linux-dev/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl, branch linus/master

Merge tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

2022-05-26T19:32:41Z

Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton: "Almost all of MM here. A few things are still getting finished off, reviewed, etc. - Yang Shi has improved the behaviour of khugepaged collapsing of readonly file-backed transparent hugepages. - Johannes Weiner has arranged for zswap memory use to be tracked and managed on a per-cgroup basis. - Munchun Song adds a /proc knob ("hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap") for runtime enablement of the recent huge page vmemmap optimization feature. - Baolin Wang contributes a series to fix some issues around hugetlb pagetable invalidation. - Zhenwei Pi has fixed some interactions between hwpoisoned pages and virtualization. - Tong Tiangen has enabled the use of the presently x86-only page_table_check debugging feature on arm64 and riscv. - David Vernet has done some fixup work on the memcg selftests. - Peter Xu has taught userfaultfd to handle write protection faults against shmem- and hugetlbfs-backed files. - More DAMON development from SeongJae Park - adding online tuning of the feature and support for monitoring of fixed virtual address ranges. Also easier discovery of which monitoring operations are available. - Nadav Amit has done some optimization of TLB flushing during mprotect(). - Neil Brown continues to labor away at improving our swap-over-NFS support. - David Hildenbrand has some fixes to anon page COWing versus get_user_pages(). - Peng Liu fixed some errors in the core hugetlb code. - Joao Martins has reduced the amount of memory consumed by device-dax's compound devmaps. - Some cleanups of the arch-specific pagemap code from Anshuman Khandual. - Muchun Song has found and fixed some errors in the TLB flushing of transparent hugepages. - Roman Gushchin has done more work on the memcg selftests. ... and, of course, many smaller fixes and cleanups. Notably, the customary million cleanup serieses from Miaohe Lin" * tag 'mm-stable-2022-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (381 commits) mm: kfence: use PAGE_ALIGNED helper selftests: vm: add the "settings" file with timeout variable selftests: vm: add "test_hmm.sh" to TEST_FILES selftests: vm: check numa_available() before operating "merge_across_nodes" in ksm_tests selftests: vm: add migration to the .gitignore selftests/vm/pkeys: fix typo in comment ksm: fix typo in comment selftests: vm: add process_mrelease tests Revert "mm/vmscan: never demote for memcg reclaim" mm/kfence: print disabling or re-enabling message include/trace/events/percpu.h: cleanup for "percpu: improve percpu_alloc_percpu event trace" include/trace/events/mmflags.h: cleanup for "tracing: incorrect gfp_t conversion" mm: fix a potential infinite loop in start_isolate_page_range() MAINTAINERS: add Muchun as co-maintainer for HugeTLB zram: fix Kconfig dependency warning mm/shmem: fix shmem folio swapoff hang cgroup: fix an error handling path in alloc_pagecache_max_30M() mm: damon: use HPAGE_PMD_SIZE tracing: incorrect isolate_mote_t cast in mm_vmscan_lru_isolate nodemask.h: fix compilation error with GCC12 ...

Merge tag 'net-next-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2022-05-25T19:22:58Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core ---- - Support TCPv6 segmentation offload with super-segments larger than 64k bytes using the IPv6 Jumbogram extension header (AKA BIG TCP). - Generalize skb freeing deferral to per-cpu lists, instead of per-socket lists. - Add a netdev statistic for packets dropped due to L2 address mismatch (rx_otherhost_dropped). - Continue work annotating skb drop reasons. - Accept alternative netdev names (ALT_IFNAME) in more netlink requests. - Add VLAN support for AF_PACKET SOCK_RAW GSO. - Allow receiving skb mark from the socket as a cmsg. - Enable memcg accounting for veth queues, sysctl tables and IPv6. BPF --- - Add libbpf support for User Statically-Defined Tracing (USDTs). - Speed up symbol resolution for kprobes multi-link attachments. - Support storing typed pointers to referenced and unreferenced objects in BPF maps. - Add support for BPF link iterator. - Introduce access to remote CPU map elements in BPF per-cpu map. - Allow middle-of-the-road settings for the kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl. - Implement basic types of dynamic pointers e.g. to allow for dynamically sized ringbuf reservations without extra memory copies. Protocols --------- - Retire port only listening_hash table, add a second bind table hashed by port and address. Avoid linear list walk when binding to very popular ports (e.g. 443). - Add bridge FDB bulk flush filtering support allowing user space to remove all FDB entries matching a condition. - Introduce accept_unsolicited_na sysctl for IPv6 to implement router-side changes for RFC9131. - Support for MPTCP path manager in user space. - Add MPTCP support for fallback to regular TCP for connections that have never connected additional subflows or transmitted out-of-sequence data (partial support for RFC8684 fallback). - Avoid races in MPTCP-level window tracking, stabilize and improve throughput. - Support lockless operation of GRE tunnels with seq numbers enabled. - WiFi support for host based BSS color collision detection. - Add support for SO_TXTIME/SCM_TXTIME on CAN sockets. - Support transmission w/o flow control in CAN ISOTP (ISO 15765-2). - Support zero-copy Tx with TLS 1.2 crypto offload (sendfile). - Allow matching on the number of VLAN tags via tc-flower. - Add tracepoint for tcp_set_ca_state(). Driver API ---------- - Improve error reporting from classifier and action offload. - Add support for listing line cards in switches (devlink). - Add helpers for reporting page pool statistics with ethtool -S. - Add support for reading clock cycles when using PTP virtual clocks, instead of having the driver convert to time before reporting. This makes it possible to report time from different vclocks. - Support configuring low-latency Tx descriptor push via ethtool. - Separate Clause 22 and Clause 45 MDIO accesses more explicitly. New hardware / drivers ---------------------- - Ethernet: - Marvell's Octeon NIC PCI Endpoint support (octeon_ep) - Sunplus SP7021 SoC (sp7021_emac) - Add support for Renesas RZ/V2M (in ravb) - Add support for MediaTek mt7986 switches (in mtk_eth_soc) - Ethernet PHYs: - ADIN1100 industrial PHYs (w/ 10BASE-T1L and SQI reporting) - TI DP83TD510 PHY - Microchip LAN8742/LAN88xx PHYs - WiFi: - Driver for pureLiFi X, XL, XC devices (plfxlc) - Driver for Silicon Labs devices (wfx) - Support for WCN6750 (in ath11k) - Support Realtek 8852ce devices (in rtw89) - Mobile: - MediaTek T700 modems (Intel 5G 5000 M.2 cards) - CAN: - ctucanfd: add support for CTU CAN FD open-source IP core from Czech Technical University in Prague Drivers ------- - Delete a number of old drivers still using virt_to_bus(). - Ethernet NICs: - intel: support TSO on tunnels MPLS - broadcom: support multi-buffer XDP - nfp: support VF rate limiting - sfc: use hardware tx timestamps for more than PTP - mlx5: multi-port eswitch support - hyper-v: add support for XDP_REDIRECT - atlantic: XDP support (including multi-buffer) - macb: improve real-time perf by deferring Tx processing to NAPI - High-speed Ethernet switches: - mlxsw: implement basic line card information querying - prestera: add support for traffic policing on ingress and egress - Embedded Ethernet switches: - lan966x: add support for packet DMA (FDMA) - lan966x: add support for PTP programmable pins - ti: cpsw_new: enable bc/mc storm prevention - Qualcomm 802.11ax WiFi (ath11k): - Wake-on-WLAN support for QCA6390 and WCN6855 - device recovery (firmware restart) support - support setting Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) for WCN6855 - read country code from SMBIOS for WCN6855/QCA6390 - enable keep-alive during WoWLAN suspend - implement remain-on-channel support - MediaTek WiFi (mt76): - support Wireless Ethernet Dispatch offloading packet movement between the Ethernet switch and WiFi interfaces - non-standard VHT MCS10-11 support - mt7921 AP mode support - mt7921 IPv6 NS offload support - Ethernet PHYs: - micrel: ksz9031/ksz9131: cabletest support - lan87xx: SQI support for T1 PHYs - lan937x: add interrupt support for link detection" * tag 'net-next-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1809 commits) ptp: ocp: Add firmware header checks ptp: ocp: fix PPS source selector debugfs reporting ptp: ocp: add .init function for sma_op vector ptp: ocp: vectorize the sma accessor functions ptp: ocp: constify selectors ptp: ocp: parameterize input/output sma selectors ptp: ocp: revise firmware display ptp: ocp: add Celestica timecard PCI ids ptp: ocp: Remove #ifdefs around PCI IDs ptp: ocp: 32-bit fixups for pci start address Revert "net/smc: fix listen processing for SMC-Rv2" ath6kl: Use cc-disable-warning to disable -Wdangling-pointer selftests/bpf: Dynptr tests bpf: Add dynptr data slices bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_read and bpf_dynptr_write bpf: Dynptr support for ring buffers bpf: Add bpf_dynptr_from_mem for local dynptrs bpf: Add verifier support for dynptrs bpf: Suppress 'passing zero to PTR_ERR' warning bpf: Introduce bpf_arch_text_invalidate for bpf_prog_pack ...

Merge tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2022-05-25T18:17:41Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "It was a moderately busy cycle for documentation; highlights include: - After a long period of inactivity, the Japanese translations are seeing some much-needed maintenance and updating. - Reworked IOMMU documentation - Some new documentation for static-analysis tools - A new overall structure for the memory-management documentation. This is an LSFMM outcome that, it is hoped, will help encourage developers to fill in the many gaps. Optimism is eternal...but hopefully it will work. - More Chinese translations. Plus the usual typo fixes, updates, etc" * tag 'docs-5.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (70 commits) docs: pdfdocs: Add space for chapter counts >= 100 in TOC docs/zh_CN: Add dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst Chinese translation input: Docs: correct ntrig.rst typo input: Docs: correct atarikbd.rst typos MAINTAINERS: Become the docs/zh_CN maintainer docs/zh_CN: fix devicetree usage-model translation mm,doc: Add new documentation structure Documentation: drop more IDE boot options and ide-cd.rst Documentation/process: use scripts/get_maintainer.pl on patches MAINTAINERS: Add entry for DOCUMENTATION/JAPANESE docs/trans/ja_JP/howto: Don't mention specific kernel versions docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Request summaries for commit references docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Add Suggested-by as a standard signature docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Randy has moved docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Suggest the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl docs/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches: Update GregKH links Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic Documentation: add missing angle bracket in cgroup-v2 doc Documentation: dev-tools: use literal block instead of code-block docs/zh_CN: add vm numa translation ...

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net

2022-05-24T04:19:17Z

drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb_main.c 5cebb40bc955 ("net: macb: Fix PTP one step sync support") 138badbc21a0 ("net: macb: use NAPI for TX completion path") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220523111021.31489367@canb.auug.org.au/ net/smc/af_smc.c 75c1edf23b95 ("net/smc: postpone sk_refcnt increment in connect()") 3aba103006bc ("net/smc: align the connect behaviour with TCP") https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220524114408.4bf1af38@canb.auug.org.au/ Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

Documentation: add description for net.core.gro_normal_batch

2022-05-20T00:46:23Z

Describe it in admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst like other Network core options. Users need to know gro_normal_batch for performance tuning. Fixes: 323ebb61e32b ("net: use listified RX for handling GRO_NORMAL skbs") Reported-by: Prijesh Patel Signed-off-by: Xin Long Reviewed-by: Edward Cree Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/acf8a2c03b91bcde11f67ff89b6050089c0712a3.1652888963.git.lucien.xin@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski

net: add skb_defer_max sysctl

2022-05-16T10:33:59Z

commit 68822bdf76f1 ("net: generalize skb freeing deferral to per-cpu lists") added another per-cpu cache of skbs. It was expected to be small, and an IPI was forced whenever the list reached 128 skbs. We might need to be able to control more precisely queue capacity and added latency. An IPI is generated whenever queue reaches half capacity. Default value of the new limit is 64. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: add hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap sysctl

2022-05-13T23:48:56Z

We must add hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on (or "off") to the boot cmdline and reboot the server to enable or disable the feature of optimizing vmemmap pages associated with HugeTLB pages. However, rebooting usually takes a long time. So add a sysctl to enable or disable the feature at runtime without rebooting. Why we need this? There are 3 use cases. 1) The feature of minimizing overhead of struct page associated with each HugeTLB is disabled by default without passing "hugetlb_free_vmemmap=on" to the boot cmdline. When we (ByteDance) deliver the servers to the users who want to enable this feature, they have to configure the grub (change boot cmdline) and reboot the servers, whereas rebooting usually takes a long time (we have thousands of servers). It's a very bad experience for the users. So we need a approach to enable this feature after rebooting. This is a use case in our practical environment. 2) Some use cases are that HugeTLB pages are allocated 'on the fly' instead of being pulled from the HugeTLB pool, those workloads would be affected with this feature enabled. Those workloads could be identified by the characteristics of they never explicitly allocating huge pages with 'nr_hugepages' but only set 'nr_overcommit_hugepages' and then let the pages be allocated from the buddy allocator at fault time. We can confirm it is a real use case from the commit 099730d67417. For those workloads, the page fault time could be ~2x slower than before. We suspect those users want to disable this feature if the system has enabled this before and they don't think the memory savings benefit is enough to make up for the performance drop. 3) If the workload which wants vmemmap pages to be optimized and the workload which wants to set 'nr_overcommit_hugepages' and does not want the extera overhead at fault time when the overcommitted pages be allocated from the buddy allocator are deployed in the same server. The user could enable this feature and set 'nr_hugepages' and 'nr_overcommit_hugepages', then disable the feature. In this case, the overcommited HugeTLB pages will not encounter the extra overhead at fault time. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220512041142.39501-5-songmuchun@bytedance.com Signed-off-by: Muchun Song Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Luis Chamberlain Cc: Kees Cook Cc: Iurii Zaikin Cc: Oscar Salvador Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Masahiro Yamada Cc: Xiongchun Duan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton

random: fix sysctl documentation nits

2022-05-13T21:59:12Z

A semicolon was missing, and the almost-alphabetical-but-not ordering was confusing, so regroup these by category instead. Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld

Documentation/sysctl: document max_rcu_stall_to_panic

2022-05-01T23:14:09Z

commit dfe564045c65 ("rcu: Panic after fixed number of stalls") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation. Add a simple entry to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation/sysctl: document page_lock_unfairness

2022-04-29T06:16:01Z

commit 5ef64cc8987a ("mm: allow a controlled amount of unfairness in the page lock") introduced a new systctl but no accompanying documentation. Add a simple entry to the documentation. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220325164437.120246-1-jsavitz@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Joel Savitz Cc: Jonathan Corbet Cc: Vlastimil Babka Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: "zhangyi (F)" Cc: Charan Teja Reddy Cc: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton