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<title>virtio_ring: Fix querying of maximum DMA mapping size for virtio device</title>
<updated>2021-12-08T20:04:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Will Deacon</name>
<email>will@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2021-12-01T11:20:18+00:00</published>
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virtio_max_dma_size() returns the maximum DMA mapping size of the virtio
device by querying dma_max_mapping_size() for the device when the DMA
API is in use for the vring. Unfortunately, the device passed is
initialised by register_virtio_device() and does not inherit the DMA
configuration from its parent, resulting in SWIOTLB errors when bouncing
is enabled and the default 256K mapping limit (IO_TLB_SEGSIZE) is not
respected:

  | virtio-pci 0000:00:01.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 294912 bytes), total 1024 (slots), used 725 (slots)

Follow the pattern used elsewhere in the virtio_ring code when calling
into the DMA layer and pass the parent device to dma_max_mapping_size()
instead.

Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201112018.25276-1-will@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e6d6dd6c875e ("virtio: Introduce virtio_max_dma_size()")
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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virtio_max_dma_size() returns the maximum DMA mapping size of the virtio
device by querying dma_max_mapping_size() for the device when the DMA
API is in use for the vring. Unfortunately, the device passed is
initialised by register_virtio_device() and does not inherit the DMA
configuration from its parent, resulting in SWIOTLB errors when bouncing
is enabled and the default 256K mapping limit (IO_TLB_SEGSIZE) is not
respected:

  | virtio-pci 0000:00:01.0: swiotlb buffer is full (sz: 294912 bytes), total 1024 (slots), used 725 (slots)

Follow the pattern used elsewhere in the virtio_ring code when calling
into the DMA layer and pass the parent device to dma_max_mapping_size()
instead.

Cc: Marc Zyngier &lt;maz@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Quentin Perret &lt;qperret@google.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon &lt;will@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211201112018.25276-1-will@kernel.org
Acked-by: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Fixes: e6d6dd6c875e ("virtio: Introduce virtio_max_dma_size()")
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Cc: Robin Murphy &lt;robin.murphy@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Steven Price &lt;steven.price@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K Poulose &lt;suzuki.poulose@arm.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "virtio_ring: validate used buffer length"</title>
<updated>2021-11-24T23:47:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael S. Tsirkin</name>
<email>mst@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-24T23:44:17+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 939779f5152d161b34f612af29e7dc1ac4472fcf.

Attempts to validate length in the core did not work out: there turn out
to exist multiple broken devices, and in particular legacy devices are
known to be broken in this respect.

We have ideas for handling this better in the next version but for now
let's revert to a known good state to make sure drivers work for people.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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This reverts commit 939779f5152d161b34f612af29e7dc1ac4472fcf.

Attempts to validate length in the core did not work out: there turn out
to exist multiple broken devices, and in particular legacy devices are
known to be broken in this respect.

We have ideas for handling this better in the next version but for now
let's revert to a known good state to make sure drivers work for people.

Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>virtio-mem: support VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE</title>
<updated>2021-11-10T14:32:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-15T15:57:13+00:00</published>
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The initial virtio-mem spec states that while unplugged memory should not
be read, the device still has to allow for reading unplugged memory inside
the usable region. The primary motivation for this default handling was
to simplify bringup of virtio-mem, because there were corner cases where
Linux might have accidentially read unplugged memory inside added Linux
memory blocks.

In the meantime, we:
1. Removed /dev/kmem in commit bbcd53c96071 ("drivers/char: remove
   /dev/kmem for good")
2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in
   commit 2128f4e21aa2 ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via
   /dev/mem")
3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in
   commit 0daa322b8ff9 ("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections,
   logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages")
4. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in
   commit ce2814622e84 ("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore
   access")

"Accidential" access to unplugged memory is no longer possible; we can
support the new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be
required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Kedzierski &lt;mkedzier@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hui Zhu &lt;teawater@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf &lt;sebastien.boeuf@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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The initial virtio-mem spec states that while unplugged memory should not
be read, the device still has to allow for reading unplugged memory inside
the usable region. The primary motivation for this default handling was
to simplify bringup of virtio-mem, because there were corner cases where
Linux might have accidentially read unplugged memory inside added Linux
memory blocks.

In the meantime, we:
1. Removed /dev/kmem in commit bbcd53c96071 ("drivers/char: remove
   /dev/kmem for good")
2. Disallowed access to virtio-mem device memory via /dev/mem in
   commit 2128f4e21aa2 ("virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via
   /dev/mem")
3. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/kcore in
   commit 0daa322b8ff9 ("fs/proc/kcore: don't read offline sections,
   logically offline pages and hwpoisoned pages")
4. Sanitized access to virtio-mem device memory via /proc/vmcore in
   commit ce2814622e84 ("virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore
   access")

"Accidential" access to unplugged memory is no longer possible; we can
support the new VIRTIO_MEM_F_UNPLUGGED_INACCESSIBLE feature that will be
required by some hypervisors implementing virtio-mem in the near future.

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Marek Kedzierski &lt;mkedzier@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Hui Zhu &lt;teawater@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastien Boeuf &lt;sebastien.boeuf@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Pankaj Gupta &lt;pankaj.gupta.linux@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Wei Yang &lt;richard.weiyang@linux.alibaba.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:11:53+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T18:11:53+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "87 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (pagecache and hugetlb),
  procfs, misc, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, kallsyms, ramfs,
  init, codafs, nilfs2, hfs, crash_dump, signals, seq_file, fork,
  sysvfs, kcov, gdb, resource, selftests, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (87 commits)
  ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
  ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files
  selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files
  virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem
  kernel/resource: disallow access to exclusive system RAM regions
  kernel/resource: clean up and optimize iomem_is_exclusive()
  scripts/gdb: handle split debug for vmlinux
  kcov: replace local_irq_save() with a local_lock_t
  kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task()
  kcov: allocate per-CPU memory on the relevant node
  Documentation/kcov: define `ip' in the example
  Documentation/kcov: include types.h in the example
  sysv: use BUILD_BUG_ON instead of runtime check
  kernel/fork.c: unshare(): use swap() to make code cleaner
  seq_file: fix passing wrong private data
  seq_file: move seq_escape() to a header
  signal: remove duplicate include in signal.h
  crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h
  crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "87 patches.

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: mm (pagecache and hugetlb),
  procfs, misc, MAINTAINERS, lib, checkpatch, binfmt, kallsyms, ramfs,
  init, codafs, nilfs2, hfs, crash_dump, signals, seq_file, fork,
  sysvfs, kcov, gdb, resource, selftests, and ipc"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (87 commits)
  ipc/ipc_sysctl.c: remove fallback for !CONFIG_PROC_SYSCTL
  ipc: check checkpoint_restore_ns_capable() to modify C/R proc files
  selftests/kselftest/runner/run_one(): allow running non-executable files
  virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem
  kernel/resource: disallow access to exclusive system RAM regions
  kernel/resource: clean up and optimize iomem_is_exclusive()
  scripts/gdb: handle split debug for vmlinux
  kcov: replace local_irq_save() with a local_lock_t
  kcov: avoid enable+disable interrupts if !in_task()
  kcov: allocate per-CPU memory on the relevant node
  Documentation/kcov: define `ip' in the example
  Documentation/kcov: include types.h in the example
  sysv: use BUILD_BUG_ON instead of runtime check
  kernel/fork.c: unshare(): use swap() to make code cleaner
  seq_file: fix passing wrong private data
  seq_file: move seq_escape() to a header
  signal: remove duplicate include in signal.h
  crash_dump: remove duplicate include in crash_dump.h
  crash_dump: fix boolreturn.cocci warning
  hfs/hfsplus: use WARN_ON for sanity check
  ...
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<entry>
<title>virtio-mem: disallow mapping virtio-mem memory via /dev/mem</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:35:53+00:00</published>
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We don't want user space to be able to map virtio-mem device memory
directly (e.g., via /dev/mem) in order to have guarantees that in a sane
setup we'll never accidentially access unplugged memory within the
device-managed region of a virtio-mem device, just as required by the
virtio-spec.

As soon as the virtio-mem driver is loaded, the device region is visible
in /proc/iomem via the parent device region.  From that point on user
space is aware of the device region and we want to disallow mapping
anything inside that region (where we will dynamically (un)plug memory)
until the driver has been unloaded cleanly and e.g., another driver might
take over.

By creating our parent IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resource with
IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE, we will disallow any /dev/mem access to our device
region until the driver was unloaded cleanly and removed the parent
region.  This will work even though only some memory blocks are actually
currently added to Linux and appear as busy in the resource tree.

So access to the region from user space is only possible
a) if we don't load the virtio-mem driver.
b) after unloading the virtio-mem driver cleanly.

Don't build virtio-mem if access to /dev/mem cannot be restricticted -- if
we have CONFIG_DEVMEM=y but CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210920142856.17758-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&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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We don't want user space to be able to map virtio-mem device memory
directly (e.g., via /dev/mem) in order to have guarantees that in a sane
setup we'll never accidentially access unplugged memory within the
device-managed region of a virtio-mem device, just as required by the
virtio-spec.

As soon as the virtio-mem driver is loaded, the device region is visible
in /proc/iomem via the parent device region.  From that point on user
space is aware of the device region and we want to disallow mapping
anything inside that region (where we will dynamically (un)plug memory)
until the driver has been unloaded cleanly and e.g., another driver might
take over.

By creating our parent IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM resource with
IORESOURCE_EXCLUSIVE, we will disallow any /dev/mem access to our device
region until the driver was unloaded cleanly and removed the parent
region.  This will work even though only some memory blocks are actually
currently added to Linux and appear as busy in the resource tree.

So access to the region from user space is only possible
a) if we don't load the virtio-mem driver.
b) after unloading the virtio-mem driver cleanly.

Don't build virtio-mem if access to /dev/mem cannot be restricticted -- if
we have CONFIG_DEVMEM=y but CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM is not set.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210920142856.17758-4-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andy.shevchenko@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&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>virtio-mem: kdump mode to sanitize /proc/vmcore access</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:32:02+00:00</published>
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Although virtio-mem currently supports reading unplugged memory in the
hypervisor, this will change in the future, indicated to the device via
a new feature flag.

We similarly sanitized /proc/kcore access recently.  [1]

Let's register a vmcore callback, to allow vmcore code to check if a PFN
belonging to a virtio-mem device is either currently plugged and should
be dumped or is currently unplugged and should not be accessed, instead
mapping the shared zeropage or returning zeroes when reading.

This is important when not capturing /proc/vmcore via tools like
"makedumpfile" that can identify logically unplugged virtio-mem memory
via PG_offline in the memmap, but simply by e.g., copying the file.

Distributions that support virtio-mem+kdump have to make sure that the
virtio_mem module will be part of the kdump kernel or the kdump initrd;
dracut was recently [2] extended to include virtio-mem in the generated
initrd.  As long as no special kdump kernels are used, this will
automatically make sure that virtio-mem will be around in the kdump
initrd and sanitize /proc/vmcore access -- with dracut.

With this series, we'll send one virtio-mem state request for every ~2
MiB chunk of virtio-mem memory indicated in the vmcore that we intend to
read/map.

In the future, we might want to allow building virtio-mem for kdump mode
only, even without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG and friends: this way, we could
support special stripped-down kdump kernels that have many other config
options disabled; we'll tackle that once required.  Further, we might
want to try sensing bigger blocks (e.g., memory sections) first before
falling back to device blocks on demand.

Tested with Fedora rawhide, which contains a recent kexec-tools version
(considering "System RAM (virtio_mem)" when creating the vmcore header)
and a recent dracut version (including the virtio_mem module in the
kdump initrd).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-1-david@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/1157 [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-10-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&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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Although virtio-mem currently supports reading unplugged memory in the
hypervisor, this will change in the future, indicated to the device via
a new feature flag.

We similarly sanitized /proc/kcore access recently.  [1]

Let's register a vmcore callback, to allow vmcore code to check if a PFN
belonging to a virtio-mem device is either currently plugged and should
be dumped or is currently unplugged and should not be accessed, instead
mapping the shared zeropage or returning zeroes when reading.

This is important when not capturing /proc/vmcore via tools like
"makedumpfile" that can identify logically unplugged virtio-mem memory
via PG_offline in the memmap, but simply by e.g., copying the file.

Distributions that support virtio-mem+kdump have to make sure that the
virtio_mem module will be part of the kdump kernel or the kdump initrd;
dracut was recently [2] extended to include virtio-mem in the generated
initrd.  As long as no special kdump kernels are used, this will
automatically make sure that virtio-mem will be around in the kdump
initrd and sanitize /proc/vmcore access -- with dracut.

With this series, we'll send one virtio-mem state request for every ~2
MiB chunk of virtio-mem memory indicated in the vmcore that we intend to
read/map.

In the future, we might want to allow building virtio-mem for kdump mode
only, even without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG and friends: this way, we could
support special stripped-down kdump kernels that have many other config
options disabled; we'll tackle that once required.  Further, we might
want to try sensing bigger blocks (e.g., memory sections) first before
falling back to device blocks on demand.

Tested with Fedora rawhide, which contains a recent kexec-tools version
(considering "System RAM (virtio_mem)" when creating the vmcore header)
and a recent dracut version (including the virtio_mem module in the
kdump initrd).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210526093041.8800-1-david@redhat.com [1]
Link: https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/pull/1157 [2]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-10-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&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>virtio-mem: factor out hotplug specifics from virtio_mem_remove() into virtio_mem_deinit_hotplug()</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:31:58+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=ffc763d0c334c397ef04c02f6bd512ae23bfa1aa'/>
<id>ffc763d0c334c397ef04c02f6bd512ae23bfa1aa</id>
<content type='text'>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-9-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-9-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&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>virtio-mem: factor out hotplug specifics from virtio_mem_probe() into virtio_mem_init_hotplug()</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:31:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=84e17e684eefa9d84d9d46e5436d46de129cd6da'/>
<id>84e17e684eefa9d84d9d46e5436d46de129cd6da</id>
<content type='text'>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-8-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-8-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&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>virtio-mem: factor out hotplug specifics from virtio_mem_init() into virtio_mem_init_hotplug()</title>
<updated>2021-11-09T18:02:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-11-09T02:31:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=94300fcf4cef8e56f9e25fc75692e7db6d00e232'/>
<id>94300fcf4cef8e56f9e25fc75692e7db6d00e232</id>
<content type='text'>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Let's prepare for a new virtio-mem kdump mode in which we don't actually
hot(un)plug any memory but only observe the state of device blocks.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211005121430.30136-7-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Jason Wang &lt;jasowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" &lt;mst@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Michal Hocko &lt;mhocko@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Oscar Salvador &lt;osalvador@suse.de&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&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>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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=512b7931ad0561ffe14265f9ff554a3c081b476b'/>
<id>512b7931ad0561ffe14265f9ff554a3c081b476b</id>
<content type='text'>
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
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<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>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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