13 Sep, 2013
4 commits
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Pull generic hardirq option removal from Martin Schwidefsky:
"All architectures now use generic hardirqs, s390 has been last to
switch.With that the code under !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS and the related
HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS and GENERIC_HARDIRQS config options can be
removed. Yay!"* 'genirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
Remove GENERIC_HARDIRQ config option -
Pull crypto fixes from Herbert Xu:
"This fixes a 7+ year race condition in the crypto API that causes
sporadic crashes when multiple threads load the same algorithm.It also fixes the crct10dif algorithm again to prevent boot failures
on systems where the initramfs tool ignores module softdeps"* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6:
crypto: crct10dif - Add fallback for broken initrds
crypto: api - Fix race condition in larval lookup -
After the last architecture switched to generic hard irqs the config
options HAVE_GENERIC_HARDIRQS & GENERIC_HARDIRQS and the related code
for !CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS can be removed.Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
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Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"Lots of activity again this round for I/O performance optimizations
(per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for vhost + iscsi/target), and the
addition of new fabric independent features to target-core
(COMPARE_AND_WRITE + EXTENDED_COPY).The main highlights include:
- Support for iscsi-target login multiplexing across individual
network portals
- Generic Per-cpu IDA logic (kent + akpm + clameter)
- Conversion of vhost to use per-cpu IDA pre-allocation for
descriptors, SGLs and userspace page pointer list
- Conversion of iscsi-target + iser-target to use per-cpu IDA
pre-allocation for descriptors
- Add support for generic COMPARE_AND_WRITE (AtomicTestandSet)
emulation for virtual backend drivers
- Add support for generic EXTENDED_COPY (CopyOffload) emulation for
virtual backend drivers.
- Add support for fast memory registration mode to iser-target (Vu)The patches to add COMPARE_AND_WRITE and EXTENDED_COPY support are of
particular significance, which make us the first and only open source
target to support the full set of VAAI primitives.Currently Linux clients are lacking upstream support to actually
utilize these primitives. However, with server side support now in
place for folks like MKP + ZAB working on the client, this logic once
reserved for the highest end of storage arrays, can now be run in VMs
on their laptops"* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (50 commits)
target/iscsi: Bump versions to v4.1.0
target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013
iscsi-target: Bump default TCP listen backlog to 256
target: Fix >= v3.9+ regression in PR APTPL + ALUA metadata write-out
iscsi-target; Bump default CmdSN Depth to 64
iscsi-target: Remove unnecessary wait_for_completion in iscsi_get_thread_set
iscsi-target: Add thread_set->ts_activate_sem + use common deallocate
iscsi-target: Fix race with thread_pre_handler flush_signals + ISCSI_THREAD_SET_DIE
target: remove unused including
iser-target: introduce fast memory registration mode (FRWR)
iser-target: generalize rdma memory registration and cleanup
iser-target: move rdma wr processing to a shared function
target: Enable global EXTENDED_COPY setup/release
target: Add Third Party Copy (3PC) bit in INQUIRY response
target: Enable EXTENDED_COPY setup in spc_parse_cdb
target: Add support for EXTENDED_COPY copy offload emulation
target: Avoid non-existent tg_pt_gp_mem in target_alua_state_check
target: Add global device list for EXTENDED_COPY
target: Make helpers non static for EXTENDED_COPY command setup
target: Make spc_parse_naa_6h_vendor_specific non static
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12 Sep, 2013
11 commits
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Unfortunately, even with a softdep some distros fail to include
the necessary modules in the initrd. Therefore this patch adds
a fallback path to restore existing behaviour where we cannot
load the new crypto crct10dif algorithm.In order to do this, the underlying crct10dif has been split out
from the crypto implementation so that it can be used on the
fallback path.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
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LZ4 compression and decompression functions require different in
signedness input/output parameters: unsigned char for compression and
signed char for decompression.Change decompression API to require "(const) unsigned char *".
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky
Cc: Kyungsik Lee
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven
Cc: Yann Collet
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
With users of radix_tree_preload() run from interrupt (block/blk-ioc.c is
one such possible user), the following race can happen:radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];...
radix_tree_preload()
...
radix_tree_insert()
radix_tree_node_alloc()
if (rtp->nr) {
ret = rtp->nodes[rtp->nr - 1];And we give out one radix tree node twice. That clearly results in radix
tree corruption with different results (usually OOPS) depending on which
two users of radix tree race.We fix the problem by making radix_tree_node_alloc() always allocate fresh
radix tree nodes when in interrupt. Using preloading when in interrupt
doesn't make sense since all the allocations have to be atomic anyway and
we cannot steal nodes from process-context users because some users rely
on radix_tree_insert() succeeding after radix_tree_preload().
in_interrupt() check is somewhat ugly but we cannot simply key off passed
gfp_mask as that is acquired from root_gfp_mask() and thus the same for
all preload users.Another part of the fix is to avoid node preallocation in
radix_tree_preload() when passed gfp_mask doesn't allow waiting. Again,
preallocation in such case doesn't make sense and when preallocation would
happen in interrupt we could possibly leak some allocated nodes. However,
some users of radix_tree_preload() require following radix_tree_insert()
to succeed. To avoid unexpected effects for these users,
radix_tree_preload() only warns if passed gfp mask doesn't allow waiting
and we provide a new function radix_tree_maybe_preload() for those users
which get different gfp mask from different call sites and which are
prepared to handle radix_tree_insert() failure.Signed-off-by: Jan Kara
Cc: Jens Axboe
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
No reason require rbtree test code to be a module, allow it to be builtin
(streamlines my development process)Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Just check that we examine all nodes in the tree for the postorder
iteration.Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Postorder iteration yields all of a node's children prior to yielding the
node itself, and this particular implementation also avoids examining the
leaf links in a node after that node has been yielded.In what I expect will be its most common usage, postorder iteration allows
the deletion of every node in an rbtree without modifying the rbtree nodes
(no _requirement_ that they be nulled) while avoiding referencing child
nodes after they have been "deleted" (most commonly, freed).I have only updated zswap to use this functionality at this point, but
numerous bits of code (most notably in the filesystem drivers) use a hand
rolled postorder iteration that NULLs child links as it traverses the
tree. Each of those instances could be replaced with this common
implementation.1 & 2 add rbtree postorder iteration functions.
3 adds testing of the iteration to the rbtree runtime tests
4 allows building the rbtree runtime tests as builtins
5 updates zswap.This patch:
Add postorder iteration functions for rbtree. These are useful for safely
freeing an entire rbtree without modifying the tree at all.Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer
Reviewed-by: Seth Jennings
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Rik van Riel
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When decompressing into memory, the output buffer length is set to some
arbitrarily high value (0x7fffffff) to indicate the output is, virtually,
unlimited in size.The problem with this is that some platforms have their physical memory at
high physical addresses (0x80000000 or more), and that the output buffer
address and its "unlimited" length cannot be added without overflowing.
An example of this can be found in inflate_fast():/* next_out is the output buffer address */
out = strm->next_out - OFF;
/* avail_out is the output buffer size. end will overflow if the output
* address is >= 0x80000104 */
end = out + (strm->avail_out - 257);This has huge consequences on the performance of kernel decompression,
since the following exit condition of inflate_fast() will be always true:} while (in < last && out < end);
Indeed, "end" has overflowed and is now always lower than "out". As a
result, inflate_fast() will return after processing one single byte of
input data, and will thus need to be called an unreasonably high number of
times. This probably went unnoticed because kernel decompression is fast
enough even with this issue.Nonetheless, adjusting the output buffer length in such a way that the
above pointer arithmetic never overflows results in a kernel decompression
that is about 3 times faster on affected machines.Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot
Tested-by: Jon Medhurst
Cc: Stephen Warren
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Gu Zheng
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The documentation mentions a "name" parameter, which does not exist. This
commit removes such mention from the function documentation.Signed-off-by: Emilio López
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Use the helper function instead of __GFP_ZERO.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
In struct gen_pool_chunk, end_addr means the end address of memory chunk
(inclusive), but in the implementation it is treated as address + size of
memory chunk (exclusive), so it points to the address plus one instead of
correct ending address.The ending address of memory chunk plus one will cause overflow on the
memory chunk including the last address of memory map, e.g. when starting
address is 0xFFF00000 and size is 0x100000 on 32bit machine, ending
address will be 0x100000000.Use correct ending address like starting address + size - 1.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment to struct gen_pool_chunk:end_addr]
Signed-off-by: Joonyoung Shim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Sep, 2013
2 commits
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Pull device-mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
"Add the ability to collect I/O statistics on user-defined regions of a
device-mapper device. This dm-stats code required the reintroduction
of a div64_u64_rem() helper, but as a separate method that doesn't
slow down div64_u64() -- especially on 32-bit systems.Allow the error target to replace request-based DM devices (e.g.
multipath) in addition to bio-based DM devices.Various other small code fixes and improvements to thin-provisioning,
DM cache and the DM ioctl interface"* tag 'dm-3.12-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm stripe: silence a couple sparse warnings
dm: add statistics support
dm thin: always return -ENOSPC if no_free_space is set
dm ioctl: cleanup error handling in table_load
dm ioctl: increase granularity of type_lock when loading table
dm ioctl: prevent rename to empty name or uuid
dm thin: set pool read-only if breaking_sharing fails block allocation
dm thin: prefix pool error messages with pool device name
dm: allow error target to replace bio-based and request-based targets
math64: New separate div64_u64_rem helper
dm space map: optimise sm_ll_dec and sm_ll_inc
dm btree: prefetch child nodes when walking tree for a dm_btree_del
dm btree: use pop_frame in dm_btree_del to cleanup code
dm cache: eliminate holes in cache structure
dm cache: fix stacking of geometry limits
dm thin: fix stacking of geometry limits
dm thin: add data block size limits to Documentation
dm cache: add data block size limits to code and Documentation
dm cache: document metadata device is exclussive to a cache
dm: stop using WQ_NON_REENTRANT -
Pull md update from Neil Brown:
"Headline item is multithreading for RAID5 so that more IO/sec can be
supported on fast (SSD) devices. Also TILE-Gx SIMD suppor for RAID6
calculations and an assortment of bug fixes"* tag 'md/3.12' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
raid5: only wakeup necessary threads
md/raid5: flush out all pending requests before proceeding with reshape.
md/raid5: use seqcount to protect access to shape in make_request.
raid5: sysfs entry to control worker thread number
raid5: offload stripe handle to workqueue
raid5: fix stripe release order
raid5: make release_stripe lockless
md: avoid deadlock when dirty buffers during md_stop.
md: Don't test all of mddev->flags at once.
md: Fix apparent cut-and-paste error in super_90_validate
raid6/test: replace echo -e with printf
RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6
md: fix safe_mode buglet.
md: don't call md_allow_write in get_bitmap_file.
10 Sep, 2013
2 commits
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Percpu frontend for allocating ids. With percpu allocation (that works),
it's impossible to guarantee it will always be possible to allocate all
nr_tags - typically, some will be stuck on a remote percpu freelist
where the current job can't get to them.We do guarantee that it will always be possible to allocate at least
(nr_tags / 2) tags - this is done by keeping track of which and how many
cpus have tags on their percpu freelists. On allocation failure if
enough cpus have tags that there could potentially be (nr_tags / 2) tags
stuck on remote percpu freelists, we then pick a remote cpu at random to
steal from.Note that there's no cpu hotplug notifier - we don't care, because
steal_tags() will eventually get the down cpu's tags. We _could_ satisfy
more allocations if we had a notifier - but we'll still meet our
guarantees and it's absolutely not a correctness issue, so I don't think
it's worth the extra code.From akpm:
"It looks OK to me (that's as close as I get to an ack :))
v6 changes:
- Add #include to include/linux/percpu_ida.h to
make alpha/arc builds happy (Fengguang)
- Move second (cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) check inside of first check scope
in steal_tags() (akpm + nab)v5 changes:
- Change percpu_ida->cpus_have_tags to cpumask_t (kmo + akpm)
- Add comment for percpu_ida_cpu->lock + ->nr_free (kmo + akpm)
- Convert steal_tags() to use cpumask_weight() + cpumask_next() +
cpumask_first() + cpumask_clear_cpu() (kmo + akpm)
- Add comment for alloc_global_tags() (kmo + akpm)
- Convert percpu_ida_alloc() to use cpumask_set_cpu() (kmo + akpm)
- Convert percpu_ida_free() to use cpumask_set_cpu() (kmo + akpm)
- Drop percpu_ida->cpus_have_tags allocation in percpu_ida_init()
(kmo + akpm)
- Drop percpu_ida->cpus_have_tags kfree in percpu_ida_destroy()
(kmo + akpm)
- Add comment for percpu_ida_alloc @ gfp (kmo + akpm)
- Move to percpu_ida.c + percpu_ida.h (kmo + akpm + nab)v4 changes:
- Fix tags.c reference in percpu_ida_init (akpm)
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet
Cc: Tejun Heo
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Jens Axboe
Cc: "Nicholas A. Bellinger"
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger -
Pull ARC changes from Vineet Gupta:
- ARC MM changes:
- preparation for MMUv4 (accomodate new PTE bits, new cmds)
- Rework the ASID allocation algorithm to remove asid-mm reverse map
- Boilerplate code consolidation in Exception Handlers
- Disable FRAME_POINTER for ARC
- Unaligned Access Emulation for Big-Endian from Noam
- Bunch of fixes (udelay, missing accessors) from Mischa* tag 'arc-v3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc:
ARC: fix new Section mismatches in build (post __cpuinit cleanup)
Kconfig.debug: Add FRAME_POINTER anti-dependency for ARC
ARC: Fix __udelay calculation
ARC: remove console_verbose() from setup_arch()
ARC: Add read*_relaxed to asm/io.h
ARC: Handle un-aligned user space access in BE.
ARC: [ASID] Track ASID allocation cycles/generations
ARC: [ASID] activate_mm() == switch_mm()
ARC: [ASID] get_new_mmu_context() to conditionally allocate new ASID
ARC: [ASID] Refactor the TLB paranoid debug code
ARC: [ASID] Remove legacy/unused debug code
ARC: No need to flush the TLB in early boot
ARC: MMUv4 preps/3 - Abstract out TLB Insert/Delete
ARC: MMUv4 preps/2 - Reshuffle PTE bits
ARC: MMUv4 preps/1 - Fold PTE K/U access flags
ARC: Code cosmetics (Nothing semantical)
ARC: Entry Handler tweaks: Optimize away redundant IRQ_DISABLE_SAVE
ARC: Exception Handlers Code consolidation
ARC: Add some .gitignore entries
08 Sep, 2013
4 commits
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The only actual current lockref user (dcache) uses zero reference counts
even for perfectly live dentries, because it's a cache: there may not be
any users, but that doesn't mean that we want to throw away the dentry.At the same time, the dentry cache does have a notion of a truly "dead"
dentry that we must not even increment the reference count of, because
we have pruned it and it is not valid.Currently that distinction is not visible in the lockref itself, and the
dentry cache validation uses "lockref_get_or_lock()" to either get a new
reference to a dentry that already had existing references (and thus
cannot be dead), or get the dentry lock so that we can then verify the
dentry and increment the reference count under the lock if that
verification was successful.That's all somewhat complicated.
This adds the concept of being "dead" to the lockref itself, by simply
using a count that is negative. This allows a usage scenario where we
can increment the refcount of a dentry without having to validate it,
and pushing the special "we killed it" case into the lockref code.The dentry code itself doesn't actually use this yet, and it's probably
too late in the merge window to do that code (the dentry_kill() code
with its "should I decrement the count" logic really is pretty complex
code), but let's introduce the concept at the lockref level now.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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The code got rewritten, but the comments got copied as-is from older
versions, and as a result the argument name in the comment didn't
actually match the code any more.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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Pull namespace changes from Eric Biederman:
"This is an assorted mishmash of small cleanups, enhancements and bug
fixes.The major theme is user namespace mount restrictions. nsown_capable
is killed as it encourages not thinking about details that need to be
considered. A very hard to hit pid namespace exiting bug was finally
tracked and fixed. A couple of cleanups to the basic namespace
infrastructure.Finally there is an enhancement that makes per user namespace
capabilities usable as capabilities, and an enhancement that allows
the per userns root to nice other processes in the user namespace"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace:
userns: Kill nsown_capable it makes the wrong thing easy
capabilities: allow nice if we are privileged
pidns: Don't have unshare(CLONE_NEWPID) imply CLONE_THREAD
userns: Allow PR_CAPBSET_DROP in a user namespace.
namespaces: Simplify copy_namespaces so it is clear what is going on.
pidns: Fix hang in zap_pid_ns_processes by sending a potentially extra wakeup
sysfs: Restrict mounting sysfs
userns: Better restrictions on when proc and sysfs can be mounted
vfs: Don't copy mount bind mounts of /proc//ns/mnt between namespaces
kernel/nsproxy.c: Improving a snippet of code.
proc: Restrict mounting the proc filesystem
vfs: Lock in place mounts from more privileged users -
Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 3.12:- Added MODULE_SOFTDEP to allow pre-loading of modules.
- Reinstated crct10dif driver using the module softdep feature.
- Allow via rng driver to be auto-loaded.- Split large input data when necessary in nx.
- Handle zero length messages correctly for GCM/XCBC in nx.
- Handle SHA-2 chunks bigger than block size properly in nx.- Handle unaligned lengths in omap-aes.
- Added SHA384/SHA512 to omap-sham.
- Added OMAP5/AM43XX SHAM support.
- Added OMAP4 TRNG support.- Misc fixes"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (66 commits)
Reinstate "crypto: crct10dif - Wrap crc_t10dif function all to use crypto transform framework"
hwrng: via - Add MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE
crypto: fcrypt - Fix bitoperation for compilation with clang
crypto: nx - fix SHA-2 for chunks bigger than block size
crypto: nx - fix GCM for zero length messages
crypto: nx - fix XCBC for zero length messages
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CCM
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-XCBC
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-GCM
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CTR
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-CBC
crypto: nx - fix limits to sg lists for AES-ECB
crypto: nx - add offset to nx_build_sg_lists()
padata - Register hotcpu notifier after initialization
padata - share code between CPU_ONLINE and CPU_DOWN_FAILED, same to CPU_DOWN_PREPARE and CPU_UP_CANCELED
hwrng: omap - reorder OMAP TRNG driver code
crypto: omap-sham - correct dma burst size
crypto: omap-sham - Enable Polling mode if DMA fails
crypto: tegra-aes - bitwise vs logical and
crypto: sahara - checking the wrong variable
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07 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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This patch reinstates commits
67822649d7305caf3dd50ed46c27b99c94eff996
39761214eefc6b070f29402aa1165f24d789b3f7
0b95a7f85718adcbba36407ef88bba0a7379ed03
31d939625a9a20b1badd2d4e6bf6fd39fa523405
2d31e518a42828df7877bca23a958627d60408bcNow that module softdeps are in the kernel we can use that to resolve
the boot issue which cause the revert.Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu
06 Sep, 2013
1 commit
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"This set includes adding support for Neon acceleration of RAID6 XOR
code from Ard Biesheuvel, cache flushing and barrier updates from Will
Deacon, and a cleanup to the ARM debug code which reduces the amount
of code by about 500 lines.A few other cleanups, such as constifying the machine descriptors
which already shouldn't be written to, cleaning up the printing of the
L2 cache size"* 'for-linus' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm: (55 commits)
ARM: 7826/1: debug: support debug ll on hisilicon soc
ARM: 7830/1: delay: don't bother reporting bogomips in /proc/cpuinfo
ARM: 7829/1: Add ".text.unlikely" and ".text.hot" to arm unwind tables
ARM: 7828/1: ARMv7-M: implement restart routine common to all v7-M machines
ARM: 7827/1: highbank: fix debug uart virtual address for LPAE
ARM: 7823/1: errata: workaround Cortex-A15 erratum 773022
ARM: 7806/1: allow DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS for Tegra
ARM: 7793/1: debug: use generic option for ep93xx PL10x debug port
ARM: debug: move SPEAr debug to generic PL01x code
ARM: debug: move davinci debug to generic 8250 code
ARM: debug: move keystone debug to generic 8250 code
ARM: debug: remove DEBUG_ROCKCHIP_UART
ARM: debug: provide generic option choices for 8250 and PL01x ports
ARM: debug: move PL01X debug include into arch/arm/include/debug/
ARM: debug: provide PL01x debug uart phys/virt address configuration options
ARM: debug: add support for word accesses to debug/8250.S
ARM: debug: move 8250 debug include into arch/arm/include/debug/
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart phys/virt address configuration options
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart register shift configuration option
ARM: debug: provide 8250 debug uart flow control configuration option
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05 Sep, 2013
4 commits
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Pull vfs pile 1 from Al Viro:
"Unfortunately, this merge window it'll have a be a lot of small piles -
my fault, actually, for not keeping #for-next in anything that would
resemble a sane shape ;-/This pile: assorted fixes (the first 3 are -stable fodder, IMO) and
cleanups + %pd/%pD formats (dentry/file pathname, up to 4 last
components) + several long-standing patches from various folks.There definitely will be a lot more (starting with Miklos'
check_submount_and_drop() series)"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (26 commits)
direct-io: Handle O_(D)SYNC AIO
direct-io: Implement generic deferred AIO completions
add formats for dentry/file pathnames
kvm eventfd: switch to fdget
powerpc kvm: use fdget
switch fchmod() to fdget
switch epoll_ctl() to fdget
switch copy_module_from_fd() to fdget
git simplify nilfs check for busy subtree
ibmasmfs: don't bother passing superblock when not needed
don't pass superblock to hypfs_{mkdir,create*}
don't pass superblock to hypfs_diag_create_files
don't pass superblock to hypfs_vm_create_files()
oprofile: get rid of pointless forward declarations of struct super_block
oprofilefs_create_...() do not need superblock argument
oprofilefs_mkdir() doesn't need superblock argument
don't bother with passing superblock to oprofile_create_stats_files()
oprofile: don't bother with passing superblock to ->create_files()
don't bother passing sb to oprofile_create_files()
coh901318: don't open-code simple_read_from_buffer()
... -
Frame pointer on ARC doesn't serve the conventional purpose of stack
unwinding due to the typical way ABI designates it's usage.
Thus it's explicit usage on ARC is discouraged (gcc is free to use it,
for some tricky stack frames even if -fomit-frame-pointer).Hence no point enabling it for ARC.
References: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1593937.html
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Andrew Morton
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Michel Lespinasse
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -
Pull Xen updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"A couple of features and a ton of bug-fixes. There is also some
maintership changes. Jeremy is enjoying the full-time work at the
startup and as much as he would love to help - he can't find the time.
I have a bunch of other things that I promised to work on - paravirt
diet, get SWIOTLB working everywhere, etc, but haven't been able to
find the time.As such both David Vrabel and Boris Ostrovsky have graciously
volunteered to help with the maintership role. They will keep the lid
on regressions, bug-fixes, etc. I will be in the background to help -
but eventually there will be less of me doing the Xen GIT pulls and
more of them. Stefano is still doing the ARM/ARM64 and will continue
on doing so.Features:
- Xen Trusted Platform Module (TPM) frontend driver - with the
backend in MiniOS.
- Scalability improvements in event channel.
- Two extra Xen co-maintainers (David, Boris) and one going away (Jeremy)Bug-fixes:
- Make the 1:1 mapping work during early bootup on selective regions.
- Add scratch page to balloon driver to deal with unexpected code
still holding on stale pages.
- Allow NMIs on PV guests (64-bit only)
- Remove unnecessary TLB flush in M2P code.
- Fixes duplicate callbacks in Xen granttable code.
- Fixes in PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH ioctls to allow retries
- Fix for events being lost due to rescheduling on different VCPUs.
- More documentation"* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: (23 commits)
hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc
drivers/xen-tpmfront: Fix compile issue with missing option.
xen/balloon: don't set P2M entry for auto translated guest
xen/evtchn: double free on error
Xen: Fix retry calls into PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH*.
xen/pvhvm: Initialize xen panic handler for PVHVM guests
xen/m2p: use GNTTABOP_unmap_and_replace to reinstate the original mapping
xen: fix ARM build after 6efa20e4
MAINTAINERS: Remove Jeremy from the Xen subsystem.
xen/events: document behaviour when scanning the start word for events
x86/xen: during early setup, only 1:1 map the ISA region
x86/xen: disable premption when enabling local irqs
swiotlb-xen: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro
swiotlb: replace dma_length with sg_dma_len() macro
xen/balloon: set a mapping for ballooned out pages
xen/evtchn: improve scalability by using per-user locks
xen/p2m: avoid unneccesary TLB flush in m2p_remove_override()
MAINTAINERS: Add in two extra co-maintainers of the Xen tree.
MAINTAINERS: Update the Xen subsystem's with proper mailing list.
xen: replace strict_strtoul() with kstrtoul()
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04 Sep, 2013
6 commits
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Pull x86/asmlinkage changes from Ingo Molnar:
"As a preparation for Andi Kleen's LTO patchset (link time
optimizations using GCC's -flto which build time optimization has
steadily increased in quality over the past few years and might
eventually be usable for the kernel too) this tree includes a handful
of preparatory patches that make function calling convention
annotations consistent again:- Mark every function without arguments (or 64bit only) that is used
by assembly code with asmlinkage()- Mark every function with parameters or variables that is used by
assembly code as __visible.For the vanilla kernel this has documentation, consistency and
debuggability advantages, for the time being"* 'x86-asmlinkage-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asmlinkage: Fix warning in xen asmlinkage change
x86, asmlinkage, vdso: Mark vdso variables __visible
x86, asmlinkage, power: Make various symbols used by the suspend asm code visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make dump_stack visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make 64bit checksum functions visible
x86, asmlinkage, paravirt: Add __visible/asmlinkage to xen paravirt ops
x86, asmlinkage, apm: Make APM data structure used from assembler visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make syscall tables visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make several variables used from assembler/linker script visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make kprobes code visible and fix assembler code
x86, asmlinkage: Make various syscalls asmlinkage
x86, asmlinkage: Make 32bit/64bit __switch_to visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make _*_start_kernel visible
x86, asmlinkage: Make all interrupt handlers asmlinkage / __visible
x86, asmlinkage: Change dotraplinkage into __visible on 32bit
x86: Fix sys_call_table type in asm/syscall.h -
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Main RCU changes this cycle were:- Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is to allow the
timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when all other CPUs are idle.- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Improved rcutorture test coverage.
- Updated RCU documentation"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (30 commits)
nohz_full: Force RCU's grace-period kthreads onto timekeeping CPU
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle state machine
jiffies: Avoid undefined behavior from signed overflow
rcu: Simplify _rcu_barrier() processing
rcu: Make rcutorture emit online failures if verbose
rcu: Remove unused variable from rcu_torture_writer()
rcu: Sort rcutorture module parameters
rcu: Increase rcutorture test coverage
rcu: Add duplicate-callback tests to rcutorture
doc: Fix memory-barrier control-dependency example
rcu: Update RTFP documentation
nohz_full: Add full-system-idle arguments to API
nohz_full: Add full-system idle states and variables
nohz_full: Add per-CPU idle-state tracking
nohz_full: Add rcu_dyntick data for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add Kconfig parameter for scalable detection of all-idle state
nohz_full: Add testing information to documentation
rcu: Eliminate unused APIs intended for adaptive ticks
rcu: Select IRQ_WORK from TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
rculist: list_first_or_null_rcu() should use list_entry_rcu()
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New formats: %p[dD][234]?. The next pointer is interpreted as struct dentry *
or struct file * resp. ('d' => dentry, 'D' => file) and the last component(s)
of pathname are printed (%pd => just the last one, %pd2 => the last two, etc.)Signed-off-by: Al Viro
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in
some cases in which it was known to have problems. From
Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
Rafael J Wysocki.4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
the latter from Ben Guthro.7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From
Felipe Contreras.8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
to load) from Stratos Karafotis.10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
Rafael J Wysocki.13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
from Colin Cross.15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
Tuukka Tikkanen.16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
and Sahara.17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.
18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
management from Shuah Khan.* tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (217 commits)
cpufreq: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
cpuidle: coupled: fix race condition between pokes and safe state
cpuidle: coupled: abort idle if pokes are pending
cpuidle: coupled: disable interrupts after entering safe state
ACPI / hotplug: Remove containers synchronously
driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues
cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments
cpufreq: governors: Remove duplicate check of target freq in supported range
cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing
ACPI / EC: Add ASUSTEK L4R to quirk list in order to validate ECDT
ACPI / thermal: Add check of "_TZD" availability and evaluating result
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance
ACPI: blacklist win8 OSI for buggy laptops
cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name
cpuidle: Change struct menu_device field types
cpuidle: Add a comment warning about possible overflow
cpuidle: Fix variable domains in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: Fix menu_device->intervals type
cpuidle: CodingStyle: Break up multiple assignments on single line
cpuidle: Check called function parameter in get_typical_interval()
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While we are likley to succeed and break out of this loop, it isn't
guaranteed. We should be power and thread friendly if we do have to
go around for a second (or third, or more) attempt.Signed-off-by: Tony Luck
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Pull driver core patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big driver core pull request for 3.12-rc1.Lots of tiny changes here fixing up the way sysfs attributes are
created, to try to make drivers simpler, and fix a whole class race
conditions with creations of device attributes after the device was
announced to userspace.All the various pieces are acked by the different subsystem
maintainers"* tag 'driver-core-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (119 commits)
firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
drivers/base/memory.c: introduce help macro to_memory_block
dynamic debug: line queries failing due to uninitialized local variable
sysfs: sysfs_create_groups returns a value.
debugfs: provide debugfs_create_x64() when disabled
rbd: convert bus code to use bus_groups
firmware: dcdbas: use binary attribute groups
sysfs: add sysfs_create/remove_groups for when SYSFS is not enabled
driver core: add #include to core files.
HID: convert bus code to use dev_groups
Input: serio: convert bus code to use drv_groups
Input: gameport: convert bus code to use drv_groups
driver core: firmware: use __ATTR_RW()
driver core: core: use DEVICE_ATTR_RO
driver core: bus: use DRIVER_ATTR_WO()
driver core: create write-only attribute macros for devices and drivers
sysfs: create __ATTR_WO()
driver-core: platform: convert bus code to use dev_groups
workqueue: convert bus code to use dev_groups
MEI: convert bus code to use dev_groups
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03 Sep, 2013
3 commits
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…/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
"
* Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/611.* Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/619.* Full-system idle detection. This is for use by Frederic
Weisbecker's adaptive-ticks mechanism. Its purpose is
to allow the timekeeping CPU to shut off its tick when
all other CPUs are idle. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/648.* Improve rcutorture test coverage. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/19/675.
"Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Instead of taking the spinlock, the lockless versions atomically check
that the lock is not taken, and do the reference count update using a
cmpxchg() loop. This is semantically identical to doing the reference
count update protected by the lock, but avoids the "wait for lock"
contention that you get when accesses to the reference count are
contended.Note that a "lockref" is absolutely _not_ equivalent to an atomic_t.
Even when the lockref reference counts are updated atomically with
cmpxchg, the fact that they also verify the state of the spinlock means
that the lockless updates can never happen while somebody else holds the
spinlock.So while "lockref_put_or_lock()" looks a lot like just another name for
"atomic_dec_and_lock()", and both optimize to lockless updates, they are
fundamentally different: the decrement done by atomic_dec_and_lock() is
truly independent of any lock (as long as it doesn't decrement to zero),
so a locked region can still see the count change.The lockref structure, in contrast, really is a *locked* reference
count. If you hold the spinlock, the reference count will be stable and
you can modify the reference count without using atomics, because even
the lockless updates will see and respect the state of the lock.In order to enable the cmpxchg lockless code, the architecture needs to
do three things:(1) Make sure that the "arch_spinlock_t" and an "unsigned int" can fit
in an aligned u64, and have a "cmpxchg()" implementation that works
on such a u64 data type.(2) define a helper function to test for a spinlock being unlocked
("arch_spin_value_unlocked()")(3) select the "ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF" config variable in its
Kconfig file.This enables it for x86-64 (but not 32-bit, we'd need to make sure
cmpxchg() turns into the proper cmpxchg8b in order to enable it for
32-bit mode).Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
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They aren't very good to inline, since they already call external
functions (the spinlock code), and we're going to create rather more
complicated versions of them that can do the reference count updates
locklessly.Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
29 Aug, 2013
2 commits
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Don't allow mounting sysfs unless the caller has CAP_SYS_ADMIN rights
over the net namespace. The principle here is if you create or have
capabilities over it you can mount it, otherwise you get to live with
what other people have mounted.Instead of testing this with a straight forward ns_capable call,
perform this check the long and torturous way with kobject helpers,
this keeps direct knowledge of namespaces out of sysfs, and preserves
the existing sysfs abstractions.Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" -
Settings of the form, 'line x module y +p', can fail arbitrarily due to an
uninitialized local variable. With this patch results are consistent, as
expected.Signed-off-by: Jason Baron
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
