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<title>linux.git/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v5.3-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-07-24T16:46:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-24T16:46:13+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption
  Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt
  KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free
  KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu
  KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest
  Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user"
  KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested
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Pull KVM fixes from Paolo Bonzini:
 "Bugfixes, a pvspinlock optimization, and documentation moving"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: X86: Boost queue head vCPU to mitigate lock waiter preemption
  Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt
  KVM: nVMX: Set cached_vmcs12 and cached_shadow_vmcs12 NULL after free
  KVM: X86: Dynamically allocate user_fpu
  KVM: X86: Fix fpu state crash in kvm guest
  Revert "kvm: x86: Use task structs fpu field for user"
  KVM: nVMX: Clear pending KVM_REQ_GET_VMCS12_PAGES when leaving nested
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Documentation: move Documentation/virtual to Documentation/virt</title>
<updated>2019-07-24T08:52:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Hellwig</name>
<email>hch@lst.de</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-24T07:24:49+00:00</published>
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Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the
grossly misnamed directories.  We usually never use "virtual" as
a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt,
as seen in the virt/ top-level directory.  Fix up the documentation
to match that.

Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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Renaming docs seems to be en vogue at the moment, so fix on of the
grossly misnamed directories.  We usually never use "virtual" as
a shortcut for virtualization in the kernel, but always virt,
as seen in the virt/ top-level directory.  Fix up the documentation
to match that.

Fixes: ed16648eb5b8 ("Move kvm, uml, and lguest subdirectories under a common "virtual" directory, I.E:")
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip</title>
<updated>2019-07-19T18:41:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-19T18:41:26+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
 "Fixes and features:

   - A series to introduce a common command line parameter for disabling
     paravirtual extensions when running as a guest in virtualized
     environment

   - A fix for int3 handling in Xen pv guests

   - Removal of the Xen-specific tmem driver as support of tmem in Xen
     has been dropped (and it was experimental only)

   - A security fix for running as Xen dom0 (XSA-300)

   - A fix for IRQ handling when offlining cpus in Xen guests

   - Some small cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free
  xen/pv: Fix a boot up hang revealed by int3 self test
  x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest
  x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable
  xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete
  x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions
  x86/xen: Mark xen_hvm_need_lapic() and xen_x2apic_para_available() as __init
  xen: remove tmem driver
  Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized"
  xen/events: fix binding user event channels to cpus
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Pull xen updates from Juergen Gross:
 "Fixes and features:

   - A series to introduce a common command line parameter for disabling
     paravirtual extensions when running as a guest in virtualized
     environment

   - A fix for int3 handling in Xen pv guests

   - Removal of the Xen-specific tmem driver as support of tmem in Xen
     has been dropped (and it was experimental only)

   - A security fix for running as Xen dom0 (XSA-300)

   - A fix for IRQ handling when offlining cpus in Xen guests

   - Some small cleanups"

* tag 'for-linus-5.3a-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen: let alloc_xenballooned_pages() fail if not enough memory free
  xen/pv: Fix a boot up hang revealed by int3 self test
  x86/xen: Add "nopv" support for HVM guest
  x86/paravirt: Remove const mark from x86_hyper_xen_hvm variable
  xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete
  x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions
  x86/xen: Mark xen_hvm_need_lapic() and xen_x2apic_para_available() as __init
  xen: remove tmem driver
  Revert "x86/paravirt: Set up the virt_spin_lock_key after static keys get initialized"
  xen/events: fix binding user event channels to cpus
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace</title>
<updated>2019-07-18T18:51:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-18T18:51:00+00:00</published>
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The main changes in this release include:

   - Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes

   - Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot

  The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
  tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
  tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
  ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
  ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
  tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
  tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
  tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
  tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
  tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
  kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
  tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
  ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
  tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
  tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The main changes in this release include:

   - Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes

   - Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot

  The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"

* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
  tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
  tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
  ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
  ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
  tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
  tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
  tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
  tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
  tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
  tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
  kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
  tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
  ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
  tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
  tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-17T15:58:04+00:00</published>
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "VM:
   - z3fold fixes and enhancements by Henry Burns and Vitaly Wool

   - more accurate reclaimed slab caches calculations by Yafang Shao

   - fix MAP_UNINITIALIZED UAPI symbol to not depend on config, by
     Christoph Hellwig

   - !CONFIG_MMU fixes by Christoph Hellwig

   - new novmcoredd parameter to omit device dumps from vmcore, by
     Kairui Song

   - new test_meminit module for testing heap and pagealloc
     initialization, by Alexander Potapenko

   - ioremap improvements for huge mappings, by Anshuman Khandual

   - generalize kprobe page fault handling, by Anshuman Khandual

   - device-dax hotplug fixes and improvements, by Pavel Tatashin

   - enable synchronous DAX fault on powerpc, by Aneesh Kumar K.V

   - add pte_devmap() support for arm64, by Robin Murphy

   - unify locked_vm accounting with a helper, by Daniel Jordan

   - several misc fixes

  core/lib:
   - new typeof_member() macro including some users, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - make BIT() and GENMASK() available in asm, by Masahiro Yamada

   - changed LIST_POISON2 on x86_64 to 0xdead000000000122 for better
     code generation, by Alexey Dobriyan

   - rbtree code size optimizations, by Michel Lespinasse

   - convert struct pid count to refcount_t, by Joel Fernandes

  get_maintainer.pl:
   - add --no-moderated switch to skip moderated ML's, by Joe Perches

  misc:
   - ptrace PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO interface

   - coda updates

   - gdb scripts, various"

[ Using merge message suggestion from Vlastimil Babka, with some editing - Linus ]

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (100 commits)
  fs/select.c: use struct_size() in kmalloc()
  mm: add account_locked_vm utility function
  arm64: mm: implement pte_devmap support
  mm: introduce ARCH_HAS_PTE_DEVMAP
  mm: clean up is_device_*_page() definitions
  mm/mmap: move common defines to mman-common.h
  mm: move MAP_SYNC to asm-generic/mman-common.h
  device-dax: "Hotremove" persistent memory that is used like normal RAM
  mm/hotplug: make remove_memory() interface usable
  device-dax: fix memory and resource leak if hotplug fails
  include/linux/lz4.h: fix spelling and copy-paste errors in documentation
  ipc/mqueue.c: only perform resource calculation if user valid
  include/asm-generic/bug.h: fix "cut here" for WARN_ON for __WARN_TAINT architectures
  scripts/gdb: add helpers to find and list devices
  scripts/gdb: add lx-genpd-summary command
  drivers/pps/pps.c: clear offset flags in PPS_SETPARAMS ioctl
  kernel/pid.c: convert struct pid count to refcount_t
  drivers/rapidio/devices/rio_mport_cdev.c: NUL terminate some strings
  select: shift restore_saved_sigmask_unless() into poll_select_copy_remaining()
  select: change do_poll() to return -ERESTARTNOHAND rather than -EINTR
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: Map "xen_nopv" parameter to "nopv" and mark it obsolete</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T06:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenzhong Duan</name>
<email>zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T12:02:10+00:00</published>
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Clean up unnecessory code after that operation.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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Clean up unnecessory code after that operation.

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: Add "nopv" parameter to disable PV extensions</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T06:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhenzhong Duan</name>
<email>zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-11T12:02:09+00:00</published>
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In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts,
timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the
best option.

However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose
but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command
line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a
better choice.

There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions,
like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to
struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call
the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true.

Suggested-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
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In virtualization environment, PV extensions (drivers, interrupts,
timers, etc) are enabled in the majority of use cases which is the
best option.

However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable PV extensions. We have "xen_nopv" for that purpose
but only for XEN. For a consistent admin experience a common command
line parameter "nopv" set across all PV guest implementations is a
better choice.

There are guest types which just won't work without PV extensions,
like Xen PV, Xen PVH and jailhouse. add a "ignore_nopv" member to
struct hypervisor_x86 set to true for those guest types and call
the detect functions only if nopv is false or ignore_nopv is true.

Suggested-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan &lt;zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Jan Kiszka &lt;jan.kiszka@siemens.com&gt;
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;sstabellini@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>xen: remove tmem driver</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T06:09:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Juergen Gross</name>
<email>jgross@suse.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-14T12:04:14+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=814bbf49dcd0ad642e7ceb8991e57555c5472cce'/>
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The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (&gt;= 4.13).

The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</content>
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The Xen tmem (transcendent memory) driver can be removed, as the
related Xen hypervisor feature never made it past the "experimental"
state and will be removed in future Xen versions (&gt;= 4.13).

The xen-selfballoon driver depends on tmem, so it can be removed, too.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
Acked-by: Boris Ostrovsky &lt;boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross &lt;jgross@suse.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>vmcore: add a kernel parameter novmcoredd</title>
<updated>2019-07-17T02:23:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kairui Song</name>
<email>kasong@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T23:26:39+00:00</published>
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Since commit 2724273e8fd0 ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API.  This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory.  The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory.  So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.

So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option.  User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage.  This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@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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<pre>
Since commit 2724273e8fd0 ("vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in
second kernel"), drivers are allowed to add device related dump data to
vmcore as they want by using the device dump API.  This has a potential
issue, the data is stored in memory, drivers may append too much data
and use too much memory.  The vmcore is typically used in a kdump kernel
which runs in a pre-reserved small chunk of memory.  So as a result it
will make kdump unusable at all due to OOM issues.

So introduce new 'novmcoredd' command line option.  User can disable
device dump to reduce memory usage.  This is helpful if device dump is
using too much memory, disabling device dump could make sure a regular
vmcore without device dump data is still available.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: vmcore.c needs moduleparam.h]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190528111856.7276-1-kasong@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Kairui Song &lt;kasong@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bhupesh Sharma &lt;bhsharma@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rahul Lakkireddy &lt;rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com&gt;
Cc: "David S . Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan &lt;adobriyan@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@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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</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media</title>
<updated>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-07-16T19:21:41+00:00</published>
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Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
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<pre>
Pull rst conversion of docs from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 "As agreed with Jon, I'm sending this big series directly to you, c/c
  him, as this series required a special care, in order to avoid
  conflicts with other trees"

* tag 'docs/v5.3-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (77 commits)
  docs: kbuild: fix build with pdf and fix some minor issues
  docs: block: fix pdf output
  docs: arm: fix a breakage with pdf output
  docs: don't use nested tables
  docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide
  docs: locking: add it to the main index
  docs: add some directories to the main documentation index
  docs: add SPDX tags to new index files
  docs: add a memory-devices subdir to driver-api
  docs: phy: place documentation under driver-api
  docs: serial: move it to the driver-api
  docs: driver-api: add remaining converted dirs to it
  docs: driver-api: add xilinx driver API documentation
  docs: driver-api: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: admin-guide: add a series of orphaned documents
  docs: cgroup-v1: add it to the admin-guide book
  docs: aoe: add it to the driver-api book
  docs: add some documentation dirs to the driver-api book
  docs: driver-model: move it to the driver-api book
  docs: lp855x-driver.rst: add it to the driver-api book
  ...
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</div>
</content>
</entry>
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