IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache after user accesses.
This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
IBM Power9 processors can speculatively operate on data in the L1 cache
before it has been completely validated, via a way-prediction mechanism. It
is not possible for an attacker to determine the contents of impermissible
memory using this method, since these systems implement a combination of
hardware and software security measures to prevent scenarios where
protected data could be leaked.
However these measures don't address the scenario where an attacker induces
the operating system to speculatively execute instructions using data that
the attacker controls. This can be used for example to speculatively bypass
"kernel user access prevention" techniques, as discovered by Anthony
Steinhauser of Google's Safeside Project. This is not an attack by itself,
but there is a possibility it could be used in conjunction with
side-channels or other weaknesses in the privileged code to construct an
attack.
This issue can be mitigated by flushing the L1 cache between privilege
boundaries of concern. This patch flushes the L1 cache on kernel entry.
This is part of the fix for CVE-2020-4788.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Steps on the way to 5.10-rc1
Resolves conflicts in:
fs/userfaultfd.c
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: Ie3fe3c818f1f6565cfd4fa551de72d2b72ef60af
Steps on the way to 5.10-rc1
Resolves merge issues in:
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I3132e7802f25cb775eb02d0b3a03068da39a6fe2
Resolves conflicts in:
kernel/dma/mapping.c
Steps on the way to 5.10-rc1
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@google.com>
Change-Id: I61292201a3ac4b92c39f330585692652cf985550
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- a series for the Xen pv block drivers adding module parameters for
better control of resource usge
- a cleanup series for the Xen event driver
* tag 'for-linus-5.10b-rc1c-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
Documentation: add xen.fifo_events kernel parameter description
xen/events: unmask a fifo event channel only if it was masked
xen/events: only register debug interrupt for 2-level events
xen/events: make struct irq_info private to events_base.c
xen: remove no longer used functions
xen-blkfront: Apply changed parameter name to the document
xen-blkfront: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
xen-blkback: add a parameter for disabling of persistent grants
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- A single patch to fix the Xen security issue XSA-331 (malicious
guests can DoS dom0 by triggering NULL-pointer dereferences or access
to stale data).
- A larger series to fix the Xen security issue XSA-332 (malicious
guests can DoS dom0 by sending events at high frequency leading to
dom0's vcpus being busy in IRQ handling for elongated times).
* tag 'for-linus-5.10b-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/events: block rogue events for some time
xen/events: defer eoi in case of excessive number of events
xen/events: use a common cpu hotplug hook for event channels
xen/events: switch user event channels to lateeoi model
xen/pciback: use lateeoi irq binding
xen/pvcallsback: use lateeoi irq binding
xen/scsiback: use lateeoi irq binding
xen/netback: use lateeoi irq binding
xen/blkback: use lateeoi irq binding
xen/events: add a new "late EOI" evtchn framework
xen/events: fix race in evtchn_fifo_unmask()
xen/events: add a proper barrier to 2-level uevent unmasking
xen/events: avoid removing an event channel while handling it
In case rogue guests are sending events at high frequency it might
happen that xen_evtchn_do_upcall() won't stop processing events in
dom0. As this is done in irq handling a crash might be the result.
In order to avoid that, delay further inter-domain events after some
time in xen_evtchn_do_upcall() by forcing eoi processing into a
worker on the same cpu, thus inhibiting new events coming in.
The time after which eoi processing is to be delayed is configurable
via a new module parameter "event_loop_timeout" which specifies the
maximum event loop time in jiffies (default: 2, the value was chosen
after some tests showing that a value of 2 was the lowest with an
only slight drop of dom0 network throughput while multiple guests
performed an event storm).
How long eoi processing will be delayed can be specified via another
parameter "event_eoi_delay" (again in jiffies, default 10, again the
value was chosen after testing with different delay values).
This is part of XSA-332.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Julien Grall <julien@xen.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Wei Liu <wl@xen.org>
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
- Debugging for smp_call_function()
- RT raw/non-raw lock ordering fixes
- Strict grace periods for KASAN
- New smp_call_function() torture test
- Torture-test updates
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
[ This doesn't actually pull the tag - I've dropped the last merge from
the RCU branch due to questions about the series. - Linus ]
* tag 'core-rcu-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits)
smp: Make symbol 'csd_bug_count' static
kernel/smp: Provide CSD lock timeout diagnostics
smp: Add source and destination CPUs to __call_single_data
rcu: Shrink each possible cpu krcp
rcu/segcblist: Prevent useless GP start if no CBs to accelerate
torture: Add gdb support
rcutorture: Allow pointer leaks to test diagnostic code
rcutorture: Hoist OOM registry up one level
refperf: Avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocate
rcutorture: Properly synchronize with OOM notifier
rcutorture: Properly set rcu_fwds for OOM handling
torture: Add kvm.sh --help and update help message
rcutorture: Add CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST to TREE05
torture: Update initrd documentation
rcutorture: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
locktorture: Make function torture_percpu_rwsem_init() static
torture: document --allcpus argument added to the kvm.sh script
rcutorture: Output number of elapsed grace periods
rcutorture: Remove KCSAN stubs
rcu: Remove unused "cpu" parameter from rcu_report_qs_rdp()
...
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
"155 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (dax, debug, thp,
readahead, page-poison, util, memory-hotplug, zram, cleanups), misc,
core-kernel, get_maintainer, MAINTAINERS, lib, bitops, checkpatch,
binfmt, ramfs, autofs, nilfs, rapidio, panic, relay, kgdb, ubsan,
romfs, and fault-injection"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (155 commits)
lib, uaccess: add failure injection to usercopy functions
lib, include/linux: add usercopy failure capability
ROMFS: support inode blocks calculation
ubsan: introduce CONFIG_UBSAN_LOCAL_BOUNDS for Clang
sched.h: drop in_ubsan field when UBSAN is in trap mode
scripts/gdb/tasks: add headers and improve spacing format
scripts/gdb/proc: add struct mount & struct super_block addr in lx-mounts command
kernel/relay.c: drop unneeded initialization
panic: dump registers on panic_on_warn
rapidio: fix the missed put_device() for rio_mport_add_riodev
rapidio: fix error handling path
nilfs2: fix some kernel-doc warnings for nilfs2
autofs: harden ioctl table
ramfs: fix nommu mmap with gaps in the page cache
mm: remove the now-unnecessary mmget_still_valid() hack
mm/gup: take mmap_lock in get_dump_page()
binfmt_elf, binfmt_elf_fdpic: use a VMA list snapshot
coredump: rework elf/elf_fdpic vma_dump_size() into common helper
coredump: refactor page range dumping into common helper
coredump: let dump_emit() bail out on short writes
...
Patch series "add fault injection to user memory access", v3.
The goal of this series is to improve testing of fault-tolerance in usages
of user memory access functions, by adding support for fault injection.
syzkaller/syzbot are using the existing fault injection modes and will use
this particular feature also.
The first patch adds failure injection capability for usercopy functions.
The second changes usercopy functions to use this new failure capability
(copy_from_user, ...). The third patch adds get/put/clear_user failures
to x86.
This patch (of 3):
Add a failure injection capability to improve testing of fault-tolerance
in usages of user memory access functions.
Add CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY to enable faults in usercopy
functions. The should_fail_usercopy function is to be called by these
functions (copy_from_user, get_user, ...) in order to fail or not.
Signed-off-by: Albert van der Linde <alinde@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-1-alinde@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-2-alinde@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
- Add redirect_neigh() BPF packet redirect helper, allowing to limit
stack traversal in common container configs and improving TCP
back-pressure.
Daniel reports ~10Gbps => ~15Gbps single stream TCP performance gain.
- Expand netlink policy support and improve policy export to user
space. (Ge)netlink core performs request validation according to
declared policies. Expand the expressiveness of those policies
(min/max length and bitmasks). Allow dumping policies for particular
commands. This is used for feature discovery by user space (instead
of kernel version parsing or trial and error).
- Support IGMPv3/MLDv2 multicast listener discovery protocols in
bridge.
- Allow more than 255 IPv4 multicast interfaces.
- Add support for Type of Service (ToS) reflection in SYN/SYN-ACK
packets of TCPv6.
- In Multi-patch TCP (MPTCP) support concurrent transmission of data on
multiple subflows in a load balancing scenario. Enhance advertising
addresses via the RM_ADDR/ADD_ADDR options.
- Support SMC-Dv2 version of SMC, which enables multi-subnet
deployments.
- Allow more calls to same peer in RxRPC.
- Support two new Controller Area Network (CAN) protocols - CAN-FD and
ISO 15765-2:2016.
- Add xfrm/IPsec compat layer, solving the 32bit user space on 64bit
kernel problem.
- Add TC actions for implementing MPLS L2 VPNs.
- Improve nexthop code - e.g. handle various corner cases when nexthop
objects are removed from groups better, skip unnecessary
notifications and make it easier to offload nexthops into HW by
converting to a blocking notifier.
- Support adding and consuming TCP header options by BPF programs,
opening the doors for easy experimental and deployment-specific TCP
option use.
- Reorganize TCP congestion control (CC) initialization to simplify
life of TCP CC implemented in BPF.
- Add support for shipping BPF programs with the kernel and loading
them early on boot via the User Mode Driver mechanism, hence reusing
all the user space infra we have.
- Support sleepable BPF programs, initially targeting LSM and tracing.
- Add bpf_d_path() helper for returning full path for given 'struct
path'.
- Make bpf_tail_call compatible with bpf-to-bpf calls.
- Allow BPF programs to call map_update_elem on sockmaps.
- Add BPF Type Format (BTF) support for type and enum discovery, as
well as support for using BTF within the kernel itself (current use
is for pretty printing structures).
- Support listing and getting information about bpf_links via the bpf
syscall.
- Enhance kernel interfaces around NIC firmware update. Allow
specifying overwrite mask to control if settings etc. are reset
during update; report expected max time operation may take to users;
support firmware activation without machine reboot incl. limits of
how much impact reset may have (e.g. dropping link or not).
- Extend ethtool configuration interface to report IEEE-standard
counters, to limit the need for per-vendor logic in user space.
- Adopt or extend devlink use for debug, monitoring, fw update in many
drivers (dsa loop, ice, ionic, sja1105, qed, mlxsw, mv88e6xxx,
dpaa2-eth).
- In mlxsw expose critical and emergency SFP module temperature alarms.
Refactor port buffer handling to make the defaults more suitable and
support setting these values explicitly via the DCBNL interface.
- Add XDP support for Intel's igb driver.
- Support offloading TC flower classification and filtering rules to
mscc_ocelot switches.
- Add PTP support for Marvell Octeontx2 and PP2.2 hardware, as well as
fixed interval period pulse generator and one-step timestamping in
dpaa-eth.
- Add support for various auth offloads in WiFi APs, e.g. SAE (WPA3)
offload.
- Add Lynx PHY/PCS MDIO module, and convert various drivers which have
this HW to use it. Convert mvpp2 to split PCS.
- Support Marvell Prestera 98DX3255 24-port switch ASICs, as well as
7-port Mediatek MT7531 IP.
- Add initial support for QCA6390 and IPQ6018 in ath11k WiFi driver,
and wcn3680 support in wcn36xx.
- Improve performance for packets which don't require much offloads on
recent Mellanox NICs by 20% by making multiple packets share a
descriptor entry.
- Move chelsio inline crypto drivers (for TLS and IPsec) from the
crypto subtree to drivers/net. Move MDIO drivers out of the phy
directory.
- Clean up a lot of W=1 warnings, reportedly the actively developed
subsections of networking drivers should now build W=1 warning free.
- Make sure drivers don't use in_interrupt() to dynamically adapt their
code. Convert tasklets to use new tasklet_setup API (sadly this
conversion is not yet complete).
* tag 'net-next-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2583 commits)
Revert "bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH"
net, sockmap: Don't call bpf_prog_put() on NULL pointer
bpf, selftest: Fix flaky tcp_hdr_options test when adding addr to lo
bpf, sockmap: Add locking annotations to iterator
netfilter: nftables: allow re-computing sctp CRC-32C in 'payload' statements
net: fix pos incrementment in ipv6_route_seq_next
net/smc: fix invalid return code in smcd_new_buf_create()
net/smc: fix valid DMBE buffer sizes
net/smc: fix use-after-free of delayed events
bpfilter: Fix build error with CONFIG_BPFILTER_UMH
cxgb4/ch_ipsec: Replace the module name to ch_ipsec from chcr
net: sched: Fix suspicious RCU usage while accessing tcf_tunnel_info
bpf: Fix register equivalence tracking.
rxrpc: Fix loss of final ack on shutdown
rxrpc: Fix bundle counting for exclusive connections
netfilter: restore NF_INET_NUMHOOKS
ibmveth: Identify ingress large send packets.
ibmveth: Switch order of ibmveth_helper calls.
cxgb4: handle 4-tuple PEDIT to NAT mode translation
selftests: Add VRF route leaking tests
...
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:
- rework the non-coherent DMA allocator
- move private definitions out of <linux/dma-mapping.h>
- lower CMA_ALIGNMENT (Paul Cercueil)
- remove the omap1 dma address translation in favor of the common code
- make dma-direct aware of multiple dma offset ranges (Jim Quinlan)
- support per-node DMA CMA areas (Barry Song)
- increase the default seg boundary limit (Nicolin Chen)
- misc fixes (Robin Murphy, Thomas Tai, Xu Wang)
- various cleanups
* tag 'dma-mapping-5.10' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (63 commits)
ARM/ixp4xx: add a missing include of dma-map-ops.h
dma-direct: simplify the DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING handling
dma-direct: factor out a dma_direct_alloc_from_pool helper
dma-direct check for highmem pages in dma_direct_alloc_pages
dma-mapping: merge <linux/dma-noncoherent.h> into <linux/dma-map-ops.h>
dma-mapping: move large parts of <linux/dma-direct.h> to kernel/dma
dma-mapping: move dma-debug.h to kernel/dma/
dma-mapping: remove <asm/dma-contiguous.h>
dma-mapping: merge <linux/dma-contiguous.h> into <linux/dma-map-ops.h>
dma-contiguous: remove dma_contiguous_set_default
dma-contiguous: remove dev_set_cma_area
dma-contiguous: remove dma_declare_contiguous
dma-mapping: split <linux/dma-mapping.h>
cma: decrease CMA_ALIGNMENT lower limit to 2
firewire-ohci: use dma_alloc_pages
dma-iommu: implement ->alloc_noncoherent
dma-mapping: add new {alloc,free}_noncoherent dma_map_ops methods
dma-mapping: add a new dma_alloc_pages API
dma-mapping: remove dma_cache_sync
53c700: convert to dma_alloc_noncoherent
...
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"As hoped, things calmed down for docs this cycle; fewer changes and
almost no conflicts at all. This includes:
- A reworked and expanded user-mode Linux document
- Some simplifications and improvements for submitting-patches.rst
- An emergency fix for (some) problems with Sphinx 3.x
- Some welcome automarkup improvements to automatically generate
cross-references to struct definitions and other documents
- The usual collection of translation updates, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (81 commits)
gpiolib: Update indentation in driver.rst for code excerpts
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: Fix typo occured
Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging
docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support
Documentation: kvm: fix a typo
Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
doc: zh_CN: index files in arm64 subdirectory
mailmap: add entry for <mstarovoitov@marvell.com>
doc: seq_file: clarify role of *pos in ->next()
docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.rst: use the new SPDX tag
Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters
Fix references to nommu-mmap.rst
docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove sstfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove framebuffer scrollback boot option
docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one
Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev"
Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"
...
Pull v5.10 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
- Debugging for smp_call_function().
- Strict grace periods for KASAN. The point of this series is to find
RCU-usage bugs, so the corresponding new RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD
Kconfig option depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT, and is
further disabled by dfefault. Finally, the help text includes
a goodly list of scary caveats.
- New smp_call_function() torture test.
- Torture-test updates.
- Documentation updates.
- Miscellaneous fixes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
On cuttlefish device, DCC registers are unavailable and cause kernel to
crash if those registers are probed. Introduce a module parameter
("hvc_dcc.enable") to enable DCC at the kernel commandline.
Bug: 169129589
Change-Id: I0218d9e64443c881d163e484712edf18e42975fd
Signed-off-by: Elliot Berman <eberman@codeaurora.org>
Merge dma-contiguous.h into dma-map-ops.h, after removing the comment
describing the contiguous allocator into kernel/dma/contigous.c.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Commit
0c2a3913d6 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument")
changed clearcpuid parsing from __setup() to cmdline_find_option().
While the __setup() function would have been called for each clearcpuid=
parameter on the command line, cmdline_find_option() will only return
the last one, so the change effectively made it impossible to disable
more than one bit.
Allow a comma-separated list of bit numbers as the argument for
clearcpuid to allow multiple bits to be disabled again. Log the bits
being disabled for informational purposes.
Also fix the check on the return value of cmdline_find_option(). It
returns -1 when the option is not found, so testing as a boolean is
incorrect.
Fixes: 0c2a3913d6 ("x86/fpu: Parse clearcpuid= as early XSAVE argument")
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200907213919.2423441-1-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Right now, drivers like ARM SMMU are using dma_alloc_coherent() to get
coherent DMA buffers to save their command queues and page tables. As
there is only one default CMA in the whole system, SMMUs on nodes other
than node0 will get remote memory. This leads to significant latency.
This patch provides per-numa CMA so that drivers like SMMU can get local
memory. Tests show localizing CMA can decrease dma_unmap latency much.
For instance, before this patch, SMMU on node2 has to wait for more than
560ns for the completion of CMD_SYNC in an empty command queue; with this
patch, it needs 240ns only.
A positive side effect of this patch would be improving performance even
further for those users who are worried about performance more than DMA
security and use iommu.passthrough=1 to skip IOMMU. With local CMA, all
drivers can get local coherent DMA buffers.
Also, this patch changes the default CONFIG_CMA_AREAS to 19 in NUMA. As
1+CONFIG_CMA_AREAS should be quite enough for most servers on the market
even they enable both hugetlb_cma and pernuma_cma.
2 numa nodes: 2(hugetlb) + 2(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 5
4 numa nodes: 4(hugetlb) + 4(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 9
8 numa nodes: 8(hugetlb) + 8(pernuma) + 1(default global cma) = 17
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <song.bao.hua@hisilicon.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
The sysctl that was added earlier by commit 79134e6ce2 ("net: do
not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces") to create
fall-back only in root-ns. This patch enhances that behavior to provide
option not to create fallback tunnels in root-ns as well. Since modules
that create fallback tunnels could be built-in and setting the sysctl
value after booting is pointless, so added a kernel cmdline options to
change this default. The default setting is preseved for backward
compatibility. The kernel command line option of fb_tunnels=initns will
set the sysctl value to 1 and will create fallback tunnels only in initns
while kernel cmdline fb_tunnels=none will set the sysctl value to 2 and
fallback tunnels are skipped in every netns.
Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Maciej Zenczykowski <maze@google.com>
Cc: Jian Yang <jianyang@google.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit adds an rcutorture.leakpointer module parameter that
intentionally leaks an RCU-protected pointer out of the RCU read-side
critical section and checks to see if the corresponding grace period
has elapsed, emitting a WARN_ON_ONCE() if so. This module parameter can
be used to test facilities like CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD that end
grace periods quickly.
While in the area, also document rcutorture.irqreader, which was
previously left out.
Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The goal of this series is to increase the probability of tools like
KASAN detecting that an RCU-protected pointer was used outside of its
RCU read-side critical section. Thus far, the approach has been to make
grace periods and callback processing happen faster. Another approach
is to delay the pointer leaker. This commit therefore allows a delay
to be applied to exit from RCU read-side critical sections.
This slowdown is specified by a new rcutree.rcu_unlock_delay kernel boot
parameter that specifies this delay in microseconds, defaulting to zero.
Reported-by Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit further avoids conflation of rcuperf with the kernel's perf
feature by renaming kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c to kernel/rcu/rcuscale.c, and
also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside this file.
This has the side effect of changing the names of the kernel boot
parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh are also
updated. The rcutorture --torture type was also updated from rcuperf
to rcuscale.
[ paulmck: Fix bugs located by Stephen Rothwell. ]
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds an smp_call_function() torture test that repeatedly
invokes this function and complains if things go badly awry.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the nmi_cpu_backtrace() declines to produce backtraces for
idle CPUs. This is a good choice in the common case in which problems are
caused only by non-idle CPUs. However, there are occasionally situations
in which idle CPUs are helping to cause problems. This commit therefore
adds an nmi_backtrace.backtrace_idle kernel boot parameter that causes
nmi_cpu_backtrace() to dump stacks even of idle CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
The old EFI runtime region mapping logic that was kept around for some
time has finally been removed entirely, along with the SGI UV1 support
code that was its last remaining user. So remove any mention of the
efi=old_map command line parameter from the docs.
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window"
* tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo
doc/zh_CN: resolve undefined label warning in admin-guide index
doc/zh_CN: fix title heading markup in admin-guide cpu-load
docs: remove the 2.6 "Upgrading I2C Drivers" guide
docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
docs: cdrom: Fix a typo and rst markup
Doc: admin-guide: use correct legends in kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/features: refresh RISC-V arch support files
documentation: coccinelle: Improve command example for make C={1,2}
Core-api: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Dev-tools: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Filesystems: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
docs: trace: fix a typo
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few MM hotfixes
- kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs and ocfs2
- some of MM
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, tools, scripts, ntfs,
ocfs2 and mm (hofixes, pagealloc, slab-generic, slab, slub, kcsan,
debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, pagemap, mremap, mincore,
sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, hugetlb and vmscan).
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (162 commits)
mm: vmscan: consistent update to pgrefill
mm/vmscan.c: fix typo
khugepaged: khugepaged_test_exit() check mmget_still_valid()
khugepaged: retract_page_tables() remember to test exit
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() protect the pmd lock
khugepaged: collapse_pte_mapped_thp() flush the right range
mm/hugetlb: fix calculation of adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible
mm: thp: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
mm/page_alloc: fix memalloc_nocma_{save/restore} APIs
mm/page_alloc.c: skip setting nodemask when we are in interrupt
mm/page_alloc: fallbacks at most has 3 elements
mm/page_alloc: silence a KASAN false positive
mm/page_alloc.c: remove unnecessary end_bitidx for [set|get]_pfnblock_flags_mask()
mm/page_alloc.c: simplify pageblock bitmap access
mm/page_alloc.c: extract the common part in pfn_to_bitidx()
mm/page_alloc.c: replace the definition of NR_MIGRATETYPE_BITS with PB_migratetype_bits
mm/shuffle: remove dynamic reconfiguration
mm/memory_hotplug: document why shuffle_zone() is relevant
mm/page_alloc: remove nr_free_pagecache_pages()
mm: remove vm_total_pages
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