dell-laptop: Add support for keyboard backlight.
toshiba_acpi: Adaptive keyboard, hotkey, USB sleep and charge,
and backlight updates. Update sysfs documentation.
toshiba_bluetooth: Fix enabling/disabling loop on recent devices
apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes
other: Fix typos, clear gcc warnings, clarify pr_* messages,
correct return types, update MAINTAINERS.
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Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.1-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86
Pull x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart:
"This series includes significant updates to the toshiba_acpi driver
and the reintroduction of the dell-laptop keyboard backlight additions
I had to revert previously. Also included are various fixes for
typos, warnings, correctness, and minor bugs.
Specifics:
dell-laptop:
- add support for keyboard backlight.
toshiba_acpi:
- adaptive keyboard, hotkey, USB sleep and charge, and backlight
updates. Update sysfs documentation.
toshiba_bluetooth:
- fix enabling/disabling loop on recent devices
apple-gmux:
- lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes
other:
- Fix typos, clear gcc warnings, clarify pr_* messages, correct
return types, update MAINTAINERS"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.1-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86: (25 commits)
toshiba_acpi: Do not register vendor backlight when acpi_video bl is available
MAINTAINERS: Add me on list of Dell laptop drivers
platform: x86: dell-laptop: Add support for keyboard backlight
Documentation/ABI: Update sysfs-driver-toshiba_acpi entry
toshiba_acpi: Fix pr_* messages from USB Sleep Functions
toshiba_acpi: Update and fix USB Sleep and Charge modes
wmi: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0
toshiba_bluetooth: Fix enabling/disabling loop on recent devices
toshiba_bluetooth: Clean up *_add function and disable BT device at removal
toshiba_bluetooth: Add three new functions to the driver
toshiba_acpi: Fix the enabling of the Special Functions
toshiba_acpi: Use the Hotkey Event Type function for keymap choosing
toshiba_acpi: Add Hotkey Event Type function and definitions
x86/wmi: delete unused wmi_data_lock mutex causing gcc warning
apple-gmux: lock iGP IO to protect from vgaarb changes
MAINTAINERS: Add missing Toshiba devices and add myself as maintainer
toshiba_acpi: Update events in toshiba_acpi_notify
intel-oaktrail: Fix trivial typo in comment
thinkpad_acpi: off by one in adaptive_keyboard_hotkey_notify_hotkey()
thinkpad_acpi: signedness bugs getting current_mode
...
* Add Kconfig option for keeping both the 'master' and 'partition' MTDs
registered as devices. This would really make a better default if we could
do it over, as it allows a lot more flexibility in (1) determining the flash
topology of the system from user-space and (2) adding temporary partitions
at runtime (ioctl(BLKPG)). Unfortunately, this would possibly cause
user-space breakage, as it will cause renumbering of the /dev/mtdX devices.
We'll see if we can change this in the future, as there have already been a
few people looking for this feature, and I know others have just been
working around our current limitations instead of fixing them this way.
* Along with the previous change, add some additional information to sysfs, so
user-space can read the offset of each partition within its master device
SPI NOR:
* add new device tree compatible binding to represent the mostly-compatible
class of SPI NOR flash which can be detected by their extended JEDEC ID
bytes, cutting down the duplication of our ID tables
* misc. new IDs
Various other miscellaneous fixes and changes
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Merge tag 'for-linus-20150422' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd
Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
"Common MTD:
- Add Kconfig option for keeping both the 'master' and 'partition'
MTDs registered as devices. This would really make a better
default if we could do it over, as it allows a lot more flexibility
in (1) determining the flash topology of the system from user-space
and (2) adding temporary partitions at runtime (ioctl(BLKPG)).
Unfortunately, this would possibly cause user-space breakage, as it
will cause renumbering of the /dev/mtdX devices. We'll see if we
can change this in the future, as there have already been a few
people looking for this feature, and I know others have just been
working around our current limitations instead of fixing them this
way.
- Along with the previous change, add some additional information to
sysfs, so user-space can read the offset of each partition within
its master device
SPI NOR:
- add new device tree compatible binding to represent the
mostly-compatible class of SPI NOR flash which can be detected by
their extended JEDEC ID bytes, cutting down the duplication of our
ID tables
- misc. new IDs
Various other miscellaneous fixes and changes"
* tag 'for-linus-20150422' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (53 commits)
mtd: spi-nor: Add support for Macronix mx25u6435f serial flash
mtd: spi-nor: Add support for Winbond w25q64dw serial flash
mtd: spi-nor: add support for the Winbond W25X05 flash
mtd: spi-nor: support en25s64 device
mtd: m25p80: bind to "nor-jedec" ID, for auto-detection
Documentation: devicetree: m25p80: add "nor-jedec" binding
mtd: Make MTD tests cancelable
mtd: mtd_oobtest: Fix bitflip_limit usage in test case 3
mtd: docg3: remove invalid __exit annotations
mtd: fsl_ifc_nand: use msecs_to_jiffies for time conversion
mtd: atmel_nand: don't map the ROM table if no pmecc table offset in DT
mtd: atmel_nand: add a definition for the oob reserved bytes
mtd: part: Remove partition overlap checks
mtd: part: Add sysfs variable for offset of partition
mtd: part: Create the master device node when partitioned
mtd: ts5500_flash: Fix typo in MODULE_DESCRIPTION in ts5500_flash.c
mtd: denali: Disable sub-page writes in Denali NAND driver
mtd: pxa3xx_nand: cleanup wait_for_completion handling
mtd: nand: gpmi: Check for scan_bbt() error
mtd: nand: gpmi: fixup return type of wait_for_completion_timeout
...
full blk-mq support to request-based DM.
- disabled by default but user can opt-in with CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT
- depends on some blk-mq changes from Jens' for-4.1/core branch so
that explains why this pull is built on linux-block.git
- Update DM to use name_to_dev_t() rather than open-coding a less
capable device parser.
- includes a couple small improvements to name_to_dev_t() that offer
stricter constraints that DM's code provided.
- Improvements to the dm-cache "mq" cache replacement policy.
- A DM crypt crypt_ctr() error path fix and an async crypto deadlock fix.
- A small efficiency improvement for DM crypt decryption by leveraging
immutable biovecs.
- Add error handling modes for corrupted blocks to DM verity.
- A new "log-writes" DM target from Josef Bacik that is meant for
file system developers to test file system integrity at particular
points in the life of a file system.
- A few DM log userspace cleanups and fixes.
- A few Documentation fixes (for thin, cache, crypt and switch).
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Merge tag 'dm-4.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm
Pull device mapper updates from Mike Snitzer:
- the most extensive changes this cycle are the DM core improvements to
add full blk-mq support to request-based DM.
- disabled by default but user can opt-in with CONFIG_DM_MQ_DEFAULT
- depends on some blk-mq changes from Jens' for-4.1/core branch so
that explains why this pull is built on linux-block.git
- update DM to use name_to_dev_t() rather than open-coding a less
capable device parser.
- includes a couple small improvements to name_to_dev_t() that offer
stricter constraints that DM's code provided.
- improvements to the dm-cache "mq" cache replacement policy.
- a DM crypt crypt_ctr() error path fix and an async crypto deadlock
fix
- a small efficiency improvement for DM crypt decryption by leveraging
immutable biovecs
- add error handling modes for corrupted blocks to DM verity
- a new "log-writes" DM target from Josef Bacik that is meant for file
system developers to test file system integrity at particular points
in the life of a file system
- a few DM log userspace cleanups and fixes
- a few Documentation fixes (for thin, cache, crypt and switch)
* tag 'dm-4.1-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm: (34 commits)
dm crypt: fix missing error code return from crypt_ctr error path
dm crypt: fix deadlock when async crypto algorithm returns -EBUSY
dm crypt: leverage immutable biovecs when decrypting on read
dm crypt: update URLs to new cryptsetup project page
dm: add log writes target
dm table: use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0
dm verity: add error handling modes for corrupted blocks
dm thin: remove stale 'trim' message documentation
dm delay: use msecs_to_jiffies for time conversion
dm log userspace base: fix compile warning
dm log userspace transfer: match wait_for_completion_timeout return type
dm table: fall back to getting device using name_to_dev_t()
init: stricter checking of major:minor root= values
init: export name_to_dev_t and mark name argument as const
dm: add 'use_blk_mq' module param and expose in per-device ro sysfs attr
dm: optimize dm_mq_queue_rq to _not_ use kthread if using pure blk-mq
dm: add full blk-mq support to request-based DM
dm: impose configurable deadline for dm_request_fn's merge heuristic
dm sysfs: introduce ability to add writable attributes
dm: don't start current request if it would've merged with the previous
...
- Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.
- More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.
- Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan Fontenot.
- Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.
- Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz.
- A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
nodes_possible_map.
- Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.
- Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.
- Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was flashing
your firmware when it wasn't.
- Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.
- Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan Stancek.
- Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.
- A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by Bjorn.
- A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.
- Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather than per
machine.
- Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended transactions
on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.
- Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.
- Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.
- Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree nodes, an
MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance improvements, config
updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Numerous minor fixes, cleanups etc.
- More EEH work from Gavin to remove its dependency on device_nodes.
- Memory hotplug implemented entirely in the kernel from Nathan
Fontenot.
- Removal of redundant CONFIG_PPC_OF by Kevin Hao.
- Rewrite of VPHN parsing logic & tests from Greg Kurz.
- A fix from Nish Aravamudan to reduce memory usage by clamping
nodes_possible_map.
- Support for pstore on powernv from Hari Bathini.
- Removal of old powerpc specific byte swap routines by David Gibson.
- Fix from Vasant Hegde to prevent the flash driver telling you it was
flashing your firmware when it wasn't.
- Patch from Ben Herrenschmidt to add an OPAL heartbeat driver.
- Fix for an oops causing get/put_cpu_var() imbalance in perf by Jan
Stancek.
- Some fixes for migration from Tyrel Datwyler.
- A new syscall to switch the cpu endian by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Wei Yang to implement SRIOV, reviewed and acked by
Bjorn.
- A fix for the OPAL sensor driver from Cédric Le Goater.
- Fixes to get STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS building again by Michael Ellerman.
- Large series from Daniel Axtens to make our PCI hooks per PHB rather
than per machine.
- Small patch from Sam Bobroff to explicitly abort non-suspended
transactions on syscalls, plus a test to exercise it.
- Numerous reworks and fixes for the 24x7 PMU from Sukadev Bhattiprolu.
- Small patch to enable the hard lockup detector from Anton Blanchard.
- Fix from Dave Olson for missing L2 cache information on some CPUs.
- Some fixes from Michael Ellerman to get Cell machines booting again.
- Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include BMan device tree
nodes, an MSI erratum workaround, a couple minor performance
improvements, config updates, and misc fixes/cleanup.
* tag 'powerpc-4.1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (196 commits)
powerpc/powermac: Fix build error seen with powermac smp builds
powerpc/pseries: Fix compile of memory hotplug without CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTREMOVE
powerpc: Remove PPC32 code from pseries specific find_and_init_phbs()
powerpc/cell: Fix iommu breakage caused by controller_ops change
powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell
powerpc/perf: Cap 64bit userspace backtraces to PERF_MAX_STACK_DEPTH
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Fail 24x7 initcall if create_events_from_catalog() fails
powerpc/pseries: Correct memory hotplug locking
powerpc: Fix missing L2 cache size in /sys/devices/system/cpu
powerpc: Add ppc64 hard lockup detector support
oprofile: Disable oprofile NMI timer on ppc64
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Add missing put_cpu_var()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Break up single_24x7_request
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define update_event_count()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Whitespace cleanup
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Define add_event_to_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Rename hv_24x7_event_update
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Move debug prints to separate function
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Drop event_24x7_request()
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use pr_devel() to log message
...
Conflicts:
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/Makefile
tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/tm/Makefile
Merge second patchbomb from Andrew Morton:
- the rest of MM
- various misc bits
- add ability to run /sbin/reboot at reboot time
- printk/vsprintf changes
- fiddle with seq_printf() return value
* akpm: (114 commits)
parisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
lru_cache: remove use of seq_printf return value
tracing: remove use of seq_printf return value
cgroup: remove use of seq_printf return value
proc: remove use of seq_printf return value
s390: remove use of seq_printf return value
cris fasttimer: remove use of seq_printf return value
cris: remove use of seq_printf return value
openrisc: remove use of seq_printf return value
ARM: plat-pxa: remove use of seq_printf return value
nios2: cpuinfo: remove use of seq_printf return value
microblaze: mb: remove use of seq_printf return value
ipc: remove use of seq_printf return value
rtc: remove use of seq_printf return value
power: wakeup: remove use of seq_printf return value
x86: mtrr: if: remove use of seq_printf return value
linux/bitmap.h: improve BITMAP_{LAST,FIRST}_WORD_MASK
MAINTAINERS: CREDITS: remove Stefano Brivio from B43
.mailmap: add Ricardo Ribalda
CREDITS: add Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
...
Per-device `zram<id>/mm_stat' file provides mm statistics of a particular
zram device in a format similar to block layer statistics. The file
consists of a single line and represents the following stats (separated by
whitespace):
orig_data_size
compr_data_size
mem_used_total
mem_limit
mem_used_max
zero_pages
num_migrated
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Per-device `zram<id>/io_stat' file provides accumulated I/O statistics of
particular zram device in a format similar to block layer statistics. The
file consists of a single line and represents the following stats
(separated by whitespace):
failed_reads
failed_writes
invalid_io
notify_free
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch introduces rework to zram stats. We have per-stat sysfs nodes,
and it makes things a bit hard to use in user space: it doesn't give an
immediate stats 'snapshot', it requires user space to use more syscalls -
open, read, close for every stat file, with appropriate error checks on
every step, etc.
First, zram now accounts block layer statistics, available in
/sys/block/zram<id>/stat and /proc/diskstats files. So some new stats are
available (see Documentation/block/stat.txt), besides, zram's activities
now can be monitored by sysstat's iostat or similar tools.
Example:
cat /sys/block/zram0/stat
248 0 1984 0 251029 0 2008232 5120 0 5116 5116
Second, group currently exported on per-stat basis nodes into two
categories (files):
-- zram<id>/io_stat
accumulates device's IO stats, that are not accounted by block layer,
and contains:
failed_reads
failed_writes
invalid_io
notify_free
Example:
cat /sys/block/zram0/io_stat
0 0 0 652572
-- zram<id>/mm_stat
accumulates zram mm stats and contains:
orig_data_size
compr_data_size
mem_used_total
mem_limit
mem_used_max
zero_pages
num_migrated
Example:
cat /sys/block/zram0/mm_stat
434634752 270288572 279158784 0 579895296 15060 0
per-stat sysfs nodes are now considered to be deprecated and we plan to
remove them (and clean up some of the existing stat code) in two years (as
of now, there is no warning printed to syslog about deprecated stats being
used). User space is advised to use the above mentioned 3 files.
This patch (of 7):
Remove sysfs `num_migrated' attribute. We are moving away from per-stat
device attrs towards 3 stat files that will accumulate io and mm stats in
a format similar to block layer statistics in /sys/block/<dev>/stat. That
will be easier to use in user space, and reduce the number of syscalls
needed to read zram device statistics.
`num_migrated' will return back in zram<id>/mm_stat file.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Now that zsmalloc supports compaction, zram can use it. For the first
step, this patch exports compact knob via sysfs so user can do compaction
via "echo 1 > /sys/block/zram0/compact".
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Juneho Choi <juno.choi@lge.com>
Cc: Gunho Lee <gunho.lee@lge.com>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjennings@variantweb.net>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Cc: Jerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull LED subsystem updates from Bryan Wu:
"In this cycle, we merged some fix and update for LED Flash class
driver. Then the core code of LED Flash class driver is in the kernel
now. Moreover, we also got some bug fixes, code cleanup and new
drivers for LED controllers"
* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/linux-leds:
leds: Don't treat the LED name as a format string
leds: Use log level warn instead of info when telling about a name clash
leds/led-class: Handle LEDs with the same name
leds: lp8860: Fix typo in MODULE_DESCRIPTION in leds-lp8860.c
leds: lp8501: Fix typo in MODULE_DESCRIPTION in leds-lp8501.c
DT: leds: Add uniqueness requirement for 'label' property.
dt-binding: leds: Add common LED DT bindings macros
leds: add Qualcomm PM8941 WLED driver
leds: add DT binding for Qualcomm PM8941 WLED block
leds: pca963x: Add missing initialiation of struct led_info.flags
leds: flash: Fix the size of sysfs_groups array
Documentation: leds: Add description of LED Flash class extension
leds: flash: document sysfs interface
leds: flash: Remove synchronized flash strobe feature
leds: Introduce devres helper for led_classdev_register
leds: lp8860: make use of devm_gpiod_get_optional
leds: Let the binding document example for leds-gpio follow the gpio bindings
leds: flash: remove stray include directive
leds: leds-pwm: drop one pwm_get_period() call
Request-based DM's blk-mq support defaults to off; but a user can easily
change the default using the dm_mod.use_blk_mq module/boot option.
Also, you can check what mode a given request-based DM device is using
with: cat /sys/block/dm-X/dm/use_blk_mq
This change enabled further cleanup and reduced work (e.g. the
md->io_pool and md->rq_pool isn't created if using blk-mq).
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Otherwise, for sequential workloads, the dm_request_fn can allow
excessive request merging at the expense of increased service time.
Add a per-device sysfs attribute to allow the user to control how long a
request, that is a reasonable merge candidate, can be queued on the
request queue. The resolution of this request dispatch deadline is in
microseconds (ranging from 1 to 100000 usecs), to set a 20us deadline:
echo 20 > /sys/block/dm-7/dm/rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline
The dm_request_fn's merge heuristic and associated extra accounting is
disabled by default (rq_based_seq_io_merge_deadline is 0).
This sysfs attribute is not applicable to bio-based DM devices so it
will only ever report 0 for them.
By allowing a request to remain on the queue it will block others
requests on the queue. But introducing a short dequeue delay has proven
very effective at enabling certain sequential IO workloads on really
fast, yet IOPS constrained, devices to build up slightly larger IOs --
yielding 90+% throughput improvements. Having precise control over the
time taken to wait for larger requests to build affords control beyond
that of waiting for certain IO sizes to accumulate (which would require
a deadline anyway). This knob will only ever make sense with sequential
IO workloads and the particular value used is storage configuration
specific.
Given the expected niche use-case for when this knob is useful it has
been deemed acceptable to expose this relatively crude method for
crafting optimal IO on specific storage -- especially given the solution
is simple yet effective. In the context of DM multipath, it is
advisable to tune this sysfs attribute to a value that offers the best
performance for the common case (e.g. if 4 paths are expected active,
tune for that; if paths fail then performance may be slightly reduced).
Alternatives were explored to have request-based DM autotune this value
(e.g. if/when paths fail) but they were quickly deemed too fragile and
complex to warrant further design and development time. If this problem
proves more common as faster storage emerges we'll have to look at
elevating a generic solution into the block core.
Tested-by: Shiva Krishna Merla <shivakrishna.merla@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Add BQL support to via-rhine, from Tino Reichardt.
2) Integrate SWITCHDEV layer support into the DSA layer, so DSA drivers
can support hw switch offloading. From Floria Fainelli.
3) Allow 'ip address' commands to initiate multicast group join/leave,
from Madhu Challa.
4) Many ipv4 FIB lookup optimizations from Alexander Duyck.
5) Support EBPF in cls_bpf classifier and act_bpf action, from Daniel
Borkmann.
6) Remove the ugly compat support in ARP for ugly layers like ax25,
rose, etc. And use this to clean up the neigh layer, then use it to
implement MPLS support. All from Eric Biederman.
7) Support L3 forwarding offloading in switches, from Scott Feldman.
8) Collapse the LOCAL and MAIN ipv4 FIB tables when possible, to speed
up route lookups even further. From Alexander Duyck.
9) Many improvements and bug fixes to the rhashtable implementation,
from Herbert Xu and Thomas Graf. In particular, in the case where
an rhashtable user bulk adds a large number of items into an empty
table, we expand the table much more sanely.
10) Don't make the tcp_metrics hash table per-namespace, from Eric
Biederman.
11) Extend EBPF to access SKB fields, from Alexei Starovoitov.
12) Split out new connection request sockets so that they can be
established in the main hash table. Much less false sharing since
hash lookups go direct to the request sockets instead of having to
go first to the listener then to the request socks hashed
underneath. From Eric Dumazet.
13) Add async I/O support for crytpo AF_ALG sockets, from Tadeusz Struk.
14) Support stable privacy address generation for RFC7217 in IPV6. From
Hannes Frederic Sowa.
15) Hash network namespace into IP frag IDs, also from Hannes Frederic
Sowa.
16) Convert PTP get/set methods to use 64-bit time, from Richard
Cochran.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1816 commits)
fm10k: Bump driver version to 0.15.2
fm10k: corrected VF multicast update
fm10k: mbx_update_max_size does not drop all oversized messages
fm10k: reset head instead of calling update_max_size
fm10k: renamed mbx_tx_dropped to mbx_tx_oversized
fm10k: update xcast mode before synchronizing multicast addresses
fm10k: start service timer on probe
fm10k: fix function header comment
fm10k: comment next_vf_mbx flow
fm10k: don't handle mailbox events in iov_event path and always process mailbox
fm10k: use separate workqueue for fm10k driver
fm10k: Set PF queues to unlimited bandwidth during virtualization
fm10k: expose tx_timeout_count as an ethtool stat
fm10k: only increment tx_timeout_count in Tx hang path
fm10k: remove extraneous "Reset interface" message
fm10k: separate PF only stats so that VF does not display them
fm10k: use hw->mac.max_queues for stats
fm10k: only show actual queues, not the maximum in hardware
fm10k: allow creation of VLAN on default vid
fm10k: fix unused warnings
...
Pull HID updates from Jiri Kosina:
- quite a few firmware fixes for RMI driver by Andrew Duggan
- huion and uclogic drivers have been substantially overlaping in
functionality laterly. This redundancy is fixed by hid-huion driver
being merged into hid-uclogic; work done by Benjamin Tissoires and
Nikolai Kondrashov
- i2c-hid now supports ACPI GPIO interrupts; patch from Mika Westerberg
- Some of the quirks, that got separated into individual drivers, have
historically had EXPERT dependency. As HID subsystem matured (as
well as the individual drivers), this made less and less sense. This
dependency is now being removed by patch from Jean Delvare
- Logitech lg4ff driver received a couple of improvements for mode
switching, by Michal Malý
- multitouch driver now supports clickpads, patches by Benjamin
Tissoires and Seth Forshee
- hid-sensor framework received a substantial update; namely support
for Custom and Generic pages is being added; work done by Srinivas
Pandruvada
- wacom driver received substantial update; it now supports
i2c-conntected devices (Mika Westerberg), Bamboo PADs are now
properly supported (Benjamin Tissoires), much improved battery
reporting (Jason Gerecke) and pen proximity cleanups (Ping Cheng)
- small assorted fixes and device ID additions
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid: (68 commits)
HID: sensor: Update document for custom sensor
HID: sensor: Custom and Generic sensor support
HID: debug: fix error handling in hid_debug_events_read()
Input - mt: Fix input_mt_get_slot_by_key
HID: logitech-hidpp: fix error return code
HID: wacom: Add support for Cintiq 13HD Touch
HID: logitech-hidpp: add a module parameter to keep firmware gestures
HID: usbhid: yet another mouse with ALWAYS_POLL
HID: usbhid: more mice with ALWAYS_POLL
HID: wacom: set stylus_in_proximity before checking touch_down
HID: wacom: use wacom_wac_finger_count_touches to set touch_down
HID: wacom: remove hardcoded WACOM_QUIRK_MULTI_INPUT
HID: pidff: effect can't be NULL
HID: add quirk for PIXART OEM mouse used by HP
HID: add HP OEM mouse to quirk ALWAYS_POLL
HID: wacom: ask for a in-prox report when it was missed
HID: hid-sensor-hub: Fix sparse warning
HID: hid-sensor-hub: fix attribute read for logical usage id
HID: plantronics: fix Kconfig default
HID: pidff: support more than one concurrent effect
...
Here's the big staging driver patchset for 4.1-rc1.
There's a lot of patches here, the Outreachy application period happened
during this development cycle, so that means that there was a lot of
cleanup patches accepted. Other than the normal coding style and sparse
fixes here, there are some driver updates and work toward making some of
the drivers into "mergable" shape (like the Unisys drivers.)
All of these have been in linux-next for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging driver patchset for 4.1-rc1.
There's a lot of patches here, the Outreachy application period
happened during this development cycle, so that means that there was a
lot of cleanup patches accepted. Other than the normal coding style
and sparse fixes here, there are some driver updates and work toward
making some of the drivers into "mergable" shape (like the Unisys
drivers.)
All of these have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'staging-4.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1214 commits)
staging: lustre: orthography & coding style
staging: lustre: lnet: lnet: fix error return code
staging: lustre: fix sparse warning
Revert "Staging: sm750fb: Fix C99 Comments"
Staging: rtl8192u: use correct array for debug output
staging: rtl8192e: Remove dead code
staging: rtl8192e: Comment cleanup (style/format)
staging: rtl8192e: Fix indentation in rtllib_rx_auth_resp()
staging: rtl8192e: Decrease nesting of rtllib_rx_auth_resp()
staging: rtl8192e: Divide rtllib_rx_auth()
staging: rtl8192e: Fix PRINTK_WITHOUT_KERN_LEVEL warnings
staging: rtl8192e: Fix DO_WHILE_MACRO_WITH_TRAILING_SEMICOLON warning
staging: rtl8192e: Fix BRACES warning
staging: rtl8192e: Fix LINE_CONTINUATIONS warning
staging: rtl8192e: Fix UNNECESSARY_PARENTHESES warnings
staging: rtl8192e: remove unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_RSL macro
staging: rtl8192e: Fix RETURN_VOID warnings
staging: rtl8192e: Fix UNNECESSARY_ELSE warning
staging: rtl8723au: Remove unneeded comments
staging: rtl8723au: Use __func__ in trace logs
...
This patch adds the support for the configuration of the keyboard
backlight on supported Dell laptops.
With this patch it is possible to set:
* keyboard backlight level
* timeout after which the backlight will be automatically turned off
* input activity triggers (keyboard, touchpad, mouse) that enable the backlight
* ambient light settings
The settings are exposed via /sys/class/leds/dell::kbd_backlight/
The code is based on the newly released documentation by Dell in the
libsmbios project.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
This patch updates the sysfs-driver-toshiba_acpi entry, adding the
missing entries for USB Sleep functions.
And also, while at the neighborhood, fix some typos and add a note
that some features require a reboot.
Signed-off-by: Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
This patch makes a sysfs variable called 'offset' on each partition
which contains the offset in bytes from the beginning of the master
device that the partition starts.
Signed-off-by: Dan Ehrenberg <dehrenberg@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <computersforpeace@gmail.com>
Kernel version for new ABI in 4.0 has been documented
as 3.20, since the changes have been merged before the kernel
version number change.
Change kernel version from 3.20 to 4.0.
Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Some devices have hardware buffers that can store a number of samples
for later consumption. Hardware usually provides interrupts to notify
the processor when the FIFO is full or when it has reached a certain
watermark level. This helps with reducing the number of interrupts to
the host processor and thus it helps decreasing the power consumption.
This patch enables usage of hardware FIFOs for IIO devices in
conjunction with software device buffers. When the hardware FIFO is
enabled the samples are stored in the hardware FIFO. The samples are
later flushed to the device software buffer when the number of entries
in the hardware FIFO reaches the hardware watermark or when a flush
operation is triggered by the user when doing a non-blocking read
on an empty software device buffer.
In order to implement hardware FIFO support the device drivers must
implement the following new operations: setting and getting the
hardware FIFO watermark level, flushing the hardware FIFO to the
software device buffer. The device must also expose information about
the hardware FIFO such it's minimum and maximum watermark and if
necessary a list of supported watermark values. Finally, the device
driver must activate the hardware FIFO when the device buffer is
enabled, if the current device settings allows it.
The software device buffer watermark is passed by the IIO core to the
device driver as a hint for the hardware FIFO watermark. The device
driver can adjust this value to allow for hardware limitations (such
as capping it to the maximum hardware watermark or adjust it to a
value that is supported by the hardware). It can also disable the
hardware watermark (and implicitly the hardware FIFO) it this value is
below the minimum hardware watermark.
Since a driver may support hardware FIFO only when not in triggered
buffer mode (due to different semantics of hardware FIFO sampling and
triggered sampling) this patch changes the IIO core code to allow
falling back to non-triggered buffered mode if no trigger is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Currently the IIO buffer blocking read only wait until at least one
data element is available.
This patch makes the reader sleep until enough data is collected before
returning to userspace. This should limit the read() calls count when
trying to get data in batches.
Co-author: Yannick Bedhomme <yannick.bedhomme@mobile-devices.fr>
Signed-off-by: Josselin Costanzi <josselin.costanzi@mobile-devices.fr>
[rebased and remove buffer timeout]
Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <octavian.purdila@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
This patch adds ABI documentation entries for in_rot_offset.
At least one user for these is present that is the HID Sensors Driver.
Signed-off-by: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
This patchset adds ABI documentation for the following attributes:
in_illuminance_scale, used atleast once in al3320a staging/iio/light/
in_illuminance_calibscale, used atleast once in cm32181
in_illuminance_input, used in cm3232 at least once
in_illuminance_raw used atleast once in al3320a
in_illuminance_clear_raw and in_illuminance_ir_raw exposed by
gp2ap020a00f with modifiers IIO_MOD_LIGHT_CLEAR and
IIO_MOD_LIGHT_IR respectively.
Signed-off-by: Darshana Padmadas <darshanapadmadas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Fix the attribute name of the configuration record class ID.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud <felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
New drivers
* CM3323 color sensor.
* MS5611 pressure and temperature sensor.
New functionality
* mup6050 - create mux clients for devices described via ACPI. The reasoning
and approach taken in this patch are complex. Basically there is no
otherway of finding out what is there than by some esoteric look ups in
the ACPI data.
* cm3232 - PM support
* itg3200 - suspend/resume support
* mcp320x - add more ADCs to the kconfig to reflect what the driver supports
(this patch and the bindings got left behind when the support was added
a while back).
Docs / utils
* ti-adc128s052 - DT bindings.
* mcp3422 - DT bindings.
* mcp320x - DT bindings
* ABI docs for event threshold scale attributes, in_magn_offset, proximity
scan_element and thresh falling/rising values for accelerometers. All
elements long in use that have slipped by being explicitly documented.
* Tidy up the tools previously in drivers/staging/iio/Documentation and move
them out to /tools/iio. Yet another move that should have happened long ago.
This time Roberta Dobrescu did the leg work. Thanks!
Core Cleanups
* Export userspace IIO headers. We should have done the appropriate header
splitting a long time ago. Thanks to Daniel for sorting this out.
* Refactor the registring of attributes for buffers to move all non-custom
ones to a vector allowing easier additions to the current set in the future.
Driver Cleanups
* gpiod related cleanups. Make use of the additional parameter to specify
initial direciton to avoid extra code.
* bmc150 - Various refactorings to reduce code repitition and prepare for
hardware buffer support. Some of these cleanups are good even
without the new functionality.
* kmx61 - direct use of index to an array avoiding a structure element which
was always the index to an element in an array of that structure.
* vf610 - avoid incorrect type for return from wait_for_completion_timeout.
* gp2ap020a00f - use put_unaligned_le32 for slight code simplification.
* ade7754 - improve error handling including suppressing some build warnings.
* ade7759 - improve error handling including suppressing some build warnings.
* hmc5843 - Long line and indentation fixes. Also some constifying of various
constant data.
* ade7854 - 80+ character line splitting.
* ad2s1210 - fix wrong printf format string.
* mxs-lradc - fix wrong printf format string.
* ade7954-i2c - code alignment fixes and other trivial but worthwhile bits.
* periodic rtc trigger - make the frequency type an unsigned int as it
is always treated as such.
* jsa1212 - constify struct regmap_config as it is constant.
* ad7793 - typo in the MODULE_DESCRIPTION
* mma9551 - check gpiod_to_irq errors. Note that this doesn't actually cause
any trouble but is worth tidying up as obviously incorrect.
* mlx90614 - refactor the register symbols to make it clear which reads are to
RAM not PROM.
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Merge tag 'iio-for-4.1a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jic23/iio into staging-next
Jonathan writes:
First set of new drivers, cleanups and functionality for IIO in the 4.1 cycle.
New drivers
* CM3323 color sensor.
* MS5611 pressure and temperature sensor.
New functionality
* mup6050 - create mux clients for devices described via ACPI. The reasoning
and approach taken in this patch are complex. Basically there is no
otherway of finding out what is there than by some esoteric look ups in
the ACPI data.
* cm3232 - PM support
* itg3200 - suspend/resume support
* mcp320x - add more ADCs to the kconfig to reflect what the driver supports
(this patch and the bindings got left behind when the support was added
a while back).
Docs / utils
* ti-adc128s052 - DT bindings.
* mcp3422 - DT bindings.
* mcp320x - DT bindings
* ABI docs for event threshold scale attributes, in_magn_offset, proximity
scan_element and thresh falling/rising values for accelerometers. All
elements long in use that have slipped by being explicitly documented.
* Tidy up the tools previously in drivers/staging/iio/Documentation and move
them out to /tools/iio. Yet another move that should have happened long ago.
This time Roberta Dobrescu did the leg work. Thanks!
Core Cleanups
* Export userspace IIO headers. We should have done the appropriate header
splitting a long time ago. Thanks to Daniel for sorting this out.
* Refactor the registring of attributes for buffers to move all non-custom
ones to a vector allowing easier additions to the current set in the future.
Driver Cleanups
* gpiod related cleanups. Make use of the additional parameter to specify
initial direciton to avoid extra code.
* bmc150 - Various refactorings to reduce code repitition and prepare for
hardware buffer support. Some of these cleanups are good even
without the new functionality.
* kmx61 - direct use of index to an array avoiding a structure element which
was always the index to an element in an array of that structure.
* vf610 - avoid incorrect type for return from wait_for_completion_timeout.
* gp2ap020a00f - use put_unaligned_le32 for slight code simplification.
* ade7754 - improve error handling including suppressing some build warnings.
* ade7759 - improve error handling including suppressing some build warnings.
* hmc5843 - Long line and indentation fixes. Also some constifying of various
constant data.
* ade7854 - 80+ character line splitting.
* ad2s1210 - fix wrong printf format string.
* mxs-lradc - fix wrong printf format string.
* ade7954-i2c - code alignment fixes and other trivial but worthwhile bits.
* periodic rtc trigger - make the frequency type an unsigned int as it
is always treated as such.
* jsa1212 - constify struct regmap_config as it is constant.
* ad7793 - typo in the MODULE_DESCRIPTION
* mma9551 - check gpiod_to_irq errors. Note that this doesn't actually cause
any trouble but is worth tidying up as obviously incorrect.
* mlx90614 - refactor the register symbols to make it clear which reads are to
RAM not PROM.
Similar to port id allow netdevices to specify port names and export
the name via sysfs. Drivers can implement the netdevice operation to
assist udev in having sane default names for the devices using the
rule:
$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{phys_port_name}!="",
NAME="$attr{phys_port_name}"
Use of phys_name versus phys_id was suggested-by Jiri Pirko.
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Acked-by: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds a tx_maxrate attribute to the tx queue sysfs entry allowing
for max-rate limiting. Along with DCB-ETS and BQL this provides another
knob to tune queue performance. The limit units are Mbps.
By default it is disabled. To disable the rate limitation after it
has been set for a queue, it should be set to zero.
Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch adds ABI documentation entries for
in_accel_thresh_falling_value, and in_accel_thresh_rising_value in /events.
There is at least one user for these, lis3l02dq in accel.
Signed-off-by: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
This patch adds ABI documentation entries for in_proximity_en,
in_proximity_type, and in_proximity_index in the scan_elements directory.
At least one user for these is present, the AS3935 Franklin lightning sensor.
Signed-off-by: Haneen Mohammed <hamohammed.sa@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
This patch adds ABI documentation entries for in_magn_offset.
There is one user, hid-sensor-magn-3d in drivers/iio/magnetometer.
Signed-off-by: Darshana Padmadas <darshanapadmadas@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Add support for configfs interface so that f_printer can be used as a
component of usb gadgets composed with it.
Signed-off-by: Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Add a documentation of LED Flash class specific sysfs attributes.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
This commit exposes in sysfs the HID country code that is stored in the country
member of hid_device structure. It identifies the country code of localized
hardware.
For example some keyboards use it to exhibit the language of the key layout. It
helps the upper layer to identify the localized hardware and setup the correct
language to use.
For USB HID devices the country code comes for the HID descriptor and for
Bluetooth HID devices it is the HIDCountryCode attribute from the SDP database.
Signed-off-by: Olivier Gay <ogay@logitech.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
toshiba_acpi: Add support for missing features from the Windows driver,
bump the sysfs version, and clean up the driver.
thinkpad_acpi: BIOS string versions, unhandled hkey events.
samsung-laptop: Add native backlight quirk, enable better lid handling.
intel_scu_ipc: Read resources from PCI configuration
other: Fix sparse warnings, general cleanups.
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Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v3.20-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86
Pull platform driver update from Darren Hart:
"This includes a significant update to the toshiba_acpi driver,
bringing it to feature parity with the Windows driver, followed by
some needed cleanups.
The other changes are mostly minor updates, quirks, sparse fixes, or
cleanups.
Details:
- toshiba_acpi:
Add support for missing features from the Windows driver, bump the
sysfs version, and clean up the driver.
- thinkpad_acpi:
BIOS string versions, unhandled hkey events.
- msamsung-laptop:
Add native backlight quirk, enable better lid handling.
- intel_scu_ipc:
Read resources from PCI configuration
- other:
Fix sparse warnings, general cleanups"
* tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v3.20-1' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86: (34 commits)
toshiba_acpi: Cleanup GPL header
toshiba_acpi: Cleanup comment blocks and capitalization
toshiba_acpi: Make use of DEVICE_ATTR_{RO, RW} macros
toshiba_acpi: Drop the toshiba_ prefix from sysfs function names
toshiba_acpi: Move sysfs function and struct declarations further down
Documentation/ABI: Add file describing the sysfs entries for toshiba_acpi
toshiba_acpi: Clean file according to coding style
toshiba_acpi: Bump version number to 0.21
toshiba_acpi: Add support to enable/disable USB 3
toshiba_acpi: Add support for Panel Power ON
toshiba_acpi: Add support for Keyboard functions mode
toshiba_acpi: Add fan entry to sysfs
toshiba_acpi: Add version entry to sysfs
thinkpad_acpi: support new BIOS version string pattern
thinkpad_acpi: unhandled hkey event
toshiba_acpi: Make toshiba_eco_mode_available more robust
classmate-laptop: Fix sparse warning (0 as NULL)
Sony-laptop: Fix sparse warning (make undeclared var static)
thinkpad_acpi.c: Fix sparse warning (make undeclared var static)
samsung-laptop.c: Prefer kstrtoint over single variable sscanf
...
Allow switching of Logitech gaming wheels between available compatibility modes
through sysfs. This only applies to multimode wheels.
Signed-off-by: Michal Malý <madcatxster@devoid-pointer.net>
Tested-by: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Display the real wheel model and supported alternate modes through sysfs. This
applies only to multimode wheels.
Signed-off-by: Michal Malý <madcatxster@devoid-pointer.net>
Tested-by: Simon Wood <simon@mungewell.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Here's the big staging driver tree update for 3.20-rc1. Lots of little
things in here, adding up to lots of overall cleanups. The IIO driver
updates are also in here as they cross the staging tree boundry a lot.
I2O has moved into staging as well, as a plan to drop it from the tree
eventually as that's a dead subsystem.
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a while.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging drivers patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big staging driver tree update for 3.20-rc1.
Lots of little things in here, adding up to lots of overall cleanups.
The IIO driver updates are also in here as they cross the staging tree
boundry a lot. I2O has moved into staging as well, as a plan to drop
it from the tree eventually as that's a dead subsystem.
All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues for a
while"
* tag 'staging-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (740 commits)
staging: lustre: lustre: libcfs: define symbols as static
staging: rtl8712: Do coding style cleanup
staging: lustre: make obd_updatemax_lock static
staging: rtl8188eu: core: switch with redundant cases
staging: rtl8188eu: odm: conditional setting with no effect
staging: rtl8188eu: odm: condition with no effect
staging: ft1000: fix braces warning
staging: sm7xxfb: fix remaining CamelCase
staging: sm7xxfb: fix CamelCase
staging: rtl8723au: multiple condition with no effect - if identical to else
staging: sm7xxfb: make smtc_scr_info static
staging/lustre/mdc: Initialize req in mdc_enqueue for !it case
staging/lustre/clio: Do not allow group locks with gid 0
staging/lustre/llite: don't add to page cache upon failure
staging/lustre/llite: Add exception entry check after radix_tree
staging/lustre/libcfs: protect kkuc_groups from write access
staging/lustre/fld: refer to MDT0 for fld lookup in some cases
staging/lustre/llite: Solve a race to access lli_has_smd in read case
staging/lustre/ptlrpc: hold rq_lock when modify rq_flags
staging/lustre/lnet: portal spreading rotor should be unsigned
...
Here's the big pull request for the USB driver tree for 3.20-rc1.
Nothing major happening here, just lots of gadget driver updates, new
device ids, and a bunch of cleanups.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'usb-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb
Pull USB patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big pull request for the USB driver tree for 3.20-rc1.
Nothing major happening here, just lots of gadget driver updates, new
device ids, and a bunch of cleanups.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'usb-3.20-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (299 commits)
usb: musb: fix device hotplug behind hub
usb: dwc2: Fix a bug in reading the endpoint directions from reg.
staging: emxx_udc: fix the build error
usb: Retry port status check on resume to work around RH bugs
Revert "usb: Reset USB-3 devices on USB-3 link bounce"
uhci-hub: use HUB_CHAR_*
usb: kconfig: replace PPC_OF with PPC
ehci-pci: disable for Intel MID platforms (update)
usb: gadget: Kconfig: use bool instead of boolean
usb: musb: blackfin: remove incorrect __exit_p()
USB: fix use-after-free bug in usb_hcd_unlink_urb()
ehci-pci: disable for Intel MID platforms
usb: host: pci_quirks: joing string literals
USB: add flag for HCDs that can't receive wakeup requests (isp1760-hcd)
USB: usbfs: allow URBs to be reaped after disconnection
cdc-acm: kill unnecessary messages
cdc-acm: add sanity checks
usb: phy: phy-generic: Fix USB PHY gpio reset
usb: dwc2: fix USB core dependencies
usb: renesas_usbhs: fix NULL pointer dereference in dma_release_channel()
...
Pull f2fs updates from Jaegeuk Kim:
"Major changes are to:
- add f2fs_io_tracer and F2FS_IOC_GETVERSION
- fix wrong acl assignment from parent
- fix accessing wrong data blocks
- fix wrong condition check for f2fs_sync_fs
- align start block address for direct_io
- add and refactor the readahead flows of FS metadata
- refactor atomic and volatile write policies
But most of patches are for clean-ups and minor bug fixes. Some of
them refactor old code too"
* tag 'for-f2fs-3.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs: (64 commits)
f2fs: use spinlock for segmap_lock instead of rwlock
f2fs: fix accessing wrong indexed data blocks
f2fs: avoid variable length array
f2fs: fix sparse warnings
f2fs: allocate data blocks in advance for f2fs_direct_IO
f2fs: introduce macros to convert bytes and blocks in f2fs
f2fs: call set_buffer_new for get_block
f2fs: check node page contents all the time
f2fs: avoid data offset overflow when lseeking huge file
f2fs: fix to use highmem for pages of newly created directory
f2fs: introduce a batched trim
f2fs: merge {invalidate,release}page for meta/node/data pages
f2fs: show the number of writeback pages in stat
f2fs: keep PagePrivate during releasepage
f2fs: should fail mount when trying to recover data on read-only dev
f2fs: split UMOUNT and FASTBOOT flags
f2fs: avoid write_checkpoint if f2fs is mounted readonly
f2fs: support norecovery mount option
f2fs: fix not to drop mount options when retrying fill_super
f2fs: merge flags in struct f2fs_sb_info
...
Pull ARM updates from Russell King:
- clang assembly fixes from Ard
- optimisations and cleanups for Aurora L2 cache support
- efficient L2 cache support for secure monitor API on Exynos SoCs
- debug menu cleanup from Daniel Thompson to allow better behaviour for
multiplatform kernels
- StrongARM SA11x0 conversion to irq domains, and pxa_timer
- kprobes updates for older ARM CPUs
- move probes support out of arch/arm/kernel to arch/arm/probes
- add inline asm support for the rbit (reverse bits) instruction
- provide an ARM mode secondary CPU entry point (for Qualcomm CPUs)
- remove the unused ARMv3 user access code
- add driver_override support to AMBA Primecell bus
* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (55 commits)
ARM: 8256/1: driver coamba: add device binding path 'driver_override'
ARM: 8301/1: qcom: Use secondary_startup_arm()
ARM: 8302/1: Add a secondary_startup that assumes ARM mode
ARM: 8300/1: teach __asmeq that r11 == fp and r12 == ip
ARM: kprobes: Fix compilation error caused by superfluous '*'
ARM: 8297/1: cache-l2x0: optimize aurora range operations
ARM: 8296/1: cache-l2x0: clean up aurora cache handling
ARM: 8284/1: sa1100: clear RCSR_SMR on resume
ARM: 8283/1: sa1100: collie: clear PWER register on machine init
ARM: 8282/1: sa1100: use handle_domain_irq
ARM: 8281/1: sa1100: move GPIO-related IRQ code to gpio driver
ARM: 8280/1: sa1100: switch to irq_domain_add_simple()
ARM: 8279/1: sa1100: merge both GPIO irqdomains
ARM: 8278/1: sa1100: split irq handling for low GPIOs
ARM: 8291/1: replace magic number with PAGE_SHIFT macro in fixup_pv code
ARM: 8290/1: decompressor: fix a wrong comment
ARM: 8286/1: mm: Fix dma_contiguous_reserve comment
ARM: 8248/1: pm: remove outdated comment
ARM: 8274/1: Fix DEBUG_LL for multi-platform kernels (without PL01X)
ARM: 8273/1: Seperate DEBUG_UART_PHYS from DEBUG_LL on EP93XX
...
This patch adds a new file describing the sysfs entries for the
toshiba_acpi driver.
Signed-off-by: Azael Avalos <coproscefalo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
Including:
- Update of all defconfigs
- Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs
- Some PS3 updates from Geoff
- Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton
- Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen
- Several cxl updates from Ian & Ryan
- Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody & Sukadev
- Freescale updates from Scott:
"Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath device
tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet error reporting,
and various cleanups and fixes."
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Merge tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
- Update of all defconfigs
- Addition of a bunch of config options to modernise our defconfigs
- Some PS3 updates from Geoff
- Optimised memcmp for 64 bit from Anton
- Fix for kprobes that allows 'perf probe' to work from Naveen
- Several cxl updates from Ian & Ryan
- Expanded support for the '24x7' PMU from Cody & Sukadev
- Freescale updates from Scott:
"Highlights include 8xx optimizations, some more work on datapath
device tree content, e300 machine check support, t1040 corenet
error reporting, and various cleanups and fixes"
* tag 'powerpc-3.20-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mpe/linux: (102 commits)
cxl: Add missing return statement after handling AFU errror
cxl: Fail AFU initialisation if an invalid configuration record is found
cxl: Export optional AFU configuration record in sysfs
powerpc/mm: Warn on flushing tlb page in kernel context
powerpc/powernv: Add OPAL soft-poweroff routine
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Document sysfs event description entries
powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: add the remaining gpci requests
powerpc/perf/{hv-gpci, hv-common}: generate requests with counters annotated
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: parse catalog and populate sysfs with events
perf: define EVENT_DEFINE_RANGE_FORMAT_LITE helper
perf: add PMU_EVENT_ATTR_STRING() helper
perf: provide sysfs_show for struct perf_pmu_events_attr
powerpc/kernel: Avoid initializing device-tree pointer twice
powerpc: Remove old compile time disabled syscall tracing code
powerpc/kernel: Make syscall_exit a local label
cxl: Fix device_node reference counting
powerpc/mm: bail out early when flushing TLB page
powerpc: defconfigs: add MTD_SPI_NOR (new dependency for M25P80)
perf/powerpc: reset event hw state when adding it to the PMU
powerpc/qe: Use strlcpy()
...
This patch introduces a batched trimming feature, which submits split discard
commands.
This is to avoid long latency due to huge trim commands.
If fstrim was triggered ranging from 0 to the end of device, we should lock
all the checkpoint-related mutexes, resulting in very long latency.
Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao2.yu@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
Pull input updates from Dmitry Torokhov:
"The first round of updates for the input subsystem.
A few new drivers (power button handler for AXP20x PMIC, tps65218
power button driver, sun4i keys driver, regulator haptic driver, NI
Ettus Research USRP E3x0 button, Alwinner A10/A20 PS/2 controller).
Updates to Synaptics and ALPS touchpad drivers (with more to come
later), brand new Focaltech PS/2 support, update to Cypress driver to
handle Gen5 (in addition to Gen3) devices, and number of other fixups
to various drivers as well as input core"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (54 commits)
Input: elan_i2c - fix wrong %p extension
Input: evdev - do not queue SYN_DROPPED if queue is empty
Input: gscps2 - fix MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE invocation
Input: synaptics - use dmax in input_mt_assign_slots
Input: pxa27x_keypad - remove unnecessary ARM includes
Input: ti_am335x_tsc - replace delta filtering with median filtering
ARM: dts: AM335x: Make charge delay a DT parameter for TSC
Input: ti_am335x_tsc - read charge delay from DT
Input: ti_am335x_tsc - remove udelay in interrupt handler
Input: ti_am335x_tsc - interchange touchscreen and ADC steps
Input: MT - add support for balanced slot assignment
Input: drv2667 - remove wrong and unneeded drv2667-haptics modalias
Input: drv260x - remove wrong and unneeded drv260x-haptics modalias
Input: cap11xx - remove wrong and unneeded cap11xx modalias
Input: sun4i-ts - add support for touchpanel controller on A31
Input: serio - add support for Alwinner A10/A20 PS/2 controller
Input: gtco - use sign_extend32() for sign extension
Input: elan_i2c - verify firmware signature applying it
Input: elantech - remove stale comment from Kconfig
Input: cyapa - off by one in cyapa_update_fw_store()
...
Pull live patching infrastructure from Jiri Kosina:
"Let me provide a bit of history first, before describing what is in
this pile.
Originally, there was kSplice as a standalone project that implemented
stop_machine()-based patching for the linux kernel. This project got
later acquired, and the current owner is providing live patching as a
proprietary service, without any intentions to have their
implementation merged.
Then, due to rising user/customer demand, both Red Hat and SUSE
started working on their own implementation (not knowing about each
other), and announced first versions roughly at the same time [1] [2].
The principle difference between the two solutions is how they are
making sure that the patching is performed in a consistent way when it
comes to different execution threads with respect to the semantic
nature of the change that is being introduced.
In a nutshell, kPatch is issuing stop_machine(), then looking at
stacks of all existing processess, and if it decides that the system
is in a state that can be patched safely, it proceeds insterting code
redirection machinery to the patched functions.
On the other hand, kGraft provides a per-thread consistency during one
single pass of a process through the kernel and performs a lazy
contignuous migration of threads from "unpatched" universe to the
"patched" one at safe checkpoints.
If interested in a more detailed discussion about the consistency
models and its possible combinations, please see the thread that
evolved around [3].
It pretty quickly became obvious to the interested parties that it's
absolutely impractical in this case to have several isolated solutions
for one task to co-exist in the kernel. During a dedicated Live
Kernel Patching track at LPC in Dusseldorf, all the interested parties
sat together and came up with a joint aproach that would work for both
distro vendors. Steven Rostedt took notes [4] from this meeting.
And the foundation for that aproach is what's present in this pull
request.
It provides a basic infrastructure for function "live patching" (i.e.
code redirection), including API for kernel modules containing the
actual patches, and API/ABI for userspace to be able to operate on the
patches (look up what patches are applied, enable/disable them, etc).
It's relatively simple and minimalistic, as it's making use of
existing kernel infrastructure (namely ftrace) as much as possible.
It's also self-contained, in a sense that it doesn't hook itself in
any other kernel subsystem (it doesn't even touch any other code).
It's now implemented for x86 only as a reference architecture, but
support for powerpc, s390 and arm is already in the works (adding
arch-specific support basically boils down to teaching ftrace about
regs-saving).
Once this common infrastructure gets merged, both Red Hat and SUSE
have agreed to immediately start porting their current solutions on
top of this, abandoning their out-of-tree code. The plan basically is
that each patch will be marked by flag(s) that would indicate which
consistency model it is willing to use (again, the details have been
sketched out already in the thread at [3]).
Before this happens, the current codebase can be used to patch a large
group of secruity/stability problems the patches for which are not too
complex (in a sense that they don't introduce non-trivial change of
function's return value semantics, they don't change layout of data
structures, etc) -- this corresponds to LEAVE_FUNCTION &&
SWITCH_FUNCTION semantics described at [3].
This tree has been in linux-next since December.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/4/30/477
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/14/857
[3] https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/11/7/354
[4] http://linuxplumbersconf.org/2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/LPC2014_LivePatching.txt
[ The core code is introduced by the three commits authored by Seth
Jennings, which got a lot of changes incorporated during numerous
respins and reviews of the initial implementation. All the followup
commits have materialized only after public tree has been created,
so they were not folded into initial three commits so that the
public tree doesn't get rebased ]"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/livepatching:
livepatch: add missing newline to error message
livepatch: rename config to CONFIG_LIVEPATCH
livepatch: fix uninitialized return value
livepatch: support for repatching a function
livepatch: enforce patch stacking semantics
livepatch: change ARCH_HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING to HAVE_LIVE_PATCHING
livepatch: fix deferred module patching order
livepatch: handle ancient compilers with more grace
livepatch: kconfig: use bool instead of boolean
livepatch: samples: fix usage example comments
livepatch: MAINTAINERS: add git tree location
livepatch: use FTRACE_OPS_FL_IPMODIFY
livepatch: move x86 specific ftrace handler code to arch/x86
livepatch: samples: add sample live patching module
livepatch: kernel: add support for live patching
livepatch: kernel: add TAINT_LIVEPATCH
Linus Torvalds