Pull x86 pti updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This contains:
- a PTI bugfix to avoid setting reserved CR3 bits when PCID is
disabled. This seems to cause issues on a virtual machine at least
and is incorrect according to the AMD manual.
- a PTI bugfix which disables the perf BTS facility if PTI is
enabled. The BTS AUX buffer is not globally visible and causes the
CPU to fault when the mapping disappears on switching CR3 to user
space. A full fix which restores BTS on PTI is non trivial and will
be worked on.
- PTI bugfixes for EFI and trusted boot which make sure that the user
space visible page table entries have the NX bit cleared
- removal of dead code in the PTI pagetable setup functions
- add PTI documentation
- add a selftest for vsyscall to verify that the kernel actually
implements what it advertises.
- a sysfs interface to expose vulnerability and mitigation
information so there is a coherent way for users to retrieve the
status.
- the initial spectre_v2 mitigations, aka retpoline:
+ The necessary ASM thunk and compiler support
+ The ASM variants of retpoline and the conversion of affected ASM
code
+ Make LFENCE serializing on AMD so it can be used as speculation
trap
+ The RSB fill after vmexit
- initial objtool support for retpoline
As I said in the status mail this is the most of the set of patches
which should go into 4.15 except two straight forward patches still on
hold:
- the retpoline add on of LFENCE which waits for ACKs
- the RSB fill after context switch
Both should be ready to go early next week and with that we'll have
covered the major holes of spectre_v2 and go back to normality"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (28 commits)
x86,perf: Disable intel_bts when PTI
security/Kconfig: Correct the Documentation reference for PTI
x86/pti: Fix !PCID and sanitize defines
selftests/x86: Add test_vsyscall
x86/retpoline: Fill return stack buffer on vmexit
x86/retpoline/irq32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/checksum32: Convert assembler indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/xen: Convert Xen hypercall indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/hyperv: Convert assembler indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/ftrace: Convert ftrace assembler indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/entry: Convert entry assembler indirect jumps
x86/retpoline/crypto: Convert crypto assembler indirect jumps
x86/spectre: Add boot time option to select Spectre v2 mitigation
x86/retpoline: Add initial retpoline support
objtool: Allow alternatives to be ignored
objtool: Detect jumps to retpoline thunks
x86/pti: Make unpoison of pgd for trusted boot work for real
x86/alternatives: Fix optimize_nops() checking
sysfs/cpu: Fix typos in vulnerability documentation
x86/cpu/AMD: Use LFENCE_RDTSC in preference to MFENCE_RDTSC
...
Add a spectre_v2= option to select the mitigation used for the indirect
branch speculation vulnerability.
Currently, the only option available is retpoline, in its various forms.
This will be expanded to cover the new IBRS/IBPB microcode features.
The RETPOLINE_AMD feature relies on a serializing LFENCE for speculation
control. For AMD hardware, only set RETPOLINE_AMD if LFENCE is a
serializing instruction, which is indicated by the LFENCE_RDTSC feature.
[ tglx: Folded back the LFENCE/AMD fixes and reworked it so IBRS
integration becomes simple ]
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@google.com>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1515707194-20531-5-git-send-email-dwmw@amazon.co.uk
Only try to enable a 64-bit window on AMD CPUs when "pci=big_root_window"
is specified.
This taints the kernel because the new 64-bit window uses address space we
don't know anything about, and it may contain unreported devices or memory
that would conflict with the window.
The pci_amd_enable_64bit_bar() quirk that enables the window is specific to
AMD CPUs. The generic solution would be to have the firmware enable the
window and describe it in the host bridge's _CRS method, or at least
describe it in the _PRS method so the OS would have the option of enabling
it.
Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
[bhelgaas: changelog, extend doc, mention taint in dmesg]
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@kernel.org>
The cross-release lockdep functionality has been removed in:
e966eaeeb6: ("locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks")
... leaving the kernel parameter docs behind. The code handling
the parameter does not exist so this is a plain documentation change.
Signed-off-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180108152731.27613-1-dsterba@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Add some details about how PTI works, what some of the downsides
are, and how to debug it when things go wrong.
Also document the kernel parameter: 'pti/nopti'.
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Moritz Lipp <moritz.lipp@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Daniel Gruss <daniel.gruss@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Michael Schwarz <michael.schwarz@iaik.tugraz.at>
Cc: Richard Fellner <richard.fellner@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Andi Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180105174436.1BC6FA2B@viggo.jf.intel.com
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A couple of fixlets for x86:
- Fix the ESPFIX double fault handling for 5-level pagetables
- Fix the commandline parsing for 'apic=' on 32bit systems and update
documentation
- Make zombie stack traces reliable
- Fix kexec with stack canary
- Fix the delivery mode for APICs which was missed when the x86
vector management was converted to single target delivery. Caused a
regression due to the broken hardware which ignores affinity
settings in lowest prio delivery mode.
- Unbreak modules when AMD memory encryption is enabled
- Remove an unused parameter of prepare_switch_to"
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic: Switch all APICs to Fixed delivery mode
x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case
x86-32: Fix kexec with stack canary (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR)
x86: Remove unused parameter of prepare_switch_to
x86/stacktrace: Make zombie stack traces reliable
x86/mm: Unbreak modules that use the DMA API
x86/build: Make isoimage work on Debian
x86/espfix/64: Fix espfix double-fault handling on 5-level systems
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three patches addressing the fallout of the CPU_ISOLATION changes
especially with NO_HZ_FULL plus documentation of boot parameter
dependency"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/isolation: Document boot parameters dependency on CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y
sched/isolation: Enable CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y by default
sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL select CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION
Pull x86 page table isolation updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final set of enabling page table isolation on x86:
- Infrastructure patches for handling the extra page tables.
- Patches which map the various bits and pieces which are required to
get in and out of user space into the user space visible page
tables.
- The required changes to have CR3 switching in the entry/exit code.
- Optimizations for the CR3 switching along with documentation how
the ASID/PCID mechanism works.
- Updates to dump pagetables to cover the user space page tables for
W+X scans and extra debugfs files to analyze both the kernel and
the user space visible page tables
The whole functionality is compile time controlled via a config switch
and can be turned on/off on the command line as well"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
x86/ldt: Make the LDT mapping RO
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Allow dumping current pagetables
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Check user space page table for WX pages
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Add page table directory to the debugfs VFS hierarchy
x86/mm/pti: Add Kconfig
x86/dumpstack: Indicate in Oops whether PTI is configured and enabled
x86/mm: Clarify the whole ASID/kernel PCID/user PCID naming
x86/mm: Use INVPCID for __native_flush_tlb_single()
x86/mm: Optimize RESTORE_CR3
x86/mm: Use/Fix PCID to optimize user/kernel switches
x86/mm: Abstract switching CR3
x86/mm: Allow flushing for future ASID switches
x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed
x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on
x86/mm/64: Make a full PGD-entry size hole in the memory map
x86/events/intel/ds: Map debug buffers in cpu_entry_area
x86/cpu_entry_area: Add debugstore entries to cpu_entry_area
x86/mm/pti: Map ESPFIX into user space
x86/mm/pti: Share entry text PMD
x86/entry: Align entry text section to PMD boundary
...
The "isolcpus=" and "nohz_full=" boot parameters depend on CPU Isolation
support. Let's document that.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1513275507-29200-4-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM
All ARM patches were in next-20171113. I have postponed most x86 fixes
to 4.15-rc2 and UMIP to 4.16, but there are fixes that would be good to
have already in 4.15-rc1:
* re-introduce support for CPUs without virtual NMI (cc stable)
and allow testing of KVM without virtual NMI on available CPUs
* fix long-standing performance issues with assigned devices on AMD
(cc stable)
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Merge tag 'kvm-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm
Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář:
"Trimmed second batch of KVM changes for Linux 4.15:
- GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM
- re-introduce support for CPUs without virtual NMI (cc stable) and
allow testing of KVM without virtual NMI on available CPUs
- fix long-standing performance issues with assigned devices on AMD
(cc stable)"
* tag 'kvm-4.15-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (30 commits)
kvm: vmx: Allow disabling virtual NMI support
kvm: vmx: Reinstate support for CPUs without virtual NMI
KVM: SVM: obey guest PAT
KVM: arm/arm64: Don't queue VLPIs on INV/INVALL
KVM: arm/arm64: Fix GICv4 ITS initialization issues
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Theory of operations
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Enable VLPI support
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent userspace from changing doorbell affinity
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Prevent a VM using GICv4 from being saved
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Enable virtual cpuif if VLPIs can be delivered
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Hook vPE scheduling into vgic flush/sync
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Use the doorbell interrupt as an unblocking source
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Add doorbell interrupt handling
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Use pending_last as a scheduling hint
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle INVALL applied to a vPE
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Propagate property updates to VLPIs
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle MOVALL applied to a vPE
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Handle CLEAR applied to a VLPI
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Propagate affinity changes to the physical ITS
KVM: arm/arm64: GICv4: Unmap VLPI when freeing an LPI
...
a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build enhancement from
Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build (but only when
additional warnings have been requested in general).
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Merge tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few late-arriving docs updates that have no real reason to wait.
There's a new "Co-Developed-by" tag described by Greg, and a build
enhancement from Willy to generate docs warnings during a kernel build
(but only when additional warnings have been requested in general)"
* tag 'docs-4.15-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Add optional check for bad kernel-doc comments
Documentation: fix profile= options in kernel-parameters.txt
documentation/svga.txt: update outdated file
kokr/memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in paring example
kokr/memory-barriers/txt: Replace uses of "transitive"
Documentation/process: add Co-Developed-by: tag for patches with multiple authors
Correctly the formatting of several additions to the profile= option
that have been added by using <profiletype> and listing the choices
for it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'kvm-arm-gicv4-for-v4.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kvmarm/kvmarm into HEAD
GICv4 Support for KVM/ARM for v4.15
Non-highlights:
- Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs in our
implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line with x86.
Highlights:
- Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a true NMI
(ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.
- Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.
- Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors can be
reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.
- Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM to notify
the Linux partition of topology changes.
- Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on some Power9
processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).
- Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on some
Power9 revisions.
- Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a CONFIG), we
believe it has never had any users.
- A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting for long
running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes to the
powernv_flash driver to use the new API.
- Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are using
transactional memory.
- Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on Power9.
- Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on Power9, and
related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver handles requests.
- Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.
Thanks to:
Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh
Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao,
Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R.
Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren
Myneni, Joel Stanley, Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami
Hiramatsu, Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia Franco de
Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee, Shriya, Stephen
Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain,
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, William A. Kennington III.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"A bit of a small release, I suspect in part due to me travelling for
KS. But my backlog of patches to review is smaller than usual, so I
think in part folks just didn't send as much this cycle.
Non-highlights:
- Five fixes for the >128T address space handling, both to fix bugs
in our implementation and to bring the semantics exactly into line
with x86.
Highlights:
- Support for a new OPAL call on bare metal machines which gives us a
true NMI (ie. is not masked by MSR[EE]=0) for debugging etc.
- Support for Power9 DD2 in the CXL driver.
- Improvements to machine check handling so that uncorrectable errors
can be reported into the generic memory_failure() machinery.
- Some fixes and improvements for VPHN, which is used under PowerVM
to notify the Linux partition of topology changes.
- Plumbing to enable TM (transactional memory) without suspend on
some Power9 processors (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NO_SUSPEND).
- Support for emulating vector loads form cache-inhibited memory, on
some Power9 revisions.
- Disable the fast-endian switch "syscall" by default (behind a
CONFIG), we believe it has never had any users.
- A major rework of the API drivers use when initiating and waiting
for long running operations performed by OPAL firmware, and changes
to the powernv_flash driver to use the new API.
- Several fixes for the handling of FP/VMX/VSX while processes are
using transactional memory.
- Optimisations of TLB range flushes when using the radix MMU on
Power9.
- Improvements to the VAS facility used to access coprocessors on
Power9, and related improvements to the way the NX crypto driver
handles requests.
- Implementation of PMEM_API and UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE for 64-bit.
Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Allen Pais, Andrew
Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Arnd Bergmann, Balbir Singh, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard,
Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat, Gautham R. Shenoy, Geert Uytterhoeven,
Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo Romero, Haren Myneni, Joel Stanley,
Kamalesh Babulal, Kautuk Consul, Markus Elfring, Masami Hiramatsu,
Michael Bringmann, Michael Neuling, Michal Suchanek, Naveen N. Rao,
Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pedro Miraglia
Franco de Carvalho, Philippe Bergheaud, Sandipan Das, Seth Forshee,
Shriya, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel
Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Vaidyanathan Srinivasan, and William A.
Kennington III"
* tag 'powerpc-4.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (151 commits)
powerpc/64s: Fix Power9 DD2.0 workarounds by adding DD2.1 feature
powerpc/64s: Fix masking of SRR1 bits on instruction fault
powerpc/64s: mm_context.addr_limit is only used on hash
powerpc/64s/radix: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
powerpc/64s/hash: Allow MAP_FIXED allocations to cross 128TB boundary
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix fork() with 512TB process address space
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 128TB-512TB virtual address boundary case allocation
powerpc/64s/hash: Fix 512T hint detection to use >= 128T
powerpc: Fix DABR match on hash based systems
powerpc/signal: Properly handle return value from uprobe_deny_signal()
powerpc/fadump: use kstrtoint to handle sysfs store
powerpc/lib: Implement UACCESS_FLUSHCACHE API
powerpc/lib: Implement PMEM API
powerpc/powernv/npu: Don't explicitly flush nmmu tlb
powerpc/powernv/npu: Use flush_all_mm() instead of flush_tlb_mm()
powerpc/powernv/idle: Round up latency and residency values
powerpc/kprobes: refactor kprobe_lookup_name for safer string operations
powerpc/kprobes: Blacklist emulate_update_regs() from kprobes
powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and kprobes_on_ftrace
powerpc/kprobes: Disable preemption before invoking probe handler for optprobes
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Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.15' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"This is the main drm pull request for v4.15.
Core:
- Atomic object lifetime fixes
- Atomic iterator improvements
- Sparse/smatch fixes
- Legacy kms ioctls to be interruptible
- EDID override improvements
- fb/gem helper cleanups
- Simple outreachy patches
- Documentation improvements
- Fix dma-buf rcu races
- DRM mode object leasing for improving VR use cases.
- vgaarb improvements for non-x86 platforms.
New driver:
- tve200: Faraday Technology TVE200 block.
This "TV Encoder" encodes a ITU-T BT.656 stream and can be found in
the StorLink SL3516 (later Cortina Systems CS3516) as well as the
Grain Media GM8180.
New bridges:
- SiI9234 support
New panels:
- S6E63J0X03, OTM8009A, Seiko 43WVF1G, 7" rpi touch panel, Toshiba
LT089AC19000, Innolux AT043TN24
i915:
- Remove Coffeelake from alpha support
- Cannonlake workarounds
- Infoframe refactoring for DisplayPort
- VBT updates
- DisplayPort vswing/emph/buffer translation refactoring
- CCS fixes
- Restore GPU clock boost on missed vblanks
- Scatter list updates for userptr allocations
- Gen9+ transition watermarks
- Display IPC (Isochronous Priority Control)
- Private PAT management
- GVT: improved error handling and pci config sanitizing
- Execlist refactoring
- Transparent Huge Page support
- User defined priorities support
- HuC/GuC firmware refactoring
- DP MST fixes
- eDP power sequencing fixes
- Use RCU instead of stop_machine
- PSR state tracking support
- Eviction fixes
- BDW DP aux channel timeout fixes
- LSPCON fixes
- Cannonlake PLL fixes
amdgpu:
- Per VM BO support
- Powerplay cleanups
- CI powerplay support
- PASID mgr for kfd
- SR-IOV fixes
- initial GPU reset for vega10
- Prime mmap support
- TTM updates
- Clock query interface for Raven
- Fence to handle ioctl
- UVD encode ring support on Polaris
- Transparent huge page DMA support
- Compute LRU pipe tweaks
- BO flag to allow buffers to opt out of implicit sync
- CTX priority setting API
- VRAM lost infrastructure plumbing
qxl:
- fix flicker since atomic rework
amdkfd:
- Further improvements from internal AMD tree
- Usermode events
- Drop radeon support
nouveau:
- Pascal temperature sensor support
- Improved BAR2 handling
- MMU rework to support Pascal MMU
exynos:
- Improved HDMI/mixer support
- HDMI audio interface support
tegra:
- Prep work for tegra186
- Cleanup/fixes
msm:
- Preemption support for a5xx
- Display fixes for 8x96 (snapdragon 820)
- Async cursor plane fixes
- FW loading rework
- GPU debugging improvements
vc4:
- Prep for DSI panels
- fix T-format tiling scanout
- New madvise ioctl
Rockchip:
- LVDS support
omapdrm:
- omap4 HDMI CEC support
etnaviv:
- GPU performance counters groundwork
sun4i:
- refactor driver load + TCON backend
- HDMI improvements
- A31 support
- Misc fixes
udl:
- Probe/EDID read fixes.
tilcdc:
- Misc fixes.
pl111:
- Support more variants
adv7511:
- Improve EDID handling.
- HDMI CEC support
sii8620:
- Add remote control support"
* tag 'drm-for-v4.15' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1480 commits)
drm/rockchip: analogix_dp: Use mutex rather than spinlock
drm/mode_object: fix documentation for object lookups.
drm/i915: Reorder context-close to avoid calling i915_vma_close() under RCU
drm/i915: Move init_clock_gating() back to where it was
drm/i915: Prune the reservation shared fence array
drm/i915: Idle the GPU before shinking everything
drm/i915: Lock llist_del_first() vs llist_del_all()
drm/i915: Calculate ironlake intermediate watermarks correctly, v2.
drm/i915: Disable lazy PPGTT page table optimization for vGPU
drm/i915/execlists: Remove the priority "optimisation"
drm/i915: Filter out spurious execlists context-switch interrupts
drm/amdgpu: use irq-safe lock for kiq->ring_lock
drm/amdgpu: bypass lru touch for KIQ ring submission
drm/amdgpu: Potential uninitialized variable in amdgpu_vm_update_directories()
drm/amdgpu: potential uninitialized variable in amdgpu_vce_ring_parse_cs()
drm/amd/powerplay: initialize a variable before using it
drm/amd/powerplay: suppress KASAN out of bounds warning in vega10_populate_all_memory_levels
drm/amd/amdgpu: fix evicted VRAM bo adjudgement condition
drm/vblank: Tune drm_crtc_accurate_vblank_count() WARN down to a debug
drm/rockchip: add CONFIG_OF dependency for lvds
...
Pull irq core updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather large update for the interrupt core code and the irq chip drivers:
- Add a new bitmap matrix allocator and supporting changes, which is
used to replace the x86 vector allocator which comes with separate
pull request. This allows to replace the convoluted nested loop
allocation function in x86 with a facility which supports the
recently added property of managed interrupts proper and allows to
switch to a best effort vector reservation scheme, which addresses
problems with vector exhaustion.
- A large update to the ARM GIC-V3-ITS driver adding support for
range selectors.
- New interrupt controllers:
- Meson and Meson8 GPIO
- BCM7271 L2
- Socionext EXIU
If you expected that this will stop at some point, I have to
disappoint you. There are new ones posted already. Sigh!
- STM32 interrupt controller support for new platforms.
- A pile of fixes, cleanups and updates to the MIPS GIC driver
- The usual small fixes, cleanups and updates all over the place.
Most visible one is to move the irq chip drivers Kconfig switches
into a separate Kconfig menu"
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
genirq: Fix type of shifting literal 1 in __setup_irq()
irqdomain: Drop pointless NULL check in virq_debug_show_one
genirq/proc: Return proper error code when irq_set_affinity() fails
irq/work: Use llist_for_each_entry_safe
irqchip: mips-gic: Print warning if inherited GIC base is used
irqchip/mips-gic: Add pr_fmt and reword pr_* messages
irqchip/stm32: Move the wakeup on interrupt mask
irqchip/stm32: Fix initial values
irqchip/stm32: Add stm32h7 support
dt-bindings/interrupt-controllers: Add compatible string for stm32h7
irqchip/stm32: Add multi-bank management
irqchip/stm32: Select GENERIC_IRQ_CHIP
irqchip/exiu: Add support for Socionext Synquacer EXIU controller
dt-bindings: Add description of Socionext EXIU interrupt controller
irqchip/gic-v3-its: Fix VPE activate callback return value
irqchip: mips-gic: Make IPI bitmaps static
irqchip: mips-gic: Share register writes in gic_set_type()
irqchip: mips-gic: Remove gic_vpes variable
irqchip: mips-gic: Use num_possible_cpus() to reserve IPIs
irqchip: mips-gic: Configure EIC when CPUs come online
...
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main updates in this cycle were:
- Group balancing enhancements and cleanups (Brendan Jackman)
- Move CPU isolation related functionality into its separate
kernel/sched/isolation.c file, with related 'housekeeping_*()'
namespace and nomenclature et al. (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Improve the interactive/cpu-intense fairness calculation (Josef
Bacik)
- Improve the PELT code and related cleanups (Peter Zijlstra)
- Improve the logic of pick_next_task_fair() (Uladzislau Rezki)
- Improve the RT IPI based balancing logic (Steven Rostedt)
- Various micro-optimizations:
- better !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG optimizations (Patrick Bellasi)
- better idle loop (Cheng Jian)
- ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds
sched/sysctl: Fix attributes of some extern declarations
sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecated
sched/isolation: Add basic isolcpus flags
sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code
sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter
sched/isolation: Introduce housekeeping flags
sched/isolation: Split out new CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y config from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
sched/isolation: Rename is_housekeeping_cpu() to housekeeping_cpu()
sched/isolation: Use its own static key
sched/isolation: Make the housekeeping cpumask private
sched/isolation: Provide a dynamic off-case to housekeeping_any_cpu()
sched/isolation, watchdog: Use housekeeping_cpumask() instead of ad-hoc version
sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own file
sched/idle: Micro-optimize the idle loop
sched/isolcpus: Fix "isolcpus=" boot parameter handling when !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
x86/tsc: Append the 'tsc=' description for the 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter
sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic
block/ioprio: Use a helper to check for RT prio
sched/rt: Add a helper to test for a RT task
...
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- Another attempt at enabling cross-release lockdep dependency
tracking (automatically part of CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y), this time
with better performance and fewer false positives. (Byungchul Park)
- Introduce lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled() and convert
open-coded equivalents to lockdep variants. (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Add down_read_killable() and use it in the VFS's iterate_dir()
method. (Kirill Tkhai)
- Convert remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() to
READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE(). Most of the conversion was Coccinelle
driven. (Mark Rutland, Paul E. McKenney)
- Get rid of lockless_dereference(), by strengthening Alpha atomics,
strengthening READ_ONCE() with smp_read_barrier_depends() and thus
being able to convert users of lockless_dereference() to
READ_ONCE(). (Will Deacon)
- Various micro-optimizations:
- better PV qspinlocks (Waiman Long),
- better x86 barriers (Michael S. Tsirkin)
- better x86 refcounts (Kees Cook)
- ... plus other fixes and enhancements. (Borislav Petkov, Juergen
Gross, Miguel Bernal Marin)"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
locking/x86: Use LOCK ADD for smp_mb() instead of MFENCE
rcu: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
netpoll: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/posix-cpu-timers: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
sched/clock, sched/cputime: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq_work: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq/timings: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
perf/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
x86: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
smp/core: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/hrtimer: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
timers/nohz: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
workqueue: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
irq/softirqs: Use lockdep to assert IRQs are disabled/enabled
locking/lockdep: Add IRQs disabled/enabled assertion APIs: lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()/disabled()
locking/pvqspinlock: Implement hybrid PV queued/unfair locks
locking/rwlocks: Fix comments
x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized
block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for wait_for_completion()
workqueue: Remove now redundant lock acquisitions wrt. workqueue flushes
...
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are:
- Documentation updates
- RCU CPU stall-warning updates
- Torture-test updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
Size wise the biggest updates are to documentation. Excluding
documentation most of the code increase comes from a single commit
which expands debugging"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
srcu: Add parameters to SRCU docbook comments
doc: Rewrite confusing statement about memory barriers
memory-barriers.txt: Fix typo in pairing example
rcu/segcblist: Include rcupdate.h
rcu: Add extended-quiescent-state testing advice
rcu: Suppress lockdep false-positive ->boost_mtx complaints
rcu: Do not include rtmutex_common.h unconditionally
torture: Provide TMPDIR environment variable to specify tmpdir
rcutorture: Dump writer stack if stalled
rcutorture: Add interrupt-disable capability to stall-warning tests
rcu: Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while dumping trace
rcu: Turn off tracing before dumping trace
rcu: Make RCU CPU stall warnings check for irq-disabled CPUs
sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() provide RCU quiescent state
sched: Make resched_cpu() unconditional
irq_work: Map irq_work_on_queue() to irq_work_on() in !SMP
rcu: Create call_rcu_tasks() kthread at boot time
rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle
memory-barriers: Rework multicopy-atomicity section
memory-barriers: Replace uses of "transitive"
...
Pull s390 updates from Heiko Carstens:
"Since Martin is on vacation you get the s390 pull request for the
v4.15 merge window this time from me.
Besides a lot of cleanups and bug fixes these are the most important
changes:
- a new regset for runtime instrumentation registers
- hardware accelerated AES-GCM support for the aes_s390 module
- support for the new CEX6S crypto cards
- support for FORTIFY_SOURCE
- addition of missing z13 and new z14 instructions to the in-kernel
disassembler
- generate opcode tables for the in-kernel disassembler out of a
simple text file instead of having to manually maintain those
tables
- fast memset16, memset32 and memset64 implementations
- removal of named saved segment support
- hardware counter support for z14
- queued spinlocks and queued rwlocks implementations for s390
- use the stack_depth tracking feature for s390 BPF JIT
- a new s390_sthyi system call which emulates the sthyi (store
hypervisor information) instruction
- removal of the old KVM virtio transport
- an s390 specific CPU alternatives implementation which is used in
the new spinlock code"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (88 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add virtio-ccw.h to virtio/s390 section
s390/noexec: execute kexec datamover without DAT
s390: fix transactional execution control register handling
s390/bpf: take advantage of stack_depth tracking
s390: simplify transactional execution elf hwcap handling
s390/zcrypt: Rework struct ap_qact_ap_info.
s390/virtio: remove unused header file kvm_virtio.h
s390: avoid undefined behaviour
s390/disassembler: generate opcode tables from text file
s390/disassembler: remove insn_to_mnemonic()
s390/dasd: avoid calling do_gettimeofday()
s390: vfio-ccw: Do not attempt to free no-op, test and tic cda.
s390: remove named saved segment support
s390/archrandom: Reconsider s390 arch random implementation
s390/pci: do not require AIS facility
s390/qdio: sanitize put_indicator
s390/qdio: use atomic_cmpxchg
s390/nmi: avoid using long-displacement facility
s390: pass endianness info to sparse
s390/decompressor: remove informational messages
...
All it takes is the has_v4 flag to be set in gic_kvm_info
as well as "kvm-arm.vgic_v4_enable=1" being passed on the
command line for GICv4 to be enabled in KVM.
Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
There is a lot of broken firmware out there that don't really
expose the information the kernel requires when it comes with dealing
with GICv2:
(1) Firmware that only describes the first 4kB of GICv2
(2) Firmware that describe 128kB of CPU interface, while
the usable portion of the address space is between
60 and 68kB
So far, we only deal with (2). But we have platforms exhibiting
behaviour (1), resulting in two sub-cases:
(a) The GIC is occupying 8kB, as required by the GICv2 architecture
(b) It is actually spread 128kB, and this is likely to be a version
of (2)
This patch tries to work around both (a) and (b) by poking at
the outside of the described memory region, and try to work out
what is actually there. This is of course unsafe, and should
only be enabled if there is no way to otherwise fix the DT provided
by the firmware (we provide a "irqchip.gicv2_force_probe" option
to that effect).
Note that for the time being, we restrict ourselves to GICv2
implementations provided by ARM, since there I have no knowledge
of an alternative implementations. This could be relaxed if such
an implementation comes to light on a broken platform.
Reviewed-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com>
Document the latest updates on the isolcpus= boot option. While at it,
let's also fix the details about the preferred way to isolate a set of
CPUs from the scheduler general domains. Cpusets offer a much better
interface to achieve that.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509419914-16179-1-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
[ Clarified the text some more, marked the boot option deprecated. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Johan Hovold reported a heavy performance regression caused by lockdep
cross-release:
> Boot time (from "Linux version" to login prompt) had in fact doubled
> since 4.13 where it took 17 seconds (with my current config) compared to
> the 35 seconds I now see with 4.14-rc4.
>
> I quick bisect pointed to lockdep and specifically the following commit:
>
> 28a903f63e ("locking/lockdep: Handle non(or multi)-acquisition
> of a crosslock")
>
> which I've verified is the commit which doubled the boot time (compared
> to 28a903f63ec0^) (added by lockdep crossrelease series [1]).
Currently cross-release performs unwind on every acquisition, but that
is very expensive.
This patch makes unwind optional and disables it by default and only
records acquire_ip.
Full stack traces are sometimes required for full analysis, in which
case a boot paramter, crossrelease_fullstack, can be specified.
On my qemu Ubuntu machine (x86_64, 4 cores, 512M), the regression was
fixed. We measure boot times with 'perf stat --null --repeat 10 $QEMU',
where $QEMU launches a kernel with init=/bin/true:
1. No lockdep enabled:
Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):
2.756558155 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% )
2. Lockdep enabled:
Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):
2.968710420 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.12% )
3. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled:
Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):
3.153839636 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.31% )
4. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled + this patch applied:
Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):
2.963669551 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.11% )
I.e. lockdep cross-release performance is now indistinguishable from
vanilla lockdep.
Bisected-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Analyzed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: amir73il@gmail.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: darrick.wong@oracle.com
Cc: david@fromorbit.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: idryomov@gmail.com
Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508921765-15396-5-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently the kernel relies on firmware to inform it whether or not the
CPU supports HTM and as long as the kernel was built with
CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=y then it will allow userspace to make
use of the facility.
There may be situations where it would be advantageous for the kernel
to not allow userspace to use HTM, currently the only way to achieve
this is to recompile the kernel with CONFIG_PPC_TRANSACTIONAL_MEM=n.
This patch adds a simple commandline option so that HTM can be
disabled at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur@gmail.com>
[mpe: Simplify to a bool, move to prom.c, put doco in the right place.
Always disable, regardless of initial state, to avoid user confusion.]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Implement CPU alternatives, which allows to optionally patch newer
instructions at runtime, based on CPU facilities availability.
A new kernel boot parameter "noaltinstr" disables patching.
Current implementation is derived from x86 alternatives. Although
ideal instructions padding (when altinstr is longer then oldinstr)
is added at compile time, and no oldinstr nops optimization has to be
done at runtime. Also couple of compile time sanity checks are done:
1. oldinstr and altinstr must be <= 254 bytes long,
2. oldinstr and altinstr must not have an odd length.
alternative(oldinstr, altinstr, facility);
alternative_2(oldinstr, altinstr1, facility1, altinstr2, facility2);
Both compile time and runtime padding consists of either 6/4/2 bytes nop
or a jump (brcl) + 2 bytes nop filler if padding is longer then 6 bytes.
.altinstructions and .altinstr_replacement sections are part of
__init_begin : __init_end region and are freed after initialization.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Make admin-guide document refs valid.
Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
When rcutorture sees the rcutorture.stall_cpu kernel boot parameter,
it loops with preemption disabled, which does in fact normally
generate an RCU CPU stall warning message. However, there are test
scenarios that need the stalling CPU to have interrupts disabled.
This commit therefore adds an rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff kernel
boot parameter that causes the stalling CPU to disable interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 7aa7a0360a (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt
document) forgot to update kernel-parameters.txt with a reference
to the new sleep-states.rst document and it still points to
states.txt that was dropped, so fix it now.
Fixes: 7aa7a0360a (PM: docs: Delete the obsolete states.txt document)
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
It should say what that <integer> range is and what that integer value
means. I had to look at the code...
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
[jc: changed non-null to nonzero]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
UAPI Changes:
Cross-subsystem Changes:
Core Changes:
- DP SDP defines (Ville)
- polish for scdc helpers (Thierry Reding)
- fix lifetimes for connector/plane state across crtc changes (Maarten
Lankhorst).
- sparse fixes (Ville+Thierry)
- make legacy kms ioctls all interruptible (Maarten)
- push edid override into the edid helpers (out of probe helpers)
(Jani)
- DP ESI defines for link status (DK)
Driver Changes:
- drm-panel is now in drm-misc!
- minor panel-simple cleanups/refactoring by various folks
- drm_bridge_add cleanup (Inki Dae)
- constify a few i2c_device_id structs (Arvind Yadav)
- More patches from Noralf's fb/gem helper cleanup
- bridge/synopsis: reset fix (Philippe Cornu)
- fix tracepoint include handling in drivers (Thierry)
- rockchip: lvds support (Sandy Huang)
- move sun4i into drm-misc fold (Maxime Ripard)
- sun4i: refactor driver load + support TCON backend/layer muxing
(Chen-Yu Tsai)
- pl111: support more pl11x variants (Linus Walleij)
- bridge/adv7511: robustify probing/edid handling (Lars-Petersen
Clausen)
New hw support:
- S6E63J0X03 panel (Hoegeun Kwon)
- OTM8009A panel (Philippe CORNU)
- Seiko 43WVF1G panel (Marco Franchi)
- tve200 driver (Linus Walleij)
Plus assorted of tiny patches all over, including our first outreachy
patches from applicants for the winter round!
* tag 'drm-misc-next-2017-09-20' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/drm-misc: (101 commits)
drm: add backwards compatibility support for drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware
drm: handle override and firmware EDID at drm_do_get_edid() level
drm/dp: DPCD register defines for link status within ESI field
drm/rockchip: Replace dev_* with DRM_DEV_*
drm/tinydrm: Drop driver registered message
drm/gem-fb-helper: Use debug message on gem lookup failure
drm/imx: Use drm_gem_fb_create() and drm_gem_fb_prepare_fb()
drm/bridge: adv7511: Constify HDMI CODEC platform data
drm/bridge: adv7511: Enable connector polling when no interrupt is specified
drm/bridge: adv7511: Remove private copy of the EDID
drm/bridge: adv7511: Properly update EDID when no EDID was found
drm/crtc: Convert setcrtc ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Convert pageflip ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/legacy: Convert setplane ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/legacy: Convert cursor ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Convert atomic ioctl locking to interruptible.
drm/atomic: Prepare drm_modeset_lock infrastructure for interruptible waiting, v2.
drm/tve200: Clean up panel bridging
drm/doc: Update todo.rst
drm/dp/mst: Sideband message transaction to power up/down nodes
...
The default value was changed from 10 minutes to disabled in commit
a4199f5eb8.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Handle debugfs override edid and firmware edid at the low level to
transparently and completely replace the real edid. Previously, we
practically only used the modes from the override EDID, and none of the
other data, such as audio parameters.
This change also prevents actual EDID reads when the EDID is to be
overridden, but retains the DDC probe. This is useful if the reason for
preferring override EDID are problems with reading the data, or
corruption of the data.
Move firmware EDID loading from helper to core, as the functionality
moves to lower level as well. This will result in a change of module
parameter from drm_kms_helper.edid_firmware to drm.edid_firmware, which
arguably makes more sense anyway.
Some future work remains related to override and firmware EDID
validation. Like before, no validation is done for override EDID. The
firmware EDID is validated separately in the loader. Some unification
and deduplication would be in order, to validate all of them at the
drm_do_get_edid() level, like "real" EDIDs.
v2: move firmware loading to core
v3: rebase, commit message refresh
Cc: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Abdiel Janulgue <abdiel.janulgue@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1e8a710bcac46e5136c1a7b430074893c81f364a.1505203831.git.jani.nikula@intel.com
- support for HSDK board hosting a Quad core HS38x4 based SoC running @ 1 GHz
(and some prerrquisite changes such as ability to scoot the kernel code/data
from start of memory map etc)
- Quite a few updates for EZChip (Mellanox) platform
- Fixes to fault/exception printing
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Merge tag 'arc-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc
Pull ARC updates from Vineet Gupta:
- Support for HSDK board hosting a Quad core HS38x4 based SoC running
@1GHz (and some prerrquisite changes such as ability to scoot the
kernel code/data from start of memory map etc)
- Quite a few updates for EZChip (Mellanox) platform
- Fixes to fault/exception printing
* tag 'arc-4.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (26 commits)
ARC: Re-enable MMU upon Machine Check exception
ARC: Show fault information passed to show_kernel_fault_diag()
ARC: [plat-hsdk] initial port for HSDK board
ARC: mm: Decouple RAM base address from kernel link address
ARCv2: IOC: Tighten up the contraints (specifically base / size alignment)
ARC: [plat-axs103] refactor the DT fudging code
ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #2: Add core pll node to DT to manage cpu clk
ARC: [plat-axs103] use clk driver #1: Get rid of platform specific cpu clk setting
ARCv2: SLC: provide a line based flush routine for debugging
ARC: Hardcode ARCH_DMA_MINALIGN to max line length we may have
ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #2: kernel/entry exit
ARC: [plat-eznps] handle extra aux regs #1: save/restore on context switch
ARC: [plat-eznps] avoid toggling of DPC register
ARC: [plat-eznps] Update the init sequence of aux regs per cpu.
ARC: [plat-eznps] new command line argument for HW scheduler at MTM
ARC: set boot print log level to PR_INFO
ARC: [plat-eznps] Handle user memory error same in simulation and silicon
ARC: [plat-eznps] use schd.wft instruction instead of sleep at idle task
ARC: create cpu specific version of arch_cpu_idle()
ARC: [plat-eznps] spinlock aware for MTM
...
Patch series "cleanup zonelists initialization", v1.
This is aimed at cleaning up the zonelists initialization code we have
but the primary motivation was bug report [2] which got resolved but the
usage of stop_machine is just too ugly to live. Most patches are
straightforward but 3 of them need a special consideration.
Patch 1 removes zone ordered zonelists completely. I am CCing linux-api
because this is a user visible change. As I argue in the patch
description I do not think we have a strong usecase for it these days.
I have kept sysctl in place and warn into the log if somebody tries to
configure zone lists ordering. If somebody has a real usecase for it we
can revert this patch but I do not expect anybody will actually notice
runtime differences. This patch is not strictly needed for the rest but
it made patch 6 easier to implement.
Patch 7 removes stop_machine from build_all_zonelists without adding any
special synchronization between iterators and updater which I _believe_
is acceptable as explained in the changelog. I hope I am not missing
anything.
Patch 8 then removes zonelists_mutex which is kind of ugly as well and
not really needed AFAICS but a care should be taken when double checking
my thinking.
This patch (of 9):
Supporting zone ordered zonelists costs us just a lot of code while the
usefulness is arguable if existent at all. Mel has already made node
ordering default on 64b systems. 32b systems are still using
ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE because it is considered better to fallback to a
different NUMA node rather than consume precious lowmem zones.
This argument is, however, weaken by the fact that the memory reclaim
has been reworked to be node rather than zone oriented. This means that
lowmem requests have to skip over all highmem pages on LRUs already and
so zone ordering doesn't save the reclaim time much. So the only
advantage of the zone ordering is under a light memory pressure when
highmem requests do not ever hit into lowmem zones and the lowmem
pressure doesn't need to reclaim.
Considering that 32b NUMA systems are rather suboptimal already and it
is generally advisable to use 64b kernel on such a HW I believe we
should rather care about the code maintainability and just get rid of
ZONELIST_ORDER_ZONE altogether. Keep systcl in place and warn if
somebody tries to set zone ordering either from kernel command line or
the sysctl.
[mhocko@suse.com: reading vm.numa_zonelist_order will never terminate]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170721143915.14161-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <js1304@gmail.com>
Cc: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hpe.com>
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The first part of the s390 updates for 4.14:
- Add machine type 0x3906 for IBM z14
- Add IBM z14 TLB flushing improvements for KVM guests
- Exploit the TOD clock epoch extension to provide a continuous TOD
clock afer 2042/09/17
- Add NIAI spinlock hints for IBM z14
- Rework the vmcp driver and use CMA for the respone buffer of z/VM
CP commands
- Drop some s390 specific asm headers and use the generic version
- Add block discard for DASD-FBA devices under z/VM
- Add average request times to DASD statistics
- A few of those constify patches which seem to be in vogue right now
- Cleanup and bug fixes"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (50 commits)
s390/mm: avoid empty zero pages for KVM guests to avoid postcopy hangs
s390/dasd: Add discard support for FBA devices
s390/zcrypt: make CPRBX const
s390/uaccess: avoid mvcos jump label
s390/mm: use generic mm_hooks
s390/facilities: fix typo
s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_response_free()
s390/topology: Remove the unused parent_node() macro
s390/dasd: Change unsigned long long to unsigned long
s390/smp: convert cpuhp_setup_state() return code to zero on success
s390: fix 'novx' early parameter handling
s390/dasd: add average request times to dasd statistics
s390/scm: use common completion path
s390/pci: log changes to uid checking
s390/vmcp: simplify vmcp_ioctl()
s390/vmcp: return -ENOTTY for unknown ioctl commands
s390/vmcp: split vmcp header file and move to uapi
s390/vmcp: make use of contiguous memory allocator
s390/cpcmd,vmcp: avoid GFP_DMA allocations
s390/vmcp: fix uaccess check and avoid undefined behavior
...
Pull x86 cache quality monitoring update from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides a complete rewrite of the Cache Quality
Monitoring (CQM) facility.
The existing CQM support was duct taped into perf with a lot of issues
and the attempts to fix those turned out to be incomplete and
horrible.
After lengthy discussions it was decided to integrate the CQM support
into the Resource Director Technology (RDT) facility, which is the
obvious choise as in hardware CQM is part of RDT. This allowed to add
Memory Bandwidth Monitoring support on top.
As a result the mechanisms for allocating cache/memory bandwidth and
the corresponding monitoring mechanisms are integrated into a single
management facility with a consistent user interface"
* 'x86-cache-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (37 commits)
x86/intel_rdt: Turn off most RDT features on Skylake
x86/intel_rdt: Add command line options for resource director technology
x86/intel_rdt: Move special case code for Haswell to a quirk function
x86/intel_rdt: Remove redundant ternary operator on return
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Improve limbo list processing
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Fix MBM overflow handler during CPU hotplug
x86/intel_rdt: Modify the intel_pqr_state for better performance
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Clear the default RMID during hotcpu
x86/intel_rdt: Show bitmask of shareable resource with other executing units
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Handle counter overflow
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Add mbm counter initialization
x86/intel_rdt/mbm: Basic counting of MBM events (total and local)
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add CPU hotplug support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add sched_in support
x86/intel_rdt: Introduce rdt_enable_key for scheduling
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mount,umount support
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add rmdir support
x86/intel_rdt: Separate the ctrl bits from rmdir
x86/intel_rdt/cqm: Add mon_data
x86/intel_rdt: Prepare for RDT monitor data support
...
Pull x86 mm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"PCID support, 5-level paging support, Secure Memory Encryption support
The main changes in this cycle are support for three new, complex
hardware features of x86 CPUs:
- Add 5-level paging support, which is a new hardware feature on
upcoming Intel CPUs allowing up to 128 PB of virtual address space
and 4 PB of physical RAM space - a 512-fold increase over the old
limits. (Supercomputers of the future forecasting hurricanes on an
ever warming planet can certainly make good use of more RAM.)
Many of the necessary changes went upstream in previous cycles,
v4.14 is the first kernel that can enable 5-level paging.
This feature is activated via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y - disabled by
default.
(By Kirill A. Shutemov)
- Add 'encrypted memory' support, which is a new hardware feature on
upcoming AMD CPUs ('Secure Memory Encryption', SME) allowing system
RAM to be encrypted and decrypted (mostly) transparently by the
CPU, with a little help from the kernel to transition to/from
encrypted RAM. Such RAM should be more secure against various
attacks like RAM access via the memory bus and should make the
radio signature of memory bus traffic harder to intercept (and
decrypt) as well.
This feature is activated via CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT=y - disabled
by default.
(By Tom Lendacky)
- Enable PCID optimized TLB flushing on newer Intel CPUs: PCID is a
hardware feature that attaches an address space tag to TLB entries
and thus allows to skip TLB flushing in many cases, even if we
switch mm's.
(By Andy Lutomirski)
All three of these features were in the works for a long time, and
it's coincidence of the three independent development paths that they
are all enabled in v4.14 at once"
* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (65 commits)
x86/mm: Enable RCU based page table freeing (CONFIG_HAVE_RCU_TABLE_FREE=y)
x86/mm: Use pr_cont() in dump_pagetable()
x86/mm: Fix SME encryption stack ptr handling
kvm/x86: Avoid clearing the C-bit in rsvd_bits()
x86/CPU: Align CR3 defines
x86/mm, mm/hwpoison: Clear PRESENT bit for kernel 1:1 mappings of poison pages
acpi, x86/mm: Remove encryption mask from ACPI page protection type
x86/mm, kexec: Fix memory corruption with SME on successive kexecs
x86/mm/pkeys: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/protection-keys.txt
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y
x86/mm: Implement PCID based optimization: try to preserve old TLB entries using PCID
x86: Enable 5-level paging support via CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y
x86/mm: Allow userspace have mappings above 47-bit
x86/mm: Prepare to expose larger address space to userspace
x86/mpx: Do not allow MPX if we have mappings above 47-bit
x86/mm: Rename tasksize_32bit/64bit to task_size_32bit/64bit()
x86/xen: Redefine XEN_ELFNOTE_INIT_P2M using PUD_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PUD
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Fix printout of p4d level
x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Generalize address normalization
x86/boot: Fix memremap() related build failure
...
We add ability for all cores at NPS SoC to control the number of cycles
HW thread can execute before it is replace with another eligible
HW thread within the same core. The replacement is done by the
HW scheduler.
Signed-off-by: Noam Camus <noamca@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
[vgupta: simplified handlign of out of range argument value]
Command line options allow us to ignore features that we don't want.
Also we can re-enable options that have been disabled on a platform
(so long as the underlying h/w actually supports the option).
[ tglx: Marked the option array __initdata and the helper function __init ]
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Fenghua" <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Ravi V" <ravi.v.shankar@intel.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David Carrillo-Cisneros" <davidcc@google.com>
Cc: Vikas Shivappa <vikas.shivappa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/0c37b0d4dbc30977a3c1cee08b66420f83662694.1503512900.git.tony.luck@intel.com
If memory is fragmented it is unlikely that large order memory
allocations succeed. This has been an issue with the vmcp device
driver since a long time, since it requires large physical contiguous
memory ares for large responses.
To hopefully resolve this issue make use of the contiguous memory
allocator (cma). This patch adds a vmcp specific vmcp cma area with a
default size of 4MB. The size can be changed either via the
VMCP_CMA_SIZE config option at compile time or with the "vmcp_cma"
kernel parameter (e.g. "vmcp_cma=16m").
For any vmcp response buffers larger than 16k memory from the cma area
will be allocated. If such an allocation fails, there is a fallback to
the buddy allocator.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
If a CPU is specified in the nohz_full= kernel boot parameter to a
kernel built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, then that CPU's callbacks will
be offloaded, just as if that CPU had also been specified in the
rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter. But the current documentation
states that the user must keep these two boot parameters manually
synchronized. This commit therefore updates the documentation to
reflect reality.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
