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This patch address a possible security issue:
The request field in client notify request ioctl comes from user space
as u32 and is downcasted to u8 with out validation.
Check request field to have approved values
MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STAR/STOP
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> #4.3+
Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge third patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
"I'm pretty much done for -rc1 now:
- the rest of MM, basically
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch, epoll, hfs, fatfs, ptrace, coredump, exit
- cpu_mask simplifications
- kexec, rapidio, MAINTAINERS etc, etc.
- more dma-mapping cleanups/simplifications from hch"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (109 commits)
MAINTAINERS: add/fix git URLs for various subsystems
mm: memcontrol: add "sock" to cgroup2 memory.stat
mm: memcontrol: basic memory statistics in cgroup2 memory controller
mm: memcontrol: do not uncharge old page in page cache replacement
Documentation: cgroup: add memory.swap.{current,max} description
mm: free swap cache aggressively if memcg swap is full
mm: vmscan: do not scan anon pages if memcg swap limit is hit
swap.h: move memcg related stuff to the end of the file
mm: memcontrol: replace mem_cgroup_lruvec_online with mem_cgroup_online
mm: vmscan: pass memcg to get_scan_count()
mm: memcontrol: charge swap to cgroup2
mm: memcontrol: clean up alloc, online, offline, free functions
mm: memcontrol: flatten struct cg_proto
mm: memcontrol: rein in the CONFIG space madness
net: drop tcp_memcontrol.c
mm: memcontrol: introduce CONFIG_MEMCG_LEGACY_KMEM
mm: memcontrol: allow to disable kmem accounting for cgroup2
mm: memcontrol: account "kmem" consumers in cgroup2 memory controller
mm: memcontrol: move kmem accounting code to CONFIG_MEMCG
mm: memcontrol: separate kmem code from legacy tcp accounting code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull more power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This includes fixes on top of the previous batch of PM+ACPI updates
and some new material as well.
From the new material perspective the most significant are the driver
core changes that should allow USB devices to stay suspended over
system suspend/resume cycles if they have been runtime-suspended
already beforehand. Apart from that, ACPICA is updated to upstream
revision 20160108 (cosmetic mostly, but including one fixup on top of
the previous ACPICA update) and there are some devfreq updates the
didn't make it before (due to timing).
A few recent regressions are fixed, most importantly in the cpuidle
menu governor and in the ACPI backlight driver and some x86 platform
drivers depending on it.
Some more bugs are fixed and cleanups are made on top of that.
Specifics:
- Modify the driver core and the USB subsystem to allow USB devices
to stay suspended over system suspend/resume cycles if they have
been runtime-suspended already beforehand and fix some bugs on top
of these changes (Tomeu Vizoso, Rafael Wysocki).
- Update ACPICA to upstream revision 20160108, including updates of
the ACPICA's copyright notices, a code fixup resulting from a
regression fix that was necessary in the upstream code only (the
regression fixed by it has never been present in Linux) and a
compiler warning fix (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng).
- Fix a recent regression in the cpuidle menu governor that broke it
on practically all architectures other than x86 and make a couple
of optimizations on top of that fix (Rafael Wysocki).
- Clean up the selection of cpuidle governors depending on whether or
not the kernel is configured for tickless systems (Jean Delvare).
- Revert a recent commit that introduced a regression in the ACPI
backlight driver, address the problem it attempted to fix in a
different way and revert one more cosmetic change depending on the
problematic commit (Hans de Goede).
- Add two more ACPI backlight quirks (Hans de Goede).
- Fix a few minor problems in the core devfreq code, clean it up a
bit and update the MAINTAINERS information related to it (Chanwoo
Choi, MyungJoo Ham).
- Improve an error message in the ACPI fan driver (Andy Lutomirski).
- Fix a recent build regression in the cpupower tool (Shreyas
Prabhu)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.5-rc1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (32 commits)
cpuidle: menu: Avoid pointless checks in menu_select()
sched / idle: Drop default_idle_call() fallback from call_cpuidle()
cpupower: Fix build error in cpufreq-info
cpuidle: Don't enable all governors by default
cpuidle: Default to ladder governor on ticking systems
time: nohz: Expose tick_nohz_enabled
ACPICA: Update version to 20160108
ACPICA: Silence a -Wbad-function-cast warning when acpi_uintptr_t is 'uintptr_t'
ACPICA: Additional 2016 copyright changes
ACPICA: Reduce regression fix divergence from upstream ACPICA
ACPI / video: Add disable_backlight_sysfs_if quirk for the Toshiba Satellite R830
ACPI / video: Revert "thinkpad_acpi: Use acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses()"
ACPI / video: Document acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses() a bit
ACPI / video: Fix using an uninitialized mutex / list_head in acpi_video_handles_brightness_key_presses()
ACPI / video: Revert "ACPI / video: driver must be registered before checking for keypresses"
ACPI / fan: Improve acpi_device_update_power error message
ACPI / video: Add disable_backlight_sysfs_if quirk for the Toshiba Portege R700
cpuidle: menu: Fix menu_select() for CPUIDLE_DRIVER_STATE_START == 0
MAINTAINERS: Add devfreq-event entry
MAINTAINERS: Add missing git repository and directory for devfreq
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Fix build when CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=m and CONFIG_IBM_ASM=y.
Fixes these build errors:
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ibmasm_remove_one':
module.c:(.text+0xf6874): undefined reference to `ibmasm_unregister_uart'
drivers/built-in.o: In function `ibmasm_init_one':
module.c:(.text+0xf6c37): undefined reference to `ibmasm_register_uart'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* pm-core:
driver core: Avoid NULL pointer dereferences in device_is_bound()
platform: Do not detach from PM domains on shutdown
USB / PM: Allow USB devices to remain runtime-suspended when sleeping
PM / sleep: Go direct_complete if driver has no callbacks
PM / Domains: add setter for dev.pm_domain
device core: add device_is_bound()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild
Pull kbuild updates from Michal Marek:
- Make <modname>-m in makefiles work like <modname>-y and fix the
fallout
- Minor genksyms fix
- Fix race with make -j install modules_install
- Move -Wsign-compare from make W=1 to W=2
- Other minor fixes
* 'kbuild' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
kbuild: Demote 'sign-compare' warning to W=2
Makefile: revert "Makefile: Document ability to make file.lst and file.S" partially
kbuild: Do not run modules_install and install in paralel
genksyms: Handle string literals with spaces in reference files
fixdep: constify strrcmp arguments
ath10k: Fix build with CONFIG_THERMAL=m
Revert "drm: Hack around CONFIG_AGP=m build failures"
kbuild: Allow to specify composite modules with modname-m
staging/ad7606: Actually build the interface modules
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Pull virtio barrier rework+fixes from Michael Tsirkin:
"This adds a new kind of barrier, and reworks virtio and xen to use it.
Plus some fixes here and there"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (44 commits)
checkpatch: add virt barriers
checkpatch: check for __smp outside barrier.h
checkpatch.pl: add missing memory barriers
virtio: make find_vqs() checkpatch.pl-friendly
virtio_balloon: fix race between migration and ballooning
virtio_balloon: fix race by fill and leak
s390: more efficient smp barriers
s390: use generic memory barriers
xen/events: use virt_xxx barriers
xen/io: use virt_xxx barriers
xenbus: use virt_xxx barriers
virtio_ring: use virt_store_mb
sh: move xchg_cmpxchg to a header by itself
sh: support 1 and 2 byte xchg
virtio_ring: update weak barriers to use virt_xxx
Revert "virtio_ring: Update weak barriers to use dma_wmb/rmb"
asm-generic: implement virt_xxx memory barriers
x86: define __smp_xxx
xtensa: define __smp_xxx
tile: define __smp_xxx
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
"Core:
- Ground work for the new Power9 MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Optimise FP/VMX/VSX context switching from Anton Blanchard
Misc:
- Various cleanups from Krzysztof Kozlowski, John Ogness, Rashmica
Gupta, Russell Currey, Gavin Shan, Daniel Axtens, Michael Neuling,
Andrew Donnellan
- Allow wrapper to work on non-english system from Laurent Vivier
- Add rN aliases to the pt_regs_offset table from Rashmica Gupta
- Fix module autoload for rackmeter & axonram drivers from Luis de
Bethencourt
- Include KVM guest test in all interrupt vectors from Paul Mackerras
- Fix DSCR inheritance over fork() from Anton Blanchard
- Make value-returning atomics & {cmp}xchg* & their atomic_ versions
fully ordered from Boqun Feng
- Print MSR TM bits in oops messages from Michael Neuling
- Add TM signal return & invalid stack selftests from Michael Neuling
- Limit EPOW reset event warnings from Vipin K Parashar
- Remove the Cell QPACE code from Rashmica Gupta
- Append linux_banner to exception information in xmon from Rashmica
Gupta
- Add selftest to check if VSRs are corrupted from Rashmica Gupta
- Remove broken GregorianDay() from Daniel Axtens
- Import Anton's context_switch2 benchmark into selftests from
Michael Ellerman
- Add selftest script to test HMI functionality from Daniel Axtens
- Remove obsolete OPAL v2 support from Stewart Smith
- Make enter_rtas() private from Michael Ellerman
- PPR exception cleanups from Michael Ellerman
- Add page soft dirty tracking from Laurent Dufour
- Add support for Nvlink NPUs from Alistair Popple
- Add support for kexec on 476fpe from Alistair Popple
- Enable kernel CPU dlpar from sysfs from Nathan Fontenot
- Copy only required pieces of the mm_context_t to the paca from
Michael Neuling
- Add a kmsg_dumper that flushes OPAL console output on panic from
Russell Currey
- Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
from Steven Rostedt
- Add HWCAP bits for Power9 from Michael Ellerman
- Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff from Hugh Dickins
- scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
from Ulrich Weigand
- Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations in modules from Ulrich Weigand
cxl:
- cxl: Fix possible idr warning when contexts are released from
Vaibhav Jain
- cxl: use correct operator when writing pcie config space values
from Andrew Donnellan
- cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits from Vaibhav
Jain
- cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x from Brian Norris
- cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR from Brian Norris
- cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter from Uma
Krishnan
Freescale:
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include moving QE code out
of arch/powerpc (to be shared with arm), device tree updates, and
minor fixes"
* tag 'powerpc-4.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (149 commits)
powerpc/module: Handle R_PPC64_ENTRY relocations
scripts/recordmcount.pl: support data in text section on powerpc
powerpc/powernv: Fix OPAL_CONSOLE_FLUSH prototype and usages
powerpc/mm: fix _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY breaking swapoff
powerpc/mm: Fix _PAGE_PTE breaking swapoff
cxl: Enable PCI device ID for future IBM CXL adapter
cxl: use -Werror only with CONFIG_PPC_WERROR
cxl: fix build for GCC 4.6.x
powerpc: Add HWCAP bits for Power9
powerpc/powernv: Reserve PE#0 on NPU
powerpc/powernv: Change NPU PE# assignment
powerpc/powernv: Fix update of NVLink DMA mask
powerpc/powernv: Remove misleading comment in pci.c
powerpc: Implement save_stack_trace_regs() to enable kprobe stack tracing
powerpc: Fix build break due to paca mm_context_t changes
cxl: Fix DSI misses when the context owning task exits
MAINTAINERS: Update Scott Wood's e-mail address
powerpc/powernv: Fix minor off-by-one error in opal_mce_check_early_recovery()
powerpc: Fix style of self-test config prompts
powerpc/powernv: Only delay opal_rtc_read() retry when necessary
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checkpatch.pl wants arrays of strings declared as follows:
static const char * const names[] = { "vq-1", "vq-2", "vq-3" };
Currently the find_vqs() function takes a const char *names[] argument
so passing checkpatch.pl's const char * const names[] results in a
compiler error due to losing the second const.
This patch adjusts the find_vqs() prototype and updates all virtio
transports. This makes it possible for virtio_balloon.c, virtio_input.c,
virtgpu_kms.c, and virtio_rpmsg_bus.c to use the checkpatch.pl-friendly
type.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@sonymobile.com>
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Add support for future IBM Coherent Accelerator (CXL) device
with ID of 0x0601.
Signed-off-by: Uma Krishnan <ukrishn@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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Some developers really like to have -Werror enabled for their code, as
it helps to ensure warning free code. Others don't want -Werror, as it
(for example) can cause problems when newer (or older) compilers have
different sets of warnings, or new warnings can appear just when turning
up the warning level (e.g., make W=1 or W=2). Thus, it seems prudent to
have the use of -Werror be configurable.
It so happens that cxl is only built on PowerPC, and PowerPC already
has a nice set of Kconfig options for this, under CONFIG_PPC_WERROR. So
let's use that, and the world is a happy place again! (Note that
PPC_WERROR defaults to =y, so the common case compile should still be
enforcing -Werror.)
Fixes: d3d73f4b38a8 ("cxl: Compile with -Werror")
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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GCC 4.6.3 does not support -Wno-unused-const-variable. Instead, use the
kbuild infrastructure that checks if this options exists.
Fixes: 2cd55c68c0a4 ("cxl: Fix build failure due to -Wunused-variable behaviour change")
Suggested-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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fasync should return a negative value on error
and not poll mask POLLERR.
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.3+
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Adds a function that sets the pointer to dev_pm_domain in struct device
and that warns if the device has already finished probing. The reason
why we want to enforce that is because in the general case that can
cause problems and also that we can simplify code quite a bit if we can
always assume that.
This patch also changes all current code that directly sets the
dev.pm_domain pointer.
Signed-off-by: Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu.vizoso@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Presently when a user-space process issues CXL_IOCTL_START_WORK ioctl we
store the pid of the current task_struct and use it to get pointer to
the mm_struct of the process, while processing page or segment faults
from the capi card. However this causes issues when the thread that had
originally issued the start-work ioctl exits in which case the stored
pid is no more valid and the cxl driver is unable to handle faults as
the mm_struct corresponding to process is no more accessible.
This patch fixes this issue by using the mm_struct of the next alive
task in the thread group. This is done by iterating over all the tasks
in the thread group starting from thread group leader and calling
get_task_mm on each one of them. When a valid mm_struct is obtained the
pid of the associated task is stored in the context replacing the
exiting one for handling future faults.
The patch introduces a new function named get_mem_context that checks if
the current task pointed to by ctx->pid is dead? If yes it performs the
steps described above. Also a new variable cxl_context.glpid is
introduced which stores the pid of the thread group leader associated
with the context owning task.
Reported-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Frank Haverkamp <HAVERKAM@de.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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A process element (defined in CAIA) keeps track of the endianess of
contexts through the Little Endian (LE) bit of the State Register. It
is currently set for user contexts, but was somehow forgotten for
kernel contexts, so this patch fixes it.
It could lead to erratic behavior from an AFU when the context is
attached through the kernel API.
Fixes: 2f663527bd6a ("cxl: Configure PSL for kernel contexts and merge code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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This allows to write
drm-$(CONFIG_AGP) += drm_agpsupport.o
without having to handle CONFIG_AGP=y vs. CONFIG_AGP=m. Only support
this syntax for modules, since built-in code depending on something
modular cannot work and init/Makefile actually relies on the current
semantics. There are a few drivers which adapted to the current
semantics out of necessity; these are fixed to also work when the
respective subsystem is modular.
Acked-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com> [chipidea]
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>
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When writing a value to config space, cxl_pcie_write_config() calls
cxl_pcie_config_info() to obtain a mask and shift value, shifts the new
value accordingly, then uses the mask to combine the shifted value with the
existing value at the address as part of a read-modify-write pattern.
Currently, we use a logical OR operator rather than a bitwise OR operator,
which means any use of this function results in an incorrect value being
written. Replace the logical OR operator with a bitwise OR operator so the
value is written correctly.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 6f7f0b3df6d4 ("cxl: Add AFU virtual PHB and kernel API")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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An idr warning is reported when a context is release after the capi card
is unbound from the cxl driver via sysfs. Below are the steps to
reproduce:
1. Create multiple afu contexts in an user-space application using libcxl.
2. Unbind capi card from cxl using command of form
echo <capi-card-pci-addr> > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/cxl-pci/unbind
3. Exit/kill the application owning afu contexts.
After above steps a warning message is usually seen in the kernel logs
of the form "idr_remove called for id=<context-id> which is not
allocated."
This is caused by the function cxl_release_afu which destroys the
contexts_idr table. So when a context is release no entry for context pe
is found in the contexts_idr table and idr code prints this warning.
This patch fixes this issue by increasing & decreasing the ref-count on
the afu device when a context is initialized or when its freed
respectively. This prevents the afu from being released until all the
afu contexts have been released. The patch introduces two new functions
namely cxl_afu_get/put that manage the ref-count on the afu device.
Also the patch removes code inside cxl_dev_context_init that increases ref
on the afu device as its guaranteed to be alive during this function.
Reported-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
"This series contains HCH's changes to absorb configfs attribute
->show() + ->store() function pointer usage from it's original
tree-wide consumers, into common configfs code.
It includes usb-gadget, target w/ drivers, netconsole and ocfs2
changes to realize the improved simplicity, that now renders the
original include/target/configfs_macros.h CPP magic for fabric drivers
and others, unnecessary and obsolete.
And with common code in place, new configfs attributes can be added
easier than ever before.
Note, there are further improvements in-flight from other folks for
v4.5 code in configfs land, plus number of target fixes for post -rc1
code"
In the meantime, a new user of the now-removed old configfs API came in
through the char/misc tree in commit 7bd1d4093c2f ("stm class: Introduce
an abstraction for System Trace Module devices").
This merge resolution comes from Alexander Shishkin, who updated his stm
class tracing abstraction to account for the removal of the old
show_attribute and store_attribute methods in commit 517982229f78
("configfs: remove old API") from this pull. As Alexander says about
that patch:
"There's no need to keep an extra wrapper structure per item and the
awkward show_attribute/store_attribute item ops are no longer needed.
This patch converts policy code to the new api, all the while making
the code quite a bit smaller and easier on the eyes.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>"
That patch was folded into the merge so that the tree should be fully
bisectable.
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (23 commits)
configfs: remove old API
ocfs2/cluster: use per-attribute show and store methods
ocfs2/cluster: move locking into attribute store methods
netconsole: use per-attribute show and store methods
target: use per-attribute show and store methods
spear13xx_pcie_gadget: use per-attribute show and store methods
dlm: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_serial: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_phonet: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_obex: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_uac2: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_uac1: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_mass_storage: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_sourcesink: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_printer: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_midi: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_loopback: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/ether: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_acm: use per-attribute show and store methods
usb-gadget/f_hid: use per-attribute show and store methods
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Olof Johansson:
"As we've enabled multiplatform kernels on ARM, and greatly done away
with the contents under arch/arm/mach-*, there's still need for
SoC-related drivers to go somewhere.
Many of them go in through other driver trees, but we still have
drivers/soc to hold some of the "doesn't fit anywhere" lowlevel code
that might be shared between ARM and ARM64 (or just in general makes
sense to not have under the architecture directory).
This branch contains mostly such code:
- Drivers for qualcomm SoCs for SMEM, SMD and SMD-RPM, used to
communicate with power management blocks on these SoCs for use by
clock, regulator and bus frequency drivers.
- Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus driver, again used to communicate with
PMICs.
- Drivers for ARM's SCPI (System Control Processor). Not to be
confused with PSCI (Power State Coordination Interface). SCPI is
used to communicate with the assistant embedded cores doing power
management, and we have yet to see how many of them will implement
this for their hardware vs abstracting in other ways (or not at all
like in the past).
- To make confusion between SCPI and PSCI more likely, this release
also includes an update of PSCI to interface version 1.0.
- Rockchip support for power domains.
- A driver to talk to the firmware on Raspberry Pi"
* tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (57 commits)
soc: qcom: smd-rpm: Correct size of outgoing message
bus: sunxi-rsb: Add driver for Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus
bus: sunxi-rsb: Add Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) controller bindings
ARM: bcm2835: add mutual inclusion protection
drivers: psci: make PSCI 1.0 functions initialization version dependent
dt-bindings: Correct paths in Rockchip power domains binding document
soc: rockchip: power-domain: don't try to print the clock name in error case
soc: qcom/smem: add HWSPINLOCK dependency
clk: berlin: add cpuclk
ARM: berlin: dts: add CLKID_CPU for BG2Q
ARM: bcm2835: Add the Raspberry Pi firmware driver
soc: qcom: smem: Move RPM message ram out of smem DT node
soc: qcom: smd-rpm: Correct the active vs sleep state flagging
soc: qcom: smd: delete unneeded of_node_put
firmware: qcom-scm: build for correct architecture level
soc: qcom: smd: Correct SMEM items for upper channels
qcom-scm: add missing prototype for qcom_scm_is_available()
qcom-scm: fix endianess issue in __qcom_scm_is_call_available
soc: qcom: smd: Reject send of too big packets
soc: qcom: smd: Handle big endian CPUs
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Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- most of the rest of MM
- procfs
- lib/ updates
- printk updates
- bitops infrastructure tweaks
- checkpatch updates
- nilfs2 update
- signals
- various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (102 commits)
ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Trivial stuff from trivial tree that can be trivially summed up as:
- treewide drop of spurious unlikely() before IS_ERR() from Viresh
Kumar
- cosmetic fixes (that don't really affect basic functionality of the
driver) for pktcdvd and bcache, from Julia Lawall and Petr Mladek
- various comment / printk fixes and updates all over the place"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
bcache: Really show state of work pending bit
hwmon: applesmc: fix comment typos
Kconfig: remove comment about scsi_wait_scan module
class_find_device: fix reference to argument "match"
debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values
net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
mm: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
drivers: net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
drivers: misc: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
UBI: Update comments to reflect UBI_METAONLY flag
pktcdvd: drop null test before destroy functions
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__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep. Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep. The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake. As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags. This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd
Pull MFD updates from Lee Jones:
"New Device Support:
- Add support for 88pm860; 88pm80x
- Add support for 24c08 EEPROM; at24
- Add support for Broxton Whiskey Cove; intel*
- Add support for RTS522A; rts5227
- Add support for I2C devices; intel_quark_i2c_gpio
New Functionality:
- Add microphone support; arizona
- Add general purpose switch support; arizona
- Add fuel-gauge support; da9150-core
- Add shutdown support; sec-core
- Add charger support; tps65217
- Add flexible serial communication unit support; atmel-flexcom
- Add power button support; axp20x
- Add led-flash support; rt5033
Core Frameworks:
- Supply a generic macro for defining Regmap IRQs
- Rework ACPI child device matching
Fix-ups:
- Use Regmap to access registers; tps6105x
- Use DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED() macro; da9150
- Re-arrange device registration order; intel_quark_i2c_gpio
- Allow OF matching; cros_ec_i2c, atmel-hlcdc, hi6421-pmic, max8997, sm501
- Handle deferred probe; twl6040
- Improve accuracy of headphone detect; arizona
- Unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() removal; bcm590xx, rt5033
- Remove unused code; htc-i2cpld, arizona, pcf50633-irq, sec-core
- Simplify code; kempld, rts5209, da903x, lm3533, da9052, arizona
- Remove #iffery; arizona
- DT binding adaptions; many
Bug Fixes:
- Fix possible NULL pointer dereference; wm831x, tps6105x
- Fix 64bit bug; intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc
- Fix signedness issue; arizona"
* tag 'mfd-for-linus-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd: (73 commits)
bindings: mfd: s2mps11: Add documentation for s2mps15 PMIC
mfd: sec-core: Remove unused s2mpu02-rtc and s2mpu02-clk children
extcon: arizona: Add extcon specific device tree binding document
MAINTAINERS: Add binding docs for Cirrus Logic/Wolfson Arizona devices
mfd: arizona: Remove bindings covered in new subsystem specific docs
mfd: rt5033: Add RT5033 Flash led sub device
mfd: lpss: Add Intel Broxton PCI IDs
mfd: lpss: Add Broxton ACPI IDs
mfd: arizona: Signedness bug in arizona_runtime_suspend()
mfd: axp20x: Add a cell for the power button part of the, axp288 PMICs
mfd: dt-bindings: Document pulled down WRSTBI pin on S2MPS1X
mfd: sec-core: Disable buck voltage reset on watchdog falling edge
mfd: sec-core: Dump PMIC revision to find out the HW
mfd: arizona: Use correct type ID for device tree config
mfd: arizona: Remove use of codec build config #ifdefs
mfd: arizona: Simplify adding subdevices
mfd: arizona: Downgrade type mismatch messages to dev_warn
mfd: arizona: Factor out checking of jack detection state
mfd: arizona: Factor out DCVDD isolation control
mfd: Make TPS6105X select REGMAP_I2C
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
Feng
- Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
- Emit GNU & SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
- Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
- Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
Ellerman
- Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
- Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
- Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
K.V
- Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
- pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
- Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
Fontenot
- Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
- Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
- Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
Mendoza-Jonas
- Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
Colin Ian King
- Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
- Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
Kumar K.V
- Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
- Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
- Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
- discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
- Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
Gortmaker
- Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
- Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
- Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
- Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
Ellerman
- Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
- Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
Ellerman
- Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
Jaillet
- Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
- EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
- Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
- Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
Ellerman
- Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
Kirjanov
- Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
- Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
- nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
- nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
Jaillet
- drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
Koskinen
- agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
- cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
- scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
Michael Ellerman
- scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
with O= from Michael Ellerman
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
some fixes.
- MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.
* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi updates from Mark Brown:
"Quite a lot of activity in SPI this cycle, almost all of it in drivers
with a few minor improvements and tweaks in the core.
- Updates to pxa2xx to support Intel Broxton and multiple chip selects.
- Support for big endian in the bcm63xx driver.
- Multiple slave support for the mt8173
- New driver for the auxiliary SPI controller in bcm2835 SoCs.
- Support for Layerscale SoCs in the Freescale DSPI driver"
* tag 'spi-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: (87 commits)
spi: pxa2xx: Rework self-initiated platform data creation for non-ACPI
spi: pxa2xx: Add support for Intel Broxton
spi: pxa2xx: Detect number of enabled Intel LPSS SPI chip select signals
spi: pxa2xx: Add output control for multiple Intel LPSS chip selects
spi: pxa2xx: Use LPSS prefix for defines that are Intel LPSS specific
spi: Add DSPI support for layerscape family
spi: ti-qspi: improve ->remove() callback
spi/spi-xilinx: Fix race condition on last word read
spi: Drop owner assignment from spi_drivers
spi: Add THIS_MODULE to spi_driver in SPI core
spi: Setup the master controller driver before setting the chipselect
spi: dw: replace magic constant by DW_SPI_DR
spi: mediatek: mt8173 spi multiple devices support
spi: mediatek: handle controller_data in mtk_spi_setup
spi: mediatek: remove mtk_spi_config
spi: mediatek: Update document devicetree bindings to support multiple devices
spi: fix kernel-doc warnings about missing return desc in spi.c
spi: fix kernel-doc warnings about missing return desc in spi.h
spi: pxa2xx: Align a few defines
spi: pxa2xx: Save other reg_cs_ctrl bits when configuring chip select
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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 update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of
different driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest
with the addition of some new platforms that are now supported. Full
details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (181 commits)
fpga: socfpga: Fix check of return value of devm_request_irq
lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
mcb: Destroy IDA on module unload
mcb: Do not return zero on error path in mcb_pci_probe()
mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup
mei: bus: use correct lock ordering
mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output
char: ipmi: ipmi_ssif: Replace timeval with timespec64
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix issue with drvdata being overwritten.
fpga manager: remove unnecessary null pointer checks
fpga manager: ensure lifetime with of_fpga_mgr_get
fpga: zynq-fpga: Change fw format to handle bin instead of bit.
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix unbalanced clock handling
misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space
coresight: etm3x: adding documentation for sysFS's cpu interface
vme: 8-bit status/id takes 256 values, not 255
fpga manager: Adding FPGA Manager support for Xilinx Zynq 7000
ARM: zynq: dt: Updated devicetree for Zynq 7000 platform.
ARM: dt: fpga: Added binding docs for Xilinx Zynq FPGA manager.
ver_linux: proc/modules, limit text processing to 'sed'
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the "big" driver core updates for 4.4-rc1. Primarily a bunch
of debugfs updates, with a smattering of minor driver core fixes and
updates as well.
All have been in linux-next for a long time"
* tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()
of: to support binding numa node to specified device in devicetree
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only bool file ops
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only size_t file ops
debugfs: Add read-only/write-only x64 file ops
debugfs: Consolidate file mode checks in debugfs_create_*()
Revert "mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering"
driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules
mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering
devres: fix a for loop bounds check
CMA: fix CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES overflow in 64bit
base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally
sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.
base: soc: siplify ida usage
kobject: move EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros next to corresponding definitions
kobject: explain what kobject's sd field is
debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values
debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool()
ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'
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'spi/topic/omap-uwire', 'spi/topic/owner', 'spi/topic/pxa' and 'spi/topic/pxa2xx' into spi-next
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Add a copy_to_user() call to the ACCESS_USERSPACE test
prior to attempting direct dereferencing of the user
address to ensure the page is present. Otherwise,
a fault occurs on arm kernels even prior to the introduction
of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN, and there is no difference in
behavior for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n vs CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y.
Before this change, for any value of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6fe8000
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b6fe8000
After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6efc000
lkdtm: attempting bad write at b6efc000
After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6f7d000
Unhandled fault: page domain fault (0x01b) at 0xb6f7d000
...
Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The mei bus fixup use dev_xxx services for printing
to kernel log so we need to setup the device name
prior to running fixup hooks.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The correct lock order is
cl_bus_lock
device_lock
me_clients_rwsem
This order was violated in bus rescan and remove routines
when me_client_rwsem was locked before cl_bus_lock.
Chain exists of:
[ 4.321653] &dev->device_lock --> &dev->me_clients_rwsem -->
&dev->cl_bus_lock
[ 4.321653]
[ 4.321679] Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[ 4.321679]
[ 4.321693] CPU0 CPU1
[ 4.321701] ---- ----
[ 4.321709] lock(&dev->cl_bus_lock);
[ 4.321720]
lock(&dev->me_clients_rwsem);
[ 4.321733] lock(&dev->cl_bus_lock);
[ 4.321745] lock(&dev->device_lock);
[ 4.321755]
[ 4.321755] *** DEADLOCK ***
[ 4.321755]
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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An spi_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.
Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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There is a 24c08 chip connected to i2c bus on Intel Galileo Gen2 board. Enable
it via ACPI ID INT3499.
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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The change fixes a warning found by sparse:
drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20: expected void *base
drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20: got void [noderef] <asn:2>*
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This change adds functionality to operate on reserved SRAM partitions
described in device tree file. Two partition properties are added,
"pool" and "export", the first one allows to share a specific partition
for usage by a kernel consumer in the same manner as it is done for
the whole SRAM device, and "export" property provides access to some
SRAM area from userspace over sysfs interface. Practically it is
possible to specify both properties for an SRAM partition, however
simultaneous access from a kernel consumer and from userspace is not
serialized, but still the combination may be useful for debugging
purpose.
The change opens the following scenarios of SRAM usage:
* updates in a particular SRAM area specified by offset and size are
done by bootloader, then this information is utilized by the kernel,
* a particular SRAM area is rw accessed from userspace, the stored
data is persistent on soft reboots,
* a device driver secures SRAM area for its purposes,
* etc.
Note, strictly speaking the added optional properties describe policy
of SRAM usage, rather than hardware, but here the policy mostly
resembles flash partitions in devicetree, which is undoubtedly
a very popular option but it does not describe hardware.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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