07 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"Three fixes for the docs build, including removing an annoying warning
on 'make help' if sphinx isn't present"* tag 'doc-4.8-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
DocBook: use DOCBOOKS="" to ignore DocBooks instead of IGNORE_DOCBOOKS=1
Documenation: update cgroup's document path
Documentation/sphinx: do not warn about missing tools in 'make help'
05 Aug, 2016
1 commit
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Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields:
"Highlights:- Trond made a change to the server's tcp logic that allows a fast
client to better take advantage of high bandwidth networks, but may
increase the risk that a single client could starve other clients;
a new sunrpc.svc_rpc_per_connection_limit parameter should help
mitigate this in the (hopefully unlikely) event this becomes a
problem in practice.- Tom Haynes added a minimal flex-layout pnfs server, which is of no
use in production for now--don't build it unless you're doing
client testing or further server development"* tag 'nfsd-4.8' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (32 commits)
nfsd: remove some dead code in nfsd_create_locked()
nfsd: drop unnecessary MAY_EXEC check from create
nfsd: clean up bad-type check in nfsd_create_locked
nfsd: remove unnecessary positive-dentry check
nfsd: reorganize nfsd_create
nfsd: check d_can_lookup in fh_verify of directories
nfsd: remove redundant zero-length check from create
nfsd: Make creates return EEXIST instead of EACCES
SUNRPC: Detect immediate closure of accepted sockets
SUNRPC: accept() may return sockets that are still in SYN_RECV
nfsd: allow nfsd to advertise multiple layout types
nfsd: Close race between nfsd4_release_lockowner and nfsd4_lock
nfsd/blocklayout: Make sure calculate signature/designator length aligned
xfs: abstract block export operations from nfsd layouts
SUNRPC: Remove unused callback xpo_adjust_wspace()
SUNRPC: Change TCP socket space reservation
SUNRPC: Add a server side per-connection limit
SUNRPC: Micro optimisation for svc_data_ready
SUNRPC: Call the default socket callbacks instead of open coding
SUNRPC: lock the socket while detaching it
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04 Aug, 2016
3 commits
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
"The only interesting thing here is Jessica's patch to add
ro_after_init support to modules. The rest are all trivia"* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux:
extable.h: add stddef.h so "NULL" definition is not implicit
modules: add ro_after_init support
jump_label: disable preemption around __module_text_address().
exceptions: fork exception table content from module.h into extable.h
modules: Add kernel parameter to blacklist modules
module: Do a WARN_ON_ONCE() for assert module mutex not held
Documentation/module-signing.txt: Note need for version info if reusing a key
module: Invalidate signatures on force-loaded modules
module: Issue warnings when tainting kernel
module: fix redundant test.
module: fix noreturn attribute for __module_put_and_exit() -
Blacklisting a module in linux has long been a problem. The current
procedure is to use rd.blacklist=module_name, however, that doesn't
cover the case after the initramfs and before a boot prompt (where one
is supposed to use /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf to blacklist
runtime loading). Using rd.shell to get an early prompt is hit-or-miss,
and doesn't cover all situations AFAICT.This patch adds this functionality of permanently blacklisting a module
by its name via the kernel parameter module_blacklist=module_name.[v2]: Rusty, use core_param() instead of __setup() which simplifies
things.[v3]: Rusty, undo wreckage from strsep()
[v4]: Rusty, simpler version of blacklisted()
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Rusty Russell
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell -
cgroup's document path is changed to "cgroup-v1". update it.
Signed-off-by: seokhoon.yoon
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
03 Aug, 2016
3 commits
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Merge yet more updates from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of ocfs2
- various hotfixes, mainly MM
- quite a bit of misc stuff - drivers, fork, exec, signals, etc.
- printk updates
- firmware
- checkpatch
- nilfs2
- more kexec stuff than usual
- rapidio updates
- w1 things
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (111 commits)
ipc: delete "nr_ipc_ns"
kcov: allow more fine-grained coverage instrumentation
init/Kconfig: add clarification for out-of-tree modules
config: add android config fragments
init/Kconfig: ban CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO with allmodconfig
relay: add global mode support for buffer-only channels
init: allow blacklisting of module_init functions
w1:omap_hdq: fix regression
w1: add helper macro module_w1_family
w1: remove need for ida and use PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO
rapidio/switches: add driver for IDT gen3 switches
powerpc/fsl_rio: apply changes for RIO spec rev 3
rapidio: modify for rev.3 specification changes
rapidio: change inbound window size type to u64
rapidio/idt_gen2: fix locking warning
rapidio: fix error handling in mbox request/release functions
rapidio/tsi721_dma: advance queue processing from transfer submit call
rapidio/tsi721: add messaging mbox selector parameter
rapidio/tsi721: add PCIe MRRS override parameter
rapidio/tsi721_dma: add channel mask and queue size parameters
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Add a "printk.devkmsg" kernel command line parameter which controls how
userspace writes into /dev/kmsg. It has three options:* ratelimit - ratelimit logging from userspace.
* on - unlimited logging from userspace
* off - logging from userspace gets ignoredThe default setting is to ratelimit the messages written to it.
This changes the kernel default setting of "on" to "ratelimit" and we do
that because we want to keep userspace spamming /dev/kmsg to sane
levels. This is especially moot when a small kernel log buffer wraps
around and messages get lost. So the ratelimiting setting should be a
sane setting where kernel messages should have a bit higher chance of
survival from all the spamming.It additionally does not limit logging to /dev/kmsg while the system is
booting if we haven't disabled it on the command line.Furthermore, we can control the logging from a lower priority sysctl
interface - kernel.printk_devkmsg.That interface will succeed only if printk.devkmsg *hasn't* been
supplied on the command line. If it has, then printk.devkmsg is a
one-time setting which remains for the duration of the system lifetime.
This "locking" of the setting is to prevent userspace from changing the
logging on us through sysctl(2).This patch is based on previous patches from Linus and Steven.
[bp@suse.de: fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160719072344.GC25563@nazgul.tnic
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160716061745.15795-3-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Dave Young
Cc: Franck Bui
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Uwe Kleine-König
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
"Highlights:- ARM64 support for ACPI host bridges
- new drivers for Axis ARTPEC-6 and Marvell Aardvark
- new pci_alloc_irq_vectors() interface for MSI-X, MSI, legacy INTx
- pci_resource_to_user() cleanup (more to come)
Detailed summary:
Enumeration:
- Move ecam.h to linux/include/pci-ecam.h (Jayachandran C)
- Add parent device field to ECAM struct pci_config_window (Jayachandran C)
- Add generic MCFG table handling (Tomasz Nowicki)
- Refactor pci_bus_assign_domain_nr() for CONFIG_PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC (Tomasz Nowicki)
- Factor DT-specific pci_bus_find_domain_nr() code out (Tomasz Nowicki)Resource management:
- Add devm_request_pci_bus_resources() (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Unify pci_resource_to_user() declarations (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Implement pci_resource_to_user() with pcibios_resource_to_bus() (microblaze, powerpc, sparc) (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Request host bridge window resources (designware, iproc, rcar, xgene, xilinx, xilinx-nwl) (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Make PCI I/O space optional on ARM32 (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Ignore write combining when mapping I/O port space (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Claim bus resources on MIPS PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Remove unicore32 pci=firmware command line parameter handling (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Support I/O resources when parsing host bridge resources (Jayachandran C)
- Add helpers to request/release memory and I/O regions (Johannes Thumshirn)
- Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions (NVMe, lpfc, GenWQE, ethernet/intel, alx) (Johannes Thumshirn)
- Extend pci=resource_alignment to specify device/vendor IDs (Koehrer Mathias (ETAS/ESW5))
- Add generic pci_bus_claim_resources() (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Claim bus resources on ARM32 PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Remove ARM32 and ARM64 arch-specific pcibios_enable_device() (Lorenzo Pieralisi)
- Add pci_unmap_iospace() to unmap I/O resources (Sinan Kaya)
- Remove powerpc __pci_mmap_set_pgprot() (Yinghai Lu)PCI device hotplug:
- Allow additional bus numbers for hotplug bridges (Keith Busch)
- Ignore interrupts during D3cold (Lukas Wunner)Power management:
- Enforce type casting for pci_power_t (Andy Shevchenko)
- Don't clear d3cold_allowed for PCIe ports (Mika Westerberg)
- Put PCIe ports into D3 during suspend (Mika Westerberg)
- Power on bridges before scanning new devices (Mika Westerberg)
- Runtime resume bridge before rescan (Mika Westerberg)
- Add runtime PM support for PCIe ports (Mika Westerberg)
- Remove redundant check of pcie_set_clkpm (Shawn Lin)Virtualization:
- Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Marvell 88SE9182 (Aaron Sierra)
- Add DMA alias quirk for Adaptec 3805 (Alex Williamson)
- Mark Atheros AR9485 and QCA9882 to avoid bus reset (Chris Blake)
- Add ACS quirk for Solarflare SFC9220 (Edward Cree)MSI:
- Fix PCI_MSI dependencies (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add pci_msix_desc_addr() helper (Christoph Hellwig)
- Switch msix_program_entries() to use pci_msix_desc_addr() (Christoph Hellwig)
- Make the "entries" argument to pci_enable_msix() optional (Christoph Hellwig)
- Provide sensible IRQ vector alloc/free routines (Christoph Hellwig)
- Spread interrupt vectors in pci_alloc_irq_vectors() (Christoph Hellwig)Error Handling:
- Bind DPC to Root Ports as well as Downstream Ports (Keith Busch)
- Remove DPC tristate module option (Keith Busch)
- Convert Downstream Port Containment driver to use devm_* functions (Mika Westerberg)Generic host bridge driver:
- Select IRQ_DOMAIN (Arnd Bergmann)
- Claim bus resources on PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups (Lorenzo Pieralisi)ACPI host bridge driver:
- Add ARM64 acpi_pci_bus_find_domain_nr() (Tomasz Nowicki)
- Add ARM64 ACPI support for legacy IRQs parsing and consolidation with DT code (Tomasz Nowicki)
- Implement ARM64 AML accessors for PCI_Config region (Tomasz Nowicki)
- Support ARM64 ACPI-based PCI host controller (Tomasz Nowicki)Altera host bridge driver:
- Check link status before retrain link (Ley Foon Tan)
- Poll for link up status after retraining the link (Ley Foon Tan)Axis ARTPEC-6 host bridge driver:
- Add PCI_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN dependency (Arnd Bergmann)
- Add DT binding for Axis ARTPEC-6 PCIe controller (Niklas Cassel)
- Add Axis ARTPEC-6 PCIe controller driver (Niklas Cassel)Intel VMD host bridge driver:
- Use lock save/restore in interrupt enable path (Jon Derrick)
- Select device dma ops to override (Keith Busch)
- Initialize list item in IRQ disable (Keith Busch)
- Use x86_vector_domain as parent domain (Keith Busch)
- Separate MSI and MSI-X vector sharing (Keith Busch)Marvell Aardvark host bridge driver:
- Add DT binding for the Aardvark PCIe controller (Thomas Petazzoni)
- Add Aardvark PCI host controller driver (Thomas Petazzoni)
- Add Aardvark PCIe support for Armada 3700 (Thomas Petazzoni)Microsoft Hyper-V host bridge driver:
- Fix interrupt cleanup path (Cathy Avery)
- Don't leak buffer in hv_pci_onchannelcallback() (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- Handle all pending messages in hv_pci_onchannelcallback() (Vitaly Kuznetsov)NVIDIA Tegra host bridge driver:
- Program PADS_REFCLK_CFG* always, not just on legacy SoCs (Stephen Warren)
- Program PADS_REFCLK_CFG* registers with per-SoC values (Stephen Warren)
- Use lower-case hex consistently for register definitions (Thierry Reding)
- Use generic pci_remap_iospace() rather than ARM32-specific one (Thierry Reding)
- Stop setting pcibios_min_mem (Thierry Reding)Renesas R-Car host bridge driver:
- Drop gen2 dummy I/O port region (Bjorn Helgaas)TI DRA7xx host bridge driver:
- Fix return value in case of error (Christophe JAILLET)Xilinx AXI host bridge driver:
- Fix return value in case of error (Christophe JAILLET)Miscellaneous:
- Make bus_attr_resource_alignment static (Ben Dooks)
- Include for isa_dma_bridge_buggy (Ben Dooks)
- MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for PCI device tree bindings (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Make host bridge drivers explicitly non-modular (Paul Gortmaker)"* tag 'pci-v4.8-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (125 commits)
PCI: xgene: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: thunder-pem: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: thunder-ecam: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: tegra: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: rcar-gen2: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: rcar: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: mvebu: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: layerscape: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: keystone: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: hisi: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: generic: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: designware-plat: Make it explicitly non-modular
PCI: artpec6: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: armada8k: Make explicitly non-modular
PCI: artpec: Add PCI_MSI_IRQ_DOMAIN dependency
PCI: Add ACS quirk for Solarflare SFC9220
arm64: dts: marvell: Add Aardvark PCIe support for Armada 3700
PCI: aardvark: Add Aardvark PCI host controller driver
dt-bindings: add DT binding for the Aardvark PCIe controller
PCI: tegra: Program PADS_REFCLK_CFG* registers with per-SoC values
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02 Aug, 2016
2 commits
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* pci/resource:
unicore32/PCI: Remove pci=firmware command line parameter handling
ARM/PCI: Remove arch-specific pcibios_enable_device()
ARM64/PCI: Remove arch-specific pcibios_enable_device()
MIPS/PCI: Claim bus resources on PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups
ARM/PCI: Claim bus resources on PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups
PCI: generic: Claim bus resources on PCI_PROBE_ONLY set-ups
PCI: Add generic pci_bus_claim_resources()
alx: Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions
ethernet/intel: Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions
GenWQE: Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions
lpfc: Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions
NVMe: Use pci_(request|release)_mem_regions
PCI: Add helpers to request/release memory and I/O regions
PCI: Extending pci=resource_alignment to specify device/vendor IDs
sparc/PCI: Implement pci_resource_to_user() with pcibios_resource_to_bus()
powerpc/pci: Implement pci_resource_to_user() with pcibios_resource_to_bus()
microblaze/PCI: Implement pci_resource_to_user() with pcibios_resource_to_bus()
PCI: Unify pci_resource_to_user() declarations
microblaze/PCI: Remove useless __pci_mmap_set_pgprot()
powerpc/pci: Remove __pci_mmap_set_pgprot()
PCI: Ignore write combining when mapping I/O port space -
…/pm' and 'pci/virtualization' into next
* pci/aspm:
PCI/ASPM: Remove redundant check of pcie_set_clkpm* pci/dpc:
PCI: Remove DPC tristate module option
PCI: Bind DPC to Root Ports as well as Downstream Ports
PCI: Fix whitespace in struct dpc_dev
PCI: Convert Downstream Port Containment driver to use devm_* functions* pci/hotplug:
PCI: Allow additional bus numbers for hotplug bridges* pci/misc:
PCI: Include <asm/dma.h> for isa_dma_bridge_buggy
PCI: Make bus_attr_resource_alignment static
MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for PCI device tree bindings
PCI: Fix comment typo* pci/msi:
PCI/MSI: irqchip: Fix PCI_MSI dependencies* pci/pm:
PCI: pciehp: Ignore interrupts during D3cold
PCI: Document connection between pci_power_t and hardware PM capability
PCI: Add runtime PM support for PCIe ports
ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Runtime resume bridge before rescan
PCI: Power on bridges before scanning new devices
PCI: Put PCIe ports into D3 during suspend
PCI: Don't clear d3cold_allowed for PCIe ports
PCI / PM: Enforce type casting for pci_power_t* pci/virtualization:
PCI: Add ACS quirk for Solarflare SFC9220
PCI: Add DMA alias quirk for Adaptec 3805
PCI: Mark Atheros AR9485 and QCA9882 to avoid bus reset
PCI: Add function 1 DMA alias quirk for Marvell 88SE9182
31 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Highlights:
- PowerNV PCI hotplug support.
- Lots more Power9 support.
- eBPF JIT support on ppc64le.
- Lots of cxl updates.
- Boot code consolidation.Bug fixes:
- Fix spin_unlock_wait() from Boqun Feng
- Fix stack pointer corruption in __tm_recheckpoint() from Michael
Neuling
- Fix multiple bugs in memory_hotplug_max() from Bharata B Rao
- mm: Ensure "special" zones are empty from Oliver O'Halloran
- ftrace: Separate the heuristics for checking call sites from
Michael Ellerman
- modules: Never restore r2 for a mprofile-kernel style mcount() call
from Michael Ellerman
- Fix endianness when reading TCEs from Alexey Kardashevskiy
- start rtasd before PCI probing from Greg Kurz
- PCI: rpaphp: Fix slot registration for multiple slots under a PHB
from Tyrel Datwyler
- powerpc/mm: Add memory barrier in __hugepte_alloc() from Sukadev
BhattiproluCleanups & fixes:
- Drop support for MPIC in pseries from Rashmica Gupta
- Define and use PPC64_ELF_ABI_v2/v1 from Michael Ellerman
- Remove unused symbols in asm-offsets.c from Rashmica Gupta
- Fix SRIOV not building without EEH enabled from Russell Currey
- Remove kretprobe_trampoline_holder from Thiago Jung Bauermann
- Reduce log level of PCI I/O space warning from Benjamin
Herrenschmidt
- Add array bounds checking to crash_shutdown_handlers from Suraj
Jitindar Singh
- Avoid -maltivec when using clang integrated assembler from Anton
Blanchard
- Fix array overrun in ppc_rtas() syscall from Andrew Donnellan
- Fix error return value in cmm_mem_going_offline() from Rasmus
Villemoes
- export cpu_to_core_id() from Mauricio Faria de Oliveira
- Remove old symbols from defconfigs from Andrew Donnellan
- Update obsolete comments in setup_32.c about entry conditions from
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- Add comment explaining the purpose of setup_kdump_trampoline() from
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- Merge the RELOCATABLE config entries for ppc32 and ppc64 from Kevin
Hao
- Remove RELOCATABLE_PPC32 from Kevin Hao
- Fix .long's in tlb-radix.c to more meaningful from Balbir SinghMinor cleanups & fixes:
- Andrew Donnellan, Anna-Maria Gleixner, Anton Blanchard, Benjamin
Herrenschmidt, Bharata B Rao, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King,
Geliang Tang, Greg Kurz, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Ellerman,
Michael Ellerman, Stephen Rothwell, Stewart Smith.Freescale updates from Scott:
- "Highlights include more 8xx optimizations, device tree updates,
and MVME7100 support."PowerNV PCI hotplug from Gavin Shan:
- PCI: Add pcibios_setup_bridge()
- Override pcibios_setup_bridge()
- Remove PCI_RESET_DELAY_US
- Move pnv_pci_ioda_setup_opal_tce_kill() around
- Increase PE# capacity
- Allocate PE# in reverse order
- Create PEs in pcibios_setup_bridge()
- Setup PE for root bus
- Extend PCI bridge resources
- Make pnv_ioda_deconfigure_pe() visible
- Dynamically release PE
- Update bridge windows on PCI plug
- Delay populating pdn
- Support PCI slot ID
- Use PCI slot reset infrastructure
- Introduce pnv_pci_get_slot_id()
- Functions to get/set PCI slot state
- PCI/hotplug: PowerPC PowerNV PCI hotplug driver
- Print correct PHB type namesPower9 idle support from Shreyas B. Prabhu:
- set power_save func after the idle states are initialized
- Use PNV_THREAD_WINKLE macro while requesting for winkle
- make hypervisor state restore a function
- Rename idle_power7.S to idle_book3s.S
- Rename reusable idle functions to hardware agnostic names
- Make pnv_powersave_common more generic
- abstraction for saving SPRs before entering deep idle states
- Add platform support for stop instruction
- cpuidle/powernv: Use CPUIDLE_STATE_MAX instead of MAX_POWERNV_IDLE_STATES
- cpuidle/powernv: cleanup cpuidle-powernv.c
- cpuidle/powernv: Add support for POWER ISA v3 idle states
- Use deepest stop state when cpu is offlinedPower9 PMU from Madhavan Srinivasan:
- factor out power8 pmu macros and defines
- factor out power8 pmu functions
- factor out power8 __init_pmu code
- Add power9 event list macros for generic and cache events
- Power9 PMU support
- Export Power9 generic and cache events to sysfsPower9 preliminary interrupt & PCI support from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
- Add XICS emulation APIs
- Move a few exception common handlers to make room
- Add support for HV virtualization interrupts
- Add mechanism to force a replay of interrupts
- Add ICP OPAL backend
- Discover IODA3 PHBs
- pci: Remove obsolete SW invalidate
- opal: Add real mode call wrappers
- Rename TCE invalidation calls
- Remove SWINV constants and obsolete TCE code
- Rework accessing the TCE invalidate register
- Fallback to OPAL for TCE invalidations
- Use the device-tree to get available range of M64's
- Check status of a PHB before using it
- pci: Don't try to allocate resources that will be reassignedOther Power9:
- Send SIGBUS on unaligned copy and paste from Chris Smart
- Large Decrementer support from Oliver O'Halloran
- Load Monitor Register Support from Jack MillerPerformance improvements from Anton Blanchard:
- Avoid load hit store in __giveup_fpu() and __giveup_altivec()
- Avoid load hit store in setup_sigcontext()
- Remove assembly versions of strcpy, strcat, strlen and strcmp
- Align hot loops of some string functionseBPF JIT from Naveen N. Rao:
- Fix/enhance 32-bit Load Immediate implementation
- Optimize 64-bit Immediate loads
- Introduce rotate immediate instructions
- A few cleanups
- Isolate classic BPF JIT specifics into a separate header
- Implement JIT compiler for extended BPFOperator Panel driver from Suraj Jitindar Singh:
- devicetree/bindings: Add binding for operator panel on FSP machines
- Add inline function to get rc from an ASYNC_COMP opal_msg
- Add driver for operator panel on FSP machinesSparse fixes from Daniel Axtens:
- make some things static
- Introduce asm-prototypes.h
- Include headers containing prototypes
- Use #ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__ #else for REG_BYTE
- kvm: Clarify __user annotations
- Pass endianness to sparse
- Make ppc_md.{halt, restart} __noreturnMM fixes & cleanups from Aneesh Kumar K.V:
- radix: Update LPCR HR bit as per ISA
- use _raw variant of page table accessors
- Compile out radix related functions if RADIX_MMU is disabled
- Clear top 16 bits of va only on older cpus
- Print formation regarding the the MMU mode
- hash: Update SDR1 size encoding as documented in ISA 3.0
- radix: Update PID switch sequence
- radix: Update machine call back to support new HCALL.
- radix: Add LPID based tlb flush helpers
- radix: Add a kernel command line to disable radix
- Cleanup LPCR definesBoot code consolidation from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
- Move epapr_paravirt_early_init() to early_init_devtree()
- cell: Don't use flat device-tree after boot
- ge_imp3a: Don't use the flat device-tree after boot
- mpc85xx_ds: Don't use the flat device-tree after boot
- mpc85xx_rdb: Don't use the flat device-tree after boot
- Don't test for machine type in rtas_initialize()
- Don't test for machine type in smp_setup_cpu_maps()
- dt: Add of_device_compatible_match()
- Factor do_feature_fixup calls
- Move 64-bit feature fixup earlier
- Move 64-bit memory reserves to setup_arch()
- Use a cachable DART
- Move FW feature probing out of pseries probe()
- Put exception configuration in a common place
- Remove early allocation of the SMU command buffer
- Move MMU backend selection out of platform code
- pasemi: Remove IOBMAP allocation from platform probe()
- mm/hash: Don't use machine_is() early during boot
- Don't test for machine type to detect HEA special case
- pmac: Remove spurrious machine type test
- Move hash table ops to a separate structure
- Ensure that ppc_md is empty before probing for machine type
- Move 64-bit probe_machine() to later in the boot process
- Move 32-bit probe() machine to later in the boot process
- Get rid of ppc_md.init_early()
- Move the boot time info banner to a separate function
- Move setting of {i,d}cache_bsize to initialize_cache_info()
- Move the content of setup_system() to setup_arch()
- Move cache info inits to a separate function
- Re-order the call to smp_setup_cpu_maps()
- Re-order setup_panic()
- Make a few boot functions __init
- Merge 32-bit and 64-bit setup_arch()Other new features:
- tty/hvc: Use IRQF_SHARED for OPAL hvc consoles from Sam Mendoza-Jonas
- tty/hvc: Use opal irqchip interface if available from Sam Mendoza-Jonas
- powerpc: Add module autoloading based on CPU features from Alastair D'Silva
- crypto: vmx - Convert to CPU feature based module autoloading from Alastair D'Silva
- Wake up kopald polling thread before waiting for events from Benjamin Herrenschmidt
- xmon: Dump ISA 2.06 SPRs from Michael Ellerman
- xmon: Dump ISA 2.07 SPRs from Michael Ellerman
- Add a parameter to disable 1TB segs from Oliver O'Halloran
- powerpc/boot: Add OPAL console to epapr wrappers from Oliver O'Halloran
- Assign fixed PHB number based on device-tree properties from Guilherme G. Piccoli
- pseries: Add pseries hotplug workqueue from John Allen
- pseries: Add support for hotplug interrupt source from John Allen
- pseries: Use kernel hotplug queue for PowerVM hotplug events from John Allen
- pseries: Move property cloning into its own routine from Nathan Fontenot
- pseries: Dynamic add entires to associativity lookup array from Nathan Fontenot
- pseries: Auto-online hotplugged memory from Nathan Fontenot
- pseries: Remove call to memblock_add() from Nathan Fontenotcxl:
- Add set and get private data to context struct from Michael Neuling
- make base more explicitly non-modular from Paul Gortmaker
- Use for_each_compatible_node() macro from Wei Yongjun
- Frederic Barrat
- Abstract the differences between the PSL and XSL
- Make vPHB device node match adapter's
- Philippe Bergheaud
- Add mechanism for delivering AFU driver specific events
- Ignore CAPI adapters misplaced in switched slots
- Refine slice error debug messages
- Andrew Donnellan
- static-ify variables to fix sparse warnings
- PCI/hotplug: pnv_php: export symbols and move struct types needed by cxl
- PCI/hotplug: pnv_php: handle OPAL_PCI_SLOT_OFFLINE power state
- Add cxl_check_and_switch_mode() API to switch bi-modal cards
- remove dead Kconfig options
- fix potential NULL dereference in free_adapter()
- Ian Munsie
- Update process element after allocating interrupts
- Add support for CAPP DMA mode
- Fix allowing bogus AFU descriptors with 0 maximum processes
- Fix allocating a minimum of 2 pages for the SPA
- Fix bug where AFU disable operation had no effect
- Workaround XSL bug that does not clear the RA bit after a reset
- Fix NULL pointer dereference on kernel contexts with no AFU interrupts
- powerpc/powernv: Split cxl code out into a separate file
- Add cxl_slot_is_supported API
- Enable bus mastering for devices using CAPP DMA mode
- Move cxl_afu_get / cxl_afu_put to base
- Allow a default context to be associated with an external pci_dev
- Do not create vPHB if there are no AFU configuration records
- powerpc/powernv: Add support for the cxl kernel api on the real phb
- Add support for using the kernel API with a real PHB
- Add kernel APIs to get & set the max irqs per context
- Add preliminary workaround for CX4 interrupt limitation
- Add support for interrupts on the Mellanox CX4
- Workaround PE=0 hardware limitation in Mellanox CX4
- powerpc/powernv: Fix pci-cxl.c build when CONFIG_MODULES=nselftests:
- Test unaligned copy and paste from Chris Smart
- Load Monitor Register Tests from Jack Miller
- Cyril Bur
- exec() with suspended transaction
- Use signed long to read perf_event_paranoid
- Fix usage message in context_switch
- Fix generation of vector instructions/types in context_switch
- Michael Ellerman
- Use "Delta" rather than "Error" in normal output
- Import Anton's mmap & futex micro benchmarks
- Add a test for PROT_SAO"* tag 'powerpc-4.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (263 commits)
powerpc/mm: Parenthesise IS_ENABLED() in if condition
tty/hvc: Use opal irqchip interface if available
tty/hvc: Use IRQF_SHARED for OPAL hvc consoles
selftests/powerpc: exec() with suspended transaction
powerpc: Improve comment explaining why we modify VRSAVE
powerpc/mm: Drop unused externs for hpte_init_beat[_v3]()
powerpc/mm: Rename hpte_init_lpar() and move the fallback to a header
powerpc/mm: Fix build break when PPC_NATIVE=n
crypto: vmx - Convert to CPU feature based module autoloading
powerpc: Add module autoloading based on CPU features
powerpc/powernv/ioda: Fix endianness when reading TCEs
powerpc/mm: Add memory barrier in __hugepte_alloc()
powerpc/modules: Never restore r2 for a mprofile-kernel style mcount() call
powerpc/ftrace: Separate the heuristics for checking call sites
powerpc: Merge 32-bit and 64-bit setup_arch()
powerpc/64: Make a few boot functions __init
powerpc: Re-order setup_panic()
powerpc: Re-order the call to smp_setup_cpu_maps()
powerpc/32: Move cache info inits to a separate function
powerpc/64: Move the content of setup_system() to setup_arch()
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27 Jul, 2016
4 commits
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Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The new feaures here are the support for ACPI overlays (allowing ACPI
tables to be loaded at any time from EFI variables or via configfs)
and the LPI (Low-Power Idle) support. Also notable is the ACPI-based
NUMA support for ARM64.Apart from that we have two new drivers, for the DPTF (Dynamic Power
and Thermal Framework) power participant device and for the Intel
Broxton WhiskeyCove PMIC, some more PMIC-related changes, support for
the Boot Error Record Table (BERT) in APEI and support for
platform-initiated graceful shutdown.Plus two new pieces of documentation and usual assorted fixes and
cleanups in quite a few places.Specifics:
- Support for ACPI SSDT overlays allowing Secondary System
Description Tables (SSDTs) to be loaded at any time from EFI
variables or via configfs (Octavian Purdila, Mika Westerberg).- Support for the ACPI LPI (Low-Power Idle) feature introduced in
ACPI 6.0 and allowing processor idle states to be represented in
ACPI tables in a hierarchical way (with the help of Processor
Container objects) and support for ACPI idle states management on
ARM64, based on LPI (Sudeep Holla).- General improvements of ACPI support for NUMA and ARM64 support for
ACPI-based NUMA (Hanjun Guo, David Daney, Robert Richter).- General improvements of the ACPI table upgrade mechanism and ARM64
support for that feature (Aleksey Makarov, Jon Masters).- Support for the Boot Error Record Table (BERT) in APEI and
improvements of kernel messages printed by the error injection code
(Huang Ying, Borislav Petkov).- New driver for the Intel Broxton WhiskeyCove PMIC operation region
and support for the REGS operation region on Broxton, PMIC code
cleanups (Bin Gao, Felipe Balbi, Paul Gortmaker).- New driver for the power participant device which is part of the
Dynamic Power and Thermal Framework (DPTF) and DPTF-related code
reorganization (Srinivas Pandruvada).- Support for the platform-initiated graceful shutdown feature
introduced in ACPI 6.1 (Prashanth Prakash).- ACPI button driver update related to lid input events generated
automatically on initialization and system resume that have been
problematic for some time (Lv Zheng).- ACPI EC driver cleanups (Lv Zheng).
- Documentation of the ACPICA release automation process and the
in-kernel ACPI AML debugger (Lv Zheng).- New blacklist entry and two fixes for the ACPI backlight driver
(Alex Hung, Arvind Yadav, Ralf Gerbig).- Cleanups of the ACPI pci_slot driver (Joe Perches, Paul Gortmaker).
- ACPI CPPC code changes to make it more robust against possible
defects in ACPI tables and new symbol definitions for PCC (Hoan
Tran).- System reboot code modification to execute the ACPI _PTS (Prepare
To Sleep) method in addition to _TTS (Ocean He).- ACPICA-related change to carry out lock ordering checks in ACPICA
if ACPICA debug is enabled in the kernel (Lv Zheng).- Assorted minor fixes and cleanups (Andy Shevchenko, Baoquan He,
Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Paul Gortmaker, Rafael Wysocki)"* tag 'acpi-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (71 commits)
ACPI: enable ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE on ARM64
arm64: add support for ACPI Low Power Idle(LPI)
drivers: firmware: psci: initialise idle states using ACPI LPI
cpuidle: introduce CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER macro for ARM{32, 64}
arm64: cpuidle: drop __init section marker to arm_cpuidle_init
ACPI / processor_idle: Add support for Low Power Idle(LPI) states
ACPI / processor_idle: introduce ACPI_PROCESSOR_CSTATE
ACPI / DPTF: move int340x_thermal.c to the DPTF folder
ACPI / DPTF: Add DPTF power participant driver
ACPI / lpat: make it explicitly non-modular
ACPI / dock: make dock explicitly non-modular
ACPI / PCI: make pci_slot explicitly non-modular
ACPI / PMIC: remove modular references from non-modular code
ACPICA: Linux: Enable ACPI_MUTEX_DEBUG for Linux kernel
ACPI: Rename configfs.c to acpi_configfs.c to prevent link error
ACPI / debugger: Add AML debugger documentation
ACPI: Add documentation describing ACPICA release automation
ACPI: add support for loading SSDTs via configfs
ACPI: add support for configfs
efi / ACPI: load SSTDs from EFI variables
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Again, the majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem, but
there are no big features this time. The cpufreq changes that stand
out somewhat are the governor interface rework and improvements
related to the handling of frequency tables. Apart from those, there
are fixes and new device/CPU IDs in drivers, cleanups and an
improvement of the new schedutil governor.Next, there are some changes in the hibernation core, including a fix
for a nasty problem related to the MONITOR/MWAIT usage by CPU offline
during resume from hibernation, a few core improvements related to
memory management during resume, a couple of additional debug features
and cleanups.Finally, we have some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem,
generic power domains framework improvements related to system
suspend/resume, support for some new chips in intel_idle and in the
power capping RAPL driver, a new version of the AnalyzeSuspend utility
and some assorted fixes and cleanups.Specifics:
- Rework the cpufreq governor interface to make it more
straightforward and modify the conservative governor to avoid using
transition notifications (Rafael Wysocki).- Rework the handling of frequency tables by the cpufreq core to make
it more efficient (Viresh Kumar).- Modify the schedutil governor to reduce the number of wakeups it
causes to occur in cases when the CPU frequency doesn't need to be
changed (Steve Muckle, Viresh Kumar).- Fix some minor issues and clean up code in the cpufreq core and
governors (Rafael Wysocki, Viresh Kumar).- Add Intel Broxton support to the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas
Pandruvada).- Fix problems related to the config TDP feature and to the validity
of the MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT register in intel_pstate (Jan Kiszka,
Srinivas Pandruvada).- Make intel_pstate update the cpu_frequency tracepoint even if the
frequency doesn't change to avoid confusing powertop (Rafael
Wysocki).- Clean up the usage of __init/__initdata in intel_pstate, mark some
of its internal variables as __read_mostly and drop an unused
structure element from it (Jisheng Zhang, Carsten Emde).- Clean up the usage of some duplicate MSR symbols in intel_pstate
and turbostat (Srinivas Pandruvada).- Update/fix the powernv, s3c24xx and mvebu cpufreq drivers (Akshay
Adiga, Viresh Kumar, Ben Dooks).- Fix a regression (introduced during the 4.5 cycle) in the
pcc-cpufreq driver by reverting the problematic commit (Andreas
Herrmann).- Add support for Intel Denverton to intel_idle, clean up Broxton
support in it and make it explicitly non-modular (Jacob Pan, Jan
Beulich, Paul Gortmaker).- Add support for Denverton and Ivy Bridge server to the Intel RAPL
power capping driver and make it more careful about the handing of
MSRs that may not be present (Jacob Pan, Xiaolong Wang).- Fix resume from hibernation on x86-64 by making the CPU offline
during resume avoid using MONITOR/MWAIT in the "play dead" loop
which may lead to an inadvertent "revival" of a "dead" CPU and a
page fault leading to a kernel crash from it (Rafael Wysocki).- Make memory management during resume from hibernation more
straightforward (Rafael Wysocki).- Add debug features that should help to detect problems related to
hibernation and resume from it (Rafael Wysocki, Chen Yu).- Clean up hibernation core somewhat (Rafael Wysocki).
- Prevent KASAN from instrumenting the hibernation core which leads
to large numbers of false-positives from it (James Morse).- Prevent PM (hibernate and suspend) notifiers from being called
during the cleanup phase if they have not been called during the
corresponding preparation phase which is possible if one of the
other notifiers returns an error at that time (Lianwei Wang).- Improve suspend-related debug printout in the tasks freezer and
clean up suspend-related console handling (Roger Lu, Borislav
Petkov).- Update the AnalyzeSuspend script in the kernel sources to version
4.2 (Todd Brandt).- Modify the generic power domains framework to make it handle system
suspend/resume better (Ulf Hansson).- Make the runtime PM framework avoid resuming devices synchronously
when user space changes the runtime PM settings for them and
improve its error reporting (Rafael Wysocki, Linus Walleij).- Fix error paths in devfreq drivers (exynos, exynos-ppmu,
exynos-bus) and in the core, make some devfreq code explicitly
non-modular and change some of it into tristate (Bartlomiej
Zolnierkiewicz, Peter Chen, Paul Gortmaker).- Add DT support to the generic PM clocks management code and make it
export some more symbols (Jon Hunter, Paul Gortmaker).- Make the PCI PM core code slightly more robust against possible
driver errors (Andy Shevchenko).- Make it possible to change DESTDIR and PREFIX in turbostat (Andy
Shevchenko)"* tag 'pm-4.8-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (89 commits)
Revert "cpufreq: pcc-cpufreq: update default value of cpuinfo_transition_latency"
PM / hibernate: Introduce test_resume mode for hibernation
cpufreq: export cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
cpufreq: Disallow ->resolve_freq() for drivers providing ->target_index()
PCI / PM: check all fields in pci_set_platform_pm()
cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: use cached frequency mapping when possible
cpufreq: schedutil: map raw required frequency to driver frequency
cpufreq: add cpufreq_driver_resolve_freq()
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Check cpuid for MSR_HWP_INTERRUPT
intel_pstate: Update cpu_frequency tracepoint every time
cpufreq: intel_pstate: clean remnant struct element
PM / tools: scripts: AnalyzeSuspend v4.2
x86 / hibernate: Use hlt_play_dead() when resuming from hibernation
cpufreq: powernv: Replacing pstate_id with frequency table index
intel_pstate: Fix MSR_CONFIG_TDP_x addressing in core_get_max_pstate()
PM / hibernate: Image data protection during restoration
PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in __register_nosave_region()
PM / hibernate: Clean up comments in snapshot.c
PM / hibernate: Clean up function headers in snapshot.c
PM / hibernate: Add missing braces in hibernate_setup()
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Some big changes this month, headlined by the addition of a new
formatted documentation mechanism based on the Sphinx system.The objectives here are to make it easier to create better-integrated
(and more attractive) documents while (eventually) dumping our
one-of-a-kind, cobbled-together system for something that is widely
used and maintained by others. There's a fair amount of information
what's being done, why, and how to use it in:https://lwn.net/Articles/692704/
https://lwn.net/Articles/692705/Closer to home, Documentation/kernel-documentation.rst describes how
it works.For now, the new system exists alongside the old one; you should soon
see the GPU documentation converted over in the DRM pull and some
significant media conversion work as well. Once all the docs have
been moved over and we're convinced that the rough edges (of which are
are a few) have been smoothed over, the DocBook-based stuff should go
away.Primary credit is to Jani Nikula for doing the heavy lifting to make
this stuff actually work; there has also been notable effort from
Markus Heiser, Daniel Vetter, and Mauro Carvalho Chehab.Expect a couple of conflicts on the new index.rst file over the course
of the merge window; they are trivially resolvable. That file may be
a bit of a conflict magnet in the short term, but I don't expect that
situation to last for any real length of time.Beyond that, of course, we have the usual collection of tweaks,
updates, and typo fixes"* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (77 commits)
doc-rst: kernel-doc: fix handling of address_space tags
Revert "doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings"
doc-rst: kernel-doc directive, fix state machine reporter
docs: deprecate kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt
doc/sphinx: Enable keep_warnings
Documentation: add watermark_scale_factor to the list of vm systcl file
kernel-doc: Fix up warning output
docs: Get rid of some kernel-documentation warnings
doc-rst: add an option to ignore DocBooks when generating docs
workqueue: Fix a typo in workqueue.txt
Doc: ocfs: Fix typo in filesystems/ocfs2-online-filecheck.txt
Documentation/sphinx: skip build if user requested specific DOCBOOKS
Documentation: add cleanmediadocs to the documentation targets
Add .pyc files to .gitignore
Doc: PM: Fix a typo in intel_powerclamp.txt
doc-rst: flat-table directive - initial implementation
Documentation: add meta-documentation for Sphinx and kernel-doc
Documentation: tiny typo fix in usb/gadget_multi.txt
Documentation: fix wrong value in md.txt
bcache: documentation formatting, edited for clarity, stripe alignment notes
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"There are a couple of new things for s390 with this merge request:- a new scheduling domain "drawer" is added to reflect the unusual
topology found on z13 machines. Performance tests showed up to 8
percent gain with the additional domain.- the new crc-32 checksum crypto module uses the vector-galois-field
multiply and sum SIMD instruction to speed up crc-32 and crc-32c.- proper __ro_after_init support, this requires RO_AFTER_INIT_DATA in
the generic vmlinux.lds linker script definitions.- kcov instrumentation support. A prerequisite for that is the
inline assembly basic block cleanup, which is the reason for the
net/iucv/iucv.c change.- support for 2GB pages is added to the hugetlbfs backend.
Then there are two removals:
- the oprofile hardware sampling support is dead code and is removed.
The oprofile user space uses the perf interface nowadays.- the ETR clock synchronization is removed, this has been superseeded
be the STP clock synchronization. And it always has been
"interesting" code..And the usual bug fixes and cleanups"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (82 commits)
s390/pci: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "pci_dev_put"
s390/smp: clean up a condition
s390/cio/chp : Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
s390/chsc: improve channel path descriptor determination
s390/chsc: sanitize fmt check for chp_desc determination
s390/cio: make fmt1 channel path descriptor optional
s390/chsc: fix ioctl CHSC_INFO_CU command
s390/cio/device_ops: fix kernel doc
s390/cio: allow to reset channel measurement block
s390/console: Make preferred console handling more consistent
s390/mm: fix gmap tlb flush issues
s390/mm: add support for 2GB hugepages
s390: have unique symbol for __switch_to address
s390/cpuinfo: show maximum thread id
s390/ptrace: clarify bits in the per_struct
s390: stack address vs thread_info
s390: remove pointless load within __switch_to
s390: enable kcov support
s390/cpumf: use basic block for ecctr inline assembly
s390/hypfs: use basic block for diag inline assembly
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26 Jul, 2016
2 commits
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Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This update provides the following changes:- The rework of the timer wheel which addresses the shortcomings of
the current wheel (cascading, slow search for next expiring timer,
etc). That's the first major change of the wheel in almost 20
years since Finn implemted it.- A large overhaul of the clocksource drivers init functions to
consolidate the Device Tree initialization- Some more Y2038 updates
- A capability fix for timerfd
- Yet another clock chip driver
- The usual pile of updates, comment improvements all over the place"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (130 commits)
tick/nohz: Optimize nohz idle enter
clockevents: Make clockevents_subsys static
clocksource/drivers/time-armada-370-xp: Fix return value check
timers: Implement optimization for same expiry time in mod_timer()
timers: Split out index calculation
timers: Only wake softirq if necessary
timers: Forward the wheel clock whenever possible
timers/nohz: Remove pointless tick_nohz_kick_tick() function
timers: Optimize collect_expired_timers() for NOHZ
timers: Move __run_timers() function
timers: Remove set_timer_slack() leftovers
timers: Switch to a non-cascading wheel
timers: Reduce the CPU index space to 256k
timers: Give a few structs and members proper names
hlist: Add hlist_is_singular_node() helper
signals: Use hrtimer for sigtimedwait()
timers: Remove the deprecated mod_timer_pinned() API
timers, net/ipv4/inet: Initialize connection request timers as pinned
timers, drivers/tty/mips_ejtag: Initialize the poll timer as pinned
timers, drivers/tty/metag_da: Initialize the poll timer as pinned
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A user may hot add a switch requiring more than one bus to enumerate. This
previously required a system reboot if BIOS did not sufficiently pad the
bus resource, which they frequently don't do.Add a kernel parameter so a user can specify the minimum number of bus
numbers to reserve for a hotplug bridge's subordinate buses so rebooting
won't be necessary.The default is 1, which is equivalent to previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
25 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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* acpi-processor:
ACPI: enable ACPI_PROCESSOR_IDLE on ARM64
arm64: add support for ACPI Low Power Idle(LPI)
drivers: firmware: psci: initialise idle states using ACPI LPI
cpuidle: introduce CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER macro for ARM{32, 64}
arm64: cpuidle: drop __init section marker to arm_cpuidle_init
ACPI / processor_idle: Add support for Low Power Idle(LPI) states
ACPI / processor_idle: introduce ACPI_PROCESSOR_CSTATE* acpi-cppc:
mailbox: pcc: Add PCC request and free channel declarations
ACPI / CPPC: Prevent cpc_desc_ptr points to the invalid data
ACPI: CPPC: Return error if _CPC is invalid on a CPU* acpi-apei:
ACPI / APEI: Add Boot Error Record Table (BERT) support
ACPI / einj: Make error paths more talkative
ACPI / einj: Convert EINJ_PFX to proper pr_fmt* acpi-sleep:
ACPI: Execute _PTS before system reboot
17 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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This patch adds the kernel command line disable_radix which disable
the radix MMU mode even if firmware indicates radix support via
ibm,pa-features device tree node.This helps in testing different MMU mode easily.
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
14 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Allow the user to limit the number of requests serviced through a single
connection, to help prevent faster clients from starving slower clients.Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
10 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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Make it possible to protect all pages holding image data during
hibernate image restoration by setting them read-only (so as to
catch attempts to write to those pages after image data have been
stored in them).This adds overhead to image restoration code (it may cause large
page mappings to be split as a result of page flags changes) and
the errors it protects against should never happen in theory, so
the feature is only active after passing hibernate=protect_image
to the command line of the restore kernel.Also it only is built if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
09 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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This patch allows SSDTs to be loaded from EFI variables. It works by
specifying the EFI variable name containing the SSDT to be loaded. All
variables with the same name (regardless of the vendor GUID) will be
loaded.Note that we can't use acpi_install_table and we must rely on the
dynamic ACPI table loading and bus re-scanning mechanisms. That is
because I2C/SPI controllers are initialized earlier then the EFI
subsystems and all I2C/SPI ACPI devices are enumerated when the
I2C/SPI controllers are initialized.Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
05 Jul, 2016
1 commit
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This patch adds the kernel command line parameter "no_tb_segs" which
forces the kernel to use 256MB rather than 1TB segments. Forcing the use
of 256MB segments makes it considerably easier to test code that depends
on an SLB miss occurring.Suggested-by: Michael Neuling
Suggested-by: Michael Ellerman
Signed-off-by: Oliver O'Halloran
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman
30 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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ACPI/APEI is designed to verifiy/report H/W errors, like Corrected
Error(CE) and Uncorrected Error(UC). It contains four tables: HEST,
ERST, EINJ and BERT. The first three tables have been merged for
a long time, but because of lacking BIOS support for BERT, the
support for BERT is pending until now. Recently on ARM 64 platform
it is has been supported. So here we come.Under normal circumstances, when a hardware error occurs, kernel will
be notified via NMI, MCE or some other method, then kernel will
process the error condition, report it, and recover it if possible.
But sometime, the situation is so bad, so that firmware may choose to
reset directly without notifying Linux kernel.Linux kernel can use the Boot Error Record Table (BERT) to get the
un-notified hardware errors that occurred in a previous boot. In this
patch, the error information is reported via printk.For more information about BERT, please refer to ACPI Specification
version 6.0, section 18.3.1:
http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/ACPI_6.0.pdfThe following log is a BERT record after system reboot because of hitting
a fatal memory error:
BERT: Error records from previous boot:
[Hardware Error]: It has been corrected by h/w and requires no further action
[Hardware Error]: event severity: corrected
[Hardware Error]: Error 0, type: recoverable
[Hardware Error]: section_type: memory error
[Hardware Error]: error_status: 0x0000000000000400
[Hardware Error]: physical_address: 0xffffffffffffffff
[Hardware Error]: card: 1 module: 2 bank: 3 row: 1 column: 2 bit_position: 5
[Hardware Error]: error_type: 2, single-bit ECC[Tomasz Nowicki: Clear error status at the end of error handling]
[Tony: Applied some cleanups suggested by Fu Wei]
[Fu Wei: delete EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(bert_disable), improve the code]Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Nowicki
Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong
Tested-by: Jonathan (Zhixiong) Zhang
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei
Tested-by: Tyler Baicar
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
28 Jun, 2016
2 commits
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Disabling the eventstream can be useful for both remotely debugging a
deployed production system and development of code using WFE-based
polling loops. Whilst this can currently be controlled via a Kconfig
option (CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM), it's often desirable to toggle
the feature on the command line, so this patch adds a new command-line
option ("clocksource.arm_arch_timer.evtstrm") to do just that. The
default behaviour is determined based on CONFIG_ARM_ARCH_TIMER_EVTSTREAM.Cc: Marc Zyngier
Cc: Mark Rutland
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon
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Remove hardware sampler support from oprofile module.
The oprofile user space utilty has been switched to use the kernel
perf interface, for which we also provide hardware sampling support.In addition the hardware sampling support is also slightly broken: it
supports only 16 bits for the pid and therefore would generate wrong
results on machines which have a pid >64k.Also the pt_regs structure which was passed to oprofile common code
cannot necessarily be used to generate sane backtraces, since the
task(s) in question may run while the samples are fed to oprofile.
So the result would be more or less random.However given that the only user space tools switched to the perf
interface already four years ago the hardware sampler code seems to be
unused code, and therefore it should be reasonable to remove it.The timer based oprofile support continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens
Acked-by: Andreas Arnez
Acked-by: Andreas Krebbel
Acked-by: Robert Richter
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky
26 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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With the following fix:
70595b479ce1 ("x86/power/64: Fix crash whan the hibernation code passes control to the image kernel")
... there is no longer a problem with hibernation resuming a
KASLR-booted kernel image, so remove the restriction.Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Baoquan He
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Brian Gerst
Cc: Denys Vlasenko
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Len Brown
Cc: Linus Torvalds
Cc: Linux PM list
Cc: Logan Gunthorpe
Cc: Pavel Machek
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Stephen Smalley
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Yinghai Lu
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160613221002.GA29719@www.outflux.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
22 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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Some uio-based PCI drivers, e.g., uio_cif do not work if the assigned PCI
memory resources are not page aligned.By using the kernel option "pci=resource_alignment" it is possible to force
single PCI boards to use page alignment for their memory resources.
However, this is fairly cumbersome if several of these boards are in use
as the specification of the cards has to be done via PCI bus/slot/function
number which might change, e.g., by adding another board.Extend the kernel option "pci=resource_alignment" to allow specification of
relevant devices via PCI device/vendor (and subdevice/subvendor) IDs. The
specification of the devices via device/vendor is indicated by a leading
string "pci:" as argument to "pci=resource_alignment". The format of the
specification is pci::[::]Signed-off-by: Mathias Koehrer
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
14 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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Currently the Linux PCI core does not touch power state of PCI bridges and
PCIe ports when system suspend is entered. Leaving them in D0 consumes
power unnecessarily and may prevent the CPU from entering deeper C-states.With recent PCIe hardware we can power down the ports to save power given
that we take into account few restrictions:- The PCIe port hardware is recent enough, starting from 2015.
- Devices connected to PCIe ports are effectively in D3cold once the port
is transitioned to D3 (the config space is not accessible anymore and
the link may be powered down).- Devices behind the PCIe port need to be allowed to transition to D3cold
and back. There is a way both drivers and userspace can forbid this.- If the device behind the PCIe port is capable of waking the system it
needs to be able to do so from D3cold.This patch adds a new flag to struct pci_device called 'bridge_d3'. This
flag is set and cleared by the PCI core whenever there is a change in power
management state of any of the devices behind the PCIe port. When system
later on is suspended we only need to check this flag and if it is true
transition the port to D3 otherwise we leave it in D0.Also provide override mechanism via command line parameter
"pcie_port_pm=[off|force]" that can be used to disable or enable the
feature regardless of the BIOS manufacturing date.Tested-by: Lukas Wunner
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
04 Jun, 2016
1 commit
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It took me browsing through the source code to determine that I was,
indeed, using the wrong delimiter in my command lines. So I might as
well document it for the next person.Signed-off-by: Brian Norris
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet
21 May, 2016
2 commits
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Pull tty and serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the large TTY and Serial driver update for 4.7-rc1.A few new serial drivers are added here, and Peter has fixed a bunch
of long-standing bugs in the tty layer and serial drivers as normal.
Full details in the shortlog.All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"* tag 'tty-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (88 commits)
MAINTAINERS: 8250: remove website reference
serial: core: Fix port mutex assert if lockdep disabled
serial: 8250_dw: fix wrong logic in dw8250_check_lcr()
tty: vt, finish looping on duplicate
tty: vt, return error when con_startup fails
QE-UART: add "fsl,t1040-ucc-uart" to of_device_id
serial: mctrl_gpio: Drop support for out1-gpios and out2-gpios
serial: 8250dw: Add device HID for future AMD UART controller
Fix OpenSSH pty regression on close
serial: mctrl_gpio: add IRQ locking
serial: 8250: Integrate Fintek into 8250_base
serial: mps2-uart: add support for early console
serial: mps2-uart: add MPS2 UART driver
dt-bindings: document the MPS2 UART bindings
serial: sirf: Use generic uart-has-rtscts DT property
serial: sirf: Introduce helper variable struct device_node *np
serial: mxs-auart: Use generic uart-has-rtscts DT property
serial: imx: Use generic uart-has-rtscts DT property
doc: DT: Add Generic Serial Device Tree Bindings
serial: 8250: of: Make tegra_serial_handle_break() static
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
"Changes included in this pull request:- revert pxa2xx-flash back to using ioremap_cached() and switch
memremap() to use arch_memremap_wb()- remove pci=firmware command line argument handling
- remove unnecessary arm_dma_set_mask() implementation, the generic
implementation will do for ARM- removal of the ARM kallsyms "hack" to work around mode switching
veneers and vectors located below PAGE_OFFSET- tidy up build system output a little
- add L2 cache power management DT bindings
- remove duplicated local_irq_disable() in reboot paths
- handle AMBA primecell devices better at registration time with PM
domains (needed for Samsung SoCs)- ARM specific preparation to support Keystone II kexec"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.armlinux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 8567/1: cache-uniphier: activate ways for secondary CPUs
ARM: 8570/2: Documentation: devicetree: Add PL310 PM bindings
ARM: 8569/1: pl2x0: Add OF control of cache power management
ARM: 8568/1: reboot: remove duplicated local_irq_disable()
ARM: 8566/1: drivers: amba: properly handle devices with power domains
ARM: provide arm_has_idmap_alias() helper
ARM: kexec: remove 512MB restriction on kexec crashdump
ARM: provide improved virt_to_idmap() functionality
ARM: kexec: fix crashkernel= handling
ARM: 8557/1: specify install, zinstall, and uinstall as PHONY targets
ARM: 8562/1: suppress "include/generated/mach-types.h is up to date."
ARM: 8553/1: kallsyms: remove --page-offset command line option
ARM: 8552/1: kallsyms: remove special lower address limit for CONFIG_ARM
ARM: 8555/1: kallsyms: ignore ARM mode switching veneers
ARM: 8548/1: dma-mapping: remove arm_dma_set_mask()
ARM: 8554/1: kernel: pci: remove pci=firmware command line parameter handling
ARM: memremap: implement arch_memremap_wb()
memremap: add arch specific hook for MEMREMAP_WB mappings
mtd: pxa2xx-flash: switch back from memremap to ioremap_cached
ARM: reintroduce ioremap_cached() for creating cached I/O mappings
20 May, 2016
3 commits
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Merge updates from Andrew Morton:
- fsnotify fix
- poll() timeout fix
- a few scripts/ tweaks
- debugobjects updates
- the (small) ocfs2 queue
- Minor fixes to kernel/padata.c
- Maybe half of the MM queue
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (117 commits)
mm, page_alloc: restore the original nodemask if the fast path allocation failed
mm, page_alloc: uninline the bad page part of check_new_page()
mm, page_alloc: don't duplicate code in free_pcp_prepare
mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of pages allocated from the PCP
mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain
cpuset: use static key better and convert to new API
mm, page_alloc: inline pageblock lookup in page free fast paths
mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary variable from free_pcppages_bulk
mm, page_alloc: pull out side effects from free_pages_check
mm, page_alloc: un-inline the bad part of free_pages_check
mm, page_alloc: check multiple page fields with a single branch
mm, page_alloc: remove field from alloc_context
mm, page_alloc: avoid looking up the first zone in a zonelist twice
mm, page_alloc: shortcut watermark checks for order-0 pages
mm, page_alloc: reduce cost of fair zone allocation policy retry
mm, page_alloc: shorten the page allocator fast path
mm, page_alloc: check once if a zone has isolated pageblocks
mm, page_alloc: move __GFP_HARDWALL modifications out of the fastpath
mm, page_alloc: simplify last cpupid reset
mm, page_alloc: remove unnecessary initialisation from __alloc_pages_nodemask()
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CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_DEFAULT_ONLINE specifies the default value for the
memory hotplug onlining policy. Add a command line parameter to make it
possible to override the default. It may come handy for debug and
testing purposes.Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Dan Williams
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: David Vrabel
Cc: David Rientjes
Cc: Igor Mammedov
Cc: Lennart Poettering
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
"The updates include:- rate limiting for the VT-d fault handler
- remove statistics code from the AMD IOMMU driver. It is unused and
should be replaced by something more generic if needed- per-domain pagesize-bitmaps in IOMMU core code to support systems
with different types of IOMMUs- support for ACPI devices in the AMD IOMMU driver
- 4GB mode support for Mediatek IOMMU driver
- ARM-SMMU updates from Will Deacon:
- support for 64k pages with SMMUv1 implementations (e.g MMU-401)
- remove open-coded 64-bit MMIO accessors
- initial support for 16-bit VMIDs, as supported by some ThunderX
SMMU implementations
- a couple of errata workarounds for silicon in the field- various fixes here and there"
* tag 'iommu-updates-v4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (44 commits)
iommu/arm-smmu: Use per-domain page sizes.
iommu/amd: Remove statistics code
iommu/dma: Finish optimising higher-order allocations
iommu: Allow selecting page sizes per domain
iommu: of: enforce const-ness of struct iommu_ops
iommu: remove unused priv field from struct iommu_ops
iommu/dma: Implement scatterlist segment merging
iommu/arm-smmu: Clear cache lock bit of ACR
iommu/arm-smmu: Support SMMUv1 64KB supplement
iommu/arm-smmu: Decouple context format from kernel config
iommu/arm-smmu: Tidy up 64-bit/atomic I/O accesses
io-64-nonatomic: Add relaxed accessor variants
iommu/arm-smmu: Work around MMU-500 prefetch errata
iommu/arm-smmu: Convert ThunderX workaround to new method
iommu/arm-smmu: Differentiate specific implementations
iommu/arm-smmu: Workaround for ThunderX erratum #27704
iommu/arm-smmu: Add support for 16 bit VMID
iommu/amd: Move get_device_id() and friends to beginning of file
iommu/amd: Don't use IS_ERR_VALUE to check integer values
iommu/amd: Signedness bug in acpihid_device_group()
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19 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The s390 patches for the 4.7 merge window have the usual bug fixes and
cleanups, and the following new features:- An interface for dasd driver to query if a volume is online to
another operating system- A new ioctl for the dasd driver to verify the format for a range of
tracks- Following the example of x86 the struct fpu is now allocated with
the task_struct- The 'report_error' interface for the PCI bus to send an
adapter-error notification from user space to the service element
of the machine"* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (29 commits)
s390/vmem: remove unused function parameter
s390/vmem: fix identity mapping
s390: add missing include statements
s390: add missing declarations
s390: make couple of variables and functions static
s390/cache: remove superfluous locking
s390/cpuinfo: simplify locking and skip offline cpus early
s390/3270: hangup the 3270 tty after a disconnect
s390/3270: handle reconnect of a tty with a different size
s390/3270: avoid endless I/O loop with disconnected 3270 terminals
s390/3270: fix garbled output on 3270 tty view
s390/3270: fix view reference counting
s390/3270: add missing tty_kref_put
s390/dumpstack: implement and use return_address()
s390/cpum_sf: Remove superfluous SMP function call
s390/cpum_cf: Remove superfluous SMP function call
s390/Kconfig: make z196 the default processor type
s390/sclp: avoid compile warning in sclp_pci_report
s390/fpu: allocate 'struct fpu' with the task_struct
s390/crypto: cleanup and move the header with the cpacf definitions
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18 May, 2016
1 commit
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
"API:- Crypto self tests can now be disabled at boot/run time.
- Add async support to algif_aead.Algorithms:
- A large number of fixes to MPI from Nicolai Stange.
- Performance improvement for HMAC DRBG.Drivers:
- Use generic crypto engine in omap-des.
- Merge ppc4xx-rng and crypto4xx drivers.
- Fix lockups in sun4i-ss driver by disabling IRQs.
- Add DMA engine support to ccp.
- Reenable talitos hash algorithms.
- Add support for Hisilicon SoC RNG.
- Add basic crypto driver for the MXC SCC.Others:
- Do not allocate crypto hash tfm in NORECLAIM context in ecryptfs"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (77 commits)
crypto: qat - change the adf_ctl_stop_devices to void
crypto: caam - fix caam_jr_alloc() ret code
crypto: vmx - comply with ABIs that specify vrsave as reserved.
crypto: testmgr - Add a flag allowing the self-tests to be disabled at runtime.
crypto: ccp - constify ccp_actions structure
crypto: marvell/cesa - Use dma_pool_zalloc
crypto: qat - make adf_vf_isr.c dependant on IOV config
crypto: qat - Fix typo in comments
lib: asn1_decoder - add MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")
crypto: omap-sham - Use dma_request_chan() for requesting DMA channel
crypto: omap-des - Use dma_request_chan() for requesting DMA channel
crypto: omap-aes - Use dma_request_chan() for requesting DMA channel
crypto: omap-des - Integrate with the crypto engine framework
crypto: s5p-sss - fix incorrect usage of scatterlists api
crypto: s5p-sss - Fix missed interrupts when working with 8 kB blocks
crypto: s5p-sss - Use common BIT macro
crypto: mxc-scc - fix unwinding in mxc_scc_crypto_register()
crypto: mxc-scc - signedness bugs in mxc_scc_ablkcipher_req_init()
crypto: talitos - fix ahash algorithms registration
crypto: ccp - Ensure all dependencies are specified
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17 May, 2016
3 commits
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Pull ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The new features here are ACPI 6.1 support (and some previously
missing bits of ACPI 6.0 support) in ACPICA and two new drivers, a
driver for the ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) feature introduced by
ACPI 6.1 and the INT3406 thermal driver for display thermal
management. Also the value returned by the _HRV (hardware revision)
ACPI object will be exported to user space via sysfs now.In addition to that, ACPI on ARM64 will not depend on EXPERT any more.
The rest is mostly fixes and cleanups and some code reorganization.
Specifics:
- In-kernel ACPICA code update to the upstream release 20160422
adding support for ACPI 6.1 along with some previously missing bits
of ACPI 6.0 support, making a fair amount of fixes and cleanups and
reducing divergences between the upstream ACPICA and the in-kernel
code (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Al Stone, Aleksey Makarov, Will Miles)- ACPI Generic Event Device (GED) support and a fix for it (Sinan
Kaya, Paul Gortmaker)- INT3406 thermal driver for display thermal management and ACPI
backlight support code reorganization related to it (Aaron Lu, Arnd
Bergmann)- Support for exporting the value returned by the _HRV (hardware
revision) ACPI object via sysfs (Betty Dall)- Removal of the EXPERT dependency for ACPI on ARM64 (Mark Brown)
- Rework of the handling of ACPI _OSI mechanism allowing the
_OSI("Darwin") support to be overridden from the kernel command
line among other things (Lv Zheng, Chen Yu)- Rework of the ACPI tables override mechanism to prepare it for the
introduction of overlays support going forward (Lv Zheng, Rafael
Wysocki)- Fixes related to the ECDT support and module-level execution of AML
(Lv Zheng)- ACPI PCI interrupts management update to make it work better on
ARM64 mostly (Sinan Kaya)- ACPI SRAT handling update to make the code process all entires in
the table order regardless of the entry type (Lukasz Anaczkowski)- EFI power off support for full-hardware ACPI platforms that don't
support ACPI S5 (Chen Yu)- Fixes and cleanups related to the ACPI core's sysfs interface (Dan
Carpenter, Betty Dall)- acpi_dev_present() API rework to reduce possible confusion related
to it (Lukas Wunner)- Removal of CLK_IS_ROOT from two ACPI drivers (Stephen Boyd)"
* tag 'acpi-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (82 commits)
ACPI / video: mark acpi_video_get_levels() inline
Thermal / ACPI / video: add INT3406 thermal driver
ACPI / GED: make evged.c explicitly non-modular
ACPI / tables: Fix DSDT override mechanism
ACPI / sysfs: fix error code in get_status()
ACPICA: Update version to 20160422
ACPICA: Move all ASCII utilities to a common file
ACPICA: ACPI 2.0, Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support for acpi_hw_write()
ACPICA: ACPI 2.0, Hardware: Add access_width/bit_offset support in acpi_hw_read()
ACPICA: Executer: Introduce a set of macros to handle bit width mask generation
ACPICA: Hardware: Add optimized access bit width support
ACPICA: Utilities: Add ACPI_IS_ALIGNED() macro
ACPICA: Renamed some #defined flag constants for clarity
ACPICA: ACPI 6.0, tools/iasl: Add support for new resource descriptors
ACPICA: ACPI 6.0: Update _BIX support for new package element
ACPICA: ACPI 6.1: Support for new PCCT subtable
ACPICA: Refactor evaluate_object to reduce nesting
ACPICA: Divergence: remove unwanted spaces for typedef
ACPI,PCI,IRQ: remove SCI penalize function
ACPI,PCI,IRQ: remove redundant code in acpi_irq_penalty_init()
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"The majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem this time.To me, quite obviously, the biggest ticket item is the new "schedutil"
governor. Interestingly enough, it's the first new cpufreq governor
since the beginning of the git era (except for some out-of-the-tree
ones).There are two main differences between it and the existing governors.
First, it uses the information provided by the scheduler directly for
making its decisions, so it doesn't have to track anything by itself.
Second, it can invoke drivers (supporting that feature) to adjust CPU
performance right away without having to spawn work items to be
executed in process context or similar. Currently, the acpi-cpufreq
driver is the only one supporting that mode of operation, but then it
is used on a large number of systems.The "schedutil" governor as included here is very simple and mostly
regarded as a foundation for future work on the integration of the
scheduler with CPU power management (in fact, there is work in
progress on top of it already). Nevertheless it works and the
preliminary results obtained with it are encouraging.There also is some consolidation of CPU frequency management for ARM
platforms that can add their machine IDs the the new stub dt-platdev
driver now and that will take care of creating the requisite platform
device for cpufreq-dt, so it is not necessary to do that in platform
code any more. Several ARM platforms are switched over to using this
generic mechanism.In addition to that, the intel_pstate driver is now going to respect
CPU frequency limits set by the platform firmware (or a BMC) and
provided via the ACPI _PPC object.The devfreq subsystem is getting a new "passive" governor for SoCs
subsystems that will depend on somebody else to manage their voltage
rails and its support for Samsung Exynos SoCs is consolidated.The rest is support for new hardware (Intel Broxton support in
intel_idle for one example), bug fixes, optimizations and cleanups in
a number of places.Specifics:
- New cpufreq "schedutil" governor (making decisions based on CPU
utilization information provided by the scheduler and capable of
switching CPU frequencies right away if the underlying driver
supports that) and support for fast frequency switching in the
acpi-cpufreq driver (Rafael Wysocki)- Consolidation of CPU frequency management on ARM platforms allowing
them to get rid of some platform-specific boilerplate code if they
are going to use the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar, Finley Xiao,
Marc Gonzalez)- Support for ACPI _PPC and CPU frequency limits in the intel_pstate
driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)- Fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq core and generic governor code
(Rafael Wysocki, Sai Gurrappadi)- intel_pstate driver optimizations and cleanups (Rafael Wysocki,
Philippe Longepe, Chen Yu, Joe Perches)- cpufreq powernv driver fixes and cleanups (Akshay Adiga, Shilpasri
Bhat)- cpufreq qoriq driver fixes and cleanups (Jia Hongtao)
- ACPI cpufreq driver cleanups (Viresh Kumar)
- Assorted cpufreq driver updates (Ashwin Chaugule, Geliang Tang,
Javier Martinez Canillas, Paul Gortmaker, Sudeep Holla)- Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups (Joe Perches, Arnd Bergmann)
- Fixes and cleanups in the OPP (Operating Performance Points)
framework, mostly related to OPP sharing, and reorganization of
OF-dependent code in it (Viresh Kumar, Arnd Bergmann, Sudeep Holla)- New "passive" governor for devfreq (for SoC subsystems that will
rely on someone else for the management of their power resources)
and consolidation of devfreq support for Exynos platforms, coding
style and typo fixes for devfreq (Chanwoo Choi, MyungJoo Ham)- PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly to make it work better with the
generic power domains (genpd) framework, and updates for that
framework (Ulf Hansson, Thierry Reding, Colin Ian King)- Intel Broxton support for the intel_idle driver (Len Brown)
- cpuidle core optimization and fix (Daniel Lezcano, Dave Gerlach)
- ARM cpuidle cleanups (Jisheng Zhang)
- Intel Kabylake support for the RAPL power capping driver (Jacob
Pan)- AVS (Adaptive Voltage Switching) rockchip-io driver update (Heiko
Stuebner)- Updates for the cpupower tool (Arjun Sreedharan, Colin Ian King,
Mattia Dongili, Thomas Renninger)"* tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (112 commits)
intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance()
intel_pstate: Use sample.core_avg_perf in get_avg_pstate()
intel_pstate: Clarify average performance computation
intel_pstate: Avoid unnecessary synchronize_sched() during initialization
cpufreq: schedutil: Make default depend on CONFIG_SMP
cpufreq: powernv: del_timer_sync when global and local pstate are equal
cpufreq: powernv: Move smp_call_function_any() out of irq safe block
intel_pstate: Clean up intel_pstate_get()
cpufreq: schedutil: Make it depend on CONFIG_SMP
cpufreq: governor: Fix handling of special cases in dbs_update()
PM / OPP: Move CONFIG_OF dependent code in a separate file
cpufreq: intel_pstate: Ignore _PPC processing under HWP
cpufreq: arm_big_little: use generic OPP functions for {init, free}_opp_table
PM / OPP: add non-OF versions of dev_pm_opp_{cpumask_, }remove_table
cpufreq: tango: Use generic platdev driver
PM / OPP: pass cpumask by reference
cpufreq: Fix GOV_LIMITS handling for the userspace governor
cpupower: fix potential memory leak
PM / devfreq: style/typo fixes
PM / devfreq: exynos: Add the detailed correlation for Exynos5422 bus
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Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
- virt_to_page/page_address optimisations
- support for NUMA systems described using device-tree
- support for hibernate/suspend-to-disk
- proper support for maxcpus= command line parameter
- detection and graceful handling of AArch64-only CPUs
- miscellaneous cleanups and non-critical fixes
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (92 commits)
arm64: do not enforce strict 16 byte alignment to stack pointer
arm64: kernel: Fix incorrect brk randomization
arm64: cpuinfo: Missing NULL terminator in compat_hwcap_str
arm64: secondary_start_kernel: Remove unnecessary barrier
arm64: Ensure pmd_present() returns false after pmd_mknotpresent()
arm64: Replace hard-coded values in the pmd/pud_bad() macros
arm64: Implement pmdp_set_access_flags() for hardware AF/DBM
arm64: Fix typo in the pmdp_huge_get_and_clear() definition
arm64: mm: remove unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
arm64: always use STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
arm64: kvm: Fix kvm teardown for systems using the extended idmap
arm64: kaslr: increase randomization granularity
arm64: kconfig: drop CONFIG_RTC_LIB dependency
arm64: make ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC depend on !HIBERNATION
arm64: hibernate: Refuse to hibernate if the boot cpu is offline
arm64: kernel: Add support for hibernate/suspend-to-disk
PM / Hibernate: Call flush_icache_range() on pages restored in-place
arm64: Add new asm macro copy_page
arm64: Promote KERNEL_START/KERNEL_END definitions to a header file
arm64: kernel: Include _AC definition in page.h
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