kernel/linux.git/drivers/base/Kconfig, branch v3.16.76

sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder

2018-03-19T18:59:04+00:00

commit 87590ce6e373d1a5401f6539f0c59ef92dd924a9 upstream. As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the mitigation should be common as well. Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2. Allow architectures to override the show function. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Dave Hansen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: David Woodhouse Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

cma: increase CMA_ALIGNMENT upper limit to 12

2014-06-04T23:54:08+00:00

Some systems require a larger maximum PAGE_SIZE order for CMA allocations. To accommodate such systems, increase the upper-bound of the CMA_ALIGNMENT range to 12 (which ends up being 16MB on systems with 4K pages). Signed-off-by: Marc Carino Cc: Marek Szyprowski Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

2014-04-25T19:00:49+00:00

Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl. Reported-by: Darren Shepherd Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling

2014-02-18T20:45:38+00:00

The x86 CPU feature modalias handling existed before it was reimplemented generically. This patch aligns the x86 handling so that it (a) reuses some more code that is now generic; (b) uses the generic format for the modalias module metadata entry, i.e., it now uses 'cpu:type:x86,venVVVVfamFFFFmodMMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' instead of the 'x86cpu:vendor:VVVV:family:FFFF:model:MMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' that was used before. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cpu: add generic support for CPU feature based module autoloading

2014-02-18T20:38:37+00:00

This patch adds support for advertising optional CPU features over udev using the modalias, and for declaring compatibility with/dependency upon such a feature in a module. The mapping between feature numbers and actual features should be provided by the architecture in a file called which exports the following functions/macros: - cpu_feature(FEAT), a preprocessor macro that maps token FEAT to a numeric index; - bool cpu_have_feature(n), returning whether this CPU has support for feature #n; - MAX_CPU_FEATURES, an upper bound for 'n' in the previous function. The feature can then be enabled by setting CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE for the architecture. For instance, a module that registers its module init function using module_cpu_feature_match(FEAT_X, module_init_function) will be probed automatically when the CPU's support for the 'FEAT_X' feature is advertised over udev, and will only allow the module to be loaded by hand if the 'FEAT_X' feature is supported. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text

2013-12-19T14:13:18+00:00

rootfs was missing its f. Signed-off-by: Emilio López Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Merge remote-tracking branch 'cmadma/for-v3.12-cma-dma' into kvm-ppc-next

2013-07-08T14:16:56+00:00

Add prerequisite patch for CMA RMA allocation patches

mm/cma: Move dma contiguous changes into a seperate config

2013-07-02T08:08:22+00:00

We want to use CMA for allocating hash page table and real mode area for PPC64. Hence move DMA contiguous related changes into a seperate config so that ppc64 can enable CMA without requiring DMA contiguous. Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz Acked-by: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V [removed defconfig changes] Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski

Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG

2013-06-03T21:20:18+00:00

Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"), it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it. Cc: Russell King Cc: Doug Thompson Cc: Bjorn Helgaas Cc: Steven Whitehouse Cc: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Pavel Machek Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Hans Verkuil Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

firmware: Make user-mode helper optional

2013-02-04T01:57:40+00:00

This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs. Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next. Acked-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman