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<title>linux-stable.git/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, branch v4.4.40</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Input: i8042 - skip selftest on ASUS laptops</title>
<updated>2016-10-28T07:01:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marcos Paulo de Souza</name>
<email>marcos.souza.org@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-10-01T19:07:35+00:00</published>
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commit 930e19248e9b61da36c967687ca79c4d5f977919 upstream.

On suspend/resume cycle, selftest is executed to reset i8042 controller.
But when this is done in Asus devices, subsequent calls to detect/init
functions to elantech driver fails. Skipping selftest fixes this problem.

An easier step to reproduce this problem is adding i8042.reset=1 as a
kernel parameter. On Asus laptops, it'll make the system to start with the
touchpad already stuck, since psmouse_probe forcibly calls the selftest
function.

This patch was inspired by John Hiesey's change[1], but, since this problem
affects a lot of models of Asus, let's avoid running selftests on them.

All models affected by this problem:
A455LD
K401LB
K501LB
K501LX
R409L
V502LX
X302LA
X450LCP
X450LD
X455LAB
X455LDB
X455LF
Z450LA

[1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-input&amp;m=144312209020616&amp;w=2

Fixes: "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad dies after resume from suspend"
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107971)

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.souza.org@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 930e19248e9b61da36c967687ca79c4d5f977919 upstream.

On suspend/resume cycle, selftest is executed to reset i8042 controller.
But when this is done in Asus devices, subsequent calls to detect/init
functions to elantech driver fails. Skipping selftest fixes this problem.

An easier step to reproduce this problem is adding i8042.reset=1 as a
kernel parameter. On Asus laptops, it'll make the system to start with the
touchpad already stuck, since psmouse_probe forcibly calls the selftest
function.

This patch was inspired by John Hiesey's change[1], but, since this problem
affects a lot of models of Asus, let's avoid running selftests on them.

All models affected by this problem:
A455LD
K401LB
K501LB
K501LX
R409L
V502LX
X302LA
X450LCP
X450LD
X455LAB
X455LDB
X455LF
Z450LA

[1]: https://marc.info/?l=linux-input&amp;m=144312209020616&amp;w=2

Fixes: "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad dies after resume from suspend"
(https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107971)

Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza &lt;marcos.souza.org@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>USB: uas: Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk</title>
<updated>2016-04-20T06:42:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Hans de Goede</name>
<email>hdegoede@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-04-12T10:27:09+00:00</published>
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commit 1363074667a6b7d0507527742ccd7bbed5e3ceaa upstream.

Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk and set it for Seagate drives with
an usb-id of: 0bc2:331a, as these will fail to respond to a
REPORT_LUNS command.

Reported-and-tested-by: David Webb &lt;djw@noc.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 1363074667a6b7d0507527742ccd7bbed5e3ceaa upstream.

Add a new NO_REPORT_LUNS quirk and set it for Seagate drives with
an usb-id of: 0bc2:331a, as these will fail to respond to a
REPORT_LUNS command.

Reported-and-tested-by: David Webb &lt;djw@noc.ac.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede &lt;hdegoede@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Alan Stern &lt;stern@rowland.harvard.edu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'pm-cpufreq' and 'acpi-cppc'</title>
<updated>2015-11-20T00:22:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-20T00:22:10+00:00</published>
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* pm-cpufreq:
  Revert "Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver"
  cpufreq: mediatek: fix build error
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add separate support for Airmont cores
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace BYT with ATOM
  Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use ACPI perf configuration"
  Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid calculation for max/min"

* acpi-cppc:
  ACPI / CPPC: Use h/w reduced version of the PCCT structure
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* pm-cpufreq:
  Revert "Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver"
  cpufreq: mediatek: fix build error
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Add separate support for Airmont cores
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Replace BYT with ATOM
  Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Use ACPI perf configuration"
  Revert "cpufreq: intel_pstate: Avoid calculation for max/min"

* acpi-cppc:
  ACPI / CPPC: Use h/w reduced version of the PCCT structure
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P state driver"</title>
<updated>2015-11-18T23:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-18T23:42:23+00:00</published>
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Revert commit 053f56def57b (Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P
state driver) as the code documented by it has been reverted already.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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Revert commit 053f56def57b (Documentation: kernel_parameters for Intel P
state driver) as the code documented by it has been reverted already.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-10T17:33:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-10T17:33:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=3e82806b97398d542a5e03bd94861f79ce10ecee'/>
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Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "I Was Almost Tempted To Capitalise Every Word, but then I decided I
  couldn't read it myself!

  I've also got one pull request for the sti driver outstanding.  It
  relied on a commit in Greg's tree and I didn't find out in time, that
  commit is in your tree now so I might send that along once this is
  merged.

  I also had the accidental misfortune to have access to a Skylake on my
  desk for a few days, and I've had to encourage Intel to try harder,
  which seems to be happening now.

  Here is the main drm-next pull request for 4.4.

  Highlights:

  New driver:
        vc4 driver for the Rasberry Pi VPU.
        (From Eric Anholt at Broadcom.)

  Core:
        Atomic fbdev support
        Atomic helpers for runtime pm
        dp/aux i2c STATUS_UPDATE handling
        struct_mutex usage cleanups.
        Generic of probing support.

  Documentation:
        Kerneldoc for VGA switcheroo code.
        Rename to gpu instead of drm to reflect scope.

  i915:
        Skylake GuC firmware fixes
        HPD A support
        VBT backlight fallbacks
        Fastboot by default for some systems
        FBC work
        BXT/SKL workarounds
        Skylake deeper sleep state fixes

  amdgpu:
        Enable GPU scheduler by default
        New atombios opcodes
        GPUVM debugging options
        Stoney support.
        Fencing cleanups.

  radeon:
        More efficient CS checking

  nouveau:
        gk20a instance memory handling improvements.
        Improved PGOB detection and GK107 support
        Kepler GDDR5 PLL statbility improvement
        G8x/GT2xx reclock improvements
        new userspace API compatiblity fixes.

  virtio-gpu:
        Add 3D support - qemu 2.5 has it merged for it's gtk backend.

  msm:
        Initial msm88896 (snapdragon 8200)

  exynos:
        HDMI cleanups
        Enable mixer driver byt default
        Add DECON-TV support

  vmwgfx:
        Move to using memremap + fixes.

  rcar-du:
        Add support for R8A7793/4 DU

  armada:
        Remove support for non-component mode
        Improved plane handling
        Power savings while in DPMS off.

  tda998x:
        Remove unused slave encoder support
        Use more HDMI helpers
        Fix EDID read handling

  dwhdmi:
        Interlace video mode support for ipu-v3/dw_hdmi
        Hotplug state fixes
        Audio driver integration

  imx:
        More color formats support.

  tegra:
        Minor fixes/improvements"

[ Merge fixup: remove unused variable 'dev' that had all uses removed in
  commit 4e270f088011: "drm/gem: Drop struct_mutex requirement from
  drm_gem_mmap_obj" ]

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (764 commits)
  drm/vmwgfx: Relax irq locking somewhat
  drm/vmwgfx: Properly flush cursor updates and page-flips
  drm/i915/skl: disable display side power well support for now
  drm/i915: Extend DSL readout fix to BDW and SKL.
  drm/i915: Do graphics device reset under forcewake
  drm/i915: Skip fence installation for objects with rotated views (v4)
  vga_switcheroo: Drop client power state VGA_SWITCHEROO_INIT
  drm/amdgpu: group together common fence implementation
  drm/amdgpu: remove AMDGPU_FENCE_OWNER_MOVE
  drm/amdgpu: remove now unused fence functions
  drm/amdgpu: fix fence fallback check
  drm/amdgpu: fix stoping the scheduler timeout
  drm/amdgpu: cleanup on error in amdgpu_cs_ioctl()
  drm/i915: Fix locking around GuC firmware load
  drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's Golden setting
  drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's rev id
  drm/amdgpu: extract common code in vi_common_early_init
  drm/amd/scheduler: don't oops on failure to load
  drm/amdgpu: don't oops on failure to load (v2)
  drm/amdgpu: don't VT switch on suspend
  ...
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<pre>
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
 "I Was Almost Tempted To Capitalise Every Word, but then I decided I
  couldn't read it myself!

  I've also got one pull request for the sti driver outstanding.  It
  relied on a commit in Greg's tree and I didn't find out in time, that
  commit is in your tree now so I might send that along once this is
  merged.

  I also had the accidental misfortune to have access to a Skylake on my
  desk for a few days, and I've had to encourage Intel to try harder,
  which seems to be happening now.

  Here is the main drm-next pull request for 4.4.

  Highlights:

  New driver:
        vc4 driver for the Rasberry Pi VPU.
        (From Eric Anholt at Broadcom.)

  Core:
        Atomic fbdev support
        Atomic helpers for runtime pm
        dp/aux i2c STATUS_UPDATE handling
        struct_mutex usage cleanups.
        Generic of probing support.

  Documentation:
        Kerneldoc for VGA switcheroo code.
        Rename to gpu instead of drm to reflect scope.

  i915:
        Skylake GuC firmware fixes
        HPD A support
        VBT backlight fallbacks
        Fastboot by default for some systems
        FBC work
        BXT/SKL workarounds
        Skylake deeper sleep state fixes

  amdgpu:
        Enable GPU scheduler by default
        New atombios opcodes
        GPUVM debugging options
        Stoney support.
        Fencing cleanups.

  radeon:
        More efficient CS checking

  nouveau:
        gk20a instance memory handling improvements.
        Improved PGOB detection and GK107 support
        Kepler GDDR5 PLL statbility improvement
        G8x/GT2xx reclock improvements
        new userspace API compatiblity fixes.

  virtio-gpu:
        Add 3D support - qemu 2.5 has it merged for it's gtk backend.

  msm:
        Initial msm88896 (snapdragon 8200)

  exynos:
        HDMI cleanups
        Enable mixer driver byt default
        Add DECON-TV support

  vmwgfx:
        Move to using memremap + fixes.

  rcar-du:
        Add support for R8A7793/4 DU

  armada:
        Remove support for non-component mode
        Improved plane handling
        Power savings while in DPMS off.

  tda998x:
        Remove unused slave encoder support
        Use more HDMI helpers
        Fix EDID read handling

  dwhdmi:
        Interlace video mode support for ipu-v3/dw_hdmi
        Hotplug state fixes
        Audio driver integration

  imx:
        More color formats support.

  tegra:
        Minor fixes/improvements"

[ Merge fixup: remove unused variable 'dev' that had all uses removed in
  commit 4e270f088011: "drm/gem: Drop struct_mutex requirement from
  drm_gem_mmap_obj" ]

* 'drm-next' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (764 commits)
  drm/vmwgfx: Relax irq locking somewhat
  drm/vmwgfx: Properly flush cursor updates and page-flips
  drm/i915/skl: disable display side power well support for now
  drm/i915: Extend DSL readout fix to BDW and SKL.
  drm/i915: Do graphics device reset under forcewake
  drm/i915: Skip fence installation for objects with rotated views (v4)
  vga_switcheroo: Drop client power state VGA_SWITCHEROO_INIT
  drm/amdgpu: group together common fence implementation
  drm/amdgpu: remove AMDGPU_FENCE_OWNER_MOVE
  drm/amdgpu: remove now unused fence functions
  drm/amdgpu: fix fence fallback check
  drm/amdgpu: fix stoping the scheduler timeout
  drm/amdgpu: cleanup on error in amdgpu_cs_ioctl()
  drm/i915: Fix locking around GuC firmware load
  drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's Golden setting
  drm/amdgpu: update Fiji's rev id
  drm/amdgpu: extract common code in vi_common_early_init
  drm/amd/scheduler: don't oops on failure to load
  drm/amdgpu: don't oops on failure to load (v2)
  drm/amdgpu: don't VT switch on suspend
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T07:10:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T07:10:54+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=2e3078af2c67730c479f1d183af5b367f5d95337'/>
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - inotify tweaks

 - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review)

 - various misc bits

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates

 - Some of mm.  I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a
   lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (162 commits)
  selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault
  mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage
  mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call
  mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code
  kasan: always taint kernel on report
  mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
  kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8()
  kasan: Fix a type conversion error
  lib: test_kasan: add some testcases
  kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo
  kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile
  kasan: various fixes in documentation
  kasan: update log messages
  kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access
  kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses
  kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses
  mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting
  mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions
  mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs
  ...
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Merge patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - inotify tweaks

 - some ocfs2 updates (many more are awaiting review)

 - various misc bits

 - kernel/watchdog.c updates

 - Some of mm.  I have a huge number of MM patches this time and quite a
   lot of it is quite difficult and much will be held over to next time.

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;: (162 commits)
  selftests: vm: add tests for lock on fault
  mm: mlock: add mlock flags to enable VM_LOCKONFAULT usage
  mm: introduce VM_LOCKONFAULT
  mm: mlock: add new mlock system call
  mm: mlock: refactor mlock, munlock, and munlockall code
  kasan: always taint kernel on report
  mm, slub, kasan: enable user tracking by default with KASAN=y
  kasan: use IS_ALIGNED in memory_is_poisoned_8()
  kasan: Fix a type conversion error
  lib: test_kasan: add some testcases
  kasan: update reference to kasan prototype repo
  kasan: move KASAN_SANITIZE in arch/x86/boot/Makefile
  kasan: various fixes in documentation
  kasan: update log messages
  kasan: accurately determine the type of the bad access
  kasan: update reported bug types for kernel memory accesses
  kasan: update reported bug types for not user nor kernel memory accesses
  mm/kasan: prevent deadlock in kasan reporting
  mm/kasan: don't use kasan shadow pointer in generic functions
  mm/kasan: MODULE_VADDR is not available on all archs
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel/watchdog.c: perform all-CPU backtrace in case of hard lockup</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T03:34:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T02:44:41+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=55537871ef666b4153fd1ef8782e4a13fee142cc'/>
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In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know
why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a
resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding.

IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the
actual offender.

Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have
hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
In many cases of hardlockup reports, it's actually not possible to know
why it triggered, because the CPU that got stuck is usually waiting on a
resource (with IRQs disabled) in posession of some other CPU is holding.

IOW, we are often looking at the stacktrace of the victim and not the
actual offender.

Introduce sysctl / cmdline parameter that makes it possible to have
hardlockup detector perform all-CPU backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
Reviewed-by: Aaron Tomlin &lt;atomlin@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ulrich Obergfell &lt;uobergfe@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Don Zickus &lt;dzickus@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2015-11-06T00:26:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-06T00:26:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=933425fb0010bd02bd459b41e63082756818ffce'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "First batch of KVM changes for 4.4.

  s390:
     A bunch of fixes and optimizations for interrupt and time handling.

  PPC:
     Mostly bug fixes.

  ARM:
     No big features, but many small fixes and prerequisites including:

      - a number of fixes for the arch-timer

      - introducing proper level-triggered semantics for the arch-timers

      - a series of patches to synchronously halt a guest (prerequisite
        for IRQ forwarding)

      - some tracepoint improvements

      - a tweak for the EL2 panic handlers

      - some more VGIC cleanups getting rid of redundant state

  x86:
     Quite a few changes:

      - support for VT-d posted interrupts (i.e. PCI devices can inject
        interrupts directly into vCPUs).  This introduces a new
        component (in virt/lib/) that connects VFIO and KVM together.
        The same infrastructure will be used for ARM interrupt
        forwarding as well.

      - more Hyper-V features, though the main one Hyper-V synthetic
        interrupt controller will have to wait for 4.5.  These will let
        KVM expose Hyper-V devices.

      - nested virtualization now supports VPID (same as PCID but for
        vCPUs) which makes it quite a bit faster

      - for future hardware that supports NVDIMM, there is support for
        clflushopt, clwb, pcommit

      - support for "split irqchip", i.e.  LAPIC in kernel +
        IOAPIC/PIC/PIT in userspace, which reduces the attack surface of
        the hypervisor

      - obligatory smattering of SMM fixes

      - on the guest side, stable scheduler clock support was rewritten
        to not require help from the hypervisor"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (123 commits)
  KVM: VMX: Fix commit which broke PML
  KVM: x86: obey KVM_X86_QUIRK_CD_NW_CLEARED in kvm_set_cr0()
  KVM: x86: allow RSM from 64-bit mode
  KVM: VMX: fix SMEP and SMAP without EPT
  KVM: x86: move kvm_set_irq_inatomic to legacy device assignment
  KVM: device assignment: remove pointless #ifdefs
  KVM: x86: merge kvm_arch_set_irq with kvm_set_msi_inatomic
  KVM: x86: zero apic_arb_prio on reset
  drivers/hv: share Hyper-V SynIC constants with userspace
  KVM: x86: handle SMBASE as physical address in RSM
  KVM: x86: add read_phys to x86_emulate_ops
  KVM: x86: removing unused variable
  KVM: don't pointlessly leave KVM_COMPAT=y in non-KVM configs
  KVM: arm/arm64: Merge vgic_set_lr() and vgic_sync_lr_elrsr()
  KVM: arm/arm64: Clean up vgic_retire_lr() and surroundings
  KVM: arm/arm64: Optimize away redundant LR tracking
  KVM: s390: use simple switch statement as multiplexer
  KVM: s390: drop useless newline in debugging data
  KVM: s390: SCA must not cross page boundaries
  KVM: arm: Do not indent the arguments of DECLARE_BITMAP
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2015-11-05T23:59:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T23:59:24+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5ebe0ee802c52cdf0c0eed8f3eccc9a056e412a3'/>
<id>5ebe0ee802c52cdf0c0eed8f3eccc9a056e412a3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet:
 "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work
  and some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have
  kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and
  the usual collection of small fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits)
  Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
  Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
  Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable
  doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups
  Typo correction for description in gpio document.
  DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private:
  kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference
  Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm
  Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output
  MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved
  Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
  SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
  Documentation: gpio: mention that &lt;function&gt;-gpio has been deprecated
  Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
  Documentation: Update kselftest.txt
  Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same
  Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low
  zram: update documentation
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation update from Jon Corbet:
 "There is a nice new document from Neil on how pathname lookups work
  and some new CAN driver documentation.  Beyond that, we have
  kernel-doc fixes, a bit more work to support reproducible builds, and
  the usual collection of small fixes"

* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (34 commits)
  Documentation: add new description of path-name lookup.
  Documentation/vm/slub.txt: document slabinfo-gnuplot.sh
  Doc: ABI/stable: Fix typo in ABI/stable
  doc: Clarify that nmi_watchdog param is for hardlockups
  Typo correction for description in gpio document.
  DocBook: Fix kernel-doc to be case-insensitive for private:
  kernel-docs.txt: update kernelnewbies reference
  Doc:kvm: Fix typo in Doc/virtual/kvm
  Documentation/Changes: Add bc in "Current Minimal Requirements" section
  Documentation/email-clients.txt: remove trailing whitespace
  DocBook: Use a fixed encoding for output
  MAINTAINERS: The docs tree has moved
  Docs/kernel-parameters: Add earlycon devicetree usage
  SubmittingPatches: make Subject examples match the de facto standard
  Documentation: gpio: mention that &lt;function&gt;-gpio has been deprecated
  Documentation: cgroups: just fix a few typos
  Documentation: Update kselftest.txt
  Documentation: DMA API: Be more explicit that nents is always the same
  Documentation: Update the default value of crashkernel low
  zram: update documentation
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2015-11-05T05:35:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-05T05:35:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=fd0d351de7bbd718bc2b34d5846854831aa2b88c'/>
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Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big tty and serial driver update for 4.4-rc1.

  Lots of serial driver updates and a few small tty core changes.  Full
  details in the shortlog.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (148 commits)
  tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers
  tty: Abstract tty buffer work
  tty: Prevent tty teardown during tty_write_message()
  tty: core: Use correct spinlock flavor in tiocspgrp()
  tty: Combine SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN handling
  serial: amba-pl011: fix incorrect integer size in pl011_fifo_to_tty()
  ttyFDC: Fix build problems due to use of module_{init,exit}
  tty: remove unneeded return statement
  serial: 8250_mid: add support for DMA engine handling from UART MMIO
  dmaengine: hsu: remove platform data
  dmaengine: hsu: introduce stubs for the exported functions
  dmaengine: hsu: make the UART driver in control of selecting this driver
  serial: fix mctrl helper functions
  serial: 8250_pci: Intel MID UART support to its own driver
  serial: fsl_lpuart: add earlycon support
  tty: disable unbind for old 74xx based serial/mpsc console port
  serial: pl011: Spelling s/clocks-names/clock-names/
  n_tty: Remove reader wakeups for TTY_BREAK/TTY_PARITY chars
  tty: synclink, fix indentation
  serial: at91, fix rs485 properties
  ...
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<pre>
Pull tty/serial driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big tty and serial driver update for 4.4-rc1.

  Lots of serial driver updates and a few small tty core changes.  Full
  details in the shortlog.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (148 commits)
  tty: Use unbound workqueue for all input workers
  tty: Abstract tty buffer work
  tty: Prevent tty teardown during tty_write_message()
  tty: core: Use correct spinlock flavor in tiocspgrp()
  tty: Combine SIGTTOU/SIGTTIN handling
  serial: amba-pl011: fix incorrect integer size in pl011_fifo_to_tty()
  ttyFDC: Fix build problems due to use of module_{init,exit}
  tty: remove unneeded return statement
  serial: 8250_mid: add support for DMA engine handling from UART MMIO
  dmaengine: hsu: remove platform data
  dmaengine: hsu: introduce stubs for the exported functions
  dmaengine: hsu: make the UART driver in control of selecting this driver
  serial: fix mctrl helper functions
  serial: 8250_pci: Intel MID UART support to its own driver
  serial: fsl_lpuart: add earlycon support
  tty: disable unbind for old 74xx based serial/mpsc console port
  serial: pl011: Spelling s/clocks-names/clock-names/
  n_tty: Remove reader wakeups for TTY_BREAK/TTY_PARITY chars
  tty: synclink, fix indentation
  serial: at91, fix rs485 properties
  ...
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