- 23 Mar, 2011 40 commits
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Mike Frysinger authored
Analog Devices' SigmaStudio can produce firmware blobs for devices with these DSPs embedded (like some audio codecs). Allow these device drivers to easily parse and load them. Signed-off-by:
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
1. simple_strto*() do not contain overflow checks and crufty, libc way to indicate failure. 2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and comments pretend they do. 3. Both families have only "long long" and "long" variants, but users want strtou8() 4. Both "simple" and "strict" prefixes are wrong: Simple doesn't exactly say what's so simple, strict should not exist because conversion should be strict by default. The solution is to use "k" prefix and add convertors for more types. Enter kstrtoull() kstrtoll() kstrtoul() kstrtol() kstrtouint() kstrtoint() kstrtou64() kstrtos64() kstrtou32() kstrtos32() kstrtou16() kstrtos16() kstrtou8() kstrtos8() Include runtime testsuite (somewhat incomplete) as well. strict_strto*() become deprecated, stubbed to kstrto*() and eventually will be removed altogether. Use kstrto*() in code today! Note: on some archs _kstrtoul() and _kstrtol() are left in tree, even if they'll be unused at runtime. This is temporarily solution, because I don't want to hardcode list of archs where these functions aren't needed. Current solution with sizeof() and __alignof__ at least always works. Signed-off-by:Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kenneth Heitke authored
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Kenneth Heitke <kheitke@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 5b2e303f ("[media] rc-core: convert winbond-cir") moved the files, update the pattern. Signed-off-by:
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Acked-by:
David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu> Acked-by:
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
And set the status to Orphan. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 937f961a ("x86: Move sfi to platform") moved the files, update the pattern. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 82e6923e ("ARM: lh7a40x: remove unmaintained platform support") removed support, remove it from MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 3b3da9d2 ("x86: Move scx200 to platform") moved it, convert the pattern too. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Commit 88606e80 ("MAINTAINERS: Update timer related entries") added a file pattern that didn't actually exist. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
commit 66fa12c5 ("ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack") removed the code, remove the MAINTAINERS entry. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Commit 52b66144 ("[media] rc: Rename remote controller type to rc_type instead of ir_type") moved it around. Signed-off-by:
Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Commit 6d803ba7 ("ARM: 6483/1: arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c") moved it to a separate directory. Signed-off-by:
Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
CC'ing lkml is the default and doesn't need separate entries. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
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Joe Perches authored
Remove these patterns until such files are actually in the tree. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
wiki-analog doesn't seem to work, but wiki.analog does. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Typo in path. Signed-off-by:
Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Add quotes around email address with periods and commas. So they don't explode when pasted into certain email clients. Signed-off-by:
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Harry Wei authored
At least one tree: ARM/EZX SMARTPHONES (A780, A910, A1200, E680, ROKR E2 and ROKR E6) is available via topgit. Add mention of topgit in the MAINTAINERS description section. Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
Extend the usage of the K section in the MAINTAINERS file to support matching regular expressions to any arbitrary text that may precede the patch itself. For example, the commit message or mail headers generated by git-format-patch. Signed-off-by:
L. Alberto Giménez <agimenez@sysvalve.es> Acked-by:
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Mandeep Singh Baines authored
We've been burned by regressions/bugs which we later realized could have been triaged quicker if only we'd paid closer attention to dmesg. To make it easier to audit dmesg, we'd like to make DEFAULT_MESSAGE_LEVEL Kconfig-settable. That way we can set it to KERN_NOTICE and audit any messages <= KERN_WARNING. Signed-off-by:
Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@chromium.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by:
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Kees Cook authored
In an effort to reduce kernel address leaks that might be used to help target kernel privilege escalation exploits, this patch uses %pK when displaying addresses in /proc/kallsyms, /proc/modules, and /sys/module/*/sections/*. Note that this changes %x to %p, so some legitimately 0 values in /proc/kallsyms would have changed from 00000000 to "(null)". To avoid this, "(null)" is not used when using the "K" format. Anything that was already successfully parsing "(null)" in addition to full hex digits should have no problem with this change. (Thanks to Joe Perches for the suggestion.) Due to the %x to %p, "void *" casts are needed since these addresses are already "unsigned long" everywhere internally, due to their starting life as ELF section offsets. Signed-off-by:
Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> Cc: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com> Cc: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by:
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Feng Tang authored
For a platform with many consoles like: "console=tty1 console=ttyMFD2 console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=mrst" Each time when the non "selected_console" (tty1 and ttyMFD2 here) get registered, the existing kernel message will be printed out on registered consoles again, the "mrst" early console will get some same message for 3 times, and "tty1" will get some for twice. As suggested by Andrew Morton, every time a new console is registered, it will be set as the "exclusive" console which will dump the already existing kernel messages. Signed-off-by:
Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by:
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Fabio M. Di Nitto authored
On some architectures, the boot process involves de-registering the boot console (early boot), initialize drivers and then re-register the console. This mechanism introduces a window in which no printk can happen on the console and messages are buffered and then printed once the new console is available. If a kernel crashes during this window, all it's left on the boot console is "console [foo] enabled, bootconsole disabled" making debug of the crash rather 'interesting'. By adding "keep_bootcon" option, do not unregister the boot console, that will allow to printk everything that is happening up to the crash. The option is clearly meant only for debugging purposes as it introduces lots of duplicated info printed on console, but will make bug report from users easier as it doesn't require a kernel build just to figure out where we crash. Signed-off-by:
Fabio M. Di Nitto <fabbione@fabbione.net> Acked-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Joe Perches authored
If kptr restrictions are on, just set the passed pointer to NULL. $ size lib/vsprintf.o.* text data bss dec hex filename 8247 4 2 8253 203d lib/vsprintf.o.new 8282 4 2 8288 2060 lib/vsprintf.o.old Signed-off-by:
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Kirill A. Shutemov authored
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Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
This patch addresses a couple of problems. One was the case when the hardlockup failed to start, it also failed to start the softlockup. There were valid cases when the hardlockup shouldn't start and that shouldn't block the softlockup (no lapic, bios controls perf counters). The second problem was when the hardlockup failed to start on boxes (from a no lapic or bios controlled perf counter case), it reported failure to the cpu notifier chain. This blocked the notifier from continuing to start other more critical pieces of cpu bring-up (in our case based on a 2.6.32 fork, it was the mce). As a result, during soft cpu online/offline testing, the system would panic when a cpu was offlined because the cpu notifier would succeed in processing a watchdog disable cpu event and would panic in the mce case as a result of un-initialized variables from a never executed cpu up event. I realized the hardlockup/softlockup cases are really just debugging aids and should never impede the progress of a cpu up/down event. Therefore I modified the code to always return NOTIFY_OK and instead rely on printks to inform the user of problems. Signed-off-by:
Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by:
WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Don Zickus authored
When a cpu is considered stuck, instead of limping along and just printing a warning, it is sometimes preferred to just panic, let kdump capture the vmcore and reboot. This gets the machine back into a stable state quickly while saving the info that got it into a stuck state to begin with. Add a Kconfig option to allow users to set the hardlockup to panic by default. Also add in a 'nmi_watchdog=nopanic' to override this. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix strncmp length] Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
Systems with unmaskable interrupts such as SMIs may massively underestimate loops_per_jiffy, and fail to converge anywhere near the real value. A case seen on x86_64 was an initial estimate of 256<<12, which converged to 511<<12 where the real value should have been over 630<<12. This admitedly requires bypassing the TSC calibration (lpj_fine), and a failure to settle in the direct calibration too, but is physically possible. This failure does not depend on my previous calibration optimisation, but by luck is easy to fix with the optimisation in place with a trivial retry loop. In the context of the optimised converging method, as we can no longer trust the starting estimate, enlarge the search bounds exponentially so that the number of retries is logarithmically bounded. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: mention x86_64 SMIs in comment] Signed-off-by:
Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Tested-by:
Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
Binary chop with a jiffy-resync on each step to find an upper bound is slow, so just race in a tight-ish loop to find an underestimate. If done with lots of individual steps, sometimes several hundreds of iterations would be required, which would impose a significant overhead, and make the initial estimate very low. By taking slowly increasing steps there will be less overhead. E.g. an x86_64 2.67GHz could have fitted in 613 individual small delays, but in reality should have been able to fit in a single delay 644 times longer, so underestimated by 31 steps. To reach the equivalent of 644 small delays with the accelerating scheme now requires about 130 iterations, so has <1/4th of the overhead, and can therefore be expected to underestimate by only 7 steps. As now we have a better initial estimate we can binary chop over a smaller range. With the loop overhead in the initial estimate kept low, and the step sizes moderate, we won't have under-estimated by much, so chose as tight a range as we can. Signed-off-by:
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Phil Carmody authored
The motivation for this patch series is that currently our OMAP calibrates itself using the trial-and-error binary chop fallback that some other architectures no longer need to perform. This is a lengthy process, taking 0.2s in an environment where boot time is of great interest. Patch 2/4 has two optimisations. Firstly, it replaces the initial repeated- doubling to find the relevant power of 2 with a tight loop that just does as much as it can in a jiffy. Secondly, it doesn't binary chop over an entire power of 2 range, it choses a much smaller range based on how much it squeezed in, and failed to squeeze in, during the first stage. Both are significant optimisations, and bring our calibration down from 23 jiffies to 5, and, in the process, often arrive at a more accurate lpj value. The 'bands' and 'sub-logarithmic' growth may look over-engineered, but they only cost a small level of inaccuracy in the initial guess (for all architectures) in order to avoid the very large inaccuracies that appeared during testing (on x86_64 architectures, and presumably others with less metronomic operation). Note that due to the existence of the TSC and other timers, the x86_64 will not typically use this fallback routine, but I wanted to code defensively, able to cope with all kinds of processor behaviours and kernel command line options. Patch 3/4 is an additional trap for the nightmare scenario where the initial estimate is very inaccurate, possibly due to things like SMIs. It simply retries with a larger bound. Stephen said: I tried this patch set out on an MSM7630. : : Before: : : Calibrating delay loop... 681.57 BogoMIPS (lpj=3407872) : : After: : : Calibrating delay loop... 680.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=3403776) : : But the really good news is calibration time dropped from ~247ms to ~56ms. : Sadly we won't be able to benefit from this should my udelay patches make : it into ARM because we would be using calibrate_delay_direct() instead (at : least on machines who choose to). Can we somehow reapply the logic behind : this to calibrate_delay_direct()? That would be even better, but this is : definitely a boot time improvement. : : Or maybe we could just replace calibrate_delay_direct() with this fallback : calculation? If __delay() is a thin wrapper around read_current_timer() : it should work just as well (plus patch 3 makes it handle SMIs). I'll try : that out. This patch: ... so that it can be modified more clinically. This is almost entirely cosmetic. The only change to the operation is that the global variable is only set once after the estimation is completed, rather than taking on all the intermediate values. However, there are no readers of that variable, so this change is unimportant. Signed-off-by:
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Oleg Nesterov authored
Cleanup: kill the dead code which does nothing but complicates the code and confuses the reader. sys_unshare(CLONE_THREAD/SIGHAND/VM) is not really implemented, and I doubt very much it will ever work. At least, nobody even tried since the original 99d1419d ("unshare system call -v5: system call handler function") was applied more than 4 years ago. And the code is not consistent. unshare_thread() always fails unconditionally, while unshare_sighand() and unshare_vm() pretend to work if there is nothing to unshare. Remove unshare_thread(), unshare_sighand(), unshare_vm() helpers and related variables and add a simple CLONE_THREAD | CLONE_SIGHAND| CLONE_VM check into check_unshare_flags(). Also, move the "CLONE_NEWNS needs CLONE_FS" check from check_unshare_flags() to sys_unshare(). This looks more consistent and matches the similar do_sysvsem check in sys_unshare(). Note: with or without this patch "atomic_read(mm->mm_users) > 1" can give a false positive due to get_task_mm(). Signed-off-by:
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by:
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Janak Desai <janak@us.ibm.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by:
Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com> Signed-off-by:
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Michael Rodriguez authored
Change the printk() calls to have the KERN_INFO/KERN_ERROR stuff, and fixes other coding style errors. Not _all_ of them are gone, though. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: revert the bits I disagree with] Signed-off-by:
Michael Rodriguez <dkingston02@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Amerigo Wang authored
Move setup_nr_cpu_ids(), smp_init() and some other SMP boot parameter setup functions from init/main.c to kenrel/smp.c, saves some #ifdef CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by:
WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Uwe Kleine-König authored
PTR_RET() can be used if you have an error-pointer and are only interested in the eventual error value, but not the pointer. Yields the usual 0 for no error, -ESOMETHING otherwise. Signed-off-by:
Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
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Olaf Hering authored
The oops=panic cmdline option is not x86 specific, move it to generic code. Update documentation. Signed-off-by:
Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
The device table is required to load modules based on modaliases. Signed-off-by:
Axel Lin <axel.lin@gmail.com> Cc: Masayuki Ohtak <masa-korg@dsn.okisemi.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by:
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Vasiliy Kulikov authored
Don't allow everybody to change device settings. Signed-off-by:
Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by:
Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com> Cc: Matthieu Crapet <mcrapet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
request_mem_region() will call kzalloc to allocate memory for struct resource. release_resource() unregisters the resource but does not free the allocated memory, thus use release_mem_region() instead to fix the memory leak. Signed-off-by:
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Axel Lin authored
i2c_master_recv() returns negative errno, or else the number of bytes read. Thus i2c_master_recv(client, i2c_data, 2) returns 2 instead of 1 in success case. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: make `ret' signed] Signed-off-by:
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