Document the RCU self test boot parameters in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Back in 2010 the default usb-storage delay_use time was reduced from 5 to 1
second (commit a4a47bc03f), but
kernel-parameters.txt wasn't updated to reflect that.
Signed-off-by: Mark Knibbs <markk@clara.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
"A bunch of fixes for minor defects reported by Coverity, a few driver
fixups and revert of i8042.nomux change so that we are once again
enable active MUX mode if box claims to support it"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Revert "Input: i8042 - disable active multiplexing by default"
Input: altera_ps2 - use correct type for irq return value
Input: altera_ps2 - write to correct register when disabling interrupts
Input: max77693-haptic - fix potential overflow
Input: psmouse - remove unneeded check in psmouse_reconnect()
Input: vsxxxaa - fix code dropping bytes from queue
Input: ims-pcu - fix dead code in ims_pcu_ofn_reg_addr_store()
Input: opencores-kbd - fix error handling
Input: wm97xx - adapt parameters to tosa touchscreen.
Input: i8042 - quirks for Fujitsu Lifebook A544 and Lifebook AH544
Input: stmpe-keypad - fix valid key line bitmask
Input: soc_button_array - update calls to gpiod_get*()
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"So this is my first pull request since I rashly agreed to look after
the documentation subtree. It contains some typo fixes, a few minor
documentation improvements, and, most importantly, fixes for a couple
of build problems in various bits of sample code.
I fully intend to start sending pull requests with signed tags.
However, due to poor planning on my part and the general obnoxiousness
of life, I'm 2000 miles away from my private key which is sitting on a
powered-down machine. This should be fixed before my next request.
Meanwhile git.lwn.net is a machine under my control, the patches are
all trivial, and all have done time in linux-next"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: Reported-by tags and permission
Documentation: remove outdated references to the linux-next wiki
Documentation: Restrict TSC test code to x86
doc: kernel-parameters.txt: Add ide-generic.probe-mask
vdso: don't require 64-bit math in standalone test
Documentation: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_DEFAULT_OFF case
Documentation: Add default kmemleak off case in kernel-parameters.txt
Docs: Document that the sticky bit is understood by hugetlbfs
DocBook: Reduce noise from make cleandocs
Documentation: fix vdso_standalone_test_x86 on 32-bit
Documentation: dt-bindings: Explain order in patch series
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft: fix a typo
This reverts commit 68da166491.
It turns out that the assertion about scope of regressions due to
always keeping keyboard controller in legacy mode was proven wrong.
There are laptops, such as Clevo W650SH, that only have internal
touchpad (no external PS/2 ports), that require active multiplexing
mode to switch the touchpad (Elantech) into native mode instead of
basic PS/2 emulation.
Reported-by: Roel Aaij <roel.aaij@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).
Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Pull x86 EFI updates from Peter Anvin:
"This patchset falls under the "maintainers that grovel" clause in the
v3.18-rc1 announcement. We had intended to push it late in the merge
window since we got it into the -tip tree relatively late.
Many of these are relatively simple things, but there are a couple of
key bits, especially Ard's and Matt's patches"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rtc: Disable EFI rtc for x86
efi: rtc-efi: Export platform:rtc-efi as module alias
efi: Delete the in_nmi() conditional runtime locking
efi: Provide a non-blocking SetVariable() operation
x86/efi: Adding efi_printks on memory allocationa and pci.reads
x86/efi: Mark initialization code as such
x86/efi: Update comment regarding required phys mapped EFI services
x86/efi: Unexport add_efi_memmap variable
x86/efi: Remove unused efi_call* macros
efi: Resolve some shadow warnings
arm64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format()
ia64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format()
x86: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format()
efi: Introduce efi_md_typeattr_format()
efi: Add macro for EFI_MEMORY_UCE memory attribute
x86/efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES if failing to enter virtual mode
arm64/efi: Do not enter virtual mode if booting with efi=noruntime or noefi
arm64/efi: uefi_init error handling fix
efi: Add kernel param efi=noruntime
lib: Add a generic cmdline parse function parse_option_str
...
Pull more powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Here's some more updates for powerpc for 3.18.
They are a bit late I know, though must are actually bug fixes. In my
defence I nearly cut the top of my finger off last weekend in a
gruesome bike maintenance accident, so I spent a good part of the week
waiting around for doctors. True story, I can send photos if you like :)
Probably the most interesting fix is the sys_call_table one, which
enables syscall tracing for powerpc. There's a fix for HMI handling
for old firmware, more endian fixes for firmware interfaces, more EEH
fixes, Anton fixed our routine that gets the current stack pointer,
and a few other misc bits"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (22 commits)
powerpc: Only do dynamic DMA zone limits on platforms that need it
powerpc: sync pseries_le_defconfig with pseries_defconfig
powerpc: Add printk levels to setup_system output
powerpc/vphn: NUMA node code expects big-endian
powerpc/msi: Use WARN_ON() in msi bitmap selftests
powerpc/msi: Fix the msi bitmap alignment tests
powerpc/eeh: Block CFG upon frozen Shiner adapter
powerpc/eeh: Don't collect logs on PE with blocked config space
powerpc/eeh: Block PCI config access upon frozen PE
powerpc/pseries: Drop config requests in EEH accessors
powerpc/powernv: Drop config requests in EEH accessors
powerpc/eeh: Rename flag EEH_PE_RESET to EEH_PE_CFG_BLOCKED
powerpc/eeh: Fix condition for isolated state
powerpc/pseries: Make CPU hotplug path endian safe
powerpc/pseries: Use dump_stack instead of show_stack
powerpc: Rename __get_SP() to current_stack_pointer()
powerpc: Reimplement __get_SP() as a function not a define
powerpc/numa: Add ability to disable and debug topology updates
powerpc/numa: check error return from proc_create
powerpc/powernv: Fallback to old HMI handling behavior for old firmware
...
Pull second round of input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
"Mostly simple bug fixes, although we do have one brand new driver for
Microchip AR1021 i2c touchscreen.
Also there is the change to stop trying to use i8042 active
multiplexing by default (it is still possible to activate it via
i8042.nomux=0 on boxes that implement it)"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: xpad - add Thrustmaster as Xbox 360 controller vendor
Input: xpad - add USB ID for Thrustmaster Ferrari 458 Racing Wheel
Input: max77693-haptic - fix state check in imax77693_haptic_disable()
Input: xen-kbdfront - free grant table entry in xenkbd_disconnect_backend
Input: alps - fix v4 button press recognition
Input: i8042 - disable active multiplexing by default
Input: i8042 - add noloop quirk for Asus X750LN
Input: synaptics - gate forcepad support by DMI check
Input: Add Microchip AR1021 i2c touchscreen
Input: cros_ec_keyb - add of match table
Input: serio - avoid negative serio device numbers
Input: avoid negative input device numbers
Input: automatically set EV_ABS bit in input_set_abs_params
Input: adp5588-keys - cancel workqueue in failure path
Input: opencores-kbd - switch to using managed resources
Input: evdev - fix EVIOCG{type} ioctl
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.
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Merge tag 'clk-for-linus-3.18' of 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
...
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
...
We have hit a few customer issues with the topology update code (VPHN
and PRRN). It would be nice to be able to debug the notifications coming
from the hypervisor in both cases to the LPAR, as well as to disable
responding to the notifications at boot-time, to narrow down the source
of the problems. Add a basic level of such functionality, similar to the
numa= command-line parameter. We already have a toggle in
/proc/powerpc/topology_updates that allows run-time enabling/disabling,
so the updates can be started at run-time if desired. But the bugs we've
run into have occured during boot or very shortly after coming to login,
and have resulted in a broken NUMA topology.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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
...
Active multiplexing is a nice feature as it allows several pointing devices
(such as touchpad and external mouse) use their native protocols at the
same time. Unfortunately many manufacturers do not implement the feature
properly even though they advertise it. The problematic implementations are
never fixed, since Windows by default does not use this mode, and move from
one BIOS/model of laptop to another. When active multiplexing is broken
turning it on usually results in touchpad, keyboard, or both unresponsive.
With PS/2 usage on decline (most of PS/2 devices in use nowadays are
internal laptop touchpads), I expect number of users who have laptops with
working MUX implementation, docking stations with external PS/2 ports, and
who are still using external PS/2 mice, to be rather small. Let's flip the
default to be OFF and allow activating it through i8042.nomux=0 kernel
option. We'll also keep DMI table where we can record known good models.
Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
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
...
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>
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>
- 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 J Wysocki).
- Switch over ACPI to handling wakeup interrupts with the help
of the new mechanism introduced by the above IRQ core rework
(Rafael J 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).
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Merge tag 'pm+acpi-3.18-rc1' of 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
...
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 changelog below.
All have been in the linux-next tree for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'tty-3.18-rc1' of 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()
...
noefi kernel param means actually disabling efi runtime, Per suggestion
from Leif Lindholm efi=noruntime should be better. But since noefi is
already used in X86 thus just adding another param efi=noruntime for
same purpose.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
noefi param can be used for arches other than X86 later, thus move it
out of x86 platform code.
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
We need a way to customize the behaviour of the EFI boot stub, in
particular, we need a way to disable the "chunking" workaround, used
when reading files from the EFI System Partition.
One of my machines doesn't cope well when reading files in 1MB chunks to
a buffer above the 4GB mark - it appears that the "chunking" bug
workaround triggers another firmware bug. This was only discovered with
commit 4bf7111f50 ("x86/efi: Support initrd loaded above 4G"), and
that commit is perfectly valid. The symptom I observed was a corrupt
initrd rather than any kind of crash.
efi= is now used to specify EFI parameters in two very different
execution environments, the EFI boot stub and during kernel boot.
There is also a slight performance optimization by enabling efi=nochunk,
but that's offset by the fact that you're more likely to run into
firmware issues, at least on x86. This is the rationale behind leaving
the workaround enabled by default.
Also provide some documentation for EFI_READ_CHUNK_SIZE and why we're
using the current value of 1MB.
Tested-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Cc: Roy Franz <roy.franz@linaro.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <m.b.lankhorst@gmail.com>
Cc: Leif Lindholm <leif.lindholm@linaro.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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>
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>
Add earlycon support for the cadence serial port.
This is based on recent patches:
"tty/serial: pl011: add generic earlycon support"
(sha1: 0d3c673e78)
"tty/serial: add arm/arm64 semihosting earlycon"
(sha1: d50d7269eb)
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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>
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=79511https://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>
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>
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>
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>
Commit d24d481b7d (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>
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>
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>
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
- Note that Konrad is xen-blkkback/front maintainer.
- Add 'xen_nopv' option to disable PV extentions for x86 HVM guests.
- Misc. minor cleanups.
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Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-rc0-tag' of 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.
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
...
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
...
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>
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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