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2017-03-21x86/earlyprintk: Add support for earlyprintk via USB3 debug portLu Baolu
Add support for earlyprintk by writing debug messages to the USB3 debug port. Users can use this type of early printk by specifying the kernel parameter of "earlyprintk=xdbc". This gives users a chance of providing debugging output. The hardware for USB3 debug port requires DMA memory blocks. This requires to delay setting up debugging hardware and registering boot console until the memblocks are filled. Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490083293-3792-4-git-send-email-baolu.lu@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-03-09Merge tag 'pm-4.11-rc2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki: "These fix several issues in the intel_pstate driver and one issue in the schedutil cpufreq governor, clean up that governor a bit and hook up existing code for disabling cpufreq to a new kernel command line option. Specifics: - Three fixes for intel_pstate problems related to the passive mode (in which it acts as a regular cpufreq scaling driver), two for the handling of global P-state limits and one for the handling of the cpu_frequency tracepoint in that mode (Rafael Wysocki). - Three fixes for the handling of P-state limits in intel_pstate in the active mode (Rafael Wysocki). - Introduction of a new cpufreq.off=1 kernel command line argument that will disable cpufreq entirely if passed to the kernel and is simply hooked up to the existing code used by Xen (Len Brown). - Fix for the schedutil cpufreq governor to prevent it from using stale raw frequency values in configurations with mutiple CPUs sharing one policy object and a cleanup for it reducing its overhead slightly (Viresh Kumar)" * tag 'pm-4.11-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in ->setpolicy cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_verify_policy() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix global settings in active mode cpufreq: Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option cpufreq: schedutil: Pass sg_policy to get_next_freq() cpufreq: schedutil: move cached_raw_freq to struct sugov_policy cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid triggering cpu_frequency tracepoint unnecessarily cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use performance_limits in passive mode
2017-03-09Merge branch 'pm-cpufreq'Rafael J. Wysocki
* pm-cpufreq: cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not reinit performance limits in ->setpolicy cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_pstate_verify_policy() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix global settings in active mode cpufreq: Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid triggering cpu_frequency tracepoint unnecessarily cpufreq: intel_pstate: Fix intel_cpufreq_verify_policy() cpufreq: intel_pstate: Do not use performance_limits in passive mode
2017-03-07Merge tag 'trace-v4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "There was some breakage with the changes for jump labels in the 4.11 merge window: - powerpc broke as jump labels uses the two LSB bits as flags in initialization. A check was added to make sure that all jump label entries were 4 bytes aligned, but powerpc didn't work that way for modules. Adding an alignment in the module linker script appeared to be the best solution. - Jump labels also added an anonymous union to access those LSB bits as a normal long. But because this structure had static initialization, it broke older compilers that could not statically initialize anonymous unions without brackets. - The command line parameter for setting function graph filter broke the "EMPTY_HASH" descriptor by modifying it instead of creating a new hash to hold the entries. - The command line parameter ftrace_graph_max_depth was added to allow its setting at boot time. It uses existing code and only the command line hook was added. This is not really a fix, but as it uses existing code without affecting anything else, I added it to this release. It was ready before the merge window closed, but I wanted to let it sit in linux-next for a couple of days first" * tag 'trace-v4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: ftrace/graph: Add ftrace_graph_max_depth kernel parameter tracing: Add #undef to fix compile error jump_label: Add comment about initialization order for anonymous unions jump_label: Fix anonymous union initialization module: set __jump_table alignment to 8 ftrace/graph: Do not modify the EMPTY_HASH for the function_graph filter tracing: Fix code comment for ftrace_ops_get_func()
2017-03-06HID: usbhid: extend polling interval configuration to joysticksTobias Jakobi
For mouse devices we can currently change the polling interval via usbhid.mousepoll. Implement the same thing for joysticks, so users can reduce input latency this way. This has been tested with a Logitech RumblePad 2 with jspoll=2, resulting in a polling rate of 500Hz (verified with evhz). Signed-off-by: Tobias Jakobi <tjakobi@math.uni-bielefeld.de> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2017-03-06cpufreq: Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline optionLen Brown
Add the "cpufreq.off=1" cmdline option. At boot-time, this allows a user to request CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=n behavior from a kernel built with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y. This is analogous to the existing "cpuidle.off=1" option and CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y This capability is valuable when we need to debug end-user issues in the BIOS or in Linux. It is also convenient for enabling comparisons, which may otherwise require a new kernel, or help from BIOS SETUP, which may be buggy or unavailable. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2017-03-03ftrace/graph: Add ftrace_graph_max_depth kernel parameterTodd Brandt
Early trace callgraphs can be extremely large on systems with several seconds of boot time. The max_depth parameter limits how deep the graph trace goes and reduces the output size. This parameter is the same as the max_graph_depth file in tracefs. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1488499935-23216-1-git-send-email-todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Todd Brandt <todd.e.brandt@linux.intel.com> [ changed comments about debugfs to tracefs ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2017-02-22slub: make sysfs directories for memcg sub-caches optionalTejun Heo
SLUB creates a per-cache directory under /sys/kernel/slab which hosts a bunch of debug files. Usually, there aren't that many caches on a system and this doesn't really matter; however, if memcg is in use, each cache can have per-cgroup sub-caches. SLUB creates the same directories for these sub-caches under /sys/kernel/slab/$CACHE/cgroup. Unfortunately, because there can be a lot of cgroups, active or draining, the product of the numbers of caches, cgroups and files in each directory can reach a very high number - hundreds of thousands is commonplace. Millions and beyond aren't difficult to reach either. What's under /sys/kernel/slab is primarily for debugging and the information and control on the a root cache already cover its sub-caches. While having a separate directory for each sub-cache can be helpful for development, it doesn't make much sense to pay this amount of overhead by default. This patch introduces a boot parameter slub_memcg_sysfs which determines whether to create sysfs directories for per-memcg sub-caches. It also adds CONFIG_SLUB_MEMCG_SYSFS_ON which determines the boot parameter's default value and defaults to 0. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: kset_unregister(NULL) is legal] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170204145203.GB26958@mtj.duckdns.org Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Vladimir Davydov <vdavydov.dev@gmail.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-02-22Merge tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty/serial driver patchset for 4.11-rc1. Not much here, but a lot of little fixes and individual serial driver updates all over the subsystem. Majority are for the sh-sci driver and platform (the arch-specific changes have acks from the maintainer). The start of the "serial bus" code is here as well, but nothing is converted to use it yet. That work is still ongoing, hopefully will start to show up across different subsystems for 4.12 (bluetooth is one major place that will be used.) All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (109 commits) tty: pl011: Work around QDF2400 E44 stuck BUSY bit atmel_serial: Use the fractional divider when possible tty: Remove extra include in HVC console tty framework serial: exar: Enable MSI support serial: exar: Move register defines from uapi header to consumer site serial: pci: Remove unused pci_boards entries serial: exar: Move Commtech adapters to 8250_exar as well serial: exar: Fix feature control register constants serial: exar: Fix initialization of EXAR registers for ports > 0 serial: exar: Fix mapping of port I/O resources serial: sh-sci: fix hardware RX trigger level setting tty/serial: atmel: ensure state is restored after suspending serial: 8250_dw: Avoid "too much work" from bogus rx timeout interrupt serdev: ttyport: check whether tty_init_dev() fails serial: 8250_pci: make pciserial_detach_ports() static ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Enable HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH407-family: Use new Pinctrl groups ARM: dts: STiH407-pinctrl: Add Pinctrl group for HW flow-control ARM: dts: STiH410-b2260: Identify the UART RTS line dt-bindings: serial: Update 'uart-has-rtscts' description ...
2017-02-22Merge tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big char/misc driver patchset for 4.11-rc1. Lots of different driver subsystems updated here: rework for the hyperv subsystem to handle new platforms better, mei and w1 and extcon driver updates, as well as a number of other "minor" driver updates. All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported issues" * tag 'char-misc-4.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (169 commits) goldfish: Sanitize the broken interrupt handler x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loading vmbus: replace modulus operation with subtraction vmbus: constify parameters where possible vmbus: expose hv_begin/end_read vmbus: remove conditional locking of vmbus_write vmbus: add direct isr callback mode vmbus: change to per channel tasklet vmbus: put related per-cpu variable together vmbus: callback is in softirq not workqueue binder: Add support for file-descriptor arrays binder: Add support for scatter-gather binder: Add extra size to allocator binder: Refactor binder_transact() binder: Support multiple /dev instances binder: Deal with contexts in debugfs binder: Support multiple context managers binder: Split flat_binder_object auxdisplay: ht16k33: remove private workqueue auxdisplay: ht16k33: rework input device initialization ...
2017-02-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky: - New entropy generation for the pseudo random number generator. - Early boot printk output via sclp to help debug crashes on boot. This needs to be enabled with a kernel parameter. - Add proper no-execute support with a bit in the page table entry. - Bug fixes and cleanups. * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (65 commits) s390/syscall: fix single stepped system calls s390/zcrypt: make ap_bus explicitly non-modular s390/zcrypt: Removed unneeded debug feature directory creation. s390: add missing "do {} while (0)" loop constructs to multiline macros s390/mm: add cond_resched call to kernel page table dumper s390: get rid of MACHINE_HAS_PFMF and MACHINE_HAS_HPAGE s390/mm: make memory_block_size_bytes available for !MEMORY_HOTPLUG s390: replace ACCESS_ONCE with READ_ONCE s390: Audit and remove any remaining unnecessary uses of module.h s390: mm: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h s390: kernel: Audit and remove any unnecessary uses of module.h s390/kdump: Use "LINUX" ELF note name instead of "CORE" s390: add no-execute support s390: report new vector facilities s390: use correct input data address for setup_randomness s390/sclp: get rid of common response code handling s390/sclp: don't add new lines to each printed string s390/sclp: make early sclp code readable s390/sclp: disable early sclp code as soon as the base sclp driver is active s390/sclp: move early printk code to drivers ...
2017-02-20Merge branch 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull x86 cpufeature updates from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were related to enable ring-3 MONITOR/MWAIT instructions support on supported CPUs, by Grzegorz Andrejczuk and Piotr Luc" * 'x86-cpufeature-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/cpufeature: Move RING3MWAIT feature to avoid conflicts x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Mill x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights Landing x86/cpufeature: Add RING3MWAIT to CPU features x86/elf: Add HWCAP2 to expose ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT x86/msr: Add MSR_MISC_FEATURE_ENABLES and RING3MWAIT bit x86/cpufeature: Add AVX512_VPOPCNTDQ feature
2017-02-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: "The RCU changes in this cycle are: - Dynticks updates, consolidating open-coded counter accesses into a well-defined API - SRCU updates: Simplify algorithm, add formal verification - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - Torture-test updates Most of the diffstat comes from the relatively large documentation update" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (42 commits) srcu: Reduce probability of SRCU ->unlock_count[] counter overflow rcutorture: Add CBMC-based formal verification for SRCU srcu: Force full grace-period ordering srcu: Implement more-efficient reader counts rcu: Adjust FQS offline checks for exact online-CPU detection rcu: Check cond_resched_rcu_qs() state less often to reduce GP overhead rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determination rcu: Abstract dynticks extended quiescent state enter/exit operations rcu: Add lockdep checks to synchronous expedited primitives rcu: Eliminate unused expedited_normal counter llist: Clarify comments about when locking is needed rcu: Fix comment in rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads() rcu: Enable RCU tracepoints by default to aid in debugging rcu: Make rcu_cpu_starting() use its "cpu" argument rcu: Add comment headers to expedited-grace-period counter functions rcu: Don't wake rcuc/X kthreads on NOCB CPUs rcu: Re-enable TASKS_RCU for User Mode Linux rcu: Once again use NMI-based stack traces in stall warnings rcu: Remove short-term CPU kicking rcu: Add long-term CPU kicking ...
2017-02-15x86/platform/goldfish: Prevent unconditional loadingThomas Gleixner
The goldfish platform code registers the platform device unconditionally which causes havoc in several ways if the goldfish_pdev_bus driver is enabled: - Access to the hardcoded physical memory region, which is either not available or contains stuff which is completely unrelated. - Prevents that the interrupt of the serial port can be requested - In case of a spurious interrupt it goes into a infinite loop in the interrupt handler of the pdev_bus driver (which needs to be fixed seperately). Add a 'goldfish' command line option to make the registration opt-in when the platform is compiled in. I'm seriously grumpy about this engineering trainwreck, which has seven SOBs from Intel developers for 50 lines of code. And none of them figured out that this is broken. Impressive fail! Fixes: ddd70cf93d78 ("goldfish: platform device for x86") Reported-by: Gabriel C <nix.or.die@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-02-08clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Remove fsl-a008585 parameterDing Tianhong
Having a command line option to flip the errata handling for a particular erratum is a little bit unusual, and it's vastly superior to pass this in the DT. By common consensus, it's best to kill off the command line parameter. Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> [Mark: split patch, reword commit message] Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
2017-02-04x86/cpufeature: Enable RING3MWAIT for Knights LandingGrzegorz Andrejczuk
Enable ring 3 MONITOR/MWAIT for Intel Xeon Phi x200 codenamed Knights Landing. Presence of this feature cannot be detected automatically (by reading any other MSR) therefore it is required to explicitly check for the family and model of the CPU before attempting to enable it. Signed-off-by: Grzegorz Andrejczuk <grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com> Cc: Piotr.Luc@intel.com Cc: dave.hansen@linux.intel.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484918557-15481-5-git-send-email-grzegorz.andrejczuk@intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2017-01-16s390: provide sclp based boot consoleHeiko Carstens
Use the early sclp code to provide a boot console. This boot console is available if the kernel parameter "earlyprintk" has been specified, just like it works for other architectures that also provide an early boot console. This makes debugging of early problems much easier, since now we finally have working console output even before memory detection is running. The boot console will be automatically disabled as soon as another console will be registered. Reviewed-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2017-01-14doc: Add rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads to kernel-parameters.txtPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2017-01-12tty: serial: lantiq: implement earlycon supportMartin Blumenstingl
This allows enabling earlycon for devices with a Lantiq serial console by splitting lqasc_serial_port_write() from lqasc_console_write() and re-using the new function for earlycon's write callback. The kernel-parameter name matches the driver name ("lantiq"), similar to how other drivers implement this. Signed-off-by: Martin Blumenstingl <martin.blumenstingl@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2017-01-06Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.10' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb Pull swiotlb fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "This has one fix to make i915 work when using Xen SWIOTLB, and a feature from Geert to aid in debugging of devices that can't do DMA outside the 32-bit address space. The feature from Geert is on top of v4.10 merge window commit (specifically you pulling my previous branch), as his changes were dependent on the Documentation/ movement patches. I figured it would just easier than me trying than to cherry-pick the Documentation patches to satisfy git. The patches have been soaking since 12/20, albeit I updated the last patch due to linux-next catching an compiler error and adding an Tested-and-Reported-by tag" * 'stable/for-linus-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/swiotlb: swiotlb: Export swiotlb_max_segment to users swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug option swiotlb: Convert swiotlb_force from int to enum x86, swiotlb: Simplify pci_swiotlb_detect_override()
2016-12-26ACPI / sysfs: Provide quirk mechanism to prevent GPE floodingLv Zheng
Sometimes, the users may require a quirk to be provided from ACPI subsystem core to prevent a GPE from flooding. Normally, if a GPE cannot be dispatched, ACPICA core automatically prevents the GPE from firing. But there are cases the GPE is dispatched by _Lxx/_Exx provided via AML table, and OSPM is lacking of the knowledge to get _Lxx/_Exx correctly executed to handle the GPE, thus the GPE flooding may still occur. The existing quirk mechanism can be enabled/disabled using the following commands to prevent such kind of GPE flooding during runtime: # echo mask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00 # echo unmask > /sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpe00 To avoid GPE flooding during boot, we need a boot stage mechanism. This patch provides such a boot stage quirk mechanism to stop this kind of GPE flooding. This patch doesn't fix any feature gap but since the new feature gaps could be found in the future endlessly, and can disappear if the feature gaps are filled, providing a boot parameter rather than a DMI table should suffice. Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53071 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117481 Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/887793 Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
2016-12-20ima: define a canonical binary_runtime_measurements list formatMimi Zohar
The IMA binary_runtime_measurements list is currently in platform native format. To allow restoring a measurement list carried across kexec with a different endianness than the targeted kernel, this patch defines little-endian as the canonical format. For big endian systems wanting to save/restore the measurement list from a system with a different endianness, a new boot command line parameter named "ima_canonical_fmt" is defined. Considerations: use of the "ima_canonical_fmt" boot command line option will break existing userspace applications on big endian systems expecting the binary_runtime_measurements list to be in platform native format. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480554346-29071-10-git-send-email-zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com> Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andreas Steffen <andreas.steffen@strongswan.org> Cc: Josh Sklar <sklar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Cc: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2016-12-19swiotlb: Add swiotlb=noforce debug optionGeert Uytterhoeven
On architectures like arm64, swiotlb is tied intimately to the core architecture DMA support. In addition, ZONE_DMA cannot be disabled. To aid debugging and catch devices not supporting DMA to memory outside the 32-bit address space, add a kernel command line option "swiotlb=noforce", which disables the use of bounce buffers. If specified, trying to map memory that cannot be used with DMA will fail, and a rate-limited warning will be printed. Note that io_tlb_nslabs is set to 1, which is the minimal supported value. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
2016-12-13Merge tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Again, cpufreq gets more changes than the other parts this time (one new driver, one old driver less, a bunch of enhancements of the existing code, new CPU IDs, fixes, cleanups) There also are some changes in cpuidle (idle injection rework, a couple of new CPU IDs, online/offline rework in intel_idle, fixes and cleanups), in the generic power domains framework (mostly related to supporting power domains containing CPUs), and in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (mostly related to supporting devices with multiple voltage regulators) In addition to that, the system sleep state selection interface is modified to make it easier for distributions with unchanged user space to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method, some issues are fixed in the PM core, the latency tolerance PM QoS framework is improved a bit, the Intel RAPL power capping driver is cleaned up and there are some fixes and cleanups in the devfreq subsystem Specifics: - New cpufreq driver for Broadcom STB SoCs and a Device Tree binding for it (Markus Mayer) - Support for ARM Integrator/AP and Integrator/CP in the generic DT cpufreq driver and elimination of the old Integrator cpufreq driver (Linus Walleij) - Support for the zx296718, r8a7743 and r8a7745, Socionext UniPhier, and PXA SoCs in the the generic DT cpufreq driver (Baoyou Xie, Geert Uytterhoeven, Masahiro Yamada, Robert Jarzmik) - cpufreq core fix to eliminate races that may lead to using inactive policy objects and related cleanups (Rafael Wysocki) - cpufreq schedutil governor update to make it use SCHED_FIFO kernel threads (instead of regular workqueues) for doing delayed work (to reduce the response latency in some cases) and related cleanups (Viresh Kumar) - New cpufreq sysfs attribute for resetting statistics (Markus Mayer) - cpufreq governors fixes and cleanups (Chen Yu, Stratos Karafotis, Viresh Kumar) - Support for using generic cpufreq governors in the intel_pstate driver (Rafael Wysocki) - Support for per-logical-CPU P-state limits and the EPP/EPB (Energy Performance Preference/Energy Performance Bias) knobs in the intel_pstate driver (Srinivas Pandruvada) - New CPU ID for Knights Mill in intel_pstate (Piotr Luc) - intel_pstate driver modification to use the P-state selection algorithm based on CPU load on platforms with the system profile in the ACPI tables set to "mobile" (Srinivas Pandruvada) - intel_pstate driver cleanups (Arnd Bergmann, Rafael Wysocki, Srinivas Pandruvada) - cpufreq powernv driver updates including fast switching support (for the schedutil governor), fixes and cleanus (Akshay Adiga, Andrew Donnellan, Denis Kirjanov) - acpi-cpufreq driver rework to switch it over to the new CPU offline/online state machine (Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers (Wei Yongjun, Prashanth Prakash) - Idle injection rework (to make it use the regular idle path instead of a home-grown custom one) and related powerclamp thermal driver updates (Peter Zijlstra, Jacob Pan, Petr Mladek, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - New CPU IDs for Atom Z34xx and Knights Mill in intel_idle (Andy Shevchenko, Piotr Luc) - intel_idle driver cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Anna-Maria Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - cpuidle DT driver update to support suspend-to-idle properly (Sudeep Holla) - cpuidle core cleanups and misc updates (Daniel Lezcano, Pan Bian, Rafael Wysocki) - Preliminary support for power domains including CPUs in the generic power domains (genpd) framework and related DT bindings (Lina Iyer) - Assorted fixes and cleanups in the generic power domains (genpd) framework (Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven) - Preliminary support for devices with multiple voltage regulators and related fixes and cleanups in the Operating Performance Points (OPP) library (Viresh Kumar, Masahiro Yamada, Stephen Boyd) - System sleep state selection interface rework to make it easier to support suspend-to-idle as the default system suspend method (Rafael Wysocki) - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly related to the interactions between the system suspend and runtime PM frameworks (Ulf Hansson, Sahitya Tummala, Tony Lindgren) - Latency tolerance PM QoS framework imorovements (Andrew Lutomirski) - New Knights Mill CPU ID for the Intel RAPL power capping driver (Piotr Luc) - Intel RAPL power capping driver fixes, cleanups and switch over to using the new CPU offline/online state machine (Jacob Pan, Thomas Gleixner, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior) - Fixes and cleanups in the exynos-ppmu, exynos-nocp, rk3399_dmc, rockchip-dfi devfreq drivers and the devfreq core (Axel Lin, Chanwoo Choi, Javier Martinez Canillas, MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar) - Fix for false-positive KASAN warnings during resume from ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) on x86 (Josh Poimboeuf) - Memory map verification during resume from hibernation on x86 to ensure a consistent address space layout (Chen Yu) - Wakeup sources debugging enhancement (Xing Wei) - rockchip-io AVS driver cleanup (Shawn Lin)" * tag 'pm-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (127 commits) devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks devfreq: rk3399_dmc: Remove dangling rcu_read_unlock() devfreq: exynos: Don't use OPP structures outside of RCU locks Documentation: intel_pstate: Document HWP energy/performance hints cpufreq: intel_pstate: Support for energy performance hints with HWP cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add locking around HWP requests PM / sleep: Print active wakeup sources when blocking on wakeup_count reads PM / core: Fix bug in the error handling of async suspend PM / wakeirq: Fix dedicated wakeirq for drivers not using autosuspend PM / Domains: Fix compatible for domain idle state PM / OPP: Don't WARN on multiple calls to dev_pm_opp_set_regulators() PM / OPP: Allow platform specific custom set_opp() callbacks PM / OPP: Separate out _generic_set_opp() PM / OPP: Add infrastructure to manage multiple regulators PM / OPP: Pass struct dev_pm_opp_supply to _set_opp_voltage() PM / OPP: Manage supply's voltage/current in a separate structure PM / OPP: Don't use OPP structure outside of rcu protected section PM / OPP: Reword binding supporting multiple regulators per device PM / OPP: Fix incorrect cpu-supply property in binding cpuidle: Add a kerneldoc comment to cpuidle_use_deepest_state() ..
2016-12-12Merge tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linuxLinus Torvalds
Pull documentation update from Jonathan Corbet: "These are the documentation changes for 4.10. It's another busy cycle for the docs tree, as the sphinx conversion continues. Highlights include: - Further work on PDF output, which remains a bit of a pain but should be more solid now. - Five more DocBook template files converted to Sphinx. Only 27 to go... Lots of plain-text files have also been converted and integrated. - Images in binary formats have been replaced with more source-friendly versions. - Various bits of organizational work, including the renaming of various files discussed at the kernel summit. - New documentation for the device_link mechanism. ... and, of course, lots of typo fixes and small updates" * tag 'docs-4.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (193 commits) dma-buf: Extract dma-buf.rst Update Documentation/00-INDEX docs: 00-INDEX: document directories/files with no docs docs: 00-INDEX: remove non-existing entries docs: 00-INDEX: add missing entries for documentation files/dirs docs: 00-INDEX: consolidate process/ and admin-guide/ description scripts: add a script to check if Documentation/00-INDEX is sane Docs: change sh -> awk in REPORTING-BUGS Documentation/core-api/device_link: Add initial documentation core-api: remove an unexpected unident ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=off Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction" Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/local_ops.txt: convert to ReST markup Documentation/assoc_array.txt: convert to ReST markup docs-rst: parse-headers.pl: cleanup the documentation docs-rst: fix media cleandocs target docs-rst: media/Makefile: reorganize the rules docs-rst: media: build SVG from graphviz files docs-rst: replace bayer.png by a SVG image ...
2016-12-01ppc/idle: Add documentation for powersave=offBalbir Singh
Update kernel-parameters.txt to add Documentation for powersave=off. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-11-03Documentation/admin-guide: split the kernel parameter list to a separate fileJani Nikula
Include the literal kernel parameter list from a separate file. This helps the pdf build. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>