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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest
Pull more Kunit updates from Shuah Khan:
- add Kunit to kernel_init() and remove KUnit from init calls entirely.
This addresses the concern that Kunit would not work correctly during
late init phase.
- add a linker section where KUnit can put references to its test
suites.
This is the first step in transitioning to dispatching all KUnit
tests from a centralized executor rather than having each as its own
separate late_initcall.
- add a centralized executor to dispatch tests rather than relying on
late_initcall to schedule each test suite separately. Centralized
execution is for built-in tests only; modules will execute tests when
loaded.
- convert bitfield test to use KUnit framework
- Documentation updates for naming guidelines and how
kunit_test_suite() works.
- add test plan to KUnit TAP format
* tag 'linux-kselftest-kunit-5.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
lib: kunit: Fix compilation test when using TEST_BIT_FIELD_COMPILE
lib: kunit: add bitfield test conversion to KUnit
Documentation: kunit: add a brief blurb about kunit_test_suite
kunit: test: add test plan to KUnit TAP format
init: main: add KUnit to kernel init
kunit: test: create a single centralized executor for all tests
vmlinux.lds.h: add linker section for KUnit test suites
Documentation: kunit: Add naming guidelines
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Patch series "add fault injection to user memory access", v3.
The goal of this series is to improve testing of fault-tolerance in usages
of user memory access functions, by adding support for fault injection.
syzkaller/syzbot are using the existing fault injection modes and will use
this particular feature also.
The first patch adds failure injection capability for usercopy functions.
The second changes usercopy functions to use this new failure capability
(copy_from_user, ...). The third patch adds get/put/clear_user failures
to x86.
This patch (of 3):
Add a failure injection capability to improve testing of fault-tolerance
in usages of user memory access functions.
Add CONFIG_FAULT_INJECTION_USERCOPY to enable faults in usercopy
functions. The should_fail_usercopy function is to be called by these
functions (copy_from_user, get_user, ...) in order to fail or not.
Signed-off-by: Albert van der Linde <alinde@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-1-alinde@google.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831171733.955393-2-alinde@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Here is a very rare race which leaks memory:
Page P0 is allocated to the page cache. Page P1 is free.
Thread A Thread B Thread C
find_get_entry():
xas_load() returns P0
Removes P0 from page cache
P0 finds its buddy P1
alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 1) returns P0
P0 has refcount 1
page_cache_get_speculative(P0)
P0 has refcount 2
__free_pages(P0)
P0 has refcount 1
put_page(P0)
P1 is not freed
Fix this by freeing all the pages in __free_pages() that won't be freed
by the call to put_page(). It's usually not a good idea to split a page,
but this is a very unlikely scenario.
Fixes: e286781d5f2e ("mm: speculative page references")
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200926213919.26642-1-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Transfer all previous tests for KASAN to KUnit so they can be run more
easily. Using kunit_tool, developers can run these tests with their other
KUnit tests and see "pass" or "fail" with the appropriate KASAN report
instead of needing to parse each KASAN report to test KASAN
functionalities. All KASAN reports are still printed to dmesg.
Stack tests do not work properly when KASAN_STACK is enabled so those
tests use a check for "if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_KASAN_STACK)" so they only run
if stack instrumentation is enabled. If KASAN_STACK is not enabled, KUnit
will print a statement to let the user know this test was not run with
KASAN_STACK enabled.
copy_user_test and kasan_rcu_uaf cannot be run in KUnit so there is a
separate test file for those tests, which can be run as before as a
module.
[trishalfonso@google.com: v14]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200915035828.570483-4-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Patricia Alfonso <trishalfonso@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200910070331.3358048-4-davidgow@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This adds the conversion of the runtime tests of test_bitfield,
from `lib/test_bitfield.c` to KUnit tests.
Code Style Documentation: [0]
Signed-off-by: Vitor Massaru Iha <vitor@massaru.org>
Link: [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kselftest/20200620054944.167330-1-davidgow@google.com/T/#u
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
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gcc can transform the loop in a naive implementation of memset/memcpy
etc into a call to the function itself. This optimization is enabled by
-ftree-loop-distribute-patterns.
This has been the case for a while, but gcc-10.x enables this option at
-O2 rather than -O3 as in previous versions.
Add -ffreestanding, which implicitly disables this optimization with
gcc. It is unclear whether clang performs such optimizations, but
hopefully it will also not do so in a freestanding environment.
Signed-off-by: Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56888
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add tests of GENMASK and GENMASK_ULL.
A few test cases that should fail compilation are provided under #ifdef
TEST_GENMASK_FAILURES
[rd.dunlap@gmail.com: add MODULE_LICENSE()]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/dfc74524-0789-2827-4eff-476ddab65699@gmail.com
[weiyongjun1@huawei.com: make some functions static]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200702150336.4756-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com
Suggested-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rd.dunlap@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Acked-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Cc: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: Syed Nayyar Waris <syednwaris@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200621054210.14804-2-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200608221823.35799-2-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- run the checker (e.g. sparse) after the compiler
- remove unneeded cc-option tests for old compiler flags
- fix tar-pkg to install dtbs
- introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y syntax
- allow to trace functions in sub-directories of lib/
- introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y syntax
- various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: stop filtering out $(GCC_PLUGINS_CFLAGS) from cc-option base
kbuild: include scripts/Makefile.* only when relevant CONFIG is enabled
kbuild: introduce hostprogs-always-y and userprogs-always-y
kbuild: sort hostprogs before passing it to ifneq
kbuild: move host .so build rules to scripts/gcc-plugins/Makefile
kbuild: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
kbuild: trace functions in subdirectories of lib/
kbuild: introduce ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y
kbuild: do not export LDFLAGS_vmlinux
kbuild: always create directories of targets
powerpc/boot: add DTB to 'targets'
kbuild: buildtar: add dtbs support
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -ffreestanding
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-protector
Revert "kbuild: Create directory for target DTB"
kbuild: run the checker after the compiler
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CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file>.o filters out flags when compiling a particular
object, but there is no convenient way to do that for every object in
a directory.
Add ccflags-remove-y and asflags-remove-y to make it easily.
Use ccflags-remove-y to clean up some Makefiles.
The add/remove order works as follows:
[1] KBUILD_CFLAGS specifies compiler flags used globally
[2] ccflags-y adds compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile
[3] ccflags-remove-y removes compiler flags for all objects in the
current Makefile (New feature)
[4] CFLAGS_<file> adds compiler flags per file.
[5] CFLAGS_REMOVE_<file> removes compiler flags per file.
Having [3] before [4] allows us to remove flags from most (but not all)
objects in the current Makefile.
For example, kernel/trace/Makefile removes $(CC_FLAGS_FTRACE)
from all objects in the directory, then adds it back to
trace_selftest_dynamic.o and CFLAGS_trace_kprobe_selftest.o
The same applies to lib/livepatch/Makefile.
Please note ccflags-remove-y has no effect to the sub-directories.
In contrast, the previous notation got rid of compiler flags also from
all the sub-directories.
The following are not affected because they have no sub-directories:
arch/arm/boot/compressed/
arch/powerpc/xmon/
arch/sh/
kernel/trace/
However, lib/ has several sub-directories.
To keep the behavior, I added ccflags-remove-y to all Makefiles
in subdirectories of lib/, except the following:
lib/vdso/Makefile - Kbuild does not descend into this Makefile
lib/raid/test/Makefile - This is not used for the kernel build
I think commit 2464a609ded0 ("ftrace: do not trace library functions")
excluded too much. In the next commit, I will remove ccflags-remove-y
from the sub-directories of lib/.
Suggested-by: Sami Tolvanen <samitolvanen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Acked-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com> (KUnit)
Tested-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
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The functionality in lib/ioremap.c deals with pagetables, vmalloc and
caches, so it naturally belongs to mm/ Moving it there will also allow
declaring p?d_alloc_track functions in an header file inside mm/ rather
than having those declarations in include/linux/mm.h
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Abdul Haleem <abdhalee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <joro@8bytes.org>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Satheesh Rajendran <sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200627143453.31835-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.
2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.
3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
Kulkarni.
4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
from Po Liu.
5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.
6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
Vazquez.
7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
Yonghong Song.
8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.
9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.
10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.
11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.
12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
Gupta.
13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
Yakunin.
14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.
15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
Tenart.
16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.
17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.
18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.
19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.
20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.
21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.
22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.
23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.
24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.
25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.
26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.
27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.
28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.
29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.
30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.
31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.
33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.
34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.
35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
Brivio.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address
ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 FPU selftest from Ingo Molnar:
"Add the /sys/kernel/debug/selftest_helpers/test_fpu FPU self-test"
* tag 'x86-fpu-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
selftests/fpu: Add an FPU selftest
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- Add unzstd() and the zstd decompress interface.
- Add zstd support to decompress_method().
The decompress_method() and unzstd() functions are used to decompress
the initramfs and the initrd. The __decompress() function is used in
the preboot environment to decompress a zstd compressed kernel.
The zstd decompression function allows the input and output buffers to
overlap because that is used by x86 kernel decompression.
Signed-off-by: Nick Terrell <terrelln@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200730190841.2071656-3-nickrterrell@gmail.com
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The pldmfw library is used to implement common logic needed to flash
devices based on firmware files using the format described by the PLDM
for Firmware Update standard.
This library consists of logic to parse the PLDM file format from
a firmware file object, as well as common logic for sending the relevant
PLDM header data to the device firmware.
A simple ops table is provided so that device drivers can implement
device specific hardware interactions while keeping the common logic to
the pldmfw library.
This library will be used by the Intel ice networking driver as part of
implementing device flash update via devlink. The library aims to be
vendor and device agnostic. For this reason, it has been placed in
lib/pldmfw, in the hopes that other devices which use the PLDM firmware
file format may benefit from it in the future. However, do note that not
all features defined in the PLDM standard have been implemented.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Some Makefiles already pass -fno-stack-protector unconditionally.
For example, arch/arm64/kernel/vdso/Makefile, arch/x86/xen/Makefile.
No problem report so far about hard-coding this option. So, we can
assume all supported compilers know -fno-stack-protector.
GCC 4.8 and Clang support this option (https://godbolt.org/z/_HDGzN)
Get rid of cc-option from -fno-stack-protector.
Remove CONFIG_CC_HAS_STACKPROTECTOR_NONE, which is always 'y'.
Note:
arch/mips/vdso/Makefile adds -fno-stack-protector twice, first
unconditionally, and second conditionally. I removed the second one.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
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Add a selftest for the usage of FPU code in kernel mode.
Currently only implemented for x86. In the future, kernel FPU testing
could be unified between the different architectures supporting it.
[ bp:
- Split out from a conglomerate patch, put comments over statements.
- run the test only on debugfs write.
- Add bare-minimum run_test_fpu.sh, run 1000 iterations on all CPUs
by default.
- Add conditionally -msse2 so that clang doesn't generate library
calls.
- Use cc-option to detect gcc 7.1 not supporting -mpreferred-stack-boundary=3 (amluto).
- Document stuff so that we don't forget.
- Fix:
ld: lib/test_fpu.o: in function `test_fpu_get':
>> test_fpu.c:(.text+0x16e): undefined reference to `__sanitizer_cov_trace_cmpd'
>> ld: test_fpu.c:(.text+0x1a7): undefined reference to `__sanitizer_cov_trace_cmpd'
ld: test_fpu.c:(.text+0x1e0): undefined reference to `__sanitizer_cov_trace_cmpd'
]
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petteri Aimonen <jpa@git.mail.kapsi.fi>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200624114646.28953-3-bp@alien8.de
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Merge the state of the locking kcsan branch before the read/write_once()
and the atomics modifications got merged.
Squash the fallout of the rebase on top of the read/write once and atomic
fallback work into the merge. The history of the original branch is
preserved in tag locking-kcsan-2020-06-02.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Instead of enabling dynamic debug globally with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG,
CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG_CORE will only enable core function of dynamic
debug. With the DYNAMIC_DEBUG_MODULE defined for any modules, dynamic
debug will be tied to them.
This is useful for people who only want to enable dynamic debug for
kernel modules without worrying about kernel image size and memory
consumption is increasing too much.
[orson.zhai@unisoc.com: v2]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587408228-10861-1-git-send-email-orson.unisoc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Orson Zhai <orson.zhai@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1586521984-5890-1-git-send-email-orson.unisoc@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Test some bit clears/sets to make sure assembly doesn't change, and that
the set_bit and clear_bit functions work and don't cause sparse warnings.
Instruct Kbuild to build this file with extra warning level -Wextra, to
catch new issues, and also doesn't hurt to build with C=1.
This was used to test changes to arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h.
In particular, sparse (C=1) was very concerned when the last bit before a
natural boundary, like 7, or 31, was being tested, as this causes sign
extension (0xffffff7f) for instance when clearing bit 7.
Recommended usage:
make defconfig
scripts/config -m CONFIG_TEST_BITOPS
make modules_prepare
make C=1 W=1 lib/test_bitops.ko
objdump -S -d lib/test_bitops.ko
insmod lib/test_bitops.ko
rmmod lib/test_bitops.ko
<check dmesg>, there should be no compiler/sparse warnings and no
error messages in log.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200310221747.2848474-2-jesse.brandeburg@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CcL Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma
Pull hmm updates from Jason Gunthorpe:
"This series adds a selftest for hmm_range_fault() and several of the
DEVICE_PRIVATE migration related actions, and another simplification
for hmm_range_fault()'s API.
- Simplify hmm_range_fault() with a simpler return code, no
HMM_PFN_SPECIAL, and no customizable output PFN format
- Add a selftest for hmm_range_fault() and DEVICE_PRIVATE related
functionality"
* tag 'for-linus-hmm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma:
MAINTAINERS: add HMM selftests
mm/hmm/test: add selftests for HMM
mm/hmm/test: add selftest driver for HMM
mm/hmm: remove the customizable pfn format from hmm_range_fault
mm/hmm: remove HMM_PFN_SPECIAL
drm/amdgpu: remove dead code after hmm_range_fault()
mm/hmm: make hmm_range_fault return 0 or -1
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This driver is for testing device private memory migration and devices
which use hmm_range_fault() to access system memory via device page tables.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200422195028.3684-2-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200516010424.2013-1-rcampbell@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200509030225.14592-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200509030234.14747-1-weiyongjun1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200511183704.GA225608@mwanda
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
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Add a KUnit test for the linear_ranges helper.
Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Reviewed-by: Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/311fea741bafdcd33804d3187c1642e24275e3e5.1588944082.git.matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Many devices have control registers which control some measurable
property. Often a register contains control field so that change in
this field causes linear change in the controlled property. It is not
a rare case that user wants to give 'meaningful' control values and
driver needs to convert them to register field values. Even more
often user wants to 'see' the currently set value - again in
meaningful units - and driver needs to convert the values it reads
from register to these meaningful units. Examples of this include:
- regulators, voltage/current configurations
- power, voltage/current configurations
- clk(?) NCOs
and maybe others I can't think of right now.
Provide a linear_range helper which can do conversion from user value
to register value 'selector'.
The idea here is stolen from regulator framework and patches refactoring
the regulator helpers to use this are following.
Current implementation does not support inversely proportional ranges
but it might be useful if we could support also inversely proportional
ranges?
Signed-off-by: Matti Vaittinen <matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/59259bc475e0c800eb4bb163f02528c7c01f7b3a.1588944082.git.matti.vaittinen@fi.rohmeurope.com
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Resolve these conflicts:
arch/x86/Kconfig
arch/x86/kernel/Makefile
Do a minor "evil merge" to move the KCSAN entry up a bit by a few lines
in the Kconfig to reduce the probability of future conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Patch series "ubsan: Split out bounds checker", v5.
This splits out the bounds checker so it can be individually used. This
is enabled in Android and hopefully for syzbot. Includes LKDTM tests for
behavioral corner-cases (beyond just the bounds checker), and adjusts
ubsan and kasan slightly for correct panic handling.
This patch (of 6):
The Undefined Behavior Sanitizer can operate in two modes: warning
reporting mode via lib/ubsan.c handler calls, or trap mode, which uses
__builtin_trap() as the handler. Using lib/ubsan.c means the kernel image
is about 5% larger (due to all the debugging text and reporting structures
to capture details about the warning conditions). Using the trap mode,
the image size changes are much smaller, though at the loss of the
"warning only" mode.
In order to give greater flexibility to system builders that want minimal
changes to image size and are prepared to deal with kernel code being
aborted and potentially destabilizing the system, this introduces
CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP. The resulting image sizes comparison:
text data bss dec hex filename
19533663 6183037 18554956 44271656 2a38828 vmlinux.stock
19991849 7618513 18874448 46484810 2c54d4a vmlinux.ubsan
19712181 6284181 18366540 44362902 2a4ec96 vmlinux.ubsan-trap
CONFIG_UBSAN=y: image +4.8% (text +2.3%, data +18.9%)
CONFIG_UBSAN_TRAP=y: image +0.2% (text +0.9%, data +1.6%)
Additionally adjusts the CONFIG_UBSAN Kconfig help for clarity and removes
the mention of non-existing boot param "ubsan_handle".
Suggested-by: Elena Petrova <lenaptr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200227193516.32566-2-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Clang may replace stackdepot_memcmp() with a call to instrumented bcmp(),
which is exactly what we wanted to avoid creating stackdepot_memcmp().
Building the file with -fno-builtin prevents such optimizations.
This patch has been previously mailed as part of KMSAN RFC patch series.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200220141916.55455-2-glider@google.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The tests for initializing a variable defined between a switch statement's
test and its first "case" statement are currently not initialized in
Clang[1] nor the proposed auto-initialization feature in GCC.
We should retain the test (so that we can evaluate compiler fixes), but
mark it as an "expected fail". The rest of the kernel source will be
adjusted to avoid this corner case.
Also disable -Wswitch-unreachable for the test so that the intentionally
broken code won't trigger warnings for GCC (nor future Clang) when
initialization happens this unhandled place.
[1] https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44916
Suggested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/202002191358.2897A07C6@keescook
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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CONFIG_TEST_LOCKUP=m adds module "test_lockup" that helps to make sure
that watchdogs and lockup detectors are working properly.
Depending on module parameters test_lockup could emulate soft or hard
lockup, "hung task", hold arbitrary lock, allocate bunch of pages.
Also it could generate series of lockups with cooling-down periods, in
this way it could be used as "ping" for locks or page allocator. Loop
checks signals between iteration thus could be stopped by ^C.
# modinfo test_lockup
...
parm: time_secs:lockup time in seconds, default 0 (uint)
parm: time_nsecs:nanoseconds part of lockup time, default 0 (uint)
parm: cooldown_secs:cooldown time between iterations in seconds, default 0 (uint)
parm: cooldown_nsecs:nanoseconds part of cooldown, default 0 (uint)
parm: iterations:lockup iterations, default 1 (uint)
parm: all_cpus:trigger lockup at all cpus at once (bool)
parm: state:wait in 'R' running (default), 'D' uninterruptible, 'K' killable, 'S' interruptible state (charp)
parm: use_hrtimer:use high-resolution timer for sleeping (bool)
parm: iowait:account sleep time as iowait (bool)
parm: lock_read:lock read-write locks for read (bool)
parm: lock_single:acquire locks only at one cpu (bool)
parm: reacquire_locks:release and reacquire locks/irq/preempt between iterations (bool)
parm: touch_softlockup:touch soft-lockup watchdog between iterations (bool)
parm: touch_hardlockup:touch hard-lockup watchdog between iterations (bool)
parm: call_cond_resched:call cond_resched() between iterations (bool)
parm: measure_lock_wait:measure lock wait time (bool)
parm: lock_wait_threshold:print lock wait time longer than this in nanoseconds, default off (ulong)
parm: disable_irq:disable interrupts: generate hard-lockups (bool)
parm: disable_softirq:disable bottom-half irq handlers (bool)
parm: disable_preempt:disable preemption: generate soft-lockups (bool)
parm: lock_rcu:grab rcu_read_lock: generate rcu stalls (bool)
parm: lock_mmap_sem:lock mm->mmap_sem: block procfs interfaces (bool)
parm: lock_rwsem_ptr:lock rw_semaphore at address (ulong)
parm: lock_mutex_ptr:lock mutex at address (ulong)
parm: lock_spinlock_ptr:lock spinlock at address (ulong)
parm: lock_rwlock_ptr:lock rwlock at address (ulong)
parm: alloc_pages_nr:allocate and free pages under locks (uint)
parm: alloc_pages_order:page order to allocate (uint)
parm: alloc_pages_gfp:allocate pages with this gfp_mask, default GFP_KERNEL (uint)
parm: alloc_pages_atomic:allocate pages with GFP_ATOMIC (bool)
parm: reallocate_pages:free and allocate pages between iterations (bool)
Parameters for locking by address are unsafe and taints kernel. With
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y they at least check magics for embedded spinlocks.
Examples:
task hang in D-state:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=D
task hang in io-wait D-state:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=D iowait
softlockup:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=R
hardlockup:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=R disable_irq
system-wide hardlockup:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=R \
disable_irq all_cpus
rcu stall:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=R \
lock_rcu touch_softlockup
lock mmap_sem / block procfs interfaces:
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=S lock_mmap_sem
lock tasklist_lock for read / block forks:
TASKLIST_LOCK=$(awk '$3 == "tasklist_lock" {print "0x"$1}' /proc/kallsyms)
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=R \
disable_irq lock_read lock_rwlock_ptr=$TASKLIST_LOCK
lock namespace_sem / block vfs mount operations:
NAMESPACE_SEM=$(awk '$3 == "namespace_sem" {print "0x"$1}' /proc/kallsyms)
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=S \
lock_rwsem_ptr=$NAMESPACE_SEM
lock cgroup mutex / block cgroup operations:
CGROUP_MUTEX=$(awk '$3 == "cgroup_mutex" {print "0x"$1}' /proc/kallsyms)
modprobe test_lockup time_secs=1 iterations=60 state=S \
lock_mutex_ptr=$CGROUP_MUTEX
ping cgroup_mutex every second and measure maximum lock wait time:
modprobe test_lockup cooldown_secs=1 iterations=60 state=S \
lock_mutex_ptr=$CGROUP_MUTEX reacquire_locks measure_lock_wait
[linux@roeck-us.net: rename disable_irq to fix build error]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200317133614.23152-1-linux@roeck-us.net
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@yandex-team.ru>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Monakhov <dmtrmonakhov@yandex-team.ru
Cc: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158132859146.2797.525923171323227836.stgit@buzz
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Supports push, pop and converting an array into a heap. If the sense of
the compare function is inverted then it can provide a max-heap.
Based-on-work-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214075133.181299-3-irogers@google.com
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
"Various fixes:
- Fix an uninitialized variable
- Fix compile bug to bootconfig userspace tool (in tools directory)
- Suppress some error messages of bootconfig userspace tool
- Remove unneded CONFIG_LIBXBC from bootconfig
- Allocate bootconfig xbc_nodes dynamically. To ease complaints about
taking up static memory at boot up
- Use of parse_args() to parse bootconfig instead of strstr() usage
Prevents issues of double quotes containing the interested string
- Fix missing ring_buffer_nest_end() on synthetic event error path
- Return zero not -EINVAL on soft disabled synthetic event (soft
disabling must be the same as hard disabling, which returns zero)
- Consolidate synthetic event code (remove duplicate code)"
* tag 'trace-v5.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Consolidate trace() functions
tracing: Don't return -EINVAL when tracing soft disabled synth events
tracing: Add missing nest end to synth_event_trace_start() error case
tools/bootconfig: Suppress non-error messages
bootconfig: Allocate xbc_nodes array dynamically
bootconfig: Use parse_args() to find bootconfig and '--'
tracing/kprobe: Fix uninitialized variable bug
bootconfig: Remove unneeded CONFIG_LIBXBC
tools/bootconfig: Fix wrong __VA_ARGS__ usage
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Since there is no user except CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG and no plan
to use it from other functions, CONFIG_LIBXBC can be removed
and we can use CONFIG_BOOT_CONFIG directly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158098769281.939.16293492056419481105.stgit@devnote2
Suggested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- fix randconfig to generate a sane .config
- rename hostprogs-y / always to hostprogs / always-y, which are more
natual syntax.
- optimize scripts/kallsyms
- fix yes2modconfig and mod2yesconfig
- make multiple directory targets ('make foo/ bar/') work
* tag 'kbuild-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
kbuild: make multiple directory targets work
kconfig: Invalidate all symbols after changing to y or m.
kallsyms: fix type of kallsyms_token_table[]
scripts/kallsyms: change table to store (strcut sym_entry *)
scripts/kallsyms: rename local variables in read_symbol()
kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y
kbuild: fix the document to use extra-y for vmlinux.lds
kconfig: fix broken dependency in randconfig-generated .config
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
- Added new "bootconfig".
This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options,
and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers.
Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup.
Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line.
- Created dynamic event creation.
Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe
events.
- Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer"
- Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer"
Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer"
- Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code.
- Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized
- Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly
- Various other small fixes and clean ups
* tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits)
bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message
tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes
bootconfig: Add more parse error messages
bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config
ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync
ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu
tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu
bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline
tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string
tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add()
tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args
tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code
tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action
tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface
tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu
tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers
tracing: Move tracing test module configs together
tracing: Move all function tracing configs together
tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API
...
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In old days, the "host-progs" syntax was used for specifying host
programs. It was renamed to the current "hostprogs-y" in 2004.
It is typically useful in scripts/Makefile because it allows Kbuild to
selectively compile host programs based on the kernel configuration.
This commit renames like follows:
always -> always-y
hostprogs-y -> hostprogs
So, scripts/Makefile will look like this:
always-$(CONFIG_BUILD_BIN2C) += ...
always-$(CONFIG_KALLSYMS) += ...
...
hostprogs := $(always-y) $(always-m)
I think this makes more sense because a host program is always a host
program, irrespective of the kernel configuration. We want to specify
which ones to compile by CONFIG options, so always-y will be handier.
The "always", "hostprogs-y", "hostprogs-m" will be kept for backward
compatibility for a while.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
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Don't instrument 3 more files that contain debugging facilities and
produce large amounts of uninteresting coverage for every syscall.
The following snippets are sprinkled all over the place in kcov traces
in a debugging kernel. We already try to disable instrumentation of
stack unwinding code and of most debug facilities. I guess we did not
use fault-inject.c at the time, and stacktrace.c was somehow missed (or
something has changed in kernel/configs). This change both speeds up
kcov (kernel doesn't need to store these PCs, user-space doesn't need to
process them) and frees trace buffer capacity for more useful coverage.
should_fail
lib/fault-inject.c:149
fail_dump
lib/fault-inject.c:45
stack_trace_save
kernel/stacktrace.c:124
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:86
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:89
... a hundred frames skipped ...
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:93
stack_trace_consume_entry
kernel/stacktrace.c:86
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200116111449.217744-1-dvyukov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "S390 hardware support for kernel zlib", v3.
With IBM z15 mainframe the new DFLTCC instruction is available. It
implements deflate algorithm in hardware (Nest Acceleration Unit - NXU)
with estimated compression and decompression performance orders of
magnitude faster than the current zlib.
This patchset adds s390 hardware compression support to kernel zlib.
The code is based on the userspace zlib implementation:
https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/410
The coding style is also preserved for future maintainability. There is
only limited set of userspace zlib functions represented in kernel.
Apart from that, all the memory allocation should be performed in
advance. Thus, the workarea structures are extended with the parameter
lists required for the DEFLATE CONVENTION CALL instruction.
Since kernel zlib itself does not support gzip headers, only Adler-32
checksum is processed (also can be produced by DFLTCC facility). Like
it was implemented for userspace, kernel zlib will compress in hardware
on level 1, and in software on all other levels. Decompression will
always happen in hardware (when enabled).
Two DFLTCC compression calls produce the same results only when they
both are made on machines of the same generation, and when the
respective buffers have the same offset relative to the start of the
page. Therefore care should be taken when using hardware compression
when reproducible results are desired. However it does always produce
the standard conform output which can be inflated anyway.
The new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc' is introduced to
configure s390 zlib hardware support:
Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
level 1 and decompression (default)
off: No s390 zlib hardware support
def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate
only (compression on level 1)
inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate
only (decompression)
always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression
level always using hardware support (used for debugging)
The main purpose of the integration of the NXU support into the kernel
zlib is the use of hardware deflate in btrfs filesystem with on-the-fly
compression enabled. Apart from that, hardware support can also be used
during boot for decompressing the kernel or the ramdisk image
With the patch for btrfs expanding zlib buffer from 1 to 4 pages (patch
6) the following performance results have been achieved using the
ramdisk with btrfs. These are relative numbers based on throughput rate
and compression ratio for zlib level 1:
Input data Deflate rate Inflate rate Compression ratio
NXU/Software NXU/Software NXU/Software
stream of zeroes 1.46 1.02 1.00
random ASCII data 10.44 3.00 0.96
ASCII text (dickens) 6,21 3.33 0.94
binary data (vmlinux) 8,37 |