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<updated>2019-02-01T23:46:24Z</updated>
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<title>psi: clarify the Kconfig text for the default-disable option</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T23:46:24Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
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<published>2019-02-01T22:21:15Z</published>
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The current help text caused some confusion in online forums about
whether or not to default-enable or default-disable psi in vendor
kernels.  This is because it doesn't communicate the reason for why we
made this setting configurable in the first place: that the overhead is
non-zero in an artificial scheduler stress test.

Since this isn't representative of real workloads, and the effect was
not measurable in scheduler-heavy real world applications such as the
webservers and memcache installations at Facebook, it's fair to point
out that this is a pretty cautious option to select.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129233617.16767-1-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>init/Kconfig: fix grammar by moving a closing parenthesis</title>
<updated>2019-02-01T23:46:23Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Jonathan Neuschäfer</name>
<email>j.neuschaefer@gmx.net</email>
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<published>2019-02-01T22:21:01Z</published>
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Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190129150813.15785-1-j.neuschaefer@gmx.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer &lt;j.neuschaefer@gmx.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kbuild: Disable LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION with ftrace &amp; GCC &lt;= 4.7</title>
<updated>2019-01-14T01:37:09Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Burton</name>
<email>paul.burton@mips.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-11T19:06:44Z</published>
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When building using GCC 4.7 or older, -ffunction-sections &amp; the -pg flag
used by ftrace are incompatible. This causes warnings or build failures
(where -Werror applies) such as the following:

  arch/mips/generic/init.c:
    error: -ffunction-sections disabled; it makes profiling impossible

This used to be taken into account by the ordering of calls to cc-option
from within the top-level Makefile, which was introduced by commit
90ad4052e85c ("kbuild: avoid conflict between -ffunction-sections and
-pg on gcc-4.7"). Unfortunately this was broken when the
CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION cc-option check was moved to
Kconfig in commit e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination
support in Kconfig"), because the flags used by this check no longer
include -pg.

Fix this by not allowing CONFIG_LD_DEAD_CODE_DATA_ELIMINATION to be
enabled at the same time as ftrace/CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER when building
using GCC 4.7 or older.

Signed-off-by: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@mips.com&gt;
Fixes: e85d1d65cd8a ("kbuild: test dead code/data elimination support in Kconfig")
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Nicholas Piggin &lt;npiggin@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.19+
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T00:46:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-30T15:14:15Z</published>
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Currently, CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL just means "I _want_ to use jump label".

The jump label is controlled by HAVE_JUMP_LABEL, which is defined
like this:

  #if defined(CC_HAVE_ASM_GOTO) &amp;&amp; defined(CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL)
  # define HAVE_JUMP_LABEL
  #endif

We can improve this by testing 'asm goto' support in Kconfig, then
make JUMP_LABEL depend on CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO.

Ugly #ifdef HAVE_JUMP_LABEL will go away, and CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL will
match to the real kernel capability.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt; (powerpc)
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek &lt;sedat.dilek@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'audit-pr-20181224' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit</title>
<updated>2018-12-27T19:58:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-27T19:58:50Z</published>
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Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
 "In the finest of holiday of traditions, I have a number of gifts to
  share today. While most of them are re-gifts from others, unlike the
  typical re-gift, these are things you will want in and around your
  tree; I promise.

  This pull request is perhaps a bit larger than our typical PR, but
  most of it comes from Jan's rework of audit's fanotify code; a very
  welcome improvement. We ran this through our normal regression tests,
  as well as some newly created stress tests and everything looks good.

  Richard added a few patches, mostly cleaning up a few things and and
  shortening some of the audit records that we send to userspace; a
  change the userspace folks are quite happy about.

  Finally YueHaibing and I kick in a few patches to simplify things a
  bit and make the code less prone to errors.

  Lastly, I want to say thanks one more time to everyone who has
  contributed patches, testing, and code reviews for the audit subsystem
  over the past year. The project is what it is due to your help and
  contributions - thank you"

* tag 'audit-pr-20181224' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pcmoore/audit: (22 commits)
  audit: remove duplicated include from audit.c
  audit: shorten PATH cap values when zero
  audit: use current whenever possible
  audit: minimize our use of audit_log_format()
  audit: remove WATCH and TREE config options
  audit: use session_info helper
  audit: localize audit_log_session_info prototype
  audit: Use 'mark' name for fsnotify_mark variables
  audit: Replace chunk attached to mark instead of replacing mark
  audit: Simplify locking around untag_chunk()
  audit: Drop all unused chunk nodes during deletion
  audit: Guarantee forward progress of chunk untagging
  audit: Allocate fsnotify mark independently of chunk
  audit: Provide helper for dropping mark's chunk reference
  audit: Remove pointless check in insert_hash()
  audit: Factor out chunk replacement code
  audit: Make hash table insertion safe against concurrent lookups
  audit: Embed key into chunk
  audit: Fix possible tagging failures
  audit: Fix possible spurious -ENOSPC error
  ...
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<title>psi: fix reference to kernel commandline enable</title>
<updated>2018-12-14T23:05:45Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Baruch Siach</name>
<email>baruch@tkos.co.il</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-14T22:17:03Z</published>
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The kernel commandline parameter named in CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED
help text contradicts the documentation in kernel-parameters.txt, and
the code.  Fix that.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181203213416.GA12627@cmpxchg.org
Fixes: e0c274472d ("psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels")
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach &lt;baruch@tkos.co.il&gt;
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>psi: make disabling/enabling easier for vendor kernels</title>
<updated>2018-11-30T22:56:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-30T22:09:58Z</published>
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Mel Gorman reports a hackbench regression with psi that would prohibit
shipping the suse kernel with it default-enabled, but he'd still like
users to be able to opt in at little to no cost to others.

With the current combination of CONFIG_PSI and the psi_disabled bool set
from the commandline, this is a challenge.  Do the following things to
make it easier:

1. Add a config option CONFIG_PSI_DEFAULT_DISABLED that allows distros
   to enable CONFIG_PSI in their kernel but leave the feature disabled
   unless a user requests it at boot-time.

   To avoid double negatives, rename psi_disabled= to psi=.

2. Make psi_disabled a static branch to eliminate any branch costs
   when the feature is disabled.

In terms of numbers before and after this patch, Mel says:

: The following is a comparision using CONFIG_PSI=n as a baseline against
: your patch and a vanilla kernel
:
:                          4.20.0-rc4             4.20.0-rc4             4.20.0-rc4
:                 kconfigdisable-v1r1                vanilla        psidisable-v1r1
: Amean     1       1.3100 (   0.00%)      1.3923 (  -6.28%)      1.3427 (  -2.49%)
: Amean     3       3.8860 (   0.00%)      4.1230 *  -6.10%*      3.8860 (  -0.00%)
: Amean     5       6.8847 (   0.00%)      8.0390 * -16.77%*      6.7727 (   1.63%)
: Amean     7       9.9310 (   0.00%)     10.8367 *  -9.12%*      9.9910 (  -0.60%)
: Amean     12     16.6577 (   0.00%)     18.2363 *  -9.48%*     17.1083 (  -2.71%)
: Amean     18     26.5133 (   0.00%)     27.8833 *  -5.17%*     25.7663 (   2.82%)
: Amean     24     34.3003 (   0.00%)     34.6830 (  -1.12%)     32.0450 (   6.58%)
: Amean     30     40.0063 (   0.00%)     40.5800 (  -1.43%)     41.5087 (  -3.76%)
: Amean     32     40.1407 (   0.00%)     41.2273 (  -2.71%)     39.9417 (   0.50%)
:
: It's showing that the vanilla kernel takes a hit (as the bisection
: indicated it would) and that disabling PSI by default is reasonably
: close in terms of performance for this particular workload on this
: particular machine so;

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181127165329.GA29728@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Tested-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Reported-by: Mel Gorman &lt;mgorman@techsingularity.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>audit: remove WATCH and TREE config options</title>
<updated>2018-11-19T21:29:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Richard Guy Briggs</name>
<email>rgb@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-11-16T17:17:35Z</published>
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Remove the CONFIG_AUDIT_WATCH and CONFIG_AUDIT_TREE config options since
they are both dependent on CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL and force
CONFIG_FSNOTIFY.

Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs &lt;rgb@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore &lt;paul@paul-moore.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>psi: cgroup support</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T23:26:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T22:06:31Z</published>
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On a system that executes multiple cgrouped jobs and independent
workloads, we don't just care about the health of the overall system, but
also that of individual jobs, so that we can ensure individual job health,
fairness between jobs, or prioritize some jobs over others.

This patch implements pressure stall tracking for cgroups.  In kernels
with CONFIG_PSI=y, cgroup2 groups will have cpu.pressure, memory.pressure,
and io.pressure files that track aggregate pressure stall times for only
the tasks inside the cgroup.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-10-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;drake@endlessm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>psi: pressure stall information for CPU, memory, and IO</title>
<updated>2018-10-26T23:26:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Weiner</name>
<email>hannes@cmpxchg.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-10-26T22:06:27Z</published>
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When systems are overcommitted and resources become contended, it's hard
to tell exactly the impact this has on workload productivity, or how close
the system is to lockups and OOM kills.  In particular, when machines work
multiple jobs concurrently, the impact of overcommit in terms of latency
and throughput on the individual job can be enormous.

In order to maximize hardware utilization without sacrificing individual
job health or risk complete machine lockups, this patch implements a way
to quantify resource pressure in the system.

A kernel built with CONFIG_PSI=y creates files in /proc/pressure/ that
expose the percentage of time the system is stalled on CPU, memory, or IO,
respectively.  Stall states are aggregate versions of the per-task delay
accounting delays:

       cpu: some tasks are runnable but not executing on a CPU
       memory: tasks are reclaiming, or waiting for swapin or thrashing cache
       io: tasks are waiting for io completions

These percentages of walltime can be thought of as pressure percentages,
and they give a general sense of system health and productivity loss
incurred by resource overcommit.  They can also indicate when the system
is approaching lockup scenarios and OOMs.

To do this, psi keeps track of the task states associated with each CPU
and samples the time they spend in stall states.  Every 2 seconds, the
samples are averaged across CPUs - weighted by the CPUs' non-idle time to
eliminate artifacts from unused CPUs - and translated into percentages of
walltime.  A running average of those percentages is maintained over 10s,
1m, and 5m periods (similar to the loadaverage).

[hannes@cmpxchg.org: doc fixlet, per Randy]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828205625.GA14030@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: code optimization]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907175015.GA8479@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: rename psi_clock() to psi_update_work(), per Peter]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907145404.GB11088@cmpxchg.org
[hannes@cmpxchg.org: fix build]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180913014222.GA2370@cmpxchg.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828172258.3185-9-hannes@cmpxchg.org
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Daniel Drake &lt;drake@endlessm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Suren Baghdasaryan &lt;surenb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christopher Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;jweiner@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Enderborg &lt;peter.enderborg@sony.com&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Shakeel Butt &lt;shakeelb@google.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Vinayak Menon &lt;vinmenon@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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