user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v5.8.11

panic: add sysctl to dump all CPUs backtraces on oops event

2020-06-08T18:05:56Z

Usually when the kernel reaches an oops condition, it's a point of no return; in case not enough debug information is available in the kernel splat, one of the last resorts would be to collect a kernel crash dump and analyze it. The problem with this approach is that in order to collect the dump, a panic is required (to kexec-load the crash kernel). When in an environment of multiple virtual machines, users may prefer to try living with the oops, at least until being able to properly shutdown their VMs / finish their important tasks. This patch implements a way to collect a bit more debug details when an oops event is reached, by printing all the CPUs backtraces through the usage of NMIs (on architectures that support that). The sysctl added (and documented) here was called "oops_all_cpu_backtrace", and when set will (as the name suggests) dump all CPUs backtraces. Far from ideal, this may be the last option though for users that for some reason cannot panic on oops. Most of times oopses are clear enough to indicate the kernel portion that must be investigated, but in virtual environments it's possible to observe hypervisor/KVM issues that could lead to oopses shown in other guests CPUs (like virtual APIC crashes). This patch hence aims to help debug such complex issues without resorting to kdump. Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: Matthew Wilcox Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200327224116.21030-1-gpiccoli@canonical.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: add panic_on_taint

2020-06-08T18:05:56Z

Analogously to the introduction of panic_on_warn, this patch introduces a kernel option named panic_on_taint in order to provide a simple and generic way to stop execution and catch a coredump when the kernel gets tainted by any given flag. This is useful for debugging sessions as it avoids having to rebuild the kernel to explicitly add calls to panic() into the code sites that introduce the taint flags of interest. For instance, if one is interested in proceeding with a post-mortem analysis at the point a given code path is hitting a bad page (i.e. unaccount_page_cache_page(), or slab_bug()), a coredump can be collected by rebooting the kernel with 'panic_on_taint=0x20' amended to the command line. Another, perhaps less frequent, use for this option would be as a means for assuring a security policy case where only a subset of taints, or no single taint (in paranoid mode), is allowed for the running system. The optional switch 'nousertaint' is handy in this particular scenario, as it will avoid userspace induced crashes by writes to sysctl interface /proc/sys/kernel/tainted causing false positive hits for such policies. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak kernel-parameters.txt wording] Suggested-by: Qian Cai Signed-off-by: Rafael Aquini Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Dave Young Cc: Baoquan He Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Randy Dunlap Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" Cc: Adrian Bunk Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Laura Abbott Cc: Jeff Mahoney Cc: Jiri Kosina Cc: Takashi Iwai Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200515175502.146720-1-aquini@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

sched: Provide cant_migrate()

2020-02-20T20:17:24Z

Some code pathes rely on preempt_disable() to prevent migration on a non RT enabled kernel. These preempt_disable/enable() pairs are substituted by migrate_disable/enable() pairs or other forms of RT specific protection. On RT these protections prevent migration but not preemption. Obviously a cant_sleep() check in such a section will trigger on RT because preemption is not disabled. Provide a cant_migrate() macro which maps to cant_sleep() on a non RT kernel and an empty placeholder for RT for now. The placeholder will be changed to a proper debug check along with the RT specific migration protection mechanism. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200214161503.070487511@linutronix.de

kernel.h: Remove unused FIELD_SIZEOF()

2019-12-30T20:01:56Z

Now that all callers of FIELD_SIZEOF() have been converted to sizeof_field(), remove the unused prior macro. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

kernel.h: update comment about simple_strto() functions

2019-12-05T03:44:12Z

There were discussions in the past about use cases for simple_strto() functions and, in some rare cases, they have a benefit over kstrto() ones. Update a comment to reduce confusion about special use cases. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190801192904.41087-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Suggested-by: Miguel Ojeda Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Mans Rullgard Cc: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

locking/refcount: Remove unused 'refcount_error_report()' function

2019-11-25T08:15:42Z

'refcount_error_report()' has no callers. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Kees Cook Tested-by: Hanjun Guo Cc: Ard Biesheuvel Cc: Elena Reshetova Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191121115902.2551-10-will@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel.h: Add non_block_start/end()

2019-09-07T07:28:05Z

In some special cases we must not block, but there's not a spinlock, preempt-off, irqs-off or similar critical section already that arms the might_sleep() debug checks. Add a non_block_start/end() pair to annotate these. This will be used in the oom paths of mmu-notifiers, where blocking is not allowed to make sure there's forward progress. Quoting Michal: "The notifier is called from quite a restricted context - oom_reaper - which shouldn't depend on any locks or sleepable conditionals. The code should be swift as well but we mostly do care about it to make a forward progress. Checking for sleepable context is the best thing we could come up with that would describe these demands at least partially." Peter also asked whether we want to catch spinlocks on top, but Michal said those are less of a problem because spinlocks can't have an indirect dependency upon the page allocator and hence close the loop with the oom reaper. Suggested by Michal Hocko. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190826201425.17547-4-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Acked-by: Christian König (v1) Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter Acked-by: Michal Hocko Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe

include/linux/kernel.h: add typeof_member() macro

2019-07-17T02:23:21Z

Add typeof_member() macro so that types can be extracted without introducing dummy variables. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190529190720.GA5703@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

linux/kernel.h: fix overflow for DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL

2019-06-29T08:43:45Z

DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL adds the two arguments and then invokes DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL. But on a 32bit system the addition of two 32 bit values can overflow. DIV_ROUND_DOWN_ULL does it correctly and stashes the addition into a unsigned long long so cast the result to unsigned long long here to avoid the overflow condition. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: DIV_ROUND_UP_ULL must be an rval] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190625100518.30753-1-vkoul@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton Cc: Bjorn Andersson Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

lib/math: move int_pow() from pwm_bl.c for wider use

2019-05-15T02:52:49Z

The integer exponentiation is used in few places and might be used in the future by other call sites. Move it to wider use. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190323172531.80025-2-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Daniel Thompson Cc: Lee Jones Cc: Ray Jui Cc: Thierry Reding Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds