linux-stable.git/init/main.c, branch v3.10.78

x86, espfix: Make espfix64 a Kconfig option, fix UML

2014-08-07T21:30:26+00:00

commit 197725de65477bc8509b41388157c1a2283542bb upstream.

Make espfix64 a hidden Kconfig option.  This fixes the x86-64 UML
build which had broken due to the non-existence of init_espfix_bsp()
in UML: since UML uses its own Kconfig, this option does not appear in
the UML build.

This also makes it possible to make support for 16-bit segments a
configuration option, for the people who want to minimize the size of
the kernel.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86-64, espfix: Don't leak bits 31:16 of %esp returning to 16-bit stack

2014-08-07T21:30:26+00:00

commit 3891a04aafd668686239349ea58f3314ea2af86b upstream.

The IRET instruction, when returning to a 16-bit segment, only
restores the bottom 16 bits of the user space stack pointer.  This
causes some 16-bit software to break, but it also leaks kernel state
to user space.  We have a software workaround for that ("espfix") for
the 32-bit kernel, but it relies on a nonzero stack segment base which
is not available in 64-bit mode.

In checkin:

    b3b42ac2cbae x86-64, modify_ldt: Ban 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels

we "solved" this by forbidding 16-bit segments on 64-bit kernels, with
the logic that 16-bit support is crippled on 64-bit kernels anyway (no
V86 support), but it turns out that people are doing stuff like
running old Win16 binaries under Wine and expect it to work.

This works around this by creating percpu "ministacks", each of which
is mapped 2^16 times 64K apart.  When we detect that the return SS is
on the LDT, we copy the IRET frame to the ministack and use the
relevant alias to return to userspace.  The ministacks are mapped
readonly, so if IRET faults we promote #GP to #DF which is an IST
vector and thus has its own stack; we then do the fixup in the #DF
handler.

(Making #GP an IST exception would make the msr_safe functions unsafe
in NMI/MC context, and quite possibly have other effects.)

Special thanks to:

- Andy Lutomirski, for the suggestion of using very small stack slots
  and copy (as opposed to map) the IRET frame there, and for the
  suggestion to mark them readonly and let the fault promote to #DF.
- Konrad Wilk for paravirt fixup and testing.
- Borislav Petkov for testing help and useful comments.

Reported-by: Brian Gerst 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398816946-3351-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Andrew Lutomriski 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Dirk Hohndel 
Cc: Arjan van de Ven 
Cc: comex 
Cc: Alexander van Heukelum 
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

random: run random_int_secret_init() run after all late_initcalls

2013-10-18T14:45:44+00:00

commit 47d06e532e95b71c0db3839ebdef3fe8812fca2c upstream.

The some platforms (e.g., ARM) initializes their clocks as
late_initcalls for some unknown reason.  So make sure
random_int_secret_init() is run after all of the late_initcalls are
run.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-05-05T20:23:27+00:00

Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.

This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:

- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.

- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.

- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.

The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.

Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:

- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.

- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.

- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.

The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.

This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.

This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:

- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.

- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.

- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.

- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.

- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)

Future plans:

- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.

- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.

I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.

More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"

* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
...

Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz

2013-05-02T15:54:19+00:00

The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.

Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.

Conflicts:
	include/linux/perf_event.h
	kernel/rcutree.h
	kernel/rcutree_plugin.h

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

init: Do not warn on non-zero initcall return

2013-05-01T17:44:24+00:00

Commit f91eb62f71b3 ("init: scream bloody murder if interrupts are
enabled too early") added three new warnings.  The first two seemed
reasonable, but the third included a warning when an initcall returned
non-zero.  Although, the third WARN() does include an imbalanced preempt
disabled, or irqs disable, it shouldn't warn if it only had an initcall
that just returns non-zero.

In fact, according to Linus, it shouldn't print at all.  As it only
prints with initcall_debug set, and that already shows enough
information to fix things.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA+55aFzaBC5SFi7=F2mfm+KWY5qTsBmOqgbbs8E+LUS8JK-sBg@mail.gmail.com

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds 
Reported-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-04-30T15:15:40+00:00

Pull core timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle's merge are:

   - Implement shadow timekeeper to shorten in kernel reader side
     blocking, by Thomas Gleixner.

   - Posix timers enhancements by Pavel Emelyanov:

   - allocate timer ID per process, so that exact timer ID allocations
     can be re-created be checkpoint/restore code.

   - debuggability and tooling (/proc/PID/timers, etc.) improvements.

   - suspend/resume enhancements by Feng Tang: on certain new Intel Atom
     processors (Penwell and Cloverview), there is a feature that the
     TSC won't stop in S3 state, so the TSC value won't be reset to 0
     after resume.  This can be taken advantage of by the generic via
     the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag: instead of using the RTC to
     recover/approximate sleep time, the main (and precise) clocksource
     can be used.

   - Fix /proc/timer_list for 4096 CPUs by Nathan Zimmer: on so many
     CPUs the file goes beyond 4MB of size and thus the current
     simplistic seqfile approach fails.  Convert /proc/timer_list to a
     proper seq_file with its own iterator.

   - Cleanups and refactorings of the core timekeeping code by John
     Stultz.

   - International Atomic Clock time is managed by the NTP code
     internally currently but not exposed externally.  Separate the TAI
     code out and add CLOCK_TAI support and TAI support to the hrtimer
     and posix-timer code, by John Stultz.

   - Add deep idle support enhacement to the broadcast clockevents core
     timer code, by Daniel Lezcano: add an opt-in CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ
     clockevents feature (which will be utilized by future clockevents
     driver updates), which allows the use of IRQ affinities to avoid
     spurious wakeups of idle CPUs - the right CPU with an expiring
     timer will be woken.

   - Add new ARM bcm281xx clocksource driver, by Christian Daudt

   - ... various other fixes and cleanups"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown
  timekeeping: Update tk->cycle_last in resume
  posix-timers: Remove unused variable
  clockevents: Switch into oneshot mode even if broadcast registered late
  timer_list: Convert timer list to be a proper seq_file
  timer_list: Split timer_list_show_tickdevices
  posix-timers: Show sigevent info in proc file
  posix-timers: Introduce /proc/PID/timers file
  posix timers: Allocate timer id per process (v2)
  timekeeping: Make sure to notify hrtimers when TAI offset changes
  hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures
  hrtimer: Add expiry time overflow check in hrtimer_interrupt
  timekeeping: Shorten seq_count region
  timekeeping: Implement a shadow timekeeper
  timekeeping: Delay update of clock->cycle_last
  timekeeping: Store cycle_last value in timekeeper struct as well
  ntp: Remove ntp_lock, using the timekeeping locks to protect ntp state
  timekeeping: Simplify tai updating from do_adjtimex
  timekeeping: Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps
  timekeeping: Move ADJ_SETOFFSET to top level do_adjtimex()
  ...

Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2013-04-30T14:50:17+00:00

Pull SMP/hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "This is a pretty large, multi-arch series unifying and generalizing
  the various disjunct pieces of idle routines that architectures have
  historically copied from each other and have grown in random, wildly
  inconsistent and sometimes buggy directions:

   101 files changed, 455 insertions(+), 1328 deletions(-)

  this went through a number of review and test iterations before it was
  committed, it was tested on various architectures, was exposed to
  linux-next for quite some time - nevertheless it might cause problems
  on architectures that don't read the mailing lists and don't regularly
  test linux-next.

  This cat herding excercise was motivated by the -rt kernel, and was
  brought to you by Thomas "the Whip" Gleixner."

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (40 commits)
  idle: Remove GENERIC_IDLE_LOOP config switch
  um: Use generic idle loop
  ia64: Make sure interrupts enabled when we "safe_halt()"
  sparc: Use generic idle loop
  idle: Remove unused ARCH_HAS_DEFAULT_IDLE
  bfin: Fix typo in arch_cpu_idle()
  xtensa: Use generic idle loop
  x86: Use generic idle loop
  unicore: Use generic idle loop
  tile: Use generic idle loop
  tile: Enter idle with preemption disabled
  sh: Use generic idle loop
  score: Use generic idle loop
  s390: Use generic idle loop
  powerpc: Use generic idle loop
  parisc: Use generic idle loop
  openrisc: Use generic idle loop
  mn10300: Use generic idle loop
  mips: Use generic idle loop
  microblaze: Use generic idle loop
  ...

init/main.c: convert to pr_foo()

2013-04-30T01:28:20+00:00

Also enables cleanup of some 80-col trickery.

Cc: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: raise log level

2013-04-30T01:28:20+00:00

If the kernel was booted with the "quiet" boot option we have currently no
chance to see why an initrd fails.  Change KERN_WARNING to KERN_ERR to see
what is going on.

Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Jim Cromie 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds