linux/drivers/firmware, branch v3.11

dmi_scan: add comments on dmi_present() and the loop in dmi_scan_machine()

2013-07-31T21:41:02Z

My previous refactoring in commit 79bae42d51a5 ("dmi_scan: refactor dmi_scan_machine(), {smbios,dmi}_present()") resulted in slightly tricky code (though I think it's more elegant). Explain what it's doing. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: Zhenzhong Duan Cc: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

efivars: check for EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES

2013-07-11T10:00:31Z

The efivars code requires EFI runtime services to function, so check that they are enabled. This fixes a crash when booting with the "noefi" kernel parameter, and also when mixing kernel and firmware "bitness", e.g. 32-bit kernel with 64-bit firmware. Tested-by: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc

2013-07-04T17:29:23Z

Pull powerpc updates from Ben Herrenschmidt: "This is the powerpc changes for the 3.11 merge window. In addition to the usual bug fixes and small updates, the main highlights are: - Support for transparent huge pages by Aneesh Kumar for 64-bit server processors. This allows the use of 16M pages as transparent huge pages on kernels compiled with a 64K base page size. - Base VFIO support for KVM on power by Alexey Kardashevskiy - Wiring up of our nvram to the pstore infrastructure, including putting compressed oopses in there by Aruna Balakrishnaiah - Move, rework and improve our "EEH" (basically PCI error handling and recovery) infrastructure. It is no longer specific to pseries but is now usable by the new "powernv" platform as well (no hypervisor) by Gavin Shan. - I fixed some bugs in our math-emu instruction decoding and made it usable to emulate some optional FP instructions on processors with hard FP that lack them (such as fsqrt on Freescale embedded processors). - Support for Power8 "Event Based Branch" facility by Michael Ellerman. This facility allows what is basically "userspace interrupts" for performance monitor events. - A bunch of Transactional Memory vs. Signals bug fixes and HW breakpoint/watchpoint fixes by Michael Neuling. And more ... I appologize in advance if I've failed to highlight something that somebody deemed worth it." * 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (156 commits) pstore: Add hsize argument in write_buf call of pstore_ftrace_call powerpc/fsl: add MPIC timer wakeup support powerpc/mpic: create mpic subsystem object powerpc/mpic: add global timer support powerpc/mpic: add irq_set_wake support powerpc/85xx: enable coreint for all the 64bit boards powerpc/8xx: Erroneous double irq_eoi() on CPM IRQ in MPC8xx powerpc/fsl: Enable CONFIG_E1000E in mpc85xx_smp_defconfig powerpc/mpic: Add get_version API both for internal and external use powerpc: Handle both new style and old style reserve maps powerpc/hw_brk: Fix off by one error when validating DAWR region end powerpc/pseries: Support compression of oops text via pstore powerpc/pseries: Re-organise the oops compression code pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu initialization again powerpc/pseries: Inform the hypervisor we are using EBB regs powerpc/perf: Add power8 EBB support powerpc/perf: Core EBB support for 64-bit book3s powerpc/perf: Drop MMCRA from thread_struct powerpc/perf: Don't enable if we have zero events ...

Merge branch 'akpm' (updates from Andrew Morton)

2013-07-04T00:12:13Z

Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton: - various misc bits - I'm been patchmonkeying ocfs2 for a while, as Joel and Mark have been distracted. There has been quite a bit of activity. - About half the MM queue - Some backlight bits - Various lib/ updates - checkpatch updates - zillions more little rtc patches - ptrace - signals - exec - procfs - rapidio - nbd - aoe - pps - memstick - tools/testing/selftests updates * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (445 commits) tools/testing/selftests: don't assume the x bit is set on scripts selftests: add .gitignore for kcmp selftests: fix clean target in kcmp Makefile selftests: add .gitignore for vm selftests: add hugetlbfstest self-test: fix make clean selftests: exit 1 on failure kernel/resource.c: remove the unneeded assignment in function __find_resource aio: fix wrong comment in aio_complete() drivers/w1/slaves/w1_ds2408.c: add magic sequence to disable P0 test mode drivers/memstick/host/r592.c: convert to module_pci_driver drivers/memstick/host/jmb38x_ms: convert to module_pci_driver pps-gpio: add device-tree binding and support drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to module_platform_driver drivers/pps/clients/pps-gpio.c: convert to devm_* helpers drivers/parport/share.c: use kzalloc Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c: avoid strncpy in accounting tool aoe: update internal version number to v83 aoe: update copyright date aoe: perform I/O completions in parallel ...

dmi: add support for exact DMI matches in addition to substring matching

2013-07-03T23:07:42Z

dmi_match() considers a substring match to be a successful match. This is not always sufficient to distinguish between DMI data for different systems. Add support for exact string matching using strcmp() in addition to the substring matching using strstr(). The specific use case in the i915 driver is to allow us to use an exact match for D510MO, without also incorrectly matching D510MOV: { .ident = "Intel D510MO", .matches = { DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_VENDOR, "Intel"), DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "D510MO"), }, } Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula Cc: Cc: Chris Wilson Cc: Cornel Panceac Acked-by: Daniel Vetter Cc: Greg KH Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux

2013-07-03T18:14:44Z

Pull pstore update from Tony Luck: "Fixes for pstore for 3.11 merge window" * tag 'please-pull-pstore' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux: efivars: If pstore_register fails, free unneeded pstore buffer acpi: Eliminate console msg if pstore.backend excludes ERST pstore: Return unique error if backend registration excluded by kernel param pstore: Fail to unlink if a driver has not defined pstore_erase pstore/ram: remove the power of buffer size limitation pstore/ram: avoid atomic accesses for ioremapped regions efi, pstore: Cocci spatch "memdup.spatch"

pstore: Pass header size in the pstore write callback

2013-07-01T08:10:48Z

Header size is needed to distinguish between header and the dump data. Incorporate the addition of new argument (hsize) in the pstore write callback. Signed-off-by: Aruna Balakrishnaiah Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

efivars: If pstore_register fails, free unneeded pstore buffer

2013-06-28T22:23:24Z

This is patch 3/3 of a patch set that cleans up pstore_register failure paths. If efivars fails to register with pstore, there is no point to keeping the 4 KB buffer around. It's only used by the pstore read/write routines. Signed-off-by: Lenny Szubowicz Reported-by: Naotaka Hamaguchi Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

Merge 3.10-rc6 into driver-core-next

2013-06-17T23:57:20Z

We want these fixes here too. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

efi, pstore: Cocci spatch "memdup.spatch"

2013-06-03T22:37:02Z

Change a kmalloc() + memcpy() pair for a single kmemdup() call. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer Acked-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Tony Luck