linux.git/Documentation/x86, branch v4.20

x86/boot: Mostly revert commit ae7e1238e68f2a ("Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")

2018-11-20T08:43:10+00:00

Peter Anvin pointed out that commit:

  ae7e1238e68f2a ("x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header")

should be reverted as setup_header should only contain items set by the
legacy BIOS.

So revert said commit. Instead of fully reverting the dependent commit
of:

  e7b66d16fe4172 ("x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available")

just remove the setup_header reference in order to replace it by
a boot_params in a followup patch.

Suggested-by: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: daniel.kiper@oracle.com
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181120072529.5489-2-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm: Move LDT remap out of KASLR region on 5-level paging

2018-11-06T20:35:11+00:00

On 5-level paging the LDT remap area is placed in the middle of the KASLR
randomization region and it can overlap with the direct mapping, the
vmalloc or the vmap area.

The LDT mapping is per mm, so it cannot be moved into the P4D page table
next to the CPU_ENTRY_AREA without complicating PGD table allocation for
5-level paging.

The 4 PGD slot gap just before the direct mapping is reserved for
hypervisors, so it cannot be used.

Move the direct mapping one slot deeper and use the resulting gap for the
LDT remap area. The resulting layout is the same for 4 and 5 level paging.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog ]

Fixes: f55f0501cbf6 ("x86/pti: Put the LDT in its own PGD if PTI is on")
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: bhe@redhat.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181026122856.66224-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com

Documentation/x86: Fix typo in zero-page.txt

2018-11-05T06:05:45+00:00

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/f259b21b-1f2b-f215-00d2-23388bed2530@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux

2018-11-01T18:46:27+00:00

Pull stackleak gcc plugin from Kees Cook:
 "Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
  was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
  stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense
  against at least two classes of flaws:

   - Uninitialized stack usage. (We continue to work on improving the
     compiler to do this in other ways: e.g. unconditional zero init was
     proposed to GCC and Clang, and more plugin work has started too).

   - Stack content exposure. By greatly reducing the lifetime of valid
     stack contents, exposures via either direct read bugs or unknown
     cache side-channels become much more difficult to exploit. This
     complements the existing buddy and heap poisoning options, but
     provides the coverage for stacks.

  The x86 hooks are included in this series (which have been reviewed by
  Ingo, Dave Hansen, and Thomas Gleixner). The arm64 hooks have already
  been merged through the arm64 tree (written by Laura Abbott and
  reviewed by Mark Rutland and Will Deacon).

  With VLAs having been removed this release, there is no need for
  alloca() protection, so it has been removed from the plugin"

* tag 'stackleak-v4.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
  arm64: Drop unneeded stackleak_check_alloca()
  stackleak: Allow runtime disabling of kernel stack erasing
  doc: self-protection: Add information about STACKLEAK feature
  fs/proc: Show STACKLEAK metrics in the /proc file system
  lkdtm: Add a test for STACKLEAK
  gcc-plugins: Add STACKLEAK plugin for tracking the kernel stack
  x86/entry: Add STACKLEAK erasing the kernel stack at the end of syscalls

mm: remove references to vm_insert_pfn()

2018-10-26T23:25:20+00:00

Documentation and comments.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180828145728.11873-7-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Nicolas Pitre 
Cc: Souptick Joarder 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-10-24T17:01:11+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
  readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
  updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
  unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
  from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
  fixes and corrections"

* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
  docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
  docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
  kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
  doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
  docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
  doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
  Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
  dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
  docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
  LICENSES: Add ISC license text
  LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
  docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
  docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
  docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
  yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
  docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
  docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
  doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
  docs: fix some broken documentation references
  iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-10-23T16:05:28+00:00

Pull x86 mm updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Lots of changes in this cycle:

   - Lots of CPA (change page attribute) optimizations and related
     cleanups (Thomas Gleixner, Peter Zijstra)

   - Make lazy TLB mode even lazier (Rik van Riel)

   - Fault handler cleanups and improvements (Dave Hansen)

   - kdump, vmcore: Enable kdumping encrypted memory with AMD SME
     enabled (Lianbo Jiang)

   - Clean up VM layout documentation (Baoquan He, Ingo Molnar)

   - ... plus misc other fixes and enhancements"

* 'x86-mm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (51 commits)
  x86/stackprotector: Remove the call to boot_init_stack_canary() from cpu_startup_entry()
  x86/mm: Kill stray kernel fault handling comment
  x86/mm: Do not warn about PCI BIOS W+X mappings
  resource: Clean it up a bit
  resource: Fix find_next_iomem_res() iteration issue
  resource: Include resource end in walk_*() interfaces
  x86/kexec: Correct KEXEC_BACKUP_SRC_END off-by-one error
  x86/mm: Remove spurious fault pkey check
  x86/mm/vsyscall: Consider vsyscall page part of user address space
  x86/mm: Add vsyscall address helper
  x86/mm: Fix exception table comments
  x86/mm: Add clarifying comments for user addr space
  x86/mm: Break out user address space handling
  x86/mm: Break out kernel address space handling
  x86/mm: Clarify hardware vs. software "error_code"
  x86/mm/tlb: Make lazy TLB mode lazier
  x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables element to flush_tlb_info
  x86/mm/tlb: Add freed_tables argument to flush_tlb_mm_range
  smp,cpumask: introduce on_each_cpu_cond_mask
  smp: use __cpumask_set_cpu in on_each_cpu_cond
  ...

Merge branch 'x86-grub2-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2018-10-23T15:31:33+00:00

Pull x86 grub2 updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This extends the x86 boot protocol to include an address for the RSDP
  table - utilized by Xen currently.

  Matching Grub2 patches are pending as well. (Juergen Gross)"

* 'x86-grub2-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/acpi, x86/boot: Take RSDP address for boot params if available
  x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header
  x86/xen: Fix boot loader version reported for PVH guests

x86/boot: Add ACPI RSDP address to setup_header

2018-10-10T08:44:22+00:00

Xen PVH guests receive the address of the RSDP table from Xen. In order
to support booting a Xen PVH guest via Grub2 using the standard x86
boot entry we need a way for Grub2 to pass the RSDP address to the
kernel.

For this purpose expand the struct setup_header to hold the physical
address of the RSDP address. Being zero means it isn't specified and
has to be located the legacy way (searching through low memory or
EBDA).

While documenting the new setup_header layout and protocol version
2.14 add the missing documentation of protocol version 2.13.

There are Grub2 versions in several distros with a downstream patch
violating the boot protocol by writing past the end of setup_header.
This requires another update of the boot protocol to enable the kernel
to distinguish between a specified RSDP address and one filled with
garbage by such a broken Grub2.

From protocol 2.14 on Grub2 will write the version it is supporting
(but never a higher value than found to be supported by the kernel)
ored with 0x8000 to the version field of setup_header. This enables
the kernel to know up to which field Grub2 has written information
to. All fields after that are supposed to be clobbered.

Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: bp@alien8.de
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181010061456.22238-3-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

x86/mm/doc: Enhance the x86-64 virtual memory layout descriptions

2018-10-06T14:36:12+00:00

After the cleanups from Baoquan He, make it even more readable:

 - Remove the 'bits' area size column: it's pretty pointless and was even
   wrong for some of the entries. Given that MB, GB, TB, PT are 10, 20,
   30 and 40 bits, a "8 TB" size description makes it obvious that it's
   43 bits.

 - Introduce an "offset" column:

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    start addr       | offset     | end addr         |  size   | VM area description
    -----------------|------------|------------------|---------|--------------------
    ...
    ffff880000000000 | -120    TB | ffffc7ffffffffff |   64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base),
                                                                 this is what limits max physical memory supported.

   The -120 TB notation makes it obvious where this particular virtual memory
   region starts: 120 TB down from the top of the 64-bit virtual memory space.
   Especially the layout of the kernel mappings is a *lot* more obvious when
   written this way, plus it's much easier to compare it with the size column
   and understand/check/validate and modify the kernel's layout in the future.

 - Mark the part from where the 47-bit and 56-bit kernel layouts are 100% identical,
   this starts at the -512 GB offset and the EFI region.

 - Re-shuffle the size desciptions to be continous blocks of sizes, instead of the
   often mixed size. I.e. write "0.5 TB" instead of "512 GB" if we are still in
   the TB-granular region of the map.

 - Make the 47-bit and 56-bit descriptions use the *exact* same layout and wording,
   and only differ where there's a material difference. This makes it easy to compare
   the two tables side by side by switching between two terminal tabs.

 - Plus enhance a lot of other stylistic/typographical details: make the tables
   explicitly tabular, add headers, enhance certain entries, etc. etc.

Note that there are some apparent errors in the tables as well, but I'll fix
them in a separate patch to make it easier to review/validate.

Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Baoquan He 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: corbet@lwn.net
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar