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git://git.linaro.org/people/mike.turquette/linux
Pull clock tree updates from Mike Turquette:
"The clk tree changes for 3.18 are dominated by clock drivers. Mostly
fixes and enhancements to existing drivers as well as new drivers.
This tag contains a bit more arch code than I usually take due to some
OMAP2+ changes. Additionally it contains the restart notifier
handlers which are merged as a dependency into several trees.
The PXA changes are the only messy part. Due to having a stable tree
I had to revert one patch and follow up with one more fix near the tip
of this tag. Some dead code is introduced but it will soon become
live code after 3.18-rc1 is released as the rest of the PXA family is
converted over to the common clock framework.
Another trend in this tag is that multiple vendors have started to
push the complexity of changing their CPU frequency into the clock
driver, whereas this used to be done in CPUfreq drivers.
Changes to the clk core include a generic gpio-clock type and a
clk_set_phase() function added to the top-level clk.h api. Due to
some confusion on the fbdev mailing list the kernel boot parameters
documentation was updated to further explain the clk_ignore_unused
parameter, which is often required by users of the simplefb driver.
Finally some fixes to the locking around the clock debugfs stuff was
done to prevent deadlocks when interacting with other subsystems."
* tag 'clk-for-linus-3.18' of git://git.linaro.org/people/mike.turquette/linux: (99 commits)
clk: pxa clocks build system fix
Revert "arm: pxa: Transition pxa27x to clk framework"
clk: samsung: register restart handlers for s3c2412 and s3c2443
clk: rockchip: add restart handler
clk: rockchip: rk3288: i2s_frac adds flag to set parent's rate
doc/kernel-parameters.txt: clarify clk_ignore_unused
arm: pxa: Transition pxa27x to clk framework
dts: add devicetree bindings for pxa27x clocks
clk: add pxa27x clock drivers
arm: pxa: add clock pll selection bits
clk: dts: document pxa clock binding
clk: add pxa clocks infrastructure
clk: gpio-gate: Ensure gpiod_ APIs are prototyped
clk: ti: dra7-atl-clock: Mark the device as pm_runtime_irq_safe
clk: ti: LLVMLinux: Move __init outside of type definition
clk: ti: consider the fact that of_clk_get() might return an error
clk: ti: dra7-atl-clock: fix a memory leak
clk: ti: change clock init to use generic of_clk_init
clk: hix5hd2: add I2C clocks
clk: hix5hd2: add watchdog0 clocks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL
- RCU-tasks implementation
- torture-test updates
- miscellaneous fixes
- locktorture updates
- RCU documentation updates"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (81 commits)
workqueue: Use cond_resched_rcu_qs macro
workqueue: Add quiescent state between work items
locktorture: Cleanup header usage
locktorture: Cannot hold read and write lock
locktorture: Fix __acquire annotation for spinlock irq
locktorture: Support rwlocks
rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
locktorture: Document boot/module parameters
rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
locktorture: Add test scenario for rwsem_lock
locktorture: Add test scenario for mutex_lock
locktorture: Make torture scripting account for new _runnable name
locktorture: Introduce torture context
locktorture: Support rwsems
locktorture: Add infrastructure for torturing read locks
torture: Address race in module cleanup
locktorture: Make statistics generic
locktorture: Teach about lock debugging
locktorture: Support mutexes
locktorture: Add documentation
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris.
Mostly ima, selinux, smack and key handling updates.
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (65 commits)
integrity: do zero padding of the key id
KEYS: output last portion of fingerprint in /proc/keys
KEYS: strip 'id:' from ca_keyid
KEYS: use swapped SKID for performing partial matching
KEYS: Restore partial ID matching functionality for asymmetric keys
X.509: If available, use the raw subjKeyId to form the key description
KEYS: handle error code encoded in pointer
selinux: normalize audit log formatting
selinux: cleanup error reporting in selinux_nlmsg_perm()
KEYS: Check hex2bin()'s return when generating an asymmetric key ID
ima: detect violations for mmaped files
ima: fix race condition on ima_rdwr_violation_check and process_measurement
ima: added ima_policy_flag variable
ima: return an error code from ima_add_boot_aggregate()
ima: provide 'ima_appraise=log' kernel option
ima: move keyring initialization to ima_init()
PKCS#7: Handle PKCS#7 messages that contain no X.509 certs
PKCS#7: Better handling of unsupported crypto
KEYS: Overhaul key identification when searching for asymmetric keys
KEYS: Implement binary asymmetric key ID handling
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- part of OCFS2 (review is laggy again)
- procfs
- slab
- all of MM
- zram, zbud
- various other random things: arch, filesystems.
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (164 commits)
nosave: consolidate __nosave_{begin,end} in <asm/sections.h>
include/linux/screen_info.h: remove unused ORIG_* macros
kernel/sys.c: compat sysinfo syscall: fix undefined behavior
kernel/sys.c: whitespace fixes
acct: eliminate compile warning
kernel/async.c: switch to pr_foo()
include/linux/blkdev.h: use NULL instead of zero
include/linux/kernel.h: deduplicate code implementing clamp* macros
include/linux/kernel.h: rewrite min3, max3 and clamp using min and max
alpha: use Kbuild logic to include <asm-generic/sections.h>
frv: remove deprecated IRQF_DISABLED
frv: remove unused cpuinfo_frv and friends to fix future build error
zbud: avoid accessing last unused freelist
zsmalloc: simplify init_zspage free obj linking
mm/zsmalloc.c: correct comment for fullness group computation
zram: use notify_free to account all free notifications
zram: report maximum used memory
zram: zram memory size limitation
zsmalloc: change return value unit of zs_get_total_size_bytes
zsmalloc: move pages_allocated to zs_pool
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It isn't obvious that CMA can be disabled on the kernel's command line, so
document it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Slab merge is good feature to reduce fragmentation. Now, it is only
applied to SLUB, but, it would be good to apply it to SLAB. This patch is
preparation step to apply slab merge to SLAB by commonizing slab merge
logic.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Features-wise, to me the most important this time is a rework of
wakeup interrupts handling in the core that makes them work
consistently across all of the available sleep states, including
suspend-to-idle. Many thanks to Thomas Gleixner for his help with
this work.
Second is an update of the generic PM domains code that has been in
need of some care for quite a while. Unused code is being removed, DT
support is being added and domains are now going to be attached to
devices in bus type code in analogy with the ACPI PM domain. The
majority of work here was done by Ulf Hansson who also has been the
most active developer this time.
Apart from this we have a traditional ACPICA update, this time to
upstream version 20140828 and a few ACPI wakeup interrupts handling
patches on top of the general rework mentioned above. There also are
several cpufreq commits including renaming the cpufreq-cpu0 driver to
cpufreq-dt, as this is what implements generic DT-based cpufreq
support, and a new DT-based idle states infrastructure for cpuidle.
In addition to that, the ACPI LPSS driver is updated, ACPI support for
Apple machines is improved, a few bugs are fixed and a few cleanups
are made all over.
Finally, the Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) subsystem now has a tree
maintained by Kevin Hilman that will be merged through the PM tree.
Numbers-wise, the generic PM domains update takes the lead this time
with 32 non-merge commits, second is cpufreq (15 commits) and the 3rd
place goes to the wakeup interrupts handling rework (13 commits).
Specifics:
- Rework the handling of wakeup IRQs by the IRQ core such that all of
them will be switched over to "wakeup" mode in suspend_device_irqs()
and in that mode the first interrupt will abort system suspend in
progress or wake up the system if already in suspend-to-idle (or
equivalent) without executing any interrupt handlers. Among other
things that eliminates the wakeup-related motivation to use the
IRQF_NO_SUSPEND interrupt flag with interrupts which don't really
need it and should not use it (Thomas Gleixner and Rafael Wysocki)
- Switch over ACPI to handling wakeup interrupts with the help of the
new mechanism introduced by the above IRQ core rework (Rafael Wysocki)
- Rework the core generic PM domains code to eliminate code that's
not used, add DT support and add a generic mechanism by which
devices can be added to PM domains automatically during enumeration
(Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven and Tomasz Figa).
- Add debugfs-based mechanics for debugging generic PM domains
(Maciej Matraszek).
- ACPICA update to upstream version 20140828. Included are updates
related to the SRAT and GTDT tables and the _PSx methods are in the
METHOD_NAME list now (Bob Moore and Hanjun Guo).
- Add _OSI("Darwin") support to the ACPI core (unfortunately, that
can't really be done in a straightforward way) to prevent
Thunderbolt from being turned off on Apple systems after boot (or
after resume from system suspend) and rework the ACPI Smart Battery
Subsystem (SBS) driver to work correctly with Apple platforms
(Matthew Garrett and Andreas Noever).
- ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver update cleaning up the code,
adding support for 133MHz I2C source clock on Intel Baytrail to it
and making it avoid using UART RTS override with Auto Flow Control
(Heikki Krogerus).
- ACPI backlight updates removing the video_set_use_native_backlight
quirk which is not necessary any more, making the code check the
list of output devices returned by the _DOD method to avoid
creating acpi_video interfaces that won't work and adding a quirk
for Lenovo Ideapad Z570 (Hans de Goede, Aaron Lu and Stepan Bujnak)
- New Win8 ACPI OSI quirks for some Dell laptops (Edward Lin)
- Assorted ACPI code cleanups (Fabian Frederick, Rasmus Villemoes,
Sudip Mukherjee, Yijing Wang, and Zhang Rui)
- cpufreq core updates and cleanups (Viresh Kumar, Preeti U Murthy,
Rasmus Villemoes)
- cpufreq driver updates: cpufreq-cpu0/cpufreq-dt (driver name change
among other things), ppc-corenet, powernv (Viresh Kumar, Preeti U
Murthy, Shilpasri G Bhat, Lucas Stach)
- cpuidle support for DT-based idle states infrastructure, new ARM64
cpuidle driver, cpuidle core cleanups (Lorenzo Pieralisi, Rasmus
Villemoes)
- ARM big.LITTLE cpuidle driver updates: support for DT-based
initialization and Exynos5800 compatible string (Lorenzo Pieralisi,
Kevin Hilman)
- Rework of the test_suspend kernel command line argument and a new
trace event for console resume (Srinivas Pandruvada, Todd E Brandt)
- Second attempt to optimize swsusp_free() (hibernation core) to make
it avoid going through all PFNs which may be way too slow on some
systems (Joerg Roedel)
- devfreq updates (Paul Bolle, Punit Agrawal, Ãrjan Eide).
- rockchip-io Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) driver and AVS entry
update in MAINTAINERS (Heiko Stübner, Kevin Hilman)
- PM core fix related to clock management (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- PM core's sysfs code cleanup (Johannes Berg)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (105 commits)
ACPI / fan: printk replacement
PM / clk: Fix crash in clocks management code if !CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
PM / Domains: Rename cpu_data to cpuidle_data
cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: fix potential double put of cpu OF node
cpufreq: cpu0: rename driver and internals to 'cpufreq_dt'
PM / hibernate: Iterate over set bits instead of PFNs in swsusp_free()
cpufreq: ppc-corenet: remove duplicate update of cpu_data
ACPI / sleep: Rework the handling of ACPI GPE wakeup from suspend-to-idle
PM / sleep: Rename platform suspend/resume functions in suspend.c
PM / sleep: Export dpm_suspend_late/noirq() and dpm_resume_early/noirq()
ACPICA: Introduce acpi_enable_all_wakeup_gpes()
ACPICA: Clear all non-wakeup GPEs in acpi_hw_enable_wakeup_gpe_block()
ACPI / video: check _DOD list when creating backlight devices
PM / Domains: Move dev_pm_domain_attach|detach() to pm_domain.h
cpufreq: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp
cpufreq: powernv: Set the cpus to nominal frequency during reboot/kexec
cpufreq: powernv: Set the pstate of the last hotplugged out cpu in policy->cpus to minimum
cpufreq: Allow stop CPU callback to be used by all cpufreq drivers
PM / devfreq: exynos: Enable building exynos PPMU as module
PM / devfreq: Export helper functions for drivers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver patchset for 3.18-rc1.
Lots of little things in here, some good work from Peter Hurley on the
tty core, and in lots of drivers. There are also lots of other driver
updates in here as well, full details in the changelogs.
All have been in the linux-next tree for a while"
* tag 'tty-3.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (99 commits)
Revert "serial/core: Initialize the console pm state"
tty: serial: 8250: use 32bit variable for rpm_tx_active
tty: serial: msm: Add earlycon support
serial/core: Initialize the console pm state
serial: asc: Conditionally use readl_relaxed (COMPILE_TEST)
serial: of-serial: add PM suspend/resume support
m68k: AMIGA_BUILTIN_SERIAL should depend on TTY
asm/uapi: Add definition of TIOC[SG]RS485
tty/metag_da: Add console_poll module parameter
serial: 8250_pci: remove rts_n override from Baytrail quirk
serial: cadence: Add generic earlycon support
serial: imx: change the wait even to interruptiable
serial: imx: terminate the RX DMA when the UART is suspending
serial: imx: fix throttle/unthrottle callbacks for hardware assisted flow control
serial: 8250: Add Quark X1000 to 8250_pci.c
tty: omap-serial: pull out calculation from baud_is_mode16
tty: omap-serial: fix division by zero
xen_hvc: no reason to write the type key on xenstore
tty: serial: 8250_core: remove UART_IER_RDI in serial8250_stop_rx()
tty: serial: 8250_core: use the ->line argument as a hint in serial8250_find_match_or_unused()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/zohar/linux-integrity into next
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Refine the definition around clk_ignore_unused, which caused some
confusion recently on the linux-fbdev and linux-arm-kernel mailing
lists[0].
[0] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/<20140929135358.GC30998@ulmo>
Signed-off-by: Mike Turquette <mturquette@linaro.org>
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Add support for DT based and command line based early console on platforms
with the msm serial hardware.
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add earlycon support for the cadence serial port.
This is based on recent patches:
"tty/serial: pl011: add generic earlycon support"
(sha1: 0d3c673e7881e691991b2a4745bd4f149603baa2)
"tty/serial: add arm/arm64 semihosting earlycon"
(sha1: d50d7269ebcb438afa346cdffce0f4e2a1b9e831)
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Besides the ASM1051 (*) needing sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1, it turns out that
the JMicron JMS567 also needs it to work properly with uas (usb-storage always
sets it). Since some of the scsi devs were not to keen on the idea to
outrightly set sdev->no_report_opcodes = 1 for all uas devices, so add a quirk
for this, and set it for the JMS567.
*) Which has become a non-issue since we've completely blacklisted uas on
the ASM1051 for other reasons
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-and-tested-by: Claudio Bizzarri <claudio.bizzarri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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And set this quirk for the Seagate Expansion Desk (0bc2:2312), as that one
seems to hang upon receiving an ATA_12 or ATA_16 command.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79511
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=183190
While at it also add missing documentation for the u value for usb-storage
quirks.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 3.16, 3.17
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
--
Changes in v2: Add documentation for new t and u usb-storage.quirks flags
Changes in v3: Fix typo in documentation
Changes in v4: Also apply the quirk to (0bc2:3312)
Changes in v5: Rebased on 3.17-rc5, drop u documentation, already upstream
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull the v3.18 RCU changes from Paul E. McKenney:
"
* Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/378.
* Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/386. An additional fix that
eliminates a documented (but now inconvenient) deadlock between
RCU hotplug and expedited grace periods was posted at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/573.
* Changes related to No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL. These were posted
to LKML at https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/412.
* Torture-test updates. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/546 and at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/11/1114.
* RCU-tasks implementation. These were posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/28/540.
"
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The kernel boot parameter "ima_appraise" currently defines 'off',
'enforce' and 'fix' modes. When designing a policy and labeling
the system, access to files are either blocked in the default
'enforce' mode or automatically fixed in the 'fix' mode. It is
beneficial to be able to run the system in a logging only mode,
without fixing it, in order to properly analyze the system. This
patch adds a 'log' mode to run the system in a permissive mode and
log the appraisal results.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a: Add RCU-tasks flavor of RCU.
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Updated documentation to add freeze mode and repeat capability.
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Commit d24d481b7d36 (usb-storage: Modify and export adjust_quirks so
that it can be used by uas) added the 'u' flag to the quirks module
parameter for usb-storage, but neglected to update the
documentation. This patch adds the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This commit adds a ten-minute RCU-tasks stall warning. The actual
time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
The default value is ten minutes, which means that the tasks that have
not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes, until
they pass through a voluntary context switch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
capability is not routinely tested. This commit therefore adds a
cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
of callbacks. One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
floods. The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
responses to callback flooding.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/xsave changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is a patchset to support the XSAVES instruction required to
support context switch of supervisor-only features in upcoming
silicon.
This patchset missed the 3.16 merge window, which is why it is based
on 3.15-rc7"
* 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, xsave: Add forgotten inline annotation
x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area
x86/xsave: Make it clear that the XSAVE macros use (%edi)/(%rdi)
Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area
x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors
x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf
x86/xsaves: Save xstate to task's xsave area in __save_fpu during booting time
x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time
x86/xsaves: Clear reserved bits in xsave header
x86/xsaves: Use xsave/xrstor for saving and restoring user space context
x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors for context switch
x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area
x86/xsaves: Define a macro for handling xsave/xrstor instruction fault
x86/xsaves: Define macros for xsave instructions
x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header
x86/alternative: Add alternative_input_2 to support alternative with two features and input
x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen updates from David Vrabel:
- remove unused V2 grant table support
- note that Konrad is xen-blkkback/front maintainer
- add 'xen_nopv' option to disable PV extentions for x86 HVM guests
- misc minor cleanups
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen-pciback: Document the 'quirks' sysfs file
xen/pciback: Fix error return code in xen_pcibk_attach()
xen/events: drop negativity check of unsigned parameter
xen/setup: Remove Identity Map Debug Message
xen/events/fifo: remove a unecessary use of BM()
xen/events/fifo: ensure all bitops are properly aligned even on x86
xen/events/fifo: reset control block and local HEADs on resume
xen/arm: use BUG_ON
xen/grant-table: remove support for V2 tables
x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic context
MAINTAINERS: Make me the Xen block subsystem (front and back) maintainer
xen: Introduce 'xen_nopv' to disable PV extensions for HVM guests.
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"This is the main pull request for 3.17. It contains:
- misc Cavium Octeon, BCM47xx, BCM63xx and Alchemy updates
- MIPS ptrace updates and cleanups
- various fixes that will also go to -stable
- a number of cleanups and small non-critical fixes.
- NUMA support for the Loongson 3.
- more support for MSA
- support for MAAR
- various FP enhancements and fixes"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (139 commits)
MIPS: jz4740: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove
MIPS: Octeon: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive
MIPS: ZBOOT: implement stack protector in compressed boot phase
MIPS: mipsreg: remove duplicate MIPS_CONF4_FTLBSETS_SHIFT
MIPS: Bonito64: remove a duplicate define
MIPS: Malta: initialise MAARs
MIPS: Initialise MAARs
MIPS: detect presence of MAARs
MIPS: define MAAR register accessors & bits
MIPS: mark MSA experimental
MIPS: Don't build MSA support unless it can be used
MIPS: consistently clear MSA flags when starting & copying threads
MIPS: 16 byte align MSA vector context
MIPS: disable preemption whilst initialising MSA
MIPS: ensure MSA gets disabled during boot
MIPS: fix read_msa_* & write_msa_* functions on non-MSA toolchains
MIPS: fix MSA context for tasks which don't use FP first
MIPS: init upper 64b of vector registers when MSA is first used
MIPS: save/disable MSA in lose_fpu
MIPS: preserve scalar FP CSR when switching vector context
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"Mostly cleanups and bug-fixes, with two exceptions.
The first is lazy flushing of I/O-TLBs for PCI to improve performance,
the second is software dirty bits in the pmd for the madvise-free
implementation"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (24 commits)
s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning
s390/mm: implement dirty bits for large segment table entries
KVM: s390/mm: Fix page table locking vs. split pmd lock
s390/dasd: fix camel case
s390/3215: fix hanging console issue
s390/irq: improve displayed interrupt order in /proc/interrupts
s390/seccomp: fix error return for filtered system calls
s390/pci: introduce lazy IOTLB flushing for DMA unmap
dasd: fix error recovery for alias devices during format
dasd: fix list_del corruption during format
dasd: fix unresponsive device during format
dasd: use aliases for formatted devices during format
s390/pci: fix kmsg component
s390/kdump: Return NOTIFY_OK for all actions other than MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
s390/watchdog: Fix module name in Kconfig help text
s390/dasd: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
s390/dasd: replace pr_warning by pr_warn
s390/dasd: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL after function/variable
s390/dasd: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove
s390/zfcp: use qdio buffer helpers
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The default size of the ring buffer is too small for machines with a
large amount of CPUs under heavy load. What ends up happening when
debugging is the ring buffer overlaps and chews up old messages making
debugging impossible unless the size is passed as a kernel parameter.
An idle system upon boot up will on average spew out only about one or
two extra lines but where this really matters is on heavy load and that
will vary widely depending on the system and environment.
There are mechanisms to help increase the kernel ring buffer for tracing
through debugfs, and those interfaces even allow growing the kernel ring
buffer per CPU. We also have a static value which can be passed upon
boot. Relying on debugfs however is not ideal for production, and
relying on the value passed upon bootup is can only used *after* an
issue has creeped up. Instead of being reactive this adds a proactive
measure which lets you scale the amount of contributions you'd expect to
the kernel ring buffer under load by each CPU in the worst case
scenario.
We use num_possible_cpus() to avoid complexities which could be
introduced by dynamically changing the ring buffer size at run time,
num_possible_cpus() lets us use the upper limit on possible number of
CPUs therefore avoiding having to deal with hotplugging CPUs on and off.
This introduces the kernel configuration option LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
which is used to specify the maximum amount of contributions to the
kernel ring buffer in the worst case before the kernel ring buffer flips
over, the size is specified as a power of 2. The total amount of
contributions made by each CPU must be greater than half of the default
kernel ring buffer size (1 << LOG_BUF_SHIFT bytes) in order to trigger
an increase upon bootup. The kernel ring buffer is increased to the
next power of two that would fit the required minimum kernel ring buffer
size plus the additional CPU contribution. For example if LOG_BUF_SHIFT
is 18 (256 KB) you'd require at least 128 KB contributions by other CPUs
in order to trigger an increase of the kernel ring buffer. With a
LOG_CPU_BUF_SHIFT of 12 (4 KB) you'd require at least anything over > 64
possible CPUs to trigger an increase. If you had 128 possible CPUs the
amount of minimum required kernel ring buffer bumps to:
((1 << 18) + ((128 - 1) * (1 << 12))) / 1024 = 764 KB
Since we require the ring buffer to be a power of two the new required
size would be 1024 KB.
This CPU contributions are ignored when the "log_buf_len" kernel
parameter is used as it forces the exact size of the ring buffer to an
expected power of two value.
[pmladek@suse.cz: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this release:
- PKCS#7 parser for the key management subsystem from David Howells
- appoint Kees Cook as seccomp maintainer
- bugfixes and general maintenance across the subsystem"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (94 commits)
X.509: Need to export x509_request_asymmetric_key()
netlabel: shorter names for the NetLabel catmap funcs/structs
netlabel: fix the catmap walking functions
netlabel: fix the horribly broken catmap functions
netlabel: fix a problem when setting bits below the previously lowest bit
PKCS#7: X.509 certificate issuer and subject are mandatory fields in the ASN.1
tpm: simplify code by using %*phN specifier
tpm: Provide a generic means to override the chip returned timeouts
tpm: missing tpm_chip_put in tpm_get_random()
tpm: Properly clean sysfs entries in error path
tpm: Add missing tpm_do_selftest to ST33 I2C driver
PKCS#7: Use x509_request_asymmetric_key()
Revert "selinux: fix the default socket labeling in sock_graft()"
X.509: x509_request_asymmetric_keys() doesn't need string length arguments
PKCS#7: fix sparse non static symbol warning
KEYS: revert encrypted key change
ima: add support for measuring and appraising firmware
firmware_class: perform new LSM checks
security: introduce kernel_fw_from_file hook
PKCS#7: Missing inclusion of linux/err.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big pull request for the staging driver tree for 3.17-rc1.
Lots of things in here, over 2000 patches, but the best part is this:
1480 files changed, 39070 insertions(+), 254659 deletions(-)
Thanks to the great work of Kristina Martšenko, 14 different staging
drivers have been removed from the tree as they were obsolete and no
one was willing to work on cleaning them up. Other than the driver
removals, loads of cleanups are in here (comedi, lustre, etc.) as well
as the usual IIO driver updates and additions.
All of this has been in the linux-next tree for a while"
* tag 'staging-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (2199 commits)
staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: remove diagnostic interrupt support code
staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: add subdevice to check diagnostic status
staging: wlan-ng: coding style problem fix
staging: wlan-ng: fixing coding style problems
staging: comedi: ii_pci20kc: request and ioremap memory
staging: lustre: bitwise vs logical typo
staging: dgnc: Remove unneeded dgnc_trace.c and dgnc_trace.h
staging: dgnc: rephrase comment
staging: comedi: ni_tio: remove some dead code
staging: rtl8723au: Fix static symbol sparse warning
staging: rtl8723au: usb_dvobj_init(): Remove unused variable 'pdev_desc'
staging: rtl8723au: Do not duplicate kernel provided USB macros
staging: rtl8723au: Remove never set struct pwrctrl_priv.bHWPowerdown
staging: rtl8723au: Remove two never set variables
staging: rtl8723au: RSSI_test is never set
staging:r8190: coding style: Fixed checkpatch reported Error
staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed too long lines
staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed commenting style
staging: lustre: ptlrpc: lproc_ptlrpc.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer
staging: lustre: ldlm: ldlm_resource.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molar:
"The main changes:
- torture-test updates
- callback-offloading changes
- maintainership changes
- update RCU documentation
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
signal: Explain local_irq_save() call
rcu: Handle obsolete references to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Document deadlock-avoidance information for rcu_read_unlock()
scripts: Teach get_maintainer.pl about the new "R:" tag
rcu: Update rcu torture maintainership filename patterns
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This pull request has a lot of work done. The main thing is the
changes to the ftrace function callback infrastructure. It's
introducing a way to allow different functions to call directly
different trampolines instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.
The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which
always had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline
was called and did basically nothing, and then the function graph
tracer trampoline was called. The difference now, is that the
function graph tracer trampoline can be called directly if a function
is only being traced by the function graph trampoline. If function
tracing is also happening on the same function, the old way is still
done.
The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph
tracing is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it
uses. I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not
ready yet for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next
one.
Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls
that were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function
tracing when entering into suspend and resume paths. The stop of
ftrace was done because there was some function that would crash the
system if one called smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big
hammer to solve the issue at the time, which was when ftrace was first
introduced into Linux. Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug
such issues, and I found the problem function and labeled it with
"notrace" and function tracing can now safely be activated all the way
down into the guts of suspend and resume
Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code, clean up of the
trace_seq() code, and other various small fixes and clean ups to
ftrace and tracing"
* tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
ftrace: Add warning if tramp hash does not match nr_trampolines
ftrace: Fix trampoline hash update check on rec->flags
ring-buffer: Use rb_page_size() instead of open coded head_page size
ftrace: Rename ftrace_ops field from trampolines to nr_trampolines
tracing: Convert local function_graph functions to static
ftrace: Do not copy old hash when resetting
tracing: let user specify tracing_thresh after selecting function_graph
ring-buffer: Always run per-cpu ring buffer resize with schedule_work_on()
tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
s390/ftrace: remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
arm64, ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
Blackfin: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
metag: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
microblaze: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
MIPS: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
parisc: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sh: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sparc64,ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
tile: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
ftrace: x86: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
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Commit 351336929ccf222ae38ff0cb7a8dd5fd5c6236a0 ("[MIPS] Allow setting
of the cache attribute at run time") introduced the 'cca=' kernel
command-line parameter which allows overriding the kernel pages
cacheable attributes, document that parameter.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: replace @mips.com email addresses with it's imgtec.com
equivalent in this commit message. Rephrase slightly for a bit more
pedantic correctness.]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp
Cc: chris.dearman@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7182/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This changes the default IOTLB flushing method to lazy flushing, which
means that there will be no direct flush after each DMA unmap operation.
Instead, the iommu bitmap pointer will be adjusted after unmap, so that
no DMA address will be re-used until after an iommu bitmap wrap-around.
The only IOTLB flush will then happen after each wrap-around.
A new kernel parameter "s390_iommu=" is also introduced, to allow changing
the flushing behaviour to the old strict method.
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two RCU patches:
- Address a serious performance regression on open/close caused by
commit ac1bea85781e ("Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent
states")
- Export RCU debug functions. Not a regression, but enablement to
address a serious recursion bug in the sl*b allocators in 3.17"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
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Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any
key on the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring,
this patch further restricts the certificates to those signed only by
builtin keys on the system keyring.
This patch defines a new option 'builtin' for the kernel parameter
'keys_ownerid' to allow trust validation using builtin keys.
Simplified Mimi's "KEYS: define an owner trusted keyring" patch
Changelog v7:
- rename builtin_keys to use_builtin_keys
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any
key on the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring,
this patch further restricts the certificates to those signed by a
particular key on the system keyring.
This patch defines a new kernel parameter 'ca_keys' to identify the
specific key which must be used for trust validation of certificates.
Simplified Mimi's "KEYS: define an owner trusted keyring" patch.
Changelog:
- support for builtin x509 public keys only
- export "asymmetric_keyid_match"
- remove ifndefs MODULE
- rename kernel boot parameter from keys_ownerid to ca_keys
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Use of multiple-page collect buffers reduces:
1) the number of block IO requests
2) the number of asynchronous hash update requests
Second is important for HW accelerated hashing, because significant
amount of time is spent for preparation of hash update operation,
which includes configuring acceleration HW, DMA engine, etc...
Thus, HW accelerators are more efficient when working on large
chunks of data.
This patch introduces usage of multi-page collect buffers. Buffer size
can be specified using 'ahash_bufsize' module parameter. Default buffer
size is 4096 bytes.
Changes in v3:
- kernel parameter replaced with module parameter
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Async hash API allows the use of HW acceleration for hash calculation.
It may give significant performance gain and/or reduce power consumption,
which might be very beneficial for battery powered devices.
This patch introduces hash calculation using ahash API. ahash performance
depends on the data size and the particular HW. Depending on the specific
system, shash performance may be better.
This patch defines 'ahash_minsize' module parameter, which is used to
define the minimal file size to use with ahash. If this minimum file size
is not set or the file is smaller than defined by the parameter, shash will
be used.
Changes in v3:
- kernel parameter replaced with module parameter
- pr_crit replaced with pr_crit_ratelimited
- more comment changes - Mimi
Changes in v2:
- ima_ahash_size became as ima_ahash
- ahash pre-allocation moved out from __init code to be able to use
ahash crypto modules. Ahash allocated once on the first use.
- hash calculation falls back to shash if ahash allocation/calculation fails
- complex initialization separated from variable declaration
- improved comments
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
* Update RCU documentation.
* Miscellaneous fixes.
* Maintainership changes.
* Torture-test updates.
* Callback-offloading changes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This reverts commit 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video
brightness_switch_enabled default to 0) as it is reported to cause
problems to happen.
Fixes: 886129a8eebeb (ACPI / video: change acpi-video brightness_switch_enabled default to 0)
Link: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=140534286826819&w=2
Reported by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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By default when CONFIG_XEN and CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM kernels are
run, they will enable the PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers,
etc) - which is the best option for the majority of use cases.
However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable Xen PV extensions. As such introduce the
'xen_nopv' parameter that will do it.
This parameter is intended only for HVM guests as the Xen PV
guests MUST boot with PV extensions. However, even if you use
'xen_nopv' on Xen PV guests it will be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
---
[v2: s/off/xen_nopv/ per Boris Ostrovsky recommendation.]
[v3: Add Reviewed-by]
[v4: Clarify that this is only for HVM guests]
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The handling of ip2= in drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c was moved to
drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c in commit
47babd4c6a16915aeb15d4216d91f03910572982 ("Char: merge ip2main and
ip2base").
The ip2 driver was demoted to staging in commit
4a6514e6d096716fb7bedf238efaaca877e2a7e8 ("tty: move obsolete and broken
tty drivers to drivers/staging/tty/"), and finally deleted in commit
51c9d654c2def97827395a7fbfd0c6f865c26544 ("Staging: delete tty drivers").
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so
many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several
tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things. This clearly will not
scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would
get behind, increasing grace-period latency.
To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders
and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of
whom in turn awakens its followers. By default, the number of groups of
kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may
be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter.
This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU
grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of
course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders. In addition, because
the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers,
the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two.
Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again
at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at
the end of the grace period.
For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread
would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers
at the end of the grace period. This compares favorably with the 79
wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system.
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The ftrace_graph_notrace option is for specifying notrace filter for
function graph tracer at boot time. It can be altered after boot
using set_graph_notrace file on the debugfs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/p/1402590233-22321-2-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/urgent
Pull RCU fixes from Paul E. McKenney:
" This series includes the following:
1. Export a pair of debug-object interfaces for RCU that will
allow the slab allocators to avoid a recursion bug located
by Sasha Levin. Strictly speaking, this is not a regression,
but it would be good to enable the fix.
2. Address a serious performance regression on an open/close
micro-benchmark located by Dave Hansen. The offending commit
is ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states). "
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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A 'softlockup' is defined as a bug that causes the kernel to loop in
kernel mode for more than a predefined period to time, without giving
other tasks a chance to run.
Currently, upon detection of this condition by the per-cpu watchdog
task, debug information (including a stack trace) is sent to the system
log.
On some occasions, we have observed that the "victim" rather than the
actual "culprit" (i.e. the owner/holder of the contended resource) is
reported to the user. Often this information has proven to be
insufficient to assist debugging efforts.
To avoid loss of useful debug information, for architectures which
support NMI, this patch makes it possible to improve soft lockup
reporting. This is accomplished by issuing an NMI to each cpu to obtain
a stack trace.
If NMI is not supported we just revert back to the old method. A sysctl
and boot-time parameter is available to toggle this feature.
[dzickus@redhat.com: add CONFIG_SMP in certain areas]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional CONFIG_SMP=n optimisations]
[mq@suse.cz: fix warning]
Signed-off-by: Aaron Tomlin <atomlin@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jan Moskyto Matejka <mq@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit ac1bea85781e (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls. Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.
This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable. However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs. These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
ktest build robot. Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
Oleg Nesterov. ]
Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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