linux/drivers/firmware, branch v3.19

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2014-12-15T00:10:09Z

Pull driver core update from Greg KH: "Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1. They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform drivers. They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes, just removing a line in a structure. Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes. There are some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been acked by the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs changes. Everything has been in linux-next for a while" * tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits) Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries" fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap" firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function device: Add dev__once variants ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner" drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR* cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe driver core: fix race with userland in device_add() sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer. sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated. fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size ...

Merge tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2014-12-11T03:58:13Z

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt: "There was a lot of clean ups and minor fixes. One of those clean ups was to the trace_seq code. It also removed the return values to the trace_seq_*() functions and use trace_seq_has_overflowed() to see if the buffer filled up or not. This is similar to work being done to the seq_file code as well in another tree. Some of the other goodies include: - Added some "!" (NOT) logic to the tracing filter. - Fixed the frame pointer logic to the x86_64 mcount trampolines - Added the logic for dynamic trampolines on !CONFIG_PREEMPT systems. That is, the ftrace trampoline can be dynamically allocated and be called directly by functions that only have a single hook to them" * tag 'trace-3.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (55 commits) tracing: Truncated output is better than nothing tracing: Add additional marks to signal very large time deltas Documentation: describe trace_buf_size parameter more accurately tracing: Allow NOT to filter AND and OR clauses tracing: Add NOT to filtering logic ftrace/fgraph/x86: Have prepare_ftrace_return() take ip as first parameter ftrace/x86: Get rid of ftrace_caller_setup ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs macro also save stack frames if needed ftrace/x86: Add macro MCOUNT_REG_SIZE for amount of stack used to save mcount regs ftrace/x86: Simplify save_mcount_regs on getting RIP ftrace/x86: Have save_mcount_regs store RIP in %rdi for first parameter ftrace/x86: Rename MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME and add more detailed comments ftrace/x86: Move MCOUNT_SAVE_FRAME out of header file ftrace/x86: Have static tracing also use ftrace_caller_setup ftrace/x86: Have static function tracing always test for function graph kprobes: Add IPMODIFY flag to kprobe_ftrace_ops ftrace, kprobes: Support IPMODIFY flag to find IP modify conflict kprobes/ftrace: Recover original IP if pre_handler doesn't change it tracing/trivial: Fix typos and make an int into a bool tracing: Deletion of an unnecessary check before iput() ...

Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-12-10T20:42:16Z

Pull EFI updates from Ingo Molnar: "Changes in this cycle are: - support module unload for efivarfs (Mathias Krause) - another attempt at moving x86 to libstub taking advantage of the __pure attribute (Ard Biesheuvel) - add EFI runtime services section to ptdump (Mathias Krause)" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, ptdump: Add section for EFI runtime services efi/x86: Move x86 back to libstub efivarfs: Allow unloading when build as module

RAS/tracing: Use trace_seq_buffer_ptr() helper instead of open coded

2014-11-19T20:25:37Z

Use the helper function trace_seq_buffer_ptr() to get the current location of the next buffer write of a trace_seq object, instead of open coding it. This facilitates the conversion of trace_seq to use seq_buf. Tested-by: Jiri Kosina Acked-by: Jiri Kosina Acked-by: Borislav Petkov Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek Cc: Chen Gong Cc: Tony Luck Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

efi/x86: Move x86 back to libstub

2014-11-11T22:23:11Z

This reverts commit 84be880560fb, which itself reverted my original attempt to move x86 from #include'ing .c files from across the tree to using the EFI stub built as a static library. The issue that affected the original approach was that splitting the implementation into several .o files resulted in the variable 'efi_early' becoming a global with external linkage, which under -fPIC implies that references to it must go through the GOT. However, dealing with this additional GOT entry turned out to be troublesome on some EFI implementations. (GCC's visibility=hidden attribute is supposed to lift this requirement, but it turned out not to work on the 32-bit build.) Instead, use a pure getter function to get a reference to efi_early. This approach results in no additional GOT entries being generated, so there is no need for any changes in the early GOT handling. Tested-by: Maarten Lankhorst Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

efi: efi-stub: notify on DTB absence

2014-11-05T08:03:34Z

In the absence of a DTB configuration table, the EFI stub will happily continue attempting to boot a kernel, despite the fact that this kernel may not function without a description of the hardware. In this case, as with a typo'd "dtb=" option (e.g. "dbt=") or many other possible failures, the only output seen by the user will be the rather terse output from the EFI stub: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... To aid those attempting to debug such failures, this patch adds a notice when no DTB is found, making the output more helpful: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Generating empty DTB Additionally, a positive acknowledgement is added when a user-specified DTB is in use: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Using DTB from command line Similarly, a positive acknowledgement is added when a DTB from a configuration table is in use: EFI stub: Booting Linux Kernel... EFI stub: Using DTB from configuration table Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Leif Lindholm Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel Acked-by: Roy Franz Acked-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point

2014-11-05T08:03:19Z

The DMTF SMBIOS reference spec v3.0.0 defines a new 64-bit entry point, which enables support for SMBIOS structure tables residing at a physical offset over 4 GB. This is especially important for upcoming arm64 platforms whose system RAM resides entirely above the 4 GB boundary. For the UEFI case, this code attempts to detect the new SMBIOS 3.0 header magic at the offset passed in the SMBIOS3_TABLE_GUID UEFI configuration table. If this configuration table is not provided, or if we fail to parse the header, we fall back to using the legacy SMBIOS_TABLE_GUID configuration table. This is in line with the spec, that allows both configuration tables to be provided, but mandates that they must point to the same structure table, unless the version pointed to by the 64-bit entry point is a superset of the 32-bit one. For the non-UEFI case, the detection logic is modified to look for the SMBIOS 3.0 header magic before it looks for the legacy header magic. Note that this patch is based on version 3.0.0d [draft] of the specification, which is expected not to deviate from the final version in ways that would affect the correctness of this implementation. Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit Acked-by: Leif Lindholm Tested-by: Leif Lindholm Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Tony Luck Acked-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

efi: dmi: add support for SMBIOS 3.0 UEFI configuration table

2014-11-05T08:03:16Z

This adds support to the UEFI side for detecting the presence of a SMBIOS 3.0 64-bit entry point. This allows the actual SMBIOS structure table to reside at a physical offset over 4 GB, which cannot be supported by the legacy SMBIOS 32-bit entry point. Since the firmware can legally provide both entry points, store the SMBIOS 3.0 entry point in a separate variable, and let the DMI decoding layer decide which one will be used. Tested-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit Acked-by: Leif Lindholm Acked-by: Matt Fleming Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel

Merge branch 'platform/remove_owner' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux into driver-core-next

2014-11-04T03:53:56Z

Remove all .owner fields from platform drivers

Merge branch 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2014-10-23T21:45:09Z

Pull x86 EFI updates from Peter Anvin: "This patchset falls under the "maintainers that grovel" clause in the v3.18-rc1 announcement. We had intended to push it late in the merge window since we got it into the -tip tree relatively late. Many of these are relatively simple things, but there are a couple of key bits, especially Ard's and Matt's patches" * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits) rtc: Disable EFI rtc for x86 efi: rtc-efi: Export platform:rtc-efi as module alias efi: Delete the in_nmi() conditional runtime locking efi: Provide a non-blocking SetVariable() operation x86/efi: Adding efi_printks on memory allocationa and pci.reads x86/efi: Mark initialization code as such x86/efi: Update comment regarding required phys mapped EFI services x86/efi: Unexport add_efi_memmap variable x86/efi: Remove unused efi_call* macros efi: Resolve some shadow warnings arm64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() ia64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() x86: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format() efi: Introduce efi_md_typeattr_format() efi: Add macro for EFI_MEMORY_UCE memory attribute x86/efi: Clear EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES if failing to enter virtual mode arm64/efi: Do not enter virtual mode if booting with efi=noruntime or noefi arm64/efi: uefi_init error handling fix efi: Add kernel param efi=noruntime lib: Add a generic cmdline parse function parse_option_str ...