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The VME subsystem graduated from staging into a top-level subsystem in
2012, with commit db3b9e990e75 ("Staging: VME: move VME drivers out of
staging") stating:
The VME device drivers have not moved out yet due to some API
questions they are still working through, that should happen soon,
hopefully.
However, this never happened: maintenance of drivers/vme effectively
stopped in 2017, with all subsequent changes being treewide cleanups.
No hardware driver remains in staging, only the limited user-level
access, and I just removed one of the two bridge drivers and the only
remaining board.
drivers/staging/vme/devices/ was recently moved to
drivers/staging/vme_user/, but as the vme_user driver is the only one
remaining for this subsystem, it is easier to just move the remaining
three source files into this directory rather than keeping the original
hierarchy.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220606084109.4108188-3-arnd@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull more SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"Mostly small bug fixes plus other trivial updates.
The major change of note is moving ufs out of scsi and a minor update
to lpfc vmid handling"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (24 commits)
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove unused 'ql_dm_tgt_ex_pct' parameter
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove setting of 'req' and 'rsp' parameters
scsi: mpi3mr: Fix kernel-doc
scsi: lpfc: Add support for ATTO Fibre Channel devices
scsi: core: Return BLK_STS_TRANSPORT for ALUA transitioning
scsi: sd_zbc: Prevent zone information memory leak
scsi: sd: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
scsi: mpi3mr: Rework mrioc->bsg_device model to fix warnings
scsi: myrb: Fix up null pointer access on myrb_cleanup()
scsi: core: Unexport scsi_bus_type
scsi: sd: Don't call blk_cleanup_disk() in sd_probe()
scsi: ufs: ufshcd: Delete unnecessary NULL check
scsi: isci: Fix typo in comment
scsi: pmcraid: Fix typo in comment
scsi: smartpqi: Fix typo in comment
scsi: qedf: Fix typo in comment
scsi: esas2r: Fix typo in comment
scsi: storvsc: Fix typo in comment
scsi: ufs: Split the drivers/scsi/ufs directory
scsi: qla1280: Remove redundant variable
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Pull hardware timestamping subsystem from Thierry Reding:
"This contains the new HTE (hardware timestamping engine) subsystem
that has been in the works for a couple of months now.
The infrastructure provided allows for drivers to register as hardware
timestamp providers, while consumers will be able to request events
that they are interested in (such as GPIOs and IRQs) to be timestamped
by the hardware providers.
Note that this currently supports only one provider, but there seems
to be enough interest in this functionality and we expect to see more
drivers added once this is merged"
[ Linus Walleij mentions the Intel PMC in the Elkhart and Tiger Lake
platforms as another future timestamp provider ]
* tag 'hte/for-5.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tegra/linux:
dt-bindings: timestamp: Correct id path
dt-bindings: Renamed hte directory to timestamp
hte: Uninitialized variable in hte_ts_get()
hte: Fix off by one in hte_push_ts_ns()
hte: Fix possible use-after-free in tegra_hte_test_remove()
hte: Remove unused including <linux/version.h>
MAINTAINERS: Add HTE Subsystem
hte: Add Tegra HTE test driver
tools: gpio: Add new hardware clock type
gpiolib: cdev: Add hardware timestamp clock type
gpio: tegra186: Add HTE support
gpiolib: Add HTE support
dt-bindings: Add HTE bindings
hte: Add Tegra194 HTE kernel provider
drivers: Add hardware timestamp engine (HTE) subsystem
Documentation: Add HTE subsystem guide
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Split the drivers/scsi/ufs directory into 'core' and 'host' directories
under the drivers/ufs/ directory. Move shared header files into the
include/ufs/ directory. This separation makes it clear which header files
UFS drivers are allowed to include (include/ufs/*.h) and which header files
UFS drivers are not allowed to include (drivers/ufs/core/*.h).
Update the MAINTAINERS file. Add myself as a UFS reviewer.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220511212552.655341-1-bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>
Cc: Bean Huo <beanhuo@micron.com>
Cc: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Keoseong Park <keosung.park@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Bean Huo <beanhuo@micron.com>
Tested-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Bean Huo <beanhuo@micron.com>
Acked-by: Avri Altman <avri.altman@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
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Some devices can timestamp system lines/signals/Buses in real-time
using the hardware counter or other hardware means which can give
finer granularity and help avoid jitter introduced by software
timestamping. To utilize such functionality, this patchset creates
HTE subsystem where devices can register themselves as providers so
that the consumers devices can request specific line from the
providers. The patch also adds compilation support in Makefile and
menu options in Kconfig.
The provider does following:
- Registers chip with the framework.
- Provides translation hook to convert logical line id.
- Provides enable/disable, request/release callbacks.
- Pushes timestamp data to HTE subsystem.
The consumer does following:
- Initializes line attribute.
- Gets HTE timestamp descriptor.
- Requests timestamp functionality.
- Puts HTE timestamp descriptor.
Signed-off-by: Dipen Patel <dipenp@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
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The Unisys sub-tree of drivers/staging contains three drivers for the
"Unisys Secure Partition" (s-Par(R)): visorhba, visorinput, visornic.
They have no maintainers, in fact the only one that is listed in
MAINTAINERS has an unreacheable email address. During 2021 and 2022
several patches have been submitted to these drivers but nobody at
Unisys cared of reviewing the changes. Probably, also the
"sparmaintainer" internal list of unisys.com is not anymore read by
interested Unisys' engineers.
Therefore, remove the drivers/staging/unisys directory and delete the
relevant entries in the MAINTAINERS, Kconfig, Makefile files, then
remove also the drivers/visorbus directory which is not anymore needed
(it contained the driver for the virtualized bus for the Unisys s-Par
firmware).
Cc: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Cc: <sparmaintainer@unisys.com>
Cc: Ken Cox <jkc@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabio M. De Francesco <fmdefrancesco@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220414103217.32058-1-fmdefrancesco@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Intel processors provide access for various services designed to support
processor and DRAM thermal management, platform manageability and
processor interface tuning and diagnostics.
Those services are available via the Platform Environment Control
Interface (PECI) that provides a communication channel between the
processor and the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) or other
platform management device.
This change introduces PECI subsystem by adding the initial core module
and API for controller drivers.
Co-developed-by: Jason M Bills <jason.m.bills@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jason M Bills <jason.m.bills@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jae Hyun Yoo <jae.hyun.yoo@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Iwona Winiarska <iwona.winiarska@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220208153639.255278-5-iwona.winiarska@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Compile-testing drivers that require access to a firmware layer
fails when that firmware symbol is unavailable. This happened
twice this week:
- My proposed to change to rework the QCOM_SCM firmware symbol
broke on ppc64 and others.
- The cs_dsp firmware patch added device specific firmware loader
into drivers/firmware, which broke on the same set of
architectures.
We should probably do the same thing for other subsystems as well,
but fix this one first as this is a dependency for other patches
getting merged.
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@gmail.com>
Cc: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.cirrus.com>
Cc: Simon Trimmer <simont@opensource.cirrus.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Lightnvm supports the OCSSD 1.x and 2.0 specs which were early attempts
to produce Open Channel SSDs and never made it into the NVMe spec
proper. They have since been superceeded by NVMe enhancements such
as ZNS support. Remove the support per the deprecation schedule.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132308.38486-1-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The legay ide driver has been replace with libata starting in 2003 and has
been scheduled for removal for a while. Finally kill it off so that we
can start cleaning up various bits of cruft it forced on the block layer.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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The comedi code came into the kernel back in 2008, but traces its
lifetime to much much earlier. It's been polished and buffed and
there's really nothing preventing it from being part of the "real"
portion of the kernel.
So move it to drivers/comedi/ as it belongs there.
Many thanks to the hundreds of developers who did the work to make this
happen.
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Cc: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YHauop4u3sP6lz8j@kroah.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The CXL.mem protocol allows a device to act as a provider of "System
RAM" and/or "Persistent Memory" that is fully coherent as if the memory
was attached to the typical CPU memory controller.
With the CXL-2.0 specification a PCI endpoint can implement a "Type-3"
device interface and give the operating system control over "Host
Managed Device Memory". See section 2.3 Type 3 CXL Device.
The memory range exported by the device may optionally be described by
the platform firmware memory map, or by infrastructure like LIBNVDIMM to
provision persistent memory capacity from one, or more, CXL.mem devices.
A pre-requisite for Linux-managed memory-capacity provisioning is this
cxl_mem driver that can speak the mailbox protocol defined in section
8.2.8.4 Mailbox Registers.
For now just land the initial driver boiler-plate and Documentation/
infrastructure.
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> (v1)
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://www.computeexpresslink.org/download-the-specification
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-2-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
- Some bug fixes
- The new vdpa subsystem with two first drivers
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
virtio-balloon: Revert "virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM"
vdpa: move to drivers/vdpa
virtio: Intel IFC VF driver for VDPA
vdpasim: vDPA device simulator
vhost: introduce vDPA-based backend
virtio: introduce a vDPA based transport
vDPA: introduce vDPA bus
vringh: IOTLB support
vhost: factor out IOTLB
vhost: allow per device message handler
vhost: refine vhost and vringh kconfig
virtio-balloon: Switch back to OOM handler for VIRTIO_BALLOON_F_DEFLATE_ON_OOM
virtio-net: Introduce hash report feature
virtio-net: Introduce RSS receive steering feature
virtio-net: Introduce extended RSC feature
tools/virtio: option to build an out of tree module
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Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"New tracing features:
- The ring buffer is no longer disabled when reading the trace file.
The trace_pipe file was made to be used for live tracing and
reading as it acted like the normal producer/consumer. As the trace
file would not consume the data, the easy way of handling it was to
just disable writes to the ring buffer.
This came to a surprise to the BPF folks who complained about lost
events due to reading. This is no longer an issue. If someone wants
to keep the old disabling there's a new option "pause-on-trace"
that can be set.
- New set_ftrace_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will not be
traced by the function tracer.
Similar to set_ftrace_pid, which makes the function tracer only
trace those tasks with PIDs in the file, the set_ftrace_notrace_pid
does the reverse.
- New set_event_notrace_pid file. PIDs in this file will cause events
not to be traced if triggered by a task with a matching PID.
Similar to the set_event_pid file but will not be traced. Note,
sched_waking and sched_switch events may still be traced if one of
the tasks referenced by those events contains a PID that is allowed
to be traced.
Tracing related features:
- New bootconfig option, that is attached to the initrd file.
If bootconfig is on the command line, then the initrd file is
searched looking for a bootconfig appended at the end.
- New GPU tracepoint infrastructure to help the gfx drivers to get
off debugfs (acked by Greg Kroah-Hartman)
And other minor updates and fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (27 commits)
tracing: Do not allocate buffer in trace_find_next_entry() in atomic
tracing: Add documentation on set_ftrace_notrace_pid and set_event_notrace_pid
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_event_notrace_pid file
selftests/ftrace: Add test to test new set_ftrace_notrace_pid file
tracing: Create set_event_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Create set_ftrace_notrace_pid to not trace tasks
ftrace: Make function trace pid filtering a bit more exact
ftrace/kprobe: Show the maxactive number on kprobe_events
tracing: Have the document reflect that the trace file keeps tracing enabled
ring-buffer/tracing: Have iterator acknowledge dropped events
tracing: Do not disable tracing when reading the trace file
ring-buffer: Do not disable recording when there is an iterator
ring-buffer: Make resize disable per cpu buffer instead of total buffer
ring-buffer: Optimize rb_iter_head_event()
ring-buffer: Do not die if rb_iter_peek() fails more than thrice
ring-buffer: Have rb_iter_head_event() handle concurrent writer
ring-buffer: Add page_stamp to iterator for synchronization
ring-buffer: Rename ring_buffer_read() to read_buffer_iter_advance()
ring-buffer: Have ring_buffer_empty() not depend on tracing stopped
tracing: Save off entry when peeking at next entry
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We have both vhost and virtio drivers that depend on vdpa.
It's easier to locate it at a top level directory otherwise
we run into issues e.g. if vhost is built-in but virtio
is modular. Let's just move it up a level.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Currently, CONFIG_VHOST depends on CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION. But vhost is
not necessarily for VM since it's a generic userspace and kernel
communication protocol. Such dependency may prevent archs without
virtualization support from using vhost.
To solve this, a dedicated vhost menu is created under drivers so
CONIFG_VHOST can be decoupled out of CONFIG_VIRTUALIZATION.
While at it, also squash Kconfig.vringh into vhost Kconfig file. This
avoids the trick of conditional inclusion from VOP or CAIF. Then it
will be easier to introduce new vringh users and common dependency for
both vringh and vhost.
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200326140125.19794-2-jasowang@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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This patch moves the core module to the /drivers/most directory
and makes all necessary changes in order to not break the build.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1583845362-26707-2-git-send-email-christian.gromm@microchip.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This change adds the below gpu memory tracepoint:
gpu_mem/gpu_mem_total: track global or proc gpu memory total usages
Per process tracking of total gpu memory usage in the gem layer is not
appropriate and hard to implement with trivial overhead. So for the gfx
device driver layer to track total gpu memory usage both globally and
per process in an easy and uniform way is to integrate the tracepoint in
this patch to the underlying varied implementations of gpu memory
tracking system from vendors.
Putting this tracepoint in the common trace events can not only help
wean the gfx drivers off of debugfs but also greatly help the downstream
Android gpu vendors because debugfs is to be deprecated in the upcoming
Android release. Then the gpu memory tracking of both Android kernel and
the upstream linux kernel can stay closely, which can benefit the whole
kernel eco-system in the long term.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200302235044.59163-1-zzyiwei@google.com
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Yiwei Zhang <zzyiwei@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Pull staging and IIO driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big staging/iio driver update for 5.4-rc1.
Lots of churn here, with a few driver/filesystems moving out of
staging finally:
- erofs moved out of staging
- greybus core code moved out of staging
Along with that, a new filesytem has been added:
- extfat
to provide support for those devices requiring that filesystem (i.e.
transfer devices to/from windows systems or printers)
Other than that, there a number of new IIO drivers, and lots and lots
and lots of staging driver cleanups and minor fixes as people continue
to dig into those for easy changes.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'staging-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (453 commits)
Staging: gasket: Use temporaries to reduce line length.
Staging: octeon: Avoid several usecases of strcpy
staging: vhciq_core: replace snprintf with scnprintf
staging: wilc1000: avoid twice IRQ handler execution for each single interrupt
staging: wilc1000: remove unused interrupt status handling code
staging: fbtft: make several arrays static const, makes object smaller
staging: rtl8188eu: make two arrays static const, makes object smaller
staging: rtl8723bs: core: Remove Macro "IS_MAC_ADDRESS_BROADCAST"
dt-bindings: anybus-controller: move to staging/ tree
staging: emxx_udc: remove local TRUE/FALSE definition
staging: wilc1000: look for rtc_clk clock
staging: dt-bindings: wilc1000: add optional rtc_clk property
staging: nvec: make use of devm_platform_ioremap_resource
staging: exfat: drop unused function parameter
Staging: exfat: Avoid use of strcpy
staging: exfat: use integer constants
staging: exfat: cleanup spacing for casts
staging: exfat: cleanup spacing for operators
staging: rtl8723bs: hal: remove redundant variable n
staging: pi433: Fix typo in documentation
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Pull USB updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big set of USB patches for 5.4-rc1.
Two major chunks of code are moving out of the tree and into the
staging directory, uwb and wusb (wireless USB support), because there
are no devices that actually use this protocol anymore, and what we
have today probably doesn't work at all given that the maintainers
left many many years ago. So move it to staging where it will be
removed in a few releases if no one screams.
Other than that, lots of little things. The usual gadget and xhci and
usb serial driver updates, along with a bunch of sysfs file cleanups
due to the driver core changes to support that. Nothing really major,
just constant forward progress.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'usb-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (159 commits)
USB: usbcore: Fix slab-out-of-bounds bug during device reset
usb: cdns3: Remove redundant dev_err call in cdns3_probe()
USB: rio500: Fix lockdep violation
USB: rio500: simplify locking
usb: mtu3: register a USB Role Switch for dual role mode
usb: common: add USB GPIO based connection detection driver
usb: common: create Kconfig file
usb: roles: get usb-role-switch from parent
usb: roles: Add fwnode_usb_role_switch_get() function
device connection: Add fwnode_connection_find_match()
usb: roles: Introduce stubs for the exiting functions in role.h
dt-bindings: usb: mtu3: add properties about USB Role Switch
dt-bindings: usb: add binding for USB GPIO based connection detection driver
dt-bindings: connector: add optional properties for Type-B
dt-binding: usb: add usb-role-switch property
usbip: Implement SG support to vhci-hcd and stub driver
usb: roles: intel: Enable static DRD mode for role switch
xhci-ext-caps.c: Add property to disable Intel SW switch
usb: dwc3: remove generic PHY calibrate() calls
usb: core: phy: add support for PHY calibration
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The Greybus core code has been stable for a long time, and has been
shipping for many years in millions of phones. With the advent of a
recent Google Summer of Code project, and a number of new devices in the
works from various companies, it is time to get the core greybus code
out of staging as it really is going to be with us for a while.
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Alex Elder <elder@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190825055429.18547-9-gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The SGI SN2 support is about to be removed. Remove this driver that
depends on the SN2 support.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190813072514.23299-5-hch@lst.de
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The UWB and wusbcore code is long obsolete, so let us just move the code
out of the real part of the kernel and into the drivers/staging/
location with plans to remove it entirely in a few releases.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190806101509.GA11280@kroah.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The FMC subsystem was created in 2012 with the ambition to
drive development of drivers for this hardware upstream.
The current implementation has architectural flaws and would
need to be revamped using real hardware to something that can
reuse existing kernel abstractions in the subsystems for e.g.
I2C, FPGA and GPIO.
We have concluded that for the mainline kernel it will be
better to delete the subsystem and start over with a clean
slate when/if an active maintainer steps up.
For details see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/10/29/534
Suggested-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Cc: Pat Riehecky <riehecky@fnal.gov>
Acked-by: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@cern.ch>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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This patch introduces the Generic Counter interface for supporting
counter devices.
In the context of the Generic Counter interface, a counter is defined as
a device that reports one or more "counts" based on the state changes of
one or more "signals" as evaluated by a defined "count function."
Driver callbacks should be provided to communicate with the device: to
read and write various Signals and Counts, and to set and get the
"action mode" and "count function" for various Synapses and Counts
respectively.
To support a counter device, a driver must first allocate the available
Counter Signals via counter_signal structures. These Signals should
be stored as an array and set to the signals array member of an
allocated counter_device structure before the Counter is registered to
the system.
Counter Counts may be allocated via counter_count structures, and
respective Counter Signal associations (Synapses) made via
counter_synapse structures. Associated counter_synapse structures are
stored as an array and set to the the synapses array member of the
respective counter_count structure. These counter_count structures are
set to the counts array member of an allocated counter_device structure
before the Counter is registered to the system.
A counter device is registered to the system by passing the respective
initialized counter_device structure to the counter_register function;
similarly, the counter_unregister function unregisters the respective
Counter. The devm_counter_register and devm_counter_unregister functions
serve as device memory-managed versions of the counter_register and
counter_unregister functions respectively.
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch introduces a new API to get requirements and configure the
interconnect buses across the entire chipset to fit with the current
demand.
The API is using a consumer/provider-based model, where the providers are
the interconnect buses and the consumers could be various drivers.
The consumers request interconnect resources (path) between endpoints and
set the desired constraints on this data flow path. The providers receive
requests from consumers and aggregate these requests for all master-slave
pairs on that path. Then the providers configure each node along the path
to support a bandwidth that satisfies all bandwidth requests that cross
through that node. The topology could be complicated and multi-tiered and
is SoC specific.
Reviewed-by: Evan Green <evgreen@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Georgi Djakov <georgi.djakov@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull Kconfig file consolidation from Masahiro Yamada:
"Consolidation of bus (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, RapidIO) config entries by
Christoph Hellwig.
Currently, every architecture that wants to provide common peripheral
busses needs to add some boilerplate code and include the right
Kconfig files. This series instead just selects the presence (when
needed) and then handles everything in the bus-specific Kconfig file
under drivers/"
* tag 'kconfig-v4.21-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
pcmcia: remove per-arch PCMCIA config entry
eisa: consolidate EISA Kconfig entry in drivers/eisa
rapidio: consolidate RAPIDIO config entry in drivers/rapidio
pcmcia: allow PCMCIA support independent of the architecture
PCI: consolidate the PCI_SYSCALL symbol
PCI: consolidate the PCI_DOMAINS and PCI_DOMAINS_GENERIC config options
PCI: consolidate PCI config entry in drivers/pci
MIPS: remove the HT_PCI config option
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Let architectures opt into EISA support by selecting HAVE_EISA and
handle everything else in drivers/eisa.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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There is no good reason to duplicate the RAPIDIO menu in various
architectures. Instead provide a selectable HAVE_RAPIDIO symbol
that indicates native availability of RAPIDIO support and the handle
the rest in drivers/pci. This also means we now provide support
for PCI(e) to Rapidio bridges for every architecture instead of a
limited subset.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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There is nothing architecture specific in the PCMCIA core, so allow
building it everywhere. The actual host controllers will depend on ISA,
PCI or a specific SOC.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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There is no good reason to duplicate the PCI menu in every architecture.
Instead provide a selectable HAVE_PCI symbol that indicates availability
of PCI support, and a FORCE_PCI symbol to for PCI on and the handle the
rest in drivers/pci.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@sifive.com>
Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Add core infrastructure to support I3C in Linux and document it.
This infrastructure adds basic I3C support. Advanced features will be
added afterwards.
There are a few design choices that are worth mentioning because they
impact the way I3C device drivers can interact with their devices:
- all functions used to send I3C/I2C frames must be called in
non-atomic context. Mainly done this way to ease implementation, but
this is not set in stone, and if anyone needs async support, new
functions can be added later on.
- the bus element is a separate object, but it's tightly coupled with
the master object. We thus have a 1:1 relationship between i3c_bus
and i3c_master_controller objects, and if 2 master controllers are
connected to the same bus and both exposed to the same Linux instance
they will appear as two distinct busses, and devices on this bus will
be exposed twice.
- I2C backward compatibility has been designed to be transparent to I2C
drivers and the I2C subsystem. The I3C master just registers an I2C
adapter which creates a new I2C bus. I'd say that, from a
representation PoV it's not ideal because what should appear as a
single I3C bus exposing I3C and I2C devices here appears as 2
different buses connected to each other through the parenting (the
I3C master is the parent of the I2C and I3C busses).
On the other hand, I don't see a better solution if we want something
that is not invasive.
Missing features:
- I3C HDR modes are not supported
- no support for multi-master and the associated concepts (mastership
handover, support for secondary masters, ...)
- I2C devices can only be described using DT because this is the only
use case I have. However, the framework can easily be extended with
ACPI and board info support
- I3C slave framework. This has been completely omitted, but shouldn't
have a huge impact on the I3C framework because I3C slaves don't see
the whole bus, it's only about handling master requests and generating
IBIs. Some of the struct, constant and enum definitions could be
shared, but most of the I3C slave framework logic will be different
Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Add a new subsystem for GNSS (e.g. GPS) receivers.
While GNSS receivers are typically accessed using a UART interface they
often also support other I/O interfaces such as I2C, SPI and USB, while
yet other devices use iomem or even some form of remote-processor
messaging (rpmsg).
The new GNSS subsystem abstracts the underlying interface and provides a
new "gnss" class type, which exposes a character-device interface (e.g.
/dev/gnss0) to user space. This allows GNSS receivers to have a
representation in the Linux device model, something which is important
not least for power management purposes.
Note that the character-device interface provides raw access to whatever
protocol the receiver is (currently) using, such as NMEA 0183, UBX or
SiRF Binary. These protocols are expected to be continued to be handled
by user space for the time being, even if some hybrid solutions are also
conceivable (e.g. to have kernel drivers issue management commands).
This will still allow for better platform integration by allowing GNSS
devices and their resources (e.g. regulators and enable-gpios) to be
described by firmware and managed by kernel drivers rather than
platform-specific scripts and services.
While the current interface is kept minimal, it could be extended using
IOCTLs, sysfs or uevents as needs and proper abstraction levels are
identified and determined (e.g. for device and feature identification).
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Make a "HW tracing support" menu and move 2 entries into it.
(No change in Coresight, which is ARM-specific and is only listed for
ARM & ARM64.)
This makes the Device Drivers menu more consistent and prevents these
drivers from being listed at the top level of the Device Drivers menu.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big pull request for char/misc drivers for 4.16-rc1.
There's a lot of stuff in here. Three new driver subsystems were added
for various types of hardware busses:
- siox
- slimbus
- soundwire
as well as a new vboxguest subsystem for the VirtualBox hypervisor
drivers.
There's also big updates from the FPGA subsystem, lots of Android
binder fixes, the usual handful of hyper-v updates, and lots of other
smaller driver updates.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time, with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.16-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (155 commits)
char: lp: use true or false for boolean values
android: binder: use VM_ALLOC to get vm area
android: binder: Use true and false for boolean values
lkdtm: fix handle_irq_event symbol for INT_HW_IRQ_EN
EISA: Delete error message for a failed memory allocation in eisa_probe()
EISA: Whitespace cleanup
misc: remove AVR32 dependencies
virt: vbox: Add error mapping for VERR_INVALID_NAME and VERR_NO_MORE_FILES
soundwire: Fix a signedness bug
uio_hv_generic: fix new type mismatch warnings
uio_hv_generic: fix type mismatch warnings
auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION/AUTHOR/LICENSE
uio_hv_generic: add rescind support
uio_hv_generic: check that host supports monitor page
uio_hv_generic: create send and receive buffers
uio: document uio_hv_generic regions
doc: fix documentation about uio_hv_generic
vmbus: add monitor_id and subchannel_id to sysfs per channel
vmbus: fix ABI documentation
uio_hv_generic: use ISR callback method
...
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This adds the base SoundWire bus type, bus and driver registration.
along with changes to module device table for new SoundWire
device type.
Signed-off-by: Sanyog Kale <sanyog.r.kale@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Acked-By: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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SLIMbus (Serial Low Power Interchip Media Bus) is a specification
developed by MIPI (Mobile Industry Processor Interface) alliance.
SLIMbus is a 2-wire implementation, which is used to communicate with
peripheral components like audio-codec.
SLIMbus uses Time-Division-Multiplexing to accommodate multiple data
channels, and control channel. Control channel has messages to do
device-enumeration, messages to send/receive control-data to/from
SLIMbus devices, messages for port/channel management, and messages to
do bandwidth allocation.
The framework supports multiple instances of the bus (1 controller per
bus), and multiple slave devices per controller.
This patch adds support to basic silmbus core which includes support to
SLIMbus type, slimbus device registeration and some basic data structures.
Signed-off-by: Sagar Dharia <sdharia@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Kandagatla <srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org>
Reviwed-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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SIOX is a bus system invented at Eckelmann AG to control their building
management and refrigeration systems. Traditionally the bus was
implemented on custom microcontrollers, today Linux based machines are
in use, too.
The topology on a SIOX bus looks as follows:
,------->--DCLK-->---------------+----------------------.
^ v v
,--------. ,----------------------. ,------
| | | ,--------------. | |
| |--->--DOUT-->---|->-|shift register|->-|--->---|
| | | `--------------' | |
| master | | device | | device
| | | ,--------------. | |
| |---<--DIN---<---|-<-|shift register|-<-|---<---|
| | | `--------------' | |
`--------' `----------------------' `------
v ^ ^
`----------DLD-------------------+----------------------'
There are two control lines (DCLK and DLD) driven from the bus master to
all devices in parallel and two daisy chained data lines, one for input
and one for output. DCLK is the clock to shift both chains by a single
bit. On an edge of DLD the devices latch both their input and output
shift registers.
This patch adds a framework for this bus type.
Acked-by: Gavin Schenk <g.schenk@eckelmann.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Move the visorbus driver out of staging (drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus)
and to drivers/visorbus. Modify the configuration and makefiles so they
now reference the new location. The s-Par header file visorbus.h that is
referenced by all s-Par drivers, is being moved into include/linux.
Signed-off-by: David Kershner <david.kershner@unisys.com>
Reviewed-by: Tim Sell <timothy.sell@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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* pm-cpufreq-sched:
cpufreq: schedutil: Reset cached_raw_freq when not in sync with next_freq
* pm-opp:
PM / OPP: Add dev_pm_opp_{un}register_get_pstate_helper()
PM / OPP: Support updating performance state of device's power domain
PM / OPP: add missing of_node_put() for of_get_cpu_node()
PM / OPP: Rename dev_pm_opp_register_put_opp_helper()
PM / OPP: Add missing of_node_put(np)
PM / OPP: Move error message to debug level
PM / OPP: Use snprintf() to avoid kasprintf() and kfree()
PM / OPP: Move the OPP directory out of power/
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Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.
By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.
Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.
This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.
How this work was done:
Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,
Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.
The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.
The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).
All documentation files were explicitly excluded.
The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.
- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.
For non */uapi/* files that summary was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139
and resulted in the first patch in this series.
If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930
and resulted in the second patch in this series.
- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:
SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1
and that resulted in the third patch in this series.
- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).
- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.
- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).
- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.
In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.
Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.
Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.
In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.
Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct
This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.
These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.
Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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The drivers/base/power/ directory is special and contains code related
to power management core like system suspend/resume, hibernation, etc.
It was fine to keep the OPP code inside it when we had just one file for
it, but it is growing now and already has a directory for itself.
Lets move it directly under drivers/ directory, just like cpufreq and
cpuidle.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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Add a new minimalistic subsystem that handles multiplexer controllers.
When multiplexers are used in various places in the kernel, and the
same multiplexer controller can be used for several independent things,
there should be one place to implement support for said multiplexer
controller.
A single multiplexer controller can also be used to control several
parallel multiplexers, that are in turn used by different subsystems
in the kernel, leading to a need to coordinate multiplexer accesses.
The multiplexer subsystem handles this coordination.
Thanks go out to Lars-Peter Clausen, Jonathan Cameron, Rob Herring,
Wolfram Sang, Paul Gortmaker, Dan Carpenter, Colin Ian King, Greg
Kroah-Hartman and last but certainly not least to Philipp Zabel for
helpful comments, reviews, patches and general encouragement!
Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se>
Reviewed-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Initial patch for generic TEE subsystem.
This subsystem provides:
* Registration/un-registration of TEE drivers.
* Shared memory between normal world and secure world.
* Ioctl interface for interaction with user space.
* Sysfs implementation_id of TEE driver
A TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) driver is a driver that interfaces
with a trusted OS running in some secure environment, for example,
TrustZone on ARM cpus, or a separate secure co-processor etc.
The TEE subsystem can serve a TEE driver for a Global Platform compliant
TEE, but it's not limited to only Global Platform TEEs.
This patch builds on other similar implementations trying to solve
the same problem:
* "optee_linuxdriver" by among others
Jean-michel DELORME<jean-michel.delorme@st.com> and
Emmanuel MICHEL <emmanuel.michel@st.com>
* "Generic TrustZone Driver" by Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Acked-by: Andreas Dannenberg <dannenberg@ti.com>
Tested-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@linaro.org> (HiKey)
Tested-by: Volodymyr Babchuk <vlad.babchuk@gmail.com> (RCAR H3)
Tested-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Wiklander <jens.wiklander@linaro.org>
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This change adds the initial (empty) fsi bus definition, and introduces
drivers/fsi/.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Chris Bostic <cbostic@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
"The bulk of this update was stabilized before the merge window and
appeared in -next. The "device dax" implementation was revised this
week in response to review feedback, and to address failures detected
by the recently expanded ndctl unit test suite.
Not included in this pull request are two dax topic branches (dax
error handling, and dax radix-tree locking). These topics were
deferred to get a few more days of -next integration testing, and to
coordinate a branch baseline with Ted and the ext4 tree. Vishal and
Ross will send the error handling and locking topics respectively in
the next few days.
This branch has received a positive build result from the kbuild robot
across 226 configs.
Summary:
- Device DAX for persistent memory: Device DAX is the device-centric
analogue of Filesystem DAX (CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows memory
ranges to be allocated and mapped without need of an intervening
file system. Device DAX is strict, precise and predictable.
Specifically this interface:
a) Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size
(pte, pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.
b) Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what
fault scenarios are supported.
Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance/feature
differentiated memory ranges.
- Support for the HPE DSM (device specific method) command formats.
This enables management of these first generation devices until a
unified DSM specification materializes.
- Further ACPI 6.1 compliance with support for the common dimm
identifier format.
- Various fixes and cleanups across the subsystem"
* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (40 commits)
libnvdimm, dax: fix deletion
libnvdimm, dax: fix alignment validation
libnvdimm, dax: autodetect support
libnvdimm: release ida resources
Revert "block: enable dax for raw block devices"
/dev/dax, core: file operations and dax-mmap
/dev/dax, pmem: direct access to persistent memory
libnvdimm: stop requiring a driver ->remove() method
libnvdimm, dax: record the specified alignment of a dax-device instance
libnvdimm, dax: reserve space to store labels for device-dax
libnvdimm, dax: introduce device-dax infrastructure
nfit: add sysfs dimm 'family' and 'dsm_mask' attributes
tools/testing/nvdimm: ND_CMD_CALL support
nfit: disable vendor specific commands
nfit: export subsystem ids as attributes
nfit: fix format interface code byte order per ACPI6.1
nfit, libnvdimm: limited/whitelisted dimm command marshaling mechanism
nfit, libnvdimm: clarify "commands" vs "_DSMs"
libnvdimm: increase max envelope size for ioctl
acpi/nfit: Add sysfs "id" for NVDIMM ID
...
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Device DAX is the device-centric analogue of Filesystem DAX
(CONFIG_FS_DAX). It allows memory ranges to be allocated and mapped
without need of an intervening file system. Device DAX is strict,
precise and predictable. Specifically this interface:
1/ Guarantees fault granularity with respect to a given page size (pte,
pmd, or pud) set at configuration time.
2/ Enforces deterministic behavior by being strict about what fault
scenarios are supported.
For example, by forcing MADV_DONTFORK semantics and omitting MAP_PRIVATE
support device-dax guarantees that a mapping always behaves/performs the
same once established. It is the "what you see is what you get" access
mechanism to differentiated memory vs filesystem DAX which has
filesystem specific implementation semantics.
Persistent memory is the first target, but the mechanism is also
targeted for exclusive allocations of performance differentiated memory
ranges.
This commit is limited to the base device driver infrastructure to
associate a dax device with pmem range.
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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sync_file is useful to connect one or more fences to the file. The file is
used by userspace to track fences between drivers that share DMA bufs.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of
different driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest
with the addition of some new platforms that are now supported. Full
details in the shortlog.
All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (181 commits)
fpga: socfpga: Fix check of return value of devm_request_irq
lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
mcb: Destroy IDA on module unload
mcb: Do not return zero on error path in mcb_pci_probe()
mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup
mei: bus: use correct lock ordering
mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output
char: ipmi: ipmi_ssif: Replace timeval with timespec64
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix issue with drvdata being overwritten.
fpga manager: remove unnecessary null pointer checks
fpga manager: ensure lifetime with of_fpga_mgr_get
fpga: zynq-fpga: Change fw format to handle bin instead of bit.
fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix unbalanced clock handling
misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space
coresight: etm3x: adding documentation for sysFS's cpu interface
vme: 8-bit status/id takes 256 values, not 255
fpga manager: Adding FPGA Manager support for Xilinx Zynq 7000
ARM: zynq: dt: Updated devicetree for Zynq 7000 platform.
ARM: dt: fpga: Added binding docs for Xilinx Zynq FPGA manager.
ver_linux: proc/modules, limit text processing to 'sed'
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Open-channel SSDs are devices that share responsibilities with the host
in order to implement and maintain features that typical SSDs keep
strictly in firmware. These include (i) the Flash Translation Layer
(FTL), (ii) bad block management, and (iii) hardware units such as the
flash controller, the interface controller, and large amounts of flash
chips. In this way, Open-channels SSDs exposes direct access to their
physical flash storage, while keeping a subset of the internal features
of SSDs.
LightNVM is a specification that gives support to Open-channel SSDs
LightNVM allows the host to manage data placement, garbage collection,
and parallelism. Device specific responsibilities such as bad block
management, FTL extensions to support atomic IOs, or metadata
persistence are still handled by the device.
The implementation of LightNVM consists of two parts: core and
(multiple) targets. The core implements functionality shared across
targets. This is initialization, teardown and statistics. The targets
implement the interface that exposes physical flash to user-space
applications. Examples of such targets include key-value store,
object-store, as well as traditional block devices, which can be
application-specific.
Contributions in this patch from:
Javier Gonzalez <jg@lightnvm.io>
Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Jesper Madsen <jmad@itu.dk>
Signed-off-by: Matias Bjørling <m@bjorling.me>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Arnd Bergmann
Linus Torvalds
Bart Van Assche
Dipen Patel
Fabio M. De Francesco
Iwona Winiarska
Christoph Hellwig
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Dan Williams
Michael S. Tsirkin
Jason Wang
Christian Gromm
Yiwei Zhang
Linus Walleij
William Breathitt Gray
Georgi Djakov
Boris Brezillon
Johan Hovold
Randy Dunlap
Vinod Koul
Sagar Dharia
Uwe Kleine-König
David Kershner
Rafael J. Wysocki
Viresh Kumar
Peter Rosin
Jens Wiklander
Jeremy Kerr
Gustavo Padovan
Matias Bjørling