linux-dev - Linux kernel development work

Age	Commit message (Collapse)	Author	Files	Lines
2019-03-01	s390: warn about clearing als implied facilities	Vasily Gorbik	1	-0/+16
	Add a warning about removing required architecture level set facilities via "facilities=" command line option. Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2019-03-01	s390: allow overriding facilities via command line	Vasily Gorbik	1	-2/+48
	Add "facilities=" command line option which allows to override facility bits returned by stfle. The main purpose of that is debugging aids which allows to test specific kernel behaviour depending on specific facilities presence. It also affects CPU alternatives. "facilities=" command line option format is comma separated list of integer values to be additionally set or cleared (if value is starting with "!"). Values ranges are also supported. e.g.: facilities=!130-160,159,167-169 Reviewed-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2018-10-09	s390/kasan: use noexec and large pages	Vasily Gorbik	1	-1/+10
	To lower memory footprint and speed up kasan initialisation detect EDAT availability and use large pages if possible. As we know how much memory is needed for initialisation, another simplistic large page allocator is introduced to avoid memory fragmentation. Since facilities list is retrieved anyhow, detect noexec support and adjust pages attributes. Handle noexec kernel option to avoid inconsistent kasan shadow memory pages flags. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2018-10-09	s390: move ipl block and cmd line handling to early boot phase	Vasily Gorbik	1	-0/+173
	To distinguish zfcpdump case and to be able to parse some of the kernel command line arguments early (e.g. mem=) ipl block retrieval and command line construction code is moved to the early boot phase. "memory_end" is set up correctly respecting "mem=" and hsa_size in case of the zfcpdump. arch/s390/boot/string.c is introduced to provide string handling and command line parsing functions to early boot phase code for the compressed kernel image case. Signed-off-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>