linux-stable.git/arch/cris, branch v4.8

cris: buggered copy_from_user/copy_to_user/clear_user

2016-09-13T21:49:38+00:00

* copy_from_user() on access_ok() failure ought to zero the destination
* none of those primitives should skip the access_ok() check in case of
small constant size.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson 
Signed-off-by: Al Viro

dma-mapping: use unsigned long for dma_attrs

2016-08-04T12:50:07+00:00

The dma-mapping core and the implementations do not change the DMA
attributes passed by pointer.  Thus the pointer can point to const data.
However the attributes do not have to be a bitfield.  Instead unsigned
long will do fine:

1. This is just simpler.  Both in terms of reading the code and setting
   attributes.  Instead of initializing local attributes on the stack
   and passing pointer to it to dma_set_attr(), just set the bits.

2. It brings safeness and checking for const correctness because the
   attributes are passed by value.

Semantic patches for this change (at least most of them):

    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;

    @@
    f(...,
    - struct dma_attrs *attrs
    + unsigned long attrs
    , ...)
    {
    ...
    }

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

and

    // Options: --all-includes
    virtual patch
    virtual context

    @r@
    identifier f, attrs;
    type t;

    @@
    t f(..., struct dma_attrs *attrs);

    @@
    identifier r.f;
    @@
    f(...,
    - NULL
    + 0
     )

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468399300-5399-2-git-send-email-k.kozlowski@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski 
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta 
Acked-by: Robin Murphy 
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt 
Acked-by: Mark Salter  [c6x]
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson  [cris]
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter  [drm]
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel  [iommu]
Acked-by: Fabien Dessenne  [bdisp]
Reviewed-by: Marek Szyprowski  [vb2-core]
Acked-by: David Vrabel  [xen]
Acked-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk  [xen swiotlb]
Acked-by: Joerg Roedel  [iommu]
Acked-by: Richard Kuo  [hexagon]
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven  [m68k]
Acked-by: Gerald Schaefer  [s390]
Acked-by: Bjorn Andersson 
Acked-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt  [avr32]
Acked-by: Vineet Gupta  [arc]
Acked-by: Robin Murphy  [arm64 and dma-iommu]
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'for-linus-20160801' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

2016-08-02T21:05:11+00:00

Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "NAND:

    Quoting Boris:
     'This pull request contains only one notable change:
       - Addition of the MTK NAND controller driver

      And a bunch of specific NAND driver improvements/fixes. Here are the
      changes that are worth mentioning:
       - A few fixes/improvements for the xway NAND controller driver
       - A few fixes for the sunxi NAND controller driver
       - Support for DMA in the sunxi NAND driver
       - Support for the sunxi NAND controller IP embedded in A23/A33 SoCs
       - Addition for bitflips detection in erased pages to the brcmnand driver
       - Support for new brcmnand IPs
       - Update of the OMAP-GPMC binding to support DMA channel description'

    In addition, some small fixes around error handling, etc., as well
    as one long-standing corner case issue (2.6.20, I think?) with
    writing 1 byte less than a page.

  NOR:

   - rework some error handling on reads and writes, so we can better
     handle (for instance) SPI controllers which have limitations on
     their maximum transfer size

   - add new Cadence Quad SPI flash controller driver

   - add new Atmel QSPI flash controller driver

   - add new Hisilicon SPI flash controller driver

   - support a few new flash, and update supported features on others

   - fix the logic used for detecting a fully-unlocked flash

  And other miscellaneous small fixes"

* tag 'for-linus-20160801' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (60 commits)
  mtd: spi-nor: don't build Cadence QuadSPI on non-ARM
  mtd: mtk-nor: remove duplicated include from mtk-quadspi.c
  mtd: nand: fix bug writing 1 byte less than page size
  mtd: update description of MTD_BCM47XXSFLASH symbol
  mtd: spi-nor: Add driver for Cadence Quad SPI Flash Controller
  mtd: spi-nor: Bindings for Cadence Quad SPI Flash Controller driver
  mtd: nand: brcmnand: Change BUG_ON in brcmnand_send_cmd
  mtd: pmcmsp-flash: Allocating too much in init_msp_flash()
  mtd: maps: sa1100-flash: potential NULL dereference
  mtd: atmel-quadspi: add driver for Atmel QSPI controller
  mtd: nand: omap2: fix return value check in omap_nand_probe()
  Documentation: atmel-quadspi: add binding file for Atmel QSPI driver
  mtd: spi-nor: add hisilicon spi-nor flash controller driver
  mtd: spi-nor: support dual, quad, and WP for Gigadevice
  mtd: spi-nor: Added support for n25q00a.
  memory: Update dependency of IFC for Layerscape
  mtd: nand: jz4780: Update MODULE_AUTHOR email address
  mtd: nand: sunxi: prevent a small memory leak
  mtd: nand: sunxi: add reset line support
  mtd: nand: sunxi: update DT bindings
  ...

Merge tag 'devicetree-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux

2016-07-30T18:32:01+00:00

Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:

 - remove most of_platform_populate() calls in arch code.  Now the DT
   core code calls it in the default case and platforms only need to
   call it if they have special needs

 - use pr_fmt on all the DT core print statements

 - CoreSight binding doc improvements to block name descriptions

 - add dt_to_config script which can parse dts files and list
   corresponding kernel config options

 - fix memory leak hit with a PowerMac DT

 - correct a bunch of STMicro compatible strings to use the correct
   vendor prefix

 - fix DA9052 PMIC binding doc to match what is actually used in dts
   files

* tag 'devicetree-for-4.8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (35 commits)
  documentation: da9052: Update regulator bindings names to match DA9052/53 DTS expectations
  xtensa: Partially Revert "xtensa: Remove unnecessary of_platform_populate with default match table"
  xtensa: Fix build error due to missing include file
  MIPS: ath79: Add missing include file
  Fix spelling errors in Documentation/devicetree
  ARM: dts: fix STMicroelectronics compatible strings
  powerpc/dts: fix STMicroelectronics compatible strings
  Documentation: dt: i2c: use correct STMicroelectronics vendor prefix
  scripts/dtc: dt_to_config - kernel config options for a devicetree
  of: fdt: mark unflattened tree as detached
  of: overlay: add resolver error prints
  coresight: document binding acronyms
  Documentation/devicetree: document cavium-pip rx-delay/tx-delay properties
  of: use pr_fmt prefix for all console printing
  of/irq: Mark initialised interrupt controllers as populated
  of: fix memory leak related to safe_name()
  Revert "of/platform: export of_default_bus_match_table"
  of: unittest: use of_platform_default_populate() to populate default bus
  memory: omap-gpmc: use of_platform_default_populate() to populate default bus
  bus: uniphier-system-bus: use of_platform_default_populate() to populate default bus
  ...

mm: do not pass mm_struct into handle_mm_fault

2016-07-26T23:19:19+00:00

We always have vma->vm_mm around.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1466021202-61880-8-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mtd: Remove unused symbol CONFIG_MTDRAM_ABS_POS

2016-07-10T00:38:05+00:00

This has been unused, except as the condition for a fatal error, since
commit c13cbf3b5086 ("[MTD] mtdram: Quick cleanup of the driver:") in
2.6.13 (!).

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson 
Signed-off-by: Brian Norris

tree wide: get rid of __GFP_REPEAT for order-0 allocations part I

2016-06-25T00:23:52+00:00

This is the third version of the patchset previously sent [1].  I have
basically only rebased it on top of 4.7-rc1 tree and dropped "dm: get
rid of superfluous gfp flags" which went through dm tree.  I am sending
it now because it is tree wide and chances for conflicts are reduced
considerably when we want to target rc2.  I plan to send the next step
and rename the flag and move to a better semantic later during this
release cycle so we will have a new semantic ready for 4.8 merge window
hopefully.

Motivation:

While working on something unrelated I've checked the current usage of
__GFP_REPEAT in the tree.  It seems that a majority of the usage is and
always has been bogus because __GFP_REPEAT has always been about costly
high order allocations while we are using it for order-0 or very small
orders very often.  It seems that a big pile of them is just a
copy&paste when a code has been adopted from one arch to another.

I think it makes some sense to get rid of them because they are just
making the semantic more unclear.  Please note that GFP_REPEAT is
documented as

* __GFP_REPEAT: Try hard to allocate the memory, but the allocation attempt

* _might_ fail.  This depends upon the particular VM implementation.
  while !costly requests have basically nofail semantic.  So one could
  reasonably expect that order-0 request with __GFP_REPEAT will not loop
  for ever.  This is not implemented right now though.

I would like to move on with __GFP_REPEAT and define a better semantic
for it.

  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT origin/master | wc -l
  111
  $ git grep __GFP_REPEAT | wc -l
  36

So we are down to the third after this patch series.  The remaining
places really seem to be relying on __GFP_REPEAT due to large allocation
requests.  This still needs some double checking which I will do later
after all the simple ones are sorted out.

I am touching a lot of arch specific code here and I hope I got it right
but as a matter of fact I even didn't compile test for some archs as I
do not have cross compiler for them.  Patches should be quite trivial to
review for stupid compile mistakes though.  The tricky parts are usually
hidden by macro definitions and thats where I would appreciate help from
arch maintainers.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461849846-27209-1-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org

This patch (of 19):

__GFP_REPEAT has a rather weak semantic but since it has been introduced
around 2.6.12 it has been ignored for low order allocations.  Yet we
have the full kernel tree with its usage for apparently order-0
allocations.  This is really confusing because __GFP_REPEAT is
explicitly documented to allow allocation failures which is a weaker
semantic than the current order-0 has (basically nofail).

Let's simply drop __GFP_REPEAT from those places.  This would allow to
identify place which really need allocator to retry harder and formulate
a more specific semantic for what the flag is supposed to do actually.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464599699-30131-2-git-send-email-mhocko@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" 
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Catalin Marinas 
Cc: Chen Liqin 
Cc: Chris Metcalf  [for tile]
Cc: Guan Xuetao 
Cc: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: Helge Deller 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Cc: John Crispin 
Cc: Lennox Wu 
Cc: Ley Foon Tan 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Rich Felker 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Vineet Gupta 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Yoshinori Sato 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

cris: Remove unnecessary of_platform_populate with default match table

2016-06-23T20:00:22+00:00

After patch "of/platform: Add common method to populate default bus",
it is possible for arch code to remove unnecessary callers of
of_platform_populate with default match table.

Acked-by: Jesper Nilsson 
Cc: Mikael Starvik 
Cc: Jesper Nilsson 
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang 
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring

Merge tag 'for-linus-20160523' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd

2016-05-24T18:00:20+00:00

Pull MTD updates from Brian Norris:
 "First cycle with Boris as NAND maintainer! Many (most) bullets stolen
  from him.

  Generic:
   - Migrated NAND LED trigger to be a generic MTD trigger

  NAND:
   - Introduction of the "ECC algorithm" concept, to avoid overloading
     the ECC mode field too much more
   - Replaced the nand_ecclayout infrastructure with something a little
     more flexible (finally!) and future proof
   - Rework of the OMAP GPMC and NAND drivers; the TI folks pulled some
     of this into their own tree as well
   - Prepare the sunxi NAND driver to receive DMA support
   - Handle bitflips in erased pages on GPMI revisions that do not
     support this in hardware.

  SPI NOR:
   - Start using the spi_flash_read() API for SPI drivers that support
     it (i.e., SPI drivers with special memory-mapped flash modes)

  And other small scattered improvments"

* tag 'for-linus-20160523' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd: (155 commits)
  mtd: spi-nor: support GigaDevice gd25lq64c
  mtd: nand_bch: fix spelling of "probably"
  mtd: brcmnand: respect ECC algorithm set by NAND subsystem
  gpmi-nand: Handle ECC Errors in erased pages
  Documentation: devicetree: deprecate "soft_bch" nand-ecc-mode value
  mtd: nand: add support for "nand-ecc-algo" DT property
  mtd: mtd: drop NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH enum value
  mtd: drop support for NAND_ECC_SOFT_BCH as "soft_bch" mapping
  mtd: nand: read ECC algorithm from the new field
  mtd: nand: fsmc: validate ECC setup by checking algorithm directly
  mtd: nand: set ECC algorithm to Hamming on fallback
  staging: mt29f_spinand: set ECC algorithm explicitly
  CRIS v32: nand: set ECC algorithm explicitly
  mtd: nand: atmel: set ECC algorithm explicitly
  mtd: nand: davinci: set ECC algorithm explicitly
  mtd: nand: bf5xx: set ECC algorithm explicitly
  mtd: nand: omap2: Fix high memory dma prefetch transfer
  mtd: nand: omap2: Start dma request before enabling prefetch
  mtd: nandsim: add __init attribute
  mtd: nand: move of_get_nand_xxx() helpers into nand_base.c
  ...

printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI

2016-05-21T00:58:30+00:00

printk() takes some locks and could not be used a safe way in NMI
context.

The chance of a deadlock is real especially when printing stacks from
all CPUs.  This particular problem has been addressed on x86 by the
commit a9edc8809328 ("x86/nmi: Perform a safe NMI stack trace on all
CPUs").

The patchset brings two big advantages.  First, it makes the NMI
backtraces safe on all architectures for free.  Second, it makes all NMI
messages almost safe on all architectures (the temporary buffer is
limited.  We still should keep the number of messages in NMI context at
minimum).

Note that there already are several messages printed in NMI context:
WARN_ON(in_nmi()), BUG_ON(in_nmi()), anything being printed out from MCE
handlers.  These are not easy to avoid.

This patch reuses most of the code and makes it generic.  It is useful
for all messages and architectures that support NMI.

The alternative printk_func is set when entering and is reseted when
leaving NMI context.  It queues IRQ work to copy the messages into the
main ring buffer in a safe context.

__printk_nmi_flush() copies all available messages and reset the buffer.
Then we could use a simple cmpxchg operations to get synchronized with
writers.  There is also used a spinlock to get synchronized with other
flushers.

We do not longer use seq_buf because it depends on external lock.  It
would be hard to make all supported operations safe for a lockless use.
It would be confusing and error prone to make only some operations safe.

The code is put into separate printk/nmi.c as suggested by Steven
Rostedt.  It needs a per-CPU buffer and is compiled only on
architectures that call nmi_enter().  This is achieved by the new
HAVE_NMI Kconfig flag.

The are MN10300 and Xtensa architectures.  We need to clean up NMI
handling there first.  Let's do it separately.

The patch is heavily based on the draft from Peter Zijlstra, see

  https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/10/327

[arnd@arndb.de: printk-nmi: use %zu format string for size_t]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: min_t->min - all types are size_t here]
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: Jan Kara 
Acked-by: Russell King 	[arm part]
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Ralf Baechle 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Daniel Thompson 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds