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<title>efi/libstub: Use efi_exit_boot_services() in FDT</title>
<updated>2016-09-24T08:09:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffrey Hugo</name>
<email>jhugo@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-29T20:38:53+00:00</published>
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commit ed9cc156c42ff0c0bf9b1d09df48a12bf0873473 upstream.

The FDT code directly calls ExitBootServices.  This is inadvisable as the
UEFI spec details a complex set of errors, race conditions, and API
interactions that the caller of ExitBootServices must get correct.  The
FDT code does not handle EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER as required by the spec,
which causes intermittent boot failures on the Qualcomm Technologies
QDF2432.  Call the efi_exit_boot_services() helper intead, which handles
the EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER scenario properly.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit ed9cc156c42ff0c0bf9b1d09df48a12bf0873473 upstream.

The FDT code directly calls ExitBootServices.  This is inadvisable as the
UEFI spec details a complex set of errors, race conditions, and API
interactions that the caller of ExitBootServices must get correct.  The
FDT code does not handle EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER as required by the spec,
which causes intermittent boot failures on the Qualcomm Technologies
QDF2432.  Call the efi_exit_boot_services() helper intead, which handles
the EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER scenario properly.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>efi/libstub: Introduce ExitBootServices helper</title>
<updated>2016-09-24T08:09:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffrey Hugo</name>
<email>jhugo@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-29T20:38:52+00:00</published>
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commit fc07716ba803483be91bc4b2344f9c84985e6f07 upstream.

The spec allows ExitBootServices to fail with EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER if a
race condition has occurred where the EFI has updated the memory map after
the stub grabbed a reference to the map.  The spec defines a retry
proceedure with specific requirements to handle this scenario.

This scenario was previously observed on x86 - commit d3768d885c6c ("x86,
efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure") but the current fix is not spec
compliant and the scenario is now observed on the Qualcomm Technologies
QDF2432 via the FDT stub which does not handle the error and thus causes
boot failures.  The user will notice the boot failure as the kernel is not
executed and the system may drop back to a UEFI shell, but will be
unresponsive to input and the system will require a power cycle to recover.

Add a helper to the stub library that correctly adheres to the spec in the
case of EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER from ExitBootServices and can be universally
used across all stub implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit fc07716ba803483be91bc4b2344f9c84985e6f07 upstream.

The spec allows ExitBootServices to fail with EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER if a
race condition has occurred where the EFI has updated the memory map after
the stub grabbed a reference to the map.  The spec defines a retry
proceedure with specific requirements to handle this scenario.

This scenario was previously observed on x86 - commit d3768d885c6c ("x86,
efi: retry ExitBootServices() on failure") but the current fix is not spec
compliant and the scenario is now observed on the Qualcomm Technologies
QDF2432 via the FDT stub which does not handle the error and thus causes
boot failures.  The user will notice the boot failure as the kernel is not
executed and the system may drop back to a UEFI shell, but will be
unresponsive to input and the system will require a power cycle to recover.

Add a helper to the stub library that correctly adheres to the spec in the
case of EFI_INVALID_PARAMETER from ExitBootServices and can be universally
used across all stub implementations.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>efi/libstub: Allocate headspace in efi_get_memory_map()</title>
<updated>2016-09-24T08:09:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeffrey Hugo</name>
<email>jhugo@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-29T20:38:51+00:00</published>
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commit dadb57abc37499f565b23933dbf49b435c3ba8af upstream.

efi_get_memory_map() allocates a buffer to store the memory map that it
retrieves.  This buffer may need to be reused by the client after
ExitBootServices() is called, at which point allocations are not longer
permitted.  To support this usecase, provide the allocated buffer size back
to the client, and allocate some additional headroom to account for any
reasonable growth in the map that is likely to happen between the call to
efi_get_memory_map() and the client reusing the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit dadb57abc37499f565b23933dbf49b435c3ba8af upstream.

efi_get_memory_map() allocates a buffer to store the memory map that it
retrieves.  This buffer may need to be reused by the client after
ExitBootServices() is called, at which point allocations are not longer
permitted.  To support this usecase, provide the allocated buffer size back
to the client, and allocate some additional headroom to account for any
reasonable growth in the map that is likely to happen between the call to
efi_get_memory_map() and the client reusing the buffer.

Signed-off-by: Jeffrey Hugo &lt;jhugo@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Leif Lindholm &lt;leif.lindholm@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>efi/capsule: Allocate whole capsule into virtual memory</title>
<updated>2016-09-07T06:34:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Austin Christ</name>
<email>austinwc@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-08-11T10:42:00+00:00</published>
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commit 6862e6ad95e984991a6ceec592cf67831658f928 upstream.

According to UEFI 2.6 section 7.5.3, the capsule should be in contiguous
virtual memory and firmware may consume the capsule immediately. To
correctly implement this functionality, the kernel driver needs to vmap
the entire capsule at the time it is made available to firmware.

The virtual allocation of the capsule update has been changed from kmap,
which was only allocating the first page of the update, to vmap, and
allocates the entire data payload.

Signed-off-by: Austin Christ &lt;austinwc@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue &lt;pure.logic@nexus-software.ie&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kweh Hock Leong &lt;hock.leong.kweh@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470912120-22831-3-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 6862e6ad95e984991a6ceec592cf67831658f928 upstream.

According to UEFI 2.6 section 7.5.3, the capsule should be in contiguous
virtual memory and firmware may consume the capsule immediately. To
correctly implement this functionality, the kernel driver needs to vmap
the entire capsule at the time it is made available to firmware.

The virtual allocation of the capsule update has been changed from kmap,
which was only allocating the first page of the update, to vmap, and
allocates the entire data payload.

Signed-off-by: Austin Christ &lt;austinwc@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Brian Gerst &lt;brgerst@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Bryan O'Donoghue &lt;pure.logic@nexus-software.ie&gt;
Cc: Denys Vlasenko &lt;dvlasenk@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf &lt;jpoimboe@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kweh Hock Leong &lt;hock.leong.kweh@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470912120-22831-3-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/arm: Fix the format of EFI debug messages</title>
<updated>2016-06-03T07:57:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dennis Chen</name>
<email>dennis.chen@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-31T10:23:44+00:00</published>
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When both EFI and memblock debugging is enabled on the kernel command line:

  'efi=debug memblock=debug'

.. the debug messages for early_con look the following way:

 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1050000-0x0000e105ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1300000-0x0000e1300fff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e8200000-0x0000e827ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x008000000000-0x008001e7ffff [Runtime Data       |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC]
 [    0.000000] memblock_add: [0x00008000000000-0x00008001e7ffff] flags 0x0 early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x54/0x5c
 [    0.000000] *
 ...

Note the misplaced '*' line, which happened because the memblock debug message
was printed while the EFI debug message was still being constructed..

This patch fixes the output to be the expected:

 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1050000-0x0000e105ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1300000-0x0000e1300fff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e8200000-0x0000e827ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x008000000000-0x008001e7ffff [Runtime Data       |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
 [    0.000000] memblock_add: [0x00008000000000-0x00008001e7ffff] flags 0x0 early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x54/0x5c
 ...

Note how the '*' is now in the proper EFI debug message line.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Chen &lt;dennis.chen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steve McIntyre &lt;steve@einval.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464690224-4503-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
[ Made the changelog more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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When both EFI and memblock debugging is enabled on the kernel command line:

  'efi=debug memblock=debug'

.. the debug messages for early_con look the following way:

 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1050000-0x0000e105ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1300000-0x0000e1300fff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e8200000-0x0000e827ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x008000000000-0x008001e7ffff [Runtime Data       |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC]
 [    0.000000] memblock_add: [0x00008000000000-0x00008001e7ffff] flags 0x0 early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x54/0x5c
 [    0.000000] *
 ...

Note the misplaced '*' line, which happened because the memblock debug message
was printed while the EFI debug message was still being constructed..

This patch fixes the output to be the expected:

 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1050000-0x0000e105ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e1300000-0x0000e1300fff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x0000e8200000-0x0000e827ffff [Memory Mapped I/O  |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |  |  |  |UC]
 [    0.000000] efi:   0x008000000000-0x008001e7ffff [Runtime Data       |RUN|  |  |  |  |  |  |   |WB|WT|WC|UC]*
 [    0.000000] memblock_add: [0x00008000000000-0x00008001e7ffff] flags 0x0 early_init_dt_add_memory_arch+0x54/0x5c
 ...

Note how the '*' is now in the proper EFI debug message line.

Signed-off-by: Dennis Chen &lt;dennis.chen@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming &lt;matt@codeblueprint.co.uk&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel &lt;ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Catalin Marinas &lt;catalin.marinas@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Mark Salter &lt;msalter@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Steve Capper &lt;steve.capper@arm.com&gt;
Cc: Steve McIntyre &lt;steve@einval.com&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Will Deacon &lt;will.deacon@arm.com&gt;
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1464690224-4503-3-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
[ Made the changelog more readable. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2016-05-21T04:26:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-21T04:26:15+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" driver core update for 4.7-rc1.

  Mostly just debugfs changes, the long-known and messy races with
  removing debugfs files should be fixed thanks to the great work of
  Nicolai Stange.  We also have some isa updates in here (the x86
  maintainers told me to take it through this tree), a new warning when
  we run out of dynamic char major numbers, and a few other assorted
  changes, details in the shortlog.

  All have been in linux-next for some time with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case"
  gpio: ws16c48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idio-16: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idi-48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-dio-48e: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  iio: stx104: Utilize the module_isa_driver and max_num_isa_dev macros
  iio: stx104: Add X86 dependency to STX104 Kconfig option
  Documentation: Add ISA bus driver documentation
  isa: Implement the max_num_isa_dev macro
  isa: Implement the module_isa_driver macro
  pnp: pnpbios: Add explicit X86_32 dependency to PNPBIOS
  isa: Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option
  driver-core: use 'dev' argument in dev_dbg_ratelimited stub
  base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case
  kernfs: Move faulting copy_user operations outside of the mutex
  devcoredump: add scatterlist support
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_u32_array()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_blob()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_bool()
  ...
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Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" driver core update for 4.7-rc1.

  Mostly just debugfs changes, the long-known and messy races with
  removing debugfs files should be fixed thanks to the great work of
  Nicolai Stange.  We also have some isa updates in here (the x86
  maintainers told me to take it through this tree), a new warning when
  we run out of dynamic char major numbers, and a few other assorted
  changes, details in the shortlog.

  All have been in linux-next for some time with no reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  Revert "base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case"
  gpio: ws16c48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idio-16: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-idi-48: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  gpio: 104-dio-48e: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  watchdog: ebc-c384_wdt: Utilize the ISA bus driver
  iio: stx104: Utilize the module_isa_driver and max_num_isa_dev macros
  iio: stx104: Add X86 dependency to STX104 Kconfig option
  Documentation: Add ISA bus driver documentation
  isa: Implement the max_num_isa_dev macro
  isa: Implement the module_isa_driver macro
  pnp: pnpbios: Add explicit X86_32 dependency to PNPBIOS
  isa: Decouple X86_32 dependency from the ISA Kconfig option
  driver-core: use 'dev' argument in dev_dbg_ratelimited stub
  base: dd: don't remove driver_data in -EPROBE_DEFER case
  kernfs: Move faulting copy_user operations outside of the mutex
  devcoredump: add scatterlist support
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_u32_array()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_blob()
  debugfs: unproxify files created through debugfs_create_bool()
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2016-05-19T17:02:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-19T17:02:26+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=07b75260ebc2c789724c594d7eaf0194fa47b3be'/>
<id>07b75260ebc2c789724c594d7eaf0194fa47b3be</id>
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Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS for 4.7.  Here's the summary of
  the changes:

   - ATH79: Support for DTB passuing using the UHI boot protocol
   - ATH79: Remove support for builtin DTB.
   - ATH79: Add zboot debug serial support.
   - ATH79: Add initial support for Dragino MS14 (Dragine 2), Onion Omega
            and DPT-Module.
   - ATH79: Update devicetree clock support for AR9132 and AR9331.
   - ATH79: Cleanup the DT code.
   - ATH79: Support newer SOCs in ath79_ddr_ctrl_init.
   - ATH79: Fix regression in PCI window initialization.
   - BCM47xx: Move SPROM driver to drivers/firmware/
   - BCM63xx: Enable partition parser in defconfig.
   - BMIPS: BMIPS5000 has I cache filing from D cache
   - BMIPS: BMIPS: Add cpu-feature-overrides.h
   - BMIPS: Add Whirlwind support
   - BMIPS: Adjust mips-hpt-frequency for BCM7435
   - BMIPS: Remove maxcpus from BCM97435SVMB DTS
   - BMIPS: Add missing 7038 L1 register cells to BCM7435
   - BMIPS: Various tweaks to initialization code.
   - BMIPS: Enable partition parser in defconfig.
   - BMIPS: Cache tweaks.
   - BMIPS: Add UART, I2C and SATA devices to DT.
   - BMIPS: Add BCM6358 and BCM63268support
   - BMIPS: Add device tree example for BCM6358.
   - BMIPS: Improve Improve BCM6328 and BCM6368 device trees
   - Lantiq: Add support for device tree file from boot loader
   - Lantiq: Allow build with no built-in DT.
   - Loongson 3: Reserve 32MB for RS780E integrated GPU.
   - Loongson 3: Fix build error after ld-version.sh modification
   - Loongson 3: Move chipset ACPI code from drivers to arch.
   - Loongson 3: Speedup irq processing.
   - Loongson 3: Add basic Loongson 3A support.
   - Loongson 3: Set cache flush handlers to nop.
   - Loongson 3: Invalidate special TLBs when needed.
   - Loongson 3: Fast TLB refill handler.
   - MT7620: Fallback strategy for invalid syscfg0.
   - Netlogic: Fix CP0_EBASE redefinition warnings
   - Octeon: Initialization fixes
   - Octeon: Add DTS files for the D-Link DSR-1000N and EdgeRouter Lite
   - Octeon: Enable add Octeon-drivers in cavium_octeon_defconfig
   - Octeon: Correctly handle endian-swapped initramfs images.
   - Octeon: Support CN73xx, CN75xx and CN78xx.
   - Octeon: Remove dead code from cvmx-sysinfo.
   - Octeon: Extend number of supported CPUs past 32.
   - Octeon: Remove some code limiting NR_IRQS to 255.
   - Octeon: Simplify octeon_irq_ciu_gpio_set_type.
   - Octeon: Mark some functions __init in smp.c
   - Octeon: Octeon: Add Octeon III CN7xxx interface detection
   - PIC32: Add serial driver and bindings for it.
   - PIC32: Add PIC32 deadman timer driver and bindings.
   - PIC32: Add PIC32 clock timer driver and bindings.
   - Pistachio: Determine SoC revision during boot
   - Sibyte: Fix Kconfig dependencies of SIBYTE_BUS_WATCHER.
   - Sibyte: Strip redundant comments from bcm1480_regs.h.
   - Panic immediately if panic_on_oops is set.
   - module: fix incorrect IS_ERR_VALUE macro usage.
   - module: Make consistent use of pr_*
   - Remove no longer needed work_on_cpu() call.
   - Remove CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY from defconfigs.
   - Fix registers of non-crashing CPUs in dumps.
   - Handle MIPSisms in new vmcore_elf32_check_arch.
   - Select CONFIG_HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ and make it work.
   - Allow RIXI to be used on non-R2 or R6 cores.
   - Reserve nosave data for hibernation
   - Fix siginfo.h to use strict POSIX types.
   - Don't unwind user mode with EVA.
   - Fix watchpoint restoration
   - Ptrace watchpoints for R6.
   - Sync icache when it fills from dcache
   - I6400 I-cache fills from dcache.
   - Various MSA fixes.
   - Cleanup MIPS_CPU_* definitions.
   - Signal: Move generic copy_siginfo to signal.h
   - Signal: Fix uapi include in exported asm/siginfo.h
   - Timer fixes for sake of KVM.
   - XPA TLB refill fixes.
   - Treat perf counter feature
   - Update John Crispin's email address
   - Add PIC32 watchdog and bindings.
   - Handle R10000 LL/SC bug in set_pte()
   - cpufreq: Various fixes for Longson1.
   - R6: Fix R2 emulation.
   - mathemu: Cosmetic fix to ADDIUPC emulation, plenty of other small fixes
   - ELF: ABI and FP fixes.
   - Allow for relocatable kernel and use that to support KASLR.
   - Fix CPC_BASE_ADDR mask
   - Plenty fo smp-cps, CM, R6 and M6250 fixes.
   - Make reset_control_ops const.
   - Fix kernel command line handling of leading whitespace.
   - Cleanups to cache handling.
   - Add brcm, bcm6345-l1-intc device tree bindings.
   - Use generic clkdev.h header
   - Remove CLK_IS_ROOT usage.
   - Misc small cleanups.
   - CM: Fix compilation error when !MIPS_CM
   - oprofile: Fix a preemption issue
   - Detect DSP ASE v3 support:1"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (275 commits)
  MIPS: pic32mzda: fix getting timer clock rate.
  MIPS: ath79: fix regression in PCI window initialization
  MIPS: ath79: make ath79_ddr_ctrl_init() compatible for newer SoCs
  MIPS: Fix VZ probe gas errors with binutils &lt;2.24
  MIPS: perf: Fix I6400 event numbers
  MIPS: DEC: Export `ioasic_ssr_lock' to modules
  MIPS: MSA: Fix a link error on `_init_msa_upper' with older GCC
  MIPS: CM: Fix compilation error when !MIPS_CM
  MIPS: Fix genvdso error on rebuild
  USB: ohci-jz4740: Remove obsolete driver
  MIPS: JZ4740: Probe OHCI platform device via DT
  MIPS: JZ4740: Qi LB60: Remove support for AVT2 variant
  MIPS: pistachio: Determine SoC revision during boot
  MIPS: BMIPS: Adjust mips-hpt-frequency for BCM7435
  mips: mt7620: fallback to SDRAM when syscfg0 does not have a valid value for the memory type
  MIPS: Prevent "restoration" of MSA context in non-MSA kernels
  MIPS: cevt-r4k: Dynamically calculate min_delta_ns
  MIPS: malta-time: Take seconds into account
  MIPS: malta-time: Start GIC count before syncing to RTC
  MIPS: Force CPUs to lose FP context during mode switches
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
 "This is the main pull request for MIPS for 4.7.  Here's the summary of
  the changes:

   - ATH79: Support for DTB passuing using the UHI boot protocol
   - ATH79: Remove support for builtin DTB.
   - ATH79: Add zboot debug serial support.
   - ATH79: Add initial support for Dragino MS14 (Dragine 2), Onion Omega
            and DPT-Module.
   - ATH79: Update devicetree clock support for AR9132 and AR9331.
   - ATH79: Cleanup the DT code.
   - ATH79: Support newer SOCs in ath79_ddr_ctrl_init.
   - ATH79: Fix regression in PCI window initialization.
   - BCM47xx: Move SPROM driver to drivers/firmware/
   - BCM63xx: Enable partition parser in defconfig.
   - BMIPS: BMIPS5000 has I cache filing from D cache
   - BMIPS: BMIPS: Add cpu-feature-overrides.h
   - BMIPS: Add Whirlwind support
   - BMIPS: Adjust mips-hpt-frequency for BCM7435
   - BMIPS: Remove maxcpus from BCM97435SVMB DTS
   - BMIPS: Add missing 7038 L1 register cells to BCM7435
   - BMIPS: Various tweaks to initialization code.
   - BMIPS: Enable partition parser in defconfig.
   - BMIPS: Cache tweaks.
   - BMIPS: Add UART, I2C and SATA devices to DT.
   - BMIPS: Add BCM6358 and BCM63268support
   - BMIPS: Add device tree example for BCM6358.
   - BMIPS: Improve Improve BCM6328 and BCM6368 device trees
   - Lantiq: Add support for device tree file from boot loader
   - Lantiq: Allow build with no built-in DT.
   - Loongson 3: Reserve 32MB for RS780E integrated GPU.
   - Loongson 3: Fix build error after ld-version.sh modification
   - Loongson 3: Move chipset ACPI code from drivers to arch.
   - Loongson 3: Speedup irq processing.
   - Loongson 3: Add basic Loongson 3A support.
   - Loongson 3: Set cache flush handlers to nop.
   - Loongson 3: Invalidate special TLBs when needed.
   - Loongson 3: Fast TLB refill handler.
   - MT7620: Fallback strategy for invalid syscfg0.
   - Netlogic: Fix CP0_EBASE redefinition warnings
   - Octeon: Initialization fixes
   - Octeon: Add DTS files for the D-Link DSR-1000N and EdgeRouter Lite
   - Octeon: Enable add Octeon-drivers in cavium_octeon_defconfig
   - Octeon: Correctly handle endian-swapped initramfs images.
   - Octeon: Support CN73xx, CN75xx and CN78xx.
   - Octeon: Remove dead code from cvmx-sysinfo.
   - Octeon: Extend number of supported CPUs past 32.
   - Octeon: Remove some code limiting NR_IRQS to 255.
   - Octeon: Simplify octeon_irq_ciu_gpio_set_type.
   - Octeon: Mark some functions __init in smp.c
   - Octeon: Octeon: Add Octeon III CN7xxx interface detection
   - PIC32: Add serial driver and bindings for it.
   - PIC32: Add PIC32 deadman timer driver and bindings.
   - PIC32: Add PIC32 clock timer driver and bindings.
   - Pistachio: Determine SoC revision during boot
   - Sibyte: Fix Kconfig dependencies of SIBYTE_BUS_WATCHER.
   - Sibyte: Strip redundant comments from bcm1480_regs.h.
   - Panic immediately if panic_on_oops is set.
   - module: fix incorrect IS_ERR_VALUE macro usage.
   - module: Make consistent use of pr_*
   - Remove no longer needed work_on_cpu() call.
   - Remove CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY from defconfigs.
   - Fix registers of non-crashing CPUs in dumps.
   - Handle MIPSisms in new vmcore_elf32_check_arch.
   - Select CONFIG_HANDLE_DOMAIN_IRQ and make it work.
   - Allow RIXI to be used on non-R2 or R6 cores.
   - Reserve nosave data for hibernation
   - Fix siginfo.h to use strict POSIX types.
   - Don't unwind user mode with EVA.
   - Fix watchpoint restoration
   - Ptrace watchpoints for R6.
   - Sync icache when it fills from dcache
   - I6400 I-cache fills from dcache.
   - Various MSA fixes.
   - Cleanup MIPS_CPU_* definitions.
   - Signal: Move generic copy_siginfo to signal.h
   - Signal: Fix uapi include in exported asm/siginfo.h
   - Timer fixes for sake of KVM.
   - XPA TLB refill fixes.
   - Treat perf counter feature
   - Update John Crispin's email address
   - Add PIC32 watchdog and bindings.
   - Handle R10000 LL/SC bug in set_pte()
   - cpufreq: Various fixes for Longson1.
   - R6: Fix R2 emulation.
   - mathemu: Cosmetic fix to ADDIUPC emulation, plenty of other small fixes
   - ELF: ABI and FP fixes.
   - Allow for relocatable kernel and use that to support KASLR.
   - Fix CPC_BASE_ADDR mask
   - Plenty fo smp-cps, CM, R6 and M6250 fixes.
   - Make reset_control_ops const.
   - Fix kernel command line handling of leading whitespace.
   - Cleanups to cache handling.
   - Add brcm, bcm6345-l1-intc device tree bindings.
   - Use generic clkdev.h header
   - Remove CLK_IS_ROOT usage.
   - Misc small cleanups.
   - CM: Fix compilation error when !MIPS_CM
   - oprofile: Fix a preemption issue
   - Detect DSP ASE v3 support:1"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (275 commits)
  MIPS: pic32mzda: fix getting timer clock rate.
  MIPS: ath79: fix regression in PCI window initialization
  MIPS: ath79: make ath79_ddr_ctrl_init() compatible for newer SoCs
  MIPS: Fix VZ probe gas errors with binutils &lt;2.24
  MIPS: perf: Fix I6400 event numbers
  MIPS: DEC: Export `ioasic_ssr_lock' to modules
  MIPS: MSA: Fix a link error on `_init_msa_upper' with older GCC
  MIPS: CM: Fix compilation error when !MIPS_CM
  MIPS: Fix genvdso error on rebuild
  USB: ohci-jz4740: Remove obsolete driver
  MIPS: JZ4740: Probe OHCI platform device via DT
  MIPS: JZ4740: Qi LB60: Remove support for AVT2 variant
  MIPS: pistachio: Determine SoC revision during boot
  MIPS: BMIPS: Adjust mips-hpt-frequency for BCM7435
  mips: mt7620: fallback to SDRAM when syscfg0 does not have a valid value for the memory type
  MIPS: Prevent "restoration" of MSA context in non-MSA kernels
  MIPS: cevt-r4k: Dynamically calculate min_delta_ns
  MIPS: malta-time: Take seconds into account
  MIPS: malta-time: Start GIC count before syncing to RTC
  MIPS: Force CPUs to lose FP context during mode switches
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'stable/for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft</title>
<updated>2016-05-18T22:30:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T22:30:04+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d974f09ea4970d0299a8267111312b80adbd20e6'/>
<id>d974f09ea4970d0299a8267111312b80adbd20e6</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull iscsi_ibft updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "The pull has two features - both of them expand the SysFS entries:

   - 'prefix-len' - which is subnet_mask_prefix of the iBFT header.

   - 'acpi_header' dir with: 'iBFT', OEM-ID (whatever it extracts from
     the iBFT header) and OEM_TABLE_ID (also whatever it extracts from
     the iBFT header).  This is to help NIC drivers to figure out during
     bootup how to deal with BIOS created iBFT tables (like by TianoCore
     UEFI implemenation)"

* 'stable/for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft:
  ibft: Expose iBFT acpi header via sysfs
  iscsi_ibft: Add prefix-len attr and display netmask
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull iscsi_ibft updates from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "The pull has two features - both of them expand the SysFS entries:

   - 'prefix-len' - which is subnet_mask_prefix of the iBFT header.

   - 'acpi_header' dir with: 'iBFT', OEM-ID (whatever it extracts from
     the iBFT header) and OEM_TABLE_ID (also whatever it extracts from
     the iBFT header).  This is to help NIC drivers to figure out during
     bootup how to deal with BIOS created iBFT tables (like by TianoCore
     UEFI implemenation)"

* 'stable/for-linus-4.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/ibft:
  ibft: Expose iBFT acpi header via sysfs
  iscsi_ibft: Add prefix-len attr and display netmask
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc</title>
<updated>2016-05-18T20:14:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-18T20:14:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4a5219edcdae52bfb5eea0dfc2a7bd575961dad7'/>
<id>4a5219edcdae52bfb5eea0dfc2a7bd575961dad7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Driver updates for ARM SoCs, these contain various things that touch
  the drivers/ directory but got merged through arm-soc for practical
  reasons.

  For the most part, this is now related to power management
  controllers, which have not yet been abstracted into a separate
  subsystem, and typically require some code in drivers/soc or arch/arm
  to control the power domains.

  Another large chunk here is a rework of the NVIDIA Tegra USB3.0
  support, which was surprisingly tricky and took a long time to get
  done.

  Finally, reset controller handling as always gets merged through here
  as well"

* tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (97 commits)
  arm-ccn: Enable building as module
  soc/tegra: pmc: Add generic PM domain support
  usb: xhci: tegra: Add Tegra210 support
  usb: xhci: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB controller driver
  dt-bindings: usb: xhci-tegra: Add Tegra210 XUSB controller support
  dt-bindings: usb: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB controller binding
  PCI: tegra: Support per-lane PHYs
  dt-bindings: pci: tegra: Update for per-lane PHYs
  phy: tegra: Add Tegra210 support
  phy: Add Tegra XUSB pad controller support
  dt-bindings: phy: tegra-xusb-padctl: Add Tegra210 support
  dt-bindings: phy: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB pad controller binding
  phy: core: Allow children node to be overridden
  clk: tegra: Add interface to enable hardware control of SATA/XUSB PLLs
  drivers: firmware: psci: make two helper functions inline
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car H3 power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car E2 power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car M2-N power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car M2-W power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car H2 power areas
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Arnd Bergmann:
 "Driver updates for ARM SoCs, these contain various things that touch
  the drivers/ directory but got merged through arm-soc for practical
  reasons.

  For the most part, this is now related to power management
  controllers, which have not yet been abstracted into a separate
  subsystem, and typically require some code in drivers/soc or arch/arm
  to control the power domains.

  Another large chunk here is a rework of the NVIDIA Tegra USB3.0
  support, which was surprisingly tricky and took a long time to get
  done.

  Finally, reset controller handling as always gets merged through here
  as well"

* tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (97 commits)
  arm-ccn: Enable building as module
  soc/tegra: pmc: Add generic PM domain support
  usb: xhci: tegra: Add Tegra210 support
  usb: xhci: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB controller driver
  dt-bindings: usb: xhci-tegra: Add Tegra210 XUSB controller support
  dt-bindings: usb: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB controller binding
  PCI: tegra: Support per-lane PHYs
  dt-bindings: pci: tegra: Update for per-lane PHYs
  phy: tegra: Add Tegra210 support
  phy: Add Tegra XUSB pad controller support
  dt-bindings: phy: tegra-xusb-padctl: Add Tegra210 support
  dt-bindings: phy: Add NVIDIA Tegra XUSB pad controller binding
  phy: core: Allow children node to be overridden
  clk: tegra: Add interface to enable hardware control of SATA/XUSB PLLs
  drivers: firmware: psci: make two helper functions inline
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car H3 power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car E2 power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car M2-N power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car M2-W power areas
  soc: renesas: rcar-sysc: Add support for R-Car H2 power areas
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm</title>
<updated>2016-05-17T02:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-17T02:17:22+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=d57d39431924d1628ac9b93a2de7f806fc80680a'/>
<id>d57d39431924d1628ac9b93a2de7f806fc80680a</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem this time.

  To me, quite obviously, the biggest ticket item is the new "schedutil"
  governor.  Interestingly enough, it's the first new cpufreq governor
  since the beginning of the git era (except for some out-of-the-tree
  ones).

  There are two main differences between it and the existing governors.
  First, it uses the information provided by the scheduler directly for
  making its decisions, so it doesn't have to track anything by itself.
  Second, it can invoke drivers (supporting that feature) to adjust CPU
  performance right away without having to spawn work items to be
  executed in process context or similar.  Currently, the acpi-cpufreq
  driver is the only one supporting that mode of operation, but then it
  is used on a large number of systems.

  The "schedutil" governor as included here is very simple and mostly
  regarded as a foundation for future work on the integration of the
  scheduler with CPU power management (in fact, there is work in
  progress on top of it already).  Nevertheless it works and the
  preliminary results obtained with it are encouraging.

  There also is some consolidation of CPU frequency management for ARM
  platforms that can add their machine IDs the the new stub dt-platdev
  driver now and that will take care of creating the requisite platform
  device for cpufreq-dt, so it is not necessary to do that in platform
  code any more.  Several ARM platforms are switched over to using this
  generic mechanism.

  In addition to that, the intel_pstate driver is now going to respect
  CPU frequency limits set by the platform firmware (or a BMC) and
  provided via the ACPI _PPC object.

  The devfreq subsystem is getting a new "passive" governor for SoCs
  subsystems that will depend on somebody else to manage their voltage
  rails and its support for Samsung Exynos SoCs is consolidated.

  The rest is support for new hardware (Intel Broxton support in
  intel_idle for one example), bug fixes, optimizations and cleanups in
  a number of places.

  Specifics:

   - New cpufreq "schedutil" governor (making decisions based on CPU
     utilization information provided by the scheduler and capable of
     switching CPU frequencies right away if the underlying driver
     supports that) and support for fast frequency switching in the
     acpi-cpufreq driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Consolidation of CPU frequency management on ARM platforms allowing
     them to get rid of some platform-specific boilerplate code if they
     are going to use the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar, Finley Xiao,
     Marc Gonzalez)

   - Support for ACPI _PPC and CPU frequency limits in the intel_pstate
     driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)

   - Fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq core and generic governor code
     (Rafael Wysocki, Sai Gurrappadi)

   - intel_pstate driver optimizations and cleanups (Rafael Wysocki,
     Philippe Longepe, Chen Yu, Joe Perches)

   - cpufreq powernv driver fixes and cleanups (Akshay Adiga, Shilpasri
     Bhat)

   - cpufreq qoriq driver fixes and cleanups (Jia Hongtao)

   - ACPI cpufreq driver cleanups (Viresh Kumar)

   - Assorted cpufreq driver updates (Ashwin Chaugule, Geliang Tang,
     Javier Martinez Canillas, Paul Gortmaker, Sudeep Holla)

   - Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups (Joe Perches, Arnd Bergmann)

   - Fixes and cleanups in the OPP (Operating Performance Points)
     framework, mostly related to OPP sharing, and reorganization of
     OF-dependent code in it (Viresh Kumar, Arnd Bergmann, Sudeep Holla)

   - New "passive" governor for devfreq (for SoC subsystems that will
     rely on someone else for the management of their power resources)
     and consolidation of devfreq support for Exynos platforms, coding
     style and typo fixes for devfreq (Chanwoo Choi, MyungJoo Ham)

   - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly to make it work better with the
     generic power domains (genpd) framework, and updates for that
     framework (Ulf Hansson, Thierry Reding, Colin Ian King)

   - Intel Broxton support for the intel_idle driver (Len Brown)

   - cpuidle core optimization and fix (Daniel Lezcano, Dave Gerlach)

   - ARM cpuidle cleanups (Jisheng Zhang)

   - Intel Kabylake support for the RAPL power capping driver (Jacob
     Pan)

   - AVS (Adaptive Voltage Switching) rockchip-io driver update (Heiko
     Stuebner)

   - Updates for the cpupower tool (Arjun Sreedharan, Colin Ian King,
     Mattia Dongili, Thomas Renninger)"

* tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (112 commits)
  intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance()
  intel_pstate: Use sample.core_avg_perf in get_avg_pstate()
  intel_pstate: Clarify average performance computation
  intel_pstate: Avoid unnecessary synchronize_sched() during initialization
  cpufreq: schedutil: Make default depend on CONFIG_SMP
  cpufreq: powernv: del_timer_sync when global and local pstate are equal
  cpufreq: powernv: Move smp_call_function_any() out of irq safe block
  intel_pstate: Clean up intel_pstate_get()
  cpufreq: schedutil: Make it depend on CONFIG_SMP
  cpufreq: governor: Fix handling of special cases in dbs_update()
  PM / OPP: Move CONFIG_OF dependent code in a separate file
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Ignore _PPC processing under HWP
  cpufreq: arm_big_little: use generic OPP functions for {init, free}_opp_table
  PM / OPP: add non-OF versions of dev_pm_opp_{cpumask_, }remove_table
  cpufreq: tango: Use generic platdev driver
  PM / OPP: pass cpumask by reference
  cpufreq: Fix GOV_LIMITS handling for the userspace governor
  cpupower: fix potential memory leak
  PM / devfreq: style/typo fixes
  PM / devfreq: exynos: Add the detailed correlation for Exynos5422 bus
  ..
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Pull power management updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "The majority of changes go into the cpufreq subsystem this time.

  To me, quite obviously, the biggest ticket item is the new "schedutil"
  governor.  Interestingly enough, it's the first new cpufreq governor
  since the beginning of the git era (except for some out-of-the-tree
  ones).

  There are two main differences between it and the existing governors.
  First, it uses the information provided by the scheduler directly for
  making its decisions, so it doesn't have to track anything by itself.
  Second, it can invoke drivers (supporting that feature) to adjust CPU
  performance right away without having to spawn work items to be
  executed in process context or similar.  Currently, the acpi-cpufreq
  driver is the only one supporting that mode of operation, but then it
  is used on a large number of systems.

  The "schedutil" governor as included here is very simple and mostly
  regarded as a foundation for future work on the integration of the
  scheduler with CPU power management (in fact, there is work in
  progress on top of it already).  Nevertheless it works and the
  preliminary results obtained with it are encouraging.

  There also is some consolidation of CPU frequency management for ARM
  platforms that can add their machine IDs the the new stub dt-platdev
  driver now and that will take care of creating the requisite platform
  device for cpufreq-dt, so it is not necessary to do that in platform
  code any more.  Several ARM platforms are switched over to using this
  generic mechanism.

  In addition to that, the intel_pstate driver is now going to respect
  CPU frequency limits set by the platform firmware (or a BMC) and
  provided via the ACPI _PPC object.

  The devfreq subsystem is getting a new "passive" governor for SoCs
  subsystems that will depend on somebody else to manage their voltage
  rails and its support for Samsung Exynos SoCs is consolidated.

  The rest is support for new hardware (Intel Broxton support in
  intel_idle for one example), bug fixes, optimizations and cleanups in
  a number of places.

  Specifics:

   - New cpufreq "schedutil" governor (making decisions based on CPU
     utilization information provided by the scheduler and capable of
     switching CPU frequencies right away if the underlying driver
     supports that) and support for fast frequency switching in the
     acpi-cpufreq driver (Rafael Wysocki)

   - Consolidation of CPU frequency management on ARM platforms allowing
     them to get rid of some platform-specific boilerplate code if they
     are going to use the cpufreq-dt driver (Viresh Kumar, Finley Xiao,
     Marc Gonzalez)

   - Support for ACPI _PPC and CPU frequency limits in the intel_pstate
     driver (Srinivas Pandruvada)

   - Fixes and cleanups in the cpufreq core and generic governor code
     (Rafael Wysocki, Sai Gurrappadi)

   - intel_pstate driver optimizations and cleanups (Rafael Wysocki,
     Philippe Longepe, Chen Yu, Joe Perches)

   - cpufreq powernv driver fixes and cleanups (Akshay Adiga, Shilpasri
     Bhat)

   - cpufreq qoriq driver fixes and cleanups (Jia Hongtao)

   - ACPI cpufreq driver cleanups (Viresh Kumar)

   - Assorted cpufreq driver updates (Ashwin Chaugule, Geliang Tang,
     Javier Martinez Canillas, Paul Gortmaker, Sudeep Holla)

   - Assorted cpufreq fixes and cleanups (Joe Perches, Arnd Bergmann)

   - Fixes and cleanups in the OPP (Operating Performance Points)
     framework, mostly related to OPP sharing, and reorganization of
     OF-dependent code in it (Viresh Kumar, Arnd Bergmann, Sudeep Holla)

   - New "passive" governor for devfreq (for SoC subsystems that will
     rely on someone else for the management of their power resources)
     and consolidation of devfreq support for Exynos platforms, coding
     style and typo fixes for devfreq (Chanwoo Choi, MyungJoo Ham)

   - PM core fixes and cleanups, mostly to make it work better with the
     generic power domains (genpd) framework, and updates for that
     framework (Ulf Hansson, Thierry Reding, Colin Ian King)

   - Intel Broxton support for the intel_idle driver (Len Brown)

   - cpuidle core optimization and fix (Daniel Lezcano, Dave Gerlach)

   - ARM cpuidle cleanups (Jisheng Zhang)

   - Intel Kabylake support for the RAPL power capping driver (Jacob
     Pan)

   - AVS (Adaptive Voltage Switching) rockchip-io driver update (Heiko
     Stuebner)

   - Updates for the cpupower tool (Arjun Sreedharan, Colin Ian King,
     Mattia Dongili, Thomas Renninger)"

* tag 'pm-4.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: (112 commits)
  intel_pstate: Clean up get_target_pstate_use_performance()
  intel_pstate: Use sample.core_avg_perf in get_avg_pstate()
  intel_pstate: Clarify average performance computation
  intel_pstate: Avoid unnecessary synchronize_sched() during initialization
  cpufreq: schedutil: Make default depend on CONFIG_SMP
  cpufreq: powernv: del_timer_sync when global and local pstate are equal
  cpufreq: powernv: Move smp_call_function_any() out of irq safe block
  intel_pstate: Clean up intel_pstate_get()
  cpufreq: schedutil: Make it depend on CONFIG_SMP
  cpufreq: governor: Fix handling of special cases in dbs_update()
  PM / OPP: Move CONFIG_OF dependent code in a separate file
  cpufreq: intel_pstate: Ignore _PPC processing under HWP
  cpufreq: arm_big_little: use generic OPP functions for {init, free}_opp_table
  PM / OPP: add non-OF versions of dev_pm_opp_{cpumask_, }remove_table
  cpufreq: tango: Use generic platdev driver
  PM / OPP: pass cpumask by reference
  cpufreq: Fix GOV_LIMITS handling for the userspace governor
  cpupower: fix potential memory leak
  PM / devfreq: style/typo fixes
  PM / devfreq: exynos: Add the detailed correlation for Exynos5422 bus
  ..
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