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Stephen Kitt
53ace11952 docs: remove MPX from the x86 toc
MPX was removed in commit 45fc24e89b ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from
arch/x86"), this removes the corresponding entry in the x86 toc.

This was suggested by a Sphinx warning.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Fixes: 45fc24e89b ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86")
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-02-25 03:10:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ccaaaf6fe5 MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler support.
Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without support for
 MPX.  This means that there was only a relatively small window where
 folks could have ever used MPX.  It failed to gain wide adoption in the
 industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever support it widely.
 
 Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.
 
 This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge window.
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Merge tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx

Pull x86 MPX removal from Dave Hansen:
 "MPX requires recompiling applications, which requires compiler
  support. Unfortunately, GCC 9.1 is expected to be be released without
  support for MPX. This means that there was only a relatively small
  window where folks could have ever used MPX. It failed to gain wide
  adoption in the industry, and Linux was the only mainstream OS to ever
  support it widely.

  Support for the feature may also disappear on future processors.

  This set completes the process that we started during the 5.4 merge
  window when the MPX prctl()s were removed. XSAVE support is left in
  place, which allows MPX-using KVM guests to continue to function"

* tag 'mpx-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/daveh/x86-mpx:
  x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
  mm: remove arch_bprm_mm_init() hook
  x86/mpx: remove bounds exception code
  x86/mpx: remove build infrastructure
  x86/alternatives: add missing insn.h include
2020-01-30 16:11:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
05ef8b97dd It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's still a
couple of things of note:
 
  - Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST
 
  - A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer
    profile entry too)
 
 Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively quiet cycle for documentation, but there's
  still a couple of things of note:

   - Conversion of the NFS documentation to RST

   - A new document on how to help with documentation (and a maintainer
     profile entry too)

  Plus the usual collection of typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.6' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (40 commits)
  docs: filesystems: add overlayfs to index.rst
  docs: usb: remove some broken references
  scripts/find-unused-docs: Fix massive false positives
  docs: nvdimm: use ReST notation for subsection
  zram: correct documentation about sysfs node of huge page writeback
  Documentation: zram: various fixes in zram.rst
  Add a maintainer entry profile for documentation
  Add a document on how to contribute to the documentation
  docs: Keep up with the location of NoUri
  Documentation: Call out example SYM_FUNC_* usage as x86-specific
  Documentation: nfs: fault_injection: convert to ReST
  Documentation: nfs: pnfs-scsi-server: convert to ReST
  Documentation: nfs: convert pnfs-block-server to ReST
  Documentation: nfs: idmapper: convert to ReST
  Documentation: convert nfsd-admin-interfaces to ReST
  Documentation: nfs-rdma: convert to ReST
  Documentation: nfsroot.rst: COSMETIC: refill a paragraph
  Documentation: nfsroot.txt: convert to ReST
  Documentation: convert nfs.txt to ReST
  Documentation: filesystems: convert vfat.txt to RST
  ...
2020-01-29 15:27:31 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
6da49d1abd Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "Misc cleanups all around the map"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/CPU/AMD: Remove amd_get_topology_early()
  x86/tsc: Remove redundant assignment
  x86/crash: Use resource_size()
  x86/cpu: Add a missing prototype for arch_smt_update()
  x86/nospec: Remove unused RSB_FILL_LOOPS
  x86/vdso: Provide missing include file
  x86/Kconfig: Correct spelling and punctuation
  Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typo
  x86/boot: Fix a comment's incorrect file reference
  x86/process: Remove set but not used variables prev and next
  x86/Kconfig: Fix Kconfig indentation
2020-01-28 12:11:23 -08:00
Dave Hansen
45fc24e89b x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>

MPX is being removed from the kernel due to a lack of support
in the toolchain going forward (gcc).

This removes all the remaining (dead at this point) MPX handling
code remaining in the tree.  The only remaining code is the XSAVE
support for MPX state which is currently needd for KVM to handle
VMs which might use MPX.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
2020-01-23 10:41:20 -08:00
Daniel W. S. Almeida
e43630edc3 Documentation: boot.rst: fix warnings
Fix WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
This warning was due to wrong syntax being used.

Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191223033121.1584930-1-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-01-10 10:54:46 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
4bdc0d676a remove ioremap_nocache and devm_ioremap_nocache
ioremap has provided non-cached semantics by default since the Linux 2.6
days, so remove the additional ioremap_nocache interface.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
2020-01-06 09:45:59 +01:00
Masanari Iida
7c737c64b0 Doc: x86: Fix a typo in mm.rst
Fix a spelling typo in mm.rst.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191226162138.17601-1-standby24x7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-12-30 11:57:18 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0854cbdb18 Documentation: x86: fix boot.rst warning and format
Fix a Sphinx documentation format warning by breaking a long line
into 2 lines.

Also drop the ':' usage after the Protocol version numbers since
other Protocol versions don't use colons.

Documentation/x86/boot.rst:72: WARNING: Malformed table.
Text in column margin in table line 57.

Fixes: 2c33c27fd6 ("x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info")
Fixes: 00cd1c154d ("x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/c6fbf592-0aca-69d9-e903-e869221a041a@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-12-19 09:25:18 -07:00
Enrico Weigelt
e156c6176c Documentation/x86/boot: Fix typo
s/Fileds/Fields/g

Signed-off-by: Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <info@metux.net>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191203113314.26810-1-info@metux.net
2019-12-18 12:50:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
85fbf15bc9 Merge branch 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 boot updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes were:

   - Extend the boot protocol to allow future extensions without hitting
     the setup_header size limit.

   - Add quirk to devicetree systems to disable the RTC unless it's
     listed as a supported device.

   - Fix ld.lld linker pedantry"

* 'x86-boot-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
  x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info
  x86/init: Allow DT configured systems to disable RTC at boot time
  x86/realmode: Explicitly set entry point via ENTRY in linker script
2019-11-26 08:40:20 -08:00
Daniel Kiper
b3c72fc9a7 x86/boot: Introduce setup_indirect
The setup_data is a bit awkward to use for extremely large data objects,
both because the setup_data header has to be adjacent to the data object
and because it has a 32-bit length field. However, it is important that
intermediate stages of the boot process have a way to identify which
chunks of memory are occupied by kernel data. Thus introduce an uniform
way to specify such indirect data as setup_indirect struct and
SETUP_INDIRECT type.

And finally bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-4-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
2019-11-12 16:21:15 +01:00
Daniel Kiper
00cd1c154d x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info.setup_type_max
This field contains maximal allowed type for setup_data.

Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it
will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot
protocol.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-3-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
2019-11-12 16:16:54 +01:00
Daniel Kiper
2c33c27fd6 x86/boot: Introduce kernel_info
The relationships between the headers are analogous to the various data
sections:

  setup_header = .data
  boot_params/setup_data = .bss

What is missing from the above list? That's right:

  kernel_info = .rodata

We have been (ab)using .data for things that could go into .rodata or .bss for
a long time, for lack of alternatives and -- especially early on -- inertia.
Also, the BIOS stub is responsible for creating boot_params, so it isn't
available to a BIOS-based loader (setup_data is, though).

setup_header is permanently limited to 144 bytes due to the reach of the
2-byte jump field, which doubles as a length field for the structure, combined
with the size of the "hole" in struct boot_params that a protected-mode loader
or the BIOS stub has to copy it into. It is currently 119 bytes long, which
leaves us with 25 very precious bytes. This isn't something that can be fixed
without revising the boot protocol entirely, breaking backwards compatibility.

boot_params proper is limited to 4096 bytes, but can be arbitrarily extended
by adding setup_data entries. It cannot be used to communicate properties of
the kernel image, because it is .bss and has no image-provided content.

kernel_info solves this by providing an extensible place for information about
the kernel image. It is readonly, because the kernel cannot rely on a
bootloader copying its contents anywhere, but that is OK; if it becomes
necessary it can still contain data items that an enabled bootloader would be
expected to copy into a setup_data chunk.

Do not bump setup_header version in arch/x86/boot/header.S because it
will be followed by additional changes coming into the Linux/x86 boot
protocol.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: eric.snowberg@oracle.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: kanth.ghatraju@oracle.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi <linux-efi@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: ross.philipson@oracle.com
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191112134640.16035-2-daniel.kiper@oracle.com
2019-11-12 16:10:34 +01:00
Pawan Gupta
a7a248c593 x86/speculation/taa: Add documentation for TSX Async Abort
Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.

 [ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]

Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
2019-10-28 08:37:00 +01:00
Andy Shevchenko
392e879a44 dma-mapping: fix filename references
After commit cf65a0f6f6 ("dma-mapping: move all DMA mapping code to
kernel/dma") some of the files are referring to outdated information,
i.e. old file names of DMA mapping sources. Fix it here.

Note, the lines with "Glue code for..." have been removed completely.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
2019-09-03 08:36:30 +02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
9fc3a18a94 docs: remove extra conf.py files
Now that the latex_documents are handled automatically, we can
remove those extra conf.py files.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-17 06:57:52 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
4f4cfa6c56 docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
There are lots of documents that belong to the admin-guide but
are on random places (most under Documentation root dir).

Move them to the admin guide.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
da82c92f11 docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
Those files belong to the admin guide, so add them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:02 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
e8d776f20f docs: x86: move two x86-specific files to x86 arch dir
Those two docs belong to the x86 architecture:

   Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst
   Documentation/intel_txt.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel_txt.rst

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00
Linus Torvalds
e9a83bd232 It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro.  These create more
    than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
    trees, unfortunately.  He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
    that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
 
  - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
    on Spectre vulnerabilities.
 
  - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
    function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
    understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
    unattractive and not fun to type.
 
  - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
 
  - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:

   - A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
     than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
     other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
     the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.

   - A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
     and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.

   - Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
     markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
     will never understand, were of the opinion that
     :c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.

   - We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.

   - Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
  docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
  docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
  Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
  doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
  docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
  Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
  platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
  Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
  Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
  Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
  Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
  docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
  scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
  docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
  Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
  Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
  Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
  docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
  ...
2019-07-09 12:34:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
92c1d65221 Merge branch 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Documentation updates and the addition of cgroup_parse_float() which
  will be used by new controllers including blk-iocost"

* 'for-5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
  cgroup: Move cgroup_parse_float() implementation out of CONFIG_SYSFS
  cgroup: add cgroup_parse_float()
2019-07-08 21:35:12 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
222a21d295 Merge branch 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 topology updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Implement multi-die topology support on Intel CPUs and expose the die
  topology to user-space tooling, by Len Brown, Kan Liang and Zhang Rui.

  These changes should have no effect on the kernel's existing
  understanding of topologies, i.e. there should be no behavioral impact
  on cache, NUMA, scheduler, perf and other topologies and overall
  system performance"

* 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Cosmetic rename internal variables in response to multi-die/pkg support
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Cosmetic renames in response to multi-die/pkg support
  hwmon/coretemp: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Cosmetic: Rename internal variables to zones from packages
  perf/x86/intel/cstate: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/rapl: Support multi-die/package
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support multi-die/package
  topology: Create core_cpus and die_cpus sysfs attributes
  topology: Create package_cpus sysfs attribute
  hwmon/coretemp: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Update RAPL domain name and debug messages
  thermal/x86_pkg_temp_thermal: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Support multi-die/package
  powercap/intel_rapl: Simplify rapl_find_package()
  x86/topology: Define topology_logical_die_id()
  x86/topology: Define topology_die_id()
  cpu/topology: Export die_id
  x86/topology: Create topology_max_die_per_package()
  x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support
2019-07-08 18:28:44 -07:00
James Morse
57794aab88 Documentation: x86: fix some typos
These are all obvious typos.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-20 14:16:12 -06:00
James Morse
b5453a8ec3 Documentation: x86: Clarify MBA takes MB as referring to mba_sc
"If the MBA is specified in MB then user can enter the max b/w in MB"
is a tautology. How can the user know if the schemata takes a percentage
or a MB/s value?

This is referring to whether the software controller is interpreting
the schemata's value. Make this clear.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-20 14:16:08 -06:00
James Morse
7c7a499582 Documentation: x86: Remove cdpl2 unspported statement and fix capitalisation
"L2 cache does not support code and data prioritization". This isn't
true, elsewhere the document says it can be enabled with the cdpl2
mount option.

While we're here, these sample strings have lower-case code/data,
which isn't how the kernel exports them.

Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-20 14:16:04 -06:00
James Morse
eb8ed28f02 Documentation: x86: Contiguous cbm isn't all X86
Since commit 4d05bf71f1 ("x86/resctrl: Introduce AMD QOS feature")
resctrl has supported non-contiguous cache bit masks. The interface
for this is currently try-it-and-see.

Update the documentation to say Intel CPUs have this requirement,
instead of X86.

Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-20 14:16:00 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
99c8b231ae docs: cgroup-v1: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
Convert the cgroup-v1 files to ReST format, in order to
allow a later addition to the admin-guide.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2019-06-14 13:29:54 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
cb1aaebea8 docs: fix broken documentation links
Mostly due to x86 and acpi conversion, several documentation
links are still pointing to the old file. Fix them.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Reviewed-by: Sven Van Asbroeck <TheSven73@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-08 13:42:13 -06:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
1eecbcdca2 docs: move protection-keys.rst to the core-api book
This document is used by multiple architectures:

	$ echo $(git grep -l  pkey_mprotect arch|cut -d'/' -f 2|sort|uniq)
	alpha arm arm64 ia64 m68k microblaze mips parisc powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 xtensa

So, let's move it to the core book and adjust the links to it
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-06-08 13:42:12 -06:00
Ira Weiny
9db9b76767 Documentation/x86: Fix path to entry_32.S
Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
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>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190520205253.23762-1-ira.weiny@intel.com
[ Adjusted the patch to the RST conversion. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-24 08:52:54 +02:00
Len Brown
7745f03eb3 x86/topology: Add CPUID.1F multi-die/package support
Some new systems have multiple software-visible die within each package.

Update Linux parsing of the Intel CPUID "Extended Topology Leaf" to handle
either CPUID.B, or the new CPUID.1F.

Add cpuinfo_x86.die_id and cpuinfo_x86.max_dies to store the result.

die_id will be non-zero only for multi-die/package systems.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/7b23d2d26d717b8e14ba137c94b70943f1ae4b5c.1557769318.git.len.brown@intel.com
2019-05-23 10:08:30 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski
9d8d0294e7 x86/speculation/mds: Improve CPU buffer clear documentation
On x86_64, all returns to usermode go through
prepare_exit_to_usermode(), with the sole exception of do_nmi().
This even includes machine checks -- this was added several years
ago to support MCE recovery.  Update the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04dcbdb805 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/999fa9e126ba6a48e9d214d2f18dbde5c62ac55c.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-16 09:05:12 +02:00
Andy Lutomirski
88640e1dcd x86/speculation/mds: Revert CPU buffer clear on double fault exit
The double fault ESPFIX path doesn't return to user mode at all --
it returns back to the kernel by simulating a #GP fault.
prepare_exit_to_usermode() will run on the way out of
general_protection before running user code.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 04dcbdb805 ("x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac97612445c0a44ee10374f6ea79c222fe22a5c4.1557865329.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-05-16 09:05:11 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
fa4bff1650 Merge branch 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
  which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
  available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
  has the following CVEs assigned:

     CVE-2018-12126  MSBDS  Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12130  MFBDS  Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
     CVE-2018-12127  MLPDS  Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
     CVE-2019-11091  MDSUM  Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory

  MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
  forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
  this data via cache side channels.

  Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
  vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
  address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
  as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
  successfully.

  The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
  user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
  instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
  exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
  requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
  default to avoid breaking unattended updates.

  The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
  deeper technical view"

* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
  Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
  x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
  x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
  x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
  x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
  x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
  Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
  Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
  x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
  x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
  x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
  x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
  x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
  x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
  x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
  ...
2019-05-14 07:57:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1fb3b526df Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains the
conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for some
 time but needed a couple of final tweaks.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Some late arriving documentation changes. In particular, this contains
  the conversion of the x86 docs to RST, which has been in the works for
  some time but needed a couple of final tweaks"

* tag 'docs-5.2a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert pat.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert tlb.txt to reST
  Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.txt to reST
  ...
2019-05-10 13:24:53 -04:00
Changbin Du
e115fb4bd2 Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/machinecheck to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:12 -06:00
Changbin Du
bdde117ffe Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:12 -06:00
Changbin Du
f0339db776 Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
85a3bd41cd Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/5level-paging.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
b88679d2f2 Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/mm.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
1c65b4e0f2 Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/uefi.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
bbea90bbb6 Documentation: x86: convert x86_64/boot-options.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
8fffdc9353 Documentation: x86: convert i386/IO-APIC.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
71892b25fc Documentation: x86: convert usb-legacy-support.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
9d12f58fe9 Documentation: x86: convert orc-unwinder.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
1cd7af509d Documentation: x86: convert resctrl_ui.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
3d07bc393f Documentation: x86: convert microcode.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:11 -06:00
Changbin Du
ea0765e835 Documentation: x86: convert pti.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:10 -06:00
Changbin Du
0c7180f2e4 Documentation: x86: convert amd-memory-encryption.txt to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.

Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:10 -06:00