The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.
This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort
to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Support for the Stallion multiport serial drivers was removed in v3.1.
Clean up their last references in the tree: mainly an outdated Kconfig
entry and unneeded documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The option allows you to remove TTY and compile without errors. This
saves space on systems that won't support TTY interfaces anyway.
bloat-o-meter output is below.
The bulk of this patch consists of Kconfig changes adding "depends on
TTY" to various serial devices and similar drivers that require the TTY
layer. Ideally, these dependencies would occur on a common intermediate
symbol such as SERIO, but most drivers "select SERIO" rather than
"depends on SERIO", and "select" does not respect dependencies.
bloat-o-meter output comparing our previous minimal to new minimal by
removing TTY. The list is filtered to not show removed entries with awk
'$3 != "-"' as the list was very long.
add/remove: 0/226 grow/shrink: 2/14 up/down: 6/-35356 (-35350)
function old new delta
chr_dev_init 166 170 +4
allow_signal 80 82 +2
static.__warned 143 142 -1
disallow_signal 63 62 -1
__set_special_pids 95 94 -1
unregister_console 126 121 -5
start_kernel 546 541 -5
register_console 593 588 -5
copy_from_user 45 40 -5
sys_setsid 128 120 -8
sys_vhangup 32 19 -13
do_exit 1543 1526 -17
bitmap_zero 60 40 -20
arch_local_irq_save 137 117 -20
release_task 674 652 -22
static.spin_unlock_irqrestore 308 260 -48
Signed-off-by: Joe Millenbach <jmillenbach@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Since ramoops was converted to pstore, it has nothing to do with character
devices nowadays. Instead, today it is just a RAM backend for pstore.
The patch just moves things around. There are a few changes were needed
because of the move:
1. Kconfig and Makefiles fixups, of course.
2. In pstore/ram.c we have to play a bit with MODULE_PARAM_PREFIX, this
is needed to keep user experience the same as with ramoops driver
(i.e. so that ramoops.foo kernel command line arguments would still
work).
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Instead of using /dev/mem directly and forcing userspace to know (or
extract) where the platform has defined persistent memory, how many slots
it has, the sizes, etc, use the common pstore infrastructure to handle
Oops gathering and extraction. This presents a much easier to use
filesystem-based view to the memory region. This also means that any
other tools that are written to understand pstore will automatically be
able to process ramoops too.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The first version of this patch proposed an arch/tile/drivers/ directory,
but the consensus was that this was probably a poor choice for a place to
group Tilera-specific drivers, and that in any case grouping by platform
was discouraged, and grouping by function was preferred.
This version of the patch addresses various issues raised in the
community, primarily the absence of sysfs integration. The sysfs
integration now handles passing information on sector size, page size,
and total partition size to userspace as well. In addition, we now
use a single "struct cdev" to manage all the partition minor devices,
and dynamically discover the correct number of partitions from the
hypervisor rather than using a module_param with a default value.
This driver has no particular "peer" drivers it can be grouped with.
It is sort of like an MTD driver for SPI ROM, but it doesn't group well
with the other MTD devices since it relies on hypervisor virtualization
to handle many of the irritating aspects of flash ROM management: sector
awareness, background read for sub-sector writes, bit examination to
determine whether a sector erase needs to be issued, etc. It is in fact
more like an EEPROM driver, but the hypervisor virtualization does require
a "flush" command if you wish to commit a sector write prior to writing
to a different sector, and this is sufficiently different from generic
I2C/SPI EEPROMs that as a result it doesn't group well with them either.
The simple character device is already in use by a range of Tilera
SPI ROM management tools, as well as by customers. In addition, using
the simple character device actually simplifies the userspace tools,
since they don't need to manage sector erase, background read, etc.
This both simplifies the code (since we can uniformly manage plain files
and the SPI ROM) as well as makes the user code portable to non-Linux
platforms that don't offer the same MTD ioctls.
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Allow setting of maximal number of raw devices as a module parameter. This
requires changing of static array into a vmalloced one (the array is going to
be too large for kmalloc).
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers to the
drivers/staging/generic_serial directory where they will be removed
after 2.6.41 if no one steps up to claim them.
generic_serial
rio
ser_a2232
sx
vme_scc
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers to the
drivers/staging/tty/ directory where they will be removed after 2.6.41
if no one steps up to claim them.
epca
epca
ip2
istallion
riscom8
serial167
specialix
stallion
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers from
drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/ as that's where they really belong:
amiserial
nozomi
synclink
rocket
cyclades
moxa
mxser
isicom
bfin_jtag_comm
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The Kconfig options for the drivers/tty/ files still were hanging around
in the "big" drivers/char/Kconfig file, so move them to the proper
location under drivers/tty and drivers/tty/hvc/
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This converts the existing bfin_jtag_comm TTY driver to the HVC layer so
that the common HVC code can worry about all of the TTY/polling crap and
leave the Blackfin code to worry about the Blackfin bits.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* akpm:
kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()
kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP race
memcg: correctly order reading PCG_USED and pc->mem_cgroup
backlight: fix 88pm860x_bl macro collision
drivers/leds/ledtrig-gpio.c: make output match input, tighten input checking
MAINTAINERS: update Atmel AT91 entry
mm: fix truncate_setsize() comment
memcg: fix rmdir, force_empty with THP
memcg: fix LRU accounting with THP
memcg: fix USED bit handling at uncharge in THP
memcg: modify accounting function for supporting THP better
fs/direct-io.c: don't try to allocate more than BIO_MAX_PAGES in a bio
mm: compaction: prevent division-by-zero during user-requested compaction
mm/vmscan.c: remove duplicate include of compaction.h
memblock: fix memblock_is_region_memory()
thp: keep highpte mapped until it is no longer needed
kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The serial drivers are really just tty drivers, so move them to
drivers/tty/ to make things a bit neater overall.
This is part of the tty/serial driver movement proceedure as proposed by
Arnd Bergmann and approved by everyone involved a number of months ago.
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The newer drivers/gpio/cs5535-gpio.c replaces drivers/misc/cs5535_gpio.c.
The new driver has been in the tree for a little while, and has received
some testing; it's time to mark the old one as deprecated. I'm thinking
removal around 2.6.40 would be good, provided we're not missing critical
functionality in the newer driver.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Acked-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This driver adds a basic console that uses the arm JTAG
DCC to transfer data back and forth. It has support for
ARMv6 and ARMv7.
This console is created under the HVC driver, and should be named
/dev/hvcX (or /dev/hvc0 for example).
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk
messages, via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store
"console" messages inline with kernel messages for better analyses of
the boot process, for example.
Signed-off-by: Samo Pogacnik <samo_pogacnik@t-2.net>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix kconfig dependency warning for PC8736x_GPIO by restricting it to
X86_32.
warning: (SCx200_GPIO && SCx200 || PC8736x_GPIO && X86) selects NSC_GPIO which has unmet direct dependencies (X86_32)
NSC_GPIO is X86_32 only. The other driver (SCx200_GPIO) that selects
NSC_GPIO is X86_32 only (indirectly, since SCx200 depends on X86_32), so
limit this driver also.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The driver fails to compile on s390:
drivers/char/ramoops.c: In function 'ramoops_init':
drivers/char/ramoops.c:122: error: implicit declaration of function 'ioremap'
Since we won't make use of the driver anyway on s390 just let it depend on
HAS_IOMEM.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ramoops, like mtdoops, can log oops/panic information but in RAM. It can
be used with persistent RAM for systems without flash support. In
addition, for this systems, with this driver, it's no more needed add to
the kernel the mtd subsystem with advantage in footprint.
It can be used in a very easy way with persistent RAM for systems without
flash support. For these systems, with this driver, it is no longer
required to cinlude mtd subsystem with an advantage in footprint. In
addition, you can save flash space and store this information only in RAM.
Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc; Anders Grafstrom <anders.grafstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: Yuasa Yoichi <yuasa@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Prarit Bhargava
Paul Bolle
Joe Millenbach
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Anton Vorontsov
Kees Cook
Al Viro
Chris Metcalf
Jan Kara
Niranjana Vishwanathapura
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Mike Frysinger
Linus Torvalds
David Rientjes
Andres Salomon
Daniel Walker
Samo Pogacnik
Randy Dunlap
Heiko Carstens
Marco Stornelli