linux/Documentation, branch v3.2.41

tty/serial: Add support for Altera serial port

2013-03-20T15:03:33Z

commit e06c93cacb82dd147266fd1bdb2d0a0bd45ff2c1 upstream. Add support for Altera 8250/16550 compatible serial port. Signed-off-by: Ley Foon Tan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filenames, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

doc, kernel-parameters: Document 'console=hvc'

2013-03-06T03:24:14Z

commit a2fd6419174470f5ae6383f5037d0ee21ed9833f upstream. Both the PowerPC hypervisor and Xen hypervisor can utilize the hvc driver. Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-3-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

doc, xen: Mention 'earlyprintk=xen' in the documentation.

2013-03-06T03:24:13Z

commit 2482a92e7d17187301d7313cfe5021b13393a0b4 upstream. The earlyprintk for Xen PV guests utilizes a simple hypercall (console_io) to provide output to Xen emergency console. Note that the Xen hypervisor should be booted with 'loglevel=all' to output said information. Reported-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1361825650-14031-2-git-send-email-konrad.wilk@oracle.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

tcp: implement RFC 5961 3.2

2013-01-16T01:13:25Z

[ Upstream commit 282f23c6ee343126156dd41218b22ece96d747e3 ] Implement the RFC 5691 mitigation against Blind Reset attack using RST bit. Idea is to validate incoming RST sequence, to match RCV.NXT value, instead of previouly accepted window : (RCV.NXT <= SEG.SEQ < RCV.NXT+RCV.WND) If sequence is in window but not an exact match, send a "challenge ACK", so that the other part can resend an RST with the appropriate sequence. Add a new sysctl, tcp_challenge_ack_limit, to limit number of challenge ACK sent per second. Add a new SNMP counter to count number of challenge acks sent. (netstat -s | grep TCPChallengeACK) Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Cc: Kiran Kumar Kella Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Atom CE4110/4150/4170

2013-01-03T03:32:48Z

commit 1102dcab849313bd5a340b299b5cf61b518fbc0f upstream. TjMax for the CE4100 series of Atom CPUs was previously reported to be 110 degrees C. cpuinfo logs on the web show existing CPU types CE4110, CE4150, and CE4170, reported as "model name : Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU CE41{1|5|7}0 @ 1.{2|6}0GHz" with model 28 (0x1c) and stepping 10 (0x0a). Add the three known variants to the tjmax table. Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Acked-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hwmon: (coretemp) Add support for Atom D2000 and N2000 series CPU models

2013-01-03T03:32:47Z

commit 5592906f8b01282ea3c2acaf641fd067ad4bb3dc upstream. Document the Atom series D2000 and N2000 (Cedar Trail) as being supported. List and set TjMax for those series. Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: "R, Durgadoss" Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

hwmon: (coretemp) Improve support of recent Atom CPU models

2013-01-03T03:32:47Z

commit fcc14ac1a86931f38da047cf8fb634c6db7b58bc upstream. Document the new Atom series (Tunnel Creek and Medfield) as being supported, and list TjMax for the Atom E600 series. Also enable the Atom tjmax heuristic for these Atom CPU models. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck Cc: Alexander Stein Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: "R, Durgadoss" Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

get_dvb_firmware: fix download site for tda10046 firmware

2012-12-06T11:20:15Z

commit 25ec43d3e6306978cf66060ed18c4160ce8fc302 upstream. The previous website doesn't exist anymore. Update it to one site that actually exists. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

memcg: oom: fix totalpages calculation for memory.swappiness==0

2012-12-06T11:20:08Z

commit 9a5a8f19b43430752067ecaee62fc59e11e88fa6 upstream. oom_badness() takes a totalpages argument which says how many pages are available and it uses it as a base for the score calculation. The value is calculated by mem_cgroup_get_limit which considers both limit and total_swap_pages (resp. memsw portion of it). This is usually correct but since fe35004fbf9e ("mm: avoid swapping out with swappiness==0") we do not swap when swappiness is 0 which means that we cannot really use up all the totalpages pages. This in turn confuses oom score calculation if the memcg limit is much smaller than the available swap because the used memory (capped by the limit) is negligible comparing to totalpages so the resulting score is too small if adj!=0 (typically task with CAP_SYS_ADMIN or non zero oom_score_adj). A wrong process might be selected as result. The problem can be worked around by checking mem_cgroup_swappiness==0 and not considering swap at all in such a case. Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko Acked-by: David Rientjes Acked-by: Johannes Weiner Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings

x86: Remove the ancient and deprecated disable_hlt() and enable_hlt() facility

2012-11-16T16:46:46Z

commit f6365201d8a21fb347260f89d6e9b3e718d63c70 upstream. The X86_32-only disable_hlt/enable_hlt mechanism was used by the 32-bit floppy driver. Its effect was to replace the use of the HLT instruction inside default_idle() with cpu_relax() - essentially it turned off the use of HLT. This workaround was commented in the code as: "disable hlt during certain critical i/o operations" "This halt magic was a workaround for ancient floppy DMA wreckage. It should be safe to remove." H. Peter Anvin additionally adds: "To the best of my knowledge, no-hlt only existed because of flaky power distributions on 386/486 systems which were sold to run DOS. Since DOS did no power management of any kind, including HLT, the power draw was fairly uniform; when exposed to the much hhigher noise levels you got when Linux used HLT caused some of these systems to fail. They were by far in the minority even back then." Alan Cox further says: "Also for the Cyrix 5510 which tended to go castors up if a HLT occurred during a DMA cycle and on a few other boxes HLT during DMA tended to go astray. Do we care ? I doubt it. The 5510 was pretty obscure, the 5520 fixed it, the 5530 is probably the oldest still in any kind of use." So, let's finally drop this. Signed-off-by: Len Brown Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" Acked-by: Alan Cox Cc: Stephen Hemminger Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-3rhk9bzf0x9rljkv488tloib@git.kernel.org [ If anyone cares then alternative instruction patching could be used to replace HLT with a one-byte NOP instruction. Much simpler. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings