kernel.git/Documentation/index.rst, branch linux-4.19.y

x86/speculation/mds: Add mds_clear_cpu_buffers()

2019-05-14T17:17:54Z

commit 6a9e529272517755904b7afa639f6db59ddb793e upstream 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 Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker Reviewed-by: Jon Masters Tested-by: Jon Masters Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2018-08-15T22:04:25Z

Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: - Gustavo A. R. Silva keeps working on the implicit switch fallthru changes. - Support 802.11ax High-Efficiency wireless in cfg80211 et al, From Luca Coelho. - Re-enable ASPM in r8169, from Kai-Heng Feng. - Add virtual XFRM interfaces, which avoids all of the limitations of existing IPSEC tunnels. From Steffen Klassert. - Convert GRO over to use a hash table, so that when we have many flows active we don't traverse a long list during accumluation. - Many new self tests for routing, TC, tunnels, etc. Too many contributors to mention them all, but I'm really happy to keep seeing this stuff. - Hardware timestamping support for dpaa_eth/fsl-fman from Yangbo Lu. - Lots of cleanups and fixes in L2TP code from Guillaume Nault. - Add IPSEC offload support to netdevsim, from Shannon Nelson. - Add support for slotting with non-uniform distribution to netem packet scheduler, from Yousuk Seung. - Add UDP GSO support to mlx5e, from Boris Pismenny. - Support offloading of Team LAG in NFP, from John Hurley. - Allow to configure TX queue selection based upon RX queue, from Amritha Nambiar. - Support ethtool ring size configuration in aquantia, from Anton Mikaev. - Support DSCP and flowlabel per-transport in SCTP, from Xin Long. - Support list based batching and stack traversal of SKBs, this is very exciting work. From Edward Cree. - Busyloop optimizations in vhost_net, from Toshiaki Makita. - Introduce the ETF qdisc, which allows time based transmissions. IGB can offload this in hardware. From Vinicius Costa Gomes. - Add parameter support to devlink, from Moshe Shemesh. - Several multiplication and division optimizations for BPF JIT in nfp driver, from Jiong Wang. - Lots of prepatory work to make more of the packet scheduler layer lockless, when possible, from Vlad Buslov. - Add ACK filter and NAT awareness to sch_cake packet scheduler, from Toke Høiland-Jørgensen. - Support regions and region snapshots in devlink, from Alex Vesker. - Allow to attach XDP programs to both HW and SW at the same time on a given device, with initial support in nfp. From Jakub Kicinski. - Add TLS RX offload and support in mlx5, from Ilya Lesokhin. - Use PHYLIB in r8169 driver, from Heiner Kallweit. - All sorts of changes to support Spectrum 2 in mlxsw driver, from Ido Schimmel. - PTP support in mv88e6xxx DSA driver, from Andrew Lunn. - Make TCP_USER_TIMEOUT socket option more accurate, from Jon Maxwell. - Support for templates in packet scheduler classifier, from Jiri Pirko. - IPV6 support in RDS, from Ka-Cheong Poon. - Native tproxy support in nf_tables, from Máté Eckl. - Maintain IP fragment queue in an rbtree, but optimize properly for in-order frags. From Peter Oskolkov. - Improvde handling of ACKs on hole repairs, from Yuchung Cheng" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1996 commits) bpf: test: fix spelling mistake "REUSEEPORT" -> "REUSEPORT" hv/netvsc: Fix NULL dereference at single queue mode fallback net: filter: mark expected switch fall-through xen-netfront: fix warn message as irq device name has '/' cxgb4: Add new T5 PCI device ids 0x50af and 0x50b0 net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: missing unlock on error path rds: fix building with IPV6=m inet/connection_sock: prefer _THIS_IP_ to current_text_addr net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: bitwise vs logical bug net: sock_diag: Fix spectre v1 gadget in __sock_diag_cmd() ieee802154: hwsim: using right kind of iteration net: hns3: Add vlan filter setting by ethtool command -K net: hns3: Set tx ring' tc info when netdev is up net: hns3: Remove tx ring BD len register in hns3_enet net: hns3: Fix desc num set to default when setting channel net: hns3: Fix for phy link issue when using marvell phy driver net: hns3: Fix for information of phydev lost problem when down/up net: hns3: Fix for command format parsing error in hclge_is_all_function_id_zero net: hns3: Add support for serdes loopback selftest bnxt_en: take coredump_record structure off stack ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2018-08-14T21:29:31Z

Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "This was a moderately busy cycle for docs, with the usual collection of small fixes and updates. We also have new ktime_get_*() docs from Arnd, some kernel-doc fixes, a new set of Italian translations (non so se vale la pena, ma non fa male - speriamo bene), and some extensive early memory-management documentation improvements from Mike Rapoport" * tag 'docs-4.19' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (52 commits) Documentation: corrections to console/console.txt Documentation: add ioctl number entry for v4l2-subdev.h Remove gendered language from management style documentation scripts/kernel-doc: Escape all literal braces in regexes docs/mm: add description of boot time memory management docs/mm: memblock: add overview documentation docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc description for memblock types docs/mm: memblock: add kernel-doc comments for memblock_add[_node] docs/mm: memblock: update kernel-doc comments mm/memblock: add a name for memblock flags enumeration docs/mm: bootmem: add overview documentation docs/mm: bootmem: add kernel-doc description of 'struct bootmem_data' docs/mm: bootmem: fix kernel-doc warnings docs/mm: nobootmem: fixup kernel-doc comments mm/bootmem: drop duplicated kernel-doc comments Documentation: vm.txt: Adding 'nr_hugepages_mempolicy' parameter description. doc:it_IT: translation for kernel-hacking docs: Fix the reference labels in Locking.rst doc: tracing: Fix a typo of trace_stat mm: Introduce new type vm_fault_t ...

docs: fix up the obviously obsolete bits in the new ext4 documentation

2018-07-29T20:35:23Z

Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

docs: create filesystem internal section

2018-07-29T20:14:02Z

Create a new top-level section for documentation of filesystem usage, on-disk format information, and anything else. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o

docs: Add bpf/index to top level index

2018-07-27T05:23:48Z

Recently bpf docs were converted to RST format. The new files were not added to the top level toctree. This causes build system to emit a warning of type WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree Add bpf/index.rst to Documentation/index.rst Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann

doc: add some chapter labels

2018-06-26T15:08:06Z

The idea is to make it easier to create references (doc-guide does the same). This will be used, for example but not only, in translations to point to the main document. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

doc: move away translations from top-level index

2018-06-26T15:08:02Z

In translations/ we have now a dedicated index.rst where we add/remove references to translations. Translations are in English alphabetical order. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

docs/vm: add index.rst and link MM documentation to top level index

2018-04-16T20:18:15Z

Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Documentation: add Linux tracing to Sphinx TOC tree

2018-03-07T17:22:53Z

This just add a index.rst for trace subsystem. More docs will be added later. Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Changbin Du Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet