linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v4.9

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

2016-10-14T20:19:30Z

Pull some more input subsystem updates from Dmitry Torokhov: "An update to the ALPS driver to support the V8 protocol with touchstick, a change for i8042 to skip selftest on many Asus laptops which helps to keep their touchpads working after resume, and a couple other driver fixes" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: i8042 - skip selftest on ASUS laptops Input: melfas_mip4 - add ic_name sysfs attribute Input: melfas_mip4 - add maintainer information Input: melfas_mip4 - add devicetree binding documentations Input: elantech - add Fujitsu Lifebook E556 to force crc_enabled Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix error handling in I2C transport driver Input: synaptics-rmi4 - fix error handling in SPI transport driver Input: ALPS - add V8 protocol documentation Input: ALPS - set DualPoint flag for 74 03 28 devices Input: ALPS - allow touchsticks to report pressure Input: ALPS - handle 0-pressure 1F events Input: ALPS - add touchstick support for SS5 hardware Input: elantech - force needed quirks on Fujitsu H760 Input: elantech - fix Lenovo version typo

Merge tag 'nfs-for-4.9-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs

2016-10-14T04:28:20Z

Pull NFS client updates from Anna Schumaker: "Highlights include: Stable bugfixes: - sunrpc: fix writ espace race causing stalls - NFS: Fix inode corruption in nfs_prime_dcache() - NFSv4: Don't report revoked delegations as valid in nfs_have_delegation() - NFSv4: nfs4_copy_delegation_stateid() must fail if the delegation is invalid - NFSv4: Open state recovery must account for file permission changes - NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic Features: - Add support for tracking multiple layout types with an ordered list - Add support for using multiple backchannel threads on the client - Add support for pNFS file layout session trunking - Delay xprtrdma use of DMA API (for device driver removal) - Add support for xprtrdma remote invalidation - Add support for larger xprtrdma inline thresholds - Use a scatter/gather list for sending xprtrdma RPC calls - Add support for the CB_NOTIFY_LOCK callback - Improve hashing sunrpc auth_creds by using both uid and gid Bugfixes: - Fix xprtrdma use of DMA API - Validate filenames before adding to the dcache - Fix corruption of xdr->nwords in xdr_copy_to_scratch - Fix setting buffer length in xdr_set_next_buffer() - Don't deadlock the state manager on the SEQUENCE status flags - Various delegation and stateid related fixes - Retry operations if an interrupted slot receives EREMOTEIO - Make nfs boot time y2038 safe" * tag 'nfs-for-4.9-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/anna/linux-nfs: (100 commits) NFSv4.2: Fix a reference leak in nfs42_proc_layoutstats_generic fs: nfs: Make nfs boot time y2038 safe sunrpc: replace generic auth_cred hash with auth-specific function sunrpc: add RPCSEC_GSS hash_cred() function sunrpc: add auth_unix hash_cred() function sunrpc: add generic_auth hash_cred() function sunrpc: add hash_cred() function to rpc_authops struct Retry operation on EREMOTEIO on an interrupted slot pNFS: Fix atime updates on pNFS clients sunrpc: queue work on system_power_efficient_wq NFSv4.1: Even if the stateid is OK, we may need to recover the open modes NFSv4: If recovery failed for a specific open stateid, then don't retry NFSv4: Fix retry issues with nfs41_test/free_stateid NFSv4: Open state recovery must account for file permission changes NFSv4: Mark the lock and open stateids as invalid after freeing them NFSv4: Don't test open_stateid unless it is set NFSv4: nfs4_do_handle_exception() handle revoke/expiry of a single stateid NFS: Always call nfs_inode_find_state_and_recover() when revoking a delegation NFSv4: Fix a race when updating an open_stateid NFSv4: Fix a race in nfs_inode_reclaim_delegation() ...

Input: i8042 - skip selftest on ASUS laptops

2016-10-11T23:58:25Z

On suspend/resume cycle, selftest is executed to reset i8042 controller. But when this is done in Asus devices, subsequent calls to detect/init functions to elantech driver fails. Skipping selftest fixes this problem. An easier step to reproduce this problem is adding i8042.reset=1 as a kernel parameter. On Asus laptops, it'll make the system to start with the touchpad already stuck, since psmouse_probe forcibly calls the selftest function. This patch was inspired by John Hiesey's change[1], but, since this problem affects a lot of models of Asus, let's avoid running selftests on them. All models affected by this problem: A455LD K401LB K501LB K501LX R409L V502LX X302LA X450LCP X450LD X455LAB X455LDB X455LF Z450LA [1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-input&m=144312209020616&w=2 Fixes: "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad dies after resume from suspend" (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107971) Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

lib/bitmap.c: enhance bitmap syntax

2016-10-11T22:06:30Z

Today there are platforms with many CPUs (up to 4K). Trying to boot only part of the CPUs may result in too long string. For example lets take NPS platform that is part of arch/arc. This platform have SMP system with 256 cores each with 16 HW threads (SMT machine) where HW thread appears as CPU to the kernel. In this example there is total of 4K CPUs. When one tries to boot only part of the HW threads from each core the string representing the map may be long... For example if for sake of performance we decided to boot only first half of HW threads of each core the map will look like: 0-7,16-23,32-39,...,4080-4087 This patch introduce new syntax to accommodate with such use case. I added an optional postfix to a range of CPUs which will choose according to given modulo the desired range of reminders i.e.: :sed_size/group_size For example, above map can be described in new syntax like this: 0-4095:8/16 Note that this patch is backward compatible with current syntax. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: rework documentation] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1473579629-4283-1-git-send-email-noamca@mellanox.com Signed-off-by: Noam Camus Cc: David Decotigny Cc: Ben Hutchings Cc: David S. Miller Cc: Pan Xinhui Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

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

2016-10-10T18:01:51Z

Pull protection keys syscall interface from Thomas Gleixner: "This is the final step of Protection Keys support which adds the syscalls so user space can actually allocate keys and protect memory areas with them. Details and usage examples can be found in the documentation. The mm side of this has been acked by Mel" * 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/pkeys: Update documentation x86/mm/pkeys: Do not skip PKRU register if debug registers are not used x86/pkeys: Fix pkeys build breakage for some non-x86 arches x86/pkeys: Add self-tests x86/pkeys: Allow configuration of init_pkru x86/pkeys: Default to a restrictive init PKRU pkeys: Add details of system call use to Documentation/ generic syscalls: Wire up memory protection keys syscalls x86: Wire up protection keys system calls x86/pkeys: Allocation/free syscalls x86/pkeys: Make mprotect_key() mask off additional vm_flags mm: Implement new pkey_mprotect() system call x86/pkeys: Add fault handling for PF_PK page fault bit

Merge tag 'kvm-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm

2016-10-06T17:49:01Z

Pull KVM updates from Radim Krčmář: "All architectures: - move `make kvmconfig` stubs from x86 - use 64 bits for debugfs stats ARM: - Important fixes for not using an in-kernel irqchip - handle SError exceptions and present them to guests if appropriate - proxying of GICV access at EL2 if guest mappings are unsafe - GICv3 on AArch32 on ARMv8 - preparations for GICv3 save/restore, including ABI docs - cleanups and a bit of optimizations MIPS: - A couple of fixes in preparation for supporting MIPS EVA host kernels - MIPS SMP host & TLB invalidation fixes PPC: - Fix the bug which caused guests to falsely report lockups - other minor fixes - a small optimization s390: - Lazy enablement of runtime instrumentation - up to 255 CPUs for nested guests - rework of machine check deliver - cleanups and fixes x86: - IOMMU part of AMD's AVIC for vmexit-less interrupt delivery - Hyper-V TSC page - per-vcpu tsc_offset in debugfs - accelerated INS/OUTS in nVMX - cleanups and fixes" * tag 'kvm-4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (140 commits) KVM: MIPS: Drop dubious EntryHi optimisation KVM: MIPS: Invalidate TLB by regenerating ASIDs KVM: MIPS: Split kernel/user ASID regeneration KVM: MIPS: Drop other CPU ASIDs on guest MMU changes KVM: arm/arm64: vgic: Don't flush/sync without a working vgic KVM: arm64: Require in-kernel irqchip for PMU support KVM: PPC: Book3s PR: Allow access to unprivileged MMCR2 register KVM: PPC: Book3S PR: Support 64kB page size on POWER8E and POWER8NVL KVM: PPC: Book3S: Remove duplicate setting of the B field in tlbie KVM: PPC: BookE: Fix a sanity check KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Take out virtual core piggybacking code KVM: PPC: Book3S: Treat VTB as a per-subcore register, not per-thread ARM: gic-v3: Work around definition of gic_write_bpr1 KVM: nVMX: Fix the NMI IDT-vectoring handling KVM: VMX: Enable MSR-BASED TPR shadow even if APICv is inactive KVM: nVMX: Fix reload apic access page warning kvmconfig: add virtio-gpu to config fragment config: move x86 kvm_guest.config to a common location arm64: KVM: Remove duplicating init code for setting VMID ARM: KVM: Support vgic-v3 ...

Merge tag 'gpio-v4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

2016-10-05T18:49:09Z

Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij: "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.9 series: Subsystem improvements: - do away with the last users of the obsolete Kconfig options ARCH_REQUIRE_GPIOLIB and ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB (the latter always sounded like an item on a wishlist to Santa Claus to me). We can now select GPIOLIB and be done with it, for all archs. After some struggle it even work on UM. Not that it has GPIO, but if it wants to, it can select the library. - continued efforts to make drivers properly either tristate or bool. - introduce a warning for drivers assigning default triggers to their irqchip lines when probed from device tree, so we find and fix these ambigous drivers. It is agreed that in the OF config path, the device tree defines trigger characteristics. - the same warning, mutatis mutandis, for ACPI-probed GPIO irqchips. - we introduce the ability to mark certain IRQ lines as "unusable" as they can be taken by BIOS/firmware, unrouted in silicon and generally nasty if you use them, and such things. This is put to good use in the STMPE driver and also in the Cherryview pin control driver. - a new "mockup" virtual GPIO device that can be used for testing. The plan is to add unit tests under tools/* for exercising this device and verify that the kernel code paths are working as they should. - make memory-mapped I/O-drivers depend on HAS_IOMEM. This was implicit all the time, but when people started building UM with allyesconfig or allmodconfig it exploded in their face. - move some stray bits of device tree and ACPI HW description callbacks down into their respective implementation silo. These were causing issues when compiling on !HAS_IOMEM as well, so now eventually UM compiles the GPIOLIB library if it wants to. New drivers: - new driver for the Aspeed GPIO front-end companion to the pin controller merged through the pin control tree. - new driver for the LP873x PMIC GPIO portions. - new driver for Technologic Systems' I2C FPGA GPIO such as TS4900, TS-7970, TS-7990 and TS-4100. - new driver for the Broadcom BCM63xx series including BCM6338 and BCM6345. - new driver for the Intel WhiskeyCove PMIC GPIO. - new driver for the Allwinner AXP209 PMIC GPIO portions. - new driver for Diamond Systems 48 line GPIO-MM, another of these port-mapped I/O expansion cards. - support the STMicroelectronics STMPE1600 variant in the STMPE driver. Driver improvements: - the STMPE driver now supports rising/falling edge detection properly for IRQs. - the PCA954x will now fetch and enable its VCC regulator properly. - major rework of the PCA953x driver with the goal of eventually switching it over to use regmap and thus modernize it even more. - switch the IOP driver to use the generic MMIO GPIO library. - move the ages old HTC EGPIO (extended GPIO) GPIO expander driver over to this subsystem from MFD, achieveing some separation of concerns" * tag 'gpio-v4.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (81 commits) gpio: add missing static inline gpio: OF: localize some gpiochip init functions gpio: acpi: separation of concerns gpio: OF: separation of concerns gpio: make memory-mapped drivers depend on HAS_IOMEM gpio: stmpe: use BIT() macro gpio: stmpe: forbid unused lines to be mapped as IRQs mfd/gpio: Move HTC GPIO driver to GPIO subsystem gpio: MAINTAINERS: Add an entry for GPIO mockup driver gpio/mockup: add virtual gpio device gpio: Added zynq specific check for special pins on bank zero gpio: axp209: Implement get_direction gpio: aspeed: remove redundant return value check gpio: loongson1: remove redundant return value check ARM: omap2: fix missing include gpio: tc3589x: fix up complaints on unsigned gpio: tc3589x: add .get_direction() and small cleanup gpio: f7188x: use gpiochip_get_data instead of container_of gpio: tps65218: use devm_gpiochip_add_data() for gpio registration gpio: aspeed: fix return value check in aspeed_gpio_probe() ...

Merge tag 'docs-4.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2016-10-04T20:54:07Z

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet: "This is the documentation update pull for the 4.9 merge window. The Sphinx transition is still creating a fair amount of work. Here we have a number of fixes and, importantly, a proper PDF output solution, thanks to Jani Nikula, Mauro Carvalho Chehab and Markus Heiser. I've started a couple of new books: a driver API book (based on the old device-drivers.tmpl) and a development tools book. Both are meant to show how we can integrate together our existing documentation into a more coherent and accessible whole. It involves moving some stuff around and formatting changes, but, I think, the results are worth it. The good news is that most of our existing Documentation/*.txt files are *almost* in RST format already; the amount of messing around required is minimal. And, of course, there's the usual set of updates, typo fixes, and more" * tag 'docs-4.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (120 commits) URL changed for Linux Foundation TAB dax : Fix documentation with respect to struct pages iio: Documentation: Correct the path used to create triggers. docs: Remove space-before-label guidance from CodingStyle docs-rst: add inter-document cross references Documentation/email-clients.txt: convert it to ReST markup Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: reorder based on timestamp Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add dates for online docs Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: get rid of broken docs Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: move in-kernel docs Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: remove more legacy references Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: add two published books Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: sort books per publication date Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: adjust LDD references Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: some improvements on the ReST output Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Consistent indenting: 4 spaces Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Add 4 paper/book references Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Improve layouting of book list Documentation/kernel-docs.txt: Remove offline or outdated entries docs: Clean up bare :: lines ...

Merge tag 'usb-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb

2016-10-04T03:17:35Z

Pull usb/phy/extcon updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big USB, and PHY, and extcon, patchsets for 4.9-rc1. Full details are in the shortlog, but generally a lot of new hardware support, usb gadget updates, and Wolfram's great cleanup of USB error message handling, making the kernel image a tad bit smaller. All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'usb-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb: (343 commits) Revert "usbtmc: convert to devm_kzalloc" USB: serial: cp210x: Add ID for a Juniper console usb: Kconfig: using select for USB_COMMON dependency bluetooth: bcm203x: don't print error when allocating urb fails mmc: host: vub300: don't print error when allocating urb fails usb: hub: change CLEAR_FEATURE to SET_FEATURE usb: core: Introduce a USB port LED trigger USB: bcma: drop Northstar PHY 2.0 initialization code usb: core: hcd: add missing header dependencies usb: musb: da8xx: fix error handling message in probe usb: musb: Fix session based PM for first invalid VBUS usb: musb: Fix PM runtime for disconnect after unconfigure musb: Export musb_root_disconnect for use in modules usb: misc: legousbtower: Fix NULL pointer deference cdc-acm: hardening against malicious devices Revert "usb: gadget: NCM: Protect dev->port_usb using dev->lock" include: extcon: Fix compilation error caused because of incomplete merge MAINTAINERS: add tree entry for USB Serial phy-twl4030-usb: initialize charging-related stuff via pm_runtime phy-twl4030-usb: better handle musb_mailbox() failure ...

Merge tag 'tty-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2016-10-04T03:11:49Z

Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH: "Here is the big tty and serial patch set for 4.9-rc1. It also includes some drivers/dma/ changes, as those were needed by some serial drivers, and they were all acked by the DMA maintainer. Also in here is the long-suffering ACPI SPCR patchset, which was passed around from maintainer to maintainer like a hot-potato. Seems I was the sucker^Wlucky one. All of those patches have been acked by the various subsystem maintainers as well. All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues" * tag 'tty-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (111 commits) Revert "serial: pl011: add console matching function" MAINTAINERS: update entry for atmel_serial driver serial: pl011: add console matching function ARM64: ACPI: enable ACPI_SPCR_TABLE ACPI: parse SPCR and enable matching console of/serial: move earlycon early_param handling to serial Revert "drivers/tty: Explicitly pass current to show_stack" tty: amba-pl011: Don't complain on -EPROBE_DEFER when no irq nios2: dts: 10m50: Add tx-threshold parameter serial: 8250: Set Altera 16550 TX FIFO Threshold serial: 8250: of: Load TX FIFO Threshold from DT Documentation: dt: serial: Add TX FIFO threshold parameter drivers/tty: Explicitly pass current to show_stack serial: imx: Fix DCD reading serial: stm32: mark symbols static where possible serial: xuartps: Add some register initialisation to cdns_early_console_setup() serial: xuartps: Removed unwanted checks while reading the error conditions serial: xuartps: Rewrite the interrupt handling logic serial: stm32: use mapbase instead of membase for DMA tty/serial: atmel: fix fractional baud rate computation ...