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diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b792bbdc0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============== +5-level paging +============== + +Overview +======== +Original x86-64 was limited by 4-level paging to 256 TiB of virtual address +space and 64 TiB of physical address space. We are already bumping into +this limit: some vendors offer servers with 64 TiB of memory today. + +To overcome the limitation upcoming hardware will introduce support for +5-level paging. It is a straight-forward extension of the current page +table structure adding one more layer of translation. + +It bumps the limits to 128 PiB of virtual address space and 4 PiB of +physical address space. This "ought to be enough for anybody" ©. + +QEMU 2.9 and later support 5-level paging. + +Virtual memory layout for 5-level paging is described in +Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst + + +Enabling 5-level paging +======================= +CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y enables the feature. + +Kernel with CONFIG_X86_5LEVEL=y still able to boot on 4-level hardware. +In this case additional page table level -- p4d -- will be folded at +runtime. + +User-space and large virtual address space +========================================== +On x86, 5-level paging enables 56-bit userspace virtual address space. +Not all user space is ready to handle wide addresses. It's known that +at least some JIT compilers use higher bits in pointers to encode their +information. It collides with valid pointers with 5-level paging and +leads to crashes. + +To mitigate this, we are not going to allocate virtual address space +above 47-bit by default. + +But userspace can ask for allocation from full address space by +specifying hint address (with or without MAP_FIXED) above 47-bits. + +If hint address set above 47-bit, but MAP_FIXED is not specified, we try +to look for unmapped area by specified address. If it's already +occupied, we look for unmapped area in *full* address space, rather than +from 47-bit window. + +A high hint address would only affect the allocation in question, but not +any future mmap()s. + +Specifying high hint address on older kernel or on machine without 5-level +paging support is safe. The hint will be ignored and kernel will fall back +to allocation from 47-bit address space. + +This approach helps to easily make application's memory allocator aware +about large address space without manually tracking allocated virtual +address space. + +One important case we need to handle here is interaction with MPX. +MPX (without MAWA extension) cannot handle addresses above 47-bit, so we +need to make sure that MPX cannot be enabled we already have VMA above +the boundary and forbid creating such VMAs once MPX is enabled. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cbd14124a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst @@ -0,0 +1,319 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=========================== +AMD64 Specific Boot Options +=========================== + +There are many others (usually documented in driver documentation), but +only the AMD64 specific ones are listed here. + +Machine check +============= +Please see Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst for sysfs runtime tunables. + + mce=off + Disable machine check + mce=no_cmci + Disable CMCI(Corrected Machine Check Interrupt) that + Intel processor supports. Usually this disablement is + not recommended, but it might be handy if your hardware + is misbehaving. + Note that you'll get more problems without CMCI than with + due to the shared banks, i.e. you might get duplicated + error logs. + mce=dont_log_ce + Don't make logs for corrected errors. All events reported + as corrected are silently cleared by OS. + This option will be useful if you have no interest in any + of corrected errors. + mce=ignore_ce + Disable features for corrected errors, e.g. polling timer + and CMCI. All events reported as corrected are not cleared + by OS and remained in its error banks. + Usually this disablement is not recommended, however if + there is an agent checking/clearing corrected errors + (e.g. BIOS or hardware monitoring applications), conflicting + with OS's error handling, and you cannot deactivate the agent, + then this option will be a help. + mce=no_lmce + Do not opt-in to Local MCE delivery. Use legacy method + to broadcast MCEs. + mce=bootlog + Enable logging of machine checks left over from booting. + Disabled by default on AMD Fam10h and older because some BIOS + leave bogus ones. + If your BIOS doesn't do that it's a good idea to enable though + to make sure you log even machine check events that result + in a reboot. On Intel systems it is enabled by default. + mce=nobootlog + Disable boot machine check logging. + mce=monarchtimeout (number) + monarchtimeout: + Sets the time in us to wait for other CPUs on machine checks. 0 + to disable. + mce=bios_cmci_threshold + Don't overwrite the bios-set CMCI threshold. This boot option + prevents Linux from overwriting the CMCI threshold set by the + bios. Without this option, Linux always sets the CMCI + threshold to 1. Enabling this may make memory predictive failure + analysis less effective if the bios sets thresholds for memory + errors since we will not see details for all errors. + mce=recovery + Force-enable recoverable machine check code paths + + nomce (for compatibility with i386) + same as mce=off + + Everything else is in sysfs now. + +APICs +===== + + apic + Use IO-APIC. Default + + noapic + Don't use the IO-APIC. + + disableapic + Don't use the local APIC + + nolapic + Don't use the local APIC (alias for i386 compatibility) + + pirq=... + See Documentation/x86/i386/IO-APIC.rst + + noapictimer + Don't set up the APIC timer + + no_timer_check + Don't check the IO-APIC timer. This can work around + problems with incorrect timer initialization on some boards. + + apicpmtimer + Do APIC timer calibration using the pmtimer. Implies + apicmaintimer. Useful when your PIT timer is totally broken. + +Timing +====== + + notsc + Deprecated, use tsc=unstable instead. + + nohpet + Don't use the HPET timer. + +Idle loop +========= + + idle=poll + Don't do power saving in the idle loop using HLT, but poll for rescheduling + event. This will make the CPUs eat a lot more power, but may be useful + to get slightly better performance in multiprocessor benchmarks. It also + makes some profiling using performance counters more accurate. + Please note that on systems with MONITOR/MWAIT support (like Intel EM64T + CPUs) this option has no performance advantage over the normal idle loop. + It may also interact badly with hyperthreading. + +Rebooting +========= + + reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] | p[ci] [, [w]arm | [c]old] + bios + Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset + warm + Don't set the cold reboot flag + cold + Set the cold reboot flag + triple + Force a triple fault (init) + kbd + Use the keyboard controller. cold reset (default) + acpi + Use the ACPI RESET_REG in the FADT. If ACPI is not configured or + the ACPI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset + using the keyboard controller. + efi + Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or + the EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using + the keyboard controller. + pci + Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to trigger reboot. + + Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory + systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check. + Disadvantage is that not all hardware will be completely reinitialized + on reboot so there may be boot problems on some systems. + + reboot=force + Don't stop other CPUs on reboot. This can make reboot more reliable + in some cases. + + reboot=default + There are some built-in platform specific "quirks" - you may see: + "reboot: <name> series board detected. Selecting <type> for reboots." + In the case where you think the quirk is in error (e.g. you have + newer BIOS, or newer board) using this option will ignore the built-in + quirk table, and use the generic default reboot actions. + +NUMA +==== + + numa=off + Only set up a single NUMA node spanning all memory. + + numa=noacpi + Don't parse the SRAT table for NUMA setup + + numa=nohmat + Don't parse the HMAT table for NUMA setup, or soft-reserved memory + partitioning. + + numa=fake=<size>[MG] + If given as a memory unit, fills all system RAM with nodes of + size interleaved over physical nodes. + + numa=fake=<N> + If given as an integer, fills all system RAM with N fake nodes + interleaved over physical nodes. + + numa=fake=<N>U + If given as an integer followed by 'U', it will divide each + physical node into N emulated nodes. + +ACPI +==== + + acpi=off + Don't enable ACPI + acpi=ht + Use ACPI boot table parsing, but don't enable ACPI interpreter + acpi=force + Force ACPI on (currently not needed) + acpi=strict + Disable out of spec ACPI workarounds. + acpi_sci={edge,level,high,low} + Set up ACPI SCI interrupt. + acpi=noirq + Don't route interrupts + acpi=nocmcff + Disable firmware first mode for corrected errors. This + disables parsing the HEST CMC error source to check if + firmware has set the FF flag. This may result in + duplicate corrected error reports. + +PCI +=== + + pci=off + Don't use PCI + pci=conf1 + Use conf1 access. + pci=conf2 + Use conf2 access. + pci=rom + Assign ROMs. + pci=assign-busses + Assign busses + pci=irqmask=MASK + Set PCI interrupt mask to MASK + pci=lastbus=NUMBER + Scan up to NUMBER busses, no matter what the mptable says. + pci=noacpi + Don't use ACPI to set up PCI interrupt routing. + +IOMMU (input/output memory management unit) +=========================================== +Multiple x86-64 PCI-DMA mapping implementations exist, for example: + + 1. <kernel/dma/direct.c>: use no hardware/software IOMMU at all + (e.g. because you have < 3 GB memory). + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Disabling IOMMU" + + 2. <arch/x86/kernel/amd_gart_64.c>: AMD GART based hardware IOMMU. + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: using GART IOMMU" + + 3. <arch/x86_64/kernel/pci-swiotlb.c> : Software IOMMU implementation. Used + e.g. if there is no hardware IOMMU in the system and it is need because + you have >3GB memory or told the kernel to us it (iommu=soft)) + Kernel boot message: "PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering + for IO (SWIOTLB)" + +:: + + iommu=[<size>][,noagp][,off][,force][,noforce] + [,memaper[=<order>]][,merge][,fullflush][,nomerge] + [,noaperture] + +General iommu options: + + off + Don't initialize and use any kind of IOMMU. + noforce + Don't force hardware IOMMU usage when it is not needed. (default). + force + Force the use of the hardware IOMMU even when it is + not actually needed (e.g. because < 3 GB memory). + soft + Use software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) (default for + Intel machines). This can be used to prevent the usage + of an available hardware IOMMU. + +iommu options only relevant to the AMD GART hardware IOMMU: + + <size> + Set the size of the remapping area in bytes. + allowed + Overwrite iommu off workarounds for specific chipsets. + fullflush + Flush IOMMU on each allocation (default). + nofullflush + Don't use IOMMU fullflush. + memaper[=<order>] + Allocate an own aperture over RAM with size 32MB<<order. + (default: order=1, i.e. 64MB) + merge + Do scatter-gather (SG) merging. Implies "force" (experimental). + nomerge + Don't do scatter-gather (SG) merging. + noaperture + Ask the IOMMU not to touch the aperture for AGP. + noagp + Don't initialize the AGP driver and use full aperture. + panic + Always panic when IOMMU overflows. + +iommu options only relevant to the software bounce buffering (SWIOTLB) IOMMU +implementation: + + swiotlb=<slots>[,force,noforce] + <slots> + Prereserve that many 2K slots for the software IO bounce buffering. + force + Force all IO through the software TLB. + noforce + Do not initialize the software TLB. + + +Miscellaneous +============= + + nogbpages + Do not use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. + gbpages + Use GB pages for kernel direct mappings. + + +AMD SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) +========================================= +Options relating to AMD SEV, specified via the following format: + +:: + + sev=option1[,option2] + +The available options are: + + debug + Enable debug messages. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..8d1c91f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/cpu-hotplug-spec.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=================================================== +Firmware support for CPU hotplug under Linux/x86-64 +=================================================== + +Linux/x86-64 supports CPU hotplug now. For various reasons Linux wants to +know in advance of boot time the maximum number of CPUs that could be plugged +into the system. ACPI 3.0 currently has no official way to supply +this information from the firmware to the operating system. + +In ACPI each CPU needs an LAPIC object in the MADT table (5.2.11.5 in the +ACPI 3.0 specification). ACPI already has the concept of disabled LAPIC +objects by setting the Enabled bit in the LAPIC object to zero. + +For CPU hotplug Linux/x86-64 expects now that any possible future hotpluggable +CPU is already available in the MADT. If the CPU is not available yet +it should have its LAPIC Enabled bit set to 0. Linux will use the number +of disabled LAPICs to compute the maximum number of future CPUs. + +In the worst case the user can overwrite this choice using a command line +option (additional_cpus=...), but it is recommended to supply the correct +number (or a reasonable approximation of it, with erring towards more not less) +in the MADT to avoid manual configuration. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ff9bcfd2c --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fake-numa-for-cpusets.rst @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================== +Fake NUMA For CPUSets +===================== + +:Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@cs.washington.edu> + +Using numa=fake and CPUSets for Resource Management + +This document describes how the numa=fake x86_64 command-line option can be used +in conjunction with cpusets for coarse memory management. Using this feature, +you can create fake NUMA nodes that represent contiguous chunks of memory and +assign them to cpusets and their attached tasks. This is a way of limiting the +amount of system memory that are available to a certain class of tasks. + +For more information on the features of cpusets, see +Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst. +There are a number of different configurations you can use for your needs. For +more information on the numa=fake command line option and its various ways of +configuring fake nodes, see Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst. + +For the purposes of this introduction, we'll assume a very primitive NUMA +emulation setup of "numa=fake=4*512,". This will split our system memory into +four equal chunks of 512M each that we can now use to assign to cpusets. As +you become more familiar with using this combination for resource control, +you'll determine a better setup to minimize the number of nodes you have to deal +with. + +A machine may be split as follows with "numa=fake=4*512," as reported by dmesg:: + + Faking node 0 at 0000000000000000-0000000020000000 (512MB) + Faking node 1 at 0000000020000000-0000000040000000 (512MB) + Faking node 2 at 0000000040000000-0000000060000000 (512MB) + Faking node 3 at 0000000060000000-0000000080000000 (512MB) + ... + On node 0 totalpages: 130975 + On node 1 totalpages: 131072 + On node 2 totalpages: 131072 + On node 3 totalpages: 131072 + +Now following the instructions for mounting the cpusets filesystem from +Documentation/admin-guide/cgroup-v1/cpusets.rst, you can assign fake nodes (i.e. contiguous memory +address spaces) to individual cpusets:: + + [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset + [root@xroads /]# mount -t cpuset none exampleset + [root@xroads /]# mkdir exampleset/ddset + [root@xroads /]# cd exampleset/ddset + [root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo 0-1 > cpus + [root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo 0-1 > mems + +Now this cpuset, 'ddset', will only allowed access to fake nodes 0 and 1 for +memory allocations (1G). + +You can now assign tasks to these cpusets to limit the memory resources +available to them according to the fake nodes assigned as mems:: + + [root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# echo $$ > tasks + [root@xroads /exampleset/ddset]# dd if=/dev/zero of=tmp bs=1024 count=1G + [1] 13425 + +Notice the difference between the system memory usage as reported by +/proc/meminfo between the restricted cpuset case above and the unrestricted +case (i.e. running the same 'dd' command without assigning it to a fake NUMA +cpuset): + + ======== ============ ========== + Name Unrestricted Restricted + ======== ============ ========== + MemTotal 3091900 kB 3091900 kB + MemFree 42113 kB 1513236 kB + ======== ============ ========== + +This allows for coarse memory management for the tasks you assign to particular +cpusets. Since cpusets can form a hierarchy, you can create some pretty +interesting combinations of use-cases for various classes of tasks for your +memory management needs. diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..50960e09e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/fsgs.rst @@ -0,0 +1,199 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +Using FS and GS segments in user space applications +=================================================== + +The x86 architecture supports segmentation. Instructions which access +memory can use segment register based addressing mode. The following +notation is used to address a byte within a segment: + + Segment-register:Byte-address + +The segment base address is added to the Byte-address to compute the +resulting virtual address which is accessed. This allows to access multiple +instances of data with the identical Byte-address, i.e. the same code. The +selection of a particular instance is purely based on the base-address in +the segment register. + +In 32-bit mode the CPU provides 6 segments, which also support segment +limits. The limits can be used to enforce address space protections. + +In 64-bit mode the CS/SS/DS/ES segments are ignored and the base address is +always 0 to provide a full 64bit address space. The FS and GS segments are +still functional in 64-bit mode. + +Common FS and GS usage +------------------------------ + +The FS segment is commonly used to address Thread Local Storage (TLS). FS +is usually managed by runtime code or a threading library. Variables +declared with the '__thread' storage class specifier are instantiated per +thread and the compiler emits the FS: address prefix for accesses to these +variables. Each thread has its own FS base address so common code can be +used without complex address offset calculations to access the per thread +instances. Applications should not use FS for other purposes when they use +runtimes or threading libraries which manage the per thread FS. + +The GS segment has no common use and can be used freely by +applications. GCC and Clang support GS based addressing via address space +identifiers. + +Reading and writing the FS/GS base address +------------------------------------------ + +There exist two mechanisms to read and write the FS/GS base address: + + - the arch_prctl() system call + + - the FSGSBASE instruction family + +Accessing FS/GS base with arch_prctl() +-------------------------------------- + + The arch_prctl(2) based mechanism is available on all 64-bit CPUs and all + kernel versions. + + Reading the base: + + arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_FS, &fsbase); + arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_GS, &gsbase); + + Writing the base: + + arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, fsbase); + arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_GS, gsbase); + + The ARCH_SET_GS prctl may be disabled depending on kernel configuration + and security settings. + +Accessing FS/GS base with the FSGSBASE instructions +--------------------------------------------------- + + With the Ivy Bridge CPU generation Intel introduced a new set of + instructions to access the FS and GS base registers directly from user + space. These instructions are also supported on AMD Family 17H CPUs. The + following instructions are available: + + =============== =========================== + RDFSBASE %reg Read the FS base register + RDGSBASE %reg Read the GS base register + WRFSBASE %reg Write the FS base register + WRGSBASE %reg Write the GS base register + =============== =========================== + + The instructions avoid the overhead of the arch_prctl() syscall and allow + more flexible usage of the FS/GS addressing modes in user space + applications. This does not prevent conflicts between threading libraries + and runtimes which utilize FS and applications which want to use it for + their own purpose. + +FSGSBASE instructions enablement +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + The instructions are enumerated in CPUID leaf 7, bit 0 of EBX. If + available /proc/cpuinfo shows 'fsgsbase' in the flag entry of the CPUs. + + The availability of the instructions does not enable them + automatically. The kernel has to enable them explicitly in CR4. The + reason for this is that older kernels make assumptions about the values in + the GS register and enforce them when GS base is set via + arch_prctl(). Allowing user space to write arbitrary values to GS base + would violate these assumptions and cause malfunction. + + On kernels which do not enable FSGSBASE the execution of the FSGSBASE + instructions will fault with a #UD exception. + + The kernel provides reliable information about the enabled state in the + ELF AUX vector. If the HWCAP2_FSGSBASE bit is set in the AUX vector, the + kernel has FSGSBASE instructions enabled and applications can use them. + The following code example shows how this detection works:: + + #include <sys/auxv.h> + #include <elf.h> + + /* Will be eventually in asm/hwcap.h */ + #ifndef HWCAP2_FSGSBASE + #define HWCAP2_FSGSBASE (1 << 1) + #endif + + .... + + unsigned val = getauxval(AT_HWCAP2); + + if (val & HWCAP2_FSGSBASE) + printf("FSGSBASE enabled\n"); + +FSGSBASE instructions compiler support +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +GCC version 4.6.4 and newer provide instrinsics for the FSGSBASE +instructions. Clang 5 supports them as well. + + =================== =========================== + _readfsbase_u64() Read the FS base register + _readfsbase_u64() Read the GS base register + _writefsbase_u64() Write the FS base register + _writegsbase_u64() Write the GS base register + =================== =========================== + +To utilize these instrinsics <immintrin.h> must be included in the source +code and the compiler option -mfsgsbase has to be added. + +Compiler support for FS/GS based addressing +------------------------------------------- + +GCC version 6 and newer provide support for FS/GS based addressing via +Named Address Spaces. GCC implements the following address space +identifiers for x86: + + ========= ==================================== + __seg_fs Variable is addressed relative to FS + __seg_gs Variable is addressed relative to GS + ========= ==================================== + +The preprocessor symbols __SEG_FS and __SEG_GS are defined when these +address spaces are supported. Code which implements fallback modes should +check whether these symbols are defined. Usage example:: + + #ifdef __SEG_GS + + long data0 = 0; + long data1 = 1; + + long __seg_gs *ptr; + + /* Check whether FSGSBASE is enabled by the kernel (HWCAP2_FSGSBASE) */ + .... + + /* Set GS base to point to data0 */ + _writegsbase_u64(&data0); + + /* Access offset 0 of GS */ + ptr = 0; + printf("data0 = %ld\n", *ptr); + + /* Set GS base to point to data1 */ + _writegsbase_u64(&data1); + /* ptr still addresses offset 0! */ + printf("data1 = %ld\n", *ptr); + + +Clang does not provide the GCC address space identifiers, but it provides +address spaces via an attribute based mechanism in Clang 2.6 and newer +versions: + + ==================================== ===================================== + __attribute__((address_space(256)) Variable is addressed relative to GS + __attribute__((address_space(257)) Variable is addressed relative to FS + ==================================== ===================================== + +FS/GS based addressing with inline assembly +------------------------------------------- + +In case the compiler does not support address spaces, inline assembly can +be used for FS/GS based addressing mode:: + + mov %fs:offset, %reg + mov %gs:offset, %reg + + mov %reg, %fs:offset + mov %reg, %gs:offset diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..a56070fc8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +============== +x86_64 Support +============== + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 2 + + boot-options + uefi + mm + 5level-paging + fake-numa-for-cpusets + cpu-hotplug-spec + machinecheck + fsgs diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..cea12ee97 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/machinecheck.rst @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +=============================================================== +Configurable sysfs parameters for the x86-64 machine check code +=============================================================== + +Machine checks report internal hardware error conditions detected +by the CPU. Uncorrected errors typically cause a machine check +(often with panic), corrected ones cause a machine check log entry. + +Machine checks are organized in banks (normally associated with +a hardware subsystem) and subevents in a bank. The exact meaning +of the banks and subevent is CPU specific. + +mcelog knows how to decode them. + +When you see the "Machine check errors logged" message in the system +log then mcelog should run to collect and decode machine check entries +from /dev/mcelog. Normally mcelog should be run regularly from a cronjob. + +Each CPU has a directory in /sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheckN +(N = CPU number). + +The directory contains some configurable entries. See +Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-mce for more details. + +TBD document entries for AMD threshold interrupt configuration + +For more details about the x86 machine check architecture +see the Intel and AMD architecture manuals from their developer websites. + +For more details about the architecture +see http://one.firstfloor.org/~andi/mce.pdf diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..9798676bb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.rst @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +================= +Memory Management +================= + +Complete virtual memory map with 4-level page tables +==================================================== + +.. note:: + + - Negative addresses such as "-23 TB" are absolute addresses in bytes, counted down + from the top of the 64-bit address space. It's easier to understand the layout + when seen both in absolute addresses and in distance-from-top notation. + + For example 0xffffe90000000000 == -23 TB, it's 23 TB lower than the top of the + 64-bit address space (ffffffffffffffff). + + Note that as we get closer to the top of the address space, the notation changes + from TB to GB and then MB/KB. + + - "16M TB" might look weird at first sight, but it's an easier way to visualize size + notation than "16 EB", which few will recognize at first sight as 16 exabytes. + It also shows it nicely how incredibly large 64-bit address space is. + +:: + + ======================================================================================================================== + Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description + ======================================================================================================================== + | | | | + 0000000000000000 | 0 | 00007fffffffffff | 128 TB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + 0000800000000000 | +128 TB | ffff7fffffffffff | ~16M TB | ... huge, almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical + | | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -128 TB + | | | | starting offset of kernel mappings. + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | + | Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes: + ____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + ffff800000000000 | -128 TB | ffff87ffffffffff | 8 TB | ... guard hole, also reserved for hypervisor + ffff880000000000 | -120 TB | ffff887fffffffff | 0.5 TB | LDT remap for PTI + ffff888000000000 | -119.5 TB | ffffc87fffffffff | 64 TB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base) + ffffc88000000000 | -55.5 TB | ffffc8ffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole + ffffc90000000000 | -55 TB | ffffe8ffffffffff | 32 TB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base) + ffffe90000000000 | -23 TB | ffffe9ffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused hole + ffffea0000000000 | -22 TB | ffffeaffffffffff | 1 TB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base) + ffffeb0000000000 | -21 TB | ffffebffffffffff | 1 TB | ... unused hole + ffffec0000000000 | -20 TB | fffffbffffffffff | 16 TB | KASAN shadow memory + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________ + | + | Identical layout to the 56-bit one from here on: + ____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________ + | | | | + fffffc0000000000 | -4 TB | fffffdffffffffff | 2 TB | ... unused hole + | | | | vaddr_end for KASLR + fffffe0000000000 | -2 TB | fffffe7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | cpu_entry_area mapping + fffffe8000000000 | -1.5 TB | fffffeffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole + ffffff0000000000 | -1 TB | ffffff7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | %esp fixup stacks + ffffff8000000000 | -512 GB | ffffffeeffffffff | 444 GB | ... unused hole + ffffffef00000000 | -68 GB | fffffffeffffffff | 64 GB | EFI region mapping space + ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | ... unused hole + ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffff9fffffff | 512 MB | kernel text mapping, mapped to physical address 0 + ffffffff80000000 |-2048 MB | | | + ffffffffa0000000 |-1536 MB | fffffffffeffffff | 1520 MB | module mapping space + ffffffffff000000 | -16 MB | | | + FIXADDR_START | ~-11 MB | ffffffffff5fffff | ~0.5 MB | kernel-internal fixmap range, variable size and offset + ffffffffff600000 | -10 MB | ffffffffff600fff | 4 kB | legacy vsyscall ABI + ffffffffffe00000 | -2 MB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 MB | ... unused hole + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + + +Complete virtual memory map with 5-level page tables +==================================================== + +.. note:: + + - With 56-bit addresses, user-space memory gets expanded by a factor of 512x, + from 0.125 PB to 64 PB. All kernel mappings shift down to the -64 PB starting + offset and many of the regions expand to support the much larger physical + memory supported. + +:: + + ======================================================================================================================== + Start addr | Offset | End addr | Size | VM area description + ======================================================================================================================== + | | | | + 0000000000000000 | 0 | 00ffffffffffffff | 64 PB | user-space virtual memory, different per mm + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + 0100000000000000 | +64 PB | feffffffffffffff | ~16K PB | ... huge, still almost 64 bits wide hole of non-canonical + | | | | virtual memory addresses up to the -64 PB + | | | | starting offset of kernel mappings. + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + | + | Kernel-space virtual memory, shared between all processes: + ____________________________________________________________|___________________________________________________________ + | | | | + ff00000000000000 | -64 PB | ff0fffffffffffff | 4 PB | ... guard hole, also reserved for hypervisor + ff10000000000000 | -60 PB | ff10ffffffffffff | 0.25 PB | LDT remap for PTI + ff11000000000000 | -59.75 PB | ff90ffffffffffff | 32 PB | direct mapping of all physical memory (page_offset_base) + ff91000000000000 | -27.75 PB | ff9fffffffffffff | 3.75 PB | ... unused hole + ffa0000000000000 | -24 PB | ffd1ffffffffffff | 12.5 PB | vmalloc/ioremap space (vmalloc_base) + ffd2000000000000 | -11.5 PB | ffd3ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | ... unused hole + ffd4000000000000 | -11 PB | ffd5ffffffffffff | 0.5 PB | virtual memory map (vmemmap_base) + ffd6000000000000 | -10.5 PB | ffdeffffffffffff | 2.25 PB | ... unused hole + ffdf000000000000 | -8.25 PB | fffffbffffffffff | ~8 PB | KASAN shadow memory + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|____________________________________________________________ + | + | Identical layout to the 47-bit one from here on: + ____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________ + | | | | + fffffc0000000000 | -4 TB | fffffdffffffffff | 2 TB | ... unused hole + | | | | vaddr_end for KASLR + fffffe0000000000 | -2 TB | fffffe7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | cpu_entry_area mapping + fffffe8000000000 | -1.5 TB | fffffeffffffffff | 0.5 TB | ... unused hole + ffffff0000000000 | -1 TB | ffffff7fffffffff | 0.5 TB | %esp fixup stacks + ffffff8000000000 | -512 GB | ffffffeeffffffff | 444 GB | ... unused hole + ffffffef00000000 | -68 GB | fffffffeffffffff | 64 GB | EFI region mapping space + ffffffff00000000 | -4 GB | ffffffff7fffffff | 2 GB | ... unused hole + ffffffff80000000 | -2 GB | ffffffff9fffffff | 512 MB | kernel text mapping, mapped to physical address 0 + ffffffff80000000 |-2048 MB | | | + ffffffffa0000000 |-1536 MB | fffffffffeffffff | 1520 MB | module mapping space + ffffffffff000000 | -16 MB | | | + FIXADDR_START | ~-11 MB | ffffffffff5fffff | ~0.5 MB | kernel-internal fixmap range, variable size and offset + ffffffffff600000 | -10 MB | ffffffffff600fff | 4 kB | legacy vsyscall ABI + ffffffffffe00000 | -2 MB | ffffffffffffffff | 2 MB | ... unused hole + __________________|____________|__________________|_________|___________________________________________________________ + +Architecture defines a 64-bit virtual address. Implementations can support +less. Currently supported are 48- and 57-bit virtual addresses. Bits 63 +through to the most-significant implemented bit are sign extended. +This causes hole between user space and kernel addresses if you interpret them +as unsigned. + +The direct mapping covers all memory in the system up to the highest +memory address (this means in some cases it can also include PCI memory +holes). + +We map EFI runtime services in the 'efi_pgd' PGD in a 64Gb large virtual +memory window (this size is arbitrary, it can be raised later if needed). +The mappings are not part of any other kernel PGD and are only available +during EFI runtime calls. + +Note that if CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_MEMORY is enabled, the direct mapping of all +physical memory, vmalloc/ioremap space and virtual memory map are randomized. +Their order is preserved but their base will be offset early at boot time. + +Be very careful vs. KASLR when changing anything here. The KASLR address +range must not overlap with anything except the KASAN shadow area, which is +correct as KASAN disables KASLR. + +For both 4- and 5-level layouts, the STACKLEAK_POISON value in the last 2MB +hole: ffffffffffff4111 diff --git a/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..fbc30c9a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/x86/x86_64/uefi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,58 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +===================================== +General note on [U]EFI x86_64 support +===================================== + +The nomenclature EFI and UEFI are used interchangeably in this document. + +Although the tools below are _not_ needed for building the kernel, +the needed bootloader support and associated tools for x86_64 platforms +with EFI firmware and specifications are listed below. + +1. UEFI specification: http://www.uefi.org + +2. Booting Linux kernel on UEFI x86_64 platform requires bootloader + support. Elilo with x86_64 support can be used. + +3. x86_64 platform with EFI/UEFI firmware. + +Mechanics +--------- + +- Build the kernel with the following configuration:: + + CONFIG_FB_EFI=y + CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y + + If EFI runtime services are expected, the following configuration should + be selected:: + + CONFIG_EFI=y + CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS=y or m # optional + +- Create a VFAT partition on the disk +- Copy the following to the VFAT partition: + + elilo bootloader with x86_64 support, elilo configuration file, + kernel image built in first step and corresponding + initrd. Instructions on building elilo and its dependencies + can be found in the elilo sourceforge project. + +- Boot to EFI shell and invoke elilo choosing the kernel image built + in first step. +- If some or all EFI runtime services don't work, you can try following + kernel command line parameters to turn off some or all EFI runtime + services. + + noefi + turn off all EFI runtime services + reboot_type=k + turn off EFI reboot runtime service + +- If the EFI memory map has additional entries not in the E820 map, + you can include those entries in the kernels memory map of available + physical RAM by using the following kernel command line parameter. + + add_efi_memmap + include EFI memory map of available physical RAM |