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SRCU: - Introduction of the new SRCU-lite flavour with a new pair of srcu_read_[un]lock_lite() APIs. In practice the read side using this flavour becomes lighter by removing a full memory barrier on LOCK and a full memory barrier on UNLOCK. This comes at the expense of a higher latency write side with two (in the best case of a snaphot of unused read-sides) or more RCU grace periods on the update side which now assumes by itself the whole full ordering guarantee against the LOCK/UNLOCK counters on both indexes, along with the accesses performed inside. Uretprobes is a known potential user. Note this doesn't replace the default normal flavour of SRCU which still behaves the same as usual. - Add testing of SRCU-lite through rcutorture and rcuscale - Various cleanups on the way. FIXES: - Allow short-circuiting RCU-TASKS-RUDE grace periods on architectures that have sane noinstr boundaries forbidding tracing on low-level idle and kernel entry code. RCU-TASKS is enough on such configurations because it involves an RCU grace period that waits for all idle tasks to either schedule out voluntarily or enter into RCU unwatched noinstr code. - Allow and test start_poll_synchronize_rcu() with IRQs disabled. - Mention rcuog kthreads in relevant documentation and Kconfig help - Various fixes and consolidations RCUTORTURE: - Add --no-affinity on tools to leave the affinity setting of guests up to the user. - Add guest_os_delay parameter to rcuscale for better warm-up control. - Fix and improve some rcuscale error handling. - Various cleanups and fixes STALL: - Remove dead code - Stop dumping tasks if a stalled grace period eventually ended midway as that only produces confusing output. - Optimize detection of stalling CPUs and avoid useless node locking otherwise. NOCB: - Fix rcu_barrier() hang due to a race against callbacks deoffloading. 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In practice the read side using this flavour becomes lighter by removing a full memory barrier on LOCK and a full memory barrier on UNLOCK. This comes at the expense of a higher latency write side with two (in the best case of a snaphot of unused read-sides) or more RCU grace periods on the update side which now assumes by itself the whole full ordering guarantee against the LOCK/UNLOCK counters on both indexes, along with the accesses performed inside. Uretprobes is a known potential user. Note this doesn't replace the default normal flavour of SRCU which still behaves the same as usual. - Add testing of SRCU-lite through rcutorture and rcuscale - Various cleanups on the way. Fixes: - Allow short-circuiting RCU-TASKS-RUDE grace periods on architectures that have sane noinstr boundaries forbidding tracing on low-level idle and kernel entry code. RCU-TASKS is enough on such configurations because it involves an RCU grace period that waits for all idle tasks to either schedule out voluntarily or enter into RCU unwatched noinstr code. - Allow and test start_poll_synchronize_rcu() with IRQs disabled. - Mention rcuog kthreads in relevant documentation and Kconfig help - Various fixes and consolidations rcutorture: - Add --no-affinity on tools to leave the affinity setting of guests up to the user. - Add guest_os_delay parameter to rcuscale for better warm-up control. - Fix and improve some rcuscale error handling. - Various cleanups and fixes stall: - Remove dead code - Stop dumping tasks if a stalled grace period eventually ended midway as that only produces confusing output. - Optimize detection of stalling CPUs and avoid useless node locking otherwise. NOCB: - Fix rcu_barrier() hang due to a race against callbacks deoffloading. This is not yet used, except by rcutorture, and waits for its promised cpusets interface. - Remove leftover function declaration" * tag 'rcu.release.v6.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (42 commits) rcuscale: Remove redundant WARN_ON_ONCE() splat rcuscale: Do a proper cleanup if kfree_scale_init() fails srcu: Unconditionally record srcu_read_lock_lite() in ->srcu_reader_flavor srcu: Check for srcu_read_lock_lite() across all CPUs srcu: Remove smp_mb() from srcu_read_unlock_lite() rcutorture: Avoid printing cpu=-1 for no-fault RCU boost failure rcuscale: Add guest_os_delay module parameter refscale: Correct affinity check torture: Add --no-affinity parameter to kvm.sh rcu/nocb: Fix missed RCU barrier on deoffloading rcu/kvfree: Fix data-race in __mod_timer / kvfree_call_rcu rcu/srcutiny: don't return before reenabling preemption rcu-tasks: Remove open-coded one-byte cmpxchg() emulation doc: Remove kernel-parameters.txt entry for rcutorture.read_exit rcutorture: Test start-poll primitives with interrupts disabled rcu: Permit start_poll_synchronize_rcu*() with interrupts disabled rcu: Allow short-circuiting of synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude() doc: Add rcuog kthreads to kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.rst rcu: Add rcuog kthreads to RCU_NOCB_CPU help text rcu: Use the BITS_PER_LONG macro ... |
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.. _readme: Linux kernel release 6.x <http://kernel.org/> ============================================= These are the release notes for Linux version 6. Read them carefully, as they tell you what this is all about, explain how to install the kernel, and what to do if something goes wrong. What is Linux? -------------- Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged Unix, including true multitasking, virtual memory, shared libraries, demand loading, shared copy-on-write executables, proper memory management, and multistack networking including IPv4 and IPv6. It is distributed under the GNU General Public License v2 - see the accompanying COPYING file for more details. On what hardware does it run? ----------------------------- Although originally developed first for 32-bit x86-based PCs (386 or higher), today Linux also runs on (at least) the Compaq Alpha AXP, Sun SPARC and UltraSPARC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, PowerPC64, ARM, Hitachi SuperH, Cell, IBM S/390, MIPS, HP PA-RISC, Intel IA-64, DEC VAX, AMD x86-64 Xtensa, and ARC architectures. Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. Linux has also been ported to itself. You can now run the kernel as a userspace application - this is called UserMode Linux (UML). Documentation ------------- - There is a lot of documentation available both in electronic form on the Internet and in books, both Linux-specific and pertaining to general UNIX questions. I'd recommend looking into the documentation subdirectories on any Linux FTP site for the LDP (Linux Documentation Project) books. This README is not meant to be documentation on the system: there are much better sources available. - There are various README files in the Documentation/ subdirectory: these typically contain kernel-specific installation notes for some drivers for example. Please read the :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>` file, as it contains information about the problems, which may result by upgrading your kernel. Installing the kernel source ---------------------------- - If you install the full sources, put the kernel tarball in a directory where you have permissions (e.g. your home directory) and unpack it:: xz -cd linux-6.x.tar.xz | tar xvf - Replace "X" with the version number of the latest kernel. Do NOT use the /usr/src/linux area! This area has a (usually incomplete) set of kernel headers that are used by the library header files. They should match the library, and not get messed up by whatever the kernel-du-jour happens to be. - You can also upgrade between 6.x releases by patching. Patches are distributed in the xz format. To install by patching, get all the newer patch files, enter the top level directory of the kernel source (linux-6.x) and execute:: xz -cd ../patch-6.x.xz | patch -p1 Replace "x" for all versions bigger than the version "x" of your current source tree, **in_order**, and you should be ok. You may want to remove the backup files (some-file-name~ or some-file-name.orig), and make sure that there are no failed patches (some-file-name# or some-file-name.rej). If there are, either you or I have made a mistake. Unlike patches for the 6.x kernels, patches for the 6.x.y kernels (also known as the -stable kernels) are not incremental but instead apply directly to the base 6.x kernel. For example, if your base kernel is 6.0 and you want to apply the 6.0.3 patch, you must not first apply the 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 patches. Similarly, if you are running kernel version 6.0.2 and want to jump to 6.0.3, you must first reverse the 6.0.2 patch (that is, patch -R) **before** applying the 6.0.3 patch. You can read more on this in :ref:`Documentation/process/applying-patches.rst <applying_patches>`. Alternatively, the script patch-kernel can be used to automate this process. It determines the current kernel version and applies any patches found:: linux/scripts/patch-kernel linux The first argument in the command above is the location of the kernel source. Patches are applied from the current directory, but an alternative directory can be specified as the second argument. - Make sure you have no stale .o files and dependencies lying around:: cd linux make mrproper You should now have the sources correctly installed. Software requirements --------------------- Compiling and running the 6.x kernels requires up-to-date versions of various software packages. Consult :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>` for the minimum version numbers required and how to get updates for these packages. Beware that using excessively old versions of these packages can cause indirect errors that are very difficult to track down, so don't assume that you can just update packages when obvious problems arise during build or operation. Build directory for the kernel ------------------------------ When compiling the kernel, all output files will per default be stored together with the kernel source code. Using the option ``make O=output/dir`` allows you to specify an alternate place for the output files (including .config). Example:: kernel source code: /usr/src/linux-6.x build directory: /home/name/build/kernel To configure and build the kernel, use:: cd /usr/src/linux-6.x make O=/home/name/build/kernel menuconfig make O=/home/name/build/kernel sudo make O=/home/name/build/kernel modules_install install Please note: If the ``O=output/dir`` option is used, then it must be used for all invocations of make. Configuring the kernel ---------------------- Do not skip this step even if you are only upgrading one minor version. New configuration options are added in each release, and odd problems will turn up if the configuration files are not set up as expected. If you want to carry your existing configuration to a new version with minimal work, use ``make oldconfig``, which will only ask you for the answers to new questions. - Alternative configuration commands are:: "make config" Plain text interface. "make menuconfig" Text based color menus, radiolists & dialogs. "make nconfig" Enhanced text based color menus. "make xconfig" Qt based configuration tool. "make gconfig" GTK+ based configuration tool. "make oldconfig" Default all questions based on the contents of your existing ./.config file and asking about new config symbols. "make olddefconfig" Like above, but sets new symbols to their default values without prompting. "make defconfig" Create a ./.config file by using the default symbol values from either arch/$ARCH/defconfig or arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig, depending on the architecture. "make ${PLATFORM}_defconfig" Create a ./.config file by using the default symbol values from arch/$ARCH/configs/${PLATFORM}_defconfig. Use "make help" to get a list of all available platforms of your architecture. "make allyesconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol values to 'y' as much as possible. "make allmodconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol values to 'm' as much as possible. "make allnoconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol values to 'n' as much as possible. "make randconfig" Create a ./.config file by setting symbol values to random values. "make localmodconfig" Create a config based on current config and loaded modules (lsmod). Disables any module option that is not needed for the loaded modules. To create a localmodconfig for another machine, store the lsmod of that machine into a file and pass it in as a LSMOD parameter. Also, you can preserve modules in certain folders or kconfig files by specifying their paths in parameter LMC_KEEP. target$ lsmod > /tmp/mylsmod target$ scp /tmp/mylsmod host:/tmp host$ make LSMOD=/tmp/mylsmod \ LMC_KEEP="drivers/usb:drivers/gpu:fs" \ localmodconfig The above also works when cross compiling. "make localyesconfig" Similar to localmodconfig, except it will convert all module options to built in (=y) options. You can also preserve modules by LMC_KEEP. "make kvm_guest.config" Enable additional options for kvm guest kernel support. "make xen.config" Enable additional options for xen dom0 guest kernel support. "make tinyconfig" Configure the tiniest possible kernel. You can find more information on using the Linux kernel config tools in Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.rst. - NOTES on ``make config``: - Having unnecessary drivers will make the kernel bigger, and can under some circumstances lead to problems: probing for a nonexistent controller card may confuse your other controllers. - A kernel with math-emulation compiled in will still use the coprocessor if one is present: the math emulation will just never get used in that case. The kernel will be slightly larger, but will work on different machines regardless of whether they have a math coprocessor or not. - The "kernel hacking" configuration details usually result in a bigger or slower kernel (or both), and can even make the kernel less stable by configuring some routines to actively try to break bad code to find kernel problems (kmalloc()). Thus you should probably answer 'n' to the questions for "development", "experimental", or "debugging" features. Compiling the kernel -------------------- - Make sure you have at least gcc 5.1 available. For more information, refer to :ref:`Documentation/process/changes.rst <changes>`. - Do a ``make`` to create a compressed kernel image. It is also possible to do ``make install`` if you have lilo installed or if your distribution has an install script recognised by the kernel's installer. Most popular distributions will have a recognized install script. You may want to check your distribution's setup first. To do the actual install, you have to be root, but none of the normal build should require that. Don't take the name of root in vain. - If you configured any of the parts of the kernel as ``modules``, you will also have to do ``make modules_install``. - Verbose kernel compile/build output: Normally, the kernel build system runs in a fairly quiet mode (but not totally silent). However, sometimes you or other kernel developers need to see compile, link, or other commands exactly as they are executed. For this, use "verbose" build mode. This is done by passing ``V=1`` to the ``make`` command, e.g.:: make V=1 all To have the build system also tell the reason for the rebuild of each target, use ``V=2``. The default is ``V=0``. - Keep a backup kernel handy in case something goes wrong. This is especially true for the development releases, since each new release contains new code which has not been debugged. Make sure you keep a backup of the modules corresponding to that kernel, as well. If you are installing a new kernel with the same version number as your working kernel, make a backup of your modules directory before you do a ``make modules_install``. Alternatively, before compiling, use the kernel config option "LOCALVERSION" to append a unique suffix to the regular kernel version. LOCALVERSION can be set in the "General Setup" menu. - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel image (e.g. .../linux/arch/x86/boot/bzImage after compilation) to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found. - Booting a kernel directly from a storage device without the assistance of a bootloader such as LILO or GRUB, is no longer supported in BIOS (non-EFI systems). On UEFI/EFI systems, however, you can use EFISTUB which allows the motherboard to boot directly to the kernel. On modern workstations and desktops, it's generally recommended to use a bootloader as difficulties can arise with multiple kernels and secure boot. For more details on EFISTUB, see "Documentation/admin-guide/efi-stub.rst". - It's important to note that as of 2016 LILO (LInux LOader) is no longer in active development, though as it was extremely popular, it often comes up in documentation. Popular alternatives include GRUB2, rEFInd, Syslinux, systemd-boot, or EFISTUB. For various reasons, it's not recommended to use software that's no longer in active development. - Chances are your distribution includes an install script and running ``make install`` will be all that's needed. Should that not be the case you'll have to identify your bootloader and reference its documentation or configure your EFI. Legacy LILO Instructions ------------------------ - If you use LILO the kernel images are specified in the file /etc/lilo.conf. The kernel image file is usually /vmlinuz, /boot/vmlinuz, /bzImage or /boot/bzImage. To use the new kernel, save a copy of the old image and copy the new image over the old one. Then, you MUST RERUN LILO to update the loading map! If you don't, you won't be able to boot the new kernel image. - Reinstalling LILO is usually a matter of running /sbin/lilo. You may wish to edit /etc/lilo.conf to specify an entry for your old kernel image (say, /vmlinux.old) in case the new one does not work. See the LILO docs for more information. - After reinstalling LILO, you should be all set. Shutdown the system, reboot, and enjoy! - If you ever need to change the default root device, video mode, etc. in the kernel image, use your bootloader's boot options where appropriate. No need to recompile the kernel to change these parameters. - Reboot with the new kernel and enjoy. If something goes wrong ----------------------- If you have problems that seem to be due to kernel bugs, please follow the instructions at 'Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst'. Hints on understanding kernel bug reports are in 'Documentation/admin-guide/bug-hunting.rst'. More on debugging the kernel with gdb is in 'Documentation/dev-tools/gdb-kernel-debugging.rst' and 'Documentation/dev-tools/kgdb.rst'.