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<title>x86/efi: Fix boot crash by mapping EFI memmap entries bottom-up at runtime, instead of top-down</title>
<updated>2015-10-22T21:49:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matt Fleming</name>
<email>matt.fleming@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-09-25T22:02:18+00:00</published>
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commit a5caa209ba9c29c6421292e7879d2387a2ef39c9 upstream.

Beginning with UEFI v2.5 EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE was introduced
that signals that the firmware PE/COFF loader supports splitting
code and data sections of PE/COFF images into separate EFI
memory map entries. This allows the kernel to map those regions
with strict memory protections, e.g. EFI_MEMORY_RO for code,
EFI_MEMORY_XP for data, etc.

Unfortunately, an unwritten requirement of this new feature is
that the regions need to be mapped with the same offsets
relative to each other as observed in the EFI memory map. If
this is not done crashes like this may occur,

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffefe6086dd
  IP: [&lt;fffffffefe6086dd&gt;] 0xfffffffefe6086dd
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff8104c90e&gt;] efi_call+0x7e/0x100
   [&lt;ffffffff81602091&gt;] ? virt_efi_set_variable+0x61/0x90
   [&lt;ffffffff8104c583&gt;] efi_delete_dummy_variable+0x63/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff81f4e4aa&gt;] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x383/0x392
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37e1b&gt;] start_kernel+0x38a/0x417
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37495&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37582&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xeb/0xef

Here 0xfffffffefe6086dd refers to an address the firmware
expects to be mapped but which the OS never claimed was mapped.
The issue is that included in these regions are relative
addresses to other regions which were emitted by the firmware
toolchain before the "splitting" of sections occurred at
runtime.

Needless to say, we don't satisfy this unwritten requirement on
x86_64 and instead map the EFI memory map entries in reverse
order. The above crash is almost certainly triggerable with any
kernel newer than v3.13 because that's when we rewrote the EFI
runtime region mapping code, in commit d2f7cbe7b26a ("x86/efi:
Runtime services virtual mapping"). For kernel versions before
v3.13 things may work by pure luck depending on the
fragmentation of the kernel virtual address space at the time we
map the EFI regions.

Instead of mapping the EFI memory map entries in reverse order,
where entry N has a higher virtual address than entry N+1, map
them in the same order as they appear in the EFI memory map to
preserve this relative offset between regions.

This patch has been kept as small as possible with the intention
that it should be applied aggressively to stable and
distribution kernels. It is very much a bugfix rather than
support for a new feature, since when EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE is
enabled we must map things as outlined above to even boot - we
have no way of asking the firmware not to split the code/data
regions.

In fact, this patch doesn't even make use of the more strict
memory protections available in UEFI v2.5. That will come later.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443218539-7610-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a5caa209ba9c29c6421292e7879d2387a2ef39c9 upstream.

Beginning with UEFI v2.5 EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE was introduced
that signals that the firmware PE/COFF loader supports splitting
code and data sections of PE/COFF images into separate EFI
memory map entries. This allows the kernel to map those regions
with strict memory protections, e.g. EFI_MEMORY_RO for code,
EFI_MEMORY_XP for data, etc.

Unfortunately, an unwritten requirement of this new feature is
that the regions need to be mapped with the same offsets
relative to each other as observed in the EFI memory map. If
this is not done crashes like this may occur,

  BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fffffffefe6086dd
  IP: [&lt;fffffffefe6086dd&gt;] 0xfffffffefe6086dd
  Call Trace:
   [&lt;ffffffff8104c90e&gt;] efi_call+0x7e/0x100
   [&lt;ffffffff81602091&gt;] ? virt_efi_set_variable+0x61/0x90
   [&lt;ffffffff8104c583&gt;] efi_delete_dummy_variable+0x63/0x70
   [&lt;ffffffff81f4e4aa&gt;] efi_enter_virtual_mode+0x383/0x392
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37e1b&gt;] start_kernel+0x38a/0x417
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37495&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
   [&lt;ffffffff81f37582&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xeb/0xef

Here 0xfffffffefe6086dd refers to an address the firmware
expects to be mapped but which the OS never claimed was mapped.
The issue is that included in these regions are relative
addresses to other regions which were emitted by the firmware
toolchain before the "splitting" of sections occurred at
runtime.

Needless to say, we don't satisfy this unwritten requirement on
x86_64 and instead map the EFI memory map entries in reverse
order. The above crash is almost certainly triggerable with any
kernel newer than v3.13 because that's when we rewrote the EFI
runtime region mapping code, in commit d2f7cbe7b26a ("x86/efi:
Runtime services virtual mapping"). For kernel versions before
v3.13 things may work by pure luck depending on the
fragmentation of the kernel virtual address space at the time we
map the EFI regions.

Instead of mapping the EFI memory map entries in reverse order,
where entry N has a higher virtual address than entry N+1, map
them in the same order as they appear in the EFI memory map to
preserve this relative offset between regions.

This patch has been kept as small as possible with the intention
that it should be applied aggressively to stable and
distribution kernels. It is very much a bugfix rather than
support for a new feature, since when EFI_PROPERTIES_TABLE is
enabled we must map things as outlined above to even boot - we
have no way of asking the firmware not to split the code/data
regions.

In fact, this patch doesn't even make use of the more strict
memory protections available in UEFI v2.5. That will come later.

Suggested-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Reported-by: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: James Bottomley &lt;JBottomley@Odin.com&gt;
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg59@srcf.ucam.org&gt;
Cc: Mike Galbraith &lt;efault@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1443218539-7610-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>efi: Check for NULL efi kernel parameters</title>
<updated>2015-07-30T17:07:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ricardo Neri</name>
<email>ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-16T02:36:03+00:00</published>
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Even though it is documented how to specifiy efi parameters, it is
possible to cause a kernel panic due to a dereference of a NULL pointer when
parsing such parameters if "efi" alone is given:

PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff812fb361 error 0 cr2 0
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.2.0-rc1+ #450
[ 0.000000]  ffffffff81fe20a9 ffffffff81e03d50 ffffffff8184bb0f 00000000000003f8
[ 0.000000]  0000000000000000 ffffffff81e03e08 ffffffff81f371a1 64656c62616e6520
[ 0.000000]  0000000000000069 000000000000005f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8184bb0f&gt;] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f371a1&gt;] early_idt_handler_common+0x81/0xae
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff812fb361&gt;] ? parse_option_str+0x11/0x90
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f4dd69&gt;] arch_parse_efi_cmdline+0x15/0x42
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f376e1&gt;] do_early_param+0x50/0x8a
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8106b1b3&gt;] parse_args+0x1e3/0x400
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37a43&gt;] parse_early_options+0x24/0x28
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37691&gt;] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37a78&gt;] parse_early_param+0x31/0x3d
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f3ae98&gt;] setup_arch+0x2de/0xc08
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8109629a&gt;] ? vprintk_default+0x1a/0x20
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37b20&gt;] start_kernel+0x90/0x423
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37495&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37582&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xeb/0xef
[ 0.000000] RIP 0xffffffff81ba2efc

This panic is not reproducible with "efi=" as this will result in a non-NULL
zero-length string.

Thus, verify that the pointer to the parameter string is not NULL. This is
consistent with other parameter-parsing functions which check for NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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Even though it is documented how to specifiy efi parameters, it is
possible to cause a kernel panic due to a dereference of a NULL pointer when
parsing such parameters if "efi" alone is given:

PANIC: early exception 0e rip 10:ffffffff812fb361 error 0 cr2 0
[ 0.000000] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper Not tainted 4.2.0-rc1+ #450
[ 0.000000]  ffffffff81fe20a9 ffffffff81e03d50 ffffffff8184bb0f 00000000000003f8
[ 0.000000]  0000000000000000 ffffffff81e03e08 ffffffff81f371a1 64656c62616e6520
[ 0.000000]  0000000000000069 000000000000005f 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
[ 0.000000] Call Trace:
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8184bb0f&gt;] dump_stack+0x45/0x57
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f371a1&gt;] early_idt_handler_common+0x81/0xae
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff812fb361&gt;] ? parse_option_str+0x11/0x90
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f4dd69&gt;] arch_parse_efi_cmdline+0x15/0x42
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f376e1&gt;] do_early_param+0x50/0x8a
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8106b1b3&gt;] parse_args+0x1e3/0x400
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37a43&gt;] parse_early_options+0x24/0x28
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37691&gt;] ? loglevel+0x31/0x31
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37a78&gt;] parse_early_param+0x31/0x3d
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f3ae98&gt;] setup_arch+0x2de/0xc08
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff8109629a&gt;] ? vprintk_default+0x1a/0x20
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37b20&gt;] start_kernel+0x90/0x423
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37495&gt;] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[ 0.000000]  [&lt;ffffffff81f37582&gt;] x86_64_start_kernel+0xeb/0xef
[ 0.000000] RIP 0xffffffff81ba2efc

This panic is not reproducible with "efi=" as this will result in a non-NULL
zero-length string.

Thus, verify that the pointer to the parameter string is not NULL. This is
consistent with other parameter-parsing functions which check for NULL pointers.

Signed-off-by: Ricardo Neri &lt;ricardo.neri-calderon@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Dave Young &lt;dyoung@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt.fleming@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'module_init-device_initcall-v4.1-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-02T17:30:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-02T17:30:48+00:00</published>
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Pull module_init replacement part one from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules.

  This series of commits converts non-modular code that is using the
  module_init() call to hook itself into the system to instead use
  device_initcall().

  The conversion is a runtime no-op, since module_init actually becomes
  __initcall in the non-modular case, and that in turn gets mapped onto
  device_initcall.  A couple files show a larger negative diffstat,
  representing ones that had a module_exit function that we remove here
  vs previously relying on the linker to dispose of it.

  We make this conversion now, so that we can relocate module_init from
  init.h into module.h in the future.

  The files changed here are just limited to those that would otherwise
  have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, in order to avoid
  a compile fail, as testing has shown"

* tag 'module_init-device_initcall-v4.1-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  MIPS: don't use module_init in non-modular cobalt/mtd.c file
  drivers/leds: don't use module_init in non-modular leds-cobalt-raq.c
  cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code
  tty/metag_da: Avoid module_init/module_exit in non-modular code
  drivers/clk: don't use module_init in clk-nomadik.c which is non-modular
  xtensa: don't use module_init for non-modular core network.c code
  sh: don't use module_init in non-modular psw.c code
  mn10300: don't use module_init in non-modular flash.c code
  parisc64: don't use module_init for non-modular core perf code
  parisc: don't use module_init for non-modular core pdc_cons code
  cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core intmem.c code
  ia64: don't use module_init in non-modular sim/simscsi.c code
  ia64: don't use module_init for non-modular core kernel/mca.c code
  arm: don't use module_init in non-modular mach-vexpress/spc.c code
  powerpc: don't use module_init in non-modular 83xx suspend code
  powerpc: use device_initcall for registering rtc devices
  x86: don't use module_init in non-modular devicetree.c code
  x86: don't use module_init in non-modular intel_mid_vrtc.c
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Pull module_init replacement part one from Paul Gortmaker:
 "Replace module_init with equivalent device_initcall in non modules.

  This series of commits converts non-modular code that is using the
  module_init() call to hook itself into the system to instead use
  device_initcall().

  The conversion is a runtime no-op, since module_init actually becomes
  __initcall in the non-modular case, and that in turn gets mapped onto
  device_initcall.  A couple files show a larger negative diffstat,
  representing ones that had a module_exit function that we remove here
  vs previously relying on the linker to dispose of it.

  We make this conversion now, so that we can relocate module_init from
  init.h into module.h in the future.

  The files changed here are just limited to those that would otherwise
  have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, in order to avoid
  a compile fail, as testing has shown"

* tag 'module_init-device_initcall-v4.1-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux:
  MIPS: don't use module_init in non-modular cobalt/mtd.c file
  drivers/leds: don't use module_init in non-modular leds-cobalt-raq.c
  cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core eeprom.c code
  tty/metag_da: Avoid module_init/module_exit in non-modular code
  drivers/clk: don't use module_init in clk-nomadik.c which is non-modular
  xtensa: don't use module_init for non-modular core network.c code
  sh: don't use module_init in non-modular psw.c code
  mn10300: don't use module_init in non-modular flash.c code
  parisc64: don't use module_init for non-modular core perf code
  parisc: don't use module_init for non-modular core pdc_cons code
  cris: don't use module_init for non-modular core intmem.c code
  ia64: don't use module_init in non-modular sim/simscsi.c code
  ia64: don't use module_init for non-modular core kernel/mca.c code
  arm: don't use module_init in non-modular mach-vexpress/spc.c code
  powerpc: don't use module_init in non-modular 83xx suspend code
  powerpc: use device_initcall for registering rtc devices
  x86: don't use module_init in non-modular devicetree.c code
  x86: don't use module_init in non-modular intel_mid_vrtc.c
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux</title>
<updated>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-01T17:49:25+00:00</published>
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
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Pull module updates from Rusty Russell:
 "Main excitement here is Peter Zijlstra's lockless rbtree optimization
  to speed module address lookup.  He found some abusers of the module
  lock doing that too.

  A little bit of parameter work here too; including Dan Streetman's
  breaking up the big param mutex so writing a parameter can load
  another module (yeah, really).  Unfortunately that broke the usual
  suspects, !CONFIG_MODULES and !CONFIG_SYSFS, so those fixes were
  appended too"

* tag 'modules-next-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux: (26 commits)
  modules: only use mod-&gt;param_lock if CONFIG_MODULES
  param: fix module param locks when !CONFIG_SYSFS.
  rcu: merge fix for Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
  module: add per-module param_lock
  module: make perm const
  params: suppress unused variable error, warn once just in case code changes.
  modules: clarify CONFIG_MODULE_COMPRESS help, suggest 'N'.
  kernel/module.c: avoid ifdefs for sig_enforce declaration
  kernel/workqueue.c: remove ifdefs over wq_power_efficient
  kernel/params.c: export param_ops_bool_enable_only
  kernel/params.c: generalize bool_enable_only
  kernel/module.c: use generic module param operaters for sig_enforce
  kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses
  sysfs: tightened sysfs permission checks
  module: Rework module_addr_{min,max}
  module: Use __module_address() for module_address_lookup()
  module: Make the mod_tree stuff conditional on PERF_EVENTS || TRACING
  module: Optimize __module_address() using a latched RB-tree
  rbtree: Implement generic latch_tree
  seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=88793e5c774ec69351ef6b5200bb59f532e41bca'/>
<id>88793e5c774ec69351ef6b5200bb59f532e41bca</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86, mirror: x86 enabling - find mirrored memory ranges</title>
<updated>2015-06-25T00:49:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:58:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=b05b9f5f9dcf593a0e9327676b78e6c17b4218e8'/>
<id>b05b9f5f9dcf593a0e9327676b78e6c17b4218e8</id>
<content type='text'>
UEFI GetMemoryMap() uses a new attribute bit to mark mirrored memory
address ranges.  See UEFI 2.5 spec pages 157-158:

  http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf

On EFI enabled systems scan the memory map and tell memblock about any
mirrored ranges.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xiexiuqi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@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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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
UEFI GetMemoryMap() uses a new attribute bit to mark mirrored memory
address ranges.  See UEFI 2.5 spec pages 157-158:

  http://www.uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI%202_5.pdf

On EFI enabled systems scan the memory map and tell memblock about any
mirrored ranges.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Xishi Qiu &lt;qiuxishi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Hanjun Guo &lt;guohanjun@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Xiexiuqi &lt;xiexiuqi@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi &lt;nao.horiguchi@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;
</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()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>x86: don't use module_init in non-modular intel_mid_vrtc.c</title>
<updated>2015-06-16T18:12:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-02T00:05:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4711e2f9caedaa07e7cdcb5e058a18762d6be9b1'/>
<id>4711e2f9caedaa07e7cdcb5e058a18762d6be9b1</id>
<content type='text'>
The X86_INTEL_MID option is bool, and hence this code is either
present or absent.  It will never be modular, so using
module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather misleading.

Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
would be a worse thing.

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
of the priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets
mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall
directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
The X86_INTEL_MID option is bool, and hence this code is either
present or absent.  It will never be modular, so using
module_init as an alias for __initcall is rather misleading.

Fix this up now, so that we can relocate module_init from
init.h into module.h in the future.  If we don't do this, we'd
have to add module.h to obviously non-modular code, and that
would be a worse thing.

Note that direct use of __initcall is discouraged, vs. one
of the priority categorized subgroups.  As __initcall gets
mapped onto device_initcall, our use of device_initcall
directly in this change means that the runtime impact is
zero -- it will remain at level 6 in initcall ordering.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'x86/mm', 'x86/build', 'x86/apic' and 'x86/platform' into x86/core, to apply dependent patch</title>
<updated>2015-06-03T08:05:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-03T08:05:18+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=34e7724c0767f04f6199f2bd7232e9ab1207e1df'/>
<id>34e7724c0767f04f6199f2bd7232e9ab1207e1df</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>kernel/params: constify struct kernel_param_ops uses</title>
<updated>2015-05-28T02:02:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Luis R. Rodriguez</name>
<email>mcgrof@suse.com</email>
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<published>2015-05-27T01:39:38+00:00</published>
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Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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Most code already uses consts for the struct kernel_param_ops,
sweep the kernel for the last offending stragglers. Other than
include/linux/moduleparam.h and kernel/params.c all other changes
were generated with the following Coccinelle SmPL patch. Merge
conflicts between trees can be handled with Coccinelle.

In the future git could get Coccinelle merge support to deal with
patch --&gt; fail --&gt; grammar --&gt; Coccinelle --&gt; new patch conflicts
automatically for us on patches where the grammar is available and
the patch is of high confidence. Consider this a feature request.

Test compiled on x86_64 against:

	* allnoconfig
	* allmodconfig
	* allyesconfig

@ const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

@ const_not_found depends on !const_found @
identifier ops;
@@

-struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
+const struct kernel_param_ops ops = {
};

Generated-by: Coccinelle SmPL
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Junio C Hamano &lt;gitster@pobox.com&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: cocci@systeme.lip6.fr
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez &lt;mcgrof@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
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