linux-stable.git/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch v5.17.2

docs: sysctl/kernel: add missing bit to panic_print

2022-04-08T11:59:03+00:00

commit a1ff1de00db21ecb956213f046b79741b64c6b65 upstream.

Patch series "Some improvements on panic_print".

This is a mix of a documentation fix with some additions to the
"panic_print" syscall / parameter.  The goal here is being able to collect
all CPUs backtraces during a panic event and also to enable "panic_print"
in a kdump event - details of the reasoning and design choices in the
patches.

This patch (of 3):

Commit de6da1e8bcf0 ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk
message in buffer") added a new bit to the sysctl/kernel parameter
"panic_print", but the documentation was added only in
kernel-parameters.txt, not in the sysctl guide.

Fix it here by adding bit 5 to sysctl admin-guide documentation.

[rdunlap@infradead.org: fix table format warning]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220109055635.6999-1-rdunlap@infradead.org

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211109202848.610874-2-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Fixes: de6da1e8bcf0 ("panic: add an option to replay all the printk message in buffer")
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli 
Reviewed-by: Feng Tang 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Iurii Zaikin 
Cc: Samuel Iglesias Gonsalvez 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2022-01-15T18:37:06+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "146 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
  dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
  memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
  userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
  ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
  damon)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (146 commits)
  mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
  mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
  mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
  mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
  mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
  mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
  mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
  mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
  mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
  mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
  mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
  Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
  mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
  mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
  mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
  ...

mm/pagealloc: sysctl: change watermark_scale_factor max limit to 30%

2022-01-15T14:30:29+00:00

For embedded systems with low total memory, having to run applications
with relatively large memory requirements, 10% max limitation for
watermark_scale_factor poses an issue of triggering direct reclaim every
time such application is started.  This results in slow application
startup times and bad end-user experience.

By increasing watermark_scale_factor max limit we allow vendors more
flexibility to choose the right level of kswapd aggressiveness for their
device and workload requirements.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211124193604.2758863-1-surenb@google.com
Signed-off-by: Suren Baghdasaryan 
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Lukas Middendorf 
Cc: Antti Palosaari 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Iurii Zaikin 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Zhang Yi 
Cc: Fengfei Xi 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arm64: perf: Add userspace counter access disable switch

2021-12-14T11:30:54+00:00

Like x86, some users may want to disable userspace PMU counter
altogether. Add a sysctl 'perf_user_access' file to control userspace
counter access. The default is '0' which is disabled. Writing '1'
enables access.

Note that x86 supports globally enabling user access by writing '2' to
/sys/bus/event_source/devices/cpu/rdpmc. As there's not existing
userspace support to worry about, this shouldn't be necessary for Arm.
It could be added later if the need arises.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Will Deacon 
Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland 
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211208201124.310740-4-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

docs: accounting: update delay-accounting.rst reference

2021-11-17T13:12:14+00:00

The file name: accounting/delay-accounting.rst
should be, instead: Documentation/accounting/delay-accounting.rst.

Also, there's no need to use doc:`foo`, as automarkup.py will
automatically handle plain text mentions to Documentation/
files.

So, update its cross-reference accordingly.

Fixes: fcb501704554 ("delayacct: Document task_delayacct sysctl")
Fixes: c3123552aad3 ("docs: accounting: convert to ReST")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

mm: compaction: support triggering of proactive compaction by user

2021-09-03T16:58:17+00:00

The proactive compaction[1] gets triggered for every 500msec and run
compaction on the node for COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER (usually order-9) pages
based on the value set to sysctl.compaction_proactiveness.  Triggering the
compaction for every 500msec in search of COMPACTION_HPAGE_ORDER pages is
not needed for all applications, especially on the embedded system
usecases which may have few MB's of RAM.  Enabling the proactive
compaction in its state will endup in running almost always on such
systems.

Other side, proactive compaction can still be very much useful for getting
a set of higher order pages in some controllable manner(controlled by
using the sysctl.compaction_proactiveness).  So, on systems where enabling
the proactive compaction always may proove not required, can trigger the
same from user space on write to its sysctl interface.  As an example, say
app launcher decide to launch the memory heavy application which can be
launched fast if it gets more higher order pages thus launcher can prepare
the system in advance by triggering the proactive compaction from
userspace.

This triggering of proactive compaction is done on a write to
sysctl.compaction_proactiveness by user.

[1]https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=facdaa917c4d5a376d09d25865f5a863f906234a

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak vm.rst, per Mike]

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1627653207-12317-1-git-send-email-charante@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Charan Teja Reddy 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini 
Cc: Mike Rapoport 
Cc: Luis Chamberlain 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Iurii Zaikin 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Nitin Gupta 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Khalid Aziz 
Cc: David Rientjes 
Cc: Vinayak Menon 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-06-30T19:12:56+00:00

Pull core block updates from Jens Axboe:

 - disk events cleanup (Christoph)

 - gendisk and request queue allocation simplifications (Christoph)

 - bdev_disk_changed cleanups (Christoph)

 - IO priority improvements (Bart)

 - Chained bio completion trace fix (Edward)

 - blk-wbt fixes (Jan)

 - blk-wbt enable/disable fix (Zhang)

 - Scheduler dispatch improvements (Jan, Ming)

 - Shared tagset scheduler improvements (John)

 - BFQ updates (Paolo, Luca, Pietro)

 - BFQ lock inversion fix (Jan)

 - Documentation improvements (Kir)

 - CLONE_IO block cgroup fix (Tejun)

 - Remove of ancient and deprecated block dump feature (zhangyi)

 - Discard merge fix (Ming)

 - Misc fixes or followup fixes (Colin, Damien, Dan, Long, Max, Thomas,
   Yang)

* tag 'for-5.14/block-2021-06-29' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (129 commits)
  block: fix discard request merge
  block/mq-deadline: Remove a WARN_ON_ONCE() call
  blk-mq: update hctx->dispatch_busy in case of real scheduler
  blk: Fix lock inversion between ioc lock and bfqd lock
  bfq: Remove merged request already in bfq_requests_merged()
  block: pass a gendisk to bdev_disk_changed
  block: move bdev_disk_changed
  block: add the events* attributes to disk_attrs
  block: move the disk events code to a separate file
  block: fix trace completion for chained bio
  block/partitions/msdos: Fix typo inidicator -> indicator
  block, bfq: reset waker pointer with shared queues
  block, bfq: check waker only for queues with no in-flight I/O
  block, bfq: avoid delayed merge of async queues
  block, bfq: boost throughput by extending queue-merging times
  block, bfq: consider also creation time in delayed stable merge
  block, bfq: fix delayed stable merge check
  block, bfq: let also stably merged queues enjoy weight raising
  blk-wbt: make sure throttle is enabled properly
  blk-wbt: introduce a new disable state to prevent false positive by rwb_enabled()
  ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-06-30T00:29:11+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
 "191 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
  ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, kernel/watchdog, and mm (gup, pagealloc, slab,
  slub, kmemleak, dax, debug, pagecache, gup, swap, memcg, pagemap,
  mprotect, bootmem, dma, tracing, vmalloc, kasan, initialization,
  pagealloc, and memory-failure)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (191 commits)
  mm,hwpoison: make get_hwpoison_page() call get_any_page()
  mm,hwpoison: send SIGBUS with error virutal address
  mm/page_alloc: split pcp->high across all online CPUs for cpuless nodes
  mm/page_alloc: allow high-order pages to be stored on the per-cpu lists
  mm: replace CONFIG_FLAT_NODE_MEM_MAP with CONFIG_FLATMEM
  mm: replace CONFIG_NEED_MULTIPLE_NODES with CONFIG_NUMA
  docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM
  arch, mm: remove stale mentions of DISCONIGMEM
  mm: remove CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM
  m68k: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: remove support for DISCONTIGMEM
  arc: update comment about HIGHMEM implementation
  alpha: remove DISCONTIGMEM and NUMA
  mm/page_alloc: move free_the_page
  mm/page_alloc: fix counting of managed_pages
  mm/page_alloc: improve memmap_pages dbg msg
  mm: drop SECTION_SHIFT in code comments
  mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction
  mm/page_alloc: limit the number of pages on PCP lists when reclaim is active
  mm/page_alloc: scale the number of pages that are batch freed
  ...

docs: remove description of DISCONTIGMEM

2021-06-29T17:53:55+00:00

Remove description of DISCONTIGMEM from the "Memory Models" document and
update VM sysctl description so that it won't mention DISCONIGMEM.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210608091316.3622-8-rppt@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand 
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Matt Turner 
Cc: Richard Henderson 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: introduce vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction

2021-06-29T17:53:55+00:00

This introduces a new sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction.  It is
similar to the old vm.percpu_pagelist_fraction.  The old sysctl increased
both pcp->batch and pcp->high with the higher pcp->high potentially
reducing zone->lock contention.  However, the higher pcp->batch value also
potentially increased allocation latency while the PCP was refilled.  This
sysctl only adjusts pcp->high so that zone->lock contention is potentially
reduced but allocation latency during a PCP refill remains the same.

  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  649
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=8
  # grep -E "high:|batch" /proc/zoneinfo | tail -2
              high:  35071
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=64
              high:  4383
              batch: 63

  # sysctl vm.percpu_pagelist_high_fraction=0
              high:  649
              batch: 63

[mgorman@techsingularity.net: fix documentation]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210528151010.GQ30378@techsingularity.net

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210525080119.5455-7-mgorman@techsingularity.net
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman 
Acked-by: Dave Hansen 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Hillf Danton 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds