linux-toradex.git/arch/powerpc/include, branch v3.7.8

cpuidle/powerpc: Fix smt_snooze_delay functionality.

2012-10-17T23:57:24+00:00

smt_snooze_delay was designed to  delay idle loop's nap entry
in the native idle code before it got  ported over to use as part of
the cpuidle framework.

A -ve value  assigned to smt_snooze_delay should result in
busy looping, in other words disabling the entry to nap state.

	- https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-May/082450.html

This particular functionality can be achieved currently by
echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/state1/disable
but it is broken when one assigns -ve value to  the smt_snooze_delay
variable either via sysfs entry or ppc64_cpu util.

This patch aims to fix this, by disabling nap state when smt_snooze_delay
variable is set to -ve value.

Signed-off-by: Deepthi Dharwar 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc: Build fix for powerpc KVM

2012-10-17T23:37:52+00:00

Fix build failure for powerpc KVM by adding missing VPN_SHIFT definition
and the ';'

arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c: In function 'kvmppc_mmu_map_page':
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: 'VPN_SHIFT' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:176: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:178: error: expected ';' before 'next_pteg'
arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.c:190: error: label 'next_pteg' used but not defined
make[1]: *** [arch/powerpc/kvm/book3s_32_mmu_host.o] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V 
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux

2012-10-14T20:39:34+00:00

Pull module signing support from Rusty Russell:
 "module signing is the highlight, but it's an all-over David Howells frenzy..."

Hmm "Magrathea: Glacier signing key". Somebody has been reading too much HHGTTG.

* 'modules-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (37 commits)
  X.509: Fix indefinite length element skip error handling
  X.509: Convert some printk calls to pr_devel
  asymmetric keys: fix printk format warning
  MODSIGN: Fix 32-bit overflow in X.509 certificate validity date checking
  MODSIGN: Make mrproper should remove generated files.
  MODSIGN: Use utf8 strings in signer's name in autogenerated X.509 certs
  MODSIGN: Use the same digest for the autogen key sig as for the module sig
  MODSIGN: Sign modules during the build process
  MODSIGN: Provide a script for generating a key ID from an X.509 cert
  MODSIGN: Implement module signature checking
  MODSIGN: Provide module signing public keys to the kernel
  MODSIGN: Automatically generate module signing keys if missing
  MODSIGN: Provide Kconfig options
  MODSIGN: Provide gitignore and make clean rules for extra files
  MODSIGN: Add FIPS policy
  module: signature checking hook
  X.509: Add a crypto key parser for binary (DER) X.509 certificates
  MPILIB: Provide a function to read raw data into an MPI
  X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder
  X.509: Add simple ASN.1 grammar compiler
  ...

Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2012-10-13T02:21:15+00:00

Pull powerpc uapi disintegration from Benjamin Herrenschmidt.

* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal

2012-10-12T01:49:08+00:00

Pull pile 2 of execve and kernel_thread unification work from Al Viro:
 "Stuff in there: kernel_thread/kernel_execve/sys_execve conversions for
  several more architectures plus assorted signal fixes and cleanups.

  There'll be more (in particular, real fixes for the alpha
  do_notify_resume() irq mess)..."

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (43 commits)
  alpha: don't open-code trace_report_syscall_{enter,exit}
  Uninclude linux/freezer.h
  m32r: trim masks
  avr32: trim masks
  tile: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame
  microblaze: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_rt_frame()
  mn10300: don't bother with SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  frv: no need to raise SIGTRAP in setup_frame()
  x86: get rid of duplicate code in case of CONFIG_VM86
  unicore32: remove pointless test
  h8300: trim _TIF_WORK_MASK
  parisc: decide whether to go to slow path (tracesys) based on thread flags
  parisc: don't bother looping in do_signal()
  parisc: fix double restarts
  bury the rest of TIF_IRET
  sanitize tsk_is_polling()
  bury _TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
  unicore32: unobfuscate _TIF_WORK_MASK
  mips: NOTIFY_RESUME is not needed in TIF masks
  mips: merge the identical "return from syscall" per-ABI code
  ...

Conflicts:
	arch/arm/include/asm/thread_info.h

UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/powerpc/include/asm

2012-10-09T08:47:26+00:00

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Dave Jones

Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's patch-bomb)

2012-10-09T07:23:15+00:00

Merge patches from Andrew Morton:
 "A few misc things and very nearly all of the MM tree.  A tremendous
  amount of stuff (again), including a significant rbtree library
  rework."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (160 commits)
  sparc64: Support transparent huge pages.
  mm: thp: Use more portable PMD clearing sequenece in zap_huge_pmd().
  mm: Add and use update_mmu_cache_pmd() in transparent huge page code.
  sparc64: Document PGD and PMD layout.
  sparc64: Eliminate PTE table memory wastage.
  sparc64: Halve the size of PTE tables
  sparc64: Only support 4MB huge pages and 8KB base pages.
  memory-hotplug: suppress "Trying to free nonexistent resource " warning
  mm: memcg: clean up mm_match_cgroup() signature
  mm: document PageHuge somewhat
  mm: use %pK for /proc/vmallocinfo
  mm, thp: fix mlock statistics
  mm, thp: fix mapped pages avoiding unevictable list on mlock
  memory-hotplug: update memory block's state and notify userspace
  memory-hotplug: preparation to notify memory block's state at memory hot remove
  mm: avoid section mismatch warning for memblock_type_name
  make GFP_NOTRACK definition unconditional
  cma: decrease cc.nr_migratepages after reclaiming pagelist
  CMA: migrate mlocked pages
  kpageflags: fix wrong KPF_THP on non-huge compound pages
  ...

atomic: implement generic atomic_dec_if_positive()

2012-10-09T07:22:46+00:00

The x86 implementation of atomic_dec_if_positive is quite generic, so make
it available to all architectures.

This is needed for "swap: add a simple detector for inappropriate swapin
readahead".

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: do the "#define foo foo" trick in the conventional manner]
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li 
Cc: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Michal Simek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: hugetlb: add arch hook for clearing page flags before entering pool

2012-10-09T07:22:24+00:00

The core page allocator ensures that page flags are zeroed when freeing
pages via free_pages_check.  A number of architectures (ARM, PPC, MIPS)
rely on this property to treat new pages as dirty with respect to the data
cache and perform the appropriate flushing before mapping the pages into
userspace.

This can lead to cache synchronisation problems when using hugepages,
since the allocator keeps its own pool of pages above the usual page
allocator and does not reset the page flags when freeing a page into the
pool.

This patch adds a new architecture hook, arch_clear_hugepage_flags, so
that architectures which rely on the page flags being in a particular
state for fresh allocations can adjust the flags accordingly when a page
is freed into the pool.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Reviewed-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic

2012-10-09T06:58:38+00:00

Pull asm-generic updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "This has three changes for asm-generic that did not really fit into
  any other branch as normal asm-generic changes do.  One is a fix for a
  build warning, the other two are more interesting:

   * A patch from Mark Brown to allow using the common clock
     infrastructure on all architectures, so we can use the clock API in
     architecture independent device drivers.

   * The UAPI split patches from David Howells for the asm-generic
     files.  There are other architecture specific series that are going
     through the arch maintainer tree and that depend on this one.

  There may be a few small merge conflicts between Mark's patch and the
  following arch header file split patches.  In each case the solution
  will be to keep the new "generic-y += clkdev.h" line, even if it ends
  up being the only line in the Kbuild file."

* tag 'asm-generic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic:
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/asm-generic
  asm-generic: Add default clkdev.h
  asm-generic: xor: mark static functions as __maybe_unused