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<title>Merge tag 'acpica-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2015-07-03T00:11:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-03T00:11:28+00:00</published>
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Pull ACPICA updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Additional ACPICA material for v4.2-rc1

  This will update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
  20150619 (a bug-fix release mostly including stable-candidate fixes)
  and restore an earlier ACPICA commit that had to be reverted due to a
  regression introduced by it (the regression is addressed by
  blacklisting the only known system affected by it to date).

  The only new feature added by this update is the support for
  overriding objects in the ACPI namespace and a new ACPI table that can
  be used for that called the Override System Definition Table (OSDT).
  That should allow us to "patch" the ACPI namespace built from
  incomplete or incorrect ACPI System Definition tables (DSDT, SSDT)
  during system startup without the need to provide replacements for all
  of those tables in the future.

  Specifics:

   - Fix system resume problems related to 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
     the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) in the firmare (Lv
     Zheng)

   - Fix double initialization of the FACS (Lv Zheng)

   - Add _CLS object processing code to ACPICA (Suravee Suthikulpanit)

   - Add support for the (currently missing) new GIC version field in
     the Multiple APIC Description Table (MADT) (Hanjun Guo)

   - Add support for overriding objects in the ACPI namespace to ACPICA
     and OSDT support (Lv Zheng, Bob Moore, Zhang Rui)

   - Updates related to the TCPA and TPM2 ACPI tables (Bob Moore)

   - Restore the commit modifying _REV to always return "2" (as required
     by ACPI 6) and add a blacklisting mechanism for systems that may be
     affected by that change (Rafael J Wysocki)

   - Assorted fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Sascha Wildner)"

* tag 'acpica-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (28 commits)
  Revert 'Revert "ACPICA: Permanently set _REV to the value '2'."'
  ACPI / init: Make it possible to override _REV
  ACPICA: Update version to 20150619
  ACPICA: Comment update, no functional change
  ACPICA: Update TPM2 ACPI table
  ACPICA: Update definitions for the TCPA and TPM2 ACPI tables
  ACPICA: Split C library prototypes to new header
  ACPICA: De-macroize calls to standard C library functions
  ACPI / acpidump: Update acpidump manual
  ACPICA: acpidump: Convert the default behavior to dump from /sys/firmware/acpi/tables
  ACPICA: acpidump: Allow customized tables to be dumped without accessing /dev/mem
  ACPICA: Cleanup output for the ASL Debug object
  ACPICA: Update for acpi_install_table memory types
  ACPICA: Namespace: Change namespace override to avoid node deletion
  ACPICA: Namespace: Add support of OSDT table
  ACPICA: Namespace: Add support to allow overriding objects
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.0: Add values for MADT GIC version field
  ACPICA: Utilities: Add _CLS processing
  ACPICA: Add dragon_fly support to unix file mapping file
  ACPICA: EFI: Add EFI interface definitions to eliminate dependency of GNU EFI
  ...
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Pull ACPICA updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Additional ACPICA material for v4.2-rc1

  This will update the ACPICA code in the kernel to upstream revision
  20150619 (a bug-fix release mostly including stable-candidate fixes)
  and restore an earlier ACPICA commit that had to be reverted due to a
  regression introduced by it (the regression is addressed by
  blacklisting the only known system affected by it to date).

  The only new feature added by this update is the support for
  overriding objects in the ACPI namespace and a new ACPI table that can
  be used for that called the Override System Definition Table (OSDT).
  That should allow us to "patch" the ACPI namespace built from
  incomplete or incorrect ACPI System Definition tables (DSDT, SSDT)
  during system startup without the need to provide replacements for all
  of those tables in the future.

  Specifics:

   - Fix system resume problems related to 32-bit and 64-bit versions of
     the Firmware ACPI Control Structure (FACS) in the firmare (Lv
     Zheng)

   - Fix double initialization of the FACS (Lv Zheng)

   - Add _CLS object processing code to ACPICA (Suravee Suthikulpanit)

   - Add support for the (currently missing) new GIC version field in
     the Multiple APIC Description Table (MADT) (Hanjun Guo)

   - Add support for overriding objects in the ACPI namespace to ACPICA
     and OSDT support (Lv Zheng, Bob Moore, Zhang Rui)

   - Updates related to the TCPA and TPM2 ACPI tables (Bob Moore)

   - Restore the commit modifying _REV to always return "2" (as required
     by ACPI 6) and add a blacklisting mechanism for systems that may be
     affected by that change (Rafael J Wysocki)

   - Assorted fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore, Lv Zheng, Sascha Wildner)"

* tag 'acpica-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (28 commits)
  Revert 'Revert "ACPICA: Permanently set _REV to the value '2'."'
  ACPI / init: Make it possible to override _REV
  ACPICA: Update version to 20150619
  ACPICA: Comment update, no functional change
  ACPICA: Update TPM2 ACPI table
  ACPICA: Update definitions for the TCPA and TPM2 ACPI tables
  ACPICA: Split C library prototypes to new header
  ACPICA: De-macroize calls to standard C library functions
  ACPI / acpidump: Update acpidump manual
  ACPICA: acpidump: Convert the default behavior to dump from /sys/firmware/acpi/tables
  ACPICA: acpidump: Allow customized tables to be dumped without accessing /dev/mem
  ACPICA: Cleanup output for the ASL Debug object
  ACPICA: Update for acpi_install_table memory types
  ACPICA: Namespace: Change namespace override to avoid node deletion
  ACPICA: Namespace: Add support of OSDT table
  ACPICA: Namespace: Add support to allow overriding objects
  ACPICA: ACPI 6.0: Add values for MADT GIC version field
  ACPICA: Utilities: Add _CLS processing
  ACPICA: Add dragon_fly support to unix file mapping file
  ACPICA: EFI: Add EFI interface definitions to eliminate dependency of GNU EFI
  ...
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<entry>
<title>ACPI / init: Make it possible to override _REV</title>
<updated>2015-07-02T23:06:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-02T23:06:00+00:00</published>
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The platform firmware on some systems expects Linux to return "5" as
the supported ACPI revision which makes it expose system configuration
information in a special way.

For example, based on what ACPI exports as the supported revision,
Dell XPS 13 (2015) configures its audio device to either work in HDA
mode or in I2S mode, where the former is supposed to be used on Linux
until the latter is fully supported (in the kernel as well as in user
space).

Since ACPI 6 mandates that _REV should return "2" if ACPI 2 or later
is supported by the OS, a subsequent change will make that happen, so
make it possible to override that on systems where "5" is expected to
be returned for Linux to work correctly one them (such as the Dell
machine mentioned above).

Original-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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The platform firmware on some systems expects Linux to return "5" as
the supported ACPI revision which makes it expose system configuration
information in a special way.

For example, based on what ACPI exports as the supported revision,
Dell XPS 13 (2015) configures its audio device to either work in HDA
mode or in I2S mode, where the former is supposed to be used on Linux
until the latter is fully supported (in the kernel as well as in user
space).

Since ACPI 6 mandates that _REV should return "2" if ACPI 2 or later
is supported by the OS, a subsequent change will make that happen, so
make it possible to override that on systems where "5" is expected to
be returned for Linux to work correctly one them (such as the Dell
machine mentioned above).

Original-by: Dominik Brodowski &lt;linux@dominikbrodowski.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security</title>
<updated>2015-06-27T20:26:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-27T20:26:03+00:00</published>
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Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "The main change in this kernel is Casey's generalized LSM stacking
  work, which removes the hard-coding of Capabilities and Yama stacking,
  allowing multiple arbitrary "small" LSMs to be stacked with a default
  monolithic module (e.g.  SELinux, Smack, AppArmor).

  See
        https://lwn.net/Articles/636056/

  This will allow smaller, simpler LSMs to be incorporated into the
  mainline kernel and arbitrarily stacked by users.  Also, this is a
  useful cleanup of the LSM code in its own right"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  tpm, tpm_crb: fix le64_to_cpu conversions in crb_acpi_add()
  vTPM: set virtual device before passing to ibmvtpm_reset_crq
  tpm_ibmvtpm: remove unneccessary message level.
  ima: update builtin policies
  ima: extend "mask" policy matching support
  ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition
  ima: fix ima_show_template_data_ascii()
  Smack: freeing an error pointer in smk_write_revoke_subj()
  selinux: fix setting of security labels on NFS
  selinux: Remove unused permission definitions
  selinux: enable genfscon labeling for sysfs and pstore files
  selinux: enable per-file labeling for debugfs files.
  selinux: update netlink socket classes
  signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds()
  selinux: Print 'sclass' as string when unrecognized netlink message occurs
  Smack: allow multiple labels in onlycap
  Smack: fix seq operations in smackfs
  ima: pass iint to ima_add_violation()
  ima: wrap event related data to the new ima_event_data structure
  integrity: add validity checks for 'path' parameter
  ...
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<pre>
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
 "The main change in this kernel is Casey's generalized LSM stacking
  work, which removes the hard-coding of Capabilities and Yama stacking,
  allowing multiple arbitrary "small" LSMs to be stacked with a default
  monolithic module (e.g.  SELinux, Smack, AppArmor).

  See
        https://lwn.net/Articles/636056/

  This will allow smaller, simpler LSMs to be incorporated into the
  mainline kernel and arbitrarily stacked by users.  Also, this is a
  useful cleanup of the LSM code in its own right"

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (38 commits)
  tpm, tpm_crb: fix le64_to_cpu conversions in crb_acpi_add()
  vTPM: set virtual device before passing to ibmvtpm_reset_crq
  tpm_ibmvtpm: remove unneccessary message level.
  ima: update builtin policies
  ima: extend "mask" policy matching support
  ima: add support for new "euid" policy condition
  ima: fix ima_show_template_data_ascii()
  Smack: freeing an error pointer in smk_write_revoke_subj()
  selinux: fix setting of security labels on NFS
  selinux: Remove unused permission definitions
  selinux: enable genfscon labeling for sysfs and pstore files
  selinux: enable per-file labeling for debugfs files.
  selinux: update netlink socket classes
  signals: don't abuse __flush_signals() in selinux_bprm_committed_creds()
  selinux: Print 'sclass' as string when unrecognized netlink message occurs
  Smack: allow multiple labels in onlycap
  Smack: fix seq operations in smackfs
  ima: pass iint to ima_add_violation()
  ima: wrap event related data to the new ima_event_data structure
  integrity: add validity checks for 'path' parameter
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T22:53:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T22:53:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8c7febe83915332276cab49e89f6580bb963fb9a'/>
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Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the tty and serial driver patches for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of individual driver updates, some code cleanups, and other
  minor things, full details in the shortlog.

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

* tag 'tty-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (152 commits)
  Doc: serial-rs485.txt: update RS485 driver interface
  Doc: tty.txt: remove mention of the BKL
  MAINTAINERS: tty: add serial docs directory
  serial: sprd: check for NULL after calling devm_clk_get
  serial: 8250_pci: Correct uartclk for xr17v35x expansion chips
  serial: 8250_pci: Add support for 12 port Exar boards
  serial: 8250_uniphier: add bindings document for UniPhier UART
  serial: core: cleanup in uart_get_baud_rate()
  serial: stm32-usart: Add STM32 USART Driver
  tty/serial: kill off set_irq_flags usage
  tty: move linux/gsmmux.h to uapi
  doc: dt: add documentation for nxp,lpc1850-uart
  serial: 8250: add LPC18xx/43xx UART driver
  serial: 8250_uniphier: add UniPhier serial driver
  serial: 8250_dw: support ACPI platforms with integrated DMA engine
  serial: of_serial: check the return value of clk_prepare_enable()
  serial: of_serial: use devm_clk_get() instead of clk_get()
  serial: earlycon: Add support for big-endian MMIO accesses
  serial: sirf: use hrtimer for data rx
  serial: sirf: correct the fifo empty_bit
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the tty and serial driver patches for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of individual driver updates, some code cleanups, and other
  minor things, full details in the shortlog.

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

* tag 'tty-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (152 commits)
  Doc: serial-rs485.txt: update RS485 driver interface
  Doc: tty.txt: remove mention of the BKL
  MAINTAINERS: tty: add serial docs directory
  serial: sprd: check for NULL after calling devm_clk_get
  serial: 8250_pci: Correct uartclk for xr17v35x expansion chips
  serial: 8250_pci: Add support for 12 port Exar boards
  serial: 8250_uniphier: add bindings document for UniPhier UART
  serial: core: cleanup in uart_get_baud_rate()
  serial: stm32-usart: Add STM32 USART Driver
  tty/serial: kill off set_irq_flags usage
  tty: move linux/gsmmux.h to uapi
  doc: dt: add documentation for nxp,lpc1850-uart
  serial: 8250: add LPC18xx/43xx UART driver
  serial: 8250_uniphier: add UniPhier serial driver
  serial: 8250_dw: support ACPI platforms with integrated DMA engine
  serial: of_serial: check the return value of clk_prepare_enable()
  serial: of_serial: use devm_clk_get() instead of clk_get()
  serial: earlycon: Add support for big-endian MMIO accesses
  serial: sirf: use hrtimer for data rx
  serial: sirf: correct the fifo empty_bit
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T22:07:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-26T22:07:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=8d7804a2f03dbd34940fcb426450c730adf29dae'/>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

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

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...
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<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the driver core / firmware changes for 4.2-rc1.

  A number of small changes all over the place in the driver core, and
  in the firmware subsystem.  Nothing really major, full details in the
  shortlog.  Some of it is a bit of churn, given that the platform
  driver probing changes was found to not work well, so they were
  reverted.

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

* tag 'driver-core-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (31 commits)
  Revert "base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources"
  Revert "base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error"
  Revert "of/platform: Use platform_device interface"
  Revert "base/platform: Remove code duplication"
  firmware: add missing kfree for work on async call
  fs: sysfs: don't pass count == 0 to bin file readers
  base:dd - Fix for typo in comment to function driver_deferred_probe_trigger().
  base/platform: Remove code duplication
  of/platform: Use platform_device interface
  base/platform: Continue on insert_resource() error
  base/platform: Only insert MEM and IO resources
  firmware: use const for remaining firmware names
  firmware: fix possible use after free on name on asynchronous request
  firmware: check for file truncation on direct firmware loading
  firmware: fix __getname() missing failure check
  drivers: of/base: move of_init to driver_init
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: fix annoying typo when DT nodes are absent
  sysfs: disambiguate between "error code" and "failure" in comments
  driver-core: fix build for !CONFIG_MODULES
  driver-core: make __device_attach() static
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T23:49:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T23:49:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=64e22b86854227b4d13a57fa02f26472bc426812'/>
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Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:

 - a number of libata core changes to better support NCQ TRIM.

 - ahci now supports MSI-X in single IRQ mode to support a new
   controller which doesn't implement MSI or INTX.

 - ahci now supports edge-triggered IRQ mode to support a new controller
   which for some odd reason did edge-triggered IRQ.

 - the usual controller support additions and changes.

* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (27 commits)
  libata: Do not blacklist Micron M500DC
  ata: ahci_mvebu: add suspend/resume support
  ahci, msix: Fix build error for !PCI_MSI
  ahci: Add support for Cavium's ThunderX host controller
  ahci: Add generic MSI-X support for single interrupts to SATA PCI driver
  libata: finally use __initconst in ata_parse_force_one()
  drivers: ata: add support for Ceva sata host controller
  devicetree:bindings: add devicetree bindings for ceva ahci
  ahci: added support for Freescale AHCI sata
  ahci: Store irq number in struct ahci_host_priv
  ahci: Move interrupt enablement code to a separate function
  Doc: libata: Fix spelling typo found in libata.xml
  ata:sata_nv - Change 1 to true for bool type variable.
  ata: add Broadcom AHCI SATA3 driver for STB chips
  Documentation: devicetree: add Broadcom SATA binding
  libata: Fix regression when the NCQ Send and Receive log page is absent
  ata: hpt366: fix constant cast warning
  ata: ahci_xgene: potential NULL dereference in probe
  ata: ahci_xgene: Add AHCI Support for 2nd HW version of APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA Host controller.
  libahci: Add support to handle HOST_IRQ_STAT as edge trigger latch.
  ...
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<pre>
Pull libata updates from Tejun Heo:

 - a number of libata core changes to better support NCQ TRIM.

 - ahci now supports MSI-X in single IRQ mode to support a new
   controller which doesn't implement MSI or INTX.

 - ahci now supports edge-triggered IRQ mode to support a new controller
   which for some odd reason did edge-triggered IRQ.

 - the usual controller support additions and changes.

* 'for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/libata: (27 commits)
  libata: Do not blacklist Micron M500DC
  ata: ahci_mvebu: add suspend/resume support
  ahci, msix: Fix build error for !PCI_MSI
  ahci: Add support for Cavium's ThunderX host controller
  ahci: Add generic MSI-X support for single interrupts to SATA PCI driver
  libata: finally use __initconst in ata_parse_force_one()
  drivers: ata: add support for Ceva sata host controller
  devicetree:bindings: add devicetree bindings for ceva ahci
  ahci: added support for Freescale AHCI sata
  ahci: Store irq number in struct ahci_host_priv
  ahci: Move interrupt enablement code to a separate function
  Doc: libata: Fix spelling typo found in libata.xml
  ata:sata_nv - Change 1 to true for bool type variable.
  ata: add Broadcom AHCI SATA3 driver for STB chips
  Documentation: devicetree: add Broadcom SATA binding
  libata: Fix regression when the NCQ Send and Receive log page is absent
  ata: hpt366: fix constant cast warning
  ata: ahci_xgene: potential NULL dereference in probe
  ata: ahci_xgene: Add AHCI Support for 2nd HW version of APM X-Gene SoC AHCI SATA Host controller.
  libahci: Add support to handle HOST_IRQ_STAT as edge trigger latch.
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T03:01:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-25T03:01:36+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=1e467e68e51b116e026247d0defc806b462c095e'/>
<id>1e467e68e51b116e026247d0defc806b462c095e</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature
  support for each architecture.  Beyond that, it's the usual pile of
  fixes, tweaks, and small additions"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (79 commits)
  doc:md: fix typo in md.txt.
  Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling
  Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling
  Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling
  Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
  Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl
  Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk
  Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt
  kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
  Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt
  kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable
  Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO
  Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/
  Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface
  Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt
  vfs: Minor documentation fix
  Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning
  Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description
  Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "The main thing here is Ingo's big subdirectory documenting feature
  support for each architecture.  Beyond that, it's the usual pile of
  fixes, tweaks, and small additions"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (79 commits)
  doc:md: fix typo in md.txt.
  Documentation/mic/mpssd: don't build x86 userspace when cross compiling
  Documentation/prctl: don't build tsc tests when cross compiling
  Documentation/vDSO: don't build tests when cross compiling
  Doc:ABI/testing: Fix typo in sysfs-bus-fcoe
  Doc: Docbook: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https in scsi.tmpl
  Doc: Change wikipedia's URL from http to https
  Documentation/kernel-parameters: add missing pciserial to the earlyprintk
  Doc:pps: Fix typo in pps.txt
  kbuild : Fix documentation of INSTALL_HDR_PATH
  Documentation: filesystems: updated struct file_operations documentation in vfs.txt
  kbuild: edit explanation of clean-files variable
  Doc: ja_JP: Fix typo in HOWTO
  Move freefall program from Documentation/ to tools/
  Documentation: ARM: EXYNOS: Describe boot loaders interface
  Doc:nfc: Fix typo in nfc-hci.txt
  vfs: Minor documentation fix
  Doc: networking: txtimestamp: fix printf format warning
  Documentation, intel_pstate: Improve legacy mode internal governors description
  Documentation: extend use case for EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T21:18:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T21:18:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=43c9fad942b5afb9e03801c0721d83160fa5b0dd'/>
<id>43c9fad942b5afb9e03801c0721d83160fa5b0dd</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The rework of backlight interface selection API from Hans de Goede
  stands out from the number of commits and the number of affected
  places perspective.  The cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar are
  quite significant too as far as the number of commits goes and because
  they should reduce CPU online/offline overhead quite a bit in the
  majority of cases.

  From the new featues point of view, the ACPICA update (to upstream
  revision 20150515) adding support for new ACPI 6 material to ACPICA is
  the one that matters the most as some new significant features will be
  based on it going forward.  Also included is an update of the ACPI
  device power management core to follow ACPI 6 (which in turn reflects
  the Windows' device PM implementation), a PM core extension to support
  wakeup interrupts in a more generic way and support for the ACPI _CCA
  device configuration object.

  The rest is mostly fixes and cleanups all over and some documentation
  updates, including new DT bindings for Operating Performance Points.

  There is one fix for a regression introduced in the 4.1 cycle, but it
  adds quite a number of lines of code, it wasn't really ready before
  Thursday and you were on vacation, so I refrained from pushing it on
  the last minute for 4.1.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150515 including basic support
     for ACPI 6 features: new ACPI tables introduced by ACPI 6 (STAO,
     XENV, WPBT, NFIT, IORT), changes related to the other tables (DTRM,
     FADT, LPIT, MADT), new predefined names (_BTH, _CR3, _DSD, _LPI,
     _MTL, _PRR, _RDI, _RST, _TFP, _TSN), fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore,
     Lv Zheng).

   - ACPI device power management core code update to follow ACPI 6
     which reflects the ACPI device power management implementation in
     Windows (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - rework of the backlight interface selection logic to reduce the
     number of kernel command line options and improve the handling of
     DMI quirks that may be involved in that and to make the code
     generally more straightforward (Hans de Goede).

   - fixes for the ACPI Embedded Controller (EC) driver related to the
     handling of EC transactions (Lv Zheng).

   - fix for a regression related to the ACPI resources management and
     resulting from a recent change of ACPI initialization code ordering
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a system initialization regression related to ACPI
     introduced during the 3.14 cycle and caused by running the code
     that switches the platform over to the ACPI mode too early in the
     initialization sequence (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - support for the ACPI _CCA device configuration object related to
     DMA cache coherence (Suravee Suthikulpanit).

   - ACPI/APEI fixes and cleanups (Jiri Kosina, Borislav Petkov).

   - ACPI battery driver cleanups (Luis Henriques, Mathias Krause).

   - ACPI processor driver cleanups (Hanjun Guo).

   - cleanups and documentation update related to the ACPI device
     properties interface based on _DSD (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - ACPI device power management fixes (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - assorted cleanups related to ACPI (Dominik Brodowski, Fabian
     Frederick, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Mathias Krause, Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a long-standing issue causing General Protection Faults to
     be generated occasionally on return to user space after resume from
     ACPI-based suspend-to-RAM on 32-bit x86 (Ingo Molnar).

   - fix to make the suspend core code return -EBUSY consistently in all
     cases when system suspend is aborted due to wakeup detection (Ruchi
     Kandoi).

   - support for automated device wakeup IRQ handling allowing drivers
     to make their PM support more starightforward (Tony Lindgren).

   - new tracepoints for suspend-to-idle tracing and rework of the
     prepare/complete callbacks tracing in the PM core (Todd E Brandt,
     Rafael J Wysocki).

   - wakeup sources framework enhancements (Jin Qian).

   - new macro for noirq system PM callbacks (Grygorii Strashko).

   - assorted cleanups related to system suspend (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - cpuidle core cleanups to make the code more efficient (Rafael J
     Wysocki).

   - powernv/pseries cpuidle driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).

   - cpufreq core fixes related to CPU online/offline that should reduce
     the overhead of these operations quite a bit, unless the CPU in
     question is physically going away (Viresh Kumar, Saravana Kannan).

   - serialization of cpufreq governor callbacks to avoid race
     conditions in some cases (Viresh Kumar).

   - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups (Doug Smythies, Prarit
     Bhargava, Joe Konno).

   - cpufreq driver (arm_big_little, cpufreq-dt, qoriq) updates (Sudeep
     Holla, Felipe Balbi, Tang Yuantian).

   - assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers and core (Shailendra Verma,
     Fabian Frederick, Wang Long).

   - new Device Tree bindings for representing Operating Performance
     Points (Viresh Kumar).

   - updates for the common clock operations support code in the PM core
     (Rajendra Nayak, Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - PM domains core code update (Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Intel Knights Landing support for the RAPL (Running Average Power
     Limit) power capping driver (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli).

   - fixes related to the floor frequency setting on Atom SoCs in the
     RAPL power capping driver (Ajay Thomas).

   - runtime PM framework documentation update (Ben Dooks).

   - cpupower tool fix (Herton R Krzesinski)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (194 commits)
  cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state
  x86: Load __USER_DS into DS/ES after resume
  PM / OPP: Add binding for 'opp-suspend'
  PM / OPP: Allow multiple OPP tables to be passed via DT
  PM / OPP: Add new bindings to address shortcomings of existing bindings
  ACPI: Constify ACPI device IDs in documentation
  ACPI / enumeration: Document the rules regarding the PRP0001 device ID
  ACPI / video: Make acpi_video_unregister_backlight() private
  acpi-video-detect: Remove old API
  toshiba-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  thinkpad-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  sony-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  samsung-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  intel-oaktrail: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ideapad-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  fujitsu-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  eeepc-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  dell-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The rework of backlight interface selection API from Hans de Goede
  stands out from the number of commits and the number of affected
  places perspective.  The cpufreq core fixes from Viresh Kumar are
  quite significant too as far as the number of commits goes and because
  they should reduce CPU online/offline overhead quite a bit in the
  majority of cases.

  From the new featues point of view, the ACPICA update (to upstream
  revision 20150515) adding support for new ACPI 6 material to ACPICA is
  the one that matters the most as some new significant features will be
  based on it going forward.  Also included is an update of the ACPI
  device power management core to follow ACPI 6 (which in turn reflects
  the Windows' device PM implementation), a PM core extension to support
  wakeup interrupts in a more generic way and support for the ACPI _CCA
  device configuration object.

  The rest is mostly fixes and cleanups all over and some documentation
  updates, including new DT bindings for Operating Performance Points.

  There is one fix for a regression introduced in the 4.1 cycle, but it
  adds quite a number of lines of code, it wasn't really ready before
  Thursday and you were on vacation, so I refrained from pushing it on
  the last minute for 4.1.

  Specifics:

   - ACPICA update to upstream revision 20150515 including basic support
     for ACPI 6 features: new ACPI tables introduced by ACPI 6 (STAO,
     XENV, WPBT, NFIT, IORT), changes related to the other tables (DTRM,
     FADT, LPIT, MADT), new predefined names (_BTH, _CR3, _DSD, _LPI,
     _MTL, _PRR, _RDI, _RST, _TFP, _TSN), fixes and cleanups (Bob Moore,
     Lv Zheng).

   - ACPI device power management core code update to follow ACPI 6
     which reflects the ACPI device power management implementation in
     Windows (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - rework of the backlight interface selection logic to reduce the
     number of kernel command line options and improve the handling of
     DMI quirks that may be involved in that and to make the code
     generally more straightforward (Hans de Goede).

   - fixes for the ACPI Embedded Controller (EC) driver related to the
     handling of EC transactions (Lv Zheng).

   - fix for a regression related to the ACPI resources management and
     resulting from a recent change of ACPI initialization code ordering
     (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a system initialization regression related to ACPI
     introduced during the 3.14 cycle and caused by running the code
     that switches the platform over to the ACPI mode too early in the
     initialization sequence (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - support for the ACPI _CCA device configuration object related to
     DMA cache coherence (Suravee Suthikulpanit).

   - ACPI/APEI fixes and cleanups (Jiri Kosina, Borislav Petkov).

   - ACPI battery driver cleanups (Luis Henriques, Mathias Krause).

   - ACPI processor driver cleanups (Hanjun Guo).

   - cleanups and documentation update related to the ACPI device
     properties interface based on _DSD (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - ACPI device power management fixes (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - assorted cleanups related to ACPI (Dominik Brodowski, Fabian
     Frederick, Lorenzo Pieralisi, Mathias Krause, Rafael J Wysocki).

   - fix for a long-standing issue causing General Protection Faults to
     be generated occasionally on return to user space after resume from
     ACPI-based suspend-to-RAM on 32-bit x86 (Ingo Molnar).

   - fix to make the suspend core code return -EBUSY consistently in all
     cases when system suspend is aborted due to wakeup detection (Ruchi
     Kandoi).

   - support for automated device wakeup IRQ handling allowing drivers
     to make their PM support more starightforward (Tony Lindgren).

   - new tracepoints for suspend-to-idle tracing and rework of the
     prepare/complete callbacks tracing in the PM core (Todd E Brandt,
     Rafael J Wysocki).

   - wakeup sources framework enhancements (Jin Qian).

   - new macro for noirq system PM callbacks (Grygorii Strashko).

   - assorted cleanups related to system suspend (Rafael J Wysocki).

   - cpuidle core cleanups to make the code more efficient (Rafael J
     Wysocki).

   - powernv/pseries cpuidle driver update (Shilpasri G Bhat).

   - cpufreq core fixes related to CPU online/offline that should reduce
     the overhead of these operations quite a bit, unless the CPU in
     question is physically going away (Viresh Kumar, Saravana Kannan).

   - serialization of cpufreq governor callbacks to avoid race
     conditions in some cases (Viresh Kumar).

   - intel_pstate driver fixes and cleanups (Doug Smythies, Prarit
     Bhargava, Joe Konno).

   - cpufreq driver (arm_big_little, cpufreq-dt, qoriq) updates (Sudeep
     Holla, Felipe Balbi, Tang Yuantian).

   - assorted cleanups in cpufreq drivers and core (Shailendra Verma,
     Fabian Frederick, Wang Long).

   - new Device Tree bindings for representing Operating Performance
     Points (Viresh Kumar).

   - updates for the common clock operations support code in the PM core
     (Rajendra Nayak, Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - PM domains core code update (Geert Uytterhoeven).

   - Intel Knights Landing support for the RAPL (Running Average Power
     Limit) power capping driver (Dasaratharaman Chandramouli).

   - fixes related to the floor frequency setting on Atom SoCs in the
     RAPL power capping driver (Ajay Thomas).

   - runtime PM framework documentation update (Ben Dooks).

   - cpupower tool fix (Herton R Krzesinski)"

* tag 'pm+acpi-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (194 commits)
  cpuidle: powernv/pseries: Auto-promotion of snooze to deeper idle state
  x86: Load __USER_DS into DS/ES after resume
  PM / OPP: Add binding for 'opp-suspend'
  PM / OPP: Allow multiple OPP tables to be passed via DT
  PM / OPP: Add new bindings to address shortcomings of existing bindings
  ACPI: Constify ACPI device IDs in documentation
  ACPI / enumeration: Document the rules regarding the PRP0001 device ID
  ACPI / video: Make acpi_video_unregister_backlight() private
  acpi-video-detect: Remove old API
  toshiba-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  thinkpad-acpi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  sony-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  samsung-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  msi-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  intel-oaktrail: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ideapad-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  fujitsu-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  eeepc-laptop: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  dell-wmi: Port to new backlight interface selection API
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:59:09+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d70b3ef54ceaf1c7c92209f5a662a670d04cbed9'/>
<id>d70b3ef54ceaf1c7c92209f5a662a670d04cbed9</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull x86 core updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "There were so many changes in the x86/asm, x86/apic and x86/mm topics
  in this cycle that the topical separation of -tip broke down somewhat -
  so the result is a more traditional architecture pull request,
  collected into the 'x86/core' topic.

  The topics were still maintained separately as far as possible, so
  bisectability and conceptual separation should still be pretty good -
  but there were a handful of merge points to avoid excessive
  dependencies (and conflicts) that would have been poorly tested in the
  end.

  The next cycle will hopefully be much more quiet (or at least will
  have fewer dependencies).

  The main changes in this cycle were:

   * x86/apic changes, with related IRQ core changes: (Jiang Liu, Thomas
     Gleixner)

     - This is the second and most intrusive part of changes to the x86
       interrupt handling - full conversion to hierarchical interrupt
       domains:

          [IOAPIC domain]   -----
                                 |
          [MSI domain]      --------[Remapping domain] ----- [ Vector domain ]
                                 |   (optional)          |
          [HPET MSI domain] -----                        |
                                                         |
          [DMAR domain]     -----------------------------
                                                         |
          [Legacy domain]   -----------------------------

       This now reflects the actual hardware and allowed us to distangle
       the domain specific code from the underlying parent domain, which
       can be optional in the case of interrupt remapping.  It's a clear
       separation of functionality and removes quite some duct tape
       constructs which plugged the remap code between ioapic/msi/hpet
       and the vector management.

     - Intel IOMMU IRQ remapping enhancements, to allow direct interrupt
       injection into guests (Feng Wu)

   * x86/asm changes:

     - Tons of cleanups and small speedups, micro-optimizations.  This
       is in preparation to move a good chunk of the low level entry
       code from assembly to C code (Denys Vlasenko, Andy Lutomirski,
       Brian Gerst)

     - Moved all system entry related code to a new home under
       arch/x86/entry/ (Ingo Molnar)

     - Removal of the fragile and ugly CFI dwarf debuginfo annotations.
       Conversion to C will reintroduce many of them - but meanwhile
       they are only getting in the way, and the upstream kernel does
       not rely on them (Ingo Molnar)

     - NOP handling refinements. (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/mm changes:

     - Big PAT and MTRR rework: making the code more robust and
       preparing to phase out exposing direct MTRR interfaces to drivers -
       in favor of using PAT driven interfaces (Toshi Kani, Luis R
       Rodriguez, Borislav Petkov)

     - New ioremap_wt()/set_memory_wt() interfaces to support
       Write-Through cached memory mappings.  This is especially
       important for good performance on NVDIMM hardware (Toshi Kani)

   * x86/ras changes:

     - Add support for deferred errors on AMD (Aravind Gopalakrishnan)

       This is an important RAS feature which adds hardware support for
       poisoned data.  That means roughly that the hardware marks data
       which it has detected as corrupted but wasn't able to correct, as
       poisoned data and raises an APIC interrupt to signal that in the
       form of a deferred error.  It is the OS's responsibility then to
       take proper recovery action and thus prolonge system lifetime as
       far as possible.

     - Add support for Intel "Local MCE"s: upcoming CPUs will support
       CPU-local MCE interrupts, as opposed to the traditional system-
       wide broadcasted MCE interrupts (Ashok Raj)

     - Misc cleanups (Borislav Petkov)

   * x86/platform changes:

     - Intel Atom SoC updates

  ... and lots of other cleanups, fixlets and other changes - see the
  shortlog and the Git log for details"

* 'x86-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (222 commits)
  x86/hpet: Use proper hpet device number for MSI allocation
  x86/hpet: Check for irq==0 when allocating hpet MSI interrupts
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/infiniband/ipath: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/mm/pat, drivers/media/ivtv: Use arch_phys_wc_add() and require PAT disabled
  x86/platform/intel/baytrail: Add comments about why we disabled HPET on Baytrail
  genirq: Prevent crash in irq_move_irq()
  genirq: Enhance irq_data_to_desc() to support hierarchy irqdomain
  iommu, x86: Properly handle posted interrupts for IOMMU hotplug
  iommu, x86: Provide irq_remapping_cap() interface
  iommu, x86: Setup Posted-Interrupts capability for Intel iommu
  iommu, x86: Add cap_pi_support() to detect VT-d PI capability
  iommu, x86: Avoid migrating VT-d posted interrupts
  iommu, x86: Save the mode (posted or remapped) of an IRTE
  iommu, x86: Implement irq_set_vcpu_affinity for intel_ir_chip
  iommu: dmar: Provide helper to copy shared irte fields
  iommu: dmar: Extend struct irte for VT-d Posted-Interrupts
  iommu: Add new member capability to struct irq_remap_ops
  x86/asm/entry/64: Disentangle error_entry/exit gsbase/ebx/usermode code
  x86/asm/entry/32: Shorten __audit_syscall_entry() args preparation
  x86/asm/entry/32: Explain reloading of registers after __audit_syscall_entry()
  ...
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<title>Merge branch 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-23T00:16:11+00:00</published>
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Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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Pull x86 FPU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "This tree contains two main changes:

   - The big FPU code rewrite: wide reaching cleanups and reorganization
     that pulls all the FPU code together into a clean base in
     arch/x86/fpu/.

     The resulting code is leaner and faster, and much easier to
     understand.  This enables future work to further simplify the FPU
     code (such as removing lazy FPU restores).

     By its nature these changes have a substantial regression risk: FPU
     code related bugs are long lived, because races are often subtle
     and bugs mask as user-space failures that are difficult to track
     back to kernel side backs.  I'm aware of no unfixed (or even
     suspected) FPU related regression so far.

   - MPX support rework/fixes.  As this is still not a released CPU
     feature, there were some buglets in the code - should be much more
     robust now (Dave Hansen)"

* 'x86-fpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (250 commits)
  x86/fpu: Fix double-increment in setup_xstate_features()
  x86/mpx: Allow 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels again
  x86/mpx: Do not count MPX VMAs as neighbors when unmapping
  x86/mpx: Rewrite the unmap code
  x86/mpx: Support 32-bit binaries on 64-bit kernels
  x86/mpx: Use 32-bit-only cmpxchg() for 32-bit apps
  x86/mpx: Introduce new 'directory entry' to 'addr' helper function
  x86/mpx: Add temporary variable to reduce masking
  x86: Make is_64bit_mm() widely available
  x86/mpx: Trace allocation of new bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace the attempts to find bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Trace entry to bounds exception paths
  x86/mpx: Trace #BR exceptions
  x86/mpx: Introduce a boot-time disable flag
  x86/mpx: Restrict the mmap() size check to bounds tables
  x86/mpx: Remove redundant MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK
  x86/mpx: Clean up the code by not passing a task pointer around when unnecessary
  x86/mpx: Use the new get_xsave_field_ptr()API
  x86/fpu/xstate: Wrap get_xsave_addr() to make it safer
  x86/fpu/xstate: Fix up bad get_xsave_addr() assumptions
  ...
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