linux/Documentation/features, branch v5.3

Documentation/stackprotector: powerpc supports stack protector

2019-06-14T20:44:43Z

powerpc architecture (both 64-bit and 32-bit) supports stack protector mechanism since some time now [see commit 06ec27aea9fc ("powerpc/64: add stack protector support")]. Update stackprotector arch support documentation to reflect the same. Cc: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Bhupesh Sharma Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'parisc-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux

2019-05-08T02:34:17Z

Pull parisc updates from Helge Deller: "Many great new features, fixes and optimizations, including: - Convert page table updates to use per-pagetable spinlocks which overall improves performance on SMP machines a lot, by Mikulas Patocka - Kernel debugger (KGDB) support, by Sven Schnelle - KPROBES support, by Sven Schnelle - Lots of TLB lock/flush improvements, by Dave Anglin - Drop DISCONTIGMEM and switch to SPARSEMEM - Added JUMP_LABEL, branch runtime-patching support - Lots of other small speedups and cleanups, e.g. for QEMU, stack randomization, avoidance of name clashes, documentation updates, etc ..." * 'parisc-5.2-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux: (28 commits) parisc: Add static branch and JUMP_LABEL feature parisc: Use PA_ASM_LEVEL in boot code parisc: Rename LEVEL to PA_ASM_LEVEL to avoid name clash with DRBD code parisc: Update huge TLB page support to use per-pagetable spinlock parisc: Use per-pagetable spinlock parisc: Allow live-patching of __meminit functions parisc: Add memory barrier to asm pdc and sync instructions parisc: Add memory clobber to TLB purges parisc: Use ldcw instruction for SMP spinlock release barrier parisc: Remove lock code to serialize TLB operations in pacache.S parisc: Switch from DISCONTIGMEM to SPARSEMEM parisc: enable wide mode early parisc: update feature lists parisc: Show n/a if product number not available parisc: remove unused flags parameter in __patch_text() doc: update kprobes supported architecture list parisc: Implement kretprobes parisc: remove kprobes.h from generic-y parisc: Implement kprobes parisc: add functions required by KPROBE_EVENTS ...

Documentation/features/time: Mark m68k having modern-timekeeping

2019-05-06T08:58:37Z

M68k no longer uses arch_gettimeoffset. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven

parisc: update feature lists

2019-05-03T21:47:40Z

Update lists to reflect that we have now KGDB and kretprobes support. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

doc: update kprobes supported architecture list

2019-05-03T21:47:39Z

Now that kprobes and kretprobes are implemented, update the list in Documentation to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Sven Schnelle Signed-off-by: Helge Deller

Documentation/features: Add csky kernel features

2019-01-07T14:22:16Z

Merge tag 'xtensa-20181228' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa

2018-12-29T17:40:40Z

Pull Xtensa updates from Max Filippov: - switch to generated syscall table - switch ptrace to regsets, use regsets for core dumps - complete tracehook implementation - add syscall tracepoints support - add jumplabels support - add memtest support - drop unused/duplicated code from entry.S, ptrace.c, coprocessor.S, elf.h and syscall.h - clean up warnings caused by WSR/RSR macros - clean up DTC warnings about SPI controller node names in xtfpga.dtsi - simplify coprocessor.S - get rid of explicit 'l32r' instruction usage in assembly * tag 'xtensa-20181228' of git://github.com/jcmvbkbc/linux-xtensa: (25 commits) xtensa: implement jump_label support xtensa: implement syscall tracepoints xtensa: implement tracehook functions and enable HAVE_ARCH_TRACEHOOK xtensa: enable CORE_DUMP_USE_REGSET xtensa: implement TIE regset xtensa: implement task_user_regset_view xtensa: call do_syscall_trace_{enter,leave} selectively xtensa: use NO_SYSCALL instead of -1 xtensa: define syscall_get_arch() Move EM_XTENSA to uapi/linux/elf-em.h xtensa: support memtest xtensa: don't use l32r opcode directly xtensa: xtfpga.dtsi: fix dtc warnings about SPI xtensa: don't clear cpenable unconditionally on release xtensa: simplify coprocessor.S xtensa: clean up WSR*/RSR*/get_sr/set_sr xtensa: drop unused declarations from elf.h xtensa: clean up syscall.h xtensa: drop unused coprocessor helper functions xtensa: drop custom PTRACE_{PEEK,POKE}{TEXT,DATA} ...

Merge tag 'dma-mapping-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping

2018-12-28T22:12:21Z

Pull DMA mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig: "A huge update this time, but a lot of that is just consolidating or removing code: - provide a common DMA_MAPPING_ERROR definition and avoid indirect calls for dma_map_* error checking - use direct calls for the DMA direct mapping case, avoiding huge retpoline overhead for high performance workloads - merge the swiotlb dma_map_ops into dma-direct - provide a generic remapping DMA consistent allocator for architectures that have devices that perform DMA that is not cache coherent. Based on the existing arm64 implementation and also used for csky now. - improve the dma-debug infrastructure, including dynamic allocation of entries (Robin Murphy) - default to providing chaining scatterlist everywhere, with opt-outs for the few architectures (alpha, parisc, most arm32 variants) that can't cope with it - misc sparc32 dma-related cleanups - remove the dma_mark_clean arch hook used by swiotlb on ia64 and replace it with the generic noncoherent infrastructure - fix the return type of dma_set_max_seg_size (Niklas Söderlund) - move the dummy dma ops for not DMA capable devices from arm64 to common code (Robin Murphy) - ensure dma_alloc_coherent returns zeroed memory to avoid kernel data leaks through userspace. We already did this for most common architectures, but this ensures we do it everywhere. dma_zalloc_coherent has been deprecated and can hopefully be removed after -rc1 with a coccinelle script" * tag 'dma-mapping-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (73 commits) dma-mapping: fix inverted logic in dma_supported dma-mapping: deprecate dma_zalloc_coherent dma-mapping: zero memory returned from dma_alloc_* sparc/iommu: fix ->map_sg return value sparc/io-unit: fix ->map_sg return value arm64: default to the direct mapping in get_arch_dma_ops PCI: Remove unused attr variable in pci_dma_configure ia64: only select ARCH_HAS_DMA_COHERENT_TO_PFN if swiotlb is enabled dma-mapping: bypass indirect calls for dma-direct vmd: use the proper dma_* APIs instead of direct methods calls dma-direct: merge swiotlb_dma_ops into the dma_direct code dma-direct: use dma_direct_map_page to implement dma_direct_map_sg dma-direct: improve addressability error reporting swiotlb: remove dma_mark_clean swiotlb: remove SWIOTLB_MAP_ERROR ACPI / scan: Refactor _CCA enforcement dma-mapping: factor out dummy DMA ops dma-mapping: always build the direct mapping code dma-mapping: move dma_cache_sync out of line dma-mapping: move various slow path functions out of line ...

xtensa: implement jump_label support

2018-12-20T22:44:38Z

Use 3-byte 'nop' and 'j' instructions that are always present. Don't let assembler mark a spot right after patchable 'j' instruction as unreachable and later put literals or padding bytes there. Add separate implementations of patch_text for SMP and UP cases, avoiding use of atomics on UP. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

arch: switch the default on ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN

2018-12-06T15:04:56Z

These days architectures are mostly out of the business of dealing with struct scatterlist at all, unless they have architecture specific iommu drivers. Replace the ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN symbol with a ARCH_NO_SG_CHAIN one only enabled for architectures with horrible legacy iommu drivers like alpha and parisc, and conditionally for arm which wants to keep it disable for legacy platforms. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Palmer Dabbelt