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commit 731bd6a93a6e9172094a2322bd0ee964bb1f4d63 upstream.
For non-eager fpu mode, thread's fpu state is allocated during the first
fpu usage (in the context of device not available exception). This
(math_state_restore()) can be a blocking call and hence we enable
interrupts (which were originally disabled when the exception happened),
allocate memory and disable interrupts etc.
But the eager-fpu mode, call's the same math_state_restore() from
kernel_fpu_end(). The assumption being that tsk_used_math() is always
set for the eager-fpu mode and thus avoid the code path of enabling
interrupts, allocating fpu state using blocking call and disable
interrupts etc.
But the below issue was noticed by Maarten Baert, Nate Eldredge and
few others:
If a user process dumps core on an ecrypt fs while aesni-intel is loaded,
we get a BUG() in __find_get_block() complaining that it was called with
interrupts disabled; then all further accesses to our ecrypt fs hang
and we have to reboot.
The aesni-intel code (encrypting the core file that we are writing) needs
the FPU and quite properly wraps its code in kernel_fpu_{begin,end}(),
the latter of which calls math_state_restore(). So after kernel_fpu_end(),
interrupts may be disabled, which nobody seems to expect, and they stay
that way until we eventually get to __find_get_block() which barfs.
For eager fpu, most the time, tsk_used_math() is true. At few instances
during thread exit, signal return handling etc, tsk_used_math() might
be false.
In kernel_fpu_end(), for eager-fpu, call math_state_restore()
only if tsk_used_math() is set. Otherwise, don't bother. Kernel code
path which cleared tsk_used_math() knows what needs to be done
with the fpu state.
Reported-by: Maarten Baert <maarten-baert@hotmail.com>
Reported-by: Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <sbsiddha@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1391410583.3801.6.camel@europa
Cc: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 847d7970defb45540735b3fb4e88471c27cacd85 upstream.
For systems with multiple servers and routed fabric, all
northbridges get assigned to the first server. Fix this by also
using the node reported from the PCI bus. For single-fabric
systems, the northbriges are on PCI bus 0 by definition, which
are on NUMA node 0 by definition, so this is invarient on most
systems.
Tested on fam10h and fam15h single and multi-fabric systems and
candidate for stable.
Signed-off-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel@numascale.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Persvold <sp@numascale.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394710981-3596-1-git-send-email-daniel@numascale.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit b01d4e68933ec23e43b1046fa35d593cefcf37d1 upstream.
It's an enum, not a #define, you can't use it in asm files.
Introduced in commit 5fa10196bdb5 ("x86: Ignore NMIs that come in during
early boot"), and sadly I didn't compile-test things like I should have
before pushing out.
My weak excuse is that the x86 tree generally doesn't introduce stupid
things like this (and the ARM pull afterwards doesn't cause me to do a
compile-test either, since I don't cross-compile).
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 5fa10196bdb5f190f595ebd048490ee52dddea0f upstream.
Don Zickus reports:
A customer generated an external NMI using their iLO to test kdump
worked. Unfortunately, the machine hung. Disabling the nmi_watchdog
made things work.
I speculated the external NMI fired, caused the machine to panic (as
expected) and the perf NMI from the watchdog came in and was latched.
My guess was this somehow caused the hang.
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It appears that the latched NMI stays latched until the early page
table generation on 64 bits, which causes exceptions to happen which
end in IRET, which re-enable NMI. Therefore, ignore NMIs that come in
during early execution, until we have proper exception handling.
Reported-and-tested-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1394221143-29713-1-git-send-email-dzickus@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 26e61e8939b1fe8729572dabe9a9e97d930dd4f6 upstream.
Vince "Super Tester" Weaver reported a new round of syscall fuzzing (Trinity) failures,
with perf WARN_ON()s triggering. He also provided traces of the failures.
This is I think the relevant bit:
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926153: x86_pmu_disable: x86_pmu_disable
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926153: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926156: x86_pmu_state: 0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff ( (null))
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926158: x86_pmu_state: 33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926159: x86_pmu_state: }
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926160: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 1, n_added: 0, n_txn: 1
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926161: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926162: x86_pmu_state: 0->33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926163: x86_pmu_state: }
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926166: collect_events: Adding event: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)
So we add the insn:p event (fd[23]).
At this point we should have:
n_events = 2, n_added = 1, n_txn = 1
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926170: collect_events: Adding event: 0 (ffff8800c9e01800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926172: collect_events: Adding event: 4 (ffff8800cbab2c00)
We try and add the {BP,cycles,br_insn} group (fd[3], fd[4], fd[15]).
These events are 0:cycles and 4:br_insn, the BP event isn't x86_pmu so
that's not visible.
group_sched_in()
pmu->start_txn() /* nop - BP pmu */
event_sched_in()
event->pmu->add()
So here we should end up with:
0: n_events = 3, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2
4: n_events = 4, n_added = 3, n_txn = 3
But seeing the below state on x86_pmu_enable(), the must have failed,
because the 0 and 4 events aren't there anymore.
Looking at group_sched_in(), since the BP is the leader, its
event_sched_in() must have succeeded, for otherwise we would not have
seen the sibling adds.
But since neither 0 or 4 are in the below state; their event_sched_in()
must have failed; but I don't see why, the complete state: 0,0,1:p,4
fits perfectly fine on a core2.
However, since we try and schedule 4 it means the 0 event must have
succeeded! Therefore the 4 event must have failed, its failure will
have put group_sched_in() into the fail path, which will call:
event_sched_out()
event->pmu->del()
on 0 and the BP event.
Now x86_pmu_del() will reduce n_events; but it will not reduce n_added;
giving what we see below:
n_event = 2, n_added = 2, n_txn = 2
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926177: x86_pmu_enable: x86_pmu_enable
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926177: x86_pmu_state: Events: {
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926179: x86_pmu_state: 0: state: .R config: ffffffffffffffff ( (null))
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926181: x86_pmu_state: 33: state: AR config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926182: x86_pmu_state: }
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926184: x86_pmu_state: n_events: 2, n_added: 2, n_txn: 2
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926184: x86_pmu_state: Assignment: {
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926186: x86_pmu_state: 0->33 tag: 1 config: 0 (ffff88011ac99800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926188: x86_pmu_state: 1->0 tag: 1 config: 1 (ffff880119ec8800)
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926188: x86_pmu_state: }
> pec_1076_warn-2804 [000] d... 147.926190: x86_pmu_enable: S0: hwc->idx: 33, hwc->last_cpu: 0, hwc->last_tag: 1 hwc->state: 0
So the problem is that x86_pmu_del(), when called from a
group_sched_in() that fails (for whatever reason), and without x86_pmu
TXN support (because the leader is !x86_pmu), will corrupt the n_added
state.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140221150312.GF3104@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit c091c71ad2218fc50a07b3d1dab85783f3b77efd upstream.
GFP_ATOMIC is not a single gfp flag, but a macro which expands to the other
flags, where meaningful is the LACK of __GFP_WAIT flag. To check if caller
wants to perform an atomic allocation, the code must test for a lack of the
__GFP_WAIT flag. This patch fixes the issue introduced in v3.5-rc1.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 87fbb2ac6073a7039303517546a76074feb14c84 upstream.
When the conversion was made to remove stop machine and use the breakpoint
logic instead, the modification of the function graph caller is still
done directly as though it was being done under stop machine.
As it is not converted via stop machine anymore, there is a possibility
that the code could be layed across cache lines and if another CPU is
accessing that function graph call when it is being updated, it could
cause a General Protection Fault.
Convert the update of the function graph caller to use the breakpoint
method as well.
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Fixes: 08d636b6d4fb "ftrace/x86: Have arch x86_64 use breakpoints instead of stop machine"
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 03bbd596ac04fef47ce93a730b8f086d797c3021 upstream.
If SMAP support is not compiled into the kernel, don't enable SMAP in
CR4 -- in fact, we should clear it, because the kernel doesn't contain
the proper STAC/CLAC instructions for SMAP support.
Found by Fengguang Wu's test system.
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140213124550.GA30497@localhost
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit f98b7a772ab51b52ca4d2a14362fc0e0c8a2e0f3 upstream.
There was a large performance regression that was bisected to
commit 611ae8e3 ("x86/tlb: enable tlb flush range support for
x86"). This patch simply changes the default balance point
between a local and global flush for IvyBridge.
In the interest of allowing the tests to be reproduced, this
patch was tested using mmtests 0.15 with the following
configurations
configs/config-global-dhp__tlbflush-performance
configs/config-global-dhp__scheduler-performance
configs/config-global-dhp__network-performance
Results are from two machines
Ivybridge 4 threads: Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-3240 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Ivybridge 8 threads: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Page fault microbenchmark showed nothing interesting.
Ebizzy was configured to run multiple iterations and threads.
Thread counts ranged from 1 to NR_CPUS*2. For each thread count,
it ran 100 iterations and each iteration lasted 10 seconds.
Ivybridge 4 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 6395.44 ( 0.00%) 6789.09 ( 6.16%)
Mean 2 7012.85 ( 0.00%) 8052.16 ( 14.82%)
Mean 3 6403.04 ( 0.00%) 6973.74 ( 8.91%)
Mean 4 6135.32 ( 0.00%) 6582.33 ( 7.29%)
Mean 5 6095.69 ( 0.00%) 6526.68 ( 7.07%)
Mean 6 6114.33 ( 0.00%) 6416.64 ( 4.94%)
Mean 7 6085.10 ( 0.00%) 6448.51 ( 5.97%)
Mean 8 6120.62 ( 0.00%) 6462.97 ( 5.59%)
Ivybridge 8 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 7336.65 ( 0.00%) 7787.02 ( 6.14%)
Mean 2 8218.41 ( 0.00%) 9484.13 ( 15.40%)
Mean 3 7973.62 ( 0.00%) 8922.01 ( 11.89%)
Mean 4 7798.33 ( 0.00%) 8567.03 ( 9.86%)
Mean 5 7158.72 ( 0.00%) 8214.23 ( 14.74%)
Mean 6 6852.27 ( 0.00%) 7952.45 ( 16.06%)
Mean 7 6774.65 ( 0.00%) 7536.35 ( 11.24%)
Mean 8 6510.50 ( 0.00%) 6894.05 ( 5.89%)
Mean 12 6182.90 ( 0.00%) 6661.29 ( 7.74%)
Mean 16 6100.09 ( 0.00%) 6608.69 ( 8.34%)
Ebizzy hits the worst case scenario for TLB range flushing every
time and it shows for these Ivybridge CPUs at least that the
default choice is a poor on. The patch addresses the problem.
Next was a tlbflush microbenchmark written by Alex Shi at
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133727348217113 . It
measures access costs while the TLB is being flushed. The
expectation is that if there are always full TLB flushes that
the benchmark would suffer and it benefits from range flushing
There are 320 iterations of the test per thread count. The
number of entries is randomly selected with a min of 1 and max
of 512. To ensure a reasonably even spread of entries, the full
range is broken up into 8 sections and a random number selected
within that section.
iteration 1, random number between 0-64
iteration 2, random number between 64-128 etc
This is still a very weak methodology. When you do not know
what are typical ranges, random is a reasonable choice but it
can be easily argued that the opimisation was for smaller ranges
and an even spread is not representative of any workload that
matters. To improve this, we'd need to know the probability
distribution of TLB flush range sizes for a set of workloads
that are considered "common", build a synthetic trace and feed
that into this benchmark. Even that is not perfect because it
would not account for the time between flushes but there are
limits of what can be reasonably done and still be doing
something useful. If a representative synthetic trace is
provided then this benchmark could be revisited and the shift values retuned.
Ivybridge 4 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 10.50 ( 0.00%) 10.50 ( 0.03%)
Mean 2 17.59 ( 0.00%) 17.18 ( 2.34%)
Mean 3 22.98 ( 0.00%) 21.74 ( 5.41%)
Mean 5 47.13 ( 0.00%) 46.23 ( 1.92%)
Mean 8 43.30 ( 0.00%) 42.56 ( 1.72%)
Ivybridge 8 threads
3.13.0-rc7 3.13.0-rc7
vanilla altshift-v3
Mean 1 9.45 ( 0.00%) 9.36 ( 0.93%)
Mean 2 9.37 ( 0.00%) 9.70 ( -3.54%)
Mean 3 9.36 ( 0.00%) 9.29 ( 0.70%)
Mean 5 14.49 ( 0.00%) 15.04 ( -3.75%)
Mean 8 41.08 ( 0.00%) 38.73 ( 5.71%)
Mean 13 32.04 ( 0.00%) 31.24 ( 2.49%)
Mean 16 40.05 ( 0.00%) 39.04 ( 2.51%)
For both CPUs, average access time is reduced which is good as
this is the benchmark that was used to tune the shift values in
the first place albeit it is now known *how* the benchmark was
used.
The scheduler benchmarks were somewhat inconclusive. They
showed gains and losses and makes me reconsider how stable those
benchmarks really are or if something else might be interfering
with the test results recently.
Network benchmarks were inconclusive. Almost all results were
flat except for netperf-udp tests on the 4 thread machine.
These results were unstable and showed large variations between
reboots. It is unknown if this is a recent problems but I've
noticed before that netperf-udp results tend to vary.
Based on these results, changing the default for Ivybridge seems
like a logical choice.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cqnadffh1tiqrshthRj3Esge@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 3b56496865f9f7d9bcb2f93b44c63f274f08e3b6 upstream.
This adds the workaround for erratum 793 as a precaution in case not
every BIOS implements it. This addresses CVE-2013-6885.
Erratum text:
[Revision Guide for AMD Family 16h Models 00h-0Fh Processors,
document 51810 Rev. 3.04 November 2013]
793 Specific Combination of Writes to Write Combined Memory Types and
Locked Instructions May Cause Core Hang
Description
Under a highly specific and detailed set of internal timing
conditions, a locked instruction may trigger a timing sequence whereby
the write to a write combined memory type is not flushed, causing the
locked instruction to stall indefinitely.
Potential Effect on System
Processor core hang.
Suggested Workaround
BIOS should set MSR
C001_1020[15] = 1b.
Fix Planned
No fix planned
[ hpa: updated description, fixed typo in MSR name ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140114230711.GS29865@pd.tnic
Tested-by: Aravind Gopalakrishnan <aravind.gopalakrishnan@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 77f01bdfa5e55dc19d3eb747181d2730a9bb3ca8 upstream.
When Hyper-V hypervisor leaves are present, KVM must relocate
its own leaves at 0x40000100, because Windows does not look for
Hyper-V leaves at indices other than 0x40000000. In this case,
the KVM features are at 0x40000101, but the old code would always
look at 0x40000001.
Fix by using kvm_cpuid_base(). This also requires making the
function non-inline, since kvm_cpuid_base() is static.
Fixes: 1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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commit 1c300a40772dae829b91dad634999a6a522c0829 upstream.
It is unnecessary to go through hypervisor_cpuid_base every time
a leaf is found (which will be every time a feature is requested
after the next patch).
Fixes: 1085ba7f552d84aa8ac0ae903fa8d0cc2ff9f79d
Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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On AMD family 10h we see following error messages while waking up from
S3 for all non-boot CPUs leading to a failed IBS initialization:
Enabling non-boot CPUs ...
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 1 APIC 0x1
[Firmware Bug]: cpu 1, try to use APIC500 (LVT offset 0) for vector 0x400, but the register is already in use for vector 0xf9 on another cpu
perf: IBS APIC setup failed on cpu #1
process: Switch to broadcast mode on CPU1
CPU1 is up
...
ACPI: Waking up from system sleep state S3
Reason for this is that during suspend the LVT offset for the IBS
vector gets lost and needs to be reinialized while resuming.
The offset is read from the IBSCTL msr. On family 10h the offset needs
to be 1 as offset 0 is used for the MCE threshold interrupt, but
firmware assings it for IBS to 0 too. The kernel needs to reprogram
the vector. The msr is a readonly node msr, but a new value can be
written via pci config space access. The reinitialization is
implemented for family 10h in setup_ibs_ctl() which is forced during
IBS setup.
This patch fixes IBS setup after waking up from S3 by adding
resume/supend hooks for the boot cpu which does the offset
reinitialization.
Marking it as stable to let distros pick up this fix.
Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> v3.2..
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1389797849-5565-1-git-send-email-rric.net@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Function tracing callbacks expect to have the ftrace_ops that registered it
passed to them, not the address of the variable that holds the ftrace_ops
that registered it.
Use a mov instead of a lea to store the ftrace_ops into the parameter
of the function tracing callback.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131113152004.459787f9@gandalf.local.home
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.8+
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fixes from Peter Anvin:
"There is a small EFI fix and a big power regression fix in this batch.
My queue also had a fix for downing a CPU when there are insufficient
number of IRQ vectors available, but I'm holding that one for now due
to recent bug reports"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/efi: Don't select EFI from certain special ACPI drivers
x86 idle: Repair large-server 50-watt idle-power regression
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Linux 3.10 changed the timing of how thread_info->flags is touched:
x86: Use generic idle loop
(7d1a941731fabf27e5fb6edbebb79fe856edb4e5)
This caused Intel NHM-EX and WSM-EX servers to experience a large number
of immediate MONITOR/MWAIT break wakeups, which caused cpuidle to demote
from deep C-states to shallow C-states, which caused these platforms
to experience a significant increase in idle power.
Note that this issue was already present before the commit above,
however, it wasn't seen often enough to be noticed in power measurements.
Here we extend an errata workaround from the Core2 EX "Dunnington"
to extend to NHM-EX and WSM-EX, to prevent these immediate
returns from MWAIT, reducing idle power on these platforms.
While only acpi_idle ran on Dunnington, intel_idle
may also run on these two newer systems.
As of today, there are no other models that are known
to need this tweak.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAJvTdK=%2BaNN66mYpCGgbHGCHhYQAKx-vB0kJSWjVpsNb_hOAtQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/baff264285f6e585df757d58b17788feabc68918.1387403066.git.len.brown@intel.com
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.12.x, 3.11.x, 3.10.x
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull perf fix from Ingo Molnar:
"An x86/intel event constraint fix"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86: Fix constraint table end marker bug
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The EVENT_CONSTRAINT_END() macro defines the end marker as
a constraint with a weight of zero. This was all fine
until we blacklisted the corrupting memory events on
Intel IvyBridge. These events are blacklisted by using
a counter bitmask of zero. Thus, they also get a constraint
weight of zero.
The iteration macro: for_each_constraint tests the weight==0.
Therefore, it was stopping at the first blacklisted event, i.e.,
0xd0. The corrupting events were therefore considered as
unconstrained and were scheduled on any of the generic counters.
This patch fixes the end marker to have a weight of -1. With
this, the blacklisted events get an empty constraint and cannot
be scheduled which is what we want for now.
Signed-off-by: Maria Dimakopoulou <maria.n.dimakopoulou@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: zheng.z.yan@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20131204232437.GA10689@starlight
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Since erratum AVR31 in "Intel Atom Processor C2000 Product Family
Specification Update" is now published, I added a justification
comment for disabling IO APIC before Local APIC, as changed in commit:
522e66464467 x86/apic: Disable I/O APIC before shutdown of the local APIC
Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386202069-51515-1-git-send-email-fenghua.yu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel into drm-fixes
Just a small pile of fixes for bugs and a few regressions. I'm still
trying to track down a driver load hang on my g33 (which infuriatingly
doesn't happen when loading the module manually after boot), somehow
bisecting loves to go astray on this one :( And there's a (harmless)
locking WARN in the suspend code due to one of Jesse's vlv backlight
rework patches. Otherwise nothing outstanding afaik.
* tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2013-11-20' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~danvet/drm-intel:
drm/i915: Fix gen3 self-refresh watermarks
drm/i915: Replicate BIOS eDP bpp clamping hack for hsw
drm/i915: Do not enable package C8 on unsupported hardware
drm/i915: Hold pc8 lock around toggling pc8.gpu_idle
drm/i915: encoder->get_config is no longer optional
drm/i915/tv: add ->get_config callback
drm/i915: restore the early forcewake cleanup
Partially revert "drm/i915: tune the RC6 threshold for stability"
drm/i915: flush cursors harder
i915: Use 120MHz LVDS SSC clock for gen5/gen6/gen7
x86/early quirk: use gen6 stolen detection for VLV
drm/i915/dp: set sink to power down mode on dp disable
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86 fix from Ingo Molnar:
"A modular build fix for certain .config's"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86: Export 'boot_cpu_physical_apicid' to modules
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
"This batch of changes is mostly clean ups and small bug fixes. The
only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the
function graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their
call chain.
Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
made it more consistent with the top level tracing.
One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()". As Paul McKenney is pushing
that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included all
the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree in
order to complete the perf function tracing fix"
* tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tracing: Add rcu annotation for syscall trace descriptors
tracing: Do not use signed enums with unsigned long long in fgragh output
tracing: Remove unused function ftrace_off_permanent()
tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory
tracing: Add helper function tracing_is_disabled()
tracing: Open tracer when ftrace_dump_on_oops is used
tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events
tracing: Make register/unregister_ftrace_command __init
tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer
recordmcount.pl: Add support for __fentry__
ftrace: Have control op function callback only trace when RCU is watching
rcu: Do not trace rcu_is_watching() functions
ftrace/x86: skip over the breakpoint for ftrace caller
trace/trace_stat: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
ftrace: Add set_graph_notrace filter
ftrace: Narrow down the protected area of graph_lock
ftrace: Introduce struct ftrace_graph_data
ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_graph_filter_enabled
tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()
tracing: Show more exact help information about snapshot
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina:
"Usual earth-shaking, news-breaking, rocket science pile from
trivial.git"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (23 commits)
doc: usb: Fix typo in Documentation/usb/gadget_configs.txt
doc: add missing files to timers/00-INDEX
timekeeping: Fix some trivial typos in comments
mm: Fix some trivial typos in comments
irq: Fix some trivial typos in comments
NUMA: fix typos in Kconfig help text
mm: update 00-INDEX
doc: Documentation/DMA-attributes.txt fix typo
DRM: comment: `halve' -> `half'
Docs: Kconfig: `devlopers' -> `developers'
doc: typo on word accounting in kprobes.c in mutliple architectures
treewide: fix "usefull" typo
treewide: fix "distingush" typo
mm/Kconfig: Grammar s/an/a/
kexec: Typo s/the/then/
Documentation/kvm: Update cpuid documentation for steal time and pv eoi
treewide: Fix common typo in "identify"
__page_to_pfn: Fix typo in comment
Correct some typos for word frequency
clk: fixed-factor: Fix a trivial typo
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Commit 9ebddac7ea2a "ACPI, x86: Fix extended error log driver to depend on
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC" fixed a build error when CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC was not
selected and !CONFIG_SMP.
However, since CONFIG_ACPI_EXTLOG is tristate, there is a second build error:
ERROR: "boot_cpu_physical_apicid" [drivers/acpi/acpi_extlog.ko] undefined!
The symbol needs to be exported for it to be available.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Chen Gong <gong.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1311141504080.30112@chino.kir.corp.google.com
[ Changed it to a _GPL() export. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"This is a combo of -next and some -fixes that came in in the
intervening time.
Highlights:
New drivers:
ARM Armada driver for Marvell Armada 510 SOCs
Intel:
Broadwell initial support under a default off switch,
Stereo/3D HDMI mode support
Valleyview improvements
Displayport improvements
Haswell fixes
initial mipi dsi panel support
CRC support for debugging
build with CONFIG_FB=n
Radeon:
enable DPM on a number of GPUs by default
secondary GPU powerdown support
enable HDMI audio by default
Hawaii support
Nouveau:
dynamic pm code infrastructure reworked, does nothing major yet
GK208 modesetting support
MSI fixes, on by default again
PMPEG improvements
pageflipping fixes
GMA500:
minnowboard SDVO support
VMware:
misc fixes
MSM:
prime, plane and rendernodes support
Tegra:
rearchitected to put the drm driver into the drm subsystem.
HDMI and gr2d support for tegra 114 SoC
QXL:
oops fix, and multi-head fixes
DRM core:
sysfs lifetime fixes
client capability ioctl
further cleanups to device midlayer
more vblank timestamp fixes"
* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (789 commits)
drm/nouveau: do not map evicted vram buffers in nouveau_bo_vma_add
drm/nvc0-/gr: shift wrapping bug in nvc0_grctx_generate_r406800
drm/nouveau/pwr: fix missing mutex unlock in a failure path
drm/nv40/therm: fix slowing down fan when pstate undefined
drm/nv11-: synchronise flips to vblank, unless async flip requested
drm/nvc0-: remove nasty fifo swmthd hack for flip completion method
drm/nv10-: we no longer need to create nvsw object on user channels
drm/nouveau: always queue flips relative to kernel channel activity
drm/nouveau: there is no need to reserve/fence the new fb when flipping
drm/nouveau: when bailing out of a pushbuf ioctl, do not remove previous fence
drm/nouveau: allow nouveau_fence_ref() to be a noop
drm/nvc8/mc: msi rearm is via the nvc0 method
drm/ttm: Fix vma page_prot bit manipulation
drm/vmwgfx: Fix a couple of compile / sparse warnings and errors
drm/vmwgfx: Resource evict fixes
drm/edid: compare actual vrefresh for all modes for quirks
drm: shmob_drm: Convert to clk_prepare/unprepare
drm/nouveau: fix 32-bit build
drm/i915/opregion: fix build error on CONFIG_ACPI=n
Revert "drm/radeon/audio: don't set speaker allocation on DCE4+"
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Pull KVM changes from Paolo Bonzini:
"Here are the 3.13 KVM changes. There was a lot of work on the PPC
side: the HV and emulation flavors can now coexist in a single kernel
is probably the most interesting change from a user point of view.
On the x86 side there are nested virtualization improvements and a few
bugfixes.
ARM got transparent huge page support, improved overcommit, and
support for big endian guests.
Finally, there is a new interface to connect KVM with VFIO. This
helps with devices that use NoSnoop PCI transactions, letting the
driver in the guest execute WBINVD instructions. This includes some
nVidia cards on Windows, that fail to start without these patches and
the corresponding userspace changes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (146 commits)
kvm, vmx: Fix lazy FPU on nested guest
arm/arm64: KVM: PSCI: propagate caller endianness to the incoming vcpu
arm/arm64: KVM: MMIO support for BE guest
kvm, cpuid: Fix sparse warning
kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function kvm_check_iopl
kvm: Delete prototype for non-existent function complete_pio
hung_task: add method to reset detector
pvclock: detect watchdog reset at pvclock read
kvm: optimize out smp_mb after srcu_read_unlock
srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlock
KVM: remove vm mmap method
KVM: IOMMU: hva align mapping page size
KVM: x86: trace cpuid emulation when called from emulator
KVM: emulator: cleanup decode_register_operand() a bit
KVM: emulator: check rex prefix inside decode_register()
KVM: x86: fix emulation of "movzbl %bpl, %eax"
kvm_host: typo fix
KVM: x86: emulate SAHF instruction
MAINTAINERS: add tree for kvm.git
Documentation/kvm: add a 00-INDEX file
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We've always been able to use either method on VLV, but it appears more
recent BIOSes only support the gen6 method, so switch over to that.
References: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71370
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Reviewed-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull two x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/microcode/amd: Tone down printk(), don't treat a missing firmware file as an error
x86/dumpstack: Fix printk_address for direct addresses
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The biggest changes:
- add lockdep support for seqcount/seqlocks structures, this
unearthed both bugs and required extra annotation.
- move the various kernel locking primitives to the new
kernel/locking/ directory"
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (21 commits)
block: Use u64_stats_init() to initialize seqcounts
locking/lockdep: Mark __lockdep_count_forward_deps() as static
lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation
locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c
ipv6: Fix possible ipv6 seqlock deadlock
cpuset: Fix potential deadlock w/ set_mems_allowed
seqcount: Add lockdep functionality to seqcount/seqlock structures
net: Explicitly initialize u64_stats_sync structures for lockdep
locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/
locking: Move the mutex code to kernel/locking/
hung_task debugging: Add tracepoint to report the hang
x86/locking/kconfig: Update paravirt spinlock Kconfig description
lockstat: Report avg wait and hold times
lockdep, x86/alternatives: Drop ancient lockdep fixup message
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull x86/trace changes from Ingo Molnar:
"This adds page fault tracepoints which have zero runtime cost in the
disabled case via IDT trickery (no NOPs in the page fault hotpath)"
* 'x86-trace-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, trace: Change user|kernel_page_fault to page_fault_user|kernel
x86, trace: Add page fault tracepoints
x86, trace: Delete __trace_alloc_intr_gate()
x86, trace: Register exception handler to trace IDT
x86, trace: Remove __alloc_intr_gate()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci
Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas:
"Resource management
- Fix host bridge window coalescing (Alexey Neyman)
- Pass type, width, and prefetchability for window alignment (Wei Yang)
PCI device hotplug
- Convert acpiphp, acpiphp_ibm to dynamic debug (Lan Tianyu)
Power management
- Remove pci_pm_complete() (Liu Chuansheng)
MSI
- Fail initialization if device is not in PCI_D0 (Yijing Wang)
MPS (Max Payload Size)
- Use pcie_get_mps() and pcie_set_mps() to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
- Use pcie_set_readrq() to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
- Use cached pci_dev->pcie_mpss to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
SR-IOV
- Enable upstream bridges even for VFs on virtual buses (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Use pci_is_root_bus() to avoid catching virtual buses (Wei Yang)
Virtualization
- Add x86 MSI masking ops (Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk)
Freescale i.MX6
- Support i.MX6 PCIe controller (Sean Cross)
- Increase link startup timeout (Marek Vasut)
- Probe PCIe in fs_initcall() (Marek Vasut)
- Fix imprecise abort handler (Tim Harvey)
- Remove redundant of_match_ptr (Sachin Kamat)
Renesas R-Car
- Support Gen2 internal PCIe controller (Valentine Barshak)
Samsung Exynos
- Add MSI support (Jingoo Han)
- Turn off power when link fails (Jingoo Han)
- Add Jingoo Han as maintainer (Jingoo Han)
- Add clk_disable_unprepare() on error path (Wei Yongjun)
- Remove redundant of_match_ptr (Sachin Kamat)
Synopsys DesignWare
- Add irq_create_mapping() (Pratyush Anand)
- Add header guards (Seungwon Jeon)
Miscellaneous
- Enable native PCIe services by default on non-ACPI (Andrew Murray)
- Cleanup _OSC usage and messages (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Remove pcibios_last_bus boot option on non-x86 (Bjorn Helgaas)
- Convert bus code to use bus_, drv_, and dev_groups (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Remove unused pci_mem_start (Myron Stowe)
- Make sysfs functions static (Sachin Kamat)
- Warn on invalid return from driver probe (Stephen M. Cameron)
- Remove Intel Haswell D3 delays (Todd E Brandt)
- Call pci_set_master() in core if driver doesn't do it (Yinghai Lu)
- Use pci_is_pcie() to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
- Use PCIe capability accessors to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
- Use cached pci_dev->pcie_cap to simplify code (Yijing Wang)
- Removed unused "is_pcie" from struct pci_dev (Yijing Wang)
- Simplify sysfs CPU affinity implementation (Yijing Wang)"
* tag 'pci-v3.13-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (79 commits)
PCI: Enable upstream bridges even for VFs on virtual buses
PCI: Add pci_upstream_bridge()
PCI: Add x86_msi.msi_mask_irq() and msix_mask_irq()
PCI: Warn on driver probe return value greater than zero
PCI: Drop warning about drivers that don't use pci_set_master()
PCI: Workaround missing pci_set_master in pci drivers
powerpc/pci: Use pci_is_pcie() to simplify code [fix]
PCI: Update pcie_ports 'auto' behavior for non-ACPI platforms
PCI: imx6: Probe the PCIe in fs_initcall()
PCI: Add R-Car Gen2 internal PCI support
PCI: imx6: Remove redundant of_match_ptr
PCI: Report pci_pme_active() kmalloc failure
mn10300/PCI: Remove useless pcibios_last_bus
frv/PCI: Remove pcibios_last_bus
PCI: imx6: Increase link startup timeout
PCI: exynos: Remove redundant of_match_ptr
PCI: imx6: Fix imprecise abort handler
PCI: Fail MSI/MSI-X initialization if device is not in PCI_D0
PCI: imx6: Remove redundant dev_err() in imx6_pcie_probe()
x86/PCI: Coalesce multiple overlapping host bridge windows
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull ACPI and power management updates from Rafael J Wysocki:
- New power capping framework and the the Intel Running Average Power
Limit (RAPL) driver using it from Srinivas Pandruvada and Jacob Pan.
- Addition of the in-kernel switching feature to the arm_big_little
cpufreq driver from Viresh Kumar and Nicolas Pitre.
- cpufreq support for iMac G5 from Aaro Koskinen.
- Baytrail processors support for intel_pstate from Dirk Brandewie.
- cpufreq support for Midway/ECX-2000 from Mark Langsdorf.
- ARM vexpress/TC2 cpufreq support from Sudeep KarkadaNagesha.
- ACPI power management support for the I2C and SPI bus types from Mika
Westerberg and Lv Zheng.
- cpufreq core fixes and cleanups from Viresh Kumar, Srivatsa S Bhat,
Stratos Karafotis, Xiaoguang Chen, Lan Tianyu.
- cpufreq drivers updates (mostly fixes and cleanups) from Viresh
Kumar, Aaro Koskinen, Jungseok Lee, Sudeep KarkadaNagesha, Lukasz
Majewski, Manish Badarkhe, Hans-Christian Egtvedt, Evgeny Kapaev.
- intel_pstate updates from Dirk Brandewie and Adrian Huang.
- ACPICA update to version 20130927 includig fixes and cleanups and
some reduction of divergences between the ACPICA code in the kernel
and ACPICA upstream in order to improve the automatic ACPICA patch
generation process. From Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Tomasz Nowicki, Naresh
Bhat, Bjorn Helgaas, David E Box.
- ACPI IPMI driver fixes and cleanups from Lv Zheng.
- ACPI hotplug fixes and cleanups from Bjorn Helgaas, Toshi Kani, Zhang
Yanfei, Rafael J Wysocki.
- Conversion of the ACPI AC driver to the platform bus type and
multiple driver fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Zhang Rui.
- ACPI processor driver fixes and cleanups from Hanjun Guo, Jiang Liu,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Mathieu Rhéaume, Rafael J Wysocki.
- Fixes and cleanups and new blacklist entries related to the ACPI
video support from Aaron Lu, Felipe Contreras, Lennart Poettering,
Kirill Tkhai.
- cpuidle core cleanups from Viresh Kumar and Lorenzo Pieralisi.
- cpuidle drivers fixes and cleanups from Daniel Lezcano, Jingoo Han,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Prarit Bhargava.
- devfreq updates from Sachin Kamat, Dan Carpenter, Manish Badarkhe.
- Operation Performance Points (OPP) core updates from Nishanth Menon.
- Runtime power management core fix from Rafael J Wysocki and update
from Ulf Hansson.
- Hibernation fixes from Aaron Lu and Rafael J Wysocki.
- Device suspend/resume lockup detection mechanism from Benoit Goby.
- Removal of unused proc directories created for various ACPI drivers
from Lan Tianyu.
- ACPI LPSS driver fix and new device IDs for the ACPI platform scan
handler from Heikki Krogerus and Jarkko Nikula.
- New ACPI _OSI blacklist entry for Toshiba NB100 from Levente Kurusa.
- Assorted fixes and cleanups related to ACPI from Andy Shevchenko, Al
Stone, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Colin Ian King, Dan Carpenter,
Felipe Contreras, Jianguo Wu, Lan Tianyu, Yinghai Lu, Mathias Krause,
Liu Chuansheng.
- Assorted PM fixes and cleanups from Andy Shevchenko, Thierry Reding,
Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard.
* tag 'pm+acpi-3.13-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (386 commits)
cpufreq: conservative: fix requested_freq reduction issue
ACPI / hotplug: Consolidate deferred execution of ACPI hotplug routines
PM / runtime: Use pm_runtime_put_sync() in __device_release_driver()
ACPI / event: remove unneeded NULL pointer check
Revert "ACPI / video: Ignore BIOS initial backlight value for HP 250 G1"
ACPI / video: Quirk initial backlight level 0
ACPI / video: Fix initial level validity test
intel_pstate: skip the driver if ACPI has power mgmt option
PM / hibernate: Avoid overflow in hibernate_preallocate_memory()
ACPI / hotplug: Do not execute "insert in progress" _OST
ACPI / hotplug: Carry out PCI root eject directly
ACPI / hotplug: Merge device hot-removal routines
ACPI / hotplug: Make acpi_bus_hot_remove_device() internal
ACPI / hotplug: Simplify device ejection routines
ACPI / hotplug: Fix handle_root_bridge_removal()
ACPI / hotplug: Refuse to hot-remove all objects with disabled hotplug
ACPI / scan: Start matching drivers after trying scan handlers
ACPI: Remove acpi_pci_slot_init() headers from internal.h
ACPI / blacklist: fix name of ThinkPad Edge E530
PowerCap: Fix build error with option -Werror=format-security
...
Conflicts:
arch/arm/mach-omap2/opp.c
drivers/Kconfig
drivers/spi/spi.c
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) The addition of nftables. No longer will we need protocol aware
firewall filtering modules, it can all live in userspace.
At the core of nftables is a, for lack of a better term, virtual
machine that executes byte codes to inspect packet or metadata
(arriving interface index, etc.) and make verdict decisions.
Besides support for loading packet contents and comparing them, the
interpreter supports lookups in various datastructures as
fundamental operations. For example sets are supports, and
therefore one could create a set of whitelist IP address entries
which have ACCEPT verdicts attached to them, and use the appropriate
byte codes to do such lookups.
Since the interpreted code is composed in userspace, userspace can
do things like optimize things before giving it to the kernel.
Another major improvement is the capability of atomically updating
portions of the ruleset. In the existing netfilter implementation,
one has to update the entire rule set in order to make a change and
this is very expensive.
Userspace tools exist to create nftables rules using existing
netfilter rule sets, but both kernel implementations will need to
co-exist for quite some time as we transition from the old to the
new stuff.
Kudos to Patrick McHardy, Pablo Neira Ayuso, and others who have
worked so hard on this.
2) Daniel Borkmann and Hannes Frederic Sowa made several improvements
to our pseudo-random number generator, mostly used for things like
UDP port randomization and netfitler, amongst other things.
In particular the taus88 generater is updated to taus113, and test
cases are added.
3) Support 64-bit rates in HTB and TBF schedulers, from Eric Dumazet
and Yang Yingliang.
4) Add support for new 577xx tigon3 chips to tg3 driver, from Nithin
Sujir.
5) Fix two fatal flaws in TCP dynamic right sizing, from Eric Dumazet,
Neal Cardwell, and Yuchung Cheng.
6) Allow IP_TOS and IP_TTL to be specified in sendmsg() ancillary
control message data, much like other socket option attributes.
From Francesco Fusco.
7) Allow applications to specify a cap on the rate computed
automatically by the kernel for pacing flows, via a new
SO_MAX_PACING_RATE socket option. From Eric Dumazet.
8) Make the initial autotuned send buffer sizing in TCP more closely
reflect actual needs, from Eric Dumazet.
9) Currently early socket demux only happens for TCP sockets, but we
can do it for connected UDP sockets too. Implementation from Shawn
Bohrer.
10) Refactor inet socket demux with the goal of improving hash demux
performance for listening sockets. With the main goals being able
to use RCU lookups on even request sockets, and eliminating the
listening lock contention. From Eric Dumazet.
11) The bonding layer has many demuxes in it's fast path, and an RCU
conversion was started back in 3.11, several changes here extend the
RCU usage to even more locations. From Ding Tianhong and Wang
Yufen, based upon suggestions by Nikolay Aleksandrov and Veaceslav
Falico.
12) Allow stackability of segmentation offloads to, in particular, allow
segmentation offloading over tunnels. From Eric Dumazet.
13) Significantly improve the handling of secret keys we input into the
various hash functions in the inet hashtables, TCP fast open, as
well as syncookies. From Hannes Frederic Sowa. The key fundamental
operation is "net_get_random_once()" which uses static keys.
Hannes even extended this to ipv4/ipv6 fragmentation handling and
our generic flow dissector.
14) The generic driver layer takes care now to set the driver data to
NULL on device removal, so it's no longer necessary for drivers to
explicitly set it to NULL any more. Many drivers have been cleaned
up in this way, from Jingoo Han.
15) Add a BPF based packet scheduler classifier, from Daniel Borkmann.
16) Improve CRC32 interfaces and generic SKB check |
