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Commit 13bac55ef7ae ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
added numaperf.rst, but did not add it to the TOC tree. There was also an
incorrectly marked literal block leading to this warning sequence:
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
numaperf.rst:24: WARNING: Inline substitution_reference start-string without end-string.
numaperf.rst:25: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Fix the block and add the file to the document tree.
Fixes: 13bac55ef7ae ("doc/mm: New documentation for memory performance")
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Currently on panic, kernel will lower the loglevel and print out pending
printk msg only with console_flush_on_panic().
Add an option for users to configure the "panic_print" to replay all
dmesg in buffer, some of which they may have never seen due to the
loglevel setting, which will help panic debugging .
[feng.tang@intel.com: keep the original console_flush_on_panic() inside panic()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556199137-14163-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
[feng.tang@intel.com: use logbuf lock to protect the console log index]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556269868-22654-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1556095872-36838-1-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
- some minor cleanups
- two small corrections for Xen on ARM
- two fixes for Xen PVH guest support
- a patch for a new command line option to tune virtual timer handling
* tag 'for-linus-5.2b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/arm: Use p2m entry with lock protection
xen/arm: Free p2m entry if fail to add it to RB tree
xen/pvh: correctly setup the PV EFI interface for dom0
xen/pvh: set xen_domain_type to HVM in xen_pvh_init
xenbus: drop useless LIST_HEAD in xenbus_write_watch() and xenbus_file_write()
xen-netfront: mark expected switch fall-through
xen: xen-pciback: fix warning Using plain integer as NULL pointer
x86/xen: Add "xen_timer_slop" command line option
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The maximum number of unique System V IPC identifiers was limited to
32k. That limit should be big enough for most use cases.
However, there are some users out there requesting for more, especially
those that are migrating from Solaris which uses 24 bits for unique
identifiers. To satisfy the need of those users, a new boot time kernel
option "ipcmni_extend" is added to extend the IPCMNI value to 16M. This
is a 512X increase which should be big enough for users out there that
need a large number of unique IPC identifier.
The use of this new option will change the pattern of the IPC
identifiers returned by functions like shmget(2). An application that
depends on such pattern may not work properly. So it should only be
used if the users really need more than 32k of unique IPC numbers.
This new option does have the side effect of reducing the maximum number
of unique sequence numbers from 64k down to 128. So it is a trade-off.
The computation of a new IPC id is not done in the performance critical
path. So a little bit of additional overhead shouldn't have any real
performance impact.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190329204930.21620-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W . Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Allow specifying reboot_mode for panic only. This is needed on systems
where ramoops is used to store panic logs, and user wants to use warm
reset to preserve those, while still having cold reset on normal
reboots.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190322004735.27702-1-aaro.koskinen@iki.fi
Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@nokia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm: Randomize free memory", v10.
This patch (of 3):
Randomization of the page allocator improves the average utilization of
a direct-mapped memory-side-cache. Memory side caching is a platform
capability that Linux has been previously exposed to in HPC
(high-performance computing) environments on specialty platforms. In
that instance it was a smaller pool of high-bandwidth-memory relative to
higher-capacity / lower-bandwidth DRAM. Now, this capability is going
to be found on general purpose server platforms where DRAM is a cache in
front of higher latency persistent memory [1].
Robert offered an explanation of the state of the art of Linux
interactions with memory-side-caches [2], and I copy it here:
It's been a problem in the HPC space:
http://www.nersc.gov/research-and-development/knl-cache-mode-performance-coe/
A kernel module called zonesort is available to try to help:
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/xeon-phi-software
and this abandoned patch series proposed that for the kernel:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170823100205.17311-1-lukasz.daniluk@intel.com
Dan's patch series doesn't attempt to ensure buffers won't conflict, but
also reduces the chance that the buffers will. This will make performance
more consistent, albeit slower than "optimal" (which is near impossible
to attain in a general-purpose kernel). That's better than forcing
users to deploy remedies like:
"To eliminate this gradual degradation, we have added a Stream
measurement to the Node Health Check that follows each job;
nodes are rebooted whenever their measured memory bandwidth
falls below 300 GB/s."
A replacement for zonesort was merged upstream in commit cc9aec03e58f
("x86/numa_emulation: Introduce uniform split capability"). With this
numa_emulation capability, memory can be split into cache sized
("near-memory" sized) numa nodes. A bind operation to such a node, and
disabling workloads on other nodes, enables full cache performance.
However, once the workload exceeds the cache size then cache conflicts
are unavoidable. While HPC environments might be able to tolerate
time-scheduling of cache sized workloads, for general purpose server
platforms, the oversubscribed cache case will be the common case.
The worst case scenario is that a server system owner benchmarks a
workload at boot with an un-contended cache only to see that performance
degrade over time, even below the average cache performance due to
excessive conflicts. Randomization clips the peaks and fills in the
valleys of cache utilization to yield steady average performance.
Here are some performance impact details of the patches:
1/ An Intel internal synthetic memory bandwidth measurement tool, saw a
3X speedup in a contrived case that tries to force cache conflicts.
The contrived cased used the numa_emulation capability to force an
instance of the benchmark to be run in two of the near-memory sized
numa nodes. If both instances were placed on the same emulated they
would fit and cause zero conflicts. While on separate emulated nodes
without randomization they underutilized the cache and conflicted
unnecessarily due to the in-order allocation per node.
2/ A well known Java server application benchmark was run with a heap
size that exceeded cache size by 3X. The cache conflict rate was 8%
for the first run and degraded to 21% after page allocator aging. With
randomization enabled the rate levelled out at 11%.
3/ A MongoDB workload did not observe measurable difference in
cache-conflict rates, but the overall throughput dropped by 7% with
randomization in one case.
4/ Mel Gorman ran his suite of performance workloads with randomization
enabled on platforms without a memory-side-cache and saw a mix of some
improvements and some losses [3].
While there is potentially significant improvement for applications that
depend on low latency access across a wide working-set, the performance
may be negligible to negative for other workloads. For this reason the
shuffle capability defaults to off unless a direct-mapped
memory-side-cache is detected. Even then, the page_alloc.shuffle=0
parameter can be specified to disable the randomization on those systems.
Outside of memory-side-cache utilization concerns there is potentially
security benefit from randomization. Some data exfiltration and
return-oriented-programming attacks rely on the ability to infer the
location of sensitive data objects. The kernel page allocator, especially
early in system boot, has predictable first-in-first out behavior for
physical pages. Pages are freed in physical address order when first
onlined.
Quoting Kees:
"While we already have a base-address randomization
(CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY), attacks against the same hardware and
memory layouts would certainly be using the predictability of
allocation ordering (i.e. for attacks where the base address isn't
important: only the relative positions between allocated memory).
This is common in lots of heap-style attacks. They try to gain
control over ordering by spraying allocations, etc.
I'd really like to see this because it gives us something similar
to CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM but for the page allocator."
While SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM reduces the predictability of some local slab
caches it leaves vast bulk of memory to be predictably in order allocated.
However, it should be noted, the concrete security benefits are hard to
quantify, and no known CVE is mitigated by this randomization.
Introduce shuffle_free_memory(), and its helper shuffle_zone(), to perform
a Fisher-Yates shuffle of the page allocator 'free_area' lists when they
are initially populated with free memory at boot and at hotplug time. Do
this based on either the presence of a page_alloc.shuffle=Y command line
parameter, or autodetection of a memory-side-cache (to be added in a
follow-on patch).
The shuffling is done in terms of CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER sized free
pages where the default CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ORDER is MAX_ORDER-1 i.e. 10,
4MB this trades off randomization granularity for time spent shuffling.
MAX_ORDER-1 was chosen to be minimally invasive to the page allocator
while still showing memory-side cache behavior improvements, and the
expectation that the security implications of finer granularity
randomization is mitigated by CONFIG_SLAB_FREELIST_RANDOM. The
performance impact of the shuffling appears to be in the noise compared to
other memory initialization work.
This initial randomization can be undone over time so a follow-on patch is
introduced to inject entropy on page free decisions. It is reasonable to
ask if the page free entropy is sufficient, but it is not enough due to
the in-order initial freeing of pages. At the start of that process
putting page1 in front or behind page0 still keeps them close together,
page2 is still near page1 and has a high chance of being adjacent. As
more pages are added ordering diversity improves, but there is still high
page locality for the low address pages and this leads to no significant
impact to the cache conflict rate.
[1]: https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/intel-optane-dc-persistent-memory-operating-modes/
[2]: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/AT5PR8401MB1169D656C8B5E121752FC0F8AB120@AT5PR8401MB1169.NAMPRD84.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM
[3]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/12/309
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: fix shuffle enable]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154943713038.3858443.4125180191382062871.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
[cai@lca.pw: fix SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR help texts]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190425201300.75650-1-cai@lca.pw
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154899811738.3165233.12325692939590944259.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
"Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
has the following CVEs assigned:
CVE-2018-12126 MSBDS Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12130 MFBDS Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12127 MLPDS Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
CVE-2019-11091 MDSUM Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory
MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
this data via cache side channels.
Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
successfully.
The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
default to avoid breaking unattended updates.
The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
deeper technical view"
* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
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ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Slightly delayed due to the issue with printk() calling
probe_kernel_read() interacting with our new user access prevention
stuff, but all fixed now.
The only out-of-area changes are the addition of a cpuhp_state, small
additions to Documentation and MAINTAINERS updates.
Highlights:
- Support for Kernel Userspace Access/Execution Prevention (like
SMAP/SMEP/PAN/PXN) on some 64-bit and 32-bit CPUs. This prevents
the kernel from accidentally accessing userspace outside
copy_to/from_user(), or ever executing userspace.
- KASAN support on 32-bit.
- Rework of where we map the kernel, vmalloc, etc. on 64-bit hash to
use the same address ranges we use with the Radix MMU.
- A rewrite into C of large parts of our idle handling code for
64-bit Book3S (ie. power8 & power9).
- A fast path entry for syscalls on 32-bit CPUs, for a 12-17% speedup
in the null_syscall benchmark.
- On 64-bit bare metal we have support for recovering from errors
with the time base (our clocksource), however if that fails
currently we hang in __delay() and never crash. We now have support
for detecting that case and short circuiting __delay() so we at
least panic() and reboot.
- Add support for optionally enabling the DAWR on Power9, which had
to be disabled by default due to a hardware erratum. This has the
effect of enabling hardware breakpoints for GDB, the downside is a
badly behaved program could crash the machine by pointing the DAWR
at cache inhibited memory. This is opt-in obviously.
- xmon, our crash handler, gets support for a read only mode where
operations that could change memory or otherwise disturb the system
are disabled.
Plus many clean-ups, reworks and minor fixes etc.
Thanks to: Christophe Leroy, Akshay Adiga, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey
Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anju T Sudhakar,
Anton Blanchard, Ben Hutchings, Bo YU, Breno Leitao, Cédric Le Goater,
Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Colin Ian King, David Gibson,
Ganesh Goudar, Gautham R. Shenoy, George Spelvin, Greg Kroah-Hartman,
Greg Kurz, Horia Geantă, Jagadeesh Pagadala, Joel Stanley, Joe
Perches, Julia Lawall, Laurentiu Tudor, Laurent Vivier, Lukas Bulwahn,
Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
Neuling, Mukesh Ojha, Nathan Fontenot, Nathan Lynch, Nicholas Piggin,
Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Peng Hao, Qian Cai, Ravi
Bangoria, Rick Lindsley, Russell Currey, Sachin Sant, Stewart Smith,
Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thomas Huth, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler,
Valentin Schneider, Wei Yongjun, Wen Yang, YueHaibing"
* tag 'powerpc-5.2-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (205 commits)
powerpc/64s: Use early_mmu_has_feature() in set_kuap()
powerpc/book3s/64: check for NULL pointer in pgd_alloc()
powerpc/mm: Fix hugetlb page initialization
ocxl: Fix return value check in afu_ioctl()
powerpc/mm: fix section mismatch for setup_kup()
powerpc/mm: fix redundant inclusion of pgtable-frag.o in Makefile
powerpc/mm: Fix makefile for KASAN
powerpc/kasan: add missing/lost Makefile
selftests/powerpc: Add a signal fuzzer selftest
powerpc/booke64: set RI in default MSR
ocxl: Provide global MMIO accessors for external drivers
ocxl: move event_fd handling to frontend
ocxl: afu_irq only deals with IRQ IDs, not offsets
ocxl: Allow external drivers to use OpenCAPI contexts
ocxl: Create a clear delineation between ocxl backend & frontend
ocxl: Don't pass pci_dev around
ocxl: Split pci.c
ocxl: Remove some unused exported symbols
ocxl: Remove superfluous 'extern' from headers
ocxl: read_pasid never returns an error, so make it void
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:
"This includes Roman's cgroup2 freezer implementation.
It's a separate machanism from cgroup1 freezer. Instead of blocking
user tasks in arbitrary uninterruptible sleeps, the new implementation
extends jobctl stop - frozen tasks are trapped in jobctl stop until
thawed and can be killed and ptraced. Lots of thanks to Oleg for
sheperding the effort.
Other than that, there are a few trivial changes"
* 'for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: never call do_group_exit() with task->frozen bit set
kernel: cgroup: fix misuse of %x
cgroup: get rid of cgroup_freezer_frozen_exit()
cgroup: prevent spurious transition into non-frozen state
cgroup: Remove unused cgrp variable
cgroup: document cgroup v2 freezer interface
cgroup: add tracing points for cgroup v2 freezer
cgroup: make TRACE_CGROUP_PATH irq-safe
kselftests: cgroup: add freezer controller self-tests
kselftests: cgroup: don't fail on cg_kill_all() error in cg_destroy()
cgroup: cgroup v2 freezer
cgroup: protect cgroup->nr_(dying_)descendants by css_set_lock
cgroup: implement __cgroup_task_count() helper
cgroup: rename freezer.c into legacy_freezer.c
cgroup: remove extra cgroup_migrate_finish() call
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull intgrity updates from James Morris:
"This contains just three patches, the remainder were either included
in other pull requests (eg. audit, lockdown) or will be upstreamed via
other subsystems (eg. kselftests, Power).
Included here is one bug fix, one documentation update, and extending
the x86 IMA arch policy rules to coordinate the different kernel
module signature verification methods"
* 'next-integrity' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
doc/kernel-parameters.txt: Deprecate ima_appraise_tcb
x86/ima: add missing include
x86/ima: require signed kernel modules
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Adjust the last two rows in the table that display possible values when
MDS mitigation is enabled. They both were slightly innacurate.
In addition, convert the table of possible values and their descriptions
to a list-table. The simple table format uses the top border of equals
signs to determine cell width which resulted in the first column being
far too wide in comparison to the second column that contained the
majority of the text.
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Updated the documentation for a new CVE-2019-11091 Microarchitectural Data
Sampling Uncacheable Memory (MDSUM) which is a variant of
Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS). MDS is a family of side channel
attacks on internal buffers in Intel CPUs.
MDSUM is a special case of MSBDS, MFBDS and MLPDS. An uncacheable load from
memory that takes a fault or assist can leave data in a microarchitectural
structure that may later be observed using one of the same methods used by
MSBDS, MFBDS or MLPDS. There are no new code changes expected for MDSUM.
The existing mitigation for MDS applies to MDSUM as well.
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4
Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
"Add as a feature case-insensitive directories (the casefold feature)
using Unicode 12.1.
Also, the usual largish number of cleanups and bug fixes"
* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: (25 commits)
ext4: export /sys/fs/ext4/feature/casefold if Unicode support is present
ext4: fix ext4_show_options for file systems w/o journal
unicode: refactor the rule for regenerating utf8data.h
docs: ext4.rst: document case-insensitive directories
ext4: Support case-insensitive file name lookups
ext4: include charset encoding information in the superblock
MAINTAINERS: add Unicode subsystem entry
unicode: update unicode database unicode version 12.1.0
unicode: introduce test module for normalized utf8 implementation
unicode: implement higher level API for string handling
unicode: reduce the size of utf8data[]
unicode: introduce code for UTF-8 normalization
unicode: introduce UTF-8 character database
ext4: actually request zeroing of inode table after grow
ext4: cond_resched in work-heavy group loops
ext4: fix use-after-free race with debug_want_extra_isize
ext4: avoid drop reference to iloc.bh twice
ext4: ignore e_value_offs for xattrs with value-in-ea-inode
ext4: protect journal inode's blocks using block_validity
ext4: use BUG() instead of BUG_ON(1)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core/kobject updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.2-rc1
There are a number of ACPI patches in here as well, as Rafael said
they should go through this tree due to the driver core changes they
required. They have all been acked by the ACPI developers.
There are also a number of small subsystem-specific changes in here,
due to some changes to the kobject core code. Those too have all been
acked by the various subsystem maintainers.
As for content, it's pretty boring outside of the ACPI changes:
- spdx cleanups
- kobject documentation updates
- default attribute groups for kobjects
- other minor kobject/driver core fixes
All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (47 commits)
kobject: clean up the kobject add documentation a bit more
kobject: Fix kernel-doc comment first line
kobject: Remove docstring reference to kset
firmware_loader: Fix a typo ("syfs" -> "sysfs")
kobject: fix dereference before null check on kobj
Revert "driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)"
init/config: Do not select BUILD_BIN2C for IKCONFIG
Provide in-kernel headers to make extending kernel easier
kobject: Improve doc clarity kobject_init_and_add()
kobject: Improve docs for kobject_add/del
driver core: platform: Fix the usage of platform device name(pdev->name)
livepatch: Replace klp_ktype_patch's default_attrs with groups
cpufreq: schedutil: Replace default_attrs field with groups
padata: Replace padata_attr_type default_attrs field with groups
irqdesc: Replace irq_kobj_type's default_attrs field with groups
net-sysfs: Replace ktype default_attrs field with groups
block: Replace all ktype default_attrs with groups
samples/kobject: Replace foo_ktype's default_attrs field with groups
kobject: Add support for default attribute groups to kobj_type
driver core: Postpone DMA tear-down until after devres release for probe failure
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These fix the (Intel-specific) Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB)
handling and expose it to user space via sysfs, fix and clean up
several cpufreq drivers, add support for two new chips to the qoriq
cpufreq driver, fix, simplify and clean up the cpufreq core and the
schedutil governor, add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power
domains (genpd) framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support
for that feature, fix the exynos cpuidle driver and fix a couple of
issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up.
Specifics:
- Fix the handling of Performance and Energy Bias Hint (EPB) on Intel
processors and expose it to user space via sysfs to avoid having to
access it through the generic MSR I/F (Rafael Wysocki).
- Improve the handling of global turbo changes made by the platform
firmware in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki).
- Convert some slow-path static_cpu_has() callers to boot_cpu_has()
in cpufreq (Borislav Petkov).
- Fix the frequency calculation loop in the armada-37xx cpufreq
driver (Gregory CLEMENT).
- Fix possible object reference leaks in multuple cpufreq drivers
(Wen Yang).
- Fix kerneldoc comment in the centrino cpufreq driver (dongjian).
- Clean up the ACPI and maple cpufreq drivers (Viresh Kumar, Mohan
Kumar).
- Add support for lx2160a and ls1028a to the qoriq cpufreq driver
(Vabhav Sharma, Yuantian Tang).
- Fix kobject memory leak in the cpufreq core (Viresh Kumar).
- Simplify the IOwait boosting in the schedutil cpufreq governor and
rework the TSC cpufreq notifier on x86 (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the cpufreq core and statistics code (Yue Hu, Kyle Lin).
- Improve the cpufreq documentation, add SPDX license tags to some PM
documentation files and unify copyright notices in them (Rafael
Wysocki).
- Add support for "CPU" domains to the generic power domains (genpd)
framework and provide low-level PSCI firmware support for that
feature (Ulf Hansson).
- Rearrange the PSCI firmware support code and add support for
SYSTEM_RESET2 to it (Ulf Hansson, Sudeep Holla).
- Improve genpd support for devices in multiple power domains (Ulf
Hansson).
- Unify target residency for the AFTR and coupled AFTR states in the
exynos cpuidle driver (Marek Szyprowski).
- Introduce new helper routine in the operating performance points
(OPP) framework (Andrew-sh.Cheng).
- Add support for passing on-die termination (ODT) and auto power
down parameters from the kernel to Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) to the
rk3399_dmc devfreq driver (Enric Balletbo i Serra).
- Add tracing to devfreq (Lukasz Luba).
- Make the exynos-bus devfreq driver suspend all devices on system
shutdown (Marek Szyprowski).
- Fix a few minor issues in the devfreq subsystem and clean it up
somewhat (Enric Balletbo i Serra, MyungJoo Ham, Rob Herring,
Saravana Kannan, Yangtao Li).
- Improve system wakeup diagnostics (Stephen Boyd).
- Rework filesystem sync messages emitted during system suspend and
hibernation (Harry Pan)"
* tag 'pm-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (72 commits)
cpufreq: Fix kobject memleak
cpufreq: armada-37xx: fix frequency calculation for opp
cpufreq: centrino: Fix centrino_setpolicy() kerneldoc comment
cpufreq: qoriq: add support for lx2160a
x86: tsc: Rework time_cpufreq_notifier()
PM / Domains: Allow to attach a CPU via genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name()
PM / Domains: Search for the CPU device outside the genpd lock
PM / Domains: Drop unused in-parameter to some genpd functions
PM / Domains: Use the base device for driver_deferred_probe_check_state()
cpufreq: qoriq: Add ls1028a chip support
PM / Domains: Enable genpd_dev_pm_attach_by_id|name() for single PM domain
PM / Domains: Allow OF lookup for multi PM domain case from ->attach_dev()
PM / Domains: Don't kfree() the virtual device in the error path
cpufreq: Move ->get callback check outside of __cpufreq_get()
PM / Domains: remove unnecessary unlikely()
cpufreq: Remove needless bios_limit check in show_bios_limit()
drivers/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c: This fixes the following checkpatch warning
firmware/psci: add support for SYSTEM_RESET2
PM / devfreq: add tracing for scheduling work
trace: events: add devfreq trace event file
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These rearrange the ACPI documentation by converting it to the .rst
format and splitting it into clear categories (admin guide, driver
API, firmware guide), switch over multiple users of a problematic
library function to a new better one, update the ACPICA code in the
kernel to a new upstream release, fix a few issues, improve power
device management diagnostics and do some cleanups.
Specifics:
- Convert the ACPI documentation in the kernel source tree to the
.rst format and split it into the admin guide, driver API and
firmware guide parts (Changbin Du).
- Add a PRP0001 usage example to the ACPI documentation (Thomas
Preston).
- Switch over the users of the acpi_dev_get_first_match_name()
library function which turned out to be problematic to a new,
better one called acpi_dev_get_first_match_dev() (Andy Shevchenko,
YueHaibing).
- Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream release 20190405
including:
* Null pointer dereference check in acpi_ns_delete_node() (Erik
Schmauss).
* Multiple macro and function name changes (Bob Moore).
* Predefined operation region name fix (Erik Schmauss).
- Fix hibernation issue on systems using the Baytrail and Cherrytrail
Intel SoCs introduced during the 4.20 development cycle (Hans de
Goede).
- Add Sony VPCEH3U1E to the backlight quirk list (Zhang Rui).
- Fix button handling during system resume (Zhang Rui).
- Add a device PM diagnostic message (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the code, comments and white space in multiple places
(Bjorn Helgaas, Gustavo Silva, Kefeng Wang)"
* tag 'acpi-5.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (53 commits)
Documentation: ACPI: move video_extension.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move ssdt-overlays.txt to admin-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move lpit.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move cppc_sysfs.txt to admin-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move apei/einj.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move apei/output_format.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move aml-debugger.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move method-tracing.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to rsST
Documentation: ACPI: move debug.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move dsd/data-node-references.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move dsd/graph.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move acpi-lid.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move i2c-muxes.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move dsdt-override.txt to admin-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move initrd_table_override.txt to admin-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move method-customizing.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move gpio-properties.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move DSD-properties-rules.txt to firmware-guide/acpi and covert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move scan_handlers.txt to driver-api/acpi and convert to reST
Documentation: ACPI: move linuxized-acpica.txt to driver-api/acpi and convert to reST
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"Mostly just incremental improvements here:
- Introduce AT_HWCAP2 for advertising CPU features to userspace
- Expose SVE2 availability to userspace
- Support for "data cache clean to point of deep persistence" (DC PODP)
- Honour "mitigations=off" on the cmdline and advertise status via
sysfs
- CPU timer erratum workaround (Neoverse-N1 #1188873)
- Introduce perf PMU driver for the SMMUv3 performance counters
- Add config option to disable the kuser helpers page for AArch32 tasks
- Futex modifications to ensure liveness under contention
- Rework debug exception handling to seperate kernel and user
handlers
- Non-critical fixes and cleanup"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (92 commits)
Documentation: Add ARM64 to kernel-parameters.rst
arm64/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
arm64: ssbs: Don't treat CPUs with SSBS as unaffected by SSB
arm64: enable generic CPU vulnerabilites support
arm64: add sysfs vulnerability show for speculative store bypass
arm64: Fix size of __early_cpu_boot_status
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Use arch_timer_read_counter to access stable counters
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Remove use of workaround static key
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Drop use of static key in arch_timer_reg_read_stable
clocksource/arm_arch_timer: Direcly assign set_next_event workaround
arm64: Use arch_timer_read_counter instead of arch_counter_get_cntvct
watchdog/sbsa: Use arch_timer_read_counter instead of arch_counter_get_cntvct
ARM: vdso: Remove dependency with the arch_timer driver internals
arm64: Apply ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 to Neoverse-N1
arm64: Add part number for Neoverse N1
arm64: Make ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 depend on COMPAT
arm64: Restrict ARM64_ERRATUM_1188873 mitigation to AArch32
arm64: mm: Remove pte_unmap_nested()
arm64: Fix compiler warning from pte_unmap() with -Wunused-but-set-variable
arm64: compat: Reduce address limit for 64K pages
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
- Support for kernel address space layout randomization
- Add support for kernel image signature verification
- Convert s390 to the generic get_user_pages_fast code
- Convert s390 to the stack unwind API analog to x86
- Add support for CPU directed interrupts for PCI devices
- Provide support for MIO instructions to the PCI base layer, this will
allow the use of direct PCI mappings in user space code
- Add the basic KVM guest ultravisor interface for protected VMs
- Add AT_HWCAP bits for several new hardware capabilities
- Update the CPU measurement facility counter definitions to SVN 6
- Arnds cleanup patches for his quest to get LLVM compiles working
- A vfio-ccw update with bug fixes and support for halt and clear
- Improvements for the hardware TRNG code
- Another round of cleanup for the QDIO layer
- Numerous cleanups and bug fixes
* tag 's390-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (98 commits)
s390/vdso: drop unnecessary cc-ldoption
s390: fix clang -Wpointer-sign warnigns in boot code
s390: drop CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS
s390: boot, purgatory: pass $(CLANG_FLAGS) where needed
s390: only build for new CPUs with clang
s390: simplify disabled_wait
s390/ftrace: use HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR
s390/unwind: introduce stack unwind API
s390/opcodes: add missing instructions to the disassembler
s390/bug: add entry size to the __bug_table section
s390: use proper expoline sections for .dma code
s390/nospec: rename assembler generated expoline thunks
s390: add missing ENDPROC statements to assembler functions
locking/lockdep: check for freed initmem in static_obj()
s390/kernel: add support for kernel address space layout randomization (KASLR)
s390/kernel: introduce .dma sections
s390/sclp: do not use static sccbs
s390/kprobes: use static buffer for insn_page
s390/kernel: convert SYSCALL and PGM_CHECK handlers to .quad
s390/kernel: build a relocatable kernel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Two changes: an LTO improvement, plus the new 'nowatchdog' boot option
to disable the clocksource watchdog"
* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/timer: Don't inline __const_udelay()
x86/tsc: Add option to disable tsc clocksource watchdog
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 kdump update from Ingo Molnar:
"This includes two changes:
- Raise the crash kernel reservation limit from from ~896MB to ~4GB.
Only very old (and already known-broken) kexec-tools is supposed to
be affected by this negatively.
- Allow higher than 4GB crash kernel allocations when low allocations
fail"
* 'x86-kdump-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/kdump: Fall back to reserve high crashkernel memory
x86/kdump: Have crashkernel=X reserve under 4G by default
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull speculation mitigation update from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds the "mitigations=" bootline option, which offers a
cross-arch set of options that will work on x86, PowerPC and s390 that
will map to the arch specific option internally"
* 'core-speculation-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
s390/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
powerpc/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
x86/speculation: Support 'mitigations=' cmdline option
cpu/speculation: Add 'mitigations=' cmdline option
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* pm-docs:
Documentation: PM: Unify copyright notices
Documentation: PM: Add SPDX license tags to multiple files
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Documentation: Add references sections
* pm-misc:
firmware/psci: add support for SYSTEM_RESET2
drivers: firmware: psci: Announce support for OS initiated suspend mode
drivers: firmware: psci: Simplify error path of psci_dt_init()
drivers: firmware: psci: Split psci_dt_cpu_init_idle()
MAINTAINERS: Update files for PSCI
drivers: firmware: psci: Move psci to separate directory
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Add ARM64 to the legend of architectures. It's already used in several
places in kernel-parameters.txt.
Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Configure arm64 runtime CPU speculation bug mitigations in accordance
with the 'mitigations=' cmdline option. This affects Meltdown, Spectre
v2, and Speculative Store Bypass.
The default behavior is unchanged.
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
[will: reorder checks so KASLR implies KPTI and SSBS is affected by cmdline]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Allow users to disable usage of MIO instructions by specifying pci=nomio
at the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Provide a kernel parameter to force the usage of floating interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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There are various reasons, such as benchmarking, to disable spectrev2
mitigation on a machine. Provide a command-line option to do so.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Suzuki K Poulose <suzuki.poulose@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Tested-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@i2se.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into for-next/mitigations
Pull in core support for the "mitigations=" cmdline option from Thomas
Gleixner via -tip, which we can build on top of when we expose our
mitigation state via sysfs.
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to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format
and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree.
No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format
and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree.
No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format
and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree.
No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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convert to reST
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format
and adds it to Sphinx TOC tree.
No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Add below index.rst files for ACPI subsystem. More docs will be added later.
o admin-guide/acpi/index.rst
o driver-api/acpi/index.rst
o firmware-guide/index.rst
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Introduces the case-insensitive features on ext4 for system
administrators. Explain the minimum of design decisions that are
important for sysadmins wanting to enable this feature.
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
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Add a new command-line option "xen_timer_slop=<INT>" that sets the
minimum delta of virtual Xen timers. This commit does not change the
default timer slop value for virtual Xen timers.
Lowering the timer slop value should improve the accuracy of virtual
timers (e.g., better process dispatch latency), but it will likely
increase the number of virtual timer interrupts (relative to the
original slop setting).
The original timer slop value has not changed since the introduction
of the Xen-aware Linux kernel code. This commit provides users an
opportunity to tune timer performance given the refinements to
hardware and the Xen event channel processing. It also mirrors
a feature in the Xen hypervisor - the "timer_slop" Xen command line
option.
[boris: updated comment describing TIMER_SLOP]
Signed-off-by: Ryan Thibodeaux <ryan.thibodeaux@starlab.io>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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crashkernel=xM tries to reserve memory for the crash kernel under 4G,
which is enough, usually. But this could fail sometimes, for example
when one tries to reserve a big chunk like 2G, for example.
So let the crashkernel=xM just fall back to use high memory in case it
fails to find a suitable low range. Do not set the ,high as default
because it allocates extra low memory for DMA buffers and swiotlb, and
this is not always necessary for all machines.
Typically, crashkernel=128M usually works with low reservation under 4G,
so keep <4G as default.
[ bp: Massage. ]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: piliu@redhat.com
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thymo van Beers <thymovanbeers@gmail.com>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com
Cc: x86-ml <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Zhimin Gu <kookoo.gu@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190422031905.GA8387@dhcp-128-65.nay.redhat.com
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