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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>390/qeth: Fix locking warning during qeth device setup</title>
<updated>2015-01-26T07:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Richter</name>
<email>tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-21T12:39:10+00:00</published>
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Do not wait for channel command buffers in IPA commands.
The potential wait could be done while holding a spin lock and causes
in recent kernels such a bug if kernel lock debugging is enabled:

kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c:
794
kernel: in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2031, name: NetworkManager
kernel: 2 locks held by NetworkManager/2031:
kernel:  #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;00000000006e0d7a&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x32/0x50
kernel:  #1:  (_xmit_ETHER){+.....}, at: [&lt;00000000006cfe90&gt;] dev_set_rx_mode+0x30/0x50
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 3.18.0-rc5-next-20141124 #1
kernel:        00000000275fb1f0 00000000275fb280 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
               00000000275fb320 00000000275fb298 00000000275fb298 00000000007e326a
               0000000000000000 000000000099ce2c 00000000009b4988 000000000000000b
               00000000275fb2e0 00000000275fb280 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
               0000000000000000 00000000001129c8 00000000275fb280 00000000275fb2e0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: ([&lt;00000000001128b0&gt;] show_trace+0xf8/0x158)
kernel:  [&lt;000000000011297a&gt;] show_stack+0x6a/0xe8
kernel:  [&lt;00000000007e995a&gt;] dump_stack+0x82/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;000000000017d668&gt;] ___might_sleep+0x170/0x228
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80026f0e&gt;] qeth_wait_for_buffer+0x36/0xd0 [qeth]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80026fe2&gt;] qeth_get_ipacmd_buffer+0x3a/0xc0 [qeth]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80105078&gt;] qeth_l3_send_setdelmc+0x58/0xf8 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff8010b1fe&gt;] qeth_l3_set_ip_addr_list+0x2c6/0x848 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff8010bbb4&gt;] qeth_l3_set_multicast_list+0x434/0xc48 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006cfe9a&gt;] dev_set_rx_mode+0x3a/0x50
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006cff90&gt;] __dev_open+0xe0/0x140
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006d02a0&gt;] __dev_change_flags+0xa0/0x178
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006d03a8&gt;] dev_change_flags+0x30/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006e14ee&gt;] do_setlink+0x346/0x9a0
...

The device driver has plenty of command buffers available
per channel for channel command communication.
In the extremely rare case when there is no command buffer
available, return a NULL pointer and issue a warning
in the kernel log. The caller handles the case when
a NULL pointer is encountered and returns an error.

In the case the wait for command buffer is possible
(because no lock is held as in the OSN case), still wait
until a channel command buffer is available.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugene Crosser &lt;Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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Do not wait for channel command buffers in IPA commands.
The potential wait could be done while holding a spin lock and causes
in recent kernels such a bug if kernel lock debugging is enabled:

kernel: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/s390/net/qeth_core_main.c:
794
kernel: in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 2031, name: NetworkManager
kernel: 2 locks held by NetworkManager/2031:
kernel:  #0:  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [&lt;00000000006e0d7a&gt;] rtnetlink_rcv+0x32/0x50
kernel:  #1:  (_xmit_ETHER){+.....}, at: [&lt;00000000006cfe90&gt;] dev_set_rx_mode+0x30/0x50
kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 2031 Comm: NetworkManager Not tainted 3.18.0-rc5-next-20141124 #1
kernel:        00000000275fb1f0 00000000275fb280 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
               00000000275fb320 00000000275fb298 00000000275fb298 00000000007e326a
               0000000000000000 000000000099ce2c 00000000009b4988 000000000000000b
               00000000275fb2e0 00000000275fb280 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
               0000000000000000 00000000001129c8 00000000275fb280 00000000275fb2e0
kernel: Call Trace:
kernel: ([&lt;00000000001128b0&gt;] show_trace+0xf8/0x158)
kernel:  [&lt;000000000011297a&gt;] show_stack+0x6a/0xe8
kernel:  [&lt;00000000007e995a&gt;] dump_stack+0x82/0xb0
kernel:  [&lt;000000000017d668&gt;] ___might_sleep+0x170/0x228
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80026f0e&gt;] qeth_wait_for_buffer+0x36/0xd0 [qeth]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80026fe2&gt;] qeth_get_ipacmd_buffer+0x3a/0xc0 [qeth]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff80105078&gt;] qeth_l3_send_setdelmc+0x58/0xf8 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff8010b1fe&gt;] qeth_l3_set_ip_addr_list+0x2c6/0x848 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;000003ff8010bbb4&gt;] qeth_l3_set_multicast_list+0x434/0xc48 [qeth_l3]
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006cfe9a&gt;] dev_set_rx_mode+0x3a/0x50
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006cff90&gt;] __dev_open+0xe0/0x140
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006d02a0&gt;] __dev_change_flags+0xa0/0x178
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006d03a8&gt;] dev_change_flags+0x30/0x70
kernel:  [&lt;00000000006e14ee&gt;] do_setlink+0x346/0x9a0
...

The device driver has plenty of command buffers available
per channel for channel command communication.
In the extremely rare case when there is no command buffer
available, return a NULL pointer and issue a warning
in the kernel log. The caller handles the case when
a NULL pointer is encountered and returns an error.

In the case the wait for command buffer is possible
(because no lock is held as in the OSN case), still wait
until a channel command buffer is available.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Eugene Crosser &lt;Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>qeth: clean up error handling</title>
<updated>2015-01-26T07:38:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Eugene Crosser</name>
<email>Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-21T12:39:09+00:00</published>
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In the functions that are registering and unregistering MAC
addresses in the qeth-handled hardware, remove callback functions
that are unnesessary, as only the return code is analyzed.
Translate hardware response codes to semi-standard 'errno'-like
codes for readability.

Add kernel-doc description to the internal API function
qeth_send_control_data().

Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser &lt;Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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In the functions that are registering and unregistering MAC
addresses in the qeth-handled hardware, remove callback functions
that are unnesessary, as only the return code is analyzed.
Translate hardware response codes to semi-standard 'errno'-like
codes for readability.

Add kernel-doc description to the internal API function
qeth_send_control_data().

Signed-off-by: Eugene Crosser &lt;Eugene.Crosser@ru.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun &lt;ursula.braun@de.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Thomas-Mich Richter &lt;tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>s390/zcrypt: kernel oops at insmod of the z90crypt device driver</title>
<updated>2014-12-18T08:55:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Harald Freudenberger</name>
<email>freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-10T09:23:59+00:00</published>
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Kernel oops caused by invalid parameter at TAPQ instruction:
On older systems where the QCI instruction is not available
all possible domains are probed via TAPQ instruction. The
range for the probe has been extended with the &gt; 16 domain
support now leading to a possible specification exception
when this instruction is called for probing higher values
within the new range. This may happen during insmod and/or
ap bus reset only on machines without a QCI instruction (z10,
z196, z114), zEC12 and newer systems are not affected.
The fix modifies the domain checking function to limit the
allowed range if no QCI info is available.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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Kernel oops caused by invalid parameter at TAPQ instruction:
On older systems where the QCI instruction is not available
all possible domains are probed via TAPQ instruction. The
range for the probe has been extended with the &gt; 16 domain
support now leading to a possible specification exception
when this instruction is called for probing higher values
within the new range. This may happen during insmod and/or
ap bus reset only on machines without a QCI instruction (z10,
z196, z114), zEC12 and newer systems are not affected.
The fix modifies the domain checking function to limit the
allowed range if no QCI info is available.

Signed-off-by: Harald Freudenberger &lt;freude@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky &lt;schwidefsky@de.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2014-12-15T00:10:09+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-15T00:10:09+00:00</published>
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Pull driver core update from Greg KH:
 "Here's the set of driver core patches for 3.19-rc1.

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

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

  Everything has been in linux-next for a while"

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

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

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

  Everything has been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'driver-core-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (324 commits)
  Revert "ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries"
  fs: debugfs: add forward declaration for struct device type
  firmware class: Deletion of an unnecessary check before the function call "vunmap"
  firmware loader: fix hung task warning dump
  devcoredump: provide a one-way disable function
  device: Add dev_&lt;level&gt;_once variants
  ath: ath9k: use debugfs_create_devm_seqfile() helper for seq_file entries
  ath: use seq_file api for ath9k debugfs files
  debugfs: add helper function to create device related seq_file
  drivers/base: cacheinfo: remove noisy error boot message
  Revert "core: platform: add warning if driver has no owner"
  drivers: base: support cpu cache information interface to userspace via sysfs
  drivers: base: add cpu_device_create to support per-cpu devices
  topology: replace custom attribute macros with standard DEVICE_ATTR*
  cpumask: factor out show_cpumap into separate helper function
  driver core: Fix unbalanced device reference in drivers_probe
  driver core: fix race with userland in device_add()
  sysfs/kernfs: make read requests on pre-alloc files use the buffer.
  sysfs/kernfs: allow attributes to request write buffer be pre-allocated.
  fs: sysfs: return EGBIG on write if offset is larger than file size
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6</title>
<updated>2014-12-13T21:33:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-13T21:33:26+00:00</published>
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 - The crypto API is now documented :)
 - Disallow arbitrary module loading through crypto API.
 - Allow get request with empty driver name through crypto_user.
 - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions.
 - Add caam support for ctr(aes), gcm(aes) and their derivatives.
 - nx now supports concurrent hashing properly.
 - Add sahara support for SHA1/256.
 - Add ARM64 version of CRC32.
 - Misc fixes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (77 commits)
  crypto: tcrypt - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions
  crypto: af_alg - add user space interface for AEAD
  crypto: qat - fix problem with coalescing enable logic
  crypto: sahara - add support for SHA1/256
  crypto: sahara - replace tasklets with kthread
  crypto: sahara - add support for i.MX53
  crypto: sahara - fix spinlock initialization
  crypto: arm - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: powerpc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sha - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sparc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: algif_skcipher - initialize upon init request
  crypto: algif_skcipher - removed unneeded code
  crypto: algif_skcipher - Fixed blocking recvmsg
  crypto: drbg - use memzero_explicit() for clearing sensitive data
  crypto: drbg - use MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO
  crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template
  crypto: user - add MODULE_ALIAS
  crypto: sha-mb - remove a bogus NULL check
  crytpo: qat - Fix 64 bytes requests
  ...
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Pull crypto update from Herbert Xu:
 - The crypto API is now documented :)
 - Disallow arbitrary module loading through crypto API.
 - Allow get request with empty driver name through crypto_user.
 - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions.
 - Add caam support for ctr(aes), gcm(aes) and their derivatives.
 - nx now supports concurrent hashing properly.
 - Add sahara support for SHA1/256.
 - Add ARM64 version of CRC32.
 - Misc fixes.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6: (77 commits)
  crypto: tcrypt - Allow speed testing of arbitrary hash functions
  crypto: af_alg - add user space interface for AEAD
  crypto: qat - fix problem with coalescing enable logic
  crypto: sahara - add support for SHA1/256
  crypto: sahara - replace tasklets with kthread
  crypto: sahara - add support for i.MX53
  crypto: sahara - fix spinlock initialization
  crypto: arm - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: powerpc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sha - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: sparc - replace memset by memzero_explicit
  crypto: algif_skcipher - initialize upon init request
  crypto: algif_skcipher - removed unneeded code
  crypto: algif_skcipher - Fixed blocking recvmsg
  crypto: drbg - use memzero_explicit() for clearing sensitive data
  crypto: drbg - use MODULE_ALIAS_CRYPTO
  crypto: include crypto- module prefix in template
  crypto: user - add MODULE_ALIAS
  crypto: sha-mb - remove a bogus NULL check
  crytpo: qat - Fix 64 bytes requests
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T18:08:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T18:08:06+00:00</published>
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Pull trivial tree update from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff: documentation updates, printk() fixes, etc"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  intel_ips: fix a type in error message
  cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Move newline to end of error message
  ps3rom: fix error return code
  treewide: fix typo in printk and Kconfig
  ARM: dts: bcm63138: change "interupts" to "interrupts"
  Replace mentions of "list_struct" to "list_head"
  kernel: trace: fix printk message
  scsi: mpt2sas: fix ioctl in comment
  zbud, zswap: change module author email
  clocksource: Fix 'clcoksource' typo in comment
  arm: fix wording of "Crotex" in CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3 help
  gpio: msm-v1: make boolean argument more obvious
  usb: Fix typo in usb-serial-simple.c
  PCI: Fix comment typo 'COMFIG_PM_OPS'
  powerpc: Fix comment typo 'CONIFG_8xx'
  powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC'
  clk: st: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  isci: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  usb: gadget: zero: Spelling s/infrastucture/infrastructure/
  treewide: Fix company name in module descriptions
  ...
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<pre>
Pull trivial tree update from Jiri Kosina:
 "Usual stuff: documentation updates, printk() fixes, etc"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (24 commits)
  intel_ips: fix a type in error message
  cpufreq: cpufreq-dt: Move newline to end of error message
  ps3rom: fix error return code
  treewide: fix typo in printk and Kconfig
  ARM: dts: bcm63138: change "interupts" to "interrupts"
  Replace mentions of "list_struct" to "list_head"
  kernel: trace: fix printk message
  scsi: mpt2sas: fix ioctl in comment
  zbud, zswap: change module author email
  clocksource: Fix 'clcoksource' typo in comment
  arm: fix wording of "Crotex" in CONFIG_ARCH_EXYNOS3 help
  gpio: msm-v1: make boolean argument more obvious
  usb: Fix typo in usb-serial-simple.c
  PCI: Fix comment typo 'COMFIG_PM_OPS'
  powerpc: Fix comment typo 'CONIFG_8xx'
  powerpc: Fix comment typos 'CONFiG_ALTIVEC'
  clk: st: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  isci: Spelling s/stucture/structure/
  usb: gadget: zero: Spelling s/infrastucture/infrastructure/
  treewide: Fix company name in module descriptions
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux</title>
<updated>2014-12-12T01:30:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T01:30:55+00:00</published>
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The most notable change for this pull request is the ftrace rework
  from Heiko.  It brings a small performance improvement and the ground
  work to support a new gcc option to replace the mcount blocks with a
  single nop.

  Two new s390 specific system calls are added to emulate user space
  mmio for PCI, an artifact of the how PCI memory is accessed.

  Two patches for the memory management with changes to common code.
  For KVM mm_forbids_zeropage is added which disables the empty zero
  page for an mm that is used by a KVM process.  And an optimization,
  pmdp_get_and_clear_full is added analog to ptep_get_and_clear_full.

  Some micro optimization for the cmpxchg and the spinlock code.

  And as usual bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (46 commits)
  s390/cputime: fix 31-bit compile
  s390/scm_block: make the number of reqs per HW req configurable
  s390/scm_block: handle multiple requests in one HW request
  s390/scm_block: allocate aidaw pages only when necessary
  s390/scm_block: use mempool to manage aidaw requests
  s390/eadm: change timeout value
  s390/mm: fix memory leak of ptlock in pmd_free_tlb
  s390: use local symbol names in entry[64].S
  s390/ptrace: always include vector registers in core files
  s390/simd: clear vector register pointer on fork/clone
  s390: translate cputime magic constants to macros
  s390/idle: convert open coded idle time seqcount
  s390/idle: add missing irq off lockdep annotation
  s390/debug: avoid function call for debug_sprintf_*
  s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution
  s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()
  s390/dasd: retry partition detection
  s390/dasd: fix list corruption for sleep_on requests
  s390/dasd: fix infinite term I/O loop
  s390/dasd: remove unused code
  ...
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Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
 "The most notable change for this pull request is the ftrace rework
  from Heiko.  It brings a small performance improvement and the ground
  work to support a new gcc option to replace the mcount blocks with a
  single nop.

  Two new s390 specific system calls are added to emulate user space
  mmio for PCI, an artifact of the how PCI memory is accessed.

  Two patches for the memory management with changes to common code.
  For KVM mm_forbids_zeropage is added which disables the empty zero
  page for an mm that is used by a KVM process.  And an optimization,
  pmdp_get_and_clear_full is added analog to ptep_get_and_clear_full.

  Some micro optimization for the cmpxchg and the spinlock code.

  And as usual bug fixes and cleanups"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (46 commits)
  s390/cputime: fix 31-bit compile
  s390/scm_block: make the number of reqs per HW req configurable
  s390/scm_block: handle multiple requests in one HW request
  s390/scm_block: allocate aidaw pages only when necessary
  s390/scm_block: use mempool to manage aidaw requests
  s390/eadm: change timeout value
  s390/mm: fix memory leak of ptlock in pmd_free_tlb
  s390: use local symbol names in entry[64].S
  s390/ptrace: always include vector registers in core files
  s390/simd: clear vector register pointer on fork/clone
  s390: translate cputime magic constants to macros
  s390/idle: convert open coded idle time seqcount
  s390/idle: add missing irq off lockdep annotation
  s390/debug: avoid function call for debug_sprintf_*
  s390/kprobes: fix instruction copy for out of line execution
  s390: remove diag 44 calls from cpu_relax()
  s390/dasd: retry partition detection
  s390/dasd: fix list corruption for sleep_on requests
  s390/dasd: fix infinite term I/O loop
  s390/dasd: remove unused code
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T22:27:06+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=70e71ca0af244f48a5dcf56dc435243792e3a495'/>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

12) Remote checksum offload, from Tom Herbert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1820 commits)
  Fix race condition between vxlan_sock_add and vxlan_sock_release
  net/macb: fix compilation warning for print_hex_dump() called with skb-&gt;mac_header
  net/mlx4: Add support for A0 steering
  net/mlx4: Refactor QUERY_PORT
  net/mlx4_core: Add explicit error message when rule doesn't meet configuration
  net/mlx4: Add A0 hybrid steering
  net/mlx4: Add mlx4_bitmap zone allocator
  net/mlx4: Add a check if there are too many reserved QPs
  net/mlx4: Change QP allocation scheme
  net/mlx4_core: Use tasklet for user-space CQ completion events
  net/mlx4_core: Mask out host side virtualization features for guests
  net/mlx4_en: Set csum level for encapsulated packets
  be2net: Export tunnel offloads only when a VxLAN tunnel is created
  gianfar: Fix dma check map error when DMA_API_DEBUG is enabled
  cxgb4/csiostor: Don't use MASTER_MUST for fw_hello call
  net: fec: only enable mdio interrupt before phy device link up
  net: fec: clear all interrupt events to support i.MX6SX
  net: fec: reset fep link status in suspend function
  net: sock: fix access via invalid file descriptor
  net: introduce helper macro for_each_cmsghdr
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T20:20:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T20:20:31+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6b9e2cea428cf7af93a84bcb865e478d8bf1c165'/>
<id>6b9e2cea428cf7af93a84bcb865e478d8bf1c165</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "virtio: virtio 1.0 support, misc patches

  This adds a lot of infrastructure for virtio 1.0 support.  Notable
  missing pieces: virtio pci, virtio balloon (needs spec extension),
  vhost scsi.

  Plus, there are some minor fixes in a couple of places.

  Note: some net drivers are affected by these patches.  David said he's
  fine with merging these patches through my tree.

  Rusty's on vacation, he acked using my tree for these, too"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (70 commits)
  virtio_ccw: finalize_features error handling
  virtio_ccw: future-proof finalize_features
  virtio_pci: rename virtio_pci -&gt; virtio_pci_common
  virtio_pci: update file descriptions and copyright
  virtio_pci: split out legacy device support
  virtio_pci: setup config vector indirectly
  virtio_pci: setup vqs indirectly
  virtio_pci: delete vqs indirectly
  virtio_pci: use priv for vq notification
  virtio_pci: free up vq-&gt;priv
  virtio_pci: fix coding style for structs
  virtio_pci: add isr field
  virtio: drop legacy_only driver flag
  virtio_balloon: drop legacy_only driver flag
  virtio_ccw: rev 1 devices set VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1
  virtio: allow finalize_features to fail
  virtio_ccw: legacy: don't negotiate rev 1/features
  virtio: add API to detect legacy devices
  virtio_console: fix sparse warnings
  vhost: remove unnecessary forward declarations in vhost.h
  ...
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<pre>
Pull virtio updates from Michael Tsirkin:
 "virtio: virtio 1.0 support, misc patches

  This adds a lot of infrastructure for virtio 1.0 support.  Notable
  missing pieces: virtio pci, virtio balloon (needs spec extension),
  vhost scsi.

  Plus, there are some minor fixes in a couple of places.

  Note: some net drivers are affected by these patches.  David said he's
  fine with merging these patches through my tree.

  Rusty's on vacation, he acked using my tree for these, too"

* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost: (70 commits)
  virtio_ccw: finalize_features error handling
  virtio_ccw: future-proof finalize_features
  virtio_pci: rename virtio_pci -&gt; virtio_pci_common
  virtio_pci: update file descriptions and copyright
  virtio_pci: split out legacy device support
  virtio_pci: setup config vector indirectly
  virtio_pci: setup vqs indirectly
  virtio_pci: delete vqs indirectly
  virtio_pci: use priv for vq notification
  virtio_pci: free up vq-&gt;priv
  virtio_pci: fix coding style for structs
  virtio_pci: add isr field
  virtio: drop legacy_only driver flag
  virtio_balloon: drop legacy_only driver flag
  virtio_ccw: rev 1 devices set VIRTIO_F_VERSION_1
  virtio: allow finalize_features to fail
  virtio_ccw: legacy: don't negotiate rev 1/features
  virtio: add API to detect legacy devices
  virtio_console: fix sparse warnings
  vhost: remove unnecessary forward declarations in vhost.h
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2014-12-11T00:10:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-11T00:10:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=cbfe0de303a55ed96d8831c2d5f56f8131cd6612'/>
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<content type='text'>
Pull VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "First pile out of several (there _definitely_ will be more).  Stuff in
  this one:

   - unification of d_splice_alias()/d_materialize_unique()

   - iov_iter rewrite

   - killing a bunch of -&gt;f_path.dentry users (and f_dentry macro).

     Getting that completed will make life much simpler for
     unionmount/overlayfs, since then we'll be able to limit the places
     sensitive to file _dentry_ to reasonably few.  Which allows to have
     file_inode(file) pointing to inode in a covered layer, with dentry
     pointing to (negative) dentry in union one.

     Still not complete, but much closer now.

   - crapectomy in lustre (dead code removal, mostly)

   - "let's make seq_printf return nothing" preparations

   - assorted cleanups and fixes

  There _definitely_ will be more piles"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  copy_from_iter_nocache()
  new helper: iov_iter_kvec()
  csum_and_copy_..._iter()
  iov_iter.c: handle ITER_KVEC directly
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_to_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_from_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: get rid of bvec_copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_zero() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_npages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: macros for iterating over iov_iter
  kill f_dentry macro
  dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names
  new helper: audit_file()
  nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()
  ncpfs: use file_inode()
  kill f_dentry uses
  lockd: get rid of -&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_sb
  ...
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<pre>
Pull VFS changes from Al Viro:
 "First pile out of several (there _definitely_ will be more).  Stuff in
  this one:

   - unification of d_splice_alias()/d_materialize_unique()

   - iov_iter rewrite

   - killing a bunch of -&gt;f_path.dentry users (and f_dentry macro).

     Getting that completed will make life much simpler for
     unionmount/overlayfs, since then we'll be able to limit the places
     sensitive to file _dentry_ to reasonably few.  Which allows to have
     file_inode(file) pointing to inode in a covered layer, with dentry
     pointing to (negative) dentry in union one.

     Still not complete, but much closer now.

   - crapectomy in lustre (dead code removal, mostly)

   - "let's make seq_printf return nothing" preparations

   - assorted cleanups and fixes

  There _definitely_ will be more piles"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (63 commits)
  copy_from_iter_nocache()
  new helper: iov_iter_kvec()
  csum_and_copy_..._iter()
  iov_iter.c: handle ITER_KVEC directly
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_to_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert copy_from_iter() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: get rid of bvec_copy_page_{to,from}_iter()
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_zero() to iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages_alloc() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_get_pages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: convert iov_iter_npages() to iterate_all_kinds
  iov_iter.c: iterate_and_advance
  iov_iter.c: macros for iterating over iov_iter
  kill f_dentry macro
  dcache: fix kmemcheck warning in switch_names
  new helper: audit_file()
  nfsd_vfs_write(): use file_inode()
  ncpfs: use file_inode()
  kill f_dentry uses
  lockd: get rid of -&gt;f_path.dentry-&gt;d_sb
  ...
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