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DAMOS operation actions are explained nearly twice on the DAMON usage
document, once for the sysfs interface, and then again for the debugfs
interface. Duplication is bad. Also it would better to keep this kind of
concept level details in design document and keep the usage document small
and focus on only the usage. Move the list to design document and update
usage document to reference it.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240217005842.87348-3-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Currently the default compression algorithm is selected based on
compile time options. Introduce a module parameter "hibernate.compressor"
to override this behaviour.
Different compression algorithms have different characteristics and
hibernation may benefit when it uses any of these algorithms, especially
when a secondary algorithm(LZ4) offers better decompression speeds over
a default algorithm(LZO), which in turn reduces hibernation image
restore time.
Users can override the default algorithm in two ways:
1) Passing "hibernate.compressor" as kernel command line parameter.
Usage:
LZO: hibernate.compressor=lzo
LZ4: hibernate.compressor=lz4
2) Specifying the algorithm at runtime.
Usage:
LZO: echo lzo > /sys/module/hibernate/parameters/compressor
LZ4: echo lz4 > /sys/module/hibernate/parameters/compressor
Currently LZO and LZ4 are the supported algorithms. LZO is the default
compression algorithm used with hibernation.
Signed-off-by: Nikhil V <quic_nprakash@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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When a system has multiple NUMA nodes and it becomes bandwidth hungry,
using the current MPOL_INTERLEAVE could be an wise option.
However, if those NUMA nodes consist of different types of memory such as
socket-attached DRAM and CXL/PCIe attached DRAM, the round-robin based
interleave policy does not optimally distribute data to make use of their
different bandwidth characteristics.
Instead, interleave is more effective when the allocation policy follows
each NUMA nodes' bandwidth weight rather than a simple 1:1 distribution.
This patch introduces a new memory policy, MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE,
enabling weighted interleave between NUMA nodes. Weighted interleave
allows for proportional distribution of memory across multiple numa nodes,
preferably apportioned to match the bandwidth of each node.
For example, if a system has 1 CPU node (0), and 2 memory nodes (0,1),
with bandwidth of (100GB/s, 50GB/s) respectively, the appropriate weight
distribution is (2:1).
Weights for each node can be assigned via the new sysfs extension:
/sys/kernel/mm/mempolicy/weighted_interleave/
For now, the default value of all nodes will be `1`, which matches the
behavior of standard 1:1 round-robin interleave. An extension will be
added in the future to allow default values to be registered at kernel and
device bringup time.
The policy allocates a number of pages equal to the set weights. For
example, if the weights are (2,1), then 2 pages will be allocated on node0
for every 1 page allocated on node1.
The new flag MPOL_WEIGHTED_INTERLEAVE can be used in set_mempolicy(2)
and mbind(2).
Some high level notes about the pieces of weighted interleave:
current->il_prev:
Tracks the node previously allocated from.
current->il_weight:
The active weight of the current node (current->il_prev)
When this reaches 0, current->il_prev is set to the next node
and current->il_weight is set to the next weight.
weighted_interleave_nodes:
Counts the number of allocations as they occur, and applies the
weight for the current node. When the weight reaches 0, switch
to the next node. Operates only on task->mempolicy.
weighted_interleave_nid:
Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual
node weight, then calculates the node based on the given index.
Operates on VMA policies.
bulk_array_weighted_interleave:
Gets the total weight of the nodemask as well as each individual
node weight, then calculates the number of "interleave rounds" as
well as any delta ("partial round"). Calculates the number of
pages for each node and allocates them.
If a node was scheduled for interleave via interleave_nodes, the
current weight will be allocated first.
Operates only on the task->mempolicy.
One piece of complexity is the interaction between a recent refactor which
split the logic to acquire the "ilx" (interleave index) of an allocation
and the actually application of the interleave. If a call to
alloc_pages_mpol() were made with a weighted-interleave policy and ilx set
to NO_INTERLEAVE_INDEX, weighted_interleave_nodes() would operate on a VMA
policy - violating the description above.
An inspection of all callers of alloc_pages_mpol() shows that all external
callers set ilx to `0`, an index value, or will call get_vma_policy() to
acquire the ilx.
For example, mm/shmem.c may call into alloc_pages_mpol. The call stacks
all set (pgoff_t ilx) or end up in `get_vma_policy()`. This enforces the
`weighted_interleave_nodes()` and `weighted_interleave_nid()` policy
requirements (task/vma respectively).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202170238.90004-4-gregory.price@memverge.com
Suggested-by: Hasan Al Maruf <Hasan.Maruf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Price <gregory.price@memverge.com>
Co-developed-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Rakie Kim <rakie.kim@sk.com>
Co-developed-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Honggyu Kim <honggyu.kim@sk.com>
Co-developed-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Hyeongtak Ji <hyeongtak.ji@sk.com>
Co-developed-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasulu Thanneeru <sthanneeru.opensrc@micron.com>
Co-developed-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Jonnalagadda <ravis.opensrc@micron.com>
Reviewed-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Update DAMON debugfs interface sections on the usage document to reflect
the fact that 'monitor_on' file has renamed to 'monitor_on_DEPRECATED'.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-9-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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interface
Document the newly added DAMON debugfs interface deprecation notice file
on the usage document.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-6-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "mm/damon: make DAMON debugfs interface deprecation
unignorable".
DAMON debugfs interface is deprecated in February 2023, by commit
5445fcbc4cda ("Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: add DAMON debugfs
interface deprecation notice"). Make the fact unable to be easily ignored
by removing an example usage from the document (patch 1), renaming the
config (patch 2), adding a deprecation notice file to the debugfs
directory (patches 3-5), and renaming the debugfs file that essnetial to
be used for real use of DAMON (patches 6-9).
This patch (of 9):
DAMON tracepoints example on the DAMON usage document is using DAMON
debugfs interface, which is deprecated. Use its alternative, DAMON sysfs
interface.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-1-sj@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240130013549.89538-2-sj@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <2023002089@link.tyut.edu.cn>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Yanteng Si <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When CONFIG_WQ_CPU_INTENSIVE_REPORT is set, the kernel will report
the work functions which violate the intensive_threshold_us repeatedly.
And now, only when the violate times exceed 4 and is a power of 2,
the kernel warning could be triggered.
However, sometimes, even if a long work execution time occurs only once,
it may cause other work to be delayed for a long time. This may also
cause some problems sometimes.
In order to freely control the threshold of warninging, a boot argument
is added so that the user can control the warning threshold to be printed.
At the same time, keep the exponential backoff to prevent reporting too much.
By default, the warning threshold is 4.
tj: Updated kernel-parameters.txt description.
Signed-off-by: Xuewen Yan <xuewen.yan@unisoc.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Adjust the title of "The Linux kernel user's and administrator's guide" to
adhere to the expected reStructuredText (rst) formatting, using double
equal signs for the main header.
Signed-off-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240109155643.3489369-2-carlos.bilbao@amd.com
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On a 8-socket server the TSC is wrongly marked as 'unstable' and disabled
during boot time on about one out of 120 boot attempts:
clocksource: timekeeping watchdog on CPU227: wd-tsc-wd excessive read-back delay of 153560ns vs. limit of 125000ns,
wd-wd read-back delay only 11440ns, attempt 3, marking tsc unstable
tsc: Marking TSC unstable due to clocksource watchdog
TSC found unstable after boot, most likely due to broken BIOS. Use 'tsc=unstable'.
sched_clock: Marking unstable (119294969739, 159204297)<-(125446229205, -5992055152)
clocksource: Checking clocksource tsc synchronization from CPU 319 to CPUs 0,99,136,180,210,542,601,896.
clocksource: Switched to clocksource hpet
The reason is that for platform with a large number of CPUs, there are
sporadic big or huge read latencies while reading the watchog/clocksource
during boot or when system is under stress work load, and the frequency and
maximum value of the latency goes up with the number of online CPUs.
The cCurrent code already has logic to detect and filter such high latency
case by reading the watchdog twice and checking the two deltas. Due to the
randomness of the latency, there is a low probabilty that the first delta
(latency) is big, but the second delta is small and looks valid. The
watchdog code retries the readouts by default twice, which is not
necessarily sufficient for systems with a large number of CPUs.
There is a command line parameter 'max_cswd_read_retries' which allows to
increase the number of retries, but that's not user friendly as it needs to
be tweaked per system. As the number of required retries is proportional to
the number of online CPUs, this parameter can be calculated at runtime.
Scale and enlarge the number of retries according to the number of online
CPUs and remove the command line parameter completely.
[ tglx: Massaged change log and comments ]
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Jin Wang <jin1.wang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240221060859.1027450-1-feng.tang@intel.com
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Add more documentation details for most aspects of the data_vio
read and write processes. Also correct a few minor errors and
rewrite some text for clarity.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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This adds the admin-guide documentation for dm-vdo.
vdo.rst is the guide to using dm-vdo. vdo-design is an overview of the
design of dm-vdo.
Co-developed-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Signed-off-by: J. corwin Coburn <corwin@hurlbutnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Sakai <msakai@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@kernel.org>
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Also document stable frames and what it means for testing tools.
Signed-off-by: Detlev Casanova <detlev.casanova@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
[hverkuil: add media: prefix to Subject]
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When a kdump kernel is started from a crashing CPU then there is no
guarantee that this CPU is the real boot CPU (BSP). If the kdump kernel
tries to online the BSP then the INIT sequence will reset the machine.
There is a command line option to prevent this, but in case of nested kdump
kernels this is wrong.
But that command line option is not required at all because the real
BSP is enumerated as the first CPU by firmware. Support for the only
known system which was different (Voyager) got removed long ago.
Detect whether the boot CPU APIC ID is the first APIC ID enumerated by
the firmware. If the first APIC ID enumerated is not matching the boot
CPU APIC ID then skip registering it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Michael Kelley <mhklinux@outlook.com>
Tested-by: Sohil Mehta <sohil.mehta@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240213210252.348542071@linutronix.de
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Updates the bootloader and installation instructions in
admin-guide/README.rst to align with modern practices.
Details of Changes:
- Added guidance on using EFISTUB for UEFI/EFI systems.
- Noted that LILO is no longer in active development and provides
alternatives.
- Kept LILO instructions but marked as Legacy LILO Instructions.
Suggest removal in future patch.
Signed-off-by: Hunter Chasens <hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
[jc: repaired added whitespace warnings]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240207171007.45405-1-hunter.chasens18@ncf.edu
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This is where this stuff should be.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87a5pes8jy.fsf@meer.lwn.net
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.
Specify:
rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]
Which also requires
rcu_nocbs=all
at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.
To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) <qyousef@layalina.io>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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Kernel boot parameters declared with early_param() are parsed before
embedded parameters are extracted from initrd, and early_param()
parameters are not helpful when embedded in initrd. Therefore,
mark early_param() kernel boot parameters with "EARLY" in
kernel-parameters.txt.
The following early_param() calls declare kernel boot parameters that
are undocumented:
early_param("atmel.pm_modes", at91_pm_modes_select);
early_param("mem_fclk_21285", early_fclk);
early_param("ecc", early_ecc);
early_param("cachepolicy", early_cachepolicy);
early_param("nodebugmon", early_debug_disable);
early_param("kfence.sample_interval", parse_kfence_early_init);
early_param("additional_cpus", setup_additional_cpus);
early_param("stram_pool", atari_stram_setup);
early_param("disable_octeon_edac", disable_octeon_edac);
early_param("rd_start", rd_start_early);
early_param("rd_size", rd_size_early);
early_param("coherentio", setcoherentio);
early_param("nocoherentio", setnocoherentio);
early_param("fadump", early_fadump_param);
early_param("fadump_reserve_mem", early_fadump_reserve_mem);
early_param("no_stf_barrier", handle_no_stf_barrier);
early_param("no_rfi_flush", handle_no_rfi_flush);
early_param("smt-enabled", early_smt_enabled);
early_param("ppc_pci_reset_phbs", pci_reset_phbs_setup);
early_param("ps3fb", early_parse_ps3fb);
early_param("ps3flash", early_parse_ps3flash);
early_param("novx", disable_vector_extension);
early_param("nobp", nobp_setup_early);
early_param("nospec", nospec_setup_early);
early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus);
early_param("stp", early_parse_stp);
early_param("nopfault", nopfault);
early_param("nmi_mode", nmi_mode_setup);
early_param("sh_mv", early_parse_mv);
early_param("pmb", early_pmb);
early_param("hvirq", early_hvirq_major);
early_param("cfi", cfi_parse_cmdline);
early_param("disableapic", setup_disableapic);
early_param("noapictimer", parse_disable_apic_timer);
early_param("disable_cpu_apicid", apic_set_disabled_cpu_apicid);
early_param("uv_memblksize", parse_mem_block_size);
early_param("retbleed", retbleed_parse_cmdline);
early_param("no-kvmclock-vsyscall", parse_no_kvmclock_vsyscall);
early_param("update_mptable", update_mptable_setup);
early_param("alloc_mptable", parse_alloc_mptable_opt);
early_param("possible_cpus", _setup_possible_cpus);
early_param("lsmsi", early_parse_ls_scfg_msi);
early_param("nokgdbroundup", opt_nokgdbroundup);
early_param("kgdbcon", opt_kgdb_con);
early_param("kasan", early_kasan_flag);
early_param("kasan.mode", early_kasan_mode);
early_param("kasan.vmalloc", early_kasan_flag_vmalloc);
early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample);
early_param("kasan.page_alloc.sample.order", early_kasan_flag_page_alloc_sample_order);
early_param("kasan.fault", early_kasan_fault);
early_param("kasan.stacktrace", early_kasan_flag_stacktrace);
early_param("kasan.stack_ring_size", early_kasan_flag_stack_ring_size);
early_param("accept_memory", accept_memory_parse);
early_param("page_table_check", early_page_table_check_param);
sh_early_platform_init("earlytimer", &sh_cmt_device_driver);
early_param_on_off("gbpages", "nogbpages", direct_gbpages, CONFIG_X86_DIRECT_GBPAGES);
These are not necessarily bugs, given that some kernel boot parameters
are intended for deep debugging rather than general use.
This work does not cover all of the kernel boot parameters declared using
cmdline_find_option() and cmdline_find_option_bool(). If these are in
fact guaranteed to be early (which appears to be the case), they can be
added in a later version of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Malat <oss@malat.biz>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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dependent patches
Merge in pending alternatives patching infrastructure changes, before
applying more patches.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Title under line too short
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
[ rjw: Subject edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Linux 6.8-rc4
Pulling this for a bugfix upstream with which the gpio/for-next branch
conflicts.
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- Add missing article "the"
- s/above example/example above/
- Add missing comma after introductory clause to improve readability
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@toblux.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240205132409.1957-1-thorsten.blum@toblux.com
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The number of possible CPUs is set be kernel in early boot time through
some discovery mechanisms, like ACPI in x86. We have a parameter both
in x86 and S390 to override that - there are some cases of BIOSes exposing
more possible CPUs than the available ones, so this parameter is a good
testing mechanism, but for some reason wasn't mentioned so far in the
kernel parameters guide - let's fix that.
Cc: Changwoo Min <changwoo@igalia.com>
Signed-off-by: "Guilherme G. Piccoli" <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240203152208.1461293-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
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Correct the default value of node_type vivid parameter to 0xe1d3d.
Signed-off-by: Dorcas Anono Litunya <anonolitunya@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
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It was meant well at the time but nothing's using it so get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202163510.GDZb0Zvj8qOndvFOiZ@fat_crate.local
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options
amd-pstate driver support enable/disable preferred core.
Default enabled on platforms supporting amd-pstate preferred core.
Disable amd-pstate preferred core with
"amd_prefcore=disable" added to the kernel command line.
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Introduce amd-pstate preferred core.
check preferred core state set by the kernel parameter:
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/amd-pstate/prefcore
Tested-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Reviewed-by: Wyes Karny <wyes.karny@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Perry Yuan <perry.yuan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Meng Li <li.meng@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Let command line option "fred" accept multiple options to make it
easier to tweak its behavior.
Currently, two options 'on' and 'off' are allowed, and the default
behavior is to disable FRED. To enable FRED, append "fred=on" to the
kernel command line.
[ bp: Use cpu_feature_enabled(), touch ups. ]
Signed-off-by: Xin Li <xin3.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Tested-by: Shan Kang <shan.kang@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231205105030.8698-9-xin3.li@intel.com
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New Thinkpads have added a 'Mode' Function key that on Windows allows
you to choose the active profile (low-power, balanced, performance)
Added suppoort for this hotkey (F8), and have it cycle through the
options available.
Tested on X1 Carbon G12.
Signed-off-by: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240120232949.317337-1-mpearson-lenovo@squebb.ca
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
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Commit 1db9d06aaa55 ("mm/slab: remove CONFIG_SLAB from all Kconfig and
Makefile") removes the config SLAB and makes the SLUB allocator the only
default allocator in the kernel. Hence, the advice on reducing OS jitter
due to kworker kernel threads to build with CONFIG_SLUB instead of
CONFIG_SLAB is obsolete.
Remove the obsolete advice to build with SLUB instead of SLAB.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130095515.21586-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
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This comment about DRM drivers has been there since the first git
commit. It simply doesn't belong in kernel-parameters; remove it.
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111085220.3693059-1-vegard.nossum@oracle.com
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Hugetlb.rst lacks two code-block tags, causing a formatting issue.
Signed-off-by: Xinyu Li <lixinyu20s@ict.ac.cn>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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mitigations=off disables the SRSO mitigation too. Add it to the list.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240118163600.17857-1-bp@alien8.de
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The gpio-mockup has been obsoleted by the gpio-sim, so relocate its
documentation into the obsolete section of the admin-guide book.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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Update the gpio-mockup documentation to note that is has been
obsoleted by the gpio-sim.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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Capitalise the title of the GPIO documentation page to match other
subsystems.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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Add documentation for v1 of the GPIO character device userspace API
to the obsolete section of both the admin-guide and userspace-api
books.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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The GPIO sysfs API is long obsolete, so highlight this even further
by moving it into an obsolete APIs section in both the admin-guide
and userspace-api books.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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Add documentation for the GPIO character device userspace API.
Added to the userspace-api book, but also provide a link from the
admin-guide book, as historically the GPIO documentation has been
there.
Signed-off-by: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
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Since the SLAB allocator has been removed, so we can clean up the
sl[au]b_$params. With only one slab allocator left, it's better to use the
generic "slab" term instead of "slub" which is an implementation detail,
which is pointed out by Vlastimil Babka. For more information please see
[1]. Hence, we are going to use "slab_$param" as the primary prefix.
This patch is changing the following slab parameters
- slub_max_order
- slub_min_order
- slub_min_objects
- slub_debug
to
- slab_max_order
- slab_min_order
- slab_min_objects
- slab_debug
as the primary slab parameters for all references of them in docs and
comments. But this patch won't change variables and functions inside
slub as we will have wider slub/slab change.
Meanwhile, "slub_$params" can also be passed by command line, which is
to keep backward compatibility. Also mark all "slub_$params" as legacy.
Remove the separate descriptions for slub_[no]merge, append legacy tip
for them at the end of descriptions of slab_[no]merge.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/7512b350-4317-21a0-fab3-4101bc4d8f7a@suse.cz/
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Since slab allocator has already been removed. There is no users of
the noaliencache parameter, so let's remove it.
Suggested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <xiongwei.song@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
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Pull smb client updates from Steve French:
"Various smb client fixes, including multichannel and for SMB3.1.1
POSIX extensions:
- debugging improvement (display start time for stats)
- two reparse point handling fixes
- various multichannel improvements and fixes
- SMB3.1.1 POSIX extensions open/create parsing fix
- retry (reconnect) improvement including new retrans mount parm, and
handling of two additional return codes that need to be retried on
- two minor cleanup patches and another to remove duplicate query
info code
- two documentation cleanup, and one reviewer email correction"
* tag 'v6.8-rc-part2-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: update iface_last_update on each query-and-update
cifs: handle servers that still advertise multichannel after disabling
cifs: new mount option called retrans
cifs: reschedule periodic query for server interfaces
smb: client: don't clobber ->i_rdev from cached reparse points
smb: client: get rid of smb311_posix_query_path_info()
smb: client: parse owner/group when creating reparse points
smb: client: fix parsing of SMB3.1.1 POSIX create context
cifs: update known bugs mentioned in kernel docs for cifs
cifs: new nt status codes from MS-SMB2
cifs: pick channel for tcon and tdis
cifs: open_cached_dir should not rely on primary channel
smb3: minor documentation updates
Update MAINTAINERS email address
cifs: minor comment cleanup
smb3: show beginning time for per share stats
cifs: remove redundant variable tcon_exist
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson
Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:
- Raise minimum clang version to 18.0.0
- Enable initial Rust support for LoongArch
- Add built-in dtb support for LoongArch
- Use generic interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low]
- Some bug fixes and other small changes
- Update the default config file.
* tag 'loongarch-6.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (22 commits)
MAINTAINERS: Add BPF JIT for LOONGARCH entry
LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file
LoongArch: BPF: Prevent out-of-bounds memory access
LoongArch: BPF: Support 64-bit pointers to kfuncs
LoongArch: Fix definition of ftrace_regs_set_instruction_pointer()
LoongArch: Use generic interface to support crashkernel=X,[high,low]
LoongArch: Fix and simplify fcsr initialization on execve()
LoongArch: Let cores_io_master cover the largest NR_CPUS
LoongArch: Change SHMLBA from SZ_64K to PAGE_SIZE
LoongArch: Add a missing call to efi_esrt_init()
LoongArch: Parsing CPU-related information from DTS
LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K2000
LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K1000
LoongArch: dts: DeviceTree for Loongson-2K0500
LoongArch: Allow device trees be built into the kernel
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix dtbs_check warning for interrupt-names
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: loongson,liointc: Fix dtbs_check warning for reg-names
dt-bindings: loongarch: Add Loongson SoC boards compatibles
dt-bindings: loongarch: Add CPU bindings for LoongArch
LoongArch: Enable initial Rust support
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Remove bugs that have been addressed and add link to xfstest results
wiki.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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Update the usage documentation to include some missing
configuration options. Update the todo list documentation
for cifs.ko
Reviewed-by: Bharath SM <bharathsm@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB / Thunderbolt updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of USB and Thunderbolt changes for 6.8-rc1.
Included in here are the following:
- Thunderbolt subsystem and driver updates for USB 4 hardware and
issues reported by real devices
- xhci driver updates
- dwc3 driver updates
- uvc_video gadget driver updates
- typec driver updates
- gadget string functions cleaned up
- other small changes
All of these have been in the linux-next tree for a while with no
reported issues"
* tag 'usb-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (169 commits)
usb: typec: tipd: fix use of device-specific init function
usb: typec: tipd: Separate reset for TPS6598x
usb: mon: Fix atomicity violation in mon_bin_vma_fault
usb: gadget: uvc: Remove nested locking
usb: gadget: uvc: Fix use are free during STREAMOFF
usb: typec: class: fix typec_altmode_put_partner to put plugs
dt-bindings: usb: dwc3: Limit num-hc-interrupters definition
dt-bindings: usb: xhci: Add num-hc-interrupters definition
xhci: add support to allocate several interrupters
USB: core: Use device_driver directly in struct usb_driver and usb_device_driver
arm64: dts: mediatek: mt8195: Add 'rx-fifo-depth' for cherry
usb: xhci-mtk: fix a short packet issue of gen1 isoc-in transfer
dt-bindings: usb: mtk-xhci: add a property for Gen1 isoc-in transfer issue
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Remove PNoC clock from MSS
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Remove AGGRE2 clock from SLPI
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8998: Remove AGGRE2 clock from SLPI
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8939: Drop RPM bus clocks
arm64: dts: qcom: sdm630: Drop RPM bus clocks
arm64: dts: qcom: qcs404: Drop RPM bus clocks
arm64: dts: qcom: msm8996: Drop RPM bus clocks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty / serial updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of tty and serial driver changes for 6.8-rc1.
As usual, Jiri has a bunch of refactoring and cleanups for the tty
core and drivers in here, along with the usual set of rs485 updates
(someday this might work properly...)
Along with those, in here are changes for:
- sc16is7xx serial driver updates
- platform driver removal api updates
- amba-pl011 driver updates
- tty driver binding updates
- other small tty/serial driver updates and changes
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'tty-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (197 commits)
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor EFR lock
serial: sc16is7xx: reorder code to remove prototype declarations
serial: sc16is7xx: refactor FIFO access functions to increase commonality
serial: sc16is7xx: drop unneeded MODULE_ALIAS
serial: sc16is7xx: replace hardcoded divisor value with BIT() macro
serial: sc16is7xx: add explicit return for some switch default cases
serial: sc16is7xx: add macro for max number of UART ports
serial: sc16is7xx: add driver name to struct uart_driver
serial: sc16is7xx: use i2c_get_match_data()
serial: sc16is7xx: use spi_get_device_match_data()
serial: sc16is7xx: use DECLARE_BITMAP for sc16is7xx_lines bitfield
serial: sc16is7xx: improve do/while loop in sc16is7xx_irq()
serial: sc16is7xx: remove obsolete loop in sc16is7xx_port_irq()
serial: sc16is7xx: set safe default SPI clock frequency
serial: sc16is7xx: add check for unsupported SPI modes during probe
serial: sc16is7xx: fix invalid sc16is7xx_lines bitfield in case of probe error
serial: 8250_exar: Set missing rs485_supported flag
serial: omap: do not override settings for RS485 support
serial: core, imx: do not set RS485 enabled if it is not supported
serial: core: make sure RS485 cannot be enabled when it is not supported
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here are the set of driver core and kernfs changes for 6.8-rc1.
Nothing major in here this release cycle, just lots of small cleanups
and some tweaks on kernfs that in the very end, got reverted and will
come back in a safer way next release cycle.
Included in here are:
- more driver core 'const' cleanups and fixes
- fw_devlink=rpm is now the default behavior
- kernfs tiny changes to remove some string functions
- cpu handling in the driver core is updated to work better on many
systems that add topologies and cpus after booting
- other minor changes and cleanups
All of the cpu handling patches have been acked by the respective
maintainers and are coming in here in one series. Everything has been
in linux-next for a while with no reported issues"
* tag 'driver-core-6.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (51 commits)
Revert "kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock"
kernfs: convert kernfs_idr_lock to an irq safe raw spinlock
class: fix use-after-free in class_register()
PM: clk: make pm_clk_add_notifier() take a const pointer
EDAC: constantify the struct bus_type usage
kernfs: fix reference to renamed function
driver core: device.h: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
driver core: class: fix Excess kernel-doc description warning
driver core: mark remaining local bus_type variables as const
driver core: container: make container_subsys const
driver core: bus: constantify subsys_register() calls
driver core: bus: make bus_sort_breadthfirst() take a const pointer
kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing...
driver core: Better advertise dev_err_probe()
kernfs: Convert kernfs_path_from_node_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
kernfs: Convert kernfs_name_locked() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
kernfs: Convert kernfs_walk_ns() from strlcpy() to strscpy()
initramfs: Expose retained initrd as sysfs file
fs/kernfs/dir: obey S_ISGID
kernel/cgroup: use kernfs_create_dir_ns()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"These restore the asynchronous device resume optimization removed by
the previous PM merge, make the intel_pstate driver work better on
Meteor Lake systems, optimize the PM QoS core code slightly and fix up
typos in admin-guide.
Specifics:
- Restore the system-wide asynchronous device resume optimization
removed by a recent concurrency fix (Rafael J. Wysocki)
- Make the intel_pstate cpufreq driver allow Meteor Lake systems to
run at somewhat higher frequencies (Srinivas Pandruvada)
- Make the PM QoS core code use kcalloc() for array allocation (Erick
Archer)
- Fix two PM-related typos in admin-guide (Erwan Velu)"
* tag 'pm-6.8-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
PM: sleep: Restore asynchronous device resume optimization
Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Fix two typos
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update hybrid scaling factor for Meteor Lake
PM: QoS: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
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Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Generic:
- Use memdup_array_user() to harden against overflow.
- Unconditionally advertise KVM_CAP_DEVICE_CTRL for all
architectures.
- Clean up Kconfigs that all KVM architectures were selecting
- New functionality around "guest_memfd", a new userspace API that
creates an anonymous file and returns a file descriptor that refers
to it. guest_memfd files are bound to their owning virtual machine,
cannot be mapped, read, or written by userspace, and cannot be
resized. guest_memfd files do however support PUNCH_HOLE, which can
be used to switch a memory area between guest_memfd and regular
anonymous memory.
- New ioctl KVM_SET_MEMORY_ATTRIBUTES allowing userspace to specify
per-page attributes for a given page of guest memory; right now the
only attribute is whether the guest expects to access memory via
guest_memfd or not, which in Confidential SVMs backed by SEV-SNP,
TDX or ARM64 pKVM is checked by firmware or hypervisor that
guarantees confidentiality (AMD PSP, Intel TDX module, or EL2 in
the case of pKVM).
x86:
- Support for "software-protected VMs" that can use the new
guest_memfd and page attributes infrastructure. This is mostly
useful for testing, since there is no pKVM-like infrastructure to
provide a meaningfully reduced TCB.
- Fix a relatively benign off-by-one error when splitting huge pages
during CLEAR_DIRTY_LOG.
- Fix a bug where KVM could incorrectly test-and-clear dirty bits in
non-leaf TDP MMU SPTEs if a racing thread replaces a huge SPTE with
a non-huge SPTE.
- Use more generic lockdep assertions in paths that don't actually
care about whether the caller is a reader or a writer.
- let Xen guests opt out of having PV clock reported as "based on a
stable TSC", because some of them don't expect the "TSC stable" bit
(added to the pvclock ABI by KVM, but never set by Xen) to be set.
- Revert a bogus, made-up nested SVM consistency check for
TLB_CONTROL.
- Advertise flush-by-ASID support for nSVM unconditionally, as KVM
always flushes on nested transitions, i.e. always satisfies flush
requests. This allows running bleeding edge versions of VMware
Workstation on top of KVM.
- Sanity check that the CPU supports flush-by-ASID when enabling SEV
support.
- On AMD machines with vNMI, always rely on hardware instead of
intercepting IRET in some cases to detect unmasking of NMIs
- Support for virtualizing Linear Address Masking (LAM)
- Fix a variety of vPMU bugs where KVM fail to stop/reset counters
and other state prior to refreshing the vPMU model.
- Fix a double-overflow PMU bug by tracking emulated counter events
using a dedicated field instead of snapshotting the "previous"
counter. If the hardware PMC count triggers overflow that is
recognized in the same VM-Exit that KVM manually bumps an event
count, KVM would pend PMIs for both the hardware-triggered overflow
and for KVM-triggered overflow.
- Turn off KVM_WERROR by default for all configs so that it's not
inadvertantly enabled by non-KVM developers, which can be
problematic for subsystems that require no regressions for W=1
builds.
- Advertise all of the host-supported CPUID bits that enumerate
IA32_SPEC_CTRL "features".
- Don't force a masterclock update when a vCPU synchronizes to the
current TSC generation, as updating the masterclock can cause
kvmclock's time to "jump" unexpectedly, e.g. when userspace
hotplugs a pre-created vCPU.
- Use RIP-relative address to read kvm_rebooting in the VM-Enter
fault paths, partly as a super minor optimization, but mostly to
make KVM play nice with position independent executable builds.
- Guard KVM-on-HyperV's range-based TLB flush hooks with an #ifdef on
CONFIG_HYPERV as a minor optimization, and to self-document the
code.
- Add CONFIG_KVM_HYPERV to allow disabling KVM support for HyperV
"emulation" at build time.
ARM64:
- LPA2 support, adding 52bit IPA/PA capability for 4kB and 16kB base
granule sizes. Branch shared with the arm64 tree.
- Large Fine-Grained Trap rework, bringing some sanity to the
feature, although there is more to come. This comes with a prefix
branch shared with the arm64 tree.
- Some additional Nested Virtualization groundwork, mostly
introducing the NV2 VNCR support and retargetting the NV support to
that version of the architecture.
- A small set of vgic fixes and associated cleanups.
Loongarch:
- Optimization for memslot hugepage checking
- Cleanup and fix some HW/SW timer issues
- Add LSX/LASX (128bit/256bit SIMD) support
RISC-V:
- KVM_GET_REG_LIST improvement for vector registers
- Generate ISA extension reg_list using macros in get-reg-list
selftest
- Support for reporting steal time along with selftest
s390:
- Bugfixes
Selftests:
- Fix an annoying goof where the NX hugepage test prints out garbage
instead of the magic token needed to run the test.
- Fix build errors when a header is delete/moved due to a missing
flag in the Makefile.
- Detect if KVM bugged/killed a selftest's VM and print out a helpful
message instead of complaining that a random ioctl() failed.
- Annotate the guest printf/assert helpers with __printf(), and fix
the various bugs that were lurking due to lack of said annotation"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (185 commits)
x86/kvm: Do not try to disable kvmclock if it was not enabled
KVM: x86: add missing "depends on KVM"
KVM: fix direction of dependency on MMU notifiers
KVM: introduce CONFIG_KVM_COMMON
KVM: arm64: Add missing memory barriers when switching to pKVM's hyp pgd
KVM: arm64: vgic-its: Avoid potential UAF in LPI translation cache
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add get-reg-list test for STA registers
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add steal_time test support
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Add guest_sbi_probe_extension
RISC-V: KVM: selftests: Move sbi_ecall to processor.c
RISC-V: KVM: Implement SBI STA extension
RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI STA registers
RISC-V: KVM: Add support for SBI extension registers
RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA info to vcpu_arch
RISC-V: KVM: Add steal-update vcpu request
RISC-V: KVM: Add SBI STA extension skeleton
RISC-V: paravirt: Implement steal-time support
RISC-V: Add SBI STA extension definitions
RISC-V: paravirt: Add skeleton for pv-time support
RISC-V: KVM: Fix indentation in kvm_riscv_vcpu_set_reg_csr()
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