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2017-07-03Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-10/+31
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The sole purpose of these changes is to shrink and simplify the RCU code base, which has suffered from creeping bloat over the past couple of years. The end result is a net removal of ~2700 lines of code: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) Plus there's a marked reduction in the Kconfig space complexity as well, here's the number of matches on 'grep RCU' in the .config: before after x86-defconfig 17 15 x86-allmodconfig 33 20" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (86 commits) rcu: Remove RCU CPU stall warnings from Tiny RCU rcu: Remove event tracing from Tiny RCU rcu: Move RCU debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Move RCU non-debug Kconfig options to kernel/rcu rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options rcu: Remove debugfs tracing srcu: Remove Classic SRCU srcu: Fix rcutorture-statistics typo rcu: Remove SPARSE_RCU_POINTER Kconfig option rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option rcu: Remove typecheck() from RCU locking wrapper functions rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.h rcu: Remove nohz_full full-system-idle state machine rcu: Remove the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig option rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig options srcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers rcu: Move rnp->lock wrappers for SRCU use rcu: Convert rnp->lock wrappers to macros for SRCU use rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h bcm47xx: Fix build regression ...
2017-06-29cpufreq: Update scaling_cur_freq documentationRafael J. Wysocki1-6/+6
Commit f8475cef9008 "x86: use common aperfmperf_khz_on_cpu() to calculate KHz using APERF/MPERF" modified the way the scaling_cur_freq cpufreq policy attribute in sysfs is handled on contemporary Intel-based x86 systems, so update the documentation to reflect that change. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-06-29cpufreq: intel_pstate: Clean up after performance governor changesRafael J. Wysocki1-4/+2
After commit 82b4e03e01bc (intel_pstate: skip scheduler hook when in "performance" mode) get_target_pstate_use_performance() and get_target_pstate_use_cpu_load() are never called if scaling_governor is "performance", so drop the CPUFREQ_POLICY_PERFORMANCE checks from them as they will never trigger anyway. Moreover, the documentation needs to be updated to reflect the change made by the above commit, so do that too. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Acked-by: Srinivas Pandruvada <srinivas.pandruvada@linux.intel.com>
2017-06-23Docs: fix table problems in ras.rstJonathan Corbet1-5/+5
Two table problems caused the PDF build to fail: - Evidently multirow cells are not appreciated in table headers, so remove such from the "CS Rows" table. - The logging message structure table was incorrectly formatted, with two "+" instead of "|". The HTML build is forgiving of such things, but PDF is not. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-06-22docs-rst: fix broken links to dynamic-debug-howto in kernel-parametersSteffen Maier1-2/+4
Another place in lib/Kconfig.debug was already fixed in commit f8998c226587 ("lib/Kconfig.debug: correct documentation paths"). Fixes: 9d85025b0418 ("docs-rst: create an user's manual book") Signed-off-by: Steffen Maier <maier@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-06-21ima: define a set of appraisal rules requiring file signaturesMimi Zohar1-1/+5
The builtin "ima_appraise_tcb" policy should require file signatures for at least a few of the hooks (eg. kernel modules, firmware, and the kexec kernel image), but changing it would break the existing userspace/kernel ABI. This patch defines a new builtin policy named "secure_boot", which can be specified on the "ima_policy=" boot command line, independently or in conjunction with the "ima_appraise_tcb" policy, by specifing ima_policy="appraise_tcb | secure_boot". The new appraisal rules requiring file signatures will be added prior to the "ima_appraise_tcb" rules. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Changelog: - Reference secure boot in the new builtin policy name. (Thiago Bauermann)
2017-06-21ima: extend the "ima_policy" boot command line to support multiple policiesMimi Zohar1-6/+11
Add support for providing multiple builtin policies on the "ima_policy=" boot command line. Use "|" as the delimitor separating the policy names. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-20tty: serial: Add Actions Semi Owl UART earlyconAndreas Färber1-0/+6
This implements an earlycon for Actions Semi S500/S900 SoCs. Based on LeMaker linux-actions tree. Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-19mm: larger stack guard gap, between vmasHugh Dickins1-0/+7
Stack guard page is a useful feature to reduce a risk of stack smashing into a different mapping. We have been using a single page gap which is sufficient to prevent having stack adjacent to a different mapping. But this seems to be insufficient in the light of the stack usage in userspace. E.g. glibc uses as large as 64kB alloca() in many commonly used functions. Others use constructs liks gid_t buffer[NGROUPS_MAX] which is 256kB or stack strings with MAX_ARG_STRLEN. This will become especially dangerous for suid binaries and the default no limit for the stack size limit because those applications can be tricked to consume a large portion of the stack and a single glibc call could jump over the guard page. These attacks are not theoretical, unfortunatelly. Make those attacks less probable by increasing the stack guard gap to 1MB (on systems with 4k pages; but make it depend on the page size because systems with larger base pages might cap stack allocations in the PAGE_SIZE units) which should cover larger alloca() and VLA stack allocations. It is obviously not a full fix because the problem is somehow inherent, but it should reduce attack space a lot. One could argue that the gap size should be configurable from userspace, but that can be done later when somebody finds that the new 1MB is wrong for some special case applications. For now, add a kernel command line option (stack_guard_gap) to specify the stack gap size (in page units). Implementation wise, first delete all the old code for stack guard page: because although we could get away with accounting one extra page in a stack vma, accounting a larger gap can break userspace - case in point, a program run with "ulimit -S -v 20000" failed when the 1MB gap was counted for RLIMIT_AS; similar problems could come with RLIMIT_MLOCK and strict non-overcommit mode. Instead of keeping gap inside the stack vma, maintain the stack guard gap as a gap between vmas: using vm_start_gap() in place of vm_start (or vm_end_gap() in place of vm_end if VM_GROWSUP) in just those few places which need to respect the gap - mainly arch_get_unmapped_area(), and and the vma tree's subtree_gap support for that. Original-patch-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Original-patch-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> # parisc Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 common sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier1-0/+4
Now that we're able to safely handle common sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.common_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-0 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier1-0/+4
Now that we're able to safely handle Group-0 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group0_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-15KVM: arm64: Enable GICv3 Group-1 sysreg trapping via command-lineMarc Zyngier1-0/+4
Now that we're able to safely handle Group-1 sysreg access, let's give the user the opportunity to enable it by passing a specific command-line option (vgic_v3.group1_trap). Tested-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> Acked-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@arm.com> Acked-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Christoffer Dall <cdall@linaro.org>
2017-06-13Merge branch 'for-mingo' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcuIngo Molnar1-10/+31
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney: "The largest feature of this series is shrinking and simplification, with the following diffstat summary: 79 files changed, 1496 insertions(+), 4211 deletions(-) In other words, this series represents a net reduction of more than 2700 lines of code." Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-06-12Merge 4.12-rc5 into char-misc-nextGreg Kroah-Hartman4-9/+775
We want the char/misc driver fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linuxLinus Torvalds1-0/+9
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman: "Mostly fairly minor, of note are: - Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware - Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space - Avoid needlessly restoring FP and vector registers Thanks to Aneesh Kumar K.V, Breno Leitao, Christophe Leroy, Frederic Barrat, Madhavan Srinivasan, Michael Bringmann, Nicholas Piggin, Vaibhav Jain" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: powerpc/book3s64: Move PPC_DT_CPU_FTRs and enable it by default powerpc/mm/4k: Limit 4k page size config to 64TB virtual address space cxl: Fix error path on bad ioctl powerpc/perf: Fix Power9 test_adder fields powerpc/numa: Fix percpu allocations to be NUMA aware cxl: Avoid double free_irq() for psl,slice interrupts powerpc/kernel: Initialize load_tm on task creation powerpc/kernel: Fix FP and vector register restoration powerpc/64: Reclaim CPU_FTR_SUBCORE powerpc/hotplug-mem: Fix missing endian conversion of aa_index powerpc/sysdev/simple_gpio: Fix oops in gpio save_regs function powerpc/spufs: Fix coredump of SPU contexts powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup option
2017-06-09doc: Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txtLeo Yan1-0/+7
Add coresight_cpu_debug.enable to kernel-parameters.txt, this flag is used to enable/disable the CPU sampling based debugging. Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-09thunderbolt: Add documentation how Thunderbolt bus can be usedMika Westerberg2-0/+200
Since there are no such tool yet that handles all the low-level details of connecting devices and upgrading their firmware, add a small document that shows how the Thunderbolt bus can be used directly from command line. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@linux.intel.com> Reviewed-by: Yehezkel Bernat <yehezkel.bernat@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Michael Jamet <michael.jamet@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-06-08rcu: Remove *_SLOW_* Kconfig optionsPaul E. McKenney1-7/+3
The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY Kconfig options are only useful for torture testing, and there are the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay, rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot parameters that rcutorture can use instead. The effect of these parameters is to artificially slow down grace period initialization and cleanup in order to make some types of race conditions happen more often. This commit therefore simplifies Tree RCU a bit by removing the Kconfig options and adding the corresponding kernel parameters to rcutorture's .boot files instead. However, this commit also leaves out the kernel parameters for TREE02, TREE04, and TREE07 in order to have about the same number of tests slowed as not slowed. TREE01, TREE03, TREE05, and TREE06 are slowed, and the rest are not slowed. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Prevent sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed counter wrapPaul E. McKenney1-0/+9
If a given CPU never happens to ever start an SRCU grace period, the grace-period sequence counter might wrap. If this CPU were to decide to finally start a grace period, the state of its sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed might make it appear that it has already requested this grace period, which would prevent starting the grace period. If no other CPU ever started a grace period again, this would look like a grace-period hang. Even if some other CPU took pity and started the needed grace period, the leaf rcu_node structure's ->srcu_data_have_cbs field won't have record of the fact that this CPU has a callback pending, which would look like a very localized grace-period hang. This might seem very unlikely, but SRCU grace periods can take less than a microsecond on small systems, which means that overflow can happen in much less than an hour on a 32-bit embedded system. And embedded systems are especially likely to have long-term idle CPUs. Therefore, it makes sense to prevent this scenario from happening. This commit therefore scans each srcu_data structure occasionally, with frequency controlled by the srcutree.counter_wrap_check kernel boot parameter. This parameter can be set to something like 255 in order to exercise the counter-wrap-prevention code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Add writer_holdoff boot parameterPaul E. McKenney1-3/+8
This commit adds a writer_holdoff boot parameter to rcuperf, which is intended to be used to test Tree SRCU's auto-expediting. This boot parameter is in microseconds, and defaults to zero (that is, disabled). Set it to a bit larger than srcutree.exp_holdoff, keeping the nanosecond/microsecond conversion, to force Tree SRCU to auto-expedite more aggressively. This commit also adds documentation for this parameter, and fixes some alphabetization while in the neighborhood. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcuperf: Add ability to performance-test call_rcu() and friendsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+11
This commit upgrades rcuperf so that it can do performance testing on asynchronous grace-period primitives such as call_srcu(). There is a new rcuperf.gp_async module parameter that specifies this new behavior, with the pre-existing rcuperf.gp_exp testing expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu_expedited, and with the default being to test synchronous non-expedited grace periods such as synchronize_rcu(). There is also a new rcuperf.gp_async_max module parameter that specifies the maximum number of outstanding callbacks per writer kthread, defaulting to 1,000. When this limit is exceeded, the writer thread invokes the appropriate flavor of rcu_barrier() to wait for callbacks to drain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Removed the redundant initialization noted by Arnd Bergmann. ]
2017-06-01powerpc/64s: Add dt_cpu_ftrs boot time setup optionNicholas Piggin1-0/+9
Provide a dt_cpu_ftrs= cmdline option to disable the dt_cpu_ftrs CPU feature discovery, and fall back to the "cputable" based version. Also allow control of advertising unknown features to userspace and with this parameter, and remove the clunky CONFIG option. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> [mpe: Add explicit early check of bootargs in dt_cpu_ftrs_init()] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-05-24Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: Update 'memmap=' boot option descriptionBaoquan He1-0/+9
In commit: 9710f581bb4c ("x86, mm: Let "memmap=" take more entries one time") ... 'memmap=' was changed to adopt multiple, comma delimited values in a single entry, so update the related description. In the special case of only specifying size value without an offset, like memmap=nn[KMG], memmap behaves similarly to mem=nn[KMG], so update it too here. Furthermore, for memmap=nn[KMG]$ss[KMG], an escape character needs be added before '$' for some bootloaders. E.g in grub2, if we specify memmap=100M$5G as suggested by the documentation, "memmap=100MG" gets passed to the kernel. Clarify all this. Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: dan.j.williams@intel.com Cc: douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dyoung@redhat.com Cc: m.mizuma@jp.fujitsu.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1494654390-23861-4-git-send-email-bhe@redhat.com [ Various spelling fixes. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-05-18Merge remote-tracking branch 'mauro-exp/docbook3' into death-to-docbookJonathan Corbet1-6/+0
Mauro says: This patch series convert the remaining DocBooks to ReST. The first version was originally send as 3 patch series: [PATCH 00/36] Convert DocBook documents to ReST [PATCH 0/5] Convert more books to ReST [PATCH 00/13] Get rid of DocBook The lsm book was added as if it were a text file under Documentation. The plan is to merge it with another file under Documentation/security, after both this series and a security Documentation patch series gets merged. It also adjusts some Sphinx-pedantic errors/warnings on some kernel-doc markups. I also added some patches here to add PDF output for all existing ReST books.
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify Smack.txtKees Cook2-0/+858
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Acked-by: Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify LoadPin.txtKees Cook2-0/+22
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify Yama.txtKees Cook2-0/+75
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify tomoyo.txtKees Cook2-0/+66
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify apparmor.txtKees Cook2-0/+52
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify SELinux.txtKees Cook2-0/+38
Adjusts for ReST markup and moves under LSM admin guide. Cc: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18doc: ReSTify and split LSM.txtKees Cook2-0/+32
The existing LSM.txt file covered both usage and development, so split this into two files, one under admin-guide and one under kernel development. Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-18vhost/vsock: use static minor numberStefan Hajnoczi1-1/+3
Vhost-vsock is a software device so there is no probe call that causes the driver to register its misc char device node. This creates a chicken and egg problem: userspace applications must open /dev/vhost-vsock to use the driver but the file doesn't exist until the kernel module has been loaded. Use the devname modalias mechanism so that /dev/vhost-vsock is created at boot. The vhost_vsock kernel module is automatically loaded when the first application opens /dev/host-vsock. Note that the "reserved for local use" range in Documentation/admin-guide/devices.txt is incorrect. The userio driver already occupies part of that range. I've updated the documentation accordingly. Cc: device@lanana.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-05-16docs: update old references for DocBook from the documentationMauro Carvalho Chehab1-6/+0
DocBook is mentioned several times at the documentation. Update the obsolete references from it at the DocBook. Acked-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
2017-05-14cpufreq: intel_pstate: Document the current behavior and user interfaceRafael J. Wysocki3-9/+766
Add a document describing the current behavior and user space interface of the intel_pstate driver in the RST format and drop the existing outdated intel_pstate.txt document. Also update admin-guide/pm/cpufreq.rst with proper RST references to the new intel_pstate.rst document. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-05-11Merge tag 'docs-4.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds2-2/+2
Pull more documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Connect the newly RST-formatted documentation to the rest; this had to wait until the input pull was done. There's also a few small fixes that wandered in" * tag 'docs-4.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: doc: replace FTP URL to kernel.org with HTTPS one docs: update references to the device io book Documentation: earlycon: fix Marvell Armada 3700 UART name docs-rst: add input docs at main index and use kernel-figure
2017-05-11doc: replace FTP URL to kernel.org with HTTPS oneMichael Heimpold1-1/+1
FTP services were shutdown some weeks ago, so the FTP URL does not work anymore. Fix this by replacing it with corresponding HTTPS URL. Signed-off-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@i2se.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-10Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds1-6/+0
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Highlights include: Stable bugfixes: - Fix use after free in write error path - Use GFP_NOIO for two allocations in writeback - Fix a hang in OPEN related to server reboot - Check the result of nfs4_pnfs_ds_connect - Fix an rcu lock leak Features: - Removal of the unmaintained and unused OSD pNFS layout - Cleanup and removal of lots of unnecessary dprintk()s - Cleanup and removal of some memory failure paths now that GFP_NOFS is guaranteed to never fail. - Remove the v3-only data server limitation on pNFS/flexfiles Bugfixes: - RPC/RDMA connection handling bugfixes - Copy offload: fixes to ensure the copied data is COMMITed to disk. - Readdir: switch back to using the ->iterate VFS interface - File locking fixes from Ben Coddington - Various use-after-free and deadlock issues in pNFS - Write path bugfixes" * tag 'nfs-for-4.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (89 commits) pNFS/flexfiles: Always attempt to call layoutstats when flexfiles is enabled NFSv4.1: Work around a Linux server bug... NFS append COMMIT after synchronous COPY NFSv4: Fix exclusive create attributes encoding NFSv4: Fix an rcu lock leak nfs: use kmap/kunmap directly NFS: always treat the invocation of nfs_getattr as cache hit when noac is on Fix nfs_client refcounting if kmalloc fails in nfs4_proc_exchange_id and nfs4_proc_async_renew NFSv4.1: RECLAIM_COMPLETE must handle NFS4ERR_CONN_NOT_BOUND_TO_SESSION pNFS: Fix NULL dereference in pnfs_generic_alloc_ds_commits pNFS: Fix a typo in pnfs_generic_alloc_ds_commits pNFS: Fix a deadlock when coalescing writes and returning the layout pNFS: Don't clear the layout return info if there are segments to return pNFS: Ensure we commit the layout if it has been invalidated pNFS: Don't send COMMITs to the DSes if the server invalidated our layout pNFS/flexfiles: Fix up the ff_layout_write_pagelist failure path pNFS: Ensure we check layout validity before marking it for return NFS4.1 handle interrupted slot reuse from ERR_DELAY NFSv4: check return value of xdr_inline_decode nfs/filelayout: fix NULL pointer dereference in fl_pnfs_update_layout() ...
2017-05-10Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+8
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes are: - Debloat RCU headers - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches) - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits) rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions srcu: Debloat the <linux/rcu_segcblist.h> header srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks srcu: Make SRCU be built by default srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation srcu: Parallelize callback handling kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool rcu: Use bool value directly ...
2017-05-09Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommuLinus Torvalds1-0/+15
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: - code optimizations for the Intel VT-d driver - ability to switch off a previously enabled Intel IOMMU - support for 'struct iommu_device' for OMAP, Rockchip and Mediatek IOMMUs - header optimizations for IOMMU core code headers and a few fixes that became necessary in other parts of the kernel because of that - ACPI/IORT updates and fixes - Exynos IOMMU optimizations - updates for the IOMMU dma-api code to bring it closer to use per-cpu iova caches - new command-line option to set default domain type allocated by the iommu core code - another command line option to allow the Intel IOMMU switched off in a tboot environment - ARM/SMMU: TLB sync optimisations for SMMUv2, Support for using an IDENTITY domain in conjunction with DMA ops, Support for SMR masking, Support for 16-bit ASIDs (was previously broken) - various other small fixes and improvements * tag 'iommu-updates-v4.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (63 commits) soc/qbman: Move dma-mapping.h include to qman_priv.h soc/qbman: Fix implicit header dependency now causing build fails iommu: Remove trace-events include from iommu.h iommu: Remove pci.h include from trace/events/iommu.h arm: dma-mapping: Don't override dma_ops in arch_setup_dma_ops() ACPI/IORT: Fix CONFIG_IOMMU_API dependency iommu/vt-d: Don't print the failure message when booting non-kdump kernel iommu: Move report_iommu_fault() to iommu.c iommu: Include device.h in iommu.h x86, iommu/vt-d: Add an option to disable Intel IOMMU force on iommu/arm-smmu: Return IOVA in iova_to_phys when SMMU is bypassed iommu/arm-smmu: Correct sid to mask iommu/amd: Fix incorrect error handling in amd_iommu_bind_pasid() iommu: Make iommu_bus_notifier return NOTIFY_DONE rather than error code omap3isp: Remove iommu_group related code iommu/omap: Add iommu-group support iommu/omap: Make use of 'struct iommu_device' iommu/omap: Store iommu_dev pointer in arch_data iommu/omap: Move data structures to omap-iommu.h iommu/omap: Drop legacy-style device support ...
2017-05-09Documentation: earlycon: fix Marvell Armada 3700 UART nameAndre Przywara1-1/+1
The Marvell Armada 3700 UART uses "ar3700_uart" for its earlycon name. Adjust documentation to match the code. Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2017-05-04Merge branches 'arm/exynos', 'arm/omap', 'arm/rockchip', 'arm/mediatek', 'arm/smmu', 'arm/core', 'x86/vt-d', 'x86/amd' and 'core' into nextJoerg Roedel1-0/+21
2017-05-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/mdLinus Torvalds1-3/+29
Pull MD updates from Shaohua Li: - Add Partial Parity Log (ppl) feature found in Intel IMSM raid array by Artur Paszkiewicz. This feature is another way to close RAID5 writehole. The Linux implementation is also available for normal RAID5 array if specific superblock bit is set. - A number of md-cluser fixes and enabling md-cluster array resize from Guoqing Jiang - A bunch of patches from Ming Lei and Neil Brown to rewrite MD bio handling related code. Now MD doesn't directly access bio bvec, bi_phys_segments and uses modern bio API for bio split. - Improve RAID5 IO pattern to improve performance for hard disk based RAID5/6 from me. - Several patches from Song Liu to speed up raid5-cache recovery and allow raid5 cache feature disabling in runtime. - Fix a performance regression in raid1 resync from Xiao Ni. - Other cleanup and fixes from various people. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shli/md: (84 commits) md/raid10: skip spare disk as 'first' disk md/raid1: Use a new variable to count flighting sync requests md: clear WantReplacement once disk is removed md/raid1/10: remove unused queue md: handle read-only member devices better. md/raid10: wait up frozen array in handle_write_completed uapi: fix linux/raid/md_p.h userspace compilation error md-cluster: Fix a memleak in an error handling path md: support disabling of create-on-open semantics. md: allow creation of mdNNN arrays via md_mod/parameters/new_array raid5-ppl: use a single mempool for ppl_io_unit and header_page md/raid0: fix up bio splitting. md/linear: improve bio splitting. md/raid5: make chunk_aligned_read() split bios more cleanly. md/raid10: simplify handle_read_error() md/raid10: simplify the splitting of requests. md/raid1: factor out flush_bio_list() md/raid1: simplify handle_read_error(). Revert "block: introduce bio_copy_data_partial" md/raid1: simplify alloc_behind_master_bio() ...
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hidLinus Torvalds1-0/+3
Pull HID subsystem updates from Jiri Kosina: - The need for HID_QUIRK_NO_INIT_REPORTS per-device quirk has been growing dramatically during past years, so the time has come to switch over the default, and perform the pro-active reading only in cases where it's really needed (multitouch, wacom). The only place where this behavior is (in some form) preserved is hiddev so that we don't introduce userspace-visible change of behavior. From Benjamin Tissoires - HID++ support for power_supply / baterry reporting. From Benjamin Tissoires and Bastien Nocera - Vast improvements / rework of DS3 and DS4 in Sony driver. From Roderick Colenbrander - Improvment (in terms of getting closer to the Microsoft's interpretation of slightly ambiguous specification) of logical range interpretation in case null-state is set in the rdesc. From Valtteri Heikkilä and Tomasz Kramkowski - A lot of newly supported device IDs and small assorted fixes * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: (71 commits) HID: usbhid: Add HID_QUIRK_NOGET for Aten CS-1758 KVM switch HID: asus: support backlight on USB keyboards HID: wacom: Move wacom_remote_irq and wacom_remote_status_irq HID: wacom: generic: sync pad events only for actual packets HID: sony: remove redundant check for -ve err HID: sony: Make sure to unregister sensors on failure HID: sony: Make DS4 bt poll interval adjustable HID: sony: Set proper bit flags on DS4 output report HID: sony: DS4 use brighter LED colors HID: sony: Improve navigation controller axis/button mapping HID: sony: Use DS3 MAC address as unique identifier on USB HID: logitech-hidpp: add a sysfs file to tell we support power_supply HID: logitech-hidpp: enable HID++ 1.0 battery reporting HID: logitech-hidpp: add support for battery status for the K750 HID: logitech-hidpp: battery: provide CAPACITY_LEVEL HID: logitech-hidpp: rename battery level into capacity HID: logitech-hidpp: battery: provide ONLINE property HID: logitech-hidpp: notify battery on connect HID: logitech-hidpp: return an error if the queried feature is not present HID: logitech-hidpp: create the battery for all types of HID++ devices ...
2017-05-02Merge tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds7-13/+761
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "A reasonably busy cycle for documentation this time around. There is a new guide for user-space API documents, rather sparsely populated at the moment, but it's a start. Markus improved the infrastructure for converting diagrams. Mauro has converted much of the USB documentation over to RST. Plus the usual set of fixes, improvements, and tweaks. There's a bit more than the usual amount of reaching out of Documentation/ to fix comments elsewhere in the tree; I have acks for those where I could get them" * tag 'docs-4.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits) docs: Fix a couple typos docs: Fix a spelling error in vfio-mediated-device.txt docs: Fix a spelling error in ioctl-number.txt MAINTAINERS: update file entry for HSI subsystem Documentation: allow installing man pages to a user defined directory Doc/PM: Sync with intel_powerclamp code behavior zr364xx.rst: usb/devices is now at /sys/kernel/debug/ usb.rst: move documentation from proc_usb_info.txt to USB ReST book convert philips.txt to ReST and add to media docs docs-rst: usb: update old usbfs-related documentation arm: Documentation: update a path name docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refs docs-rst: fix usb cross-references usb: gadget.h: be consistent at kernel doc macros usb: composite.h: fix two warnings when building docs usb: get rid of some ReST doc build errors usb.rst: get rid of some Sphinx errors usb/URB.txt: convert to ReST and update it usb/persist.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book usb/hotplug.txt: convert to ReST and add to driver-api book ...
2017-05-02Merge branch 'for-4.12/asus' into for-linusJiri Kosina5-6/+41
2017-05-01Merge branch 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+1
Pull x86 debug updates from Ingo Molnar: "The biggest update is the addition of USB3 debug port based early-console. Greg was fine with the USB changes and with the routing of these patches: https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg155093.html" * 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: usb/doc: Add document for USB3 debug port usage usb/serial: Add DBC debug device support to usb_debug x86/earlyprintk: Add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug port usb/early: Add driver for xhci debug capability x86/timers: Add simple udelay calibration
2017-05-01Merge branch 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds1-0/+6
Pull RAS updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - add the 'Corrected Errors Collector' kernel feature which collect and monitor correctable errors statistics and will preemptively (soft-)offline physical pages that have a suspiciously high error count. - handle MCE errors during kexec() more gracefully - factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver - ... plus misc fixes and cleanpus" * 'ras-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/mce: Check MCi_STATUS[MISCV] for usable addr on Intel only ACPI/APEI: Use setup_deferrable_timer() x86/mce: Update notifier priority check x86/mce: Enable PPIN for Knights Landing/Mill x86/mce: Do not register notifiers with invalid prio x86/mce: Factor out and deprecate the /dev/mcelog driver RAS: Add a Corrected Errors Collector x86/mce: Rename mce_log to mce_log_buffer x86/mce: Rename mce_log()'s argument x86/mce: Init some CPU features early x86/mce: Handle broadcasted MCE gracefully with kexec
2017-05-01Merge branch 'md-next' into md-linusShaohua Li1-3/+29
2017-05-01docs: remove all references to AVR32 architectureHans-Christian Noren Egtvedt3-4/+2
The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel, hence remove all references to it from Documentation. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no> Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@microchip.com> Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Acked-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
2017-04-26srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff timePaul E. McKenney1-0/+8
On small systems, in the absence of readers, expedited SRCU grace periods can complete in less than a microsecond. This means that an eight-CPU system can have all CPUs doing synchronize_srcu() in a tight loop and almost always expedite. This might actually be desirable in some situations, but in general it is a good way to needlessly burn CPU cycles. And in those situations where it is desirable, your friend is the function synchronize_srcu_expedited(). For other situations, this commit adds a kernel parameter that specifies a holdoff between completing the last SRCU grace period and auto-expediting the next. If the next grace period starts before the holdoff expires, auto-expediting is disabled. The holdoff is 50 microseconds by default, and can be tuned to the desired number of nanoseconds. A value of zero disables auto-expediting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>