Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"As the merge window is still open, and this code was not as complex as
I thought it might be. I'm pushing this in now.
This will allow Thomas to debug his irq work for 3.20.
This adds two new features:
1) Allow traceopoints to be enabled right after mm_init().
By passing in the trace_event= kernel command line parameter,
tracepoints can be enabled at boot up. For debugging things like
the initialization of interrupts, it is needed to have tracepoints
enabled very early. People have asked about this before and this
has been on my todo list. As it can be helpful for Thomas to debug
his upcoming 3.20 IRQ work, I'm pushing this now. This way he can
add tracepoints into the IRQ set up and have users enable them when
things go wrong.
2) Have the tracepoints printed via printk() (the console) when they
are triggered.
If the irq code locks up or reboots the box, having the tracepoint
output go into the kernel ring buffer is useless for debugging.
But being able to add the tp_printk kernel command line option
along with the trace_event= option will have these tracepoints
printed as they occur, and that can be really useful for debugging
early lock up or reboot problems.
This code is not that intrusive and it passed all my tests. Thomas
tried them out too and it works for his needs.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141214201609.126831471@goodmis.org"
* tag 'trace-3.19-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add tp_printk cmdline to have tracepoints go to printk()
tracing: Move enabling tracepoints to just after rcu_init()
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"Highlights:
- AMD KFD driver merge
This is the AMD HSA interface for exposing a lowlevel interface for
GPGPU use. They have an open source userspace built on top of this
interface, and the code looks as good as it was going to get out of
tree.
- Initial atomic modesetting work
The need for an atomic modesetting interface to allow userspace to
try and send a complete set of modesetting state to the driver has
arisen, and been suffering from neglect this past year. No more,
the start of the common code and changes for msm driver to use it
are in this tree. Ongoing work to get the userspace ioctl finished
and the code clean will probably wait until next kernel.
- DisplayID 1.3 and tiled monitor exposed to userspace.
Tiled monitor property is now exposed for userspace to make use of.
- Rockchip drm driver merged.
- imx gpu driver moved out of staging
Other stuff:
- core:
panel - MIPI DSI + new panels.
expose suggested x/y properties for virtual GPUs
- i915:
Initial Skylake (SKL) support
gen3/4 reset work
start of dri1/ums removal
infoframe tracking
fixes for lots of things.
- nouveau:
tegra k1 voltage support
GM204 modesetting support
GT21x memory reclocking work
- radeon:
CI dpm fixes
GPUVM improvements
Initial DPM fan control
- rcar-du:
HDMI support added
removed some support for old boards
slave encoder driver for Analog Devices adv7511
- exynos:
Exynos4415 SoC support
- msm:
a4xx gpu support
atomic helper conversion
- tegra:
iommu support
universal plane support
ganged-mode DSI support
- sti:
HDMI i2c improvements
- vmwgfx:
some late fixes.
- qxl:
use suggested x/y properties"
* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (969 commits)
drm: sti: fix module compilation issue
drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
drm: sti: correctly cleanup CRTC and planes
drm: sti: add HQVDP plane
drm: sti: add cursor plane
drm: sti: enable auxiliary CRTC
drm: sti: fix delay in VTG programming
drm: sti: prepare sti_tvout to support auxiliary crtc
drm: sti: use drm_crtc_vblank_{on/off} instead of drm_vblank_{on/off}
drm: sti: fix hdmi avi infoframe
drm: sti: remove event lock while disabling vblank
drm: sti: simplify gdp code
drm: sti: clear all mixer control
drm: sti: remove gpio for HDMI hot plug detection
drm: sti: allow to change hdmi ddc i2c adapter
drm/doc: Document drm_add_modes_noedid() usage
drm/i915: Remove '& 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
drm: Zero out DRM object memory upon cleanup
drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
...
Add the kernel command line tp_printk option that will have tracepoints
that are active sent to printk() as well as to the trace buffer.
Passing "tp_printk" will activate this. To turn it off, the sysctl
/proc/sys/kernel/tracepoint_printk can have '0' echoed into it. Note,
this only works if the cmdline option is used. Echoing 1 into the sysctl
file without the cmdline option will have no affect.
Note, this is a dangerous option. Having high frequency tracepoints send
their data to printk() can possibly cause a live lock. This is another
reason why this is only active if the command line option is used.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.11.1412121539300.16494@nanos
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver update for 3.19-rc1.
There are a number of TTY core changes/fixes in here from Peter Hurley
that have all been teted in linux-next for a long time now. There are
also the normal serial driver updates as well, full details in the
changelog below"
* tag 'tty-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (219 commits)
serial: pxa: hold port.lock when reporting modem line changes
tty-hvsi_lib: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "tty_kref_put"
tty: Deletion of unnecessary checks before two function calls
n_tty: Fix read_buf race condition, increment read_head after pushing data
serial: of-serial: add PM suspend/resume support
Revert "serial: of-serial: add PM suspend/resume support"
Revert "serial: of-serial: fix up PM ops on no_console_suspend and port type"
serial: 8250: don't attempt a trylock if in sysrq
serial: core: Add big-endian iotype
serial: samsung: use port->fifosize instead of hardcoded values
serial: samsung: prefer to use fifosize from driver data
serial: samsung: fix style problems
serial: samsung: wait for transfer completion before clock disable
serial: icom: fix error return code
serial: tegra: clean up tty-flag assignments
serial: Fix io address assign flow with Fintek PCI-to-UART Product
serial: mxs-auart: fix tx_empty against shift register
serial: mxs-auart: fix gpio change detection on interrupt
serial: mxs-auart: Fix mxs_auart_set_ldisc()
serial: 8250_dw: Use 64-bit access for OCTEON.
...
Pull block driver core update from Jens Axboe:
"This is the pull request for the core block IO changes for 3.19. Not
a huge round this time, mostly lots of little good fixes:
- Fix a bug in sysfs blktrace interface causing a NULL pointer
dereference, when enabled/disabled through that API. From Arianna
Avanzini.
- Various updates/fixes/improvements for blk-mq:
- A set of updates from Bart, mostly fixing buts in the tag
handling.
- Cleanup/code consolidation from Christoph.
- Extend queue_rq API to be able to handle batching issues of IO
requests. NVMe will utilize this shortly. From me.
- A few tag and request handling updates from me.
- Cleanup of the preempt handling for running queues from Paolo.
- Prevent running of unmapped hardware queues from Ming Lei.
- Move the kdump memory limiting check to be in the correct
location, from Shaohua.
- Initialize all software queues at init time from Takashi. This
prevents a kobject warning when CPUs are brought online that
weren't online when a queue was registered.
- Single writeback fix for I_DIRTY clearing from Tejun. Queued with
the core IO changes, since it's just a single fix.
- Version X of the __bio_add_page() segment addition retry from
Maurizio. Hope the Xth time is the charm.
- Documentation fixup for IO scheduler merging from Jan.
- Introduce (and use) generic IO stat accounting helpers for non-rq
drivers, from Gu Zheng.
- Kill off artificial limiting of max sectors in a request from
Christoph"
* 'for-3.19/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (26 commits)
bio: modify __bio_add_page() to accept pages that don't start a new segment
blk-mq: Fix uninitialized kobject at CPU hotplugging
blktrace: don't let the sysfs interface remove trace from running list
blk-mq: Use all available hardware queues
blk-mq: Micro-optimize bt_get()
blk-mq: Fix a race between bt_clear_tag() and bt_get()
blk-mq: Avoid that __bt_get_word() wraps multiple times
blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free
blk-mq: prevent unmapped hw queue from being scheduled
blk-mq: re-check for available tags after running the hardware queue
blk-mq: fix hang in bt_get()
blk-mq: move the kdump check to blk_mq_alloc_tag_set
blk-mq: cleanup tag free handling
blk-mq: use 'nr_cpu_ids' as highest CPU ID count for hwq <-> cpu map
blk: introduce generic io stat accounting help function
blk-mq: handle the single queue case in blk_mq_hctx_next_cpu
genhd: check for int overflow in disk_expand_part_tbl()
blk-mq: add blk_mq_free_hctx_request()
blk-mq: export blk_mq_free_request()
blk-mq: use get_cpu/put_cpu instead of preempt_disable/preempt_enable
...
Pull tracing fixlet from Steven Rostedt:
"Remove unnecessary preempt_disable in printk()"
* tag 'trace-seq-buf-3.19-v2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
printk: Do not disable preemption for accessing printk_func
Pull audit updates from Paul Moore:
"Two small patches from the audit next branch; only one of which has
any real significant code changes, the other is simply a MAINTAINERS
update for audit.
The single code patch is pretty small and rather straightforward, it
changes the audit "version" number reported to userspace from an
integer to a bitmap which is used to indicate the functionality of the
running kernel. This really doesn't have much impact on the kernel,
but it will make life easier for the audit userspace folks.
Thankfully we were still on a version number which allowed us to do
this without breaking userspace"
* 'upstream' of git://git.infradead.org/users/pcmoore/audit:
audit: convert status version to a feature bitmap
audit: add Paul Moore to the MAINTAINERS entry
Following the suggestions from Andrew Morton and Stephen Rothwell,
Dont expand the ARCH list in kernel/gcov/Kconfig. Instead,
define a ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL bool which architectures
can enable.
set ARCH_HAS_GCOV_PROFILE_ALL on Architectures where it was
previously allowed + ARM64 which I tested.
Signed-off-by: Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset adds execveat(2) for x86, and is derived from Meredydd
Luff's patch from Sept 2012 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/11/528).
The primary aim of adding an execveat syscall is to allow an
implementation of fexecve(3) that does not rely on the /proc filesystem,
at least for executables (rather than scripts). The current glibc version
of fexecve(3) is implemented via /proc, which causes problems in sandboxed
or otherwise restricted environments.
Given the desire for a /proc-free fexecve() implementation, HPA suggested
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/556) that an execveat(2) syscall would be
an appropriate generalization.
Also, having a new syscall means that it can take a flags argument without
back-compatibility concerns. The current implementation just defines the
AT_EMPTY_PATH and AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW flags, but other flags could be
added in future -- for example, flags for new namespaces (as suggested at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/474).
Related history:
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/27/123 is an example of someone
realizing that fexecve() is likely to fail in a chroot environment.
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=514043 covered
documenting the /proc requirement of fexecve(3) in its manpage, to
"prevent other people from wasting their time".
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=241609 described a
problem where a process that did setuid() could not fexecve()
because it no longer had access to /proc/self/fd; this has since
been fixed.
This patch (of 4):
Add a new execveat(2) system call. execveat() is to execve() as openat()
is to open(): it takes a file descriptor that refers to a directory, and
resolves the filename relative to that.
In addition, if the filename is empty and AT_EMPTY_PATH is specified,
execveat() executes the file to which the file descriptor refers. This
replicates the functionality of fexecve(), which is a system call in other
UNIXen, but in Linux glibc it depends on opening "/proc/self/fd/<fd>" (and
so relies on /proc being mounted).
The filename fed to the executed program as argv[0] (or the name of the
script fed to a script interpreter) will be of the form "/dev/fd/<fd>"
(for an empty filename) or "/dev/fd/<fd>/<filename>", effectively
reflecting how the executable was found. This does however mean that
execution of a script in a /proc-less environment won't work; also, script
execution via an O_CLOEXEC file descriptor fails (as the file will not be
accessible after exec).
Based on patches by Meredydd Luff.
Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Cc: Meredydd Luff <meredydd@senatehouse.org>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuah.kh@samsung.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Both register and unregister call build_map_info() in order to create the
list of mappings before installing or removing breakpoints for every mm
which maps file backed memory. As such, there is no reason to hold the
i_mmap_rwsem exclusively, so share it and allow concurrent readers to
build the mapping data.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The i_mmap_mutex is a close cousin of the anon vma lock, both protecting
similar data, one for file backed pages and the other for anon memory. To
this end, this lock can also be a rwsem. In addition, there are some
important opportunities to share the lock when there are no tree
modifications.
This conversion is straightforward. For now, all users take the write
lock.
[sfr@canb.auug.org.au: update fremap.c]
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull cgroup update from Tejun Heo:
"cpuset got simplified a bit. cgroup core got a fix on unified
hierarchy and grew some effective css related interfaces which will be
used for blkio support for writeback IO traffic which is currently
being worked on"
* 'for-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
cgroup: implement cgroup_get_e_css()
cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->css_e_css_changed()
cgroup: add cgroup_subsys->css_released()
cgroup: fix the async css offline wait logic in cgroup_subtree_control_write()
cgroup: restructure child_subsys_mask handling in cgroup_subtree_control_write()
cgroup: separate out cgroup_calc_child_subsys_mask() from cgroup_refresh_child_subsys_mask()
cpuset: lock vs unlock typo
cpuset: simplify cpuset_node_allowed API
cpuset: convert callback_mutex to a spinlock
Pull workqueue update from Tejun Heo:
"Work items which may be involved in memory reclaim path may be
executed by the rescuer under memory pressure. When a rescuer gets
activated, it processes whatever are on the pending list and then goes
back to sleep until the manager kicks it again which involves 100ms
delay.
This is problematic for self-requeueing work items or the ones running
on ordered workqueues as there always is only one work item on the
pending list when the rescuer kicks in. The execution of that work
item produces more to execute but the rescuer won't see them until
after the said 100ms has passed, so such workqueues would only execute
one work item every 100ms under prolonged memory pressure, which BTW
may be being prolonged due to the slow execution.
Neil wrote up a patch which fixes this issue by keeping the rescuer
working as long as the target workqueue is busy but doesn't have
enough workers"
* 'for-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
workqueue: allow rescuer thread to do more work.
workqueue: invert the order between pool->lock and wq_mayday_lock
workqueue: cosmetic update in rescuer_thread()
Pull percpu updates from Tejun Heo:
"Nothing interesting. A patch to convert the remaining __get_cpu_var()
users, another to fix non-critical off-by-one in an assertion and a
cosmetic conversion to lockless_dereference() in percpu-ref.
The back-merge from mainline is to receive lockless_dereference()"
* 'for-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
percpu: Replace smp_read_barrier_depends() with lockless_dereference()
percpu: Convert remaining __get_cpu_var uses in 3.18-rcX
percpu: off by one in BUG_ON()
Here's a batch of i915 fixes for 3.19.
* tag 'drm-intel-next-fixes-2014-12-11' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel:
drm/i915: save/restore GMBUS freq across suspend/resume on gen4
drm/i915: Remove '& 0xffff' from the mask given to WA_REG()
drm/i915: Invert the mask and val arguments in wa_add() and WA_REG()
drm/i915/bdw: Fix the write setting up the WIZ hashing mode
drm/i915: Don't complain about stolen conflicts on gen3
drm/i915: resume MST after reading back hw state
drm/i915: Handle inaccurate time conversion issues
drm/i915: compute wait_ioctl timeout correctly
drm/i915: don't always do full mode sets when infoframes are enabled
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"The most notable change for this pull request is the ftrace rework
from Heiko. It brings a small performance improvement and the ground
work to support a new gcc option to replace the mcount blocks with a
single nop.
Two new s390 specific system calls are added to emulate user space
mmio for PCI, an artifact of the how PCI memory is accessed.
Two patches for the memory management with changes to common code.
For KVM mm_forbids_zeropage is added which disables the empty zero
page for an mm that is used by a KVM process. And an optimization,
pmdp_get_and_clear_full is added analog to ptep_get_and_clear_full.
Some micro optimization for the cmpxchg and the spinlock code.
And as usual bug fixes and cleanups"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (46 commits)
s390/cputime: fix 31-bit compile
s390/scm_block: make the number of reqs per HW req configurable
s390/scm_block: handle multiple requests in one HW request
s390/scm_block: allocate aidaw pages only when necessary
s390/scm_block: use mempool to manage aidaw requests
s390/eadm: change timeout value
s390/mm: fix memory leak of ptlock in pmd_free_tlb
s390: use local symbol names in entry[64].S
s390/ptrace: always include vector registers in core files
s390/simd: clear vector register pointer on fork/clone
s390: translate cputime magic constants to macros
s390/idle: convert open coded idle time seqcount
s390/idle: add missing irq off lockdep annotation
s390/debug: avoid function call for debug_sprintf_*
s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution
s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()
s390/dasd: retry partition detection
s390/dasd: fix list corruption for sleep_on requests
s390/dasd: fix infinite term I/O loop
s390/dasd: remove unused code
...
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
offloading of switching and routing to hardware.
This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu
2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers. Thanks to Al Viro
and Herbert Xu.
3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
Alpe.
4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
KaFai Lau.
5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
Pavaluca.
6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.
7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.
8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
Nicolas Dichtel.
9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
programs to actually be attached to sockets. From Alexei
Starovoitov.
10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.
11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
Westphal.
12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.
13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
driver, from Thomas Lendacky.
14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.
15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
Klassert.
16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
Dumazet. This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
desired handling of bulk vs. RPC-like traffic.
17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU. From Eric Dumazet.
18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
Dumazet.
19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.
20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
Varadarajan.
21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.
22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
Perry.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb->mac_header
net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
...
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time we have some more new material than we used to have during
the last couple of development cycles.
The most important part of it to me is the introduction of a unified
interface for accessing device properties provided by platform
firmware. It works with Device Trees and ACPI in a uniform way and
drivers using it need not worry about where the properties come from
as long as the platform firmware (either DT or ACPI) makes them
available. It covers both devices and "bare" device node objects
without struct device representation as that turns out to be necessary
in some cases. This has been in the works for quite a few months (and
development cycles) and has been approved by all of the relevant
maintainers.
On top of that, some drivers are switched over to the new interface
(at25, leds-gpio, gpio_keys_polled) and some additional changes are
made to the core GPIO subsystem to allow device drivers to manipulate
GPIOs in the "canonical" way on platforms that provide GPIO
information in their ACPI tables, but don't assign names to GPIO lines
(in which case the driver needs to do that on the basis of what it
knows about the device in question). That also has been approved by
the GPIO core maintainers and the rfkill driver is now going to use
it.
Second is support for hardware P-states in the intel_pstate driver.
It uses CPUID to detect whether or not the feature is supported by the
processor in which case it will be enabled by default. However, it
can be disabled entirely from the kernel command line if necessary.
Next is support for a platform firmware interface based on ACPI
operation regions used by the PMIC (Power Management Integrated
Circuit) chips on the Intel Baytrail-T and Baytrail-T-CR platforms.
That interface is used for manipulating power resources and for
thermal management: sensor temperature reporting, trip point setting
and so on.
Also the ACPI core is now going to support the _DEP configuration
information in a limited way. Basically, _DEP it supposed to reflect
off-the-hierarchy dependencies between devices which may be very
indirect, like when AML for one device accesses locations in an
operation region handled by another device's driver (usually, the
device depended on this way is a serial bus or GPIO controller). The
support added this time is sufficient to make the ACPI battery driver
work on Asus T100A, but it is general enough to be able to cover some
other use cases in the future.
Finally, we have a new cpufreq driver for the Loongson1B processor.
In addition to the above, there are fixes and cleanups all over the
place as usual and a traditional ACPICA update to a recent upstream
release.
As far as the fixes go, the ACPI LPSS (Low-power Subsystem) driver for
Intel platforms should be able to handle power management of the DMA
engine correctly, the cpufreq-dt driver should interact with the
thermal subsystem in a better way and the ACPI backlight driver should
handle some more corner cases, among other things.
On top of the ACPICA update there are fixes for race conditions in the
ACPICA's interrupt handling code which might lead to some random and
strange looking failures on some systems.
In the cleanups department the most visible part is the series of
commits targeted at getting rid of the CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME configuration
option. That was triggered by a discussion regarding the generic
power domains code during which we realized that trying to support
certain combinations of PM config options was painful and not really
worth it, because nobody would use them in production anyway. For
this reason, we decided to make CONFIG_PM_SLEEP select
CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and that lead to the conclusion that the latter
became redundant and CONFIG_PM could be used instead of it. The
material here makes that replacement in a major part of the tree, but
there will be at least one more batch of that in the second part of
the merge window.
Specifics:
- Support for retrieving device properties information from ACPI _DSD
device configuration objects and a unified device properties
interface for device drivers (and subsystems) on top of that. As
stated above, this works with Device Trees and ACPI and allows
device drivers to be written in a platform firmware (DT or ACPI)
agnostic way. The at25, leds-gpio and gpio_keys_polled drivers are
now going to use this new interface and the GPIO subsystem is
additionally modified to allow device drivers to assign names to
GPIO resources returned by ACPI _CRS objects (in case _DSD is not
present or does not provide the expected data). The changes in
this set are mostly from Mika Westerberg, Rafael J Wysocki, Aaron
Lu, and Darren Hart with some fixes from others (Fabio Estevam,
Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Support for Hardware Managed Performance States (HWP) as described
in Volume 3, section 14.4, of the Intel SDM in the intel_pstate
driver. CPUID is used to detect whether or not the feature is
supported by the processor. If supported, it will be enabled
automatically unless the intel_pstate=no_hwp switch is present in
the kernel command line. From Dirk Brandewie.
- New Intel Broadwell-H ID for intel_pstate (Dirk Brandewie).
- Support for firmware interface based on ACPI operation regions used
by the PMIC chips on the Intel Baytrail-T and Baytrail-T-CR
platforms for power resource control and thermal management (Aaron
Lu).
- Limited support for retrieving off-the-hierarchy dependencies
between devices from ACPI _DEP device configuration objects and
deferred probing support for the ACPI battery driver based on the
_DEP information to make that driver work on Asus T100A (Lan
Tianyu).
- New cpufreq driver for the Loongson1B processor (Kelvin Cheung).
- ACPICA update to upstream revision 20141107 which only affects
tools (Bob Moore).
- Fixes for race conditions in the ACPICA's interrupt handling code
and in the ACPI code related to system suspend and resume (Lv Zheng
and Rafael J Wysocki).
- ACPI core fix for an RCU-related issue in the ioremap() regions
management code that slowed down significantly after CPUs had been
allowed to enter idle states even if they'd had RCU callbakcs
queued and triggered some problems in certain proprietary graphics
driver (and elsewhere). The fix replaces synchronize_rcu() in that
code with synchronize_rcu_expedited() which makes the issue go
away. From Konstantin Khlebnikov.
- ACPI LPSS (Low-Power Subsystem) driver fix to handle power
management of the DMA engine included into the LPSS correctly. The
problem is that the DMA engine doesn't have ACPI PM support of its
own and it simply is turned off when the last LPSS device having
ACPI PM support goes into D3cold. To work around that, the PM
domain used by the ACPI LPSS driver is redesigned so at least one
device with ACPI PM support will be on as long as the DMA engine is
in use. From Andy Shevchenko.
- ACPI backlight driver fix to avoid using it on "Win8-compatible"
systems where it doesn't work and where it was used by default by
mistake (Aaron Lu).
- Assorted minor ACPI core fixes and cleanups from Tomasz Nowicki,
Sudeep Holla, Huang Rui, Hanjun Guo, Fabian Frederick, and Ashwin
Chaugule (mostly related to the upcoming ARM64 support).
- Intel RAPL (Running Average Power Limit) power capping driver fixes
and improvements including new processor IDs (Jacob Pan).
- Generic power domains modification to power up domains after
attaching devices to them to meet the expectations of device
drivers and bus types assuming devices to be accessible at probe
time (Ulf Hansson).
- Preliminary support for controlling device clocks from the generic
power domains core code and modifications of the ARM/shmobile
platform to use that feature (Ulf Hansson).
- Assorted minor fixes and cleanups of the generic power domains core
code (Ulf Hansson, Geert Uytterhoeven).
- Assorted minor fixes and cleanups of the device clocks control code
in the PM core (Geert Uytterhoeven, Grygorii Strashko).
- Consolidation of device power management Kconfig options by making
CONFIG_PM_SLEEP select CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME and removing the latter
which is now redundant (Rafael J Wysocki and Kevin Hilman). That
is the first batch of the changes needed for this purpose.
- Core device runtime power management support code cleanup related
to the execution of callbacks (Andrzej Hajda).
- cpuidle ARM support improvements (Lorenzo Pieralisi).
- cpuidle cleanup related to the CPUIDLE_FLAG_TIME_VALID flag and a
new MAINTAINERS entry for ARM Exynos cpuidle (Daniel Lezcano and
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz).
- New cpufreq driver callback (->ready) to be executed when the
cpufreq core is ready to use a given policy object and cpufreq-dt
driver modification to use that callback for cooling device
registration (Viresh Kumar).
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups (Viresh Kumar, Vince Hsu, James
Geboski, Tomeu Vizoso).
- Assorted fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq-pcc, intel_pstate,
cpufreq-dt, pxa2xx cpufreq drivers (Lenny Szubowicz, Ethan Zhao,
Stefan Wahren, Petr Cvek).
- OPP (Operating Performance Points) framework modification to allow
OPPs to be removed too and update of a few cpufreq drivers
(cpufreq-dt, exynos5440, imx6q, cpufreq) to remove OPPs (added
during initialization) on driver removal (Viresh Kumar).
- Hibernation core fixes and cleanups (Tina Ruchandani and Markus
Elfring).
- PM Kconfig fix related to CPU power management (Pankaj Dubey).
- cpupower tool fix (Prarit Bhargava)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (120 commits)
i2c-omap / PM: Drop CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME from i2c-omap.c
dmaengine / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
tools: cpupower: fix return checks for sysfs_get_idlestate_count()
drivers: sh / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
e1000e / igb / PM: Eliminate CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME
MMC / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
MFD / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
misc / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
media / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
input / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
leds: leds-gpio: Fix multiple instances registration without 'label' property
iio / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
hsi / OMAP / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
i2c-hid / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
drm / exynos / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
gpio / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
hwrandom / exynos / PM: Use CONFIG_PM in #ifdef
block / PM: Replace CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME with CONFIG_PM
USB / PM: Drop CONFIG_PM_RUNTIME from the USB core
PM: Merge the SET*_RUNTIME_PM_OPS() macros
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