Minimal supplement to upstream Kernel Self Protection Project changes. Features already provided by SELinux + Yama and archs other than multiarch arm64 / x86_64 aren't in scope. Only tags have stable history. Shared IRC channel with KSPP: irc.libera.chat #linux-hardening
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zhouxianrong 8e19d540d1 zram: extend zero pages to same element pages
The idea is that without doing more calculations we extend zero pages to
same element pages for zram.  zero page is special case of same element
page with zero element.

1. the test is done under android 7.0
2. startup too many applications circularly
3. sample the zero pages, same pages (none-zero element)
   and total pages in function page_zero_filled

the result is listed as below:

ZERO	SAME	TOTAL
36214	17842	598196

		ZERO/TOTAL	 SAME/TOTAL	  (ZERO+SAME)/TOTAL ZERO/SAME
AVERAGE	0.060631909	 0.024990816  0.085622726		2.663825038
STDEV	0.00674612	 0.005887625  0.009707034		2.115881328
MAX		0.069698422	 0.030046087  0.094975336		7.56043956
MIN		0.03959586	 0.007332205  0.056055193		1.928985507

from the above data, the benefit is about 2.5% and up to 3% of total
swapout pages.

The defect of the patch is that when we recovery a page from non-zero
element the operations are low efficient for partial read.

This patch extends zero_page to same_page so if there is any user to
have monitored zero_pages, he will be surprised if the number is
increased but it's not harmful, I believe.

[minchan@kernel.org: do not free same element pages in zram_meta_free]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170207065741.GA2567@bbox
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1483692145-75357-1-git-send-email-zhouxianrong@huawei.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1486307804-27903-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: zhouxianrong <zhouxianrong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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arch powerpc/mm/autonuma: switch ppc64 to its own implementation of saved write 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
block block: use for_each_thread() in sys_ioprio_set()/sys_ioprio_get() 2017-02-22 16:41:27 -08:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto crypto: xts - Add ECB dependency 2017-02-23 20:11:06 +08:00
Documentation zram: extend zero pages to same element pages 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
drivers zram: extend zero pages to same element pages 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs userfaultfd_copy: return -ENOSPC in case mm has gone 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
include mm/ksm: handle protnone saved writes when making page write protect 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
init Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-02-22 19:29:24 -08:00
ipc userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for memory unmaps 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
kernel userfaultfd: non-cooperative: add event for exit() notification 2017-02-24 17:46:55 -08:00
lib Less anger inducing pull request for 4.11 2017-02-23 18:58:18 -08:00
mm mm/page-writeback.c: place "not" inside of unlikely() statement in wb_domain_writeout_inc() 2017-02-24 17:46:56 -08:00
net bpf: Fix bpf_xdp_event_output 2017-02-23 13:53:42 -05:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next 2017-02-22 10:15:09 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-02-22 19:29:24 -08:00
security mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
sound mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
tools userfaultfd: non-cooperative: selftest: enable REMOVE event test for shmem 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt mm, fs: reduce fault, page_mkwrite, and pfn_mkwrite to take only vmf 2017-02-24 17:46:54 -08:00
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Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
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MAINTAINERS Less anger inducing pull request for 4.11 2017-02-23 18:58:18 -08:00
Makefile A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around. 2017-02-22 18:51:29 -08:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.