linux-stable.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v3.16 Linux kernel stable tree Merge branch 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-07-19T16:23:27+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2014-07-19T16:23:27+00:00 da5b99b4545e2bae9a08876e6e827589dbfdcd9a Pull RCU fixes from Thomas Gleixner: "Two RCU patches: - Address a serious performance regression on open/close caused by commit ac1bea85781e ("Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states") - Export RCU debug functions. Not a regression, but enablement to address a serious recursion bug in the sl*b allocators in 3.17" * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head() 
Pull RCU fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two RCU patches:
   - Address a serious performance regression on open/close caused by
     commit ac1bea85781e ("Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent
     states")
   - Export RCU debug functions.  Not a regression, but enablement to
     address a serious recursion bug in the sl*b allocators in 3.17"

* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
  rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
Revert "ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0" 2014-07-14T18:10:27+00:00 Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com 2014-07-14T17:35:45+00:00 2843768b701971ab10e62c77d5c75ad7c306f1bd This reverts commit 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0) as it is reported to cause problems to happen. Fixes: 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0) Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=140534286826819&w=2 Reported by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 
This reverts commit 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video
brightness_switch_enabled default to 0) as it is reported to cause
problems to happen.

Fixes: 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0)
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=140534286826819&w=2
Reported by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Merge branch 'urgent.2014.06.23a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent 2014-06-25T05:37:49+00:00 Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org 2014-06-25T05:37:49+00:00 5cfec3422adcc1987a1b5fc5ff59ad42a1bc910e Pull RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney: " This series includes the following: 1. Export a pair of debug-object interfaces for RCU that will allow the slab allocators to avoid a recursion bug located by Sasha Levin. Strictly speaking, this is not a regression, but it would be good to enable the fix. 2. Address a serious performance regression on an open/close micro-benchmark located by Dave Hansen. The offending commit is ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states). " Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> 
Pull RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney:

" This series includes the following:

   1.    Export a pair of debug-object interfaces for RCU that will
         allow the slab allocators to avoid a recursion bug located
         by Sasha Levin.  Strictly speaking, this is not a regression,
         but it would be good to enable the fix.

   2.    Address a serious performance regression on an open/close
         micro-benchmark located by Dave Hansen.  The offending commit
         is ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states).  "

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/watchdog.c: print traces for all cpus on lockup detection 2014-06-23T23:47:44+00:00 Aaron Tomlin atomlin@redhat.com 2014-06-23T20:22:05+00:00 ed235875e2ca983197831337a986f0517074e1a0 A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving other tasks a chance to run. Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system log. On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the actual "culprit" (i.e. the owner/holder of the contended resource) is reported to the user. Often this information has proven to be insufficient to assist debugging efforts. To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup reporting. This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain a stack trace. If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method. A sysctl and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature. [dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations] [mq@suse.cz: fix warning] Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.

Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog
task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system
log.

On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e.  the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user.  Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.

To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which
support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup
reporting.  This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain
a stack trace.

If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method.  A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.

[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations]
[mq@suse.cz: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU 2014-06-23T18:19:32+00:00 Paul E. McKenney paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2014-06-20T23:49:01+00:00 4a81e8328d3791a4f99bf5b436d050f6dc5ffea3 Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states) fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop contained cond_resched() calls. Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test. The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which increased per-update grace-period overhead. This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable. However, this approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send resched IPIs to the offending CPUs. These will be sent only once the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings will be emitted, whichever comes first. Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> [ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the ktest build robot. Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by Oleg Nesterov. ] Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
x86, kaslr: boot-time selectable with hibernation 2014-06-16T21:30:44+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2014-06-13T20:30:36+00:00 24f2e0273f80ec262a772059e140a0adef35296d Changes kASLR from being compile-time selectable (blocked by CONFIG_HIBERNATION), to being boot-time selectable (with hibernation available by default) via the "kaslr" kernel command line. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 
Changes kASLR from being compile-time selectable (blocked by
CONFIG_HIBERNATION), to being boot-time selectable (with hibernation
available by default) via the "kaslr" kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
PM / hibernate: introduce "nohibernate" boot parameter 2014-06-16T21:29:39+00:00 Kees Cook keescook@chromium.org 2014-06-13T20:30:35+00:00 a6e15a39048ec3229b9a53425f4384f55f6cc1b3 To support using kernel features that are not compatible with hibernation, this creates the "nohibernate" kernel boot parameter to disable both hibernation and resume. This allows hibernation support to be a boot-time choice instead of only a compile-time choice. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> 
To support using kernel features that are not compatible with hibernation,
this creates the "nohibernate" kernel boot parameter to disable both
hibernation and resume. This allows hibernation support to be a boot-time
choice instead of only a compile-time choice.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux 2014-06-11T23:09:14+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2014-06-11T23:09:14+00:00 4251c2a67011801caecd63671f26dd8c9aedb24c Pull module updates from Rusty Russell: "Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks, but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily). Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be handed to init (and ignored by the kernel). Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling parse_args()" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING. samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files. speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx param: hand arguments after -- straight to init modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump() 
Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Most of this is cleaning up various driver sysfs permissions so we can
  re-add the perm check (we unified the module param and sysfs checks,
  but the module ones were stronger so we weakened them temporarily).

  Param parsing gets documented, and also "--" now forces args to be
  handed to init (and ignored by the kernel).

  Module NX/RO protections get tightened: we now set them before calling
  parse_args()"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
  module: set nx before marking module MODULE_STATE_COMING.
  samples/kobject/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_fb: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/staging/speakup/: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/regulator/virtual: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/hid/hid-lg4ff.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/video/fbdev/sm501fb.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  drivers/mtd/devices/docg3.c: avoid world-writable sysfs files.
  speakup: fix incorrect perms on speakup_acntsa.c
  cpumask.h: silence warning with -Wsign-compare
  Documentation: Update kernel-parameters.tx
  param: hand arguments after -- straight to init
  modpost: Fix resource leak in read_dump()
kernel/panic.c: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" option for kdump after panic_notifers 2014-06-06T23:08:12+00:00 Masami Hiramatsu masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com 2014-06-06T21:37:07+00:00 f06e5153f4ae2e2f3b0300f0e260e40cb7fefd45 Add a "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot option to run kdump after running panic_notifiers and dump kmsg. This can help rare situations where kdump fails because of unstable crashed kernel or hardware failure (memory corruption on critical data/code), or the 2nd kernel is already broken by the 1st kernel (it's a broken behavior, but who can guarantee that the "crashed" kernel works correctly?). Usage: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" to kernel boot option. Note that this actually increases risks of the failure of kdump. This option should be set only if you worry about the rare case of kdump failure rather than increasing the chance of success. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Motohiro Kosaki <Motohiro.Kosaki@us.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoru MORIYA <satoru.moriya.br@hitachi.com> Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Add a "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" boot option to run kdump after
running panic_notifiers and dump kmsg.  This can help rare situations
where kdump fails because of unstable crashed kernel or hardware failure
(memory corruption on critical data/code), or the 2nd kernel is already
broken by the 1st kernel (it's a broken behavior, but who can guarantee
that the "crashed" kernel works correctly?).

Usage: add "crash_kexec_post_notifiers" to kernel boot option.

Note that this actually increases risks of the failure of kdump.  This
option should be set only if you worry about the rare case of kdump
failure rather than increasing the chance of success.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Motohiro Kosaki <Motohiro.Kosaki@us.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Yoshihiro YUNOMAE <yoshihiro.yunomae.ez@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoru MORIYA <satoru.moriya.br@hitachi.com>
Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@hds.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
init/main.c: add initcall_blacklist kernel parameter 2014-06-04T23:54:21+00:00 Prarit Bhargava prarit@redhat.com 2014-06-04T23:12:17+00:00 7b0b73d76651e5f88c88b76efa18d719f832bf6f When a module is built into the kernel the module_init() function becomes an initcall. Sometimes debugging through dynamic debug can help, however, debugging built in kernel modules is typically done by changing the .config, recompiling, and booting the new kernel in an effort to determine exactly which module caused a problem. This patchset can be useful stand-alone or combined with initcall_debug. There are cases where some initcalls can hang the machine before the console can be flushed, which can make initcall_debug output inaccurate. Having the ability to skip initcalls can help further debugging of these scenarios. Usage: initcall_blacklist=<list of comma separated initcalls> ex) added "initcall_blacklist=sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter and the log contains: blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init ... ... initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklisted ex) added "initcall_blacklist=foo_bar,sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter and the log contains: blacklisting initcall foo_bar blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init ... ... initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklisted [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak printk text] Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
When a module is built into the kernel the module_init() function
becomes an initcall.  Sometimes debugging through dynamic debug can
help, however, debugging built in kernel modules is typically done by
changing the .config, recompiling, and booting the new kernel in an
effort to determine exactly which module caused a problem.

This patchset can be useful stand-alone or combined with initcall_debug.
There are cases where some initcalls can hang the machine before the
console can be flushed, which can make initcall_debug output inaccurate.
Having the ability to skip initcalls can help further debugging of these
scenarios.

Usage: initcall_blacklist=<list of comma separated initcalls>

ex) added "initcall_blacklist=sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter and
the log contains:

	blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init
	...
	...
	initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklisted

ex) added "initcall_blacklist=foo_bar,sgi_uv_sysfs_init" as a kernel parameter
and the log contains:

	blacklisting initcall foo_bar
	blacklisting initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init
	...
	...
	initcall sgi_uv_sysfs_init blacklisted

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak printk text]
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@fedoraproject.org>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>