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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>mm/debug_pagealloc: fix build failure on ppc and some other archs</title>
<updated>2015-02-05T21:35:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Joonsoo Kim</name>
<email>iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-05T20:25:23+00:00</published>
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Kim Phillips reported following build failure.

  LD      init/built-in.o
  mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
  mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
  mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
  mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Reason for this problem is that commit 031bc5743f15
("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable")
forgot to remove the old declaration of kernel_map_pages() for some
architectures.  This patch removes them to fix build failure.

Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@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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Kim Phillips reported following build failure.

  LD      init/built-in.o
  mm/built-in.o: In function `free_pages_prepare':
  mm/page_alloc.c:770: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `prep_new_page':
  mm/page_alloc.c:933: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  mm/built-in.o: In function `map_pages':
  mm/compaction.c:61: undefined reference to `.kernel_map_pages'
  make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

Reason for this problem is that commit 031bc5743f15
("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc boottime configurable")
forgot to remove the old declaration of kernel_map_pages() for some
architectures.  This patch removes them to fix build failure.

Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@freescale.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: David Howells &lt;dhowells@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>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T00:10:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T00:10:09+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
 "Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.

  They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform
  drivers.  They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes,
  just removing a line in a structure.

  Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes.  There
  are some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been
  acked by the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs
  changes.

  Everything has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits)
  Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries"
  fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
  firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap"
  firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump
  devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function
  device: Add dev_&lt;level&gt;_once variants
  ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
  ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files
  debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message
  Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner"
  drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
  drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
  topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR*
  cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
  driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
  driver core: fix race with userland in device_add()
  sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.
  sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.
  fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size
  ...
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Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
 "Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.

  They are dominated by the removal of the .owner field in platform
  drivers.  They touch a lot of files, but they are "simple" changes,
  just removing a line in a structure.

  Other than that, a few minor driver core and debugfs changes.  There
  are some ath9k patches coming in through this tree that have been
  acked by the wireless maintainers as they relied on the debugfs
  changes.

  Everything has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits)
  Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries"
  fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
  firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap"
  firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump
  devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function
  device: Add dev_&lt;level&gt;_once variants
  ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
  ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files
  debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message
  Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner"
  drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
  drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
  topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR*
  cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
  driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
  driver core: fix race with userland in device_add()
  sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.
  sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.
  fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T00:11:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T00:11:12+00:00</published>
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Pull another networking update from David Miller:
 "Small follow-up to the main merge pull from the other day:

  1) Alexander Duyck's DMA memory barrier patch set.

  2) cxgb4 driver fixes from Karen Xie.

  3) Add missing export of fixed_phy_register() to modules, from Mark
     Salter.

  4) DSA bug fixes from Florian Fainelli"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (24 commits)
  net/macb: add TX multiqueue support for gem
  linux/interrupt.h: remove the definition of unused tasklet_hi_enable
  jme: replace calls to redundant function
  net: ethernet: davicom: Allow to select DM9000 for nios2
  net: ethernet: smsc: Allow to select SMC91X for nios2
  cxgb4: Add support for QSA modules
  libcxgbi: fix freeing skb prematurely
  cxgb4i: use set_wr_txq() to set tx queues
  cxgb4i: handle non-pdu-aligned rx data
  cxgb4i: additional types of negative advice
  cxgb4/cxgb4i: set the max. pdu length in firmware
  cxgb4i: fix credit check for tx_data_wr
  cxgb4i: fix tx immediate data credit check
  net: phy: export fixed_phy_register()
  fib_trie: Fix trie balancing issue if new node pushes down existing node
  vlan: Add ability to always enable TSO/UFO
  r8169:update rtl8168g pcie ephy parameter
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: force link for all fixed PHY devices
  fm10k/igb/ixgbe: Use dma_rmb on Rx descriptor reads
  r8169: Use dma_rmb() and dma_wmb() for DescOwn checks
  ...
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<pre>
Pull another networking update from David Miller:
 "Small follow-up to the main merge pull from the other day:

  1) Alexander Duyck's DMA memory barrier patch set.

  2) cxgb4 driver fixes from Karen Xie.

  3) Add missing export of fixed_phy_register() to modules, from Mark
     Salter.

  4) DSA bug fixes from Florian Fainelli"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (24 commits)
  net/macb: add TX multiqueue support for gem
  linux/interrupt.h: remove the definition of unused tasklet_hi_enable
  jme: replace calls to redundant function
  net: ethernet: davicom: Allow to select DM9000 for nios2
  net: ethernet: smsc: Allow to select SMC91X for nios2
  cxgb4: Add support for QSA modules
  libcxgbi: fix freeing skb prematurely
  cxgb4i: use set_wr_txq() to set tx queues
  cxgb4i: handle non-pdu-aligned rx data
  cxgb4i: additional types of negative advice
  cxgb4/cxgb4i: set the max. pdu length in firmware
  cxgb4i: fix credit check for tx_data_wr
  cxgb4i: fix tx immediate data credit check
  net: phy: export fixed_phy_register()
  fib_trie: Fix trie balancing issue if new node pushes down existing node
  vlan: Add ability to always enable TSO/UFO
  r8169:update rtl8168g pcie ephy parameter
  net: dsa: bcm_sf2: force link for all fixed PHY devices
  fm10k/igb/ixgbe: Use dma_rmb on Rx descriptor reads
  r8169: Use dma_rmb() and dma_wmb() for DescOwn checks
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>sparc/ldc: create separate ldc_unbind from ldc_free</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T02:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dwight Engen</name>
<email>dwight.engen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T17:26:16+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>vio: create routines for inc,dec vio dring indexes</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T02:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dwight Engen</name>
<email>dwight.engen@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T17:26:15+00:00</published>
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Both sunvdc and sunvnet implemented distinct functionality for incrementing
and decrementing dring indexes. Create common functions for use by both
from the sunvnet versions, which were chosen since they will still work
correctly in case a non power of two ring size is used.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Both sunvdc and sunvnet implemented distinct functionality for incrementing
and decrementing dring indexes. Create common functions for use by both
from the sunvnet versions, which were chosen since they will still work
correctly in case a non power of two ring size is used.

Signed-off-by: Dwight Engen &lt;dwight.engen@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Add lightweight memory barriers dma_rmb() and dma_wmb()</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T02:15:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T23:02:06+00:00</published>
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There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and
wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers
and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be.  For
example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync
instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed
is an lsync or eieio instruction.

This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers
rmb() and wmb().  In most cases this should result in the barrier being the
same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a
barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb().  For example on
ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows:

  Barrier   Call     Explanation
  --------- -------- ----------------------------------
  rmb()     dsb()    Data synchronization barrier - system
  dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable
  smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable

These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb().
Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent
memories.  The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of
reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the
CPU and a device.

It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb().  Most architectures don't
provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without
resorting to the same mechanism used in mb().  As such there isn't much to
be gained in trying to define such a function.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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There are a number of situations where the mandatory barriers rmb() and
wmb() are used to order memory/memory operations in the device drivers
and those barriers are much heavier than they actually need to be.  For
example in the case of PowerPC wmb() calls the heavy-weight sync
instruction when for coherent memory operations all that is really needed
is an lsync or eieio instruction.

This commit adds a coherent only version of the mandatory memory barriers
rmb() and wmb().  In most cases this should result in the barrier being the
same as the SMP barriers for the SMP case, however in some cases we use a
barrier that is somewhere in between rmb() and smp_rmb().  For example on
ARM the rmb barriers break down as follows:

  Barrier   Call     Explanation
  --------- -------- ----------------------------------
  rmb()     dsb()    Data synchronization barrier - system
  dma_rmb() dmb(osh) data memory barrier - outer sharable
  smp_rmb() dmb(ish) data memory barrier - inner sharable

These new barriers are not as safe as the standard rmb() and wmb().
Specifically they do not guarantee ordering between coherent and incoherent
memories.  The primary use case for these would be to enforce ordering of
reads and writes when accessing coherent memory that is shared between the
CPU and a device.

It may also be noted that there is no dma_mb().  Most architectures don't
provide a good mechanism for performing a coherent only full barrier without
resorting to the same mechanism used in mb().  As such there isn't much to
be gained in trying to define such a function.

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;fweisbec@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca&gt;
Cc: Michael Ellerman &lt;michael@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Cc: Michael Neuling &lt;mikey@neuling.org&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@arm.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Cc: Heiko Carstens &lt;heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Acked-by: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: Cleanup read_barrier_depends() and comments</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T02:15:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Duyck</name>
<email>alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T23:01:55+00:00</published>
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This patch is meant to cleanup the handling of read_barrier_depends and
smp_read_barrier_depends.  In multiple spots in the kernel headers
read_barrier_depends is defined as "do {} while (0)", however we then go
into the SMP vs non-SMP sections and have the SMP version reference
read_barrier_depends, and the non-SMP define it as yet another empty
do/while.

With this commit I went through and cleaned out the duplicate definitions
and reduced the number of definitions down to 2 per header.  In addition I
moved the 50 line comments for the macro from the x86 and mips headers that
defined it as an empty do/while to those that were actually defining the
macro, alpha and blackfin.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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This patch is meant to cleanup the handling of read_barrier_depends and
smp_read_barrier_depends.  In multiple spots in the kernel headers
read_barrier_depends is defined as "do {} while (0)", however we then go
into the SMP vs non-SMP sections and have the SMP version reference
read_barrier_depends, and the non-SMP define it as yet another empty
do/while.

With this commit I went through and cleaned out the duplicate definitions
and reduced the number of definitions down to 2 per header.  In addition I
moved the 50 line comments for the macro from the x86 and mips headers that
defined it as an empty do/while to those that were actually defining the
macro, alpha and blackfin.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck &lt;alexander.h.duyck@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) New offloading infrastructure and example 'rocker' driver for
    offloading of switching and routing to hardware.

    This work was done by a large group of dedicated individuals, not
    limited to: Scott Feldman, Jiri Pirko, Thomas Graf, John Fastabend,
    Jamal Hadi Salim, Andy Gospodarek, Florian Fainelli, Roopa Prabhu

 2) Start making the networking operate on IOV iterators instead of
    modifying iov objects in-situ during transfers.  Thanks to Al Viro
    and Herbert Xu.

 3) A set of new netlink interfaces for the TIPC stack, from Richard
    Alpe.

 4) Remove unnecessary looping during ipv6 routing lookups, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 5) Add PAUSE frame generation support to gianfar driver, from Matei
    Pavaluca.

 6) Allow for larger reordering levels in TCP, which are easily
    achievable in the real world right now, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add a variable of napi_schedule that doesn't need to disable cpu
    interrupts, from Eric Dumazet.

 8) Use a doubly linked list to optimize neigh_parms_release(), from
    Nicolas Dichtel.

 9) Various enhancements to the kernel BPF verifier, and allow eBPF
    programs to actually be attached to sockets.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

10) Support TSO/LSO in sunvnet driver, from David L Stevens.

11) Allow controlling ECN usage via routing metrics, from Florian
    Westphal.

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

13) Add split-header receive, BQL, and xmit_more support to amd-xgbe
    driver, from Thomas Lendacky.

14) Add MPLS support to openvswitch, from Simon Horman.

15) Support wildcard tunnel endpoints in ipv6 tunnels, from Steffen
    Klassert.

16) Do gro flushes on a per-device basis using a timer, from Eric
    Dumazet.  This tries to resolve the conflicting goals between the
    desired handling of bulk vs.  RPC-like traffic.

17) Allow userspace to ask for the CPU upon what a packet was
    received/steered, via SO_INCOMING_CPU.  From Eric Dumazet.

18) Limit GSO packets to half the current congestion window, from Eric
    Dumazet.

19) Add a generic helper so that all drivers set their RSS keys in a
    consistent way, from Eric Dumazet.

20) Add xmit_more support to enic driver, from Govindarajulu
    Varadarajan.

21) Add VLAN packet scheduler action, from Jiri Pirko.

22) Support configurable RSS hash functions via ethtool, from Eyal
    Perry.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
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<entry>
<title>mm: fix huge zero page accounting in smaps report</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T01:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kirill A. Shutemov</name>
<email>kirill@shutemov.name</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T23:44:36+00:00</published>
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As a small zero page, huge zero page should not be accounted in smaps
report as normal page.

For small pages we rely on vm_normal_page() to filter out zero page, but
vm_normal_page() is not designed to handle pmds.  We only get here due
hackish cast pmd to pte in smaps_pte_range() -- pte and pmd format is not
necessary compatible on each and every architecture.

Let's add separate codepath to handle pmds.  follow_trans_huge_pmd() will
detect huge zero page for us.

We would need pmd_dirty() helper to do this properly.  The patch adds it
to THP-enabled architectures which don't yet have one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use do_div to fix 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fengwei Yin &lt;yfw.kernel@gmail.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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As a small zero page, huge zero page should not be accounted in smaps
report as normal page.

For small pages we rely on vm_normal_page() to filter out zero page, but
vm_normal_page() is not designed to handle pmds.  We only get here due
hackish cast pmd to pte in smaps_pte_range() -- pte and pmd format is not
necessary compatible on each and every architecture.

Let's add separate codepath to handle pmds.  follow_trans_huge_pmd() will
detect huge zero page for us.

We would need pmd_dirty() helper to do this properly.  The patch adds it
to THP-enabled architectures which don't yet have one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: use do_div to fix 32-bit build]
Signed-off-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" &lt;kirill@shutemov.name&gt;
Reported-by: Fengguang Wu &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Tested-by: Fengwei Yin &lt;yfw.kernel@gmail.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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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>net, lib: kill arch_fast_hash library bits</title>
<updated>2014-12-10T20:17:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Daniel Borkmann</name>
<email>dborkman@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T15:33:12+00:00</published>
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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As there are now no remaining users of arch_fast_hash(), lets kill
it entirely.

This basically reverts commit 71ae8aac3e19 ("lib: introduce arch
optimized hash library") and follow-up work, that is f.e., commit
237217546d44 ("lib: hash: follow-up fixups for arch hash"),
commit e3fec2f74f7f ("lib: Add missing arch generic-y entries for
asm-generic/hash.h") and last but not least commit 6a02652df511
("perf tools: Fix include for non x86 architectures").

Cc: Francesco Fusco &lt;fusco@ntop.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Graf &lt;tgraf@suug.ch&gt;
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo &lt;acme@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann &lt;dborkman@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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