linux/drivers/misc
Linus Torvalds 07021b4359 powerpc updates for 4.9
Highlights:
  - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin)
    - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al.
  - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur)
  - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur)
  - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver O'Halloran)
  - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao)
  - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards (Darren Stevens)
 
 Fixes:
  - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael Ellerman)
  - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman)
  - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard)
  - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui)
  - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy)
  - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
  - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew Donnellan)
  - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin)
 
 Cleanups & features:
  - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens)
  - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address (Paul Mackerras)
  - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
  - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU) (Simon Guo)
  - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
  - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey)
  - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan)
  - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan)
  - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard)
  - Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard)
    - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()
    - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask
    - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless
    - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little endian
    - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds
 
  - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh)
  - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat)
  - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan)
  - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin)
  - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael Ellerman)
  - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard)
  - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey)
  - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions (Nicholas Piggin)
  - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin)
  - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling)
  - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman)
 
 Minor cleanups:
  - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur, Frederic Barrat,
    Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng, Simon Guo.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:
   - Major rework of Book3S 64-bit exception vectors (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Use gas sections for arranging exception vectors et. al.
   - Large set of TM cleanups and selftests (Cyril Bur)
   - Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace (Cyril Bur)
   - Support for XZ compression in the zImage wrapper (Oliver
     O'Halloran)
   - Add support for bpf constant blinding (Naveen N. Rao)
   - Beginnings of upstream support for PA Semi Nemo motherboards
     (Darren Stevens)

  Fixes:
   - Ensure .mem(init|exit).text are within _stext/_etext (Michael
     Ellerman)
   - xmon: Don't use ld on 32-bit (Michael Ellerman)
   - vdso64: Use double word compare on pointers (Anton Blanchard)
   - powerpc/nvram: Fix an incorrect partition merge (Pan Xinhui)
   - powerpc: Fix usage of _PAGE_RO in hugepage (Christophe Leroy)
   - powerpc/mm: Update FORCE_MAX_ZONEORDER range to allow hugetlb w/4K
     (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
   - Fix memory leak in queue_hotplug_event() error path (Andrew
     Donnellan)
   - Replay hypervisor maintenance interrupt first (Nicholas Piggin)

  Various performance optimisations (Anton Blanchard):
   - Align hot loops of memset() and backwards_memcpy()
   - During context switch, check before setting mm_cpumask
   - Remove static branch prediction in atomic{, 64}_add_unless
   - Only disable HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS on POWER7 little
     endian
   - Set default CPU type to POWER8 for little endian builds

  Cleanups & features:
   - Sparse fixes/cleanups (Daniel Axtens)
   - Preserve CFAR value on SLB miss caused by access to bogus address
     (Paul Mackerras)
   - Radix MMU fixups for POWER9 (Aneesh Kumar K.V)
   - Support for setting used_(vsr|vr|spe) in sigreturn path (for CRIU)
     (Simon Guo)
   - Optimise syscall entry for virtual, relocatable case (Nicholas
     Piggin)
   - Optimise MSR handling in exception handling (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Support for kexec with Radix MMU (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
   - powernv EEH fixes (Russell Currey)
   - Suprise PCI hotplug support for powernv (Gavin Shan)
   - Endian/sparse fixes for powernv PCI (Gavin Shan)
   - Defconfig updates (Anton Blanchard)
   - KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Migrate pinned pages out of CMA (Balbir Singh)
   - cxl: Flush PSL cache before resetting the adapter (Frederic Barrat)
   - cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded
     of_node_put() (Andrew Donnellan)
   - Fix HV facility unavailable to use correct handler (Nicholas
     Piggin)
   - Remove unnecessary syscall trampoline (Nicholas Piggin)
   - fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n (Michael
     Ellerman)
   - Quieten EEH message when no adapters are found (Anton Blanchard)
   - powernv: Add PHB register dump debugfs handle (Russell Currey)
   - Use kprobe blacklist for exception handlers & asm functions
     (Nicholas Piggin)
   - Document the syscall ABI (Nicholas Piggin)
   - MAINTAINERS: Update cxl maintainers (Michael Neuling)
   - powerpc: Remove all usages of NO_IRQ (Michael Ellerman)

  Minor cleanups:
   - Andrew Donnellan, Christophe Leroy, Colin Ian King, Cyril Bur,
     Frederic Barrat, Pan Xinhui, PrasannaKumar Muralidharan, Rui Teng,
     Simon Guo"

* tag 'powerpc-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (156 commits)
  powerpc/bpf: Add support for bpf constant blinding
  powerpc/bpf: Implement support for tail calls
  powerpc/bpf: Introduce accessors for using the tmp local stack space
  powerpc/fadump: Fix build break when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=n
  powerpc: tm: Enable transactional memory (TM) lazily for userspace
  powerpc/tm: Add TM Unavailable Exception
  powerpc: Remove do_load_up_transact_{fpu,altivec}
  powerpc: tm: Rename transct_(*) to ck(\1)_state
  powerpc: tm: Always use fp_state and vr_state to store live registers
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VSXs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional VMXs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional FPUs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Add checks for transactional GPRs in signal contexts
  selftests/powerpc: Check that signals always get delivered
  selftests/powerpc: Add TM tcheck helpers in C
  selftests/powerpc: Allow tests to extend their kill timeout
  selftests/powerpc: Introduce GPR asm helper header file
  selftests/powerpc: Move VMX stack frame macros to header file
  selftests/powerpc: Rework FPU stack placement macros and move to header file
  selftests/powerpc: Check for VSX preservation across userspace preemption
  ...
2016-10-07 20:19:31 -07:00
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altera-stapl
c2port misc: c2port: use kobj_to_dev() 2016-02-07 23:01:45 -08:00
cb710
cxl cxl: replace loop with for_each_child_of_node(), remove unneeded of_node_put() 2016-10-04 16:19:23 +11:00
echo
eeprom Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2016-10-07 14:12:21 -07:00
genwqe misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization 2016-09-27 12:43:35 +02:00
ibmasm mm, fs: get rid of PAGE_CACHE_* and page_cache_{get,release} macros 2016-04-04 10:41:08 -07:00
lis3lv02d misc: apds990x, bh1770glc, lis3lv02d: use to_i2c_client 2016-02-07 23:01:45 -08:00
mei mei: stop the stall timer worker if not needed 2016-09-27 12:33:47 +02:00
mic misc: mic: scif: use vma_pages(). 2016-08-30 14:45:50 +02:00
sgi-gru x86/platform/UV: Remove Obsolete GRU MMR address translation 2016-05-04 08:48:51 +02:00
sgi-xp
ti-st drivers: misc: ti-st: Use int instead of fuzzy char for callback status 2016-07-17 19:59:26 +02:00
vmw_vmci VMCI: use memdup_user(). 2016-08-31 13:18:10 +02:00
ad525x_dpot-i2c.c
ad525x_dpot-spi.c
ad525x_dpot.c misc: ad525x_dpot: Fix the enabling of the "otpXen" attributes 2016-03-01 16:55:13 -08:00
ad525x_dpot.h
apds990x.c misc: apds990x, bh1770glc, lis3lv02d: use to_i2c_client 2016-02-07 23:01:45 -08:00
apds9802als.c
arm-charlcd.c drivers/misc: make arm-charlcd.c explicitly non-modular 2016-02-07 23:01:45 -08:00
atmel_tclib.c
atmel-ssc.c ASoC: atmel_ssc_dai: distinguish the different SSC 2016-03-02 23:43:11 +09:00
bh1770glc.c misc: apds990x, bh1770glc, lis3lv02d: use to_i2c_client 2016-02-07 23:01:45 -08:00
cs5535-mfgpt.c
ds1682.c
dummy-irq.c
enclosure.c
fsa9480.c
hmc6352.c
hpilo.c drivers/misc/hpilo: Changes to support new security states in iLO5 FW 2016-09-27 12:53:46 +02:00
hpilo.h
ics932s401.c
ioc4.c
isl29003.c
isl29020.c
Kconfig Merge 4.8-rc5 into char-misc-next 2016-09-05 08:04:07 +02:00
kgdbts.c
lattice-ecp3-config.c
lkdtm_bugs.c lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations 2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
lkdtm_core.c lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations 2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
lkdtm_heap.c lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations 2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
lkdtm_perms.c lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations 2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
lkdtm_rodata.c lkdtm: Mark lkdtm_rodata_do_nothing() notrace 2016-08-31 13:12:38 +02:00
lkdtm_usercopy.c lkdtm: adjust usercopy tests to bypass const checks 2016-09-06 12:17:30 -07:00
lkdtm.h lkdtm: silence warnings about function declarations 2016-07-15 16:14:45 -07:00
Makefile Merge 4.8-rc5 into char-misc-next 2016-09-05 08:04:07 +02:00
panel.c misc: panel, convert struct to bitmap 2016-02-11 19:24:23 -08:00
pch_phub.c misc: pch_phub: Add UART_CLK quirk for Boston platform 2016-08-31 15:45:18 +02:00
phantom.c
pti.c
qcom-coincell.c ARM: qcom: silence an uninitialized variable warning 2016-05-01 14:20:04 -07:00
spear13xx_pcie_gadget.c
sram.c misc: sram: fix check of devm_ioremap*() return value 2016-04-30 14:15:56 -07:00
ti_dac7512.c
tifm_7xx1.c
tifm_core.c
tsl2550.c
vexpress-syscfg.c
vmw_balloon.c