hotplug: fix a typo in Documentation/memory-hotplug.txt
power: Documentation: Update s2ram link
doc: fix a typo in Documentation/00-INDEX
Documentation/printk-formats.txt: No casts needed for u64/s64
doc: Fix typo "is is" in Documentations
treewide: Fix printks with 0x%#
zram: doc fixes
Documentation/kmemcheck: update kmemcheck documentation
doc: documentation/hwspinlock.txt fix typo
PM / Hibernate: add section for resume options
doc: filesystems : Fix typo in Documentations/filesystems
scsi/megaraid fixed several typos in comments
ppc: init_32: Fix error typo "CONFIG_START_KERNEL"
treewide: Add __GFP_NOWARN to k.alloc calls with v.alloc fallbacks
page_isolation: Fix a comment typo in test_pages_isolated()
doc: fix a typo about irq affinity
...
Add a boot option to disable firmware first mode for corrected errors.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification"
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
x86: Constify a few items
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and
Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt contain virtually
identical text describing earlyprintk.
This consolidates the two copies and updates the documentation a
bit. No one ever documented the:
earlyprintk=serial,0x1008,115200
syntax, nor mentioned that ARM is now a supported earlyprintk
arch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130410210338.E2930E98@viggo.jf.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 microcode loading update from Peter Anvin:
"This patchset lets us update the CPU microcode very, very early in
initialization if the BIOS fails to do so (never happens, right?)
This is handy for dealing with things like the Atom erratum where we
have to run without PSE because microcode loading happens too late.
As I mentioned in the x86/mm push request it depends on that
infrastructure but it is otherwise a standalone feature."
* 'x86/microcode' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/Kconfig: Make early microcode loading a configuration feature
x86/mm/init.c: Copy ucode from initrd image to kernel memory
x86/head64.c: Early update ucode in 64-bit
x86/head_32.S: Early update ucode in 32-bit
x86/microcode_intel_early.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
x86/tlbflush.h: Define __native_flush_tlb_global_irq_disabled()
x86/microcode_intel_lib.c: Early update ucode on Intel's CPU
x86/microcode_core_early.c: Define interfaces for early loading ucode
x86/common.c: load ucode in 64 bit or show loading ucode info in 32 bit on AP
x86/common.c: Make have_cpuid_p() a global function
x86/microcode_intel.h: Define functions and macros for early loading ucode
x86, doc: Documentation for early microcode loading
Pull x86 mm changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is a huge set of several partly interrelated (and concurrently
developed) changes, which is why the branch history is messier than
one would like.
The *really* big items are two humonguous patchsets mostly developed
by Yinghai Lu at my request, which completely revamps the way we
create initial page tables. In particular, rather than estimating how
much memory we will need for page tables and then build them into that
memory -- a calculation that has shown to be incredibly fragile -- we
now build them (on 64 bits) with the aid of a "pseudo-linear mode" --
a #PF handler which creates temporary page tables on demand.
This has several advantages:
1. It makes it much easier to support things that need access to data
very early (a followon patchset uses this to load microcode way
early in the kernel startup).
2. It allows the kernel and all the kernel data objects to be invoked
from above the 4 GB limit. This allows kdump to work on very large
systems.
3. It greatly reduces the difference between Xen and native (Xen's
equivalent of the #PF handler are the temporary page tables created
by the domain builder), eliminating a bunch of fragile hooks.
The patch series also gets us a bit closer to W^X.
Additional work in this pull is the 64-bit get_user() work which you
were also involved with, and a bunch of cleanups/speedups to
__phys_addr()/__pa()."
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (105 commits)
x86, mm: Move reserving low memory later in initialization
x86, doc: Clarify the use of asm("%edx") in uaccess.h
x86, mm: Redesign get_user with a __builtin_choose_expr hack
x86: Be consistent with data size in getuser.S
x86, mm: Use a bitfield to mask nuisance get_user() warnings
x86/kvm: Fix compile warning in kvm_register_steal_time()
x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user()
x86-32, mm: Remove reference to alloc_remap()
x86-32, mm: Remove reference to resume_map_numa_kva()
x86-32, mm: Rip out x86_32 NUMA remapping code
x86/numa: Use __pa_nodebug() instead
x86: Don't panic if can not alloc buffer for swiotlb
mm: Add alloc_bootmem_low_pages_nopanic()
x86, 64bit, mm: hibernate use generic mapping_init
x86, 64bit, mm: Mark data/bss/brk to nx
x86: Merge early kernel reserve for 32bit and 64bit
x86: Add Crash kernel low reservation
x86, kdump: Remove crashkernel range find limit for 64bit
memblock: Add memblock_mem_size()
x86, boot: Not need to check setup_header version for setup_data
...
Pull trivial tree from Jiri Kosina:
"Assorted tiny fixes queued in trivial tree"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (22 commits)
DocBook: update EXPORT_SYMBOL entry to point at export.h
Documentation: update top level 00-INDEX file with new additions
ARM: at91/ide: remove unsused at91-ide Kconfig entry
percpu_counter.h: comment code for better readability
x86, efi: fix comment typo in head_32.S
IB: cxgb3: delay freeing mem untill entirely done with it
net: mvneta: remove unneeded version.h include
time: x86: report_lost_ticks doesn't exist any more
pcmcia: avoid static analysis complaint about use-after-free
fs/jfs: Fix typo in comment : 'how may' -> 'how many'
of: add missing documentation for of_platform_populate()
btrfs: remove unnecessary cur_trans set before goto loop in join_transaction
sound: soc: Fix typo in sound/codecs
treewide: Fix typo in various drivers
btrfs: fix comment typos
Update ibmvscsi module name in Kconfig.
powerpc: fix typo (utilties -> utilities)
of: fix spelling mistake in comment
h8300: Fix home page URL in h8300/README
xtensa: Fix home page URL in Kconfig
...
OVMF (an implementation of UEFI based on TianoCore used in virtual
environments) now has the ability to boot Linux natively; this is used
for "qemu -kernel" and similar things in a UEFI environment.
Accordingly, assign it a bootloader ID.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Now 64bit entry is fixed on 0x200, can not be changed anymore.
Update the comments to reflect that.
Also put info about it in boot.txt
-v2: fix some grammar error
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-27-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Define the 2.12 bzImage boot protocol: add xloadflags and additional
fields to allow the command line, initramfs and struct boot_params to
live above the 4 GiB mark.
The xloadflags now communicates if this is a 64-bit kernel with the
legacy 64-bit entry point and which of the EFI handover entry points
are supported.
Avoid adding new read flags to loadflags because of claimed
bootloaders testing the whole byte for == 1 to determine bzImageness
at least until the issue can be researched further.
This is based on patches by Yinghai Lu and David Woodhouse.
Originally-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Originally-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359058816-7615-26-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Gokul Caushik <caushik1@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
'report_lost_ticks' parameter has been removed back in 2007 through
1489939f0a ("time: x86_64: convert x86_64 to use GENERIC_TIME").
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Pull small x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
"A collection of very small fixes, mostly pure documentation."
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, doc: Document that bootloader ID 4 is used also by iPXE
x86, doc: Add a formal bootloader ID for kexec-tools
x86, 8042: Enable A20 using KBC to fix S3 resume on some MSI laptops
Add bootloader id D for kexec-tools (it is kexec-tools, not the kexec
system call, that builds the data structures, therefore it is
kexec-tools which is the "bootloader" for this purpose.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/50C95832.5030306@zytor.com
Fixes some minor issues in the x86 boot documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121026031702.GA23828@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The ACPI spec doesn't provide for a way for the bios to pass down
recommended thresholds to the OS on a _per-bank_ basis. This patch adds
a new boot option, which if passed, tells Linux to use CMCI thresholds
set by the bios.
As fail-safe, we initialize threshold to 1 if some banks have not been
initialized by the bios and warn the user.
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Pul x86/efi changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree adds an EFI bootloader handover protocol, which, once
supported on the bootloader side, will make bootup faster and might
result in simpler bootloaders.
The other change activates the EFI wall clock time accessors on x86-64
as well, instead of the legacy RTC readout."
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, efi: Handover Protocol
x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock
Assign a bootloader ID for Sebastian Plotz' "Minimal Linux Bootloader"
(http://sebastian-plotz.blogspot.de). Sebastian has agreed to make
this the pilot for the use of extended boot loader IDs, so this is
assigned version ID 0x11 (avoid assigning 0x10 for now to catch bugs
with people putting E in the primary ID but leaving the extended ID as
zero.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Plotz <sebastian-plotz@web.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-nq318h0okuaem8x9dpv9854k@git.kernel.org
As things currently stand, traditional EFI boot loaders and the EFI
boot stub are carrying essentially the same initialisation code
required to setup an EFI machine for booting a kernel. There's really
no need to have this code in two places and the hope is that, with
this new protocol, initialisation and booting of the kernel can be
left solely to the kernel's EFI boot stub. The responsibilities of the
boot loader then become,
o Loading the kernel image from boot media
File system code still needs to be carried by boot loaders for the
scenario where the kernel and initrd files reside on a file system
that the EFI firmware doesn't natively understand, such as ext4, etc.
o Providing a user interface
Boot loaders still need to display any menus/interfaces, for example
to allow the user to select from a list of kernels.
Bump the boot protocol number because we added the 'handover_offset'
field to indicate the location of the handover protocol entry point.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Acked-and-Tested-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1342689828-16815-1-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Since we can't expect every user to read the EFI boot stub code it
seems prudent to have a couple of paragraphs explaining what it is and
how it works.
The "initrd=" option in particular is tricky because it only
understands absolute EFI-style paths (backslashes as directory
separators), and until now this hasn't been documented anywhere. This
has tripped up a couple of users.
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1331907517-3985-4-git-send-email-matt@console-pimps.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Commit 3ae36655b9 (x86-64: Rework vsyscall
emulation and add vsyscall= parameter) removed the special use of the
0xcc IDT vector.
Remove it from Documentation/x86/entry_64.txt also.
Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb@cesarb.net>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@MIT.EDU>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1313447210-9149-1-git-send-email-cesarb@cesarb.net
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86-64, vdso: Do not allocate memory for the vDSO
clocksource: Change __ARCH_HAS_CLOCKSOURCE_DATA to a CONFIG option
x86, vdso: Drop now wrong comment
Document the vDSO and add a reference parser
ia64: Replace clocksource.fsys_mmio with generic arch data
x86-64: Move vread_tsc and vread_hpet into the vDSO
clocksource: Replace vread with generic arch data
x86-64: Add --no-undefined to vDSO build
x86-64: Allow alternative patching in the vDSO
x86: Make alternative instruction pointers relative
x86-64: Improve vsyscall emulation CS and RIP handling
x86-64: Emulate legacy vsyscalls
x86-64: Fill unused parts of the vsyscall page with 0xcc
x86-64: Remove vsyscall number 3 (venosys)
x86-64: Map the HPET NX
x86-64: Remove kernel.vsyscall64 sysctl
x86-64: Give vvars their own page
x86-64: Document some of entry_64.S
x86-64: Fix alignment of jiffies variable
The real-mode kernel header init_size field is located at 0x260 per the field
listing in th e"REAL-MODE KERNEL HEADER" section. It is listed as 0x25c in
the "DETAILS OF HEADER FIELDS" section, which overlaps with pref_address.
Correct the details listing to 0x260.
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/541cf88e2dfe5b8186d8b96b136d892e769a68c1.1310441260.git.dvhart@linux.intel.com
CC: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This file only contains code relevant for the northbridge
gart in AMD processors. This patch renames the file to
represent this fact in the filename.
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com>
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code.
Update documentation.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This integrates the XZ decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.
mkpiggy.c is updated to reserve about 32 KiB more buffer safety margin for
kernel decompression. It is done unconditionally for all decompressors to
keep the code simpler.
The XZ decompressor needs around 30 KiB of heap, so the heap size is
increased to 32 KiB on both x86-32 and x86-64.
Documentation/x86/boot.txt is updated to list the XZ magic number.
With the x86 BCJ filter in XZ, XZ-compressed x86 kernel tends to be a few
percent smaller than the equivalent LZMA-compressed kernel.
Signed-off-by: Lasse Collin <lasse.collin@tukaani.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu>
Cc: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@free-electrons.com>
Cc: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IRQ stacks provide much better safety against unexpected stack use from
interrupts, at the minimal downside of slightly higher memory usage.
Enable irq stacks also for the default 8k stack on 32-bit kernels to
minimize the problem of stack overflows through interrupt activity.
This is what the 64-bit kernel and various other architectures already do.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100628121554.GA6605@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Add support for saving OFW's cif, and later calling into it to run OFW
commands. OFW remains resident in memory, living within virtual range
0xff800000 - 0xffc00000. A single page directory entry points to the
pgdir that OFW actually uses, so rather than saving the entire page
table, we grab and install that one entry permanently in the kernel's
page table.
This is currently only used by the OLPC XO. Note that this particular
calling convention breaks PAE and PAT, and so cannot be used on newer
x86 hardware.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100618174653.7755a39a@dev.queued.net>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Now that numa=fake=<size>[MG] is implemented, it is possible to remove
configurable node size support. The command-line parsing was already
broken (numa=fake=*128, for example, would not work) and since fake nodes
are now interleaved over physical nodes, this support is no longer
required.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151343080.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
numa=fake=N specifies the number of fake nodes, N, to partition the
system into and then allocates them by interleaving over physical nodes.
This requires knowledge of the system capacity when attempting to
allocate nodes of a certain size: either very large nodes to benchmark
scalability of code that operates on individual nodes, or very small
nodes to find bugs in the VM.
This patch introduces numa=fake=<size>[MG] so it is possible to specify
the size of each node to allocate. When used, nodes of the size
specified will be allocated and interleaved over the set of physical
nodes.
FAKE_NODE_MIN_SIZE was also moved to the more-appropriate
include/asm/numa_64.h.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
LKML-Reference: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1002151342510.26927@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add missing information about requirements of using the EHCI usb debug
controller as well as to mention you can use a debug controller other
than the first one in the system.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'x86-platform-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (38 commits)
x86: Move get/set_wallclock to x86_platform_ops
x86: platform: Fix section annotations
x86: apic namespace cleanup
x86: Distangle ioapic and i8259
x86: Add Moorestown early detection
x86: Add hardware_subarch ID for Moorestown
x86: Add early platform detection
x86: Move tsc_init to late_time_init
x86: Move tsc_calibration to x86_init_ops
x86: Replace the now identical time_32/64.c by time.c
x86: time_32/64.c unify profile_pc
x86: Move calibrate_cpu to tsc.c
x86: Make timer setup and global variables the same in time_32/64.c
x86: Remove mca bus ifdef from timer interrupt
x86: Simplify timer_ack magic in time_32.c
x86: Prepare unification of time_32/64.c
x86: Remove do_timer hook
x86: Add timer_init to x86_init_ops
x86: Move percpu clockevents setup to x86_init_ops
x86: Move xen_post_allocator_init into xen_pagetable_setup_done
...
Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/include/asm/io_apic.h
x86 bootprotocol 2.07 has introduced hardware_subarch ID in the boot
parameters provided by FW. We use it to identify Moorestown platforms.
[ tglx: Cleanup and paravirt fix ]
Signed-off-by: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This patch adds kernel configuration and boot support for Intel Trusted
Execution Technology (Intel TXT).
Intel's technology for safer computing, Intel Trusted Execution
Technology (Intel TXT), defines platform-level enhancements that
provide the building blocks for creating trusted platforms.
Intel TXT was formerly known by the code name LaGrande Technology (LT).
Intel TXT in Brief:
o Provides dynamic root of trust for measurement (DRTM)
o Data protection in case of improper shutdown
o Measurement and verification of launched environment
Intel TXT is part of the vPro(TM) brand and is also available some
non-vPro systems. It is currently available on desktop systems based on
the Q35, X38, Q45, and Q43 Express chipsets (e.g. Dell Optiplex 755, HP
dc7800, etc.) and mobile systems based on the GM45, PM45, and GS45
Express chipsets.
For more information, see http://www.intel.com/technology/security/.
This site also has a link to the Intel TXT MLE Developers Manual, which
has been updated for the new released platforms.
A much more complete description of how these patches support TXT, how to
configure a system for it, etc. is in the Documentation/intel_txt.txt file
in this patch.
This patch provides the TXT support routines for complete functionality,
documentation for TXT support and for the changes to the boot_params structure,
and boot detection of a TXT launch. Attempts to shutdown (reboot, Sx) the system
will result in platform resets; subsequent patches will support these shutdown modes
properly.
Documentation/intel_txt.txt | 210 +++++++++++++++++++++
Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt | 1
arch/x86/include/asm/bootparam.h | 3
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h | 3
arch/x86/include/asm/tboot.h | 197 ++++++++++++++++++++
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 1
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 4
arch/x86/kernel/tboot.c | 379 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
security/Kconfig | 30 +++
9 files changed, 827 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Signed-off-by: Joseph Cihula <joseph.cihula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shane Wang <shane.wang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gang Wei <gang.wei@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to
move it into Documentation/x86 directory.
And also rename it to exception-tables.txt which looks much
more reasonable.
This patch is on top of the previous one.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce
and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors.
The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature.
Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable
it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving.
The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected
errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently.
This option will be useful if you never care about corrected
errors.
The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected
errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci. All corrected events are
not cleared and kept in bank MSRs.
Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be
a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware
monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in
banks instead of OS.
[ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ]
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (22 commits)
x86: fix system without memory on node0
x86, mm: Fix node_possible_map logic
mm, x86: remove MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE related code
x86: make sparse mem work in non-NUMA mode
x86: process.c, remove useless headers
x86: merge process.c a bit
x86: use sparse_memory_present_with_active_regions() on UMA
x86: unify 64-bit UMA and NUMA paging_init()
x86: Allow 1MB of slack between the e820 map and SRAT, not 4GB
x86: Sanity check the e820 against the SRAT table using e820 map only
x86: clean up and and print out initial max_pfn_mapped
x86/pci: remove rounding quirk from e820_setup_gap()
x86, e820, pci: reserve extra free space near end of RAM
x86: fix typo in address space documentation
x86: 46 bit physical address support on 64 bits
x86, mm: fault.c, use printk_once() in is_errata93()
x86: move per-cpu mmu_gathers to mm/init.c
x86: move max_pfn_mapped and max_low_pfn_mapped to setup.c
x86: unify noexec handling
x86: remove (null) in /sys kernel_page_tables
...
On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to
all CPUs. This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all
these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect
the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first.
This has some advantages:
- When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as
quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted
data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage.
- The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code
on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well).
- All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that
another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless
information (empty machine check) because the real error
happened on another CPU which came in later.
This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU
lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping
useless information on a machine check. The problem also occurs
in a less severe form on older CPUs.
- The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check
and shut down the system. This can happen when one CPU is so
badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore
or when some external agent wants to stop the system by
asserting the machine check pin. This follows Intel hardware
recommendations.
- This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers.
- The events can be output in true severity order
- When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually
be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts.
The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting
for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms
(jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature,
so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT"
The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one
second for the other CPUs. This can be also disabled.
From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast
machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on
non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems.
Includes fixes from Ying Huang
Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto)
Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto
v2: Avoid duplicate messages
[ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling.
Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto
Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables
Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
after:
| commit b263295dbf
| Author: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
| Date: Wed Jan 30 13:30:47 2008 +0100
|
| x86: 64-bit, make sparsemem vmemmap the only memory model
we don't have MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE anymore.
Historically, x86-64 had an architecture-specific method for memory hotplug
whereby it scanned the SRAT for physical memory ranges that could be
potentially used for memory hot-add later. By reserving those ranges
without physical memory, the memmap would be allocated and left dormant
until needed. This depended on the DISCONTIG memory model which has been
removed so the code implementing HOTPLUG_RESERVE is now dead.
This patch removes the dead code used by MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE.
(Changelog authored by Mel.)
v2: updated changelog, and remove hotadd= in doc
[ Impact: remove dead code ]
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Workflow-found-OK-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <4A0C4910.7090508@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A long ago, in days of yore, it all began with a god named Thor.
There were vikings and boats and some plans for a Linux kernel
header. Unfortunately, a single 8-bit field was used for bootloader
type and version. This has generally worked without *too* much pain,
but we're getting close to flat running out of ID fields.
Add extension fields for both type and version. The type will be
extended if it the old field is 0xE; the version is a simple MSB
extension.
Keep /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type containing
(type << 4) + (ver & 0xf) for backwards compatiblity, but also add
/proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_version which contains the full version
number.
[ Impact: new feature to support more bootloaders ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fix a trivial typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt.
[ Impact: documentation only ]
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Extend the maximum addressable memory on x86-64 from 2^44 to
2^46 bytes. This requires some shuffling around of the vmalloc
and virtual memmap memory areas, to keep them away from the
direct mapping of up to 64TB of physical memory.
This patch also introduces a guard hole between the vmalloc
area and the virtual memory map space. There's really no
good reason why we wouldn't have a guard hole there.
[ Impact: future hardware enablement ]
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090505172856.6820db22@cuia.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (28 commits)
trivial: Update my email address
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/mtd/tests/mtd_*test.c
trivial: NULL noise: drivers/media/dvb/frontends/drx397xD_fw.h
trivial: Fix misspelling of "Celsius".
trivial: remove unused variable 'path' in alloc_file()
trivial: fix a pdlfush -> pdflush typo in comment
trivial: jbd header comment typo fix for JBD_PARANOID_IOFAIL
trivial: wusb: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: drivers/char/bsr.c: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: h8300: Storage class should be before const qualifier
trivial: fix where cgroup documentation is not correctly referred to
trivial: Give the right path in Documentation example
trivial: MTD: remove EOL from MODULE_DESCRIPTION
trivial: Fix typo in bio_split()'s documentation
trivial: PWM: fix of #endif comment
trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts
trivial: Fix misspelling of firmware
trivial: cgroups: documentation typo and spelling corrections
trivial: Update contact info for Jochen Hein
trivial: fix typo "resgister" -> "register"
...
cgroup documentation was moved to Documentation/cgroups/. There are some
places that still refer to Documentation/controllers/,
Documentation/cgroups.txt and Documentation/cpusets.txt. Fix those.
Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com>
Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Modify field names to the right ones:
- start_sys was changed to start_sys_seg
- iinitrd_addr_max was changed to ramdisk_max
- pad2 was changed to pad2 and pad3
- readmode_swtch was changed to realmode_swtch
Signed-off-by: Baodong Chen <[email]chenbdchenbd@gmail.com[email]>
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: documentation
Update the boot protocol specification to include the currently
supported file formats and their magic numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (36 commits)
x86: fix section mismatch warnings in mcheck/mce_amd_64.c
x86: offer frame pointers in all build modes
x86: remove duplicated #include's
x86: k8 numa register active regions later
x86: update Alan Cox's email addresses
x86: rename all fields of mpc_table mpc_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_oemtable oem_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_bus mpc_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_cpu mpc_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_intsrc mpc_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_lintsrc mpc_X to X
x86: rename all fields of mpc_iopic mpc_X to X
x86: irqinit_64.c init_ISA_irqs should be static
Documentation/x86/boot.txt: payload length was changed to payload_length
x86: setup_percpu.c fix style problems
x86: irqinit_64.c fix style problems
x86: irqinit_32.c fix style problems
x86: i8259.c fix style problems
x86: irq_32.c fix style problems
x86: ioport.c fix style problems
...
Update several Documentation/ files and a few sub-dir files (only one
change in each) to reflect changed header files locations.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Impact: Documentation only.
Documentation updates as per Randy Dunlap's comments.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Impact: clarify documentation
Documentation/x86/boot.txt describes payload_offset as the offset
from the end of the real-mode code. In fact, it is more accurately
described as the offset from the beginning of the protected-mode
code, as (a) this is how it is actually calculated and (b) the padding
after the real-mode code is not included in the offset.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Kohlbecher <xt28@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: documentation fix
I met okuji-san (GRUB maintainer) yesterday.
He said GRuB isn't correct spelled and he want to fix it.
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: documentation update
Commit a6523748bd
(paravirt/x86, 64-bit: move __PAGE_OFFSET to leave a space for hypervisor)
changed address space without changing the documentation.
Change it according to the code change -- direct mapping start:
ffff810000000000 => ffff880000000000 which gives 57 TiB, something
between 45 and 46 bits.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: documentation update
1) nmi_watchdog boot parameter is common to 32/64 bit modes. So
move it from Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt to
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt and integrate with.
2) Also fix [panic] keyword placement -- it ought to be at first
position otherwise it will not be recognized.
3) Document lapic and ioapic keywords.
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The Documentation/i386 and Documentation/x86_64 directories and their
contents have been moved into Documentation/x86. Fix references to
those files accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Hermann <uwe@hermann-uwe.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Commit ecd29476ae removed the
"disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel parameters from
the kernel but did not remove the references to them from two
files in the Documentation directory: kernel-parameters.txt and
x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt.
This change completes the removal.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Acked-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Documentation update for PAT. Reflect the latest API details.
Also, adds details about ways to get more info in order to debug PAT.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The boot protocol, USB legacy support, and zero-page documentation is
common to the x86 platform, not i386-specific.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Applies on top of the previous patch:
x86 boot: add code to add BIOS provided EFI memory entries to kernel
Instead of always adding EFI memory map entries (if present) to the
memory map after initially finding either E820 BIOS memory map entries
and/or kernel command line memmap entries, -instead- only add such
additional EFI memory map entries if the kernel boot option:
add_efi_memmap
is specified.
Requiring this 'add_efi_memmap' option is backward compatible with
kernels that didn't load such additional EFI memory map entries in
the first place, and it doesn't override a configuration that tries
to replace all E820 or EFI BIOS memory map entries with ones given
entirely on the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: "Jack Steiner" <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: "Mike Travis" <travis@sgi.com>
Cc: "Huang
Cc: Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The current organization of the x86 documentation makes it appear as
if the "i386" documentation doesn't apply to x86-64, which is does.
Thus, move that documentation into Documentation/x86, and move the
x86-64-specific stuff into Documentation/x86/x86_64 with the eventual
goal to move stuff that isn't actually 64-bit specific back into
Documentation/x86.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
