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28-Sep-2022 |
Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> |
xtensa: update config files Clean up config files by: - removing configs that were deleted in the past - removing configs not in tree and without recently pending patches - adding new configs that are replacements for old configs in the file For some detailed information, see Link. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/kernel-janitors/20220929090645.1389-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Message-Id: <20220929101515.354-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
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11-Aug-2022 |
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> |
treewide: defconfig: address renamed CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO is now implicitly selected if one picks one of the explicit options that could be DEBUG_INFO_DWARF_TOOLCHAIN_DEFAULT, DEBUG_INFO_DWARF4, DEBUG_INFO_DWARF5. This was actually not what I had in mind when I suggested making it a 'choice' statement, but it's too late to change again now, and the Kconfig logic is more sensible in the new form. Change any defconfig file that had CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO enabled but did not pick DWARF4 or DWARF5 explicitly to now pick the toolchain default. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220811114609.2097335-1-arnd@kernel.org Fixes: f9b3cd245784 ("Kconfig.debug: make DEBUG_INFO selectable from a choice") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@kernel.org> Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.osdn.me> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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06-May-2021 |
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> |
drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good Patch series "drivers/char: remove /dev/kmem for good". Exploring /dev/kmem and /dev/mem in the context of memory hot(un)plug and memory ballooning, I started questioning the existence of /dev/kmem. Comparing it with the /proc/kcore implementation, it does not seem to be able to deal with things like a) Pages unmapped from the direct mapping (e.g., to be used by secretmem) -> kern_addr_valid(). virt_addr_valid() is not sufficient. b) Special cases like gart aperture memory that is not to be touched -> mem_pfn_is_ram() Unless I am missing something, it's at least broken in some cases and might fault/crash the machine. Looks like its existence has been questioned before in 2005 and 2010 [1], after ~11 additional years, it might make sense to revive the discussion. CONFIG_DEVKMEM is only enabled in a single defconfig (on purpose or by mistake?). All distributions disable it: in Ubuntu it has been disabled for more than 10 years, in Debian since 2.6.31, in Fedora at least starting with FC3, in RHEL starting with RHEL4, in SUSE starting from 15sp2, and OpenSUSE has it disabled as well. 1) /dev/kmem was popular for rootkits [2] before it got disabled basically everywhere. Ubuntu documents [3] "There is no modern user of /dev/kmem any more beyond attackers using it to load kernel rootkits.". RHEL documents in a BZ [5] "it served no practical purpose other than to serve as a potential security problem or to enable binary module drivers to access structures/functions they shouldn't be touching" 2) /proc/kcore is a decent interface to have a controlled way to read kernel memory for debugging puposes. (will need some extensions to deal with memory offlining/unplug, memory ballooning, and poisoned pages, though) 3) It might be useful for corner case debugging [1]. KDB/KGDB might be a better fit, especially, to write random memory; harder to shoot yourself into the foot. 4) "Kernel Memory Editor" [4] hasn't seen any updates since 2000 and seems to be incompatible with 64bit [1]. For educational purposes, /proc/kcore might be used to monitor value updates -- or older kernels can be used. 5) It's broken on arm64, and therefore, completely disabled there. Looks like it's essentially unused and has been replaced by better suited interfaces for individual tasks (/proc/kcore, KDB/KGDB). Let's just remove it. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/147901/ [2] https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/10505 [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features#A.2Fdev.2Fkmem_disabled [4] https://sourceforge.net/projects/kme/ [5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=154796 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-1-david@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210324102351.6932-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: "Alexander A. Klimov" <grandmaster@al2klimov.de> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Cc: Andrey Zhizhikin <andrey.zhizhikin@leica-geosystems.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Brian Cain <bcain@codeaurora.org> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> Cc: Corentin Labbe <clabbe@baylibre.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com> Cc: Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@bootlin.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Cc: Hillf Danton <hdanton@sina.com> Cc: huang ying <huang.ying.caritas@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: James Troup <james.troup@canonical.com> Cc: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Kairui Song <kasong@redhat.com> Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org> Cc: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com> Cc: Liviu Dudau <liviu.dudau@arm.com> Cc: Lorenzo Pieralisi <lorenzo.pieralisi@arm.com> Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Niklas Schnelle <schnelle@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Oleksiy Avramchenko <oleksiy.avramchenko@sonymobile.com> Cc: openrisc@lists.librecores.org Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: "Pavel Machek (CIP)" <pavel@denx.de> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Pierre Morel <pmorel@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@gmail.com> Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com> Cc: Theodore Dubois <tblodt@icloud.com> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Cc: Xiaoming Ni <nixiaoming@huawei.com> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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14-Jan-2021 |
Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> |
arch: xtensa: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to the perf interfaces. Remove the old oprofile's architecture specific support. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org> Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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03-Jan-2017 |
Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> |
xtensa: add XIP kernel support XIP (eXecute In Place) kernel image is the image that can be run directly from ROM, using RAM only for writable data. XIP xtensa kernel differs from regular xtensa kernel in the following ways: - it has exception/IRQ vectors merged into text section. No vectors relocation takes place at kernel startup. - .data/.bss location must be specified in the kernel configuration, its content is copied there in the _startup function. - .init.text is merged with the rest of text and is executed from ROM. - when MMU is used the virtual address where the kernel will be mapped must be specified in the kernel configuration. It may be in the KSEG or in the KIO, __pa macro is adjusted to be able to handle both. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
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