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On an (old) x86 system with SRAT just covering space above 4Gb:
ACPI: SRAT: Node 0 PXM 0 [mem 0x100000000-0xfffffffff] hotplug
the commit referenced below leads to this NUMA configuration no longer
being refused by a CONFIG_NUMA=y kernel (previously
NUMA: nodes only cover 6144MB of your 8185MB e820 RAM. Not used.
No NUMA configuration found
Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000000000-0x000000027fffffff]
was seen in the log directly after the message quoted above), because of
memblock_validate_numa_coverage() checking for NUMA_NO_NODE (only). This
in turn led to memblock_alloc_range_nid()'s warning about MAX_NUMNODES
triggering, followed by a NULL deref in memmap_init() when trying to
access node 64's (NODE_SHIFT=6) node data.
To compensate said change, make memblock_set_node() warn on and adjust
a passed in value of MAX_NUMNODES, just like various other functions
already do.
Fixes: ff6c3d81f2e8 ("NUMA: optimize detection of memory with no node id assigned by firmware")
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1c8a058c-5365-4f27-a9f1-3aeb7fb3e7b2@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
percpu.h depends on smp.h, but doesn't include it directly because of
circular header dependency issues; percpu.h is needed in a bunch of low
level headers.
This fixes a randconfig build error on mips:
include/linux/alloc_tag.h: In function '__alloc_tag_ref_set':
include/asm-generic/percpu.h:31:40: error: implicit declaration of function 'raw_smp_processor_id' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Fixes: 24e44cc22aa3 ("mm: percpu: enable per-cpu allocation tagging")
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202405210052.DIrMXJNz-lkp@intel.com/
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull perf tool fix from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"Revert a patch causing a regression.
This made a simple 'perf record -e cycles:pp make -j199' stop working
on the Ampere ARM64 system Linus uses to test ARM64 kernels".
* tag 'perf-tools-fixes-for-v6.10-1-2024-05-26' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools:
Revert "perf parse-events: Prefer sysfs/JSON hardware events over legacy"
Pull smb client fixes from Steve French:
- two important netfs integration fixes - including for a data
corruption and also fixes for multiple xfstests
- reenable swap support over SMB3
* tag '6.10-rc-smb3-fixes-part2' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
cifs: Fix missing set of remote_i_size
cifs: Fix smb3_insert_range() to move the zero_point
cifs: update internal version number
smb3: reenable swapfiles over SMB3 mounts
This reverts commit 617824a7f0f73e4de325cf8add58e55b28c12493.
This made a simple 'perf record -e cycles:pp make -j199' stop working on
the Ampere ARM64 system Linus uses to test ARM64 kernels, as discussed
at length in the threads in the Link tags below.
The fix provided by Ian wasn't acceptable and work to fix this will take
time we don't have at this point, so lets revert this and work on it on
the next devel cycle.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Cc: Ethan Adams <j.ethan.adams@gmail.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.pizza>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong@bytedance.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wi5Ri=yR2jBVk-4HzTzpoAWOgstr1LEvg_-OXtJvXXJOA@mail.gmail.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wiWvtFyedDNpoV7a8Fq_FpbB+F5KmWK2xPY3QoYseOf_A@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"16 hotfixes, 11 of which are cc:stable.
A few nilfs2 fixes, the remainder are for MM: a couple of selftests
fixes, various singletons fixing various issues in various parts"
* tag 'mm-hotfixes-stable-2024-05-25-09-13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm:
mm/ksm: fix possible UAF of stable_node
mm/memory-failure: fix handling of dissolved but not taken off from buddy pages
mm: /proc/pid/smaps_rollup: avoid skipping vma after getting mmap_lock again
nilfs2: fix potential hang in nilfs_detach_log_writer()
nilfs2: fix unexpected freezing of nilfs_segctor_sync()
nilfs2: fix use-after-free of timer for log writer thread
selftests/mm: fix build warnings on ppc64
arm64: patching: fix handling of execmem addresses
selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success and reduce probability of OOM-killer invocation
selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix incorrect write of zero to nr_hugepages
selftests/mm: compaction_test: fix bogus test success on Aarch64
mailmap: update email address for Satya Priya
mm/huge_memory: don't unpoison huge_zero_folio
kasan, fortify: properly rename memintrinsics
lib: add version into /proc/allocinfo output
mm/vmalloc: fix vmalloc which may return null if called with __GFP_NOFAIL
Occasionally, the generic/001 xfstest will fail indicating corruption in
one of the copy chains when run on cifs against a server that supports
FSCTL_DUPLICATE_EXTENTS_TO_FILE (eg. Samba with a share on btrfs). The
problem is that the remote_i_size value isn't updated by cifs_setsize()
when called by smb2_duplicate_extents(), but i_size *is*.
This may cause cifs_remap_file_range() to then skip the bit after calling
->duplicate_extents() that sets sizes.
Fix this by calling netfs_resize_file() in smb2_duplicate_extents() before
calling cifs_setsize() to set i_size.
This means we don't then need to call netfs_resize_file() upon return from
->duplicate_extents(), but we also fix the test to compare against the pre-dup
inode size.
[Note that this goes back before the addition of remote_i_size with the
netfs_inode struct. It should probably have been setting cifsi->server_eof
previously.]
Fixes: cfc63fc8126a ("smb3: fix cached file size problems in duplicate extents (reflink)")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.com>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
"General:
- Integrate the shellcheck utility with the build of perf to allow
catching shell problems early in areas such as 'perf test', 'perf
trace' scrape scripts, etc
- Add 'uretprobe' variant in the 'perf bench uprobe' tool
- Add script to run instances of 'perf script' in parallel
- Allow parsing tracepoint names that start with digits, such as
9p/9p_client_req, etc. Make sure 'perf test' tests it even on
systems where those tracepoints aren't available
- Add Kan Liang to MAINTAINERS as a perf tools reviewer
- Add support for using the 'capstone' disassembler library in
various tools, such as 'perf script' and 'perf annotate'. This is
an alternative for the use of the 'xed' and 'objdump' disassemblers
Data-type profiling improvements:
- Resolve types for a->b->c by backtracking the assignments until it
finds DWARF info for one of those members
- Support for global variables, keeping a cache to speed up lookups
- Handle the 'call' instruction, dealing with effects on registers
and handling its return when tracking register data types
- Handle x86's segment based addressing like %gs:0x28, to support
things like per CPU variables, the stack canary, etc
- Data-type profiling got big speedups when using capstone for
disassembling. The objdump outoput parsing method is left as a
fallback when capstone fails or isn't available. There are patches
posted for 6.11 that to use a LLVM disassembler
- Support event group display in the TUI when annotating types with
--data-type, for instance to show memory load and store events for
the data type fields
- Optimize the 'perf annotate' data structures, reducing memory usage
- Add a initial 'perf test' for 'perf annotate', checking that a
target symbol appears on the output, specifying objdump via the
command line, etc
Vendor Events:
- Update Intel JSON files for Cascade Lake X, Emerald Rapids, Grand
Ridge, Ice Lake X, Lunar Lake, Meteor Lake, Sapphire Rapids, Sierra
Forest, Sky Lake X, Sky Lake and Snow Ridge X. Remove info metrics
erroneously in TopdownL1
- Add AMD's Zen 5 core and uncore events and metrics. Those come from
the "Performance Monitor Counters for AMD Family 1Ah Model 00h- 0Fh
Processors" document, with events that capture information on op
dispatch, execution and retirement, branch prediction, L1 and L2
cache activity, TLB activity, etc
- Mark L1D_CACHE_INVAL impacted by errata for ARM64's AmpereOne/
AmpereOneX
Miscellaneous:
- Sync header copies with the kernel sources
- Move some header copies used only for generating translation string
tables for ioctl cmds and other syscall integer arguments to a new
directory under tools/perf/beauty/, to separate from copies in
tools/include/ that are used to build the tools
- Introduce scrape script for several syscall 'flags'/'mask'
arguments
- Improve cpumap utilization, fixing up pairing of refcounts, using
the right iterators (perf_cpu_map__for_each_cpu), etc
- Give more details about raw event encodings in 'perf list', show
tracepoint encoding in the detailed output
- Refactor the DSOs handling code, reducing memory usage
- Document the BPF event modifier and add a 'perf test' for it
- Improve the event parser, better error messages and add further
'perf test's for it
- Add reference count checking to 'struct comm_str' and 'struct
mem_info'
- Make ARM64's 'perf test' entries for the Neoverse N1 more robust
- Tweak the ARM64's Coresight 'perf test's
- Improve ARM64's CoreSight ETM version detection and error reporting
- Fix handling of symbols when using kcore
- Fix PAI (Processor Activity Instrumentation) counter names for s390
virtual machines in 'perf report'
- Fix -g/--call-graph option failure in 'perf sched timehist'
- Add LIBTRACEEVENT_DIR build option to allow building with
libtraceevent installed in non-standard directories, such as when
doing cross builds
- Various 'perf test' and 'perf bench' fixes
- Improve 'perf probe' error message for long C++ probe names"
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.10-1-2024-05-21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools: (260 commits)
tools lib subcmd: Show parent options in help
perf pmu: Count sys and cpuid JSON events separately
perf stat: Don't display metric header for non-leader uncore events
perf annotate-data: Ensure the number of type histograms
perf annotate: Fix segfault on sample histogram
perf daemon: Fix file leak in daemon_session__control
libsubcmd: Fix parse-options memory leak
perf lock: Avoid memory leaks from strdup()
perf sched: Rename 'switches' column header to 'count' and add usage description, options for latency
perf tools: Ignore deleted cgroups
perf parse: Allow tracepoint names to start with digits
perf parse-events: Add new 'fake_tp' parameter for tests
perf parse-events: pass parse_state to add_tracepoint
perf symbols: Fix ownership of string in dso__load_vmlinux()
perf symbols: Update kcore map before merging in remaining symbols
perf maps: Re-use __maps__free_maps_by_name()
perf symbols: Remove map from list before updating addresses
perf tracepoint: Don't scan all tracepoints to test if one exists
perf dwarf-aux: Fix build with HAVE_DWARF_CFI_SUPPORT
perf thread: Fixes to thread__new() related to initializing comm
...
Pull irq fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix x86 IRQ vector leak caused by a CPU offlining race
- Fix build failure in the riscv-imsic irqchip driver
caused by an API-change semantic conflict
- Fix use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()
* tag 'irq-urgent-2024-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
genirq/irqdesc: Prevent use-after-free in irq_find_at_or_after()
genirq/cpuhotplug, x86/vector: Prevent vector leak during CPU offline
irqchip/riscv-imsic: Fixup riscv_ipi_set_virq_range() conflict
The commit 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page
deduplication limit") introduced a possible failure case in the
stable_tree_insert(), where we may free the new allocated stable_node_dup
if we fail to prepare the missing chain node.
Then that kfolio return and unlock with a freed stable_node set... And
any MM activities can come in to access kfolio->mapping, so UAF.
Fix it by moving folio_set_stable_node() to the end after stable_node
is inserted successfully.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240513-b4-ksm-stable-node-uaf-v1-1-f687de76f452@linux.dev
Fixes: 2c653d0ee2ae ("ksm: introduce ksm_max_page_sharing per page deduplication limit")
Signed-off-by: Chengming Zhou <chengming.zhou@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Stefan Roesch <shr@devkernel.io>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Fix smb3_insert_range() to move the zero_point over to the new EOF.
Without this, generic/147 fails as reads of data beyond the old EOF point
return zeroes.
Fixes: 3ee1a1fc3981 ("cifs: Cut over to using netfslib")
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Shyam Prasad N <nspmangalore@gmail.com>
cc: Rohith Surabattula <rohiths.msft@gmail.com>
cc: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
cc: linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org
cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
Pull bitmap updates from Yury Norov:
- topology_span_sane() optimization from Kyle Meyer
- fns() rework from Kuan-Wei Chiu (used in cpumask_local_spread() and
other places)
- headers cleanup from Andy
- add a MAINTAINERS record for bitops API
* tag 'bitmap-for-6.10v2' of https://github.com/norov/linux:
usercopy: Don't use "proxy" headers
bitops: Move aligned_byte_mask() to wordpart.h
MAINTAINERS: add BITOPS API record
bitmap: relax find_nth_bit() limitation on return value
lib: make test_bitops compilable into the kernel image
bitops: Optimize fns() for improved performance
lib/test_bitops: Add benchmark test for fns()
Compiler Attributes: Add __always_used macro
sched/topology: Optimize topology_span_sane()
cpumask: Add for_each_cpu_from()
I've just realized that help message in a subcommand didn't show one
in the parent command. Since the option parser understands the parent,
display code should do the same. For example, `perf ftrace latency -h`
should show options in the `perf ftrace` command too.
Before:
$ perf ftrace latency -h
Usage: perf ftrace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf ftrace [<options>] -- [<command>] [<options>]
or: perf ftrace {trace|latency} [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf ftrace {trace|latency} [<options>] -- [<command>] [<options>]
-b, --use-bpf Use BPF to measure function latency
-n, --use-nsec Use nano-second histogram
-T, --trace-funcs <func>
Show latency of given function
After:
$ perf ftrace latency -h
Usage: perf ftrace [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf ftrace [<options>] -- [<command>] [<options>]
or: perf ftrace {trace|latency} [<options>] [<command>]
or: perf ftrace {trace|latency} [<options>] -- [<command>] [<options>]
-a, --all-cpus System-wide collection from all CPUs
-b, --use-bpf Use BPF to measure function latency
-C, --cpu <cpu> List of cpus to monitor
-n, --use-nsec Use nano-second histogram
-p, --pid <pid> Trace on existing process id
-T, --trace-funcs <func>
Show latency of given function
-v, --verbose Be more verbose
--tid <tid> Trace on existing thread id (exclusive to --pid)
Reviewed-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240429233707.1511175-1-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix regressions of the new x86 CPU VFM (vendor/family/model)
enumeration/matching code
- Fix crash kernel detection on buggy firmware with
non-compliant ACPI MADT tables
- Address Kconfig warning
* tag 'x86-urgent-2024-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/cpu: Fix x86_match_cpu() to match just X86_VENDOR_INTEL
crypto: x86/aes-xts - switch to new Intel CPU model defines
x86/topology: Handle bogus ACPI tables correctly
x86/kconfig: Select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS again when UNWINDER_FRAME_POINTER=y