linux/drivers/char
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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agp drm/i915: Add support for mapping an object page by page 2016-06-13 10:03:54 +01:00
hw_random hwrng: pasemi-rng - Use linux/io.h instead of asm/io.h 2016-09-13 17:37:07 +10:00
ipmi Merge branch 'i2c/for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2016-07-27 14:19:25 -07:00
mwave char/mwave: remove custom BOOLEAN type 2016-08-31 14:22:49 +02:00
pcmcia TTY and Serial driver update for 4.7-rc1 2016-05-20 20:57:27 -07:00
tpm Revert "tpm/tpm_crb: implement tpm crb idle state" 2016-09-27 12:02:13 +03:00
xilinx_hwicap char:xilinx_hwicap:buffer_icap - change 1/0 to true/false for bool type variable in function buffer_icap_set_configuration(). 2015-06-12 16:58:33 -07:00
xillybus char: xillybus: Fix spelling mistake and comment 2016-08-31 14:47:54 +02:00
apm-emulation.c
applicom.c applicom: dereferencing NULL on error path 2014-05-27 17:43:12 -07:00
applicom.h
bfin-otp.c miscdevice: Use module_misc_device() macro 2016-08-31 14:12:35 +02:00
bsr.c bsr: avoid format string leaking into device name 2014-07-09 16:59:15 -07:00
ds1302.c
ds1620.c
dsp56k.c dsp56k: prevent a harmless underflow 2016-07-14 16:21:53 +09:00
dtlk.c
efirtc.c drivers/char: make efirtc.c driver explicitly non-modular 2015-09-20 19:32:35 -07:00
generic_nvram.c don't open-code generic_file_llseek_size() 2015-12-09 13:00:45 -05:00
hangcheck-timer.c hangcheck-timer: cleanup casting in hangcheck_init() 2014-11-07 11:24:01 -08:00
hpet.c hpet: Drop stale URLs 2016-02-17 09:39:56 +01:00
Kconfig RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
lp.c
Makefile RTC for 4.8 2016-08-05 09:48:22 -04:00
mbcs.c don't open-code generic_file_llseek_size() 2015-12-09 13:00:45 -05:00
mbcs.h
mem.c drivers: char: mem: Check {read,write}_kmem() addresses 2016-08-31 15:21:18 +02:00
misc.c char: make misc_deregister a void function 2015-08-05 10:35:49 -07:00
mmtimer.c
mspec.c tree wide: use kvfree() than conditional kfree()/vfree() 2016-01-22 17:02:18 -08:00
nsc_gpio.c
nvram.c char/nvram: set array of const as const 2016-02-08 14:57:30 -08:00
nwbutton.c char: nwbutton: avoid unused variable warning 2016-02-09 17:39:56 -08:00
nwbutton.h
nwflash.c new helpers: no_seek_end_llseek{,_size}() 2015-12-23 10:41:31 -05:00
pc8736x_gpio.c
powernv-op-panel.c powerpc/powernv: Add driver for operator panel on FSP machines 2016-06-29 17:33:46 +10:00
ppdev.c ppdev: use new parport device model 2016-08-31 14:22:49 +02:00
ps3flash.c wrappers for ->i_mutex access 2016-01-22 18:04:28 -05:00
random.c random: Fix crashes with sparse node ids 2016-07-30 21:00:06 -07:00
raw.c drivers: char: raw: Removed unnecessary braces 2016-02-08 14:57:30 -08:00
rtc.c
scx200_gpio.c
snsc_event.c
snsc.c snsc: check return value of class_create 2016-08-31 14:47:54 +02:00
snsc.h
sonypi.c char: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers 2014-10-20 16:20:19 +02:00
tb0219.c char: drop owner assignment from platform_drivers 2014-10-20 16:20:19 +02:00
tile-srom.c tile-srom: avoid krealloc(... __GFP_ZERO) pattern 2016-08-30 14:45:50 +02:00
tlclk.c
toshiba.c toshiba laptop: replace ioremap_cache with ioremap 2015-08-05 17:26:00 -07:00
ttyprintk.c ttyprintk: Neaten and simplify printing 2016-09-13 17:30:17 +02:00
uv_mmtimer.c
virtio_console.c pipe: add pipe_buf_steal() helper 2016-10-05 18:23:59 -04:00