of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:
- A set of new Chinese translations
- Italian translation updates
- A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format Documentation/features
for the built docs
- Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup
- A new reset-controller document
- An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten
That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual; there was
some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and an ack from Greg
for that addition.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A much quieter cycle for documentation (happily), with, one hopes, the
bulk of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:
- A set of new Chinese translations
- Italian translation updates
- A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format
Documentation/features for the built docs
- Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup
- A new reset-controller document
- An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten
That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual;
there was some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and
an ack from Greg for that addition"
* tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
docs: fix broken cross reference in translations/zh_CN
docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
docs: update requirements to install six module
docs: reporting-issues: move 'outdated, need help' note to proper place
docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs
docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
docs: Add a new text describing how to report bugs
LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Documentation: fix typos found in admin-guide subdirectory
kernel-doc: Fix example in Nested structs/unions
docs: clean up sysctl/kernel: titles, version
docs: trace: fix event state structure name
docs: nios2: add missing ReST file
scripts: get_feat.pl: reduce table width for all features output
scripts: get_feat.pl: change the group by order
scripts: get_feat.pl: make complete table more coincise
scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs
Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories
...
(Fenghua Yu)
- Cleanups.
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Merge tag 'x86_cache_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 cache resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- add logic to correct MBM total and local values fixing errata SKX99
and BDF102 (Fenghua Yu)
- cleanups
* tag 'x86_cache_for_v5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Clean up unused function parameter in rmdir path
x86/resctrl: Constify kernfs_ops
x86/resctrl: Correct MBM total and local values
Documentation/x86: Rename resctrl_ui.rst and add two errata to the file
Document the Intel SGX kernel architecture. The fine-grained architecture
details can be looked up from Intel SDM Volume 3D.
Co-developed-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Jethro Beekman <jethro@fortanix.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201112220135.165028-24-jarkko@kernel.org
Intel Memory Bandwidth Monitoring (MBM) counters may report system
memory bandwidth incorrectly on some Intel processors. This is reported
in documented in erratum SKX99, erratum BDF102 and in the RDT reference
manual, see Documentation/x86/index.rst.
To work around the errata, MBM total and local readings are corrected
using a correction factor table.
Since the correction factor table is not publicly documented anywhere,
document the table and the errata in Documentation/x86/resctrl.rst for
future reference.
[ bp: Move web links to the doc, massage. ]
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201014004927.1839452-2-fenghua.yu@intel.com
- Update dtc to upstream version v1.6.0-31-gcbca977ea121
- dtx_diff help text reformatting
- Speed-up validation time for binding and dtb checks using json for
intermediate files
- Add support for running yamllint on DT schema files
- Remove old booting-without-of.rst
- Extend the example schema to address common issues
- Cleanup handling of additionalProperties/unevaluatedProperties
- Ensure all DSI controller schemas reference dsi-controller.yaml
- Vendor prefixes for Zealz, Wandbord/Technexion, Embest RIoT, Rex, DFI,
and Cisco Meraki
- Convert at25, SPMI bus, TI hwlock, HiSilicon Hi3660 USB3 PHY, Arm
SP805 watchdog, Arm SP804, and Samsung 11-pin USB connector to DT
schema
- Convert HiSilicon SoC and syscon bindings to DT schema
- Convert SiFive Risc-V L2 cache, PLIC, PRCI, and PWM to DT schema
- Convert i.MX bindings for w1, crypto, rng, SIM, PM, DDR,
SATA, vf610 GPIO, and UART to DT schema
- Add i.MX 8M compatible strings
- Add LM81 and DS1780 as trivial devices
- Various missing properties added to fix dtb validation warnings
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Merge tag 'devicetree-for-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux
Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
- Update dtc to upstream version v1.6.0-31-gcbca977ea121
- dtx_diff help text reformatting
- Speed-up validation time for binding and dtb checks using json for
intermediate files
- Add support for running yamllint on DT schema files
- Remove old booting-without-of.rst
- Extend the example schema to address common issues
- Cleanup handling of additionalProperties/unevaluatedProperties
- Ensure all DSI controller schemas reference dsi-controller.yaml
- Vendor prefixes for Zealz, Wandbord/Technexion, Embest RIoT, Rex,
DFI, and Cisco Meraki
- Convert at25, SPMI bus, TI hwlock, HiSilicon Hi3660 USB3 PHY, Arm
SP805 watchdog, Arm SP804, and Samsung 11-pin USB connector to DT
schema
- Convert HiSilicon SoC and syscon bindings to DT schema
- Convert SiFive Risc-V L2 cache, PLIC, PRCI, and PWM to DT schema
- Convert i.MX bindings for w1, crypto, rng, SIM, PM, DDR, SATA, vf610
GPIO, and UART to DT schema
- Add i.MX 8M compatible strings
- Add LM81 and DS1780 as trivial devices
- Various missing properties added to fix dtb validation warnings
* tag 'devicetree-for-5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (111 commits)
dt-bindings: misc: explicitly add #address-cells for slave mode
spi: dt-bindings: spi-controller: explicitly require #address-cells=<0> for slave mode
dt: Remove booting-without-of.rst
dt-bindings: update usb-c-connector example
dt-bindings: arm: hisilicon: add missing properties into cpuctrl.yaml
dt-bindings: arm: hisilicon: add missing properties into sysctrl.yaml
dt-bindings: pwm: imx: document i.MX compatibles
scripts/dtc: Update to upstream version v1.6.0-31-gcbca977ea121
dt-bindings: Add running yamllint to dt_binding_check
dt-bindings: powerpc: Add a schema for the 'sleep' property
dt-bindings: pinctrl: sirf: Fix typo abitrary
dt-bindings: pinctrl: qcom: Fix typo abitrary
dt-bindings: Explicitly allow additional properties in common schemas
dt-bindings: Use 'additionalProperties' instead of 'unevaluatedProperties'
dt-bindings: Add missing 'unevaluatedProperties'
Docs: Fixing spelling errors in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/
dt-bindings: arm: hisilicon: convert Hi6220 domain controller bindings to json-schema
dt-bindings: riscv: convert pwm bindings to json-schema
dt-bindings: riscv: convert plic bindings to json-schema
dt-bindings: fu540: prci: convert PRCI bindings to json-schema
...
booting-without-of.rst is an ancient document that first outlined
Flattened DeviceTree on PowerPC initially. The DT world has evolved a
lot in the 15 years since and booting-without-of.rst is pretty stale.
The name of the document itself is confusing if you don't understand the
evolution from real 'OpenFirmware'. Most of what booting-without-of.rst
contains is now in the DT specification (which evolved out of the
ePAPR). The few things that weren't documented in the DT specification
are now.
All that remains is the boot entry details, so let's move these to arch
specific documents. The exception is arm which already has the same
details documented.
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
don't spam the console log, by Chris Down.
* Document how the /proc/cpuinfo machinery works for future reference,
by Kyung Min Park, Ricardo Neri and Dave Hansen.
* Correct the current NMI's duration calculation, by Libing Zhou.
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Merge tag 'x86_misc_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull misc x86 fixes fromm Borislav Petkov:
- Ratelimit the message about writes to unrecognized MSRs so that they
don't spam the console log (Chris Down)
- Document how the /proc/cpuinfo machinery works for future reference
(Kyung Min Park, Ricardo Neri and Dave Hansen)
- Correct the current NMI's duration calculation (Libing Zhou)
* tag 'x86_misc_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Fix nmi_handle() duration miscalculation
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags
x86/msr: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous
x86/msr: Prevent userspace MSR access from dominating the console
ENQCMD and Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA) and all of their associated
features are a complicated stack with lots of interconnected pieces.
This documentation provides a big picture overview for all of the
features.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1600187413-163670-4-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
/proc/cpuinfo shows features which the kernel supports. Some of these
flags are derived from CPUID, and others are derived from other sources,
including some that are entirely software-based. Currently, there is
not any documentation in the kernel about how /proc/cpuinfo flags are
generated and what it means when they are missing.
Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags enumeration.
Document how and when x86 feature flags are used. Also discuss what
their presence or absence mean for the kernel and users.
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri <ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyung Min Park <kyung.min.park@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200831183500.15481-1-kyung.min.park@intel.com
MPX was removed in commit 45fc24e89b ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from
arch/x86"), this removes the corresponding entry in the x86 toc.
This was suggested by a Sphinx warning.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Kitt <steve@sk2.org>
Fixes: 45fc24e89b ("x86/mpx: remove MPX from arch/x86")
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Add the documenation for TSX Async Abort. Include the description of
the issue, how to check the mitigation state, control the mitigation,
guidance for system administrators.
[ bp: Add proper SPDX tags, touch ups by Josh and me. ]
Co-developed-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Gomez Iglesias <antonio.gomez.iglesias@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Those two docs belong to the x86 architecture:
Documentation/Intel-IOMMU.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel-iommu.rst
Documentation/intel_txt.txt -> Documentation/x86/intel_txt.rst
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
This document is used by multiple architectures:
$ echo $(git grep -l pkey_mprotect arch|cut -d'/' -f 2|sort|uniq)
alpha arm arm64 ia64 m68k microblaze mips parisc powerpc s390 sh sparc x86 xtensa
So, let's move it to the core book and adjust the links to it
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull x86 MDS mitigations from Thomas Gleixner:
"Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) is a hardware vulnerability
which allows unprivileged speculative access to data which is
available in various CPU internal buffers. This new set of misfeatures
has the following CVEs assigned:
CVE-2018-12126 MSBDS Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12130 MFBDS Microarchitectural Fill Buffer Data Sampling
CVE-2018-12127 MLPDS Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling
CVE-2019-11091 MDSUM Microarchitectural Data Sampling Uncacheable Memory
MDS attacks target microarchitectural buffers which speculatively
forward data under certain conditions. Disclosure gadgets can expose
this data via cache side channels.
Contrary to other speculation based vulnerabilities the MDS
vulnerability does not allow the attacker to control the memory target
address. As a consequence the attacks are purely sampling based, but
as demonstrated with the TLBleed attack samples can be postprocessed
successfully.
The mitigation is to flush the microarchitectural buffers on return to
user space and before entering a VM. It's bolted on the VERW
instruction and requires a microcode update. As some of the attacks
exploit data structures shared between hyperthreads, full protection
requires to disable hyperthreading. The kernel does not do that by
default to avoid breaking unattended updates.
The mitigation set comes with documentation for administrators and a
deeper technical view"
* 'x86-mds-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
x86/speculation/mds: Fix documentation typo
Documentation: Correct the possible MDS sysfs values
x86/mds: Add MDSUM variant to the MDS documentation
x86/speculation/mds: Add 'mitigations=' support for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Print SMT vulnerable on MSBDS with mitigations off
x86/speculation/mds: Fix comment
x86/speculation/mds: Add SMT warning message
x86/speculation: Move arch_smt_update() call to after mitigation decisions
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds=full,nosmt cmdline option
Documentation: Add MDS vulnerability documentation
Documentation: Move L1TF to separate directory
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation mode VMWERV
x86/speculation/mds: Add sysfs reporting for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Add mitigation control for MDS
x86/speculation/mds: Conditionally clear CPU buffers on idle entry
x86/kvm/vmx: Add MDS protection when L1D Flush is not active
x86/speculation/mds: Clear CPU buffers on exit to user
x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()
x86/kvm: Expose X86_FEATURE_MD_CLEAR to guests
x86/speculation/mds: Add BUG_MSBDS_ONLY
...
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it to Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
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The Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) vulernabilities are mitigated by
clearing the affected CPU buffers. The mechanism for clearing the buffers
uses the unused and obsolete VERW instruction in combination with a
microcode update which triggers a CPU buffer clear when VERW is executed.
Provide a inline function with the assembly magic. The argument of the VERW
instruction must be a memory operand as documented:
"MD_CLEAR enumerates that the memory-operand variant of VERW (for
example, VERW m16) has been extended to also overwrite buffers affected
by MDS. This buffer overwriting functionality is not guaranteed for the
register operand variant of VERW."
Documentation also recommends to use a writable data segment selector:
"The buffer overwriting occurs regardless of the result of the VERW
permission check, as well as when the selector is null or causes a
descriptor load segment violation. However, for lowest latency we
recommend using a selector that indicates a valid writable data
segment."
Add x86 specific documentation about MDS and the internal workings of the
mitigation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Linus Torvalds