linux-stable.git/drivers/hv, branch v3.17

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2014-08-05T00:32:24+00:00

Pull char / misc driver patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver misc / char pull request for 3.17-rc1.

  Lots of things in here, the thunderbolt support for Apple laptops,
  some other new drivers, testing fixes, and other good things.  All
  have been in linux-next for a long time"

* tag 'char-misc-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (119 commits)
  misc: bh1780: Introduce the use of devm_kzalloc
  Lattice ECP3 FPGA: Correct endianness
  drivers/misc/ti-st: Load firmware from ti-connectivity directory.
  dt-bindings: extcon: Add support for SM5502 MUIC device
  extcon: sm5502: Change internal hardware switch according to cable type
  extcon: sm5502: Detect cable state after completing platform booting
  extcon: sm5502: Add support new SM5502 extcon device driver
  extcon: arizona: Get MICVDD against extcon device
  extcon: Remove unnecessary OOM messages
  misc: vexpress: Fix sparse non static symbol warnings
  mei: drop unused hw dependent fw status functions
  misc: bh1770glc: Use managed functions
  pcmcia: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE usage
  misc: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE usage
  ipack: Replace DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use
  drivers/char/dsp56k.c: drop check for negativity of unsigned parameter
  mei: fix return value on disconnect timeout
  mei: don't schedule suspend in pm idle
  mei: start disconnect request timer consistently
  mei: reset client connection state on timeout
  ...

Drivers: hv: hv_fcopy: fix a race condition for SMP guest

2014-07-18T01:43:10+00:00

We should schedule the 5s "timer work" before starting the data transfer,
otherwise, the data transfer code may finish so fast on another
virtual cpu that when the code(fcopy_write()) trying to cancel the 5s
"timer work" can occasionally fail because the "timer work" may haven't
been scheduled yet and as a result the fcopy process will be aborted
wrongly by fcopy_work_func() in 5s.

Thank Liz Zhang  for the initial investigation
on the bug.

This addresses https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1118123

Tested-by: Liz Zhang 
Cc: Haiyang Zhang 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui 
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge 3.16-rc5 into char-misc-next

2014-07-13T22:26:47+00:00

This resolves a number of merge issues with changes in this tree and
Linus's tree at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Drivers: hv: util: Fix a bug in the KVP code

2014-07-09T21:34:35+00:00

Add code to poll the channel since we process only one message
at a time and the host may not interrupt us. Also increase the
receive buffer size since some KVP messages are close to 8K bytes in size.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix a bug in the channel callback dispatch code

2014-07-09T21:34:35+00:00

Starting with Win8, we have implemented several optimizations to improve the
scalability and performance of the VMBUS transport between the Host and the
Guest. Some of the non-performance critical services cannot leverage these
optimization since they only read and process one message at a time.
Make adjustments to the callback dispatch code to account for the way
non-performance critical drivers handle reading of the channel.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

hyperv: remove meaningless pr_err() in vmbus_recvpacket_raw()

2014-07-09T21:21:27+00:00

All its callers depends on the return value of -ENOBUFS to reallocate a
bigger buffer and retry the receiving. So there's no need to call
pr_err() here since it was not a real issue, otherwise syslog will be
flooded by this false warning.

Cc: Haiyang Zhang 
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang 
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2014-06-12T21:27:40+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Seccomp BPF filters can now be JIT'd, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Multiqueue support in xen-netback and xen-netfront, from Andrew J
    Benniston.

 3) Allow tweaking of aggregation settings in cdc_ncm driver, from Bjørn
    Mork.

 4) BPF now has a "random" opcode, from Chema Gonzalez.

 5) Add more BPF documentation and improve test framework, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

 6) Support TCP fastopen over ipv6, from Daniel Lee.

 7) Add software TSO helper functions and use them to support software
    TSO in mvneta and mv643xx_eth drivers.  From Ezequiel Garcia.

 8) Support software TSO in fec driver too, from Nimrod Andy.

 9) Add Broadcom SYSTEMPORT driver, from Florian Fainelli.

10) Handle broadcasts more gracefully over macvlan when there are large
    numbers of interfaces configured, from Herbert Xu.

11) Allow more control over fwmark used for non-socket based responses,
    from Lorenzo Colitti.

12) Do TCP congestion window limiting based upon measurements, from Neal
    Cardwell.

13) Support busy polling in SCTP, from Neal Horman.

14) Allow RSS key to be configured via ethtool, from Venkata Duvvuru.

15) Bridge promisc mode handling improvements from Vlad Yasevich.

16) Don't use inetpeer entries to implement ID generation any more, it
    performs poorly, from Eric Dumazet.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1522 commits)
  rtnetlink: fix userspace API breakage for iproute2 < v3.9.0
  tcp: fixing TLP's FIN recovery
  net: fec: Add software TSO support
  net: fec: Add Scatter/gather support
  net: fec: Increase buffer descriptor entry number
  net: fec: Factorize feature setting
  net: fec: Enable IP header hardware checksum
  net: fec: Factorize the .xmit transmit function
  bridge: fix compile error when compiling without IPv6 support
  bridge: fix smatch warning / potential null pointer dereference
  via-rhine: fix full-duplex with autoneg disable
  bnx2x: Enlarge the dorq threshold for VFs
  bnx2x: Check for UNDI in uncommon branch
  bnx2x: Fix 1G-baseT link
  bnx2x: Fix link for KR with swapped polarity lane
  sctp: Fix sk_ack_backlog wrap-around problem
  net/core: Add VF link state control policy
  net/fsl: xgmac_mdio is dependent on OF_MDIO
  net/fsl: Make xgmac_mdio read error message useful
  net_sched: drr: warn when qdisc is not work conserving
  ...

hyper-v: make uuid_le const

2014-06-04T01:18:38+00:00

The uuid structure could be managed as a const in several places.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

hv: use correct order when freeing monitor_pages

2014-05-28T20:45:15+00:00

We try to free two pages when only one has been allocated.
Cleanup path is unlikely, so I haven't found any trace that would fit,
but I hope that free_pages_prepare() does catch it.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář 
Reviewed-by: Amos Kong 
Acked-by: Jason Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Drivers: hv: balloon: Ensure pressure reports are posted regularly

2014-05-03T23:25:17+00:00

The current code posts periodic memory pressure status from a dedicated thread.
Under some conditions, especially when we are releasing a lot of memory into
the guest, we may not send timely pressure reports back to the host. Fix this
issue by reporting pressure in all contexts that can be active in this driver.

Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan 
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman