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A user on StackExchange had a failing SSD that's soldered directly
onto the motherboard of his system. The BIOS does not give any option
to disable it at all, so he can't just hide it from the OS via the
BIOS.
The old IDE layer had hdX=noprobe override for situations like this,
but that was never ported to the libata layer.
This patch implements a disable flag for libata.force.
Example use:
libata.force=2.0:disable
[v2 of the patch, removed the nodisable flag per Tejun Heo]
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/102648/how-to-tell-linux-kernel-3-0-to-completely-ignore-a-failing-disk
Link: http://askubuntu.com/questions/352836/how-can-i-tell-linux-kernel-to-completely-ignore-a-disk-as-if-it-was-not-even-co
Link: http://superuser.com/questions/599333/how-to-disable-kernel-probing-for-drive
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this patchset, we finally get an SELinux update, with Paul Moore
taking over as maintainer of that code.
Also a significant update for the Keys subsystem, as well as
maintenance updates to Smack, IMA, TPM, and Apparmor"
and since I wanted to know more about the updates to key handling,
here's the explanation from David Howells on that:
"Okay. There are a number of separate bits. I'll go over the big bits
and the odd important other bit, most of the smaller bits are just
fixes and cleanups. If you want the small bits accounting for, I can
do that too.
(1) Keyring capacity expansion.
KEYS: Consolidate the concept of an 'index key' for key access
KEYS: Introduce a search context structure
KEYS: Search for auth-key by name rather than target key ID
Add a generic associative array implementation.
KEYS: Expand the capacity of a keyring
Several of the patches are providing an expansion of the capacity of a
keyring. Currently, the maximum size of a keyring payload is one page.
Subtract a small header and then divide up into pointers, that only gives
you ~500 pointers on an x86_64 box. However, since the NFS idmapper uses
a keyring to store ID mapping data, that has proven to be insufficient to
the cause.
Whatever data structure I use to handle the keyring payload, it can only
store pointers to keys, not the keys themselves because several keyrings
may point to a single key. This precludes inserting, say, and rb_node
struct into the key struct for this purpose.
I could make an rbtree of records such that each record has an rb_node
and a key pointer, but that would use four words of space per key stored
in the keyring. It would, however, be able to use much existing code.
I selected instead a non-rebalancing radix-tree type approach as that
could have a better space-used/key-pointer ratio. I could have used the
radix tree implementation that we already have and insert keys into it by
their serial numbers, but that means any sort of search must iterate over
the whole radix tree. Further, its nodes are a bit on the capacious side
for what I want - especially given that key serial numbers are randomly
allocated, thus leaving a lot of empty space in the tree.
So what I have is an associative array that internally is a radix-tree
with 16 pointers per node where the index key is constructed from the key
type pointer and the key description. This means that an exact lookup by
type+description is very fast as this tells us how to navigate directly to
the target key.
I made the data structure general in lib/assoc_array.c as far as it is
concerned, its index key is just a sequence of bits that leads to a
pointer. It's possible that someone else will be able to make use of it
also. FS-Cache might, for example.
(2) Mark keys as 'trusted' and keyrings as 'trusted only'.
KEYS: verify a certificate is signed by a 'trusted' key
KEYS: Make the system 'trusted' keyring viewable by userspace
KEYS: Add a 'trusted' flag and a 'trusted only' flag
KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing
These patches allow keys carrying asymmetric public keys to be marked as
being 'trusted' and allow keyrings to be marked as only permitting the
addition or linkage of trusted keys.
Keys loaded from hardware during kernel boot or compiled into the kernel
during build are marked as being trusted automatically. New keys can be
loaded at runtime with add_key(). They are checked against the system
keyring contents and if their signatures can be validated with keys that
are already marked trusted, then they are marked trusted also and can
thus be added into the master keyring.
Patches from Mimi Zohar make this usable with the IMA keyrings also.
(3) Remove the date checks on the key used to validate a module signature.
X.509: Remove certificate date checks
It's not reasonable to reject a signature just because the key that it was
generated with is no longer valid datewise - especially if the kernel
hasn't yet managed to set the system clock when the first module is
loaded - so just remove those checks.
(4) Make it simpler to deal with additional X.509 being loaded into the kernel.
KEYS: Load *.x509 files into kernel keyring
KEYS: Have make canonicalise the paths of the X.509 certs better to deduplicate
The builder of the kernel now just places files with the extension ".x509"
into the kernel source or build trees and they're concatenated by the
kernel build and stuffed into the appropriate section.
(5) Add support for userspace kerberos to use keyrings.
KEYS: Add per-user_namespace registers for persistent per-UID kerberos caches
KEYS: Implement a big key type that can save to tmpfs
Fedora went to, by default, storing kerberos tickets and tokens in tmpfs.
We looked at storing it in keyrings instead as that confers certain
advantages such as tickets being automatically deleted after a certain
amount of time and the ability for the kernel to get at these tokens more
easily.
To make this work, two things were needed:
(a) A way for the tickets to persist beyond the lifetime of all a user's
sessions so that cron-driven processes can still use them.
The problem is that a user's session keyrings are deleted when the
session that spawned them logs out and the user's user keyring is
deleted when the UID is deleted (typically when the last log out
happens), so neither of these places is suitable.
I've added a system keyring into which a 'persistent' keyring is
created for each UID on request. Each time a user requests their
persistent keyring, the expiry time on it is set anew. If the user
doesn't ask for it for, say, three days, the keyring is automatically
expired and garbage collected using the existing gc. All the kerberos
tokens it held are then also gc'd.
(b) A key type that can hold really big tickets (up to 1MB in size).
The problem is that Active Directory can return huge tickets with lots
of auxiliary data attached. We don't, however, want to eat up huge
tracts of unswappable kernel space for this, so if the ticket is
greater than a certain size, we create a swappable shmem file and dump
the contents in there and just live with the fact we then have an
inode and a dentry overhead. If the ticket is smaller than that, we
slap it in a kmalloc()'d buffer"
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (121 commits)
KEYS: Fix keyring content gc scanner
KEYS: Fix error handling in big_key instantiation
KEYS: Fix UID check in keyctl_get_persistent()
KEYS: The RSA public key algorithm needs to select MPILIB
ima: define '_ima' as a builtin 'trusted' keyring
ima: extend the measurement list to include the file signature
kernel/system_certificate.S: use real contents instead of macro GLOBAL()
KEYS: fix error return code in big_key_instantiate()
KEYS: Fix keyring quota misaccounting on key replacement and unlink
KEYS: Fix a race between negating a key and reading the error set
KEYS: Make BIG_KEYS boolean
apparmor: remove the "task" arg from may_change_ptraced_domain()
apparmor: remove parent task info from audit logging
apparmor: remove tsk field from the apparmor_audit_struct
apparmor: fix capability to not use the current task, during reporting
Smack: Ptrace access check mode
ima: provide hash algo info in the xattr
ima: enable support for larger default filedata hash algorithms
ima: define kernel parameter 'ima_template=' to change configured default
ima: add Kconfig default measurement list template
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The CONFIG_HPET_MMAP Kconfig option exposes the memory map of the HPET
registers to userspace. The Kconfig help points out that in some cases
this can be a security risk as some systems may erroneously configure the
map such that additional data is exposed to userspace.
This is a problem for distributions -- some users want the MMAP
functionality but it comes with a significant security risk. In an effort
to mitigate this risk, and due to the low number of users of the MMAP
functionality, I've introduced a kernel parameter, hpet_mmap_enable, that
is required in order to actually have the HPET MMAP exposed.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Matt Wilson <msw@amazon.com>
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The hot-Pluggable field in SRAT specifies which memory is hotpluggable.
As we mentioned before, if hotpluggable memory is used by the kernel, it
cannot be hot-removed. So memory hotplug users may want to set all
hotpluggable memory in ZONE_MOVABLE so that the kernel won't use it.
Memory hotplug users may also set a node as movable node, which has
ZONE_MOVABLE only, so that the whole node can be hot-removed.
But the kernel cannot use memory in ZONE_MOVABLE. By doing this, the
kernel cannot use memory in movable nodes. This will cause NUMA
performance down. And other users may be unhappy.
So we need a way to allow users to enable and disable this functionality.
In this patch, we introduce movable_node boot option to allow users to
choose to not to consume hotpluggable memory at early boot time and later
we can set it as ZONE_MOVABLE.
To achieve this, the movable_node boot option will control the memblock
allocation direction. That said, after memblock is ready, before SRAT is
parsed, we should allocate memory near the kernel image as we explained in
the previous patches. So if movable_node boot option is set, the kernel
does the following:
1. After memblock is ready, make memblock allocate memory bottom up.
2. After SRAT is parsed, make memblock behave as default, allocate memory
top down.
Users can specify "movable_node" in kernel commandline to enable this
functionality. For those who don't use memory hotplug or who don't want
to lose their NUMA performance, just don't specify anything. The kernel
will work as before.
Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Kamezawa Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@hp.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <liwanp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiang Liu <jiang.liu@huawei.com>
Cc: Wen Congyang <wency@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasuaki Ishimatsu <isimatu.yasuaki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Taku Izumi <izumi.taku@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/intel-mid changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Update the 'intel mid' (mobile internet device) platform code as Intel
is rolling out more SoC designs.
This gets rid of most of the 'MRST' platform code in the process,
mostly by renaming and shuffling code around into their respective
'intel-mid' platform drivers"
* 'x86-intel-mid-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, intel-mid: Do not re-introduce usage of obsolete __cpuinit
intel_mid: Move platform device setups to their own platform_<device>.* files
x86: intel-mid: Add section for sfi device table
intel-mid: sfi: Allow struct devs_id.get_platform_data to be NULL
intel_mid: Moved SFI related code to sfi.c
intel_mid: Added custom handler for ipc devices
intel_mid: Added custom device_handler support
intel_mid: Refactored sfi_parse_devs() function
intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*
pci: intel_mid: Return true/false in function returning bool
intel_mid: Renamed *mrst* to *intel_mid*
mrst: Fixed indentation issues
mrst: Fixed printk/pr_* related issues
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Main changes:
- Add support for earlyprintk=efi which uses the EFI framebuffer.
Very useful for debugging boot problems.
- EFI stub support for large memory maps (more than 128 entries)
- EFI ARM support - this was mostly done by generalizing x86 <-> ARM
platform differences, such as by moving x86 EFI code into
drivers/firmware/efi/ and sharing it with ARM.
- Documentation updates
- misc fixes"
* 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
x86/efi: Add EFI framebuffer earlyprintk support
boot, efi: Remove redundant memset()
x86/efi: Fix config_table_type array termination
x86 efi: bugfix interrupt disabling sequence
x86: EFI stub support for large memory maps
efi: resolve warnings found on ARM compile
efi: Fix types in EFI calls to match EFI function definitions.
efi: Renames in handle_cmdline_files() to complete generalization.
efi: Generalize handle_ramdisks() and rename to handle_cmdline_files().
efi: Allow efi_free() to be called with size of 0
efi: use efi_get_memory_map() to get final map for x86
efi: generalize efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Rename __get_map() to efi_get_memory_map()
efi: Move unicode to ASCII conversion to shared function.
efi: Generalize relocate_kernel() for use by other architectures.
efi: Move relocate_kernel() to shared file.
efi: Enforce minimum alignment of 1 page on allocations.
efi: Rename memory allocation/free functions
efi: Add system table pointer argument to shared functions.
efi: Move common EFI stub code from x86 arch code to common location
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It's incredibly difficult to diagnose early EFI boot issues without
special hardware because earlyprintk=vga doesn't work on EFI systems.
Add support for writing to the EFI framebuffer, via earlyprintk=efi,
which will actually give users a chance of providing debug output.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
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The IMA measurement list contains two hashes - a template data hash
and a filedata hash. The template data hash is committed to the TPM,
which is limited, by the TPM v1.2 specification, to 20 bytes. The
filedata hash is defined as 20 bytes as well.
Now that support for variable length measurement list templates was
added, the filedata hash is not limited to 20 bytes. This patch adds
Kconfig support for defining larger default filedata hash algorithms
and replacing the builtin default with one specified on the kernel
command line.
<uapi/linux/hash_info.h> contains a list of hash algorithms. The
Kconfig default hash algorithm is a subset of this list, but any hash
algorithm included in the list can be specified at boot, using the
'ima_hash=' kernel command line option.
Changelog v2:
- update Kconfig
Changelog:
- support hashes that are configured
- use generic HASH_ALGO_ definitions
- add Kconfig support
- hash_setup must be called only once (Dmitry)
- removed trailing whitespaces (Roberto Sassu)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
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This patch allows users to specify from the kernel command line the
template descriptor, among those defined, that will be used to generate
and display measurement entries. If an user specifies a wrong template,
IMA reverts to the template descriptor set in the kernel configuration.
Signed-off-by: Roberto Sassu <roberto.sassu@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney.
Major changes:
" 1. Update RCU documentation. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1566994.
2. Miscellaneous fixes. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567027.
3. Grace-period-related changes, primarily to aid in debugging,
inspired by a -rt debugging session. These were posted to
LKML at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567076.
4. Idle entry/exit changes, primarily to address issues located
by Tibor Billes. These were posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1567096.
5. Code reorganization moving RCU's source files from kernel
to kernel/rcu. This was posted to LKML at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1577344."
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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mrst is used as common name to represent all intel_mid type
soc's. But moorsetwon is just one of the intel_mid soc. So
renamed them to use intel_mid.
This patch mainly renames the variables and related
functions that uses *mrst* prefix with *intel_mid*.
To ensure that there are no functional changes, I have compared
the objdump of related files before and after rename and found
the only difference is symbol and name changes.
Signed-off-by: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1382049336-21316-6-git-send-email-david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: David Cohen <david.a.cohen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Recently commit bab55417b10c ("block: support embedded device command
line partition") introduced CONFIG_CMDLINE_PARSER. However, that name
is too generic and sounds like it enables/disables generic kernel boot
arg processing, when it really is block specific.
Before this option becomes a part of a full/final release, add the BLK_
prefix to it so that it is clear in absence of any other context that it
is block specific.
In addition, fix up the following less critical items:
- help text was not really at all helpful.
- index file for Documentation was not updated
- add the new arg to Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- clarify wording in source comments
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Cai Zhiyong <caizhiyong@huawei.com>
Cc: Wei Yongjun <yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Han Pingtian found a typo in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt about
"kernelcore=", that "kernelcore" should be replaced with "Movable" here.
Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
"Bug-fixes and one update to the kernel-paramters.txt documentation.
- Fix PV spinlocks triggering jump_label code bug
- Remove extraneous code in the tpm front driver
- Fix ballooning out of pages when non-preemptible
- Fix deadlock when using a 32-bit initial domain with large amount
of memory
- Add xen_nopvpsin parameter to the documentation"
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.12-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/spinlock: Document the xen_nopvspin parameter.
xen/p2m: check MFN is in range before using the m2p table
xen/balloon: don't alloc page while non-preemptible
xen: Do not enable spinlocks before jump_label_init() has executed
tpm: xen-tpmfront: Remove the locality sysfs attribute
tpm: xen-tpmfront: Fix default durations
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Which disables in the ticketlock slowpath the Xen PV optimization's.
Useful for diagnosing issues and comparing benchmarks in
over-commit CPU scenarios.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
"Highlights include:
- Fix NFSv4 recovery so that it doesn't recover lost locks in cases
such as lease loss due to a network partition, where doing so may
result in data corruption. Add a kernel parameter to control
choice of legacy behaviour or not.
- Performance improvements when 2 processes are writing to the same
file.
- Flush data to disk when an RPCSEC_GSS session timeout is imminent.
- Implement NFSv4.1 SP4_MACH_CRED state protection to prevent other
NFS clients from being able to manipulate our lease and file
locking state.
- Allow sharing of RPCSEC_GSS caches between different rpc clients.
- Fix the broken NFSv4 security auto-negotiation between client and
server.
- Fix rmdir() to wait for outstanding sillyrename unlinks to complete
- Add a tracepoint framework for debugging NFSv4 state recovery
issues.
- Add tracing to the generic NFS layer.
- Add tracing for the SUNRPC socket connection state.
- Clean up the rpc_pipefs mount/umount event management.
- Merge more patches from Chuck in preparation for NFSv4 migration
support"
* tag 'nfs-for-3.12-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (107 commits)
NFSv4: use mach cred for SECINFO_NO_NAME w/ integrity
NFS: nfs_compare_super shouldn't check the auth flavour unless 'sec=' was set
NFSv4: Allow security autonegotiation for submounts
NFSv4: Disallow security negotiation for lookups when 'sec=' is specified
NFSv4: Fix security auto-negotiation
NFS: Clean up nfs_parse_security_flavors()
NFS: Clean up the auth flavour array mess
NFSv4.1 Use MDS auth flavor for data server connection
NFS: Don't check lock owner compatability unless file is locked (part 2)
NFS: Don't check lock owner compatibility in writes unless file is locked
nfs4: Map NFS4ERR_WRONG_CRED to EPERM
nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED write and commit support
nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED stateid support
nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED secinfo support
nfs4.1: Add SP4_MACH_CRED cleanup support
nfs4.1: Add state protection handler
nfs4.1: Minimal SP4_MACH_CRED implementation
SUNRPC: Replace pointer values with task->tk_pid and rpc_clnt->cl_clid
SUNRPC: Add an identifier for struct rpc_clnt
SUNRPC: Ensure rpc_task->tk_pid is available for tracepoints
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Rename the new 'recover_locks' kernel parameter to 'recover_lost_locks'
and change the default to 'false'. Document why in
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Move the 'recover_lost_locks' kernel parameter to fs/nfs/super.c to
make it easy to backport to kernels prior to 3.6.x, which don't have
a separate NFSv4 module.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
1) ACPI-based PCI hotplug (ACPIPHP) subsystem rework and introduction
of Intel Thunderbolt support on systems that use ACPI for signalling
Thunderbolt hotplug events. This also should make ACPIPHP work in
some cases in which it was known to have problems. From
Rafael J Wysocki, Mika Westerberg and Kirill A Shutemov.
2) ACPI core code cleanups and dock station support cleanups from
Jiang Liu and Rafael J Wysocki.
3) Fixes for locking problems related to ACPI device hotplug from
Rafael J Wysocki.
4) ACPICA update to version 20130725 includig fixes, cleanups, support
for more than 256 GPEs per GPE block and a change to make the ACPI
PM Timer optional (we've seen systems without the PM Timer in the
field already). One of the fixes, related to the DeRefOf operator,
is necessary to prevent some Windows 8 oriented AML from causing
problems to happen. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, and Jung-uk Kim.
5) Removal of the old and long deprecated /proc/acpi/event interface
and related driver changes from Thomas Renninger.
6) ACPI and Xen changes to make the reduced hardware sleep work with
the latter from Ben Guthro.
7) ACPI video driver cleanups and a blacklist of systems that should
not tell the BIOS that they are compatible with Windows 8 (or ACPI
backlight and possibly other things will not work on them). From
Felipe Contreras.
8) Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups from Aaron Lu, Hanjun Guo,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan, Lan Tianyu, Sachin Kamat, Tang Chen,
Toshi Kani, and Wei Yongjun.
9) cpufreq ondemand governor target frequency selection change to
reduce oscillations between min and max frequencies (essentially,
it causes the governor to choose target frequencies proportional
to load) from Stratos Karafotis.
10) cpufreq fixes allowing sysfs attributes file permissions to be
preserved over suspend/resume cycles Srivatsa S Bhat.
11) Removal of Device Tree parsing for CPU device nodes from multiple
cpufreq drivers that required some changes related to
of_get_cpu_node() to be made in a few architectures and in the
driver core. From Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
12) cpufreq core fixes and cleanups related to mutual exclusion and
driver module references from Viresh Kumar, Lukasz Majewski and
Rafael J Wysocki.
13) Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups from Amit Daniel Kachhap,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Hanjun Guo, Jingoo Han, Joseph Lo,
Julia Lawall, Li Zhong, Mark Brown, Sascha Hauer, Stephen Boyd,
Stratos Karafotis, and Viresh Kumar.
14) Fixes to prevent race conditions in coupled cpuidle from happening
from Colin Cross.
15) cpuidle core fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano and
Tuukka Tikkanen.
16) Assorted cpuidle fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano,
Geert Uytterhoeven, Jingoo Han, Julia Lawall, Linus Walleij,
and Sahara.
17) System sleep tracing changes from Todd E Brandt and Shuah Khan.
18) PNP subsystem conversion to using struct dev_pm_ops for power
management from Shuah Khan.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (217 commits)
cpufreq: Don't use smp_processor_id() in preemptible context
cpuidle: coupled: fix race condition between pokes and safe state
cpuidle: coupled: abort idle if pokes are pending
cpuidle: coupled: disable interrupts after entering safe state
ACPI / hotplug: Remove containers synchronously
driver core / ACPI: Avoid device hot remove locking issues
cpufreq: governor: Fix typos in comments
cpufreq: governors: Remove duplicate check of target freq in supported range
cpufreq: Fix timer/workqueue corruption due to double queueing
ACPI / EC: Add ASUSTEK L4R to quirk list in order to validate ECDT
ACPI / thermal: Add check of "_TZD" availability and evaluating result
cpufreq: imx6q: Fix clock enable balance
ACPI: blacklist win8 OSI for buggy laptops
cpufreq: tegra: fix the wrong clock name
cpuidle: Change struct menu_device field types
cpuidle: Add a comment warning about possible overflow
cpuidle: Fix variable domains in get_typical_interval()
cpuidle: Fix menu_device->intervals type
cpuidle: CodingStyle: Break up multiple assignments on single line
cpuidle: Check called function parameter in get_typical_interval()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty
Pull tty/serial driver patches from Greg KH:
"Here's the big tty/serial driver pull request for 3.12-rc1.
Lots of n_tty reworks to resolve some very long-standing issues,
removing the 3-4 different locks that were taken for every character.
This code has been beaten on for a long time in linux-next with no
reported regressions.
Other than that, a range of serial and tty driver updates and
revisions. Full details in the shortlog"
* tag 'tty-3.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (226 commits)
hvc_xen: Remove unnecessary __GFP_ZERO from kzalloc
serial: imx: initialize the local variable
tty: ar933x_uart: add device tree support and binding documentation
tty: ar933x_uart: allow to build the driver as a module
ARM: dts: msm: Update uartdm compatible strings
devicetree: serial: Document msm_serial bindings
serial: unify serial bindings into a single dir
serial: fsl-imx-uart: Cleanup duplicate device tree binding
tty: ar933x_uart: use config_enabled() macro to clean up ifdefs
tty: ar933x_uart: remove superfluous assignment of ar933x_uart_driver.nr
tty: ar933x_uart: use the clk API to get the uart clock
tty: serial: cpm_uart: Adding proper request of GPIO used by cpm_uart driver
serial: sirf: fix the amount of serial ports
serial: sirf: define macro for some magic numbers of USP
serial: icom: move array overflow checks earlier
TTY: amiserial, remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()
serial: st-asc: remove unnecessary platform_set_drvdata()
msm_serial: Send more than 1 character on the console w/ UARTDM
msm_serial: Add support for non-GSBI UARTDM devices
msm_serial: Switch clock consumer strings and simplify code
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* acpica:
ACPICA: Update version to 20130725.
ACPICA: Update names for walk_namespace callbacks to clarify usage.
ACPICA: Return error if DerefOf resolves to a null package element.
ACPICA: Make ACPI Power Management Timer (PM Timer) optional.
ACPICA: Fix divergences of the commit - ACPICA: Expose OSI version.
ACPICA: Fix possible fault for methods that optionally have no return value.
ACPICA: DeRefOf operator: Update to fully resolve FieldUnit and BufferField refs.
ACPICA: Emit all unresolved method externals in a text block
ACPICA: Export acpi_tb_validate_rsdp().
ACPI: Add facility to remove all _OSI strings
ACPI: Add facility to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings
ACPICA: Add acpi_update_interfaces() public interface
ACPICA: Update version to 20130626
ACPICA: Fix compiler warnings for casting issues (only some compilers)
ACPICA: Remove restriction of 256 maximum GPEs in any GPE block
ACPICA: Disassembler: Expand maximum output string length to 64K
ACPICA: TableManager: Export acpi_tb_scan_memory_for_rsdp()
ACPICA: Update comments about behavior when _STA does not exist
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The swapaccount kernel parameter without any values has been removed by
commit a2c8990aed5a ("memsw: remove noswapaccount kernel parameter") but
it seems that we didn't get rid of all the left overs.
Make sure that menuconfig help text and kernel-parameters.txt are clear
about value for the paramter and remove the stalled comment which is not
very much useful on its own.
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Gergely Risko <gergely@risko.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The virtual console has (undocumented) module parameters to set the
colors for italic and underlined text, but the default text color was
hardcoded for some reason. This made it impossible to change the color
for startup messages, or to set the default for new virtual consoles.
Add a module parameter for that, and document the entire bunch.
Any hacker who thinks that a command prompt on a "black screen with
white font" is not supicious enough can now use the kernel parameter
vt.color=10 to get a nice, evil green.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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This patch changes the "acpi_osi=" boot parameter implementation so
that:
1. "acpi_osi=!" can be used to disable all _OSI OS vendor strings by
default. It is meaningless to specify "acpi_osi=!" multiple
times as it can only affect the default state of the target _OSI
strings.
2. "acpi_osi=!*" can be used to remove all _OSI OS vendor strings
and all _OSI feature group strings. It is useful to specify
"acpi_osi=!*" multiple times through kernel command line to
override the current state of the target _OSI strings.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch introduces "acpi_osi=!" command line to force Linux replying
"UNSUPPORTED" to all of the _OSI strings. This patch is based on an
ACPICA enhancement - the new API acpi_update_interfaces().
The _OSI object provides the platform with the ability to query OSPM
to determine the set of ACPI related interfaces, behaviors, or
features that the operating system supports. The argument passed to
the _OSI is a string like the followings:
1. Feature Group String, examples include
Module Device
Processor Device
3.0 _SCP Extensions
Processor Aggregator Device
...
2. OS Vendor String, examples include
Linux
FreeBSD
Windows
...
There are AML codes provided in the ACPI namespace written in the
following style to determine OSPM interfaces / features:
Method(OSCK)
{
if (CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0))
{
if (\_OSI("Windows"))
{
Return (One)
}
if (\_OSI("Windows 2006"))
{
Return (Ones)
}
Return (Zero)
}
Return (Zero)
}
There is a debugging facility implemented in Linux. Users can pass
"acpi_osi=" boot parameters to the kernel to tune the _OSI evaluation
result so that certain AML codes can be executed. Current
implementation includes:
1. 'acpi_osi=' - this makes CondRefOf(_OSI, Local0) TRUE
2. 'acpi_osi="Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") TRUE
3. 'acpi_osi="!Windows"' - this makes \_OSI("Windows") FALSE
The function to implement this feature is also used as a quirk mechanism
in the Linux ACPI subystem.
When _OSI is evaluatated by the AML codes, ACPICA replies "SUPPORTED"
to all Windows operating system vendor strings. This is because
Windows operating systems return "SUPPORTED" if the argument to the
_OSI method specifies an earlier version of Windows. Please refer to
the following MSDN document:
How to Identify the Windows Version in ACPI by Using _OSI
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hardware/gg463275.aspx
This adds difficulties when developers want to feed specific Windows
operating system vendor string to the BIOS codes for debugging
purpose, multiple acpi_osi="!xxx" have to be specified in the command
line to force Linux replying "UNSUPPORTED" to the Windows OS vendor
strings listed in the AML codes.
Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing changes from Steven Rostedt:
"The majority of the changes here are cleanups for the large changes
that were added to 3.10, which includes several bug fixes that have
been marked for stable.
As for new features, there were a few, but nothing to write to LWN
about. These include:
New function trigger called "dump" and "cpudump" that will cause
ftrace to dump its buffer to the console when the function is called.
The difference between "dump" and "cpudump" is that "dump" will dump
the entire contents of the ftrace buffer, where as "cpudump" will only
dump the contents of the ftrace buffer for the CPU that called the
function.
Another small enhancement is a new sysctl switch called
"traceoff_on_warning" which, when enabled, will disable tracing if any
WARN_ON() is triggered. This is useful if you want to debug what
caused a warning and do not want to risk losing your trace data by the
ring buffer overwriting the data before you can disable it. There's
also a kernel command line option that will make this enabled at boot
up called the same thing"
* tag 'trace-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (34 commits)
tracing: Make tracing_open_generic_{tr,tc}() static
tracing: Remove ftrace() function
tracing: Remove TRACE_EVENT_TYPE enum definition
tracing: Make tracer_tracing_{off,on,is_on}() static
tracing: Fix irqs-off tag display in syscall tracing
uprobes: Fix return value in error handling path
tracing: Fix race between deleting buffer and setting events
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to event handling
tracing: Get trace_array ref counts when accessing trace files
tracing: Add trace_array_get/put() to handle instance refs better
tracing: Protect ftrace_trace_arrays list in trace_events.c
tracing: Make trace_marker use the correct per-instance buffer
ftrace: Do not run selftest if command line parameter is set
tracing/kprobes: Don't pass addr=ip to perf_trace_buf_submit()
tracing: Use flag buffer_disabled for irqsoff tracer
tracing/kprobes: Turn trace_probe->files into list_head
tracing: Fix disabling of soft disable
tracing: Add missing syscall_metadata comment
tracing: Simplify code for showing of soft disabled flag
tracing/kprobes: Kill probe_enable_lock
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Merge together the unicore32, arm, and x86 reboot= command line
parameter handling.
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:
"Overview of changes:
- The rest of maintainer email address updates.
- Some core updates - more robust default behavior for port
multipliers, better error reporting for SG_IO commands, and a way
to better work around now ancient and probably pretty rare PATA ->
SATA bridges with ATAPI devices.
- sata_rcar stabilization.
- Some hardware PCI ID additions and one-off low level driver
updates."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (22 commits)
AHCI: use ATA_BUSY
libata-zpodd: must use ata_tf_init()
ahci: AHCI-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
ata_piix: IDE-mode SATA patch for Intel Coleto Creek DeviceIDs
libata: cleanup SAT error translation
ahci: sata: add support for exynos5440 sata
libata: skip SRST for all SIMG [34]7x port-multipliers
ahci: remove pmp link online check in FBS EH
sata highbank: add bit-banged SGPIO driver support
ahci: make ahci_transmit_led_message into a function pointer
sata_rcar: fix compilation warning in sata_rcar_thaw()
sata_highbank: increase retry count but shorten duration for Calxeda controller
ata: use pci_get_drvdata()
ipr: qc_fill_rtf() method should not store alternate status register
sata_rcar: add 'base' local variable to some functions
sata_rcar: correct 'sata_rcar_sht'
sata_rcar: kill superfluous code in sata_rcar_bmdma_fill_sg()
libata: do not limit R-Car SATA driver to shmobile
ata: use platform_{get,set}_drvdata()
AHCI: Make distinct names for ports in /proc/interrupts
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"This time the total number of ACPI commits is slightly greater than
the number of cpufreq commits, but Viresh Kumar (who works on cpufreq)
remains the most active patch submitter.
To me, the most significant change is the addition of offline/online
device operations to the driver core (with the Greg's blessing) and
the related modifications of the ACPI core hotplug code. Next are the
freezer updates from Colin Cross that should make the freezing of
tasks a bit less heavy weight.
We also have a couple of regression fixes, a number of fixes for
issues that have not been identified as regressions, two new drivers
and a bunch of cleanups all over.
Highlights:
- Hotplug changes to support graceful hot-removal failures.
It sometimes is necessary to fail device hot-removal operations
gracefully if they cannot be carried out completely. For example,
if memory from a memory module being hot-removed has been allocated
for the kernel's own use and cannot be moved elsewhere, it's
desirable to fail the hot-removal operation in a graceful way
rather than to crash the kernel, but currenty a success or a kernel
crash are the only possible outcomes of an attempted memory
hot-removal. Needless to say, that is not a very attractive
alternative and it had to be addressed.
However, in order to make it work for memory, I first had to make
it work for CPUs and for this purpose I needed to modify the ACPI
processor driver. It's been split into two parts, a resident one
handling the low-level initialization/cleanup and a modular one
playing the actual driver's role (but it binds to the CPU system
device objects rather than to the ACPI device objects representing
processors). That's been sort of like a live brain surgery on a
patient who's riding a bike.
So this is a little scary, but since we found and fixed a couple of
regressions it caused to happen during the early linux-next testing
(a month ago), nobody has complained.
As a bonus we remove some duplicated ACPI hotplug code, because the
ACPI-based CPU hotplug is now going to use the common ACPI hotplug
code.
- Lighter weight freezing of tasks.
These changes from Colin Cross and Mandeep Singh Baines are
targeted at making the freezing of tasks a bit less heavy weight
operation. They reduce the number of tasks woken up every time
during the freezing, by using the observation that the freezer
simply doesn't need to wake up some of them and wait for them all
to call refrigerator(). The time needed for the freezer to decide
to report a failure is reduced too.
Also reintroduced is the check causing a lockdep warining to
trigger when try_to_freeze() is called with locks held (which is
generally unsafe and shouldn't happen).
- cpufreq updates
First off, a commit from Srivatsa S Bhat fixes a resume regression
introduced during the 3.10 cycle causing some cpufreq sysfs
attributes to return wrong values to user space after resume. The
fix is kind of fresh, but also it's pretty obvious once Srivatsa
has identified the root cause.
Second, we have a new freqdomain_cpus sysfs attribute for the
acpi-cpufreq driver to provide information previously available via
related_cpus. From Lan Tianyu.
Finally, we fix a number of issues, mostly related to the
CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notifier and cpufreq Kconfig options and clean
up some code. The majority of changes from Viresh Kumar with bits
from Jacob Shin, Heiko Stübner, Xiaoguang Chen, Ezequiel Garcia,
Arnd Bergmann, and Tang Yuantian.
- ACPICA update
A usual bunch of updates from the ACPICA upstream.
During the 3.4 cycle we introduced support for ACPI 5 extended
sleep registers, but they are only supposed to be used if the
HW-reduced mode bit is set in the FADT flags and the code attempted
to use them without checking that bit. That caused suspend/resume
regressions to happen on some systems. Fix from Lv Zheng causes
those registers to be used only if the HW-reduced mode bit is set.
Apart from this some other ACPICA bugs are fixed and code cleanups
are made by Bob Moore, Tomasz Nowicki, Lv Zheng, Chao Guan, and
Zhang Rui.
- cpuidle updates
New driver for Xilinx Zynq processors is added by Michal Simek.
Multidriver support simplification, addition of some missing
kerneldoc comments and Kconfig-related fixes come from Daniel
Lezcano.
- ACPI power management updates
Changes to make suspend/resume work correctly in Xen guests from
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk, sparse warning fix from Fengguang Wu and
cleanups and fixes of the ACPI device power state selection
routine.
- ACPI documentation updates
Some previously missing pieces of ACPI documentation are added by
Lv Zheng and Aaron Lu (hopefully, that will help people to
uderstand how the ACPI subsystem works) and one outdated doc is
updated by Hanjun Guo.
- Assorted ACPI updates
We finally nailed down the IA-64 issue that was the reason for
reverting commit 9f29ab11ddbf ("ACPI / scan: do not match drivers
against objects having scan handlers"), so we can fix it and move
the ACPI scan handler check added to the ACPI video driver back to
the core.
A mechanism for adding CMOS RTC address space handlers is
introduced by Lan Tianyu to allow some EC-related breakage to be
fixed on some systems.
A spec-compliant implementation of acpi_os_get_timer() is added by
Mika Westerberg.
The evaluation of _STA is added to do_acpi_find_child() to avoid
situations in which a pointer to a disabled device object is
returned instead of an enabled one with the same _ADR value. From
Jeff Wu.
Intel BayTrail PCH (Platform Controller Hub) support is added to
the ACPI driver for Intel Low-Power Subsystems (LPSS) and that
driver is modified to work around a couple of known BIOS issues.
Changes from Mika Westerberg and Heikki Krogerus.
The EC driver is fixed by Vasiliy Kulikov to use get_user() and
put_user() instead of dereferencing user space pointers blindly.
Code cleanups are made by Bjorn Helgaas, Nicholas Mazzuca and Toshi
Kani.
- Assorted power management updates
The "runtime idle" helper routine is changed to take the return
values of the callbacks executed by it into account and to call
rpm_suspend() if they return 0, which allows us to reduce the
overall code bloat a bit (by dropping some code that's not
necessary any more after that modification).
The runtime PM documentation is updated by Alan Stern (to reflect
the "runtime idle" behavior change).
New trace points for PM QoS are added by Sahara
(<keun-o.park@windriver.com>).
PM QoS documentation is updated by Lan Tianyu.
Code cleanups are made and minor issues are addressed by Bernie
Thompson, Bjorn Helgaas, Julius Werner, and Shuah Khan.
- devfreq updates
New driver for the Exynos5-bus device from Abhilash Kesavan.
Minor cleanups, fixes and MAINTAINERS update from MyungJoo Ham,
Abhilash Kesavan, Paul Bolle, Rajagopal Venkat, and Wei Yongjun.
- OMAP power management updates
Adaptive Voltage Scaling (AVS) SmartReflex voltage control driver
updates from Andrii Tseglytskyi and Nishanth Menon."
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.11-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (162 commits)
cpufreq: Fix cpufreq regression after suspend/resume
ACPI / PM: Fix possible NULL pointer deref in acpi_pm_device_sleep_state()
PM / Sleep: Warn about system time after resume with pm_trace
cpufreq: don't leave stale policy pointer in cdbs->cur_policy
acpi-cpufreq: Add new sysfs attribute freqdomain_cpus
cpufreq: make sure frequency transitions are serialized
ACPI: implement acpi_os_get_timer() according the spec
ACPI / EC: Add HP Folio 13 to ec_dmi_table in order to skip DSDT scan
ACPI: Add CMOS RTC Operation Region handler support
ACPI / processor: Drop unused variable from processor_perflib.c
cpufreq: tegra: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: s3c64xx: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: omap: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: imx6q: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: exynos: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: dbx500: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: davinci: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: arm-big-little: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: powernow-k8: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
cpufreq: pcc: call CPUFREQ_POSTCHANGE notfier in error cases
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this update, Smack learns to love IPv6 and to mount a filesystem
with a transmutable hierarchy (i.e. security labels are inherited
from parent directory upon creation rather than creating process).
The rest of the changes are maintenance"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (37 commits)
tpm/tpm_i2c_infineon: Remove unused header file
tpm: tpm_i2c_infinion: Don't modify i2c_client->driver
evm: audit integrity metadata failures
integrity: move integrity_audit_msg()
evm: calculate HMAC after initializing posix acl on tmpfs
maintainers: add Dmitry Kasatkin
Smack: Fix the bug smackcipso can't set CIPSO correctly
Smack: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference at smk_netlbl_mls()
Smack: Add smkfstransmute mount option
Smack: Improve access check performance
Smack: Local IPv6 port based controls
tpm: fix regression caused by section type conflict of tpm_dev_release() in ppc builds
maintainers: Remove Kent from maintainers
tpm: move TPM_DIGEST_SIZE defintion
tpm_tis: missing platform_driver_unregister() on error in init_tis()
security: clarify cap_inode_getsecctx description
apparmor: no need to delay vfree()
apparmor: fix fully qualified name parsing
apparmor: fix setprocattr arg processing for onexec
apparmor: localize getting the security context to a few macros
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux
Pull thermal power-limit update from Tony Luck:
"Thermal limit warnings are too scary and cause unnecessary concern"
* tag 'please-pull-mce-therm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux:
x86 thermal: Disable power limit notification interrupt by default
x86 thermal: Delete power-limit-notification console messages
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
"Surprisingly, Lai and I didn't break too many things implementing
custom pools and stuff last time around and there aren't any follow-up
changes necessary at this point.
The only change in this pull request is Viresh's patches to make some
per-cpu workqueues to behave as unbound workqueues dependent on a boot
param whose default can be configured via a config option. This leads
to higher processing overhead / lower bandwidth as more work items are
bounced across CPUs; however, it can lead to noticeable powersave in
certain configurations - ~10% w/ idlish constant workload on a
big.LITTLE configuration according to Viresh.
This is because per-cpu workqueues interfere with how the scheduler
perceives whether or not each CPU is idle by forcing pinned tasks on
them, which makes the scheduler's power-aware scheduling decisions
less effective.
Its effectiveness is likely less pronounced on homogenous
configurations and this type of optimization can probably be made
automatic; however, the changes are pretty minimal and the affected
workqueues are clearly marked, so it's an easy gain for some
configurations for the time being with pretty unintrusive changes."
* 'for-3.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
fbcon: queue work on power efficient wq
block: queue work on power efficient wq
PHYLIB: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq
workqueue: Add system wide power_efficient workqueues
workqueues: Introduce new flag WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT for power oriented workqueues
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Add description for video module's parameter brightness_switch_enabled
into kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
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This patch moves the integrity_audit_msg() function and defintion to
security/integrity/, the parent directory, renames the 'ima_audit'
boot command line option to 'integrity_audit', and fixes the Kconfig
help text to reflect the actual code.
Changelog:
- Fixed ifdef inclusion of integrity_audit_msg() (Fengguang Wu)
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Add a traceoff_on_warning option in both the kernel command line as well
as a sysctl option. When set, any WARN*() function that is hit will cause
the tracing_on variable to be cleared, which disables writing to the
ring buffer.
This is useful especially when tracing a bug with function tracing. When
a warning is hit, the print caused by the warning can flood the trace with
the functions that producing the output for the warning. This can make the
resulting trace useless by either hiding where the bug happened, or worse,
by overflowing the buffer and losing the trace of the bug totally.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The package power limit notification interrupt is primarily for
system diagnosis, and should not be blindly enabled on every
system by default -- particuarly since Linux does nothing in the
handler except count how many times it has been called...
Add a new kernel cmdline parameter "int_pln_enable" for situations where
users want to oberve these events via existing system counters:
$ grep TRM /proc/interrupts
$ grep . /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/thermal_throttle/*
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36182
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
"Outside of bcache (which really isn't super big), these are all
few-liners. There are a few important fixes in here:
- Fix blk pm sleeping when holding the queue lock
- A small collection of bcache fixes that have been done and tested
since bcache was included in this merge window.
- A fix for a raid5 regression introduced with the bio changes.
- Two important fixes for mtip32xx, fixing an oops and potential data
corruption (or hang) due to wrong bio iteration on stacked devices."
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
scatterlist: sg_set_buf() argument must be in linear mapping
raid5: Initialize bi_vcnt
pktcdvd: silence static checker warning
block: remove refs to XD disks from documentation
blkpm: avoid sleep when holding queue lock
mtip32xx: Correctly handle bio->bi_idx != 0 conditions
mtip32xx: Fix NULL pointer dereference during module unload
bcache: Fix error handling in init code
bcache: clarify free/available/unused space
bcache: drop "select CLOSURES"
bcache: Fix incompatible pointer type warning
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Some device require DMADIR to be enabled, but are not detected as such
by atapi_id_dmadir. One such example is "Asus Serillel 2"
SATA-host-to-PATA-device bridge: the bridge itself requires DMADIR,
even if the bridged device does not.
As atapi_dmadir module parameter can cause problems with some devices
(as per Tejun Heo's memory), enabling it globally may not be possible
depending on the hardware.
This patch adds atapi_dmadir in the form of a "force" horkage value,
allowing global, per-bus and per-device control.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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Commit d1a6f4f19728d6e90480e53601a90fc9f6a348ad
"block: delete super ancient PC-XT driver for 1980's hardware"
deleted the XD disk driver, but there are still a few
references to it in the documentation directory. Delete
the remnants and thus also free up the major block device
13 for reuse.
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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There is no point. We would just squeeze the guest to put more and
more pages in the swap disk without any purpose.
The only time it makes sense to use the selfballooning and shrinking
is when frontswap is being utilized.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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If tmem is built-in or a module, the user has the option on
the command line to influence it by doing: tmem.<some option>
instead of having a variety of "nocleancache", and
"nofrontswap". The others: "noselfballooning" and "selfballooning";
and "noselfshrink" are in a different driver xen-selfballoon.c
and the patches:
xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfshrink' and use 'tmem.selfshrink' bool instead.
xen/tmem: Remove the usage of 'noselfballoon','selfballoon' and use 'tmem.selfballon' bool instead.
remove them.
Also add documentation.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Workqueues can be performance or power-oriented. Currently, most workqueues are
bound to the CPU they were created on. This gives good performance (due to cache
effects) at the cost of potentially waking up otherwise idle cores (Idle from
scheduler's perspective. Which may or may not be physically idle) just to
process some work. To save power, we can allow the work to be rescheduled on a
core that is already awake.
Workqueues created with the WQ_UNBOUND flag will allow some power savings.
However, we don't change the default behaviour of the system. To enable
power-saving behaviour, a new config option CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT needs to
be turned on. This option can also be overridden by the
workqueue.power_efficient boot parameter.
tj: Updated config description and comments. Renamed
CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT to CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT_DEFAULT.
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu
Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel:
"The updates are mostly about the x86 IOMMUs this time.
Exceptions are the groundwork for the PAMU IOMMU from Freescale (for a
PPC platform) and an extension to the IOMMU group interface.
On the x86 side this includes a workaround for VT-d to disable
interrupt remapping on broken chipsets. On the AMD-Vi side the most
important new feature is a kernel command-line interface to override
broken information in IVRS ACPI tables and get interrupt remapping
working this way.
Besides that there are small fixes all over the place."
* tag 'iommu-updates-v3.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (24 commits)
iommu/tegra: Fix printk formats for dma_addr_t
iommu: Add a function to find an iommu group by id
iommu/vt-d: Remove warning for HPET scope type
iommu: Move swap_pci_ref function to drivers/iommu/pci.h.
iommu/vt-d: Disable translation if already enabled
iommu/amd: fix error return code in early_amd_iommu_init()
iommu/AMD: Per-thread IOMMU Interrupt Handling
iommu: Include linux/err.h
iommu/amd: Workaround for ERBT1312
iommu/amd: Document ivrs_ioapic and ivrs_hpet parameters
iommu/amd: Don't report firmware bugs with cmd-line ivrs overrides
iommu/amd: Add ioapic and hpet ivrs override
iommu/amd: Add early maps for ioapic and hpet
iommu/amd: Extend IVRS special device data structure
iommu/amd: Move add_special_device() to __init
iommu: Fix compile warnings with forward declarations
iommu/amd: Properly initialize irq-table lock
iommu/amd: Use AMD specific data structure for irq remapping
iommu/amd: Remove map_sg_no_iommu()
iommu/vt-d: add quirk for broken interrupt remapping on 55XX chipsets
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
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/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC platform updates from Olof Johansson:
"This branch contains part 1 of the platform updates for 3.10. Among
the highlights:
- Support for the new Atmel Cortex-A5 based platforms (SAMA5D3)
- New support for CSR SiRFatlas6 SoCs
- A handful of updates for NVidia T114 (a.k.a. Tegra 4)
- A bunch of updates for the shmobile platforms
- A handful of updates for davinci
- A few updates for Qualcomm MSM
- Plus a handful of other patches, defconfig updates, etc."
* tag 'soc-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (135 commits)
ARM: tegra: pm: fix build error w/o PM_SLEEP
ARM: davinci: ensure global variables are declared
ARM: davinci: sram.c: fix incorrect type in assignment
ARM: davinci: da8xx dt: make file local symbols static
ARM: davinci: da8xx: add remoteproc support
ARM: socfpga: Upgrade clk driver for socfpga to make use of dts clock entries
ARM: socfpga: Add clock entries into device tree
ARM: socfpga: Enable soft reset
ARM: EXYNOS: replace cpumask by the corresponding macro
ARM: EXYNOS: handle properly the return values
ARM: EXYNOS: factor out the idle states
ARM: OMAP4: Enable fix for Cortex-A9 erratas
ARM: OMAP2+: Export SoC information to userspace
ARM: OMAP2+: SoC name and revision unification
ARM: OMAP2+: Move common part of late init into common function
ARM: tegra: pm: remove duplicated include from pm.c
ARM: davinci: da850: override mmc DT node device name
ARM: davinci: da850: add mmc DT entries
mmc: davinci_mmc: add DT support
ARM: SAMSUNG: check processor type before cache restoration in resume
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The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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'arm/tegra' into next
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual stuff, mostly comment fixes, typo fixes, printk fixes and small
code cleanups"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (45 commits)
mm: Convert print_symbol to %pSR
gfs2: Convert print_symbol to %pSR
m32r: Convert print_symbol to %pSR
iostats.txt: add easy-to-find description for field 6
x86 cmpxchg.h: fix wrong comment
treewide: Fix typo in printk and comments
doc: devicetree: Fix various typos
docbook: fix 8250 naming in device-drivers
pata_pdc2027x: Fix compiler warning
treewide: Fix typo in printks
mei: Fix comments in drivers/misc/mei
treewide: Fix typos in kernel messages
pm44xx: Fix comment for "CONFIG_CPU_IDLE"
doc: Fix typo "CONFIG_CGROUP_CGROUP_MEMCG_SWAP"
mmzone: correct "pags" to "pages" in comment.
kernel-parameters: remove outdated 'noresidual' parameter
Remove spurious _H suffixes from ifdef comments
sound: Remove stray pluses from Kconfig file
radio-shark: Fix printk "CONFIG_LED_CLASS"
doc: put proper reference to CONFIG_MODULE_SIG_ENFORCE
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 debug update from Ingo Molnar:
"Two small changes: a documentation update and a constification"
* 'x86-debug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, early-printk: Update earlyprintk documentation (and kill x86 copy)
x86: Constify a few items
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work
for the full-dynticks work:
- Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take
advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on
numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960
- RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570
- Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods
rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp()
rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp
rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers
rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events
rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp()
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end
rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration
rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits
rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs
rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown.
rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages
rcu: Documentation update
rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident
rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation
rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field
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