Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
- Quite a bit of Chinese and Spanish translation work
- Clarifying that Git commit IDs >12chars are OK
- A new nvme-multipath document
- A reorganization of the admin-guide top-level page to make it
readable
- Clarification of the role of Acked-by and maintainer discretion on
their acceptance
- Some reorganization of debugging-oriented docs
... and typo fixes, documentation updates, etc as usual
* tag 'docs-6.14' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
Documentation: Fix x86_64 UEFI outdated references to elilo
Documentation/sysctl: Add timer_migration to kernel.rst
docs/mm: Physical memory: Remove zone_t
docs: submitting-patches: clarify that signers may use their discretion on tags
docs: submitting-patches: clarify difference between Acked-by and Reviewed-by
docs: submitting-patches: clarify Acked-by and introduce "# Suffix"
Documentation: bug-hunting.rst: remove odd contact information
docs/zh_CN: Add sak index Chinese translation
doc: module: DEFAULT_SYMBOL_NAMESPACE must be defined before #includes
doc: module: Fix documented type of namespace
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Fix a reference to vga-softcursor.rst
docs/zh_CN: Add landlock index Chinese translation
Documentation: Fix typo localmodonfig -> localmodconfig
overlayfs.rst: Fix and improve grammar
docs/zh_CN: Add siphash index Chinese translation
docs/zh_CN: Add security IMA-templates Chinese translation
docs/zh_CN: Add security digsig Chinese translation
Align git commit ID abbreviation guidelines and checks
docs: process: submitting-patches: split canonical patch format section
docs/zh_CN: Add security lsm Chinese translation
...
Pull x86 cleanups from Ingo Molnar:
"Miscellaneous x86 cleanups and typo fixes, and also the removal of
the 'disablelapic' boot parameter"
* tag 'x86-cleanups-2025-01-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ioapic: Remove a stray tab in the IO-APIC type string
x86/cpufeatures: Remove "AMD" from the comments to the AMD-specific leaf
Documentation/kernel-parameters: Fix a typo in kvm.enable_virt_at_load text
x86/cpu: Fix typo in x86_match_cpu()'s doc
x86/apic: Remove "disablelapic" cmdline option
Documentation: Merge x86-specific boot options doc into kernel-parameters.txt
x86/ioremap: Remove unused size parameter in remapping functions
x86/ioremap: Simplify setup_data mapping variants
x86/boot/compressed: Remove unused header includes from kaslr.c
Pull performance events updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Seqlock optimizations that arose in a perf context and were merged
into the perf tree:
- seqlock: Add raw_seqcount_try_begin (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- mm: Convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount (Suren Baghdasaryan)
- mm: Introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry} (Suren
Baghdasaryan)
- mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin() (Peter Zijlstra)
Core perf enhancements:
- Reduce 'struct page' footprint of perf by mapping pages in advance
(Lorenzo Stoakes)
- Save raw sample data conditionally based on sample type (Yabin Cui)
- Reduce sampling overhead by checking sample_type in
perf_sample_save_callchain() and perf_sample_save_brstack() (Yabin
Cui)
- Export perf_exclude_event() (Namhyung Kim)
Uprobes scalability enhancements: (Andrii Nakryiko)
- Simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
- Add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
- Simplify session consumer tracking
- Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
- Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
- Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
- Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
AMD core PMU driver enhancements:
- Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS (Namhyung Kim)
AMD RAPL energy counters support: (Dhananjay Ugwekar)
- Introduce topology_logical_core_id() (K Prateek Nayak)
- Remove the unused get_rapl_pmu_cpumask() function
- Remove the cpu_to_rapl_pmu() function
- Rename rapl_pmu variables
- Make rapl_model struct global
- Add arguments to the init and cleanup functions
- Modify the generic variable names to *_pkg*
- Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
- Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
- Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
Intel core PMU driver enhancements:
- Support RDPMC 'metrics clear mode' feature (Kan Liang)
- Clarify adaptive PEBS processing (Kan Liang)
- Factor out functions for PEBS records processing (Kan Liang)
- Simplify the PEBS records processing for adaptive PEBS (Kan Liang)
Intel uncore driver enhancements: (Kan Liang)
- Convert buggy pmu->func_id use to pmu->registered
- Support more units on Granite Rapids"
* tag 'perf-core-2025-01-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
perf: map pages in advance
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Support more units on Granite Rapids
perf/x86/intel/uncore: Clean up func_id
perf/x86/intel: Support RDPMC metrics clear mode
uprobes: Guard against kmemdup() failing in dup_return_instance()
perf/x86: Relax privilege filter restriction on AMD IBS
perf/core: Export perf_exclude_event()
uprobes: Reuse return_instances between multiple uretprobes within task
uprobes: Ensure return_instance is detached from the list before freeing
uprobes: Decouple return_instance list traversal and freeing
uprobes: Simplify session consumer tracking
uprobes: add speculative lockless VMA-to-inode-to-uprobe resolution
uprobes: simplify find_active_uprobe_rcu() VMA checks
mm: introduce mmap_lock_speculate_{try_begin|retry}
mm: convert mm_lock_seq to a proper seqcount
mm/gup: Use raw_seqcount_try_begin()
seqlock: add raw_seqcount_try_begin
perf/x86/rapl: Add core energy counter support for AMD CPUs
perf/x86/rapl: Move the cntr_mask to rapl_pmus struct
perf/x86/rapl: Remove the global variable rapl_msrs
...
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:
- A segmented Reverse Map table (RMP) is a across-nodes distributed
table of sorts which contains per-node descriptors of each node-local
4K page, denoting its ownership (hypervisor, guest, etc) in the realm
of confidential computing. Add support for such a table in order to
improve referential locality when accessing or modifying RMP table
entries
- Add support for reading the TSC in SNP guests by removing any
interference or influence the hypervisor might have, with the goal of
making a confidential guest even more independent from the hypervisor
* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.14_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/sev: Add the Secure TSC feature for SNP guests
x86/tsc: Init the TSC for Secure TSC guests
x86/sev: Mark the TSC in a secure TSC guest as reliable
x86/sev: Prevent RDTSC/RDTSCP interception for Secure TSC enabled guests
x86/sev: Prevent GUEST_TSC_FREQ MSR interception for Secure TSC enabled guests
x86/sev: Change TSC MSR behavior for Secure TSC enabled guests
x86/sev: Add Secure TSC support for SNP guests
x86/sev: Relocate SNP guest messaging routines to common code
x86/sev: Carve out and export SNP guest messaging init routines
virt: sev-guest: Replace GFP_KERNEL_ACCOUNT with GFP_KERNEL
virt: sev-guest: Remove is_vmpck_empty() helper
x86/sev/docs: Document the SNP Reverse Map Table (RMP)
x86/sev: Add full support for a segmented RMP table
x86/sev: Treat the contiguous RMP table as a single RMP segment
x86/sev: Map only the RMP table entries instead of the full RMP range
x86/sev: Move the SNP probe routine out of the way
x86/sev: Require the RMPREAD instruction after Zen4
x86/sev: Add support for the RMPREAD instruction
x86/sev: Prepare for using the RMPREAD instruction to access the RMP
Problem: The x86_64 UEFI doc references Elilo which is an
unmaintained/orphaned bootloader project. Also, on x86_64 a bootloader
is technically not actually required since there is support for the
Linux EFI stub.
Solution: Remove the references to Elilo from the doc and refer to the
EFI stub doc page, update steps accordingly, and add more details about
creation of the EFI partition to improve clarity.
Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250108113522.GA897677@lichtman.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/arch/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst is causing unnecessary
confusion by being a second place where one can put x86 boot options.
Move them into the main one.
Drop removed ones like "acpi=ht", while at it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241202190011.11979-1-bp@kernel.org
The init_size description of boot protocol has an example of the runtime
start address for the compressed bzImage. For non-relocatable kernel
it relies on the pref_address value (if not 0), but for relocatable case
only pays respect to the load_addres and kernel_alignment, and it is
inaccurate for the latter. Boot loader must consider the pref_address
as the Linux kernel relocates to it before being decompressed as nicely
described in this commit message a year ago:
43b1d3e68e ("kexec: Allocate kernel above bzImage's pref_address")
Due to this documentation inaccuracy some of the bootloaders (*) made a
mistake in the calculations and if kernel image is big enough, this may
lead to unbootable configurations.
*)
In particular, kexec-tools missed that and resently got a couple of
changes which will be part of v2.0.30 release. For the record,
commit 43b1d3e68e only fixed the kernel kexec implementation and
also missed to update the init_size description.
While at it, make an example C-like looking as it's done elsewhere in
the document and fix indentation as presribed by the reStructuredText
specifications, so the syntax highliting will work properly.
Fixes: 43b1d3e68e ("kexec: Allocate kernel above bzImage's pref_address")
Fixes: d297366ba6 ("x86: document new bzImage fields")
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241125105005.1616154-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:
- alienware WMAX thermal interface support
- Split ACPI and platform device based amd/hsmp drivers
- AMD X3D frequency/cache mode switching support
- asus thermal policy fixes
- Disable C1 auto-demotion in suspend to allow entering the deepest
C-states
- Fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1
- Replace intel_scu_ipc "workaround" with 32-bit IO
- Correct *_show() function error handling in panasonic-laptop
- Gemini Lake P2SB devfn correction
- think-lmi Admin/System certificate authentication support
- Disable WMI devices for shutdown, refactoring continues
- Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet support
- Surface Pro 9 5G (Arm/QCOM) support
- Misc cleanups / refactoring / improvements
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.13-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (69 commits)
platform/x86: p2sb: Cache correct PCI bar for P2SB on Gemini Lake
platform/x86: panasonic-laptop: Return errno correctly in show callback
Documentation: alienware-wmi: Describe THERMAL_INFORMATION operation 0x02
alienware-wmi: create_thermal_profile() no longer brute-forces IDs
alienware-wmi: Adds support to Alienware x17 R2
alienware-wmi: extends the list of supported models
alienware-wmi: order alienware_quirks[] alphabetically
platform/x86/intel/pmt: allow user offset for PMT callbacks
platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Change the error type
platform/x86/amd/hsmp: Add new error code and error logs
platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add sysfs ABI documentation
platform/x86/amd: amd_3d_vcache: Add AMD 3D V-Cache optimizer driver
intel-hid: fix volume buttons on Thinkpad X12 Detachable Tablet Gen 1
platform/x86/amd/hsmp: mark hsmp_msg_desc_table[] as maybe_unused
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Use platform_profile_cycle()
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Fix inconsistent use of thermal policies
platform/x86: hp: hp-bioscfg: remove redundant if statement
MAINTAINERS: Update ISHTP ECLITE maintainer entry
platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for Vexia EDU ATLA 10 tablet
platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Add support for getting i2c_adapter by PCI parent devname()
...
Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Put cpumask_test_cpu() check in switch_mm_irqs_off() under
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, to micro-optimize the context-switching code (Rik
van Riel)
- Add missing details in virtual memory layout (Kirill A. Shutemov)
* tag 'x86-mm-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm/tlb: Put cpumask_test_cpu() check in switch_mm_irqs_off() under CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
x86/mm/doc: Add missing details in virtual memory layout
Pull x86 splitlock updates from Ingo Molnar:
- Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file (Ravi Bangoria)
- Add split/bus lock support for AMD (Ravi Bangoria)
* tag 'x86-splitlock-2024-11-18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/bus_lock: Add support for AMD
x86/split_lock: Move Split and Bus lock code to a dedicated file
Separate the probes for HSMP ACPI and platform device drivers.
Provide a Kconfig option to choose between ACPI or the platform device
based driver. The common code which is the core part of the HSMP driver
maintained at hsmp.c is guarded by AMD_HSMP config and is selected by
these two driver configs. This will be built into separate hsmp_common.ko
module and acpi as hsmp_acpi and plat as amd_hsmp respectively.
Also add "|| COMPILE_TEST" clause in Kconfig to get build coverage for
HSMP.
Signed-off-by: Suma Hegde <suma.hegde@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <naveenkrishna.chatradhi@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241021111428.2676884-8-suma.hegde@amd.com
[ij: Fixed doc to use pre-formatted text for the ACPI dump.]
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Along with the usual shower of singleton patches, notable patch series
in this pull request are:
- "Align kvrealloc() with krealloc()" from Danilo Krummrich. Adds
consistency to the APIs and behaviour of these two core allocation
functions. This also simplifies/enables Rustification.
- "Some cleanups for shmem" from Baolin Wang. No functional changes -
mode code reuse, better function naming, logic simplifications.
- "mm: some small page fault cleanups" from Josef Bacik. No
functional changes - code cleanups only.
- "Various memory tiering fixes" from Zi Yan. A small fix and a
little cleanup.
- "mm/swap: remove boilerplate" from Yu Zhao. Code cleanups and
simplifications and .text shrinkage.
- "Kernel stack usage histogram" from Pasha Tatashin and Shakeel
Butt. This is a feature, it adds new feilds to /proc/vmstat such as
$ grep kstack /proc/vmstat
kstack_1k 3
kstack_2k 188
kstack_4k 11391
kstack_8k 243
kstack_16k 0
which tells us that 11391 processes used 4k of stack while none at
all used 16k. Useful for some system tuning things, but
partivularly useful for "the dynamic kernel stack project".
- "kmemleak: support for percpu memory leak detect" from Pavel
Tikhomirov. Teaches kmemleak to detect leaksage of percpu memory.
- "mm: memcg: page counters optimizations" from Roman Gushchin. "3
independent small optimizations of page counters".
- "mm: split PTE/PMD PT table Kconfig cleanups+clarifications" from
David Hildenbrand. Improves PTE/PMD splitlock detection, makes
powerpc/8xx work correctly by design rather than by accident.
- "mm: remove arch_make_page_accessible()" from David Hildenbrand.
Some folio conversions which make arch_make_page_accessible()
unneeded.
- "mm, memcg: cg2 memory{.swap,}.peak write handlers" fro David
Finkel. Cleans up and fixes our handling of the resetting of the
cgroup/process peak-memory-use detector.
- "Make core VMA operations internal and testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes. Rationalizaion and encapsulation of the VMA manipulation
APIs. With a view to better enable testing of the VMA functions,
even from a userspace-only harness.
- "mm: zswap: fixes for global shrinker" from Takero Funaki. Fix
issues in the zswap global shrinker, resulting in improved
performance.
- "mm: print the promo watermark in zoneinfo" from Kaiyang Zhao. Fill
in some missing info in /proc/zoneinfo.
- "mm: replace follow_page() by folio_walk" from David Hildenbrand.
Code cleanups and rationalizations (conversion to folio_walk())
resulting in the removal of follow_page().
- "improving dynamic zswap shrinker protection scheme" from Nhat
Pham. Some tuning to improve zswap's dynamic shrinker. Significant
reductions in swapin and improvements in performance are shown.
- "mm: Fix several issues with unaccepted memory" from Kirill
Shutemov. Improvements to the new unaccepted memory feature,
- "mm/mprotect: Fix dax puds" from Peter Xu. Implements mprotect on
DAX PUDs. This was missing, although nobody seems to have notied
yet.
- "Introduce a store type enum for the Maple tree" from Sidhartha
Kumar. Cleanups and modest performance improvements for the maple
tree library code.
- "memcg: further decouple v1 code from v2" from Shakeel Butt. Move
more cgroup v1 remnants away from the v2 memcg code.
- "memcg: initiate deprecation of v1 features" from Shakeel Butt.
Adds various warnings telling users that memcg v1 features are
deprecated.
- "mm: swap: mTHP swap allocator base on swap cluster order" from
Chris Li. Greatly improves the success rate of the mTHP swap
allocation.
- "mm: introduce numa_memblks" from Mike Rapoport. Moves various
disparate per-arch implementations of numa_memblk code into generic
code.
- "mm: batch free swaps for zap_pte_range()" from Barry Song. Greatly
improves the performance of munmap() of swap-filled ptes.
- "support large folio swap-out and swap-in for shmem" from Baolin
Wang. With this series we no longer split shmem large folios into
simgle-page folios when swapping out shmem.
- "mm/hugetlb: alloc/free gigantic folios" from Yu Zhao. Nice
performance improvements and code reductions for gigantic folios.
- "support shmem mTHP collapse" from Baolin Wang. Adds support for
khugepaged's collapsing of shmem mTHP folios.
- "mm: Optimize mseal checks" from Pedro Falcato. Fixes an mprotect()
performance regression due to the addition of mseal().
- "Increase the number of bits available in page_type" from Matthew
Wilcox. Increases the number of bits available in page_type!
- "Simplify the page flags a little" from Matthew Wilcox. Many legacy
page flags are now folio flags, so the page-based flags and their
accessors/mutators can be removed.
- "mm: store zero pages to be swapped out in a bitmap" from Usama
Arif. An optimization which permits us to avoid writing/reading
zero-filled zswap pages to backing store.
- "Avoid MAP_FIXED gap exposure" from Liam Howlett. Fixes a race
window which occurs when a MAP_FIXED operqtion is occurring during
an unrelated vma tree walk.
- "mm: remove vma_merge()" from Lorenzo Stoakes. Major rotorooting of
the vma_merge() functionality, making ot cleaner, more testable and
better tested.
- "misc fixups for DAMON {self,kunit} tests" from SeongJae Park.
Minor fixups of DAMON selftests and kunit tests.
- "mm: memory_hotplug: improve do_migrate_range()" from Kefeng Wang.
Code cleanups and folio conversions.
- "Shmem mTHP controls and stats improvements" from Ryan Roberts.
Cleanups for shmem controls and stats.
- "mm: count the number of anonymous THPs per size" from Barry Song.
Expose additional anon THP stats to userspace for improved tuning.
- "mm: finish isolate/putback_lru_page()" from Kefeng Wang: more
folio conversions and removal of now-unused page-based APIs.
- "replace per-quota region priorities histogram buffer with
per-context one" from SeongJae Park. DAMON histogram
rationalization.
- "Docs/damon: update GitHub repo URLs and maintainer-profile" from
SeongJae Park. DAMON documentation updates.
- "mm/vdpa: correct misuse of non-direct-reclaim __GFP_NOFAIL and
improve related doc and warn" from Jason Wang: fixes usage of page
allocator __GFP_NOFAIL and GFP_ATOMIC flags.
- "mm: split underused THPs" from Yu Zhao. Improve THP=always policy.
This was overprovisioning THPs in sparsely accessed memory areas.
- "zram: introduce custom comp backends API" frm Sergey Senozhatsky.
Add support for zram run-time compression algorithm tuning.
- "mm: Care about shadow stack guard gap when getting an unmapped
area" from Mark Brown. Fix up the various arch_get_unmapped_area()
implementations to better respect guard areas.
- "Improve mem_cgroup_iter()" from Kinsey Ho. Improve the reliability
of mem_cgroup_iter() and various code cleanups.
- "mm: Support huge pfnmaps" from Peter Xu. Extends the usage of huge
pfnmap support.
- "resource: Fix region_intersects() vs add_memory_driver_managed()"
from Huang Ying. Fix a bug in region_intersects() for systems with
CXL memory.
- "mm: hwpoison: two more poison recovery" from Kefeng Wang. Teaches
a couple more code paths to correctly recover from the encountering
of poisoned memry.
- "mm: enable large folios swap-in support" from Barry Song. Support
the swapin of mTHP memory into appropriately-sized folios, rather
than into single-page folios"
* tag 'mm-stable-2024-09-20-02-31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (416 commits)
zram: free secondary algorithms names
uprobes: turn xol_area->pages[2] into xol_area->page
uprobes: introduce the global struct vm_special_mapping xol_mapping
Revert "uprobes: use vm_special_mapping close() functionality"
mm: support large folios swap-in for sync io devices
mm: add nr argument in mem_cgroup_swapin_uncharge_swap() helper to support large folios
mm: fix swap_read_folio_zeromap() for large folios with partial zeromap
mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use pxdp_get() for accessing page table entries
set_memory: add __must_check to generic stubs
mm/vma: return the exact errno in vms_gather_munmap_vmas()
memcg: cleanup with !CONFIG_MEMCG_V1
mm/show_mem.c: report alloc tags in human readable units
mm: support poison recovery from copy_present_page()
mm: support poison recovery from do_cow_fault()
resource, kunit: add test case for region_intersects()
resource: make alloc_free_mem_region() works for iomem_resource
mm: z3fold: deprecate CONFIG_Z3FOLD
vfio/pci: implement huge_fault support
mm/arm64: support large pfn mappings
mm/x86: support large pfn mappings
...
Add Bus Lock Detect (called Bus Lock Trap in AMD docs) support for AMD
platforms. Bus Lock Detect is enumerated with CPUID Fn0000_0007_ECX_x0
bit [24 / BUSLOCKTRAP]. It can be enabled through MSR_IA32_DEBUGCTLMSR.
When enabled, hardware clears DR6[11] and raises a #DB exception on
occurrence of Bus Lock if CPL > 0. More detail about the feature can be
found in AMD APM[1].
[1]: AMD64 Architecture Programmer's Manual Pub. 40332, Rev. 4.07 - June
2023, Vol 2, 13.1.3.6 Bus Lock Trap
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=304653
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240808062937.1149-3-ravi.bangoria@amd.com
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Nothing hugely exciting happening in the documentation tree this time
around, mostly more of the usual:
- More Spanish, Italian, and Chinese translations
- A new script, scripts/checktransupdate.py, can be used to see which
commits have touched an (English) document since a given
translation was last updated.
- A couple of "best practices" suggestions (on Link: tags and
off-list discussions) that were not entirely at consensus level,
but I concluded they were close enough to accept.
- Some nice cleanups removing documentation for kernel parameters
that have not been recognized for ... a long time.
...along with the usual updates, typo fixes, and such"
* tag 'docs-6.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (57 commits)
Documentation: Document user_events ioctl code
docs/pinctrl: fix typo in mapping example
docs: maintainer: discourage taking conversations off-list
docs: driver-model: platform: update the definition of platform_driver
docs/sp_SP: Add translation for scheduler/sched-design-CFS.rst
writing_musb_glue_layer.rst: Fix broken URL
zh_CN/admin-guide: one typo fix
docs/zh_CN/virt: Update the translation of guest-halt-polling.rst
Documentation: add reference from dynamic debug to loglevel kernel params
Documentation: best practices for using Link trailers
Documentation: fix links to mailing list services
Documentation: exception-tables.rst: Fix the wrong steps referenced
docs/zh_CN: add process/researcher-guidelines Chinese translation
Documentation/tools/rv: fix document header
docs/sp_SP: Add translation of process/maintainer-kvm-x86.rst
docs/admin-guide/mm: correct typo 'quired' to 'queried'
Add libps2 to the input section of driver-api
Docs/mm/index: move allocation profiling document to unsorted documents chapter
Docs/mm/index: rename 'Legacy Documentation' to 'Unsorted Documentation'
Docs/mm/index: Remove 'Memory Management Guide' chapter marker
...
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add support for running the kernel in a SEV-SNP guest, over a Secure
VM Service Module (SVSM).
When running over a SVSM, different services can run at different
protection levels, apart from the guest OS but still within the
secure SNP environment. They can provide services to the guest, like
a vTPM, for example.
This series adds the required facilities to interface with such a
SVSM module.
- The usual fixlets, refactoring and cleanups
[ And as always: "SEV" is AMD's "Secure Encrypted Virtualization".
I can't be the only one who gets all the newer x86 TLA's confused,
can I?
- Linus ]
* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.11_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/ABI/configfs-tsm: Fix an unexpected indentation silly
x86/sev: Do RMP memory coverage check after max_pfn has been set
x86/sev: Move SEV compilation units
virt: sev-guest: Mark driver struct with __refdata to prevent section mismatch
x86/sev: Allow non-VMPL0 execution when an SVSM is present
x86/sev: Extend the config-fs attestation support for an SVSM
x86/sev: Take advantage of configfs visibility support in TSM
fs/configfs: Add a callback to determine attribute visibility
sev-guest: configfs-tsm: Allow the privlevel_floor attribute to be updated
virt: sev-guest: Choose the VMPCK key based on executing VMPL
x86/sev: Provide guest VMPL level to userspace
x86/sev: Provide SVSM discovery support
x86/sev: Use the SVSM to create a vCPU when not in VMPL0
x86/sev: Perform PVALIDATE using the SVSM when not at VMPL0
x86/sev: Use kernel provided SVSM Calling Areas
x86/sev: Check for the presence of an SVSM in the SNP secrets page
x86/irqflags: Provide native versions of the local_irq_save()/restore()
When it was in text format, it correctly hardcoded steps 8a to 8c.
However, after it was converted to RST, the sequence numbers were
auto-generated during rendering and became incorrect after some
steps were inserted.
Change it to refer to steps a to c in a relative way.
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@fujitsu.com>
[jc: Indented the line to make the relative reference more clear]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240614010028.48262-1-lizhijian@fujitsu.com
With Sub-NUMA Cluster (SNC) mode enabled, the scope of monitoring resources
is per-NODE instead of per-L3 cache. Backwards compatibility is maintained
by providing files in the mon_L3_XX directories that sum event counts
for all SNC nodes sharing an L3 cache.
New files provide per-SNC node event counts.
Users should be aware that SNC mode also affects the amount of L3 cache
available for allocation within each SNC node.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Tested-by: Babu Moger <babu.moger@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240628215619.76401-20-tony.luck@intel.com
During early boot phases, check for the presence of an SVSM when running
as an SEV-SNP guest.
An SVSM is present if not running at VMPL0 and the 64-bit value at offset
0x148 into the secrets page is non-zero. If an SVSM is present, save the
SVSM Calling Area address (CAA), located at offset 0x150 into the secrets
page, and set the VMPL level of the guest, which should be non-zero, to
indicate the presence of an SVSM.
[ bp: Touchups. ]
Signed-off-by: Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/9d3fe161be93d4ea60f43c2a3f2c311fe708b63b.1717600736.git.thomas.lendacky@amd.com
Pull x86 resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add a tracepoint to read out LLC occupancy of resource monitor IDs
with the goal of freeing them sooner rather than later
- Other code improvements and cleanups
* tag 'x86_cache_for_v6.10_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Add tracepoint for llc_occupancy tracking
x86/resctrl: Rename pseudo_lock_event.h to trace.h
x86/resctrl: Simplify call convention for MSR update functions
x86/resctrl: Pass domain to target CPU
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Another not-too-busy cycle for documentation, including:
- Some build-system changes to detect the variable fonts installed by
some distributions that can break the PDF build.
- Various updates and additions to the Spanish, Chinese, Italian, and
Japanese translations.
- Update the stable-kernel rules to match modern practice
... and the usual array of corrections, updates, and typo fixes"
* tag 'docs-6.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (42 commits)
cgroup: Add documentation for missing zswap memory.stat
kernel-doc: Added "*" in $type_constants2 to fix 'make htmldocs' warning.
docs:core-api: fixed typos and grammar in printk-index page
Documentation: tracing: Fix spelling mistakes
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of quick-start to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of general-information to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of coding-guidelines to 6.9-rc4
docs/zh_CN/rust: Update the translation of arch-support to 6.9-rc4
docs: stable-kernel-rules: fix typo sent->send
docs/zh_CN: remove two inconsistent spaces
docs: scripts/check-variable-fonts.sh: Improve commands for detection
docs: stable-kernel-rules: create special tag to flag 'no backporting'
docs: stable-kernel-rules: explain use of stable@kernel.org (w/o @vger.)
docs: stable-kernel-rules: remove code-labels tags and a indention level
docs: stable-kernel-rules: call mainline by its name and change example
docs: stable-kernel-rules: reduce redundancy
docs, kprobes: Add riscv as supported architecture
Docs: typos/spelling
docs: kernel_include.py: Cope with docutils 0.21
docs: ja_JP/howto: Catch up update in v6.8
...
In our production environment, after removing monitor groups, those
unused RMIDs get stuck in the limbo list forever because their
llc_occupancy is always larger than the threshold. But the unused RMIDs
can be successfully freed by turning up the threshold.
In order to know how much the threshold should be, perf can be used to
acquire the llc_occupancy of RMIDs in each rdt domain.
Instead of using perf tool to track llc_occupancy and filter the log
manually, it is more convenient for users to use tracepoint to do this
work. So add a new tracepoint that shows the llc_occupancy of busy RMIDs
when scanning the limbo list.
Suggested-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Suggested-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Haifeng Xu <haifeng.xu@shopee.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240408092303.26413-3-haifeng.xu@shopee.com
The memory bandwidth software controller uses 2^20 units rather than
10^6. See mbm_bw_count() which computes bandwidth using the "SZ_1M"
Linux define for 0x00100000.
Update the documentation to use MiB when describing this feature.
It's too late to fix the mount option "mba_MBps" as that is now an
established user interface.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240322182016.196544-1-tony.luck@intel.com
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Ilpo Järvinen:
- New acer-wmi HW support
- Support for new revision of amd/pmf heartbeat notify
- Correctly handle asus-wmi HW without LEDs
- fujitsu-laptop battery charge control support
- Support for new hp-wmi thermal profiles
- Support ideapad-laptop refresh rate key
- Put intel/pmc AI accelerator (GNA) into D3 if it has no driver to
allow entry into low-power modes, and temporarily removed Lunar Lake
SSRAM support due to breaking FW changes causing probe fail (further
breaking FW changes are still pending)
- Report pmc/punit_atom devices that prevent reacing low power levels
- Surface Fan speed function support
- Support for more sperial keys and complete the list of models with
non-standard fan registers in thinkpad_acpi
- New DMI touchscreen HW support
- Continued modernization efforts of wmi
- Removal of obsoleted ledtrig-audio call and the related dependency
- Debug & metrics interface improvements
- Miscellaneous cleanups / fixes / improvements
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: (87 commits)
platform/x86/intel/pmc: Improve PKGC residency counters debug
platform/x86: asus-wmi: Consider device is absent when the read is ~0
Documentation/x86/amd/hsmp: Updating urls
platform/mellanox: mlxreg-hotplug: Remove redundant NULL-check
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Update sps power thermals according to the platform-profiles
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add support to get sps default APTS index values
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add support to get APTS index numbers for static slider
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add support to notify sbios heart beat event
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Add support to get sbios requests in PMF driver
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Disable debugfs support for querying power thermals
platform/x86/amd/pmf: Differentiate PMF ACPI versions
x86/platform/atom: Check state of Punit managed devices on s2idle
platform/x86: pmc_atom: Check state of PMC clocks on s2idle
platform/x86: pmc_atom: Check state of PMC managed devices on s2idle
platform/x86: pmc_atom: Annotate d3_sts register bit defines
clk: x86: Move clk-pmc-atom register defines to include/linux/platform_data/x86/pmc_atom.h
platform/x86: make fw_attr_class constant
platform/x86/intel/tpmi: Change vsec offset to u64
platform/x86: intel_scu_pcidrv: Remove unused intel-mid.h
platform/x86: intel_scu_wdt: Remove unused intel-mid.h
...
There's a new conflict with Linus's upstream tree, because
in the following merge conflict resolution in <asm/coco.h>:
38b334fc76 Merge tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Linus has resolved the conflicting placement of 'cc_mask' better
than the original commit:
1c811d403a x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
... which was also done by an internal merge resolution:
2e5fc4786b Merge branch 'x86/sev' into x86/boot, to resolve conflicts and to pick up dependent tree
But Linus is right in 38b334fc76, the 'cc_mask' declaration is sufficient
within the #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_CC_PLATFORM block.
So instead of forcing Linus to do the same resolution again, merge in Linus's
tree and follow his conflict resolution.
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/coco.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Pull core x86 updates from Ingo Molnar:
- The biggest change is the rework of the percpu code, to support the
'Named Address Spaces' GCC feature, by Uros Bizjak:
- This allows C code to access GS and FS segment relative memory
via variables declared with such attributes, which allows the
compiler to better optimize those accesses than the previous
inline assembly code.
- The series also includes a number of micro-optimizations for
various percpu access methods, plus a number of cleanups of %gs
accesses in assembly code.
- These changes have been exposed to linux-next testing for the
last ~5 months, with no known regressions in this area.
- Fix/clean up __switch_to()'s broken but accidentally working handling
of FPU switching - which also generates better code
- Propagate more RIP-relative addressing in assembly code, to generate
slightly better code
- Rework the CPU mitigations Kconfig space to be less idiosyncratic, to
make it easier for distros to follow & maintain these options
- Rework the x86 idle code to cure RCU violations and to clean up the
logic
- Clean up the vDSO Makefile logic
- Misc cleanups and fixes
* tag 'x86-core-2024-03-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
x86/idle: Select idle routine only once
x86/idle: Let prefer_mwait_c1_over_halt() return bool
x86/idle: Cleanup idle_setup()
x86/idle: Clean up idle selection
x86/idle: Sanitize X86_BUG_AMD_E400 handling
sched/idle: Conditionally handle tick broadcast in default_idle_call()
x86: Increase brk randomness entropy for 64-bit systems
x86/vdso: Move vDSO to mmap region
x86/vdso/kbuild: Group non-standard build attributes and primary object file rules together
x86/vdso: Fix rethunk patching for vdso-image-{32,64}.o
x86/retpoline: Ensure default return thunk isn't used at runtime
x86/vdso: Use CONFIG_COMPAT_32 to specify vdso32
x86/vdso: Use $(addprefix ) instead of $(foreach )
x86/vdso: Simplify obj-y addition
x86/vdso: Consolidate targets and clean-files
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_RETHUNK => CONFIG_MITIGATION_RETHUNK
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_SRSO => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SRSO
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_IBRS_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_IBRS_ENTRY
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_CPU_UNRET_ENTRY => CONFIG_MITIGATION_UNRET_ENTRY
x86/bugs: Rename CONFIG_SLS => CONFIG_MITIGATION_SLS
...
Pull x86 SEV updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add the x86 part of the SEV-SNP host support.
This will allow the kernel to be used as a KVM hypervisor capable of
running SNP (Secure Nested Paging) guests. Roughly speaking, SEV-SNP
is the ultimate goal of the AMD confidential computing side,
providing the most comprehensive confidential computing environment
up to date.
This is the x86 part and there is a KVM part which did not get ready
in time for the merge window so latter will be forthcoming in the
next cycle.
- Rework the early code's position-dependent SEV variable references in
order to allow building the kernel with clang and -fPIE/-fPIC and
-mcmodel=kernel
- The usual set of fixes, cleanups and improvements all over the place
* tag 'x86_sev_for_v6.9_rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
x86/sev: Disable KMSAN for memory encryption TUs
x86/sev: Dump SEV_STATUS
crypto: ccp - Have it depend on AMD_IOMMU
iommu/amd: Fix failure return from snp_lookup_rmpentry()
x86/sev: Fix position dependent variable references in startup code
crypto: ccp: Make snp_range_list static
x86/Kconfig: Remove CONFIG_AMD_MEM_ENCRYPT_ACTIVE_BY_DEFAULT
Documentation: virt: Fix up pre-formatted text block for SEV ioctls
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_SET_CONFIG command
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_COMMIT command
crypto: ccp: Add the SNP_PLATFORM_STATUS command
x86/cpufeatures: Enable/unmask SEV-SNP CPU feature
KVM: SEV: Make AVIC backing, VMSA and VMCB memory allocation SNP safe
crypto: ccp: Add panic notifier for SEV/SNP firmware shutdown on kdump
iommu/amd: Clean up RMP entries for IOMMU pages during SNP shutdown
crypto: ccp: Handle legacy SEV commands when SNP is enabled
crypto: ccp: Handle non-volatile INIT_EX data when SNP is enabled
crypto: ccp: Handle the legacy TMR allocation when SNP is enabled
x86/sev: Introduce an SNP leaked pages list
crypto: ccp: Provide an API to issue SEV and SNP commands
...
Pull x86 FRED support from Thomas Gleixner:
"Support for x86 Fast Return and Event Delivery (FRED).
FRED is a replacement for IDT event delivery on x86 and addresses most
of the technical nightmares which IDT exposes:
1) Exception cause registers like CR2 need to be manually preserved
in nested exception scenarios.
2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is suboptimal for nested
exceptions as the interrupt stack mechanism rewinds the stack on
each entry which requires a massive effort in the low level entry
of #NMI code to handle this.
3) No hardware distinction between entry from kernel or from user
which makes establishing kernel context more complex than it needs
to be especially for unconditionally nestable exceptions like NMI.
4) NMI nesting caused by IRET unconditionally reenabling NMIs, which
is a problem when the perf NMI takes a fault when collecting a
stack trace.
5) Partial restore of ESP when returning to a 16-bit segment
6) Limitation of the vector space which can cause vector exhaustion
on large systems.
7) Inability to differentiate NMI sources
FRED addresses these shortcomings by:
1) An extended exception stack frame which the CPU uses to save
exception cause registers. This ensures that the meta information
for each exception is preserved on stack and avoids the extra
complexity of preserving it in software.
2) Hardware interrupt stack switching is non-rewinding if a nested
exception uses the currently interrupt stack.
3) The entry points for kernel and user context are separate and GS
BASE handling which is required to establish kernel context for
per CPU variable access is done in hardware.
4) NMIs are now nesting protected. They are only reenabled on the
return from NMI.
5) FRED guarantees full restore of ESP
6) FRED does not put a limitation on the vector space by design
because it uses a central entry points for kernel and user space
and the CPUstores the entry type (exception, trap, interrupt,
syscall) on the entry stack along with the vector number. The
entry code has to demultiplex this information, but this removes
the vector space restriction.
The first hardware implementations will still have the current
restricted vector space because lifting this limitation requires
further changes to the local APIC.
7) FRED stores the vector number and meta information on stack which
allows having more than one NMI vector in future hardware when the
required local APIC changes are in place.
The series implements the initial FRED support by:
- Reworking the existing entry and IDT handling infrastructure to
accomodate for the alternative entry mechanism.
- Expanding the stack frame to accomodate for the extra 16 bytes FRED
requires to store context and meta information
- Providing FRED specific C entry points for events which have
information pushed to the extended stack frame, e.g. #PF and #DB.
- Providing FRED specific C entry points for #NMI and #MCE
- Implementing the FRED specific ASM entry points and the C code to
demultiplex the events
- Providing detection and initialization mechanisms and the necessary
tweaks in context switching, GS BASE handling etc.
The FRED integration aims for maximum code reuse vs the existing IDT
implementation to the extent possible and the deviation in hot paths
like context switching are handled with alternatives to minimalize the
impact. The low level entry and exit paths are seperate due to the
extended stack frame and the hardware based GS BASE swichting and
therefore have no impact on IDT based systems.
It has been extensively tested on existing systems and on the FRED
simulation and as of now there are no outstanding problems"
* tag 'x86-fred-2024-03-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (38 commits)
x86/fred: Fix init_task thread stack pointer initialization
MAINTAINERS: Add a maintainer entry for FRED
x86/fred: Fix a build warning with allmodconfig due to 'inline' failing to inline properly
x86/fred: Invoke FRED initialization code to enable FRED
x86/fred: Add FRED initialization functions
x86/syscall: Split IDT syscall setup code into idt_syscall_init()
KVM: VMX: Call fred_entry_from_kvm() for IRQ/NMI handling
x86/entry: Add fred_entry_from_kvm() for VMX to handle IRQ/NMI
x86/entry/calling: Allow PUSH_AND_CLEAR_REGS being used beyond actual entry code
x86/fred: Fixup fault on ERETU by jumping to fred_entrypoint_user
x86/fred: Let ret_from_fork_asm() jmp to asm_fred_exit_user when FRED is enabled
x86/traps: Add sysvec_install() to install a system interrupt handler
x86/fred: FRED entry/exit and dispatch code
x86/fred: Add a machine check entry stub for FRED
x86/fred: Add a NMI entry stub for FRED
x86/fred: Add a debug fault entry stub for FRED
x86/idtentry: Incorporate definitions/declarations of the FRED entries
x86/fred: Make exc_page_fault() work for FRED
x86/fred: Allow single-step trap and NMI when starting a new task
x86/fred: No ESPFIX needed when FRED is enabled
...
We are going to queue up a number of patches that depend
on fresh changes in x86/sev - merge in that branch to
reduce the number of conflicts going forward.
Also resolve a current conflict with x86/sev.
Conflicts:
arch/x86/include/asm/coco.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
A relocatable kernel will relocate itself to pref_address if it is
loaded below pref_address. This means a booted kernel may be relocating
itself to an area with reserved memory on modern systems, potentially
clobbering arbitrary data that may be important to the system.
This is often the case, as the default value of PHYSICAL_START is
0x1000000 and kernels are typically loaded at 0x100000 or above by
bootloaders like iPXE or kexec. GRUB behaves like the approach
implemented here.
Also fixes the documentation around pref_address and PHYSICAL_START to
be accurate.
[ dhansen: changelog tweak ]
Co-developed-by: Cloud Hsu <cloudhsu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Cloud Hsu <cloudhsu@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Koch <chrisko@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: H. Peter Anvin (Intel) <hpa@zytor.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231215190521.3796022-1-chrisko%40google.com
The VERW mitigation at exit-to-user is enabled via a static branch
mds_user_clear. This static branch is never toggled after boot, and can
be safely replaced with an ALTERNATIVE() which is convenient to use in
asm.
Switch to ALTERNATIVE() to use the VERW mitigation late in exit-to-user
path. Also remove the now redundant VERW in exc_nmi() and
arch_exit_to_user_mode().
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240213-delay-verw-v8-4-a6216d83edb7%40linux.intel.com
