linux-stable.git/Documentation, branch v3.18.129

kbuild: verify that $DEPMOD is installed

2018-08-17T18:54:56+00:00

commit 934193a654c1f4d0643ddbf4b2529b508cae926e upstream.

Verify that 'depmod' ($DEPMOD) is installed.
This is a partial revert of commit 620c231c7a7f
("kbuild: do not check for ancient modutils tools").

Also update Documentation/process/changes.rst to refer to
kmod instead of module-init-tools.

Fixes kernel bugzilla #198965:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198965

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Lucas De Marchi 
Cc: Lucas De Marchi 
Cc: Michal Marek 
Cc: Jessica Yu 
Cc: Chih-Wei Huang 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # any kernel since 2012
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dm thin: fix documentation relative to low water mark threshold

2018-05-30T05:47:30+00:00

[ Upstream commit 9b28a1102efc75d81298198166ead87d643a29ce ]

Fixes:
1. The use of "exceeds" when the opposite of exceeds, falls below,
was meant.
2. Properly speaking, a table can not exceed a threshold.

It emphasizes the important point, which is that it is the userspace
daemon's responsibility to check for low free space when a device
is resumed, since it won't get a special event indicating low free
space in that situation.

Signed-off-by: mulhern 
Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: pinctrl: palmas: Add ti,palmas-powerhold-override property definition

2018-04-08T09:49:48+00:00

commit 0ea66f76ba17a4b229caaadd77de694111b21769 upstream.

GPIO7 is configured in POWERHOLD mode which has higher priority
over DEV_ON bit and keeps the PMIC supplies on even after the DEV_ON
bit is turned off. This property enables driver to over ride the
POWERHOLD value to GPIO7 so as to turn off the PMIC in power off
scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Keerthy 
Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

fs/proc: Stop trying to report thread stacks

2018-04-08T09:49:48+00:00

commit b18cb64ead400c01bf1580eeba330ace51f8087d upstream.

This reverts more of:

  b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in proc//maps")

... which was partially reverted by:

  65376df58217 ("proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation")

Originally, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps was the same as /proc/TID/maps.

In current kernels, /proc/PID/maps (or /proc/TID/maps even for
threads) shows "[stack]" for VMAs in the mm's stack address range.

In contrast, /proc/PID/task/TID/maps uses KSTK_ESP to guess the
target thread's stack's VMA.  This is racy, probably returns garbage
and, on arches with CONFIG_TASK_INFO_IN_THREAD=y, is also crash-prone:
KSTK_ESP is not safe to use on tasks that aren't known to be running
ordinary process-context kernel code.

This patch removes the difference and just shows "[stack]" for VMAs
in the mm's stack range.  This is IMO much more sensible -- the
actual "stack" address really is treated specially by the VM code,
and the current thread stack isn't even well-defined for programs
that frequently switch stacks on their own.

Reported-by: Jann Horn 
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Al Viro 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: Kees Cook 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Linux API 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Tycho Andersen 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3e678474ec14e0a0ec34c611016753eea2e1b8ba.1475257877.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

proc: revert /proc//maps [stack:TID] annotation

2018-04-08T09:49:48+00:00

commit 65376df582174ffcec9e6471bf5b0dd79ba05e4a upstream.

Commit b76437579d13 ("procfs: mark thread stack correctly in
proc//maps") added [stack:TID] annotation to /proc//maps.

Finding the task of a stack VMA requires walking the entire thread list,
turning this into quadratic behavior: a thousand threads means a
thousand stacks, so the rendering of /proc//maps needs to look at a
million combinations.

The cost is not in proportion to the usefulness as described in the
patch.

Drop the [stack:TID] annotation to make /proc//maps (and
/proc//numa_maps) usable again for higher thread counts.

The [stack] annotation inside /proc//task//maps is retained, as
identifying the stack VMA there is an O(1) operation.

Siddesh said:
 "The end users needed a way to identify thread stacks programmatically and
  there wasn't a way to do that.  I'm afraid I no longer remember (or have
  access to the resources that would aid my memory since I changed
  employers) the details of their requirement.  However, I did do this on my
  own time because I thought it was an interesting project for me and nobody
  really gave any feedback then as to its utility, so as far as I am
  concerned you could roll back the main thread maps information since the
  information is available in the thread-specific files"

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" 
Cc: Siddhesh Poyarekar 
Cc: Shaohua Li 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option

2018-02-25T10:01:16+00:00

commit 9f0372488cc9243018a812e8cfbf27de650b187b upstream.

The grpid option is currently described as being the same as nogrpid.

Signed-off-by: Ernesto A. Fernández 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

arm: spear13xx: Fix dmas cells

2018-02-25T10:01:15+00:00

commit cdd10409914184c7eee5ae3e11beb890c9c16c61 upstream.

The "dmas" cells for the designware DMA controller need to have only 3
properties apart from the phandle: request line, src master and
destination master. But the commit 6e8887f60f60 updated it incorrectly
while moving from platform code to DT. Fix it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.10+
Fixes: 6e8887f60f60 ("ARM: SPEAr13xx: Pass generic DW DMAC platform data from DT")
Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar 
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for LEGO

2017-11-15T09:04:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 7dcc31e2e68a386a29070384b51683ece80982bf ]

Add a vendor prefix for LEGO Systems A/S

Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Signed-off-by: David Lechner 
Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

dt-bindings: Add LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 compatible specification

2017-11-15T09:04:12+00:00

[ Upstream commit 21078ab174c99885ca83a5c32db0d33b1617745e ]

This adds the board level device tree specification for LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3

Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Signed-off-by: David Lechner 
Signed-off-by: Sekhar Nori 
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drm: bridge: add DT bindings for TI ths8135

2017-10-08T08:11:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 2e644be30fcc08c736f66b60f4898d274d4873ab ]

THS8135 is a configurable video DAC. Add DT bindings for this chip.

Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski 
Reviewed-by: Laurent Pinchart 
Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Signed-off-by: Archit Taneja 
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1481623759-12786-3-git-send-email-bgolaszewski@baylibre.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman