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2017-12-14spi: sh-msiof: Document hardware limitations related to chip selectsGeert Uytterhoeven1-0/+10
Guide users to maintain the proper balance between native and GPIO chip selects. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-14spi: sh-msiof: Extend support to 3 native chip selectsGeert Uytterhoeven1-1/+5
Currently only the MSIOF_SYNC signal can be used as a native chip select. Extend support to up to 3 native chipselects using the MSIOF_SS1 and MSIOF_SS2 signals. Inspired by a patch in the BSP by Hiromitsu Yamasaki. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-14media: dt: bindings: Add binding for NVIDIA Tegra Video Decoder EngineDmitry Osipenko1-0/+55
Add binding documentation for the Video Decoder Engine which is found on NVIDIA Tegra20/30/114/124/132 SoC's. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-12-14dt-bindings: clock: add compatible variant for the Meson-AXGYixun Lan1-2/+5
Update the documentation to support clock driver for the Amlogic's Meson-AXG SoC. Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@amlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@baylibre.com>
2017-12-13cgroup, docs: document cgroup v2 device controllerRoman Gushchin1-4/+29
Add the corresponding section in cgroup v2 documentation. Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: cgroups@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2017-12-13tcp: pause Fast Open globally after third consecutive timeoutYuchung Cheng1-0/+1
Prior to this patch, active Fast Open is paused on a specific destination IP address if the previous connections to the IP address have experienced recurring timeouts . But recent experiments by Microsoft (https://goo.gl/cykmn7) and Mozilla browsers indicate the isssue is often caused by broken middle-boxes sitting close to the client. Therefore it is much better user experience if Fast Open is disabled out-right globally to avoid experiencing further timeouts on connections toward other destinations. This patch changes the destination-IP disablement to global disablement if a connection experiencing recurring timeouts or aborts due to timeout. Repeated incidents would still exponentially increase the pause time, starting from an hour. This is extremely conservative but an unfortunate compromise to minimize bad experience due to broken middle-boxes. Reported-by: Dragana Damjanovic <ddamjanovic@mozilla.com> Reported-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com> Reviewed-by: Wei Wang <weiwan@google.com> Reviewed-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-13dm raid: stop keeping raid set frozen altogetherHeinz Mauelshagen1-0/+1
In order to avoid redoing synchronization/recovery/reshape partially, the raid set got frozen until after all passed in table line flags had been cleared. The related table reload sequence had to be precisely followed, or reshaping may lead to data corruption caused by the active mapping carrying on with a reshape when the inactive mapping already had retrieved a stale reshape position. Harden by retrieving the actual resync/recovery/reshape position during resume whilst the active table is suspended thus avoiding to keep the raid set frozen altogether. This prevents superfluous redoing of an already resynchronized or recovered segment and, most importantly, potential for redoing of an already reshaped segment causing data corruption. Fixes: d39f0010e ("dm raid: fix raid_resume() to keep raid set frozen as needed") Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
2017-12-13phylib: Add device reset delay supportRichard Leitner1-0/+10
Some PHYs need a minimum time after the reset gpio was asserted and/or deasserted. To ensure we meet these timing requirements add two new optional devicetree parameters for the phy: reset-delay-us and reset-post-delay-us. Signed-off-by: Richard Leitner <richard.leitner@skidata.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: display: tegra: Update SOR for Tegra186Thierry Reding1-1/+13
Update the SOR bindings for Tegra186, in which a new property is required to identify the instance of the SOR interface and the clock tree has slightly changed as well. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
2017-12-13ASoC: rsnd: Add device tree support for r8a774[35]Biju Das1-2/+4
Document r8a774[35] specific compatible strings. The Renesas RZ/G1[ME] (r8a774[35]) sound modules are identical to the R-Car Gen2 family. No driver change is needed as the fallback compatible string "renesas,rcar_sound-gen2" activates the right code in the driver. Signed-off-by: Biju Das <biju.das@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Fabrizio Castro <fabrizio.castro@bp.renesas.com> Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: memory: Add Tegra186 supportThierry Reding1-0/+2
As opposed to earlier incarnations, the memory controller on Tegra186 no longer implements an SMMU. Instead the SMMU is a regular ARM SMMU and in a separate IP block. However, the memory controller programs the SMMU stream IDs for each of the memory clients. Add a header file with definitions for each of these stream IDs and mark the #iommu-cells property as required on Tegra30 to Tegra210 in the device tree bindings. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: misc: Add Tegra186 MISC registers bindingsThierry Reding1-0/+12
The MISC register block found on Tegra186 SoCs contains registers that can be used to identify a given chip and various strapping options. Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
2017-12-13Documentation: DT: qcom_hidma: Bump HW revision for the bugfixed HWSinan Kaya1-2/+2
A new version of the HIDMA IP has been released with bug fixes. Bumping the hardware version to differentiate from others. Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: net: add TI CC2560 Bluetooth chipDavid Lechner1-2/+11
This adds a compatible string for the Texas Instruments CC2560 Bluetooth chip to the existing TI WiLink shared transport bindings. These chips are similar enough that the same bindings work for both. The file is renamed to ti-bluetooth.txt to make it more generic. Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: pinctrl: Add bindings for Microsemi OcelotAlexandre Belloni1-0/+39
Add the documentation for the Microsemi Ocelot pinmuxing and gpio controller. Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2017-12-13ACPI: sysfs: Make ACPI GPE mask kernel parameter cover all GPEsPrarit Bhargava1-1/+0
The acpi_mask_gpe= kernel parameter documentation states that the range of mask is 128 GPEs (0x00 to 0x7F). The acpi_masked_gpes mask is a u64 so only 64 GPEs (0x00 to 0x3F) can really be masked. Use a bitmap of size 0xFF instead of a u64 for the GPE mask so 256 GPEs can be masked. Fixes: 9c4aa1eecb48 (ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE flooding) Signed-off-by: Prarit Bharava <prarit@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-12-13mtd: spi-nor: add an API to restore the status of SPI flash chipHou Zhiqiang1-0/+3
Add this API to restore the status of SPI flash chip to the default such as addressing mode, whenever detach the driver from device or reboot the system. Signed-off-by: Hou Zhiqiang <Zhiqiang.Hou@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: mtd: fsl-quadspi: Pass the qspi clock namesFabio Estevam1-1/+1
In order to improve the bindings documentation, explicitly pass the name of the clocks: "qspi_en" and "qspi", which are mandatory. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: Add optional nvmem BD address bindings to ti,wlink-stDavid Lechner1-0/+5
This adds optional nvmem consumer properties to the ti,wlink-st device tree bindings to allow specifying the BD address. Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
2017-12-13dt-bindings: arm: document supported STM32 SoC familyLudovic Barre1-0/+9
This adds a list of supported STM32 SoC bindings. Signed-off-by: Gwenael Treuveur <gwenael.treuveur@st.com> Signed-off-by: Ludovic Barre <ludovic.barre@st.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2017-12-12Revert "dt-bindings: mtd: add sst25wf040b and en25s64 to sip-nor list"Cyrille Pitchen1-2/+0
This reverts commit b07815d4eaf658b683c345d6e643895a20d92f29. The reverted commit was merged into v4-15-rc1 by mistake: it was taken from the IMX tree but the patch has never been sent to linux-mtd nor reviewed by any spi-nor maintainers. Actually, it would have been rejected since we add new values for the 'compatible' DT property only for SPI NOR memories that don't support the JEDEC READ ID op code (0x9F). Both en25s64 and sst25wf040b support the JEDEC READ ID op code, hence should use the "jedec,spi-nor" string alone as 'compatible' value. See the following link for more details: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2017-November/077425.html Signed-off-by: Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@wedev4u.fr> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
2017-12-12dt-bindings: Add W83773G as a trivial deviceLei YU1-0/+1
Signed-off-by: Lei YU <mine260309@gmail.com> [robh: improve commit subject] Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
2017-12-12docs: fix, intel_guc_loader.c has been moved to intel_guc_fw.cMarkus Heiser1-3/+0
With commit d9e2e0143c the 'GuC-specific firmware loader' doc section was removed from intel_guc_loader.c without a replacement. So lets remove it from the Kernel-doc:: .. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c :doc: GuC-specific firmware loader With commit e8668bbcb0 intel_guc_loader.c was renamed to to intel_guc_fw.c and to name just one, intel_guc_init_hw() was renamed to intel_guc_fw_upload(). Since we get errors in the Sphinx build like: - Error: Cannot open file ./drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c Change the kernel-doc directive from intel_guc_loader.c to intel_guc_fw.c Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> [danvet: Rebase onto the partial fix 006c23327f8d ("documentation/gpu/i915: fix docs build error after file rename")] Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1513078717-12373-1-git-send-email-markus.heiser@darmarit.de
2017-12-12Merge tag 'v4.15-rc3' into perf/core, to refresh the treeIngo Molnar78-106/+153
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-12USB: remove the URB_NO_FSBR flagAlan Stern1-1/+0
The URB_NO_FSBR flag has never really been used. It was introduced as a potential way for UHCI to minimize PCI bus usage (by not attempting full-speed bulk and control transfers more than once per frame), but the flag was not set by any drivers. There's no point in keeping it around. This patch simplifies the API by removing it. Unfortunately, it does have to be kept as part of the usbfs ABI, but at least we can document in include/uapi/linux/usbdevice_fs.h that it doesn't do anything. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-12-12ASoC: tas5720: add basic support for TAS5722 devicesAndreas Dannenberg1-1/+3
The TI TAS5722 digital amplifier is very similar to the TAS5720 from an overall and register map perspective. Therefore the existing driver can be extended easily to support this additional device. This commit allows TAS5722 devices to be used in a "subset" type of fashion, without exposing any of the additional features they offer. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-12arm64: Add software workaround for Falkor erratum 1041Shanker Donthineni1-0/+1
The ARM architecture defines the memory locations that are permitted to be accessed as the result of a speculative instruction fetch from an exception level for which all stages of translation are disabled. Specifically, the core is permitted to speculatively fetch from the 4KB region containing the current program counter 4K and next 4K. When translation is changed from enabled to disabled for the running exception level (SCTLR_ELn[M] changed from a value of 1 to 0), the Falkor core may errantly speculatively access memory locations outside of the 4KB region permitted by the architecture. The errant memory access may lead to one of the following unexpected behaviors. 1) A System Error Interrupt (SEI) being raised by the Falkor core due to the errant memory access attempting to access a region of memory that is protected by a slave-side memory protection unit. 2) Unpredictable device behavior due to a speculative read from device memory. This behavior may only occur if the instruction cache is disabled prior to or coincident with translation being changed from enabled to disabled. The conditions leading to this erratum will not occur when either of the following occur: 1) A higher exception level disables translation of a lower exception level (e.g. EL2 changing SCTLR_EL1[M] from a value of 1 to 0). 2) An exception level disabling its stage-1 translation if its stage-2 translation is enabled (e.g. EL1 changing SCTLR_EL1[M] from a value of 1 to 0 when HCR_EL2[VM] has a value of 1). To avoid the errant behavior, software must execute an ISB immediately prior to executing the MSR that will change SCTLR_ELn[M] from 1 to 0. Signed-off-by: Shanker Donthineni <shankerd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
2017-12-12locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checksIngo Molnar1-874/+0
This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y), while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably a worse overall outcome. If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity. Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's a marked difference between annotating locking operations and uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ... This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already, so we cannot risk this outcome. Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives, or it should not be included in the upstream kernel. ( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were introduced. ) Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-12-12ASoC: tfa9879: clean up bindingsPeter Rosin1-4/+4
Fix a couple of nitpicks: - list #sound-dai-cells as a required property. - The chip supports full speed I2C; don't indicate standard mode only. - status = "okay" is just noise. - The chip is an amplifier, not a codec. - consistently indent with tabs. Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-12ASoC: sun4i-i2s: Add support for A83TChen-Yu Tsai1-0/+2
The I2S controller in the A83T is mostly compatible with the one found in earlier SoCs such as the A20 and A31. While the documents publicly available for the A83T do not cover this hardware, the officially released BSP kernel does have register definitions for it. These were matched against the A20 user manual. The only difference is the TX FIFO and interrupt status registers have been swapped around, like what we have seen with the SPDIF controller. This patch adds support for this hardware. Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org> Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2017-12-12scsi: documentation: add scsi_common.c to SCSI driver-apiRandy Dunlap1-0/+8
Add exported functions from scsi_common.c to the SCSI driver API documentation. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
2017-12-12Merge branch 'for-4.15-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+7
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo: - Prateek posted a couple patches to fix a deadlock involving cpuset and workqueue. It unfortunately caused a different deadlock and the recent workqueue hotplug simplification removed the original deadlock, so Prateek's two patches are reverted for now. - The new stat code was missing u64_stats initialization. Fixed. - Doc and other misc changes * 'for-4.15-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup: cgroup: add warning about RT not being supported on cgroup2 Revert "cgroup/cpuset: remove circular dependency deadlock" Revert "cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous" cgroup: properly init u64_stats debug cgroup: use task_css_set instead of rcu_dereference cpuset: Make cpuset hotplug synchronous cgroup/cpuset: remove circular dependency deadlock
2017-12-12docs: Remove "could not extract kernel version" warningJonathan Corbet1-1/+0
This warning will happen for every normal kernel docs build and doesn't carry any useful information. Should anybody actually depend on this "version" variable (which isn't clear to me), the "unknown version" value will be clue enough. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation/process: Add CONFIG default value to submit-checklistDarren Hart (VMware)1-1/+3
Add default value review to the submit checklist, referring to the preference for "default n" from the previous patch added to Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt. Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation/kbuild: Add guidance for the use of defaultDarren Hart (VMware)1-0/+21
Document the preference [1] for new CONFIG options to "default n" (or not use default at all) in order to minimizes changes to the config, especially to avoid "make oldconfig" growing unnecessarily from release to release. Document the exceptions where it is acceptable to use "default y/m" for new CONFIG options. 1. https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/18/257 Cc: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation: add UUID/GUID to kernel-apiRandy Dunlap1-0/+6
Update kernel-doc notation in lib/uuid.c and then add UUID/GUID function interfaces to kernel-api. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> [jc: tweaked the uuid_is_valid() kerneldoc] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation: add Sorting section to kernel-apiRandy Dunlap1-0/+9
Add sort() and list_sort() to the kernel API documentation in a new "Sorting" section. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation: Better document the hardlockup_panic sysctlScott Wood2-0/+17
Commit ac1f591249d95372f ("kernel/watchdog.c: add sysctl knob hardlockup_panic") added the hardlockup_panic sysctl, but did not add it to Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt. Add this, and reference it from the corresponding entry in Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph von Recklinghausen <crecklin@redhat.com> Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12doc: usb: chipidea: Fix typo in 'enumerate'Fabio Estevam1-6/+6
Fix the spelling of 'enumerate' in this document. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12docs: Add an intro note to the maintainers handbookJonathan Corbet1-0/+4
...just enough to say what the purpose is and to solicit more contributions. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12doc: add maintainer bookTobin C. Harding5-0/+233
There is currently very little documentation in the kernel on maintainer level tasks. In particular there are no documents on creating pull requests to submit to Linus. Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman on LKML: Anyway, this actually came up at the kernel summit / maintainer meeting a few weeks ago, in that "how do I make a good pull request to Linus" is something we need to document. Here's what I do, and it seems to work well, so maybe we should turn it into the start of the documentation for how to do it. (quote references: kernel summit, Europe 2017) Create a new kernel documentation book 'how to be a maintainer' (suggested by Jonathan Corbet). Add chapters on 'configuring git' and 'creating a pull request'. Most of the content was written by Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman in discussion on LKML. This is stated at the start of one of the chapters and the original email thread is referenced in 'pull-requests.rst'. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12docs: refcount_t documentationElena Reshetova3-6/+166
Some functions from refcount_t API provide different memory ordering guarantees that their atomic counterparts. This adds a document outlining these differences ( Documentation/core-api/refcount-vs-atomic.rst) as well as some other minor improvements. Signed-off-by: Elena Reshetova <elena.reshetova@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation/driver-api/usb: Replace dead linkStefan Tatschner1-1/+1
This link is dead: $ curl -vI http://usb.cs.tum.edu/usbdoc * Could not resolve host: usb.cs.tum.edu * Closing connection 0 curl: (6) Could not resolve host: usb.cs.tum.edu I found the document somewhere else. Let's replace it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Tatschner <stefan.tatschner@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation: kernel-hacking: corrected a typoMarco Donato Torsello1-1/+1
Corrected a typo. Signed-off-by: Marco Donato Torsello <marcodonato.torsello@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-12Documentation: mono: Update links and s/CVS/Git/Jonathan Neuschäfer1-3/+3
The URLs in mono.rst redirect to pages on www.mono-project.com, so let's update them. I took the liberty to update the compilation instructions to the Linux-specific version, because readers of the kernel documentation will most likely use Linux. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-12-11EVM: Allow userland to permit modification of EVM-protected metadataMatthew Garrett1-19/+35
When EVM is enabled it forbids modification of metadata protected by EVM unless there is already a valid EVM signature. If any modification is made, the kernel will then generate a new EVM HMAC. However, this does not map well on use cases which use only asymmetric EVM signatures, as in this scenario the kernel is unable to generate new signatures. This patch extends the /sys/kernel/security/evm interface to allow userland to request that modification of these xattrs be permitted. This is only permitted if no keys have already been loaded. In this configuration, modifying the metadata will invalidate the EVM appraisal on the file in question. This allows packaging systems to write out new files, set the relevant extended attributes and then move them into place. There's also some refactoring of the use of evm_initialized in order to avoid heading down codepaths that assume there's a key available. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@google.com> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-12-11media: dt-bindings: media: xilinx: fix typo in exampleAkinobu Mita1-1/+1
Fix typo s/:/;/ Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Hyun Kwon <hyun.kwon@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-12-11Merge branches 'cond_resched.2017.12.04a', 'dyntick.2017.11.28a', ↵Paul E. McKenney8-46/+51
'fixes.2017.12.11a', 'srbd.2017.12.05a' and 'torture.2017.12.11a' into HEAD cond_resched.2017.12.04a: Convert cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched() dyntick.2017.11.28a: Make RCU dynticks handle interrupts from NMI fixes.2017.12.11a: Miscellaneous fixes srbd.2017.12.05a: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() torture.2017.12.11a: Torture-testing update
2017-12-11torture: Eliminate torture_runnable and perf_runnablePaul E. McKenney2-14/+0
The purpose of torture_runnable is to allow rcutorture and locktorture to be started and stopped via sysfs when they are built into the kernel (as in not compiled as loadable modules). However, the 0444 permissions for both instances of torture_runnable prevent this use case from ever being put into practice. Given that there have been no complaints about this deficiency, it is reasonable to conclude that no one actually makes use of this sysfs capability. The perf_runnable module parameter for rcuperf is in the same situation. This commit therefore removes both torture_runnable instances as well as perf_runnable. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-12-11dt-bindings: fec: Make the phy-reset-gpio polarity explicitFabio Estevam1-2/+2
The GPIO polarity passed to phy-reset-gpio is ignored by the FEC driver and it is assumed to be active low. It can be active high only when the 'phy-reset-active-high' property is present. The current examples pass active high polarity and work fine, but in order to improve the documentation make it explicit what the real polarity is. Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com> Acked-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>