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Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A couple of fixlets for x86:
- Fix the ESPFIX double fault handling for 5-level pagetables
- Fix the commandline parsing for 'apic=' on 32bit systems and update
documentation
- Make zombie stack traces reliable
- Fix kexec with stack canary
- Fix the delivery mode for APICs which was missed when the x86
vector management was converted to single target delivery. Caused a
regression due to the broken hardware which ignores affinity
settings in lowest prio delivery mode.
- Unbreak modules when AMD memory encryption is enabled
- Remove an unused parameter of prepare_switch_to"
* 'x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/apic: Switch all APICs to Fixed delivery mode
x86/apic: Update the 'apic=' description of setting APIC driver
x86/apic: Avoid wrong warning when parsing 'apic=' in X86-32 case
x86-32: Fix kexec with stack canary (CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR)
x86: Remove unused parameter of prepare_switch_to
x86/stacktrace: Make zombie stack traces reliable
x86/mm: Unbreak modules that use the DMA API
x86/build: Make isoimage work on Debian
x86/espfix/64: Fix espfix double-fault handling on 5-level systems
Pull x86 page table isolation fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Four patches addressing the PTI fallout as discussed and debugged
yesterday:
- Remove stale and pointless TLB flush invocations from the hotplug
code
- Remove stale preempt_disable/enable from __native_flush_tlb()
- Plug the memory leak in the write_ldt() error path"
* 'x86-pti-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ldt: Make LDT pgtable free conditional
x86/ldt: Plug memory leak in error path
x86/mm: Remove preempt_disable/enable() from __native_flush_tlb()
x86/smpboot: Remove stale TLB flush invocations
Some of the APIC incarnations are operating in lowest priority delivery
mode. This worked as long as the vector management code allocated the same
vector on all possible CPUs for each interrupt.
Lowest priority delivery mode does not necessarily respect the affinity
setting and may redirect to some other online CPU. This was documented
somewhere in the old code and the conversion to single target delivery
missed to update the delivery mode of the affected APIC drivers which
results in spurious interrupts on some of the affected CPU/Chipset
combinations.
Switch the APIC drivers over to Fixed delivery mode and remove all
leftovers of lowest priority delivery mode.
Switching to Fixed delivery mode is not a problem on these CPUs because the
kernel already uses Fixed delivery mode for IPIs. The reason for this is
that th SDM explicitely forbids lowest prio mode for IPIs. The reason is
obvious: If the irq routing does not honor destination targets in lowest
prio mode then an IPI targeted at CPU1 might end up on CPU0, which would be
a fatal problem in many cases.
As a consequence of this change, the apic::irq_delivery_mode field is now
pointless, but this needs to be cleaned up in a separate patch.
Fixes: fdba46ffb4c2 ("x86/apic: Get rid of multi CPU affinity")
Reported-by: vcaputo@pengaru.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: vcaputo@pengaru.com
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712281140440.1688@nanos
Pull timer fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A pile of fixes for long standing issues with the timer wheel and the
NOHZ code:
- Prevent timer base confusion accross the nohz switch, which can
cause unlocked access and data corruption
- Reinitialize the stale base clock on cpu hotplug to prevent subtle
side effects including rollovers on 32bit
- Prevent an interrupt storm when the timer softirq is already
pending caused by tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
- Move the timer start tracepoint to a place where it actually makes
sense
- Add documentation to timerqueue functions as they caused confusion
several times now"
* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
timerqueue: Document return values of timerqueue_add/del()
timers: Invoke timer_start_debug() where it makes sense
nohz: Prevent a timer interrupt storm in tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
timers: Reinitialize per cpu bases on hotplug
timers: Use deferrable base independent of base::nohz_active
Andy prefers to be paranoid about the pagetable free in the error path of
write_ldt(). Make it conditional and warn whenever the installment of a
secondary LDT fails.
Requested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
There are two consumers of apic=: the APIC debug level and the low
level generic architecture code, but Linux just documented the first
one.
Append the second description.
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-2-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Pull smp fixlet from Thomas Gleixner:
"A trivial build warning fix for newer compilers"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Move inline keyword at the beginning of declaration
The return values of timerqueue_add/del() are not documented in the kernel doc
comment. Add proper documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171222145337.872681338@linutronix.de
The error path in write_ldt() tries to free 'old_ldt' instead of the newly
allocated 'new_ldt', resulting in a memory leak. It also misses to clean up a
half populated LDT pagetable, which is not a leak as it gets cleaned up
when the process exits.
Free both the potentially half populated LDT pagetable and the newly
allocated LDT struct. This can be done unconditionally because once an LDT
is mapped subsequent maps will succeed, because the PTE page is already
populated and the two LDTs fit into that single page.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: f55f0501cbf6 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1712311121340.1899@nanos
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
There are two consumers of apic=:
apic_set_verbosity() for setting the APIC debug level;
parse_apic() for registering APIC driver by hand.
X86-32 supports both of them, but sometimes, kernel issues a weird warning.
eg: when kernel was booted up with 'apic=bigsmp' in command line,
early_param would warn like that:
...
[ 0.000000] APIC Verbosity level bigsmp not recognised use apic=verbose or apic=debug
[ 0.000000] Malformed early option 'apic'
...
Wrap the warning code in CONFIG_X86_64 case to avoid this.
Signed-off-by: Dou Liyang <douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rdunlap@infradead.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171204040313.24824-1-douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Pull scheduler fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three patches addressing the fallout of the CPU_ISOLATION changes
especially with NO_HZ_FULL plus documentation of boot parameter
dependency"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/isolation: Document boot parameters dependency on CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y
sched/isolation: Enable CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y by default
sched/isolation: Make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL select CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION
Fix non-fatal warnings such as:
kernel/cpu.c:95:1: warning: ‘inline’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration]
static void inline cpuhp_lock_release(bool bringup) { }
^~~~~~
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171226140855.16583-1-malat@debian.org
The timer start debug function is called before the proper timer base is
set. As a consequence the trace data contains the stale CPU and flags
values.
Call the debug function after setting the new base and flags.
Fixes: 500462a9de65 ("timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171222145337.792907137@linutronix.de
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