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Pull main powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"This time around, the powerpc merges are going to be a little bit more
complicated than usual.
This is the main pull request with most of the work for this merge
window. I will describe it a bit more further down.
There is some additional cpuidle driver work, however I haven't
included it in this tree as it depends on some work in tip/timer-core
which Thomas accidentally forgot to put in a topic branch. Since I
didn't want to carry all of that tip timer stuff in powerpc -next, I
setup a separate branch on top of Thomas tree with just that cpuidle
driver in it, and Stephen has been carrying that in next separately
for a while now. I'll send a separate pull request for it.
Additionally, two new pieces in this tree add users for a sysfs API
that Tejun and Greg have been deprecating in drivers-core-next.
Thankfully Greg reverted the patch that removes the old API so this
merge can happen cleanly, but once merged, I will send a patch
adjusting our new code to the new API so that Greg can send you the
removal patch.
Now as for the content of this branch, we have a lot of perf work for
power8 new counters including support for our new "nest" counters
(also called 24x7) under pHyp (not natively yet).
We have new functionality when running under the OPAL firmware
(non-virtualized or KVM host), such as access to the firmware error
logs and service processor dumps, system parameters and sensors, along
with a hwmon driver for the latter.
There's also a bunch of bug fixes accross the board, some LE fixes,
and a nice set of selftests for validating our various types of copy
loops.
On the Freescale side, we see mostly new chip/board revisions, some
clock updates, better support for machine checks and debug exceptions,
etc..."
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (70 commits)
powerpc/book3s: Fix CFAR clobbering issue in machine check handler.
powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc
powerpc/le: Big endian arguments for ppc_rtas()
powerpc: Use default set of netfilter modules (CONFIG_NETFILTER_ADVANCED=n)
powerpc/defconfigs: Enable THP in pseries defconfig
powerpc/mm: Make sure a local_irq_disable prevent a parallel THP split
powerpc: Rate-limit users spamming kernel log buffer
powerpc/perf: Fix handling of L3 events with bank == 1
powerpc/perf/hv_{gpci, 24x7}: Add documentation of device attributes
powerpc/perf: Add kconfig option for hypervisor provided counters
powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv 24x7 interface
powerpc/perf: Add support for the hv gpci (get performance counter info) interface
powerpc/perf: Add macros for defining event fields & formats
powerpc/perf: Add a shared interface to get gpci version and capabilities
powerpc/perf: Add 24x7 interface headers
powerpc/perf: Add hv_gpci interface header
powerpc: Add hvcalls for 24x7 and gpci (Get Performance Counter Info)
sysfs: create bin_attributes under the requested group
powerpc/perf: Enable BHRB access for EBB events
powerpc/perf: Add BHRB constraint and IFM MMCRA handling for EBB
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Linux Kernel Selftests The kernel contains a set of "self tests" under the tools/testing/selftests/ directory. These are intended to be small unit tests to exercise individual code paths in the kernel. Running the selftests ===================== To build the tests: $ make -C tools/testing/selftests To run the tests: $ make -C tools/testing/selftests run_tests - note that some tests will require root privileges. To run only tests targetted for a single subsystem: $ make -C tools/testing/selftests TARGETS=cpu-hotplug run_tests See the top-level tools/testing/selftests/Makefile for the list of all possible targets. Contributing new tests ====================== In general, the rules for for selftests are * Do as much as you can if you're not root; * Don't take too long; * Don't break the build on any architecture, and * Don't cause the top-level "make run_tests" to fail if your feature is unconfigured.