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Geliang Tang e6fd1fb3b5 init/main.c: use list_for_each_entry()
Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each() to simplify the code.

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-03-15 16:55:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds d09e356ad0 Merge branch 'mm-readonly-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull read-only kernel memory updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree adds two (security related) enhancements to the kernel's
  handling of read-only kernel memory:

   - extend read-only kernel memory to a new class of formerly writable
     kernel data: 'post-init read-only memory' via the __ro_after_init
     attribute, and mark the ARM and x86 vDSO as such read-only memory.

     This kind of attribute can be used for data that requires a once
     per bootup initialization sequence, but is otherwise never modified
     after that point.

     This feature was based on the work by PaX Team and Brad Spengler.

     (by Kees Cook, the ARM vDSO bits by David Brown.)

   - make CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA always enabled on x86 and remove the
     Kconfig option.  This simplifies the kernel and also signals that
     read-only memory is the default model and a first-class citizen.
     (Kees Cook)"

* 'mm-readonly-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ARM/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init
  x86/vdso: Mark the vDSO code read-only after init
  lkdtm: Verify that '__ro_after_init' works correctly
  arch: Introduce post-init read-only memory
  x86/mm: Always enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA and remove the Kconfig option
  mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings
  asm-generic: Consolidate mark_rodata_ro()
2016-03-14 16:58:50 -07:00
Kees Cook d2aa1acad2 mm/init: Add 'rodata=off' boot cmdline parameter to disable read-only kernel mappings
It may be useful to debug writes to the readonly sections of memory,
so provide a cmdline "rodata=off" to allow for this. This can be
expanded in the future to support "log" and "write" modes, but that
will need to be architecture-specific.

This also makes KDB software breakpoints more usable, as read-only
mappings can now be disabled on any kernel.

Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: linux-arch <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455748879-21872-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-22 08:51:37 +01:00
Andrey Ryabinin 06bea3dbfe locking/lockdep: Eliminate lockdep_init()
Lockdep is initialized at compile time now.  Get rid of lockdep_init().

Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Krinkin <krinkin.m.u@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mm-commits@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-02-09 12:03:25 +01:00
Johannes Weiner d886f4e483 mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
What CONFIG_INET and CONFIG_LEGACY_KMEM guard inside the memory
controller code is insignificant, having these conditionals is not
worth the complication and fragility that comes with them.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework mem_cgroup_css_free() statement ordering]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Johannes Weiner 489c2a20a4 mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM
Let the user know that CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM does not apply to the cgroup2
interface. This also makes legacy-only code sections stand out better.

[arnd@arndb.de: mm: memcontrol: only manage socket pressure for CONFIG_INET]
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Yaowei Bai f057f3b226 init/do_mounts: initrd_load() can be boolean
Make initrd_load() return bool due to this particular function only using
either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Yaowei Bai 31c025b5fe init/main.c: obsolete_checksetup can be boolean
Make obsolete_checksetup() return bool due to this particular function
only using either one or zero as its return value.

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Yaowei Bai <baiyaowei@cmss.chinamobile.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-20 17:09:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 2d663b5581 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "Seven audit patches for 4.5, all very minor despite the diffstat.

  The diffstat churn for linux/audit.h can be attributed to needing to
  reshuffle the linux/audit.h header to fix the seccomp auditing issue
  (see the commit description for details).

  Besides the seccomp/audit fix, most of the fixes are around trying to
  improve the connection with the audit daemon and a Kconfig
  simplification.  Nothing crazy, and everything passes our little
  audit-testsuite"

* 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
  audit: always enable syscall auditing when supported and audit is enabled
  audit: force seccomp event logging to honor the audit_enabled flag
  audit: Delete unnecessary checks before two function calls
  audit: wake up threads if queue switched from limited to unlimited
  audit: include auditd's threads in audit_log_start() wait exception
  audit: remove audit_backlog_wait_overflow
  audit: don't needlessly reset valid wait time
2016-01-17 18:48:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 0cbeafb245 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - more MM stuff:

    - Kirill's page-flags rework

    - Kirill's now-allegedly-fixed THP rework

    - MADV_FREE implementation

    - DAX feature work (msync/fsync).  This isn't quite complete but DAX
      is new and it's good enough and the guys have a handle on what
      needs to be done - I expect this to be wrapped in the next week or
      two.

  - some vsprintf maintenance work

  - various other misc bits

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (145 commits)
  printk: change recursion_bug type to bool
  lib/vsprintf: factor out %pN[F] handler as netdev_bits()
  lib/vsprintf: refactor duplicate code to special_hex_number()
  printk-formats.txt: remove unimplemented %pT
  printk: help pr_debug and pr_devel to optimize out arguments
  lib/test_printf.c: test dentry printing
  lib/test_printf.c: add test for large bitmaps
  lib/test_printf.c: account for kvasprintf tests
  lib/test_printf.c: add a few number() tests
  lib/test_printf.c: test precision quirks
  lib/test_printf.c: check for out-of-bound writes
  lib/test_printf.c: don't BUG
  lib/kasprintf.c: add sanity check to kvasprintf
  lib/vsprintf.c: warn about too large precisions and field widths
  lib/vsprintf.c: help gcc make number() smaller
  lib/vsprintf.c: expand field_width to 24 bits
  lib/vsprintf.c: eliminate potential race in string()
  lib/vsprintf.c: move string() below widen_string()
  lib/vsprintf.c: pull out padding code from dentry_name()
  printk: do cond_resched() between lines while outputting to consoles
  ...
2016-01-17 12:58:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds e535d74bc5 A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree. There's a few kernel-doc
fixes and various document tweaks.
 
 One patch reaches out of the documentation subtree to fix a comment in
 init/do_mounts_rd.c.  There didn't seem to be anybody more appropriate to
 take that one, so I accepted it.
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Merge tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jon Corbet:
 "A relatively boring cycle in the docs tree.  There's a few kernel-doc
  fixes and various document tweaks.

  One patch reaches out of the documentation subtree to fix a comment in
  init/do_mounts_rd.c.  There didn't seem to be anybody more appropriate
  to take that one, so I accepted it"

* tag 'docs-4.5' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (29 commits)
  thermal: add description for integral_cutoff unit
  Documentation: update libhugetlbfs site url
  Documentation: Explain pci=conf1,conf2 more verbosely
  DMA-API: fix confusing sentence in Documentation/DMA-API.txt
  Documentation: translations: update linux cross reference link
  Documentation: fix typo in CodingStyle
  init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions
  Documentation-getdelays: Apply a recommendation from "checkpatch.pl" in main()
  Documentation: HOWTO: update versions from 3.x to 4.x
  Documentation: remove outdated references from translations
  Doc: treewide: Fix grammar "a" to "an"
  Documentation: cpu-hotplug: Fix sysfs mount instructions
  can-doc: Add hint about getting timestamps
  Fix CFQ I/O scheduler parameter name in documentation
  Documentation: arm: remove dead links from Marvell Berlin docs
  Documentation: HOWTO: update code cross reference link
  Doc: Docbook/iio: Fix typo in iio.tmpl
  DocBook: make index.html generation less verbose by default
  DocBook: Cleanup: remove an unused $(call) line
  DocBook: Add a help message for DOCBOOKS env var
  ...
2016-01-17 11:55:07 -08:00
Riku Voipio b2113a417c uselib: default depending if libc5 was used
uselib hasn't been used since libc5; glibc does not use it.  Deprecate
uselib a bit more, by making the default y only if libc5 was widely used
on the plaform.

This makes arm64 kernel built with defconfig slightly smaller

bloat-o-meter:
  add/remove: 0/3 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-1390 (-1390)
  function                                     old     new   delta
  kernel_config_data                         18164   18162      -2
  uselib_flags                                  20       -     -20
  padzero                                      216     192     -24
  sys_uselib                                   380       -    -380
  load_elf_library                             964       -    -964

Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-01-16 11:17:24 -08:00
Paul Moore cb74ed278f audit: always enable syscall auditing when supported and audit is enabled
To the best of our knowledge, everyone who enables audit at compile
time also enables syscall auditing; this patch simplifies the Kconfig
menus by removing the option to disable syscall auditing when audit
is selected and the target arch supports it.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <pmoore@redhat.com>
2016-01-13 09:18:55 -05:00
Linus Torvalds 34a9304a96 Merge branch 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - cgroup v2 interface is now official.  It's no longer hidden behind a
   devel flag and can be mounted using the new cgroup2 fs type.

   Unfortunately, cpu v2 interface hasn't made it yet due to the
   discussion around in-process hierarchical resource distribution and
   only memory and io controllers can be used on the v2 interface at the
   moment.

 - The existing documentation which has always been a bit of mess is
   relocated under Documentation/cgroup-v1/. Documentation/cgroup-v2.txt
   is added as the authoritative documentation for the v2 interface.

 - Some features are added through for-4.5-ancestor-test branch to
   enable netfilter xt_cgroup match to use cgroup v2 paths.  The actual
   netfilter changes will be merged through the net tree which pulled in
   the said branch.

 - Various cleanups

* 'for-4.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: rename cgroup documentations
  cgroup: fix a typo.
  cgroup: Remove resource_counter.txt in Documentation/cgroup-legacy/00-INDEX.
  cgroup: demote subsystem init messages to KERN_DEBUG
  cgroup: Fix uninitialized variable warning
  cgroup: put controller Kconfig options in meaningful order
  cgroup: clean up the kernel configuration menu nomenclature
  cgroup_pids: fix a typo.
  Subject: cgroup: Fix incomplete dd command in blkio documentation
  cgroup: kill cgrp_ss_priv[CGROUP_CANFORK_COUNT] and friends
  cpuset: Replace all instances of time_t with time64_t
  cgroup: replace unified-hierarchy.txt with a proper cgroup v2 documentation
  cgroup: rename Documentation/cgroups/ to Documentation/cgroup-legacy/
  cgroup: replace __DEVEL__sane_behavior with cgroup2 fs type
2016-01-12 19:20:32 -08:00
Ingo Molnar 3104fb3dd4 Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

 - Adding transitivity uniformly to rcu_node structure ->lock
   acquisitions.  (This is implemented by the first two commits
   on top of v4.4-rc2 due to the pervasive nature of this change.)

 - Documentation updates, including RCU requirements.

 - Expedited grace-period changes.

 - Miscellaneous fixes.

 - Linked-list fixes, courtesy of KTSAN.

 - Torture-test updates.

 - Late-breaking fix to sysrq-generated crash.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-01-06 11:41:48 +01:00
Robert Elliott b03539665d init, Documentation: Remove ramdisk_blocksize mentions
The brd driver has never supported the ramdisk_blocksize kernel
parameter that was in the rd driver it replaced, so remove
mention of this parameter from comments and Documentation.

Commit 9db5579be4 ("rewrite rd") replaced rd with brd, keeping
a brd_blocksize variable in struct brd_device but never using it.

Commit a2cba2913c ("brd: get rid of unused members from struct
brd_device") removed the unused variable.

Commit f5abc8e758 ("Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt: updates")
removed mentions of ramdisk_blocksize from that file.

Signed-off-by: Robert Elliott <elliott@hpe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2015-12-26 05:22:00 -07:00
Johannes Weiner 6bf024e693 cgroup: put controller Kconfig options in meaningful order
To make it easier to quickly find what's needed list the basic
resource controllers of cgroup2 first - io, memory, cpu - while
pushing the more exotic and/or legacy controllers to the bottom.

tj: Removed spurious "&& CGROUPS" from CGROUP_PERF as suggested by Li.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-12-18 12:43:15 -05:00
Johannes Weiner a0166ec4b0 cgroup: clean up the kernel configuration menu nomenclature
The config options for the different cgroup controllers use various
terms: resource controller, cgroup subsystem, etc. Simplify this to
"controller", which is clear enough in the cgroup context.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-12-18 12:43:15 -05:00
Chris Wilson 86fffe4a61 kernel: remove stop_machine() Kconfig dependency
Currently the full stop_machine() routine is only enabled on SMP if
module unloading is enabled, or if the CPUs are hotpluggable.  This
leads to configurations where stop_machine() is broken as it will then
only run the callback on the local CPU with irqs disabled, and not stop
the other CPUs or run the callback on them.

For example, this breaks MTRR setup on x86 in certain configs since
ea8596bb2d ("kprobes/x86: Remove unused text_poke_smp() and
text_poke_smp_batch() functions") as the MTRR is only established on the
boot CPU.

This patch removes the Kconfig option for STOP_MACHINE and uses the SMP
and HOTPLUG_CPU config options to compile the correct stop_machine() for
the architecture, removing the false dependency on MODULE_UNLOAD in the
process.

Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/10/8/124
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84794
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov@parallels.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-12-12 10:15:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 967dcb8fe6 rcu: Wire up rcu_end_inkernel_boot()
This commit adds the invocation of rcu_end_inkernel_boot() just before
init is invoked.  This allows the CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig
option to do something useful and prepares for the upcoming
rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel parameter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-12-04 12:26:54 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 5b25b13ab0 sys_membarrier(): system-wide memory barrier (generic, x86)
Here is an implementation of a new system call, sys_membarrier(), which
executes a memory barrier on all threads running on the system.  It is
implemented by calling synchronize_sched().  It can be used to
distribute the cost of user-space memory barriers asymmetrically by
transforming pairs of memory barriers into pairs consisting of
sys_membarrier() and a compiler barrier.  For synchronization primitives
that distinguish between read-side and write-side (e.g.  userspace RCU
[1], rwlocks), the read-side can be accelerated significantly by moving
the bulk of the memory barrier overhead to the write-side.

The existing applications of which I am aware that would be improved by
this system call are as follows:

* Through Userspace RCU library (http://urcu.so)
  - DNS server (Knot DNS) https://www.knot-dns.cz/
  - Network sniffer (http://netsniff-ng.org/)
  - Distributed object storage (https://sheepdog.github.io/sheepdog/)
  - User-space tracing (http://lttng.org)
  - Network storage system (https://www.gluster.org/)
  - Virtual routers (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/DPDK_RCU_0MQ.pdf)
  - Financial software (https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/3/23/189)

Those projects use RCU in userspace to increase read-side speed and
scalability compared to locking.  Especially in the case of RCU used by
libraries, sys_membarrier can speed up the read-side by moving the bulk of
the memory barrier cost to synchronize_rcu().

* Direct users of sys_membarrier
  - core dotnet garbage collector (https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/issues/198)

Microsoft core dotnet GC developers are planning to use the mprotect()
side-effect of issuing memory barriers through IPIs as a way to implement
Windows FlushProcessWriteBuffers() on Linux.  They are referring to
sys_membarrier in their github thread, specifically stating that
sys_membarrier() is what they are looking for.

To explain the benefit of this scheme, let's introduce two example threads:

Thread A (non-frequent, e.g. executing liburcu synchronize_rcu())
Thread B (frequent, e.g. executing liburcu
rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock())

In a scheme where all smp_mb() in thread A are ordering memory accesses
with respect to smp_mb() present in Thread B, we can change each
smp_mb() within Thread A into calls to sys_membarrier() and each
smp_mb() within Thread B into compiler barriers "barrier()".

Before the change, we had, for each smp_mb() pairs:

Thread A                    Thread B
previous mem accesses       previous mem accesses
smp_mb()                    smp_mb()
following mem accesses      following mem accesses

After the change, these pairs become:

Thread A                    Thread B
prev mem accesses           prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()            barrier()
follow mem accesses         follow mem accesses

As we can see, there are two possible scenarios: either Thread B memory
accesses do not happen concurrently with Thread A accesses (1), or they
do (2).

1) Non-concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses:

Thread A                    Thread B
prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()
follow mem accesses
                            prev mem accesses
                            barrier()
                            follow mem accesses

In this case, thread B accesses will be weakly ordered. This is OK,
because at that point, thread A is not particularly interested in
ordering them with respect to its own accesses.

2) Concurrent Thread A vs Thread B accesses

Thread A                    Thread B
prev mem accesses           prev mem accesses
sys_membarrier()            barrier()
follow mem accesses         follow mem accesses

In this case, thread B accesses, which are ensured to be in program
order thanks to the compiler barrier, will be "upgraded" to full
smp_mb() by synchronize_sched().

* Benchmarks

On Intel Xeon E5405 (8 cores)
(one thread is calling sys_membarrier, the other 7 threads are busy
looping)

1000 non-expedited sys_membarrier calls in 33s =3D 33 milliseconds/call.

* User-space user of this system call: Userspace RCU library

Both the signal-based and the sys_membarrier userspace RCU schemes
permit us to remove the memory barrier from the userspace RCU
rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() primitives, thus significantly
accelerating them. These memory barriers are replaced by compiler
barriers on the read-side, and all matching memory barriers on the
write-side are turned into an invocation of a memory barrier on all
active threads in the process. By letting the kernel perform this
synchronization rather than dumbly sending a signal to every process
threads (as we currently do), we diminish the number of unnecessary wake
ups and only issue the memory barriers on active threads. Non-running
threads do not need to execute such barrier anyway, because these are
implied by the scheduler context switches.

Results in liburcu:

Operations in 10s, 6 readers, 2 writers:

memory barriers in reader:    1701557485 reads, 2202847 writes
signal-based scheme:          9830061167 reads,    6700 writes
sys_membarrier:               9952759104 reads,     425 writes
sys_membarrier (dyn. check):  7970328887 reads,     425 writes

The dynamic sys_membarrier availability check adds some overhead to
the read-side compared to the signal-based scheme, but besides that,
sys_membarrier slightly outperforms the signal-based scheme. However,
this non-expedited sys_membarrier implementation has a much slower grace
period than signal and memory barrier schemes.

Besides diminishing the number of wake-ups, one major advantage of the
membarrier system call over the signal-based scheme is that it does not
need to reserve a signal. This plays much more nicely with libraries,
and with processes injected into for tracing purposes, for which we
cannot expect that signals will be unused by the application.

An expedited version of this system call can be added later on to speed
up the grace period. Its implementation will likely depend on reading
the cpu_curr()->mm without holding each CPU's rq lock.

This patch adds the system call to x86 and to asm-generic.

[1] http://urcu.so

membarrier(2) man page:

MEMBARRIER(2)              Linux Programmer's Manual             MEMBARRIER(2)

NAME
       membarrier - issue memory barriers on a set of threads

SYNOPSIS
       #include <linux/membarrier.h>

       int membarrier(int cmd, int flags);

DESCRIPTION
       The cmd argument is one of the following:

       MEMBARRIER_CMD_QUERY
              Query  the  set  of  supported commands. It returns a bitmask of
              supported commands.

       MEMBARRIER_CMD_SHARED
              Execute a memory barrier on all threads running on  the  system.
              Upon  return from system call, the caller thread is ensured that
              all running threads have passed through a state where all memory
              accesses  to  user-space  addresses  match program order between
              entry to and return from the system  call  (non-running  threads
              are de facto in such a state). This covers threads from all pro=E2=80=90
              cesses running on the system.  This command returns 0.

       The flags argument needs to be 0. For future extensions.

       All memory accesses performed  in  program  order  from  each  targeted
       thread is guaranteed to be ordered with respect to sys_membarrier(). If
       we use the semantic "barrier()" to represent a compiler barrier forcing
       memory  accesses  to  be performed in program order across the barrier,
       and smp_mb() to represent explicit memory barriers forcing full  memory
       ordering  across  the barrier, we have the following ordering table for
       each pair of barrier(), sys_membarrier() and smp_mb():

       The pair ordering is detailed as (O: ordered, X: not ordered):

                              barrier()   smp_mb() sys_membarrier()
              barrier()          X           X            O
              smp_mb()           X           O            O
              sys_membarrier()   O           O            O

RETURN VALUE
       On success, these system calls return zero.  On error, -1 is  returned,
       and errno is set appropriately. For a given command, with flags
       argument set to 0, this system call is guaranteed to always return the
       same value until reboot.

ERRORS
       ENOSYS System call is not implemented.

       EINVAL Invalid arguments.

Linux                             2015-04-15                     MEMBARRIER(2)

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nicholas Miell <nmiell@comcast.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-11 15:21:34 -07:00
Dave Young 2965faa5e0 kexec: split kexec_load syscall from kexec core code
There are two kexec load syscalls, kexec_load another and kexec_file_load.
 kexec_file_load has been splited as kernel/kexec_file.c.  In this patch I
split kexec_load syscall code to kernel/kexec.c.

And add a new kconfig option KEXEC_CORE, so we can disable kexec_load and
use kexec_file_load only, or vice verse.

The original requirement is from Ted Ts'o, he want kexec kernel signature
being checked with CONFIG_KEXEC_VERIFY_SIG enabled.  But kexec-tools use
kexec_load syscall can bypass the checking.

Vivek Goyal proposed to create a common kconfig option so user can compile
in only one syscall for loading kexec kernel.  KEXEC/KEXEC_FILE selects
KEXEC_CORE so that old config files still work.

Because there's general code need CONFIG_KEXEC_CORE, so I updated all the
architecture Kconfig with a new option KEXEC_CORE, and let KEXEC selects
KEXEC_CORE in arch Kconfig.  Also updated general kernel code with to
kexec_load syscall.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Tesarik <ptesarik@suse.cz>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker 90f023030e kmod: use system_unbound_wq instead of khelper
We need to launch the usermodehelper kernel threads with the widest
affinity and this is partly why we use khelper.  This workqueue has
unbound properties and thus a wide affinity inherited by all its children.

Now khelper also has special properties that we aren't much interested in:
ordered and singlethread.  There is really no need about ordering as all
we do is creating kernel threads.  This can be done concurrently.  And
singlethread is a useless limitation as well.

The workqueue engine already proposes generic unbound workqueues that
don't share these useless properties and handle well parallel jobs.

The only worrysome specific is their affinity to the node of the current
CPU.  It's fine for creating the usermodehelper kernel threads but those
inherit this affinity for longer jobs such as requesting modules.

This patch proposes to use these node affine unbound workqueues assuming
that a node is sufficient to handle several parallel usermodehelper
requests.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-10 13:29:01 -07:00
Linus Torvalds b793c005ce Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "Highlights:

   - PKCS#7 support added to support signed kexec, also utilized for
     module signing.  See comments in 3f1e1bea.

     ** NOTE: this requires linking against the OpenSSL library, which
        must be installed, e.g.  the openssl-devel on Fedora **

   - Smack
      - add IPv6 host labeling; ignore labels on kernel threads
      - support smack labeling mounts which use binary mount data

   - SELinux:
      - add ioctl whitelisting (see
        http://kernsec.org/files/lss2015/vanderstoep.pdf)
      - fix mprotect PROT_EXEC regression caused by mm change

   - Seccomp:
      - add ptrace options for suspend/resume"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (57 commits)
  PKCS#7: Add OIDs for sha224, sha284 and sha512 hash algos and use them
  Documentation/Changes: Now need OpenSSL devel packages for module signing
  scripts: add extract-cert and sign-file to .gitignore
  modsign: Handle signing key in source tree
  modsign: Use if_changed rule for extracting cert from module signing key
  Move certificate handling to its own directory
  sign-file: Fix warning about BIO_reset() return value
  PKCS#7: Add MODULE_LICENSE() to test module
  Smack - Fix build error with bringup unconfigured
  sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
  PKCS#7: Appropriately restrict authenticated attributes and content type
  KEYS: Add a name for PKEY_ID_PKCS7
  PKCS#7: Improve and export the X.509 ASN.1 time object decoder
  modsign: Use extract-cert to process CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS
  extract-cert: Cope with multiple X.509 certificates in a single file
  sign-file: Generate CMS message as signature instead of PKCS#7
  PKCS#7: Support CMS messages also [RFC5652]
  X.509: Change recorded SKID & AKID to not include Subject or Issuer
  PKCS#7: Check content type and versions
  MAINTAINERS: The keyrings mailing list has moved
  ...
2015-09-08 12:41:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 7d9071a095 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "In this one:

   - d_move fixes (Eric Biederman)

   - UFS fixes (me; locking is mostly sane now, a bunch of bugs in error
     handling ought to be fixed)

   - switch of sb_writers to percpu rwsem (Oleg Nesterov)

   - superblock scalability (Josef Bacik and Dave Chinner)

   - swapon(2) race fix (Hugh Dickins)"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (65 commits)
  vfs: Test for and handle paths that are unreachable from their mnt_root
  dcache: Reduce the scope of i_lock in d_splice_alias
  dcache: Handle escaped paths in prepend_path
  mm: fix potential data race in SyS_swapon
  inode: don't softlockup when evicting inodes
  inode: rename i_wb_list to i_io_list
  sync: serialise per-superblock sync operations
  inode: convert inode_sb_list_lock to per-sb
  inode: add hlist_fake to avoid the inode hash lock in evict
  writeback: plug writeback at a high level
  change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore
  shift percpu_counter_destroy() into destroy_super_work()
  percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
  percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_rwsem_release() and percpu_rwsem_acquire()
  percpu-rwsem: introduce percpu_down_read_trylock()
  document rwsem_release() in sb_wait_write()
  fix the broken lockdep logic in __sb_start_write()
  introduce __sb_writers_{acquired,release}() helpers
  ufs_inode_get{frag,block}(): get rid of 'phys' argument
  ufs_getfrag_block(): tidy up a bit
  ...
2015-09-05 20:34:28 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 6c0f568e84 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - a few misc things

 - Andy's "ambient capabilities"

 - fs/nofity updates

 - the ocfs2 queue

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates and feature work.

 - some of MM.  Includes Andrea's userfaultfd feature.

[ Hadn't noticed that userfaultfd was 'default y' when applying the
  patches, so that got fixed in this merge instead.  We do _not_ mark
  new features that nobody uses yet 'default y'   - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits)
  mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_has_reserves() return bool
  mm/madvise.c: make madvise_behaviour_valid() return bool
  mm/memory.c: make tlb_next_batch() return bool
  mm/dmapool.c: change is_page_busy() return from int to bool
  mm: remove struct node_active_region
  mremap: simplify the "overlap" check in mremap_to()
  mremap: don't do uneccesary checks if new_len == old_len
  mremap: don't do mm_populate(new_addr) on failure
  mm: move ->mremap() from file_operations to vm_operations_struct
  mremap: don't leak new_vma if f_op->mremap() fails
  mm/hugetlb.c: make vma_shareable() return bool
  mm: make GUP handle pfn mapping unless FOLL_GET is requested
  mm: fix status code which move_pages() returns for zero page
  mm: memcontrol: bring back the VM_BUG_ON() in mem_cgroup_swapout()
  genalloc: add support of multiple gen_pools per device
  genalloc: add name arg to gen_pool_get() and devm_gen_pool_create()
  mm/memblock: WARN_ON when nid differs from overlap region
  Documentation/features/vm: add feature description and arch support status for batched TLB flush after unmap
  mm: defer flush of writable TLB entries
  mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages
  ...
2015-09-05 14:27:38 -07:00
Mel Gorman 72b252aed5 mm: send one IPI per CPU to TLB flush all entries after unmapping pages
An IPI is sent to flush remote TLBs when a page is unmapped that was
potentially accesssed by other CPUs.  There are many circumstances where
this happens but the obvious one is kswapd reclaiming pages belonging to a
running process as kswapd and the task are likely running on separate
CPUs.

On small machines, this is not a significant problem but as machine gets
larger with more cores and more memory, the cost of these IPIs can be
high.  This patch uses a simple structure that tracks CPUs that
potentially have TLB entries for pages being unmapped.  When the unmapping
is complete, the full TLB is flushed on the assumption that a refill cost
is lower than flushing individual entries.

Architectures wishing to do this must give the following guarantee.

        If a clean page is unmapped and not immediately flushed, the
        architecture must guarantee that a write to that linear address
        from a CPU with a cached TLB entry will trap a page fault.

This is essentially what the kernel already depends on but the window is
much larger with this patch applied and is worth highlighting.  The
architecture should consider whether the cost of the full TLB flush is
higher than sending an IPI to flush each individual entry.  An additional
architecture helper called flush_tlb_local is required.  It's a trivial
wrapper with some accounting in the x86 case.

The impact of this patch depends on the workload as measuring any benefit
requires both mapped pages co-located on the LRU and memory pressure.  The
case with the biggest impact is multiple processes reading mapped pages
taken from the vm-scalability test suite.  The test case uses NR_CPU
readers of mapped files that consume 10*RAM.

Linear mapped reader on a 4-node machine with 64G RAM and 48 CPUs

                                           4.2.0-rc1          4.2.0-rc1
                                             vanilla       flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed      159.62 (  0.00%)   120.68 ( 24.40%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range    30.59 (  0.00%)     2.80 ( 90.85%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv     6.70 (  0.00%)     0.64 ( 90.38%)

           4.2.0-rc1    4.2.0-rc1
             vanilla flushfull-v7
User          581.00       611.43
System       5804.93      4111.76
Elapsed       161.03       122.12

This is showing that the readers completed 24.40% faster with 29% less
system CPU time.  From vmstats, it is known that the vanilla kernel was
interrupted roughly 900K times per second during the steady phase of the
test and the patched kernel was interrupts 180K times per second.

The impact is lower on a single socket machine.

                                           4.2.0-rc1          4.2.0-rc1
                                             vanilla       flushfull-v7
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-elapsed       25.33 (  0.00%)    20.38 ( 19.54%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_range     0.91 (  0.00%)     1.44 (-58.24%)
Ops lru-file-mmap-read-time_stddv     0.28 (  0.00%)     0.47 (-65.34%)

           4.2.0-rc1    4.2.0-rc1
             vanilla flushfull-v7
User           58.09        57.64
System        111.82        76.56
Elapsed        27.29        22.55

It's still a noticeable improvement with vmstat showing interrupts went
from roughly 500K per second to 45K per second.

The patch will have no impact on workloads with no memory pressure or have
relatively few mapped pages.  It will have an unpredictable impact on the
workload running on the CPU being flushed as it'll depend on how many TLB
entries need to be refilled and how long that takes.  Worst case, the TLB
will be completely cleared of active entries when the target PFNs were not
resident at all.

[sasha.levin@oracle.com: trace tlb flush after disabling preemption in try_to_unmap_flush]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Andrea Arcangeli a14c151e56 userfaultfd: buildsystem activation
This allows to select the userfaultfd during configuration to build it.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Cc: Sanidhya Kashyap <sanidhya.gatech@gmail.com>
Cc: zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Andres Lagar-Cavilla <andreslc@google.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Peter Feiner <pfeiner@google.com>
Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: "Huangpeng (Peter)" <peter.huangpeng@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-09-04 16:54:41 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 8bdc69b764 Merge branch 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup
Pull cgroup updates from Tejun Heo:

 - a new PIDs controller is added.  It turns out that PIDs are actually
   an independent resource from kmem due to the limited PID space.

 - more core preparations for the v2 interface.  Once cpu side interface
   is settled, it should be ready for lifting the devel mask.
   for-4.3-unified-base was temporarily branched so that other trees
   (block) can pull cgroup core changes that blkcg changes depend on.

 - a non-critical idr_preload usage bug fix.

* 'for-4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
  cgroup: pids: fix invalid get/put usage
  cgroup: introduce cgroup_subsys->legacy_name
  cgroup: don't print subsystems for the default hierarchy
  cgroup: make cftype->private a unsigned long
  cgroup: export cgrp_dfl_root
  cgroup: define controller file conventions
  cgroup: fix idr_preload usage
  cgroup: add documentation for the PIDs controller
  cgroup: implement the PIDs subsystem
  cgroup: allow a cgroup subsystem to reject a fork
2015-09-02 08:04:23 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov bf3eac84c4 percpu-rwsem: kill CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM
Remove CONFIG_PERCPU_RWSEM, the next patch adds the unconditional
user of percpu_rw_semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
2015-08-15 13:52:11 +02:00
David Howells cfc411e7ff Move certificate handling to its own directory
Move certificate handling out of the kernel/ directory and into a certs/
directory to get all the weird stuff in one place and move the generated
signing keys into this directory.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2015-08-14 16:06:13 +01:00
David Howells 228c37ff98 sign-file: Document dependency on OpenSSL devel libraries
The revised sign-file program is no longer a script that wraps the openssl
program, but now rather a program that makes use of OpenSSL's crypto
library.  This means that to build the sign-file program, the kernel build
process now has a dependency on the OpenSSL development packages in
addition to OpenSSL itself.

Document this in Kconfig and in module-signing.txt.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2015-08-12 17:01:01 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 9b9412dc70 Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:

  - The combination of tree geometry-initialization simplifications
    and OS-jitter-reduction changes to expedited grace periods.
    These two are stacked due to the large number of conflicts
    that would otherwise result.

    [ With one addition, a temporary commit to silence a lockdep false
      positive. Additional changes to the expedited grace-period
      primitives (queued for 4.4) remove the cause of this false
      positive, and therefore include a revert of this temporary commit. ]

  - Documentation updates.

  - Torture-test updates.

  - Miscellaneous fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-08-12 12:12:12 +02:00
David Woodhouse 99d27b1b52 modsign: Add explicit CONFIG_SYSTEM_TRUSTED_KEYS option
Let the user explicitly provide a file containing trusted keys, instead of
just automatically finding files matching *.x509 in the build tree and
trusting whatever we find. This really ought to be an *explicit*
configuration, and the build rules for dealing with the files were
fairly painful too.

Fix applied from James Morris that removes an '=' from a macro definition
in kernel/Makefile as this is a feature that only exists from GNU make 3.82
onwards.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:14 +01:00
David Woodhouse fb11794991 modsign: Use single PEM file for autogenerated key
The current rule for generating signing_key.priv and signing_key.x509 is
a classic example of a bad rule which has a tendency to break parallel
make. When invoked to create *either* target, it generates the other
target as a side-effect that make didn't predict.

So let's switch to using a single file signing_key.pem which contains
both key and certificate. That matches what we do in the case of an
external key specified by CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY anyway, so it's also
slightly cleaner.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:14 +01:00
David Woodhouse 1329e8cc69 modsign: Extract signing cert from CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_KEY if needed
Where an external PEM file or PKCS#11 URI is given, we can get the cert
from it for ourselves instead of making the user drop signing_key.x509
in place for us.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:14 +01:00
David Woodhouse 19e91b69d7 modsign: Allow external signing key to be specified
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:14 +01:00
David Howells 091f6e26eb MODSIGN: Extract the blob PKCS#7 signature verifier from module signing
Extract the function that drives the PKCS#7 signature verification given a
data blob and a PKCS#7 blob out from the module signing code and lump it with
the system keyring code as it's generic.  This makes it independent of module
config options and opens it to use by the firmware loader.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@canonical.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@kernel.org>
2015-08-07 16:26:13 +01:00
David Howells 3f1e1bea34 MODSIGN: Use PKCS#7 messages as module signatures
Move to using PKCS#7 messages as module signatures because:

 (1) We have to be able to support the use of X.509 certificates that don't
     have a subjKeyId set.  We're currently relying on this to look up the
     X.509 certificate in the trusted keyring list.

 (2) PKCS#7 message signed information blocks have a field that supplies the
     data required to match with the X.509 certificate that signed it.

 (3) The PKCS#7 certificate carries fields that specify the digest algorithm
     used to generate the signature in a standardised way and the X.509
     certificates specify the public key algorithm in a standardised way - so
     we don't need our own methods of specifying these.

 (4) We now have PKCS#7 message support in the kernel for signed kexec purposes
     and we can make use of this.

To make this work, the old sign-file script has been replaced with a program
that needs compiling in a previous patch.  The rules to build it are added
here.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
2015-08-07 16:26:13 +01:00
Mel Gorman 4248b0da46 fs, file table: reinit files_stat.max_files after deferred memory initialisation
Dave Hansen reported the following;

	My laptop has been behaving strangely with 4.2-rc2.  Once I log
	in to my X session, I start getting all kinds of strange errors
	from applications and see this in my dmesg:

        	VFS: file-max limit 8192 reached

The problem is that the file-max is calculated before memory is fully
initialised and miscalculates how much memory the kernel is using.  This
patch recalculates file-max after deferred memory initialisation.  Note
that using memory hotplug infrastructure would not have avoided this
problem as the value is not recalculated after memory hot-add.

4.1:             files_stat.max_files = 6582781
4.2-rc2:         files_stat.max_files = 8192
4.2-rc2 patched: files_stat.max_files = 6562467

Small differences with the patch applied and 4.1 but not enough to matter.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Alex Ng <alexng@microsoft.com>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-08-07 04:39:40 +03:00
Paul E. McKenney be55fa2ad2 rcu: Hide RCU_NOCB_CPU behind RCU_EXPERT
This commit prevents Kconfig from asking the user about RCU_NOCB_CPU
unless the user really wants to be asked.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-07-22 15:27:25 -07:00
Aleksa Sarai 49b786ea14 cgroup: implement the PIDs subsystem
Adds a new single-purpose PIDs subsystem to limit the number of
tasks that can be forked inside a cgroup. Essentially this is an
implementation of RLIMIT_NPROC that applies to a cgroup rather than a
process tree.

However, it should be noted that organisational operations (adding and
removing tasks from a PIDs hierarchy) will *not* be prevented. Rather,
the number of tasks in the hierarchy cannot exceed the limit through
forking. This is due to the fact that, in the unified hierarchy, attach
cannot fail (and it is not possible for a task to overcome its PIDs
cgroup policy limit by attaching to a child cgroup -- even if migrating
mid-fork it must be able to fork in the parent first).

PIDs are fundamentally a global resource, and it is possible to reach
PID exhaustion inside a cgroup without hitting any reasonable kmemcg
policy. Once you've hit PID exhaustion, you're only in a marginally
better state than OOM. This subsystem allows PID exhaustion inside a
cgroup to be prevented.

Signed-off-by: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-07-14 17:29:23 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney d1ec4c34c7 rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL
The RCU_USER_QS Kconfig parameter is now just a synonym for NO_HZ_FULL,
so this commit eliminates RCU_USER_QS, replacing all uses with NO_HZ_FULL.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-07-06 13:52:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 22a093b2fb Merge branch 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Debug info and other statistics fixes and related enhancements"

* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  sched/numa: Fix numa balancing stats in /proc/pid/sched
  sched/numa: Show numa_group ID in /proc/sched_debug task listings
  sched/debug: Move print_cfs_rq() declaration to kernel/sched/sched.h
  sched/stat: Expose /proc/pid/schedstat if CONFIG_SCHED_INFO=y
  sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency
2015-07-04 08:56:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 91cca0f0ff Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull max log buf size increase from Ingo Molnar:
 "Ran into this limit recently, so increase it by an order of magnitude"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  printk: Increase maximum CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT from 21 to 25
2015-07-04 08:16:41 -07:00
Naveen N. Rao f6db834799 sched/stat: Simplify the sched_info accounting dependency
Both CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS=y and CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT=y track task
sched_info, which results in ugly #if clauses.

Simplify the code by introducing a synthethic CONFIG_SCHED_INFO
switch, selected by both.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl
Cc: ricklind@us.ibm.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/8d19eef800811a94b0f91bcbeb27430a884d7433.1435255405.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-04 10:04:30 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 2d01eedf1d Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge third patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - the rest of MM

 - scripts/gdb updates

 - ipc/ updates

 - lib/ updates

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - various other misc things

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (67 commits)
  genalloc: rename of_get_named_gen_pool() to of_gen_pool_get()
  genalloc: rename dev_get_gen_pool() to gen_pool_get()
  x86: opt into HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, for both 32-bit and 64-bit
  MAINTAINERS: add zpool
  MAINTAINERS: BCACHE: Kent Overstreet has changed email address
  MAINTAINERS: move Jens Osterkamp to CREDITS
  MAINTAINERS: remove unused nbd.h pattern
  MAINTAINERS: update brcm gpio filename pattern
  MAINTAINERS: update brcm dts pattern
  MAINTAINERS: update sound soc intel patterns
  MAINTAINERS: remove website for paride
  MAINTAINERS: update Emulex ocrdma email addresses
  bcache: use kvfree() in various places
  libcxgbi: use kvfree() in cxgbi_free_big_mem()
  target: use kvfree() in session alloc and free
  IB/ehca: use kvfree() in ipz_queue_{cd}tor()
  drm/nouveau/gem: use kvfree() in u_free()
  drm: use kvfree() in drm_free_large()
  cxgb4: use kvfree() in t4_free_mem()
  cxgb3: use kvfree() in cxgb_free_mem()
  ...
2015-07-01 17:47:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 02201e3f1b Minor merge needed, due to function move.
Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization to
 speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module lock
 doing that too.
 
 A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's breaking
 up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load another module (yeah,
 really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and
 !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were appended too.
 
 Cheers,
 Rusty.
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Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod->param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
2015-07-01 10:49:25 -07:00
Ingo Molnar fb39f98d14 printk: Increase maximum CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT from 21 to 25
So I tried to some kernel debugging that produced a ton of kernel messages
on a big box, and wanted to save them all: but CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT maxes
out at 21 (2 MB).

Increase it to 25 (32 MB).

This does not affect any existing config or defaults.

Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2015-07-01 10:19:11 +02:00
Mel Gorman 0e1cc95b4c mm: meminit: finish initialisation of struct pages before basic setup
Waiman Long reported that 24TB machines hit OOM during basic setup when
struct page initialisation was deferred.  One approach is to initialise
memory on demand but it interferes with page allocator paths.  This patch
creates dedicated threads to initialise memory before basic setup.  It
then blocks on a rw_semaphore until completion as a wait_queue and counter
is overkill.  This may be slower to boot but it's simplier overall and
also gets rid of a section mangling which existed so kswapd could do the
initialisation.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: include rwsem.h, use DECLARE_RWSEM, fix comment, remove unneeded cast]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Waiman Long <waiman.long@hp.com
Cc: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Scott Norton <scott.norton@hp.com>
Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-06-30 19:44:56 -07:00