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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 13:47:50 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-03-17 13:47:50 -0700
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Merge tag 'char-misc-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.6-rc1. The majority of the patches here is hwtracing and some new mic drivers, but there's a lot of other driver updates as well. Full details in the shortlog. All have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.6-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (238 commits) goldfish: Fix build error of missing ioremap on UM nvmem: mediatek: Fix later provider initialization nvmem: imx-ocotp: Fix return value of imx_ocotp_read nvmem: Fix dependencies for !HAS_IOMEM archs char: genrtc: replace blacklist with whitelist drivers/hwtracing: make coresight-etm-perf.c explicitly non-modular drivers: char: mem: fix IS_ERROR_VALUE usage char: xillybus: Fix internal data structure initialization pch_phub: return -ENODATA if ROM can't be mapped Drivers: hv: vmbus: Support kexec on ws2012 r2 and above Drivers: hv: vmbus: Support handling messages on multiple CPUs Drivers: hv: utils: Remove util transport handler from list if registration fails Drivers: hv: util: Pass the channel information during the init call Drivers: hv: vmbus: avoid unneeded compiler optimizations in vmbus_wait_for_unload() Drivers: hv: vmbus: remove code duplication in message handling Drivers: hv: vmbus: avoid wait_for_completion() on crash Drivers: hv: vmbus: don't loose HVMSG_TIMER_EXPIRED messages misc: at24: replace memory_accessor with nvmem_device_read eeprom: 93xx46: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework eeprom: at25: extend driver to plug into the NVMEM framework ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/goldfish/pipe.txt17
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/eeprom-93xx46.txt25
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/lpc1857-eeprom.txt28
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/mtk-efuse.txt36
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt54
-rwxr-xr-xDocumentation/mic/mpssd/mpss2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt12
9 files changed, 158 insertions, 32 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus
index 636e938d5e33..5d0125f7bcaf 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-bus-vmbus
@@ -27,3 +27,17 @@ Description: The mapping of which primary/sub channels are bound to which
Virtual Processors.
Format: <channel's child_relid:the bound cpu's number>
Users: tools/hv/lsvmbus
+
+What: /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_*/device
+Date: Dec. 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.5
+Contact: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
+Description: The 16 bit device ID of the device
+Users: tools/hv/lsvmbus and user level RDMA libraries
+
+What: /sys/bus/vmbus/devices/vmbus_*/vendor
+Date: Dec. 2015
+KernelVersion: 4.5
+Contact: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
+Description: The 16 bit vendor ID of the device
+Users: tools/hv/lsvmbus and user level RDMA libraries
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/goldfish/pipe.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/goldfish/pipe.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..e417a31a1ee3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/goldfish/pipe.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Android Goldfish QEMU Pipe
+
+Andorid pipe virtual device generated by android emulator.
+
+Required properties:
+
+- compatible : should contain "google,android-pipe" to match emulator
+- reg : <registers mapping>
+- interrupts : <interrupt mapping>
+
+Example:
+
+ android_pipe@a010000 {
+ compatible = "google,android-pipe";
+ reg = <ff018000 0x2000>;
+ interrupts = <0x12>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/eeprom-93xx46.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/eeprom-93xx46.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..a8ebb4621f79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/misc/eeprom-93xx46.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+EEPROMs (SPI) compatible with Microchip Technology 93xx46 family.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible : shall be one of:
+ "atmel,at93c46d"
+ "eeprom-93xx46"
+- data-size : number of data bits per word (either 8 or 16)
+
+Optional properties:
+- read-only : parameter-less property which disables writes to the EEPROM
+- select-gpios : if present, specifies the GPIO that will be asserted prior to
+ each access to the EEPROM (e.g. for SPI bus multiplexing)
+
+Property rules described in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/spi-bus.txt
+apply. In particular, "reg" and "spi-max-frequency" properties must be given.
+
+Example:
+ eeprom@0 {
+ compatible = "eeprom-93xx46";
+ reg = <0>;
+ spi-max-frequency = <1000000>;
+ spi-cs-high;
+ data-size = <8>;
+ select-gpios = <&gpio4 4 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/lpc1857-eeprom.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/lpc1857-eeprom.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..809df68f6e14
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/lpc1857-eeprom.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+* NXP LPC18xx EEPROM memory NVMEM driver
+
+Required properties:
+ - compatible: Should be "nxp,lpc1857-eeprom"
+ - reg: Must contain an entry with the physical base address and length
+ for each entry in reg-names.
+ - reg-names: Must include the following entries.
+ - reg: EEPROM registers.
+ - mem: EEPROM address space.
+ - clocks: Must contain an entry for each entry in clock-names.
+ - clock-names: Must include the following entries.
+ - eeprom: EEPROM operating clock.
+ - resets: Should contain a reference to the reset controller asserting
+ the EEPROM in reset.
+ - interrupts: Should contain EEPROM interrupt.
+
+Example:
+
+ eeprom: eeprom@4000e000 {
+ compatible = "nxp,lpc1857-eeprom";
+ reg = <0x4000e000 0x1000>,
+ <0x20040000 0x4000>;
+ reg-names = "reg", "mem";
+ clocks = <&ccu1 CLK_CPU_EEPROM>;
+ clock-names = "eeprom";
+ resets = <&rgu 27>;
+ interrupts = <4>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/mtk-efuse.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/mtk-efuse.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..74cf52908a6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/nvmem/mtk-efuse.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+= Mediatek MTK-EFUSE device tree bindings =
+
+This binding is intended to represent MTK-EFUSE which is found in most Mediatek SOCs.
+
+Required properties:
+- compatible: should be "mediatek,mt8173-efuse" or "mediatek,efuse"
+- reg: Should contain registers location and length
+
+= Data cells =
+Are child nodes of MTK-EFUSE, bindings of which as described in
+bindings/nvmem/nvmem.txt
+
+Example:
+
+ efuse: efuse@10206000 {
+ compatible = "mediatek,mt8173-efuse";
+ reg = <0 0x10206000 0 0x1000>;
+ #address-cells = <1>;
+ #size-cells = <1>;
+
+ /* Data cells */
+ thermal_calibration: calib@528 {
+ reg = <0x528 0xc>;
+ };
+ };
+
+= Data consumers =
+Are device nodes which consume nvmem data cells.
+
+For example:
+
+ thermal {
+ ...
+ nvmem-cells = <&thermal_calibration>;
+ nvmem-cell-names = "calibration";
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
index 73f44fc3e715..074adbdf83a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
+++ b/Documentation/mic/mic_overview.txt
@@ -12,10 +12,19 @@ for the X100 devices.
Since it is a PCIe card, it does not have the ability to host hardware
devices for networking, storage and console. We provide these devices
-on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent environment
-for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it leverages
-the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console devices,
-though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe bus.
+on X100 coprocessors thus enabling a self-bootable equivalent
+environment for applications. A key benefit of our solution is that it
+leverages the standard virtio framework for network, disk and console
+devices, though in our case the virtio framework is used across a PCIe
+bus. A Virtio Over PCIe (VOP) driver allows creating user space
+backends or devices on the host which are used to probe virtio drivers
+for these devices on the MIC card. The existing VRINGH infrastructure
+in the kernel is used to access virtio rings from the host. The card
+VOP driver allows card virtio drivers to communicate with their user
+space backends on the host via a device page. Ring 3 apps on the host
+can add, remove and configure virtio devices. A thin MIC specific
+virtio_config_ops is implemented which is borrowed heavily from
+previous similar implementations in lguest and s390.
MIC PCIe card has a dma controller with 8 channels. These channels are
shared between the host s/w and the card s/w. 0 to 3 are used by host
@@ -38,7 +47,6 @@ single threaded performance for the host compared to MIC, the ability of
the host to initiate DMA's to/from the card using the MIC DMA engine and
the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
- |
+----------+ | +----------+
| Card OS | | | Host OS |
+----------+ | +----------+
@@ -47,27 +55,25 @@ the fact that the virtio block storage backend can only be on the host.
| Virtio| |Virtio | |Virtio| | |Virtio | |Virtio | |Virtio |
| Net | |Console | |Block | | |Net | |Console | |Block |
| Driver| |Driver | |Driver| | |backend | |backend | |backend |
- +-------+ +--------+ +------+ | +---------+ +--------+ +--------+
+ +---+---+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +---------+ +----+---+ +--------+
| | | | | | |
| | | |User | | |
- | | | |------|------------|---------|-------
- +-------------------+ |Kernel +--------------------------+
- | | | Virtio over PCIe IOCTLs |
- | | +--------------------------+
-+-----------+ | | | +-----------+
-| MIC DMA | | +------+ | +------+ +------+ | | MIC DMA |
-| Driver | | | SCIF | | | SCIF | | COSM | | | Driver |
-+-----------+ | +------+ | +------+ +--+---+ | +-----------+
- | | | | | | | |
-+---------------+ | +------+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ | +----------------+
-|MIC virtual Bus| | |SCIF | | |SCIF | | COSM | | |MIC virtual Bus |
-+---------------+ | |HW Bus| | |HW Bus| | Bus | | +----------------+
- | | +------+ | +--+---+ +------+ | |
- | | | | | | | |
- | +-----------+---+ | | | +---------------+ |
- | |Intel MIC | | | | |Intel MIC | |
- +---|Card Driver | | | | |Host Driver | |
- +------------+--------+ | +----+---------------+-----+
+ | | | |------|------------|--+------|-------
+ +---------+---------+ |Kernel |
+ | | |
+ +---------+ +---+----+ +------+ | +------+ +------+ +--+---+ +-------+
+ |MIC DMA | | VOP | | SCIF | | | SCIF | | COSM | | VOP | |MIC DMA|
+ +---+-----+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+ +----+--+
+ | | | | | | |
+ +---+-----+ +---+----+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +--+---+ +------+ +----+--+
+ |MIC | | VOP | |SCIF | | |SCIF | | COSM | | VOP | | MIC |
+ |HW Bus | | HW Bus| |HW Bus| | |HW Bus| | Bus | |HW Bus| |HW Bus |
+ +---------+ +--------+ +--+---+ | +--+---+ +------+ +------+ +-------+
+ | | | | | | |
+ | +-----------+--+ | | | +---------------+ |
+ | |Intel MIC | | | | |Intel MIC | |
+ | |Card Driver | | | | |Host Driver | |
+ +---+--------------+------+ | +----+---------------+-----+
| | |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
| |
diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss
index 09ea90931649..5fcf9fa4b082 100755
--- a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss
+++ b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpss
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
exec=/usr/sbin/mpssd
sysfs="/sys/class/mic"
-mic_modules="mic_host mic_x100_dma scif"
+mic_modules="mic_host mic_x100_dma scif vop"
start()
{
diff --git a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
index 7ce1e53568df..30fb842a976d 100644
--- a/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
+++ b/Documentation/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c
@@ -926,7 +926,7 @@ add_virtio_device(struct mic_info *mic, struct mic_device_desc *dd)
char path[PATH_MAX];
int fd, err;
- snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "/dev/mic%d", mic->id);
+ snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "/dev/vop_virtio%d", mic->id);
fd = open(path, O_RDWR);
if (fd < 0) {
mpsslog("Could not open %s %s\n", path, strerror(errno));
diff --git a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
index 91c1fa34f48b..2b80a0cd621f 100644
--- a/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/mei/mei.txt
@@ -231,15 +231,15 @@ IT knows when a platform crashes even when there is a hard failure on the host.
The Intel AMT Watchdog is composed of two parts:
1) Firmware feature - receives the heartbeats
and sends an event when the heartbeats stop.
- 2) Intel MEI driver - connects to the watchdog feature, configures the
- watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
+ 2) Intel MEI iAMT watchdog driver - connects to the watchdog feature,
+ configures the watchdog and sends the heartbeats.
-The Intel MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure the Intel AMT
-Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
+The Intel iAMT watchdog MEI driver uses the kernel watchdog API to configure
+the Intel AMT Watchdog and to send heartbeats to it. The default timeout of the
watchdog is 120 seconds.
-If the Intel AMT Watchdog feature does not exist (i.e. the connection failed),
-the Intel MEI driver will disable the sending of heartbeats.
+If the Intel AMT is not enabled in the firmware then the watchdog client won't enumerate
+on the me client bus and watchdog devices won't be exposed.
Supported Chipsets