MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS first became available on Westmere Xeon.
It is implemented in all Sandy Bridge processors -- mobile, desktop and server.
It is expected to become increasingly important in subsequent generations.

x86_energy_perf_policy is a user-space utility to set the
hardware energy vs performance policy hint in the processor.
Most systems would benefit from "x86_energy_perf_policy normal"
at system startup, as the hardware default is maximum performance
at the expense of energy efficiency.

See x86_energy_perf_policy.8 man page for more information.

Background:

Linux-2.6.36 added "epb" to /proc/cpuinfo to indicate
if an x86 processor supports MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS,
without actually modifying the MSR.

In March, 2010, Venkatesh Pallipadi proposed a small driver
that programmed MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, based on
the cpufreq governor in use.  It also offered
a boot-time cmdline option to override.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/4/457
But hiding the hardware policy behind the
governor choice was deemed "kinda icky".

In June, 2010, I proposed a generic user/kernel API to
generalize the power/performance policy trade-off.
"RFC: /sys/power/policy_preference"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/16/399
That is my preference for implementing this capability,
but I received no support on the list.

So in September, 2010, I sent x86_energy_perf_policy.c to LKML,
a user-space utility that scribbles directly to the MSR.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/246

Here is that same utility, after responding to some review feedback,
to live in tools/power/, where it is easily found.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls.
  MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.
  SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
  MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file.
  MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.

If the host is slow in reading data or doesn't read data at all,
blocking write calls not only blocked the program that called write()
but the entire guest itself.

To overcome this, let's not block till the host signals it has given
back the virtio ring element we passed it.  Instead, send the buffer to
the host and return to userspace.  This operation then becomes similar
to how non-blocking writes work, so let's use the existing code for this
path as well.

This code change also ensures blocking write calls do get blocked if
there's not enough room in the virtio ring as well as they don't return
-EAGAIN to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] bsg: fix incorrect device_status value
  [SCSI] Fix VPD inquiry page wrapper

* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
  KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt

[Ralf: Michel's original patch only fixed N32; I replicated the same fix
for O32.]
Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau@windriver.com>
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

IOC3 is also being used on SGI MIPS systems but this particular driver is
only being used on IA64 systems so linux-mips made no sense as a list.  Pat
also thinks linux-serial@vger.kernel.org is the better list.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@

ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
  return ret;
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1704/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

The platform specific files should be included via the platform-y
variable.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1719/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

When running make clean, Kbuild doesn't process the .config file, so nothing
generates a platform-y variable.  We can get it to descend into the platform
directories by setting $(obj-).

The dec Platform file was unconditionally setting platform-, obliterating
its previous contents and preventing some directories from being cleaned.
This is change to an append operation '+=' to allow cavium-octeon to be
cleaned.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1718/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm/radeon/kms: avivo cursor workaround applies to evergreen as well

kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment
descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading
them.

Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead
of home grown unsafe versions.

This is CVE-2010-3698.

KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
  MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h
  MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
  MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers
  MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack
  MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
  MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.
  MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: evdev - fix EVIOCSABS regression
  Input: evdev - fix Ooops in EVIOCGABS/EVIOCSABS

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: ohci: fix TI TSB82AA2 regression since 2.6.35

This patch reverts the driver to enabling/disabling the NFC interrupt
mask rather than enabling/disabling the system interrupt.  This cleans
up the driver so that it doesn't rely on interrupts being disabled
within the interrupt handler.

For i.MX21 we keep the current behaviour, that is calling
enable_irq/disable_irq_nosync to enable/disable interrupts.  This patch
is based on earlier work by John Ogness.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

* 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux:
  i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to complete
  i2c-davinci: Fix TX setup for more SoCs

* fixes:
  v4l1: fix 32-bit compat microcode loading translation
  De-pessimize rds_page_copy_user

Add ISA_DMA_API config item and select it when GENERIC_ISA_DMA enabled.
This fixes build failure on allmodconfig like following:

  CC      sound/isa/es18xx.o
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback1_prepare':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:501:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_program'
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback_pointer':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:818:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_pointer'
make[3]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1717/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

  CC      security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o
In file included from linux/include/linux/fcntl.h:4:0,
                 from linux/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c:18:
linux/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h:63:2: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'off_t'
make[3]: *** [security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1715/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

[Ralf: I changed the patch to explicitly list all files to be deleted out
of paranoia.]
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1590/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

o32 compat does the right thing, native and n32 compat do not...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1700/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

We want EFAULT, not -<syscall number>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1699/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Put the original syscall number into ->regs[0] when we leave syscall
with error.  Use it in restart logics.  Everything else will have
it 0 since we pass through SAVE_SOME on all the ways in.  Note that
in places like bad_stack and inllegal_syscall we leave it 0 - it's not
restartable.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1698/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

As it is, audit_syscall_entry() and secure_computing() get the
bogus value (0, in fact)
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1697/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1696/Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

448cd166 ("Input: evdev - rearrange ioctl handling") broke EVIOCSABS by
checking for the wrong direction bit.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Tested-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

This fixes a regression introduced by the dynamic allocation of absinfo
for input devices. We need to bail out early for input devices which
don't have absolute axis.

[  929.664303] Pid: 2989, comm: input Not tainted 2.6.36-rc8+ #14 MS-7260/MS-7260
[  929.664318] EIP: 0060:[<c12bdc01>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[  929.664331] EIP is at evdev_ioctl+0x4f8/0x59f
[  929.664341] EAX: 00000040 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000006 EDX: f45a1efc
[  929.664355] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f45a1efc EBP: f45a1f24 ESP: f45a1eb8
[  929.664369]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  929.664402]  f470da74 f6a30e78 f462c240 00000018 bfe4a260 00000000 f45b06fc 00000000
[  929.664429] <0> 000000c4 b769d000 c3544620 f470da74 f45b06fc f45b06fc f45a1f38 c107dd1f
[  929.664458] <0> f4710b74 000000c4 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000029d 00000a74 f4710b74
[  929.664500]  [<c107dd1f>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2be/0x59a
[  929.664513]  [<c12bd709>] ? evdev_ioctl+0x0/0x59f
[  929.664524]  [<c1099d30>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x494/0x4d9
[  929.664538]  [<c10432a1>] ? up_read+0x16/0x29
[  929.664550]  [<c101c818>] ? do_page_fault+0x2ff/0x32d
[  929.664564]  [<c108d048>] ? do_sys_open+0xc5/0xcf
[  929.664575]  [<c1099db6>] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x61
[  929.664587]  [<c1002710>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
[  929.684570] ---[ end trace 11b83e923bd8f2bb ]---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>

The i2c_imx_trx_complete() function is using
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() to wait for the I2C controller to
signal that it has completed an I2C bus operation. If the process that
causes the I2C operation receives a signal, the wait will be
interrupted, returning an error. It is better to let the I2C operation
finished before handling the signal (i.e. returning into userspace).

It is safe to use wait_event_timeout() instead, because the timeout
will allow the process to exit if the I2C bus hangs. It's also better
to allow the I2C operation to finish, because unacknowledged I2C
operations can cause the I2C bus to hang.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

This patch is an improvement to 4bba0fd8
which got to mainline a little early.

Sudhakar Rajashekhara explains that at least OMAP-L138 requires MDR mode
settings before DXR for correct behaviour, so load MDR first with
STT cleared and later load again with STT set.

Tested on DM355 connected to Techwell TW2836 and Wolfson WM8985
Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk>
Acked-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com>
Tested-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>

Fixes cursor corruption in certain cases.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

* 'fix/misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: rawmidi: fix oops (use after free) when unloading a driver module

Revert commit 54672386
"firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips".
It caused massive slow-down and data corruption with a TSB82AA2 based
StarTech EC1394B2 ExpressCard and FireWire 800 harddisks.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/657081
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/4013

The fact that some card EEPROMs do not program these enhancements may be
related to TSB81BA3 phy chip errata, if not to bugs of TSB82AA2 itself.
We could re-add these configuration steps, but only conditional on a
whitelist of cards on which these enhancements bring a proven positive
effect.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Shattow <lucent@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>

When a driver module is unloaded and the last still open file is a raw
MIDI device, the card and its devices will be actually freed in the
snd_card_file_remove() call when that file is closed.  Afterwards, rmidi
and rmidi->card point into freed memory, so the module pointer is likely
to be garbage.
(This was introduced by commit 9a1b64ca.)
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Reported-by: Krzysztof Foltman <wdev@foltman.com>
Cc: 2.6.30-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

Fixes build for me... these are what's tested in byteorder.h...
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al "my fuckup" Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Commit a7f8388e accidentally removed it... Al explains:

  "Sorry, reordering breakage.  In the signals tree here I have

   static inline void sig_set_blocked(struct sigset_t *set)
   ...

   and it's used all over the place (including quite a few places where
   we currently have sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, set, NULL), which is what
   it's equivalent to).  With that done, m32r doesn't use _BLOCKABLE
   anywhere, so it got removed.  And that chunk got picked when I'd been
   reordering the queue to pull the arch-specific fixes in front.
   Sorry."
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We currently have a kernel internal type called aligned_u64 which aligns
__u64's on 8 bytes boundaries even on systems which would normally align
them on 4 byte boundaries.  This patch creates a new type __aligned_u64
which does the same thing but which is exposed to userspace rather than
being kernel internal.

[akpm: merge early as both the net and audit trees want this]

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64.  Via Andreas and Andi.]
Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>