04 Jan, 2013
1 commit
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CONFIG_HOTPLUG is going away as an option. As a result, the __dev*
markings need to be removed.This change removes the use of __devinit, __devexit_p, __devinitconst,
and __devexit from these drivers.Based on patches originally written by Bill Pemberton, but redone by me
in order to handle some of the coding style issues better, by hand.Cc: Bill Pemberton
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Daniel Drake
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
27 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Commit 284f5f9 was intended to disable the "only_one_child()" optimization
on Stratus ftServer systems, but its DMI check is wrong. It looks for
DMI_SYS_VENDOR that contains "ftServer", when it should look for
DMI_SYS_VENDOR containing "Stratus" and DMI_PRODUCT_NAME containing
"ftServer".Tested on Stratus ftServer 6400.
Reported-by: Fadeeva Marina
Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51331
Signed-off-by: Myron Stowe
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.5+
21 Dec, 2012
2 commits
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Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"sigaltstack infrastructure + conversion for x86, alpha and um,
COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE infrastructure.Note that there are several conflicts between "unify
SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions" and UAPI patches in mainline;
resolution is trivial - just remove definitions of SS_ONSTACK and
SS_DISABLED from arch/*/uapi/asm/signal.h; they are all identical and
include/uapi/linux/signal.h contains the unified variant."Fixed up conflicts as per Al.
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
alpha: switch to generic sigaltstack
new helpers: __save_altstack/__compat_save_altstack, switch x86 and um to those
generic compat_sys_sigaltstack()
introduce generic sys_sigaltstack(), switch x86 and um to it
new helper: compat_user_stack_pointer()
new helper: restore_altstack()
unify SS_ONSTACK/SS_DISABLE definitions
new helper: current_user_stack_pointer()
missing user_stack_pointer() instances
Bury the conditionals from kernel_thread/kernel_execve series
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Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
"A few new features this merge-window. The most important one is
probably, that dma-debug now warns if a dma-handle is not checked with
dma_mapping_error by the device driver. This requires minor changes
to some architectures which make use of dma-debug. Most of these
changes have the respective Acks by the Arch-Maintainers.Besides that there are updates to the AMD IOMMU driver for refactor
the IOMMU-Groups support and to make sure it does not trigger a
hardware erratum.The OMAP changes (for which I pulled in a branch from Tony Lindgren's
tree) have a conflict in linux-next with the arm-soc tree. The
conflict is in the file arch/arm/mach-omap2/clock44xx_data.c which is
deleted in the arm-soc tree. It is safe to delete the file too so
solve the conflict. Similar changes are done in the arm-soc tree in
the common clock framework migration. A missing hunk from the patch
in the IOMMU tree will be submitted as a seperate patch when the
merge-window is closed."* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (29 commits)
ARM: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
ARM: OMAP4: hwmod data: ipu and dsp to use parent clocks instead of leaf clocks
iommu/omap: Adapt to runtime pm
iommu/omap: Migrate to hwmod framework
iommu/omap: Keep mmu enabled when requested
iommu/omap: Remove redundant clock handling on ISR
iommu/amd: Remove obsolete comment
iommu/amd: Don't use 512GB pages
iommu/tegra: smmu: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
iommu/tegra: gart: Move bus_set_iommu after probe for multi arch
iommu/tegra: smmu: Remove unnecessary PTC/TLB flush all
tile: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
sh: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
powerpc: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
mips: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
microblaze: dma-mapping: support debug_dma_mapping_error
ia64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
c6x: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
ARM64: dma_debug: add debug_dma_mapping_error support
intel-iommu: Prevent devices with RMRRs from being placed into SI Domain
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20 Dec, 2012
8 commits
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note that they are relying on access_ok() already checked by caller.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Again, conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Conditional on CONFIG_GENERIC_SIGALTSTACK; architectures that do not
select it are completely unaffectedSigned-off-by: Al Viro
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Compat counterpart of current_user_stack_pointer(); for most of the biarch
architectures those two are identical, but e.g. arm64 and arm use different
registers for stack pointer...Note that amd64 variants of current_user_stack_pointer/compat_user_stack_pointer
do *not* rely on pt_regs having been through FIXUP_TOP_OF_STACK.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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for the architectures that have usp in pt_regs and do not have
user_stack_pointer() already defined.Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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All architectures have
CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_THREAD
CONFIG_GENERIC_KERNEL_EXECVE
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_EXECVE
None of them have __ARCH_WANT_KERNEL_EXECVE and there are only two callers
of kernel_execve() (which is a trivial wrapper for do_execve() now) left.
Kill the conditionals and make both callers use do_execve().Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Pull one final 386 removal patch from Peter Anvin.
IRQ 13 FPU error handling is gone. That was not one of the proudest
moments in PC history.* 'x86/nuke386' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, 386 removal: Remove support for IRQ 13 FPU error reporting
19 Dec, 2012
7 commits
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Pull module update from Rusty Russell:
"Nothing all that exciting; a new module-from-fd syscall for those who
want to verify the source of the module (ChromeOS) and/or use standard
IMA on it or other security hooks."* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
MODSIGN: Fix kbuild output when using default extra_certificates
MODSIGN: Avoid using .incbin in C source
modules: don't hand 0 to vmalloc.
module: Remove a extra null character at the top of module->strtab.
ASN.1: Use the ASN1_LONG_TAG and ASN1_INDEFINITE_LENGTH constants
ASN.1: Define indefinite length marker constant
moduleparam: use __UNIQUE_ID()
__UNIQUE_ID()
MODSIGN: Add modules_sign make target
powerpc: add finit_module syscall.
ima: support new kernel module syscall
add finit_module syscall to asm-generic
ARM: add finit_module syscall to ARM
security: introduce kernel_module_from_file hook
module: add flags arg to sys_finit_module()
module: add syscall to load module from fd -
Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
"Most of the rest of MM, plus a few dribs and drabs.I still have quite a few irritating patches left around: ones with
dubious testing results, lack of review, ones which should have gone
via maintainer trees but the maintainers are slack, etc.I need to be more activist in getting these things wrapped up outside
the merge window, but they're such a PITA."* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (48 commits)
mm/vmscan.c: avoid possible deadlock caused by too_many_isolated()
vmscan: comment too_many_isolated()
mm/kmemleak.c: remove obsolete simple_strtoul
mm/memory_hotplug.c: improve comments
mm/hugetlb: create hugetlb cgroup file in hugetlb_init
mm/mprotect.c: coding-style cleanups
Documentation: ABI: /sys/devices/system/node/
slub: drop mutex before deleting sysfs entry
memcg: add comments clarifying aspects of cache attribute propagation
kmem: add slab-specific documentation about the kmem controller
slub: slub-specific propagation changes
slab: propagate tunable values
memcg: aggregate memcg cache values in slabinfo
memcg/sl[au]b: shrink dead caches
memcg/sl[au]b: track all the memcg children of a kmem_cache
memcg: destroy memcg caches
sl[au]b: allocate objects from memcg cache
sl[au]b: always get the cache from its page in kmem_cache_free()
memcg: skip memcg kmem allocations in specified code regions
memcg: infrastructure to match an allocation to the right cache
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This makes the iris driver use the platform API, so it is properly exposed
in /sys.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove commented-out code, add missing space to printk, clean up code layout]
Signed-off-by: Shérab
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: Matthew Garrett
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Pull powertool update from Len Brown:
"This updates the tree w/ the latest version of turbostat, which
reports temperature and - on SNB and later - Watts."Fix up semantic merge conflict as per Len.
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
tools: Allow tools to be installed in a user specified location
tools/power: turbostat: make Makefile a bit more capable
tools/power x86_energy_perf_policy: close /proc/stat in for_every_cpu()
tools/power turbostat: v3.0: monitor Watts and Temperature
tools/power turbostat: fix output buffering issue
tools/power turbostat: prevent infinite loop on migration error path
x86 power: define RAPL MSRs
tools/power/x86/turbostat: share kernel MSR #defines -
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Pull Xen bugfixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Two fixes. One of them is caused by the recent change introduced by
the 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' tip tree that inhibited bootup (old
function does not do what it used to do). The other one is just a
vanilla bug.- Fix to bootup regression introduced by 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus'
tip branch.
- Fix to vcpu hotplug code."* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc0-bugfix-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/vcpu: Fix vcpu restore path.
xen: Add EVTCHNOP_reset in Xen interface header files.
xen/smp: Use smp_store_boot_cpu_info() to store cpu info for BSP during boot time. -
With CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y and CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=n, the build breaks
because set_pmd_at() is undeclared:mm/memory.c: In function 'do_pmd_numa_page':
mm/memory.c:3520: error: implicit declaration of function 'set_pmd_at'
mm/mprotect.c: In function 'change_pmd_protnuma':
mm/mprotect.c:120: error: implicit declaration of function 'set_pmd_at'This is because paravirt defines set_pmd_at() only when
CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=y and such a restriction is unneeded. The
fix is to define it for all CONFIG_PARAVIRT configurations.Signed-off-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull md update from Neil Brown:
"Mostly just little fixes. Probably biggest part is AVX accelerated
RAID6 calculations."* tag 'md-3.8' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md/raid5: add blktrace calls
md/raid5: use async_tx_quiesce() instead of open-coding it.
md: Use ->curr_resync as last completed request when cleanly aborting resync.
lib/raid6: build proper files on corresponding arch
lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized gen_syndrome functions
lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions
md: Update checkpoint of resync/recovery based on time.
md:Add place to update ->recovery_cp.
md.c: re-indent various 'switch' statements.
md: close race between removing and adding a device.
md: removed unused variable in calc_sb_1_csm.
18 Dec, 2012
4 commits
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The runstate of vcpu should be restored for all possible cpus, as well as the
vcpu info placement.Acked-by: Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk -
Git commit 30106c174311b8cfaaa3186c7f6f9c36c62d17da
("x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline") alters what
the call to smp_store_cpu_info() does. For BSP we should use the
smp_store_boot_cpu_info() and for secondary CPU's the old
variant of smp_store_cpu_info() should be used. This fixes
the regression introduced by said commit.Reported-and-Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk -
patch(1) doesn't create zero-length files, so my kernel didn't compile.
Put something in these files so patch(1) actually creates them.
Cc: David Howells
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Michael Kerrisk
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Remove support for FPU error reporting via IRQ 13, as opposed to
exception 16 (#MF). One last remnant of i386 gone.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Alan Cox
17 Dec, 2012
2 commits
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"A quiet cycle for the security subsystem with just a few maintenance
updates."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security:
Smack: create a sysfs mount point for smackfs
Smack: use select not depends in Kconfig
Yama: remove locking from delete path
Yama: add RCU to drop read locking
drivers/char/tpm: remove tasklet and cleanup
KEYS: Use keyring_alloc() to create special keyrings
KEYS: Reduce initial permissions on keys
KEYS: Make the session and process keyrings per-thread
seccomp: Make syscall skipping and nr changes more consistent
key: Fix resource leak
keys: Fix unreachable code
KEYS: Add payload preparsing opportunity prior to key instantiate or update -
Pull Automatic NUMA Balancing bare-bones from Mel Gorman:
"There are three implementations for NUMA balancing, this tree
(balancenuma), numacore which has been developed in tip/master and
autonuma which is in aa.git.In almost all respects balancenuma is the dumbest of the three because
its main impact is on the VM side with no attempt to be smart about
scheduling. In the interest of getting the ball rolling, it would be
desirable to see this much merged for 3.8 with the view to building
scheduler smarts on top and adapting the VM where required for 3.9.The most recent set of comparisons available from different people are
mel: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/9/108
mingo: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/7/331
tglx: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/437
srikar: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/10/397The results are a mixed bag. In my own tests, balancenuma does
reasonably well. It's dumb as rocks and does not regress against
mainline. On the other hand, Ingo's tests shows that balancenuma is
incapable of converging for this workloads driven by perf which is bad
but is potentially explained by the lack of scheduler smarts. Thomas'
results show balancenuma improves on mainline but falls far short of
numacore or autonuma. Srikar's results indicate we all suffer on a
large machine with imbalanced node sizes.My own testing showed that recent numacore results have improved
dramatically, particularly in the last week but not universally.
We've butted heads heavily on system CPU usage and high levels of
migration even when it shows that overall performance is better.
There are also cases where it regresses. Of interest is that for
specjbb in some configurations it will regress for lower numbers of
warehouses and show gains for higher numbers which is not reported by
the tool by default and sometimes missed in treports. Recently I
reported for numacore that the JVM was crashing with
NullPointerExceptions but currently it's unclear what the source of
this problem is. Initially I thought it was in how numacore batch
handles PTEs but I'm no longer think this is the case. It's possible
numacore is just able to trigger it due to higher rates of migration.These reports were quite late in the cycle so I/we would like to start
with this tree as it contains much of the code we can agree on and has
not changed significantly over the last 2-3 weeks."* tag 'balancenuma-v11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mel/linux-balancenuma: (50 commits)
mm/rmap, migration: Make rmap_walk_anon() and try_to_unmap_anon() more scalable
mm/rmap: Convert the struct anon_vma::mutex to an rwsem
mm: migrate: Account a transhuge page properly when rate limiting
mm: numa: Account for failed allocations and isolations as migration failures
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case build fix
mm: numa: Add THP migration for the NUMA working set scanning fault case.
mm: sched: numa: Delay PTE scanning until a task is scheduled on a new node
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing if !SCHED_DEBUG
mm: sched: numa: Control enabling and disabling of NUMA balancing
mm: sched: Adapt the scanning rate if a NUMA hinting fault does not migrate
mm: numa: Use a two-stage filter to restrict pages being migrated for unlikely tasknode relationships
mm: numa: migrate: Set last_nid on newly allocated page
mm: numa: split_huge_page: Transfer last_nid on tail page
mm: numa: Introduce last_nid to the page frame
sched: numa: Slowly increase the scanning period as NUMA faults are handled
mm: numa: Rate limit setting of pte_numa if node is saturated
mm: numa: Rate limit the amount of memory that is migrated between nodes
mm: numa: Structures for Migrate On Fault per NUMA migration rate limiting
mm: numa: Migrate pages handled during a pmd_numa hinting fault
mm: numa: Migrate on reference policy
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16 Dec, 2012
4 commits
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…d 'arm/omap' into next
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This reverts commit bd52276fa1d4 ("x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with
platform wall clock (again)"), and the two supporting commits:da5a108d05b4: "x86/kernel: remove tboot 1:1 page table creation code"
185034e72d59: "x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls")
as they all depend semantically on commit 53b87cf088e2 ("x86, mm:
Include the entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd") that got
reverted earlier due to the problems it caused.This was pointed out by Yinghai Lu, and verified by me on my Macbook Air
that uses EFI.Pointed-out-by: Yinghai Lu
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
- Added aesni/avx/x86_64 implementations for camellia.
- Optimised AVX code for cast5/serpent/twofish/cast6.
- Fixed vmac bug with unaligned input.
- Allow compression algorithms in FIPS mode.
- Optimised crc32c implementation for Intel.
- Misc fixes.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (32 commits)
crypto: caam - Updated SEC-4.0 device tree binding for ERA information.
crypto: testmgr - remove superfluous initializers for xts(aes)
crypto: testmgr - allow compression algs in fips mode
crypto: testmgr - add larger crc32c test vector to test FPU path in crc32c_intel
crypto: testmgr - clean alg_test_null entries in alg_test_descs[]
crypto: testmgr - remove fips_allowed flag from camellia-aesni null-tests
crypto: cast5/cast6 - move lookup tables to shared module
padata: use __this_cpu_read per-cpu helper
crypto: s5p-sss - Fix compilation error
crypto: picoxcell - Add terminating entry for platform_device_id table
crypto: omap-aes - select BLKCIPHER2
crypto: camellia - add AES-NI/AVX/x86_64 assembler implementation of camellia cipher
crypto: camellia-x86_64 - share common functions and move structures and function definitions to header file
crypto: tcrypt - add async speed test for camellia cipher
crypto: tegra-aes - fix error-valued pointer dereference
crypto: tegra - fix missing unlock on error case
crypto: cast5/avx - avoid using temporary stack buffers
crypto: serpent/avx - avoid using temporary stack buffers
crypto: twofish/avx - avoid using temporary stack buffers
crypto: cast6/avx - avoid using temporary stack buffers
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This reverts commit 53b87cf088e2ea68d7c59619d0214cc15bb76133.
It causes odd bootup problems on x86-64. Markus Trippelsdorf gets a
repeatable oops, and I see a non-repeatable oops (or constant stream of
messages that scroll off too quickly to read) that seems to go away with
this commit reverted.So we don't know exactly what is wrong with the commit, but it's
definitely problematic, and worth reverting sooner rather than later.Bisected-by: Markus Trippelsdorf
Cc: H Peter Anvin
Cc: Jan Beulich
Cc: Matt Fleming
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Dec, 2012
4 commits
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Signed-off-by: David Howells
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Acked-by: Dave Jones -
Pull x86 EFI update from Peter Anvin:
"EFI tree, from Matt Fleming. Most of the patches are the new efivarfs
filesystem by Matt Garrett & co. The balance are support for EFI
wallclock in the absence of a hardware-specific driver, and various
fixes and cleanups."* 'core-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
efivarfs: Make efivarfs_fill_super() static
x86, efi: Check table header length in efi_bgrt_init()
efivarfs: Use query_variable_info() to limit kmalloc()
efivarfs: Fix return value of efivarfs_file_write()
efivarfs: Return a consistent error when efivarfs_get_inode() fails
efivarfs: Make 'datasize' unsigned long
efivarfs: Add unique magic number
efivarfs: Replace magic number with sizeof(attributes)
efivarfs: Return an error if we fail to read a variable
efi: Clarify GUID length calculations
efivarfs: Implement exclusive access for {get,set}_variable
efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we clean up correctly on error
efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() ensure we free our temporary name
efivarfs: efivarfs_fill_super() fix inode reference counts
efivarfs: efivarfs_create() ensure we drop our reference on inode on error
efivarfs: efivarfs_file_read ensure we free data in error paths
x86-64/efi: Use EFI to deal with platform wall clock (again)
x86/kernel: remove tboot 1:1 page table creation code
x86, efi: 1:1 pagetable mapping for virtual EFI calls
x86, mm: Include the entire kernel memory map in trampoline_pgd
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Pull x86 ACPI update from Peter Anvin:
"This is a patchset which didn't make the last merge window. It adds a
debugging capability to feed ACPI tables via the initramfs.On a grander scope, it formalizes using the initramfs protocol for
feeding arbitrary blobs which need to be accessed early to the kernel:
they are fed first in the initramfs blob (lots of bootloaders can
concatenate this at boot time, others can use a single file) in an
uncompressed cpio archive using filenames starting with "kernel/".The ACPI maintainers requested that this patchset be fed via the x86
tree rather than the ACPI tree as the footprint in the general x86
code is much bigger than in the ACPI code proper."* 'x86-acpi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
X86 ACPI: Use #ifdef not #if for CONFIG_X86 check
ACPI: Fix build when disabled
ACPI: Document ACPI table overriding via initrd
ACPI: Create acpi_table_taint() function to avoid code duplication
ACPI: Implement physical address table override
ACPI: Store valid ACPI tables passed via early initrd in reserved memblock areas
x86, acpi: Introduce x86 arch specific arch_reserve_mem_area() for e820 handling
lib: Add early cpio decoder -
Pull x86 RAS update from Ingo Molnar:
"Rework all config variables used throughout the MCA code and collect
them together into a mca_config struct. This keeps them tightly and
neatly packed together instead of spilled all over the place.Then, convert those which are used as booleans into real booleans and
save some space. These bits are exposed via
/sys/devices/system/machinecheck/machinecheck*/"* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, MCA: Finish mca_config conversion
x86, MCA: Convert the next three variables batch
x86, MCA: Convert rip_msr, mce_bootlog, monarch_timeout
x86, MCA: Convert dont_log_ce, banks and tolerant
drivers/base: Add a DEVICE_BOOL_ATTR macro
14 Dec, 2012
6 commits
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As part of the effort to create a stronger boundary between root and
kernel, Chrome OS wants to be able to enforce that kernel modules are
being loaded only from our read-only crypto-hash verified (dm_verity)
root filesystem. Since the init_module syscall hands the kernel a module
as a memory blob, no reasoning about the origin of the blob can be made.Earlier proposals for appending signatures to kernel modules would not be
useful in Chrome OS, since it would involve adding an additional set of
keys to our kernel and builds for no good reason: we already trust the
contents of our root filesystem. We don't need to verify those kernel
modules a second time. Having to do signature checking on module loading
would slow us down and be redundant. All we need to know is where a
module is coming from so we can say yes/no to loading it.If a file descriptor is used as the source of a kernel module, many more
things can be reasoned about. In Chrome OS's case, we could enforce that
the module lives on the filesystem we expect it to live on. In the case
of IMA (or other LSMs), it would be possible, for example, to examine
extended attributes that may contain signatures over the contents of
the module.This introduces a new syscall (on x86), similar to init_module, that has
only two arguments. The first argument is used as a file descriptor to
the module and the second argument is a pointer to the NULL terminated
string of module arguments.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Andrew Morton
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Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti:
"Considerable KVM/PPC work, x86 kvmclock vsyscall support,
IA32_TSC_ADJUST MSR emulation, amongst others."Fix up trivial conflict in kernel/sched/core.c due to cross-cpu
migration notifier added next to rq migration call-back.* tag 'kvm-3.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (156 commits)
KVM: emulator: fix real mode segment checks in address linearization
VMX: remove unneeded enable_unrestricted_guest check
KVM: VMX: fix DPL during entry to protected mode
x86/kexec: crash_vmclear_local_vmcss needs __rcu
kvm: Fix irqfd resampler list walk
KVM: VMX: provide the vmclear function and a bitmap to support VMCLEAR in kdump
x86/kexec: VMCLEAR VMCSs loaded on all cpus if necessary
KVM: MMU: optimize for set_spte
KVM: PPC: booke: Get/set guest EPCR register using ONE_REG interface
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add EPCR support in mtspr/mfspr emulation
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Add guest computation mode for irq delivery
KVM: PPC: Make EPCR a valid field for booke64 and bookehv
KVM: PPC: booke: Extend MAS2 EPN mask for 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Mask MAS2 EPN high 32-bits in 32/64 tlbwe emulation
KVM: PPC: Mask ea's high 32-bits in 32/64 instr emulation
KVM: PPC: e500: Add emulation helper for getting instruction ea
KVM: PPC: bookehv64: Add support for interrupt handling
KVM: PPC: bookehv: Remove GET_VCPU macro from exception handler
KVM: PPC: booke: Fix get_tb() compile error on 64-bit
KVM: PPC: e500: Silence bogus GCC warning in tlb code
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Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
- Add necessary infrastructure to make balloon driver work under ARM.
- Add /dev/xen/privcmd interfaces to work with ARM and PVH.
- Improve Xen PCIBack wild-card parsing.
- Add Xen ACPI PAD (Processor Aggregator) support - so can offline/
online sockets depending on the power consumption.
- PVHVM + kexec = use an E820_RESV region for the shared region so we
don't overwrite said region during kexec reboot.
- Cleanups, compile fixes.Fix up some trivial conflicts due to the balloon driver now working on
ARM, and there were changes next to the previous work-arounds that are
now gone.* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.8-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
xen/PVonHVM: fix compile warning in init_hvm_pv_info
xen: arm: implement remap interfaces needed for privcmd mappings.
xen: correctly use xen_pfn_t in remap_domain_mfn_range.
xen: arm: enable balloon driver
xen: balloon: allow PVMMU interfaces to be compiled out
xen: privcmd: support autotranslated physmap guests.
xen: add pages parameter to xen_remap_domain_mfn_range
xen/acpi: Move the xen_running_on_version_or_later function.
xen/xenbus: Remove duplicate inclusion of asm/xen/hypervisor.h
xen/acpi: Fix compile error by missing decleration for xen_domain.
xen/acpi: revert pad config check in xen_check_mwait
xen/acpi: ACPI PAD driver
xen-pciback: reject out of range inputs
xen-pciback: simplify and tighten parsing of device IDs
xen PVonHVM: use E820_Reserved area for shared_info -
Merge misc VM changes from Andrew Morton:
"The rest of most-of-MM. The other MM bits await a slab merge.This patch includes the addition of a huge zero_page. Not a
performance boost but it an save large amounts of physical memory in
some situations.Also a bunch of Fujitsu engineers are working on memory hotplug.
Which, as it turns out, was badly broken. About half of their patches
are included here; the remainder are 3.8 material."However, this merge disables CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE, which was totally
broken. We don't add new features with "default y", nor do we add
Kconfig questions that are incomprehensible to most people without any
help text. Does the feature even make sense without compaction or
memory hotplug?* akpm: (54 commits)
mm/bootmem.c: remove unused wrapper function reserve_bootmem_generic()
mm/memory.c: remove unused code from do_wp_page()
asm-generic, mm: pgtable: consolidate zero page helpers
mm/hugetlb.c: fix warning on freeing hwpoisoned hugepage
hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix RSS-counter warning
hwpoison, hugetlbfs: fix "bad pmd" warning in unmapping hwpoisoned hugepage
mm: protect against concurrent vma expansion
memcg: do not check for mm in __mem_cgroup_count_vm_event
tmpfs: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE (reprise)
mm: provide more accurate estimation of pages occupied by memmap
fs/buffer.c: remove redundant initialization in alloc_page_buffers()
fs/buffer.c: do not inline exported function
writeback: fix a typo in comment
mm: introduce new field "managed_pages" to struct zone
mm, oom: remove statically defined arch functions of same name
mm, oom: remove redundant sleep in pagefault oom handler
mm, oom: cleanup pagefault oom handler
memory_hotplug: allow online/offline memory to result movable node
numa: add CONFIG_MOVABLE_NODE for movable-dedicated node
mm, memcg: avoid unnecessary function call when memcg is disabled
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Pull PCI update from Bjorn Helgaas:
"Host bridge hotplug:
- Untangle _PRT from struct pci_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Request _OSC control before scanning root bus (Taku Izumi)
- Assign resources when adding host bridge (Yinghai Lu)
- Remove root bus when removing host bridge (Yinghai Lu)
- Remove _PRT during hot remove (Yinghai Lu)SRIOV
- Add sysfs knobs to control numVFs (Don Dutile)Power management
- Notify devices when power resource turned on (Huang Ying)Bug fixes
- Work around broken _SEG on HP xw9300 (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Keep runtime PM enabled for unbound PCI devices (Huang Ying)
- Fix Optimus dual-GPU runtime D3 suspend issue (Dave Airlie)
- Fix xen frontend shutdown issue (David Vrabel)
- Work around PLX PCI 9050 BAR alignment erratum (Ian Abbott)Miscellaneous
- Add GPL license for drivers/pci/ioapic (Andrew Cooks)
- Add standard PCI-X, PCIe ASPM register #defines (Bjorn Helgaas)
- NumaChip remote PCI support (Daniel Blueman)
- Fix PCIe Link Capabilities Supported Link Speed definition (Jingoo
Han)
- Convert dev_printk() to dev_info(), etc (Joe Perches)
- Add support for non PCI BAR ROM data (Matthew Garrett)
- Add x86 support for host bridge translation offset (Mike Yoknis)
- Report success only when every driver supports AER (Vijay
Pandarathil)"Fix up trivial conflicts.
* tag 'for-3.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (48 commits)
PCI: Use phys_addr_t for physical ROM address
x86/PCI: Add NumaChip remote PCI support
ath9k: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
iwlwifi: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
iwlwifi: collapse wrapper for pcie_capability_read_word()
iwlegacy: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
iwlegacy: collapse wrapper for pcie_capability_read_word()
cxgb3: Use standard #defines for PCIe Capability ASPM fields
PCI: Add standard PCIe Capability Link ASPM field names
PCI/portdrv: Use PCI Express Capability accessors
PCI: Use standard PCIe Capability Link register field names
x86: Use PCI setup data
PCI: Add support for non-BAR ROMs
PCI: Add pcibios_add_device
EFI: Stash ROMs if they're not in the PCI BAR
PCI: Add and use standard PCI-X Capability register names
PCI/PM: Keep runtime PM enabled for unbound PCI devices
xen-pcifront: Handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
PCI: SRIOV control and status via sysfs (documentation)
PCI/AER: Report success only when every device has AER-aware driver
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Pull trivial branch from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff -- comment/printk typo fixes, documentation updates, dead
code elimination."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits)
HOWTO: fix double words typo
x86 mtrr: fix comment typo in mtrr_bp_init
propagate name change to comments in kernel source
doc: Update the name of profiling based on sysfs
treewide: Fix typos in various drivers
treewide: Fix typos in various Kconfig
wireless: mwifiex: Fix typo in wireless/mwifiex driver
messages: i2o: Fix typo in messages/i2o
scripts/kernel-doc: check that non-void fcts describe their return value
Kernel-doc: Convention: Use a "Return" section to describe return values
radeon: Fix typo and copy/paste error in comments
doc: Remove unnecessary declarations from Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c
various: Fix spelling of "asynchronous" in comments.
Fix misspellings of "whether" in comments.
eisa: Fix spelling of "asynchronous".
various: Fix spelling of "registered" in comments.
doc: fix quite a few typos within Documentation
target: iscsi: fix comment typos in target/iscsi drivers
treewide: fix typo of "suport" in various comments and Kconfig
treewide: fix typo of "suppport" in various comments
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13 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of
the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2.The patch was tested and benchmarked before submission.
However hardware is not yet released so benchmark numbers
cannot be reported.Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin"
Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown
