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Which serves as a global default sys_info mask. When users want the same
system information for many error cases (panic, hung, lockup ...), they
can chose to set this global knob only once, while not setting up each
individual sys_info knobs.
This just adds a 'lazy' option, and doesn't change existing kernel
behavior as the mask is 0 by default.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-5-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When soft/hard lockup happens, developers may need different kinds of
system information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help
debugging.
Add 'softlockup_sys_info' and 'hardlockup_sys_info' sysctl knobs to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when
system lockup happens, all requested information will be printed out.
(refer kernel/sys_info.c for more details).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-4-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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When task-hung happens, developers may need different kinds of system
information (call-stacks, memory info, locks, etc.) to help debugging.
Add 'hung_task_sys_info' sysctl knob to take human readable string like
"tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,...", and when task-hung happens, all
requested information will be dumped. (refer kernel/sys_info.c for more
details).
Meanwhile, the newly introduced sys_info() call is used to unify some
existing info-dumping knobs.
[feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com: maintain consistecy established behavior, per Lance and Petr]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/aRncJo1mA5Zk77Hr@U-2FWC9VHC-2323.local
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "Enable hung_task and lockup cases to dump system info on
demand", v2.
When working on kernel stability issues: panic, task-hung and soft/hard
lockup are frequently met. And to debug them, user may need lots of
system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock info, memory
info, ftrace dump, etc.
panic case already uses sys_info() for this purpose, and has a
'panic_sys_info' sysctl(also support cmdline setup) interface to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,..." to control
what kinds of information is needed. Which is also helpful to debug
task-hung and lockup cases.
So this patchset introduces the similar sys_info sysctl interface for
task-hung and lockup cases.
his is mainly for debugging and the info dumping could be intrusive, like
dumping call stack for all tasks when system has huge number of tasks,
similarly for ftrace dump (we may add tracing_stop() and tracing_start()
around it)
Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and
were helpful.
As Andrew suggested, add a configurable global 'kernel_sys_info' knob.
When error scenarios like panic/hung-task/lockup etc doesn't setup their
own sys_info knob and calls sys_info() with parameter "0", this global
knob will take effect. It could be used for other kernel cases like OOM,
which may not need one dedicated sys_info knob.
This patch (of 4):
Some sys_info names wered forgotten to change in patch iterations, while
the right names are defined in kernel/sys_info.c.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251113111039.22701-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Fixes: d747755917bf ("panic: add 'panic_sys_info' sysctl to take human readable string parameter")
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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The hung_task_panic sysctl is currently a blunt instrument: it's all or
nothing.
Panicking on a single hung task can be an overreaction to a transient
glitch. A more reliable indicator of a systemic problem is when
multiple tasks hang simultaneously.
Extend hung_task_panic to accept an integer threshold, allowing the
kernel to panic only when N hung tasks are detected in a single scan.
This provides finer control to distinguish between isolated incidents
and system-wide failures.
The accepted values are:
- 0: Don't panic (unchanged)
- 1: Panic on the first hung task (unchanged)
- N > 1: Panic after N hung tasks are detected in a single scan
The original behavior is preserved for values 0 and 1, maintaining full
backward compatibility.
[lance.yang@linux.dev: new changelog]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251015063615.2632-1-lirongqing@baidu.com
Signed-off-by: Li RongQing <lirongqing@baidu.com>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> [aspeed_g5_defconfig]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Florian Wesphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Jakub Kacinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jason A. Donenfeld <jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Howlett <liam.howlett@oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pawan Gupta <pawan.kumar.gupta@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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User reported current document about SYS_INFO_PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY is
confusing, that people could expect all user space console messages to be
replayed.
Specify that only 'kernel' messages will be replayed to solve the confusion.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250825025701.81921-3-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Reported-by: Askar Safin <safinaskar@zohomail.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"Significant patch series in this pull request:
- "squashfs: Remove page->mapping references" (Matthew Wilcox) gets
us closer to being able to remove page->mapping
- "relayfs: misc changes" (Jason Xing) does some maintenance and
minor feature addition work in relayfs
- "kdump: crashkernel reservation from CMA" (Jiri Bohac) switches
us from static preallocation of the kdump crashkernel's working
memory over to dynamic allocation. So the difficulty of a-priori
estimation of the second kernel's needs is removed and the first
kernel obtains extra memory
- "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts" (Feng Tang) implements some consolidation and
rationalization of the various ways in which a failing kernel
splats information at the operator
* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2025-08-03-12-47' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (80 commits)
tools/getdelays: add backward compatibility for taskstats version
kho: add test for kexec handover
delaytop: enhance error logging and add PSI feature description
samples: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "instancess" -> "instances"
fat: fix too many log in fat_chain_add()
scripts/spelling.txt: add notifer||notifier to spelling.txt
xen/xenbus: fix typo "notifer"
net: mvneta: fix typo "notifer"
drm/xe: fix typo "notifer"
cxl: mce: fix typo "notifer"
KVM: x86: fix typo "notifer"
MAINTAINERS: add maintainers for delaytop
ucount: use atomic_long_try_cmpxchg() in atomic_long_inc_below()
ucount: fix atomic_long_inc_below() argument type
kexec: enable CMA based contiguous allocation
stackdepot: make max number of pools boot-time configurable
lib/xxhash: remove unused functions
init/Kconfig: restore CONFIG_BROKEN help text
lib/raid6: update recov_rvv.c zero page usage
docs: update docs after introducing delaytop
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively busy cycle for docs, especially the build
system:
- The Perl kernel-doc script was added to 2.3.52pre1 just after the
turn of the millennium. Over the following 25 years, it accumulated
a vast amount of cruft, all in a language few people want to deal
with anymore. Mauro's Python replacement in 6.16 faithfully
reproduced all of the cruft in the hope of avoiding regressions.
Now that we have a more reasonable code base, though, we can work
on cleaning it up; many of the changes this time around are toward
that end.
- A reorganization of the ext4 docs into the usual TOC format.
- Various Chinese translations and updates.
- A new script from Mauro to help with docs-build testing.
- A new document for linked lists
- A sweep through MAINTAINERS fixing broken GitHub git:// repository
links.
...and lots of fixes and updates"
* tag 'docs-6.17' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (147 commits)
scripts: add origin commit identification based on specific patterns
sphinx: kernel_abi: fix performance regression with O=<dir>
Documentation: core-api: entry: Replace deprecated KVM entry/exit functions
docs: fault-injection: drop reference to md-faulty
docs: document linked lists
scripts: kdoc: make it backward-compatible with Python 3.7
docs: kernel-doc: emit warnings for ancient versions of Python
Documentation/rtla: Describe exit status
Documentation/rtla: Add include common_appendix.rst
docs: kernel: Clarify printk_ratelimit_burst reset behavior
Documentation: ioctl-number: Don't repeat macro names
Documentation: ioctl-number: Shorten macros table
Documentation: ioctl-number: Correct full path to papr-physical-attestation.h
Documentation: ioctl-number: Extend "Include File" column width
Documentation: ioctl-number: Fix linuxppc-dev mailto link
overlayfs.rst: fix typos
docs: kdoc: emit a warning for ancient versions of Python
docs: kdoc: clean up check_sections()
docs: kdoc: directly access the always-there KdocItem fields
docs: kdoc: straighten up dump_declaration()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move sysctls out of the kern_table array
This is the final move of ctl_tables into their respective
subsystems. Only 5 (out of the original 50) will remain in
kernel/sysctl.c file; these handle either sysctl or common arch
variables.
By decentralizing sysctl registrations, subsystem maintainers regain
control over their sysctl interfaces, improving maintainability and
reducing the likelihood of merge conflicts.
- docs: Remove false positives from check-sysctl-docs
Stopped falsely identifying sysctls as undocumented or unimplemented
in the check-sysctl-docs script. This script can now be used to
automatically identify if documentation is missing.
* tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (23 commits)
docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to comment
docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs
docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rst
docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries
docs: Use skiplist when checking sysctl admin-guide
docs: nixify check-sysctl-docs
sysctl: rename kern_table -> sysctl_subsys_table
kernel/sys.c: Move overflow{uid,gid} sysctl into kernel/sys.c
uevent: mv uevent_helper into kobject_uevent.c
sysctl: Removed unused variable
sysctl: Nixify sysctl.sh
sysctl: Remove superfluous includes from kernel/sysctl.c
sysctl: Remove (very) old file changelog
sysctl: Move sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow to kernel/panic.c
sysctl: move cad_pid into kernel/pid.c
sysctl: Move tainted ctl_table into kernel/panic.c
Input: sysrq: mv sysrq into drivers/tty/sysrq.c
fork: mv threads-max into kernel/fork.c
parisc/power: Move soft-power into power.c
mm: move randomize_va_space into memory.c
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Remove the title string ("====") from under arm64 & riscv and move them
to a commment under the perf_user_access sysctl. They are explanations,
*not* sysctls themselves
This effectively removes these two strings from appearing as not
implemented when the check-sysctl-docs script is run
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
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In preparation for adding Clang sanitizer coverage stack depth tracking
that can support stack depth callbacks:
- Add the new top-level CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE option which will be
implemented either with the stackleak GCC plugin, or with the Clang
stack depth callback support.
- Rename CONFIG_GCC_PLUGIN_STACKLEAK as needed to CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE,
but keep it for anything specific to the GCC plugin itself.
- Rename all exposed "STACKLEAK" names and files to "KSTACK_ERASE" (named
for what it does rather than what it protects against), but leave as
many of the internals alone as possible to avoid even more churn.
While here, also split "prev_lowest_stack" into CONFIG_KSTACK_ERASE_METRICS,
since that's the only place it is referenced from.
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250717232519.2984886-1-kees@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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Bitmap definition for 'panic_print' is hard to remember and decode. Add
'panic_sys_info='sysctl to take human readable string like
"tasks,mem,timers,locks,ftrace,..." and translate it into bitmap.
The detailed mapping is:
SYS_INFO_TASKS "tasks"
SYS_INFO_MEM "mem"
SYS_INFO_TIMERS "timers"
SYS_INFO_LOCKS "locks"
SYS_INFO_FTRACE "ftrace"
SYS_INFO_ALL_CPU_BT "all_bt"
SYS_INFO_BLOCKED_TASKS "blocked_tasks"
[nathan@kernel.org: add __maybe_unused to sys_info_avail]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250708-fix-clang-sys_info_avail-warning-v1-1-60d239eacd64@kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-4-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "generalize panic_print's dump function to be used by other
kernel parts", v3.
When working on kernel stability issues, panic, task-hung and
software/hardware lockup are frequently met. And to debug them, user may
need lots of system information at that time, like task call stacks, lock
info, memory info etc.
panic case already has panic_print_sys_info() for this purpose, and has a
'panic_print' bitmask to control what kinds of information is needed,
which is also helpful to debug other task-hung and lockup cases.
So this patchset extracts the function out to a new file 'lib/sys_info.c',
and makes it available for other cases which also need to dump system info
for debugging.
Also as suggested by Petr Mladek, add 'panic_sys_info=' interface to take
human readable string like "tasks,mem,locks,timers,ftrace,....", and
eventually obsolete the current 'panic_print' bitmap interface.
In RFC and V1 version, hung_task and SW/HW watchdog modules are enabled
with the new sys_info dump interface. In v2, they are kept out for better
review of current change, and will be posted later.
Locally these have been used in our bug chasing for stability issues and
was proven helpful.
Many thanks to Petr Mladek for great suggestions on both the code and
architectures!
This patch (of 5):
Currently the panic_print_sys_info() was called twice with different
parameters to handle console replay case, which is kind of confusing.
Add panic_console_replay() explicitly and rename
'PANIC_PRINT_ALL_PRINTK_MSG' to 'PANIC_CONSOLE_REPLAY', to make the code
straightforward. The related kernel document is also updated.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-1-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250703021004.42328-2-feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@linux.alibaba.com>
Suggested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Lance Yang <lance.yang@linux.dev>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Add clarification that the printk_ratelimit_burst window resets after
printk_ratelimit seconds have elapsed, allowing another burst of
messages to be sent. This helps users understand that the rate limiting
is not permanent but operates in periodic windows.
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250714-docs_ratelimit-v1-1-51a6d9071f1a@debian.org
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In commit b5325b2a270f ("coredump: hand a pidfd to the usermode coredump
helper") a new core_pattern specifier, %F, was added to provide a pidfs
to the usermode helper process referring to the crashed process.
Update the documentation to include the new core_pattern specifier.
Signed-off-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612060204.1159734-1-carnil@debian.org
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The sorting of VMAs by size in commit 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump
smaller VMAs first in ELF cores") breaks elfutils[1]. Instead, sort
based on the setting of the new sysctl, core_sort_vma, which defaults
to 0, no sorting.
Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg <michael@stapelberg.ch>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250218085407.61126-1-michael@stapelberg.de/ [1]
Fixes: 7d442a33bfe8 ("binfmt_elf: Dump smaller VMAs first in ELF cores")
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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There is no mention of timer_migration in the docs. Add
a short description.
Signed-off-by: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250114190525.169022-1-pauld@redhat.com
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This commit introduces documentation for hung_task_detect_count in
kernel.rst.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241027120747.42833-3-ioworker0@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Mingzhe Yang <mingzhe.yang@ly.com>
Signed-off-by: Lance Yang <ioworker0@gmail.com>
Cc: Bang Li <libang.li@antgroup.com>
Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Huang Cun <cunhuang@tencent.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: John Siddle <jsiddle@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Cc: Yongliang Gao <leonylgao@tencent.com>
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Allow users to disable kernel warnings for unaligned memory
accesses from kernel via the /proc/sys/kernel/ignore-unaligned-usertrap
procfs entry.
That way users can disable those warnings in case they happen too
often.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Main user visible change:
- User events can now have "multi formats"
The current user events have a single format. If another event is
created with a different format, it will fail to be created. That
is, once an event name is used, it cannot be used again with a
different format. This can cause issues if a library is using an
event and updates its format. An application using the older format
will prevent an application using the new library from registering
its event.
A task could also DOS another application if it knows the event
names, and it creates events with different formats.
The multi-format event is in a different name space from the single
format. Both the event name and its format are the unique
identifier. This will allow two different applications to use the
same user event name but with different payloads.
- Added support to have ftrace_dump_on_oops dump out instances and
not just the main top level tracing buffer.
Other changes:
- Add eventfs_root_inode
Only the root inode has a dentry that is static (never goes away)
and stores it upon creation. There's no reason that the thousands
of other eventfs inodes should have a pointer that never gets set
in its descriptor. Create a eventfs_root_inode desciptor that has a
eventfs_inode descriptor and a dentry pointer, and only the root
inode will use this.
- Added WARN_ON()s in eventfs
There's some conditionals remaining in eventfs that should never be
hit, but instead of removing them, add WARN_ON() around them to
make sure that they are never hit.
- Have saved_cmdlines allocation also include the map_cmdline_to_pid
array
The saved_cmdlines structure allocates a large amount of data to
hold its mappings. Within it, it has three arrays. Two are already
apart of it: map_pid_to_cmdline[] and saved_cmdlines[]. More memory
can be saved by also including the map_cmdline_to_pid[] array as
well.
- Restructure __string() and __assign_str() macros used in
TRACE_EVENT()
Dynamic strings in TRACE_EVENT() are declared with:
__string(name, source)
And assigned with:
__assign_str(name, source)
In the tracepoint callback of the event, the __string() is used to
get the size needed to allocate on the ring buffer and
__assign_str() is used to copy the string into the ring buffer.
There's a helper structure that is created in the TRACE_EVENT()
macro logic that will hold the string length and its position in
the ring buffer which is created by __string().
There are several trace events that have a function to create the
string to save. This function is executed twice. Once for
__string() and again for __assign_str(). There's no reason for
this. The helper structure could also save the string it used in
__string() and simply copy that into __assign_str() (it also
already has its length).
By using the structure to store the source string for the
assignment, it means that the second argument to __assign_str() is
no longer needed.
It will be removed in the next merge window, but for now add a
warning if the source string given to __string() is different than
the source string given to __assign_str(), as the source to
__assign_str() isn't even used and will be going away.
- Added checks to make sure that the source of __string() is also the
source of __assign_str() so that it can be safely removed in the
next merge window.
Included fixes that the above check found.
- Other minor clean ups and fixes"
* tag 'trace-v6.9-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (34 commits)
tracing: Add __string_src() helper to help compilers not to get confused
tracing: Use strcmp() in __assign_str() WARN_ON() check
tracepoints: Use WARN() and not WARN_ON() for warnings
tracing: Use div64_u64() instead of do_div()
tracing: Support to dump instance traces by ftrace_dump_on_oops
tracing: Remove second parameter to __assign_rel_str()
tracing: Add warning if string in __assign_str() does not match __string()
tracing: Add __string_len() example
tracing: Remove __assign_str_len()
ftrace: Fix most kernel-doc warnings
tracing: Decrement the snapshot if the snapshot trigger fails to register
tracing: Fix snapshot counter going between two tracers that use it
tracing: Use EVENT_NULL_STR macro instead of open coding "(null)"
tracing: Use ? : shortcut in trace macros
tracing: Do not calculate strlen() twice for __string() fields
tracing: Rework __assign_str() and __string() to not duplicate getting the string
cxl/trace: Properly initialize cxl_poison region name
net: hns3: tracing: fix hclgevf trace event strings
drm/i915: Add missing ; to __assign_str() macros in tracepoint code
NFSD: Fix nfsd_clid_class use of __string_len() macro
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Currently ftrace only dumps the global trace buffer on an OOPs. For
debugging a production usecase, instance trace will be helpful to
check specific problems since global trace buffer may be used for
other purposes.
This patch extend the ftrace_dump_on_oops parameter to dump a specific
or multiple trace instances:
- ftrace_dump_on_oops=0: as before -- don't dump
- ftrace_dump_on_oops[=1]: as before -- dump the global trace buffer
on all CPUs
- ftrace_dump_on_oops=2 or =orig_cpu: as before -- dump the global
trace buffer on CPU that triggered the oops
- ftrace_dump_on_oops=<instance_name>: new behavior -- dump the
tracing instance matching <instance_name>
- ftrace_dump_on_oops[=2/orig_cpu],<instance1_name>[=2/orig_cpu],
<instrance2_name>[=2/orig_cpu]: new behavior -- dump the global trace
buffer and multiple instance buffer on all CPUs, or only dump on CPU
that triggered the oops if =2 or =orig_cpu is given
Also, the sysctl node can handle the input accordingly.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20240223083126.1817731-1-quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@google.com>
Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: <j.granados@samsung.com>
Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Huang Yiwei <quic_hyiwei@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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For debugging kernel panics and other bugs, there is already an option of
panic_print to dump all tasks' call stacks. On today's large servers
running many containers, there could be thousands of tasks or more, and
this will print out huge amount of call stacks, taking a lot of time (for
serial console which is main target user case of panic_print).
And in many cases, only those several tasks being blocked are key for the
panic, so add an option to only dump blocked tasks' call stacks.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify documentation a little]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240202132042.3609657-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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After 25b21cb2f6d6 ("[PATCH] IPC namespace core") and 4e9823111bdc
("[PATCH] IPC namespace - shm") the shared memory page count stopped being
global and started counting per ipc namespace. The documentation and
shmget(2) still says that shmall is a global option.
shmget(2):
SHMALL System-wide limit on the total amount of shared memory, measured in
units of the system page size. On Linux, this limit can be read and
modified via /proc/sys/kernel/shmall.
I think the changes made in 2006 should be documented.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/09e99911071766958af488beb4e8a728a4f12135.1705333426.git.legion@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexey Gladkov <legion@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ede20ddf7be48b93e8084c3be2e920841ee1a641.1663756794.git.legion@kernel.org
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic
Pull ia64 removal and asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
- The ia64 architecture gets its well-earned retirement as planned,
now that there is one last (mostly) working release that will be
maintained as an LTS kernel.
- The architecture specific system call tables are updated for the
added map_shadow_stack() syscall and to remove references to the
long-gone sys_lookup_dcookie() syscall.
* tag 'asm-generic-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
hexagon: Remove unusable symbols from the ptrace.h uapi
asm-generic: Fix spelling of architecture
arch: Reserve map_shadow_stack() syscall number for all architectures
syscalls: Cleanup references to sys_lookup_dcookie()
Documentation: Drop or replace remaining mentions of IA64
lib/raid6: Drop IA64 support
Documentation: Drop IA64 from feature descriptions
kernel: Drop IA64 support from sig_fault handlers
arch: Remove Itanium (IA-64) architecture
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on the platform
The 'sched_energy_aware' sysctl is available for the admin to disable/enable
energy aware scheduling(EAS). EAS is enabled only if few conditions are
met by the platform. They are, asymmetric CPU capacity, no SMT,
schedutil CPUfreq governor, frequency invariant load tracking etc.
A platform may boot without EAS capability, but could gain such
capability at runtime. For example, changing/registering the cpufreq
governor to schedutil.
At present, though platform doesn't support EAS, this sysctl returns 1
and it ends up calling build_perf_domains on write to 1 and
NOP when writing to 0. That is confusing and un-necessary.
Desired behavior would be to have this sysctl to enable/disable the EAS
on supported platform. On non-supported platform write to the sysctl
would return not supported error and read of the sysctl would return
empty. So sched_energy_aware returns empty - EAS is not possible at this moment
This will include EAS capable platforms which have at least one EAS
condition false during startup, e.g. not using the schedutil cpufreq governor
sched_energy_aware returns 0 - EAS is supported but disabled by admin.
sched_energy_aware returns 1 - EAS is supported and enabled.
User can find out the reason why EAS is not possible by checking
info messages. sched_is_eas_possible returns true if the platform
can do EAS at this moment.
Signed-off-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231009060037.170765-3-sshegde@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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Drop or update mentions of IA64, as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
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Pull io_uring fixes from Jens Axboe:
"A few fixes that should go into the 6.6-rc merge window:
- Fix for a regression this merge window caused by the SQPOLL
affinity patch, where we can race with SQPOLL thread shutdown and
cause an oops when trying to set affinity (Gabriel)
- Fix for a regression this merge window where fdinfo reading with
for a ring setup with IORING_SETUP_NO_SQARRAY will attempt to
deference the non-existing SQ ring array (me)
- Add the patch that allows more finegrained control over who can use
io_uring (Matteo)
- Locking fix for a regression added this merge window for IOPOLL
overflow (Pavel)
- IOPOLL fix for stable, breaking our loop if helper threads are
exiting (Pavel)
Also had a fix for unreaped iopoll requests from io-wq from Ming, but
we found an issue with that and hence it got reverted. Will get this
sorted for a future rc"
* tag 'io_uring-6.6-2023-09-08' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux:
Revert "io_uring: fix IO hang in io_wq_put_and_exit from do_exit()"
io_uring: fix unprotected iopoll overflow
io_uring: break out of iowq iopoll on teardown
io_uring: add a sysctl to disable io_uring system-wide
io_uring/fdinfo: only print ->sq_array[] if it's there
io_uring: fix IO hang in io_wq_put_and_exit from do_exit()
io_uring: Don't set affinity on a dying sqpoll thread
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Introduce a new sysctl (io_uring_disabled) which can be either 0, 1, or
2. When 0 (the default), all processes are allowed to create io_uring
instances, which is the current behavior. When 1, io_uring creation is
disabled (io_uring_setup() will fail with -EPERM) for unprivileged
processes not in the kernel.io_uring_group group. When 2, calls to
io_uring_setup() fail with -EPERM regardless of privilege.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Rizzo <matteorizzo@google.com>
[JEM: modified to add io_uring_group]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/x49y1i42j1z.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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riscv now uses this sysctl so document its usage for this architecture.
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Ghiti <alexghiti@rivosinc.com>
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Architecture-specific documentation is being moved into Documentation/arch/
as a way of cleaning up the top-level documentation directory and making
the docs hierarchy more closely match the source hierarchy. Move
Documentation/arm64 into arch/ (along with the Chinese equvalent
translations) and fix up documentation references.
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Alex Shi <alexs@kernel.org>
Cc: Hu Haowen <src.res@email.cn>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Yantengsi <siyanteng@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Move the x86 documentation under Documentation/arch/ as a way of cleaning
up the top-level directory and making the structure of our docs more
closely match the structure of the source directories it describes.
All in-kernel references to the old paths have been updated.
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20230315211523.108836-1-corbet@lwn.net/
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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kexec allows replacing the current kernel with a different one. This is
usually a source of concerns for sysadmins that want to harden a system.
Linux already provides a way to disable loading new kexec kernel via
kexec_load_disabled, but that control is very coard, it is all or nothing
and does not make distinction between a panic kexec and a normal kexec.
This patch introduces new sysctl parameters, with finer tuning to specify
how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded. The sysadmin can set
different limits for kexec panic and kexec reboot kernels. The value can
be modified at runtime via sysctl, but only with a stricter value.
With these new parameters on place, a system with loadpin and verity
enabled, using the following kernel parameters:
sysctl.kexec_load_limit_reboot=0 sysct.kexec_load_limit_panic=1 can have a
good warranty that if initrd tries to load a panic kernel, a malitious
user will have small chances to replace that kernel with a different one,
even if they can trigger timeouts on the disk where the panic kernel
lives.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-3-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com> # Steam Deck
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "kexec: Add new parameter to limit the access to kexec", v6.
Add two parameter to specify how many times a kexec kernel can be loaded.
These parameter allow hardening the system.
While we are at it, fix a documentation issue and refactor some code.
This patch (of 3):
kexec_load_disabled affects both ``kexec_load`` and ``kexec_file_load``
syscalls. Make it explicit.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-0-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221114-disable-kexec-reset-v6-1-6a8531a09b9a@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Ricardo Ribalda <ribalda@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Philipp Rudo <prudo@redhat.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <zwisler@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson
Pull LoongArch updates from Huacai Chen:
- Switch to relative exception tables
- Add unaligned access support
- Add alternative runtime patching mechanism
- Add FDT booting support from efi system table
- Add suspend/hibernation (ACPI S3/S4) support
- Add basic STACKPROTECTOR support
- Add ftrace (function tracer) support
- Update the default config file
* tag 'loongarch-6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chenhuacai/linux-loongson: (24 commits)
LoongArch: Update Loongson-3 default config file
LoongArch: modules/ftrace: Initialize PLT at load time
LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_FUNCTION_GRAPH_RET_ADDR_PTR support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add dynamic function graph tracer support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add dynamic function tracer support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add recordmcount support
LoongArch/ftrace: Add basic support
LoongArch: module: Use got/plt section indices for relocations
LoongArch: Add basic STACKPROTECTOR support
LoongArch: Add hibernation (ACPI S4) support
LoongArch: Add suspend (ACPI S3) support
LoongArch: Add processing ISA Node in DeviceTree
LoongArch: Add FDT booting support from efi system table
LoongArch: Use alternative to optimize libraries
LoongArch: Add alternative runtime patching mechanism
LoongArch: Add unaligned access support
LoongArch: BPF: Add BPF exception tables
LoongArch: Remove the .fixup section usage
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull kernel hardening updates from Kees Cook:
- Convert flexible array members, fix -Wstringop-overflow warnings, and
fix KCFI function type mismatches that went ignored by maintainers
(Gustavo A. R. Silva, Nathan Chancellor, Kees Cook)
- Remove the remaining side-effect users of ksize() by converting
dma-buf, btrfs, and coredump to using kmalloc_size_roundup(), add
more __alloc_size attributes, and introduce full testing of all
allocator functions. Finally remove the ksize() side-effect so that
each allocation-aware checker can finally behave without exceptions
- Introduce oops_limit (default 10,000) and warn_limit (default off) to
provide greater granularity of control for panic_on_oops and
panic_on_warn (Jann Horn, Kees Cook)
- Introduce overflows_type() and castable_to_type() helpers for cleaner
overflow checking
- Improve code generation for strscpy() and update str*() kern-doc
- Convert strscpy and sigphash tests to KUnit, and expand memcpy tests
- Always use a non-NULL argument for prepare_kernel_cred()
- Disable structleak plugin in FORTIFY KUnit test (Anders Roxell)
- Adjust orphan linker section checking to respect CONFIG_WERROR (Xin
Li)
- Make sure siginfo is cleared for forced SIGKILL (haifeng.xu)
- Fix um vs FORTIFY warnings for always-NULL arguments
* tag 'hardening-v6.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux: (31 commits)
ksmbd: replace one-element arrays with flexible-array members
hpet: Replace one-element array with flexible-array member
um: virt-pci: Avoid GCC non-NULL warning
signal: Initialize the info in ksignal
lib: fortify_kunit: build without structleak plugin
panic: Expose "warn_count" to sysfs
panic: Introduce warn_limit
panic: Consolidate open-coded panic_on_warn checks
exit: Allow oops_limit to be disabled
exit: Expose "oops_count" to sysfs
exit: Put an upper limit on how often we can oops
panic: Separate sysctl logic from CONFIG_SMP
mm/pgtable: Fix multiple -Wstringop-overflow warnings
mm: Make ksize() a reporting-only function
kunit/fortify: Validate __alloc_size attribute results
drm/sti: Fix return type of sti_{dvo,hda,hdmi}_connector_mode_valid()
drm/fsl-dcu: Fix return type of fsl_dcu_drm_connector_mode_valid()
driver core: Add __alloc_size hint to devm allocators
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