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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm
Pull pwm updates from Thierry Reding:
"This set of changes contains support for PWM signal capture in the STi
driver as well as support for the PWM controller found on Meson SoCs.
There's also support added for the MediaTek MT2701 and SunXi H3 to the
existing drivers.
Other than that there's a fair set of miscellaneous cleanups and fixes
across the board"
* tag 'pwm/for-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/thierry.reding/linux-pwm: (24 commits)
pwm: meson: Handle unknown ID values
pwm: sti: Take the opportunity to conduct a little house keeping
pwm: sti: It's now valid for number of PWM channels to be zero
pwm: sti: Add PWM capture callback
pwm: sti: Add support for PWM capture interrupts
pwm: sti: Initialise PWM capture device data
pwm: sti: Supply PWM Capture clock handling
pwm: sti: Supply PWM capture register addresses and bit locations
pwm: sti: Only request clock rate when needed
pwm: sti: Reorganise register names in preparation for new functionality
pwm: sti: Rename channel => device
dt-bindings: pwm: sti: Update DT bindings for capture support
pwm: lpc-18xx: use pwm_set_chip_data
pwm: sunxi: Add H3 support
pwm: Add support for Meson PWM Controller
dt-bindings: pwm: Add bindings for Meson PWM Controller
pwm: samsung: Fix to use lowest div for large enough modulation bits
pwm: pwm-tipwmss: Remove all runtime PM gets/puts
pwm: cros-ec: Add __packed to prevent padding
pwm: Add MediaTek MT2701 display PWM driver support
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux
Pull thermal managament updates from Zhang Rui:
- Enhance thermal "userspace" governor to export the reason when a
thermal event is triggered and delivered to user space. From Srinivas
Pandruvada
- Introduce a single TSENS thermal driver for the different versions of
the TSENS IP that exist, on different qcom msm/apq SoCs'. Support for
msm8916, msm8960, msm8974 and msm8996 families is also added. From
Rajendra Nayak
- Introduce hardware-tracked trip points support to the device tree
thermal sensor framework. The framework supports an arbitrary number
of trip points. Whenever the current temperature is changed, the trip
points immediately below and above the current temperature are found,
driver callback is invoked to program the hardware to get notified
when either of the two trip points are triggered. Hardware-tracked
trip points support for rockchip thermal driver is also added at the
same time. From Sascha Hauer, Caesar Wang
- Introduce a new thermal driver, which enables TMU (Thermal Monitor
Unit) on QorIQ platform. From Jia Hongtao
- Introduce a new thermal driver for Maxim MAX77620. From Laxman
Dewangan
- Introduce a new thermal driver for Intel platforms using WhiskeyCove
PMIC. From Bin Gao
- Add mt2701 chip support to MTK thermal driver. From Dawei Chien
- Enhance Tegra thermal driver to enable soctherm node and set
"critical", "hot" trips, for Tegra124, Tegra132, Tegra210. From Wei
Ni
- Add resume support for tango thermal driver. From Marc Gonzalez
- several small fixes and improvements for rockchip, qcom, imx, rcar,
mtk thermal drivers and thermal core code. From Caesar Wang, Keerthy,
Rocky Hao, Wei Yongjun, Peter Robinson, Bui Duc Phuc, Axel Lin, Hugh
Kang
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rzhang/linux: (48 commits)
thermal: int3403: Process trip change notification
thermal: int340x: New Interface to read trip and notify
thermal: user_space gov: Add additional information in uevent
thermal: Enhance thermal_zone_device_update for events
arm64: tegra: set hot trips for Tegra210
arm64: tegra: set critical trips for Tegra210
arm64: tegra: add soctherm node for Tegra210
arm64: tegra: set hot trips for Tegra132
arm64: tegra: set critical trips for Tegra132
arm64: tegra: use tegra132-soctherm for Tegra132
arm: tegra: set hot trips for Tegra124
arm: tegra: set critical trips for Tegra124
thermal: tegra: add hw-throttle for Tegra132
thermal: tegra: add hw-throttle function
of: Add bindings of hw throttle for Tegra soctherm
thermal: mtk_thermal: Check return value of devm_thermal_zone_of_sensor_register
thermal: Add Mediatek thermal driver for mt2701.
dt-bindings: thermal: Add binding document for Mediatek thermal controller
thermal: max77620: Add thermal driver for reporting junction temp
thermal: max77620: Add DT binding doc for thermal driver
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux
Pull fbdev updates from Tomi Valkeinen:
"Main changes:
- amba-cldc: DT backlight support, Nomadik support, Versatile
improvements, fixes
- efifb: fix fbcon RGB565 palette
- exynos: remove unused DSI driver"
* tag 'fbdev-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tomba/linux: (42 commits)
video: smscufx: remove unused variable
matroxfb: fix size of memcpy
fbdev: ssd1307fb: fix a possible NULL dereference
fbdev: ssd1307fb: constify the device_info pointer
simplefb: Disable and release clocks and regulators in destroy callback
video: fbdev: constify fb_fix_screeninfo and fb_var_screeninfo structures
matroxfb: constify local structures
video: fbdev: i810: add in missing white space in error message text
video: fbdev: add missing \n at end of printk error message
ARM: exynos_defconfig: Remove old non-working MIPI driver
video: fbdev: exynos: Remove old non-working MIPI driver
omapfb: fix return value check in dsi_bind()
MAINTAINERS: update fbdev entries
video: fbdev: offb: Call pci_enable_device() before using the PCI VGA device
fbdev: vfb: simplify memory management
fbdev: vfb: add option for video mode
fbdev: vfb: add description to module parameters
video: fbdev: intelfb: remove impossible condition
fb: adv7393: off by one in probe function
video: fbdev: pxafb: add missing of_node_put() in of_get_pxafb_mode_info()
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Core:
- Fence destaging work
- DRIVER_LEGACY to split off legacy drm drivers
- drm_mm refactoring
- Splitting drm_crtc.c into chunks and documenting better
- Display info fixes
- rbtree support for prime buffer lookup
- Simple VGA DAC driver
Panel:
- Add Nexus 7 panel
- More simple panels
i915:
- Refactoring GEM naming
- Refactored vma/active tracking
- Lockless request lookups
- Better stolen memory support
- FBC fixes
- SKL watermark fixes
- VGPU improvements
- dma-buf fencing support
- Better DP dongle support
amdgpu:
- Powerplay for Iceland asics
- Improved GPU reset support
- UVD/VEC powergating support for CZ/ST
- Preinitialised VRAM buffer support
- Virtual display support
- Initial SI support
- GTT rework
- PCI shutdown callback support
- HPD IRQ storm fixes
amdkfd:
- bugfixes
tilcdc:
- Atomic modesetting support
mediatek:
- AAL + GAMMA engine support
- Hook up gamma LUT
- Temporal dithering support
imx:
- Pixel clock from devicetree
- drm bridge support for LVDS bridges
- active plane reconfiguration
- VDIC deinterlacer support
- Frame synchronisation unit support
- Color space conversion support
analogix:
- PSR support
- Better panel on/off support
rockchip:
- rk3399 vop/crtc support
- PSR support
vc4:
- Interlaced vblank timing
- 3D rendering CPU overhead reduction
- HDMI output fixes
tda998x:
- HDMI audio ASoC support
sunxi:
- Allwinner A33 support
- better TCON support
msm:
- DT binding cleanups
- Explicit fence-fd support
sti:
- remove sti415/416 support
etnaviv:
- MMUv2 refactoring
- GC3000 support
exynos:
- Refactoring HDMI DCC/PHY
- G2D pm regression fix
- Page fault issues with wait for vblank
There is no nouveau work in this tree, as Ben didn't get a pull
request in, and he was fighting moving to atomic and adding mst
support, so maybe best it waits for a cycle"
* tag 'drm-for-v4.9' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1412 commits)
drm/crtc: constify drm_crtc_index parameter
drm/i915: Fix conflict resolution from backmerge of v4.8-rc8 to drm-next
drm/i915/guc: Unwind GuC workqueue reservation if request construction fails
drm/i915: Reset the breadcrumbs IRQ more carefully
drm/i915: Force relocations via cpu if we run out of idle aperture
drm/i915: Distinguish last emitted request from last submitted request
drm/i915: Allow DP to work w/o EDID
drm/i915: Move long hpd handling into the hotplug work
drm/i915/execlists: Reinitialise context image after GPU hang
drm/i915: Use correct index for backtracking HUNG semaphores
drm/i915: Unalias obj->phys_handle and obj->userptr
drm/i915: Just clear the mmiodebug before a register access
drm/i915/gen9: only add the planes actually affected by ddb changes
drm/i915: Allow PCH DPLL sharing regardless of DPLL_SDVO_HIGH_SPEED
drm/i915/bxt: Fix HDMI DPLL configuration
drm/i915/gen9: fix the watermark res_blocks value
drm/i915/gen9: fix plane_blocks_per_line on watermarks calculations
drm/i915/gen9: minimum scanlines for Y tile is not always 4
drm/i915/gen9: fix the WaWmMemoryReadLatency implementation
drm/i915/kbl: KBL also needs to run the SAGV code
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Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
- a few block updates that fell in my lap
- lib/ updates
- checkpatch
- autofs
- ipc
- a ton of misc other things
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (100 commits)
mm: split gfp_mask and mapping flags into separate fields
fs: use mapping_set_error instead of opencoded set_bit
treewide: remove redundant #include <linux/kconfig.h>
hung_task: allow hung_task_panic when hung_task_warnings is 0
kthread: add kerneldoc for kthread_create()
kthread: better support freezable kthread workers
kthread: allow to modify delayed kthread work
kthread: allow to cancel kthread work
kthread: initial support for delayed kthread work
kthread: detect when a kthread work is used by more workers
kthread: add kthread_destroy_worker()
kthread: add kthread_create_worker*()
kthread: allow to call __kthread_create_on_node() with va_list args
kthread/smpboot: do not park in kthread_create_on_cpu()
kthread: kthread worker API cleanup
kthread: rename probe_kthread_data() to kthread_probe_data()
scripts/tags.sh: enable code completion in VIM
mm: kmemleak: avoid using __va() on addresses that don't have a lowmem mapping
kdump, vmcoreinfo: report memory sections virtual addresses
ipc/sem.c: add cond_resched in exit_sme
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mapping->flags currently encodes two different things into a single flag.
It contains sticky gfp_mask for page cache allocations and AS_ codes used
to report errors/enospace and other states which are mapping specific.
Condensing the two semantically unrelated things saves few bytes but it
also complicates other things. For one thing the gfp flags space is
reduced and in fact we are already running out of available bits. It can
be assumed that more gfp flags will be necessary later on.
To not introduce the address_space grow (at least on x86_64) we can stick
it right after private_lock because we have a hole there.
struct address_space {
struct inode * host; /* 0 8 */
struct radix_tree_root page_tree; /* 8 16 */
spinlock_t tree_lock; /* 24 4 */
atomic_t i_mmap_writable; /* 28 4 */
struct rb_root i_mmap; /* 32 8 */
struct rw_semaphore i_mmap_rwsem; /* 40 40 */
/* --- cacheline 1 boundary (64 bytes) was 16 bytes ago --- */
long unsigned int nrpages; /* 80 8 */
long unsigned int nrexceptional; /* 88 8 */
long unsigned int writeback_index; /* 96 8 */
const struct address_space_operations * a_ops; /* 104 8 */
long unsigned int flags; /* 112 8 */
spinlock_t private_lock; /* 120 4 */
/* XXX 4 bytes hole, try to pack */
/* --- cacheline 2 boundary (128 bytes) --- */
struct list_head private_list; /* 128 16 */
void * private_data; /* 144 8 */
/* size: 152, cachelines: 3, members: 14 */
/* sum members: 148, holes: 1, sum holes: 4 */
/* last cacheline: 24 bytes */
};
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912114852.GI14524@dhcp22.suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kernel source files need not include <linux/kconfig.h> explicitly
because the top Makefile forces to include it with:
-include $(srctree)/include/linux/kconfig.h
This commit removes explicit includes except the following:
* arch/s390/include/asm/facilities_src.h
* tools/testing/radix-tree/linux/kernel.h
These two are used for host programs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473656164-11929-1-git-send-email-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This macro is referenced in other kerneldoc comments, but lacks one of its
own; fix that.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826072313.726a3485@lwn.net
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Reported-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch allows to make kthread worker freezable via a new @flags
parameter. It will allow to avoid an init work in some kthreads.
It currently does not affect the function of kthread_worker_fn()
but it might help to do some optimization or fixes eventually.
I currently do not know about any other use for the @flags
parameter but I believe that we will want more flags
in the future.
Finally, I hope that it will not cause confusion with @flags member
in struct kthread. Well, I guess that we will want to rework the
basic kthreads implementation once all kthreads are converted into
kthread workers or workqueues. It is possible that we will merge
the two structures.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-12-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are situations when we need to modify the delay of a delayed kthread
work. For example, when the work depends on an event and the initial delay
means a timeout. Then we want to queue the work immediately when the event
happens.
This patch implements kthread_mod_delayed_work() as inspired workqueues.
It cancels the timer, removes the work from any worker list and queues it
again with the given timeout.
A very special case is when the work is being canceled at the same time.
It might happen because of the regular kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync()
or by another kthread_mod_delayed_work(). In this case, we do nothing and
let the other operation win. This should not normally happen as the caller
is supposed to synchronize these operations a reasonable way.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-11-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We are going to use kthread workers more widely and sometimes we will need
to make sure that the work is neither pending nor running.
This patch implements cancel_*_sync() operations as inspired by
workqueues. Well, we are synchronized against the other operations via
the worker lock, we use del_timer_sync() and a counter to count parallel
cancel operations. Therefore the implementation might be easier.
First, we check if a worker is assigned. If not, the work has newer been
queued after it was initialized.
Second, we take the worker lock. It must be the right one. The work must
not be assigned to another worker unless it is initialized in between.
Third, we try to cancel the timer when it exists. The timer is deleted
synchronously to make sure that the timer call back is not running. We
need to temporary release the worker->lock to avoid a possible deadlock
with the callback. In the meantime, we set work->canceling counter to
avoid any queuing.
Fourth, we try to remove the work from a worker list. It might be
the list of either normal or delayed works.
Fifth, if the work is running, we call kthread_flush_work(). It might
take an arbitrary time. We need to release the worker-lock again. In the
meantime, we again block any queuing by the canceling counter.
As already mentioned, the check for a pending kthread work is done under a
lock. In compare with workqueues, we do not need to fight for a single
PENDING bit to block other operations. Therefore we do not suffer from
the thundering storm problem and all parallel canceling jobs might use
kthread_flush_work(). Any queuing is blocked until the counter gets zero.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-10-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We are going to use kthread_worker more widely and delayed works
will be pretty useful.
The implementation is inspired by workqueues. It uses a timer to queue
the work after the requested delay. If the delay is zero, the work is
queued immediately.
In compare with workqueues, each work is associated with a single worker
(kthread). Therefore the implementation could be much easier. In
particular, we use the worker->lock to synchronize all the operations with
the work. We do not need any atomic operation with a flags variable.
In fact, we do not need any state variable at all. Instead, we add a list
of delayed works into the worker. Then the pending work is listed either
in the list of queued or delayed works. And the existing check of pending
works is the same even for the delayed ones.
A work must not be assigned to another worker unless reinitialized.
Therefore the timer handler might expect that dwork->work->worker is valid
and it could simply take the lock. We just add some sanity checks to help
with debugging a potential misuse.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-9-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The current kthread worker users call flush() and stop() explicitly.
This function does the same plus it frees the kthread_worker struct
in one call.
It is supposed to be used together with kthread_create_worker*() that
allocates struct kthread_worker.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-7-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kthread workers are currently created using the classic kthread API,
namely kthread_run(). kthread_worker_fn() is passed as the @threadfn
parameter.
This patch defines kthread_create_worker() and
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() functions that hide implementation details.
They enforce using kthread_worker_fn() for the main thread. But I doubt
that there are any plans to create any alternative. In fact, I think that
we do not want any alternative main thread because it would be hard to
support consistency with the rest of the kthread worker API.
The naming and function of kthread_create_worker() is inspired by the
workqueues API like the rest of the kthread worker API.
The kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() variant is motivated by the original
kthread_create_on_cpu(). Note that we need to bind per-CPU kthread
workers already when they are created. It makes the life easier.
kthread_bind() could not be used later for an already running worker.
This patch does _not_ convert existing kthread workers. The kthread
worker API need more improvements first, e.g. a function to destroy the
worker.
IMPORTANT:
kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() allows to use any format of the worker
name, in compare with kthread_create_on_cpu(). The good thing is that it
is more generic. The bad thing is that most users will need to pass the
cpu number in two parameters, e.g. kthread_create_worker_on_cpu(cpu,
"helper/%d", cpu).
To be honest, the main motivation was to avoid the need for an empty
va_list. The only legal way was to create a helper function that would be
called with an empty list. Other attempts caused compilation warnings or
even errors on different architectures.
There were also other alternatives, for example, using #define or
splitting __kthread_create_worker(). The used solution looked like the
least ugly.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-6-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.
The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues. Each
worker has a dedicated kthread. It runs a generic function that process
queued works. It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.
This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:
__init_kthread_worker() -> __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker() -> kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work() -> kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work() -> kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work() -> kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work() -> kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker() -> kthread_flush_worker()
Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.
Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:
+ "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".
+ INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros
+ init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
functions. It looks much better if all the functions
use the same scheme.
+ There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
functions use the same naming scheme.
+ there are several precedents for such init() function
names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
jump_label_init_type(), regmap_init_mmio_clk(),
+ It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.
[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Patch series "kthread: Kthread worker API improvements"
The intention of this patchset is to make it easier to manipulate and
maintain kthreads. Especially, I want to replace all the custom main
cycles with a generic one. Also I want to make the kthreads sleep in a
consistent state in a common place when there is no work.
This patch (of 11):
A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name of the
subsystem.
This patch fixes the name of probe_kthread_data(). The other wrong
functions names are part of the kthread worker API and will be fixed
separately.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-2-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some of the kmemleak_*() callbacks in memblock, bootmem, CMA convert a
physical address to a virtual one using __va(). However, such physical
addresses may sometimes be located in highmem and using __va() is
incorrect, leading to inconsistent object tracking in kmemleak.
The following functions have been added to the kmemleak API and they take
a physical address as the object pointer. They only perform the
corresponding action if the address has a lowmem mapping:
kmemleak_alloc_phys
kmemleak_free_part_phys
kmemleak_not_leak_phys
kmemleak_ignore_phys
The affected calling places have been updated to use the new kmemleak
API.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531432-16503-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Reported-by: Vignesh R <vigneshr@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KASLR memory randomization can randomize the base of the physical memory
mapping (PAGE_OFFSET), vmalloc (VMALLOC_START) and vmemmap
(VMEMMAP_START). Adding these variables on VMCOREINFO so tools can easily
identify the base of each memory section.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1471531632-23003-1-git-send-email-thgarnie@google.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com>
Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Xunlei Pang <xlpang@redhat.com>
Cc: HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Eugene Surovegin <surovegin@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Commit 6d07b68ce16a ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") introduced a
race:
sem_lock has a fast path that allows parallel simple operations.
There are two reasons why a simple operation cannot run in parallel:
- a non-simple operations is ongoing (sma->sem_perm.lock held)
- a complex operation is sleeping (sma->complex_count != 0)
As both facts are stored independently, a thread can bypass the current
checks by sleeping in the right positions. See below for more details
(or kernel bugzilla 105651).
The patch fixes that by creating one variable (complex_mode)
that tracks both reasons why parallel operations are not possible.
The patch also updates stale documentation regarding the locking.
With regards to stable kernels:
The patch is required for all kernels that include the
commit 6d07b68ce16a ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()") (3.10?)
The alternative is to revert the patch that introduced the race.
The patch is safe for backporting, i.e. it makes no assumptions
about memory barriers in spin_unlock_wait().
Background:
Here is the race of the current implementation:
Thread A: (simple op)
- does the first "sma->complex_count == 0" test
Thread B: (complex op)
- does sem_lock(): This includes an array scan. But the scan can't
find Thread A, because Thread A does not own sem->lock yet.
- the thread does the operation, increases complex_count,
drops sem_lock, sleeps
Thread A:
- spin_lock(&sem->lock), spin_is_locked(sma->sem_perm.lock)
- sleeps before the complex_count test
Thread C: (complex op)
- does sem_lock (no array scan, complex_count==1)
- wakes up Thread B.
- decrements complex_count
Thread A:
- does the complex_count test
Bug:
Now both thread A and thread C operate on the same array, without
any synchronization.
Fixes: 6d07b68ce16a ("ipc/sem.c: optimize sem_lock()")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1469123695-5661-1-git-send-email-manfred@colorfullife.com
Reported-by: <felixh@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: <1vier1@web.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [3.10+]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Relay avoids calling wake_up_interruptible() for doing the wakeup of
readers/consumers, waiting for the generation of new data, from the
context of a process which produced the data. This is apparently done to
prevent the possibility of a deadlock in case Scheduler itself is is
generating data for the relay, after acquiring rq->lock.
The following patch used a timer (to be scheduled at next jiffy), for
delegating the wakeup to another context.
commit 7c9cb38302e78d24e37f7d8a2ea7eed4ae5f2fa7
Author: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@comcast.net>
Date: Wed May 9 02:34:01 2007 -0700
relay: use plain timer instead of delayed work
relay doesn't need to use schedule_delayed_work() for waking readers
when a simple timer will do.
Scheduling a plain timer, at next jiffies boundary, to do the wakeup
causes a significant wakeup latency for the Userspace client, which makes
relay less suitable for the high-frequency low-payload use cases where the
data gets generated at a very high rate, like multiple sub buffers getting
filled within a milli second. Moreover the timer is re-scheduled on every
newly produced sub buffer so the timer keeps getting pushed out if sub
buffers are filled in a very quick succession (less than a jiffy gap
between filling of 2 sub buffers). As a result relay runs out of sub
buffers to store the new data.
By using irq_work it is ensured that wakeup of userspace client, blocked
in the poll call, is done at earliest (through self IPI or next timer
tick) enabling it to always consume the data in time. Also this makes
relay consistent with printk & ring buffers (trace), as they too use
irq_work for deferred wake up of readers.
[arnd@arndb.de: select CONFIG_IRQ_WORK]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160912154035.3222156-1-arnd@arndb.de
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472906487-1559-1-git-send-email-akash.goel@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Akash Goel <akash.goel@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduce the DMA_ATTR_NO_WARN attribute, and document it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470092390-25451-2-git-send-email-mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Krzysztof Kozlowski <k.kozlowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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All call sites for randomize_range have been updated to use the much
simpler and more robust randomize_addr(). Remove the now unnecessary
code.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-8-jason@lakedaemon.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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To date, all callers of randomize_range() have set the length to 0, and
check for a zero return value. For the current callers, the only way to
get zero returned is if end <= start. Since they are all adding a
constant to the start address, this is unnecessary.
We can remove a bunch of needless checks by simplifying the API to do just
what everyone wants, return an address between [start, start + range).
While we're here, s/get_random_int/get_random_long/. No current call site
is adversely affected by get_random_int(), since all current range
requests are < UINT_MAX. However, we should match caller expectations to
avoid coming up short (ha!) in the future.
All current callers to randomize_range() chose to use the start address if
randomize_range() failed. Therefore, we simplify things by just returning
the start address on error.
randomize_range() will be removed once all callers have been converted
over to randomize_addr().
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160803233913.32511-2-jason@lakedaemon.net
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: "Roberts, William C" <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
Cc: Yann Droneaud <ydroneaud@opteya.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H . Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Kralevich <nnk@google.com>
Cc: Jeffrey Vander Stoep <jeffv@google.com>
Cc: Daniel Cashman <dcashman@android.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Since linux/auto_dev-ioctl.h wasn't included in include/linux/Kbuild
it wasn't moved to uapi/linux as part of the uapi series.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024901.12352.10984.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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linux/limits.h should be included by uapi instead of linux/auto_fs.h
so as not to cause compile error in userspace.
# cat << EOF > ./test1.c
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <linux/auto_fs.h>
> int main(void) {
> return 0;
> }
> EOF
# gcc -Wall -g ./test1.c
In file included from ./test1.c:2:0:
/usr/include/linux/auto_fs.h:54:12: error: 'NAME_MAX' undeclared here (not in a function)
char name[NAME_MAX+1];
^
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024856.12352.24092.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This macro was never used by neither kernel nor userspace, and also
doesn't represent "devid length" in bytes. (unless it was added to mean
something else).
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160812024820.12352.21210.stgit@pluto.themaw.net
Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi <kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <ikent@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Make isdigit into a simple range checking inline function:
return '0' <= c && c <= '9';
This code is 1 branch, not 2 because any reasonable compiler can
optimize this code into SUB+CMP, so the code
while (isdigit((c = *s++)))
...
remains 1 branch per iteration HOWEVER it suddenly doesn't do table
lookup priming cacheline nobody cares about.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160826190047.GA12536@p183.telecom.by
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are four cases I can see where we could end up with a NULL 'slot' in
radix_tree_next_slot(). Yet radix_tree_next_slot() never actually checks
whether 'slot' is NULL. It just happens that for the cases where 'slot'
is NULL, some other combination of factors prevents us from dereferencing
it.
It would be very easy for someone to unwittingly change one of these
factors without realizing that we are implicitly depending on it to save
us from a NULL pointer dereference.
Add a comment documenting the things that allow 'slot' to be safely passed
as NULL to radix_tree_next_slot().
Here are details on the four cases:
1) radix_tree_iter_retry() via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). In this case we currently aren't seeing a bug
because radix_tree_iter_retry() sets
iter->next_index = iter->index;
which means that in in the else case in radix_tree_next_slot(), 'count' is
zero, so we skip over the while() loop and effectively just return NULL
without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
2) radix_tree_iter_retry() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This case was giving us NULL pointer
dereferences in testing, and was fixed with this commit:
commit 3cb9185c6730 ("radix-tree: fix radix_tree_iter_retry() for tagged
iterators.")
This fix doesn't explicitly check for 'slot' being NULL, though, it works
around the NULL pointer dereference by instead zeroing iter->tags in
radix_tree_iter_retry(), which makes us bail out of the if() case in
radix_tree_next_slot() before we dereference 'slot'.
3) radix_tree_iter_next() via via a non-tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_slot(). This currently happens in shmem_tag_pins()
and shmem_partial_swap_usage().
As with non-tagged iteration, 'count' in the else case of
radix_tree_next_slot() is zero, so we skip over the while() loop and
effectively just return NULL without ever dereferencing 'slot'.
4) radix_tree_iter_next() via tagged iteration like
radix_tree_for_each_tagged(). This happens in shmem_wait_for_pins().
radix_tree_iter_next() zeros out iter->tags, so we end up exiting
radix_tree_next_slot() here:
if (flags & RADIX_TREE_ITER_TAGGED) {
void *canon = slot;
iter->tags >>= 1;
if (unlikely(!iter->tags))
return NULL;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160815194237.25967-2-ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <koct9i@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.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/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- Documentation improvements: conversion of all non-DocBook documents
to Sphinx and lots of fixes to the uAPI media book
- New PCI driver for Techwell TW5864 media grabber boards
- New SoC driver for ATMEL Image Sensor Controller
- Removal of some obsolete SoC drivers (s5p-tv driver and soc_camera
drivers)
- Addition of ST CEC driver
- Lots of drivers fixes, improvements and additions
* tag 'media/v4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (464 commits)
[media] ttusb_dec: avoid the risk of go past buffer
[media] cx23885: Fix some smatch warnings
[media] si2165: switch to regmap
[media] si2165: use i2c_client->dev instead of i2c_adapter->dev for logging
[media] si2165: Remove legacy attach
[media] cx231xx: attach si2165 driver via i2c_client
[media] cx231xx: Prepare for attaching new style i2c_client DVB demod drivers
[media] cx23885: attach si2165 driver via i2c_client
[media] si2165: support i2c_client attach
[media] si2165: avoid division by zero
[media] rcar-vin: add R-Car gen2 fallback compatibility string
[media] lgdt3306a: remove 20*50 msec unnecessary timeout
[media] cx25821: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
[media] cx25821: Drop Freeing of Workqueue
[media] cxd2841er: force 8MHz bandwidth for DVB-C if specified bw not supported
[media] redrat3: hardware-specific parameters
[media] redrat3: remove hw_timeout member
[media] cxd2841er: BER and SNR reading for ISDB-T
[media] dvb-usb: avoid link error with dib3000m{b,c|
[media] dvb-usb: split out common parts of dibusb
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
- support for interrupt virtualization in the AMD IOMMU driver. These
patches were shared with the KVM tree and are already merged through
that tree.
- generic DT-binding support for the ARM-SMMU driver. With this the
driver now makes use of the generic DMA-API code. This also required
some changes outside of the IOMMU code, but these are acked by the
respective maintainers.
- more cleanups and fixes all over the place.
* tag 'iommu-updates-v4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (40 commits)
iommu/amd: No need to wait iommu completion if no dte irq entry change
iommu/amd: Free domain id when free a domain of struct dma_ops_domain
iommu/amd: Use standard bitmap operation to set bitmap
iommu/amd: Clean up the cmpxchg64 invocation
iommu/io-pgtable-arm: Check for v7s-incapable systems
iommu/dma: Avoid PCI host bridge windows
iommu/dma: Add support for mapping MSIs
iommu/arm-smmu: Set domain geometry
iommu/arm-smmu: Wire up generic configuration support
Docs: dt: document ARM SMMU generic binding usage
iommu/arm-smmu: Convert to iommu_fwspec
iommu/arm-smmu: Intelligent SMR allocation
iommu/arm-smmu: Add a stream map entry iterator
iommu/arm-smmu: Streamline SMMU data lookups
iommu/arm-smmu: Refactor mmu-masters handling
iommu/arm-smmu: Keep track of S2CR state
iommu/arm-smmu: Consolidate stream map entry state
iommu/arm-smmu: Handle stream IDs more dynamically
iommu/arm-smmu: Set PRIVCFG in stage 1 STEs
iommu/arm-smmu: Support non-PCI devices with SMMUv3
...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm
Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"Aside from the recently added pmem sub-division support these have
been in -next for several releases with no reported issues. The sub-
division support was included in next-20161010 with no reported
issues. It passes all unit tests including new tests for all the new
functionality below.
Summary:
- PMEM sub-division support: Allow a single PMEM region to be divided
into multiple namespaces. Originally, ~2 years ago, it was thought
that partitions of a /dev/pmemX block device could handle
sub-allocations of persistent memory for different use cases. With
the decision to not support DAX mappings of raw block-devices, and
the genesis of device-dax, the need for having multiple
pmem-namespace per region has grown.
- Device-DAX unified inode: In support of dynamic-resizing of a
device-dax instance the kernel arranges for all mappings of a
device-dax node to share the same inode. This allows unmap /
truncate / invalidation events to affect all instances of the
device similar to the behavior of mmap on block devices.
- Hardware error scrubbing reworks: The original address-range-scrub
and badblocks tracking solution allowed clearing entries at the
individual namespace level, but it failed to clear the internal
list of media errors maintained at the bus level. The result was
that the next scrub or namespace disable/re-enable event would
restore the cleared badblocks, but now that is fixed. The v4.8
kernel introduced an auto-scrub-on-machine-check behavior to
repopulate the badblocks list. Now, in v4.9, the auto-scrub
behavior can be disabled and simply arrange for the error reported
in the machine-check to be added to the list.
- DIMM health-event notification support: ACPI 6.1 defines a
notification event code that can be send to ACPI NVDIMM devices. A
poll(2) capable file descriptor for these events can be obtained
from the nmemX/nfit/flags sysfs-attribute of a libnvdimm memory
device.
- Miscellaneous fixes: NVDIMM-N probe error, device-dax build error,
and a change to dedup the flush hint list to not flush the memory
controller more than necessary"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.9' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (39 commits)
/dev/dax: fix Kconfig dependency build breakage
dax: use correct dev_t value
dax: convert devm_create_dax_dev to PTR_ERR
libnvdimm, namespace: allow creation of multiple pmem-namespaces per region
libnvdimm, namespace: lift single pmem limit in scan_labels()
libnvdimm, namespace: filter out of range labels in scan_labels()
libnvdimm, namespace: enable allocation of multiple pmem namespaces
libnvdimm, namespace: update label implementation for multi-pmem
libnvdimm, namespace: expand pmem device naming scheme for multi-pmem
libnvdimm, region: update nd_region_available_dpa() for multi-pmem support
libnvdimm, namespace: sort namespaces by dpa at init
libnvdimm, namespace: allow multiple pmem-namespaces per region at scan time
tools/testing/nvdimm: support for sub-dividing a pmem region
libnvdimm, namespace: unify blk and pmem label scanning
libnvdimm, namespace: refactor uuid_show() into a namespace_to_uuid() helper
libnvdimm, label: convert label tracking to a linked list
libnvdimm, region: move region-mapping input-paramters to nd_mapping_desc
nvdimm: reduce duplicated wpq flushes
libnvdimm: clear the internal poison_list when clearing badblocks
pmem: reduce kmap_atomic sections to the memcpys only
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Netfilter list handling fix, from Linus.
2) RXRPC/AFS bug fixes from David Howells (oops on call to serviceless
endpoints, build warnings, missing notifications, etc.) From David
Howells.
3) Kernel log message missing newlines, from Colin Ian King.
4) Don't enter direct reclaim in netlink dumps, the idea is to use a
high order allocation first and fallback quickly to a 0-order
allocation if such a high-order one cannot be done cheaply and
without reclaim. From Eric Dumazet.
5) Fix firmware download errors in btusb bluetooth driver, from Ethan
Hsieh.
6) Missing Kconfig deps for QCOM_EMAC, from Geert Uytterhoeven.
7) Fix MDIO_XGENE dup Kconfig entry. From Laura Abbott.
8) Constrain ipv6 rtr_solicits sysctl values properly, from Maciej
Żenczykowski.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (65 commits)
netfilter: Fix slab corruption.
be2net: Enable VF link state setting for BE3
be2net: Fix TX stats for TSO packets
be2net: Update Copyright string in be_hw.h
be2net: NCSI FW section should be properly updated with ethtool for BE3
be2net: Provide an alternate way to read pf_num for BEx chips
wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc: Fix size used in dma_free_coherent()
net: macb: NULL out phydev after removing mdio bus
xen-netback: make sure that hashes are not send to unaware frontends
Fixing a bug in team driver due to incorrect 'unsigned int' to 'int' conversion
MAINTAINERS: add myself as a maintainer of xen-netback
ipv6 addrconf: disallow rtr_solicits < -1
Bluetooth: btusb: Fix atheros firmware download error
drivers: net: phy: Correct duplicate MDIO_XGENE entry
ethernet: qualcomm: QCOM_EMAC should depend on HAS_DMA and HAS_IOMEM
net: ethernet: mediatek: remove hwlro property in the device tree
net: ethernet: mediatek: get hw lro capability by the chip id instead of by the dtsi
net: ethernet: mediatek: get the chip id by ETHDMASYS registers
net: bgmac: Fix errant feature flag check
netlink: do not enter direct reclaim from netlink_dump()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro:
">rename2() work from Miklos + current_time() from Deepa"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
fs: Replace current_fs_time() with current_time()
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME_SEC with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: Replace CURRENT_TIME with current_time() for inode timestamps
fs: proc: Delete inode time initializations in proc_alloc_inode()
vfs: Add current_time() api
vfs: add note about i_op->rename changes to porting
fs: rename "rename2" i_op to "rename"
vfs: remove unused i_op->rename
fs: make remaining filesystems use .rename2
libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()
fs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE for local filesystems
ncpfs: fix unused variable warning
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Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
"I've not been very active this cycle, so these are mostly from Boris,
for the NAND flash subsystem.
NAND:
- Add the infrastructure to automate NAND timings configuration
- Provide a generic DT property to maximize ECC strength
- Some refactoring in the core bad block table handling, to help with
improving some of the logic in error cases.
- Minor cleanups and fixes
MTD:
- Add APIs for handling page pairing; this is necessary for reliably
supporting MLC and TLC NAND flash, where paired-page disturbance
affects reliability. Upper layers (e.g., UBI) should make use of
these in the near future"
* tag 'for-linus-20161008' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (35 commits)
mtd: nand: fix trivial spelling error
mtdpart: Propagate _get/put_device()
mtd: nand: Provide nand_cleanup() function to free NAND related resources
mtd: Kill the OF_MTD Kconfig option
mtd: nand: mxc: Test CONFIG_OF instead of CONFIG_OF_MTD
mtd: nand: Fix nand_command_lp() for 8bits opcodes
mtd: nand: sunxi: Support ECC maximization
mtd: nand: Support maximizing ECC when using software BCH
mtd: nand: Add an option to maximize the ECC strength
mtd: nand: mxc: Add timing setup for v2 controllers
mtd: nand: mxc: implement onfi get/set features
mtd: nand: sunxi: switch from manual to automated timing config
mtd: nand: automate NAND timings selection
mtd: nand: Expose data interface for ONFI mode 0
mtd: nand: Add function to convert ONFI mode to data_interface
mtd: nand: convert ONFI mode into data interface
mtd: nand: Introduce nand_data_interface
mtd: nand: Create a NAND reset function
mtd: nand: remove unnecessary 'extern' from function declarations
MAINTAINERS: Add maintainer entry for Ingenic JZ4780 NAND driver
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs xattr updates from Al Viro:
"xattr stuff from Andreas
This completes the switch to xattr_handler ->get()/->set() from
->getxattr/->setxattr/->removexattr"
* 'work.xattr' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
vfs: Remove {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
xattr: Stop calling {get,set,remove}xattr inode operations
vfs: Check for the IOP_XATTR flag in listxattr
xattr: Add __vfs_{get,set,remove}xattr helpers
libfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for empty directory handling
vfs: Use IOP_XATTR flag for bad-inode handling
vfs: Add IOP_XATTR inode operations flag
vfs: Move xattr_resolve_name to the front of fs/xattr.c
ecryptfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
sockfs: Get rid of getxattr iop
sockfs: getxattr: Fail with -EOPNOTSUPP for invalid attribute names
kernfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
hfs: Switch to generic xattr handlers
jffs2: Remove jffs2_{get,set,remove}xattr macros
xattr: Remove unnecessary NULL attribute name check
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6
Pull crypto updates from Herbert Xu:
"Here is the crypto update for 4.9:
API:
- The crypto engine code now supports hashes.
Algorithms:
- Allow keys >= 2048 bits in FIPS mode for RSA.
Drivers:
- Memory overwrite fix for vmx ghash.
- Add support for building ARM sha1-neon in Thumb2 mode.
- Reenable ARM ghash-ce code by adding import/export.
- Reenable img-hash by adding import/export.
- Add support for multiple cores in omap-aes.
- Add little-endian support for sha1-powerpc.
- Add Cavium HWRNG driver for ThunderX SoC"
* 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (137 commits)
crypto: caam - treat SGT address pointer as u64
crypto: ccp - Make syslog errors human-readable
crypto: ccp - clean up data structure
crypto: vmx - Ensure ghash-generic is enabled
crypto: testmgr - add guard to dst buffer for ahash_export
crypto: caam - Unmap region obtained by of_iomap
crypto: sha1-powerpc - little-endian support
crypto: gcm - Fix IV buffer size in crypto_gcm_setkey
crypto: vmx - Fix memory corruption caused by p8_ghash
crypto: ghash-generic - move common definitions to a new header file
crypto: caam - fix sg dump
hwrng: omap - Only fail if pm_runtime_get_sync returns < 0
crypto: omap-sham - shrink the internal buffer size
crypto: omap-sham - add support for export/import
crypto: omap-sham - convert driver logic to use sgs for data xmit
crypto: omap-sham - change the DMA threshold value to a define
crypto: omap-sham - add support functions for sg based data handling
crypto: omap-sham - rename sgl to sgl_tmp for deprecation
crypto: omap-sham - align algorithms on word offset
crypto: omap-sham - add context export/import stubs
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Pull Ceph updates from Ilya Dryomov:
"The big ticket item here is support for rbd exclusive-lock feature,
with maintenance operations offloaded to userspace (Douglas Fuller,
Mike Christie and myself). Another block device bullet is a series
fixing up layering error paths (myself).
On the filesystem side, we've got patches that improve our handling of
buffered vs dio write races (Neil Brown) and a few assorted fixes from
Zheng. Also included a couple of random cleanups and a minor CRUSH
update"
* tag 'ceph-for-4.9-rc1' of git://github.com/ceph/ceph-client: (39 commits)
crush: remove redundant local variable
crush: don't normalize input of crush_ln iteratively
libceph: ceph_build_auth() doesn't need ceph_auth_build_hello()
libceph: use CEPH_AUTH_UNKNOWN in ceph_auth_build_hello()
ceph: fix description for rsize and rasize mount options
rbd: use kmalloc_array() in rbd_header_from_disk()
ceph: use list_move instead of list_del/list_add
ceph: handle CEPH_SESSION_REJECT message
ceph: avoid accessing / when mounting a subpath
ceph: fix mandatory flock check
ceph: remove warning when ceph_releasepage() is called on dirty page
ceph: ignore error from invalidate_inode_pages2_range() in direct write
ceph: fix error handling of start_read()
rbd: add rbd_obj_request_error() helper
rbd: img_data requests don't own their page array
rbd: don't call rbd_osd_req_format_read() for !img_data requests
rbd: rework rbd_img_obj_exists_submit() error paths
rbd: don't crash or leak on errors in rbd_img_obj_parent_read_full_callback()
rbd: move bumping img_request refcount into rbd_obj_request_submit()
rbd: mark the original request as done if stat request fails
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull splice fixups from Al Viro:
"A couple of fixups for interaction of pipe-backed iov_iter with
O_DIRECT reads + constification of a couple of primitives in uio.h
missed by previous rounds.
Kudos to davej - his fuzzing has caught those bugs"
* 'work.splice_read' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
[btrfs] fix check_direct_IO() for non-iovec iterators
constify iov_iter_count() and iter_is_iovec()
fix ITER_PIPE interaction with direct_IO
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
"Assorted misc bits and pieces.
There are several single-topic branches left after this (rename2
series from Miklos, current_time series from Deepa Dinamani, xattr
series from Andreas, uaccess stuff from from me) and I'd prefer to
send those separately"
* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (39 commits)
proc: switch auxv to use of __mem_open()
hpfs: support FIEMAP
cifs: get rid of unused arguments of CIFSSMBWrite()
posix_acl: uapi header split
posix_acl: xattr representation cleanups
fs/aio.c: eliminate redundant loads in put_aio_ring_file
fs/internal.h: add const to ns_dentry_operations declaration
compat: remove compat_printk()
fs/buffer.c: make __getblk_slow() static
proc: unsigned file descriptors
fs/file: more unsigned file descriptors
fs: compat: remove redundant check of nr_segs
cachefiles: Fix attempt to read i_blocks after deleting file [ver #2]
cifs: don't use memcpy() to copy struct iov_iter
get rid of separate multipage fault-in primitives
fs: Avoid premature clearing of capabilities
fs: Give dentry to inode_change_ok() instead of inode
fuse: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
ceph: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
xfs: Propagate dentry down to inode_change_ok()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the
syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory
areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the
documentation.
The mm side of this has been acked by Mel"
* 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pkeys: Update documentation
x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used
x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches
x86/pkeys: Add self-tests
x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru
x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU
pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/
generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls
x86: Wire up protection keys system calls
x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls
x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags
mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call
x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Merge my system logging cleanups, triggered by the broken '\n' patches.
The line continuation handling has been broken basically forever, and
the code to handle the system log records was both confusing and
dubious. And it would do entirely the wrong thing unless you always had
a terminating newline, partly because it couldn't actually see whether a
message was marked KERN_CONT or not (but partly because the LOG_CONT
handling in the recording code was rather confusing too).
This re-introduces a real semantically meaningful KERN_CONT, and fixes
the few places I noticed where it was missing. There are probably more
missing cases, since KERN_CONT hasn't actually had any semantic meaning
for at least four years (other than the checkpatch meaning of "no log
level necessary, this is a continuation line").
This also allows the combination of KERN_CONT and a log level. In that
case the log level will be ignored if the merging with a previous line
is successful, but if a new record is needed, that new record will now
get the right log level.
That also means that you can at least in theory combine KERN_CONT with
the "pr_info()" style helpers, although any use of pr_fmt() prefixing
would make that just result in a mess, of course (the prefix would end
up in the middle of a continuing line).
* printk-cleanups:
printk: make reading the kernel log flush pending lines
printk: re-organize log_output() to be more legible
printk: split out core logging code into helper function
printk: reinstate KERN_CONT for printing continuation lines
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Pull blk-mq CPU hotplug update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the conversion of blk-mq to the new hotplug state machine"
* 'for-4.9/block-smp' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk-mq: fixup "Convert to new hotplug state machine"
blk-mq: Convert to new hotplug state machine
blk-mq/cpu-notif: Convert to new hotplug state machine
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Pull blk-mq irq/cpu mapping updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is the block-irq topic branch for 4.9-rc. It's mostly from
Christoph, and it allows drivers to specify their own mappings, and
more importantly, to share the blk-mq mappings with the IRQ affinity
mappings. It's a good step towards making this work better out of the
box"
* 'for-4.9/block-irq' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
blk_mq: linux/blk-mq.h does not include all the headers it depends on
blk-mq: kill unused blk_mq_create_mq_map()
blk-mq: get rid of the cpumask in struct blk_mq_tags
nvme: remove the post_scan callout
nvme: switch to use pci_alloc_irq_vectors
blk-mq: provide a default queue mapping for PCI device
blk-mq: allow the driver to pass in a queue mapping
blk-mq: remove ->map_queue
blk-mq: only allocate a single mq_map per tag_set
blk-mq: don't redistribute hardware queues on a CPU hotplug event
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- various fixes and cleanups for request-based DM core
- add support for delaying the requeue of requests; used by DM
multipath when all paths have failed and 'queue_if_no_path' is
enabled
- DM cache improvements to speedup the loading metadata and the writing
of the hint array
- fix potential for a dm-crypt crash on device teardown
- remove dm_bufio_cond_resched() and just using cond_resched()
- change DM multipath to return a reservation conflict error
immediately; rather than failing the path and retrying (potentially
indefinitely)
* tag 'dm-4.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (24 commits)
dm mpath: always return reservation conflict without failing over
dm bufio: remove dm_bufio_cond_resched()
dm crypt: fix crash on exit
dm cache metadata: switch to using the new cursor api for loading metadata
dm array: introduce cursor api
dm btree: introduce cursor api
dm cache policy smq: distribute entries to random levels when switching to smq
dm cache: speed up writing of the hint array
dm array: add dm_array_new()
dm mpath: delay the requeue of blk-mq requests while all paths down
dm mpath: use dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
dm rq: introduce dm_mq_kick_requeue_list()
dm rq: reduce arguments passed to map_request() and dm_requeue_original_request()
dm rq: add DM_MAPIO_DELAY_REQUEUE to delay requeue of blk-mq requests
dm: convert wait loops to use autoremove_wake_function()
dm: use signal_pending_state() in dm_wait_for_completion()
dm: rename task state function arguments
dm: add two lockdep_assert_held() statements
dm rq: simplify dm_old_stop_queue()
dm mpath: check if path's request_queue is dying in activate_path()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma
Pull main rdma updates from Doug Ledford:
"This is the main pull request for the rdma stack this release. The
code has been through 0day and I had it tagged for linux-next testing
for a couple days.
Summary:
- updates to mlx5
- updates to mlx4 (two conflicts, both minor and easily resolved)
- updates to iw_cxgb4 (one conflict, not so obvious to resolve,
proper resolution is to keep the code in cxgb4_main.c as it is in
Linus' tree as attach_uld was refactored and moved into
cxgb4_uld.c)
- improvements to uAPI (moved vendor specific API elements to uAPI
area)
- add hns-roce driver and hns and hns-roce ACPI reset support
- conversion of all rdma code away from deprecated
create_singlethread_workqueue
- security improvement: remove unsafe ib_get_dma_mr (breaks lustre in
staging)"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma: (75 commits)
staging/lustre: Disable InfiniBand support
iw_cxgb4: add fast-path for small REG_MR operations
cxgb4: advertise support for FR_NSMR_TPTE_WR
IB/core: correctly handle rdma_rw_init_mrs() failure
IB/srp: Fix infinite loop when FMR sg[0].offset != 0
IB/srp: Remove an unused argument
IB/core: Improve ib_map_mr_sg() documentation
IB/mlx4: Fix possible vl/sl field mismatch in LRH header in QP1 packets
IB/mthca: Move user vendor structures
IB/nes: Move user vendor structures
IB/ocrdma: Move user vendor structures
IB/mlx4: Move user vendor structures
IB/cxgb4: Move user vendor structures
IB/cxgb3: Move user vendor structures
IB/mlx5: Move and decouple user vendor structures
IB/{core,hw}: Add constant for node_desc
ipoib: Make ipoib_warn ratelimited
IB/mlx4/alias_GUID: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
IB/ipoib_verbs: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
IB/ipoib: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
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Long long ago the kernel log buffer was a buffered stream of bytes, very
much like stdio in user space. It supported log levels by scanning the
stream and noticing the log level markers at the beginning of each line,
but if you wanted to print a partial line in multiple chunks, you just
did multiple printk() calls, and it just automatically worked.
Except when it didn't, and you had very confusing output when different
lines got all mixed up with each other. Then you got fragment lines
mixing with each other, or with non-fragment lines, because it was
traditionally impossible to tell whether a printk() call was a
continuation or not.
To at least help clarify the issue of continuation lines, we added a
KERN_CONT marker back in 2007 to mark continuation lines:
474925277671 ("printk: add KERN_CONT annotation").
That continuation marker was initially an empty string, and didn't
actuall make any semantic difference. But it at least made it possible
to annotate the source code, and have check-patch notice that a printk()
didn't need or want a log level marker, because it was a continuation of
a previous line.
To avoid the ambiguity between a continuation line that had that
KERN_CONT marker, and a printk with no level information at all, we then
in 2009 made KERN_CONT be a real log level marker which meant that we
could now reliably tell the difference between the two cases.
5fd29d6ccbc9 ("printk: clean up handling of log-levels and newlines")
and we could take advantage of that to make sure we didn't mix up
continuation lines with lines that just didn't have any loglevel at all.
Then, in 2012, the kernel log buffer was changed to be a "record" based
log, where each line was a record that has a loglevel and a timestamp.
You can see the beginning of that conversion in commits
e11fea92e13f ("kmsg: export printk records to the /dev/kmsg interface")
7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer")
with a number of follow-up commits to fix some painful fallout from that
conversion. Over all, it took a couple of months to sort out most of
it. But the upside was that you could have concurrent readers (and
writers) of the kernel log and not have lines with mixed output in them.
And one particular pain-point for the record-based kernel logging was
exactly the fragmentary lines that are generated in smaller chunks. In
order to still log them as one recrod, the continuation lines need to be
attached to the previous record properly.
However the explicit continuation record marker that is actually useful
for this exact case was actually removed in aroundm the same time by commit
61e99ab8e35a ("printk: remove the now unnecessary "C" annotation for KERN_CONT")
due to the incorrect belief that KERN_CONT wasn't meaningful. The
ambiguity between "is this a continuation line" or "is this a plain
printk with no log level information" was reintroduced, and in fact
became an even bigger pain point because there was now the whole
record-level merging of kernel messages going on.
This patch reinstates the KERN_CONT as a real non-empty string marker,
so that the ambiguity is fixed once again.
But it's not a plain revert of that original removal: in the four years
since we made KERN_CONT an empty string again, not only has the format
of the log level markers changed, we've also had some usage changes in
this area.
For example, some ACPI code seems to use KERN_CONT _together_ with a log
level, and now uses both the KERN_CONT marker and (for example) a
KERN_INFO marker to show that it's an informational continuation of a
line.
Which is actually not a bad idea - if the continuation line cannot be
attached to its predecessor, without the log level information we don't
know what log level to assign to it (and we traditionally just assigned
it the default loglevel). So having both a log level and the KERN_CONT
marker is not necessarily a bad idea, but it does mean that we need to
actually iterate over potentially multiple markers, rather than just a
single one.
Also, since KERN_CONT was still conceptually needed, and encouraged, but
didn't actually _do_ anything, we've also had the reverse problem:
rather than having too many annotations it has too few, and there is bit
rot with code that no longer marks the continuation lines with the
KERN_CONT marker.
So this patch not only re-instates the non-empty KERN_CONT marker, it
also fixes up the cases of bit-rot I noticed in my own logs.
There are probably other cases where KERN_CONT will be needed to be
added, either because it is new code that never dealt with the need for
KERN_CONT, or old code that has bitrotted without anybody noticing.
That said, we should strive to avoid the need for KERN_CONT. It does
result in real problems for logging, and should generally not be seen as
a good feature. If we some day can get rid of the feature entirely,
because nobody does any fragmented printk calls, that would be lovely.
But until that point, let's at mark the code that relies on the hacky
multi-fragment kernel printk's. Not only does it avoid the ambiguity,
it also annotates code as "maybe this would be good to fix some day".
(That said, particularly during single-threaded bootup, the downsides of
KERN_CONT are very limited. Things get much hairier when you have
multiple threads going on and user level reading and writing logs too).
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Introduction of the MTD pairing scheme concept.
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