linux-stable.git/Documentation/sysctl, branch v4.17.2

taint: add taint for randstruct

2018-04-11T17:28:35+00:00

Since the randstruct plugin can intentionally produce extremely unusual
kernel structure layouts (even performance pathological ones), some
maintainers want to be able to trivially determine if an Oops is coming
from a randstruct-built kernel, so as to keep their sanity when
debugging.  This adds the new flag and initializes taint_mask
immediately when built with randstruct.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-4-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

taint: consolidate documentation

2018-04-11T17:28:34+00:00

This consolidates the taint bit documentation into a single place with
both numeric and letter values.  Additionally adds the missing TAINT_AUX
documentation.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1519084390-43867-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm/page_alloc: don't reserve ZONE_HIGHMEM for ZONE_MOVABLE request

2018-04-11T17:28:32+00:00

Freepage on ZONE_HIGHMEM doesn't work for kernel memory so it's not that
important to reserve.  When ZONE_MOVABLE is used, this problem would
theorectically cause to decrease usable memory for GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE
allocation request which is mainly used for page cache and anon page
allocation.  So, fix it by setting 0 to
sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio[ZONE_HIGHMEM].

And, defining sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES - 1 size
makes code complex.  For example, if there is highmem system, following
reserve ratio is activated for *NORMAL ZONE* which would be easyily
misleading people.

 #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM
 32
 #endif

This patch also fixes this situation by defining
sysctl_lowmem_reserve_ratio array by MAX_NR_ZONES and place "#ifdef" to
right place.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504672525-17915-1-git-send-email-iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim 
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka 
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K . V" 
Cc: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Laura Abbott 
Cc: Marek Szyprowski 
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

net: do not create fallback tunnels for non-default namespaces

2018-03-09T16:23:11+00:00

fallback tunnels (like tunl0, gre0, gretap0, erspan0, sit0,
ip6tnl0, ip6gre0) are automatically created when the corresponding
module is loaded.

These tunnels are also automatically created when a new network
namespace is created, at a great cost.

In many cases, netns are used for isolation purposes, and these
extra network devices are a waste of resources. We are using
thousands of netns per host, and hit the netns creation/delete
bottleneck a lot. (Many thanks to Kirill for recent work on this)

Add a new sysctl so that we can opt-out from this automatic creation.

Note that these tunnels are still created for the initial namespace,
to be the least intrusive for typical setups.

Tested:
lpk43:~# cat add_del_unshare.sh
for i in `seq 1 40`
do
 (for j in `seq 1 100` ; do  unshare -n /bin/true >/dev/null ; done) &
done
wait

lpk43:~# echo 0 >/proc/sys/net/core/fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net
lpk43:~# time ./add_del_unshare.sh

real	0m37.521s
user	0m0.886s
sys	7m7.084s
lpk43:~# echo 1 >/proc/sys/net/core/fb_tunnels_only_for_init_net
lpk43:~# time ./add_del_unshare.sh

real	0m4.761s
user	0m0.851s
sys	1m8.343s
lpk43:~#

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Documentation/sysctl/user.txt: fix typo

2018-02-07T02:32:48+00:00

Fix 'documetation' to 'documentation'

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAKW4uUxRPZz59aWAX8ytaCB5=Qh6d_CvAnO7rYq-6NRAnQJbDA@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kangmin Park 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2018-02-01T02:46:22+00:00

Merge updates from Andrew Morton:

 - misc fixes

 - ocfs2 updates

 - most of MM

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (118 commits)
  mm: remove PG_highmem description
  tools, vm: new option to specify kpageflags file
  mm/swap.c: make functions and their kernel-doc agree
  mm, memory_hotplug: fix memmap initialization
  mm: correct comments regarding do_fault_around()
  mm: numa: do not trap faults on shared data section pages.
  hugetlb, mbind: fall back to default policy if vma is NULL
  hugetlb, mempolicy: fix the mbind hugetlb migration
  mm, hugetlb: further simplify hugetlb allocation API
  mm, hugetlb: get rid of surplus page accounting tricks
  mm, hugetlb: do not rely on overcommit limit during migration
  mm, hugetlb: integrate giga hugetlb more naturally to the allocation path
  mm, hugetlb: unify core page allocation accounting and initialization
  mm/memcontrol.c: try harder to decrease [memory,memsw].limit_in_bytes
  mm/memcontrol.c: make local symbol static
  mm/hmm: fix uninitialized use of 'entry' in hmm_vma_walk_pmd()
  include/linux/mmzone.h: fix explanation of lower bits in the SPARSEMEM mem_map pointer
  mm/compaction.c: fix comment for try_to_compact_pages()
  mm/page_ext.c: make page_ext_init a noop when CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION but nothing uses it
  zsmalloc: use U suffix for negative literals being shifted
  ...

mm, hugetlb: remove hugepages_treat_as_movable sysctl

2018-02-01T01:18:37+00:00

hugepages_treat_as_movable has been introduced by 396faf0303d2 ("Allow
huge page allocations to use GFP_HIGH_MOVABLE") to allow hugetlb
allocations from ZONE_MOVABLE even when hugetlb pages were not
migrateable.  The purpose of the movable zone was different at the time.
It aimed at reducing memory fragmentation and hugetlb pages being long
lived and large werre not contributing to the fragmentation so it was
acceptable to use the zone back then.

Things have changed though and the primary purpose of the zone became
migratability guarantee.  If we allow non migrateable hugetlb pages to
be in ZONE_MOVABLE memory hotplug might fail to offline the memory.

Remove the knob and only rely on hugepage_migration_supported to allow
movable zones.

Mel said:

: Primarily it was aimed at allowing the hugetlb pool to safely shrink with
: the ability to grow it again.  The use case was for batched jobs, some of
: which needed huge pages and others that did not but didn't want the memory
: useless pinned in the huge pages pool.
:
: I suspect that more users rely on THP than hugetlbfs for flexible use of
: huge pages with fallback options so I think that removing the option
: should be ok.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171003072619.8654-1-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Reported-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Kravetz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

doc: update kptr_restrict documentation

2017-12-21T20:39:27+00:00

Recently the behaviour of printk specifier %pK was changed. The
documentation does not currently mirror this.

Update documentation for sysctl kptr_restrict.

Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

net: Clarify dev_weight documentation for LRO and GRO_HW.

2017-12-20T18:04:01+00:00

Reported-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner 
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller