With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory. However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.
This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.
When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request. The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.
The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
x86: Fix atomic64_xxx_cx8() functions
x86: Fix and improve cmpxchg_double{,_local}()
x86_64, asm: Optimise fls(), ffs() and fls64()
x86, bitops: Move fls64.h inside __KERNEL__
x86: Fix and improve percpu_cmpxchg{8,16}b_double()
x86: Report cpb and eff_freq_ro flags correctly
x86/i386: Use less assembly in strlen(), speed things up a bit
x86: Use the same node_distance for 32 and 64-bit
x86: Fix rflags in FAKE_STACK_FRAME
x86: Clean up and extend do_int3()
x86: Call do_notify_resume() with interrupts enabled
x86/div64: Add a micro-optimization shortcut if base is power of two
x86-64: Cleanup some assembly entry points
x86-64: Slightly shorten line system call entry and exit paths
x86-64: Reduce amount of redundant code generated for invalidate_interruptNN
x86-64: Slightly shorten int_ret_from_sys_call
x86, efi: Convert efi_phys_get_time() args to physical addresses
x86: Default to vsyscall=emulate
x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults
x86: consolidate xchg and xadd macros
...
With this patch the OProfile Basic Mode Sampling support for System z
is enhanced with a counter file system. That way hardware sampling
can be configured using the user space tools with only little
modifications.
With the patch by default new cpu_types (s390/z10, s390/z196) are
returned in order to indicate that we are running a CPU which provides
the hardware sampling facility. Existing user space tools will
complain about an unknown cpu type. In order to be compatible with
existing user space tools the `cpu_type' module parameter has been
added. Setting the parameter to `timer' will force the module to
return `timer' as cpu_type. The module will still try to use hardware
sampling if available and the hwsampling virtual filesystem will be
also be available for configuration. So this has a different effect
than using the generic oprofile module parameter `timer=1'.
If the basic mode sampling is enabled on the machine and the
cpu_type=timer parameter is not used the kernel module will provide
the following virtual filesystem:
/dev/oprofile/0/enabled
/dev/oprofile/0/event
/dev/oprofile/0/count
/dev/oprofile/0/unit_mask
/dev/oprofile/0/kernel
/dev/oprofile/0/user
In the counter file system only the values of 'enabled', 'count',
'kernel', and 'user' are evaluated by the kernel module. Everything
else must contain fixed values.
The 'event' value only supports a single event - HWSAMPLING with value
0.
The 'count' value specifies the hardware sampling rate as it is passed
to the CPU measurement facility.
The 'kernel' and 'user' flags can now be used to filter for samples
when using hardware sampling.
Additionally also the following file will be created:
/dev/oprofile/timer/enabled
This will always be the inverted value of /dev/oprofile/0/enabled. 0
is not accepted without hardware sampling.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Commit dfb09f9b7a ("x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties
on AMD family 15h") introduced a kernel command line parameter
called 'align_va_addr' which still refers to arguments used in
an earlier version of the patch and which got changed without
updating the documentation. Correct that omission.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Cc: Frank Arnold <frank.arnold@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1321873819-29541-1-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This essentially reverts:
2b666859ec: x86: Default to vsyscall=native for now
The ABI breakage should now be fixed by:
commit 48c4206f5b02f28c4c78a1f5b491d3772fb64fb9
Author: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Date: Thu Oct 20 08:48:19 2011 -0700
x86-64: Set siginfo and context on vsyscall emulation faults
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: richard -rw- weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/93154af3b2b6d208906ae02d80d92cf60c6fa94f.1320712291.git.luto@amacapital.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The 16-MB global limit on memory used by usbfs isn't suitable for all
people. It's a reasonable default, but there are applications
(especially for SuperSpeed devices) that need a lot more.
This patch (as1498) creates a writable module parameter for usbcore to
control the global limit. The default is still 16 MB, but users can
change it at runtime, even after usbcore has been loaded. As a
special case, setting the value to 0 is treated the same as the hard
limit of 2047 MB.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
We need this to better test x86 NMI timer mode. Otherwise it is very
hard to setup systems with NMI timer enabled, but we have this e.g. in
virtual machine environments.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Quoth Andrew:
- Most of MM. Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.
- alpha
- vfs bits
- drivers/misc
- a few core kerenl tweaks
- printk() features
- MAINTAINERS updates
- backlight merge
- leds merge
- various lib/ updates
- checkpatch updates
* akpm: (127 commits)
epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
...
We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off console_suspend_enabled frequently.
Add a module parameter, so users could change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend
Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We are enabling some power features on medfield. To test suspend-2-RAM
conveniently, we need turn on/off ignore_loglevel frequently without
rebooting.
Add a module parameter, so users can change it by:
/sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel
Signed-off-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'kvm-updates/3.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/avi/kvm: (75 commits)
KVM: SVM: Keep intercepting task switching with NPT enabled
KVM: s390: implement sigp external call
KVM: s390: fix register setting
KVM: s390: fix return value of kvm_arch_init_vm
KVM: s390: check cpu_id prior to using it
KVM: emulate lapic tsc deadline timer for guest
x86: TSC deadline definitions
KVM: Fix simultaneous NMIs
KVM: x86 emulator: convert push %sreg/pop %sreg to direct decode
KVM: x86 emulator: switch lds/les/lss/lfs/lgs to direct decode
KVM: x86 emulator: streamline decode of segment registers
KVM: x86 emulator: simplify OpMem64 decode
KVM: x86 emulator: switch src decode to decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: qualify OpReg inhibit_byte_regs hack
KVM: x86 emulator: switch OpImmUByte decode to decode_imm()
KVM: x86 emulator: free up some flag bits near src, dst
KVM: x86 emulator: switch src2 to generic decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: expand decode flags to 64 bits
KVM: x86 emulator: split dst decode to a generic decode_operand()
KVM: x86 emulator: move memop, memopp into emulation context
...
Currently only the address of the pre-allocated ELF header is passed with
the elfcorehdr= kernel parameter. In order to reserve memory for the header
in the 2nd kernel also the size is required. Current kdump architecture
backends use different methods to do that, e.g. x86 uses the memmap= kernel
parameter. On s390 there is no easy way to transfer this information.
Therefore the elfcorehdr kernel parameter is extended to also pass the size.
This now can also be used as standard mechanism by all future kdump
architecture backends.
The syntax of the kernel parameter is extended as follows:
elfcorehdr=[size[KMG]@]offset[KMG]
This change is backward compatible because elfcorehdr=size is still allowed.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* 'x86-rdrand-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, random: Verify RDRAND functionality and allow it to be disabled
x86, random: Architectural inlines to get random integers with RDRAND
random: Add support for architectural random hooks
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/char/random.c: the architectural
random hooks touched "get_random_int()" that was simplified to use MD5
and not do the keyptr thing any more (see commit 6e5714eaf7: "net:
Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5").
* 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, amd: Include linux/elf.h since we use stuff from asm/elf.h
x86: cache_info: Update calculation of AMD L3 cache indices
x86: cache_info: Kill the atomic allocation in amd_init_l3_cache()
x86: cache_info: Kill the moronic shadow struct
x86: cache_info: Remove bogus free of amd_l3_cache data
x86, amd: Include elf.h explicitly, prepare the code for the module.h split
x86-32, amd: Move va_align definition to unbreak 32-bit build
x86, amd: Move BSP code to cpu_dev helper
x86: Add a BSP cpu_dev helper
x86, amd: Avoid cache aliasing penalties on AMD family 15h
* 'core-iommu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, ioapic: Consolidate the explicit EOI code
x86, ioapic: Restore the mask bit correctly in eoi_ioapic_irq()
x86, kdump, ioapic: Reset remote-IRR in clear_IO_APIC
iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options
x86, ioapic: Define irq_remap_modify_chip_defaults()
x86, msi, intr-remap: Use the ioapic set affinity routine
iommu: Cleanup ifdefs in detect_intel_iommu()
iommu: No need to set dmar_disabled in check_zero_address()
iommu: Move IOMMU specific code to intel-iommu.c
intr_remap: Call dmar_dev_scope_init() explicitly
x86, x2apic: Enable the bios request for x2apic optout
* 'pm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (63 commits)
PM / Clocks: Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree()
PM / Documentation: Update docs about suspend and CPU hotplug
ACPI / PM: Add Sony VGN-FW21E to nonvs blacklist.
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A4R support (v4)
ARM: mach-shmobile: sh7372 A3SP support (v4)
PM / Sleep: Mark devices involved in wakeup signaling during suspend
PM / Hibernate: Improve performance of LZO/plain hibernation, checksum image
PM / Hibernate: Do not initialize static and extern variables to 0
PM / Freezer: Make fake_signal_wake_up() wake TASK_KILLABLE tasks too
PM / Hibernate: Add resumedelay kernel param in addition to resumewait
MAINTAINERS: Update linux-pm list address
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Vaio VGN-FW520F machine known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / ACPI: Blacklist Sony Vaio known to require acpi_sleep=nonvs
PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like devices as resume file
PM / Hibernate: Fix typo in a kerneldoc comment
PM / Hibernate: Freeze kernel threads after preallocating memory
PM: Update the policy on default wakeup settings
PM / VT: Cleanup #if defined uglyness and fix compile error
PM / Suspend: Off by one in pm_suspend()
PM / Hibernate: Include storage keys in hibernation image on s390
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (59 commits)
MAINTAINERS: linux-m32r is moderated for non-subscribers
linux@lists.openrisc.net is moderated for non-subscribers
Drop default from "DM365 codec select" choice
parisc: Kconfig: cleanup Kernel page size default
Kconfig: remove redundant CONFIG_ prefix on two symbols
cris: remove arch/cris/arch-v32/lib/nand_init.S
microblaze: add missing CONFIG_ prefixes
h8300: drop puzzling Kconfig dependencies
MAINTAINERS: microblaze-uclinux@itee.uq.edu.au is moderated for non-subscribers
tty: drop superfluous dependency in Kconfig
ARM: mxc: fix Kconfig typo 'i.MX51'
Fix file references in Kconfig files
aic7xxx: fix Kconfig references to READMEs
Fix file references in drivers/ide/
thinkpad_acpi: Fix printk typo 'bluestooth'
bcmring: drop commented out line in Kconfig
btmrvl_sdio: fix typo 'btmrvl_sdio_sd6888'
doc: raw1394: Trivial typo fix
CIFS: Don't free volume_info->UNC until we are entirely done with it.
treewide: Correct spelling of successfully in comments
...
* 'next' of git://selinuxproject.org/~jmorris/linux-security: (95 commits)
TOMOYO: Fix incomplete read after seek.
Smack: allow to access /smack/access as normal user
TOMOYO: Fix unused kernel config option.
Smack: fix: invalid length set for the result of /smack/access
Smack: compilation fix
Smack: fix for /smack/access output, use string instead of byte
Smack: domain transition protections (v3)
Smack: Provide information for UDS getsockopt(SO_PEERCRED)
Smack: Clean up comments
Smack: Repair processing of fcntl
Smack: Rule list lookup performance
Smack: check permissions from user space (v2)
TOMOYO: Fix quota and garbage collector.
TOMOYO: Remove redundant tasklist_lock.
TOMOYO: Fix domain transition failure warning.
TOMOYO: Remove tomoyo_policy_memory_lock spinlock.
TOMOYO: Simplify garbage collector.
TOMOYO: Fix make namespacecheck warnings.
target: check hex2bin result
encrypted-keys: check hex2bin result
...
Patch "PM / Hibernate: Add resumewait param to support MMC-like
devices as resume file" added the resumewait kernel command line
option. The present patch adds resumedelay so that
resumewait/delay were analogous to rootwait/delay.
[rjw: Modified the subject and changelog slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <baohua.song@csr.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Some devices like MMC are async detected very slow. For example,
drivers/mmc/host/sdhci.c launches a 200ms delayed work to detect
MMC partitions then add disk.
We have wait_for_device_probe() and scsi_complete_async_scans()
before calling swsusp_check(), but it is not enough to wait for MMC.
This patch adds resumewait kernel param just like rootwait so
that we have enough time to wait until MMC is ready. The difference is
that we wait for resume partition whereas rootwait waits for rootfs
partition (which may be on a different device).
This patch will make hibernation support many embedded products
without SCSI devices, but with devices like MMC.
[rjw: Modified the changelog slightly.]
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Reviewed-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
This UML breakage:
linux-2.6.30.1[3800] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb9c498 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
linux-2.6.30.1[3856] vsyscall fault (exploit attempt?) ip:ffffffffff600000 cs:33 sp:7fbfb13168 ax:ffffffffff600000 si:0 di:606790
Is caused by commit 3ae36655 ("x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add
vsyscall= parameter") - the vsyscall emulation code is not fully cooked
yet as UML relies on some rather fragile SIGSEGV semantics.
Linus suggested in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/8/9/376 to default
to vsyscall=native for now, this patch implements that.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005214047.GE14406@localhost.pp.htv.fi
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are numerous broken references to Documentation files (in other
Documentation files, in comments, etc.). These broken references are
caused by typo's in the references, and by renames or removals of the
Documentation files. Some broken references are simply odd.
Fix these broken references, sometimes by dropping the irrelevant text
they were part of.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Add documentation of the new 'nested' parameter to
'Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt'.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Nadav Har'El <nyh@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
On the platforms which are x2apic and interrupt-remapping
capable, Linux kernel is enabling x2apic even if the BIOS
doesn't. This is to take advantage of the features that x2apic
brings in.
Some of the OEM platforms are running into issues because of
this, as their bios is not x2apic aware. For example, this was
resulting in interrupt migration issues on one of the platforms.
Also if the BIOS SMI handling uses APIC interface to send SMI's,
then the BIOS need to be aware of x2apic mode that OS has
enabled.
On some of these platforms, BIOS doesn't have a HW mechanism to
turnoff the x2apic feature to prevent OS from enabling it.
To resolve this mess, recent changes to the VT-d2 specification:
http://download.intel.com/technology/computing/vptech/Intel(r)_VT_for_Direct_IO.pdf
includes a mechanism that provides BIOS a way to request system
software to opt out of enabling x2apic mode.
Look at the x2apic optout flag in the DMAR tables before
enabling the x2apic mode in the platform. Also print a warning
that we have disabled x2apic based on the BIOS request.
Kernel boot parameter "intremap=no_x2apic_optout" can be used to
override the BIOS x2apic optout request.
Signed-off-by: Youquan Song <youquan.song@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: yinghai@kernel.org
Cc: joerg.roedel@amd.com
Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Cc: dwmw2@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110824001456.171766616@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (23 commits)
Revert "cfq: Remove special treatment for metadata rqs."
block: fix flush machinery for stacking drivers with differring flush flags
block: improve rq_affinity placement
blktrace: add FLUSH/FUA support
Move some REQ flags to the common bio/request area
allow blk_flush_policy to return REQ_FSEQ_DATA independent of *FLUSH
xen/blkback: Make description more obvious.
cfq-iosched: Add documentation about idling
block: Make rq_affinity = 1 work as expected
block: swim3: fix unterminated of_device_id table
block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show()
drivers/cdrom/cdrom.c: relax check on dvd manufacturer value
drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c: use bitmap_parse instead of __bitmap_parse
bsg-lib: add module.h include
cfq-iosched: Reduce linked group count upon group destruction
blk-throttle: correctly determine sync bio
loop: fix deadlock when sysfs and LOOP_CLR_FD race against each other
loop: add BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=%i to allow distros 0 pre-allocated loop devices
loop: add management interface for on-demand device allocation
loop: replace linked list of allocated devices with an idr index
...
General cleanups to kernel-parameters.txt:
- add missing $ARCH that are being used/referenced
- alphabetize the parameter restrictions list
- spell "IA-64" as listed in arch/ia64/Kconfig instead of "IA64"
- remove trailing whitespace
- use hyphen in 32-bit etc.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Usually kernel parameters are documented in kernel-parameters.txt
but user_debug is only documented in the Kconfig. Document the
option and point to the Kconfig help text for more info.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'x86-vdso-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-tip:
x86-64: Rework vsyscall emulation and add vsyscall= parameter
x86-64: Wire up getcpu syscall
x86: Remove unnecessary compile flag tweaks for vsyscall code
x86-64: Add vsyscall:emulate_vsyscall trace event
x86-64: Add user_64bit_mode paravirt op
x86-64, xen: Enable the vvar mapping
x86-64: Work around gold bug 13023
x86-64: Move the "user" vsyscall segment out of the data segment.
x86-64: Pad vDSO to a page boundary
Commit cdefba03e4 changed pnp.debug from a boot param to a module param,
which means it needs a value when used on the command line.
CC: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
There are three choices:
vsyscall=native: Vsyscalls are native code that issues the
corresponding syscalls.
vsyscall=emulate (default): Vsyscalls are emulated by instruction
fault traps, tested in the bad_area path. The actual contents of
the vsyscall page is the same as the vsyscall=native case except
that it's marked NX. This way programs that make assumptions about
what the code in the page does will not be confused when they read
that code.
vsyscall=none: Trying to execute a vsyscall will segfault.
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@mit.edu>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8449fb3abf89851fd6b2260972666a6f82542284.1312988155.git.luto@mit.edu
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
This patch provides performance tuning for the "Bulldozer" CPU. With its
shared instruction cache there is a chance of generating an excessive
number of cache cross-invalidates when running specific workloads on the
cores of a compute module.
This excessive amount of cross-invalidations can be observed if cache
lines backed by shared physical memory alias in bits [14:12] of their
virtual addresses, as those bits are used for the index generation.
This patch addresses the issue by clearing all the bits in the [14:12]
slice of the file mapping's virtual address at generation time, thus
forcing those bits the same for all mappings of a single shared library
across processes and, in doing so, avoids instruction cache aliases.
It also adds the command line option "align_va_addr=(32|64|on|off)" with
which virtual address alignment can be enabled for 32-bit or 64-bit x86
individually, or both, or be completely disabled.
This change leaves virtual region address allocation on other families
and/or vendors unaffected.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1312550110-24160-2-git-send-email-bp@amd64.org
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
* 'idle-release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6:
cpuidle: stop depending on pm_idle
x86 idle: move mwait_idle_with_hints() to where it is used
cpuidle: replace xen access to x86 pm_idle and default_idle
cpuidle: create bootparam "cpuidle.off=1"
mrst_pmu: driver for Intel Moorestown Power Management Unit
Update kernel-parameters.txt to point users to the authoritative comment
for name_to_dev_t. In addition, updates other places where some
name_to_dev_t behavior was discussed. All other references to root=
appear to be for explicit sample usage or just side comments when
discussing other kernel parameters.
Signed-off-by: Will Drewry <wad@chromium.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
useful for disabling cpuidle to fall back
to architecture-default idle loop
cpuidle drivers and governors will fail to register.
on x86 they'll say so:
intel_idle: intel_idle yielding to (null)
ACPI: acpi_idle yielding to (null)
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits)
ACPI: delete stale reference in kernel-parameters.txt
ACPI: add missing _OSI strings
ACPI: remove NID_INVAL
thermal: make THERMAL_HWMON implementation fully internal
thermal: split hwmon lookup to a separate function
thermal: hide CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON
ACPI print OSI(Linux) warning only once
ACPI: DMI workaround for Asus A8N-SLI Premium and Asus A8N-SLI DELUX
ACPI / Battery: propagate sysfs error in acpi_battery_add()
ACPI / Battery: avoid acpi_battery_add() use-after-free
ACPI: introduce "acpi_rsdp=" parameter for kdump
ACPI: constify ops structs
ACPI: fix CONFIG_X86_REROUTE_FOR_BROKEN_BOOT_IRQS
ACPI: fix 80 char overflow
ACPI / Battery: Resolve the race condition in the sysfs_remove_battery()
ACPI / Battery: Add the check before refresh sysfs in the battery_notify()
ACPI / Battery: Add the hibernation process in the battery_notify()
ACPI / Battery: Rename acpi_battery_quirks2 with acpi_battery_quirks
ACPI / Battery: Change 16-bit signed negative battery current into correct value
ACPI / Battery: Add the power unit macro
...
* 'pstore-efi' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
efivars: Introduce PSTORE_EFI_ATTRIBUTES
efivars: Use string functions in pstore_write
efivars: introduce utf16_strncmp
efivars: String functions
efi: Add support for using efivars as a pstore backend
pstore: Allow the user to explicitly choose a backend
pstore: Make "part" unsigned
pstore: Add extra context for writes and erases
pstore: Extend API for more flexibility in new backends
If the CPU declares that RDRAND is available, go through a guranteed
reseed sequence, and make sure that it is actually working (producing
data.) If it does not, disable the CPU feature flag.
Allow RDRAND to be disabled on the command line (as opposed to at
compile time) for a user who has special requirements with regards to
random numbers.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Instead of unconditionally creating a fixed number of dead loop
devices which need to be investigated by storage handling services,
even when they are never used, we allow distros start with 0
loop devices and have losetup(8) and similar switch to the dynamic
/dev/loop-control interface instead of searching /dev/loop%i for free
devices.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
When a kernel BUG or oops occurs, ChromeOS intends to panic and
immediately reboot, with stacktrace and other messages preserved in RAM
across reboot.
But the longer we delay, the more likely the user is to poweroff and
lose the info.
panic_timeout (seconds before rebooting) is set by panic= boot option or
sysctl or /proc/sys/kernel/panic; but 0 means wait forever, so at
present we have to delay at least 1 second.
Let a negative number mean reboot immediately (with the small cosmetic
benefit of suppressing that newline-less "Rebooting in %d seconds.."
message).
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
