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Cortex-A12 implements Performance Monitors compliant with the PMUv2
architecture.
This patch adds support for the Cortex-A12 PMU to the ARM perf backend.
Signed-off-by: Albin Tonnerre <albin.tonnerre@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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Document the Krait PMU compatible string.
Cc: <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux
Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang:
"i2c has a bugfix and documentation improvements for you"
* 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux:
Documentation: i2c: mention ACPI method for instantiating devices
Documentation: i2c: describe devicetree method for instantiating devices
i2c: mv64xxx: refactor message start to ensure proper initialization
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Kevin Hilman:
"A collection of ARM SoC fixes for v3.14-rc1.
Mostly a collection of Kconfig, device tree data and compilation fixes
along with fix to drivers/phy that fixes a boot regression on some
Marvell mvebu platforms"
* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
dma: mv_xor: Silence a bunch of LPAE-related warnings
ARM: ux500: disable msp2 device tree node
ARM: zynq: Reserve not DMAable space in front of the kernel
ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: Select CONFIG_SOC_DRA7XX
ARM: imx6: Initialize low-power mode early again
ARM: pxa: fix various compilation problems
ARM: pxa: fix compilation problem on AM300EPD board
ARM: at91: add Atmel's SAMA5D3 Xplained board
spi/atmel: document clock properties
mmc: atmel-mci: document clock properties
ARM: at91: enable USB host on at91sam9n12ek board
ARM: at91/dt: fix sama5d3 ohci hclk clock reference
ARM: at91/dt: sam9263: fix compatibility string for the I2C
ata: sata_mv: Fix probe failures with optional phys
drivers: phy: Add support for optional phys
drivers: phy: Make NULL a valid phy reference
ARM: fix HAVE_ARM_TWD selection for OMAP and shmobile
ARM: moxart: move DMA_OF selection to driver
ARM: hisi: fix kconfig warning on HAVE_ARM_TWD
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Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are a small number of tty/serial driver fixes to resolve reported
issues with 3.14-rc and earlier (in the case of the vt bugfix). Some
of these have been tested and reported by a number of people as the
tty bugfix was pretty commonly hit on some platforms.
All have been in linux-next for a while"
* tag 'tty-3.14-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
vt: Fix secure clear screen
serial: 8250: Support XR17V35x fraction divisor
n_tty: Fix stale echo output
serial: sirf: fix kernel panic caused by unpaired spinlock
serial: 8250_pci: unbreak last serial ports on NetMos 9865 cards
n_tty: Fix poll() when TIME_CHAR and MIN_CHAR == 0
serial: omap: fix rs485 probe on defered pinctrl
serial: 8250_dw: fix compilation warning when !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
serial: omap-serial: Move info message to probe function
tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute
tty: n_gsm: Fix for modems with brk in modem status control
drivers/tty/hvc: don't use module_init in non-modular hyp. console code
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small char/misc driver fixes, along with some
documentation updates, for 3.14-rc3. Nothing major, just a number of
fixes for reported issues"
* tag 'char-misc-3.14-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
Revert "misc: eeprom: sunxi: Add new compatibles"
Revert "ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert to the new SID compatibles"
misc: mic: fix possible signed underflow (undefined behavior) in userspace API
ARM: sunxi: dt: Convert to the new SID compatibles
misc: eeprom: sunxi: Add new compatibles
misc: genwqe: Fix potential memory leak when pinning memory
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
Documentation:Update Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
Documentation:Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
raw: set range for MAX_RAW_DEVS
raw: test against runtime value of max_raw_minors
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Don't timeout during the initial connection with host
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Specify the target CPU that should receive notification
VME: Correct read/write alignment algorithm
mei: don't unset read cb ptr on reset
mei: clear write cb from waiting list on reset
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This reverts commit f0de8e04a7201a2000f3c6d09732c11e7f35d42d, it is
incorrect, a future patch will fix this up properly.
Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Pull battery fixes from Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov:
- Fix NULL pointer dereference in max17040 driver
- Add bq2415x dts bindings documentation
- Fix misleading comment in ds2782 driver
- Remove useless check in isp1704 charger driver.
* tag 'for-v3.14-fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6:
power: max17040: Fix NULL pointer dereference when there is no platform_data
dt: binding documentation for bq2415x charger
isp1704_charger: remove useless check in isp1704_charger_probe()
power: ds2782_battery: Typo in comment
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
"A few driver and documentation fixes, plus a fix for double error
handling which had crept in due to the confusing documentation - it
wasn't clear if the core or the driver was responsible for cleanup in
error cases so both tried to do it with unfortunate results"
* tag 'spi-v3.14-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
spi: nuc900: Set SPI_LSB_FIRST for master->mode_bits if hw->pdata->lsb is true
spi: rspi: Document support for Renesas QSPI in Kconfig
spi: Fix crash with double message finalisation on error handling
spi: correct the transfer_one_message documentation wording
spi: document the transfer_one spi_master callback
spi: spi.h: clarify the documentation of transfer_one
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux
Pull DeviceTree fixes from Rob Herring:
- Fix compile error drivers/spi/spi-rspi.c with !CONFIG_OF
- Fix warnings for unused/uninitialized variables with !CONFIG_OF
- Fix PCIe bus matching for powerpc
- Add documentation for various vendor strings
* tag 'dt-fixes-for-3.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
DT: Add vendor prefix for Spansion Inc.
of/device: Nullify match table in of_match_device() for CONFIG_OF=n
dt-bindings: add vendor-prefix for neonode
of: fix PCI bus match for PCIe slots
of: restructure for_each macros to fix compile warnings
of: add vendor prefix for Honeywell
of: Update qcom vendor prefix description
of: add vendor prefix for Allwinner Technology
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Fix flexcan build on big endian, from Arnd Bergmann
2) Correctly attach cpsw to GPIO bitbang MDIO drive, from Stefan Roese
3) udp_add_offload has to use GFP_ATOMIC since it can be invoked from
non-sleepable contexts. From Or Gerlitz
4) vxlan_gro_receive() does not iterate over all possible flows
properly, fix also from Or Gerlitz
5) CAN core doesn't use a proper SKB destructor when it hooks up
sockets to SKBs. Fix from Oliver Hartkopp
6) ip_tunnel_xmit() can use an uninitialized route pointer, fix from
Eric Dumazet
7) Fix address family assignment in IPVS, from Michal Kubecek
8) Fix ath9k build on ARM, from Sujith Manoharan
9) Make sure fail_over_mac only applies for the correct bonding modes,
from Ding Tianhong
10) The udp offload code doesn't use RCU correctly, from Shlomo Pongratz
11) Handle gigabit features properly in generic PHY code, from Florian
Fainelli
12) Don't blindly invoke link operations in
rtnl_link_get_slave_info_data_size, they are optional. Fix from
Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
13) Add USB IDs for Netgear Aircard 340U, from Bjørn Mork
14) Handle netlink packet padding properly in openvswitch, from Thomas
Graf
15) Fix oops when deleting chains in nf_tables, from Patrick McHardy
16) Fix RX stalls in xen-netback driver, from Zoltan Kiss
17) Fix deadlock in mac80211 stack, from Emmanuel Grumbach
18) inet_nlmsg_size() forgets to consider ifa_cacheinfo, fix from Geert
Uytterhoeven
19) tg3_change_mtu() can deadlock, fix from Nithin Sujir
20) Fix regression in setting SCTP local source addresses on accepted
sockets, caused by some generic ipv6 socket changes. Fix from
Matija Glavinic Pecotic
21) IPPROTO_* must be pure defines, otherwise module aliases don't get
constructed properly. Fix from Jan Moskyto
22) IPV6 netconsole setup doesn't work properly unless an explicit
source address is specified, fix from Sabrina Dubroca
23) Use __GFP_NORETRY for high order skb page allocations in
sock_alloc_send_pskb and skb_page_frag_refill. From Eric Dumazet
24) Fix a regression added in netconsole over bridging, from Cong Wang
25) TCP uses an artificial offset of 1ms for SRTT, but this doesn't jive
well with TCP pacing which needs the SRTT to be accurate. Fix from
Eric Dumazet
26) Several cases of missing header file includes from Rashika Kheria
27) Add ZTE MF667 device ID to qmi_wwan driver, from Raymond Wanyoike
28) TCP Small Queues doesn't handle nonagle properly in some corner
cases, fix from Eric Dumazet
29) Remove extraneous read_unlock in bond_enslave, whoops. From Ding
Tianhong
30) Fix 9p trans_virtio handling of vmalloc buffers, from Richard Yao
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (136 commits)
6lowpan: fix lockdep splats
alx: add missing stats_lock spinlock init
9p/trans_virtio.c: Fix broken zero-copy on vmalloc() buffers
bonding: remove unwanted bond lock for enslave processing
USB2NET : SR9800 : One chip USB2.0 USB2NET SR9800 Device Driver Support
tcp: tsq: fix nonagle handling
bridge: Prevent possible race condition in br_fdb_change_mac_address
bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted when deleting vlan
bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted in br_fdb_delete_by_port
bridge: Properly check if local fdb entry can be deleted in br_fdb_change_mac_address
bridge: Fix the way to check if a local fdb entry can be deleted
bridge: Change local fdb entries whenever mac address of bridge device changes
bridge: Fix the way to find old local fdb entries in br_fdb_change_mac_address
bridge: Fix the way to insert new local fdb entries in br_fdb_changeaddr
bridge: Fix the way to find old local fdb entries in br_fdb_changeaddr
tcp: correct code comment stating 3 min timeout for FIN_WAIT2, we only do 1 min
net: vxge: Remove unused device pointer
net: qmi_wwan: add ZTE MF667
3c59x: Remove unused pointer in vortex_eisa_cleanup()
net: fix 'ip rule' iif/oif device rename
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'spi/fix/rspi' into spi-linus
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Some of the 00-INDEX files are somewhat outdated and some folders does
not contain 00-INDEX at all. Only outdated (with the notably exception
of spi) indexes are touched here, the 169 folders without 00-INDEX has
not been touched.
New 00-INDEX
- spi/* was added in a series of commits dating back to 2006
Added files (missing in (*/)00-INDEX)
- dmatest.txt was added by commit 851b7e16a07d ("dmatest: run test via
debugfs")
- this_cpu_ops.txt was added by commit a1b2a555d637 ("percpu: add
documentation on this_cpu operations")
- ww-mutex-design.txt was added by commit 040a0a371005 ("mutex: Add
support for wound/wait style locks")
- bcache.txt was added by commit cafe56359144 ("bcache: A block layer
cache")
- kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt was added by commit 49717cb40410
("kthread: Document ways of reducing OS jitter due to per-CPU
kthreads")
- phy.txt was added by commit ff764963479a ("drivers: phy: add generic
PHY framework")
- block/null_blk was added by commit 12f8f4fc0314 ("null_blk:
documentation")
- module-signing.txt was added by commit 3cafea307642 ("Add
Documentation/module-signing.txt file")
- assoc_array.txt was added by commit 3cb989501c26 ("Add a generic
associative array implementation.")
- arm/IXP4xx was part of the initial repo
- arm/cluster-pm-race-avoidance.txt was added by commit 7fe31d28e839
("ARM: mcpm: introduce helpers for platform coherency exit/setup")
- arm/firmware.txt was added by commit 7366b92a77fc ("ARM: Add
interface for registering and calling firmware-specific operations")
- arm/kernel_mode_neon.txt was added by commit 2afd0a05241d ("ARM:
7825/1: document the use of NEON in kernel mode")
- arm/tcm.txt was added by commit bc581770cfdd ("ARM: 5580/2: ARM TCM
(Tightly-Coupled Memory) support v3")
- arm/vlocks.txt was added by commit 9762f12d3e05 ("ARM: mcpm: Add
baremetal voting mutexes")
- blackfin/gptimers-example.c, Makefile was added by commit
4b60779d5ea7 ("Blackfin: add an example showing how to use the
gptimers API")
- devicetree/usage-model.txt was added by commit 31134efc681a ("dt:
Linux DT usage model documentation")
- fb/api.txt was added by commit fb21c2f42879 ("fbdev: Add FOURCC-based
format configuration API")
- fb/sm501.txt was added by commit e6a049807105 ("video, sm501: add
edid and commandline support")
- fb/udlfb.txt was added by commit 96f8d864afd6 ("fbdev: move udlfb out
of staging.")
- filesystems/Makefile was added by commit 1e0051ae48a2
("Documentation/fs/: split txt and source files")
- filesystems/nfs/nfsd-admin-interfaces.txt was added by commit
8a4c6e19cfed ("nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd
configuration")
- ide/warm-plug-howto.txt was added by commit f74c91413ec6 ("ide: add
warm-plug support for IDE devices (take 2)")
- laptops/Makefile was added by commit d49129accc21
("Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files")
- leds/leds-blinkm.txt was added by commit b54cf35a7f65 ("LEDS: add
BlinkM RGB LED driver, documentation and update MAINTAINERS")
- leds/ledtrig-oneshot.txt was added by commit 5e417281cde2 ("leds: add
oneshot trigger")
- leds/ledtrig-transient.txt was added by commit 44e1e9f8e705 ("leds:
add new transient trigger for one shot timer activation")
- m68k/README.buddha was part of the initial repo
- networking/LICENSE.(qla3xxx|qlcnic|qlge) was added by commits
40839129f779, c4e84bde1d59, 5a4faa873782
- networking/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- networking/i40evf.txt was added by commit 105bf2fe6b32 ("i40evf: add
driver to kernel build system")
- networking/ipsec.txt was added by commit b3c6efbc36e2 ("xfrm: Add
file to document IPsec corner case")
- networking/mac80211-auth-assoc-deauth.txt was added by commit
3cd7920a2be8 ("mac80211: add auth/assoc/deauth flow diagram")
- networking/netlink_mmap.txt was added by commit 5683264c3981
("netlink: add documentation for memory mapped I/O")
- networking/nf_conntrack-sysctl.txt was added by commit c9f9e0e1597f
("netfilter: doc: add nf_conntrack sysctl api documentation") lan)
- networking/team.txt was added by commit 3d249d4ca7d0 ("net: introduce
ethernet teaming device")
- networking/vxlan.txt was added by commit d342894c5d2f ("vxlan:
virtual extensible lan")
- power/runtime_pm.txt was added by commit 5e928f77a09a ("PM: Introduce
core framework for run-time PM of I/O devices (rev. 17)")
- power/charger-manager.txt was added by commit 3bb3dbbd56ea
("power_supply: Add initial Charger-Manager driver")
- RCU/lockdep-splat.txt was added by commit d7bd2d68aa2e ("rcu:
Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splats")
- s390/kvm.txt was added by 5ecee4b (KVM: s390: API documentation)
- s390/qeth.txt was added by commit b4d72c08b358 ("qeth: bridgeport
support - basic control")
- scheduler/sched-bwc.txt was added by commit 88ebc08ea9f7 ("sched: Add
documentation for bandwidth control")
- scsi/advansys.txt was added by commit 4bd6d7f35661 ("[SCSI] advansys:
Move documentation to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/bfa.txt was added by commit 1ec90174bdb4 ("[SCSI] bfa: add
readme file")
- scsi/bnx2fc.txt was added by commit 12b8fc10eaf4 ("[SCSI] bnx2fc: Add
driver documentation")
- scsi/cxgb3i.txt was added by commit c3673464ebc0 ("[SCSI] cxgb3i: Add
cxgb3i iSCSI driver.")
- scsi/hpsa.txt was added by commit 992ebcf14f3c ("[SCSI] hpsa: Add
hpsa.txt to Documentation/scsi")
- scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt was added by commit
ca77329fb713 ("[libata] Link power management infrastructure")
- scsi/osd.txt was added by commit 78e0c621deca ("[SCSI] osd:
Documentation for OSD library")
- scsi/scsi-parameter.txt was created/moved by commit 163475fb111c
("Documentation: move SCSI parameters to their own text file")
- serial/driver was part of the initial repo
- serial/n_gsm.txt was added by commit 323e84122ec6 ("n_gsm: add a
documentation")
- timers/Makefile was added by commit 3794f3e812ef ("docsrc: build
Documentation/ sources")
- virt/kvm/s390.txt was added by commit d9101fca3d57 ("KVM: s390:
diagnose call documentation")
- vm/split_page_table_lock was added by commit 49076ec2ccaf ("mm:
dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct
page")
- w1/slaves/w1_ds28e04 was added by commit fbf7f7b4e2ae ("w1: Add
1-wire slave device driver for DS28E04-100")
- w1/masters/omap-hdq was added by commit e0a29382c6f5 ("hdq:
documentation for OMAP HDQ")
- x86/early-microcode.txt was added by commit 0d91ea86a895 ("x86, doc:
Documentation for early microcode loading")
- x86/earlyprintk.txt was added by commit a1aade478862 ("x86/doc:
mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgp")
- x86/entry_64.txt was added by commit 8b4777a4b50c ("x86-64: Document
some of entry_64.S")
- x86/pat.txt was added by commit d27554d874c7 ("x86: PAT
documentation")
Moved files
- arm/kernel_user_helpers.txt was moved out of arch/arm/kernel by
commit 37b8304642c7 ("ARM: kuser: move interface documentation out of
the source code")
- efi-stub.txt was moved out of x86/ and down into Documentation/ in
commit 4172fe2f8a47 ("EFI stub documentation updates")
- laptops/hpfall.c was moved out of hwmon/ and into laptops/ in commit
efcfed9bad88 ("Move hp_accel to drivers/platform/x86")
- commit 5616c23ad9cd ("x86: doc: move x86-generic documentation from
Doc/x86/i386"):
* x86/usb-legacy-support.txt
* x86/boot.txt
* x86/zero_page.txt
- power/video_extension.txt was moved to acpi in commit 70e66e4df191
("ACPI / video: move video_extension.txt to Documentation/acpi")
Removed files (left in 00-INDEX)
- memory.txt was removed by commit 00ea8990aadf ("memory.txt: remove
stray information")
- gpio.txt was moved to gpio/ in commit fd8e198cfcaa ("Documentation:
gpiolib: document new interface")
- networking/DLINK.txt was removed by commit 168e06ae26dd
("drivers/net: delete old parallel port de600/de620 drivers")
- serial/hayes-esp.txt was removed by commit f53a2ade0bb9 ("tty: esp:
remove broken driver")
- s390/TAPE was removed by commit 9e280f669308 ("[S390] remove tape
block docu")
- vm/locking was removed by commit 57ea8171d2bc ("mm: documentation:
remove hopelessly out-of-date locking doc")
- laptops/acer-wmi.txt was remvoed by commit 020036678e81 ("acer-wmi:
Delete out-of-date documentation")
Typos/misc issues
- rpc-server-gss.txt was added as knfsd-rpcgss.txt in commit
030d794bf498 ("SUNRPC: Use gssproxy upcall for server RPCGSS
authentication.")
- commit b88cf73d9278 ("net: add missing entries to
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX")
* generic-hdlc.txt was added as generic_hdlc.txt
* spider_net.txt was added as spider-net.txt
- w1/master/mxc-w1 was added as mxc_w1 by commit a5fd9139f74c ("w1: add
1-wire master driver for i.MX27 / i.MX31")
- s390/zfcpdump.txt was added as zfcpdump by commit 6920c12a407e
("[S390] Add Documentation/s390/00-INDEX.")
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [rcu bits]
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <JBottomley@parallels.com>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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From Nicolas Ferre:
First series of AT91 fixes for 3.14.
All of them are DT-related.
- fixes for typos in i2c and ohci clocks
- addition of a USB host node for at91sam9n12ek
- 2 DT documentation updates that have been sent a long time ago
- a new board based on the sama5d36 SoC
* tag 'at91-fixes' of git://github.com/at91linux/linux-at91:
ARM: at91: add Atmel's SAMA5D3 Xplained board
spi/atmel: document clock properties
mmc: atmel-mci: document clock properties
ARM: at91: enable USB host on at91sam9n12ek board
ARM: at91/dt: fix sama5d3 ohci hclk clock reference
ARM: at91/dt: sam9263: fix compatibility string for the I2C
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
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The Allwinner A10 compatibles were following a slightly different compatible
patterns than the rest of the SoCs for historical reasons. Add compatibles
matching the other pattern to the SID driver for consistency, and keep the
older one for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is a update of Chinese documentation:Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/memory.txt
It is based on the modifications of Documentation/arm64/memory.txt in submission:
"2475ff9d", "847264fb", "aa4a73a0", "e29a074b".
Update maintainer's Email address.
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is a update of Chinese documentation: Documentation/zh_CN/arm64/booting.txt
It is based on the modifications of Documentation/arm64/booting.txt in submission:
"4d5e0b15", "4370eec0", "4fcd6e14".
Update maintainer's Email address.
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This is a Chinese translated version of Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt
It is based on the modifications of Documentation/arm64/tagged-pointers.txt in submission:
"d50240a5", "374ed9d1".
Signed-off-by: Fu Wei <wefu@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media fixes from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
"A series of small fixes. Mostly driver ones. There is one core
regression fix on a patch that was meant to fix some race issues on
vb2, but that actually caused more harm than good. So, we're just
reverting it for now"
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media:
[media] adv7842: Composite free-run platfrom-data fix
[media] v4l2-dv-timings: fix GTF calculation
[media] hdpvr: Fix memory leak in debug
[media] af9035: add ID [2040:f900] Hauppauge WinTV-MiniStick 2
[media] mxl111sf: Fix compile when CONFIG_DVB_USB_MXL111SF is unset
[media] mxl111sf: Fix unintentional garbage stack read
[media] cx24117: use a valid dev pointer for dev_err printout
[media] cx24117: remove dead code in always 'false' if statement
[media] update Michael Krufky's email address
[media] vb2: Check if there are buffers before streamon
[media] Revert "[media] videobuf_vm_{open,close} race fixes"
[media] go7007-loader: fix usb_dev leak
[media] media: bt8xx: add missing put_device call
[media] exynos4-is: Compile in fimc-lite runtime PM callbacks conditionally
[media] exynos4-is: Compile in fimc runtime PM callbacks conditionally
[media] exynos4-is: Fix error paths in probe() for !pm_runtime_enabled()
[media] s5p-jpeg: Fix wrong NV12 format parameters
[media] s5k5baf: allow to handle arbitrary long i2c sequences
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The 'active' sysfs attribute should refer to the currently active tty
devices the console is running on, not the currently active console.
The console structure doesn't refer to any device in sysfs, only the tty
the console is running on has. So we need to print out the tty names in
'active', not the console names.
This resolves an issue on s390 platforms in determining the correct
console device to use.
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Document the clock properties required by the spi-atmel driver.
Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@overkiz.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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Document the clock properties required by the atmel-mci driver.
Signed-off-by: Boris BREZILLON <b.brezillon@overkiz.com>
Acked-by: Ludovic Desroches <ludovic.desroches@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
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The Allwinner A10 compatibles were following a slightly different compatible
patterns than the rest of the SoCs for historical reasons. Add compatibles
matching the other pattern to the mdio driver for consistency, and keep the
older one for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The Allwinner A10 compatibles were following a slightly different compatible
patterns than the rest of the SoCs for historical reasons. Add compatibles
matching the other pattern to the ethernet driver for consistency, and keep the
older one for backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Clean up descriptions of memmap= boot options.
Add periods (full stops), drop commas, change "used" to "reserved" or
"marked".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andiry Xu <andiry.xu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This lot provides:
* Bugfixes for armada irq controller
* Updates to renesas irq chip
* Support for the TI-NSPIRE irq controller
Not strictly a bug fix only pull request, but important updates for
some of the arm Socs which I completely forgot to send last week.
Seems like my obliviousness is getting worse, I just can't remember
when it started"
* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
irqchip: Add support for TI-NSPIRE irqchip
irqchip: renesas-irqc: Enable mask on suspend
irqchip: renesas-irqc: Use lazy disable
irqchip: armada-370-xp: fix MSI race condition
irqchip: armada-370-xp: fix IPI race condition
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This is already in active use in several DTS files.
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Neonode Inc. is the Manufacturer of the zforce infraread touchscreens
used in a lot of ebook readers and supported by the zforce_ts driver.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko.stuebner@bqreaders.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Add devm_phy_optional_get and phy_optional_get, which should be used
when the phy is optional. They does not return an error when the phy
does not exist, rather they returns NULL, which is considered as a valid
phy, but results in NOPs when used with the consumer API.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
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The common clock framework considers NULL a valid clock
reference. This makes handling optional clocks simple, in that if the
optional clock is not available, a NULL reference can be used in the
place of a real clock, simplifying the clock consumer.
Extend this concept to the phy consumer API. A NULL can be passed to
the release calls, the phy_init() and phy_exit() calls, and
phy_power_on() and phy_power_off() and a NOP is performed.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
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Currently the trigger/event is hardcoded to 0, this patch adds
a new command line argument -i to select an arbitrary trigger/
event.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Sørensen <stefan.sorensen@spectralink.com>
Acked-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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I am no longer available at the kernellabs.com or m1k.net email
addresses. Update each instance of my email to my linuxtv.org
account.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
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Signed-off-by: Marek Belisko <marek@goldelico.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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Update vendor description to be the full name of the corporate entity that
produces the SoCs associated with this prefix.
Acked-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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We have been using the "allwinner" prefix for everything so far; let's
document it here.
Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio@elopez.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound
Pull sound fixes from Takashi Iwai:
"The big chunks here are the updates for oxygen driver for Xonar DG
devices, which were slipped from the previous pull request. They are
device-specific and thus not too dangerous.
Other than that, all patches are small bug fixes, mainly for Samsung
build fixes, a few HD-audio enhancements, and other misc ASoC fixes.
(And this time ASoC merge is less than Octopus, lucky seven :)"
* tag 'sound-fix-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound: (42 commits)
ALSA: hda/hdmi - allow PIN_OUT to be dynamically enabled
ALSA: hda - add headset mic detect quirks for another Dell laptop
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): cleanup and minor changes
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify high-pass filter control
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify input select functions
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify capture volume functions
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): use headphone volume control
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify playback output select
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): capture from I2S channel 1, not 2
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): move the mixer code into another file
ALSA: oxygen: modify CS4245 register dumping function
ALSA: oxygen: modify adjust_dg_dac_routing function
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify DAC/ADC parameters function
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): modify initialization functions
ALSA: oxygen: Xonar DG(X): add new CS4245 SPI functions
ALSA: oxygen: additional definitions for the Xonar DG/DGX card
ALSA: oxygen: change description of the xonar_dg.c file
ALSA: oxygen: export oxygen_update_dac_routing symbol
ALSA: oxygen: add mute mask for the OXYGEN_PLAY_ROUTING register
ALSA: oxygen: modify the SPI writing function
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media
Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
- a new jpeg codec driver for Samsung Exynos (jpeg-hw-exynos4)
- a new dvb frontend for ds2103 chipset (m88ds2103)
- a new sensor driver for Samsung S5K5BAF UXGA (s5k5baf)
- new drivers for R-Car VSP1
- a new radio driver: radio-raremono
- a new tuner driver for ts2022 chipset (m88ts2022)
- the analog part of em28xx is now a separate module that only
load/runs if the device is not a pure digital TV device
- added a staging driver for bcm2048 radio devices
- the omap 2 video driver (omap24xx) was moved to staging. This driver
is for an old hardware and uses a deprecated Kernel internal API. If
nobody cares enough to fix it, it would be removed on a couple Kernel
releases
- the sn9c102 driver was moved to staging. This driver was replaced by
gspca, and disabled on some distros, as almost all devices are known
to work properly with gspca. It should be removed from kernel on a
couple Kernel releases
- lots of driver fixes, improvements and cleanups
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (421 commits)
[media] media: v4l2-dev: fix video device index assignment
[media] rc-core: reuse device numbers
[media] em28xx-cards: properly initialize the device bitmap
[media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_drv.c
[media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_fe.c
[media] Staging: media: Fix quoted string split across line in as102_fe.c
[media] media: st-rc: Add reset support
[media] m2m-deinterlace: fix allocated struct type
[media] radio-usb-si4713: fix sparse non static symbol warnings
[media] em28xx-audio: remove needless check before usb_free_coherent()
[media] au0828: Fix sparse non static symbol warning
Revert "[media] go7007-usb: only use go->dev after allocated"
[media] em28xx-audio: provide an error code when URB submit fails
[media] em28xx: fix check for audio only usb interfaces when changing the usb alternate setting
[media] em28xx: fix usb alternate setting for analog and digital video endpoints > 0
[media] em28xx: make 'em28xx_ctrl_ops' static
em28xx-alsa: Fix error patch for init/fini
[media] em28xx-audio: flush work at .fini
[media] drxk: remove the option to load firmware asynchronously
[media] em28xx: adjust period size at runtime
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"A crash fix and documentation updates"
* 'sched-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched: Make sched_class::get_rr_interval() optional
sched/deadline: Add sched_dl documentation
sched: Fix docbook parameter annotation error in wait.h
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core debug changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This contains mostly kernel debugging related updates:
- make hung_task detection more configurable to distros
- add final bits for x86 UV NMI debugging, with related KGDB changes
- update the mailing-list of MAINTAINERS entries I'm involved with"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
hung_task: Display every hung task warning
sysctl: Add neg_one as a standard constraint
x86/uv/nmi, kgdb/kdb: Fix UV NMI handler when KDB not configured
x86/uv/nmi: Fix Sparse warnings
kgdb/kdb: Fix no KDB config problem
MAINTAINERS: Restore "L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" entries
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Pull more KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
"Second batch of KVM updates. Some minor x86 fixes, two s390 guest
features that need some handling in the host, and all the PPC changes.
The PPC changes include support for little-endian guests and
enablement for new POWER8 features"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (45 commits)
x86, kvm: correctly access the KVM_CPUID_FEATURES leaf at 0x40000101
x86, kvm: cache the base of the KVM cpuid leaves
kvm: x86: move KVM_CAP_HYPERV_TIME outside #ifdef
KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Cope with doorbell interrupts
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add software abort codes for transactional memory
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add new state for transactional memory
powerpc/Kconfig: Make TM select VSX and VMX
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Basic little-endian guest support
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add support for DABRX register on POWER7
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Prepare for host using hypervisor doorbells
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle new LPCR bits on POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Handle guest using doorbells for IPIs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Consolidate code that checks reason for wake from nap
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Implement architecture compatibility modes for POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Add handler for HV facility unavailable
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Flush the correct number of TLB sets on POWER8
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Context-switch new POWER8 SPRs
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Align physical and virtual CPU thread numbers
KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Don't set DABR on POWER8
kvm/ppc: IRQ disabling cleanup
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs
Pull btrfs updates from Chris Mason:
"This is a pretty big pull, and most of these changes have been
floating in btrfs-next for a long time. Filipe's properties work is a
cool building block for inheriting attributes like compression down on
a per inode basis.
Jeff Mahoney kicked in code to export filesystem info into sysfs.
Otherwise, lots of performance improvements, cleanups and bug fixes.
Looks like there are still a few other small pending incrementals, but
I wanted to get the bulk of this in first"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/linux-btrfs: (149 commits)
Btrfs: fix spin_unlock in check_ref_cleanup
Btrfs: setup inode location during btrfs_init_inode_locked
Btrfs: don't use ram_bytes for uncompressed inline items
Btrfs: fix btrfs_search_slot_for_read backwards iteration
Btrfs: do not export ulist functions
Btrfs: rework ulist with list+rb_tree
Btrfs: fix memory leaks on walking backrefs failure
Btrfs: fix send file hole detection leading to data corruption
Btrfs: add a reschedule point in btrfs_find_all_roots()
Btrfs: make send's file extent item search more efficient
Btrfs: fix to catch all errors when resolving indirect ref
Btrfs: fix protection between walking backrefs and root deletion
btrfs: fix warning while merging two adjacent extents
Btrfs: fix infinite path build loops in incremental send
btrfs: undo sysfs when open_ctree() fails
Btrfs: fix snprintf usage by send's gen_unique_name
btrfs: fix defrag 32-bit integer overflow
btrfs: sysfs: list the NO_HOLES feature
btrfs: sysfs: don't show reserved incompat feature
btrfs: call permission checks earlier in ioctls and return EPERM
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Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"A few hotfixes and various leftovers which were awaiting other merges.
Mainly movement of zram into mm/"
* emailed patches fron Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (25 commits)
memcg: fix mutex not unlocked on memcg_create_kmem_cache fail path
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: update file_operations documentation
mm, oom: base root bonus on current usage
mm: don't lose the SOFT_DIRTY flag on mprotect
mm/slub.c: fix page->_count corruption (again)
mm/mempolicy.c: fix mempolicy printing in numa_maps
zram: remove zram->lock in read path and change it with mutex
zram: remove workqueue for freeing removed pending slot
zram: introduce zram->tb_lock
zram: use atomic operation for stat
zram: remove unnecessary free
zram: delay pending free request in read path
zram: fix race between reset and flushing pending work
zsmalloc: add maintainers
zram: add zram maintainers
zsmalloc: add copyright
zram: add copyright
zram: remove old private project comment
zram: promote zram from staging
zsmalloc: move it under mm
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC late changes from Kevin Hilman:
"These are changes that arrived a little late but were considered
self-contained enough to still go in for v3.14.
They are all device tree updtes this time around, and mainly for
Broadcom SoCs"
* tag 'late-dt-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
ARM: moxart: move fixed rate clock child node to board level dts
clk: bcm281xx: define kona clock binding
ARM: dts: add usb udc support to bcm281xx
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for timer on bcm11351
Documentation: dt: kona-timer: Add clocks property
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for SDHCIs on bcm11351
Documentation: dt: kona-sdhci: Add clocks property
ARM: dts: Specify clocks for UARTs on bcm11351
ARM: dts: bcm281xx: Add i2c busses
ARM: dts: Declare clocks as fixed on bcm11351
ARM: dts: bcm28155-ap: Enable all the i2c busses
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull more powerpc bits from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"Here are a few more powerpc bits for this merge window. The bulk is
made of two pull requests from Scott and Anatolij that I had missed
previously (they arrived while I was away). Since both their branches
are in -next independently, and the content has been around for a
little while, they can still go in.
The rest is mostly bug and regression fixes, a small series of
cleanups to our pseries cpuidle code (including moving it to the right
place), and one new cpuidle bakend for the powernv platform. I also
wired up the new sched_attr syscalls"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (37 commits)
powerpc: Wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr syscalls
powerpc/hugetlb: Replace __get_cpu_var with get_cpu_var
powerpc: Make sure "cache" directory is removed when offlining cpu
powerpc/mm: Fix mmap errno when MAP_FIXED is set and mapping exceeds the allowed address space
powerpc/powernv/cpuidle: Back-end cpuidle driver for powernv platform.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: smt-snooze-delay cleanup.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Remove MAX_IDLE_STATE macro.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Make cpuidle-pseries backend driver a non-module.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Use cpuidle_register() for initialisation.
powerpc/pseries/cpuidle: Move processor_idle.c to drivers/cpuidle.
powerpc: Fix 32-bit frames for signals delivered when transactional
powerpc/iommu: Fix initialisation of DART iommu table
powerpc/numa: Fix decimal permissions
powerpc/mm: Fix compile error of pgtable-ppc64.h
powerpc: Fix hw breakpoints on !HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT configurations
clk: corenet: Adds the clock binding
powerpc/booke64: Guard e6500 tlb handler with CONFIG_PPC_FSL_BOOK3E
powerpc/512x: dts: add MPC5125 clock specs
powerpc/512x: clk: support MPC5121/5123/5125 SoC variants
powerpc/512x: clk: enforce even SDHC divider values
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->readv, ->writev and ->sendfile have been removed while ->show_fdinfo
has been added. The documentation should reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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A 3% of system memory bonus is sometimes too excessive in comparison to
other processes.
With commit a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite"), the OOM
killer tries to avoid killing privileged tasks by subtracting 3% of
overall memory (system or cgroup) from their per-task consumption. But
as a result, all root tasks that consume less than 3% of overall memory
are considered equal, and so it only takes 33+ privileged tasks pushing
the system out of memory for the OOM killer to do something stupid and
kill dhclient or other root-owned processes. For example, on a 32G
machine it can't tell the difference between the 1M agetty and the 10G
fork bomb member.
The changelog describes this 3% boost as the equivalent to the global
overcommit limit being 3% higher for privileged tasks, but this is not
the same as discounting 3% of overall memory from _every privileged task
individually_ during OOM selection.
Replace the 3% of system memory bonus with a 3% of current memory usage
bonus.
By giving root tasks a bonus that is proportional to their actual size,
they remain comparable even when relatively small. In the example
above, the OOM killer will discount the 1M agetty's 256 badness points
down to 179, and the 10G fork bomb's 262144 points down to 183500 points
and make the right choice, instead of discounting both to 0 and killing
agetty because it's first in the task list.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the old private compcache project address so upcoming patches
should be sent to LKML because we Linux kernel community will take care.
Signed-off-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>
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Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now. Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.
The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone. And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago. And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples. For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.
The benefit of zram is very clear. With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure. It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system. Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages. But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill. :(
Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too. Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.
Quote from Luigi on Google
"Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
and leads to a bad interactive experience. Generally we prefer to
manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
processes. But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
available RAM. " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html
Other uses case is to use zram for block device. Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html
Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Bob Liu <bob.liu@oracle.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Luigi Semenzato <semenzato@google.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Seth Jennings <sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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