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<entry>
<title>ACPI / init: Switch over platform to the ACPI mode later</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T17:10:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-09T23:33:36+00:00</published>
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commit b064a8fa77dfead647564c46ac8fc5b13bd1ab73 upstream.

Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before
timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization,
including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the
initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem
use ACPI early.  Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions
on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward
its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit
c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later".

However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken
on the Tyan S8812 mainboard.

To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into
two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init()
and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into
a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early
ACPI initialization spot.

That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI
tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in
efi_enter_virtual_mode().

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141
Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()"
Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann &lt;tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit b064a8fa77dfead647564c46ac8fc5b13bd1ab73 upstream.

Commit 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before
timekeeping_init()" moved the ACPI subsystem initialization,
including the ACPI mode enabling, to an earlier point in the
initialization sequence, to allow the timekeeping subsystem
use ACPI early.  Unfortunately, that resulted in boot regressions
on some systems and the early ACPI initialization was moved toward
its original position in the kernel initialization code by commit
c4e1acbb35e4 "ACPI / init: Invoke early ACPI initialization later".

However, that turns out to be insufficient, as boot is still broken
on the Tyan S8812 mainboard.

To fix that issue, split the ACPI early initialization code into
two pieces so the majority of it still located in acpi_early_init()
and the part switching over the platform into the ACPI mode goes into
a new function, acpi_subsystem_init(), executed at the original early
ACPI initialization spot.

That fixes the Tyan S8812 boot problem, but still allows ACPI
tables to be loaded earlier which is useful to the EFI code in
efi_enter_virtual_mode().

Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97141
Fixes: 73f7d1ca3263 "ACPI / init: Run acpi_early_init() before timekeeping_init()"
Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Tolzmann &lt;tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Toshi Kani &lt;toshi.kani@hp.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Hanjun Guo &lt;hanjun.guo@linaro.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi &lt;jlee@suse.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2015-02-19T18:36:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-19T18:36:45+00:00</published>
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 "Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but
  this hasn't happened.  So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I
  collected:

   - Fix for missing va_end in kconfig
   - merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments
   - s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to
     only support bool in the future"

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start
  merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes
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Pull kconfig updates from Michal Marek:
 "Yann E Morin was supposed to take over kconfig maintainership, but
  this hasn't happened.  So I'm sending a few kconfig patches that I
  collected:

   - Fix for missing va_end in kconfig
   - merge_config.sh displays used if given too few arguments
   - s/boolean/bool/ in Kconfig files for consistency, with the plan to
     only support bool in the future"

* 'kconfig' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kconfig: use va_end to match corresponding va_start
  merge_config.sh: Display usage if given too few arguments
  kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild</title>
<updated>2015-02-19T18:31:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-19T18:31:37+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=773433433791b9420c2a0f86b93c91d4115d89b5'/>
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Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few non-critical kbuild changes:

   - builddeb adds the actual distribution name in the changelog
   - documentation fixes"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: trivial - fix the help doc of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  kbuild: Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs
  builddeb: Try to determine distribution
  builddeb: Update year and git repository URL in debian/copyright
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Pull misc kbuild changes from Michal Marek:
 "Just a few non-critical kbuild changes:

   - builddeb adds the actual distribution name in the changelog
   - documentation fixes"

* 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild:
  kbuild: trivial - fix the help doc of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
  kbuild: Update documentation of clean-files and clean-dirs
  builddeb: Try to determine distribution
  builddeb: Update year and git repository URL in debian/copyright
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: remove CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK</title>
<updated>2015-02-14T05:21:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Lutomirski</name>
<email>luto@amacapital.net</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-13T22:40:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5125991c9a9360fbdb717e22783c970bbd140660'/>
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CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case that
makes it worth keeping around.  Delete it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah.kh@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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CONFIG_INIT_FALLBACK adds config bloat without an obvious use case that
makes it worth keeping around.  Delete it.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@amacapital.net&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Chuck Ebbert &lt;cebbert.lkml@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Frank Rowand &lt;frowand.list@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rob Landley &lt;rob@landley.net&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuah.kh@samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-02-10T00:57:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-02-10T00:57:56+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=9d43bade347143b96671b38a7f81c39a81206675'/>
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Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
  hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
  memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
  remapping and APIC code"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
  iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
  x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
  x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
  x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
  x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
  x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
  init: Get rid of x86isms
  x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
  x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
  x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
  x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
  x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
  x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
  x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
  x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
  x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
  x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
  x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
  x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
  ...
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Pull x86 APIC updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "Continued fallout of the conversion of the x86 IRQ code to the
  hierarchical irqdomain framework: more cleanups, simplifications,
  memory allocation behavior enhancements, mainly in the interrupt
  remapping and APIC code"

* 'x86-apic-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (44 commits)
  x86, init: Fix UP boot regression on x86_64
  iommu/amd: Fix irq remapping detection logic
  x86/acpi: Make acpi_[un]register_gsi_ioapic() depend on CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC
  x86: Consolidate boot cpu timer setup
  x86/apic: Reuse apic_bsp_setup() for UP APIC setup
  x86/smpboot: Sanitize uniprocessor init
  x86/smpboot: Move apic init code to apic.c
  init: Get rid of x86isms
  x86/apic: Move apic_init_uniprocessor code
  x86/smpboot: Cleanup ioapic handling
  x86/apic: Sanitize ioapic handling
  x86/ioapic: Add proper checks to setp/enable_IO_APIC()
  x86/ioapic: Provide stub functions for IOAPIC%3Dn
  x86/smpboot: Move smpboot inlines to code
  x86/x2apic: Use state information for disable
  x86/x2apic: Split enable and setup function
  x86/x2apic: Disable x2apic from nox2apic setup
  x86/x2apic: Add proper state tracking
  x86/x2apic: Clarify remapping mode for x2apic enablement
  x86/x2apic: Move code in conditional region
  ...
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>init: Get rid of x86isms</title>
<updated>2015-01-22T14:10:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-15T21:22:39+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=30b8b0066cafef274fc92462578ee346211ce7cb'/>
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The UP local API support can be set up from an early initcall. No need
for horrible hackery in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joro@8bytes.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.827943883@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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The UP local API support can be set up from an early initcall. No need
for horrible hackery in the init code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Jiang Liu &lt;jiang.liu@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;joro@8bytes.org&gt;
Cc: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150115211703.827943883@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T07:34:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T07:34:34+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
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doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T07:25:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-12T15:37:48+00:00</published>
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Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings.  However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.

Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default.  The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter.  Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior.  Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings.  However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.

Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default.  The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter.  Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior.  Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: trivial - fix the help doc of CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE</title>
<updated>2015-01-08T13:53:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-08-05T05:43:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=31a4af7f7d3cd3090c1c9201d62d4ede54dc5969'/>
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Other than GCC, we have another choice, Clang for building the kernel
these days.  It seems better to say "compiler" rather than "gcc".

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Other than GCC, we have another choice, Clang for building the kernel
these days.  It seems better to say "compiler" rather than "gcc".

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>kconfig: use bool instead of boolean for type definition attributes</title>
<updated>2015-01-07T12:08:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Christoph Jaeger</name>
<email>cj@linux.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-20T20:41:11+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=6341e62b212a2541efb0160c470e90bd226d5496'/>
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Support for keyword 'boolean' will be dropped later on.

No functional change.

Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger &lt;cj@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
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Support for keyword 'boolean' will be dropped later on.

No functional change.

Reference: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1418003065.git.cj@linux.com
Signed-off-by: Christoph Jaeger &lt;cj@linux.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek &lt;mmarek@suse.cz&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
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