[PATCH v3 0/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file and extend perf_event_paranoid documentation

2018-11-26 Thread Alexey Budankov
To facilitate informed decision making by system administrators [1] to permit and manage access to Perf Events (perf_events) / Perf tool (Perf) [2],[3] performance monitoring for multiple users perf-security.rst document suggested by Thomas Gleixner is introduced [4] that: a) states perf_event

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-26 Thread Alexey Budankov
Hello Jon, On 25.11.2018 22:47, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 12:14:14 +0300 > Alexey Budankov wrote: > >> +For the purpose of performing security checks Linux implementation splits >> +processes into two categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose >> effective >> +user ID i

[PATCH v3 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-26 Thread Alexey Budankov
Implement initial version of perf-security.rst documentation file covering security concerns of perf_event_paranoid settings. Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Alexey Budankov --- Changes in v3: - toning down of the markup for "scope, access and resource" - adding definite article f

[PATCH v3 2/2] Documentation/admin-guide: update admin-guide index.rst

2018-11-26 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/Documentati

[PATCH 4.19 025/118] x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device

2018-11-26 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- [ Upstream commit d2266bbfa9e3e32e3b642965088ca461bd24a94f ] The "pciserial" earlyprintk variant helps much on many modern x86 platforms, but unfortunately there are still some platforms with PCI UART

[PATCH 4.14 17/62] x86/earlyprintk: Add a force option for pciserial device

2018-11-26 Thread Greg Kroah-Hartman
4.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. -- [ Upstream commit d2266bbfa9e3e32e3b642965088ca461bd24a94f ] The "pciserial" earlyprintk variant helps much on many modern x86 platforms, but unfortunately there are still some platforms with PCI UART

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread vitor
Hi Boris, On 23/11/18 12:50, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:39:31 + vitor wrote: Hi Boris, On 22/11/18 20:02, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:54:54 + Vitor Soares wrote: From: Vitor Soares This patch slipts dw-i3c-master.c into three pieces:

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread Boris Brezillon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:06:24 + vitor wrote: > Hi Boris, > > > On 23/11/18 12:50, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:39:31 + > > vitor wrote: > > > >> Hi Boris, > >> > >> > >> On 22/11/18 20:02, Boris Brezillon wrote: > >>> On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:54:54 + > >>> Vit

[PATCH] Documentation: admin-guide: PM: Add cpuidle document

2018-11-26 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
From: Rafael J. Wysocki Important information is missing from user/admin cpuidle documentation available today, so add a new user/admin document for cpuidle containing current and comprehensive information to admin-guide and drop the old .txt documents it is replacing. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. W

Re: [PATCH 0/9] drm: remove deprecated functions

2018-11-26 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 10:17:13PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:42 AM Daniel Vetter wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:38:35PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 11:17 PM Fernando Ramos > > > wrote: > > > > > > > One of the things in the DRM

[PATCH] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Enforce heavy ordering for port I/O accesses

2018-11-26 Thread Will Deacon
David Laight explains: | A long time ago there was a document from Intel that said that | inb/outb weren't necessarily synchronised wrt memory accesses. | (Might be P-pro era). However no processors actually behaved that | way and more recent docs say that inb/outb are fully ordered. This

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/26] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

2018-11-26 Thread Yu-cheng Yu
On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 08:53 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > [cc some more libc folks] > > I have a general question about this patch set: > > If I'm writing a user program, and I write a signal handler, there are > two things I want to make sure I can still do: > > 1. I want to be able to unwind

Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/26] Control-flow Enforcement: Shadow Stack

2018-11-26 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:44 AM Yu-cheng Yu wrote: > > On Thu, 2018-11-22 at 08:53 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > > [cc some more libc folks] > > > > > 2. I want to be able to modify the signal context from a signal > > handler such that, when the signal handler returns, it will return to > > a

Re: [PATCH v9 01/13] x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to new directory

2018-11-26 Thread Luck, Tony
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 10:00:11AM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote: > Sure, I can do that together with the directory rename once we've agreed > on the name. Is this talking about renaming /sys/fs/resctrl? If so NAK to that. It is ABI now. Lots of scripts depend on that name. -Tony

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread vitor
On 26/11/18 12:35, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:06:24 + vitor wrote: Hi Boris, On 23/11/18 12:50, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:39:31 + vitor wrote: Hi Boris, On 22/11/18 20:02, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:54:54 + Vito

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread Boris Brezillon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:33:37 + vitor wrote: > On 26/11/18 12:35, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:06:24 + > > vitor wrote: > > > >> Hi Boris, > >> > >> > >> On 23/11/18 12:50, Boris Brezillon wrote: > >>> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:39:31 + > >>> vitor wrote: > >>>

Re: [PATCH v9 01/13] x86/resctrl: Rename and move rdt files to new directory

2018-11-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 10:31:02AM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: > Is this talking about renaming /sys/fs/resctrl? > > If so NAK to that. It is ABI now. Lots of scripts depend > on that name. No no, that is cast in stone. The kernel source dir is called "resctrl" now too: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/resctrl

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread Boris Brezillon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:56:18 +0100 Boris Brezillon wrote: > > > >     - for the others it will easy the SoC integration avoiding > > duplicated work and doing things from scratch. > > What would be duplicated? You want to support a new SoC, just add a new > entry in the of_match_table and

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread vitor
On 26/11/18 19:08, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:56:18 +0100 Boris Brezillon wrote:     - for the others it will easy the SoC integration avoiding duplicated work and doing things from scratch. What would be duplicated? You want to support a new SoC, just add a new entry

Re: [PATCH] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Enforce heavy ordering for port I/O accesses

2018-11-26 Thread Andrea Parri
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:52:14PM +, Will Deacon wrote: > David Laight explains: > > | A long time ago there was a document from Intel that said that > | inb/outb weren't necessarily synchronised wrt memory accesses. > | (Might be P-pro era). However no processors actually behaved that

Re: [PATCH] docs/memory-barriers.txt: Enforce heavy ordering for port I/O accesses

2018-11-26 Thread Paul E. McKenney
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 04:52:14PM +, Will Deacon wrote: > David Laight explains: > > | A long time ago there was a document from Intel that said that > | inb/outb weren't necessarily synchronised wrt memory accesses. > | (Might be P-pro era). However no processors actually behaved that

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread Boris Brezillon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:28:02 + vitor wrote: > On 26/11/18 19:08, Boris Brezillon wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 19:56:18 +0100 > > Boris Brezillon wrote: > > > >>>     - for the others it will easy the SoC integration avoiding > >>> duplicated work and doing things from scratch. > >

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread vitor
On 26/11/18 18:56, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 18:33:37 + vitor wrote: On 26/11/18 12:35, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 12:06:24 + vitor wrote: Hi Boris, On 23/11/18 12:50, Boris Brezillon wrote: On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:39:31 + vitor wrote:

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-26 Thread Jonathan Corbet
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:57:21 +0300 Alexey Budankov wrote: > >> +For the purpose of performing security checks Linux implementation splits > >> +processes into two categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose > >> effective > >> +user ID is 0, referred to as superuser or root), and b) unprivi

Re: [PATCH] i3c: master: dw: split dw-i3c-master.c into master and bus specific parts

2018-11-26 Thread Boris Brezillon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 20:11:39 + vitor wrote: > >>> I prefer that we keep the driver as is until we actually need to split > >>> things up. > >> This is already done and will benefit everyone: > >> > >>     - for me is better do it now than the secondary master and slave > >> development.

Re: [PATCH v9 10/13] x86/resctrl: Fix the messages in rdt_last_cmd_printf and rdt_last_cmd_puts

2018-11-26 Thread Reinette Chatre
Hi Babu and Borislav, Two typos seemed to have slipped through into the merged commit ... On 11/21/2018 12:28 PM, Moger, Babu wrote: > @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ int parse_cbm(struct rdt_parse_data *data, struct > rdt_resource *r, >* either is exclusive. >*/ > if (rdtgroup_cbm_o

Re: [PATCH v9 10/13] x86/resctrl: Fix the messages in rdt_last_cmd_printf and rdt_last_cmd_puts

2018-11-26 Thread Borislav Petkov
On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:16:24PM -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote: > Hi Babu and Borislav, > > Two typos seemed to have slipped through into the merged commit ... > > On 11/21/2018 12:28 PM, Moger, Babu wrote: > > @@ -163,14 +163,14 @@ int parse_cbm(struct rdt_parse_data *data, struct > > rdt_reso

Re: [PATCH v9 10/13] x86/resctrl: Fix the messages in rdt_last_cmd_printf and rdt_last_cmd_puts

2018-11-26 Thread Reinette Chatre
Hi Borislav, On 11/26/2018 2:28 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 02:16:24PM -0800, Reinette Chatre wrote: >> Hi Babu and Borislav, >> >> Two typos seemed to have slipped through into the merged commit ... >> >> On 11/21/2018 12:28 PM, Moger, Babu wrote: >>> @@ -163,14 +163,14 @

Re: [RFCv3 PATCH 1/6] uacce: Add documents for WarpDrive/uacce

2018-11-26 Thread Kenneth Lee
On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 10:30:55AM +0800, Kenneth Lee wrote: > Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2018 10:30:55 +0800 > From: Kenneth Lee > To: Leon Romanovsky > CC: Tim Sell , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, > Alexander Shishkin , Zaibo Xu > , zhangfei@foxmail.com, linux...@huawei.com, > haojian.zhu...@linaro.

Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] Documentation/admin-guide: introduce perf-security.rst file

2018-11-26 Thread Alexey Budankov
On 26.11.2018 23:28, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 11:57:21 +0300 > Alexey Budankov wrote: > +For the purpose of performing security checks Linux implementation splits +processes into two categories [6]_ : a) privileged processes (whose effective +user ID is 0,

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