talos-op-linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch master

Merge tag 'pm-5.6-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2020-02-07T20:49:10+00:00

Pull more power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: - Update the recently merged CPR (Core Power Reduction) support in the AVS (Adaptive Voltage Scaling) subsystem (Brendan Higgins, Nathan Chancellor, Niklas Cassel) - Update the rockchip-io AVS driver (Heiko Stuebner) - Add two more module parameters to intel_idle on top of the recently merged material (Rafael Wysocki) - Clean up a piece of cpuidle documentation and consolidate system sleep states documentation (Rafael Wysocki) * tag 'pm-5.6-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: cpuidle: Documentation: Clean up PM QoS description Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Update sleep states documentation intel_idle: Introduce 'states_off' module parameter intel_idle: Introduce 'use_acpi' module parameter power: avs: qcom-cpr: Avoid clang -Wsometimes-uninitialized in cpr_scale power: avs: qcom-cpr: add unspecified HAS_IOMEM dependency PM / AVS: rockchip-io: fix the supply naming for the emmc supply on px30 power: avs: qcom-cpr: add a printout after the driver has been initialized

Merge branches 'pm-avs' and 'pm-cpuidle'

2020-02-07T10:01:40+00:00

* pm-avs: power: avs: qcom-cpr: Avoid clang -Wsometimes-uninitialized in cpr_scale power: avs: qcom-cpr: add unspecified HAS_IOMEM dependency PM / AVS: rockchip-io: fix the supply naming for the emmc supply on px30 power: avs: qcom-cpr: add a printout after the driver has been initialized * pm-cpuidle: cpuidle: Documentation: Clean up PM QoS description intel_idle: Introduce 'states_off' module parameter intel_idle: Introduce 'use_acpi' module parameter

Merge tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2020-02-06T07:12:11+00:00

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: - Added new "bootconfig". This looks for a file appended to initrd to add boot config options, and has been discussed thoroughly at Linux Plumbers. Very useful for adding kprobes at bootup. Only enabled if "bootconfig" is on the real kernel command line. - Created dynamic event creation. Merges common code between creating synthetic events and kprobe events. - Rename perf "ring_buffer" structure to "perf_buffer" - Rename ftrace "ring_buffer" structure to "trace_buffer" Had to rename existing "trace_buffer" to "array_buffer" - Allow trace_printk() to work withing (some) tracing code. - Sort of tracing configs to be a little better organized - Fixed bug where ftrace_graph hash was not being protected properly - Various other small fixes and clean ups * tag 'trace-v5.6-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (88 commits) bootconfig: Show the number of nodes on boot message tools/bootconfig: Show the number of bootconfig nodes bootconfig: Add more parse error messages bootconfig: Use bootconfig instead of boot config ftrace: Protect ftrace_graph_hash with ftrace_sync ftrace: Add comment to why rcu_dereference_sched() is open coded tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_notrace_hash pointer with __rcu tracing: Annotate ftrace_graph_hash pointer with __rcu bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline tracing: Use seq_buf for building dynevent_cmd string tracing: Remove useless code in dynevent_arg_pair_add() tracing: Remove check_arg() callbacks from dynevent args tracing: Consolidate some synth_event_trace code tracing: Fix now invalid var_ref_vals assumption in trace action tracing: Change trace_boot to use synth_event interface tracing: Move tracing selftests to bottom of menu tracing: Move mmio tracer config up with the other tracers tracing: Move tracing test module configs together tracing: Move all function tracing configs together tracing: Documentation for in-kernel synthetic event API ...

bootconfig: Only load bootconfig if "bootconfig" is on the kernel cmdline

2020-02-05T09:22:43+00:00

As the bootconfig is appended to the initrd it is not as easy to modify as the kernel command line. If there's some issue with the kernel, and the developer wants to boot a pristine kernel, it should not be needed to modify the initrd to remove the bootconfig for a single boot. As bootconfig is silently added (if the admin does not know where to look they may not know it's being loaded). It should be explicitly added to the kernel cmdline. The loading of the bootconfig is only done if "bootconfig" is on the kernel command line. This will let admins know that the kernel command line is extended. Note, after adding printk()s for when the size is too great or the checksum is wrong, exposed that the current method always looked for the boot config, and if this size and checksum matched, it would parse it (as if either is wrong a printk has been added to show this). It's better to only check this if the boot config is asked to be looked for. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAHk-=wjfjO+h6bQzrTf=YCZA53Y3EDyAs3Z4gEsT7icA3u_Psw@mail.gmail.com Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

cpuidle: Documentation: Clean up PM QoS description

2020-02-05T01:08:31+00:00

Clean up the language in one paragraph in the PM QoS description in Documentation/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.rst. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Update sleep states documentation

2020-02-03T10:58:26+00:00

There is some information in Documentation/power/interface.rst that is still missing from Documentation/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.rst and really should be present in there, so update the latter by adding that information to it and delete the former (as it becomes redundant after that and it is somewhat outdated). While at it, clean up some assorted pieces of sleep-states.rst a bit. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

intel_idle: Introduce 'states_off' module parameter

2020-02-03T10:57:18+00:00

In certain system configurations it may not be desirable to use some C-states assumed to be available by intel_idle and the driver needs to be prevented from using them even before the cpuidle sysfs interface becomes accessible to user space. Currently, the only way to achieve that is by setting the 'max_cstate' module parameter to a value lower than the index of the shallowest of the C-states in question, but that may be overly intrusive, because it effectively makes all of the idle states deeper than the 'max_cstate' one go away (and the C-state to avoid may be in the middle of the range normally regarded as available). To allow that limitation to be overcome, introduce a new module parameter called 'states_off' to represent a list of idle states to be disabled by default in the form of a bitmask and update the documentation to cover it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

intel_idle: Introduce 'use_acpi' module parameter

2020-02-03T10:57:08+00:00

For diagnostics, it is generally useful to be able to make intel_idle take the system's ACPI tables into consideration even if that is not required for the processor model in there, so introduce a new module parameter, 'use_acpi', to make that happen and update the documentation to cover it. While at it, fix the 'no_acpi' module parameter name in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2020-01-31T20:16:36+00:00

Pull updates from Andrew Morton: "Most of -mm and quite a number of other subsystems: hotfixes, scripts, ocfs2, misc, lib, binfmt, init, reiserfs, exec, dma-mapping, kcov. MM is fairly quiet this time. Holidays, I assume" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (118 commits) kcov: ignore fault-inject and stacktrace include/linux/io-mapping.h-mapping: use PHYS_PFN() macro in io_mapping_map_atomic_wc() execve: warn if process starts with executable stack reiserfs: prevent NULL pointer dereference in reiserfs_insert_item() init/main.c: fix misleading "This architecture does not have kernel memory protection" message init/main.c: fix quoted value handling in unknown_bootoption init/main.c: remove unnecessary repair_env_string in do_initcall_level init/main.c: log arguments and environment passed to init fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allow process with empty address space to coredump fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: delete duplicated overflow check fs/binfmt_elf.c: coredump: allocate core ELF header on stack fs/binfmt_elf.c: make BAD_ADDR() unlikely fs/binfmt_elf.c: better codegen around current->mm fs/binfmt_elf.c: don't copy ELF header around fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix ->start_code calculation fs/binfmt_elf.c: smaller code generation around auxv vector fill lib/find_bit.c: uninline helper _find_next_bit() lib/find_bit.c: join _find_next_bit{_le} uapi: rename ext2_swab() to swab() and share globally in swab.h lib/scatterlist.c: adjust indentation in __sg_alloc_table ...

s390/boot: add dfltcc= kernel command line parameter

2020-01-31T18:30:40+00:00

Add the new kernel command line parameter 'dfltcc=' to configure s390 zlib hardware support. Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always } on: s390 zlib hardware support for compression on level 1 and decompression (default) off: No s390 zlib hardware support def_only: s390 zlib hardware support for deflate only (compression on level 1) inf_only: s390 zlib hardware support for inflate only (decompression) always: Same as 'on' but ignores the selected compression level always using hardware support (used for debugging) Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200103223334.20669-5-zaslonko@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mikhail Zaslonko Cc: Chris Mason Cc: Christian Borntraeger Cc: David Sterba Cc: Eduard Shishkin Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Ilya Leoshkevich Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: Richard Purdie Cc: Vasily Gorbik Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds