Loading .mailmap +5 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com> Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com> <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be> <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <[dbaryshkov@gmail.com]> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <dmitry_baryshkov@mentor.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <dmitry_eremin@mentor.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <dima@arista.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <d.safonov@partner.samsung.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> Loading Loading @@ -287,6 +290,7 @@ Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org> Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi@codeaurora.org> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Sean Nyekjaer <sean@geanix.com> <sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk> Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk> Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> <sre@debian.org> Loading CREDITS +36 −26 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -849,6 +849,12 @@ D: trivial hack to add variable address length routing to Rose. D: AX25-HOWTO, HAM-HOWTO, IPX-HOWTO, NET-2-HOWTO D: ax25-utils maintainer. N: Kamil Debski E: kamil@wypas.org D: Samsung S5P 2D graphics acceleration and Multi Format Codec drivers D: Samsung USB2 phy drivers D: PWM fan driver N: Helge Deller E: deller@gmx.de W: http://www.parisc-linux.org/ Loading Loading @@ -2852,6 +2858,10 @@ D: IPX development and support N: Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki) D: x86/HPET N: Kyungmin Park E: kyungmin.park@samsung.com D: Samsung S5Pv210 and Exynos4210 mobile platforms N: David Parsons E: orc@pell.chi.il.us D: improved memory detection code. Loading Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-timer-stm32 +0 −24 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -109,30 +109,6 @@ Description: When counting down the counter start from preset value and fire event when reach 0. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count_quadrature_mode_available KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Description: Reading returns the list possible quadrature modes. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count0_quadrature_mode KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Description: Configure the device counter quadrature modes: channel_A: Encoder A input servers as the count input and B as the UP/DOWN direction control input. channel_B: Encoder B input serves as the count input and A as the UP/DOWN direction control input. quadrature: Encoder A and B inputs are mixed to get direction and count with a scale of 0.25. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count_enable_mode_available KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Loading Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +15 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -137,15 +137,24 @@ Boot Kernel With a Boot Config ============================== Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with size, checksum and 12-byte magic word as below. to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with padding, size, checksum and 12-byte magic word as below. [initrd][bootconfig][size(u32)][checksum(u32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] [initrd][bootconfig][padding][size(le32)][checksum(le32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] The size and checksum fields are unsigned 32bit little endian value. When the boot configuration is added to the initrd image, the total file size is aligned to 4 bytes. To fill the gap, null characters (``\0``) will be added. Thus the ``size`` is the length of the bootconfig file + padding bytes. The Linux kernel decodes the last part of the initrd image in memory to get the boot configuration data. Because of this "piggyback" method, there is no need to change or update the boot loader and the kernel image itself. update the boot loader and the kernel image itself as long as the boot loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot loader passes a longer size, the kernel feils to find the bootconfig data. To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file Loading Loading @@ -176,7 +185,8 @@ up to 512 key-value pairs. If keys contains 3 words in average, it can contain 256 key-value pairs. In most cases, the number of config items will be under 100 entries and smaller than 8KB, so it would be enough. If the node number exceeds 1024, parser returns an error even if the file size is smaller than 32KB. size is smaller than 32KB. (Note that this maximum size is not including the padding null characters.) Anyway, since bootconfig command verifies it when appending a boot config to initrd image, user can notice it before boot. Loading Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +7 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -2858,6 +2858,8 @@ mds=off [X86] tsx_async_abort=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] no_entry_flush [PPC] no_uaccess_flush [PPC] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on Loading Loading @@ -3186,6 +3188,8 @@ noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. noexec [IA-64] noexec [X86] Loading Loading @@ -3235,6 +3239,9 @@ nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability no_uaccess_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. Loading Loading
.mailmap +5 −1 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -82,7 +82,10 @@ Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@imgtec.com> Dengcheng Zhu <dzhu@wavecomp.com> <dengcheng.zhu@mips.com> <dev.kurt@vandijck-laurijssen.be> <kurt.van.dijck@eia.be> Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <[dbaryshkov@gmail.com]> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <dmitry_baryshkov@mentor.com> Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com> <dmitry_eremin@mentor.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <dima@arista.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <d.safonov@partner.samsung.com> Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com> <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> Loading Loading @@ -287,6 +290,7 @@ Santosh Shilimkar <ssantosh@kernel.org> Sarangdhar Joshi <spjoshi@codeaurora.org> Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> S.Çağlar Onur <caglar@pardus.org.tr> Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com> <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com> Sean Nyekjaer <sean@geanix.com> <sean.nyekjaer@prevas.dk> Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk> Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org> <sre@debian.org> Loading
CREDITS +36 −26 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -849,6 +849,12 @@ D: trivial hack to add variable address length routing to Rose. D: AX25-HOWTO, HAM-HOWTO, IPX-HOWTO, NET-2-HOWTO D: ax25-utils maintainer. N: Kamil Debski E: kamil@wypas.org D: Samsung S5P 2D graphics acceleration and Multi Format Codec drivers D: Samsung USB2 phy drivers D: PWM fan driver N: Helge Deller E: deller@gmx.de W: http://www.parisc-linux.org/ Loading Loading @@ -2852,6 +2858,10 @@ D: IPX development and support N: Venkatesh Pallipadi (Venki) D: x86/HPET N: Kyungmin Park E: kyungmin.park@samsung.com D: Samsung S5Pv210 and Exynos4210 mobile platforms N: David Parsons E: orc@pell.chi.il.us D: improved memory detection code. Loading
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-iio-timer-stm32 +0 −24 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -109,30 +109,6 @@ Description: When counting down the counter start from preset value and fire event when reach 0. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count_quadrature_mode_available KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Description: Reading returns the list possible quadrature modes. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count0_quadrature_mode KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Description: Configure the device counter quadrature modes: channel_A: Encoder A input servers as the count input and B as the UP/DOWN direction control input. channel_B: Encoder B input serves as the count input and A as the UP/DOWN direction control input. quadrature: Encoder A and B inputs are mixed to get direction and count with a scale of 0.25. What: /sys/bus/iio/devices/iio:deviceX/in_count_enable_mode_available KernelVersion: 4.12 Contact: benjamin.gaignard@st.com Loading
Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst +15 −5 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -137,15 +137,24 @@ Boot Kernel With a Boot Config ============================== Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with size, checksum and 12-byte magic word as below. to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with padding, size, checksum and 12-byte magic word as below. [initrd][bootconfig][size(u32)][checksum(u32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] [initrd][bootconfig][padding][size(le32)][checksum(le32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n] The size and checksum fields are unsigned 32bit little endian value. When the boot configuration is added to the initrd image, the total file size is aligned to 4 bytes. To fill the gap, null characters (``\0``) will be added. Thus the ``size`` is the length of the bootconfig file + padding bytes. The Linux kernel decodes the last part of the initrd image in memory to get the boot configuration data. Because of this "piggyback" method, there is no need to change or update the boot loader and the kernel image itself. update the boot loader and the kernel image itself as long as the boot loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot loader passes a longer size, the kernel feils to find the bootconfig data. To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file Loading Loading @@ -176,7 +185,8 @@ up to 512 key-value pairs. If keys contains 3 words in average, it can contain 256 key-value pairs. In most cases, the number of config items will be under 100 entries and smaller than 8KB, so it would be enough. If the node number exceeds 1024, parser returns an error even if the file size is smaller than 32KB. size is smaller than 32KB. (Note that this maximum size is not including the padding null characters.) Anyway, since bootconfig command verifies it when appending a boot config to initrd image, user can notice it before boot. Loading
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +7 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -2858,6 +2858,8 @@ mds=off [X86] tsx_async_abort=off [X86] kvm.nx_huge_pages=off [X86] no_entry_flush [PPC] no_uaccess_flush [PPC] Exceptions: This does not have any effect on Loading Loading @@ -3186,6 +3188,8 @@ noefi Disable EFI runtime services support. no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel. noexec [IA-64] noexec [X86] Loading Loading @@ -3235,6 +3239,9 @@ nospec_store_bypass_disable [HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability no_uaccess_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data. noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to enabling legacy floating-point and sse state. Loading
