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<title>linux-stable.git/drivers/of/platform.c, branch linux-3.17.y</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>of/platform: Fix of_platform_device_destroy iteration of devices</title>
<updated>2014-07-07T12:33:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Likely</name>
<email>grant.likely@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-24T15:13:47+00:00</published>
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of_platform_destroy does not work properly, since the tree
population test was iterating on all devices having as its parent
the given platform device.

The check was intended to check whether any other platform or amba
devices created by of_platform_populate were still populated, but
instead checked for every kind of device. This is wrong, since platform
devices typically create a subsystem regular device and set themselves
as parents.

Instead, go ahead and call the unregister functions for any devices
created with of_platform_populate. The driver core will take care of
unbinding drivers, and drivers are responsible for getting rid of any
child devices that weren't created by of_platform_populate.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou &lt;pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com&gt;
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of_platform_destroy does not work properly, since the tree
population test was iterating on all devices having as its parent
the given platform device.

The check was intended to check whether any other platform or amba
devices created by of_platform_populate were still populated, but
instead checked for every kind of device. This is wrong, since platform
devices typically create a subsystem regular device and set themselves
as parents.

Instead, go ahead and call the unregister functions for any devices
created with of_platform_populate. The driver core will take care of
unbinding drivers, and drivers are responsible for getting rid of any
child devices that weren't created by of_platform_populate.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Pantelis Antoniou &lt;pantelis.antoniou@konsulko.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>of/platform: Fix microblaze build failure</title>
<updated>2014-06-16T18:31:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Guenter Roeck</name>
<email>linux@roeck-us.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-10T18:59:14+00:00</published>
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Commit bf5db2f (microblaze: Use generic device.h) removes the
microblaze specific pdev_archdata and dma_mask.

At the same time, commit 591c1ee (of: configure the platform
device dma parameters) initializes the just removed field.
This causes all microblaze builds to fail.

Drop the unnecessary initialization.

Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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Commit bf5db2f (microblaze: Use generic device.h) removes the
microblaze specific pdev_archdata and dma_mask.

At the same time, commit 591c1ee (of: configure the platform
device dma parameters) initializes the just removed field.
This causes all microblaze builds to fail.

Drop the unnecessary initialization.

Cc: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck &lt;linux@roeck-us.net&gt;
Acked-by: Michal Simek &lt;monstr@monstr.eu&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'microblaze-3.16-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T23:15:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-05T23:15:33+00:00</published>
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Pull Microblaze updates from Michal Simek:
 - cleanup PCI and DMA handling
 - use generic device.h
 - some cleanups

* tag 'microblaze-3.16-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Fix typo in head.S s/substract/subtract/
  microblaze: remove check for CONFIG_XILINX_CONSOLE
  microblaze: Use generic device.h
  microblaze: Do not setup empty unmap_sg function
  microblaze: Remove device_to_mask
  microblaze: Clean device dma_ops structure
  microblaze: Cleanup PCI_DRAM_OFFSET handling
  microblaze: Do not setup pci_dma_ops
  microblaze: Return default dma operations
  microblaze: Enable SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM
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<pre>
Pull Microblaze updates from Michal Simek:
 - cleanup PCI and DMA handling
 - use generic device.h
 - some cleanups

* tag 'microblaze-3.16-rc1' of git://git.monstr.eu/linux-2.6-microblaze:
  microblaze: Fix typo in head.S s/substract/subtract/
  microblaze: remove check for CONFIG_XILINX_CONSOLE
  microblaze: Use generic device.h
  microblaze: Do not setup empty unmap_sg function
  microblaze: Remove device_to_mask
  microblaze: Clean device dma_ops structure
  microblaze: Cleanup PCI_DRAM_OFFSET handling
  microblaze: Do not setup pci_dma_ops
  microblaze: Return default dma operations
  microblaze: Enable SERIAL_OF_PLATFORM
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-05T22:57:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-05T22:57:04+00:00</published>
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Major clean-up of the L2 cache support code.  The existing mess was
   becoming rather unmaintainable through all the additions that others
   have done over time.  This turns it into a much nicer structure, and
   implements a few performance improvements as well.

 - Clean up some of the CP15 control register tweaks for alignment
   support, moving some code and data into alignment.c

 - DMA properties for ARM, from Santosh and reviewed by DT people.  This
   adds DT properties to specify bus translations we can't discover
   automatically, and to indicate whether devices are coherent.

 - Hibernation support for ARM

 - Make ftrace work with read-only text in modules

 - add suspend support for PJ4B CPUs

 - rework interrupt masking for undefined instruction handling, which
   allows us to enable interrupts earlier in the handling of these
   exceptions.

 - support for big endian page tables

 - fix stacktrace support to exclude stacktrace functions from the
   trace, and add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation so that kprobes
   can record stack traces.

 - Add support for the Cortex-A17 CPU.

 - Remove last vestiges of ARM710 support.

 - Removal of ARM "meminfo" structure, finally converting us solely to
   memblock to handle the early memory initialisation.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (142 commits)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code (part II)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code
  ARM: consolidate last remaining open-coded alignment trap enable
  ARM: remove global cr_no_alignment
  ARM: remove CPU_CP15 conditional from alignment.c
  ARM: remove unused adjust_cr() function
  ARM: move "noalign" command line option to alignment.c
  ARM: provide common method to clear bits in CPU control register
  ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo
  ARM: 8060/1: mm: allow sub-architectures to override PCI I/O memory type
  ARM: 8066/1: correction for ARM patch 8031/2
  ARM: 8049/1: ftrace/add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation
  ARM: 8065/1: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710
  ARM: 8062/1: Modify ldrt fixup handler to re-execute the userspace instruction
  ARM: 8047/1: rwsem: use asm-generic rwsem implementation
  ARM: l2c: trial at enabling some Cortex-A9 optimisations
  ARM: l2c: add warnings for stuff modifying aux_ctrl register values
  ARM: l2c: print a warning with L2C-310 caches if the cache size is modified
  ARM: l2c: remove old .set_debug method
  ARM: l2c: kill L2X0_AUX_CTRL_MASK before anyone else makes use of this
  ...
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Pull ARM updates from Russell King:

 - Major clean-up of the L2 cache support code.  The existing mess was
   becoming rather unmaintainable through all the additions that others
   have done over time.  This turns it into a much nicer structure, and
   implements a few performance improvements as well.

 - Clean up some of the CP15 control register tweaks for alignment
   support, moving some code and data into alignment.c

 - DMA properties for ARM, from Santosh and reviewed by DT people.  This
   adds DT properties to specify bus translations we can't discover
   automatically, and to indicate whether devices are coherent.

 - Hibernation support for ARM

 - Make ftrace work with read-only text in modules

 - add suspend support for PJ4B CPUs

 - rework interrupt masking for undefined instruction handling, which
   allows us to enable interrupts earlier in the handling of these
   exceptions.

 - support for big endian page tables

 - fix stacktrace support to exclude stacktrace functions from the
   trace, and add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation so that kprobes
   can record stack traces.

 - Add support for the Cortex-A17 CPU.

 - Remove last vestiges of ARM710 support.

 - Removal of ARM "meminfo" structure, finally converting us solely to
   memblock to handle the early memory initialisation.

* 'for-linus' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm: (142 commits)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code (part II)
  ARM: ensure C page table setup code follows assembly code
  ARM: consolidate last remaining open-coded alignment trap enable
  ARM: remove global cr_no_alignment
  ARM: remove CPU_CP15 conditional from alignment.c
  ARM: remove unused adjust_cr() function
  ARM: move "noalign" command line option to alignment.c
  ARM: provide common method to clear bits in CPU control register
  ARM: 8025/1: Get rid of meminfo
  ARM: 8060/1: mm: allow sub-architectures to override PCI I/O memory type
  ARM: 8066/1: correction for ARM patch 8031/2
  ARM: 8049/1: ftrace/add save_stack_trace_regs() implementation
  ARM: 8065/1: remove last use of CONFIG_CPU_ARM710
  ARM: 8062/1: Modify ldrt fixup handler to re-execute the userspace instruction
  ARM: 8047/1: rwsem: use asm-generic rwsem implementation
  ARM: l2c: trial at enabling some Cortex-A9 optimisations
  ARM: l2c: add warnings for stuff modifying aux_ctrl register values
  ARM: l2c: print a warning with L2C-310 caches if the cache size is modified
  ARM: l2c: remove old .set_debug method
  ARM: l2c: kill L2X0_AUX_CTRL_MASK before anyone else makes use of this
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux into next</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T17:02:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-06-04T17:02:38+00:00</published>
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Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
 - Another round of clean-up of FDT related code in architecture code.
   This removes knowledge of internal FDT details from most
   architectures except powerpc.
 - Conversion of kernel's custom FDT parsing code to use libfdt.
 - DT based initialization for generic serial earlycon.  The
   introduction of generic serial earlycon support went in through the
   tty tree.
 - Improve the platform device naming for DT probed devices to ensure
   unique naming and use parent names instead of a global index.
 - Fix a race condition in of_update_property.
 - Unify the various linker section OF match tables and fix several
   function prototype errors.
 - Update platform_get_irq_byname to work in deferred probe cases.
 - 2 binding doc updates

* tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (58 commits)
  of: handle NULL node in next_child iterators
  of/irq: provide more wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  devicetree: bindings: Document micrel vendor prefix
  dt: bindings: dwc2: fix required value for the phy-names property
  of_pci_irq: kill useless variable in of_irq_parse_pci()
  of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname()
  of: Add a testcase for of_find_node_by_path()
  of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
  of: Create unlocked version of for_each_child_of_node()
  lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  of: Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only
  pci/of: Remove dead code
  of: fix race between search and remove in of_update_property()
  of: Use NULL for pointers
  of: Stop naming platform_device using dcr address
  of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism
  tty/serial: pl011: add DT based earlycon support
  of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon
  of/fdt: add FDT address translation support
  serial: earlycon: add DT support
  ...
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Pull DeviceTree updates from Rob Herring:
 - Another round of clean-up of FDT related code in architecture code.
   This removes knowledge of internal FDT details from most
   architectures except powerpc.
 - Conversion of kernel's custom FDT parsing code to use libfdt.
 - DT based initialization for generic serial earlycon.  The
   introduction of generic serial earlycon support went in through the
   tty tree.
 - Improve the platform device naming for DT probed devices to ensure
   unique naming and use parent names instead of a global index.
 - Fix a race condition in of_update_property.
 - Unify the various linker section OF match tables and fix several
   function prototype errors.
 - Update platform_get_irq_byname to work in deferred probe cases.
 - 2 binding doc updates

* tag 'devicetree-for-3.16' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux: (58 commits)
  of: handle NULL node in next_child iterators
  of/irq: provide more wrappers for !CONFIG_OF
  devicetree: bindings: Document micrel vendor prefix
  dt: bindings: dwc2: fix required value for the phy-names property
  of_pci_irq: kill useless variable in of_irq_parse_pci()
  of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname()
  of: Add a testcase for of_find_node_by_path()
  of: Make of_find_node_by_path() handle /aliases
  of: Create unlocked version of for_each_child_of_node()
  lib: add glibc style strchrnul() variant
  of: Handle memory@0 node on PPC32 only
  pci/of: Remove dead code
  of: fix race between search and remove in of_update_property()
  of: Use NULL for pointers
  of: Stop naming platform_device using dcr address
  of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism
  tty/serial: pl011: add DT based earlycon support
  of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon
  of/fdt: add FDT address translation support
  serial: earlycon: add DT support
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>microblaze: Use generic device.h</title>
<updated>2014-06-04T04:59:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michal Simek</name>
<email>michal.simek@xilinx.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-16T11:16:49+00:00</published>
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pdev_archdata dma_mask is completely unused.
Use generic device.h

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
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pdev_archdata dma_mask is completely unused.
Use generic device.h

Signed-off-by: Michal Simek &lt;michal.simek@xilinx.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'dt-dma-properties-for-arm' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ssantosh/linux-keystone into devel-stable</title>
<updated>2014-05-23T11:30:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Russell King</name>
<email>rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T17:11:07+00:00</published>
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DT support for 'dma-ranges'and 'dma-coherent' properties with ARM updates

- The 'dma-ranges' helps to take care of few DMAable system memory
        restrictions by use of dma_pfn_offset which is maintained per
        device. Arch code then uses it for dma address translations for such
        cases. We update the dma_pfn_offset accordingly during DT the device
        creation process.
- The 'dma-coherent' property is used to setup arch's coherent dma_ops.
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DT support for 'dma-ranges'and 'dma-coherent' properties with ARM updates

- The 'dma-ranges' helps to take care of few DMAable system memory
        restrictions by use of dma_pfn_offset which is maintained per
        device. Arch code then uses it for dma address translations for such
        cases. We update the dma_pfn_offset accordingly during DT the device
        creation process.
- The 'dma-coherent' property is used to setup arch's coherent dma_ops.
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Stop naming platform_device using dcr address</title>
<updated>2014-05-22T23:28:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Likely</name>
<email>grant.likely@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-22T22:50:50+00:00</published>
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There is now a way to ensure all platform devices get a unique name when
populated from the device tree, and the DCR_NATIVE code path is broken
anyway. PowerPC Cell (PS3) is the only platform that actually uses this
path.  Most likely nobody will notice if it is killed. Remove the code
and associated ugly #ifdef.

The user-visible impact of this patch is that any DCR device on Cell
will get a new name in the /sys/devices hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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There is now a way to ensure all platform devices get a unique name when
populated from the device tree, and the DCR_NATIVE code path is broken
anyway. PowerPC Cell (PS3) is the only platform that actually uses this
path.  Most likely nobody will notice if it is killed. Remove the code
and associated ugly #ifdef.

The user-visible impact of this patch is that any DCR device on Cell
will get a new name in the /sys/devices hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Ensure unique names without sacrificing determinism</title>
<updated>2014-05-22T22:58:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Grant Likely</name>
<email>grant.likely@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-21T06:40:31+00:00</published>
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The way the driver core is implemented, every device using the same bus
type is required to have a unique name because a symlink to each device
is created in the appropriate /sys/bus/*/devices directory, and two
identical names causes a collision.

The current code handles the requirement by using an globally
incremented counter that is appended to the device name. It works, but
it means any change to device registration will change the assigned
numbers. Instead, if we build up the name by using information from the
parent nodes, then it can be guaranteed to be unique without adding a
random number to the end of it.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
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The way the driver core is implemented, every device using the same bus
type is required to have a unique name because a symlink to each device
is created in the appropriate /sys/bus/*/devices directory, and two
identical names causes a collision.

The current code handles the requirement by using an globally
incremented counter that is appended to the device name. It works, but
it means any change to device registration will change the assigned
numbers. Instead, if we build up the name by using information from the
parent nodes, then it can be guaranteed to be unique without adding a
random number to the end of it.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Ezequiel Garcia &lt;ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar&gt;
Cc: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>of: Keep track of populated platform devices</title>
<updated>2014-05-15T16:02:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pawel Moll</name>
<email>pawel.moll@arm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-05-15T15:55:24+00:00</published>
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In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually massively
populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed at some level of
initcalls, either by generic architecture or by platform-specific code.

There are situations though where certain devices must be created (and
bound with drivers) before all the others. This presents a challenge,
as devices created explicitly would be created again by
of_platform_populate().

This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way, adding a
"populated" flag for a DT node description. Subsequent
of_platform_populate() will skip such nodes (and its children) in
a similar way to the non-available ones.

This patch also adds of_platform_depopulate() as an operation
complementary to the _populate() one. It removes a platform or an amba
device populated from the Device Tree, together with its all children
(leaving, however, devices without associated of_node untouched)
clearing the "populated" flag on the way.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll &lt;pawel.moll@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
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In "Device Tree powered" systems, platform devices are usually massively
populated with of_platform_populate() call, executed at some level of
initcalls, either by generic architecture or by platform-specific code.

There are situations though where certain devices must be created (and
bound with drivers) before all the others. This presents a challenge,
as devices created explicitly would be created again by
of_platform_populate().

This patch tries to solve that issue in a generic way, adding a
"populated" flag for a DT node description. Subsequent
of_platform_populate() will skip such nodes (and its children) in
a similar way to the non-available ones.

This patch also adds of_platform_depopulate() as an operation
complementary to the _populate() one. It removes a platform or an amba
device populated from the Device Tree, together with its all children
(leaving, however, devices without associated of_node untouched)
clearing the "populated" flag on the way.

Signed-off-by: Pawel Moll &lt;pawel.moll@arm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring &lt;robh@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Grant Likely &lt;grant.likely@linaro.org&gt;
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