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  1. Jul 09, 2015
    • Alexander Sverdlin's avatar
      MIPS: bootmem: Don't use memory holes for page bitmap · a6335fa1
      Alexander Sverdlin authored
      Commit f9a7febd leads to a fact that mapstart and therefore a page bitmap for
      bootmem allocator immediately follows initrd_end. This doesn't always work
      well on Octeon, where there are holes in PFN ranges (refer to 5b3b1688 and
      4MB-aligned PFN allocation). Depending on the inird location it could happen,
      that mapstart would be in an area not allocated by plat_mem_setup() in
      arch/mips/cavium-octeon/setup.c, but in the alignment hole between initrd and
      the next PFN area. Later on this memory will be unconditionally made available
      to buddy allocator at the end of free_all_bootmem_core() (mm/bootmem.c).
      All of this results in Linux using the memory not designated for Linux in
      Octeon's plat_mem_setup(), which in turn means corruption of the memory used
      by another OS/baremetal code on the same SoC.
      
      It doesn't look to me as a problem of Octeon platform code, but rather as an
      inability of f9a7febd
      
       to deal correctly with the fragmented memory-mappings.
      Proposed fix moves the check for initrd address to the same calculation-loop
      in bootmem_init() (arch/mips/kernel/setup.c), which also accounts for kernel
      code location. This should result in mapstart located starting from the first
      PFN area after kernel code AND initrd.
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@nokia.com>
      Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
      Cc: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
      Cc: Zubair Lutfullah Kakakhel <Zubair.Kakakhel@imgtec.com>
      Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhc@lemote.com>
      Cc: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann@caviumnetworks.com>
      Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
      Cc: Steven J. Hill <Steven.Hill@imgtec.com>
      Cc: Yusuf Khan <yusuf.khan@nokia.com>
      Cc: Michael Kreuzer <michael.kreuzer@nokia.com>
      Cc: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
      Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10594/
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarRalf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
      a6335fa1
  2. Jul 08, 2015
  3. Jul 06, 2015
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Linux 4.2-rc1 · d770e558
      Linus Torvalds authored
      v4.2-rc1
      d770e558
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of... · a585d2b7
      Linus Torvalds authored
      Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86
      
      Pull late x86 platform driver updates from Darren Hart:
       "The following came in a bit later and I wanted them to bake in next a
        few more days before submitting, thus the second pull.
      
        A new intel_pmc_ipc driver, a symmetrical allocation and free fix in
        dell-laptop, a couple minor fixes, and some updated documentation in
        the dell-laptop comments.
      
        intel_pmc_ipc:
         - Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
      
        tc1100-wmi:
         - Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
      
        dell-laptop:
         - Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
         - Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
         - Update information about wireless control"
      
      * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v4.2-2' of git://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86:
        intel_pmc_ipc: Add Intel Apollo Lake PMC IPC driver
        tc1100-wmi: Delete an unnecessary check before the function call "kfree"
        dell-laptop: Fix allocating & freeing SMI buffer page
        dell-laptop: Show info about WiGig and UWB in debugfs
        dell-laptop: Update information about wireless control
      a585d2b7
  4. Jul 05, 2015