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  1. Apr 27, 2017
    • Shaohua Li's avatar
      x86, iommu/vt-d: Add an option to disable Intel IOMMU force on · bfd20f1c
      Shaohua Li authored
      
      IOMMU harms performance signficantly when we run very fast networking
      workloads. It's 40GB networking doing XDP test. Software overhead is
      almost unaware, but it's the IOTLB miss (based on our analysis) which
      kills the performance. We observed the same performance issue even with
      software passthrough (identity mapping), only the hardware passthrough
      survives. The pps with iommu (with software passthrough) is only about
      ~30% of that without it. This is a limitation in hardware based on our
      observation, so we'd like to disable the IOMMU force on, but we do want
      to use TBOOT and we can sacrifice the DMA security bought by IOMMU. I
      must admit I know nothing about TBOOT, but TBOOT guys (cc-ed) think not
      eabling IOMMU is totally ok.
      
      So introduce a new boot option to disable the force on. It's kind of
      silly we need to run into intel_iommu_init even without force on, but we
      need to disable TBOOT PMR registers. For system without the boot option,
      nothing is changed.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarShaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
      bfd20f1c
  2. Mar 29, 2017
    • Joerg Roedel's avatar
      iommu/vt-d: Make sure IOMMUs are off when intel_iommu=off · 161b28aa
      Joerg Roedel authored
      
      When booting into a kexec kernel with intel_iommu=off, and
      the previous kernel had intel_iommu=on, the IOMMU hardware
      is still enabled and gets not disabled by the new kernel.
      
      This causes the boot to fail because DMA is blocked by the
      hardware. Disable the IOMMUs when we find it enabled in the
      kexec kernel and boot with intel_iommu=off.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJoerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
      161b28aa
  3. Mar 22, 2017
  4. Mar 20, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.11-rc3 · 97da3854
      Linus Torvalds authored
      v4.11-rc3
      97da3854
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache · 452b94b8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a
      reason for the check.  The code correctly checks whether the swap slot
      cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not
      actually problematic afaik.
      
      I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since
      I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there.  I suspect
      the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about
      it but not bring the machine down.
      
      Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      452b94b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · a07a6e41
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
       "A couple of minor powerpc fixes for 4.11:
      
         - wire up statx() syscall
      
         - don't print a warning on memory hotplug when HPT resizing isn't
           available
      
        Thanks to: David Gibson, Chandan Rajendra"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
        powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
        powerpc: Wire up statx() syscall
      a07a6e41
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 4571bc5a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
      
       - Mikulas Patocka added support for R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocations in
         modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
      
       - Dave Anglin optimized the cache flushing for vmap ranges.
      
       - Arvind Yadav provided a fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference
         in the parisc perf code (and some code cleanups).
      
       - I wired up the new statx system call, fixed some compiler warnings
         with the access_ok() macro and fixed shutdown code to really halt a
         system at shutdown instead of crashing & rebooting.
      
      * 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: Fix system shutdown halt
        parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
        parisc: Avoid compiler warnings with access_ok()
        parisc: Wire up statx system call
        parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
        parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
      4571bc5a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending · 8aa34172
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
       "The bulk of the changes are in qla2xxx target driver code to address
        various issues found during Cavium/QLogic's internal testing (stable
        CC's included), along with a few other stability and smaller
        miscellaneous improvements.
      
        There are also a couple of different patch sets from Mike Christie,
        which have been a result of his work to use target-core ALUA logic
        together with tcm-user backend driver.
      
        Finally, a patch to address some long standing issues with
        pass-through SCSI export of TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIUM_CHANGER devices,
        which will make folks using physical (or virtual) magnetic tape happy"
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (28 commits)
        qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00-k
        qla2xxx: Fix delayed response to command for loop mode/direct connect.
        qla2xxx: Change scsi host lookup method.
        qla2xxx: Add DebugFS node to display Port Database
        qla2xxx: Use IOCB interface to submit non-critical MBX.
        qla2xxx: Add async new target notification
        qla2xxx: Export DIF stats via debugfs
        qla2xxx: Improve T10-DIF/PI handling in driver.
        qla2xxx: Allow relogin to proceed if remote login did not finish
        qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
        qla2xxx: Fix inadequate lock protection for ABTS.
        qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption.
        qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing
        qla2xxx: Allow vref count to timeout on vport delete.
        tcmu: Convert cmd_time_out into backend device attribute
        tcmu: make cmd timeout configurable
        tcmu: add helper to check if dev was configured
        target: fix race during implicit transition work flushes
        target: allow userspace to set state to transitioning
        target: fix ALUA transition timeout handling
        ...
      8aa34172
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm · 1b8df619
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull device-dax fixes from Dan Williams:
       "The device-dax driver was not being careful to handle falling back to
        smaller fault-granularity sizes.
      
        The driver already fails fault attempts that are smaller than the
        device's alignment, but it also needs to handle the cases where a
        larger page mapping could be established. For simplicity of the
        immediate fix the implementation just signals VM_FAULT_FALLBACK until
        fault-size == device-alignment.
      
        One fix is for -stable to address pmd-to-pte fallback from the
        original implementation, another fix is for the new (introduced in
        4.11-rc1) pud-to-pmd regression, and a typo fix comes along for the
        ride.
      
        These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
        robot"
      
      * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
        device-dax: fix debug output typo
        device-dax: fix pud fault fallback handling
        device-dax: fix pmd/pte fault fallback handling
      1b8df619
  5. Mar 19, 2017