kernel/linux.git/drivers/char/Kconfig, branch v4.17.1

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2018-04-05T03:07:20+00:00

Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big set of char/misc driver patches for 4.17-rc1. There are a lot of little things in here, nothing huge, but all important to the different hardware types involved: - thunderbolt driver updates - parport updates (people still care...) - nvmem driver updates - mei updates (as always) - hwtracing driver updates - hyperv driver updates - extcon driver updates - ... and a handful of even smaller driver subsystem and individual driver updates All of these have been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (149 commits) hwtracing: Add HW tracing support menu intel_th: Add ACPI glue layer intel_th: Allow forcing host mode through drvdata intel_th: Pick up irq number from resources intel_th: Don't touch switch routing in host mode intel_th: Use correct method of finding hub intel_th: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 header to replace GPLv2 boilerplate stm class: Make dummy's master/channel ranges configurable stm class: Add SPDX GPL-2.0 header to replace GPLv2 boilerplate MAINTAINERS: Bestow upon myself the care for drivers/hwtracing hv: add SPDX license id to Kconfig hv: add SPDX license to trace Drivers: hv: vmbus: do not mark HV_PCIE as perf_device Drivers: hv: vmbus: respect what we get from hv_get_synint_state() /dev/mem: Avoid overwriting "err" in read_mem() eeprom: at24: use SPDX identifier instead of GPL boiler-plate eeprom: at24: simplify the i2c functionality checking eeprom: at24: fix a line break eeprom: at24: tweak newlines eeprom: at24: refactor at24_probe() ...

char: remove blackfin OTP driver

2018-03-26T13:56:35+00:00

The blackfin architecture is getting removed, so we don't need this driver any more. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Acked-by: Aaron Wu Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

char: remove tile-srom.c

2018-03-26T13:56:34+00:00

The tile architecture is being removed, so we no longer need this driver. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

char: remove obsolete ds1302 rtc driver

2018-03-26T13:56:32+00:00

The m32r architecture was the only user of the old-style rtc driver for ds1302. The architecture is getting removed now, and we have a modern driver for the same hardware in drivers/rtc/rtc-ds1302.c, so this one won't be missed. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann

char: nvram: disable on ARM

2018-03-15T17:01:42+00:00

/dev/nvram was never meant to be used alongside the RTC CMOS driver from drivers/rtc as it already expose the NVRAM through another interface.. Anyway, the last defconfig to enable it properly was removed in 2010 so prevent ARM users from selecting it. Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

2017-11-02T10:10:55+00:00

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

x86/lguest: Remove lguest support

2017-08-24T07:57:28+00:00

Lguest seems to be rather unused these days. It has seen only patches ensuring it still builds the last two years and its official state is "Odd Fixes". Remove it in order to be able to clean up the paravirt code. Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross Acked-by: Rusty Russell Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: lguest@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170816173157.8633-3-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2017-07-06T00:09:27+00:00

Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon: - RAS reporting via GHES/APEI (ACPI) - Indirect ftrace trampolines for modules - Improvements to kernel fault reporting - Page poisoning - Sigframe cleanups and preparation for SVE context - Core dump fixes - Sparse fixes (mainly relating to endianness) - xgene SoC PMU v3 driver - Misc cleanups and non-critical fixes * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (75 commits) arm64: fix endianness annotation for 'struct jit_ctx' and friends arm64: cpuinfo: constify attribute_group structures. arm64: ptrace: Fix incorrect get_user() use in compat_vfp_set() arm64: ptrace: Remove redundant overrun check from compat_vfp_set() arm64: ptrace: Avoid setting compat FP[SC]R to garbage if get_user fails arm64: fix endianness annotation for __apply_alternatives()/get_alt_insn() arm64: fix endianness annotation in get_kaslr_seed() arm64: add missing conversion to __wsum in ip_fast_csum() arm64: fix endianness annotation in acpi_parking_protocol.c arm64: use readq() instead of readl() to read 64bit entry_point arm64: fix endianness annotation for reloc_insn_movw() & reloc_insn_imm() arm64: fix endianness annotation for aarch64_insn_write() arm64: fix endianness annotation in aarch64_insn_read() arm64: fix endianness annotation in call_undef_hook() arm64: fix endianness annotation for debug-monitors.c ras: mark stub functions as 'inline' arm64: pass endianness info to sparse arm64: ftrace: fix !CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_PLTS kernels arm64: signal: Allow expansion of the signal frame acpi: apei: check for pending errors when probing GHES entries ...

drivers/char: kmem: disable on arm64

2017-06-20T11:42:42+00:00

As it turns out, arm64 deviates from other architectures in the way it maps the VMALLOC region: on most (all?) other architectures, it resides strictly above the kernel's direct mapping of DRAM, but on arm64, this is the other way around. For instance, for a 48-bit VA configuration, we have modules : 0xffff000000000000 - 0xffff000008000000 ( 128 MB) vmalloc : 0xffff000008000000 - 0xffff7dffbfff0000 (129022 GB) ... vmemmap : 0xffff7e0000000000 - 0xffff800000000000 ( 2048 GB maximum) 0xffff7e0000000000 - 0xffff7e0003ff0000 ( 63 MB actual) memory : 0xffff800000000000 - 0xffff8000ffc00000 ( 4092 MB) This has mostly gone unnoticed until now, but it does appear that it breaks an assumption in the kmem read/write code, which does something like if (p < (unsigned long) high_memory) { ... use straight copy_[to|from]_user() using p as virtual address ... } ... if (count > 0) { ... use vread/vwrite for accesses past high_memory ... } The first condition will inadvertently hold for the VMALLOC region if VMALLOC_START < PAGE_OFFSET [which is the case on arm64], but the read or write will subsequently fail the virt_addr_valid() check, resulting in a -ENXIO return value. Given how kmem seems to be living in borrowed time anyway, and given the fact that nobody noticed that the read/write interface is broken on arm64 in the first place, let's not bother trying to fix it, but simply disable the /dev/kmem interface entirely for arm64. Acked-by: Mark Rutland Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Will Deacon

mmtimer: Remove the SGI SN2 mmtimer driver

2017-05-26T10:52:19+00:00

This driver supports direct system clock access on the ancient SGI SN2 IA64 systems, and implement the only non-builtin k_clock instance. Remove it as any remaining IA64 altix user will be running just as old distros anyway. Dimitri Sivanich stated: "Since this is SN2 specific, this can be removed." Note that this does not affect the never uv_mmtimer driver for x86-based Altix systems. [ tglx: Added comment to CLOCK_SGI_CYCLE ] Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Mike Travis Cc: Dimitri Sivanich Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170526090311.3377-2-hch@lst.de