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Heinrich Schuchardt
0c7689830e Documentation/x86: Fix incorrect references to zero-page.txt
The file zero-page.txt does not exit. Add links to zero-page.rst
instead.

 [ bp: Massage a bit. ]

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201002190623.7489-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de
2020-10-02 22:49:29 +02:00
Ashok Raj
4e7b11567d Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
ENQCMD and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) and all of their associated
features are a complicated stack with lots of interconnected pieces.
This documentation provides a big picture overview for all of the
features.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600187413-163670-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
2020-09-17 19:29:42 +02:00
Kyung Min Park
ea4e3bef4c Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags
/proc/cpuinfo shows features which the kernel supports. Some of these
flags are derived from CPUID, and others are derived from other sources,
including some that are entirely software-based. Currently, there is
not any documentation in the kernel about how /proc/cpuinfo flags are
generated and what it means when they are missing.

Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags enumeration.
Document how and when x86 feature flags are used. Also discuss what
their presence or absence mean for the kernel and users.

Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831183500.15481-1-kyung.min.park@intel.com
2020-09-01 11:07:15 +02:00
Fenghua Yu
29b6bd41ee x86/resctrl: Enable user to view thread or core throttling mode
Early Intel hardware implementations of Memory Bandwidth Allocation (MBA)
could only control bandwidth at the processor core level. This meant that
when two processes with different bandwidth allocations ran simultaneously
on the same core the hardware had to resolve this difference. It did so by
applying the higher throttling value (lower bandwidth) to both processes.

Newer implementations can apply different throttling values to each
thread on a core.

Introduce a new resctrl file, "thread_throttle_mode", on Intel systems
that shows to the user how throttling values are allocated, per-core or
per-thread.

On systems that support per-core throttling, the file will display "max".
On newer systems that support per-thread throttling, the file will display
"per-thread".

AMD confirmed in [1] that AMD bandwidth allocation is already at thread
level but that the AMD implementation does not use a memory delay
throttle mode. So to avoid confusion the thread throttling mode would be
UNDEFINED on AMD systems and the "thread_throttle_mode" file will not be
visible.

Originally-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1598296281-127595-3-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Link: [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/18d277fd-6523-319c-d560-66b63ff606b8@amd.com
2020-08-26 17:53:22 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
2324d50d05 It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come.  Changes include:
 
  - Some new Chinese translations
 
  - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS URLs
 
  - Some block-mq documentation
 
  - More RST conversions from Mauro.  At this point, that task is
    essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again for a
    while.  Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or something...:)
 
  - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
  while to come. Changes include:

   - Some new Chinese translations

   - Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
     URLs

   - Some block-mq documentation

   - More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
     essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
     for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
     something...:)

   - Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"

* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
  scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
  docs: ia64: correct typo
  mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
  doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
  Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
  MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
  devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
  PCI: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
  docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
  docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
  docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
  docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
  CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
  docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
  doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
  doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
  doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
  doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
  futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
  ...
2020-08-04 22:47:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4da9f33026 Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support it,
this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and actually
 works.
 
 This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
 dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out there
 ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels back which
 opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.
 
 The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the context
 switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without kernel
 interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the exception
 entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they cannot longer rely
 on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as enforced via prctl() on
 non FSGSBASE enabled systemn). All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and
 exceptions) can still just utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry
 comes from user space. Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no
 benefit as SWAPGS is only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and
 retrieving the kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real
 benefit of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.
 
 The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
 testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver.
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Merge tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull x86 fsgsbase from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Support for FSGSBASE. Almost 5 years after the first RFC to support
  it, this has been brought into a shape which is maintainable and
  actually works.

  This final version was done by Sasha Levin who took it up after Intel
  dropped the ball. Sasha discovered that the SGX (sic!) offerings out
  there ship rogue kernel modules enabling FSGSBASE behind the kernels
  back which opens an instantanious unpriviledged root hole.

  The FSGSBASE instructions provide a considerable speedup of the
  context switch path and enable user space to write GSBASE without
  kernel interaction. This enablement requires careful handling of the
  exception entries which go through the paranoid entry path as they
  can no longer rely on the assumption that user GSBASE is positive (as
  enforced via prctl() on non FSGSBASE enabled systemn).

  All other entries (syscalls, interrupts and exceptions) can still just
  utilize SWAPGS unconditionally when the entry comes from user space.
  Converting these entries to use FSGSBASE has no benefit as SWAPGS is
  only marginally slower than WRGSBASE and locating and retrieving the
  kernel GSBASE value is not a free operation either. The real benefit
  of RD/WRGSBASE is the avoidance of the MSR reads and writes.

  The changes come with appropriate selftests and have held up in field
  testing against the (sanitized) Graphene-SGX driver"

* tag 'x86-fsgsbase-2020-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
  x86/fsgsbase: Fix Xen PV support
  x86/ptrace: Fix 32-bit PTRACE_SETREGS vs fsbase and gsbase
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Add a missing memory constraint
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Fix a comment in the ptrace_write_gsbase test
  selftests/x86: Add a syscall_arg_fault_64 test for negative GSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test ptracer-induced GS base write with FSGSBASE
  selftests/x86/fsgsbase: Test GS selector on ptracer-induced GS base write
  Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
  x86/elf: Enumerate kernel FSGSBASE capability in AT_HWCAP2
  x86/cpu: Enable FSGSBASE on 64bit by default and add a chicken bit
  x86/entry/64: Handle FSGSBASE enabled paranoid entry/exit
  x86/entry/64: Introduce the FIND_PERCPU_BASE macro
  x86/entry/64: Switch CR3 before SWAPGS in paranoid entry
  x86/speculation/swapgs: Check FSGSBASE in enabling SWAPGS mitigation
  x86/process/64: Use FSGSBASE instructions on thread copy and ptrace
  x86/process/64: Use FSBSBASE in switch_to() if available
  x86/process/64: Make save_fsgs_for_kvm() ready for FSGSBASE
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Enable FSGSBASE instructions in helper functions
  x86/fsgsbase/64: Add intrinsics for FSGSBASE instructions
  x86/cpu: Add 'unsafe_fsgsbase' to enable CR4.FSGSBASE
  ...
2020-08-04 21:16:22 -07:00
Nick Terrell
fb46d057db x86: Add support for ZSTD compressed kernel
- Add support for zstd compressed kernel

- Define __DISABLE_EXPORTS in Makefile

- Remove __DISABLE_EXPORTS definition from kaslr.c

- Bump the heap size for zstd.

- Update the documentation.

Integrates the ZSTD decompression code to the x86 pre-boot code.

Zstandard requires slightly more memory during the kernel decompression
on x86 (192 KB vs 64 KB), and the memory usage is independent of the
window size.

__DISABLE_EXPORTS is now defined in the Makefile, which covers both
the existing use in kaslr.c, and the use needed by the zstd decompressor
in misc.c.

This patch has been boot tested with both a zstd and gzip compressed
kernel on i386 and x86_64 using buildroot and QEMU.

Additionally, this has been tested in production on x86_64 devices.
We saw a 2 second boot time reduction by switching kernel compression
from xz to zstd.

Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-7-nickrterrell@gmail.com
2020-07-31 11:49:09 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
bfbc7e5c92 Documentation: x86: earlyprintk: drop doubled words
Drop the doubled word "and".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703213107.30758-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-13 09:47:38 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
6f91b3885f Documentation: x86: machinecheck: drop doubled words
Drop the doubled word "see".

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703213107.30758-3-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-13 09:47:37 -06:00
Thomas Gleixner
82c0c7d24c Documentation/x86/64: Add documentation for GS/FS addressing mode
Explain how the GS/FS based addressing can be utilized in user space
applications along with the differences between the generic prctl() based
GS/FS base control and the FSGSBASE version available on newer CPUs.

Originally-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528201402.1708239-15-sashal@kernel.org
2020-06-18 15:47:06 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
b23c4771ff A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another massive
set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion.  I *really*
 hope we are getting close to the end of this.  Meanwhile, those patches
 reach pretty far afield to update document references around the tree;
 there should be no actual code changes there.  There will be, alas, more of
 the usual trivial merge conflicts.
 
 Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
 scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots of
 fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
  massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
  *really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
  those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
  around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
  will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.

  Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
  scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
  of fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
  Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
  zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
  tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
  docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
  docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
  Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
  mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
  Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
  docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
  nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
  Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
  Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
  Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
  docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
  docs: move digsig docs to the security book
  docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
  docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
  docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
  docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
  ...
2020-06-01 15:45:27 -07:00
Flavio Suligoi
2d5694796b Documentation: x86: fix space instead of tab in uefi doc
Signed-off-by: Flavio Suligoi <f.suligoi@asem.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1588080745-21999-1-git-send-email-f.suligoi@asem.it
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-28 12:27:17 -06:00
Ard Biesheuvel
8b84769a7a Documentation/x86, efi/x86: Clarify EFI handover protocol and its requirements
The EFI handover protocol was introduced on x86 to permit the boot
loader to pass a populated boot_params structure as an additional
function argument to the entry point. This allows the bootloader to
pass the base and size of a initrd image, which is more flexible
than relying on the EFI stub's file I/O routines, which can only
access the file system from which the kernel image itself was loaded
from firmware.

This approach requires a fair amount of internal knowledge regarding
the layout of the boot_params structure on the part of the boot loader,
as well as knowledge regarding the allowed placement of the initrd in
memory, and so it has been deprecated in favour of a new initrd loading
method that is based on existing UEFI protocols and best practices.

So update the x86 boot protocol documentation to clarify that the EFI
handover protocol has been deprecated, and while at it, add a note that
invoking the EFI handover protocol still requires the PE/COFF image to
be loaded properly (as opposed to simply being copied into memory).
Also, drop the code32_start header field from the list of values that
need to be provided, as this is no longer required.

Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200409130434.6736-7-ardb@kernel.org
2020-04-14 08:32:15 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
fdf5563a72 Merge branch 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
 "This topic tree contains more commits than usual:

   - most of it are uaccess cleanups/reorganization by Al

   - there's a bunch of prototype declaration (--Wmissing-prototypes)
     cleanups

   - misc other cleanups all around the map"

* 'x86-cleanups-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/mm/set_memory: Fix -Wmissing-prototypes warnings
  x86/efi: Add a prototype for efi_arch_mem_reserve()
  x86/mm: Mark setup_emu2phys_nid() static
  x86/jump_label: Move 'inline' keyword placement
  x86/platform/uv: Add a missing prototype for uv_bau_message_interrupt()
  kill uaccess_try()
  x86: unsafe_put-style macro for sigmask
  x86: x32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
  x86: __setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
  x86: __setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
  x86: setup_sigcontext(): list user_access_{begin,end}() into callers
  x86: get rid of put_user_try in __setup_rt_frame() (both 32bit and 64bit)
  x86: ia32_setup_rt_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
  x86: ia32_setup_frame(): consolidate uaccess areas
  x86: ia32_setup_sigcontext(): lift user_access_{begin,end}() into the callers
  x86/alternatives: Mark text_poke_loc_init() static
  x86/cpu: Fix a -Wmissing-prototypes warning for init_ia32_feat_ctl()
  x86/mm: Drop pud_mknotpresent()
  x86: Replace setup_irq() by request_irq()
  x86/configs: Slightly reduce defconfigs
  ...
2020-03-31 11:04:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
a776c270a0 Merge branch 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The EFI changes in this cycle are much larger than usual, for two
  (positive) reasons:

   - The GRUB project is showing signs of life again, resulting in the
     introduction of the generic Linux/UEFI boot protocol, instead of
     x86 specific hacks which are increasingly difficult to maintain.
     There's hope that all future extensions will now go through that
     boot protocol.

   - Preparatory work for RISC-V EFI support.

  The main changes are:

   - Boot time GDT handling changes

   - Simplify handling of EFI properties table on arm64

   - Generic EFI stub cleanups, to improve command line handling, file
     I/O, memory allocation, etc.

   - Introduce a generic initrd loading method based on calling back
     into the firmware, instead of relying on the x86 EFI handover
     protocol or device tree.

   - Introduce a mixed mode boot method that does not rely on the x86
     EFI handover protocol either, and could potentially be adopted by
     other architectures (if another one ever surfaces where one
     execution mode is a superset of another)

   - Clean up the contents of 'struct efi', and move out everything that
     doesn't need to be stored there.

   - Incorporate support for UEFI spec v2.8A changes that permit
     firmware implementations to return EFI_UNSUPPORTED from UEFI
     runtime services at OS runtime, and expose a mask of which ones are
     supported or unsupported via a configuration table.

   - Partial fix for the lack of by-VA cache maintenance in the
     decompressor on 32-bit ARM.

   - Changes to load device firmware from EFI boot service memory
     regions

   - Various documentation updates and minor code cleanups and fixes"

* 'efi-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  efi/libstub/arm: Fix spurious message that an initrd was loaded
  efi/libstub/arm64: Avoid image_base value from efi_loaded_image
  partitions/efi: Fix partition name parsing in GUID partition entry
  efi/x86: Fix cast of image argument
  efi/libstub/x86: Use ULONG_MAX as upper bound for all allocations
  efi: Fix a mistype in comments mentioning efivar_entry_iter_begin()
  efi/libstub: Avoid linking libstub/lib-ksyms.o into vmlinux
  efi/x86: Preserve %ebx correctly in efi_set_virtual_address_map()
  efi/x86: Ignore the memory attributes table on i386
  efi/x86: Don't relocate the kernel unless necessary
  efi/x86: Remove extra headroom for setup block
  efi/x86: Add kernel preferred address to PE header
  efi/x86: Decompress at start of PE image load address
  x86/boot/compressed/32: Save the output address instead of recalculating it
  efi/libstub/x86: Deal with exit() boot service returning
  x86/boot: Use unsigned comparison for addresses
  efi/x86: Avoid using code32_start
  efi/x86: Make efi32_pe_entry() more readable
  efi/x86: Respect 32-bit ABI in efi32_pe_entry()
  efi/x86: Annotate the LOADED_IMAGE_PROTOCOL_GUID with SYM_DATA
  ...
2020-03-30 16:13:08 -07:00
Nick Desaulniers
abcb1e021a Documentation: x86: exception-tables: document CONFIG_BUILDTIME_TABLE_SORT
Provide more information about __ex_table sorting post link.

The exception tables and fixup tables use a commonly recurring pattern
in the kernel of storing the address of labels as date in custom ELF
sections, then finding these sections, iterating elements within them,
and possibly revisiting them or modifying the data at these addresses.

Sorting readonly arrays to minimize runtime penalties is quite clever.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200327000951.84071-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-27 10:50:01 -06:00
Al Viro
cf122cfba5 kill uaccess_try()
finally

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2020-03-26 15:02:14 -04:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c44166fe5f docs: prevent warnings due to autosectionlabel
Changeset 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
enabled a new feature at Sphinx: it will now generate index for each
document title, plus to each chapter inside it.

There's a drawback, though: one document cannot have two sections
with the same name anymore.

A followup patch will change the logic of autosectionlabel to
avoid most creating references for every single section title,
but still we need to be able to reference the chapters inside
a document.

There are a few places where there are two chapters with the
same name. This patch renames one of the chapters, in order to
avoid symbol conflict within the same document.

PS.: as I don't speach Chinese, I had some help from a friend
(Wen Liu) at the Chinese translation for "publishing patches"
for this document:

	Documentation/translations/zh_CN/process/5.Posting.rst

Fixes: 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/2bffb91e4a63d41bf5fae1c23e1e8b3bba0b8806.1584716446.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-03-20 17:01:29 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
6120681bdf Merge branch 'efi/urgent' into efi/core, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2020-03-08 09:57:58 +01:00
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
Arvind Sankar
67a6af7ad1 x86/boot: Remove KEEP_SEGMENTS support
Commit a24e785111 ("i386: paravirt boot sequence") added this flag for
use by paravirtualized environments such as Xen. However, Xen never made
use of this flag [1], and it was only ever used by lguest [2].

Commit ecda85e702 ("x86/lguest: Remove lguest support") removed
lguest, so KEEP_SEGMENTS has lost its last user.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/4D4B097C.5050405@goop.org
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/lguest@lists.ozlabs.org/msg00469.html

Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200202171353.3736319-2-nivedita@alum.mit.edu
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2020-02-22 23:37:37 +01:00
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
Changbin Du
f10b07a01a Documentation: x86: convert intel_mpx.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
28e21eac94 Documentation: x86: convert protection-keys.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
2f6eae4730 Documentation: x86: convert pat.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>
Cc: 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
26d14a2025 Documentation: x86: convert mtrr.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>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:10 -06:00
Changbin Du
17156044b1 Documentation: x86: convert tlb.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
0c2d3639a8 Documentation: x86: convert zero-page.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
4b13576002 Documentation: x86: convert earlyprintk.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
c2dea5cda0 Documentation: x86: convert entry_64.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 14:34:09 -06:00
Changbin Du
ac2b4687da Documentation: x86: convert kernel-stacks 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 14:34:09 -06:00
Changbin Du
06955392a9 Documentation: x86: convert exception-tables.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 14:34:09 -06:00
Changbin Du
848942cb2e Documentation: x86: convert topology.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 14:34:09 -06:00
Changbin Du
f1f238a9f1 Documentation: x86: convert boot.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>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-05-08 14:34:09 -06:00
Changbin Du
e5def4c603 Documentation: add Linux x86 docs to Sphinx TOC tree
Add a index.rst for x86 support. More docs will be added later.

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 14:34:09 -06:00
Linus Torvalds
8c79f4cd44 A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:
- Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations
  - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph
  - Various build-script fixes
  - A new document on memory models
  - RST conversion of the live-patching docs
  - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A reasonably busy cycle for docs, including:

   - Lots of work on the Chinese and Italian translations

   - Some license-rules clarifications from Christoph

   - Various build-script fixes

   - A new document on memory models

   - RST conversion of the live-patching docs

   - The usual collection of typo fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-5.2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (140 commits)
  docs/livepatch: Unify style of livepatch documentation in the ReST format
  docs: livepatch: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: detect broken :doc:`foo`
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: don't parse Next/ dir
  LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated
  LICENSES: Clearly mark dual license only licenses
  docs: Don't reference the ZLib license in license-rules.rst
  docs/vm: Minor editorial changes in the THP and hugetlbfs
  docs/vm: add documentation of memory models
  doc:it_IT: translation alignment
  doc: fix typo in PGP guide
  dontdiff: update with Kconfig build artifacts
  docs/zh_CN: fix typos in 1.Intro.rst file
  docs/zh_CN: redirect CoC docs to Chinese version
  doc: mm: migration doesn't use FOLL_SPLIT anymore
  docs: doc-guide: remove the extension from .rst files
  doc: kselftest: Fix KBUILD_OUTPUT usage instructions
  docs: trace: fix some Sphinx warnings
  docs: speculation.txt: mark example blocks as such
  docs: ntb.txt: add blank lines to clean up some Sphinx warnings
  ...
2019-05-08 12:42:50 -07:00
Josh Poimboeuf
95310e348a x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
Fix a minor typo in the MDS documentation: "eanbled" -> "enabled".

Reported-by: Jeff Bastian <jbastian@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-05-08 11:31:32 +02:00
speck for Pawan Gupta
e672f8bf71 x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data
Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel
attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs.

MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from
memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural
structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by
MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM.
The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well.

Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-05-08 11:31:31 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
948a64995a 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:
 "Two main changes: preparatory changes for Intel multi-die topology
  support, plus a syslog message tweak"

* 'x86-topology-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/topology: Make DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU0 pr_info() more descriptive
  x86/smpboot: Rename match_die() to match_pkg()
  topology: Simplify cputopology.txt formatting and wording
  x86/topology: Fix documentation typo
2019-05-06 16:33:06 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0bc40e549a Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The changes in here are:

   - text_poke() fixes and an extensive set of executability lockdowns,
     to (hopefully) eliminate the last residual circumstances under
     which we are using W|X mappings even temporarily on x86 kernels.
     This required a broad range of surgery in text patching facilities,
     module loading, trampoline handling and other bits.

   - tweak page fault messages to be more informative and more
     structured.

   - remove DISCONTIGMEM support on x86-32 and make SPARSEMEM the
     default.

   - reduce KASLR granularity on 5-level paging kernels from 512 GB to
     1 GB.

   - misc other changes and updates"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
  x86/mm: Initialize PGD cache during mm initialization
  x86/alternatives: Add comment about module removal races
  x86/kprobes: Use vmalloc special flag
  x86/ftrace: Use vmalloc special flag
  bpf: Use vmalloc special flag
  modules: Use vmalloc special flag
  mm/vmalloc: Add flag for freeing of special permsissions
  mm/hibernation: Make hibernation handle unmapped pages
  x86/mm/cpa: Add set_direct_map_*() functions
  x86/alternatives: Remove the return value of text_poke_*()
  x86/jump-label: Remove support for custom text poker
  x86/modules: Avoid breaking W^X while loading modules
  x86/kprobes: Set instruction page as executable
  x86/ftrace: Set trampoline pages as executable
  x86/kgdb: Avoid redundant comparison of patched code
  x86/alternatives: Use temporary mm for text poking
  x86/alternatives: Initialize temporary mm for patching
  fork: Provide a function for copying init_mm
  uprobes: Initialize uprobes earlier
  x86/mm: Save debug registers when loading a temporary mm
  ...
2019-05-06 16:13:31 -07:00
Len Brown
ef7c7727f2 x86/topology: Fix documentation typo
Syntax only, no functional or semantic change.

reflect actual cpuinfo_x86 field name:

s/logical_id/logical_proc_id/

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e2810a5317d3a109a98204e883fd1461f77b9339.1551160674.git.len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-19 10:56:04 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
2a594d4ccf x86/exceptions: Split debug IST stack
The debug IST stack is actually two separate debug stacks to handle #DB
recursion. This is required because the CPU starts always at top of stack
on exception entry, which means on #DB recursion the second #DB would
overwrite the stack of the first.

The low level entry code therefore adjusts the top of stack on entry so a
secondary #DB starts from a different stack page. But the stack pages are
adjacent without a guard page between them.

Split the debug stack into 3 stacks which are separated by guard pages. The
3rd stack is never mapped into the cpu_entry_area and is only there to
catch triple #DB nesting:

      --- top of DB_stack	<- Initial stack
      --- end of DB_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB1_stack	<- Top of stack after entering first #DB
      --- end of DB1_stack
      	  guard page

      --- top of DB2_stack	<- Top of stack after entering second #DB
      --- end of DB2_stack
      	  guard page

If DB2 would not act as the final guard hole, a second #DB would point the
top of #DB stack to the stack below #DB1 which would be valid and not catch
the not so desired triple nesting.

The backing store does not allocate any memory for DB2 and its guard page
as it is not going to be mapped into the cpu_entry_area.

 - Adjust the low level entry code so it adjusts top of #DB with the offset
   between the stacks instead of exception stack size.

 - Make the dumpstack code aware of the new stacks.

 - Adjust the in_debug_stack() implementation and move it into the NMI code
   where it belongs. As this is NMI hotpath code, it just checks the full
   area between top of DB_stack and bottom of DB1_stack without checking
   for the guard page. That's correct because the NMI cannot hit a
   stackpointer pointing to the guard page between DB and DB1 stack.  Even
   if it would, then the NMI operation still is unaffected, but the resume
   of the debug exception on the topmost DB stack will crash by touching
   the guard page.

  [ bp: Make exception_stack_names static const char * const ]

Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190414160145.439944544@linutronix.de
2019-04-17 15:14:28 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
8f34c5b5af x86/exceptions: Make IST index zero based
The defines for the exception stack (IST) array in the TSS are using the
SDM convention IST1 - IST7. That causes all sorts of code to subtract 1 for
array indices related to IST. That's confusing at best and does not provide
any value.

Make the indices zero based and fixup the usage sites. The only code which
needs to adjust the 0 based index is the interrupt descriptor setup which
needs to add 1 now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Chang S. Bae" <chang.seok.bae@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190414160144.331772825@linutronix.de
2019-04-17 12:48:00 +02:00
Stephen Kitt
89502a0197 x86/mm: Fix the 56-bit addresses memory map in Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt
This fixes a PT typo, and the following 56-bit address-space
addresses:

  * the hole extends from 0100000000000000 to feffffffffffffff
  * the KASAN shadow memory area stops at fffffbffffffffff (see kasan.h)

Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: alex.popov@linux.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190415150853.10354-1-steve@sk2.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2019-04-16 09:00:34 +02:00
Juergen Gross
30cc0b6c12 doc: add boot protocol 2.13 description to Documentation/x86/boot.txt
Documentation/x86/boot.txt is missing protocol 2.13 description.

Reported-by: Ross Philipson <ross.philipson@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming <matt@codeblueprint.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-03-18 11:48:20 -06:00
Thomas Gleixner
22dd836508 x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
In virtualized environments it can happen that the host has the microcode
update which utilizes the VERW instruction to clear CPU buffers, but the
hypervisor is not yet updated to expose the X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR CPUID bit
to guests.

Introduce an internal mitigation mode VMWERV which enables the invocation
of the CPU buffer clearing even if X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR is not set. If the
system has no updated microcode this results in a pointless execution of
the VERW instruction wasting a few CPU cycles. If the microcode is updated,
but not exposed to a guest then the CPU buffers will be cleared.

That said: Virtual Machines Will Eventually Receive Vaccine

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:15 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
07f07f55a2 x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear
mechanism on idle entry. This is independent of other MDS mitigations
because the idle entry invocation to mitigate the potential leakage due to
store buffer repartitioning is only necessary on SMT systems.

Add the actual invocations to the different halt/mwait variants which
covers all usage sites. mwaitx is not patched as it's not available on
Intel CPUs.

The buffer clear is only invoked before entering the C-State to prevent
that stale data from the idling CPU is spilled to the Hyper-Thread sibling
after the Store buffer got repartitioned and all entries are available to
the non idle sibling.

When coming out of idle the store buffer is partitioned again so each
sibling has half of it available. Now CPU which returned from idle could be
speculatively exposed to contents of the sibling, but the buffers are
flushed either on exit to user space or on VMENTER.

When later on conditional buffer clearing is implemented on top of this,
then there is no action required either because before returning to user
space the context switch will set the condition flag which causes a flush
on the return to user path.

Note, that the buffer clearing on idle is only sensible on CPUs which are
solely affected by MSBDS and not any other variant of MDS because the other
MDS variants cannot be mitigated when SMT is enabled, so the buffer
clearing on idle would be a window dressing exercise.

This intentionally does not handle the case in the acpi/processor_idle
driver which uses the legacy IO port interface for C-State transitions for
two reasons:

 - The acpi/processor_idle driver was replaced by the intel_idle driver
   almost a decade ago. Anything Nehalem upwards supports it and defaults
   to that new driver.

 - The legacy IO port interface is likely to be used on older and therefore
   unaffected CPUs or on systems which do not receive microcode updates
   anymore, so there is no point in adding that.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
04dcbdb805 x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
Add a static key which controls the invocation of the CPU buffer clear
mechanism on exit to user space and add the call into
prepare_exit_to_usermode() and do_nmi() right before actually returning.

Add documentation which kernel to user space transition this covers and
explain why some corner cases are not mitigated.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:13 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
6a9e529272 x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulernabilities are mitigated by
clearing the affected CPU buffers. The mechanism for clearing the buffers
uses the unused and obsolete VERW instruction in combination with a
microcode update which triggers a CPU buffer clear when VERW is executed.

Provide a inline function with the assembly magic. The argument of the VERW
instruction must be a memory operand as documented:

  "MD_CLEAR enumerates that the memory-operand variant of VERW (for
   example, VERW m16) has been extended to also overwrite buffers affected
   by MDS. This buffer overwriting functionality is not guaranteed for the
   register operand variant of VERW."

Documentation also recommends to use a writable data segment selector:

  "The buffer overwriting occurs regardless of the result of the VERW
   permission check, as well as when the selector is null or causes a
   descriptor load segment violation. However, for lowest latency we
   recommend using a selector that indicates a valid writable data
   segment."

Add x86 specific documentation about MDS and the internal workings of the
mitigation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
2019-03-06 21:52:12 +01:00
Johannes Weiner
e6d429313e x86/resctrl: Avoid confusion over the new X86_RESCTRL config
"Resource Control" is a very broad term for this CPU feature, and a term
that is also associated with containers, cgroups etc. This can easily
cause confusion.

Make the user prompt more specific. Match the config symbol name.

 [ bp: In the future, the corresponding ARM arch-specific code will be
   under ARM_CPU_RESCTRL and the arch-agnostic bits will be carved out
   under the CPU_RESCTRL umbrella symbol. ]

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Babu Moger <Babu.Moger@amd.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Pu Wen <puwen@hygon.cn>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190130195621.GA30653@cmpxchg.org
2019-02-02 10:34:52 +01:00
Borislav Petkov
90802938f7 x86/cache: Rename config option to CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL
CONFIG_RESCTRL is too generic. The final goal is to have a generic
option called like this which is selected by the arch-specific ones
CONFIG_X86_RESCTRL and CONFIG_ARM64_RESCTRL. The generic one will
cover the resctrl filesystem and other generic and shared bits of
functionality.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190108171401.GC12235@zn.tnic
2019-01-09 10:29:03 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
3868772b99 A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new
document on perf security, more Italian translations, more
 improvements to the memory-management docs, improvements to the
 pathname lookup documentation, and the usual array of smaller
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Merge tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A fairly normal cycle for documentation stuff. We have a new document
  on perf security, more Italian translations, more improvements to the
  memory-management docs, improvements to the pathname lookup
  documentation, and the usual array of smaller fixes.

  As is often the case, there are a few reaches outside of
  Documentation/ to adjust kerneldoc comments"

* tag 'docs-5.0' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (38 commits)
  docs: improve pathname-lookup document structure
  configfs: fix wrong name of struct in documentation
  docs/mm-api: link slab_common.c to "The Slab Cache" section
  slab: make kmem_cache_create{_usercopy} description proper kernel-doc
  doc:process: add links where missing
  docs/core-api: make mm-api.rst more structured
  x86, boot: documentation whitespace fixup
  Documentation: devres: note checking needs when converting
  doc🇮🇹 add some process/* translations
  doc🇮🇹 fixes in process/1.Intro
  Documentation: convert path-lookup from markdown to resturctured text
  Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst
  Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file
  scripts/kernel-doc: Fix struct and struct field attribute processing
  Documentation: dev-tools: Fix typos in index.rst
  Correct gen_init_cpio tool's documentation
  Document /proc/pid PID reuse behavior
  Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups
  Documentation: Use "while" instead of "whilst"
  dmaengine: Add mailing list address to the documentation
  ...
2018-12-29 11:21:49 -08:00