linux/arch/arc/kernel, branch v4.2

ARCv2: spinlock/rwlock/atomics: Delayed retry of failed SCOND with exponential backoff

2015-08-04T03:56:34Z

This is to workaround the llock/scond livelock HS38x4 could get into a LLOCK/SCOND livelock in case of multiple overlapping coherency transactions in the SCU. The exclusive line state keeps rotating among contenting cores leading to a never ending cycle. So break the cycle by deferring the retry of failed exclusive access (SCOND). The actual delay needed is function of number of contending cores as well as the unrelated coherency traffic from other cores. To keep the code simple, start off with small delay of 1 which would suffice most cases and in case of contention double the delay. Eventually the delay is sufficient such that the coherency pipeline is drained, thus a subsequent exclusive access would succeed. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1438612568-28265-1-git-send-email-vgupta@synopsys.com Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: Fix the peripheral address space detection

2015-08-03T14:04:07Z

With HS 2.1 release, the peripheral space register no longer contains the uncached space specifics, causing the kernel to panic early on. So read the newer NON VOLATILE AUX register to get that info. Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC/time: Migrate to new 'set-state' interface

2015-07-20T10:30:31Z

Migrate arc driver to the new 'set-state' interface provided by clockevents core, the earlier 'set-mode' interface is marked obsolete now. This also enables us to implement callbacks for new states of clockevent devices, for example: ONESHOT_STOPPED. Cc: Vineet Gupta Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: support HS38 releases

2015-07-13T08:03:23Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: slightly refactor macros for boot logging

2015-07-09T12:06:33Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

arc:irqchip: prepare for drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h removal

2015-07-09T12:06:32Z

The IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro migrated to 'include/linux/irqchip.h'. See commit 91e20b5040c67c51aad88cf87db4305c5bd7f79d ("irqchip: Move IRQCHIP_DECLARE macro to include/linux/irqchip.h"). This patch removes the inclusions of private header 'drivers/irqchip/irqchip.h' and if necessary replaces them with inclusions of 'include/linux/irqchip.h'. Signed-off-by: Joel Porquet Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: intc: IDU: Fix potential race in installing a chained IRQ handler

2015-07-06T05:39:06Z

Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARCv2: intc: IDU: support irq affinity

2015-07-06T05:39:02Z

With this nsim standlone / OSCI have working irq affinity - AXS103 still needs some work as IDU is not visible in intc hierarchy yet ! Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

ARC: fix unused var wanring

2015-07-06T05:39:01Z

Fixes: 9bf39ab2adaf ("vfs: add file_path() helper") Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

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

2015-07-05T02:36:06Z

Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted VFS fixes and related cleanups (IMO the most interesting in that part are f_path-related things and Eric's descriptor-related stuff). UFS regression fixes (it got broken last cycle). 9P fixes. fs-cache series, DAX patches, Jan's file_remove_suid() work" [ I'd say this is much more than "fixes and related cleanups". The file_table locking rule change by Eric Dumazet is a rather big and fundamental update even if the patch isn't huge. - Linus ] * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (49 commits) 9p: cope with bogus responses from server in p9_client_{read,write} p9_client_write(): avoid double p9_free_req() 9p: forgetting to cancel request on interrupted zero-copy RPC dax: bdev_direct_access() may sleep block: Add support for DAX reads/writes to block devices dax: Use copy_from_iter_nocache dax: Add block size note to documentation fs/file.c: __fget() and dup2() atomicity rules fs/file.c: don't acquire files->file_lock in fd_install() fs:super:get_anon_bdev: fix race condition could cause dev exceed its upper limitation vfs: avoid creation of inode number 0 in get_next_ino namei: make set_root_rcu() return void make simple_positive() public ufs: use dir_pages instead of ufs_dir_pages() pagemap.h: move dir_pages() over there remove the pointless include of lglock.h fs: cleanup slight list_entry abuse xfs: Correctly lock inode when removing suid and file capabilities fs: Call security_ops->inode_killpriv on truncate fs: Provide function telling whether file_remove_privs() will do anything ...