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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst | 69 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ni.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst | 15 |
10 files changed, 126 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst index 86311c2907cd..95c18bc17083 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v2.rst @@ -1717,9 +1717,10 @@ The following nested keys are defined. entries fault back in or are written out to disk. memory.zswap.writeback - A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". The - initial value of the root cgroup is 1, and when a new cgroup is - created, it inherits the current value of its parent. + A read-write single value file. The default value is "1". + Note that this setting is hierarchical, i.e. the writeback would be + implicitly disabled for child cgroups if the upper hierarchy + does so. When this is set to 0, all swapping attempts to swapping devices are disabled. This included both zswap writebacks, and swapping due diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst index fd4b56c0996f..c09674a75a9e 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/cifs/usage.rst @@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ SecurityFlags Flags which control security negotiation and may use NTLMSSP 0x00080 must use NTLMSSP 0x80080 seal (packet encryption) 0x00040 - must seal (not implemented yet) 0x40040 + must seal 0x40040 cifsFYI If set to non-zero value, additional debug information will be logged to the system error log. This field diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst index e625830d335e..552c9155165d 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/device-mapper/dm-crypt.rst @@ -162,13 +162,14 @@ iv_large_sectors Module parameters:: -max_read_size -max_write_size - Maximum size of read or write requests. When a request larger than this size - is received, dm-crypt will split the request. The splitting improves - concurrency (the split requests could be encrypted in parallel by multiple - cores), but it also causes overhead. The user should tune these parameters to - fit the actual workload. + + max_read_size + max_write_size + Maximum size of read or write requests. When a request larger than this size + is received, dm-crypt will split the request. The splitting improves + concurrency (the split requests could be encrypted in parallel by multiple + cores), but it also causes overhead. The user should tune these parameters to + fit the actual workload. Example scripts diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst index 4bd3ce3ba171..2ad1c05b8c88 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/hw-vuln/srso.rst @@ -158,3 +158,72 @@ poisoned BTB entry and using that safe one for all function returns. In older Zen1 and Zen2, this is accomplished using a reinterpretation technique similar to Retbleed one: srso_untrain_ret() and srso_safe_ret(). + +Checking the safe RET mitigation actually works +----------------------------------------------- + +In case one wants to validate whether the SRSO safe RET mitigation works +on a kernel, one could use two performance counters + +* PMC_0xc8 - Count of RET/RET lw retired +* PMC_0xc9 - Count of RET/RET lw retired mispredicted + +and compare the number of RETs retired properly vs those retired +mispredicted, in kernel mode. Another way of specifying those events +is:: + + # perf list ex_ret_near_ret + + List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e or -M): + + core: + ex_ret_near_ret + [Retired Near Returns] + ex_ret_near_ret_mispred + [Retired Near Returns Mispredicted] + +Either the command using the event mnemonics:: + + # perf stat -e ex_ret_near_ret:k -e ex_ret_near_ret_mispred:k sleep 10s + +or using the raw PMC numbers:: + + # perf stat -e cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0/k -e cpu/event=0xc9,umask=0/k sleep 10s + +should give the same amount. I.e., every RET retired should be +mispredicted:: + + [root@brent: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -e cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0/k -e cpu/event=0xc9,umask=0/k sleep 10s + + Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10s': + + 137,167 cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0/k + 137,173 cpu/event=0xc9,umask=0/k + + 10.004110303 seconds time elapsed + + 0.000000000 seconds user + 0.004462000 seconds sys + +vs the case when the mitigation is disabled (spec_rstack_overflow=off) +or not functioning properly, showing usually a lot smaller number of +mispredicted retired RETs vs the overall count of retired RETs during +a workload:: + + [root@brent: ~/kernel/linux/tools/perf> ./perf stat -e cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0/k -e cpu/event=0xc9,umask=0/k sleep 10s + + Performance counter stats for 'sleep 10s': + + 201,627 cpu/event=0xc8,umask=0/k + 4,074 cpu/event=0xc9,umask=0/k + + 10.003267252 seconds time elapsed + + 0.002729000 seconds user + 0.000000000 seconds sys + +Also, there is a selftest which performs the above, go to +tools/testing/selftests/x86/ and do:: + + make srso + ./srso diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 8396e015aab3..be010fec7654 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -4808,11 +4808,9 @@ profile= [KNL] Enable kernel profiling via /proc/profile Format: [<profiletype>,]<number> - Param: <profiletype>: "schedule", "sleep", or "kvm" + Param: <profiletype>: "schedule" or "kvm" [defaults to kernel profiling] Param: "schedule" - profile schedule points. - Param: "sleep" - profile D-state sleeping (millisecs). - Requires CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS Param: "kvm" - profile VM exits. Param: <number> - step/bucket size as a power of 2 for statistical time based profiling. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ni.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ni.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d26a8f697c36 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/arm-ni.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +==================================== +Arm Network-on Chip Interconnect PMU +==================================== + +NI-700 and friends implement a distinct PMU for each clock domain within the +interconnect. Correspondingly, the driver exposes multiple PMU devices named +arm_ni_<x>_cd_<y>, where <x> is an (arbitrary) instance identifier and <y> is +the clock domain ID within that particular instance. If multiple NI instances +exist within a system, the PMU devices can be correlated with the underlying +hardware instance via sysfs parentage. + +Each PMU exposes base event aliases for the interface types present in its clock +domain. These require qualifying with the "eventid" and "nodeid" parameters +to specify the event code to count and the interface at which to count it +(per the configured hardware ID as reflected in the xxNI_NODE_INFO register). +The exception is the "cycles" alias for the PMU cycle counter, which is encoded +with the PMU node type and needs no further qualification. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst index d47cd229d710..39b8e1fdd0cd 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/dwc_pcie_pmu.rst @@ -46,16 +46,16 @@ Some of the events only exist for specific configurations. DesignWare Cores (DWC) PCIe PMU Driver ======================================= -This driver adds PMU devices for each PCIe Root Port named based on the BDF of +This driver adds PMU devices for each PCIe Root Port named based on the SBDF of the Root Port. For example, - 30:03.0 PCI bridge: Device 1ded:8000 (rev 01) + 0001:30:03.0 PCI bridge: Device 1ded:8000 (rev 01) -the PMU device name for this Root Port is dwc_rootport_3018. +the PMU device name for this Root Port is dwc_rootport_13018. The DWC PCIe PMU driver registers a perf PMU driver, which provides description of available events and configuration options in sysfs, see -/sys/bus/event_source/devices/dwc_rootport_{bdf}. +/sys/bus/event_source/devices/dwc_rootport_{sbdf}. The "format" directory describes format of the config fields of the perf_event_attr structure. The "events" directory provides configuration @@ -66,16 +66,16 @@ The "perf list" command shall list the available events from sysfs, e.g.:: $# perf list | grep dwc_rootport <...> - dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ [Kernel PMU event] + dwc_rootport_13018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ [Kernel PMU event] <...> - dwc_rootport_3018/rx_memory_read,lane=?/ [Kernel PMU event] + dwc_rootport_13018/rx_memory_read,lane=?/ [Kernel PMU event] Time Based Analysis Event Usage ------------------------------- Example usage of counting PCIe RX TLP data payload (Units of bytes):: - $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ + $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_13018/Rx_PCIe_TLP_Data_Payload/ The average RX/TX bandwidth can be calculated using the following formula: @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Lane Event Usage Each lane has the same event set and to avoid generating a list of hundreds of events, the user need to specify the lane ID explicitly, e.g.:: - $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_3018/rx_memory_read,lane=4/ + $# perf stat -a -e dwc_rootport_13018/rx_memory_read,lane=4/ The driver does not support sampling, therefore "perf record" will not work. Per-task (without "-a") perf sessions are not supported. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst index 5541ff40e06a..083ca50de896 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/hisi-pcie-pmu.rst @@ -28,7 +28,9 @@ The "identifier" sysfs file allows users to identify the version of the PMU hardware device. The "bus" sysfs file allows users to get the bus number of Root Ports -monitored by PMU. +monitored by PMU. Furthermore users can get the Root Ports range in +[bdf_min, bdf_max] from "bdf_min" and "bdf_max" sysfs attributes +respectively. Example usage of perf:: diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst index 7eb3dcd6f4da..8502bc174640 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/perf/index.rst @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ Performance monitor support starfive_starlink_pmu arm-ccn arm-cmn + arm-ni xgene-pmu arm_dsu_pmu thunderx2-pmu diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst index d0324d44f548..210a808b74ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/pm/amd-pstate.rst @@ -251,7 +251,9 @@ performance supported in `AMD CPPC Performance Capability <perf_cap_>`_). In some ASICs, the highest CPPC performance is not the one in the ``_CPC`` table, so we need to expose it to sysfs. If boost is not active, but still supported, this maximum frequency will be larger than the one in -``cpuinfo``. +``cpuinfo``. On systems that support preferred core, the driver will have +different values for some cores than others and this will reflect the values +advertised by the platform at bootup. This attribute is read-only. ``amd_pstate_lowest_nonlinear_freq`` @@ -262,6 +264,17 @@ lowest non-linear performance in `AMD CPPC Performance Capability <perf_cap_>`_.) This attribute is read-only. +``amd_pstate_hw_prefcore`` + +Whether the platform supports the preferred core feature and it has been +enabled. This attribute is read-only. + +``amd_pstate_prefcore_ranking`` + +The performance ranking of the core. This number doesn't have any unit, but +larger numbers are preferred at the time of reading. This can change at +runtime based on platform conditions. This attribute is read-only. + ``energy_performance_available_preferences`` A list of all the supported EPP preferences that could be used for |