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Thomas Gleixner 5c5682b9f8 x86/cpu: Detect real BSP on crash kernels
When a kdump kernel is started from a crashing CPU then there is no
guarantee that this CPU is the real boot CPU (BSP). If the kdump kernel
tries to online the BSP then the INIT sequence will reset the machine.

There is a command line option to prevent this, but in case of nested kdump
kernels this is wrong.

But that command line option is not required at all because the real
BSP is enumerated as the first CPU by firmware. Support for the only
known system which was different (Voyager) got removed long ago.

Detect whether the boot CPU APIC ID is the first APIC ID enumerated by
the firmware. If the first APIC ID enumerated is not matching the boot
CPU APIC ID then skip registering it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213210252.348542071@linutronix.de
2024-02-15 22:07:43 +01:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 5e0a760b44 mm, treewide: rename MAX_ORDER to MAX_PAGE_ORDER
commit 23baf831a3 ("mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely") has
changed the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive.  This has caused
issues with code that was not yet upstream and depended on the previous
definition.

To draw attention to the altered meaning of the define, rename MAX_ORDER
to MAX_PAGE_ORDER.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-01-08 15:27:15 -08:00
Kirill A. Shutemov fd37721803 mm, treewide: introduce NR_PAGE_ORDERS
NR_PAGE_ORDERS defines the number of page orders supported by the page
allocator, ranging from 0 to MAX_ORDER, MAX_ORDER + 1 in total.

NR_PAGE_ORDERS assists in defining arrays of page orders and allows for
more natural iteration over them.

[kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com: fixup for kerneldoc warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240101111512.7empzyifq7kxtzk3@box
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20231228144704.14033-1-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2024-01-08 15:27:15 -08:00
Ard Biesheuvel 944834901a Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
2023-09-11 08:13:18 +00:00
Linus Torvalds b96a3e9142 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in add_to_avail_list")
- Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP.  It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.
 
 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").
 
 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").
 
 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").
 
 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages.  These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support tracking
   KSM-placed zero-pages").
 
 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").
 
 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").
 
 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with UFFD").
 
 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").
 
 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").
 
 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").
 
 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").
 
 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").
 
 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap").  And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").
 
 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").
 
 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the GENERIC_IOREMAP
   ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert architectures to take
   GENERIC_IOREMAP way").
 
 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").
 
 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep").  Liam also developed some efficiency improvements
   ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").
 
 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation, from
   Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").
 
 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").
 
 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code ("Two
   minor cleanups for compaction").
 
 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle most
   file-backed faults under the VMA lock").
 
 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").
 
 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").
 
 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").
 
 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").
 
 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").
 
 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").
 
 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").
 
 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").
 
 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").
 
 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for memmap
   on memory feature on ppc64").
 
 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock migratetype").
 
 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").
 
 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").
 
 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").
 
 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").
 
 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").
 
 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").
 
 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").
 
 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table range
   API").
 
 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").
 
 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").
 
 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM subsystem
   documentation ("Improve mm documentation").
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - Some swap cleanups from Ma Wupeng ("fix WARN_ON in
   add_to_avail_list")

 - Peter Xu has a series (mm/gup: Unify hugetlb, speed up thp") which
   reduces the special-case code for handling hugetlb pages in GUP. It
   also speeds up GUP handling of transparent hugepages.

 - Peng Zhang provides some maple tree speedups ("Optimize the fast path
   of mas_store()").

 - Sergey Senozhatsky has improved te performance of zsmalloc during
   compaction (zsmalloc: small compaction improvements").

 - Domenico Cerasuolo has developed additional selftest code for zswap
   ("selftests: cgroup: add zswap test program").

 - xu xin has doe some work on KSM's handling of zero pages. These
   changes are mainly to enable the user to better understand the
   effectiveness of KSM's treatment of zero pages ("ksm: support
   tracking KSM-placed zero-pages").

 - Jeff Xu has fixes the behaviour of memfd's
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED sysctl ("mm/memfd: fix sysctl
   MEMFD_NOEXEC_SCOPE_NOEXEC_ENFORCED").

 - David Howells has fixed an fscache optimization ("mm, netfs, fscache:
   Stop read optimisation when folio removed from pagecache").

 - Axel Rasmussen has given userfaultfd the ability to simulate memory
   poisoning ("add UFFDIO_POISON to simulate memory poisoning with
   UFFD").

 - Miaohe Lin has contributed some routine maintenance work on the
   memory-failure code ("mm: memory-failure: remove unneeded PageHuge()
   check").

 - Peng Zhang has contributed some maintenance work on the maple tree
   code ("Improve the validation for maple tree and some cleanup").

 - Hugh Dickins has optimized the collapsing of shmem or file pages into
   THPs ("mm: free retracted page table by RCU").

 - Jiaqi Yan has a patch series which permits us to use the healthy
   subpages within a hardware poisoned huge page for general purposes
   ("Improve hugetlbfs read on HWPOISON hugepages").

 - Kemeng Shi has done some maintenance work on the pagetable-check code
   ("Remove unused parameters in page_table_check").

 - More folioification work from Matthew Wilcox ("More filesystem folio
   conversions for 6.6"), ("Followup folio conversions for zswap"). And
   from ZhangPeng ("Convert several functions in page_io.c to use a
   folio").

 - page_ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("minor cleanups for page_ext").

 - Baoquan He has converted some architectures to use the
   GENERIC_IOREMAP ioremap()/iounmap() code ("mm: ioremap: Convert
   architectures to take GENERIC_IOREMAP way").

 - Anshuman Khandual has optimized arm64 tlb shootdown ("arm64: support
   batched/deferred tlb shootdown during page reclamation/migration").

 - Better maple tree lockdep checking from Liam Howlett ("More strict
   maple tree lockdep"). Liam also developed some efficiency
   improvements ("Reduce preallocations for maple tree").

 - Cleanup and optimization to the secondary IOMMU TLB invalidation,
   from Alistair Popple ("Invalidate secondary IOMMU TLB on permission
   upgrade").

 - Ryan Roberts fixes some arm64 MM selftest issues ("selftests/mm fixes
   for arm64").

 - Kemeng Shi provides some maintenance work on the compaction code
   ("Two minor cleanups for compaction").

 - Some reduction in mmap_lock pressure from Matthew Wilcox ("Handle
   most file-backed faults under the VMA lock").

 - Aneesh Kumar contributes code to use the vmemmap optimization for DAX
   on ppc64, under some circumstances ("Add support for DAX vmemmap
   optimization for ppc64").

 - page-ext cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("add page_ext_data to get client
   data in page_ext"), ("minor cleanups to page_ext header").

 - Some zswap cleanups from Johannes Weiner ("mm: zswap: three
   cleanups").

 - kmsan cleanups from ZhangPeng ("minor cleanups for kmsan").

 - VMA handling cleanups from Kefeng Wang ("mm: convert to
   vma_is_initial_heap/stack()").

 - DAMON feature work from SeongJae Park ("mm/damon/sysfs-schemes:
   implement DAMOS tried total bytes file"), ("Extend DAMOS filters for
   address ranges and DAMON monitoring targets").

 - Compaction work from Kemeng Shi ("Fixes and cleanups to compaction").

 - Liam Howlett has improved the maple tree node replacement code
   ("maple_tree: Change replacement strategy").

 - ZhangPeng has a general code cleanup - use the K() macro more widely
   ("cleanup with helper macro K()").

 - Aneesh Kumar brings memmap-on-memory to ppc64 ("Add support for
   memmap on memory feature on ppc64").

 - pagealloc cleanups from Kemeng Shi ("Two minor cleanups for pcp list
   in page_alloc"), ("Two minor cleanups for get pageblock
   migratetype").

 - Vishal Moola introduces a memory descriptor for page table tracking,
   "struct ptdesc" ("Split ptdesc from struct page").

 - memfd selftest maintenance work from Aleksa Sarai ("memfd: cleanups
   for vm.memfd_noexec").

 - MM include file rationalization from Hugh Dickins ("arch: include
   asm/cacheflush.h in asm/hugetlb.h").

 - THP debug output fixes from Hugh Dickins ("mm,thp: fix sloppy text
   output").

 - kmemleak improvements from Xiaolei Wang ("mm/kmemleak: use
   object_cache instead of kmemleak_initialized").

 - More folio-related cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("Remove _folio_dtor
   and _folio_order").

 - A VMA locking scalability improvement from Suren Baghdasaryan
   ("Per-VMA lock support for swap and userfaults").

 - pagetable handling cleanups from Matthew Wilcox ("New page table
   range API").

 - A batch of swap/thp cleanups from David Hildenbrand ("mm/swap: stop
   using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP + cleanups").

 - Cleanups and speedups to the hugetlb fault handling from Matthew
   Wilcox ("Change calling convention for ->huge_fault").

 - Matthew Wilcox has also done some maintenance work on the MM
   subsystem documentation ("Improve mm documentation").

* tag 'mm-stable-2023-08-28-18-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (489 commits)
  maple_tree: shrink struct maple_tree
  maple_tree: clean up mas_wr_append()
  secretmem: convert page_is_secretmem() to folio_is_secretmem()
  nios2: fix flush_dcache_page() for usage from irq context
  hugetlb: add documentation for vma_kernel_pagesize()
  mm: add orphaned kernel-doc to the rst files.
  mm: fix clean_record_shared_mapping_range kernel-doc
  mm: fix get_mctgt_type() kernel-doc
  mm: fix kernel-doc warning from tlb_flush_rmaps()
  mm: remove enum page_entry_size
  mm: allow ->huge_fault() to be called without the mmap_lock held
  mm: move PMD_ORDER to pgtable.h
  mm: remove checks for pte_index
  memcg: remove duplication detection for mem_cgroup_uncharge_swap
  mm/huge_memory: work on folio->swap instead of page->private when splitting folio
  mm/swap: inline folio_set_swap_entry() and folio_swap_entry()
  mm/swap: use dedicated entry for swap in folio
  mm/swap: stop using page->private on tail pages for THP_SWAP
  selftests/mm: fix WARNING comparing pointer to 0
  selftests: cgroup: fix test_kmem_memcg_deletion kernel mem check
  ...
2023-08-29 14:25:26 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) de53c05f2a mm: add large_rmappable page flag
Stored in the first tail page's flags, this flag replaces the destructor. 
That removes the last of the destructors, so remove all references to
folio_dtor and compound_dtor.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816151201.3655946-9-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21 14:28:44 -07:00
Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) 9c5ccf2db0 mm: remove HUGETLB_PAGE_DTOR
We can use a bit in page[1].flags to indicate that this folio belongs to
hugetlb instead of using a value in page[1].dtors.  That lets
folio_test_hugetlb() become an inline function like it should be.  We can
also get rid of NULL_COMPOUND_DTOR.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230816151201.3655946-8-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Sidhartha Kumar <sidhartha.kumar@oracle.com>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-08-21 14:28:44 -07:00
Song Shuai 640c503d7d
Documentation: kdump: Add va_kernel_pa_offset for RISCV64
RISC-V Linux exports "va_kernel_pa_offset" in vmcoreinfo to help
Crash-utility translate the kernel virtual address correctly.

Here adds the definition of "va_kernel_pa_offset".

Fixes: 3335068f87 ("riscv: Use PUD/P4D/PGD pages for the linear mapping")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-riscv/20230724040649.220279-1-suagrfillet@gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Song Shuai <suagrfillet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230724100917.309061-2-suagrfillet@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2023-08-02 13:50:37 -07:00
Kirill A. Shutemov 23baf831a3 mm, treewide: redefine MAX_ORDER sanely
MAX_ORDER currently defined as number of orders page allocator supports:
user can ask buddy allocator for page order between 0 and MAX_ORDER-1.

This definition is counter-intuitive and lead to number of bugs all over
the kernel.

Change the definition of MAX_ORDER to be inclusive: the range of orders
user can ask from buddy allocator is 0..MAX_ORDER now.

[kirill@shutemov.name: fix min() warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315153800.32wib3n5rickolvh@box
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix another min_t warning]
[kirill@shutemov.name: fixups per Zi Yan]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230316232144.b7ic4cif4kjiabws@box.shutemov.name
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix underlining in docs]
  Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191025.VRCTk6mP-lkp@intel.com/
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230315113133.11326-11-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>	[powerpc]
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2023-04-05 19:42:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d876315445 printk changes for 6.3
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Merge tag 'printk-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Refactor printk code for formatting messages that are shown on
   consoles. This is a preparatory step for introducing atomic consoles
   which could not share the global buffers

 - Prevent memory leak when removing printk index in debugfs

 - Dump also the newest printk message by the sample gdbmacro

 - Fix a compiler warning

* tag 'printk-for-6.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux:
  printf: fix errname.c list
  kernel/printk/index.c: fix memory leak with using debugfs_lookup()
  printk: Use scnprintf() to print the message about the dropped messages on a console
  printk: adjust string limit macros
  printk: use printk_buffers for devkmsg
  printk: introduce console_prepend_dropped() for dropped messages
  printk: introduce printk_get_next_message() and printk_message
  printk: introduce struct printk_buffers
  console: Document struct console
  console: Use BIT() macros for @flags values
  printk: move size limit macros into internal.h
  docs: gdbmacros: print newest record
2023-02-23 13:49:45 -08:00
John Ogness f2e4cca2f6 docs: gdbmacros: print newest record
@head_id points to the newest record, but the printing loop
exits when it increments to this value (before printing).

Exit the printing loop after the newest record has been printed.

The python-based function in scripts/gdb/linux/dmesg.py already
does this correctly.

Fixes: e60768311a ("scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221229134339.197627-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2023-01-03 10:44:14 +01:00
Xianting Tian c5b4216929
Documentation: kdump: describe VMCOREINFO export for RISCV64
The following interrelated definitions and ranges are needed by the
kdump crash tool, which are exported by
"arch/riscv/kernel/crash_core.c":

    VA_BITS,
    PAGE_OFFSET,
    phys_ram_base,
    KERNEL_LINK_ADDR,
    MODULES_VADDR ~ MODULES_END,
    VMALLOC_START ~ VMALLOC_END,
    VMEMMAP_START ~ VMEMMAP_END,

Document these RISCV64 exports above.

Reviewed-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xianting Tian <xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221026144208.373504-3-xianting.tian@linux.alibaba.com
[Palmer: wrap commit text]
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
2022-12-02 16:48:58 -08:00
Akhil Raj d2bef8e103 Remove duplicate words inside documentation
I have removed repeated `the` inside the documentation

Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827145359.32599-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
Linus Torvalds 52deda9551 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "Various misc subsystems, before getting into the post-linux-next
  material.

  41 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: procfs, misc, core-kernel,
  lib, checkpatch, init, pipe, minix, fat, cgroups, kexec, kdump,
  taskstats, panic, kcov, resource, and ubsan"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (41 commits)
  Revert "ubsan, kcsan: Don't combine sanitizer with kcov on clang"
  kernel/resource: fix kfree() of bootmem memory again
  kcov: properly handle subsequent mmap calls
  kcov: split ioctl handling into locked and unlocked parts
  panic: move panic_print before kmsg dumpers
  panic: add option to dump all CPUs backtraces in panic_print
  docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print
  taskstats: remove unneeded dead assignment
  kasan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in end_report()
  ubsan: no need to unset panic_on_warn in ubsan_epilogue()
  panic: unset panic_on_warn inside panic()
  docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file
  docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support
  arm64: mm: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
  x86/setup: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
  riscv: mm: init: use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE) instead of #ifdef
  kexec: make crashk_res, crashk_low_res and crash_notes symbols always visible
  cgroup: use irqsave in cgroup_rstat_flush_locked().
  fat: use pointer to simple type in put_user()
  minix: fix bug when opening a file with O_DIRECT
  ...
2022-03-24 14:14:07 -07:00
Tiezhu Yang ae6694c1aa docs: kdump: add scp example to write out the dump file
Except cp and makedumpfile, add scp example to write out the dump file.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23 19:00:34 -07:00
Tiezhu Yang b2377d4b94 docs: kdump: update description about sysfs file system support
Patch series "Update doc and fix some issues about kdump", v2.

This patch (of 5):

After commit 6a108a14fa ("kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to
CONFIG_EXPERT"), "Configure standard kernel features (for small
systems)" is not exist, we should use "Configure standard kernel
features (expert users)" now.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1644324666-15947-2-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2022-03-23 19:00:34 -07:00
Will Deacon 3c3dd2c81a Documentation: vmcoreinfo: Fix htmldocs warning
Since commit 2369f171d5 ("arm64: crash_core: Export MODULES, VMALLOC,
and VMEMMAP ranges"), Stephen reports a warning when building htmldocs:

  | Documentation/admin-guide/kdump/vmcoreinfo.rst:498: WARNING: Title underline too short.

Extend the underline to squash the warning.

Fixes: 2369f171d5 ("arm64: crash_core: Export MODULES, VMALLOC, and VMEMMAP ranges")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2022-03-09 12:16:33 +00:00
Huang Shijie 2369f171d5 arm64: crash_core: Export MODULES, VMALLOC, and VMEMMAP ranges
The following interrelated ranges are needed by the kdump crash tool:
	MODULES_VADDR ~ MODULES_END,
	VMALLOC_START ~ VMALLOC_END,
	VMEMMAP_START ~ VMEMMAP_END

Since these values change from time to time, it is preferable to export
them via vmcoreinfo than to change the crash's code frequently.

Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <shijie@os.amperecomputing.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220209092642.9181-1-shijie@os.amperecomputing.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2022-03-07 21:25:47 +00:00
Baoquan He b1f4c36366 Documentation: kdump: update kdump guide
Some parts of the guide are aged, hence need be updated.

1) The backup area of the 1st 640K on X86_64 has been removed
   by below commits, update the description accordingly.

   commit 7c321eb2b8 ("x86/kdump: Remove the backup region handling")
   commit 6f599d8423 ("x86/kdump: Always reserve the low 1M when the crashkernel option is specified")

2) Sort out the descripiton of "crashkernel syntax" part.

3) And some other minor cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210609083218.GB591017@MiWiFi-R3L-srv
[jc: added blank line to fix added build warning]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-06-14 08:12:01 -06:00
Alexander Egorenkov ca4a9241cc kdump: append uts_namespace.name offset to VMCOREINFO
The offset of the field 'init_uts_ns.name' has changed since commit
9a56493f69 ("uts: Use generic ns_common::count").

Make the offset of the field 'uts_namespace.name' available in VMCOREINFO
because tools like 'crash-utility' and 'makedumpfile' must be able to read
it from crash dumps.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/159644978167.604812.1773586504374412107.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200930102328.396488-1-egorenar@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Alexander Egorenkov <egorenar@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: lijiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-12-15 22:46:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds d594d8f411 printk changes for 5.10
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Merge tag 'printk-for-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
 "The big new thing is the fully lockless ringbuffer implementation,
  including the support for continuous lines. It will allow to store and
  read messages in any situation wihtout the risk of deadlocks and
  without the need of temporary per-CPU buffers.

  The access is still serialized by logbuf_lock. It synchronizes few
  more operations, for example, temporary buffer for formatting the
  message, syslog and kmsg_dump operations. The lock removal is being
  discussed and should be ready for the next release.

  The continuous lines are handled exactly the same way as before to
  avoid regressions in user space. It means that they are appended to
  the last message when the caller is the same. Only the last message
  can be extended.

  The data ring includes plain text of the messages. Except for an
  integer at the beginning of each message that points back to the
  descriptor ring with other metadata.

  The dictionary has to stay. journalctl uses it to filter the log. It
  allows to show messages related to a given device. The dictionary
  values are stored in the descriptor ring with the other metadata.

  This is the first part of the printk rework as discussed at Plumbers
  2019, see https://lore.kernel.org/r/87k1acz5rx.fsf@linutronix.de. The
  next big step will be handling consoles by kthreads during the normal
  system operation. It will require special handling of situations when
  the kthreads could not get scheduled, for example, early boot,
  suspend, panic.

  Other changes:

   - Add John Ogness as a reviewer for printk subsystem. He is author of
     the rework and is familiar with the code and history.

   - Fix locking in serial8250_do_startup() to prevent lockdep report.

   - Few code cleanups"

* tag 'printk-for-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: (27 commits)
  printk: Use fallthrough pseudo-keyword
  printk: reduce setup_text_buf size to LOG_LINE_MAX
  printk: avoid and/or handle record truncation
  printk: remove dict ring
  printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_info
  printk: move printk_info into separate array
  printk: reimplement log_cont using record extension
  printk: ringbuffer: add finalization/extension support
  printk: ringbuffer: change representation of states
  printk: ringbuffer: clear initial reserved fields
  printk: ringbuffer: add BLK_DATALESS() macro
  printk: ringbuffer: relocate get_data()
  printk: ringbuffer: avoid memcpy() on state_var
  printk: ringbuffer: fix setting state in desc_read()
  kernel.h: Move oops_in_progress to printk.h
  scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer
  scripts/gdb: add utils.read_ulong()
  docs: vmcoreinfo: add lockless printk ringbuffer vmcoreinfo
  printk: reduce LOG_BUF_SHIFT range for H8300
  printk: ringbuffer: support dataless records
  ...
2020-10-13 15:58:10 -07:00
Petr Mladek 70333f4ff9 Merge branch 'printk-rework' into for-linus 2020-10-12 13:01:37 +02:00
lijiang 1d11c35e71 docs: admin-guide: update kdump documentation due to change of crash URL
Since crash utility has been moved to github, the original URL is no
longer available. Let's update it accordingly.

Suggested-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Lianbo Jiang <lijiang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/a088bff5-1174-25fa-ac26-6e46795f4085@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-09-24 10:43:07 -06:00
John Ogness 74caba7f2a printk: move dictionary keys to dev_printk_info
Dictionaries are only used for SUBSYSTEM and DEVICE properties. The
current implementation stores the property names each time they are
used. This requires more space than otherwise necessary. Also,
because the dictionary entries are currently considered optional,
it cannot be relied upon that they are always available, even if the
writer wanted to store them. These issues will increase should new
dictionary properties be introduced.

Rather than storing the subsystem and device properties in the
dict ring, introduce a struct dev_printk_info with separate fields
to store only the property values. Embed this struct within the
struct printk_info to provide guaranteed availability.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87mu1jl6ne.fsf@jogness.linutronix.de
2020-09-22 11:27:48 +02:00
John Ogness 4cfc7258f8 printk: ringbuffer: add finalization/extension support
Add support for extending the newest data block. For this, introduce
a new finalization state (desc_finalized) denoting a committed
descriptor that cannot be extended.

Until a record is finalized, a writer can reopen that record to
append new data. Reopening a record means transitioning from the
desc_committed state back to the desc_reserved state.

A writer can explicitly finalize a record if there is no intention
of extending it. Also, records are automatically finalized when a
new record is reserved. This relieves writers of needing to
explicitly finalize while also making such records available to
readers sooner. (Readers can only traverse finalized records.)

Four new memory barrier pairs are introduced. Two of them are
insignificant additions (data_realloc:A/desc_read:D and
data_realloc:A/data_push_tail:B) because they are alternate path
memory barriers that exactly match the purpose, pairing, and
context of the two existing memory barrier pairs they provide an
alternate path for. The other two new memory barrier pairs are
significant additions:

desc_reopen_last:A / _prb_commit:B - When reopening a descriptor,
    ensure the state transitions back to desc_reserved before
    fully trusting the descriptor data.

_prb_commit:B / desc_reserve:D - When committing a descriptor,
    ensure the state transitions to desc_committed before checking
    the head ID to see if the descriptor needs to be finalized.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-6-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-15 16:35:27 +02:00
John Ogness 10dcb06d40 printk: ringbuffer: change representation of states
Rather than deriving the state by evaluating bits within the flags
area of the state variable, assign the states explicit values and
set those values in the flags area. Introduce macros to make it
simple to read and write state values for the state variable.

Although the functionality is preserved, the binary representation
for the states is changed.

Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200914123354.832-5-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-15 15:52:49 +02:00
John Ogness e60768311a scripts/gdb: update for lockless printk ringbuffer
With the introduction of the lockless printk ringbuffer, the data
structure for the kernel log buffer was changed. Update the gdb
scripts to be able to parse/print the new log buffer structure.

Fixes: 896fbe20b4 ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer")
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: A typo fix.]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814212525.6118-3-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-08 09:33:15 +02:00
John Ogness f8ff195ef1 docs: vmcoreinfo: add lockless printk ringbuffer vmcoreinfo
With the introduction of the lockless printk ringbuffer, the
VMCOREINFO relating to the kernel log buffer was changed. Update the
documentation to match those changes.

Fixes: 896fbe20b4 ("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer")
Reported-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200814213316.6394-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2020-09-08 09:33:15 +02:00
Bhupesh Sharma bbdbc11804 arm64/crash_core: Export TCR_EL1.T1SZ in vmcoreinfo
TCR_EL1.TxSZ, which controls the VA space size, is configured by a
single kernel image to support either 48-bit or 52-bit VA space.

If the ARMv8.2-LVA optional feature is present and we are running
with a 64KB page size, then it is possible to use 52-bits of address
space for both userspace and kernel addresses. However, any kernel
binary that supports 52-bit must also be able to fall back to 48-bit
at early boot time if the hardware feature is not present.

Since TCR_EL1.T1SZ indicates the size of the memory region addressed by
TTBR1_EL1, export the same in vmcoreinfo. User-space utilities like
makedumpfile and crash-utility need to read this value from vmcoreinfo
for determining if a virtual address lies in the linear map range.

While at it also add documentation for TCR_EL1.T1SZ variable being
added to vmcoreinfo.

It indicates the size offset of the memory region addressed by
TTBR1_EL1.

Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Kamlakant Patel <kamlakantp@marvell.com>
Tested-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589395957-24628-3-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com
[catalin.marinas@arm.com: removed vabits_actual from the commit log]
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-07-02 17:56:49 +01:00
Bhupesh Sharma 1d50e5d0c5 crash_core, vmcoreinfo: Append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo
Right now user-space tools like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' need to rely
on a best-guess method of determining value of 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS'
supported by underlying kernel.

This value is used in user-space code to calculate the bit-space
required to store a section for SPARESMEM (similar to the existing
calculation method used in the kernel implementation):

  #define SECTIONS_SHIFT    (MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS - SECTION_SIZE_BITS)

Now, regressions have been reported in user-space utilities
like 'makedumpfile' and 'crash' on arm64, with the recently added
kernel support for 52-bit physical address space, as there is
no clear method of determining this value in user-space
(other than reading kernel CONFIG flags).

As per suggestion from makedumpfile maintainer (Kazu), it makes more
sense to append 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' to vmcoreinfo in the core code itself
rather than in arch-specific code, so that the user-space code for other
archs can also benefit from this addition to the vmcoreinfo and use it
as a standard way of determining 'SECTIONS_SHIFT' value in user-land.

A reference 'makedumpfile' implementation which reads the
'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' value from vmcoreinfo in a arch-independent fashion
is available here:

While at it also update vmcoreinfo documentation for 'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS'
variable being added to vmcoreinfo.

'MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS' defines the maximum supported physical address
space memory.

Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma@redhat.com>
Tested-by: John Donnelly <john.p.donnelly@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Boris Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Anderson <anderson@redhat.com>
Cc: Kazuhito Hagio <k-hagio@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589395957-24628-2-git-send-email-bhsharma@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2020-07-02 17:56:11 +01:00
Rafael Aquini db38d5c106 kernel: add panic_on_taint
Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces
a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and
generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets
tainted by any given flag.

This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the
kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that
introduce the taint flags of interest.

For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem
analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e.
unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected
by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the
command line.

Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means
for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no
single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system.  The
optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as
it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface
/proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording]

Suggested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515175502.146720-1-aquini@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-06-08 11:05:56 -07:00
Amit Daniel Kachhap c0fc00ec63 Documentation/vmcoreinfo: Add documentation for 'KERNELPACMASK'
Add documentation for KERNELPACMASK variable being added to the vmcoreinfo.

It indicates the PAC bits mask information of signed kernel pointers if
Armv8.3-A Pointer Authentication feature is present.

Signed-off-by: Amit Daniel Kachhap <amit.kachhap@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1589202116-18265-2-git-send-email-amit.kachhap@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2020-05-11 14:29:10 +01:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 330d481052 docs: admin-guide: add kdump documentation into it
The Kdump documentation describes procedures with admins use
in order to solve issues on their systems.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
2019-07-15 11:03:01 -03:00