user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v5.7

USB: hub: Revert commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices")

2020-04-23T13:22:41Z

Commit bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") changed the way the hub driver enumerates high-speed devices. Instead of using the "new" enumeration scheme first and switching to the "old" scheme if that doesn't work, we start with the "old" scheme. In theory this is better because the "old" scheme is slightly faster -- it involves resetting the device only once instead of twice. However, for a long time Windows used only the "new" scheme. Zeng Tao said that Windows 8 and later use the "old" scheme for high-speed devices, but apparently there are some devices that don't like it. William Bader reports that the Ricoh webcam built into his Sony Vaio laptop not only doesn't enumerate under the "old" scheme, it gets hung up so badly that it won't then enumerate under the "new" scheme! Only a cold reset will fix it. Therefore we will revert the commit and go back to trying the "new" scheme first for high-speed devices. Reported-and-tested-by: William Bader Ref: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207219 Signed-off-by: Alan Stern Fixes: bd0e6c9614b9 ("usb: hub: try old enumeration scheme first for high speed devices") CC: Zeng Tao CC: Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Pine.LNX.4.44L0.2004221611230.11262-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-04-11T00:57:48Z

Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton: - Almost all of the rest of MM (memcg, slab-generic, slab, pagealloc, gup, hugetlb, pagemap, memremap) - Various other things (hfs, ocfs2, kmod, misc, seqfile) * akpm: (34 commits) ipc/util.c: sysvipc_find_ipc() should increase position index kernel/gcov/fs.c: gcov_seq_next() should increase position index fs/seq_file.c: seq_read(): add info message about buggy .next functions drivers/dma/tegra20-apb-dma.c: fix platform_get_irq.cocci warnings change email address for Pali Rohár selftests: kmod: test disabling module autoloading selftests: kmod: fix handling test numbers above 9 docs: admin-guide: document the kernel.modprobe sysctl fs/filesystems.c: downgrade user-reachable WARN_ONCE() to pr_warn_once() kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled mm/memremap: set caching mode for PCI P2PDMA memory to WC mm/memory_hotplug: add pgprot_t to mhp_params powerpc/mm: thread pgprot_t through create_section_mapping() x86/mm: introduce __set_memory_prot() x86/mm: thread pgprot_t through init_memory_mapping() mm/memory_hotplug: rename mhp_restrictions to mhp_params mm/memory_hotplug: drop the flags field from struct mhp_restrictions mm/special: create generic fallbacks for pte_special() and pte_mkspecial() mm/vma: introduce VM_ACCESS_FLAGS mm/vma: define a default value for VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS ...

Merge tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-04-11T00:53:43Z

Pull Documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving fixes for the documentation tree" * tag 'docs-5.7-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: android: binderfs: add 'stats' mount option Documentation: driver-api/usb/writing_usb_driver.rst Updates documentation links docs: driver-api: address duplicate label warning Documentation: sysrq: fix RST formatting docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx docs: filesystems: fix typo in qnx6.rst

mm: hugetlb: optionally allocate gigantic hugepages using cma

2020-04-10T22:36:21Z

Commit 944d9fec8d7a ("hugetlb: add support for gigantic page allocation at runtime") has added the run-time allocation of gigantic pages. However it actually works only at early stages of the system loading, when the majority of memory is free. After some time the memory gets fragmented by non-movable pages, so the chances to find a contiguous 1GB block are getting close to zero. Even dropping caches manually doesn't help a lot. At large scale rebooting servers in order to allocate gigantic hugepages is quite expensive and complex. At the same time keeping some constant percentage of memory in reserved hugepages even if the workload isn't using it is a big waste: not all workloads can benefit from using 1 GB pages. The following solution can solve the problem: 1) On boot time a dedicated cma area* is reserved. The size is passed as a kernel argument. 2) Run-time allocations of gigantic hugepages are performed using the cma allocator and the dedicated cma area In this case gigantic hugepages can be allocated successfully with a high probability, however the memory isn't completely wasted if nobody is using 1GB hugepages: it can be used for pagecache, anon memory, THPs, etc. * On a multi-node machine a per-node cma area is allocated on each node. Following gigantic hugetlb allocation are using the first available numa node if the mask isn't specified by a user. Usage: 1) configure the kernel to allocate a cma area for hugetlb allocations: pass hugetlb_cma=10G as a kernel argument 2) allocate hugetlb pages as usual, e.g. echo 10 > /sys/kernel/mm/hugepages/hugepages-1048576kB/nr_hugepages If the option isn't enabled or the allocation of the cma area failed, the current behavior of the system is preserved. x86 and arm-64 are covered by this patch, other architectures can be trivially added later. The patch contains clean-ups and fixes proposed and implemented by Aslan Bakirov and Randy Dunlap. It also contains ideas and suggestions proposed by Rik van Riel, Michal Hocko and Mike Kravetz. Thanks! Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Tested-by: Andreas Schaufler Acked-by: Mike Kravetz Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Aslan Bakirov Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Rik van Riel Cc: Joonsoo Kim Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200407163840.92263-3-guro@fb.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Fix broken references

2020-04-07T19:29:35Z

Fix remaining broken references in kernel-parameters.txt. Cc: Jonathan Corbet Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-2-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs: kernel-parameters.txt: Remove nompx

2020-04-07T19:28:56Z

x86/mpx was removed in commit 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86"), this removes the documentation of parameter nompx. Fixes: 45fc24e89b7c ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86") Signed-off-by: Jimmy Assarsson Acked-by: Dave Hansen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200402172614.3020-1-jimmyassarsson@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm/memory_hotplug.c: only respect mem= parameter during boot stage

2020-04-07T17:43:40Z

In commit 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") a global varialbe max_mem_size is added to store the value parsed from 'mem= ', then checked when memory region is added. This truly stops those DIMMs from being added into system memory during boot-time. However, it also limits the later memory hotplug functionality. Any DIMM can't be hotplugged any more if its region is beyond the max_mem_size. We will get errors like: [ 216.387164] acpi PNP0C80:02: add_memory failed [ 216.389301] acpi PNP0C80:02: acpi_memory_enable_device() error [ 216.392187] acpi PNP0C80:02: Enumeration failure This will cause issue in a known use case where 'mem=' is added to the hypervisor. The memory that lies after 'mem=' boundary will be assigned to KVM guests. After commit 357b4da50a62 merged, memory can't be extended dynamically if system memory on hypervisor is not sufficient. So fix it by also checking if it's during boot-time restricting to add memory. Otherwise, skip the restriction. And also add this use case to document of 'mem=' kernel parameter. Fixes: 357b4da50a62 ("x86: respect memory size limiting via mem= parameter") Signed-off-by: Baoquan He Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: Michal Hocko Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: William Kucharski Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Balbir Singh Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200204050643.20925-1-bhe@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2020-04-06T17:35:06Z

Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional ACPI updates. These update the ACPICA code in the kernel to the 20200326 upstream revision, fix an ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86, update Intel Tiger Lake device IDs in some places, add a new ACPI backlight blacklist entry, update the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch documentation and clean up a CPPC library routine. Specifics: - Update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision 20200326 including: * Fix for a typo in a comment field (Bob Moore) * acpiExec namespace init file fixes (Bob Moore) * Addition of NHLT to the known tables list (Cezary Rojewski) * Conversion of PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC (Erik Kaneda) * acpiexec cleanup (Erik Kaneda) * WSMT-related typo fix (Erik Kaneda) * sprintf() utility function fix (John Levon) * IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing implementation (Michał Żygowski) * IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name fix (Michał Żygowski) - Fix ACPI-related CPU hotplug deadlock on x86 (Qian Cai) - Fix Intel Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs in several places (Gayatri Kammela) - Add ACPI backlight blacklist entry for Acer Aspire 5783z (Hans de Goede) - Fix documentation of the "acpi_backlight" kernel command line switch (Randy Dunlap) - Clean up the acpi_get_psd_map() CPPC library routine (Liguang Zhang)" * tag 'acpi-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: x86: ACPI: fix CPU hotplug deadlock thermal: int340x_thermal: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs platform/x86: intel-hid: fix: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device ID ACPI: Update Tiger Lake ACPI device IDs ACPI: video: Use native backlight on Acer Aspire 5783z ACPI: video: Docs update for "acpi_backlight" kernel parameter options ACPICA: Update version 20200326 ACPICA: Fixes for acpiExec namespace init file ACPICA: Add NHLT table signature ACPICA: WSMT: Fix typo, no functional change ACPICA: utilities: fix sprintf() ACPICA: acpiexec: remove redeclaration of acpi_gbl_db_opt_no_region_support ACPICA: Change PlatformCommChannel ASL keyword to PCC ACPICA: Fix IVRS IVHD type 10h reserved field name ACPICA: Implement IVRS IVHD type 11h parsing ACPICA: Fix a typo in a comment field ACPI: CPPC: clean up acpi_get_psd_map()

Merge tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2020-04-06T17:14:39Z

Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Additional power management updates. These fix a corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source, add a kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages via the kernel command line, add a document desctibing system-wide suspend and resume code flows, modify cpufreq Kconfig to choose schedutil as the preferred governor by default in a couple of cases and do some assorted cleanups. Specifics: - Fix corner-case suspend-to-idle wakeup issue on systems where the ACPI SCI is shared with another wakeup source (Hans de Goede). - Add document describing system-wide suspend and resume code flows to the admin guide (Rafael Wysocki). - Add kernel command line option to set pm_debug_messages (Chen Yu). - Choose schedutil as the preferred scaling governor by default on ARM big.LITTLE systems and on x86 systems using the intel_pstate driver in the passive mode (Linus Walleij, Rafael Wysocki). - Drop racy and redundant checks from the PM core's device_prepare() routine (Rafael Wysocki). - Make resume from hibernation take the hibernation_restore() return value into account (Dexuan Cui)" * tag 'pm-5.7-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: platform/x86: intel_int0002_vgpio: Use acpi_register_wakeup_handler() ACPI: PM: Add acpi_[un]register_wakeup_handler() Documentation: PM: sleep: Document system-wide suspend code flows cpufreq: Select schedutil when using big.LITTLE PM: sleep: Add pm_debug_messages kernel command line option PM: sleep: core: Drop racy and redundant checks from device_prepare() PM: hibernate: Propagate the return value of hibernation_restore() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Select schedutil as the default governor

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2020-04-02T22:13:15Z

Pull kvm updates from Paolo Bonzini: "ARM: - GICv4.1 support - 32bit host removal PPC: - secure (encrypted) using under the Protected Execution Framework ultravisor s390: - allow disabling GISA (hardware interrupt injection) and protected VMs/ultravisor support. x86: - New dirty bitmap flag that sets all bits in the bitmap when dirty page logging is enabled; this is faster because it doesn't require bulk modification of the page tables. - Initial work on making nested SVM event injection more similar to VMX, and less buggy. - Various cleanups to MMU code (though the big ones and related optimizations were delayed to 5.8). Instead of using cr3 in function names which occasionally means eptp, KVM too has standardized on "pgd". - A large refactoring of CPUID features, which now use an array that parallels the core x86_features. - Some removal of pointer chasing from kvm_x86_ops, which will also be switched to static calls as soon as they are available. - New Tigerlake CPUID features. - More bugfixes, optimizations and cleanups. Generic: - selftests: cleanups, new MMU notifier stress test, steal-time test - CSV output for kvm_stat" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (277 commits) x86/kvm: fix a missing-prototypes "vmread_error" KVM: x86: Fix BUILD_BUG() in __cpuid_entry_get_reg() w/ CONFIG_UBSAN=y KVM: VMX: Add a trampoline to fix VMREAD error handling KVM: SVM: Annotate svm_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: VMX: Annotate vmx_x86_ops as __initdata KVM: x86: Drop __exit from kvm_x86_ops' hardware_unsetup() KVM: x86: Copy kvm_x86_ops by value to eliminate layer of indirection KVM: x86: Set kvm_x86_ops only after ->hardware_setup() completes KVM: VMX: Configure runtime hooks using vmx_x86_ops KVM: VMX: Move hardware_setup() definition below vmx_x86_ops KVM: x86: Move init-only kvm_x86_ops to separate struct KVM: Pass kvm_init()'s opaque param to additional arch funcs s390/gmap: return proper error code on ksm unsharing KVM: selftests: Fix cosmetic copy-paste error in vm_mem_region_move() KVM: Fix out of range accesses to memslots KVM: X86: Micro-optimize IPI fastpath delay KVM: X86: Delay read msr data iff writes ICR MSR KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add a capability for enabling secure guests KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Expose HW-based SGIs in debugfs KVM: arm64: GICv4.1: Allow non-trapping WFI when using HW SGIs ...