from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".
- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series
"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".
- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.
- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.
- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series "mm:
zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".
- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is hotplugged
as system memory.
- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.
- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series
"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"
- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving policy
wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion rather
than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory environments
appearing with CXL.
- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".
- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.
- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the process
has a large number of pte-mapped folios.
- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown situations.
The microbenchmark improvements are nice.
- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings" Ryan
Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's series
"Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.
- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page faults.
He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.
- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction test",
Mark Brown did what the title claims.
- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and refactoring".
- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.
- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess in
our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing data
caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.
- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides dramatic
improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during certain
userfaultfd operations.
- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series
"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"
- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability improvements
in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It realizes a 12x
improvement for a certain microbenchmark.
- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".
- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series
"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"
- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging of
large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages() to
an iterator".
- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".
- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".
- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.
- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".
- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which are
configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.
- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.
- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.
- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".
- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM Selftests".
- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
- Sumanth Korikkar has taught s390 to allocate hotplug-time page frames
from hotplugged memory rather than only from main memory. Series
"implement "memmap on memory" feature on s390".
- More folio conversions from Matthew Wilcox in the series
"Convert memcontrol charge moving to use folios"
"mm: convert mm counter to take a folio"
- Chengming Zhou has optimized zswap's rbtree locking, providing
significant reductions in system time and modest but measurable
reductions in overall runtimes. The series is "mm/zswap: optimize the
scalability of zswap rb-tree".
- Chengming Zhou has also provided the series "mm/zswap: optimize zswap
lru list" which provides measurable runtime benefits in some
swap-intensive situations.
- And Chengming Zhou further optimizes zswap in the series "mm/zswap:
optimize for dynamic zswap_pools". Measured improvements are modest.
- zswap cleanups and simplifications from Yosry Ahmed in the series
"mm: zswap: simplify zswap_swapoff()".
- In the series "Add DAX ABI for memmap_on_memory", Vishal Verma has
contributed several DAX cleanups as well as adding a sysfs tunable to
control the memmap_on_memory setting when the dax device is
hotplugged as system memory.
- Johannes Weiner has added the large series "mm: zswap: cleanups",
which does that.
- More DAMON work from SeongJae Park in the series
"mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation unignorable"
"selftests/damon: add more tests for core functionalities and corner cases"
"Docs/mm/damon: misc readability improvements"
"mm/damon: let DAMOS feeds and tame/auto-tune itself"
- In the series "mm/mempolicy: weighted interleave mempolicy and sysfs
extension" Rakie Kim has developed a new mempolicy interleaving
policy wherein we allocate memory across nodes in a weighted fashion
rather than uniformly. This is beneficial in heterogeneous memory
environments appearing with CXL.
- Christophe Leroy has contributed some cleanup and consolidation work
against the ARM pagetable dumping code in the series "mm: ptdump:
Refactor CONFIG_DEBUG_WX and check_wx_pages debugfs attribute".
- Luis Chamberlain has added some additional xarray selftesting in the
series "test_xarray: advanced API multi-index tests".
- Muhammad Usama Anjum has reworked the selftest code to make its
human-readable output conform to the TAP ("Test Anything Protocol")
format. Amongst other things, this opens up the use of third-party
tools to parse and process out selftesting results.
- Ryan Roberts has added fork()-time PTE batching of THP ptes in the
series "mm/memory: optimize fork() with PTE-mapped THP". Mainly
targeted at arm64, this significantly speeds up fork() when the
process has a large number of pte-mapped folios.
- David Hildenbrand also gets in on the THP pte batching game in his
series "mm/memory: optimize unmap/zap with PTE-mapped THP". It
implements batching during munmap() and other pte teardown
situations. The microbenchmark improvements are nice.
- And in the series "Transparent Contiguous PTEs for User Mappings"
Ryan Roberts further utilizes arm's pte's contiguous bit ("contpte
mappings"). Kernel build times on arm64 improved nicely. Ryan's
series "Address some contpte nits" provides some followup work.
- In the series "mm/hugetlb: Restore the reservation" Breno Leitao has
fixed an obscure hugetlb race which was causing unnecessary page
faults. He has also added a reproducer under the selftest code.
- In the series "selftests/mm: Output cleanups for the compaction
test", Mark Brown did what the title claims.
- Kinsey Ho has added the series "mm/mglru: code cleanup and
refactoring".
- Even more zswap material from Nhat Pham. The series "fix and extend
zswap kselftests" does as claimed.
- In the series "Introduce cpu_dcache_is_aliasing() to fix DAX
regression" Mathieu Desnoyers has cleaned up and fixed rather a mess
in our handling of DAX on archiecctures which have virtually aliasing
data caches. The arm architecture is the main beneficiary.
- Lokesh Gidra's series "per-vma locks in userfaultfd" provides
dramatic improvements in worst-case mmap_lock hold times during
certain userfaultfd operations.
- Some page_owner enhancements and maintenance work from Oscar Salvador
in his series
"page_owner: print stacks and their outstanding allocations"
"page_owner: Fixup and cleanup"
- Uladzislau Rezki has contributed some vmalloc scalability
improvements in his series "Mitigate a vmap lock contention". It
realizes a 12x improvement for a certain microbenchmark.
- Some kexec/crash cleanup work from Baoquan He in the series "Split
crash out from kexec and clean up related config items".
- Some zsmalloc maintenance work from Chengming Zhou in the series
"mm/zsmalloc: fix and optimize objects/page migration"
"mm/zsmalloc: some cleanup for get/set_zspage_mapping()"
- Zi Yan has taught the MM to perform compaction on folios larger than
order=0. This a step along the path to implementaton of the merging
of large anonymous folios. The series is named "Enable >0 order folio
memory compaction".
- Christoph Hellwig has done quite a lot of cleanup work in the
pagecache writeback code in his series "convert write_cache_pages()
to an iterator".
- Some modest hugetlb cleanups and speedups in Vishal Moola's series
"Handle hugetlb faults under the VMA lock".
- Zi Yan has changed the page splitting code so we can split huge pages
into sizes other than order-0 to better utilize large folios. The
series is named "Split a folio to any lower order folios".
- David Hildenbrand has contributed the series "mm: remove
total_mapcount()", a cleanup.
- Matthew Wilcox has sought to improve the performance of bulk memory
freeing in his series "Rearrange batched folio freeing".
- Gang Li's series "hugetlb: parallelize hugetlb page init on boot"
provides large improvements in bootup times on large machines which
are configured to use large numbers of hugetlb pages.
- Matthew Wilcox's series "PageFlags cleanups" does that.
- Qi Zheng's series "minor fixes and supplement for ptdesc" does that
also. S390 is affected.
- Cleanups to our pagemap utility functions from Peter Xu in his series
"mm/treewide: Replace pXd_large() with pXd_leaf()".
- Nico Pache has fixed a few things with our hugepage selftests in his
series "selftests/mm: Improve Hugepage Test Handling in MM
Selftests".
- Also, of course, many singleton patches to many things. Please see
the individual changelogs for details.
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-03-13-20-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (435 commits)
mm/zswap: remove the memcpy if acomp is not sleepable
crypto: introduce: acomp_is_async to expose if comp drivers might sleep
memtest: use {READ,WRITE}_ONCE in memory scanning
mm: prohibit the last subpage from reusing the entire large folio
mm: recover pud_leaf() definitions in nopmd case
selftests/mm: skip the hugetlb-madvise tests on unmet hugepage requirements
selftests/mm: skip uffd hugetlb tests with insufficient hugepages
selftests/mm: dont fail testsuite due to a lack of hugepages
mm/huge_memory: skip invalid debugfs new_order input for folio split
mm/huge_memory: check new folio order when split a folio
mm, vmscan: retry kswapd's priority loop with cache_trim_mode off on failure
mm: add an explicit smp_wmb() to UFFDIO_CONTINUE
mm: fix list corruption in put_pages_list
mm: remove folio from deferred split list before uncharging it
filemap: avoid unnecessary major faults in filemap_fault()
mm,page_owner: drop unnecessary check
mm,page_owner: check for null stack_record before bumping its refcount
mm: swap: fix race between free_swap_and_cache() and swapoff()
mm/treewide: align up pXd_leaf() retval across archs
mm/treewide: drop pXd_large()
...
The argument is unused since commit 3d28ebceaf ("x86/mm: Rework lazy
TLB to track the actual loaded mm"), delete it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240126080644.1714297-1-yosryahmed@google.com
Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Several inlined functions subject to paravirt patching are referencing
BUG_func() after the recent switch to the alternative patching
mechanism.
As those functions can legally be used by non-GPL modules, BUG_func()
must be usable by those modules, too. So use EXPORT_SYMBOL() when
exporting BUG_func().
Fixes: 9824b00c2b ("x86/paravirt: Move some functions and defines to alternative.c")
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109082232.22657-1-jgross@suse.com
Core & protocols
----------------
- Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev,
netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up
build time warnings to safeguard against future header changes.
This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections
up to 40%.
- Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the
memory usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify
bad PP users and possible leaks.
- Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even
source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set.
This lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having
many active connections to the same destination.
- Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket
structs.
- Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to
allow arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF.
- Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value
to 128KB and namespecifying it.
- Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving
RX performances with some common configurations.
- Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time.
- Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to
request the deletion of matching entries.
- Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the
datapath first.
- Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting
multicast-like behavior at the TC layer.
- Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and
classifiers (RSVP and tcindex).
- More data-race annotations.
- Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets.
- Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions.
- Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form
a sub-network using a specific PAN ID.
- Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support.
- Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type.
BPF
---
- Tons of verifier improvements:
- BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large
test suite
- log improvements
- complete precision tracking support for register spills
- track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers. It
improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from single
digit to 50-60% for some programs
- support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few
commonly requested annotations for a better developer experience
- support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler
transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the
like
- several fixes
- Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in
mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right
now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload.
- Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into
kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows
BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y.
- Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily
instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be
guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques.
- Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs.
- Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task
within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is identified
by its id.
- Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value field
obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in sched_ext.
- Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool
integration for the latter.
- Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints.
- Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project
is developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter).
Misc
----
- Support for parellel TC self-tests execution.
- Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage.
- Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far
undocumented features.
- Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to
avoid random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent
runs.
- Add TCP-AO self-tests.
- Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211.
- Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec.
- Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the
tool can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families
for which we have specs.
- A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes.
- Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool.
Driver API
----------
- Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the
full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers
in rust.
- Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface,
allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues
relationship.
- Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control
application scale to thousands of instances.
- Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for
each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host.
- Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash.
- ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD
platform.
- Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic
netlink attribute.
- Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void.
- Add support for PHY package MMD read/write.
New hardware / drivers
----------------------
- Ethernet:
- Octeon CN10K devices
- Broadcom 5760X P7
- Qualcomm SM8550 SoC
- Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY
- Bluetooth:
- IMC Networks Bluetooth radio
Removed
-------
- WiFi:
- libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support
- Atmel at76c50x drivers
- HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver
- zd1201 802.11b USB dongles
- Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver
- Aviator/Raytheon driver
- Planet WL3501 driver
- RNDIS USB 802.11b driver
Drivers
-------
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- allow one by one port representors creation and removal
- add temperature and clock information reporting
- add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam
- add again FW logging
- adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring
- iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash
- igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running timers
- i40e: increase the allowable descriptors
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will allow
in future releases combining multiple PFs devices attached to
different NUMA nodes under the same netdev
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- TX completion handling improvements
- add basic ntuple filter support
- reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload
- add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion for P7
- Marvell Octeon EP:
- xmit-more support
- add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications for VFs
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring param,
coalesce channel number and msglevel
- Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
- add flow-steering support
- support UDP segmentation offload
- Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
- Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine driver
- stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping
- TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing
- gve: add support for non-4k page sizes.
- virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation
- nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
- allow firmware upgrade without a reboot
- more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed
FID flooding mode
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Microchip:
- fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx
- KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference
- Renesas:
- add jumbo frames support
- Marvell:
- 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- aquantia: add firmware load support
- at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more
chip variants
- NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support
- Wifi:
- MediaTek (mt76):
- NVMEM EEPROM improvements
- mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements
- mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support
- mt7996 36-bit DMA support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- support for a single MSI vector
- WCN7850: support AP mode
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear
- allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels
- Bluetooth:
- QCA2066: support HFP offload
- ISO: more broadcast-related improvements
- NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
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Merge tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Paolo Abeni:
"The most interesting thing is probably the networking structs
reorganization and a significant amount of changes is around
self-tests.
Core & protocols:
- Analyze and reorganize core networking structs (socks, netdev,
netns, mibs) to optimize cacheline consumption and set up build
time warnings to safeguard against future header changes
This improves TCP performances with many concurrent connections up
to 40%
- Add page-pool netlink-based introspection, exposing the memory
usage and recycling stats. This helps indentify bad PP users and
possible leaks
- Refine TCP/DCCP source port selection to no longer favor even
source port at connect() time when IP_LOCAL_PORT_RANGE is set. This
lowers the time taken by connect() for hosts having many active
connections to the same destination
- Refactor the TCP bind conflict code, shrinking related socket
structs
- Refactor TCP SYN-Cookie handling, as a preparation step to allow
arbitrary SYN-Cookie processing via eBPF
- Tune optmem_max for 0-copy usage, increasing the default value to
128KB and namespecifying it
- Allow coalescing for cloned skbs coming from page pools, improving
RX performances with some common configurations
- Reduce extension header parsing overhead at GRO time
- Add bridge MDB bulk deletion support, allowing user-space to
request the deletion of matching entries
- Reorder nftables struct members, to keep data accessed by the
datapath first
- Introduce TC block ports tracking and use. This allows supporting
multicast-like behavior at the TC layer
- Remove UAPI support for retired TC qdiscs (dsmark, CBQ and ATM) and
classifiers (RSVP and tcindex)
- More data-race annotations
- Extend the diag interface to dump TCP bound-only sockets
- Conditional notification of events for TC qdisc class and actions
- Support for WPAN dynamic associations with nearby devices, to form
a sub-network using a specific PAN ID
- Implement SMCv2.1 virtual ISM device support
- Add support for Batman-avd mulicast packet type
BPF:
- Tons of verifier improvements:
- BPF register bounds logic and range support along with a large
test suite
- log improvements
- complete precision tracking support for register spills
- track aligned STACK_ZERO cases as imprecise spilled registers.
This improves the verifier "instructions processed" metric from
single digit to 50-60% for some programs
- support for user's global BPF subprogram arguments with few
commonly requested annotations for a better developer
experience
- support tracking of BPF_JNE which helps cases when the compiler
transforms (unsigned) "a > 0" into "if a == 0 goto xxx" and the
like
- several fixes
- Add initial TX metadata implementation for AF_XDP with support in
mlx5 and stmmac drivers. Two types of offloads are supported right
now, that is, TX timestamp and TX checksum offload
- Fix kCFI bugs in BPF all forms of indirect calls from BPF into
kernel and from kernel into BPF work with CFI enabled. This allows
BPF to work with CONFIG_FINEIBT=y
- Change BPF verifier logic to validate global subprograms lazily
instead of unconditionally before the main program, so they can be
guarded using BPF CO-RE techniques
- Support uid/gid options when mounting bpffs
- Add a new kfunc which acquires the associated cgroup of a task
within a specific cgroup v1 hierarchy where the latter is
identified by its id
- Extend verifier to allow bpf_refcount_acquire() of a map value
field obtained via direct load which is a use-case needed in
sched_ext
- Add BPF link_info support for uprobe multi link along with bpftool
integration for the latter
- Support for VLAN tag in XDP hints
- Remove deprecated bpfilter kernel leftovers given the project is
developed in user-space (https://github.com/facebook/bpfilter)
Misc:
- Support for parellel TC self-tests execution
- Increase MPTCP self-tests coverage
- Updated the bridge documentation, including several so-far
undocumented features
- Convert all the net self-tests to run in unique netns, to avoid
random failures due to conflict and allow concurrent runs
- Add TCP-AO self-tests
- Add kunit tests for both cfg80211 and mac80211
- Autogenerate Netlink families documentation from YAML spec
- Add yml-gen support for fixed headers and recursive nests, the tool
can now generate user-space code for all genetlink families for
which we have specs
- A bunch of additional module descriptions fixes
- Catch incorrect freeing of pages belonging to a page pool
Driver API:
- Rust abstractions for network PHY drivers; do not cover yet the
full C API, but already allow implementing functional PHY drivers
in rust
- Introduce queue and NAPI support in the netdev Netlink interface,
allowing complete access to the device <> NAPIs <> queues
relationship
- Introduce notifications filtering for devlink to allow control
application scale to thousands of instances
- Improve PHY validation, requesting rate matching information for
each ethtool link mode supported by both the PHY and host
- Add support for ethtool symmetric-xor RSS hash
- ACPI based Wifi band RFI (WBRF) mitigation feature for the AMD
platform
- Expose pin fractional frequency offset value over new DPLL generic
netlink attribute
- Convert older drivers to platform remove callback returning void
- Add support for PHY package MMD read/write
New hardware / drivers:
- Ethernet:
- Octeon CN10K devices
- Broadcom 5760X P7
- Qualcomm SM8550 SoC
- Texas Instrument DP83TG720S PHY
- Bluetooth:
- IMC Networks Bluetooth radio
Removed:
- WiFi:
- libertas 16-bit PCMCIA support
- Atmel at76c50x drivers
- HostAP ISA/PCMCIA style 802.11b driver
- zd1201 802.11b USB dongles
- Orinoco ISA/PCMCIA 802.11b driver
- Aviator/Raytheon driver
- Planet WL3501 driver
- RNDIS USB 802.11b driver
Driver updates:
- Ethernet high-speed NICs:
- Intel (100G, ice, idpf):
- allow one by one port representors creation and removal
- add temperature and clock information reporting
- add get/set for ethtool's header split ringparam
- add again FW logging
- adds support switchdev hardware packet mirroring
- iavf: implement symmetric-xor RSS hash
- igc: add support for concurrent physical and free-running
timers
- i40e: increase the allowable descriptors
- nVidia/Mellanox:
- Preparation for Socket-Direct multi-dev netdev. That will
allow in future releases combining multiple PFs devices
attached to different NUMA nodes under the same netdev
- Broadcom (bnxt):
- TX completion handling improvements
- add basic ntuple filter support
- reduce MSIX vectors usage for MQPRIO offload
- add VXLAN support, USO offload and TX coalesce completion
for P7
- Marvell Octeon EP:
- xmit-more support
- add PF-VF mailbox support and use it for FW notifications
for VFs
- Wangxun (ngbe/txgbe):
- implement ethtool functions to operate pause param, ring
param, coalesce channel number and msglevel
- Netronome/Corigine (nfp):
- add flow-steering support
- support UDP segmentation offload
- Ethernet NICs embedded, slower, virtual:
- Xilinx AXI: remove duplicate DMA code adopting the dma engine
driver
- stmmac: add support for HW-accelerated VLAN stripping
- TI AM654x sw: add mqprio, frame preemption & coalescing
- gve: add support for non-4k page sizes.
- virtio-net: support dynamic coalescing moderation
- nVidia/Mellanox Ethernet datacenter switches:
- allow firmware upgrade without a reboot
- more flexible support for bridge flooding via the compressed
FID flooding mode
- Ethernet embedded switches:
- Microchip:
- fine-tune flow control and speed configurations in KSZ8xxx
- KSZ88X3: enable setting rmii reference
- Renesas:
- add jumbo frames support
- Marvell:
- 88E6xxx: add "eth-mac" and "rmon" stats support
- Ethernet PHYs:
- aquantia: add firmware load support
- at803x: refactor the driver to simplify adding support for more
chip variants
- NXP C45 TJA11xx: Add MACsec offload support
- Wifi:
- MediaTek (mt76):
- NVMEM EEPROM improvements
- mt7996 Extremely High Throughput (EHT) improvements
- mt7996 Wireless Ethernet Dispatcher (WED) support
- mt7996 36-bit DMA support
- Qualcomm (ath12k):
- support for a single MSI vector
- WCN7850: support AP mode
- Intel (iwlwifi):
- new debugfs file fw_dbg_clear
- allow concurrent P2P operation on DFS channels
- Bluetooth:
- QCA2066: support HFP offload
- ISO: more broadcast-related improvements
- NXP: better recovery in case receiver/transmitter get out of sync"
* tag 'net-next-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1714 commits)
lan78xx: remove redundant statement in lan78xx_get_eee
lan743x: remove redundant statement in lan743x_ethtool_get_eee
bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_rx_flow_steer()
bnxt_en: Fix RCU locking for ntuple filters in bnxt_srxclsrldel()
bnxt_en: Remove unneeded variable in bnxt_hwrm_clear_vnic_filter()
tcp: Revert no longer abort SYN_SENT when receiving some ICMP
Revert "mlx5 updates 2023-12-20"
Revert "net: stmmac: Enable Per DMA Channel interrupt"
ipvlan: Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API
ipvlan: Fix a typo in a comment
net/sched: Remove ipt action tests
net: stmmac: Use interrupt mode INTM=1 for per channel irq
net: stmmac: Add support for TX/RX channel interrupt
net: stmmac: Make MSI interrupt routine generic
dt-bindings: net: snps,dwmac: per channel irq
net: phy: at803x: make read_status more generic
net: phy: at803x: add support for cdt cross short test for qca808x
net: phy: at803x: refactor qca808x cable test get status function
net: phy: at803x: generalize cdt fault length function
net: ethernet: cortina: Drop TSO support
...
Step 5/10 of the namespace unification of CPU mitigations related Kconfig options.
[ mingo: Converted a few more uses in comments/messages as well. ]
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ariel Miculas <amiculas@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231121160740.1249350-6-leitao@debian.org
- A micro-optimization got misplaced as a cleanup:
- Micro-optimize the asm code in secondary_startup_64_no_verify()
- Change global variables to local
- Add missing kernel-doc function parameter descriptions
- Remove unused parameter from a macro
- Remove obsolete Kconfig entry
- Fix comments
- Fix typos, mostly scripted, manually reviewed
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-cleanups-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
- Change global variables to local
- Add missing kernel-doc function parameter descriptions
- Remove unused parameter from a macro
- Remove obsolete Kconfig entry
- Fix comments
- Fix typos, mostly scripted, manually reviewed
and a micro-optimization got misplaced as a cleanup:
- Micro-optimize the asm code in secondary_startup_64_no_verify()
* tag 'x86-cleanups-2024-01-08' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
arch/x86: Fix typos
x86/head_64: Use TESTB instead of TESTL in secondary_startup_64_no_verify()
x86/docs: Remove reference to syscall trampoline in PTI
x86/Kconfig: Remove obsolete config X86_32_SMP
x86/io: Remove the unused 'bw' parameter from the BUILDIO() macro
x86/mtrr: Document missing function parameters in kernel-doc
x86/setup: Make relocated_ramdisk a local variable of relocate_initrd()
infrastructure and remove the former
- Misc other improvements
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Merge tag 'x86_paravirt_for_v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 paravirt updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Replace the paravirt patching functionality using the alternatives
infrastructure and remove the former
- Misc other improvements
* tag 'x86_paravirt_for_v6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/alternative: Correct feature bit debug output
x86/paravirt: Remove no longer needed paravirt patching code
x86/paravirt: Switch mixed paravirt/alternative calls to alternatives
x86/alternative: Add indirect call patching
x86/paravirt: Move some functions and defines to alternative.c
x86/paravirt: Introduce ALT_NOT_XEN
x86/paravirt: Make the struct paravirt_patch_site packed
x86/paravirt: Use relative reference for the original instruction offset
In
https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206110636.GBZXBVvCWj2IDjVk4c@fat_crate.local
I wanted to adjust the alternative patching debug output to the new
changes introduced by
da0fe6e68e ("x86/alternative: Add indirect call patching")
but removed the '*' which denotes the ->x86_capability word. The correct
output should be, for example:
[ 0.230071] SMP alternatives: feat: 11*32+15, old: (entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5a/0x77 (ffffffff81c000c2) len: 16), repl: (ffffffff89ae896a, len: 5) flags: 0x0
while the incorrect one says "... 1132+15" currently.
Add back the '*'.
Fixes: da0fe6e68e ("x86/alternative: Add indirect call patching")
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231206110636.GBZXBVvCWj2IDjVk4c@fat_crate.local
This function is now called from a few places that are no __init_or_module,
resulting a link time warning:
WARNING: modpost: vmlinux: section mismatch in reference: patch_dest+0x8a (section: .text) -> apply_relocation (section: .init.text)
Remove the annotation here.
[ mingo: Also sync up add_nop() with these changes. ]
Fixes: 17bce3b2ae ("x86/callthunks: Handle %rip-relative relocations in call thunk template")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231204072856.1033621-1-arnd@kernel.org
BPF struct_ops uses __arch_prepare_bpf_trampoline() to write
trampolines for indirect function calls. These tramplines much have
matching CFI.
In order to obtain the correct CFI hash for the various methods, add a
matching structure that contains stub functions, the compiler will
generate correct CFI which we can pilfer for the trampolines.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.566977112@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Where the main BPF program is expected to match bpf_func_t,
sub-programs are expected to match bpf_callback_t.
This fixes things like:
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bloom_filter_bench.c:
bpf_for_each_map_elem(&array_map, bloom_callback, &data, 0);
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.451956710@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The current BPF call convention is __nocfi, except when it calls !JIT things,
then it calls regular C functions.
It so happens that with FineIBT the __nocfi and C calling conventions are
incompatible. Specifically __nocfi will call at func+0, while FineIBT will have
endbr-poison there, which is not a valid indirect target. Causing #CP.
Notably this only triggers on IBT enabled hardware, which is probably why this
hasn't been reported (also, most people will have JIT on anyway).
Implement proper CFI prologues for the BPF JIT codegen and drop __nocfi for
x86.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231215092707.345270396@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
apply_alternatives() treats alternatives with the ALT_FLAG_NOT flag set
special as it optimizes the existing NOPs in place.
Unfortunately, this happens with interrupts enabled and does not provide any
form of core synchronization.
So an interrupt hitting in the middle of the update and using the affected code
path will observe a half updated NOP and crash and burn. The following
3 NOP sequence was observed to expose this crash halfway reliably under QEMU
32bit:
0x90 0x90 0x90
which is replaced by the optimized 3 byte NOP:
0x8d 0x76 0x00
So an interrupt can observe:
1) 0x90 0x90 0x90 nop nop nop
2) 0x8d 0x90 0x90 undefined
3) 0x8d 0x76 0x90 lea -0x70(%esi),%esi
4) 0x8d 0x76 0x00 lea 0x0(%esi),%esi
Where only #1 and #4 are true NOPs. The same problem exists for 64bit obviously.
Disable interrupts around this NOP optimization and invoke sync_core()
before re-enabling them.
Fixes: 270a69c448 ("x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives")
Reported-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com
text_poke_early() does:
local_irq_save(flags);
memcpy(addr, opcode, len);
local_irq_restore(flags);
sync_core();
That's not really correct because the synchronization should happen before
interrupts are re-enabled to ensure that a pending interrupt observes the
complete update of the opcodes.
It's not entirely clear whether the interrupt entry provides enough
serialization already, but moving the sync_core() invocation into interrupt
disabled region does no harm and is obviously correct.
Fixes: 6fffacb303 ("x86/alternatives, jumplabel: Use text_poke_early() before mm_init()")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZT6narvE%2BLxX%2B7Be@windriver.com
Now that paravirt is using the alternatives patching infrastructure,
remove the paravirt patching code.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231210062138.2417-6-jgross@suse.com
Instead of stacking alternative and paravirt patching, use the new
ALT_FLAG_CALL flag to switch those mixed calls to pure alternative
handling.
Eliminate the need to be careful regarding the sequence of alternative
and paravirt patching.
[ bp: Touch up commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231210062138.2417-5-jgross@suse.com
In order to prepare replacing of paravirt patching with alternative
patching, add the capability to replace an indirect call with a direct
one.
This is done via a new flag ALT_FLAG_CALL as the target of the CALL
instruction needs to be evaluated using the value of the location
addressed by the indirect call.
For convenience, add a macro for a default CALL instruction. In case it
is being used without the new flag being set, it will result in a BUG()
when being executed. As in most cases, the feature used will be
X86_FEATURE_ALWAYS so add another macro ALT_CALL_ALWAYS usable for the
flags parameter of the ALTERNATIVE macros.
For a complete replacement, handle the special cases of calling a nop
function and an indirect call of NULL the same way as paravirt does.
[ bp: Massage commit message, fixup the debug output and clarify flow
more. ]
Co-developed-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231210062138.2417-4-jgross@suse.com
As a preparation for replacing paravirt patching completely by
alternative patching, move some backend functions and #defines to
the alternatives code and header.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231129133332.31043-3-jgross@suse.com
Contrary to alternatives, relocations are currently not supported in
call thunk templates. Re-use the existing infrastructure from
alternative.c to allow %rip-relative relocations when copying call
thunk template from its storage location.
The patch allows unification of ASM_INCREMENT_CALL_DEPTH, which already
uses PER_CPU_VAR macro, with INCREMENT_CALL_DEPTH, used in call thunk
template, which is currently limited to use absolute address.
Reuse existing relocation infrastructure from alternative.c.,
as suggested by Peter Zijlstra.
Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231105213731.1878100-3-ubizjak@gmail.com
Similar to the alternative patching, use a relative reference for original
instruction offset rather than absolute one, which saves 8 bytes for one
PARA_SITE entry on x86_64. As a result, a R_X86_64_PC32 relocation is
generated instead of an R_X86_64_64 one, which also reduces relocation
metadata on relocatable builds. Hardcode the alignment to 4 now.
[ bp: Massage commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Hou Wenlong <houwenlong.hwl@antgroup.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9e6053107fbaabc0d33e5d2865c5af2c67ec9925.1686301237.git.houwenlong.hwl@antgroup.com
Fei has reported that KASAN triggers during apply_alternatives() on
a 5-level paging machine:
BUG: KASAN: out-of-bounds in rcu_is_watching()
Read of size 4 at addr ff110003ee6419a0 by task swapper/0/0
...
__asan_load4()
rcu_is_watching()
trace_hardirqs_on()
text_poke_early()
apply_alternatives()
...
On machines with 5-level paging, cpu_feature_enabled(X86_FEATURE_LA57)
gets patched. It includes KASAN code, where KASAN_SHADOW_START depends on
__VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT, which is defined with cpu_feature_enabled().
KASAN gets confused when apply_alternatives() patches the
KASAN_SHADOW_START users. A test patch that makes KASAN_SHADOW_START
static, by replacing __VIRTUAL_MASK_SHIFT with 56, works around the issue.
Fix it for real by disabling KASAN while the kernel is patching alternatives.
[ mingo: updated the changelog ]
Fixes: 6657fca06e ("x86/mm: Allow to boot without LA57 if CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y")
Reported-by: Fei Yang <fei.yang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231012100424.1456-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Commit
7825451fa4 ("static_call: Add call depth tracking support")
failed to realize the problem fixed there is not specific to call depth
tracking but applies to all return-thunk uses.
Move the fix to the appropriate place and condition.
Fixes: ee88d363d1 ("x86,static_call: Use alternative RET encoding")
Reported-by: David Kaplan <David.Kaplan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
The following commit
095b8303f3 ("x86/alternative: Make custom return thunk unconditional")
made '__x86_return_thunk' a placeholder value. All code setting
X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK also changes the value of 'x86_return_thunk'. So
the optimization at the beginning of apply_returns() is dead code.
Also, before the above-mentioned commit, the optimization actually had a
bug It bypassed __static_call_fixup(), causing some raw returns to
remain unpatched in static call trampolines. Thus the 'Fixes' tag.
Fixes: d2408e043e ("x86/alternative: Optimize returns patching")
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/16d19d2249d4485d8380fb215ffaae81e6b8119e.1693889988.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org
The following commit deserves special mention:
22dc02f81c Revert "sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header"
This is in x86/cleanups, because the revert is a re-application of a
number of cleanups that got removed inadvertedly.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'x86-cleanups-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"The following commit deserves special mention:
22dc02f81c Revert "sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header"
This is in x86/cleanups, because the revert is a re-application of a
number of cleanups that got removed inadvertedly"
[ This also effectively undoes the amd_check_microcode() microcode
declaration change I had done in my microcode loader merge in commit
42a7f6e3ff ("Merge tag 'x86_microcode_for_v6.6_rc1' [...]").
I picked the declaration change by Arnd from this branch instead,
which put it in <asm/processor.h> instead of <asm/microcode.h> like I
had done in my merge resolution - Linus ]
* tag 'x86-cleanups-2023-08-28' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/platform/uv: Refactor code using deprecated strncpy() interface to use strscpy()
x86/hpet: Refactor code using deprecated strncpy() interface to use strscpy()
x86/platform/uv: Refactor code using deprecated strcpy()/strncpy() interfaces to use strscpy()
x86/qspinlock-paravirt: Fix missing-prototype warning
x86/paravirt: Silence unused native_pv_lock_init() function warning
x86/alternative: Add a __alt_reloc_selftest() prototype
x86/purgatory: Include header for warn() declaration
x86/asm: Avoid unneeded __div64_32 function definition
Revert "sched/fair: Move unused stub functions to header"
x86/apic: Hide unused safe_smp_processor_id() on 32-bit UP
x86/cpu: Fix amd_check_microcode() declaration
There is infrastructure to rewrite return thunks to point to any
random thunk one desires, unwrap that from CALL_THUNKS, which up to
now was the sole user of that.
[ bp: Make the thunks visible on 32-bit and add ifdeffery for the
32-bit builds. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814121148.775293785@infradead.org
The newly introduced selftest function causes a warning when -Wmissing-prototypes
is enabled:
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1461:32: error: no previous prototype for '__alt_reloc_selftest' [-Werror=missing-prototypes]
Since it's only used locally, add the prototype directly in front of it.
Fixes: 270a69c448 ("x86/alternative: Support relocations in alternatives")
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803082619.1369127-6-arnd@kernel.org
poison_cfi() was introduced in:
9831c6253a ("x86/cfi: Extend ENDBR sealing to kCFI")
... but it's only ever used under CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT=y,
and if that option is disabled, we get:
arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c:1243:13: error: ‘poison_cfi’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-function]
Guard the definition with CONFIG_X86_KERNEL_IBT.
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Alyssa noticed that when building the kernel with CFI_CLANG+IBT and
booting on IBT enabled hardware to obtain FineIBT, the indirect
functions look like:
__cfi_foo:
endbr64
subl $hash, %r10d
jz 1f
ud2
nop
1:
foo:
endbr64
This is because the compiler generates code for kCFI+IBT. In that case
the caller does the hash check and will jump to +0, so there must be
an ENDBR there. The compiler doesn't know about FineIBT at all; also
it is possible to actually use kCFI+IBT when booting with 'cfi=kcfi'
on IBT enabled hardware.
Having this second ENDBR however makes it possible to elide the CFI
check. Therefore, we should poison this second ENDBR when switching to
FineIBT mode.
Fixes: 931ab63664 ("x86/ibt: Implement FineIBT")
Reported-by: "Milburn, Alyssa" <alyssa.milburn@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230615193722.194131053@infradead.org
Kees noted that IBT sealing could be extended to kCFI.
Fundamentally it is the list of functions that do not have their
address taken and are thus never called indirectly. It doesn't matter
that objtool uses IBT infrastructure to determine this list, once we
have it it can also be used to clobber kCFI hashes and avoid kCFI
indirect calls.
Suggested-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230622144321.494426891%40infradead.org
The current name doesn't reflect what it does very well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230622144321.427441595%40infradead.org
- Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double().
The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically & functionally
the same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface: instead
of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves layout
details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
fragility & bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128 types.
- Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add
kerneldoc comments for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t
operations. Generated definitions are much cleaner now,
and come with documentation.
- Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering
when taking multiple locks of the same type. This gets rid of
one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the bcache code.
- Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended
variable shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain
ARM builds.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Introduce cmpxchg128() -- aka. the demise of cmpxchg_double()
The cmpxchg128() family of functions is basically & functionally the
same as cmpxchg_double(), but with a saner interface.
Instead of a 6-parameter horror that forced u128 - u64/u64-halves
layout details on the interface and exposed users to complexity,
fragility & bugs, use a natural 3-parameter interface with u128
types.
- Restructure the generated atomic headers, and add kerneldoc comments
for all of the generic atomic{,64,_long}_t operations.
The generated definitions are much cleaner now, and come with
documentation.
- Implement lock_set_cmp_fn() on lockdep, for defining an ordering when
taking multiple locks of the same type.
This gets rid of one use of lockdep_set_novalidate_class() in the
bcache code.
- Fix raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg() bug due to an unintended variable
shadowing generating garbage code on Clang on certain ARM builds.
* tag 'locking-core-2023-06-27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (43 commits)
locking/atomic: scripts: fix ${atomic}_dec_if_positive() kerneldoc
percpu: Fix self-assignment of __old in raw_cpu_generic_try_cmpxchg()
locking/atomic: treewide: delete arch_atomic_*() kerneldoc
locking/atomic: docs: Add atomic operations to the driver basic API documentation
locking/atomic: scripts: generate kerneldoc comments
docs: scripts: kernel-doc: accept bitwise negation like ~@var
locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic*() definitions
locking/atomic: scripts: simplify raw_atomic_long*() definitions
locking/atomic: scripts: split pfx/name/sfx/order
locking/atomic: scripts: restructure fallback ifdeffery
locking/atomic: scripts: build raw_atomic_long*() directly
locking/atomic: treewide: use raw_atomic*_<op>()
locking/atomic: scripts: add trivial raw_atomic*_<op>()
locking/atomic: scripts: factor out order template generation
locking/atomic: scripts: remove leftover "${mult}"
locking/atomic: scripts: remove bogus order parameter
locking/atomic: xtensa: add preprocessor symbols
locking/atomic: x86: add preprocessor symbols
locking/atomic: sparc: add preprocessor symbols
locking/atomic: sh: add preprocessor symbols
...
While chasing ghosts, I did notice that optimize_nops() was replacing
'REP NOP' aka 'PAUSE' with NOP2. This is clearly not right.
Fixes: 6c480f2221 ("x86/alternative: Rewrite optimize_nops() some")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20230524130104.GR83892@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Debugging in the kernel has started slowing down the kernel by a
noticeable amount. The ftrace start up tests are triggering the softlockup
watchdog on some boxes. This is caused by the start up tests that enable
function and function graph tracing several times. Sprinkling
cond_resched() just in the start up test code was not enough to stop the
softlockup from triggering. It would sometimes trigger in the
text_poke_bp_batch() code.
When function tracing enables all functions, it will call
text_poke_queue() to queue the places that need to be patched. Every
256 entries will do a "flush" that calls text_poke_bp_batch() to do the
update of the 256 locations. As this is in a scheduleable context,
calling cond_resched() at the start of text_poke_bp_batch() will ensure
that other tasks could get a chance to run while the patching is
happening. This keeps the softlockup from triggering in the start up
tests.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230531092419.4d051374@rorschach.local.home
Now that we have raw_atomic*_<op>() definitions, there's no need to use
arch_atomic*_<op>() definitions outside of the low-level atomic
definitions.
Move treewide users of arch_atomic*_<op>() over to the equivalent
raw_atomic*_<op>().
There should be no functional change as a result of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230605070124.3741859-19-mark.rutland@arm.com
By adding support for longer NOPs there are a few more alternatives
that can turn into a single instruction.
Add up to NOP11, the same limit where GNU as .nops also stops
generating longer nops. This is because a number of uarchs have severe
decode penalties for more than 3 prefixes.
[ bp: Sync up with the version in tools/ while at it. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230515093020.661756940@infradead.org
Instead of decoding each instruction in the return sites range only to
realize that that return site is a jump to the default return thunk
which is needed - X86_FEATURE_RETHUNK is enabled - lift that check
before the loop and get rid of that loop overhead.
Add comments about what gets patched, while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230512120952.7924-1-bp@alien8.de
Because:
SMP alternatives: ffffffff810026dc: [2:44) optimized NOPs: eb 2a eb 28 cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
is quite daft, make things more complicated and have the NOP runlength
detection eat the preceding JMP if they both end at the same target.
SMP alternatives: ffffffff810026dc: [0:44) optimized NOPs: eb 2a cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc cc
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208171431.433132442@infradead.org
Address two issues:
- it no longer hard requires single byte NOP runs - now it accepts any
NOP and NOPL encoded instruction (but not the more complicated 32bit
NOPs).
- it writes a single 'instruction' replacement.
Specifically, ORC unwinder relies on the tail NOP of an alternative to
be a single instruction. In particular, it relies on the inner bytes not
being executed.
Once the max supported NOP length has been reached (currently 8, could easily
be extended to 11 on x86_64), switch to JMP.d8 and INT3 padding to
achieve the same result.
Objtool uses this guarantee in the analysis of alternative/overlapping
CFI state for the ORC unwinder data. Every instruction edge gets a CFI
state and the more instructions the larger the chance of conflicts.
[ bp:
- Add a comment over add_nop() to explain why it does it this way
- Make add_nops() PARAVIRT only as it is used solely there now ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208171431.373412974@infradead.org
A little while ago someone (Kirill) ran into the whole 'alternatives don't
do relocations nonsense' again and I got annoyed enough to actually look
at the code.
Since the whole alternative machinery already fully decodes the
instructions it is simple enough to adjust immediates and displacement
when needed. Specifically, the immediates for IP modifying instructions
(JMP, CALL, Jcc) and the displacement for RIP-relative instructions.
[ bp: Massage comment some more and get rid of third loop in
apply_relocation(). ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208171431.313857925@infradead.org
Using debug-alternative generates a *LOT* of output, extend it a bit
to select which of the many rewrites it reports on.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230208171431.253636689@infradead.org
In order to re-write Jcc.d32 instructions text_poke_bp() needs to be
taught about them.
The biggest hurdle is that the whole machinery is currently made for 5
byte instructions and extending this would grow struct text_poke_loc
which is currently a nice 16 bytes and used in an array.
However, since text_poke_loc contains a full copy of the (s32)
displacement, it is possible to map the Jcc.d32 2 byte opcodes to
Jcc.d8 1 byte opcode for the int3 emulation.
This then leaves the replacement bytes; fudge that by only storing the
last 5 bytes and adding the rule that 'length == 6' instruction will
be prefixed with a 0x0f byte.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230123210607.115718513@infradead.org
Add a struct alt_instr.flags field which will contain different flags
controlling alternatives patching behavior.
The initial idea was to be able to specify it as a separate macro
parameter but that would mean touching all possible invocations of the
alternatives macros and thus a lot of churn.
What is more, as PeterZ suggested, being able to say ALT_NOT(feature) is
very readable and explains exactly what is meant.
So make the feature field a u32 where the patching flags are the upper
u16 part of the dword quantity while the lower u16 word is the feature.
The highest feature number currently is 0x26a (i.e., word 19) so there
is plenty of space. If that becomes insufficient, the field can be
extended to u64 which will then make struct alt_instr of the nice size
of 16 bytes (14 bytes currently).
There should be no functional changes resulting from this.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y6RCoJEtxxZWwotd@zn.tnic
