Documents how to use the PR_PPC_GET_DEXCR and PR_PPC_SET_DEXCR prctl()'s
for changing a process's DEXCR or its process tree default value.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240417112325.728010-10-bgray@linux.ibm.com
The patch titled ("powerpc: make fadump resilient with memory add/remove
events") has made significant changes to the implementation of fadump,
particularly on elfcorehdr creation and fadump crash info header
structure. Therefore, updating the fadump implementation documentation
to reflect those changes.
Following updates are done to firmware assisted dump documentation:
1. The elfcorehdr is no longer stored after fadump HDR in the reserved
dump area. Instead, the second kernel dynamically allocates memory
for the elfcorehdr within the address range from 0 to the boot memory
size. Therefore, update figures 1 and 2 of Memory Reservation during
the first and second kernels to reflect this change.
2. A version field has been added to the fadump header to manage the
future changes to fadump crash info header structure without changing
the fadump header magic number in the future. Therefore, remove the
corresponding TODO from the document.
Signed-off-by: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://msgid.link/20240422195932.1583833-4-sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com
The kernel-feat directive passes its argument straight to the shell.
This is unfortunate and unnecessary.
Let's always use paths relative to $srctree/Documentation/ and use
subprocess.check_call() instead of subprocess.Popen(shell=True).
This also makes the code shorter.
This is analogous to commit 3231dd5862 ("docs: kernel_abi.py: fix
command injection") where we did exactly the same thing for
kernel_abi.py, somehow I completely missed this one.
Link: https://fosstodon.org/@jani/111676532203641247
Reported-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240110174758.3680506-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
- Add support for KVM running as a nested hypervisor under development versions
of PowerVM, using the new PAPR nested virtualisation API.
- Add support for the BPF prog pack allocator.
- A rework of the non-server MMU handling to support execute-only on all platforms.
- Some optimisations & cleanups for the powerpc qspinlock code.
- Various other small features and fixes.
Thanks to: Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Gupta, Amit Machhiwal, Benjamin Gray,
Christophe Leroy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Gaurav Batra, Gautam Menghani, Geert
Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Julia
Lawall, Kautuk Consul, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Michael Neuling, Minjie Du, Muhammad
Muzammil, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Nick Child, Nysal Jan K.A, Peter
Lafreniere, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shrikanth
Hegde, Srikar Dronamraju, Stanislav Kinsburskii, Vaibhav Jain, Wang Yufen, Yang
Yingliang, Yuan Tan.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Add support for KVM running as a nested hypervisor under development
versions of PowerVM, using the new PAPR nested virtualisation API
- Add support for the BPF prog pack allocator
- A rework of the non-server MMU handling to support execute-only on
all platforms
- Some optimisations & cleanups for the powerpc qspinlock code
- Various other small features and fixes
Thanks to Aboorva Devarajan, Aditya Gupta, Amit Machhiwal, Benjamin
Gray, Christophe Leroy, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, Gaurav Batra, Gautam
Menghani, Geert Uytterhoeven, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley,
Jordan Niethe, Julia Lawall, Kautuk Consul, Kuan-Wei Chiu, Michael
Neuling, Minjie Du, Muhammad Muzammil, Naveen N Rao, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Child, Nysal Jan K.A, Peter Lafreniere, Rob Herring, Sachin Sant,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior, Shrikanth Hegde, Srikar Dronamraju, Stanislav
Kinsburskii, Vaibhav Jain, Wang Yufen, Yang Yingliang, and Yuan Tan.
* tag 'powerpc-6.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (100 commits)
powerpc/vmcore: Add MMU information to vmcoreinfo
Revert "powerpc: add `cur_cpu_spec` symbol to vmcoreinfo"
powerpc/bpf: use bpf_jit_binary_pack_[alloc|finalize|free]
powerpc/bpf: rename powerpc64_jit_data to powerpc_jit_data
powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack
powerpc/bpf: implement bpf_arch_text_copy
powerpc/code-patching: introduce patch_instructions()
powerpc/32s: Implement local_flush_tlb_page_psize()
powerpc/pseries: use kfree_sensitive() in plpks_gen_password()
powerpc/code-patching: Perform hwsync in __patch_instruction() in case of failure
powerpc/fsl_msi: Use device_get_match_data()
powerpc: Remove cpm_dp...() macros
powerpc/qspinlock: Rename yield_propagate_owner tunable
powerpc/qspinlock: Propagate sleepy if previous waiter is preempted
powerpc/qspinlock: don't propagate the not-sleepy state
powerpc/qspinlock: propagate owner preemptedness rather than CPU number
powerpc/qspinlock: stop queued waiters trying to set lock sleepy
powerpc/perf: Fix disabling BHRB and instruction sampling
powerpc/trace: Add support for HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
powerpc/tools: Pass -mabi=elfv2 to gcc-check-mprofile-kernel.sh
...
and fix all in-tree references.
Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Costa Shulyupin <costa.shul@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230826165737.2101199-1-costa.shul@redhat.com
Benjamin Gray