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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc</title>
<updated>2015-04-22T06:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-04-22T06:21:34+00:00</published>
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Pull sparc fixes from David Miller:

 1) ldc_alloc_exp_dring() can be called from softints, so use
    GFP_ATOMIC.  From Sowmini Varadhan.

 2) Some minor warning/build fixups for the new iommu-common code on
    certain archs and with certain debug options enabled.  Also from
    Sowmini Varadhan.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc: Use GFP_ATOMIC in ldc_alloc_exp_dring() as it can be called in softirq context
  sparc64: Use M7 PMC write on all chips T4 and onward.
  iommu-common: rename iommu_pool_hash to iommu_hash_common
  iommu-common: fix x86_64 compiler warnings
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Pull sparc fixes from David Miller:

 1) ldc_alloc_exp_dring() can be called from softints, so use
    GFP_ATOMIC.  From Sowmini Varadhan.

 2) Some minor warning/build fixups for the new iommu-common code on
    certain archs and with certain debug options enabled.  Also from
    Sowmini Varadhan.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  sparc: Use GFP_ATOMIC in ldc_alloc_exp_dring() as it can be called in softirq context
  sparc64: Use M7 PMC write on all chips T4 and onward.
  iommu-common: rename iommu_pool_hash to iommu_hash_common
  iommu-common: fix x86_64 compiler warnings
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<title>sparc: Use GFP_ATOMIC in ldc_alloc_exp_dring() as it can be called in softirq context</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T20:17:06+00:00</updated>
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<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-21T14:30:41+00:00</published>
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Since it is possible for vnet_event_napi to end up doing
vnet_control_pkt_engine -&gt; ... -&gt; vnet_send_attr -&gt;
vnet_port_alloc_tx_ring -&gt; ldc_alloc_exp_dring -&gt; kzalloc()
(i.e., in softirq context), kzalloc() should be called with
GFP_ATOMIC from ldc_alloc_exp_dring.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Since it is possible for vnet_event_napi to end up doing
vnet_control_pkt_engine -&gt; ... -&gt; vnet_send_attr -&gt;
vnet_port_alloc_tx_ring -&gt; ldc_alloc_exp_dring -&gt; kzalloc()
(i.e., in softirq context), kzalloc() should be called with
GFP_ATOMIC from ldc_alloc_exp_dring.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc64: Use M7 PMC write on all chips T4 and onward.</title>
<updated>2015-04-21T20:14:53+00:00</updated>
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<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
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<published>2015-04-21T20:14:53+00:00</published>
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They both work equally well, and the M7 implementation is
simpler and cheaper (less register writes).

With help from David Ahern.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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They both work equally well, and the M7 implementation is
simpler and cheaper (less register writes).

With help from David Ahern.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'cpumask-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-04-20T17:19:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-04-20T17:19:03+00:00</published>
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Pull final removal of deprecated cpus_* cpumask functions from Rusty Russell:
 "This is the final removal (after several years!) of the obsolete
  cpus_* functions, prompted by their mis-use in staging.

  With these function removed, all cpu functions should only iterate to
  nr_cpu_ids, so we finally only allocate that many bits when cpumasks
  are allocated offstack"

* tag 'cpumask-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (25 commits)
  cpumask: remove __first_cpu / __next_cpu
  cpumask: resurrect CPU_MASK_CPU0
  linux/cpumask.h: add typechecking to cpumask_test_cpu
  cpumask: only allocate nr_cpumask_bits.
  Fix weird uses of num_online_cpus().
  cpumask: remove deprecated functions.
  mips: fix obsolete cpumask_of_cpu usage.
  x86: fix more deprecated cpu function usage.
  ia64: remove deprecated cpus_ usage.
  powerpc: fix deprecated CPU_MASK_CPU0 usage.
  CPU_MASK_ALL/CPU_MASK_NONE: remove from deprecated region.
  staging/lustre/o2iblnd: Don't use cpus_weight
  staging/lustre/libcfs: replace deprecated cpus_ calls with cpumask_
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: Do not use deprecated cpus_* functions
  blackfin: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  parisc: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  tile: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  arm64: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  mips: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  x86: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  ...
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Pull final removal of deprecated cpus_* cpumask functions from Rusty Russell:
 "This is the final removal (after several years!) of the obsolete
  cpus_* functions, prompted by their mis-use in staging.

  With these function removed, all cpu functions should only iterate to
  nr_cpu_ids, so we finally only allocate that many bits when cpumasks
  are allocated offstack"

* tag 'cpumask-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (25 commits)
  cpumask: remove __first_cpu / __next_cpu
  cpumask: resurrect CPU_MASK_CPU0
  linux/cpumask.h: add typechecking to cpumask_test_cpu
  cpumask: only allocate nr_cpumask_bits.
  Fix weird uses of num_online_cpus().
  cpumask: remove deprecated functions.
  mips: fix obsolete cpumask_of_cpu usage.
  x86: fix more deprecated cpu function usage.
  ia64: remove deprecated cpus_ usage.
  powerpc: fix deprecated CPU_MASK_CPU0 usage.
  CPU_MASK_ALL/CPU_MASK_NONE: remove from deprecated region.
  staging/lustre/o2iblnd: Don't use cpus_weight
  staging/lustre/libcfs: replace deprecated cpus_ calls with cpumask_
  staging/lustre/ptlrpc: Do not use deprecated cpus_* functions
  blackfin: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  parisc: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  tile: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  arm64: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  mips: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  x86: fix up obsolete cpu function usage.
  ...
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<title>cpumask: remove __first_cpu / __next_cpu</title>
<updated>2015-04-19T05:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-18T01:48:27+00:00</published>
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They were for use by the deprecated first_cpu() and next_cpu() wrappers,
but sparc used them directly.

They're now replaced by cpumask_first / cpumask_next.  And __next_cpu_nr
is completely obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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They were for use by the deprecated first_cpu() and next_cpu() wrappers,
but sparc used them directly.

They're now replaced by cpumask_first / cpumask_next.  And __next_cpu_nr
is completely obsolete.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Acked-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Make LDC use common iommu poll management functions</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T19:32:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-09T19:33:32+00:00</published>
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Note that this conversion is only being done to consolidate the
code and ensure that the common code provides the sufficient
abstraction. It is not expected to result in any noticeable
performance improvement, as there is typically one ldc_iommu
per vnet_port, and each one has 8k entries, with a typical
request for 1-4 pages.  Thus LDC uses npools == 1.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Note that this conversion is only being done to consolidate the
code and ensure that the common code provides the sufficient
abstraction. It is not expected to result in any noticeable
performance improvement, as there is typically one ldc_iommu
per vnet_port, and each one has 8k entries, with a typical
request for 1-4 pages.  Thus LDC uses npools == 1.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T19:32:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sowmini Varadhan</name>
<email>sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-09T19:33:31+00:00</published>
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In iperf experiments running linux as the Tx side (TCP client) with
10 threads results in a severe performance drop when TSO is disabled,
indicating a weakness in the software that can be avoided by using
the scalable IOMMU arena DMA allocation.

Baseline numbers before this patch:
   with default settings (TSO enabled) :    9-9.5 Gbps
   Disable TSO using ethtool- drops badly:  2-3 Gbps.

After this patch, iperf client with 10 threads, can give a
throughput of at least 8.5 Gbps, even when TSO is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In iperf experiments running linux as the Tx side (TCP client) with
10 threads results in a severe performance drop when TSO is disabled,
indicating a weakness in the software that can be avoided by using
the scalable IOMMU arena DMA allocation.

Baseline numbers before this patch:
   with default settings (TSO enabled) :    9-9.5 Gbps
   Disable TSO using ethtool- drops badly:  2-3 Gbps.

After this patch, iperf client with 10 threads, can give a
throughput of at least 8.5 Gbps, even when TSO is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Sowmini Varadhan &lt;sowmini.varadhan@oracle.com&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>sparc: Revert generic IOMMU allocator.</title>
<updated>2015-04-18T19:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David S. Miller</name>
<email>davem@davemloft.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-18T19:31:25+00:00</published>
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I applied the wrong version of this patch series, V4 instead
of V10, due to a patchwork bundling snafu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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I applied the wrong version of this patch series, V4 instead
of V10, due to a patchwork bundling snafu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T20:19:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-17T20:19:26+00:00</published>
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:
 "The PowerPC folks have a really nice scalable IOMMU pool allocator
  that we wanted to make use of for sparc.  So here we have a series
  that abstracts out their code into a common layer that anyone can make
  use of.

  Sparc is converted, and the PowerPC folks have reviewed and ACK'd this
  series and plan to convert PowerPC over as well"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  iommu-common: Fix PARISC compile-time warnings
  sparc: Make LDC use common iommu poll management functions
  sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions
  sparc: Break up monolithic iommu table/lock into finer graularity pools and lock
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Pull sparc updates from David Miller:
 "The PowerPC folks have a really nice scalable IOMMU pool allocator
  that we wanted to make use of for sparc.  So here we have a series
  that abstracts out their code into a common layer that anyone can make
  use of.

  Sparc is converted, and the PowerPC folks have reviewed and ACK'd this
  series and plan to convert PowerPC over as well"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
  iommu-common: Fix PARISC compile-time warnings
  sparc: Make LDC use common iommu poll management functions
  sparc: Make sparc64 use scalable lib/iommu-common.c functions
  sparc: Break up monolithic iommu table/lock into finer graularity pools and lock
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<title>sparc: switch to using asm-generic for seccomp.h</title>
<updated>2015-04-17T13:04:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-16T19:49:01+00:00</published>
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Switch to using the newly created asm-generic/seccomp.h for the seccomp
strict mode syscall definitions. The obsolete sigreturn in COMPAT mode
is retained as an override. Remaining definitions are identical. Also
corrected missing #define for header reinclusion protection.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Switch to using the newly created asm-generic/seccomp.h for the seccomp
strict mode syscall definitions. The obsolete sigreturn in COMPAT mode
is retained as an override. Remaining definitions are identical. Also
corrected missing #define for header reinclusion protection.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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