linux-stable.git/Documentation/ABI, branch linux-3.18.y Linux kernel stable tree Doc: ABI: testing: configfs-usb-gadget-sourcesink 2015-10-28T02:14:50+00:00 Peter Chen peter.chen@freescale.com 2015-07-31T08:36:29+00:00 9f6e3432b9b0f30c83174ca3990b747675d9f768 [ Upstream commit 4bc58eb16bb2352854b9c664cc36c1c68d2bfbb7 ] Fix the name of attribute Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> 
[ Upstream commit 4bc58eb16bb2352854b9c664cc36c1c68d2bfbb7 ]

Fix the name of attribute

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Doc: ABI: testing: configfs-usb-gadget-loopback 2015-10-28T02:14:49+00:00 Peter Chen peter.chen@freescale.com 2015-07-31T08:36:28+00:00 59c3c6c94a143436ec512eb0db32d34a473b59c1 [ Upstream commit 8cd50626823c00ca7472b2f61cb8c0eb9798ddc0 ] Fix the name of attribute Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> 
[ Upstream commit 8cd50626823c00ca7472b2f61cb8c0eb9798ddc0 ]

Fix the name of attribute

Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Chen <peter.chen@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
libata: Expose TRIM capability in sysfs 2015-08-27T17:26:11+00:00 Martin K. Petersen martin.petersen@oracle.com 2015-05-05T01:54:19+00:00 90eebd37c8175cb60c99b9cd1e3f5e61eb7b7468 [ Upstream commit f303074160d3401970ccae082014e1ee5a9a52c5 ] Create a sysfs "trim" attribute for each ata_device that displays whether DSM TRIM is "unsupported", "unqueued", "forced_unqueued" (blacklisted) or "queued". Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> 
[ Upstream commit f303074160d3401970ccae082014e1ee5a9a52c5 ]

Create a sysfs "trim" attribute for each ata_device that displays
whether DSM TRIM is "unsupported", "unqueued", "forced_unqueued"
(blacklisted) or "queued".

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
ima: extend "mask" policy matching support 2015-08-27T17:25:53+00:00 Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2014-11-05T12:53:55+00:00 36ac1d14682122e3d792c66c8ae8d6d1bd093547 [ Upstream commit 747cadeb108665b0474624a374aa9e13f12c9274 ] commit 4351c294b8c1028077280f761e158d167b592974 upstream. The current "mask" policy option matches files opened as MAY_READ, MAY_WRITE, MAY_APPEND or MAY_EXEC. This patch extends the "mask" option to match files opened containing one of these modes. For example, "mask=^MAY_READ" would match files opened read-write. Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <gw@idfusion.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> 
[ Upstream commit 747cadeb108665b0474624a374aa9e13f12c9274 ]

commit 4351c294b8c1028077280f761e158d167b592974 upstream.

The current "mask" policy option matches files opened as MAY_READ,
MAY_WRITE, MAY_APPEND or MAY_EXEC.  This patch extends the "mask"
option to match files opened containing one of these modes.  For
example, "mask=^MAY_READ" would match files opened read-write.

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <gw@idfusion.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition 2015-08-27T17:25:52+00:00 Mimi Zohar zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com 2014-11-05T12:48:36+00:00 9a957a6622ab900a78a256d8c9d941b618135980 [ Upstream commit 139069eff7388407f19794384c42a534d618ccd7 ] The new "euid" policy condition measures files with the specified effective uid (euid). In addition, for CAP_SETUID files it measures files with the specified uid or suid. Changelog: - fixed checkpatch.pl warnings - fixed avc denied {setuid} messages - based on Roberto's feedback Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <gw@idfusion.org> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> 
[ Upstream commit 139069eff7388407f19794384c42a534d618ccd7 ]

The new "euid" policy condition measures files with the specified
effective uid (euid).  In addition, for CAP_SETUID files it measures
files with the specified uid or suid.

Changelog:
- fixed checkpatch.pl warnings
- fixed avc denied {setuid} messages - based on Roberto's feedback

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dr. Greg Wettstein <gw@idfusion.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft: fix a typo 2014-10-21T14:31:26+00:00 WANG Chao chaowang@redhat.com 2014-10-17T08:47:26+00:00 dce9b2c91495d37e5a6a976277a408f42da56a70 Correct a sentence in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft. Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> 
Correct a sentence in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft.

Signed-off-by: WANG Chao <chaowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-10-19T18:55:41+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2014-10-19T18:55:41+00:00 1f6075f99073a8b5ec9649ae8c0bf2e06fdd42f1 Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar: "A second (and last) round of late coming fixes and changes, almost all of them in perf tooling: User visible tooling changes: - Add period data column and make it default in 'perf script' (Jiri Olsa) - Add a visual cue for toggle zeroing of samples in 'perf top' (Taeung Song) - Improve callchains when using libunwind (Namhyung Kim) Tooling fixes and infrastructure changes: - Fix for double free in 'perf stat' when using some specific invalid command line combo (Yasser Shalabi) - Fix off-by-one bugs in map->end handling (Stephane Eranian) - Fix off-by-one bug in maps__find(), also related to map->end handling (Namhyung Kim) - Make struct symbol->end be the first addr after the symbol range, to make it match the convention used for struct map->end. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Fix perf_evlist__add_pollfd() error handling in 'perf kvm stat live' (Jiri Olsa) - Fix python test build by moving callchain_param to an object linked into the python binding (Jiri Olsa) - Document sysfs events/ interfaces (Cody P Schafer) - Fix typos in perf/Documentation (Masanari Iida) - Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add option to copy events when queuing for sorting across cpu buffers and enable it for 'perf kvm stat live', to avoid having events left in the queue pointing to the ring buffer be rewritten in high volume sessions. (Alexander Yarygin, improving work done by David Ahern): - Do not include a struct hists per perf_evsel, untangling the histogram code from perf_evsel, to pave the way for exporting a minimalistic tools/lib/api/perf/ library usable by tools/perf and initially by the rasd daemon being developed by Borislav Petkov, Robert Richter and Jean Pihet. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Make perf_evlist__open(evlist, NULL, NULL), i.e. without cpu and thread maps mean syswide monitoring, reducing the boilerplate for tools that only want system wide mode. (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Move exit stuff from perf_evsel__delete to perf_evsel__exit, delete should be just a front end for exit + free (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) - Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event. (Kan Liang) and other misc fixes" * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits) perf script: Add period as a default output column perf script: Add period data column perf evsel: No need to drag util/cgroup.h perf evlist: Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration perf evsel: Move exit stuff from __delete to __exit kprobes/x86: Remove stale ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE define perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation perf trace: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers perf kvm: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers perf callchain: Create an address space per thread perf report: Set callchain_param.record_mode for future use perf evlist: Fix for double free in tools/perf stat perf test: Add test case for pmu event new style format perf tools: Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event perf tools: Parse the pmu event prefix and suffix Revert "perf tools: Default to cpu// for events v5" perf Documentation: Remove Ruplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific events perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces ... 
Pull more perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "A second (and last) round of late coming fixes and changes, almost all
  of them in perf tooling:

  User visible tooling changes:

   - Add period data column and make it default in 'perf script' (Jiri
     Olsa)

   - Add a visual cue for toggle zeroing of samples in 'perf top'
     (Taeung Song)

   - Improve callchains when using libunwind (Namhyung Kim)

  Tooling fixes and infrastructure changes:

   - Fix for double free in 'perf stat' when using some specific invalid
     command line combo (Yasser Shalabi)

   - Fix off-by-one bugs in map->end handling (Stephane Eranian)

   - Fix off-by-one bug in maps__find(), also related to map->end
     handling (Namhyung Kim)

   - Make struct symbol->end be the first addr after the symbol range,
     to make it match the convention used for struct map->end.  (Arnaldo
     Carvalho de Melo)

   - Fix perf_evlist__add_pollfd() error handling in 'perf kvm stat
     live' (Jiri Olsa)

   - Fix python test build by moving callchain_param to an object linked
     into the python binding (Jiri Olsa)

   - Document sysfs events/ interfaces (Cody P Schafer)

   - Fix typos in perf/Documentation (Masanari Iida)

   - Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration (Arnaldo Carvalho
     de Melo)

   - Add option to copy events when queuing for sorting across cpu
     buffers and enable it for 'perf kvm stat live', to avoid having
     events left in the queue pointing to the ring buffer be rewritten
     in high volume sessions.  (Alexander Yarygin, improving work done
     by David Ahern):

   - Do not include a struct hists per perf_evsel, untangling the
     histogram code from perf_evsel, to pave the way for exporting a
     minimalistic tools/lib/api/perf/ library usable by tools/perf and
     initially by the rasd daemon being developed by Borislav Petkov,
     Robert Richter and Jean Pihet.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Make perf_evlist__open(evlist, NULL, NULL), i.e. without cpu and
     thread maps mean syswide monitoring, reducing the boilerplate for
     tools that only want system wide mode.  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)

   - Move exit stuff from perf_evsel__delete to perf_evsel__exit, delete
     should be just a front end for exit + free (Arnaldo Carvalho de
     Melo)

   - Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event.  (Kan Liang)

  and other misc fixes"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (45 commits)
  perf script: Add period as a default output column
  perf script: Add period data column
  perf evsel: No need to drag util/cgroup.h
  perf evlist: Add missing 'struct option' forward declaration
  perf evsel: Move exit stuff from __delete to __exit
  kprobes/x86: Remove stale ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE define
  perf kvm stat live: Enable events copying
  perf session: Add option to copy events when queueing
  perf Documentation: Fix typos in perf/Documentation
  perf trace: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers
  perf kvm: Use thread_{,_set}_priv helpers
  perf callchain: Create an address space per thread
  perf report: Set callchain_param.record_mode for future use
  perf evlist: Fix for double free in tools/perf stat
  perf test: Add test case for pmu event new style format
  perf tools: Add support to new style format of kernel PMU event
  perf tools: Parse the pmu event prefix and suffix
  Revert "perf tools: Default to cpu// for events v5"
  perf Documentation: Remove Ruplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific events
  perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces
  ...
Merge branch 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2014-10-18T18:53:51+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2014-10-18T18:53:51+00:00 d3dc366bbaf07c125561e90d6da4bb147741101a Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe: "This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18. Apart from the new and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes and cleanups. - blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph. - Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph. We pass it through the ->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request bits. The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used. - blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng. - Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei. Now we have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq. - Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott. - Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun. - Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes. - Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing. From Joe Lawrence. - Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm devices from Junichi Nomura. This allows creating clone bio sets without preallocating a lot of memory. - Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and hardware queues from me. - Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI shared tag setups). We now just use a single queue and limited depth for that" * 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits) block: Remove REQ_KERNEL blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating block: include func name in __get_request prints block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2 blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high block: add bioset_create_nobvec() block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone() block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp block: Add T10 Protection Information functions block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ block: Integrity checksum flag block: Relocate bio integrity flags block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags ... 
Pull core block layer changes from Jens Axboe:
 "This is the core block IO pull request for 3.18.  Apart from the new
  and improved flush machinery for blk-mq, this is all mostly bug fixes
  and cleanups.

   - blk-mq timeout updates and fixes from Christoph.

   - Removal of REQ_END, also from Christoph.  We pass it through the
     ->queue_rq() hook for blk-mq instead, freeing up one of the request
     bits.  The space was overly tight on 32-bit, so Martin also killed
     REQ_KERNEL since it's no longer used.

   - blk integrity updates and fixes from Martin and Gu Zheng.

   - Update to the flush machinery for blk-mq from Ming Lei.  Now we
     have a per hardware context flush request, which both cleans up the
     code should scale better for flush intensive workloads on blk-mq.

   - Improve the error printing, from Rob Elliott.

   - Backing device improvements and cleanups from Tejun.

   - Fixup of a misplaced rq_complete() tracepoint from Hannes.

   - Make blk_get_request() return error pointers, fixing up issues
     where we NULL deref when a device goes bad or missing.  From Joe
     Lawrence.

   - Prep work for drastically reducing the memory consumption of dm
     devices from Junichi Nomura.  This allows creating clone bio sets
     without preallocating a lot of memory.

   - Fix a blk-mq hang on certain combinations of queue depths and
     hardware queues from me.

   - Limit memory consumption for blk-mq devices for crash dump
     scenarios and drivers that use crazy high depths (certain SCSI
     shared tag setups).  We now just use a single queue and limited
     depth for that"

* 'for-3.18/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (58 commits)
  block: Remove REQ_KERNEL
  blk-mq: allocate cpumask on the home node
  bio-integrity: remove the needless fail handle of bip_slab creating
  block: include func name in __get_request prints
  block: make blk_update_request print prefix match ratelimited prefix
  blk-merge: don't compute bi_phys_segments from bi_vcnt for cloned bio
  block: fix alignment_offset math that assumes io_min is a power-of-2
  blk-mq: Make bt_clear_tag() easier to read
  blk-mq: fix potential hang if rolling wakeup depth is too high
  block: add bioset_create_nobvec()
  block: use bio_clone_fast() in blk_rq_prep_clone()
  block: misplaced rq_complete tracepoint
  sd: Honor block layer integrity handling flags
  block: Replace strnicmp with strncasecmp
  block: Add T10 Protection Information functions
  block: Don't merge requests if integrity flags differ
  block: Integrity checksum flag
  block: Relocate bio integrity flags
  block: Add a disk flag to block integrity profile
  block: Add prefix to block integrity profile flags
  ...
perf Documentation: Remove Ruplicated docs for powerpc cpu specific events 2014-10-15T19:00:37+00:00 Cody P Schafer dev@codyps.com 2014-10-01T06:03:20+00:00 b56d5beff4825f9f216f1fc4a54a5d07d4b68b71 Listing specific events doesn't actually help us at all here because: - these events actually vary between different ppc processors, they aren't garunteed to be present. - the documentation of the (generic) file contents is now superceded by the docs for arbitrary event file contents. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412143402-26061-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 
Listing specific events doesn't actually help us at all here because:
 - these events actually vary between different ppc processors, they
   aren't garunteed to be present.
 - the documentation of the (generic) file contents is now superceded by the
   docs for arbitrary event file contents.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412143402-26061-5-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
perf Documentation: sysfs events/ interfaces 2014-10-15T18:54:40+00:00 Cody P Schafer dev@codyps.com 2014-10-01T06:03:19+00:00 ed90a4466340e51699139ea83dbe0f4536360e6d Add documentation for the <event>, <event>.scale, and <event>.unit files in sysfs. <event>.scale and <event>.unit were undocumented. <event> was previously documented only for specific powerpc pmu events. Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412143402-26061-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 
Add documentation for the <event>, <event>.scale, and <event>.unit
files in sysfs.

	<event>.scale and <event>.unit were undocumented.
	<event> was previously documented only for specific powerpc pmu events.

Signed-off-by: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Cody P Schafer <dev@codyps.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412143402-26061-4-git-send-email-sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>