- 05 May, 2013 40 commits
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
If OPAL returns an error, propagate it upward rather than spinning seconds waiting for a CPU that will never show up Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Nishanth Aravamudan authored
Also, make HTM's presence dependent on the .config option. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Kleber Sacilotto de Souza authored
On pseries machines the detection for max_bus_speed should be done through an OpenFirmware property. This patch adds a function to perform this detection and a hook to perform dynamic adding of the function only for pseries. This is done by overwriting the weak pcibios_root_bridge_prepare function which is called by pci_create_root_bus(). From: Lucas Kannebley Tavares <lucaskt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <klebers@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Brian King authored
The following patch implements a new PAPR change which allows the OS to force the use of 32 bit MSIs, regardless of what the PCI capabilities indicate. This is required for some devices that advertise support for 64 bit MSIs but don't actually support them. Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
Make sure that current->thread.reg exists before we deference it in flush_hash_page. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Reported-by: John J Miller <millerjo@us.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Jeremy Kerr authored
Currently, the OPAL exception vectors are registered before the feature fixups are processed. This means that the now-firmware-owned vectors will likely be overwritten by the kernel. This change moves the exception registration code to an early initcall, rather than at machine_init time. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored
POWER8 allows read and write of the DSCR in userspace. We added kernel emulation so applications could always use the instructions regardless of the CPU type. Unfortunately there are two SPRs for the DSCR and we only added emulation for the privileged one. Add code to match the non privileged one. A simple test was created to verify the fix: http://ozlabs.org/~anton/junkcode/user_dscr_test.c Without the patch we get a SIGILL and it passes with the patch. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
Pull kvm updates from Gleb Natapov: "Highlights of the updates are: general: - new emulated device API - legacy device assignment is now optional - irqfd interface is more generic and can be shared between arches x86: - VMCS shadow support and other nested VMX improvements - APIC virtualization and Posted Interrupt hardware support - Optimize mmio spte zapping ppc: - BookE: in-kernel MPIC emulation with irqfd support - Book3S: in-kernel XICS emulation (incomplete) - Book3S: HV: migration fixes - BookE: more debug support preparation - BookE: e6500 support ARM: - reworking of Hyp idmaps s390: - ioeventfd for virtio-ccw And many other bug fixes, cleanups and improvements" * tag 'kvm-3.10-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (204 commits) kvm: Add compat_ioctl for device control API KVM: x86: Account for failing enable_irq_window for NMI window request KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add API for in-kernel XICS emulation kvm/ppc/mpic: fix missing unlock in set_base_addr() kvm/ppc: Hold srcu lock when calling kvm_io_bus_read/write kvm/ppc/mpic: remove users kvm/ppc/mpic: fix mmio region lists when multiple guests used kvm/ppc/mpic: remove default routes from documentation kvm: KVM_CAP_IOMMU only available with device assignment ARM: KVM: iterate over all CPUs for CPU compatibility check KVM: ARM: Fix spelling in error message ARM: KVM: define KVM_ARM_MAX_VCPUS unconditionally KVM: ARM: Fix API documentation for ONE_REG encoding ARM: KVM: promote vfp_host pointer to generic host cpu context ARM: KVM: add architecture specific hook for capabilities ARM: KVM: perform HYP initilization for hotplugged CPUs ARM: KVM: switch to a dual-step HYP init code ARM: KVM: rework HYP page table freeing ARM: KVM: enforce maximum size for identity mapped code ARM: KVM: move to a KVM provided HYP idmap ...
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David Howells authored
Give the OID registry file module information so that it doesn't taint the kernel when compiled as a module and loaded. Reported-by: Dros Adamson <Weston.Adamson@netapp.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com> cc: stable@vger.kernel.org cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull 'full dynticks' support from Ingo Molnar: "This tree from Frederic Weisbecker adds a new, (exciting! :-) core kernel feature to the timer and scheduler subsystems: 'full dynticks', or CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. This feature extends the nohz variable-size timer tick feature from idle to busy CPUs (running at most one task) as well, potentially reducing the number of timer interrupts significantly. This feature got motivated by real-time folks and the -rt tree, but the general utility and motivation of full-dynticks runs wider than that: - HPC workloads get faster: CPUs running a single task should be able to utilize a maximum amount of CPU power. A periodic timer tick at HZ=1000 can cause a constant overhead of up to 1.0%. This feature removes that overhead - and speeds up the system by 0.5%-1.0% on typical distro configs even on modern systems. - Real-time workload latency reduction: CPUs running critical tasks should experience as little jitter as possible. The last remaining source of kernel-related jitter was the periodic timer tick. - A single task executing on a CPU is a pretty common situation, especially with an increasing number of cores/CPUs, so this feature helps desktop and mobile workloads as well. The cost of the feature is mainly related to increased timer reprogramming overhead when a CPU switches its tick period, and thus slightly longer to-idle and from-idle latency. Configuration-wise a third mode of operation is added to the existing two NOHZ kconfig modes: - CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC: [formerly !CONFIG_NO_HZ], now explicitly named as a config option. This is the traditional Linux periodic tick design: there's a HZ tick going on all the time, regardless of whether a CPU is idle or not. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE: [formerly CONFIG_NO_HZ=y], this turns off the periodic tick when a CPU enters idle mode. - CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL: this new mode, in addition to turning off the tick when a CPU is idle, also slows the tick down to 1 Hz (one timer interrupt per second) when only a single task is running on a CPU. The .config behavior is compatible: existing !CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_NO_HZ=y settings get translated to the new values, without the user having to configure anything. CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL is turned off by default. This feature is based on a lot of infrastructure work that has been steadily going upstream in the last 2-3 cycles: related RCU support and non-periodic cputime support in particular is upstream already. This tree adds the final pieces and activates the feature. The pull request is marked RFC because: - it's marked 64-bit only at the moment - the 32-bit support patch is small but did not get ready in time. - it has a number of fresh commits that came in after the merge window. The overwhelming majority of commits are from before the merge window, but still some aspects of the tree are fresh and so I marked it RFC. - it's a pretty wide-reaching feature with lots of effects - and while the components have been in testing for some time, the full combination is still not very widely used. That it's default-off should reduce its regression abilities and obviously there are no known regressions with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y enabled either. - the feature is not completely idempotent: there is no 100% equivalent replacement for a periodic scheduler/timer tick. In particular there's ongoing work to map out and reduce its effects on scheduler load-balancing and statistics. This should not impact correctness though, there are no known regressions related to this feature at this point. - it's a pretty ambitious feature that with time will likely be enabled by most Linux distros, and we'd like you to make input on its design/implementation, if you dislike some aspect we missed. Without flaming us to crisp! :-) Future plans: - there's ongoing work to reduce 1Hz to 0Hz, to essentially shut off the periodic tick altogether when there's a single busy task on a CPU. We'd first like 1 Hz to be exposed more widely before we go for the 0 Hz target though. - once we reach 0 Hz we can remove the periodic tick assumption from nr_running>=2 as well, by essentially interrupting busy tasks only as frequently as the sched_latency constraints require us to do - once every 4-40 msecs, depending on nr_running. I am personally leaning towards biting the bullet and doing this in v3.10, like the -rt tree this effort has been going on for too long - but the final word is up to you as usual. More technical details can be found in Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt" * 'timers-nohz-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (39 commits) sched: Keep at least 1 tick per second for active dynticks tasks rcu: Fix full dynticks' dependency on wide RCU nocb mode nohz: Protect smp_processor_id() in tick_nohz_task_switch() nohz_full: Add documentation. cputime_nsecs: use math64.h for nsec resolution conversion helpers nohz: Select VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN from full dynticks config nohz: Reduce overhead under high-freq idling patterns nohz: Remove full dynticks' superfluous dependency on RCU tree nohz: Fix unavailable tick_stop tracepoint in dynticks idle nohz: Add basic tracing nohz: Select wide RCU nocb for full dynticks nohz: Disable the tick when irq resume in full dynticks CPU nohz: Re-evaluate the tick for the new task after a context switch nohz: Prepare to stop the tick on irq exit nohz: Implement full dynticks kick nohz: Re-evaluate the tick from the scheduler IPI sched: New helper to prevent from stopping the tick in full dynticks sched: Kick full dynticks CPU that have more than one task enqueued. perf: New helper to prevent full dynticks CPUs from stopping tick perf: Kick full dynticks CPU if events rotation is needed ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar: "Misc fixes plus a small hw-enablement patch for Intel IB model 58 uncore events" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86/intel/lbr: Demand proper privileges for PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_KERNEL perf/x86/intel/lbr: Fix LBR filter perf/x86: Blacklist all MEM_*_RETIRED events for Ivy Bridge perf: Fix vmalloc ring buffer pages handling perf/x86/intel: Fix unintended variable name reuse perf/x86/intel: Add support for IvyBridge model 58 Uncore perf/x86/intel: Fix typo in perf_event_intel_uncore.c x86: Eliminate irq_mis_count counted in arch_irq_stat
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull mudule updates from Rusty Russell: "We get rid of the general module prefix confusion with a binary config option, fix a remove/insert race which Never Happens, and (my favorite) handle the case when we have too many modules for a single commandline. Seriously, the kernel is full, please go away!" * tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: modpost: fix unwanted VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR expansion X.509: Support parse long form of length octets in Authority Key Identifier module: don't unlink the module until we've removed all exposure. kernel: kallsyms: memory override issue, need check destination buffer length MODSIGN: do not send garbage to stderr when enabling modules signature modpost: handle huge numbers of modules. modpost: add -T option to read module names from file/stdin. modpost: minor cleanup. genksyms: pass symbol-prefix instead of arch module: fix symbol versioning with symbol prefixes CONFIG_SYMBOL_PREFIX: cleanup.
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull single_open() leak fixes from Al Viro: "A bunch of fixes for a moderately common class of bugs: file with single_open() done by its ->open() and seq_release as its ->release(). That leaks; fortunately, it's not _too_ common (either people manage to RTFM that says "When using single_open(), the programmer should use single_release() instead of seq_release() in the file_operations structure to avoid a memory leak", or they just copy a correct instance), but grepping through the tree has caught quite a pile. All of that is, AFAICS, -stable fodder, for as far as the patches apply. I tried to carve it up into reasonably-sized pieces (more or less "comes from the same tree")" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: rcutrace: single_open() leaks gadget: single_open() leaks staging: single_open() leaks megaraid: single_open() leak wireless: single_open() leaks input: single_open() leak rtc: single_open() leaks ds1620: single_open() leak sh: single_open() leaks parisc: single_open() leaks mips: single_open() leaks ia64: single_open() leaks h8300: single_open() leaks cris: single_open() leaks arm: single_open() leaks
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge ipc fixes and cleanups from my IPC branch. The ipc locking has always been pretty ugly, and the scalability fixes to some degree made it even less readable. We had two cases of double unlocks in error paths due to this (one rcu read unlock, one semaphore unlock), and this fixes the bugs I found while trying to clean things up a bit so that we are less likely to have more. * ipc-cleanups: ipc: simplify rcu_read_lock() in semctl_nolock() ipc: simplify semtimedop/semctl_main() common error path handling ipc: move sem_obtain_lock() rcu locking into the only caller ipc: fix double sem unlock in semctl error path ipc: move the rcu_read_lock() from sem_lock_and_putref() into callers ipc: sem_putref() does not need the semaphore lock any more ipc: move rcu_read_unlock() out of sem_unlock() and into callers
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Scott Wood authored
This API shouldn't have 32/64-bit issues, but VFS assumes it does unless told otherwise. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
We should always have proper privileges when requesting kernel data. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: eranian@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130503121256.230745028@chello.nl [ Fix build error reported by fengguang.wu@intel.com, propagate error code back. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-v0x9ky3ahzr6nm3c6ilwrili@git.kernel.org
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro authored
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Several routines do not use netdev_features_t to hold such bitmasks, fixes from Patrick McHardy and Bjørn Mork. 2) Update cpsw IRQ software state and the actual HW irq enabling in the correct order. From Mugunthan V N. 3) When sending tipc packets to multiple bearers, we have to make copies of the SKB rather than just giving the original SKB directly. Fix from Gerlando Falauto. 4) Fix race with bridging topology change timer, from Stephen Hemminger. 5) Fix TCPv6 segmentation handling in GRE and VXLAN, from Pravin B Shelar. 6) Endian bug in USB pegasus driver, from Dan Carpenter. 7) Fix crashes on MTU reduction in USB asix driver, from Holger Eitzenberger. 8) Don't allow the kernel to BUG() just because the user puts some crap in an AF_PACKET mmap() ring descriptor. Fix from Daniel Borkmann. 9) Don't use variable sized arrays on the stack in xen-netback, from Wei Liu. 10) Fix stats reporting and an unbalanced napi_disable() in be2net driver. From Somnath Kotur and Ajit Khaparde. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (25 commits) cxgb4: fix error recovery when t4_fw_hello returns a positive value sky2: Fix crash on receiving VLAN frames packet: tpacket_v3: do not trigger bug() on wrong header status asix: fix BUG in receive path when lowering MTU net: qmi_wwan: Add Telewell TW-LTE 4G usbnet: pegasus: endian bug in write_mii_word() vxlan: Fix TCPv6 segmentation. gre: Fix GREv4 TCPv6 segmentation. bridge: fix race with topology change timer tipc: pskb_copy() buffers when sending on more than one bearer tipc: tipc_bcbearer_send(): simplify bearer selection tipc: cosmetic: clean up comments and break a long line drivers: net: cpsw: irq not disabled in cpsw isr in particular sequence xen-netback: better names for thresholds xen-netback: avoid allocating variable size array on stack xen-netback: remove redundent parameter in netbk_count_requests be2net: Fix to fail probe if MSI-X enable fails for a VF be2net: avoid napi_disable() when it has not been enabled be2net: Fix firmware download for Lancer be2net: Fix to receive Multicast Packets when Promiscuous mode is enabled on certain devices ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-nextLinus Torvalds authored
Pull sparc updates from David Miller: 1) Hibernation support, as well as removal of excess interrupt twiddling in MMU context allocation on sparc64 from Kirill Tkhai. 2) Kill references to __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW. 3) Sparc32 LEON bug fixes from Daniel Hellstrom and Andreas Larsson. 4) Provide cmpxchg64(), from Geert Uytterhoeven. 5) Device refcount and registry bug fixes from Federico Vaga and Wei Yongjun. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next: serial: sunsu: add missing platform_driver_unregister() when module exit sparc32, leon: Do not overwrite previously set irq flow handlers sparc/kernel/vio.c: add put_device() after device_find_child() sparc64: Do not save/restore interrupts in get_new_mmu_context() sparc: Consistently use 'wr' and 'rd' instructions for ASRs. sparc64: Kill __ARCH_WANT_UNLOCKED_CTXSW sparc64: Provide cmpxchg64() sparc64: Do not change num_physpages during initmem freeing sparc64: Hibernation support sparc,leon: updated GRPCI2 config name sparc,leon: support for GRPCI1 PCI host bridge controller sparc32,leon: add support for PCI busn resource for GRPCI2
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparcDavid S. Miller authored
Merge sparc bug fixes that didn't make it into v3.9 into sparc-next. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Wei Yongjun authored
We have registered platform driver when module init, and need unregister it when module exit. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Andreas Larsson authored
This is needed because when scan_of_devices finds the GAISLER_GPTIMER core that corresponds to the SMP "ticker" timer, the previously set proper irq flow handler gets overwritten with an incorrect one. This leads to very flaky timer interrupt handling on some hardware. Proper updates to handlers can still be done using leon_update_virq_handling. Signed-off-by: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Federico Vaga authored
The vio_remove() function uses device_find_child() but it does not drop the reference of the retrieved child. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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