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<title>linux-toradex.git/drivers/firmware/efi, branch v3.17-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>firmware: Do not use WARN_ON(!spin_is_locked())</title>
<updated>2014-08-22T07:45:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-13T18:21:34+00:00</published>
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spin_is_locked() always returns false for uniprocessor configurations
in several architectures, so do not use WARN_ON with it.
Use lockdep_assert_held() instead to also reduce overhead in
non-debug kernels.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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spin_is_locked() always returns false for uniprocessor configurations
in several architectures, so do not use WARN_ON with it.
Use lockdep_assert_held() instead to also reduce overhead in
non-debug kernels.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kexec: support kexec/kdump on EFI systems</title>
<updated>2014-08-08T22:57:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Vivek Goyal</name>
<email>vgoyal@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-08T21:26:11+00:00</published>
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This patch does two things.  It passes EFI run time mappings to second
kernel in bootparams efi_info.  Second kernel parse this info and create
new mappings in second kernel.  That means mappings in first and second
kernel will be same.  This paves the way to enable EFI in kexec kernel.

This patch also prepares and passes EFI setup data through bootparams.
This contains bunch of information about various tables and their
addresses.

These information gathering and passing has been written along the lines
of what current kexec-tools is doing to make kexec work with UEFI.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_efi/efi_get/g, per Matt]
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Chao &lt;chaowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&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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This patch does two things.  It passes EFI run time mappings to second
kernel in bootparams efi_info.  Second kernel parse this info and create
new mappings in second kernel.  That means mappings in first and second
kernel will be same.  This paves the way to enable EFI in kexec kernel.

This patch also prepares and passes EFI setup data through bootparams.
This contains bunch of information about various tables and their
addresses.

These information gathering and passing has been written along the lines
of what current kexec-tools is doing to make kexec work with UEFI.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/get_efi/efi_get/g, per Matt]
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal &lt;vgoyal@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Michael Kerrisk &lt;mtk.manpages@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Eric Biederman &lt;ebiederm@xmission.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Chao &lt;chaowang@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Baoquan He &lt;bhe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@console-pimps.org&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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2014-08-07T03:34:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-07T03:34:19+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Again, ACPICA leads the pack (47 commits), followed by cpufreq (18
  commits) and system suspend/hibernation (9 commits).

  From the new code perspective, the ACPICA update brings ACPI 5.1 to
  the table, including a new device configuration object called _DSD
  (Device Specific Data) that will hopefully help us to operate device
  properties like Device Trees do (at least to some extent) and changes
  related to supporting ACPI on ARM.

  Apart from that we have hibernation changes making it use radix trees
  to store memory bitmaps which should speed up some operations carried
  out by it quite significantly.  We also have some power management
  changes related to suspend-to-idle (the "freeze" sleep state) support
  and more preliminary changes needed to support ACPI on ARM (outside of
  ACPICA).

  The rest is fixes and cleanups pretty much everywhere.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20140724.  That includes ACPI 5.1
     material (support for the _CCA and _DSD predefined names, changes
     related to the DMAR and PCCT tables and ARM support among other
     things) and cleanups related to using ACPICA's header files.  A
     major part of it is related to acpidump and the core code used by
     that utility.  Changes from Bob Moore, David E Box, Lv Zheng,
     Sascha Wildner, Tomasz Nowicki, Hanjun Guo.

   - Radix trees for memory bitmaps used by the hibernation core from
     Joerg Roedel.

   - Support for waking up the system from suspend-to-idle (also known
     as the "freeze" sleep state) using ACPI-based PCI wakeup signaling
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - Fixes for issues related to ACPI button events (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - New device ID for an ACPI-enumerated device included into the
     Wildcat Point PCH from Jie Yang.

   - ACPI video updates related to backlight handling from Hans de Goede
     and Linus Torvalds.

   - Preliminary changes needed to support ACPI on ARM from Hanjun Guo
     and Graeme Gregory.

   - ACPI PNP core cleanups from Arjun Sreedharan and Zhang Rui.

   - Cleanups related to ACPI_COMPANION() and ACPI_HANDLE() macros
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - ACPI-based device hotplug cleanups from Wei Yongjun and Rafael J
     Wysocki.

   - Cleanups and improvements related to system suspend from Lan
     Tianyu, Randy Dunlap and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - ACPI battery cleanup from Wei Yongjun.

   - cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar.

   - Elimination of a deadband effect from the cpufreq ondemand governor
     and intel_pstate driver cleanups from Stratos Karafotis.

   - 350MHz CPU support for the powernow-k6 cpufreq driver from Mikulas
     Patocka.

   - Fix for the imx6 cpufreq driver from Anson Huang.

   - cpuidle core and governor cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Sandeep
     Tripathy and Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla.

   - Build fix for the big_little cpuidle driver from Sachin Kamat.

   - Configuration fix for the Operation Performance Points (OPP)
     framework from Mark Brown.

   - APM cleanup from Jean Delvare.

   - cpupower utility fixes and cleanups from Peter Senna Tschudin,
     Andrey Utkin, Himangi Saraogi, Rickard Strandqvist, Thomas
     Renninger"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (118 commits)
  ACPI / LPSS: add LPSS device for Wildcat Point PCH
  ACPI / PNP: Replace faulty is_hex_digit() by isxdigit()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140724.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Update for PCCT table changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for GTDT table changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for MADT changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for FADT changes.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Support for the _CCA predifined name.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: New notify value for System Affinity Update.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Support for the _DSD predefined name.
  ACPICA: Debug object: Add current value of Timer() to debug line prefix.
  ACPICA: acpihelp: Add UUID support, restructure some existing files.
  ACPICA: Utilities: Fix local printf issue.
  ACPICA: Tables: Update for DMAR table changes.
  ACPICA: Remove some extraneous printf arguments.
  ACPICA: Update for comments/formatting. No functional changes.
  ACPICA: Disassembler: Add support for the ToUUID opererator (macro).
  ACPICA: Remove a redundant cast to acpi_size for ACPI_OFFSET() macro.
  ACPICA: Work around an ancient GCC bug.
  ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get local x2apic id via _MAT
  ...
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<pre>
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Again, ACPICA leads the pack (47 commits), followed by cpufreq (18
  commits) and system suspend/hibernation (9 commits).

  From the new code perspective, the ACPICA update brings ACPI 5.1 to
  the table, including a new device configuration object called _DSD
  (Device Specific Data) that will hopefully help us to operate device
  properties like Device Trees do (at least to some extent) and changes
  related to supporting ACPI on ARM.

  Apart from that we have hibernation changes making it use radix trees
  to store memory bitmaps which should speed up some operations carried
  out by it quite significantly.  We also have some power management
  changes related to suspend-to-idle (the "freeze" sleep state) support
  and more preliminary changes needed to support ACPI on ARM (outside of
  ACPICA).

  The rest is fixes and cleanups pretty much everywhere.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream version 20140724.  That includes ACPI 5.1
     material (support for the _CCA and _DSD predefined names, changes
     related to the DMAR and PCCT tables and ARM support among other
     things) and cleanups related to using ACPICA's header files.  A
     major part of it is related to acpidump and the core code used by
     that utility.  Changes from Bob Moore, David E Box, Lv Zheng,
     Sascha Wildner, Tomasz Nowicki, Hanjun Guo.

   - Radix trees for memory bitmaps used by the hibernation core from
     Joerg Roedel.

   - Support for waking up the system from suspend-to-idle (also known
     as the "freeze" sleep state) using ACPI-based PCI wakeup signaling
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - Fixes for issues related to ACPI button events (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - New device ID for an ACPI-enumerated device included into the
     Wildcat Point PCH from Jie Yang.

   - ACPI video updates related to backlight handling from Hans de Goede
     and Linus Torvalds.

   - Preliminary changes needed to support ACPI on ARM from Hanjun Guo
     and Graeme Gregory.

   - ACPI PNP core cleanups from Arjun Sreedharan and Zhang Rui.

   - Cleanups related to ACPI_COMPANION() and ACPI_HANDLE() macros
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - ACPI-based device hotplug cleanups from Wei Yongjun and Rafael J
     Wysocki.

   - Cleanups and improvements related to system suspend from Lan
     Tianyu, Randy Dunlap and Rafael J Wysocki.

   - ACPI battery cleanup from Wei Yongjun.

   - cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar.

   - Elimination of a deadband effect from the cpufreq ondemand governor
     and intel_pstate driver cleanups from Stratos Karafotis.

   - 350MHz CPU support for the powernow-k6 cpufreq driver from Mikulas
     Patocka.

   - Fix for the imx6 cpufreq driver from Anson Huang.

   - cpuidle core and governor cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Sandeep
     Tripathy and Mohammad Merajul Islam Molla.

   - Build fix for the big_little cpuidle driver from Sachin Kamat.

   - Configuration fix for the Operation Performance Points (OPP)
     framework from Mark Brown.

   - APM cleanup from Jean Delvare.

   - cpupower utility fixes and cleanups from Peter Senna Tschudin,
     Andrey Utkin, Himangi Saraogi, Rickard Strandqvist, Thomas
     Renninger"

* tag 'pm+acpi-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (118 commits)
  ACPI / LPSS: add LPSS device for Wildcat Point PCH
  ACPI / PNP: Replace faulty is_hex_digit() by isxdigit()
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140724.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Update for PCCT table changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for GTDT table changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for MADT changes.
  ACPICA/ARM: ACPI 5.1: Update for FADT changes.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Support for the _CCA predifined name.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: New notify value for System Affinity Update.
  ACPICA: ACPI 5.1: Support for the _DSD predefined name.
  ACPICA: Debug object: Add current value of Timer() to debug line prefix.
  ACPICA: acpihelp: Add UUID support, restructure some existing files.
  ACPICA: Utilities: Fix local printf issue.
  ACPICA: Tables: Update for DMAR table changes.
  ACPICA: Remove some extraneous printf arguments.
  ACPICA: Update for comments/formatting. No functional changes.
  ACPICA: Disassembler: Add support for the ToUUID opererator (macro).
  ACPICA: Remove a redundant cast to acpi_size for ACPI_OFFSET() macro.
  ACPICA: Work around an ancient GCC bug.
  ACPI / processor: Make it possible to get local x2apic id via _MAT
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:21:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:21:59+00:00</published>
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Pull RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - RAS tracing/events infrastructure, by Gong Chen.

   - Various generalizations of the APEI code to make it available to
     non-x86 architectures, by Tomasz Nowicki"

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/ras: Fix build warnings in &lt;linux/aer.h&gt;
  acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context.
  acpi, apei, ghes: Make NMI error notification to be GHES architecture extension.
  apei, mce: Factor out APEI architecture specific MCE calls.
  RAS, extlog: Adjust init flow
  trace, eMCA: Add a knob to adjust where to save event log
  trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface
  RAS, debugfs: Add debugfs interface for RAS subsystem
  CPER: Adjust code flow of some functions
  x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device
  trace, AER: Move trace into unified interface
  trace, RAS: Add basic RAS trace event
  x86, MCE: Kill CPU_POST_DEAD
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<pre>
Pull RAS updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - RAS tracing/events infrastructure, by Gong Chen.

   - Various generalizations of the APEI code to make it available to
     non-x86 architectures, by Tomasz Nowicki"

* 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  x86/ras: Fix build warnings in &lt;linux/aer.h&gt;
  acpi, apei, ghes: Factor out ioremap virtual memory for IRQ and NMI context.
  acpi, apei, ghes: Make NMI error notification to be GHES architecture extension.
  apei, mce: Factor out APEI architecture specific MCE calls.
  RAS, extlog: Adjust init flow
  trace, eMCA: Add a knob to adjust where to save event log
  trace, RAS: Add eMCA trace event interface
  RAS, debugfs: Add debugfs interface for RAS subsystem
  CPER: Adjust code flow of some functions
  x86, MCE: Robustify mcheck_init_device
  trace, AER: Move trace into unified interface
  trace, RAS: Add basic RAS trace event
  x86, MCE: Kill CPU_POST_DEAD
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2014-08-05T00:13:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T00:13:50+00:00</published>
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Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes in this cycle are:

   - arm64 efi stub fixes, preservation of FP/SIMD registers across
     firmware calls, and conversion of the EFI stub code into a static
     library - Ard Biesheuvel

   - Xen EFI support - Daniel Kiper

   - Support for autoloading the efivars driver - Lee, Chun-Yi

   - Use the PE/COFF headers in the x86 EFI boot stub to request that
     the stub be loaded with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN alignment - Michael
     Brown

   - Consolidate all the x86 EFI quirks into one file - Saurabh Tangri

   - Additional error logging in x86 EFI boot stub - Ulf Winkelvos

   - Support loading initrd above 4G in EFI boot stub - Yinghai Lu

   - EFI reboot patches for ACPI hardware reduced platforms"

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
  efi/arm64: Handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table
  arch/x86/xen: Silence compiler warnings
  xen: Silence compiler warnings
  x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers
  x86/efi: Add better error logging to EFI boot stub
  efi: Autoload efivars
  efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars
  arch/x86: Remove efi_set_rtc_mmss()
  arch/x86: Replace plain strings with constants
  xen: Put EFI machinery in place
  xen: Define EFI related stuff
  arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_MEMMAP) call
  arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES) call
  efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag
  arch/x86: Do not access EFI memory map if it is not available
  efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*()
  arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap()
  x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
  efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI
  efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Main changes in this cycle are:

   - arm64 efi stub fixes, preservation of FP/SIMD registers across
     firmware calls, and conversion of the EFI stub code into a static
     library - Ard Biesheuvel

   - Xen EFI support - Daniel Kiper

   - Support for autoloading the efivars driver - Lee, Chun-Yi

   - Use the PE/COFF headers in the x86 EFI boot stub to request that
     the stub be loaded with CONFIG_PHYSICAL_ALIGN alignment - Michael
     Brown

   - Consolidate all the x86 EFI quirks into one file - Saurabh Tangri

   - Additional error logging in x86 EFI boot stub - Ulf Winkelvos

   - Support loading initrd above 4G in EFI boot stub - Yinghai Lu

   - EFI reboot patches for ACPI hardware reduced platforms"

* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (31 commits)
  efi/arm64: Handle missing virtual mapping for UEFI System Table
  arch/x86/xen: Silence compiler warnings
  xen: Silence compiler warnings
  x86/efi: Request desired alignment via the PE/COFF headers
  x86/efi: Add better error logging to EFI boot stub
  efi: Autoload efivars
  efi: Update stale locking comment for struct efivars
  arch/x86: Remove efi_set_rtc_mmss()
  arch/x86: Replace plain strings with constants
  xen: Put EFI machinery in place
  xen: Define EFI related stuff
  arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_MEMMAP) call
  arch/x86: Remove redundant set_bit(EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES) call
  efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag
  arch/x86: Do not access EFI memory map if it is not available
  efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*()
  arch/ia64: Define early_memunmap()
  x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
  efi/reboot: Allow powering off machines using EFI
  efi/reboot: Add generic wrapper around EfiResetSystem()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'please-pull-apei' into x86/ras</title>
<updated>2014-07-30T17:48:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>H. Peter Anvin</name>
<email>hpa@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-30T17:48:00+00:00</published>
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APEI is currently implemented so that it depends on x86 hardware.
The primary dependency is that GHES uses the x86 NMI for hardware
error notification and MCE for memory error handling. These patches
remove that dependency.

Other APEI features such as error reporting via external IRQ, error
serialization, or error injection, do not require changes to use them
on non-x86 architectures.

The following patch set eliminates the APEI Kconfig x86 dependency
by making these changes:
- treat NMI notification as GHES architecture - HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI
- group and wrap around #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI code which
  is used only for NMI path
- identify architectural boxes and abstract it accordingly (tlb flush and MCE)
- rework ioremap for both IRQ and NMI context

NMI code is kept in ghes.c file since NMI and IRQ context are tightly coupled.

Note, these patches introduce no functional changes for x86. The NMI notification
feature is hard selected for x86. Architectures that want to use this
feature should also provide NMI code infrastructure.
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<pre>
APEI is currently implemented so that it depends on x86 hardware.
The primary dependency is that GHES uses the x86 NMI for hardware
error notification and MCE for memory error handling. These patches
remove that dependency.

Other APEI features such as error reporting via external IRQ, error
serialization, or error injection, do not require changes to use them
on non-x86 architectures.

The following patch set eliminates the APEI Kconfig x86 dependency
by making these changes:
- treat NMI notification as GHES architecture - HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI
- group and wrap around #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ACPI_APEI_NMI code which
  is used only for NMI path
- identify architectural boxes and abstract it accordingly (tlb flush and MCE)
- rework ioremap for both IRQ and NMI context

NMI code is kept in ghes.c file since NMI and IRQ context are tightly coupled.

Note, these patches introduce no functional changes for x86. The NMI notification
feature is hard selected for x86. Architectures that want to use this
feature should also provide NMI code infrastructure.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'acpica'</title>
<updated>2014-07-27T21:51:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-27T21:51:45+00:00</published>
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* acpica: (30 commits)
  ACPICA: Add new GPE public interface - acpi_mark_gpe_for_wake.
  ACPICA: GPEs: Do not allow enable for GPEs that have no handler(s).
  ACPICA: Fix a regression for deletion of Alias() objects.
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140627
  ACPICA: Tables: Merge DMAR table structure updates
  ACPICA: Hardware: back port of a recursive locking fix
  ACPICA: utprint/oslibcfs: cleanup - no functional change
  ACPICA: Executer: Fix trivial issues in acpi_get_serial_access_bytes()
  ACPICA: OSL: Update acpidump to reduce source code differences
  ACPICA: acpidump: Reduce freopen() invocations to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Replace file IOs with new APIs to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Remove exit() from generic layer to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Add memory/string OSL usage to improve portability
  ACPICA: Common: Enhance acpi_getopt() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Common: Enhance cm_get_file_size() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Application: Enhance ACPI_USAGE_xxx/ACPI_OPTION with acpi_os_printf() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Utilities: Introduce acpi_log_error() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Utilities: Add formatted printing APIs
  ACPICA: OSL: Add portable file IO to improve portability
  ACPICA: OSL: Clean up acpi_os_printf()/acpi_os_vprintf() stubs
  ...
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* acpica: (30 commits)
  ACPICA: Add new GPE public interface - acpi_mark_gpe_for_wake.
  ACPICA: GPEs: Do not allow enable for GPEs that have no handler(s).
  ACPICA: Fix a regression for deletion of Alias() objects.
  ACPICA: Update version to 20140627
  ACPICA: Tables: Merge DMAR table structure updates
  ACPICA: Hardware: back port of a recursive locking fix
  ACPICA: utprint/oslibcfs: cleanup - no functional change
  ACPICA: Executer: Fix trivial issues in acpi_get_serial_access_bytes()
  ACPICA: OSL: Update acpidump to reduce source code differences
  ACPICA: acpidump: Reduce freopen() invocations to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Replace file IOs with new APIs to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Remove exit() from generic layer to improve portability
  ACPICA: acpidump: Add memory/string OSL usage to improve portability
  ACPICA: Common: Enhance acpi_getopt() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Common: Enhance cm_get_file_size() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Application: Enhance ACPI_USAGE_xxx/ACPI_OPTION with acpi_os_printf() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Utilities: Introduce acpi_log_error() to improve portability
  ACPICA: Utilities: Add formatted printing APIs
  ACPICA: OSL: Add portable file IO to improve portability
  ACPICA: OSL: Clean up acpi_os_printf()/acpi_os_vprintf() stubs
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Autoload efivars</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T20:24:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lee, Chun-Yi</name>
<email>joeyli.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-07-09T10:39:29+00:00</published>
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The original patch is from Ben Hutchings's contribution to debian
kernel. Got Ben's permission to remove the code of efi-pstore.c and
send to linux-efi:
https://github.com/BlankOn/linux-debian/blob/master/debian/patches/features/all/efi-autoload-efivars.patch

efivars is generally useful to have on EFI systems, and in some cases
it may be impossible to load it after a kernel upgrade in order to
complete a boot loader update. At the same time we don't want to waste
memory on non-EFI systems by making them built-in.

Instead, give them module aliases as if they are platform drivers, and
register a corresponding platform device whenever EFI runtime services
are available.  This should trigger udev to load them.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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The original patch is from Ben Hutchings's contribution to debian
kernel. Got Ben's permission to remove the code of efi-pstore.c and
send to linux-efi:
https://github.com/BlankOn/linux-debian/blob/master/debian/patches/features/all/efi-autoload-efivars.patch

efivars is generally useful to have on EFI systems, and in some cases
it may be impossible to load it after a kernel upgrade in order to
complete a boot loader update. At the same time we don't want to waste
memory on non-EFI systems by making them built-in.

Instead, give them module aliases as if they are platform drivers, and
register a corresponding platform device whenever EFI runtime services
are available.  This should trigger udev to load them.

Signed-off-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T20:23:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-30T17:52:58+00:00</published>
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Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag. If it is set then kernel runs
on EFI platform but it has not direct control on EFI stuff
like EFI runtime, tables, structures, etc. If not this means
that Linux Kernel has direct access to EFI infrastructure
and everything runs as usual.

This functionality is used in Xen dom0 because hypervisor
has full control on EFI stuff and all calls from dom0 to
EFI must be requested via special hypercall which in turn
executes relevant EFI code in behalf of dom0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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Introduce EFI_PARAVIRT flag. If it is set then kernel runs
on EFI platform but it has not direct control on EFI stuff
like EFI runtime, tables, structures, etc. If not this means
that Linux Kernel has direct access to EFI infrastructure
and everything runs as usual.

This functionality is used in Xen dom0 because hypervisor
has full control on EFI stuff and all calls from dom0 to
EFI must be requested via special hypercall which in turn
executes relevant EFI code in behalf of dom0.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi: Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*()</title>
<updated>2014-07-18T20:23:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Kiper</name>
<email>daniel.kiper@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-30T17:52:56+00:00</published>
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Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*() because all mapped EFI regions
are memory (usually RAM but they could also be ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash,
etc.) not I/O regions. Additionally, I/O family calls do not work correctly
under Xen in our case. early_ioremap() skips the PFN to MFN conversion
when building the PTE. Using it for memory will attempt to map the wrong
machine frame. However, all artificial EFI structures created under Xen
live in dom0 memory and should be mapped/unmapped using early_mem*() family
calls which map domain memory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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Use early_mem*() instead of early_io*() because all mapped EFI regions
are memory (usually RAM but they could also be ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, flash,
etc.) not I/O regions. Additionally, I/O family calls do not work correctly
under Xen in our case. early_ioremap() skips the PFN to MFN conversion
when building the PTE. Using it for memory will attempt to map the wrong
machine frame. However, all artificial EFI structures created under Xen
live in dom0 memory and should be mapped/unmapped using early_mem*() family
calls which map domain memory.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Kiper &lt;daniel.kiper@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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