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  1. Mar 21, 2017
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      arm64: cacheinfo: Remove CCSIDR-based cache information probing · a8d4636f
      Will Deacon authored
      
      
      The CCSIDR_EL1.{NumSets,Associativity,LineSize} fields are only for use
      in conjunction with set/way cache maintenance and are not guaranteed to
      represent the actual microarchitectural features of a design.
      
      The architecture explicitly states:
      
      | You cannot make any inference about the actual sizes of caches based
      | on these parameters.
      
      Furthermore, CCSIDR_EL1.{WT,WB,RA,WA} have been removed retrospectively
      from ARMv8 and are now considered to be UNKNOWN.
      
      Since the kernel doesn't make use of set/way cache maintenance and it is
      not possible for userspace to execute these instructions, we have no
      need for the CCSIDR information in the kernel.
      
      This patch removes the accessors, along with the related portions of the
      cacheinfo support, which should instead be reintroduced when firmware has
      a mechanism to provide us with reliable information.
      
      Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarSudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      a8d4636f
    • Will Deacon's avatar
      arm64: cpuinfo: remove I-cache VIPT aliasing detection · 3689c75a
      Will Deacon authored
      
      
      The CCSIDR_EL1.{NumSets,Associativity,LineSize} fields are only for use
      in conjunction with set/way cache maintenance and are not guaranteed to
      represent the actual microarchitectural features of a design.
      
      The architecture explicitly states:
      
      | You cannot make any inference about the actual sizes of caches based
      | on these parameters.
      
      We currently use these fields to determine whether or the I-cache is
      aliasing, which is bogus and known to break on some platforms. Instead,
      assume the I-cache is always aliasing if it advertises a VIPT policy.
      
      Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
      3689c75a
  2. Mar 20, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.11-rc3 · 97da3854
      Linus Torvalds authored
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    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache · 452b94b8
      Linus Torvalds authored
      
      
      This BUG_ON() triggered for me once at shutdown, and I don't see a
      reason for the check.  The code correctly checks whether the swap slot
      cache is usable or not, so an uninitialized swap slot cache is not
      actually problematic afaik.
      
      I've temporarily just switched the BUG_ON() to a WARN_ON_ONCE(), since
      I'm not sure why that seemingly pointless check was there.  I suspect
      the real fix is to just remove it entirely, but for now we'll warn about
      it but not bring the machine down.
      
      Cc: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com>
      Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      452b94b8
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux · a07a6e41
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull more powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
       "A couple of minor powerpc fixes for 4.11:
      
         - wire up statx() syscall
      
         - don't print a warning on memory hotplug when HPT resizing isn't
           available
      
        Thanks to: David Gibson, Chandan Rajendra"
      
      * tag 'powerpc-4.11-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
        powerpc/pseries: Don't give a warning when HPT resizing isn't available
        powerpc: Wire up statx() syscall
      a07a6e41
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux · 4571bc5a
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull parisc fixes from Helge Deller:
      
       - Mikulas Patocka added support for R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocations in
         modules with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS.
      
       - Dave Anglin optimized the cache flushing for vmap ranges.
      
       - Arvind Yadav provided a fix for a potential NULL pointer dereference
         in the parisc perf code (and some code cleanups).
      
       - I wired up the new statx system call, fixed some compiler warnings
         with the access_ok() macro and fixed shutdown code to really halt a
         system at shutdown instead of crashing & rebooting.
      
      * 'parisc-4.11-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/parisc-linux:
        parisc: Fix system shutdown halt
        parisc: perf: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference
        parisc: Avoid compiler warnings with access_ok()
        parisc: Wire up statx system call
        parisc: Optimize flush_kernel_vmap_range and invalidate_kernel_vmap_range
        parisc: support R_PARISC_SECREL32 relocation in modules
      4571bc5a
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending · 8aa34172
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull SCSI target fixes from Nicholas Bellinger:
       "The bulk of the changes are in qla2xxx target driver code to address
        various issues found during Cavium/QLogic's internal testing (stable
        CC's included), along with a few other stability and smaller
        miscellaneous improvements.
      
        There are also a couple of different patch sets from Mike Christie,
        which have been a result of his work to use target-core ALUA logic
        together with tcm-user backend driver.
      
        Finally, a patch to address some long standing issues with
        pass-through SCSI export of TYPE_TAPE + TYPE_MEDIUM_CHANGER devices,
        which will make folks using physical (or virtual) magnetic tape happy"
      
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (28 commits)
        qla2xxx: Update driver version to 9.00.00.00-k
        qla2xxx: Fix delayed response to command for loop mode/direct connect.
        qla2xxx: Change scsi host lookup method.
        qla2xxx: Add DebugFS node to display Port Database
        qla2xxx: Use IOCB interface to submit non-critical MBX.
        qla2xxx: Add async new target notification
        qla2xxx: Export DIF stats via debugfs
        qla2xxx: Improve T10-DIF/PI handling in driver.
        qla2xxx: Allow relogin to proceed if remote login did not finish
        qla2xxx: Fix sess_lock & hardware_lock lock order problem.
        qla2xxx: Fix inadequate lock protection for ABTS.
        qla2xxx: Fix request queue corruption.
        qla2xxx: Fix memory leak for abts processing
        qla2xxx: Allow vref count to timeout on vport delete.
        tcmu: Convert cmd_time_out into backend device attribute
        tcmu: make cmd timeout configurable
        tcmu: add helper to check if dev was configured
        target: fix race during implicit transition work flushes
        target: allow userspace to set state to transitioning
        target: fix ALUA transition timeout handling
        ...
      8aa34172
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm · 1b8df619
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull device-dax fixes from Dan Williams:
       "The device-dax driver was not being careful to handle falling back to
        smaller fault-granularity sizes.
      
        The driver already fails fault attempts that are smaller than the
        device's alignment, but it also needs to handle the cases where a
        larger page mapping could be established. For simplicity of the
        immediate fix the implementation just signals VM_FAULT_FALLBACK until
        fault-size == device-alignment.
      
        One fix is for -stable to address pmd-to-pte fallback from the
        original implementation, another fix is for the new (introduced in
        4.11-rc1) pud-to-pmd regression, and a typo fix comes along for the
        ride.
      
        These have received a build success notification from the kbuild
        robot"
      
      * 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
        device-dax: fix debug output typo
        device-dax: fix pud fault fallback handling
        device-dax: fix pmd/pte fault fallback handling
      1b8df619
  3. Mar 19, 2017
  4. Mar 18, 2017
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip · 3e51f893
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull CPU hotplug fix from Thomas Gleixner:
       "A single fix preventing the concurrent execution of the CPU hotplug
        callback install/invocation machinery. Long standing bug caused by a
        massive brain slip of that Gleixner dude, which went unnoticed for
        almost a year"
      
      * 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
        cpu/hotplug: Serialize callback invocations proper
      3e51f893
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'pm-4.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm · 8d940990
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Pull power management fixes from Rafael Wysocki:
       "These fix a few more intel_pstate issues and one small issue in the
        cpufreq core.
      
        Specifics:
      
         - Fix breakage in the intel_pstate's debugfs interface for PID
           controller tuning (Rafael Wysocki)
      
         - Fix computations related to P-state limits in intel_pstate to avoid
           excessive rounding errors leading to visible inaccuracies (Srinivas
           Pandruvada, Rafael Wysocki)
      
         - Add a missing newline to a message printed by one function in the
           cpufreq core and clean up that function (Rafael Wysocki)"
      
      * tag 'pm-4.11-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
        cpufreq: Fix and clean up show_cpuinfo_cur_freq()
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid percentages in limits-related computations
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Correct frequency setting in the HWP mode
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update pid_params.sample_rate_ns in pid_param_set()
      8d940990
    • Rafael J. Wysocki's avatar
      Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq-fixes' and 'intel_pstate-fixes' · 8b766e05
      Rafael J. Wysocki authored
      * pm-cpufreq-fixes:
        cpufreq: Fix and clean up show_cpuinfo_cur_freq()
      
      * intel_pstate-fixes:
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid percentages in limits-related computations
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Correct frequency setting in the HWP mode
        cpufreq: intel_pstate: Update pid_params.sample_rate_ns in pid_param_set()
      8b766e05