- 04 Oct, 2019 3 commits
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Dave Airlie authored
Merge tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2019-10-03-1' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-intel into drm-fixes - Fix DP-MST crtc_mask - Fix dsc dpp calculations - Fix g4x sprite scaling stride check with GTT remapping Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> From: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191003193051.GA26421@intel.com
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git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-miscDave Airlie authored
- One include fix for tilcdc - A clock fix for OMAP - A memory leak fix for Komeda - Some fixes for resources cleanups with writeback Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> From: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191003081031.oykms5fg4tijvdri@gilmour
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~agd5f/linuxDave Airlie authored
drm-fixes-5.4-2019-10-02: amdgpu: - Enable bulk moves - Power metrics fixes for Navi - Fix S4 regression - Add query for tcc disabled mask - Fix several leaks in error paths - randconfig fixes - clang fixes Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> From: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191002204909.3519-1-alexander.deucher@amd.com
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- 03 Oct, 2019 6 commits
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Ville Syrjälä authored
This reverts commit 4eaceea3. Several userspace clients (modesetting ddx and mutter+wayland at least) handle encoder.possible_crtcs incorrectly. What they essentially do is the following: possible_crtcs = ~0; for_each_possible_encoder(connector) possible_crtcs &= encoder->possible_crtcs; Ie. they calculate the intersection of the possible_crtcs for the connector when they really should be calculating the union instead. In our case each MST encoder now has just one unique bit set, and so the intersection is always zero. The end result is that MST connectors can't be lit up because no crtc can be found to drive them. I've submitted a fix for the modesetting ddx [1], and complained on #wayland about mutter, so hopefully the situation will improve in the future. In the meantime we have regression, and so must go back to the old way of misconfiguring possible_crtcs in the kernel. [1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/merge_requests/277 Cc: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislav Lisovskiy <stanislav.lisovskiy@intel.com> Cc: Lionel Landwerlin <lionel.g.landwerlin@intel.com> Cc: Dhinakaran Pandiyan <dhinakaran.pandiyan@intel.com> Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111507Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190903154018.26357-1-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.comReviewed-by: José Roberto de Souza <jose.souza@intel.com> (cherry picked from commit e838bfa8) Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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Maxime Ripard authored
One tilcdc fix was left out in drm-misc-next-fixes and didn't make it during the merge window. Let's bring it into drm-misc-fixes. Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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Maxime Ripard authored
We haven't backmerged for a while, let's start the -rc period by pulling rc1. Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org>
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Tomi Valkeinen authored
The OMAP36xx and AM/DM37x TRMs say that the maximum divider for DSS fclk (in CM_CLKSEL_DSS) is 32. Experimentation shows that this is not correct, and using divider of 32 breaks DSS with a flood or underflows and sync losts. Dividers up to 31 seem to work fine. There is another patch to the DT files to limit the divider correctly, but as the DSS driver also needs to know the maximum divider to be able to iteratively find good rates, we also need to do the fix in the DSS driver. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Cc: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20191002122542.8449-1-tomi.valkeinen@ti.comTested-by: Adam Ford <aford173@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Jyri Sarha <jsarha@ti.com>
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Ville Syrjälä authored
I forgot to update the g4x sprite scaling stride check when GTT remapping was introduced. The stride of the original framebuffer is irrelevant when remapping is used and instead we want to check the stride of the remapped view. Also drop the duplicate width_bytes check. We already check that a few lines earlier. Fixes: df79cf44 ("drm/i915: Store the final plane stride in plane_state") Signed-off-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190930183045.662-1-ville.syrjala@linux.intel.comReviewed-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> (cherry picked from commit 006e5701) Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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Maarten Lankhorst authored
There was a integer wraparound when mode_clock became too high, and we didn't correct for the FEC overhead factor when dividing, with the calculations breaking at HBR3. As a result our calculated bpp was way too high, and the link width limitation never came into effect. Print out the resulting bpp calcululations as a sanity check, just in case we ever have to debug it later on again. We also used the wrong factor for FEC. While bspec mentions 2.4%, all the calculations use 1/0.972261, and the same ratio should be applied to data M/N as well, so use it there when FEC is enabled. This fixes the FIFO underrun we are seeing with FEC enabled. Changes since v2: - Handle fec_enable in intel_link_compute_m_n, so only data M/N is adjusted. (Ville) - Fix initial hardware readout for FEC. (Ville) Changes since v3: - Remove bogus fec_to_mode_clock. (Ville) Changes since v4: - Use the correct register for icl. (Ville) - Split hw readout to a separate patch. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Fixes: d9218c8f ("drm/i915/dp: Add helpers for Compressed BPP and Slice Count for DSC") Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v5.0+ Cc: Manasi Navare <manasi.d.navare@intel.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190925082110.17439-1-maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.comReviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com> (cherry picked from commit ed06efb8) Signed-off-by: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi@intel.com>
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- 02 Oct, 2019 13 commits
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Just like all the other variants, this one passes invalid compile-time options with clang after the new code got merged: clang: error: unknown argument: '-mpreferred-stack-boundary=4' scripts/Makefile.build:265: recipe for target 'drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dcn21/dcn21_resource.o' failed Use the same variant that we have for dcn20 to fix compilation. Fixes: eced51f9 ("drm/amd/display: Add hubp block for Renoir (v2)") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
Without CONFIG_DEBUG_FS, we get a warning for an unused variable: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/amdgpu_dm/amdgpu_dm.c:6020:33: error: unused variable 'source' [-Werror,-Wunused-variable] Hide the variable in an #ifdef like its only users. Fixes: 14b25846 ("drm/amd/display: add functionality to grab DPRX CRC entries.") Reviewed-by: Harry Wentland <harry.wentland@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The type definition for 'uint' clashes with the generic kernel headers: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/../display/dc/dml/dcn21/display_mode_vba_21.c:43:22: error: redefinition of typedef 'uint' is a C11 feature [-Werror,-Wtypedef-redefinition] include/linux/types.h:92:23: note: previous definition is here Just remove this type and use plain 'unsigned int' consistently, as it is already use almost everywhere in this file. Fixes: b04641a3 ("drm/amd/display: Add Renoir DML") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
An earlier patch of mine disabled some #warning statements that get in the way of build testing, but then another instance was added around the same time. Remove that as well. Fixes: b5203d16 ("drm/amd/amdgpu: hide #warning for missing DC config") Fixes: e1c14c43 ("drm/amdgpu: Enable DC on Renoir") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Arnd Bergmann authored
When CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS is disabled, we cannot compile the pmu portion of the amdgpu driver: drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_pmu.c:48:38: error: no member named 'hw' in 'struct perf_event' struct hw_perf_event *hwc = &event->hw; ~~~~~ ^ drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_pmu.c:51:13: error: no member named 'attr' in 'struct perf_event' if (event->attr.type != event->pmu->type) ~~~~~ ^ ... The same bug was already fixed by commit d155bef0 ("amdgpu: make pmu support optional") but broken again by what looks like an incorrectly rebased patch. Fixes: 64f55e62 ("drm/amdgpu: Add RAS EEPROM table.") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Navid Emamdoost authored
In dcn*_clock_source_create when dcn20_clk_src_construct fails allocated clk_src needs release. Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Navid Emamdoost authored
In acp_hw_init there are some allocations that needs to be released in case of failure: 1- adev->acp.acp_genpd should be released if any allocation attemp for adev->acp.acp_cell, adev->acp.acp_res or i2s_pdata fails. 2- all of those allocations should be released if mfd_add_hotplug_devices or pm_genpd_add_device fail. 3- Release is needed in case of time out values expire. Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Navid Emamdoost <navid.emamdoost@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Marek Olšák authored
UMDs need this for correct programming of harvested chips. Signed-off-by: Marek Olšák <marek.olsak@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Alex Deucher authored
We reset the GPU as part of our hibernation sequence so we need to make sure we don't mark vram as lost in that case. Bug: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=111879Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Aaron Liu authored
This reverts commit 5813f97a. Since SBIOS WCD9925N, NMI printing disappeared. Hence enable stutter mode. Signed-off-by: Aaron Liu <aaron.liu@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Huang Rui <ray.huang@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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Kevin Wang authored
when multithreading access sysfs of amdgpu_pm_info at the sametime. the swsmu driver cause smu firmware hang. eg: single thread access: Message A + Param A ==> right Message B + Param B ==> right Message C + Param C ==> right multithreading access: Message A + Param B ==> error Message B + Param A ==> error Message C + Param C ==> right the patch will add sensor lock(mutex) to avoid this error. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wang <kevin1.wang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Kenneth Feng <kenneth.feng@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3.x
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Kevin Wang authored
v2: change period from 10ms to 100ms (typo error) too high frequence to update mertrics table will cause smu firmware error,so change mertrics table update period from 1ms to 100ms (navi10, 12, 14) Signed-off-by: Kevin Wang <kevin1.wang@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Kenneth Feng <kenneth.feng@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.3.x
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Christian König authored
This reverts commit a213c2c7. The changes to fix this should have landed in 5.1. Signed-off-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com> Reviewed-by: Zhou, David(ChunMing) <David1.Zhou@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
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- 30 Sep, 2019 18 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba: "A bunch of fixes that accumulated in recent weeks, mostly material for stable. Summary: - fix for regression from 5.3 that prevents to use balance convert with single profile - qgroup fixes: rescan race, accounting leak with multiple writers, potential leak after io failure recovery - fix for use after free in relocation (reported by KASAN) - other error handling fixups" * tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: btrfs: qgroup: Fix reserved data space leak if we have multiple reserve calls btrfs: qgroup: Fix the wrong target io_tree when freeing reserved data space btrfs: Fix a regression which we can't convert to SINGLE profile btrfs: relocation: fix use-after-free on dead relocation roots Btrfs: fix race setting up and completing qgroup rescan workers Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started btrfs: adjust dirty_metadata_bytes after writeback failure of extent buffer Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes
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git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull csky updates from Guo Ren: "This round of csky subsystem just some fixups: - Fix mb() synchronization problem - Fix dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute - Fix cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs - Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range - Fix ioremap function losing - Fix arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation - Fix defer cache flush for 610 - Support kernel non-aligned access - Fix 610 vipt cache flush mechanism - Fix add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic - Move static keyword to the front of declaration - Fix csky_pmu.max_period assignment - Use generic free_initrd_mem() - entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop" * tag 'csky-for-linus-5.4-rc1' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux: csky: Move static keyword to the front of declaration csky: entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop csky: Fixup csky_pmu.max_period assignment csky: Fixup add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic csky: Use generic free_initrd_mem() csky: Fixup 610 vipt cache flush mechanism csky: Support kernel non-aligned access csky: Fixup defer cache flush for 610 csky: Fixup arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation csky: Fixup ioremap function losing csky: Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range csky/dma: Fixup cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs csky: Fixup dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute csky: Fixup mb() synchronization problem
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: "A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window: - Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal - Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7 - Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500 - Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI" * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "A few more tracing fixes: - Fix a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes - Fix a warning that is reported by clang - Fix a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing - Fix the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing - Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event" * tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: selftests/ftrace: Fix same probe error test mm, tracing: Print symbol name for call_site in trace events tracing: Have error path in predicate_parse() free its allocated memory tracing: Fix clang -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in IF_ASSIGN macro tracing/probe: Fix to check the difference of nr_args before adding probe
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Arnd Bergmann authored
This was apparently dropped by accident in a recent cleanup, causing a build failure in some configurations now: drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_tfp410.c:296:12: error: implicit declaration of function 'devm_pinctrl_get_select_default' [-Werror,-Wimplicit-function-declaration] Fixes: fcb57664 ("drm/tilcdc: drop use of drmP.h") Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Signed-off-by: Jyri Sarha <jsarha@ti.com> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/02b03f74cf941f52a941a36bdc8dabb4a69fd87e.1569852588.git.jsarha@ti.comAcked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more MMC updates from Ulf Hansson: "A couple more updates/fixes for MMC: - sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support - sdhci-tegra: Recover loss in throughput for DMA - sdhci-of-esdhc: Fix DMA bug" * tag 'mmc-v5.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc: mmc: host: sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support mmc: tegra: Implement ->set_dma_mask() mmc: sdhci: Let drivers define their DMA mask mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: set DMA snooping based on DMA coherence mmc: sdhci: improve ADMA error reporting
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Krzysztof Wilczynski authored
Move the static keyword to the front of declaration of csky_pmu_of_device_ids, and resolve the following compiler warning that can be seen when building with warnings enabled (W=1): arch/csky/kernel/perf_event.c:1340:1: warning: ‘static’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored
Since the enabling and disabling of IRQs within preempt_schedule_irq() is contained in a need_resched() loop, we don't need the outer arch code loop. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-miscLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Documentation/process update from Greg KH: "Here are two small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request. The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies" * tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rules Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "A couple of misc patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: afs dynroot: switch to simple_dir_operations fs/handle.c - fix up kerneldoc
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull more cifs updates from Steve French: "Fixes from the recent SMB3 Test events and Storage Developer Conference (held the last two weeks). Here are nine smb3 patches including an important patch for debugging traces with wireshark, with three patches marked for stable. Additional fixes from last week to better handle some newly discovered reparse points, and a fix the create/mkdir path for setting the mode more atomically (in SMB3 Create security descriptor context), and one for path name processing are still being tested so are not included here" * tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Fix oplock handling for SMB 2.1+ protocols smb3: missing ACL related flags smb3: pass mode bits into create calls smb3: Add missing reparse tags CIFS: fix max ea value size fs/cifs/sess.c: Remove set but not used variable 'capabilities' fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Make SMB2_notify_init static smb3: fix leak in "open on server" perf counter smb3: allow decryption keys to be dumped by admin for debugging
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Mao Han authored
The csky_pmu.max_period has type u64, and BIT() can only return 32 bits unsigned long on C-SKY. The initialization for max_period will be incorrect when count_width is bigger than 32. Use BIT_ULL() Signed-off-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
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Guo Ren authored
We need set fp zero to let backtrace know the end. The patch fixup perf callchain panic problem, because backtrace didn't know what is the end of fp. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Reported-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
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Mike Rapoport authored
The csky implementation of free_initrd_mem() is an open-coded version of free_reserved_area() without poisoning. Remove it and make csky use the generic version of free_initrd_mem(). Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge active entropy generation updates. This is admittedly partly "for discussion". We need to have a way forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is entirely idle just waiting for something to happen. While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want to block for sufficient amounts of entropy. The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing. This is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of reasonably complex loads. We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this should be at least a reasonable starting point. As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external entropy. * getrandom() active entropy waiting: Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"" random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 72dbcf72. Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be reverted. So revert the revert. Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
For 5.3 we had to revert a nice ext4 IO pattern improvement, because it caused a bootup regression due to lack of entropy at bootup together with arguably broken user space that was asking for secure random numbers when it really didn't need to. See commit 72dbcf72 (Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"). This aims to solve the issue by actively generating entropy noise using the CPU cycle counter when waiting for the random number generator to initialize. This only works when you have a high-frequency time stamp counter available, but that's the case on all modern x86 CPU's, and on most other modern CPU's too. What we do is to generate jitter entropy from the CPU cycle counter under a somewhat complex load: calling the scheduler while also guaranteeing a certain amount of timing noise by also triggering a timer. I'm sure we can tweak this, and that people will want to look at other alternatives, but there's been a number of papers written on jitter entropy, and this should really be fairly conservative by crediting one bit of entropy for every timer-induced jump in the cycle counter. Not because the timer itself would be all that unpredictable, but because the interaction between the timer and the loop is going to be. Even if (and perhaps particularly if) the timer actually happens on another CPU, the cacheline interaction between the loop that reads the cycle counter and the timer itself firing is going to add perturbations to the cycle counter values that get mixed into the entropy pool. As Thomas pointed out, with a modern out-of-order CPU, even quite simple loops show a fair amount of hard-to-predict timing variability even in the absense of external interrupts. But this tries to take that further by actually having a fairly complex interaction. This is not going to solve the entropy issue for architectures that have no CPU cycle counter, but it's not clear how (and if) that is solvable, and the hardware in question is largely starting to be irrelevant. And by doing this we can at least avoid some of the even more contentious approaches (like making the entropy waiting time out in order to avoid the possibly unbounded waiting). Cc: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@opentech.at> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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