12 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Pull kvm bugfixes from Gleb Natapov:
"There is one more fix for MIPS KVM ABI here, MIPS and PPC build
breakage fixes and a couple of PPC bug fixes"* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix lazy ee handling in kvmppc_handle_exit()
kvm/ppc/booke: Hold srcu lock when calling gfn functions
kvm/ppc/booke64: Disable e6500 support
kvm/ppc/booke64: Fix AltiVec interrupt numbers and build breakage
mips/kvm: Use KVM_REG_MIPS and proper size indicators for *_ONE_REG
kvm: Add definition of KVM_REG_MIPS
KVM: add kvm_para_available to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
06 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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Since the introduction of preemptible mmu_gather TLB fast mode has been
broken. TLB fast mode relies on there being absolutely no concurrency;
it frees pages first and invalidates TLBs later.However now we can get concurrency and stuff goes *bang*.
This patch removes all tlb_fast_mode() code; it was found the better
option vs trying to patch the hole by entangling tlb invalidation with
the scheduler.Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Tony Luck
Reported-by: Max Filippov
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
05 Jun, 2013
1 commit
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According to include/uapi/linux/kvm_para.h architectures should define
kvm_para_available, so add an implementation to asm-generic/kvm_para.h
which just returns false.This fixes intel8x0.c build failure on mips with KVM enabled.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti
Cc: Gleb Natapov
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov
22 May, 2013
1 commit
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On s390 the prefix page and absolute zero pages are not correctly
returned when reading /dev/mem. The reason is that the s390 asm/io.h
file includes the asm-generic/io.h file which then defines
xlate_dev_mem_ptr() and therefore overwrites the s390 specific
version that does the correct swap operation for prefix and absolute
zero pages. The problem is a regression that was introduced with git
commit cd248341 (s390/pci: base support).To fix the problem add "#ifndef xlate_dev_mem_ptr" in asm-generic/io.h
and "#define xlate_dev_mem_ptr" in asm/io.h. This ensures that the
s390 version is used. For completeness also add the "#ifndef"
construct for xlate_dev_kmem_ptr().Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
06 May, 2013
2 commits
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Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core
kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks',
or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from
idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially
reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly.This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but
the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than
that:- HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able
to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at
HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature
removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on
typical distro configs even on modern systems.- Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks
should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining
source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick.- A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation,
especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature
helps desktop and mobile workloads as well.The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer
reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus
slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency.Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing
two NOHZ kconfig modes:- CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named
as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick
design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of
whether a CPU is idle or not.- CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the
periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode.- CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the
tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one
timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a
CPU.The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the
user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by
default.This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been
steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support
and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already.This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull
request is marked RFC because:- it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is
small but did not get ready in time.- it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge
window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the
merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I
marked it RFC.- it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and
while the components have been in testing for some time, the full
combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off
should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no
known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either.- the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100%
equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In
particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects
on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact
correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this
feature at this point.- it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be
enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on
its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed.
Without flaming us to crisp! :-)Future plans:
- there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off
the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a
CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go
for the 0 Hz target though.- once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from
nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only
as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do -
once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running.I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in
v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long -
but the final word is up to you as usual.More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt"
* 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits)
sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks
rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode
nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch()
nohz_full: Add documentation.
cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers
nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config
nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns
nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree
nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle
nohz: Add basic tracing
nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks
nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch
nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit
nohz: Implement full dynticks kick
nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI
sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks
sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued.
perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick
perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed
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Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell:
"We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config
option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my
favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single
commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!"* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion
X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier
module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure.
kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length
MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature
modpost: handle huge numbers of modules.
modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin.
modpost: minor cleanup.
genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch
module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes
CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
02 May, 2013
1 commit
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.hSigned-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
01 May, 2013
1 commit
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Pull compat cleanup from Al Viro:
"Mostly about syscall wrappers this time; there will be another pile
with patches in the same general area from various people, but I'd
rather push those after both that and vfs.git pile are in."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal:
syscalls.h: slightly reduce the jungles of macros
get rid of union semop in sys_semctl(2) arguments
make do_mremap() static
sparc: no need to sign-extend in sync_file_range() wrapper
ppc compat wrappers for add_key(2) and request_key(2) are pointless
x86: trim sys_ia32.h
x86: sys32_kill and sys32_mprotect are pointless
get rid of compat_sys_semctl() and friends in case of ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
merge compat sys_ipc instances
consolidate compat lookup_dcookie()
convert vmsplice to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch getrusage() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch epoll_pwait to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
convert sendfile{,64} to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
switch signalfd{,4}() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
make SYSCALL_DEFINE-generated wrappers do asmlinkage_protect
make HAVE_SYSCALL_WRAPPERS unconditional
consolidate cond_syscall and SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations
teach SYSCALL_DEFINE how to deal with long long/unsigned long long
get rid of duplicate logics in __SC_....[1-6] definitions
30 Apr, 2013
2 commits
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On architectures where a pgd entry may be shared between user and kernel
(e.g. ARM+LPAE), freeing page tables needs a ceiling other than 0.
This patch introduces a generic USER_PGTABLES_CEILING that arch code can
override. It is the responsibility of the arch code setting the ceiling
to ensure the complete freeing of the page tables (usually in
pgd_free()).[catalin.marinas@arm.com: commit log; shift_arg_pages(), asm-generic/pgtables.h changes]
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Russell King
Cc: [3.3+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Commit abf09bed3cce ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits")
introduced another difference in the pte layout vs. the pmd layout on
s390, thoroughly breaking the s390 support for hugetlbfs. This requires
replacing some more pte_xxx functions in mm/hugetlbfs.c with a
huge_pte_xxx version.This patch introduces those huge_pte_xxx functions and their generic
implementation in asm-generic/hugetlb.h, which will now be included on
all architectures supporting hugetlbfs apart from s390. This change
will be a no-op for those architectures.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Hugh Dickins
Cc: Hillf Danton
Acked-by: Michal Hocko [for !s390 parts]
Cc: Tony Luck
Cc: Fenghua Yu
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Paul Mundt
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: Chris Metcalf
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
27 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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For the nsec resolution conversions to be useable on non 64-bit
architectures, the helpers in need to be used so the
right arch-specific 64-bit math helpers can be used (e.g. do_div())Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Hakan Akkan
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Kevin Hilman
Cc: Li Zhong
Cc: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Paul Gortmaker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
13 Apr, 2013
1 commit
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This patch attempts to fix:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56461
The symptom is a crash and messages like this:
chrome: Corrupted page table at address 34a03000
*pdpt = 0000000000000000 *pde = 0000000000000000
Bad pagetable: 000f [#1] PREEMPT SMPIngo guesses this got introduced by commit 611ae8e3f520 ("x86/tlb:
enable tlb flush range support for x86") since that code started to free
unused pagetables.On x86-32 PAE kernels, that new code has the potential to free an entire
PMD page and will clear one of the four page-directory-pointer-table
(aka pgd_t entries).The hardware aggressively "caches" these top-level entries and invlpg
does not actually affect the CPU's copy. If we clear one we *HAVE* to
do a full TLB flush, otherwise we might continue using a freed pmd page.
(note, we do this properly on the population side in pud_populate()).This patch tracks whenever we clear one of these entries in the 'struct
mmu_gather', and ensures that we follow up with a full tlb flush.BTW, I disassembled and checked that:
if (tlb->fullmm == 0)
and
if (!tlb->fullmm && !tlb->need_flush_all)generate essentially the same code, so there should be zero impact there
to the !PAE case.Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen
Cc: Peter Anvin
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Artem S Tashkinov
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
15 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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We have CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX, which three archs define to the string
"_". But Al Viro broke this in "consolidate cond_syscall and
SYSCALL_ALIAS declarations" (in linux-next), and he's not the first to
do so.Using CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is awkward, since we usually just want to
prefix it so something. So various places define helpers which are
defined to nothing if CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX isn't set:1) include/asm-generic/unistd.h defines __SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h defines VMLINUX_SYMBOL(sym)
3) include/linux/export.h defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
4) include/linux/kernel.h defines SYMBOL_PREFIX (which differs from #7)
5) kernel/modsign_certificate.S defines ASM_SYMBOL(sym)
6) scripts/modpost.c defines MODULE_SYMBOL_PREFIX
7) scripts/Makefile.lib defines SYMBOL_PREFIX on the commandline if
CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set, so that we have a non-string version
for pasting.(arch/h8300/include/asm/linkage.h defines SYMBOL_NAME(), too).
Let's solve this properly:
1) No more generic prefix, just CONFIG_HAVE_UNDERSCORE_SYMBOL_PREFIX.
2) Make linux/export.h usable from asm.
3) Define VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR().
4) Make everyone use them.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Reviewed-by: James Hogan
Tested-by: James Hogan (metag)
13 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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asm/cmpxchg.h can be included on its own and needs to be self-consistent.
The definitions for the cmpxchg*_local macros, as such, need to be part
of this file.This fixes a build issue on OpenRISC since the system.h smashing patch
96f951edb1f1bdbbc99b0cd458f9808bb83d58ae that introdued the direct inclusion
asm/cmpxchg.h into linux/llist.h.CC: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
04 Mar, 2013
2 commits
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take them to asm/linkage.h, with default in linux/linkage.h
Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Pull new ImgTec Meta architecture from James Hogan:
"This adds core architecture support for Imagination's Meta processor
cores, followed by some later miscellaneous arch/metag cleanups and
fixes which I kept separate to ease review:- Support for basic Meta 1 (ATP) and Meta 2 (HTP) core architecture
- A few fixes all over, particularly for symbol prefixes
- A few privilege protection fixes
- Several cleanups (setup.c includes, split out a lot of
metag_ksyms.c)
- Fix some missing exports
- Convert hugetlb to use vm_unmapped_area()
- Copy device tree to non-init memory
- Provide dma_get_sgtable()"* tag 'metag-v3.9-rc1-v4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jhogan/metag: (61 commits)
metag: Provide dma_get_sgtable()
metag: prom.h: remove declaration of metag_dt_memblock_reserve()
metag: copy devicetree to non-init memory
metag: cleanup metag_ksyms.c includes
metag: move mm/init.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move usercopy.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move setup.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move kick.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move traps.c exports out of metag_ksyms.c
metag: move irq enable out of irqflags.h on SMP
genksyms: fix metag symbol prefix on crc symbols
metag: hugetlb: convert to vm_unmapped_area()
metag: export clear_page and copy_page
metag: export metag_code_cache_flush_all
metag: protect more non-MMU memory regions
metag: make TXPRIVEXT bits explicit
metag: kernel/setup.c: sort includes
perf: Enable building perf tools for Meta
metag: add boot time LNKGET/LNKSET check
metag: add __init to metag_cache_probe()
...
03 Mar, 2013
2 commits
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Some architectures have symbol prefixes and set CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX,
but this wasn't taken into account by the generic cond_syscall. It's
easy enough to fix in a generic fashion, so add the symbol prefix to
symbol names in cond_syscall when CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX is set.Signed-off-by: James Hogan
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger -
Make asm-generic/io.h check CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS before defining
virt_to_bus() and bus_to_virt(), otherwise it's easy to accidentally
have a silently failing incorrect direct mapped definition rather then
no definition at all.Signed-off-by: James Hogan
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
02 Mar, 2013
1 commit
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Pull new ARC architecture from Vineet Gupta:
"Initial ARC Linux port with some fixes on top for 3.9-rc1:I would like to introduce the Linux port to ARC Processors (from
Synopsys) for 3.9-rc1. The patch-set has been discussed on the public
lists since Nov and has received a fair bit of review, specially from
Arnd, tglx, Al and other subsystem maintainers for DeviceTree, kgdb...The arch bits are in arch/arc, some asm-generic changes (acked by
Arnd), a minor change to PARISC (acked by Helge).The series is a touch bigger for a new port for 2 main reasons:
1. It enables a basic kernel in first sub-series and adds
ptrace/kgdb/.. later2. Some of the fallout of review (DeviceTree support, multi-platform-
image support) were added on top of orig series, primarily to
record the revision history.This updated pull request additionally contains
- fixes due to our GNU tools catching up with the new syscall/ptrace
ABI- some (minor) cross-arch Kconfig updates."
* tag 'arc-v3.9-rc1-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: (82 commits)
ARC: split elf.h into uapi and export it for userspace
ARC: Fixup the current ABI version
ARC: gdbserver using regset interface possibly broken
ARC: Kconfig cleanup tracking cross-arch Kconfig pruning in merge window
ARC: make a copy of flat DT
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] DT arc-uart bindings change: "baud" => "current-speed"
ARC: Ensure CONFIG_VIRT_TO_BUS is not enabled
ARC: Fix pt_orig_r8 access
ARC: [3.9] Fallout of hlist iterator update
ARC: 64bit RTSC timestamp hardware issue
ARC: Don't fiddle with non-existent caches
ARC: Add self to MAINTAINERS
ARC: Provide a default serial.h for uart drivers needing BASE_BAUD
ARC: [plat-arcfpga] defconfig for fully loaded ARC Linux
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #8: platform registers SMP callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #7: SMP common code to use callbacks
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #6: cpu-to-dma-addr optional
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #5: NR_IRQS defined by ARC core
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #4: Isolate platform headers
ARC: [Review] Multi-platform image #3: switch to board callback
...
27 Feb, 2013
3 commits
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Pull microblaze update from Michal Simek:
"Microblaze changes.After my discussion with Arnd I have also added there asm-generic io
patch which is Acked by him and Geert."* 'next' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
asm-generic: io: Fix ioread16/32be and iowrite16/32be
microblaze: Do not use module.h in files which are not modules
microblaze: Fix coding style issues
microblaze: Add missing return from debugfs_tlb
microblaze: Makefile clean
microblaze: Add .gitignore entries for auto-generated files
microblaze: Fix strncpy_from_user macro -
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cputime: Use local_clock() for full dynticks cputime accounting
cputime: Constify timeval_to_cputime(timeval) argument
sched: Move RR_TIMESLICE from sysctl.h to rt.h
sched: Fix /proc/sched_debug failure on very very large systems
sched: Fix /proc/sched_stat failure on very very large systems
sched/core: Remove the obsolete and unused nr_uninterruptible() function -
Pull GPIO changes from Grant Likely:
"This branch contains the usual set of individual driver improvements
and bug fixes, as well as updates to the core code. The more notable
changes include:- Internally add new API for referencing GPIOs by gpio_desc instead
of number. Eventually this will become a public API- ACPI GPIO binding support"
* tag 'gpio-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux: (33 commits)
arm64: select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
gpio: em: Use irq_domain_add_simple() to fix runtime error
gpio: using common order: let 'static const' instead of 'const static'
gpio/vt8500: memory cleanup missing
gpiolib: Fix locking on gpio debugfs files
gpiolib: let gpio_chip reference its descriptors
gpiolib: use descriptors internally
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiochip_find_base
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in sysfs ops
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiochip_find
gpiolib: use gpio_chips list in gpiolib_sysfs_init
gpiolib: link all gpio_chips using a list
gpio/langwell: cleanup driver
gpio/langwell: Add Cloverview ids to pci device table
gpio/lynxpoint: add chipset gpio driver.
gpiolib: add missing braces in gpio_direction_show
gpiolib-acpi: Fix error checks in interrupt requesting
gpio: mpc8xxx: don't set IRQ_TYPE_NONE when creating irq mapping
gpiolib: remove gpiochip_reserve()
arm: pxa: tosa: do not use gpiochip_reserve()
...
24 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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Saw the following compiler warning on the linux-next tree:
kernel/itimer.c: In function 'set_cpu_itimer':
kernel/itimer.c:152:2: warning: passing argument 1 of 'timeval_to_cputime' discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [enabled by default]
...timeval_to_cputime() is always passed a constant timeval in
argument, we need to teach the nsecs based cputime
implementation about that.Signed-off-by: Li Zhong
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Kevin Hilman
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361636925-22288-2-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Kevin Hilman -
Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro:
"This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will
contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches.- a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat)
unified.- a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
(fixing several potential problems with missing argument
validation, while we are at it)- a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed
- a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save
altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the
(uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed.- microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once
- saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several
architectures switched to using those."* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits)
x86: convert to ksignal
sparc: convert to ksignal
arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing
alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer
burying unused conditionals
make do_sigaltstack() static
arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only)
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction()
arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending()
arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask()
arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack
sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend
sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE
sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls
kill sparc32_open()
sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction
sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE
mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone()
...
23 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the rwsem lock-steal improvements, both to the
assembly optimized and the spinlock based variants.The other notable change is the clean up of the seqlock implementation
to be based on the seqcount infrastructure.The rest is assorted smaller debuggability, cleanup and continued -rt
locking changes."* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rwsem-spinlock: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
futex: Revert "futex: Mark get_robust_list as deprecated"
generic: Use raw local irq variant for generic cmpxchg
lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlock
seqlock: Use seqcount infrastructure
seqlock: Remove unused functions
ntp: Make ntp_lock raw
intel_idle: Convert i7300_idle_lock to raw_spinlock
locking: Various static lock initializer fixes
lockdep: Print more info when MAX_LOCK_DEPTH is exceeded
rwsem: Implement writer lock-stealing for better scalability
lockdep: Silence warning if CONFIG_LOCKDEP isn't set
watchdog: Use local_clock for get_timestamp()
lockdep: Rename print_unlock_inbalance_bug() to print_unlock_imbalance_bug()
locking/stat: Fix a typo
22 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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Pull s390 update from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The most prominent change in this patch set is the software dirty bit
patch for s390. It removes __HAVE_ARCH_PAGE_TEST_AND_CLEAR_DIRTY and
the page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive which makes the common memory
management code a bit less obscure.Heiko fixed most of the PCI related fallout, more often than not
missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies. Notable is one of the 3270
patches which adds an export to tty_io to be able to resize a tty.The rest is the usual bunch of cleanups and bug fixes."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (42 commits)
s390/module: Add missing R_390_NONE relocation type
drivers/gpio: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQ dependency
drivers/input: add couple of missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependencies
s390/cleanup: rename SPP to LPP
s390/mm: implement software dirty bits
s390/mm: Fix crst upgrade of mmap with MAP_FIXED
s390/linker skript: discard exit.data at runtime
drivers/media: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
s390/bpf,jit: add vlan tag support
drivers/net,AT91RM9200: add missing GENERIC_HARDIRQS dependency
iucv: fix kernel panic at reboot
s390/Kconfig: sort list of arch selected config options
phylib: remove !S390 dependeny from Kconfig
uio: remove !S390 dependency from Kconfig
dasd: fix sysfs cleanup in dasd_generic_remove
s390/pci: fix hotplug module init
s390/pci: cleanup clp page allocation
s390/pci: cleanup clp inline assembly
s390/perf: cpum_cf: fallback to software sampling events
s390/mm: provide PAGE_SHARED define
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Pull ARM SoC cleanups from Arnd Bergmann:
"A large number of cleanups, all over the platforms. This is dominated
largely by the Samsung platforms (s3c, s5p, exynos) and a few of the
others moving code out of arch/arm into more appropriate subsystems.The clocksource and irqchip drivers are now abstracted to the point
where platforms that are already cleaned up do not need to even
specify the driver they use, it can all get configured from the device
tree as we do for normal device drivers. The clocksource changes
basically touch every single platform in the process.We further clean up the use of platform specific header files here,
with the goal of turning more of the platforms over to being
"multiplatform" enabled, which implies that they cannot expose their
headers to architecture independent code any more.It is expected that no functional changes are part of the cleanup.
The overall reduction in total code lines is mostly the result of
removing broken and obsolete code."* tag 'cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (133 commits)
ARM: mvebu: correct gated clock documentation
ARM: kirkwood: add missing include for nsa310
ARM: exynos: move exynos4210-combiner to drivers/irqchip
mfd: db8500-prcmu: update resource passing
drivers/db8500-cpufreq: delete dangling include
ARM: at91: remove NEOCORE 926 board
sunxi: Cleanup the reset code and add meaningful registers defines
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-power.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: header mach/regs-s3c2412-mem.h local
ARM: S3C24XX: Remove plat-s3c24xx directory in arch/arm/
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2443 subirqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2443 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2443 irq code to irq.c
ARM: S3C24XX: transform s3c2416 irqs into new structure
ARM: S3C24XX: modify s3c2416 irq init to initialize all irqs
ARM: S3C24XX: move s3c2416 irq init to common irq code
ARM: S3C24XX: Modify s3c_irq_wake to use the hwirq property
ARM: S3C24XX: Move irq syscore-ops to irq-pm
clocksource: always define CLOCKSOURCE_OF_DECLARE
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21 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Pull clock framework update from Michael Turquette:
"The common clock framework changes for 3.9 are almost entirely fixes.None are dire enough to be Cc'd to stable which may be interpreted to
mean that users of the framework are reaching stability. Lots of new
adoption of this framework is via DeviceTree data and that comes
through the respective architecture and platform trees instead of
through the clk framework tree.Two new features are improved debugfs output and an improvement to how
DT clocks are initialized by reusing a common method."* tag 'clk-for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mturquette/linux: (25 commits)
clk: sunxi: remove stale Makefile entry
clk: vexpress: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: zynq: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: vt8500: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: highbank: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: sunxi: Use common of_clk_init() function
clk: add common of_clk_init() function
clk: Deduplicate exit code in clk_set_rate
clk: beautify Makefile
clk-divider: fix macros
clk: prima2: enable dt-binding clkdev mapping
clk: mxs: Index is always positive
clk: max77686: Avoid double free at remove time
clk: remove exported function from __init section
clk: vt8500: Add support for WM8750/WM8850 PLL clocks
clk: vt8500: Fix division-by-0 when requested rate=0
clk: vt8500: Fix device clock divisor calculations
clk: vt8500: Fix error in PLL calculations on non-exact match.
clk: max77686: Remove unnecessary NULL checking for container_of()
clk: JSON debugfs clock tree summary
...
19 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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The interrupt disabled region is extremly tiny and therefor not
latency relevant. Avoid cluttering the traces with those pointless
entries.Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
14 Feb, 2013
3 commits
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The s390 architecture is unique in respect to dirty page detection,
it uses the change bit in the per-page storage key to track page
modifications. All other architectures track dirty bits by means
of page table entries. This property of s390 has caused numerous
problems in the past, e.g. see git commit ef5d437f71afdf4a
"mm: fix XFS oops due to dirty pages without buffers on s390".To avoid future issues in regard to per-page dirty bits convert
s390 to a fault based software dirty bit detection mechanism. All
user page table entries which are marked as clean will be hardware
read-only, even if the pte is supposed to be writable. A write by
the user process will trigger a protection fault which will cause
the user pte to be marked as dirty and the hardware read-only bit
is removed.With this change the dirty bit in the storage key is irrelevant
for Linux as a host, but the storage key is still required for
KVM guests. The effect is that page_test_and_clear_dirty and the
related code can be removed. The referenced bit in the storage
key is still used by the page_test_and_clear_young primitive to
provide page age information.For page cache pages of mappings with mapping_cap_account_dirty
there will not be any change in behavior as the dirty bit tracking
already uses read-only ptes to control the amount of dirty pages.
Only for swap cache pages and pages of mappings without
mapping_cap_account_dirty there can be additional protection faults.
To avoid an excessive number of additional faults the mk_pte
primitive checks for PageDirty if the pgprot value allows for writes
and pre-dirties the pte. That avoids all additional faults for
tmpfs and shmem pages until these pages are added to the swap cache.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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E.g. readl is defined like this
#define readl(addr) __le32_to_cpu(__raw_readl(addr))
If a there is a readl() call that doesn't check the return value
this will cause a compile warning on big endian machines due to
the __le32_to_cpu macro magic.E.g. code like this:
readl(addr);
will generate the following compile warning:
warning: value computed is not used [-Wunused-value]
With this patch we get rid of dozens of compile warnings on s390.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky -
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGACTION,
__ARCH_WANT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_RT_SIGSUSPEND,
__ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_SYS_SCHED_RR_GET_INTERVAL - not used anymore
CONFIG_GENERIC_{SIGALTSTACK,COMPAT_RT_SIG{ACTION,QUEUEINFO,PENDING,PROCMASK}} -
can be assumed always set.
12 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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Fix ioreadXXbe and iowriteXXbe functions which did
additional little endian conversion on native big endian systems.
Using be_to_cpu (cpu_to_be) conversions with __raw_read/write
functions have resolved it.Signed-off-by: Michal Simek
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven
CC: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
CC: Will Deacon
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Add a pointer to the gpio_chip structure that references the array of
GPIO descriptors belonging to the chip, and update gpiolib code to use
this pointer instead of the global gpio_desc[] array. This is another
step towards the removal of the gpio_desc[] global array.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely
11 Feb, 2013
3 commits
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arches can have more efficient implementation of these routines
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta -
As of now these default to calling the arch provided __copy_{to,from}_user()
routines which being general purpose (w.r.t buffer alignment and lengths)
would lead to alignment checks in generated code (for arches which don't
support unaligned load/stores).Given that in this case we already know that data involved is "unit"
sized and aligned, using the vanilla copy backend is a bit wasteful.This change thus allows arches to over-ride the aforementioned routines.
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann -
This is because mm_segment_t is exported by arch code, while seqment_eq
assumes it will have .seg element.Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta
09 Feb, 2013
1 commit
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Add a list member to gpio_chip that allows all chips to be parsed
quickly. The current method requires parsing the entire GPIO integer
space, which is painfully slow. Using a list makes many chip operations
that involve lookup or parsing faster, and also simplifies the code. It
is also necessary to eventually get rid of the global gpio_desc[] array.The list of gpio_chips is always ordered by base GPIO number to ensure
chips traversal is done in the right order.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely
05 Feb, 2013
2 commits
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…usw/linux-gpio.git into gpio/next
Device driver features, cleanups and bug fixes.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
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…x/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks into sched/core
Pull full-dynticks (user-space execution is undisturbed and
receives no timer IRQs) preparation changes that convert the
cputime accounting code to be full-dynticks ready,
from Frederic Weisbecker:"This implements the cputime accounting on full dynticks CPUs.
Typical cputime stats infrastructure relies on the timer tick and
its periodic polling on the CPU to account the amount of time
spent by the CPUs and the tasks per high level domains such as
userspace, kernelspace, guest, ...Now we are preparing to implement full dynticks capability on
Linux for Real Time and HPC users who want full CPU isolation.
This feature requires a cputime accounting that doesn't depend
on the timer tick.To implement it, this new cputime infrastructure plugs into
kernel/user/guest boundaries to take snapshots of cputime and
flush these to the stats when needed. This performs pretty
much like CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING except that context location
and cputime snaphots are synchronized between write and read
side such that the latter can safely retrieve the pending tickless
cputime of a task and add it to its latest cputime snapshot to
return the correct result to the user."Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
