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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/ldb.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ina2xx.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt | 145 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt | 93 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/security/keys.txt | 5 |
9 files changed, 151 insertions, 156 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl index de79efdad46c..8c68768ebee5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/device-drivers.tmpl @@ -128,16 +128,44 @@ X!Edrivers/base/interface.c !Edrivers/base/platform.c !Edrivers/base/bus.c </sect1> - <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title> + <sect1> + <title>Buffer Sharing and Synchronization</title> + <para> + The dma-buf subsystem provides the framework for sharing buffers + for hardware (DMA) access across multiple device drivers and + subsystems, and for synchronizing asynchronous hardware access. + </para> + <para> + This is used, for example, by drm "prime" multi-GPU support, but + is of course not limited to GPU use cases. + </para> + <para> + The three main components of this are: (1) dma-buf, representing + a sg_table and exposed to userspace as a file descriptor to allow + passing between devices, (2) fence, which provides a mechanism + to signal when one device as finished access, and (3) reservation, + which manages the shared or exclusive fence(s) associated with + the buffer. + </para> + <sect2><title>dma-buf</title> !Edrivers/dma-buf/dma-buf.c +!Iinclude/linux/dma-buf.h + </sect2> + <sect2><title>reservation</title> +!Pdrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c Reservation Object Overview +!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c +!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h + </sect2> + <sect2><title>fence</title> !Edrivers/dma-buf/fence.c -!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c !Iinclude/linux/fence.h +!Edrivers/dma-buf/seqno-fence.c !Iinclude/linux/seqno-fence.h -!Edrivers/dma-buf/reservation.c -!Iinclude/linux/reservation.h !Edrivers/dma-buf/sync_file.c !Iinclude/linux/sync_file.h + </sect2> + </sect1> + <sect1><title>Device Drivers DMA Management</title> !Edrivers/base/dma-coherent.c !Edrivers/base/dma-mapping.c </sect1> diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt index c6938e50e71f..4da60b463995 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt +++ b/Documentation/arm64/silicon-errata.txt @@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ stable kernels. | ARM | MMU-500 | #841119,#826419 | N/A | | | | | | | Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #22375, #24313 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_22375 | +| Cavium | ThunderX ITS | #23144 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23144 | | Cavium | ThunderX GICv3 | #23154 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_23154 | | Cavium | ThunderX Core | #27456 | CAVIUM_ERRATUM_27456 | | Cavium | ThunderX SMMUv2 | #27704 | N/A | diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/ldb.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/ldb.txt index 0a175d991b52..a407462c885e 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/ldb.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/imx/ldb.txt @@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Required properties: display-timings are used instead. Optional properties (required if display-timings are used): + - ddc-i2c-bus: phandle of an I2C controller used for DDC EDID probing - display-timings : A node that describes the display timings as defined in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/display/display-timing.txt. - fsl,data-mapping : should be "spwg" or "jeida" diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ina2xx.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ina2xx.txt index 9bcd5e87830d..02af0d94e921 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ina2xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/hwmon/ina2xx.txt @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ Required properties: - "ti,ina220" for ina220 - "ti,ina226" for ina226 - "ti,ina230" for ina230 + - "ti,ina231" for ina231 - reg: I2C address Optional properties: diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt index 30d2fcb32f72..9f94fe276dea 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/devpts.txt @@ -1,141 +1,26 @@ +Each mount of the devpts filesystem is now distinct such that ptys +and their indicies allocated in one mount are independent from ptys +and their indicies in all other mounts. -To support containers, we now allow multiple instances of devpts filesystem, -such that indices of ptys allocated in one instance are independent of indices -allocated in other instances of devpts. +All mounts of the devpts filesystem now create a /dev/pts/ptmx node +with permissions 0000. -To preserve backward compatibility, this support for multiple instances is -enabled only if: +To retain backwards compatibility the a ptmx device node (aka any node +created with "mknod name c 5 2") when opened will look for an instance +of devpts under the name "pts" in the same directory as the ptmx device +node. - - CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y, and - - '-o newinstance' mount option is specified while mounting devpts - -IOW, devpts now supports both single-instance and multi-instance semantics. - -If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=n, there is no change in behavior and -this referred to as the "legacy" mode. In this mode, the new mount options -(-o newinstance and -o ptmxmode) will be ignored with a 'bogus option' message -on console. - -If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y and devpts is mounted without the -'newinstance' option (as in current start-up scripts) the new mount binds -to the initial kernel mount of devpts. This mode is referred to as the -'single-instance' mode and the current, single-instance semantics are -preserved, i.e PTYs are common across the system. - -The only difference between this single-instance mode and the legacy mode -is the presence of new, '/dev/pts/ptmx' node with permissions 0000, which -can safely be ignored. - -If CONFIG_DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES=y and 'newinstance' option is specified, -the mount is considered to be in the multi-instance mode and a new instance -of the devpts fs is created. Any ptys created in this instance are independent -of ptys in other instances of devpts. Like in the single-instance mode, the -/dev/pts/ptmx node is present. To effectively use the multi-instance mode, -open of /dev/ptmx must be a redirected to '/dev/pts/ptmx' using a symlink or -bind-mount. - -Eg: A container startup script could do the following: - - $ chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx - $ rm /dev/ptmx - $ ln -s pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx - $ ns_exec -cm /bin/bash - - # We are now in new container - - $ umount /dev/pts - $ mount -t devpts -o newinstance lxcpts /dev/pts - $ sshd -p 1234 - -where 'ns_exec -cm /bin/bash' calls clone() with CLONE_NEWNS flag and execs -/bin/bash in the child process. A pty created by the sshd is not visible in -the original mount of /dev/pts. +As an option instead of placing a /dev/ptmx device node at /dev/ptmx +it is possible to place a symlink to /dev/pts/ptmx at /dev/ptmx or +to bind mount /dev/ptx/ptmx to /dev/ptmx. If you opt for using +the devpts filesystem in this manner devpts should be mounted with +the ptmxmode=0666, or chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx should be called. Total count of pty pairs in all instances is limited by sysctls: kernel.pty.max = 4096 - global limit -kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserve for initial instance +kernel.pty.reserve = 1024 - reserved for filesystems mounted from the initial mount namespace kernel.pty.nr - current count of ptys Per-instance limit could be set by adding mount option "max=<count>". This feature was added in kernel 3.4 together with sysctl kernel.pty.reserve. In kernels older than 3.4 sysctl kernel.pty.max works as per-instance limit. - -User-space changes ------------------- - -In multi-instance mode (i.e '-o newinstance' mount option is specified at least -once), following user-space issues should be noted. - -1. If -o newinstance mount option is never used, /dev/pts/ptmx can be ignored - and no change is needed to system-startup scripts. - -2. To effectively use multi-instance mode (i.e -o newinstance is specified) - administrators or startup scripts should "redirect" open of /dev/ptmx to - /dev/pts/ptmx using either a bind mount or symlink. - - $ mount -t devpts -o newinstance devpts /dev/pts - - followed by either - - $ rm /dev/ptmx - $ ln -s pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx - $ chmod 666 /dev/pts/ptmx - or - $ mount -o bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx - -3. The '/dev/ptmx -> pts/ptmx' symlink is the preferred method since it - enables better error-reporting and treats both single-instance and - multi-instance mounts similarly. - - But this method requires that system-startup scripts set the mode of - /dev/pts/ptmx correctly (default mode is 0000). The scripts can set the - mode by, either - - - adding ptmxmode mount option to devpts entry in /etc/fstab, or - - using 'chmod 0666 /dev/pts/ptmx' - -4. If multi-instance mode mount is needed for containers, but the system - startup scripts have not yet been updated, container-startup scripts - should bind mount /dev/ptmx to /dev/pts/ptmx to avoid breaking single- - instance mounts. - - Or, in general, container-startup scripts should use: - - mount -t devpts -o newinstance -o ptmxmode=0666 devpts /dev/pts - if [ ! -L /dev/ptmx ]; then - mount -o bind /dev/pts/ptmx /dev/ptmx - fi - - When all devpts mounts are multi-instance, /dev/ptmx can permanently be - a symlink to pts/ptmx and the bind mount can be ignored. - -5. A multi-instance mount that is not accompanied by the /dev/ptmx to - /dev/pts/ptmx redirection would result in an unusable/unreachable pty. - - mount -t devpts -o newinstance lxcpts /dev/pts - - immediately followed by: - - open("/dev/ptmx") - - would create a pty, say /dev/pts/7, in the initial kernel mount. - But /dev/pts/7 would be invisible in the new mount. - -6. The permissions for /dev/pts/ptmx node should be specified when mounting - /dev/pts, using the '-o ptmxmode=%o' mount option (default is 0000). - - mount -t devpts -o newinstance -o ptmxmode=0644 devpts /dev/pts - - The permissions can be later be changed as usual with 'chmod'. - - chmod 666 /dev/pts/ptmx - -7. A mount of devpts without the 'newinstance' option results in binding to - initial kernel mount. This behavior while preserving legacy semantics, - does not provide strict isolation in a container environment. i.e by - mounting devpts without the 'newinstance' option, a container could - get visibility into the 'host' or root container's devpts. - - To workaround this and have strict isolation, all mounts of devpts, - including the mount in the root container, should use the newinstance - option. diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt b/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt index 35f6a982a0d5..220d0a80ca2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt @@ -170,21 +170,92 @@ document trapinfo address the kernel panicked. end +define dump_log_idx + set $idx = $arg0 + if ($argc > 1) + set $prev_flags = $arg1 + else + set $prev_flags = 0 + end + set $msg = ((struct printk_log *) (log_buf + $idx)) + set $prefix = 1 + set $newline = 1 + set $log = log_buf + $idx + sizeof(*$msg) -define dmesg - set $i = 0 - set $end_idx = (log_end - 1) & (log_buf_len - 1) + # prev & LOG_CONT && !(msg->flags & LOG_PREIX) + if (($prev_flags & 8) && !($msg->flags & 4)) + set $prefix = 0 + end + + # msg->flags & LOG_CONT + if ($msg->flags & 8) + # (prev & LOG_CONT && !(prev & LOG_NEWLINE)) + if (($prev_flags & 8) && !($prev_flags & 2)) + set $prefix = 0 + end + # (!(msg->flags & LOG_NEWLINE)) + if (!($msg->flags & 2)) + set $newline = 0 + end + end + + if ($prefix) + printf "[%5lu.%06lu] ", $msg->ts_nsec / 1000000000, $msg->ts_nsec % 1000000000 + end + if ($msg->text_len != 0) + eval "printf \"%%%d.%ds\", $log", $msg->text_len, $msg->text_len + end + if ($newline) + printf "\n" + end + if ($msg->dict_len > 0) + set $dict = $log + $msg->text_len + set $idx = 0 + set $line = 1 + while ($idx < $msg->dict_len) + if ($line) + printf " " + set $line = 0 + end + set $c = $dict[$idx] + if ($c == '\0') + printf "\n" + set $line = 1 + else + if ($c < ' ' || $c >= 127 || $c == '\\') + printf "\\x%02x", $c + else + printf "%c", $c + end + end + set $idx = $idx + 1 + end + printf "\n" + end +end +document dump_log_idx + Dump a single log given its index in the log buffer. The first + parameter is the index into log_buf, the second is optional and + specified the previous log buffer's flags, used for properly + formatting continued lines. +end - while ($i < logged_chars) - set $idx = (log_end - 1 - logged_chars + $i) & (log_buf_len - 1) +define dmesg + set $i = log_first_idx + set $end_idx = log_first_idx + set $prev_flags = 0 - if ($idx + 100 <= $end_idx) || \ - ($end_idx <= $idx && $idx + 100 < log_buf_len) - printf "%.100s", &log_buf[$idx] - set $i = $i + 100 + while (1) + set $msg = ((struct printk_log *) (log_buf + $i)) + if ($msg->len == 0) + set $i = 0 else - printf "%c", log_buf[$idx] - set $i = $i + 1 + dump_log_idx $i $prev_flags + set $i = $i + $msg->len + set $prev_flags = $msg->flags + end + if ($i == $end_idx) + loop_break end end end diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt index 631b0f7ae16f..9d05ed7f7da5 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.txt @@ -369,8 +369,6 @@ does not allocate any driver private context space. Switch configuration -------------------- -- priv_size: additional size needed by the switch driver for its private context - - tag_protocol: this is to indicate what kind of tagging protocol is supported, should be a valid value from the dsa_tag_protocol enum @@ -416,11 +414,6 @@ PHY devices and link management to the switch port MDIO registers. If unavailable return a negative error code. -- poll_link: Function invoked by DSA to query the link state of the switch - builtin Ethernet PHYs, per port. This function is responsible for calling - netif_carrier_{on,off} when appropriate, and can be used to poll all ports in a - single call. Executes from workqueue context. - - adjust_link: Function invoked by the PHY library when a slave network device is attached to a PHY device. This function is responsible for appropriately configuring the switch port link parameters: speed, duplex, pause based on @@ -542,6 +535,16 @@ Bridge layer Bridge VLAN filtering --------------------- +- port_vlan_filtering: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge gets + configured for turning on or off VLAN filtering. If nothing specific needs to + be done at the hardware level, this callback does not need to be implemented. + When VLAN filtering is turned on, the hardware must be programmed with + rejecting 802.1Q frames which have VLAN IDs outside of the programmed allowed + VLAN ID map/rules. If there is no PVID programmed into the switch port, + untagged frames must be rejected as well. When turned off the switch must + accept any 802.1Q frames irrespective of their VLAN ID, and untagged frames are + allowed. + - port_vlan_prepare: bridge layer function invoked when the bridge prepares the configuration of a VLAN on the given port. If the operation is not supported by the hardware, this function should return -EOPNOTSUPP to inform the bridge diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt index 6c7f365b1515..9ae929395b24 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt @@ -1036,15 +1036,17 @@ proxy_arp_pvlan - BOOLEAN shared_media - BOOLEAN Send(router) or accept(host) RFC1620 shared media redirects. - Overrides ip_secure_redirects. + Overrides secure_redirects. shared_media for the interface will be enabled if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/shared_media is set to TRUE, it will be disabled otherwise default TRUE secure_redirects - BOOLEAN - Accept ICMP redirect messages only for gateways, - listed in default gateway list. + Accept ICMP redirect messages only to gateways listed in the + interface's current gateway list. Even if disabled, RFC1122 redirect + rules still apply. + Overridden by shared_media. secure_redirects for the interface will be enabled if at least one of conf/{all,interface}/secure_redirects is set to TRUE, it will be disabled otherwise diff --git a/Documentation/security/keys.txt b/Documentation/security/keys.txt index 20d05719bceb..3849814bfe6d 100644 --- a/Documentation/security/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/security/keys.txt @@ -826,7 +826,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: (*) Compute a Diffie-Hellman shared secret or public key long keyctl(KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE, struct keyctl_dh_params *params, - char *buffer, size_t buflen); + char *buffer, size_t buflen, + void *reserved); The params struct contains serial numbers for three keys: @@ -843,6 +844,8 @@ The keyctl syscall functions are: public key. If the base is the remote public key, the result is the shared secret. + The reserved argument must be set to NULL. + The buffer length must be at least the length of the prime, or zero. If the buffer length is nonzero, the length of the result is |