21 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Remove the documentation for capability.disable. The code supporting
this parameter was removed with commit 5915eb53861c ("security: remove
dummy module")Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn
Cc: Rob Landley
Cc: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
18 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Current mem= implementation seems buggy because the specification and
implementation don't match. The current mem= has been working for many
years and it's not buggy - it works as expected. So we should update the
specification.Signed-off-by: Wen Congyang
Cc: Rob Landley
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
17 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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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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13 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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Pull networking changes from David Miller:
1) Allow to dump, monitor, and change the bridge multicast database
using netlink. From Cong Wang.2) RFC 5961 TCP blind data injection attack mitigation, from Eric
Dumazet.3) Networking user namespace support from Eric W. Biederman.
4) tuntap/virtio-net multiqueue support by Jason Wang.
5) Support for checksum offload of encapsulated packets (basically,
tunneled traffic can still be checksummed by HW). From Joseph
Gasparakis.6) Allow BPF filter access to VLAN tags, from Eric Dumazet and
Daniel Borkmann.7) Bridge port parameters over netlink and BPDU blocking support
from Stephen Hemminger.8) Improve data access patterns during inet socket demux by rearranging
socket layout, from Eric Dumazet.9) TIPC protocol updates and cleanups from Ying Xue, Paul Gortmaker, and
Jon Maloy.10) Update TCP socket hash sizing to be more in line with current day
realities. The existing heurstics were choosen a decade ago.
From Eric Dumazet.11) Fix races, queue bloat, and excessive wakeups in ATM and
associated drivers, from Krzysztof Mazur and David Woodhouse.12) Support DOVE (Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet) extensions
in VXLAN driver, from David Stevens.13) Add "oops_only" mode to netconsole, from Amerigo Wang.
14) Support set and query of VEB/VEPA bridge mode via PF_BRIDGE, also
allow DCB netlink to work on namespaces other than the initial
namespace. From John Fastabend.15) Support PTP in the Tigon3 driver, from Matt Carlson.
16) tun/vhost zero copy fixes and improvements, plus turn it on
by default, from Michael S. Tsirkin.17) Support per-association statistics in SCTP, from Michele
Baldessari.And many, many, driver updates, cleanups, and improvements. Too
numerous to mention individually.* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1722 commits)
net/mlx4_en: Add support for destination MAC in steering rules
net/mlx4_en: Use generic etherdevice.h functions.
net: ethtool: Add destination MAC address to flow steering API
bridge: add support of adding and deleting mdb entries
bridge: notify mdb changes via netlink
ndisc: Unexport ndisc_{build,send}_skb().
uapi: add missing netconf.h to export list
pkt_sched: avoid requeues if possible
solos-pci: fix double-free of TX skb in DMA mode
bnx2: Fix accidental reversions.
bna: Driver Version Updated to 3.1.2.1
bna: Firmware update
bna: Add RX State
bna: Rx Page Based Allocation
bna: TX Intr Coalescing Fix
bna: Tx and Rx Optimizations
bna: Code Cleanup and Enhancements
ath9k: check pdata variable before dereferencing it
ath5k: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
ath9k_htc: RX timestamp is reported at end of frame
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12 Dec, 2012
3 commits
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Pull x86 timer update from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree includes HPET fixes and also implements a calibration-free,
TSC match driven APIC timer interrupt mode: 'TSC deadline mode'
supported in SandyBridge and later CPUs."* 'x86-timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: hpet: Fix inverted return value check in arch_setup_hpet_msi()
x86: hpet: Fix masking of MSI interrupts
x86: apic: Use tsc deadline for oneshot when available -
Pull x86 BSP hotplug changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This tree enables CPU#0 (the boot processor) to be onlined/offlined on
x86, just like any other CPU. Enabled on Intel CPUs for now.Allowing this required the identification and fixing of latent CPU#0
assumptions (such as CPU#0 initializations, etc.) in the x86
architecture code, plus the identification of barriers to
BSP-offlining, such as active PIC interrupts which can only be
serviced on the BSP.It's behind a default-off option, and there's a debug option that
allows the automatic testing of this feature.The motivation of this feature is to allow and prepare for true
CPU-hotplug hardware support: recent changes to MCE support enable us
to detect a deteriorating but not yet hard-failing L1/L2 cache on a
CPU that could be soft-unplugged - or a failing L3 cache on a
multi-socket system.Note that true hardware hot-plug is not yet fully enabled by this,
because that requires a special platform wakeup sequence to be sent to
the freshly powered up CPU#0. Future patches for this are planned,
once such a platform exists. Chicken and egg"* 'x86-bsp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, topology: Debug CPU0 hotplug
x86/i387.c: Initialize thread xstate only on CPU0 only once
x86, hotplug: Handle retrigger irq by the first available CPU
x86, hotplug: The first online processor saves the MTRR state
x86, hotplug: During CPU0 online, enable x2apic, set_numa_node.
x86, hotplug: Wake up CPU0 via NMI instead of INIT, SIPI, SIPI
x86-32, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_32.S
x86-64, hotplug: Add start_cpu0() entry point to head_64.S
kernel/cpu.c: Add comment for priority in cpu_hotplug_pm_callback
x86, hotplug, suspend: Online CPU0 for suspend or hibernate
x86, hotplug: Support functions for CPU0 online/offline
x86, topology: Don't offline CPU0 if any PIC irq can not be migrated out of it
x86, Kconfig: Add config switch for CPU0 hotplug
doc: Add x86 CPU0 online/offline feature -
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of activity:211 files changed, 8328 insertions(+), 4116 deletions(-)
most of it on the tooling side.
Main changes:
* ftrace enhancements and fixes from Steve Rostedt.
* uprobes fixes, cleanups and preparation for the ARM port from Oleg
Nesterov.* UAPI fixes, from David Howels - prepares the arch/x86 UAPI
transition* Separate perf tests into multiple objects, one per test, from Jiri
Olsa.* Make hardware event translations available in sysfs, from Jiri
Olsa.* Fixes to /proc/pid/maps parsing, preparatory to supporting data
maps, from Namhyung Kim* Implement ui_progress for GTK, from Namhyung Kim
* Add framework for automated perf_event_attr tests, where tools with
different command line options will be run from a 'perf test', via
python glue, and the perf syscall will be intercepted to verify
that the perf_event_attr fields set by the tool are those expected,
from Jiri Olsa* Add a 'link' method for hists, so that we can have the leader with
buckets for all the entries in all the hists. This new method is
now used in the default 'diff' output, making the sum of the
'baseline' column be 100%, eliminating blind spots.* libtraceevent fixes for compiler warnings trying to make perf it
build on some distros, like fedora 14, 32-bit, some of the warnings
really pointed to real bugs.* Add a browser for 'perf script' and make it available from the
report and annotate browsers. It does filtering to find the
scripts that handle events found in the perf.data file used. From
Feng Tang* perf inject changes to allow showing where a task sleeps, from
Andrew Vagin.* Makefile improvements from Namhyung Kim.
* Add --pre and --post command hooks in 'stat', from Peter Zijlstra.
* Don't stop synthesizing threads when one vanishes, this is for the
existing threads when we start a tool like trace.* Use sched:sched_stat_runtime to provide a thread summary, this
produces the same output as the 'trace summary' subcommand of
tglx's original "trace" tool.* Support interrupted syscalls in 'trace'
* Add an event duration column and filter in 'trace'.
* There are references to the man pages in some tools, so try to
build Documentation when installing, warning the user if that is
not possible, from Borislav Petkov.* Give user better message if precise is not supported, from David
Ahern.* Try to find cross-built objdump path by using the session
environment information in the perf.data file header, from Irina
Tirdea, original patch and idea by Namhyung Kim.* Diplays more output on features check for make V=1, so that one can
figure out what is happening by looking at gcc output, etc. From
Jiri Olsa.* Add on_exit implementation for systems without one, e.g. Android,
from Bernhard Rosenkraenzer.* Only process events for vcpus of interest, helps handling large
number of events, from David Ahern.* Cross compilation fixes for Android, from Irina Tirdea.
* Add documentation on compiling for Android, from Irina Tirdea.
* perf diff improvements from Jiri Olsa.
* Target (task/user/cpu/syswide) handling improvements, from Namhyung
Kim.* Add support in 'trace' for tracing workload given by command line,
from Namhyung Kim.* ... and much more."
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (194 commits)
uprobes: Use percpu_rw_semaphore to fix register/unregister vs dup_mmap() race
perf evsel: Introduce is_group_member method
perf powerpc: Use uapi/unistd.h to fix build error
tools: Pass the target in descend
tools: Honour the O= flag when tool build called from a higher Makefile
tools: Define a Makefile function to do subdir processing
perf ui: Always compile browser setup code
perf ui: Add ui_progress__finish()
perf ui gtk: Implement ui_progress functions
perf ui: Introduce generic ui_progress helper
perf ui tui: Move progress.c under ui/tui directory
perf tools: Add basic event modifier sanity check
perf tools: Omit group members from perf_evlist__disable/enable
perf tools: Ensure single disable call per event in record comand
perf tools: Fix 'disabled' attribute config for record command
perf tools: Fix attributes for '{}' defined event groups
perf tools: Use sscanf for parsing /proc/pid/maps
perf tools: Add gtk. config option for launching GTK browser
perf tools: Fix compile error on NO_NEWT=1 build
perf hists: Initialize all of he->stat with zeroes
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11 Dec, 2012
1 commit
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This patch adds Kconfig options and kernel parameters to allow the
enabling and disabling of automatic NUMA balancing. The existance
of such a switch was and is very important when debugging problems
related to transparent hugepages and we should have the same for
automatic NUMA placement.Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman
17 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency. This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads. If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups. At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
16 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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This driver supports GRCAN and CRHCAN CAN controllers available in the GRLIB
VHDL IP core library.Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson
Acked-by: Wolfgang Grandegger
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde
15 Nov, 2012
1 commit
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If CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0 is turned on, CPU0 is hotpluggable. Otherwise,
by default CPU0 is not hotpluggable and kernel parameter cpu0_hotplug enables
CPU0 online/offline feature.The documentations point out two known CPU0 dependencies. First, resume from
hibernate or suspend always starts from CPU0. So hibernate and suspend are
prevented if CPU0 is offline. Another dependency is PIC interrupts always go
to CPU0.It's said that some machines may depend on CPU0 to poweroff/reboot. But I
haven't seen such dependency on a few tested machines.Please let me know if you see any CPU0 dependencies on your machine.
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1352835171-3958-2-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
02 Nov, 2012
2 commits
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Add trace_options to the kernel command line parameter to be able to
set options at early boot. For example, to enable stack dumps of
events, add the following:trace_options=stacktrace
This along with the trace_event option, you can get not only
traces of the events but also the stack dumps with them.Requested-by: Frederic Weisbecker
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt -
If the TSC deadline mode is supported, LAPIC timer one-shot mode can be
implemented using IA32_TSC_DEADLINE MSR. An interrupt will be generated
when the TSC value equals or exceeds the value in the IA32_TSC_DEADLINE
MSR.This enables us to skip the APIC calibration during boot. Also, in
xapic mode, this enables us to skip the uncached apic access to re-arm
the APIC timer.As this timer ticks at the high frequency TSC rate, we use the
TSC_DIVISOR (32) to work with the 32-bit restrictions in the
clockevent API's to avoid 64-bit divides etc (frequency is u32 and
"unsigned long" in the set_next_event(), max_delta limits the next
event to 32-bit for 32-bit kernel).Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
Cc: venki@google.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1350941878.6017.31.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
15 Oct, 2012
1 commit
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Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
"module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.
* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
module: signature checking hook
X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
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10 Oct, 2012
2 commits
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Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
"Features include:- Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependency from NFSv4.1
Aside from the issues discussed at the LKS, distros are shipping
NFSv4.1 with all the trimmings.
- Fix fdatasync()/fsync() for the corner case of a server reboot.
- NFSv4 OPEN access fix: finally distinguish correctly between
open-for-read and open-for-execute permissions in all situations.
- Ensure that the TCP socket is closed when we're in CLOSE_WAIT
- More idmapper bugfixes
- Lots of pNFS bugfixes and cleanups to remove unnecessary state and
make the code easier to read.
- In cases where a pNFS read or write fails, allow the client to
resume trying layoutgets after two minutes of read/write-
through-mds.
- More net namespace fixes to the NFSv4 callback code.
- More net namespace fixes to the NFSv3 locking code.
- More NFSv4 migration preparatory patches.
Including patches to detect network trunking in both NFSv4 and
NFSv4.1
- pNFS block updates to optimise LAYOUTGET calls."* tag 'nfs-for-3.7-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (113 commits)
pnfsblock: cleanup nfs4_blkdev_get
NFS41: send real read size in layoutget
NFS41: send real write size in layoutget
NFS: track direct IO left bytes
NFSv4.1: Cleanup ugliness in pnfs_layoutgets_blocked()
NFSv4.1: Ensure that the layout sequence id stays 'close' to the current
NFSv4.1: Deal with seqid wraparound in the pNFS return-on-close code
NFSv4 set open access operation call flag in nfs4_init_opendata_res
NFSv4.1: Remove the dependency on CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL
NFSv4 reduce attribute requests for open reclaim
NFSv4: nfs4_open_done first must check that GETATTR decoded a file type
NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound when updating the layout "barrier" seqid
NFSv4.1: Deal with wraparound issues when updating the layout stateid
NFSv4.1: Always set the layout stateid if this is the first layoutget
NFSv4.1: Fix another refcount issue in pnfs_find_alloc_layout
NFSv4: don't put ACCESS in OPEN compound if O_EXCL
NFSv4: don't check MAY_WRITE access bit in OPEN
NFS: Set key construction data for the legacy upcall
NFSv4.1: don't do two EXCHANGE_IDs on mount
NFS: nfs41_walk_client_list(): re-lock before iterating
... -
We do a very simple search for a particular string appended to the module
(which is cache-hot and about to be SHA'd anyway). There's both a config
option and a boot parameter which control whether we accept or fail with
unsigned modules and modules that are signed with an unknown key.If module signing is enabled, the kernel will be tainted if a module is
loaded that is unsigned or has a signature for which we don't have the
key.(Useful feedback and tweaks by David Howells )
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: David Howells
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
03 Oct, 2012
2 commits
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"Highlights:- Integrity: add local fs integrity verification to detect offline
attacks
- Integrity: add digital signature verification
- Simple stacking of Yama with other LSMs (per LSS discussions)
- IBM vTPM support on ppc64
- Add new driver for Infineon I2C TIS TPM
- Smack: add rule revocation for subject labels"Fixed conflicts with the user namespace support in kernel/auditsc.c and
security/integrity/ima/ima_policy.c.* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (39 commits)
Documentation: Update git repository URL for Smack userland tools
ima: change flags container data type
Smack: setprocattr memory leak fix
Smack: implement revoking all rules for a subject label
Smack: remove task_wait() hook.
ima: audit log hashes
ima: generic IMA action flag handling
ima: rename ima_must_appraise_or_measure
audit: export audit_log_task_info
tpm: fix tpm_acpi sparse warning on different address spaces
samples/seccomp: fix 31 bit build on s390
ima: digital signature verification support
ima: add support for different security.ima data types
ima: add ima_inode_setxattr/removexattr function and calls
ima: add inode_post_setattr call
ima: replace iint spinblock with rwlock/read_lock
ima: allocating iint improvements
ima: add appraise action keywords and default rules
ima: integrity appraisal extension
vfs: move ima_file_free before releasing the file
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This is a large set of updates, mostly for drivers (qla2xxx [including
support for new 83xx based card], qla4xxx, mpt2sas, bfa, zfcp, hpsa,
be2iscsi, isci, lpfc, ipr, ibmvfc, ibmvscsi, megaraid_sas).There's also a rework for tape adding virtually unlimited numbers of
tape drives plus a set of dif fixes for sd and a fix for a live lock
on hot remove of SCSI devices.This round includes a signed tag pull of isci-for-3.6
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley "
Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx.c due to new PCI
helper function use in a function that was removed by this pull.* tag 'scsi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (198 commits)
[SCSI] st: remove st_mutex
[SCSI] sd: Ensure we correctly disable devices with unknown protection type
[SCSI] hpsa: gen8plus Smart Array IDs
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Update driver version to 5.03.00-k1
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Disable generating pause frames for ISP83XX
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double clearing of risc_intr for ISP83XX
[SCSI] qla4xxx: IDC implementation for Loopback
[SCSI] qla4xxx: update copyrights in LICENSE.qla4xxx
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix panic while rmmod
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fail probe_adapter if IRQ allocation fails
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Prevent MSI/MSI-X falling back to INTx for ISP82XX
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Update idc reg in case of PCI AER
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix double IDC locking in qla4_8xxx_error_recovery
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Clear interrupt while unloading driver for ISP83XX
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Print correct IDC version
[SCSI] qla4xxx: Added new mbox cmd to pass driver version to FW
[SCSI] scsi_dh_alua: Enable STPG for unavailable ports
[SCSI] scsi_remove_target: fix softlockup regression on hot remove
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Fix host config length field overflow
[SCSI] ibmvscsi: Remove backend abstraction
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02 Oct, 2012
4 commits
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An optional boot parameter is introduced to allow client
administrators to specify a string that the Linux NFS client can
insert into its nfs_client_id4 id string, to make it both more
globally unique, and to ensure that it doesn't change even if the
client's nodename changes.If this boot parameter is not specified, the client's nodename is
used, as before.Client installation procedures can create a unique string (typically,
a UUID) which remains unchanged during the lifetime of that client
instance. This works just like creating a UUID for the label of the
system's root and boot volumes.Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust -
Pull x86/smap support from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds support for the SMAP (Supervisor Mode Access Prevention) CPU
feature on Intel CPUs: a hardware feature that prevents unintended
user-space data access from kernel privileged code.It's turned on automatically when possible.
This, in combination with SMEP, makes it even harder to exploit kernel
bugs such as NULL pointer dereferences."Fix up trivial conflict in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S due to newly added
includes right next to each other.* 'x86-smap-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, smep, smap: Make the switching functions one-way
x86, suspend: On wakeup always initialize cr4 and EFER
x86-32: Start out eflags and cr4 clean
x86, smap: Do not abuse the [f][x]rstor_checking() functions for user space
x86-32, smap: Add STAC/CLAC instructions to 32-bit kernel entry
x86, smap: Reduce the SMAP overhead for signal handling
x86, smap: A page fault due to SMAP is an oops
x86, smap: Turn on Supervisor Mode Access Prevention
x86, smap: Add STAC and CLAC instructions to control user space access
x86, uaccess: Merge prototypes for clear_user/__clear_user
x86, smap: Add a header file with macros for STAC/CLAC
x86, alternative: Add header guards to
x86, alternative: Use .pushsection/.popsection
x86, smap: Add CR4 bit for SMAP
x86-32, mm: The WP test should be done on a kernel page -
Pull x86/fpu update from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest change is the addition of the non-lazy (eager) FPU saving
support model and enabling it on CPUs with optimized xsaveopt/xrstor
FPU state saving instructions.There are also various Sparse fixes"
Fix up trivial add-add conflict in arch/x86/kernel/traps.c
* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, kvm: fix kvm's usage of kernel_fpu_begin/end()
x86, fpu: remove cpu_has_xmm check in the fx_finit()
x86, fpu: make eagerfpu= boot param tri-state
x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt
x86, fpu: decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore from xsave
x86, fpu: use non-lazy fpu restore for processors supporting xsave
lguest, x86: handle guest TS bit for lazy/non-lazy fpu host models
x86, fpu: always use kernel_fpu_begin/end() for in-kernel FPU usage
x86, kvm: use kernel_fpu_begin/end() in kvm_load/put_guest_fpu()
x86, fpu: remove unnecessary user_fpu_end() in save_xstate_sig()
x86, fpu: drop_fpu() before restoring new state from sigframe
x86, fpu: Unify signal handling code paths for x86 and x86_64 kernels
x86, fpu: Consolidate inline asm routines for saving/restoring fpu state
x86, signal: Cleanup ifdefs and is_ia32, is_x32 -
Pull x86/asm changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The one change that stands out is the alternatives patching change
that prevents us from ever patching back instructions from SMP to UP:
this simplifies things and speeds up CPU hotplug.Other than that it's smaller fixes, cleanups and improvements."
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Unspaghettize do_trap()
x86_64: Work around old GAS bug
x86: Use REP BSF unconditionally
x86: Prefer TZCNT over BFS
x86/64: Adjust types of temporaries used by ffs()/fls()/fls64()
x86: Drop unnecessary kernel_eflags variable on 64-bit
x86/smp: Don't ever patch back to UP if we unplug cpus
23 Sep, 2012
1 commit
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Although almost everyone is well-served by the defaults, some uses of RCU
benefit from shorter grace periods, while others benefit more from the
greater efficiency provided by longer grace periods. Situations requiring
a large number of grace periods to elapse (and wireshark startup has
been called out as an example of this) are helped by lower-latency
grace periods. Furthermore, in some embedded applications, people are
willing to accept a small degradation in update efficiency (due to there
being more of the shorter grace-period operations) in order to gain the
lower latency.In contrast, those few systems with thousands of CPUs need longer grace
periods because the CPU overhead of a grace period rises roughly
linearly with the number of CPUs. Such systems normally do not make
much use of facilities that require large numbers of grace periods to
elapse, so this is a good tradeoff.Therefore, this commit allows the durations to be controlled from sysfs.
There are two sysfs parameters, one named "jiffies_till_first_fqs" that
specifies the delay in jiffies from the end of grace-period initialization
until the first attempt to force quiescent states, and the other named
"jiffies_till_next_fqs" that specifies the delay (again in jiffies)
between subsequent attempts to force quiescent states. They both default
to three jiffies, which is compatible with the old hard-coded behavior.At some future time, it may be possible to automatically increase the
grace-period length with the number of CPUs, but we do not yet have
sufficient data to do a good job. Preliminary data indicates that we
should add an addiitonal jiffy to each of the delays for every 200 CPUs
in the system, but more experimentation is needed. For now, the number
of systems with more than 1,000 CPUs is small enough that this can be
relegated to boot-time hand tuning.Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
22 Sep, 2012
2 commits
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Reason for merge:
x86/fpu changed the structure of some of the code that x86/smap
changes; mostly fpu-internal.h but also minor changes to the
signal code.Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Resolved Conflicts:
arch/x86/ia32/ia32_signal.c
arch/x86/include/asm/fpu-internal.h
arch/x86/kernel/signal.c -
If Supervisor Mode Access Prevention is available and not disabled by
the user, turn it on. Also fix the expansion of SMEP (Supervisor Mode
Execution Prevention.)Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1348256595-29119-10-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
19 Sep, 2012
3 commits
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Add the "eagerfpu=auto" (that selects the default scheme in
enabling eagerfpu) which can override compiled-in boot parameters
like "eagerfpu=on/off" (that force enable/disable eagerfpu).Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-5-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
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xsaveopt/xrstor support optimized state save/restore by tracking the
INIT state and MODIFIED state during context-switch.Enable eagerfpu by default for processors supporting xsaveopt.
Can be disabled by passing "eagerfpu=off" boot parameter.Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-3-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin -
Decouple non-lazy/eager fpu restore policy from the existence of the xsave
feature. Introduce a synthetic CPUID flag to represent the eagerfpu
policy. "eagerfpu=on" boot paramter will enable the policy.Requested-by: H. Peter Anvin
Requested-by: Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347300665-6209-2-git-send-email-suresh.b.siddha@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin
08 Sep, 2012
2 commits
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Unlike the IMA measurement policy, the appraise policy can not be dependent
on runtime process information, such as the task uid, as the 'security.ima'
xattr is written on file close and must be updated each time the file changes,
regardless of the current task uid.This patch extends the policy language with 'fowner', defines an appraise
policy, which appraises all files owned by root, and defines 'ima_appraise_tcb',
a new boot command line option, to enable the appraise policy.Changelog v3:
- separate the measure from the appraise rules in order to support measuring
without appraising and appraising without measuring.
- change appraisal default for filesystems without xattr support to fail
- update default appraise policy for cgroupsChangelog v1:
- don't appraise RAMFS (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- merged rest of "ima: ima_must_appraise_or_measure API change" commit
(Dmtiry Kasatkin)ima_must_appraise_or_measure() called ima_match_policy twice, which
searched the policy for a matching rule. Once for a matching measurement
rule and subsequently for an appraisal rule. Searching the policy twice
is unnecessary overhead, which could be noticeable with a large policy.The new version of ima_must_appraise_or_measure() does everything in a
single iteration using a new version of ima_match_policy(). It returns
IMA_MEASURE, IMA_APPRAISE mask.With the use of action mask only one efficient matching function
is enough. Removed other specific versions of matching functions.Changelog:
- change 'owner' to 'fowner' to conform to the new LSM conditions posted by
Roberto Sassu.
- fix calls to ima_log_string()Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin -
IMA currently maintains an integrity measurement list used to assert the
integrity of the running system to a third party. The IMA-appraisal
extension adds local integrity validation and enforcement of the
measurement against a "good" value stored as an extended attribute
'security.ima'. The initial methods for validating 'security.ima' are
hashed based, which provides file data integrity, and digital signature
based, which in addition to providing file data integrity, provides
authenticity.This patch creates and maintains the 'security.ima' xattr, containing
the file data hash measurement. Protection of the xattr is provided by
EVM, if enabled and configured.Based on policy, IMA calls evm_verifyxattr() to verify a file's metadata
integrity and, assuming success, compares the file's current hash value
with the one stored as an extended attribute in 'security.ima'.Changelov v4:
- changed iint cache flags to hex valuesChangelog v3:
- change appraisal default for filesystems without xattr support to failChangelog v2:
- fix audit msg 'res' value
- removed unused 'ima_appraise=' valuesChangelog v1:
- removed unused iint mutex (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- setattr hook must not reset appraised (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- evm_verifyxattr() now differentiates between no 'security.evm' xattr
(INTEGRITY_NOLABEL) and no EVM 'protected' xattrs included in the
'security.evm' (INTEGRITY_NOXATTRS).
- replace hash_status with ima_status (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- re-initialize slab element ima_status on free (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- include 'security.ima' in EVM if CONFIG_IMA_APPRAISE, not CONFIG_IMA
- merged half "ima: ima_must_appraise_or_measure API change" (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- removed unnecessary error variable in process_measurement() (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- use ima_inode_post_setattr() stub function, if IMA_APPRAISE not configured
(moved ima_inode_post_setattr() to ima_appraise.c)
- make sure ima_collect_measurement() can read fileChangelog:
- add 'iint' to evm_verifyxattr() call (Dimitry Kasatkin)
- fix the race condition between chmod, which takes the i_mutex and then
iint->mutex, and ima_file_free() and process_measurement(), which take
the locks in the reverse order, by eliminating iint->mutex. (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- cleanup of ima_appraise_measurement() (Dmitry Kasatkin)
- changes as a result of the iint not allocated for all regular files, but
only for those measured/appraised.
- don't try to appraise new/empty files
- expanded ima_appraisal description in ima/Kconfig
- IMA appraise definitions required even if IMA_APPRAISE not enabled
- add return value to ima_must_appraise() stub
- unconditionally set status = INTEGRITY_PASS *after* testing status,
not before. (Found by Joe Perches)Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin
24 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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Hotplug testing with libsas currently encounters a 55 second wait for
link recovery to give up. In the case where the user trusts the
response time of their devices permit the recovery attempts to be
limited to one.Signed-off-by: Dan Williams
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik
Acked-by: Tejun Heo
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
23 Aug, 2012
1 commit
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We still patch SMP instructions to UP variants if we boot with a
single CPU, but not at any other time. In particular, not if we
unplug CPUs to return to a single cpu.Paul McKenney points out:
mean offline overhead is 6251/48=130.2 milliseconds.
If I remove the alternatives_smp_switch() from the offline
path [...] the mean offline overhead is 550/42=13.1 millisecondsBasically, we're never going to get those 120ms back, and the
code is pretty messy.We get rid of:
1) The "smp-alt-once" boot option. It's actually "smp-alt-boot", the
documentation is wrong. It's now the default.2) The skip_smp_alternatives flag used by suspend.
3) arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_begin() and arch_disable_nonboot_cpus_end()
which were only used to set this one flag.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell
Cc: Paul McKenney
Cc: Suresh Siddha
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87vcgwwive.fsf@rustcorp.com.au
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
31 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Pull DMA-mapping updates from Marek Szyprowski:
"Those patches are continuation of my earlier work.They contains extensions to DMA-mapping framework to remove limitation
of the current ARM implementation (like limited total size of DMA
coherent/write combine buffers), improve performance of buffer sharing
between devices (attributes to skip cpu cache operations or creation
of additional kernel mapping for some specific use cases) as well as
some unification of the common code for dma_mmap_attrs() and
dma_mmap_coherent() functions. All extensions have been implemented
and tested for ARM architecture."* 'for-linus-for-3.6-rc1' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mszyprowski/linux-dma-mapping:
ARM: dma-mapping: add support for DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_SKIP_CPU_SYNC attribute
ARM: dma-mapping: add support for dma_get_sgtable()
common: dma-mapping: introduce dma_get_sgtable() function
ARM: dma-mapping: add support for DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute
common: DMA-mapping: add DMA_ATTR_NO_KERNEL_MAPPING attribute
common: dma-mapping: add support for generic dma_mmap_* calls
ARM: dma-mapping: fix error path for memory allocation failure
ARM: dma-mapping: add more sanity checks in arm_dma_mmap()
ARM: dma-mapping: remove custom consistent dma region
mm: vmalloc: use const void * for caller argument
scatterlist: add sg_alloc_table_from_pages function
30 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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This patch changes dma-mapping subsystem to use generic vmalloc areas
for all consistent dma allocations. This increases the total size limit
of the consistent allocations and removes platform hacks and a lot of
duplicated code.Atomic allocations are served from special pool preallocated on boot,
because vmalloc areas cannot be reliably created in atomic context.Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski
Reviewed-by: Kyungmin Park
Reviewed-by: Minchan Kim
25 Jul, 2012
2 commits
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"The most important feature of this patch set is the new async
infrastructure that makes sure async_synchronize_full() synchronizes
all domains and allows us to remove all the hacks (like having
scsi_complete_async_scans() in the device base code) and means that
the async infrastructure will "just work" in future.The rest is assorted driver updates (aacraid, bnx2fc, virto-scsi,
megaraid, bfa, lpfc, qla2xxx, qla4xxx) plus a lot of infrastructure
work in sas and FC.Signed-off-by: James Bottomley "
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (97 commits)
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] fix async probe regression"
[SCSI] cleanup usages of scsi_complete_async_scans
[SCSI] queue async scan work to an async_schedule domain
[SCSI] async: make async_synchronize_full() flush all work regardless of domain
[SCSI] async: introduce 'async_domain' type
[SCSI] bfa: Fix to set correct return error codes and misc cleanup.
[SCSI] aacraid: Series 7 Async. (performance) mode support
[SCSI] aha152x: Allow use on 64bit systems
[SCSI] virtio-scsi: Add vdrv->scan for post VIRTIO_CONFIG_S_DRIVER_OK LUN scanning
[SCSI] bfa: squelch lockdep complaint with a spin_lock_init
[SCSI] qla2xxx: remove unnecessary reads of PCI_CAP_ID_EXP
[SCSI] qla4xxx: remove unnecessary read of PCI_CAP_ID_EXP
[SCSI] ufs: fix incorrect return value about SUCCESS and FAILED
[SCSI] ufs: reverse the ufshcd_is_device_present logic
[SCSI] ufs: use module_pci_driver
[SCSI] usb-storage: update usb devices for write cache quirk in quirk list.
[SCSI] usb-storage: add support for write cache quirk
[SCSI] set to WCE if usb cache quirk is present.
[SCSI] virtio-scsi: hotplug support for virtio-scsi
[SCSI] virtio-scsi: split scatterlist per target
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Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
"The most important part of these updates is the IOMMU groups code
enhancement written by Alex Williamson. It abstracts the problem that
a given hardware IOMMU can't isolate any given device from any other
device (e.g. 32 bit PCI devices can't usually be isolated). Devices
that can't be isolated are grouped together. This code is required
for the upcoming VFIO framework.Another IOMMU-API change written by me is the introduction of domain
attributes. This makes it easier to handle GART-like IOMMUs with the
IOMMU-API because now the start-address and the size of the domain
address space can be queried.Besides that there are a few cleanups and fixes for the NVidia Tegra
IOMMU drivers and the reworked init-code for the AMD IOMMU. The
latter is from my patch-set to support interrupt remapping. The rest
of this patch-set requires x86 changes which are not mergabe yet. So
full support for interrupt remapping with AMD IOMMUs will come in a
future merge window."* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (33 commits)
iommu/amd: Fix hotplug with iommu=pt
iommu/amd: Add missing spin_lock initialization
iommu/amd: Convert iommu initialization to state machine
iommu/amd: Introduce amd_iommu_init_dma routine
iommu/amd: Move unmap_flush message to amd_iommu_init_dma_ops()
iommu/amd: Split enable_iommus() routine
iommu/amd: Introduce early_amd_iommu_init routine
iommu/amd: Move informational prinks out of iommu_enable
iommu/amd: Split out PCI related parts of IOMMU initialization
iommu/amd: Use acpi_get_table instead of acpi_table_parse
iommu/amd: Fix sparse warnings
iommu/tegra: Don't call alloc_pdir with as->lock
iommu/tegra: smmu: Fix unsleepable memory allocation at alloc_pdir()
iommu/tegra: smmu: Remove unnecessary sanity check at alloc_pdir()
iommu/exynos: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
iommu/tegra: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
iommu/msm: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
iommu/omap: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
iommu/vt-d: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
iommu/amd: Implement DOMAIN_ATTR_GEOMETRY attribute
...
20 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Add support for write cache quirk on usb hdd. scsi driver will be set to wce
by detecting write cache quirk in quirk list when plugging usb hdd.Signed-off-by: Namjae Jeon
Signed-off-by: Pankaj Kumar
Signed-off-by: Amit Sahrawat
Acked-by: Alan Stern
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley
03 Jul, 2012
1 commit
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Although making RCU_FANOUT_LEAF a kernel configuration parameter rather
than a fixed constant makes it easier for people to decrease cache-miss
overhead for large systems, it is of little help for people who must
run a single pre-built kernel binary.This commit therefore allows the value of RCU_FANOUT_LEAF to be
increased (but not decreased!) via a boot-time parameter named
rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf.Reported-by: Mike Galbraith
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
25 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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The iommu=group_mf is really no longer needed with the addition of ACS
support in IOMMU drivers creating groups. Most multifunction devices
will now be grouped already. If a device has gone to the trouble of
exposing ACS, trust that it works. We can use the device specific ACS
function for fixing devices we trust individually. This largely
reverts bcb71abe.Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson
Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel
05 Jun, 2012
1 commit
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"The clocksource driver is pure hardware enablement and the skew option
is default off, well tested and non dangerous."* 'timers-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
tick: Move skew_tick option into the HIGH_RES_TIMER section
clocksource: em_sti: Add DT support
clocksource: em_sti: Emma Mobile STI driver
clockevents: Make clockevents_config() a global symbol
tick: Add tick skew boot option