linux/Documentation/core-api, branch v5.15

Merge tag 'irqchip-fixes-5.15-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/maz/arm-platforms into irq/urgent

2021-09-24T12:11:04Z

Pull irqchip fixes from Marc Zyngier: - Work around a bad GIC integration on a Renesas platform, where the interconnect cannot deal with byte-sized MMIO accesses - Cleanup another Renesas driver abusing the comma operator - Fix a potential GICv4 memory leak on an error path - Make the type of 'size' consistent with the rest of the code in __irq_domain_add() - Fix a regression in the Armada 370-XP IPI path - Fix the build for the obviously unloved goldfish-pic - Some documentation fixes Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210924090933.2766857-1-maz@kernel.org

Merge tag 'smp-urgent-2021-09-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2021-09-12T19:42:51Z

Pull CPU hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner: "Updates for the SMP and CPU hotplug: - Remove DEFINE_SMP_CALL_CACHE_FUNCTION() which is a left over of the original hotplug code and now causing trouble with the ARM64 cache topology setup due to the pointless SMP function call. It's not longer required as the hotplug callbacks are guaranteed to be invoked on the upcoming CPU. - Remove the deprecated and now unused CPU hotplug functions - Rewrite the CPU hotplug API documentation" * tag 'smp-urgent-2021-09-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Rewrite the API section cpu/hotplug: Remove deprecated CPU-hotplug functions. thermal: Replace deprecated CPU-hotplug functions. drivers: base: cacheinfo: Get rid of DEFINE_SMP_CALL_CACHE_FUNCTION()

Merge tag 'block-5.15-2021-09-11' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2021-09-11T17:19:51Z

Pull block fixes from Jens Axboe: - NVMe pull request from Christoph: - fix nvmet command set reporting for passthrough controllers (Adam Manzanares) - update a MAINTAINERS email address (Chaitanya Kulkarni) - set QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT for nvme-multipth (me) - handle errors from add_disk() (Luis Chamberlain) - update the keep alive interval when kato is modified (Tatsuya Sasaki) - fix a buffer overrun in nvmet_subsys_attr_serial (Hannes Reinecke) - do not reset transport on data digest errors in nvme-tcp (Daniel Wagner) - only call synchronize_srcu when clearing current path (Daniel Wagner) - revalidate paths during rescan (Hannes Reinecke) - Split out the fs/block_dev into block/fops.c and block/bdev.c, which has been long overdue. Do this now before -rc1, to avoid annoying conflicts due to this (Christoph) - blk-throtl use-after-free fix (Li) - Improve plug depth for multi-device plugs, greatly increasing md resync performance (Song) - blkdev_show() locking fix (Tetsuo) - n64cart error check fix (Yang) * tag 'block-5.15-2021-09-11' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: n64cart: fix return value check in n64cart_probe() blk-mq: allow 4x BLK_MAX_REQUEST_COUNT at blk_plug for multiple_queues block: move fs/block_dev.c to block/bdev.c block: split out operations on block special files blk-throttle: fix UAF by deleteing timer in blk_throtl_exit() block: genhd: don't call blkdev_show() with major_names_lock held nvme: update MAINTAINERS email address nvme: add error handling support for add_disk() nvme: only call synchronize_srcu when clearing current path nvme: update keep alive interval when kato is modified nvme-tcp: Do not reset transport on data digest errors nvmet: fixup buffer overrun in nvmet_subsys_attr_serial() nvmet: return bool from nvmet_passthru_ctrl and nvmet_is_passthru_req nvmet: looks at the passthrough controller when initializing CAP nvme: move nvme_multi_css into nvme.h nvme-multipath: revalidate paths during rescan nvme-multipath: set QUEUE_FLAG_NOWAIT

Documentation: core-api/cpuhotplug: Rewrite the API section

2021-09-10T22:41:21Z

Dave stumbled over the incomplete and confusing documentation of the CPU hotplug API. Rewrite it, add the missing function documentations and correct the existing ones. Reported-by: Dave Chinner Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210909123212.489059409@linutronix.de

block: move fs/block_dev.c to block/bdev.c

2021-09-07T14:39:40Z

Move it together with the rest of the block layer. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210907141303.1371844-3-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-03T17:08:28Z

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "173 patches. Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap, bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock, oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (173 commits) mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated() selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test mm: KSM: fix data type selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test selftests: vm: add KSM merge test mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease mm: introduce process_mrelease system call memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node() mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY ...

mm: remove flush_kernel_dcache_page

2021-09-03T16:58:13Z

flush_kernel_dcache_page is a rather confusing interface that implements a subset of flush_dcache_page by not being able to properly handle page cache mapped pages. The only callers left are in the exec code as all other previous callers were incorrect as they could have dealt with page cache pages. Replace the calls to flush_kernel_dcache_page with calls to flush_dcache_page, which for all architectures does either exactly the same thing, can contains one or more of the following: 1) an optimization to defer the cache flush for page cache pages not mapped into userspace 2) additional flushing for mapped page cache pages if cache aliases are possible Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210712060928.4161649-7-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Acked-by: Linus Torvalds Reviewed-by: Ira Weiny Cc: Alex Shi Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Greentime Hu Cc: Guo Ren Cc: Helge Deller Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" Cc: Nick Hu Cc: Paul Cercueil Cc: Rich Felker Cc: Russell King Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer Cc: Ulf Hansson Cc: Vincent Chen Cc: Yoshinori Sato Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: Fix irq-domain.rst build warning

2021-09-03T08:54:15Z

Correctly escape the * not to be used as emphasis. Also take this opportunity to clarify the fate of the rest of the legacy APIs. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210903085343.923036-1-maz@kernel.org

Merge tag 'docs-5.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2021-09-02T01:49:47Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "Yet another set of documentation changes: - A reworking of PDF generation to yield better results for documents using CJK fonts in particular. - A new set of translations into traditional Chinese, a dialect for which I am assured there is a community of interested readers. - A lot more regular Chinese translation work as well. ... plus the usual assortment of updates, fixes, typo tweaks, etc" * tag 'docs-5.15' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (55 commits) docs: sphinx-requirements: Move sphinx_rtd_theme to top docs: pdfdocs: Enable language-specific font choice of zh_TW translations docs: pdfdocs: Teach xeCJK about character classes of quotation marks docs: pdfdocs: Permit AutoFakeSlant for CJK fonts docs: pdfdocs: One-half spacing for CJK translations docs: pdfdocs: Add conf.py local to translations for ascii-art alignment docs: pdfdocs: Preserve inter-phrase space in Korean translations docs: pdfdocs: Choose Serif font as CJK mainfont if possible docs: pdfdocs: Add CJK-language-specific font settings docs: pdfdocs: Refactor config for CJK document scripts/kernel-doc: Override -Werror from KCFLAGS with KDOC_WERROR docs/zh_CN: Add zh_CN/accounting/psi.rst doc: align Italian translation Documentation/features/vm: riscv supports THP now docs/zh_CN: add infiniband user_verbs translation docs/zh_CN: add infiniband user_mad translation docs/zh_CN: add infiniband tag_matching translation docs/zh_CN: add infiniband sysfs translation docs/zh_CN: add infiniband opa_vnic translation docs/zh_CN: add infiniband ipoib translation ...

Merge tag 'printk-for-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux

2021-09-02T01:41:13Z

Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Optionally, provide an index of possible printk messages via /printk/index/. It can be used when monitoring important kernel messages on a farm of various hosts. The monitor has to be updated when some messages has changed or are not longer available by a newly deployed kernel. - Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter. It allows to generate crash dump even with slow consoles in a reasonable time frame. - Remove printk_safe buffers. The messages are always stored directly to the main logbuffer, even in NMI or recursive context. Also it allows to serialize syslog operations by a mutex instead of a spin lock. - Misc clean up and build fixes. * tag 'printk-for-5.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk/index: Fix -Wunused-function warning lib/nmi_backtrace: Serialize even messages about idle CPUs printk: Add printk.console_no_auto_verbose boot parameter printk: Remove console_silent() lib/test_scanf: Handle n_bits == 0 in random tests printk: syslog: close window between wait and read printk: convert @syslog_lock to mutex printk: remove NMI tracking printk: remove safe buffers printk: track/limit recursion lib/nmi_backtrace: explicitly serialize banner and regs printk: Move the printk() kerneldoc comment to its new home printk/index: Fix warning about missing prototypes MIPS/asm/printk: Fix build failure caused by printk printk: index: Add indexing support to dev_printk printk: Userspace format indexing support printk: Rework parse_prefix into printk_parse_prefix printk: Straighten out log_flags into printk_info_flags string_helpers: Escape double quotes in escape_special printk/console: Check consistent sequence number when handling race in console_unlock()