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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>x86/mce: Make mce_chrdev_ops 'static const'</title>
<updated>2011-11-08T15:17:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luck, Tony</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-11-03T18:46:47+00:00</published>
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Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but
mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its
write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own
character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts
that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to
a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub
function in the mce code, with a registration helper that
mce-inject can call when it is loaded.

Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow
mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function,
and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for
potential future patches.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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Arjan would like to make struct file_operations const, but
mce-inject directly writes to the mce_chrdev_ops to install its
write handler. In an ideal world mce-inject would have its own
character device, but we have a sizable legacy of test scripts
that hardwire "/dev/mcelog", so it would be painful to switch to
a separate device now. Instead, this patch switches to a stub
function in the mce code, with a registration helper that
mce-inject can call when it is loaded.

Note that this would also allow for a sane process to allow
mce-inject to be unloaded again (with an unregister function,
and appropriate module_{get,put}() calls), but that is left for
potential future patches.

Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4eb2e1971326651a3b@agluck-desktop.sc.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-07T03:44:47+00:00</published>
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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* 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: (230 commits)
  Revert "tracing: Include module.h in define_trace.h"
  irq: don't put module.h into irq.h for tracking irqgen modules.
  bluetooth: macroize two small inlines to avoid module.h
  ip_vs.h: fix implicit use of module_get/module_put from module.h
  nf_conntrack.h: fix up fallout from implicit moduleparam.h presence
  include: replace linux/module.h with "struct module" wherever possible
  include: convert various register fcns to macros to avoid include chaining
  crypto.h: remove unused crypto_tfm_alg_modname() inline
  uwb.h: fix implicit use of asm/page.h for PAGE_SIZE
  pm_runtime.h: explicitly requires notifier.h
  linux/dmaengine.h: fix implicit use of bitmap.h and asm/page.h
  miscdevice.h: fix up implicit use of lists and types
  stop_machine.h: fix implicit use of smp.h for smp_processor_id
  of: fix implicit use of errno.h in include/linux/of.h
  of_platform.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  acpi: remove module.h include from platform/aclinux.h
  miscdevice.h: delete unnecessary inclusion of module.h
  device_cgroup.h: delete needless include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: sch_generic remove redundant use of &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  net: inet_timewait_sock doesnt need &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (other header files, and  removal of the ab3550 mfd driver) in
 - drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dibx000_common.c
 - drivers/media/video/{mt9m111.c,ov6650.c}
 - drivers/mfd/ab3550-core.c
 - include/linux/dmaengine.h
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac</title>
<updated>2011-11-02T23:55:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-11-02T23:55:15+00:00</published>
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* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for Edac Sandy Bridge driver
  edac: tag sb_edac as EXPERIMENTAL, as it requires more testing
  EDAC: Fix incorrect edac mode reporting in sb_edac
  edac: sb_edac: Add it to the building system
  edac: Add an experimental new driver to support Sandy Bridge CPU's
  i7300_edac: Fix error cleanup logic
  i7core_edac: Initialize memory name with cpu, channel, bank
  i7core_edac: Fix compilation on 32 bits arch
  i7core_edac: scrubbing fixups
  EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies
  i7core_edac: return -ENODEV if no MC is found
  i7core_edac: use edac's own way to print errors
  MAINTAINERS: remove dropped edac_mce.* from the file
  i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility
  x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding
  EDAC i7core: Use mce socketid for better compatibility
  i7core_edac: Don't enable memory scrubbing for Xeon 35xx
  i7core_edac: Add scrubbing support
  edac: Move edac main structs to include/linux/edac.h
  i7core_edac: Fix oops when trying to inject errors
  ...
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* 'linux_next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add an entry for Edac Sandy Bridge driver
  edac: tag sb_edac as EXPERIMENTAL, as it requires more testing
  EDAC: Fix incorrect edac mode reporting in sb_edac
  edac: sb_edac: Add it to the building system
  edac: Add an experimental new driver to support Sandy Bridge CPU's
  i7300_edac: Fix error cleanup logic
  i7core_edac: Initialize memory name with cpu, channel, bank
  i7core_edac: Fix compilation on 32 bits arch
  i7core_edac: scrubbing fixups
  EDAC: Correct Kconfig dependencies
  i7core_edac: return -ENODEV if no MC is found
  i7core_edac: use edac's own way to print errors
  MAINTAINERS: remove dropped edac_mce.* from the file
  i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility
  x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding
  EDAC i7core: Use mce socketid for better compatibility
  i7core_edac: Don't enable memory scrubbing for Xeon 35xx
  i7core_edac: Add scrubbing support
  edac: Move edac main structs to include/linux/edac.h
  i7core_edac: Fix oops when trying to inject errors
  ...
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<entry>
<title>i7core_edac: Drop the edac_mce facility</title>
<updated>2011-11-01T12:01:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-18T14:24:46+00:00</published>
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Remove edac_mce pieces and use the normal MCE decoder notifier chain by
retaining the same functionality with considerably less code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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Remove edac_mce pieces and use the normal MCE decoder notifier chain by
retaining the same functionality with considerably less code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>x86: Fix files explicitly requiring export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T23:30:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-26T16:22:53+00:00</published>
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These files were implicitly getting EXPORT_SYMBOL via device.h
which was including module.h, but that will be fixed up shortly.

By fixing these now, we can avoid seeing things like:

arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c:29: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c:20: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:69: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL’

[ with input from Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt; and also
  from Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt; ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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These files were implicitly getting EXPORT_SYMBOL via device.h
which was including module.h, but that will be fixed up shortly.

By fixing these now, we can avoid seeing things like:

arch/x86/kernel/rtc.c:29: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/pci-dma.c:20: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL’
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:69: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL’

[ with input from Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@xenotime.net&gt; and also
  from Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt; ]

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>x86, MCE: Use notifier chain only for MCE decoding</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T17:10:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-07-18T14:24:45+00:00</published>
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Drop the edac_mce custom hook in favor of the generic notifier
mechanism. Also, do not log the error to mcelog if the notified agent
was able to decode it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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Drop the edac_mce custom hook in favor of the generic notifier
mechanism. Also, do not log the error to mcelog if the notified agent
was able to decode it.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab &lt;mchehab@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-10-28T12:14:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-28T12:14:48+00:00</published>
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* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format
  coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data
  x86, intel: Use c-&gt;microcode for Atom errata check
  x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Don't request microcode from userspace unnecessarily

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c (conflict between
moving AMD BSP code to cpu_dev helper function and adding AMD microcode
revision to /proc/cpuinfo code)
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* 'x86-microcode-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86, microcode, AMD: Add microcode revision to /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format
  coretemp: Get microcode revision from cpu_data
  x86, intel: Use c-&gt;microcode for Atom errata check
  x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo
  x86, microcode: Don't request microcode from userspace unnecessarily

Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c (conflict between
moving AMD BSP code to cpu_dev helper function and adding AMD microcode
revision to /proc/cpuinfo code)
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2011-10-26T15:03:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-26T15:03:38+00:00</published>
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
  perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
  perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
  perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
  perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
  perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
  perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
  perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
  perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
  perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
  perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
  perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
  perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
  perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
  perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
  perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
  perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
  perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
  perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
  perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
  perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?).  But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..

Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge.  Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
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* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (121 commits)
  perf symbols: Increase symbol KSYM_NAME_LEN size
  perf hists browser: Refuse 'a' hotkey on non symbolic views
  perf ui browser: Use libslang to read keys
  perf tools: Fix tracing info recording
  perf hists browser: Elide DSO column when it is set to just one DSO, ditto for threads
  perf hists: Don't consider filtered entries when calculating column widths
  perf hists: Don't decay total_period for filtered entries
  perf hists browser: Honour symbol_conf.show_{nr_samples,total_period}
  perf hists browser: Do not exit on tab key with single event
  perf annotate browser: Don't change selection line when returning from callq
  perf tools: handle endianness of feature bitmap
  perf tools: Add prelink suggestion to dso update message
  perf script: Fix unknown feature comment
  perf hists browser: Apply the dso and thread filters when merging new batches
  perf hists: Move the dso and thread filters from hist_browser
  perf ui browser: Honour the xterm colors
  perf top tui: Give color hints just on the percentage, like on --stdio
  perf ui browser: Make the colors configurable and change the defaults
  perf tui: Remove unneeded call to newtCls on startup
  perf hists: Don't format the percentage on hist_entry__snprintf
  ...

Fix up conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c manually.

Ingo's tree did the insane "add volatile to const array", which just
doesn't make sense ("volatile const"?).  But we could remove the const
*and* make the array volatile to make doubly sure that gcc doesn't
optimize it away..

Also fix up kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c non-data-conflicts manually: the
reader_lock has been turned into a raw lock by the core locking merge,
and there was a new user of it introduced in this perf core merge.  Make
sure that new use also uses the raw accessor functions.
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<entry>
<title>x86, microcode: Correct microcode revision format</title>
<updated>2011-10-19T13:47:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Borislav Petkov</name>
<email>borislav.petkov@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-17T14:45:10+00:00</published>
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506ed6b53e00 ("x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo")
added microcode revision format to /proc/cpuinfo and the MCE handler in
decimal format but both AMD and Intel patch levels are handled as hex
numbers. Fix it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
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506ed6b53e00 ("x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo")
added microcode revision format to /proc/cpuinfo and the MCE handler in
decimal format but both AMD and Intel patch levels are handled as hex
numbers. Fix it.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov &lt;borislav.petkov@amd.com&gt;
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<title>x86, intel: Output microcode revision in /proc/cpuinfo</title>
<updated>2011-10-14T11:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andi Kleen</name>
<email>ak@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-13T00:46:33+00:00</published>
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I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode
update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode"
field to /proc/cpuinfo.

The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks
together with the other CPUID model information.

I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver,
it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode
is updated it fills in the new values too.

I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it
being optimized away when the result is not used.

This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
information manually. This is done in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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I got a request to make it easier to determine the microcode
update level on Intel CPUs. This patch adds a new "microcode"
field to /proc/cpuinfo.

The microcode level is also outputed on fatal machine checks
together with the other CPUID model information.

I removed the respective code from the microcode update driver,
it just reads the field from cpu_data. Also when the microcode
is updated it fills in the new values too.

I had to add a memory barrier to native_cpuid to prevent it
being optimized away when the result is not used.

This turns out to clean up further code which already got this
information manually. This is done in followon patches.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen &lt;ak@linux.intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1318466795-7393-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
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