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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2015-09-02T19:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-09-02T19:22:54+00:00</published>
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This includes one new driver: cxlflash plus the usual grab bag of
  updates for the major drivers: qla2xxx, ipr, storvsc, pm80xx, hptiop,
  plus a few assorted fixes.

  There's another tranch coming, but I want to incubate it another few
  days in the checkers, plus it includes a mpt2sas separated lifetime
  fix, which Avago won't get done testing until Friday"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (85 commits)
  aic94xx: set an error code on failure
  storvsc: Set the error code correctly in failure conditions
  storvsc: Allow write_same when host is windows 10
  storvsc: use storage protocol version to determine storage capabilities
  storvsc: use correct defaults for values determined by protocol negotiation
  storvsc: Untangle the storage protocol negotiation from the vmbus protocol negotiation.
  storvsc: Use a single value to track protocol versions
  storvsc: Rather than look for sets of specific protocol versions, make decisions based on ranges.
  cxlflash: Remove unused variable from queuecommand
  cxlflash: shift wrapping bug in afu_link_reset()
  cxlflash: off by one bug in cxlflash_show_port_status()
  cxlflash: Virtual LUN support
  cxlflash: Superpipe support
  cxlflash: Base error recovery support
  qla2xxx: Update driver version to 8.07.00.26-k
  qla2xxx: Add pci device id 0x2261.
  qla2xxx: Fix missing device login retries.
  qla2xxx: do not clear slot in outstanding cmd array
  qla2xxx: Remove decrement of sp reference count in abort handler.
  qla2xxx: Add support to show MPI and PEP FW version for ISP27xx.
  ...
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Pull first round of SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This includes one new driver: cxlflash plus the usual grab bag of
  updates for the major drivers: qla2xxx, ipr, storvsc, pm80xx, hptiop,
  plus a few assorted fixes.

  There's another tranch coming, but I want to incubate it another few
  days in the checkers, plus it includes a mpt2sas separated lifetime
  fix, which Avago won't get done testing until Friday"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (85 commits)
  aic94xx: set an error code on failure
  storvsc: Set the error code correctly in failure conditions
  storvsc: Allow write_same when host is windows 10
  storvsc: use storage protocol version to determine storage capabilities
  storvsc: use correct defaults for values determined by protocol negotiation
  storvsc: Untangle the storage protocol negotiation from the vmbus protocol negotiation.
  storvsc: Use a single value to track protocol versions
  storvsc: Rather than look for sets of specific protocol versions, make decisions based on ranges.
  cxlflash: Remove unused variable from queuecommand
  cxlflash: shift wrapping bug in afu_link_reset()
  cxlflash: off by one bug in cxlflash_show_port_status()
  cxlflash: Virtual LUN support
  cxlflash: Superpipe support
  cxlflash: Base error recovery support
  qla2xxx: Update driver version to 8.07.00.26-k
  qla2xxx: Add pci device id 0x2261.
  qla2xxx: Fix missing device login retries.
  qla2xxx: do not clear slot in outstanding cmd array
  qla2xxx: Remove decrement of sp reference count in abort handler.
  qla2xxx: Add support to show MPI and PEP FW version for ISP27xx.
  ...
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<title>cxlflash: Virtual LUN support</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T01:05:39+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew R. Ochs</name>
<email>mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T02:47:53+00:00</published>
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Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device
driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user
space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual
LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this
adapter.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs &lt;mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar &lt;manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong &lt;wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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Add support for physical LUN segmentation (virtual LUNs) to device
driver supporting the IBM CXL Flash adapter. This patch allows user
space applications to virtually segment a physical LUN into N virtual
LUNs, taking advantage of the translation features provided by this
adapter.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs &lt;mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar &lt;manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong &lt;wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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<title>cxlflash: Superpipe support</title>
<updated>2015-08-27T01:04:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew R. Ochs</name>
<email>mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-08-14T02:47:43+00:00</published>
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Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL
Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage
of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the
traditional filesystem stack.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs &lt;mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar &lt;manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong &lt;wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian King &lt;brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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Add superpipe supporting infrastructure to device driver for the IBM CXL
Flash adapter. This patch allows userspace applications to take advantage
of the accelerated I/O features that this adapter provides and bypass the
traditional filesystem stack.

Signed-off-by: Matthew R. Ochs &lt;mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Manoj N. Kumar &lt;manoj@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Wen Xiong &lt;wenxiong@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Brian King &lt;brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Doc: powerpc: Fix typos in Documentation/powerpc</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T20:00:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masanari Iida</name>
<email>standby24x7@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-06T14:41:57+00:00</published>
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This patch fix some spelling typo found in Documentation/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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This patch fix some spelling typo found in Documentation/powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida &lt;standby24x7@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions</title>
<updated>2015-06-19T07:10:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T01:06:32+00:00</published>
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This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This patch changes the syscall handler to doom (tabort) active
transactions when a syscall is made and return very early without
performing the syscall and keeping side effects to a minimum (no CPU
accounting or system call tracing is performed). Also included is a
new HWCAP2 bit, PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC, to indicate this
behaviour to userspace.

Currently, the system call instruction automatically suspends an
active transaction which causes side effects to persist when an active
transaction fails.

This does change the kernel's behaviour, but in a way that was
documented as unsupported.  It doesn't reduce functionality as
syscalls will still be performed after tsuspend; it just requires that
the transaction be explicitly suspended.  It also provides a
consistent interface and makes the behaviour of user code
substantially the same across powerpc and platforms that do not
support suspended transactions (e.g. x86 and s390).

Performance measurements using
http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/null_syscall.c indicate the cost of
a normal (non-aborted) system call increases by about 0.25%.

Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/dscr: Add documentation for DSCR support</title>
<updated>2015-06-07T09:29:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anshuman Khandual</name>
<email>khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-21T06:43:05+00:00</published>
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This patch adds a new documentation file explaining the DSCR support on
powerpc platforms. This explains DSCR related data structure, code paths
and also available user interfaces. Any further functional changes to
the DSCR support in the kernel should definitely update the
documentation here.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This patch adds a new documentation file explaining the DSCR support on
powerpc platforms. This explains DSCR related data structure, code paths
and also available user interfaces. Any further functional changes to
the DSCR support in the kernel should definitely update the
documentation here.

Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual &lt;khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<title>cxl: Document external user of existing API</title>
<updated>2015-06-03T03:27:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Neuling</name>
<email>mikey@neuling.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T06:07:01+00:00</published>
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Now that libcxl is public, let's document it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Now that libcxl is public, let's document it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Acked-by: Ian Munsie &lt;imunsie@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Revert "powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions"</title>
<updated>2015-04-30T05:24:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-30T05:13:14+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.

Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.

Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.

Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.

So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.

NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.

Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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This reverts commit feba40362b11341bee6d8ed58d54b896abbd9f84.

Although the principle of this change is good, the implementation has a
few issues.

Firstly we can sometimes fail to abort a syscall because r12 may have
been clobbered by C code if we went down the virtual CPU accounting
path, or if syscall tracing was enabled.

Secondly we have decided that it is safer to abort the syscall even
earlier in the syscall entry path, so that we avoid the syscall tracing
path when we are transactional.

So that we have time to thoroughly test those changes we have decided to
revert this for this merge window and will merge the fixed version in
the next window.

NB. Rather than reverting the selftest we just drop tm-syscall from
TEST_PROGS so that it's not run by default.

Fixes: feba40362b11 ("powerpc/tm: Abort syscalls in active transactions")
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next-sriov' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc into next</title>
<updated>2015-04-13T23:29:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-13T23:29:23+00:00</published>
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Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI
patches acked by Bjorn.

Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work.

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
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Merge Richard's work to support SR-IOV on PowerNV. All generic PCI
patches acked by Bjorn.

Some minor conflicts with Daniel's pci_controller_ops work.

Conflicts:
	arch/powerpc/include/asm/machdep.h
	arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/pci-ioda.c
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/tm: Correct minor documentation typos</title>
<updated>2015-04-11T10:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam bobroff</name>
<email>sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-10T04:16:50+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Sam Bobroff &lt;sam.bobroff@au1.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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