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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/ioctl, branch v4.18</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi</title>
<updated>2018-06-10T20:01:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-10T20:01:12+00:00</published>
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Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: ufs, qedf, mpt3sas, lpfc,
  xfcp, hisi_sas, cxlflash, qla2xxx.

  In the absence of Nic, we're also taking target updates which are
  mostly minor except for the tcmu refactor.

  The only real core change to worry about is the removal of high page
  bouncing (in sas, storvsc and iscsi). This has been well tested and no
  problems have shown up so far"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (268 commits)
  scsi: lpfc: update driver version to 12.0.0.4
  scsi: lpfc: Fix port initialization failure.
  scsi: lpfc: Fix 16gb hbas failing cq create.
  scsi: lpfc: Fix crash in blk_mq layer when executing modprobe -r lpfc
  scsi: lpfc: correct oversubscription of nvme io requests for an adapter
  scsi: lpfc: Fix MDS diagnostics failure (Rx &lt; Tx)
  scsi: hisi_sas: Mark PHY as in reset for nexus reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Fix return value when get_free_slot() failed
  scsi: hisi_sas: Terminate STP reject quickly for v2 hw
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add v2 hw force PHY function for internal ATA command
  scsi: hisi_sas: Include TMF elements in struct hisi_sas_slot
  scsi: hisi_sas: Try wait commands before before controller reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Init disks after controller reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Create a scsi_host_template per HW module
  scsi: hisi_sas: Reset disks when discovered
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add LED feature for v3 hw
  scsi: hisi_sas: Change common allocation mode of device id
  scsi: hisi_sas: change slot index allocation mode
  scsi: hisi_sas: Introduce hisi_sas_phy_set_linkrate()
  scsi: hisi_sas: fix a typo in hisi_sas_task_prep()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates to the usual drivers: ufs, qedf, mpt3sas, lpfc,
  xfcp, hisi_sas, cxlflash, qla2xxx.

  In the absence of Nic, we're also taking target updates which are
  mostly minor except for the tcmu refactor.

  The only real core change to worry about is the removal of high page
  bouncing (in sas, storvsc and iscsi). This has been well tested and no
  problems have shown up so far"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (268 commits)
  scsi: lpfc: update driver version to 12.0.0.4
  scsi: lpfc: Fix port initialization failure.
  scsi: lpfc: Fix 16gb hbas failing cq create.
  scsi: lpfc: Fix crash in blk_mq layer when executing modprobe -r lpfc
  scsi: lpfc: correct oversubscription of nvme io requests for an adapter
  scsi: lpfc: Fix MDS diagnostics failure (Rx &lt; Tx)
  scsi: hisi_sas: Mark PHY as in reset for nexus reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Fix return value when get_free_slot() failed
  scsi: hisi_sas: Terminate STP reject quickly for v2 hw
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add v2 hw force PHY function for internal ATA command
  scsi: hisi_sas: Include TMF elements in struct hisi_sas_slot
  scsi: hisi_sas: Try wait commands before before controller reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Init disks after controller reset
  scsi: hisi_sas: Create a scsi_host_template per HW module
  scsi: hisi_sas: Reset disks when discovered
  scsi: hisi_sas: Add LED feature for v3 hw
  scsi: hisi_sas: Change common allocation mode of device id
  scsi: hisi_sas: change slot index allocation mode
  scsi: hisi_sas: Introduce hisi_sas_phy_set_linkrate()
  scsi: hisi_sas: fix a typo in hisi_sas_task_prep()
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T23:20:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T23:20:22+00:00</published>
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.

  It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:

   - coreboot driver updates

   - soundwire driver updates

   - android binder updates

   - fpga big sync, mostly documentation

   - lots of minor driver updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits)
  vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
  MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path
  fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free
  documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api
  documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api
  documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api
  Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
  fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: use SPDX
  fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free
  fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata
  fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata
  fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
  ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable
  ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body
  misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
  rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
  ...
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Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" char and misc driver patches for 4.18-rc1.

  It's not a lot of stuff here, but there are some highlights:

   - coreboot driver updates

   - soundwire driver updates

   - android binder updates

   - fpga big sync, mostly documentation

   - lots of minor driver updates

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.18-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (81 commits)
  vmw_balloon: fixing double free when batching mode is off
  MAINTAINERS: Add driver-api/fpga path
  fpga: clarify that unregister functions also free
  documentation: fpga: move fpga-region.txt to driver-api
  documentation: fpga: add bridge document to driver-api
  documentation: fpga: move fpga-mgr.txt to driver-api
  Documentation: fpga: move fpga overview to driver-api
  fpga: region: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: bridge: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: mgr: kernel-doc fixes
  fpga: use SPDX
  fpga: region: change api, add fpga_region_create/free
  fpga: bridge: change api, don't use drvdata
  fpga: manager: change api, don't use drvdata
  fpga: region: don't use drvdata in common fpga code
  Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *
  ver_linux: Drop redundant calls to system() to test if file is readable
  ver_linux: Move stderr redirection from function parameter to function body
  misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)
  rpmsg: Correct support for MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'xfs-4.18-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-05T20:24:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-05T20:24:20+00:00</published>
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Pull xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "New features this cycle include the ability to relabel mounted
  filesystems, support for fallocated swapfiles, and using FUA for pure
  data O_DSYNC directio writes. With this cycle we begin to integrate
  online filesystem repair and refactor the growfs code in preparation
  for eventual subvolume support, though the road ahead for both
  features is quite long.

  There are also numerous refactorings of the iomap code to remove
  unnecessary log overhead, to disentangle some of the quota code, and
  to prepare for buffer head removal in a future upstream kernel.

  Metadata validation continues to improve, both in the hot path
  veifiers and the online filesystem check code. I anticipate sending a
  second pull request in a few days with more metadata validation
  improvements.

  This series has been run through a full xfstests run over the weekend
  and through a quick xfstests run against this morning's master, with
  no major failures reported.

  Summary:

   - Strengthen inode number and structure validation when allocating
     inodes.

   - Reduce pointless buffer allocations during cache miss

   - Use FUA for pure data O_DSYNC directio writes

   - Various iomap refactorings

   - Strengthen quota metadata verification to avoid unfixable broken
     quota

   - Make AGFL block freeing a deferred operation to avoid blowing out
     transaction reservations when running complex operations

   - Get rid of the log item descriptors to reduce log overhead

   - Fix various reflink bugs where inodes were double-joined to
     transactions

   - Don't issue discards when trimming unwritten extents

   - Refactor incore dquot initialization and retrieval interfaces

   - Fix some locking problmes in the quota scrub code

   - Strengthen btree structure checks in scrub code

   - Rewrite swapfile activation to use iomap and support unwritten
     extents

   - Make scrub exit to userspace sooner when corruptions or
     cross-referencing problems are found

   - Make scrub invoke the data fork scrubber directly on metadata
     inodes

   - Don't do background reclamation of post-eof and cow blocks when the
     fs is suspended

   - Fix secondary superblock buffer lifespan hinting

   - Refactor growfs to use table-dispatched functions instead of long
     stringy functions

   - Move growfs code to libxfs

   - Implement online fs label getting and setting

   - Introduce online filesystem repair (in a very limited capacity)

   - Fix unit conversion problems in the realtime freemap iteration
     functions

   - Various refactorings and cleanups in preparation to remove buffer
     heads in a future release

   - Reimplement the old bmap call with iomap

   - Remove direct buffer head accesses from seek hole/data

   - Various bug fixes"

* tag 'xfs-4.18-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (121 commits)
  fs: use -&gt;is_partially_uptodate in page_cache_seek_hole_data
  fs: remove the buffer_unwritten check in page_seek_hole_data
  fs: move page_cache_seek_hole_data to iomap.c
  xfs: use iomap_bmap
  iomap: add an iomap-based bmap implementation
  iomap: add a iomap_sector helper
  iomap: use __bio_add_page in iomap_dio_zero
  iomap: move IOMAP_F_BOUNDARY to gfs2
  iomap: fix the comment describing IOMAP_NOWAIT
  iomap: inline data should be an iomap type, not a flag
  mm: split -&gt;readpages calls to avoid non-contiguous pages lists
  mm: return an unsigned int from __do_page_cache_readahead
  mm: give the 'ret' variable a better name __do_page_cache_readahead
  block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface
  xfs: fix error handling in xfs_refcount_insert()
  xfs: fix xfs_rtalloc_rec units
  xfs: strengthen rtalloc query range checks
  xfs: xfs_rtbuf_get should check the bmapi_read results
  xfs: xfs_rtword_t should be unsigned, not signed
  dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns
  ...
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<pre>
Pull xfs updates from Darrick Wong:
 "New features this cycle include the ability to relabel mounted
  filesystems, support for fallocated swapfiles, and using FUA for pure
  data O_DSYNC directio writes. With this cycle we begin to integrate
  online filesystem repair and refactor the growfs code in preparation
  for eventual subvolume support, though the road ahead for both
  features is quite long.

  There are also numerous refactorings of the iomap code to remove
  unnecessary log overhead, to disentangle some of the quota code, and
  to prepare for buffer head removal in a future upstream kernel.

  Metadata validation continues to improve, both in the hot path
  veifiers and the online filesystem check code. I anticipate sending a
  second pull request in a few days with more metadata validation
  improvements.

  This series has been run through a full xfstests run over the weekend
  and through a quick xfstests run against this morning's master, with
  no major failures reported.

  Summary:

   - Strengthen inode number and structure validation when allocating
     inodes.

   - Reduce pointless buffer allocations during cache miss

   - Use FUA for pure data O_DSYNC directio writes

   - Various iomap refactorings

   - Strengthen quota metadata verification to avoid unfixable broken
     quota

   - Make AGFL block freeing a deferred operation to avoid blowing out
     transaction reservations when running complex operations

   - Get rid of the log item descriptors to reduce log overhead

   - Fix various reflink bugs where inodes were double-joined to
     transactions

   - Don't issue discards when trimming unwritten extents

   - Refactor incore dquot initialization and retrieval interfaces

   - Fix some locking problmes in the quota scrub code

   - Strengthen btree structure checks in scrub code

   - Rewrite swapfile activation to use iomap and support unwritten
     extents

   - Make scrub exit to userspace sooner when corruptions or
     cross-referencing problems are found

   - Make scrub invoke the data fork scrubber directly on metadata
     inodes

   - Don't do background reclamation of post-eof and cow blocks when the
     fs is suspended

   - Fix secondary superblock buffer lifespan hinting

   - Refactor growfs to use table-dispatched functions instead of long
     stringy functions

   - Move growfs code to libxfs

   - Implement online fs label getting and setting

   - Introduce online filesystem repair (in a very limited capacity)

   - Fix unit conversion problems in the realtime freemap iteration
     functions

   - Various refactorings and cleanups in preparation to remove buffer
     heads in a future release

   - Reimplement the old bmap call with iomap

   - Remove direct buffer head accesses from seek hole/data

   - Various bug fixes"

* tag 'xfs-4.18-merge-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: (121 commits)
  fs: use -&gt;is_partially_uptodate in page_cache_seek_hole_data
  fs: remove the buffer_unwritten check in page_seek_hole_data
  fs: move page_cache_seek_hole_data to iomap.c
  xfs: use iomap_bmap
  iomap: add an iomap-based bmap implementation
  iomap: add a iomap_sector helper
  iomap: use __bio_add_page in iomap_dio_zero
  iomap: move IOMAP_F_BOUNDARY to gfs2
  iomap: fix the comment describing IOMAP_NOWAIT
  iomap: inline data should be an iomap type, not a flag
  mm: split -&gt;readpages calls to avoid non-contiguous pages lists
  mm: return an unsigned int from __do_page_cache_readahead
  mm: give the 'ret' variable a better name __do_page_cache_readahead
  block: add a lower-level bio_add_page interface
  xfs: fix error handling in xfs_refcount_insert()
  xfs: fix xfs_rtalloc_rec units
  xfs: strengthen rtalloc query range checks
  xfs: xfs_rtbuf_get should check the bmapi_read results
  xfs: xfs_rtword_t should be unsigned, not signed
  dax: change bdev_dax_supported() to support boolean returns
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-06-04T19:34:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T19:34:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=eeee3149aaa022145b2659e3b0601dc705d69402'/>
<id>eeee3149aaa022145b2659e3b0601dc705d69402</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's been a fair amount of work in the docs tree this time around,
  including:

   - Extensive RST conversions and organizational work in the
     memory-management docs thanks to Mike Rapoport.

   - An update of Documentation/features from Andrea Parri and a script
     to keep it updated.

   - Various LICENSES updates from Thomas, along with a script to check
     SPDX tags.

   - Work to fix dangling references to documentation files; this
     involved a fair number of one-liner comment changes outside of
     Documentation/

  ... and the usual list of documentation improvements, typo fixes, etc"

* tag 'docs-4.18' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (103 commits)
  Documentation: document hung_task_panic kernel parameter
  docs/admin-guide/mm: add high level concepts overview
  docs/vm: move ksm and transhuge from "user" to "internals" section.
  docs: Use the kerneldoc comments for memalloc_no*()
  doc: document scope NOFS, NOIO APIs
  docs: update kernel versions and dates in tables
  docs/vm: transhuge: split userspace bits to admin-guide/mm/transhuge
  docs/vm: transhuge: minor updates
  docs/vm: transhuge: change sections order
  Documentation: arm: clean up Marvell Berlin family info
  Documentation: gpio: driver: Fix a typo and some odd grammar
  docs: ranoops.rst: fix location of ramoops.txt
  scripts/documentation-file-ref-check: rewrite it in perl with auto-fix mode
  docs: uio-howto.rst: use a code block to solve a warning
  mm, THP, doc: Add document for thp_swpout/thp_swpout_fallback
  w1: w1_io.c: fix a kernel-doc warning
  Documentation/process/posting: wrap text at 80 cols
  docs: admin-guide: add cgroup-v2 documentation
  Revert "Documentation/features/vm: Remove arch support status file for 'pte_special'"
  Documentation: refcount-vs-atomic: Update reference to LKMM doc.
  ...
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>fs: copy BTRFS_IOC_[SG]ET_FSLABEL to vfs</title>
<updated>2018-05-16T15:50:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eric Sandeen</name>
<email>sandeen@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-15T20:20:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=62750d040bd137fd6f541e216502d9158e07d348'/>
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This retains 256 chars as the maximum size through the interface, which
is the btrfs limit and AFAIK exceeds any other filesystem's maximum
label size.

This just copies the ioctl for now and leaves it in place for btrfs
for the time being.  A later patch will allow btrfs to use the new
common ioctl definition, but it may be sent after this is merged.

(Note, Reviewed-by's were originally given for the combined vfs+btrfs
patch, some license taken here.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
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This retains 256 chars as the maximum size through the interface, which
is the btrfs limit and AFAIK exceeds any other filesystem's maximum
label size.

This just copies the ioctl for now and leaves it in place for btrfs
for the time being.  A later patch will allow btrfs to use the new
common ioctl definition, but it may be sent after this is merged.

(Note, Reviewed-by's were originally given for the combined vfs+btrfs
patch, some license taken here.)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen &lt;sandeen@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andreas Dilger &lt;adilger@dilger.ca&gt;
Reviewed-by: David Sterba &lt;dsterba@suse.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong &lt;darrick.wong@oracle.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)</title>
<updated>2018-05-14T14:35:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bryant G. Ly</name>
<email>bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-25T21:32:57+00:00</published>
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This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.

VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
  partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management

This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.

Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Royer &lt;seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek &lt;adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson &lt;tjakobs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Brad Warrum &lt;bwarrum@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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This driver is a logical device which provides an
interface between the hypervisor and a management
partition. This interface is like a message
passing interface. This management partition
is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based
system management.

VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic
logical partition functions:
- Logical Partition Configuration
- Boot, start, and stop actions for individual
  partitions
- Display of partition status
- Management of virtual Ethernet
- Management of virtual Storage
- Basic system management

This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual
Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC
platform. It provides a character device which
allows for both request/response and async message
support through the /dev/ibmvmc node.

Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly &lt;bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Steven Royer &lt;seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek &lt;adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson &lt;tjakobs@us.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Brad Warrum &lt;bwarrum@us.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>doc: botching-up-ioctls: Make it clearer why structs must be padded</title>
<updated>2018-05-08T14:51:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Vetter</name>
<email>daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-02T07:51:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1897e8f394c50124f90d6c1be672f05846438bf8'/>
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This came up in discussions when reviewing drm patches.

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt &lt;eric@anholt.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
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This came up in discussions when reviewing drm patches.

Reviewed-by: Eric Anholt &lt;eric@anholt.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>scsi: mpt3sas: fix header path in ioctl documentation</title>
<updated>2018-05-08T05:30:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tomohiro Kusumi</name>
<email>kusumi.tomohiro@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-05-04T23:45:29+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=a217b31165924af2989a0a454c4dff10b63ec6ea'/>
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MPT2_MAGIC_NUMBER as well as drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.h were
removed to reuse mpt3sas code since commit 09ec55ed74 ("mpt2sas: Remove
.c and .h files from mpt2sas driver").

Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi &lt;kusumi.tomohiro@osnexus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
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MPT2_MAGIC_NUMBER as well as drivers/scsi/mpt2sas/mpt2sas_ctl.h were
removed to reuse mpt3sas code since commit 09ec55ed74 ("mpt2sas: Remove
.c and .h files from mpt2sas driver").

Signed-off-by: Tomohiro Kusumi &lt;kusumi.tomohiro@osnexus.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen &lt;martin.petersen@oracle.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>staging: irda: remove remaining remants of irda code removal</title>
<updated>2018-04-16T09:26:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-05T14:15:55+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=edf5c17d866eada03b8750368a12dc3def77d608'/>
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There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well
as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries.  Clean
these all out as this stuff really is finally gone.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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There were some documentation locations that irda was mentioned, as well
as an old MAINTAINERS entry and the networking sysctl entries.  Clean
these all out as this stuff really is finally gone.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove tile port</title>
<updated>2018-03-16T09:56:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Arnd Bergmann</name>
<email>arnd@arndb.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-03-09T13:13:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=bb9d812643d8a121df7d614a2b9c60193a92deb0'/>
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The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
uses the Tile architecture.

There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.

Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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The Tile architecture port was added by Chris Metcalf in 2010, and
maintained until early 2018 when he orphaned it due to his departure
from Mellanox, and nobody else stepped up to maintain it. The product
line is still around in the form of the BlueField SoC, but no longer
uses the Tile architecture.

There are also still products for sale with Tile-GX SoCs, notably the
Mikrotik CCR router family. The products all use old (linux-3.3) kernels
with lots of patches and won't be upgraded by their manufacturers. There
have been efforts to port both OpenWRT and Debian to these, but both
projects have stalled and are very unlikely to be continued in the future.

Given that we are reasonably sure that nobody is still using the port
with an upstream kernel any more, it seems better to remove it now while
the port is in a good shape than to let it bitrot for a few years first.

Cc: Chris Metcalf &lt;chris.d.metcalf@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz &lt;glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de&gt;
Link: http://www.mellanox.com/page/npu_multicore_overview
Link: https://jenkins.debian.net/view/rebootstrap/job/rebootstrap_tilegx_gcc7/
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
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