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2014-01-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina: "Usual rocket science stuff from trivial.git" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (39 commits) neighbour.h: fix comment sched: Fix warning on make htmldocs caused by wait.h slab: struct kmem_cache is protected by slab_mutex doc: Fix typo in USB Gadget Documentation of/Kconfig: Spelling s/one/once/ mkregtable: Fix sscanf handling lp5523, lp8501: comment improvements thermal: rcar: comment spelling treewide: fix comments and printk msgs IXP4xx: remove '1 &&' from a condition check in ixp4xx_restart() Documentation: update /proc/uptime field description Documentation: Fix size parameter for snprintf arm: fix comment header and macro name asm-generic: uaccess: Spelling s/a ny/any/ mtd: onenand: fix comment header doc: driver-model/platform.txt: fix a typo drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text doc: Fix typo (acces_process_vm -> access_process_vm) treewide: Fix typos in printk drivers/gpu/drm/qxl/Kconfig: reformat the help text ...
2014-01-20Merge branch 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 kernel address space randomization support from Peter Anvin: "This enables kernel address space randomization for x86" * 'x86-kaslr-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, kaslr: Clarify RANDOMIZE_BASE_MAX_OFFSET x86, kaslr: Remove unused including <linux/version.h> x86, kaslr: Use char array to gain sizeof sanity x86, kaslr: Add a circular multiply for better bit diffusion x86, kaslr: Mix entropy sources together as needed x86/relocs: Add percpu fixup for GNU ld 2.23 x86, boot: Rename get_flags() and check_flags() to *_cpuflags() x86, kaslr: Raise the maximum virtual address to -1 GiB on x86_64 x86, kaslr: Report kernel offset on panic x86, kaslr: Select random position from e820 maps x86, kaslr: Provide randomness functions x86, kaslr: Return location from decompress_kernel x86, boot: Move CPU flags out of cpucheck x86, relocs: Add more per-cpu gold special cases
2014-01-20Merge branch 'x86-ras-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 RAS changes from Ingo Molnar: - SCI reporting for other error types not only correctable ones - GHES cleanups - Add the functionality to override error reporting agents as some machines are sporting a new extended error logging capability which, if done properly in the BIOS, makes a corresponding EDAC module redundant - PCIe AER tracepoint severity levels fix - Error path correction for the mce device init - MCE timer fix - Add more flexibility to the error injection (EINJ) debugfs interface * 'x86-ras-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, mce: Fix mce_start_timer semantics ACPI, APEI, GHES: Cleanup ghes memory error handling ACPI, APEI: Cleanup alignment-aware accesses ACPI, APEI, GHES: Do not report only correctable errors with SCI ACPI, APEI, EINJ: Changes to the ACPI/APEI/EINJ debugfs interface ACPI, eMCA: Combine eMCA/EDAC event reporting priority EDAC, sb_edac: Modify H/W event reporting policy EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDAC PCI, AER: Fix severity usage in aer trace event x86, mce: Call put_device on device_register failure
2014-01-20Merge branch 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar: "This consists of two main parts: - New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is groundwork for kexec support on EFI (Borislav Petkov) - EFI kexec support itself (Dave Young)" * 'x86-efi-kexec-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) x86/efi: parse_efi_setup() build fix x86: ksysfs.c build fix x86/efi: Delete superfluous global variables x86: Reserve setup_data ranges late after parsing memmap cmdline x86: Export x86 boot_params to sysfs x86: Add xloadflags bit for EFI runtime support on kexec x86/efi: Pass necessary EFI data for kexec via setup_data efi: Export EFI runtime memory mapping to sysfs efi: Export more EFI table variables to sysfs x86/efi: Cleanup efi_enter_virtual_mode() function x86/efi: Fix off-by-one bug in EFI Boot Services reservation x86/efi: Add a wrapper function efi_map_region_fixed() x86/efi: Remove unused variables in __map_region() x86/efi: Check krealloc return value x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mapping x86/mm/cpa: Map in an arbitrary pgd x86/mm/pageattr: Add last levels of error path x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PUD error unwinding path x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PTE pagetable populating function x86/mm/pageattr: Add a PMD pagetable populating function ...
2014-01-20Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/apic changes from Ingo Molnar: "Two main changes: - improve local APIC Error Status Register reporting robustness - add the 'disable_cpu_apicid=x' boot parameter for kexec booting" * 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, apic: Make disabled_cpu_apicid static read_mostly, fix typos x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter x86/apic: Read Error Status Register correctly
2014-01-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: - add RCU torture scripts/tooling - static analysis improvements - update RCU documentation - miscellaneous fixes * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits) rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer(). rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08 ...
2014-01-15x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameterHATAYAMA Daisuke
Add disable_cpu_apicid kernel parameter. To use this kernel parameter, specify an initial APIC ID of the corresponding CPU you want to disable. This is mostly used for the kdump 2nd kernel to disable BSP to wake up multiple CPUs without causing system reset or hang due to sending INIT from AP to BSP. Kdump users first figure out initial APIC ID of the BSP, CPU0 in the 1st kernel, for example from /proc/cpuinfo and then set up this kernel parameter for the 2nd kernel using the obtained APIC ID. However, doing this procedure at each boot time manually is awkward, which should be automatically done by user-land service scripts, for example, kexec-tools on fedora/RHEL distributions. This design is more flexible than disabling BSP in kernel boot time automatically in that in kernel boot time we have no choice but referring to ACPI/MP table to obtain initial APIC ID for BSP, meaning that the method is not applicable to the systems without such BIOS tables. One assumption behind this design is that users get initial APIC ID of the BSP in still healthy state and so BSP is uniquely kept in CPU0. Thus, through the kernel parameter, only one initial APIC ID can be specified. In a comparison with disabled_cpu_apicid, we use read_apic_id(), not boot_cpu_physical_apicid, because on some platforms, the variable is modified to the apicid reported as BSP through MP table and this function is executed with the temporarily modified boot_cpu_physical_apicid. As a result, disabled_cpu_apicid kernel parameter doesn't work well for apicids of APs. Fixing the wrong handling of boot_cpu_physical_apicid requires some reviews and tests beyond some platforms and it could take some time. The fix here is a kind of workaround to focus on the main topic of this patch. Signed-off-by: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140115064458.1545.38775.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6 Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2014-01-12Merge tag 'v3.13-rc8' into x86/ras, to pick up fixes.Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-01-05Merge tag 'v3.13-rc7' into x86/efi-kexec to resolve conflictsIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/platform/efi/efi.c drivers/firmware/efi/Kconfig Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-19Merge branch 'master' into for-nextJiri Kosina
Sync with Linus' tree to be able to apply fixes on top of newer things in tree (efi-stub). Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-12-16libata: disable a disk via libata.force paramsRobin H. Johnson
A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the BIOS. The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this, but that was never ported to the libata layer. This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force. Example use: libata.force=2.0:disable [v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo] Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive
2013-12-11EDAC: Add an edac_report parameter to EDACChen, Gong
This new parameter is used to control how to report HW error reporting, especially for newer Intel platform, like Ivybridge-EX, which contains an enhanced error decoding functionality in the firmware, i.e. eMCA. Signed-off-by: Chen, Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386310630-12529-2-git-send-email-gong.chen@linux.intel.com [ Boris: massage commit message. ] Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2013-12-03rcu: Fix formatting blows in kernel-parameters.txtPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-02cgroup, doc: make cgroup_disable doc more accurateQiang Huang
In doc, it said that 'Currently supported controllers - "memory"', but actually we can use cgroup_disable=cpu,cpuset and all other controllers, so this is confusing for cgroup users without much cgroup knowledge. We need to make it clear. [some comments copied from Paul Menage's original patch 8bab8dded] Signed-off-by: Qiang Huang <h.huangqiang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2013-11-26Merge tag 'efi-next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfleming/efi into x86/efi Pull EFI virtual mapping changes from Matt Fleming: * New static EFI runtime services virtual mapping layout which is groundwork for kexec support on EFI. (Borislav Petkov) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-11-21Merge branch 'for-linus2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore taking over as maintainer of that code. Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor" and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling, here's the explanation from David Howells on that: "Okay. There are a number of separate bits. I'll go over the big bits and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just fixes and cleanups. If you want the small bits accounting for, I can do that too. (1) Keyring capacity expansion. KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access KEYS: Introduce a search context structure KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID Add a generic associative array implementation. KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a keyring. Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page. Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box. However, since the NFS idmapper uses a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to the cause. Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings may point to a single key. This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node struct into the key struct for this purpose. I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored in the keyring. It would, however, be able to use much existing code. I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio. I could have used the radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over the whole radix tree. Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree. So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key type pointer and the key description. This means that an exact lookup by type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to the target key. I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a pointer. It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it also. FS-Cache might, for example. (2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'. KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the addition or linkage of trusted keys. Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel during build are marked as being trusted automatically. New keys can be loaded at runtime with add_key(). They are checked against the system keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can thus be added into the master keyring. Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also. (3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature. X.509: Remove certificate date checks It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is loaded - so just remove those checks. (4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel. KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509" into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section. (5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings. KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs. We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more easily. To make this work, two things were needed: (a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them. The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out happens), so neither of these places is suitable. I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is created for each UID on request. Each time a user requests their persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew. If the user doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically expired and garbage collected using the existing gc. All the kerberos tokens it held are then also gc'd. (b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size). The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots of auxiliary data attached. We don't, however, want to eat up huge tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an inode and a dentry overhead. If the ticket is smaller than that, we slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer" * 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits) KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent() KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL() KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate() KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain() apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting Smack: Ptrace access check mode ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template ...
2013-11-13drivers/char/hpet.c: allow user controlled mmap for user processesPrarit Bhargava
The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the map such that additional data is exposed to userspace. This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-13mem-hotplug: introduce movable_node boot optionTang Chen
The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable. As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it cannot be hot-removed. So memory hotplug users may want to set all hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it. Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed. But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. By doing this, the kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes. This will cause NUMA performance down. And other users may be unhappy. So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality. In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE. To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock allocation direction. That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in the previous patches. So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel does the following: 1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up. 2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory top down. Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this functionality. For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything. The kernel will work as before. Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com> Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-11-12Merge branch 'x86-intel-mid-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86/intel-mid changes from Ingo Molnar: "Update the 'intel mid' (mobile internet device) platform code as Intel is rolling out more SoC designs. This gets rid of most of the 'MRST' platform code in the process, mostly by renaming and shuffling code around into their respective 'intel-mid' platform drivers" * 'x86-intel-mid-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, intel-mid: Do not re-introduce usage of obsolete __cpuinit intel_mid: Move platform device setups to their own platform_<device>.* files x86: intel-mid: Add section for sfi device table intel-mid: sfi: Allow struct devs_id.get_platform_data to be NULL intel_mid: Moved SFI related code to sfi.c intel_mid: Added custom handler for ipc devices intel_mid: Added custom device_handler support intel_mid: Refactored sfi_parse_devs() function intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid* pci: intel_mid: Return true/false in function returning bool intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid* mrst: Fixed indentation issues mrst: Fixed printk/pr_* related issues
2013-11-12Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar: "Main changes: - Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer. Very useful for debugging boot problems. - EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries) - EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM. - Documentation updates - misc fixes" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits) x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support boot, efi: Remove redundant memset() x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions. efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization. efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files(). efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0 efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86 efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map() efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map() efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function. efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures. efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file. efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations. efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions. efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location ...
2013-11-02x86/efi: Runtime services virtual mappingBorislav Petkov
We map the EFI regions needed for runtime services non-contiguously, with preserved alignment on virtual addresses starting from -4G down for a total max space of 64G. This way, we provide for stable runtime services addresses across kernels so that a kexec'd kernel can still use them. Thus, they're mapped in a separate pagetable so that we don't pollute the kernel namespace. Add an efi= kernel command line parameter for passing miscellaneous options and chicken bits from the command line. While at it, add a chicken bit called "efi=old_map" which can be used as a fallback to the old runtime services mapping method in case there's some b0rkage with a particular EFI implementation (haha, it is hard to hold up the sarcasm here...). Also, add the UEFI RT VA space to Documentation/x86/x86_64/mm.txt. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-10-28x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk supportMatt Fleming
It's incredibly difficult to diagnose early EFI boot issues without special hardware because earlyprintk=vga doesn't work on EFI systems. Add support for writing to the EFI framebuffer, via earlyprintk=efi, which will actually give users a chance of providing debug output. Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
2013-10-26ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithmsMimi Zohar
The IMA measurement list contains two hashes - a template data hash and a filedata hash. The template data hash is committed to the TPM, which is limited, by the TPM v1.2 specification, to 20 bytes. The filedata hash is defined as 20 bytes as well. Now that support for variable length measurement list templates was added, the filedata hash is not limited to 20 bytes. This patch adds Kconfig support for defining larger default filedata hash algorithms and replacing the builtin default with one specified on the kernel command line. <uapi/linux/hash_info.h> contains a list of hash algorithms. The Kconfig default hash algorithm is a subset of this list, but any hash algorithm included in the list can be specified at boot, using the 'ima_hash=' kernel command line option. Changelog v2: - update Kconfig Changelog: - support hashes that are configured - use generic HASH_ALGO_ definitions - add Kconfig support - hash_setup must be called only once (Dmitry) - removed trailing whitespaces (Roberto Sassu) Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
2013-10-26ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured defaultRoberto Sassu
This patch allows users to specify from the kernel command line the template descriptor, among those defined, that will be used to generate and display measurement entries. If an user specifies a wrong template, IMA reverts to the template descriptor set in the kernel configuration. Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-18Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney. Major changes: " 1. Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566994. 2. Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567027. 3. Grace-period-related changes, primarily to aid in debugging, inspired by a -rt debugging session. These were posted to LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567076. 4. Idle entry/exit changes, primarily to address issues located by Tibor Billes. These were posted to LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567096. 5. Code reorganization moving RCU's source files from kernel to kernel/rcu. This was posted to LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1577344." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-17intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
mrst is used as common name to represent all intel_mid type soc's. But moorsetwon is just one of the intel_mid soc. So renamed them to use intel_mid. This patch mainly renames the variables and related functions that uses *mrst* prefix with *intel_mid*. To ensure that there are no functional changes, I have compared the objdump of related files before and after rename and found the only difference is symbol and name changes. Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-6-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-10-15rcu: Move RCU-related source code to kernel/rcu directoryPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-13x86, kaslr: Return location from decompress_kernelKees Cook
This allows decompress_kernel to return a new location for the kernel to be relocated to. Additionally, enforces CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START as the minimum relocation position when building with CONFIG_RELOCATABLE. With CONFIG_RANDOMIZE_BASE set, the choose_kernel_location routine will select a new location to decompress the kernel, though here it is presently a no-op. The kernel command line option "nokaslr" is introduced to bypass these routines. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1381450698-28710-3-git-send-email-keescook@chromium.org Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2013-09-30block: change config option name for cmdline partition parsingPaul Gortmaker
Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot arg processing, when it really is block specific. Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_ prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it is block specific. In addition, fix up the following less critical items: - help text was not really at all helpful. - index file for Documentation was not updated - add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - clarify wording in source comments Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com> Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-30Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: replace kernelcore with MovableWeiping Pan
Han Pingtian found a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about "kernelcore=", that "kernelcore" should be replaced with "Movable" here. Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-09-25Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc2-tag' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "Bug-fixes and one update to the kernel-paramters.txt documentation. - Fix PV spinlocks triggering jump_label code bug - Remove extraneous code in the tpm front driver - Fix ballooning out of pages when non-preemptible - Fix deadlock when using a 32-bit initial domain with large amount of memory - Add xen_nopvpsin parameter to the documentation" * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen/spinlock: Document the xen_nopvspin parameter. xen/p2m: check MFN is in range before using the m2p table xen/balloon: don't alloc page while non-preemptible xen: Do not enable spinlocks before jump_label_init() has executed tpm: xen-tpmfront: Remove the locality sysfs attribute tpm: xen-tpmfront: Fix default durations
2013-09-25xen/spinlock: Document the xen_nopvspin parameter.Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Which disables in the ticketlock slowpath the Xen PV optimization's. Useful for diagnosing issues and comparing benchmarks in over-commit CPU scenarios. Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2013-09-09Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Highlights include: - Fix NFSv4 recovery so that it doesn't recover lost locks in cases such as lease loss due to a network partition, where doing so may result in data corruption. Add a kernel parameter to control choice of legacy behaviour or not. - Performance improvements when 2 processes are writing to the same file. - Flush data to disk when an RPCSEC_GSS session timeout is imminent. - Implement NFSv4.1 SP4_MACH_CRED state protection to prevent other NFS clients from being able to manipulate our lease and file locking state. - Allow sharing of RPCSEC_GSS caches between different rpc clients. - Fix the broken NFSv4 security auto-negotiation between client and server. - Fix rmdir() to wait for outstanding sillyrename unlinks to complete - Add a tracepoint framework for debugging NFSv4 state recovery issues. - Add tracing to the generic NFS layer. - Add tracing for the SUNRPC socket connection state. - Clean up the rpc_pipefs mount/umount event management. - Merge more patches from Chuck in preparation for NFSv4 migration support" * tag 'nfs-for-3.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (107 commits) NFSv4: use mach cred for SECINFO_NO_NAME w/ integrity NFS: nfs_compare_super shouldn't check the auth flavour unless 'sec=' was set NFSv4: Allow security autonegotiation for submounts NFSv4: Disallow security negotiation for lookups when 'sec=' is specified NFSv4: Fix security auto-negotiation NFS: Clean up nfs_parse_security_flavors() NFS: Clean up the auth flavour array mess NFSv4.1 Use MDS auth flavor for data server connection NFS: Don't check lock owner compatability unless file is locked (part 2) NFS: Don't check lock owner compatibility in writes unless file is locked nfs4: Map NFS4ERR_WRONG_CRED to EPERM nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED write and commit support nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED stateid support nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED secinfo support nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED cleanup support nfs4.1: Add state protection handler nfs4.1: Minimal SP4_MACH_CRED implementation SUNRPC: Replace pointer values with task->tk_pid and rpc_clnt->cl_clid SUNRPC: Add an identifier for struct rpc_clnt SUNRPC: Ensure rpc_task->tk_pid is available for tracepoints ...
2013-09-04NFSv4: Document the recover_lost_locks kernel parameterTrond Myklebust
Rename the new 'recover_locks' kernel parameter to 'recover_lost_locks' and change the default to 'false'. Document why in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Move the 'recover_lost_locks' kernel parameter to fs/nfs/super.c to make it easy to backport to kernels prior to 3.6.x, which don't have a separate NFSv4 module. Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2013-09-03Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: 1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in some cases in which it was known to have problems. From Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov. 2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki. 3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from Rafael J Wysocki. 4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator, is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim. 5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger. 6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with the latter from Ben Guthro. 7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From Felipe Contreras. 8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo, Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen, Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun. 9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially, it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional to load) from Stratos Karafotis. 10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat. 11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha. 12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and Rafael J Wysocki. 13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo, Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd, Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar. 14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening from Colin Cross. 15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and Tuukka Tikkanen. 16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij, and Sahara. 17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan. 18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power management from Shuah Khan. * tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (217 commits) cpufreq: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context cpuidle: coupled: fix race condition between pokes and safe state cpuidle: coupled: abort idle if pokes are pending cpuidle: coupled: disable interrupts after entering safe state ACPI / hotplug: Remove containers synchronously driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments cpufreq: governors: Remove duplicate check of target freq in supported range cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing ACPI / EC: Add ASUSTEK L4R to quirk list in order to validate ECDT ACPI / thermal: Add check of "_TZD" availability and evaluating result cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance ACPI: blacklist win8 OSI for buggy laptops cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name cpuidle: Change struct menu_device field types cpuidle: Add a comment warning about possible overflow cpuidle: Fix variable domains in get_typical_interval() cpuidle: Fix menu_device->intervals type cpuidle: CodingStyle: Break up multiple assignments on single line cpuidle: Check called function parameter in get_typical_interval() ...
2013-09-03Merge tag 'tty-3.12-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial driver patches from Greg KH: "Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 3.12-rc1. Lots of n_tty reworks to resolve some very long-standing issues, removing the 3-4 different locks that were taken for every character. This code has been beaten on for a long time in linux-next with no reported regressions. Other than that, a range of serial and tty driver updates and revisions. Full details in the shortlog" * tag 'tty-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (226 commits) hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc serial: imx: initialize the local variable tty: ar933x_uart: add device tree support and binding documentation tty: ar933x_uart: allow to build the driver as a module ARM: dts: msm: Update uartdm compatible strings devicetree: serial: Document msm_serial bindings serial: unify serial bindings into a single dir serial: fsl-imx-uart: Cleanup duplicate device tree binding tty: ar933x_uart: use config_enabled() macro to clean up ifdefs tty: ar933x_uart: remove superfluous assignment of ar933x_uart_driver.nr tty: ar933x_uart: use the clk API to get the uart clock tty: serial: cpm_uart: Adding proper request of GPIO used by cpm_uart driver serial: sirf: fix the amount of serial ports serial: sirf: define macro for some magic numbers of USP serial: icom: move array overflow checks earlier TTY: amiserial, remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata() serial: st-asc: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata() msm_serial: Send more than 1 character on the console w/ UARTDM msm_serial: Add support for non-GSBI UARTDM devices msm_serial: Switch clock consumer strings and simplify code ...
2013-08-27Merge branch 'acpica'Rafael J. Wysocki
* acpica: ACPICA: Update version to 20130725. ACPICA: Update names for walk_namespace callbacks to clarify usage. ACPICA: Return error if DerefOf resolves to a null package element. ACPICA: Make ACPI Power Management Timer (PM Timer) optional. ACPICA: Fix divergences of the commit - ACPICA: Expose OSI version. ACPICA: Fix possible fault for methods that optionally have no return value. ACPICA: DeRefOf operator: Update to fully resolve FieldUnit and BufferField refs. ACPICA: Emit all unresolved method externals in a text block ACPICA: Export acpi_tb_validate_rsdp(). ACPI: Add facility to remove all _OSI strings ACPI: Add facility to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings ACPICA: Add acpi_update_interfaces() public interface ACPICA: Update version to 20130626 ACPICA: Fix compiler warnings for casting issues (only some compilers) ACPICA: Remove restriction of 256 maximum GPEs in any GPE block ACPICA: Disassembler: Expand maximum output string length to 64K ACPICA: TableManager: Export acpi_tb_scan_memory_for_rsdp() ACPICA: Update comments about behavior when _STA does not exist
2013-08-23memcg: get rid of swapaccount leftoversMichal Hocko
The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by commit a2c8990aed5a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs. Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not very much useful on its own. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Reported-by: Gergely Risko <gergely@risko.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-08-05vt: make the default color configurableClemens Ladisch
The virtual console has (undocumented) module parameters to set the colors for italic and underlined text, but the default text color was hardcoded for some reason. This made it impossible to change the color for startup messages, or to set the default for new virtual consoles. Add a module parameter for that, and document the entire bunch. Any hacker who thinks that a command prompt on a "black screen with white font" is not supicious enough can now use the kernel parameter vt.color=10 to get a nice, evil green. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2013-07-23ACPI: Add facility to remove all _OSI stringsLv Zheng
This patch changes the "acpi_osi=" boot parameter implementation so that: 1. "acpi_osi=!" can be used to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings by default. It is meaningless to specify "acpi_osi=!" multiple times as it can only affect the default state of the target _OSI strings. 2. "acpi_osi=!*" can be used to remove all _OSI OS vendor strings and all _OSI feature group strings. It is useful to specify "acpi_osi=!*" multiple times through kernel command line to override the current state of the target _OSI strings. Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-23ACPI: Add facility to disable all _OSI OS vendor stringsLv Zheng
This patch introduces "acpi_osi=!" command line to force Linux replying "UNSUPPORTED" to all of the _OSI strings. This patch is based on an ACPICA enhancement - the new API acpi_update_interfaces(). The _OSI object provides the platform with the ability to query OSPM to determine the set of ACPI related interfaces, behaviors, or features that the operating system supports. The argument passed to the _OSI is a string like the followings: 1. Feature Group String, examples include Module Device Processor Device 3.0 _SCP Extensions Processor Aggregator Device ... 2. OS Vendor String, examples include Linux FreeBSD Windows ... There are AML codes provided in the ACPI namespace written in the following style to determine OSPM interfaces / features: Method(OSCK) { if (CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0)) { if (\_OSI("Windows")) { Return (One) } if (\_OSI("Windows 2006")) { Return (Ones) } Return (Zero) } Return (Zero) } There is a debugging facility implemented in Linux. Users can pass "acpi_osi=" boot parameters to the kernel to tune the _OSI evaluation result so that certain AML codes can be executed. Current implementation includes: 1. 'acpi_osi=' - this makes CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0) TRUE 2. 'acpi_osi="Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") TRUE 3. 'acpi_osi="!Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") FALSE The function to implement this feature is also used as a quirk mechanism in the Linux ACPI subystem. When _OSI is evaluatated by the AML codes, ACPICA replies "SUPPORTED" to all Windows operating system vendor strings. This is because Windows operating systems return "SUPPORTED" if the argument to the _OSI method specifies an earlier version of Windows. Please refer to the following MSDN document: How to Identify the Windows Version in ACPI by Using _OSI http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hardware/gg463275.aspx This adds difficulties when developers want to feed specific Windows operating system vendor string to the BIOS codes for debugging purpose, multiple acpi_osi="!xxx" have to be specified in the command line to force Linux replying "UNSUPPORTED" to the Windows OS vendor strings listed in the AML codes. Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-07-11Merge tag 'trace-3.11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt: "The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have been marked for stable. As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN about. These include: New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called. The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the function. Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called "traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot up called the same thing" * tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits) tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static tracing: Remove ftrace() function tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit() tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock ...
2013-07-09reboot: move arch/x86 reboot= handling to generic kernelRobin Holt
Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line parameter handling. Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-3.11' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo: "Overview of changes: - The rest of maintainer email address updates. - Some core updates - more robust default behavior for port multipliers, better error reporting for SG_IO commands, and a way to better work around now ancient and probably pretty rare PATA -> SATA bridges with ATAPI devices. - sata_rcar stabilization. - Some hardware PCI ID additions and one-off low level driver updates." * 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits) AHCI: use ATA_BUSY libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init() ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs libata: cleanup SAT error translation ahci: sata: add support for exynos5440 sata libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH sata highbank: add bit-banged SGPIO driver support ahci: make ahci_transmit_led_message into a function pointer sata_rcar: fix compilation warning in sata_rcar_thaw() sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller ata: use pci_get_drvdata() ipr: qc_fill_rtf() method should not store alternate status register sata_rcar: add 'base' local variable to some functions sata_rcar: correct 'sata_rcar_sht' sata_rcar: kill superfluous code in sata_rcar_bmdma_fill_sg() libata: do not limit R-Car SATA driver to shmobile ata: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata() AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts ...
2013-07-03Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq) remains the most active patch submitter. To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight. We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers and a bunch of cleanups all over. Highlights: - Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures. It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example, if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive alternative and it had to be addressed. However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a patient who's riding a bike. So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing (a month ago), nobody has complained. As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug code. - Lighter weight freezing of tasks. These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide to report a failure is reduced too. Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is generally unsafe and shouldn't happen). - cpufreq updates First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa has identified the root cause. Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu. Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia, Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian. - ACPICA update A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream. During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set. Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and Zhang Rui. - cpuidle updates New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek. Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel Lezcano. - ACPI power management updates Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection routine. - ACPI documentation updates Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is updated by Hanjun Guo. - Assorted ACPI updates We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to the core. A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be fixed on some systems. A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by Mika Westerberg. The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From Jeff Wu. Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues. Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus. The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly. Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi Kani. - Assorted power management updates The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not necessary any more after that modification). The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect the "runtime idle" behavior change). New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara (<keun-o.park@windriver.com>). PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu. Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan. - devfreq updates New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan. Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham, Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun. - OMAP power management updates Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon." * tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits) cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state() PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases ...
2013-07-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris: "In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e. security labels are inherited from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process). The rest of the changes are maintenance" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits) tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client->driver evm: audit integrity metadata failures integrity: move integrity_audit_msg() evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs maintainers: add Dmitry Kasatkin Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls() Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option Smack: Improve access check performance Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis() security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description apparmor: no need to delay vfree() apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros ...
2013-07-03Merge tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux Pull thermal power-limit update from Tony Luck: "Thermal limit warnings are too scary and cause unnecessary concern" * tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default x86 thermal: Delete power-limit-notification console messages
2013-07-02Merge branch 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wqLinus Torvalds
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo: "Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up changes necessary at this point. The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh. This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions less effective. Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes." * 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq block: queue work on power efficient wq PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
2013-06-21ACPI / video: add description for brightness_switch_enabledAaron Lu
Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled into kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2013-06-20integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()Mimi Zohar
This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit' boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig help text to reflect the actual code. Changelog: - Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu) Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>