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2017-02-28scripts/spelling.txt: add "an user" pattern and fix typo instancesMasahiro Yamada1-1/+1
Fix typos and add the following to the scripts/spelling.txt: an user||a user an userspace||a userspace I also added "userspace" to the list since it is a common word in Linux. I found some instances for "an userfaultfd", but I did not add it to the list. I felt it is endless to find words that start with "user" such as "userland" etc., so must draw a line somewhere. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1481573103-11329-4-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-25Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/mdLinus Torvalds1-0/+5
Pull md updates from Shaohua Li: "Mainly fixes bugs and improves performance: - Improve scalability for raid1 from Coly - Improve raid5-cache read performance, disk efficiency and IO pattern from Song and me - Fix a race condition of disk hotplug for linear from Coly - A few cleanup patches from Ming and Byungchul - Fix a memory leak from Neil - Fix WRITE SAME IO failure from me - Add doc for raid5-cache from me" * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (23 commits) md/raid1: fix write behind issues introduced by bio_clone_bioset_partial md/raid1: handle flush request correctly md/linear: shutup lockdep warnning md/raid1: fix a use-after-free bug RAID1: avoid unnecessary spin locks in I/O barrier code RAID1: a new I/O barrier implementation to remove resync window md/raid5: Don't reinvent the wheel but use existing llist API md: fast clone bio in bio_clone_mddev() md: remove unnecessary check on mddev md/raid1: use bio_clone_bioset_partial() in case of write behind md: fail if mddev->bio_set can't be created block: introduce bio_clone_bioset_partial() md: disable WRITE SAME if it fails in underlayer disks md/raid5-cache: exclude reclaiming stripes in reclaim check md/raid5-cache: stripe reclaim only counts valid stripes MD: add doc for raid5-cache Documentation: move MD related doc into a separate dir md: ensure md devices are freed before module is unloaded. md/r5cache: improve journal device efficiency md/r5cache: enable chunk_aligned_read with write back cache ...
2017-02-23Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)Linus Torvalds1-0/+8
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: "142 patches: - DAX updates - various misc bits - OCFS2 updates - most of MM" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (142 commits) mm/z3fold.c: limit first_num to the actual range of possible buddy indexes mm: fix <linux/pagemap.h> stray kernel-doc notation zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs mm/memblock.c: remove unnecessary log and clean up oom-reaper: use madvise_dontneed() logic to decide if unmap the VMA mm: drop unused argument of zap_page_range() mm: drop zap_details::check_swap_entries mm: drop zap_details::ignore_dirty mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc nodemask is NULL when cpusets are disabled mm: help __GFP_NOFAIL allocations which do not trigger OOM killer mm, oom: do not enforce OOM killer for __GFP_NOFAIL automatically mm: consolidate GFP_NOFAIL checks in the allocator slowpath lib/show_mem.c: teach show_mem to work with the given nodemask arch, mm: remove arch specific show_mem mm, page_alloc: warn_alloc print nodemask mm, page_alloc: do not report all nodes in show_mem Revert "mm: bail out in shrink_inactive_list()" mm, vmscan: consider eligible zones in get_scan_count mm, vmscan: cleanup lru size claculations mm, vmscan: do not count freed pages as PGDEACTIVATE ...
2017-02-23Merge tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-4/+4
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "A slightly quieter cycle for documentation this time around. Three more DocBook template files have been converted to RST; only 21 to go. There are various build improvements and the usual array of documentation improvements and fixes" * tag 'docs-4.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (44 commits) docs / driver-api: Fix structure references in device_link.rst PM / docs: Fix structure references in device.rst Add a target to check broken external links in the Documentation Documentation: Fix linux-api list typo Documentation: DocBook/Makefile comment typo Improve sparse documentation Documentation: make Makefile.sphinx no-ops quieter Documentation: DMA-ISA-LPC.txt Documentation: input: fix path to input code definitions docs: Remove the copyright year from conf.py docs: Fix a warning in the Korean HOWTO.rst translation PM / sleep / docs: Convert PM notifiers document to reST PM / core / docs: Convert sleep states API document to reST PM / core: Update kerneldoc comments in pm.h doc-rst: Fix recursive make invocation from macros doc-rst: Delete output of failed dot-SVG conversion doc-rst: Break shell command sequences on failure Documentation/sphinx: make targets independent of Sphinx work for HAVE_SPHINX=0 doc-rst: fixed cleandoc target when used with O=dir Documentation/sphinx: prevent generation of .pyc files in the source tree ...
2017-02-23slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optionalTejun Heo1-0/+8
SLUB creates a per-cache directory under /sys/kernel/slab which hosts a bunch of debug files. Usually, there aren't that many caches on a system and this doesn't really matter; however, if memcg is in use, each cache can have per-cgroup sub-caches. SLUB creates the same directories for these sub-caches under /sys/kernel/slab/$CACHE/cgroup. Unfortunately, because there can be a lot of cgroups, active or draining, the product of the numbers of caches, cgroups and files in each directory can reach a very high number - hundreds of thousands is commonplace. Millions and beyond aren't difficult to reach either. What's under /sys/kernel/slab is primarily for debugging and the information and control on the a root cache already cover its sub-caches. While having a separate directory for each sub-cache can be helpful for development, it doesn't make much sense to pay this amount of overhead by default. This patch introduces a boot parameter slub_memcg_sysfs which determines whether to create sysfs directories for per-memcg sub-caches. It also adds CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON which determines the boot parameter's default value and defaults to 0. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: kset_unregister(NULL) is legal] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170204145203.GB26958@mtj.duckdns.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22Merge tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+6
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty/serial driver patchset for 4.11-rc1. Not much here, but a lot of little fixes and individual serial driver updates all over the subsystem. Majority are for the sh-sci driver and platform (the arch-specific changes have acks from the maintainer). The start of the "serial bus" code is here as well, but nothing is converted to use it yet. That work is still ongoing, hopefully will start to show up across different subsystems for 4.12 (bluetooth is one major place that will be used.) All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (109 commits) tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit atmel_serial: Use the fractional divider when possible tty: Remove extra include in HVC console tty framework serial: exar: Enable MSI support serial: exar: Move register defines from uapi header to consumer site serial: pci: Remove unused pci_boards entries serial: exar: Move Commtech adapters to 8250_exar as well serial: exar: Fix feature control register constants serial: exar: Fix initialization of EXAR registers for ports > 0 serial: exar: Fix mapping of port I/O resources serial: sh-sci: fix hardware RX trigger level setting tty/serial: atmel: ensure state is restored after suspending serial: 8250_dw: Avoid "too much work" from bogus rx timeout interrupt serdev: ttyport: check whether tty_init_dev() fails serial: 8250_pci: make pciserial_detach_ports() static ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Enable HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH407-family: Use new Pinctrl groups ARM: dts: STiH407-pinctrl: Add Pinctrl group for HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Identify the UART RTS line dt-bindings: serial: Update 'uart-has-rtscts' description ...
2017-02-22Merge tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1. Lots of different driver subsystems updated here: rework for the hyperv subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon driver updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (169 commits) goldfish: Sanitize the broken interrupt handler x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading vmbus: replace modulus operation with subtraction vmbus: constify parameters where possible vmbus: expose hv_begin/end_read vmbus: remove conditional locking of vmbus_write vmbus: add direct isr callback mode vmbus: change to per channel tasklet vmbus: put related per-cpu variable together vmbus: callback is in softirq not workqueue binder: Add support for file-descriptor arrays binder: Add support for scatter-gather binder: Add extra size to allocator binder: Refactor binder_transact() binder: Support multiple /dev instances binder: Deal with contexts in debugfs binder: Support multiple context managers binder: Split flat_binder_object auxdisplay: ht16k33: remove private workqueue auxdisplay: ht16k33: rework input device initialization ...
2017-02-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: - New entropy generation for the pseudo random number generator. - Early boot printk output via sclp to help debug crashes on boot. This needs to be enabled with a kernel parameter. - Add proper no-execute support with a bit in the page table entry. - Bug fixes and cleanups. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (65 commits) s390/syscall: fix single stepped system calls s390/zcrypt: make ap_bus explicitly non-modular s390/zcrypt: Removed unneeded debug feature directory creation. s390: add missing "do {} while (0)" loop constructs to multiline macros s390/mm: add cond_resched call to kernel page table dumper s390: get rid of MACHINE_HAS_PFMF and MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE s390/mm: make memory_block_size_bytes available for !MEMORY_HOTPLUG s390: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE s390: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h s390: mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h s390: kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE" s390: add no-execute support s390: report new vector facilities s390: use correct input data address for setup_randomness s390/sclp: get rid of common response code handling s390/sclp: don't add new lines to each printed string s390/sclp: make early sclp code readable s390/sclp: disable early sclp code as soon as the base sclp driver is active s390/sclp: move early printk code to drivers ...
2017-02-21Merge branch 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+4
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were related to enable ring-3 MONITOR/MWAIT instructions support on supported CPUs, by Grzegorz Andrejczuk and Piotr Luc" * 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpufeature: Move RING3MWAIT feature to avoid conflicts x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Mill x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Landing x86/cpufeature: Add RING3MWAIT to CPU features x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT x86/msr: Add MSR_MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES and RING3MWAIT bit x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature
2017-02-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The RCU changes in this cycle are: - Dynticks updates, consolidating open-coded counter accesses into a well-defined API - SRCU updates: Simplify algorithm, add formal verification - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - Torture-test updates Most of the diffstat comes from the relatively large documentation update" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits) srcu: Reduce probability of SRCU ->unlock_count[] counter overflow rcutorture: Add CBMC-based formal verification for SRCU srcu: Force full grace-period ordering srcu: Implement more-efficient reader counts rcu: Adjust FQS offline checks for exact online-CPU detection rcu: Check cond_resched_rcu_qs() state less often to reduce GP overhead rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determination rcu: Abstract dynticks extended quiescent state enter/exit operations rcu: Add lockdep checks to synchronous expedited primitives rcu: Eliminate unused expedited_normal counter llist: Clarify comments about when locking is needed rcu: Fix comment in rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads() rcu: Enable RCU tracepoints by default to aid in debugging rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() use its "cpu" argument rcu: Add comment headers to expedited-grace-period counter functions rcu: Don't wake rcuc/X kthreads on NOCB CPUs rcu: Re-enable TASKS_RCU for User Mode Linux rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking ...
2017-02-20Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-9/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Nothing exciting, just the usual pile of fixes, updates and cleanups: - A bunch of clocksource driver updates - Removal of CONFIG_TIMER_STATS and the related /proc file - More posix timer slim down work - A scalability enhancement in the tick broadcast code - Math cleanups" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits) hrtimer: Catch invalid clockids again math64, tile: Fix build failure clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer:: Mark cyclecounter __ro_after_init timerfd: Protect the might cancel mechanism proper timer_list: Remove useless cast when printing time: Remove CONFIG_TIMER_STATS clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Work around Hisilicon erratum 161010101 clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Introduce generic errata handling infrastructure clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove fsl-a008585 parameter clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Add dt binding for hisilicon-161010101 erratum clocksource/drivers/ostm: Add renesas-ostm timer driver clocksource/drivers/ostm: Document renesas-ostm timer DT bindings clocksource/drivers/tcb_clksrc: Use 32 bit tcb as sched_clock clocksource/drivers/gemini: Add driver for the Cortina Gemini clocksource: add DT bindings for Cortina Gemini clockevents: Add a clkevt-of mechanism like clksrc-of tick/broadcast: Reduce lock cacheline contention timers: Omit POSIX timer stuff from task_struct when disabled x86/timer: Make delay() work during early bootup delay: Add explanation of udelay() inaccuracy ...
2017-02-20Merge tag 'edac_for_4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bpLinus Torvalds1-0/+20
Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov: - Make amd64_edac still load on a machine with unpopulated nodes + cleanups (Yazen Ghannam) - Expose per-DIMM error counts in sysfs (Aaron Miller) - Add T2080 l2-cache support to mpc85xx (Chris Packham) - Random other small improvements/cleanups/fixlets * tag 'edac_for_4.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bp/bp: EDAC, mce_amd: Print IPID and Syndrome on a separate line EDAC, amd64: Bump driver version MAINTAINERS, EDAC: Update email for Thor Thayer EDAC, fsl_ddr: Make locally used symbols static EDAC, mpc85xx: Add T2080 l2-cache support EDAC, amd64: Add x86cpuid sanity check during init EDAC, amd64: Don't treat ECC disabled as failure EDAC: Add routine to check if MC devices list is empty EDAC, amd64: Remove unused printing macros EDAC, amd64: Rework messages in ecc_enabled() EDAC, amd64: Move global code out of instance functions EDAC, amd64: Free unused memory when init_one_instance() fails EDAC, mce_amd: Give more context to deferred error message EDAC, i7300: Test for the second channel properly EDAC, sb_edac: Get rid of ->show_interleave_mode() EDAC: Expose per-DIMM error counts in sysfs EDAC, amd64: Save and return err code from probe_one_instance() EDAC, i82975x: Add ioremap_nocache() error handling EDAC: Fix typos in enum mem_type comments EDAC: Make dev_attr_sdram_scrub_rate static
2017-02-15x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loadingThomas Gleixner1-0/+4
The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is enabled: - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated. - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed seperately). Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when the platform is compiled in. I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured out that this is broken. Impressive fail! Fixes: ddd70cf93d78 ("goldfish: platform device for x86") Reported-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-13MD: add doc for raid5-cacheShaohua Li1-0/+5
I'm starting document of the raid5-cache feature. Please note this is a kernel doc instead of a mdadm manual, so I don't add the details about how to use the feature in mdadm side. Cc: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
2017-02-08clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove fsl-a008585 parameterDing Tianhong1-9/+0
Having a command line option to flip the errata handling for a particular erratum is a little bit unusual, and it's vastly superior to pass this in the DT. By common consensus, it's best to kill off the command line parameter. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> [Mark: split patch, reword commit message] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-02-04x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights LandingGrzegorz Andrejczuk1-0/+4
Enable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT for Intel Xeon Phi x200 codenamed Knights Landing. Presence of this feature cannot be detected automatically (by reading any other MSR) therefore it is required to explicitly check for the family and model of the CPU before attempting to enable it. Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk <grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com> Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-5-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-01-27dynamic-debug-howto: Correct echo -c to -nSteven Price1-2/+2
Two of the example command lines use an argument to echo of "-c" which isn't valid in (most versions of) echo causing these examples to fail. Correct the argument to "-n" which works correctly. Signed-off-by: Steven Price <steven@ecrips.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-01-19EDAC: Expose per-DIMM error counts in sysfsAaron Miller1-0/+20
The old csrowX sysfs directories have per-csrow error counters, but the new dimmX directories do not currently expose error counts. EDAC already keeps these counts, add them to sysfs so per-DIMM counts are still available when CONFIG_EDAC_LEGACY_SYSFS=n. Signed-off-by: Aaron Miller <aaronmiller@fb.com> Cc: linux-edac <linux-edac@vger.kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20161103220153.3997328-1-aaronmiller@fb.com Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
2017-01-16s390: provide sclp based boot consoleHeiko Carstens1-1/+4
Use the early sclp code to provide a boot console. This boot console is available if the kernel parameter "earlyprintk" has been specified, just like it works for other architectures that also provide an early boot console. This makes debugging of early problems much easier, since now we finally have working console output even before memory detection is running. The boot console will be automatically disabled as soon as another console will be registered. Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-01-15doc: Add rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads to kernel-parameters.txtPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2017-01-13Doc: clarify that GPL is GPL v2, not v2+Sanjeev1-2/+2
... and a minor missing period at EOL Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-01-12tty: serial: lantiq: implement earlycon supportMartin Blumenstingl1-0/+6
This allows enabling earlycon for devices with a Lantiq serial console by splitting lqasc_serial_port_write() from lqasc_console_write() and re-using the new function for earlycon's write callback. The kernel-parameter name matches the driver name ("lantiq"), similar to how other drivers implement this. Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-06Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-1/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb Pull swiotlb fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "This has one fix to make i915 work when using Xen SWIOTLB, and a feature from Geert to aid in debugging of devices that can't do DMA outside the 32-bit address space. The feature from Geert is on top of v4.10 merge window commit (specifically you pulling my previous branch), as his changes were dependent on the Documentation/ movement patches. I figured it would just easier than me trying than to cherry-pick the Documentation patches to satisfy git. The patches have been soaking since 12/20, albeit I updated the last patch due to linux-next catching an compiler error and adding an Tested-and-Reported-by tag" * 'stable/for-linus-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb: swiotlb: Export swiotlb_max_segment to users swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option swiotlb: Convert swiotlb_force from int to enum x86, swiotlb: Simplify pci_swiotlb_detect_override()
2016-12-27ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE floodingLv Zheng1-0/+10
Sometimes, the users may require a quirk to be provided from ACPI subsystem core to prevent a GPE from flooding. Normally, if a GPE cannot be dispatched, ACPICA core automatically prevents the GPE from firing. But there are cases the GPE is dispatched by _Lxx/_Exx provided via AML table, and OSPM is lacking of the knowledge to get _Lxx/_Exx correctly executed to handle the GPE, thus the GPE flooding may still occur. The existing quirk mechanism can be enabled/disabled using the following commands to prevent such kind of GPE flooding during runtime: # echo mask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00 # echo unmask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00 To avoid GPE flooding during boot, we need a boot stage mechanism. This patch provides such a boot stage quirk mechanism to stop this kind of GPE flooding. This patch doesn't fix any feature gap but since the new feature gaps could be found in the future endlessly, and can disappear if the feature gaps are filled, providing a boot parameter rather than a DMI table should suffice. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117481 Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793 Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-12-20ima: define a canonical binary_runtime_measurements list formatMimi Zohar1-0/+4
The IMA binary_runtime_measurements list is currently in platform native format. To allow restoring a measurement list carried across kexec with a different endianness than the targeted kernel, this patch defines little-endian as the canonical format. For big endian systems wanting to save/restore the measurement list from a system with a different endianness, a new boot command line parameter named "ima_canonical_fmt" is defined. Considerations: use of the "ima_canonical_fmt" boot command line option will break existing userspace applications on big endian systems expecting the binary_runtime_measurements list to be in platform native format. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480554346-29071-10-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org> Cc: Josh Sklar <sklar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-19swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug optionGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+2
On architectures like arm64, swiotlb is tied intimately to the core architecture DMA support. In addition, ZONE_DMA cannot be disabled. To aid debugging and catch devices not supporting DMA to memory outside the 32-bit address space, add a kernel command line option "swiotlb=noforce", which disables the use of bounce buffers. If specified, trying to map memory that cannot be used with DMA will fail, and a rate-limited warning will be printed. Note that io_tlb_nslabs is set to 1, which is the minimal supported value. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-12-16Merge tag 'edac/v4.10-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2-0/+1191
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac Pull edac updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab: "This contains the conversion of the EDAC uAPI documentation to ReST and the addition of the EDAC kAPI documentation to the driver-api docs. It also splits the EDAC headers by their functions" * tag 'edac/v4.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-edac: EDAC: Document HW_EVENT_ERR_DEFERRED type edac.rst: move concepts dictionary from edac.h edac: fix kenel-doc markups at edac.h edac: fix kernel-doc tags at the drivers/edac_*.h edac: adjust docs location at MAINTAINERS and 00-INDEX driver-api: create an edac.rst file with EDAC documentation edac: move documentation from edac_mc.c to edac_core.h edac: move documentation from edac_pci*.c to edac_pci.h edac: move documentation from edac_device to edac_core.h edac: rename edac_core.h to edac_mc.h edac: move EDAC device definitions to drivers/edac/edac_device.h edac: move EDAC PCI definitions to drivers/edac/edac_pci.h docs-rst: admin-guide: add documentation for EDAC edac.txt: Improve documentation, adding RAS introduction edac.txt: update information about newer Intel CPUs edac.txt: remove info that the Nehalem EDAC is experimental edac.txt: convert EDAC documentation to ReST edac.txt: add a section explaining the dimmX and rankX directories edac: edac_core.h: remove prototype for edac_pci_reset_delay_period() edac: edac_core.h: get rid of unused kobj_complete
2016-12-15edac: fix kernel-doc tags at the drivers/edac_*.hMauro Carvalho Chehab1-1/+1
Some kernel-doc tags don't provide good descriptions or use a different style. Adjust them. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-12-15docs-rst: admin-guide: add documentation for EDACMauro Carvalho Chehab2-0/+1191
EDAC is part of the Kernel's RAS facilities, with is useful for system admins to detect errors. So, add it to the admin's guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2016-12-13Merge tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH: "Here's the tty/serial patchset for 4.10-rc1. It's been a quiet kernel cycle for this subsystem, just a small number of changes. A few new serial drivers, and some cleanups to the old vgacon logic, and other minor serial driver changes as well. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (54 commits) serial: 8250_mid fix calltrace when hotplug 8250 serial controller console: Move userspace I/O out of console_lock to fix lockdep warning tty: nozomi: avoid sprintf buffer overflow serial: 8250_pci: Detach low-level driver during PCI error recovery serial: core: don't check port twice in a row mxs-auart: count FIFO overrun errors serial: 8250_dw: Add support for IrDA SIR mode serial: 8250: Expose set_ldisc function serial: 8250: Add IrDA to UART capabilities serial: 8250_dma: power off device after TX is done serial: 8250_port: export serial8250_rpm_{get|put}_tx() serial: sunsu: Free memory when probe fails serial: sunhv: Free memory when remove() is called vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name tty: typo in comments in drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c tty: amba-pl011: Add earlycon support for SBSA UART tty: nozomi: use permission-specific DEVICE_ATTR variants tty: serial: Make the STM32 serial port depend on it's arch serial: ifx6x60: Free memory when probe fails serial: ioc4_serial: Free memory when kzalloc fails during probe ...
2016-12-13Merge tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-7/+15
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Again, cpufreq gets more changes than the other parts this time (one new driver, one old driver less, a bunch of enhancements of the existing code, new CPU IDs, fixes, cleanups) There also are some changes in cpuidle (idle injection rework, a couple of new CPU IDs, online/offline rework in intel_idle, fixes and cleanups), in the generic power domains framework (mostly related to supporting power domains containing CPUs), and in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (mostly related to supporting devices with multiple voltage regulators) In addition to that, the system sleep state selection interface is modified to make it easier for distributions with unchanged user space to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method, some issues are fixed in the PM core, the latency tolerance PM QoS framework is improved a bit, the Intel RAPL power capping driver is cleaned up and there are some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem Specifics: - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding for it (Markus Mayer) - Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic DT cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq driver (Linus Walleij) - Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier, and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie, Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik) - cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using inactive policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki) - cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO kernel threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed work (to reduce the response latency in some cases) and related cleanups (Viresh Kumar) - New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus Mayer) - cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis, Viresh Kumar) - Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki) - Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB (Energy Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs in the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada) - New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc) - intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile in the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada) - intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada) - cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support (for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov) - acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth Prakash) - Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path instead of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp thermal driver updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy Shevchenko, Piotr Luc) - intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly (Sudeep Holla) - cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian, Rafael Wysocki) - Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings (Lina Iyer) - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd) framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven) - Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd) - System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method (Rafael Wysocki) - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson, Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren) - Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew Lutomirski) - New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Piotr Luc) - Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan, Thomas Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc, rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin, Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar) - Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf) - Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu) - Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei) - rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin)" * tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (127 commits) devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Remove dangling rcu_read_unlock() devfreq: exynos: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests PM / sleep: Print active wakeup sources when blocking on wakeup_count reads PM / core: Fix bug in the error handling of async suspend PM / wakeirq: Fix dedicated wakeirq for drivers not using autosuspend PM / Domains: Fix compatible for domain idle state PM / OPP: Don't WARN on multiple calls to dev_pm_opp_set_regulators() PM / OPP: Allow platform specific custom set_opp() callbacks PM / OPP: Separate out _generic_set_opp() PM / OPP: Add infrastructure to manage multiple regulators PM / OPP: Pass struct dev_pm_opp_supply to _set_opp_voltage() PM / OPP: Manage supply's voltage/current in a separate structure PM / OPP: Don't use OPP structure outside of rcu protected section PM / OPP: Reword binding supporting multiple regulators per device PM / OPP: Fix incorrect cpu-supply property in binding cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state() ..
2016-12-13Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds28-0/+12921
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
2016-12-06Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGSKevin Peng1-1/+1
scripts/ver_linux has been rewritten as an awk script; update documentation to reflect this fact. Signed-off-by: Kevin Peng <kkpengboy@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-12-01ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=offBalbir Singh1-0/+6
Update kernel-parameters.txt to add Documentation for powersave=off. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-12-01Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"Sanjeev1-2/+2
This corrects a set of spelling mistakes, probably from an automated conversion. Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-08docs: Fix a PDF build error in bug-bisect.rstJonathan Corbet1-3/+1
It seems we can't have literal blocks in footnotes, which almost actually makes some sense. So just use basic ``monospace`` instead. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-08Merge branch 'sphinx-fixes-for-docs-next' of ↵Jonathan Corbet7-7480/+7488
git://people.freedesktop.org/~jani/drm into test A set of PDF and other docs related fixes from Jani.
2016-11-08admin-guide: merge oops-tracing with bug-huntingMauro Carvalho Chehab3-307/+293
Now that oops-tracing.rst has only information about stack dumps found on OOPS, and bug-hunting.rst has only information about how to identify the source code line associated with a stack dump, let's merge them and improve the information inside it. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-08admin-guide: move tainted kernels info to a separate fileMauro Carvalho Chehab3-63/+64
The tainted kernels info is not directly related to the oops tracing. So, let's move it to a separate file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-08doc-rst: admin-guide: move bug bisect to a separate fileMauro Carvalho Chehab3-74/+79
Better organize the admin guide documentation by moving the bug bisect to a separate file. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-08bug-hunting.rst: update info about bug huntingMauro Carvalho Chehab1-110/+76
The document shows a really old procedure for bug hunting that nobody uses anymore. Remove such section, and update the remaining documentation to reflect the procedures used currently. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-03Documentation/admin-guide: split the device list to a separate fileJani Nikula2-3084/+3083
Include the literal device list from a separate file. This helps the pdf build. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-11-03Documentation/admin-guide: split the kernel parameter list to a separate fileJani Nikula2-4371/+4370
Include the literal kernel parameter list from a separate file. This helps the pdf build. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-11-03Documentation/admin-guide: use code-block with proper languageJani Nikula3-25/+35
Now that we don't have automatic syntax highlighting, use the code-block directive with the explicitly selected language, where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
2016-10-28Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-nextJonathan Corbet6-138/+45
The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx books. In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit more accessible.
2016-10-28docs: Get rid of the "basic profiling" guideJonathan Corbet2-69/+0
The document has not been touched in over 11 years and doesn't reflect how profiling is done in the perf era. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28docs: Get rid of the badRAM guideJonathan Corbet2-51/+0
The last release of this tool was for 2.6.28; it's hard to see how it has any relevance to current kernels. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-28docs: Clean up and organize the admin guide a bitJonathan Corbet4-17/+45
The admin guide is a good start, but it's time to turn it into something better than an unordered blob of files. This is a first step in that direction. The TOC has been split up and annotated, the guides have been reordered, and minor tweaks have been applied to a few of them. One consequence of splitting up the TOC is that we don't really want to use :numbered: anymore, since the count resets every time and there doesn't seem to be a way to change that. Eventually we probably want to group the documents into sub-books, at which point we can go back to a single TOC, but it's probably early to do that. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-27doc-rst: include index only in subproject AND htmlMarkus Heiser1-0/+8
The index should only be included if the build of the sub-folder is done with the html-builder (HTML output). Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-10-24docs: fix locations of several documents that got movedMauro Carvalho Chehab12-26/+28
The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>