[PATCH v1 2/2]: Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-18 Thread Alexey Budankov
Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file initially covering security concerns related to PCL/Perf performance monitoring in multiuser environments. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov --- Documentation/admin-guide/perf-security.rst | 83

[PATCH v1 1/2]: Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst

2018-11-18 Thread Alexey Budankov
Extend index.rst index file at admin-guide root directory with the reference to perf-security.rst file being introduced. Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov --- Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/index.rst b/Documentat

[PATCH v1 0/2]: Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file and extend perf_event_paranoid documentation

2018-11-18 Thread Alexey Budankov
To facilitate informed decision making by system administrators [1] to permit and manage access to PCL/Perf [2],[3] performance monitoring for multiple users perf-security.rst document suggested by Thomas Gleixner is introduced [4] that: a) states PCL/Perf access security concerns for multi us

Re: [LKP] dad4f140ed [ 7.709376] WARNING:suspicious_RCU_usage

2018-11-18 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 09:08:20AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote: > Greetings, > > 0day kernel testing robot got the below dmesg and the first bad commit is Umm. I don't see a 'suspicious RCU usage' message in here. I see a lot of vmalloc warnings ... ? > [7.699777] swapper: vmalloc: allo

[PATCH] Documentation: update path-lookup.md for parallel lookups

2018-11-18 Thread NeilBrown
Since this document was written, i_mutex has been replace with i_rwsem, and shared locks are utilized to allow lookups in the one directory to happen in parallel. So replace i_mutex with i_rwsem, and explain how this is used for parallel lookups. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- Just FYI $ git gr

Re: [PATCH v8 01/13] arch/resctrl: Start renaming the rdt files to more generic names

2018-11-18 Thread Borislav Petkov
Just to state it here on the thread: prefix should be "x86/resctrl" as we said earlier. But that will be addressed in the next iteration, as we agreed offlist. On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 08:54:22PM +, Moger, Babu wrote: > New generation of AMD processors start supporting RDT(or QOS) features. > W

Re: [PATCH 8/9] drm: remove no longer needed drm-get-put coccinelle script

2018-11-18 Thread Julia Lawall
On Thu, 15 Nov 2018, Fernando Ramos wrote: > The coccinelle script was used to rename some (deprecated) functions > which no longer exist now. > > Signed-off-by: Fernando Ramos Acked-by: Julia Lawall > --- > scripts/coccinelle/api/drm-get-put.cocci | 78 > 1 file