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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input</title>
<updated>2021-12-25T21:00:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-25T21:00:14+00:00</published>
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Pull input fixes from Dmitry Torokhov:
 "A few small updates to drivers.

  Of note we are now deferring probes of i8042 on some Asus devices as
  the controller is not ready to respond to queries first time around
  when the driver is compiled into the kernel"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: elants_i2c - do not check Remark ID on eKTH3900/eKTH5312
  Input: atmel_mxt_ts - fix double free in mxt_read_info_block
  Input: goodix - fix memory leak in goodix_firmware_upload
  Input: goodix - add id-&gt;model mapping for the "9111" model
  Input: goodix - try not to touch the reset-pin on x86/ACPI devices
  Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA
  Input: elantech - fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id()
  Input: iqs626a - prohibit inlining of channel parsing functions
  Input: i8042 - add deferred probe support
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Pull input fixes from Dmitry Torokhov:
 "A few small updates to drivers.

  Of note we are now deferring probes of i8042 on some Asus devices as
  the controller is not ready to respond to queries first time around
  when the driver is compiled into the kernel"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: elants_i2c - do not check Remark ID on eKTH3900/eKTH5312
  Input: atmel_mxt_ts - fix double free in mxt_read_info_block
  Input: goodix - fix memory leak in goodix_firmware_upload
  Input: goodix - add id-&gt;model mapping for the "9111" model
  Input: goodix - try not to touch the reset-pin on x86/ACPI devices
  Input: i8042 - enable deferred probe quirk for ASUS UM325UA
  Input: elantech - fix stack out of bound access in elantech_change_report_id()
  Input: iqs626a - prohibit inlining of channel parsing functions
  Input: i8042 - add deferred probe support
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<entry>
<title>KVM: VMX: Fix stale docs for kvm-intel.emulate_invalid_guest_state</title>
<updated>2021-12-20T13:06:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sean Christopherson</name>
<email>seanjc@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-12-07T19:30:05+00:00</published>
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Update the documentation for kvm-intel's emulate_invalid_guest_state to
rectify the description of KVM's default behavior, and to document that
the behavior and thus parameter only applies to L1.

Fixes: a27685c33acc ("KVM: VMX: Emulate invalid guest state by default")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211207193006.120997-4-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Update the documentation for kvm-intel's emulate_invalid_guest_state to
rectify the description of KVM's default behavior, and to document that
the behavior and thus parameter only applies to L1.

Fixes: a27685c33acc ("KVM: VMX: Emulate invalid guest state by default")
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson &lt;seanjc@google.com&gt;
Message-Id: &lt;20211207193006.120997-4-seanjc@google.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Maxim Levitsky &lt;mlevitsk@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Input: i8042 - add deferred probe support</title>
<updated>2021-11-29T07:59:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Takashi Iwai</name>
<email>tiwai@suse.de</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-29T07:21:41+00:00</published>
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We've got a bug report about the non-working keyboard on ASUS ZenBook
UX425UA.  It seems that the PS/2 device isn't ready immediately at
boot but takes some seconds to get ready.  Until now, the only
workaround is to defer the probe, but it's available only when the
driver is a module.  However, many distros, including openSUSE as in
the original report, build the PS/2 input drivers into kernel, hence
it won't work easily.

This patch adds the support for the deferred probe for i8042 stuff as
a workaround of the problem above.  When the deferred probe mode is
enabled and the device couldn't be probed, it'll be repeated with the
standard deferred probe mechanism.

The deferred probe mode is enabled either via the new option
i8042.probe_defer or via the quirk table entry.  As of this patch, the
quirk table contains only ASUS ZenBook UX425UA.

The deferred probe part is based on Fabio's initial work.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190256
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Samuel Čavoj &lt;samuel@cavoj.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117063757.11380-1-tiwai@suse.de

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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We've got a bug report about the non-working keyboard on ASUS ZenBook
UX425UA.  It seems that the PS/2 device isn't ready immediately at
boot but takes some seconds to get ready.  Until now, the only
workaround is to defer the probe, but it's available only when the
driver is a module.  However, many distros, including openSUSE as in
the original report, build the PS/2 input drivers into kernel, hence
it won't work easily.

This patch adds the support for the deferred probe for i8042 stuff as
a workaround of the problem above.  When the deferred probe mode is
enabled and the device couldn't be probed, it'll be repeated with the
standard deferred probe mechanism.

The deferred probe mode is enabled either via the new option
i8042.probe_defer or via the quirk table entry.  As of this patch, the
quirk table contains only ASUS ZenBook UX425UA.

The deferred probe part is based on Fabio's initial work.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1190256
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai &lt;tiwai@suse.de&gt;
Tested-by: Samuel Čavoj &lt;samuel@cavoj.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211117063757.11380-1-tiwai@suse.de

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'nfsd-5.16' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-11T00:45:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-11T00:45:54+00:00</published>
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "A slow cycle for nfsd: mainly cleanup, including Neil's patch dropping
  support for a filehandle format deprecated 20 years ago, and further
  xdr-related cleanup from Chuck"

* tag 'nfsd-5.16' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (26 commits)
  nfsd4: remove obselete comment
  nfsd: document server-to-server-copy parameters
  NFSD:fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  nfsd: update create verifier comment
  SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_encode
  SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_encode
  NFSD: Save location of NFSv4 COMPOUND status
  SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_decode
  SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_decode
  SUNRPC: De-duplicate .pc_release() call sites
  SUNRPC: Simplify the SVC dispatch code path
  SUNRPC: Capture value of xdr_buf::page_base
  SUNRPC: Add trace event when alloc_pages_bulk() makes no progress
  svcrdma: Split svcrmda_wc_{read,write} tracepoints
  svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_send() tracepoint
  svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_receive() tracepoint
  NFSD: Have legacy NFSD WRITE decoders use xdr_stream_subsegment()
  SUNRPC: xdr_stream_subsegment() must handle non-zero page_bases
  NFSD: Initialize pointer ni with NULL and not plain integer 0
  NFSD: simplify struct nfsfh
  ...
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
 "A slow cycle for nfsd: mainly cleanup, including Neil's patch dropping
  support for a filehandle format deprecated 20 years ago, and further
  xdr-related cleanup from Chuck"

* tag 'nfsd-5.16' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (26 commits)
  nfsd4: remove obselete comment
  nfsd: document server-to-server-copy parameters
  NFSD:fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  nfsd: update create verifier comment
  SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_encode
  SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_encode
  NFSD: Save location of NFSv4 COMPOUND status
  SUNRPC: Change return value type of .pc_decode
  SUNRPC: Replace the "__be32 *p" parameter to .pc_decode
  SUNRPC: De-duplicate .pc_release() call sites
  SUNRPC: Simplify the SVC dispatch code path
  SUNRPC: Capture value of xdr_buf::page_base
  SUNRPC: Add trace event when alloc_pages_bulk() makes no progress
  svcrdma: Split svcrmda_wc_{read,write} tracepoints
  svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_send() tracepoint
  svcrdma: Split the svcrdma_wc_receive() tracepoint
  NFSD: Have legacy NFSD WRITE decoders use xdr_stream_subsegment()
  SUNRPC: xdr_stream_subsegment() must handle non-zero page_bases
  NFSD: Initialize pointer ni with NULL and not plain integer 0
  NFSD: simplify struct nfsfh
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-5.16b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2021-11-10T19:14:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-10T19:14:21+00:00</published>
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Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series to speed up the boot of Xen PV guests

 - some cleanups in Xen related code

 - replacement of license texts with the appropriate SPDX headers and
   fixing of wrong SPDX headers in Xen header files

 - a small series making paravirtualized interrupt masking much simpler
   and at the same time removing complaints of objtool

 - a fix for Xen ballooning hogging workqueues for too long

 - enablement of the Xen pciback driver for Arm

 - some further small fixes/enhancements

* tag 'for-linus-5.16b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (22 commits)
  xen/balloon: fix unused-variable warning
  xen/balloon: rename alloc/free_xenballooned_pages
  xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit awareness from startup_xen
  xen: remove highmem remnants
  xen: allow pv-only hypercalls only with CONFIG_XEN_PV
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit pv leftovers
  xen-pciback: allow compiling on other archs than x86
  x86/xen: switch initial pvops IRQ functions to dummy ones
  x86/xen: remove xen_have_vcpu_info_placement flag
  x86/pvh: add prototype for xen_pvh_init()
  xen: Fix implicit type conversion
  xen: fix wrong SPDX headers of Xen related headers
  xen/pvcalls-back: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls
  x86/xen: Remove redundant irq_enter/exit() invocations
  xen-pciback: Fix return in pm_ctrl_init()
  xen/x86: restrict PV Dom0 identity mapping
  xen/x86: there's no highmem anymore in PV mode
  xen/x86: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table
  xen/x86: adjust xen_set_fixmap()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - a series to speed up the boot of Xen PV guests

 - some cleanups in Xen related code

 - replacement of license texts with the appropriate SPDX headers and
   fixing of wrong SPDX headers in Xen header files

 - a small series making paravirtualized interrupt masking much simpler
   and at the same time removing complaints of objtool

 - a fix for Xen ballooning hogging workqueues for too long

 - enablement of the Xen pciback driver for Arm

 - some further small fixes/enhancements

* tag 'for-linus-5.16b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (22 commits)
  xen/balloon: fix unused-variable warning
  xen/balloon: rename alloc/free_xenballooned_pages
  xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit awareness from startup_xen
  xen: remove highmem remnants
  xen: allow pv-only hypercalls only with CONFIG_XEN_PV
  x86/xen: remove 32-bit pv leftovers
  xen-pciback: allow compiling on other archs than x86
  x86/xen: switch initial pvops IRQ functions to dummy ones
  x86/xen: remove xen_have_vcpu_info_placement flag
  x86/pvh: add prototype for xen_pvh_init()
  xen: Fix implicit type conversion
  xen: fix wrong SPDX headers of Xen related headers
  xen/pvcalls-back: Remove redundant 'flush_workqueue()' calls
  x86/xen: Remove redundant irq_enter/exit() invocations
  xen-pciback: Fix return in pm_ctrl_init()
  xen/x86: restrict PV Dom0 identity mapping
  xen/x86: there's no highmem anymore in PV mode
  xen/x86: adjust handling of the L3 user vsyscall special page table
  xen/x86: adjust xen_set_fixmap()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T21:48:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-06T21:48:06+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for ftrace with direct call and ftrace direct call
   samples.

 - Add support for kernel command lines longer than current 896 bytes
   and make its length configurable.

 - Add support for BEAR enhancement facility to improve last breaking
   event instruction tracking.

 - Add kprobes sanity checks and testcases to prevent kprobe in the mid
   of an instruction.

 - Allow concurrent access to /dev/hwc for the CPUMF users.

 - Various ftrace / jump label improvements.

 - Convert unwinder tests to KUnit.

 - Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter to tweak the limits on
   concurrently usable DMA mappings.

 - Add ap.useirq AP module option which can be used to disable interrupt
   use.

 - Add add_disk() error handling support to block device drivers.

 - Drop arch specific and use generic implementation of strlcpy and
   strrchr.

 - Several __pa/__va usages fixes.

 - Various cio, crypto, pci, kernel doc and other small fixes and
   improvements all over the code.

[ Merge fixup as per https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXAqZ%2FEszRisunQw@osiris/ ]

* tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (63 commits)
  s390: make command line configurable
  s390: support command lines longer than 896 bytes
  s390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check
  s390/pci: add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter
  s390/spinlock: remove incorrect kernel doc indicator
  s390/string: use generic strlcpy
  s390/string: use generic strrchr
  s390/ap: function rework based on compiler warning
  s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust
  s390/vfio-ap: s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  s390/hmcdrv: fix kernel doc comments
  s390/ap: new module option ap.useirq
  s390/cpumf: Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc
  s390/bitops: return true/false (not 1/0) from bool functions
  s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility
  s390: introduce nospec_uses_trampoline()
  s390: rename last_break to pgm_last_break
  s390/ptrace: add last_break member to pt_regs
  s390/sclp: sort out physical vs virtual pointers usage
  s390/setup: convert start and end initrd pointers to virtual
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Vasily Gorbik:

 - Add support for ftrace with direct call and ftrace direct call
   samples.

 - Add support for kernel command lines longer than current 896 bytes
   and make its length configurable.

 - Add support for BEAR enhancement facility to improve last breaking
   event instruction tracking.

 - Add kprobes sanity checks and testcases to prevent kprobe in the mid
   of an instruction.

 - Allow concurrent access to /dev/hwc for the CPUMF users.

 - Various ftrace / jump label improvements.

 - Convert unwinder tests to KUnit.

 - Add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter to tweak the limits on
   concurrently usable DMA mappings.

 - Add ap.useirq AP module option which can be used to disable interrupt
   use.

 - Add add_disk() error handling support to block device drivers.

 - Drop arch specific and use generic implementation of strlcpy and
   strrchr.

 - Several __pa/__va usages fixes.

 - Various cio, crypto, pci, kernel doc and other small fixes and
   improvements all over the code.

[ Merge fixup as per https://lore.kernel.org/all/YXAqZ%2FEszRisunQw@osiris/ ]

* tag 's390-5.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (63 commits)
  s390: make command line configurable
  s390: support command lines longer than 896 bytes
  s390/kexec_file: move kernel image size check
  s390/pci: add s390_iommu_aperture kernel parameter
  s390/spinlock: remove incorrect kernel doc indicator
  s390/string: use generic strlcpy
  s390/string: use generic strrchr
  s390/ap: function rework based on compiler warning
  s390/cio: make ccw_device_dma_* more robust
  s390/vfio-ap: s390/crypto: fix all kernel-doc warnings
  s390/hmcdrv: fix kernel doc comments
  s390/ap: new module option ap.useirq
  s390/cpumf: Allow multiple processes to access /dev/hwc
  s390/bitops: return true/false (not 1/0) from bool functions
  s390: add support for BEAR enhancement facility
  s390: introduce nospec_uses_trampoline()
  s390: rename last_break to pgm_last_break
  s390/ptrace: add last_break member to pt_regs
  s390/sclp: sort out physical vs virtual pointers usage
  s390/setup: convert start and end initrd pointers to virtual
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-06T21:08:17+00:00</published>
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Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
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<pre>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "257 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: scripts, ocfs2, vfs, and
  mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kconfig, dax, kasan, debug, pagecache,
  gup, swap, memcg, pagemap, mprotect, mremap, iomap, tracing, vmalloc,
  pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, tools,
  memblock, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp, readahead, nommu, ksm,
  vmstat, madvise, memory-hotplug, rmap, zsmalloc, highmem, zram,
  cleanups, kfence, and damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (257 commits)
  mm/damon: remove return value from before_terminate callback
  mm/damon: fix a few spelling mistakes in comments and a pr_debug message
  mm/damon: simplify stop mechanism
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/pagemap: wordsmith page flags descriptions
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: simplify the content
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix a wrong link
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/start: fix wrong example commands
  mm/damon/dbgfs: add adaptive_targets list check before enable monitor_on
  mm/damon: remove unnecessary variable initialization
  Documentation/admin-guide/mm/damon: add a document for DAMON_RECLAIM
  mm/damon: introduce DAMON-based Reclamation (DAMON_RECLAIM)
  selftests/damon: support watermarks
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support watermarks
  mm/damon/schemes: activate schemes based on a watermarks mechanism
  tools/selftests/damon: update for regions prioritization of schemes
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support prioritization weights
  mm/damon/vaddr,paddr: support pageout prioritization
  mm/damon/schemes: prioritize regions within the quotas
  mm/damon/selftests: support schemes quotas
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support quotas of schemes
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlbfs: extend the definition of hugepages parameter to support node allocation</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenguo Yao</name>
<email>yaozhenguo1@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:43:28+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b5389086ad7be0453c55e0069a89856d1fbdf605'/>
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We can specify the number of hugepages to allocate at boot.  But the
hugepages is balanced in all nodes at present.  In some scenarios, we
only need hugepages in one node.  For example: DPDK needs hugepages
which are in the same node as NIC.

If DPDK needs four hugepages of 1G size in node1 and system has 16 numa
nodes we must reserve 64 hugepages on the kernel cmdline.  But only four
hugepages are used.  The others should be free after boot.  If the
system memory is low(for example: 64G), it will be an impossible task.

So extend the hugepages parameter to support specifying hugepages on a
specific node.  For example add following parameter:

  hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0:1,1:3

It will allocate 1 hugepage in node0 and 3 hugepages in node1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhenguo Yao &lt;yaozhenguo1@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenguo Yao &lt;yaozhenguo1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@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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<pre>
We can specify the number of hugepages to allocate at boot.  But the
hugepages is balanced in all nodes at present.  In some scenarios, we
only need hugepages in one node.  For example: DPDK needs hugepages
which are in the same node as NIC.

If DPDK needs four hugepages of 1G size in node1 and system has 16 numa
nodes we must reserve 64 hugepages on the kernel cmdline.  But only four
hugepages are used.  The others should be free after boot.  If the
system memory is low(for example: 64G), it will be an impossible task.

So extend the hugepages parameter to support specifying hugepages on a
specific node.  For example add following parameter:

  hugepagesz=1G hugepages=0:1,1:3

It will allocate 1 hugepage in node0 and 3 hugepages in node1.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Zhenguo Yao &lt;yaozhenguo1@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Zhenguo Yao &lt;yaozhenguo1@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Carpenter &lt;dan.carpenter@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Nathan Chancellor &lt;nathan@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) &lt;willy@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;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hugetlb: support node specified when using cma for gigantic hugepages</title>
<updated>2021-11-06T20:30:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Baolin Wang</name>
<email>baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-05T20:41:46+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=38e719ab26735aa2c5d9d422fc4b741cbd36e700'/>
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Now the size of CMA area for gigantic hugepages runtime allocation is
balanced for all online nodes, but we also want to specify the size of
CMA per-node, or only one node in some cases, which are similar with
patch [1].

For example, on some multi-nodes systems, each node's memory can be
different, allocating the same size of CMA for each node is not suitable
for the low-memory nodes.  Meanwhile some workloads like DPDK mentioned
by Zhenguo in patch [1] only need hugepages in one node.

On the other hand, we have some machines with multiple types of memory,
like DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory).  On this system, we may want to
specify all the hugepages only on DRAM node, or specify the proportion
of DRAM node and PMEM node, to tuning the performance of the workloads.

Thus this patch adds node format for 'hugetlb_cma' parameter to support
specifying the size of CMA per-node.  An example is as follows:

  hugetlb_cma=0:5G,2:5G

which means allocating 5G size of CMA area on node 0 and node 2
respectively.  And the users should use the node specific sysfs file to
allocate the gigantic hugepages if specified the CMA size on that node.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb790775ca60bb8f4b26956bb3f6988f74e075c7.1634261144.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.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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<pre>
Now the size of CMA area for gigantic hugepages runtime allocation is
balanced for all online nodes, but we also want to specify the size of
CMA per-node, or only one node in some cases, which are similar with
patch [1].

For example, on some multi-nodes systems, each node's memory can be
different, allocating the same size of CMA for each node is not suitable
for the low-memory nodes.  Meanwhile some workloads like DPDK mentioned
by Zhenguo in patch [1] only need hugepages in one node.

On the other hand, we have some machines with multiple types of memory,
like DRAM and PMEM (persistent memory).  On this system, we may want to
specify all the hugepages only on DRAM node, or specify the proportion
of DRAM node and PMEM node, to tuning the performance of the workloads.

Thus this patch adds node format for 'hugetlb_cma' parameter to support
specifying the size of CMA per-node.  An example is as follows:

  hugetlb_cma=0:5G,2:5G

which means allocating 5G size of CMA area on node 0 and node 2
respectively.  And the users should use the node specific sysfs file to
allocate the gigantic hugepages if specified the CMA size on that node.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005054729.86457-1-yaozhenguo1@gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/bb790775ca60bb8f4b26956bb3f6988f74e075c7.1634261144.git.baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang &lt;baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz &lt;mike.kravetz@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Roman Gushchin &lt;guro@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen/balloon: add late_initcall_sync() for initial ballooning done</title>
<updated>2021-11-04T17:59:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-02T09:19:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90'/>
<id>40fdea0284bb20814399da0484a658a96c735d90</id>
<content type='text'>
When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory &lt; max memory the
hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest
to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work
correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target
memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest
is crashed as a result of that.

In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before
the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory.

In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init
call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests.

Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling
for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for
changing this timeout.

[boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()]

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki &lt;marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When running as PVH or HVM guest with actual memory &lt; max memory the
hypervisor is using "populate on demand" in order to allow the guest
to balloon down from its maximum memory size. For this to work
correctly the guest must not touch more memory pages than its target
memory size as otherwise the PoD cache will be exhausted and the guest
is crashed as a result of that.

In extreme cases ballooning down might not be finished today before
the init process is started, which can consume lots of memory.

In order to avoid random boot crashes in such cases, add a late init
call to wait for ballooning down having finished for PVH/HVM guests.

Warn on console if initial ballooning fails, panic() after stalling
for more than 3 minutes per default. Add a module parameter for
changing this timeout.

[boris: replaced pr_info() with pr_notice()]

Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki &lt;marmarek@invisiblethingslab.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211102091944.17487-1-jgross@suse.com
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
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