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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu index 99983e67c13c..da95513571ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ Description: Discover CPUs in the same CPU frequency coordination domain What: /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cache/index3/cache_disable_{0,1} Date: August 2008 KernelVersion: 2.6.27 -Contact: discuss@x86-64.org +Contact: Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Description: Disable L3 cache indices These files exist in every CPU's cache/index3 directory. Each diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt index 653d5d739d7f..31d1d658827f 100644 --- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt +++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt @@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ at module load time (for a module) with: The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name. -It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. +It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring +spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say +adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in +spaces in kernel parameters. The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are: IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8 diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index 750401f91341..15dfce708ebf 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ input driver: GPIO support ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ACPI 5 introduced two new resources to describe GPIO connections: GpioIo -and GpioInt. These resources are used be used to pass GPIO numbers used by +and GpioInt. These resources can be used to pass GPIO numbers used by the device to the driver. ACPI 5.1 extended this with _DSD (Device Specific Data) which made it possible to name the GPIOs among other things. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt index ae36fcf86dc7..f35dad11f0de 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ _DSD Device Properties Related to GPIO -------------------------------------- -With the release of ACPI 5.1 and the _DSD configuration objecte names -can finally be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned by -_CRS. Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find +With the release of ACPI 5.1, the _DSD configuration object finally +allows names to be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned +by _CRS. Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find the corresponding GPIO, which is pretty error prone (it depends on the _CRS output ordering, for example). diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt index 974624ea68f6..161448da959d 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ provided by Arteris. Required properties: - compatible : Should be "ti,omap3-l3-smx" for OMAP3 family Should be "ti,omap4-l3-noc" for OMAP4 family + Should be "ti,omap5-l3-noc" for OMAP5 family Should be "ti,dra7-l3-noc" for DRA7 family Should be "ti,am4372-l3-noc" for AM43 family - reg: Contains L3 register address range for each noc domain. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt index c40711e8e8f7..28b28309f535 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt @@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Required properties: - #clock-cells: from common clock binding; shall be set to 1. - clocks: from common clock binding; list of parent clock handles, shall be xtal reference clock or xtal and clkin for - si5351c only. + si5351c only. Corresponding clock input names are "xtal" and + "clkin" respectively. - #address-cells: shall be set to 1. - #size-cells: shall be set to 0. @@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ i2c-master-node { /* connect xtal input to 25MHz reference */ clocks = <&ref25>; + clock-names = "xtal"; /* connect xtal input as source of pll0 and pll1 */ silabs,pll-source = <0 0>, <1 0>; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt index a4873e5e3e36..e30e184f50c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dma_apbx: dma-apbx@80024000 { 80 81 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77>; - interrupt-names = "auart4-rx", "aurat4-tx", "spdif-tx", "empty", + interrupt-names = "auart4-rx", "auart4-tx", "spdif-tx", "empty", "saif0", "saif1", "i2c0", "i2c1", "auart0-rx", "auart0-tx", "auart1-rx", "auart1-tx", "auart2-rx", "auart2-tx", "auart3-rx", "auart3-tx"; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt index 4b641c7bf1c2..09089a6d69ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/input/touchscreen/tsc2005.txt @@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ Example: touchscreen-fuzz-x = <4>; touchscreen-fuzz-y = <7>; touchscreen-fuzz-pressure = <2>; - touchscreen-max-x = <4096>; - touchscreen-max-y = <4096>; + touchscreen-size-x = <4096>; + touchscreen-size-y = <4096>; touchscreen-max-pressure = <2048>; ti,x-plate-ohms = <280>; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/jedec,spi-nor.txt index f20b111b502a..2bee68103b01 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/jedec,spi-nor.txt @@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Required properties: is not Linux-only, but in case of Linux, see the "m25p_ids" table in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c for the list of supported chips. - Must also include "nor-jedec" for any SPI NOR flash that can be - identified by the JEDEC READ ID opcode (0x9F). + Must also include "jedec,spi-nor" for any SPI NOR flash that can + be identified by the JEDEC READ ID opcode (0x9F). - reg : Chip-Select number - spi-max-frequency : Maximum frequency of the SPI bus the chip can operate at @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example: flash: m25p80@0 { #address-cells = <1>; #size-cells = <1>; - compatible = "spansion,m25p80", "nor-jedec"; + compatible = "spansion,m25p80", "jedec,spi-nor"; reg = <0>; spi-max-frequency = <40000000>; m25p,fast-read; diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt index abd67c13d344..4451ee973223 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt @@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ Required properties: - compatible: Should be "cdns,[<chip>-]{emac}" Use "cdns,at91rm9200-emac" Atmel at91rm9200 SoC. - or the generic form: "cdns,emac". + Use "cdns,zynq-gem" Xilinx Zynq-7xxx SoC. + Or the generic form: "cdns,emac". - reg: Address and length of the register set for the device - interrupts: Should contain macb interrupt - phy-mode: see ethernet.txt file in the same directory. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..be789685a1c2 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +Abracon ABX80X I2C ultra low power RTC/Alarm chip + +The Abracon ABX80X family consist of the ab0801, ab0803, ab0804, ab0805, ab1801, +ab1803, ab1804 and ab1805. The ab0805 is the superset of ab080x and the ab1805 +is the superset of ab180x. + +Required properties: + + - "compatible": should one of: + "abracon,abx80x" + "abracon,ab0801" + "abracon,ab0803" + "abracon,ab0804" + "abracon,ab0805" + "abracon,ab1801" + "abracon,ab1803" + "abracon,ab1804" + "abracon,ab1805" + Using "abracon,abx80x" will enable chip autodetection. + - "reg": I2C bus address of the device + +Optional properties: + +The abx804 and abx805 have a trickle charger that is able to charge the +connected battery or supercap. Both the following properties have to be defined +and valid to enable charging: + + - "abracon,tc-diode": should be "standard" (0.6V) or "schottky" (0.3V) + - "abracon,tc-resistor": should be <0>, <3>, <6> or <11>. 0 disables the output + resistor, the other values are in ohm. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/renesas,rsnd.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/renesas,rsnd.txt index f316ce1f214a..14f467345994 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/renesas,rsnd.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/renesas,rsnd.txt @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ Required properties: "renesas,rcar_sound-gen1" if generation1, and "renesas,rcar_sound-gen2" if generation2 Examples with soctypes are: + - "renesas,rcar_sound-r8a7778" (R-Car M1A) - "renesas,rcar_sound-r8a7790" (R-Car H2) - "renesas,rcar_sound-r8a7791" (R-Car M2-W) - reg : Should contain the register physical address. diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas_usbhs.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas_usbhs.txt index dc2a18f0b3a1..ddbe304beb21 100644 --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas_usbhs.txt +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/usb/renesas_usbhs.txt @@ -15,10 +15,8 @@ Optional properties: - phys: phandle + phy specifier pair - phy-names: must be "usb" - dmas: Must contain a list of references to DMA specifiers. - - dma-names : Must contain a list of DMA names: - - tx0 ... tx<n> - - rx0 ... rx<n> - - This <n> means DnFIFO in USBHS module. + - dma-names : named "ch%d", where %d is the channel number ranging from zero + to the number of channels (DnFIFOs) minus one. Example: usbhs: usb@e6590000 { diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 b/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 index 8eb88e974055..711f75e189eb 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/tmp401 @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Supported chips: Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp432.html * Texas Instruments TMP435 Prefix: 'tmp435' - Addresses scanned: I2C 0x37, 0x48 - 0x4f + Addresses scanned: I2C 0x48 - 0x4f Datasheet: http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/tmp435.html Authors: diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt index 092fc10961fe..4692241789b1 100644 --- a/Documentation/kasan.txt +++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt @@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ a fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds bugs. KASan uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access, -therefore you will need a certain version of GCC > 4.9.2 +therefore you will need a gcc version of 4.9.2 or later. KASan could detect out +of bounds accesses to stack or global variables, but only if gcc 5.0 or later was +used to built the kernel. Currently KASan is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires that the kernel be built with the SLUB allocator. @@ -23,8 +25,8 @@ To enable KASAN configure kernel with: and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline/inline is compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary the -latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires GCC 5.0 or -latter. +latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a gcc version +of 5.0 or later. Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator. For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index f6befa9855c1..6726139bd289 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1481,6 +1481,12 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. By default, super page will be supported if Intel IOMMU has the capability. With this option, super page will not be supported. + ecs_off [Default Off] + By default, extended context tables will be supported if + the hardware advertises that it has support both for the + extended tables themselves, and also PASID support. With + this option set, extended tables will not be used even + on hardware which claims to support them. intel_idle.max_cstate= [KNL,HW,ACPI,X86] 0 disables intel_idle and fall back on acpi_idle. @@ -3787,6 +3793,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. READ_CAPACITY_16 command); f = NO_REPORT_OPCODES (don't use report opcodes command, uas only); + g = MAX_SECTORS_240 (don't transfer more than + 240 sectors at a time, uas only); h = CAPACITY_HEURISTICS (decrease the reported device capacity by one sector if the number is odd); diff --git a/Documentation/module-signing.txt b/Documentation/module-signing.txt index 09c2382ad055..c72702ec1ded 100644 --- a/Documentation/module-signing.txt +++ b/Documentation/module-signing.txt @@ -119,9 +119,9 @@ Most notably, in the x509.genkey file, the req_distinguished_name section should be altered from the default: [ req_distinguished_name ] - O = Magrathea - CN = Glacier signing key - emailAddress = slartibartfast@magrathea.h2g2 + #O = Unspecified company + CN = Build time autogenerated kernel key + #emailAddress = unspecified.user@unspecified.company The generated RSA key size can also be set with: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt index 639ddf0ece9b..9ed15f86c17c 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/mpls-sysctl.txt @@ -18,3 +18,12 @@ platform_labels - INTEGER Possible values: 0 - 1048575 Default: 0 + +conf/<interface>/input - BOOL + Control whether packets can be input on this interface. + + If disabled, packets will be discarded without further + processing. + + 0 - disabled (default) + not 0 - enabled diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt index cbfac0949635..59f4db2a0c85 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.txt @@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ following is true: - The current CPU's queue head counter >= the recorded tail counter value in rps_dev_flow[i] -- The current CPU is unset (equal to RPS_NO_CPU) +- The current CPU is unset (>= nr_cpu_ids) - The current CPU is offline After this check, the packet is sent to the (possibly updated) current diff --git a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt index d727a3829100..53a726855e49 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/udplite.txt @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ files/UDP-Lite-HOWTO.txt o The Wireshark UDP-Lite WiKi (with capture files): - http://wiki.wireshark.org/Lightweight_User_Datagram_Protocol + https://wiki.wireshark.org/Lightweight_User_Datagram_Protocol o The Protocol Spec, RFC 3828, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3828.txt diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt index ba0a2a4a54ba..ded69794a5c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/transactional_memory.txt @@ -74,23 +74,22 @@ Causes of transaction aborts Syscalls ======== -Syscalls made from within an active transaction will not be performed and the -transaction will be doomed by the kernel with the failure code TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL -| TM_CAUSE_PERSISTENT. +Performing syscalls from within transaction is not recommended, and can lead +to unpredictable results. -Syscalls made from within a suspended transaction are performed as normal and -the transaction is not explicitly doomed by the kernel. However, what the -kernel does to perform the syscall may result in the transaction being doomed -by the hardware. The syscall is performed in suspended mode so any side -effects will be persistent, independent of transaction success or failure. No -guarantees are provided by the kernel about which syscalls will affect -transaction success. +Syscalls do not by design abort transactions, but beware: The kernel code will +not be running in transactional state. The effect of syscalls will always +remain visible, but depending on the call they may abort your transaction as a +side-effect, read soon-to-be-aborted transactional data that should not remain +invisible, etc. If you constantly retry a transaction that constantly aborts +itself by calling a syscall, you'll have a livelock & make no progress. -Care must be taken when relying on syscalls to abort during active transactions -if the calls are made via a library. Libraries may cache values (which may -give the appearance of success) or perform operations that cause transaction -failure before entering the kernel (which may produce different failure codes). -Examples are glibc's getpid() and lazy symbol resolution. +Simple syscalls (e.g. sigprocmask()) "could" be OK. Even things like write() +from, say, printf() should be OK as long as the kernel does not access any +memory that was accessed transactionally. + +Consider any syscalls that happen to work as debug-only -- not recommended for +production use. Best to queue them up till after the transaction is over. Signals @@ -177,7 +176,8 @@ kernel aborted a transaction: TM_CAUSE_RESCHED Thread was rescheduled. TM_CAUSE_TLBI Software TLB invalid. TM_CAUSE_FAC_UNAV FP/VEC/VSX unavailable trap. - TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL Syscall from active transaction. + TM_CAUSE_SYSCALL Currently unused; future syscalls that must abort + transactions for consistency will use this. TM_CAUSE_SIGNAL Signal delivered. TM_CAUSE_MISC Currently unused. TM_CAUSE_ALIGNMENT Alignment fault. diff --git a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt index 1e52d67d0abf..dbe6623fed1c 100644 --- a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt +++ b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt @@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ TTY_IO_ERROR If set, causes all subsequent userspace read/write TTY_OTHER_CLOSED Device is a pty and the other side has closed. +TTY_OTHER_DONE Device is a pty and the other side has closed and + all pending input processing has been completed. + TTY_NO_WRITE_SPLIT Prevent driver from splitting up writes into smaller chunks. diff --git a/Documentation/target/tcmu-design.txt b/Documentation/target/tcmu-design.txt index 43e94ea6d2ca..263b907517ac 100644 --- a/Documentation/target/tcmu-design.txt +++ b/Documentation/target/tcmu-design.txt @@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ Contents: a) Discovering and configuring TCMU uio devices b) Waiting for events on the device(s) c) Managing the command ring -3) Command filtering and pass_level -4) A final note +3) A final note TCM Userspace Design @@ -324,7 +323,7 @@ int handle_device_events(int fd, void *map) /* Process events from cmd ring until we catch up with cmd_head */ while (ent != (void *)mb + mb->cmdr_off + mb->cmd_head) { - if (tcmu_hdr_get_op(&ent->hdr) == TCMU_OP_CMD) { + if (tcmu_hdr_get_op(ent->hdr.len_op) == TCMU_OP_CMD) { uint8_t *cdb = (void *)mb + ent->req.cdb_off; bool success = true; @@ -339,8 +338,12 @@ int handle_device_events(int fd, void *map) ent->rsp.scsi_status = SCSI_CHECK_CONDITION; } } + else if (tcmu_hdr_get_op(ent->hdr.len_op) != TCMU_OP_PAD) { + /* Tell the kernel we didn't handle unknown opcodes */ + ent->hdr.uflags |= TCMU_UFLAG_UNKNOWN_OP; + } else { - /* Do nothing for PAD entries */ + /* Do nothing for PAD entries except update cmd_tail */ } /* update cmd_tail */ @@ -360,28 +363,6 @@ int handle_device_events(int fd, void *map) } -Command filtering and pass_level --------------------------------- - -TCMU supports a "pass_level" option with valid values of 0 or 1. When -the value is 0 (the default), nearly all SCSI commands received for -the device are passed through to the handler. This allows maximum -flexibility but increases the amount of code required by the handler, -to support all mandatory SCSI commands. If pass_level is set to 1, -then only IO-related commands are presented, and the rest are handled -by LIO's in-kernel command emulation. The commands presented at level -1 include all versions of: - -READ -WRITE -WRITE_VERIFY -XDWRITEREAD -WRITE_SAME -COMPARE_AND_WRITE -SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE -UNMAP - - A final note ------------ diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt index 53838d9c6295..c59bd9bc41ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt +++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt @@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information: Contains the value of cr4.smep && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). + role.smap_andnot_wp: + Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid + (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the + treatment of cr0.wp=0 below). gfn: Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct. @@ -344,10 +348,16 @@ on fault type: (user write faults generate a #PF) -In the first case there is an additional complication if CR4.SMEP is -enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, the kernel may now -execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. If we get a user -fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and spte.nx=gpte.nx back. +In the first case there are two additional complications: +- if CR4.SMEP is enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, + the kernel may now execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. + If we get a user fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and + spte.nx=gpte.nx back. +- if CR4.SMAP is disabled: since the page has been changed to a kernel + page, it can not be reused when CR4.SMAP is enabled. We set + CR4.SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role to avoid this case. Note, + here we do not care the case that CR4.SMAP is enabled since KVM will + directly inject #PF to guest due to failed permission check. To prevent an spte that was converted into a kernel page with cr0.wp=0 from being written by the kernel after cr0.wp has changed to 1, we make |