linux-toradex.git/init, branch toradex_vf_4.1-next

ACPI / init: Switch over platform to the ACPI mode later

2015-07-21T17:10:02+00:00

commit b064a8fa77dfead647564c46ac8fc5b13bd1ab73 upstream.

Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before
timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization,
including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the
initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem
use ACPI early.  Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions
on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward
its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit
c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later".

However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken
on the Tyan S8812 mainboard.

To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into
two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init()
and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into
a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early
ACPI initialization spot.

That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI
tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in
efi_enter_virtual_mode().

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141
Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()"
Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Toshi Kani 
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo 
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init: fix regression by supporting devices with major:minor:offset format

2015-05-05T16:31:37+00:00

Commit 283e7ad02 ("init: stricter checking of major:minor root=
values") was so strict that it exposed the fact that a previously
unknown device format was being used.

Distributions like Ubuntu uses klibc (rather than uswsusp) to resume
system from hibernation.  klibc expressed the swap partition/file in
the form of major:minor:offset.  For example, 8:3:0 represents a swap
partition in klibc, and klibc's resume process in initrd will finally
echo 8:3:0 to /sys/power/resume for manually resuming.  However, due
to commit 283e7ad02's stricter checking, 8:3:0 will be treated as an
invalid device format, and manual resuming from hibernation will fail.

Fix this by adding support for devices with major:minor:offset format
when resuming from hibernation.

Reported-by: Prigent, Christophe 
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6

2015-04-18T15:10:49+00:00

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Numerous fixes, the overdue removal of the i2o docs, some new Chinese
  translations, and, hopefully, the README fix that will end the flow of
  identical patches to that file"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (34 commits)
  Documentation/memcg: update memcg/kmem status
  Documentation: blackfin: Makefile: Typo building issue
  Documentation/vm/pagemap.txt: correct location of page-types tool
  Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: typo fix
  doc: Add guest_nice column to example output of `cat /proc/stat'
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: Move "eagerfpu" to its right place
  Documentation: gpio: Update ACPI part of the document to mention _DSD
  docs/completion.txt: Various tweaks and corrections
  doc: completion: context, scope and language fixes
  Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
  Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
  Documentation: Chinese translation of arm64/legacy_instructions.txt
  DocBook media: fix broken EIA hyperlink
  Documentation: tweak the maintainers entry
  README: Change gzip/bzip2 to xz compression format
  README: Update version number reference
  doc:pci: Fix typo in Documentation/PCI
  Documentation: drm: Use '->' when describing access through pointers.
  Documentation: Remove mentioning of block barriers
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: Fix one grammar mistake, add extra info about TB
  ...

Merge tag 'dm-4.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm

2015-04-18T12:14:18+00:00

Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:

 - the most extensive changes this cycle are the DM core improvements to
   add full blk-mq support to request-based DM.

    - disabled by default but user can opt-in with CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT
    - depends on some blk-mq changes from Jens' for-4.1/core branch so
      that explains why this pull is built on linux-block.git

 - update DM to use name_to_dev_t() rather than open-coding a less
   capable device parser.

    - includes a couple small improvements to name_to_dev_t() that offer
      stricter constraints that DM's code provided.

 - improvements to the dm-cache "mq" cache replacement policy.

 - a DM crypt crypt_ctr() error path fix and an async crypto deadlock
   fix

 - a small efficiency improvement for DM crypt decryption by leveraging
   immutable biovecs

 - add error handling modes for corrupted blocks to DM verity

 - a new "log-writes" DM target from Josef Bacik that is meant for file
   system developers to test file system integrity at particular points
   in the life of a file system

 - a few DM log userspace cleanups and fixes

 - a few Documentation fixes (for thin, cache, crypt and switch)

* tag 'dm-4.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (34 commits)
  dm crypt: fix missing error code return from crypt_ctr error path
  dm crypt: fix deadlock when async crypto algorithm returns -EBUSY
  dm crypt: leverage immutable biovecs when decrypting on read
  dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page
  dm: add log writes target
  dm table: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0
  dm verity: add error handling modes for corrupted blocks
  dm thin: remove stale 'trim' message documentation
  dm delay: use msecs_to_jiffies for time conversion
  dm log userspace base: fix compile warning
  dm log userspace transfer: match wait_for_completion_timeout return type
  dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()
  init: stricter checking of major:minor root= values
  init: export name_to_dev_t and mark name argument as const
  dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr
  dm: optimize dm_mq_queue_rq to _not_ use kthread if using pure blk-mq
  dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM
  dm: impose configurable deadline for dm_request_fn's merge heuristic
  dm sysfs: introduce ability to add writable attributes
  dm: don't start current request if it would've merged with the previous
  ...

kernel/fork.c: new function for max_threads

2015-04-17T13:04:06+00:00

PAGE_SIZE is not guaranteed to be equal to or less than 8 times the
THREAD_SIZE.

E.g.  architecture hexagon may have page size 1M and thread size 4096.
This would lead to a division by zero in the calculation of max_threads.

With this patch the buggy code is moved to a separate function
set_max_threads.  The error is not fixed.

After fixing the problem in a separate patch the new function can be
reused to adjust max_threads after adding or removing memory.

Argument mempages of function fork_init() is removed as totalram_pages is
an exported symbol.

The creation of separate patches for refactoring to a new function and for
fixing the logic was suggested by Ingo Molnar.

Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Guenter Roeck 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kernel: conditionally support non-root users, groups and capabilities

2015-04-15T23:35:22+00:00

There are a lot of embedded systems that run most or all of their
functionality in init, running as root:root.  For these systems,
supporting multiple users is not necessary.

This patch adds a new symbol, CONFIG_MULTIUSER, that makes support for
non-root users, non-root groups, and capabilities optional.  It is enabled
under CONFIG_EXPERT menu.

When this symbol is not defined, UID and GID are zero in any possible case
and processes always have all capabilities.

The following syscalls are compiled out: setuid, setregid, setgid,
setreuid, setresuid, getresuid, setresgid, getresgid, setgroups,
getgroups, setfsuid, setfsgid, capget, capset.

Also, groups.c is compiled out completely.

In kernel/capability.c, capable function was moved in order to avoid
adding two ifdef blocks.

This change saves about 25 KB on a defconfig build.  The most minimal
kernels have total text sizes in the high hundreds of kB rather than
low MB.  (The 25k goes down a bit with allnoconfig, but not that much.

The kernel was booted in Qemu.  All the common functionalities work.
Adding users/groups is not possible, failing with -ENOSYS.

Bloat-o-meter output:
add/remove: 7/87 grow/shrink: 19/397 up/down: 1675/-26325 (-24650)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

init: stricter checking of major:minor root= values

2015-04-15T16:10:19+00:00

In the kernel command-line, previously, root=1:2jakshflaksjdhfa would
be accepted and interpreted just like root=1:2. This patch adds
stricter checking so that additional characters after major:minor are
rejected by root=.

The goal of this change is to help in unifying DM's interpretation of
its block device argument by using existing kernel code (name_to_dev_t).
But DM rejects malformed major:minor pairs, it seems reasonable for
root= to reject them as well.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

init: export name_to_dev_t and mark name argument as const

2015-04-15T16:10:18+00:00

DM will switch its device lookup code to using name_to_dev_t() so it
must be exported.  Also, the @name argument should be marked const.

Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-04-14T23:49:17+00:00

Merge first patchbomb from Andrew Morton:

 - arch/sh updates

 - ocfs2 updates

 - kernel/watchdog feature

 - about half of mm/

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (122 commits)
  Documentation: update arch list in the 'memtest' entry
  Kconfig: memtest: update number of test patterns up to 17
  arm: add support for memtest
  arm64: add support for memtest
  memtest: use phys_addr_t for physical addresses
  mm: move memtest under mm
  mm, hugetlb: abort __get_user_pages if current has been oom killed
  mm, mempool: do not allow atomic resizing
  memcg: print cgroup information when system panics due to panic_on_oom
  mm: numa: remove migrate_ratelimited
  mm: fold arch_randomize_brk into ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
  mm: split ET_DYN ASLR from mmap ASLR
  s390: redefine randomize_et_dyn for ELF_ET_DYN_BASE
  mm: expose arch_mmap_rnd when available
  s390: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  powerpc: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  mips: extract logic for mmap_rnd()
  arm64: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  x86: standardize mmap_rnd() usage
  arm: factor out mmap ASLR into mmap_rnd
  ...

lib/ioremap.c: add huge I/O map capability interfaces

2015-04-14T23:49:04+00:00

Add ioremap_pud_enabled() and ioremap_pmd_enabled(), which return 1 when
I/O mappings with pud/pmd are enabled on the kernel.

ioremap_huge_init() calls arch_ioremap_pud_supported() and
arch_ioremap_pmd_supported() to initialize the capabilities at boot-time.

A new kernel option "nohugeiomap" is also added, so that user can disable
the huge I/O map capabilities when necessary.

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Cc: Robert Elliott 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds