linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v4.4

Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq' and 'acpi-cppc'

2015-11-20T00:22:10Z

* pm-cpufreq: Revert "Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver" cpufreq: mediatek: fix build error cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add separate support for Airmont cores cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace BYT with ATOM Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use ACPI perf configuration" Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid calculation for max/min" * acpi-cppc: ACPI / CPPC: Use h/w reduced version of the PCCT structure

Revert "Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver"

2015-11-18T23:42:23Z

Revert commit 053f56def57b (Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver) as the code documented by it has been reverted already. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux

2015-11-10T17:33:06Z

Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie: "I Was Almost Tempted To Capitalise Every Word, but then I decided I couldn't read it myself! I've also got one pull request for the sti driver outstanding. It relied on a commit in Greg's tree and I didn't find out in time, that commit is in your tree now so I might send that along once this is merged. I also had the accidental misfortune to have access to a Skylake on my desk for a few days, and I've had to encourage Intel to try harder, which seems to be happening now. Here is the main drm-next pull request for 4.4. Highlights: New driver: vc4 driver for the Rasberry Pi VPU. (From Eric Anholt at Broadcom.) Core: Atomic fbdev support Atomic helpers for runtime pm dp/aux i2c STATUS_UPDATE handling struct_mutex usage cleanups. Generic of probing support. Documentation: Kerneldoc for VGA switcheroo code. Rename to gpu instead of drm to reflect scope. i915: Skylake GuC firmware fixes HPD A support VBT backlight fallbacks Fastboot by default for some systems FBC work BXT/SKL workarounds Skylake deeper sleep state fixes amdgpu: Enable GPU scheduler by default New atombios opcodes GPUVM debugging options Stoney support. Fencing cleanups. radeon: More efficient CS checking nouveau: gk20a instance memory handling improvements. Improved PGOB detection and GK107 support Kepler GDDR5 PLL statbility improvement G8x/GT2xx reclock improvements new userspace API compatiblity fixes. virtio-gpu: Add 3D support - qemu 2.5 has it merged for it's gtk backend. msm: Initial msm88896 (snapdragon 8200) exynos: HDMI cleanups Enable mixer driver byt default Add DECON-TV support vmwgfx: Move to using memremap + fixes. rcar-du: Add support for R8A7793/4 DU armada: Remove support for non-component mode Improved plane handling Power savings while in DPMS off. tda998x: Remove unused slave encoder support Use more HDMI helpers Fix EDID read handling dwhdmi: Interlace video mode support for ipu-v3/dw_hdmi Hotplug state fixes Audio driver integration imx: More color formats support. tegra: Minor fixes/improvements" [ Merge fixup: remove unused variable 'dev' that had all uses removed in commit 4e270f088011: "drm/gem: Drop struct_mutex requirement from drm_gem_mmap_obj" ] * 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (764 commits) drm/vmwgfx: Relax irq locking somewhat drm/vmwgfx: Properly flush cursor updates and page-flips drm/i915/skl: disable display side power well support for now drm/i915: Extend DSL readout fix to BDW and SKL. drm/i915: Do graphics device reset under forcewake drm/i915: Skip fence installation for objects with rotated views (v4) vga_switcheroo: Drop client power state VGA_SWITCHEROO_INIT drm/amdgpu: group together common fence implementation drm/amdgpu: remove AMDGPU_FENCE_OWNER_MOVE drm/amdgpu: remove now unused fence functions drm/amdgpu: fix fence fallback check drm/amdgpu: fix stoping the scheduler timeout drm/amdgpu: cleanup on error in amdgpu_cs_ioctl() drm/i915: Fix locking around GuC firmware load drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's Golden setting drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's rev id drm/amdgpu: extract common code in vi_common_early_init drm/amd/scheduler: don't oops on failure to load drm/amdgpu: don't oops on failure to load (v2) drm/amdgpu: don't VT switch on suspend ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2015-11-06T07:10:54Z

Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - inotify tweaks - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review) - various misc bits - kernel/watchdog.c updates - Some of mm. I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time. * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (162 commits) selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT mm: mlock: add new mlock system call mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code kasan: always taint kernel on report mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8() kasan: Fix a type conversion error lib: test_kasan: add some testcases kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile kasan: various fixes in documentation kasan: update log messages kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs ...

kernel/watchdog.c: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup

2015-11-06T03:34:48Z

In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding. IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the actual offender. Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin Cc: Ulrich Obergfell Acked-by: Don Zickus Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2015-11-06T00:26:26Z

Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini: "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4. s390: A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling. PPC: Mostly bug fixes. ARM: No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including: - a number of fixes for the arch-timer - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite for IRQ forwarding) - some tracepoint improvements - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state x86: Quite a few changes: - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject interrupts directly into vCPUs). This introduces a new component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together. The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt forwarding as well. - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5. These will let KVM expose Hyper-V devices. - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for clflushopt, clwb, pcommit - support for "split irqchip", i.e. LAPIC in kernel + IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of the hypervisor - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten to not require help from the hypervisor" * tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits) KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0() KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops KVM: x86: removing unused variable KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr() KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP ...

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

2015-11-05T23:59:24Z

Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet: "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work and some new CAN driver documentation. Beyond that, we have kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and the usual collection of small fixes" * tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits) Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup. Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups Typo correction for description in gpio document. DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private: kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard Documentation: gpio: mention that -gpio has been deprecated Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos Documentation: Update kselftest.txt Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low zram: update documentation ...

Merge tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2015-11-05T05:35:12Z

Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty and serial driver update for 4.4-rc1. Lots of serial driver updates and a few small tty core changes. Full details in the shortlog. All of these have been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (148 commits) tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers tty: Abstract tty buffer work tty: Prevent tty teardown during tty_write_message() tty: core: Use correct spinlock flavor in tiocspgrp() tty: Combine SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN handling serial: amba-pl011: fix incorrect integer size in pl011_fifo_to_tty() ttyFDC: Fix build problems due to use of module_{init,exit} tty: remove unneeded return statement serial: 8250_mid: add support for DMA engine handling from UART MMIO dmaengine: hsu: remove platform data dmaengine: hsu: introduce stubs for the exported functions dmaengine: hsu: make the UART driver in control of selecting this driver serial: fix mctrl helper functions serial: 8250_pci: Intel MID UART support to its own driver serial: fsl_lpuart: add earlycon support tty: disable unbind for old 74xx based serial/mpsc console port serial: pl011: Spelling s/clocks-names/clock-names/ n_tty: Remove reader wakeups for TTY_BREAK/TTY_PARITY chars tty: synclink, fix indentation serial: at91, fix rs485 properties ...

Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.4-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm

2015-11-05T02:10:13Z

Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "Quite a new features are included this time. First off, the Collaborative Processor Performance Control interface (version 2) defined by ACPI will now be supported on ARM64 along with a cpufreq frontend for CPU performance scaling. Second, ACPI gets a new infrastructure for the early probing of IRQ chips and clock sources (along the lines of the existing similar mechanism for DT). Next, the ACPI core and the generic device properties API will now support a recently introduced hierarchical properties extension of the _DSD (Device Specific Data) ACPI device configuration object. If the ACPI platform firmware uses that extension to organize device properties in a hierarchical way, the kernel will automatically handle it and make those properties available to device drivers via the generic device properties API. It also will be possible to build the ACPICA's AML interpreter debugger into the kernel now and use that to diagnose AML-related problems more efficiently. In the future, this should make it possible to single-step AML execution and do similar things. Interesting stuff, although somewhat experimental at this point. Finally, the PM core gets a new mechanism that can be used by device drivers to distinguish between suspend-to-RAM (based on platform firmware support) and suspend-to-idle (or other variants of system suspend the platform firmware is not involved in) and possibly optimize their device suspend/resume handling accordingly. In addition to that, some existing features are re-organized quite substantially. First, the ACPI-based handling of PCI host bridges on x86 and ia64 is unified and the common code goes into the ACPI core (so as to reduce code duplication and eliminate non-essential differences between the two architectures in that area). Second, the Operating Performance Points (OPP) framework is reorganized to make the code easier to find and follow. Next, the cpufreq core's sysfs interface is reorganized to get rid of the "primary CPU" concept for configurations in which the same performance scaling settings are shared between multiple CPUs. Finally, some interfaces that aren't necessary any more are dropped from the generic power domains framework. On top of the above we have some minor extensions, cleanups and bug fixes in multiple places, as usual. Specifics: - ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150930 (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng). The most significant change is to allow the AML debugger to be built into the kernel. On top of that there is an update related to the NFIT table (the ACPI persistent memory interface) and a few fixes and cleanups. - ACPI CPPC2 (Collaborative Processor Performance Control v2) support along with a cpufreq frontend (Ashwin Chaugule). This can only be enabled on ARM64 at this point. - New ACPI infrastructure for the early probing of IRQ chips and clock sources (Marc Zyngier). - Support for a new hierarchical properties extension of the ACPI _DSD (Device Specific Data) device configuration object allowing the kernel to handle hierarchical properties (provided by the platform firmware this way) automatically and make them available to device drivers via the generic device properties interface (Rafael Wysocki). - Generic device properties API extension to obtain an index of certain string value in an array of strings, along the lines of of_property_match_string(), but working for all of the supported firmware node types, and support for the "dma-names" device property based on it (Mika Westerberg). - ACPI core fix to parse the MADT (Multiple APIC Description Table) entries in the order expected by platform firmware (and mandated by the specification) to avoid confusion on systems with more than 255 logical CPUs (Lukasz Anaczkowski). - Consolidation of the ACPI-based handling of PCI host bridges on x86 and ia64 (Jiang Liu). - ACPI core fixes to ensure that the correct IRQ number is used to represent the SCI (System Control Interrupt) in the cases when it has been re-mapped (Chen Yu). - New ACPI backlight quirk for Lenovo IdeaPad S405 (Hans de Goede). - ACPI EC driver fixes (Lv Zheng). - Assorted ACPI fixes and cleanups (Dan Carpenter, Insu Yun, Jiri Kosina, Rami Rosen, Rasmus Villemoes). - New mechanism in the PM core allowing drivers to check if the platform firmware is going to be involved in the upcoming system suspend or if it has been involved in the suspend the system is resuming from at the moment (Rafael Wysocki). This should allow drivers to optimize their suspend/resume handling in some cases and the changes include a couple of users of it (the i8042 input driver, PCI PM). - PCI PM fix to prevent runtime-suspended devices with PME enabled from being resumed during system suspend even if they aren't configured to wake up the system from sleep (Rafael Wysocki). - New mechanism to report the number of a wakeup IRQ that woke up the system from sleep last time (Alexandra Yates). - Removal of unused interfaces from the generic power domains framework and fixes related to latency measurements in that code (Ulf Hansson, Daniel Lezcano). - cpufreq core sysfs interface rework to make it handle CPUs that share performance scaling settings (represented by a common cpufreq policy object) more symmetrically (Viresh Kumar). This should help to simplify the CPU offline/online handling among other things. - cpufreq core fixes and cleanups (Viresh Kumar). - intel_pstate fixes related to the Turbo Activation Ratio (TAR) mechanism on client platforms which causes the turbo P-states range to vary depending on platform firmware settings (Srinivas Pandruvada). - intel_pstate sysfs interface fix (Prarit Bhargava). - Assorted cpufreq driver (imx, tegra20, powernv, integrator) fixes and cleanups (Bai Ping, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Shilpasri G Bhat, Luis de Bethencourt). - cpuidle mvebu driver cleanups (Russell King). - OPP (Operating Performance Points) framework code reorganization to make it more maintainable (Viresh Kumar). - Intel Broxton support for the RAPL (Running Average Power Limits) power capping driver (Amy Wiles). - Assorted power management code fixes and cleanups (Dan Carpenter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Geliang Tang, Luis de Bethencourt, Rasmus Villemoes)" * tag 'pm+acpi-4.4-rc1-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (108 commits) cpufreq: postfix policy directory with the first CPU in related_cpus cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq/policyX directories cpufreq: remove cpufreq_sysfs_{create|remove}_file() cpufreq: create cpu/cpufreq at boot time cpufreq: Use cpumask_copy instead of cpumask_or to copy a mask cpufreq: ondemand: Drop unnecessary locks from update_sampling_rate() PM / Domains: Merge measurements for PM QoS device latencies PM / Domains: Don't measure ->start|stop() latency in system PM callbacks PM / clk: Fix broken build due to non-matching code and header #ifdefs ACPI / Documentation: add copy_dsdt to ACPI format options ACPI / sysfs: correctly check failing memory allocation ACPI / video: Add a quirk to force native backlight on Lenovo IdeaPad S405 ACPI / CPPC: Fix potential memory leak ACPI / CPPC: signedness bug in register_pcc_channel() ACPI / PAD: power_saving_thread() is not freezable ACPI / PM: Fix incorrect wakeup IRQ setting during suspend-to-idle ACPI: Using correct irq when waiting for events ACPI: Use correct IRQ when uninstalling ACPI interrupt handler cpuidle: mvebu: disable the bind/unbind attributes and use builtin_platform_driver cpuidle: mvebu: clean up multiple platform drivers ...

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2015-11-03T23:40:38Z

Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar: "The main changes in this cycle were: - Improvements to expedited grace periods (Paul E McKenney) - Performance improvements to and locktorture tests for percpu-rwsem (Oleg Nesterov, Paul E McKenney) - Torture-test changes (Paul E McKenney, Davidlohr Bueso) - Documentation updates (Paul E McKenney) - Miscellaneous fixes (Paul E McKenney, Boqun Feng, Oleg Nesterov, Patrick Marlier)" * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits) fs/writeback, rcu: Don't use list_entry_rcu() for pointer offsetting in bdi_split_work_to_wbs() rcu: Better hotplug handling for synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: Enable stall warnings for synchronize_rcu_expedited() rcu: Add tasks to expedited stall-warning messages rcu: Add online/offline info to expedited stall warning message rcu: Consolidate expedited CPU selection rcu: Prepare for consolidating expedited CPU selection cpu: Remove try_get_online_cpus() rcu: Stop excluding CPU hotplug in synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: Stop silencing lockdep false positive for expedited grace periods rcu: Switch synchronize_sched_expedited() to IPI locktorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified torture: Forgive non-plural arguments rcutorture: Fix unused-function warning for torturing_tasks() rcutorture: Fix module unwind when bad torture_type specified rcu_sync: Cleanup the CONFIG_PROVE_RCU checks locking/percpu-rwsem: Clean up the lockdep annotations in percpu_down_read() locking/percpu-rwsem: Fix the comments outdated by rcu_sync locking/percpu-rwsem: Make use of the rcu_sync infrastructure locking/percpu-rwsem: Make percpu_free_rwsem() after kzalloc() safe ...