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2020-06-05Merge tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: - Support for userspace to send requests directly to the on-chip GZIP accelerator on Power9. - Rework of our lockless page table walking (__find_linux_pte()) to make it safe against parallel page table manipulations without relying on an IPI for serialisation. - A series of fixes & enhancements to make our machine check handling more robust. - Lots of plumbing to add support for "prefixed" (64-bit) instructions on Power10. - Support for using huge pages for the linear mapping on 8xx (32-bit). - Remove obsolete Xilinx PPC405/PPC440 support, and an associated sound driver. - Removal of some obsolete 40x platforms and associated cruft. - Initial support for booting on Power10. - Lots of other small features, cleanups & fixes. Thanks to: Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Andrey Abramov, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Balamuruhan S, Bharata B Rao, Bulent Abali, Cédric Le Goater, Chen Zhou, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe JAILLET, Christophe Leroy, Dmitry Torokhov, Emmanuel Nicolet, Erhard F., Gautham R. Shenoy, Geoff Levand, George Spelvin, Greg Kurz, Gustavo A. R. Silva, Gustavo Walbon, Haren Myneni, Hari Bathini, Joel Stanley, Jordan Niethe, Kajol Jain, Kees Cook, Leonardo Bras, Madhavan Srinivasan., Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Neuling, Michal Simek, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Mackerras, Pingfan Liu, Qian Cai, Ram Pai, Raphael Moreira Zinsly, Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Sandipan Das, Segher Boessenkool, Stephen Rothwell, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Tyrel Datwyler, Wolfram Sang, Xiongfeng Wang. * tag 'powerpc-5.8-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (299 commits) powerpc/pseries: Make vio and ibmebus initcalls pseries specific cxl: Remove dead Kconfig options powerpc: Add POWER10 architected mode powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Add MMA feature powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Enable Prefixed Instructions powerpc/dt_cpu_ftrs: Advertise support for ISA v3.1 if selected powerpc: Add support for ISA v3.1 powerpc: Add new HWCAP bits powerpc/64s: Don't set FSCR bits in INIT_THREAD powerpc/64s: Save FSCR to init_task.thread.fscr after feature init powerpc/64s: Don't let DT CPU features set FSCR_DSCR powerpc/64s: Don't init FSCR_DSCR in __init_FSCR() powerpc/32s: Fix another build failure with CONFIG_PPC_KUAP_DEBUG powerpc/module_64: Use special stub for _mcount() with -mprofile-kernel powerpc/module_64: Simplify check for -mprofile-kernel ftrace relocations powerpc/module_64: Consolidate ftrace code powerpc/32: Disable KASAN with pages bigger than 16k powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUEP by default on book3s/32 powerpc/uaccess: Don't set KUAP by default on book3s/32 powerpc/8xx: Reduce time spent in allow_user_access() and friends ...
2020-05-19pipe: Add general notification queue supportDavid Howells
Make it possible to have a general notification queue built on top of a standard pipe. Notifications are 'spliced' into the pipe and then read out. splice(), vmsplice() and sendfile() are forbidden on pipes used for notifications as post_one_notification() cannot take pipe->mutex. This means that notifications could be posted in between individual pipe buffers, making iov_iter_revert() difficult to effect. The way the notification queue is used is: (1) An application opens a pipe with a special flag and indicates the number of messages it wishes to be able to queue at once (this can only be set once): pipe2(fds, O_NOTIFICATION_PIPE); ioctl(fds[0], IOC_WATCH_QUEUE_SET_SIZE, queue_depth); (2) The application then uses poll() and read() as normal to extract data from the pipe. read() will return multiple notifications if the buffer is big enough, but it will not split a notification across buffers - rather it will return a short read or EMSGSIZE. Notification messages include a length in the header so that the caller can split them up. Each message has a header that describes it: struct watch_notification { __u32 type:24; __u32 subtype:8; __u32 info; }; The type indicates the source (eg. mount tree changes, superblock events, keyring changes, block layer events) and the subtype indicates the event type (eg. mount, unmount; EIO, EDQUOT; link, unlink). The info field indicates a number of things, including the entry length, an ID assigned to a watchpoint contributing to this buffer and type-specific flags. Supplementary data, such as the key ID that generated an event, can be attached in additional slots. The maximum message size is 127 bytes. Messages may not be padded or aligned, so there is no guarantee, for example, that the notification type will be on a 4-byte bounary. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2020-04-20docs: ioctl-number.rst: add habanalabs driver IOCTLOded Gabbay
Habanalabs driver in misc exposes several IOCTLs to userspace. Document the letter and IOCTLs number range in ioctl-number.rst. Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay <oded.gabbay@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200418174132.10597-1-oded.gabbay@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-20powerpc/vas: Define VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl APIHaren Myneni
Define the VAS_TX_WIN_OPEN ioctl interface for NX GZIP access from user space. This interface is used to open GZIP send window and mmap region which can be used by userspace to send requests to NX directly with copy/paste instructions. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1587114065.2275.1106.camel@hbabu-laptop
2020-02-13docs: userspace: ioctl-number: remove mc146818rtc conflictAlexandre Belloni
In 2.3.43pre2, the RTC ioctls definitions were actually moved from linux/mc146818rtc.h to linux/rtc.h Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200209203304.66004-1-alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2019-12-11staging: remove isdn capi driversArnd Bergmann
As described in drivers/staging/isdn/TODO, the drivers are all assumed to be unmaintained and unused now, with gigaset being the last one to stop being maintained after Paul Bolle lost access to an ISDN network. The CAPI subsystem remains for now, as it is still required by bluetooth/cmtp. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191210210455.3475361-1-arnd@arndb.de Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-12-02Merge tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Here are the main documentation changes for 5.5: - Various kerneldoc script enhancements. - More RST conversions; those are slowing down as we run out of things to convert, but we're a ways from done still. - Dan's "maintainer profile entry" work landed at last. Now we just need to get maintainers to fill in the profiles... - A reworking of the parallel build setup to work better with a variety of systems (and to not take over huge systems entirely in particular). - The MAINTAINERS file is now converted to RST during the build. Hopefully nobody ever tries to print this thing, or they will need to load a lot of paper. - A script and documentation making it easy for maintainers to add Link: tags at commit time. Also included is the removal of a bunch of spurious CR characters" * tag 'docs-5.5a' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (91 commits) docs: remove a bunch of stray CRs docs: fix up the maintainer profile document libnvdimm, MAINTAINERS: Maintainer Entry Profile Maintainer Handbook: Maintainer Entry Profile MAINTAINERS: Reclaim the P: tag for Maintainer Entry Profile docs, parallelism: Rearrange how jobserver reservations are made docs, parallelism: Do not leak blocking mode to other readers docs, parallelism: Fix failure path and add comment Documentation: Remove bootmem_debug from kernel-parameters.txt Documentation: security: core.rst: fix warnings Documentation/process/howto/kokr: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning Documentation/translation: Use Korean for Korean translation title docs/memory-barriers.txt: Remove remaining references to mmiowb() docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Update I/O section to be clearer about CPU vs thread docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Fix style, spacing and grammar in I/O section Documentation/kokr: Kill all references to mmiowb() docs/memory-barriers.txt/kokr: Rewrite "KERNEL I/O BARRIER EFFECTS" section docs: Add initial documentation for devfreq Documentation: Document how to get links with git am docs: Add request_irq() documentation ...
2019-10-10docs: Move the user-space ioctl() docs to userspace-apiJonathan Corbet
This is strictly user-space material at this point, so put it with the other user-space API documentation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>