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<title>genirq/migration: Avoid out of line call if pending is not set</title>
<updated>2018-06-25T23:54:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-06T12:46:59+00:00</published>
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commit d340ebd696f921d3ad01b8c0c29dd38f2ad2bf3e upstream.

The upcoming fix for the -EBUSY return from affinity settings requires to
use the irq_move_irq() functionality even on irq remapped interrupts. To
avoid the out of line call, move the check for the pending bit into an
inline helper.

Preparatory change for the real fix. No functional change.

Fixes: dccfe3147b42 ("x86/vector: Simplify vector move cleanup")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Dou Liyang &lt;douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.471925894@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit d340ebd696f921d3ad01b8c0c29dd38f2ad2bf3e upstream.

The upcoming fix for the -EBUSY return from affinity settings requires to
use the irq_move_irq() functionality even on irq remapped interrupts. To
avoid the out of line call, move the check for the pending bit into an
inline helper.

Preparatory change for the real fix. No functional change.

Fixes: dccfe3147b42 ("x86/vector: Simplify vector move cleanup")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Cc: Dou Liyang &lt;douly.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.471925894@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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<entry>
<title>genirq/affinity: Defer affinity setting if irq chip is busy</title>
<updated>2018-06-25T23:54:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T15:33:59+00:00</published>
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commit 12f47073a40f6aa75119d8f5df4077b7f334cced upstream.

The case that interrupt affinity setting fails with -EBUSY can be handled
in the kernel completely by using the already available generic pending
infrastructure.

If a irq_chip::set_affinity() fails with -EBUSY, handle it like the
interrupts for which irq_chip::set_affinity() can only be invoked from
interrupt context. Copy the new affinity mask to irq_desc::pending_mask and
set the affinity pending bit. The next raised interrupt for the affected
irq will check the pending bit and try to set the new affinity from the
handler. This avoids that -EBUSY is returned when an affinity change is
requested from user space and the previous change has not been cleaned
up. The new affinity will take effect when the next interrupt is raised
from the device.

Fixes: dccfe3147b42 ("x86/vector: Simplify vector move cleanup")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.819273597@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit 12f47073a40f6aa75119d8f5df4077b7f334cced upstream.

The case that interrupt affinity setting fails with -EBUSY can be handled
in the kernel completely by using the already available generic pending
infrastructure.

If a irq_chip::set_affinity() fails with -EBUSY, handle it like the
interrupts for which irq_chip::set_affinity() can only be invoked from
interrupt context. Copy the new affinity mask to irq_desc::pending_mask and
set the affinity pending bit. The next raised interrupt for the affected
irq will check the pending bit and try to set the new affinity from the
handler. This avoids that -EBUSY is returned when an affinity change is
requested from user space and the previous change has not been cleaned
up. The new affinity will take effect when the next interrupt is raised
from the device.

Fixes: dccfe3147b42 ("x86/vector: Simplify vector move cleanup")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.819273597@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/generic_pending: Do not lose pending affinity update</title>
<updated>2018-06-25T23:54:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-06-04T15:33:54+00:00</published>
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commit a33a5d2d16cb84bea8d5f5510f3a41aa48b5c467 upstream.

The generic pending interrupt mechanism moves interrupts from the interrupt
handler on the original target CPU to the new destination CPU. This is
required for x86 and ia64 due to the way the interrupt delivery and
acknowledge works if the interrupts are not remapped.

However that update can fail for various reasons. Some of them are valid
reasons to discard the pending update, but the case, when the previous move
has not been fully cleaned up is not a legit reason to fail.

Check the return value of irq_do_set_affinity() for -EBUSY, which indicates
a pending cleanup, and rearm the pending move in the irq dexcriptor so it's
tried again when the next interrupt arrives.

Fixes: 996c591227d9 ("x86/irq: Plug vector cleanup race")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.386544292@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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commit a33a5d2d16cb84bea8d5f5510f3a41aa48b5c467 upstream.

The generic pending interrupt mechanism moves interrupts from the interrupt
handler on the original target CPU to the new destination CPU. This is
required for x86 and ia64 due to the way the interrupt delivery and
acknowledge works if the interrupts are not remapped.

However that update can fail for various reasons. Some of them are valid
reasons to discard the pending update, but the case, when the previous move
has not been fully cleaned up is not a legit reason to fail.

Check the return value of irq_do_set_affinity() for -EBUSY, which indicates
a pending cleanup, and rearm the pending move in the irq dexcriptor so it's
tried again when the next interrupt arrives.

Fixes: 996c591227d9 ("x86/irq: Plug vector cleanup race")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Song Liu &lt;songliubraving@fb.com&gt;
Cc: Joerg Roedel &lt;jroedel@suse.de&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Song Liu &lt;liu.song.a23@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Safonov &lt;0x7f454c46@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Mike Travis &lt;mike.travis@hpe.com&gt;
Cc: Borislav Petkov &lt;bp@alien8.de&gt;
Cc: Tariq Toukan &lt;tariqt@mellanox.com&gt;
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180604162224.386544292@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/affinity: Don't return with empty affinity masks on error</title>
<updated>2018-05-30T06:17:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-04-04T10:40:07+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 0211e12dd0a5385ecffd3557bc570dbad7fcf245 ]

When the allocation of node_to_possible_cpumask fails, then
irq_create_affinity_masks() returns with a pointer to the empty affinity
masks array, which will cause malfunction.

Reorder the allocations so the masks array allocation comes last and every
failure path returns NULL.

Fixes: 9a0ef98e186d ("genirq/affinity: Assign vectors to all present CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 0211e12dd0a5385ecffd3557bc570dbad7fcf245 ]

When the allocation of node_to_possible_cpumask fails, then
irq_create_affinity_masks() returns with a pointer to the empty affinity
masks array, which will cause malfunction.

Reorder the allocations so the masks array allocation comes last and every
failure path returns NULL.

Fixes: 9a0ef98e186d ("genirq/affinity: Assign vectors to all present CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Ming Lei &lt;ming.lei@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;alexander.levin@microsoft.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq/matrix: Handle CPU offlining proper</title>
<updated>2018-02-22T21:05:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-22T11:08:05+00:00</published>
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At CPU hotunplug the corresponding per cpu matrix allocator is shut down and
the allocated interrupt bits are discarded under the assumption that all
allocated bits have been either migrated away or shut down through the
managed interrupts mechanism.

This is not true because interrupts which are not started up might have a
vector allocated on the outgoing CPU. When the interrupt is started up
later or completely shutdown and freed then the allocated vector is handed
back, triggering warnings or causing accounting issues which result in
suspend failures and other issues.

Change the CPU hotplug mechanism of the matrix allocator so that the
remaining allocations at unplug time are preserved and global accounting at
hotplug is correctly readjusted to take the dormant vectors into account.

Fixes: 2f75d9e1c905 ("genirq: Implement bitmap matrix allocator")
Reported-by: Yuriy Vostrikov &lt;delamonpansie@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Yuriy Vostrikov &lt;delamonpansie@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222112316.849980972@linutronix.de

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At CPU hotunplug the corresponding per cpu matrix allocator is shut down and
the allocated interrupt bits are discarded under the assumption that all
allocated bits have been either migrated away or shut down through the
managed interrupts mechanism.

This is not true because interrupts which are not started up might have a
vector allocated on the outgoing CPU. When the interrupt is started up
later or completely shutdown and freed then the allocated vector is handed
back, triggering warnings or causing accounting issues which result in
suspend failures and other issues.

Change the CPU hotplug mechanism of the matrix allocator so that the
remaining allocations at unplug time are preserved and global accounting at
hotplug is correctly readjusted to take the dormant vectors into account.

Fixes: 2f75d9e1c905 ("genirq: Implement bitmap matrix allocator")
Reported-by: Yuriy Vostrikov &lt;delamonpansie@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Yuriy Vostrikov &lt;delamonpansie@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180222112316.849980972@linutronix.de

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>irqdomain: Re-use DEFINE_SHOW_ATTRIBUTE() macro</title>
<updated>2018-02-16T14:22:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-14T15:47:35+00:00</published>
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...instead of open coding file operations followed by custom -&gt;open()
callbacks per each attribute.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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...instead of open coding file operations followed by custom -&gt;open()
callbacks per each attribute.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier &lt;marc.zyngier@arm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>genirq: remove unneeded kallsyms include</title>
<updated>2018-02-07T02:32:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>sergey.senozhatsky.work@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T23:41:13+00:00</published>
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The file was converted from print_symbol() to %pf some time ago in
commit ef26f20cd117 ("genirq: Print threaded handler in spurious debug
output").  kallsyms does not seem to be needed anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171208025616.16267-10-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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The file was converted from print_symbol() to %pf some time ago in
commit ef26f20cd117 ("genirq: Print threaded handler in spurious debug
output").  kallsyms does not seem to be needed anymore.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171208025616.16267-10-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T19:41:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T19:41:31+00:00</published>
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Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two small changes:

   - a fix for a interrupt regression caused by the vector management
     changes in 4.15 affecting museum pieces which rely on interrupt
     probing for legacy (e.g. parallel port) devices.

     One of the startup calls in the autoprobe code was not changed to
     the new activate_and_startup() function resulting in a warning and
     as a consequence failing to discover the device interrupt.

   - a trivial update to the copyright/license header of the STM32 irq
     chip driver"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Make legacy autoprobing work again
  irqchip/stm32: Fix copyright
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Pull irq fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Two small changes:

   - a fix for a interrupt regression caused by the vector management
     changes in 4.15 affecting museum pieces which rely on interrupt
     probing for legacy (e.g. parallel port) devices.

     One of the startup calls in the autoprobe code was not changed to
     the new activate_and_startup() function resulting in a warning and
     as a consequence failing to discover the device interrupt.

   - a trivial update to the copyright/license header of the STM32 irq
     chip driver"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  genirq: Make legacy autoprobing work again
  irqchip/stm32: Fix copyright
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T21:36:15+00:00</published>
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:

 - Add a console_msg_format command line option:

     The value "default" keeps the old "[time stamp] text\n" format. The
     value "syslog" allows to see the syslog-like "&lt;log
     level&gt;[timestamp] text" format.

     This feature was requested by people doing regression tests, for
     example, 0day robot. They want to have both filtered and full logs
     at hands.

 - Reduce the risk of softlockup:

     Pass the console owner in a busy loop.

     This is a new approach to the old problem. It was first proposed by
     Steven Rostedt on Kernel Summit 2017. It marks a context in which
     the console_lock owner calls console drivers and could not sleep.
     On the other side, printk() callers could detect this state and use
     a busy wait instead of a simple console_trylock(). Finally, the
     console_lock owner checks if there is a busy waiter at the end of
     the special context and eventually passes the console_lock to the
     waiter.

     The hand-off works surprisingly well and helps in many situations.
     Well, there is still a possibility of the softlockup, for example,
     when the flood of messages stops and the last owner still has too
     much to flush.

     There is increasing number of people having problems with
     printk-related softlockups. We might eventually need to get better
     solution. Anyway, this looks like a good start and promising
     direction.

 - Do not allow to schedule in console_unlock() called from printk():

     This reverts an older controversial commit. The reschedule helped
     to avoid softlockups. But it also slowed down the console output.
     This patch is obsoleted by the new console waiter logic described
     above. In fact, the reschedule made the hand-off less effective.

 - Deprecate "%pf" and "%pF" format specifier:

     It was needed on ia64, ppc64 and parisc64 to dereference function
     descriptors and show the real function address. It is done
     transparently by "%ps" and "pS" format specifier now.

     Sergey Senozhatsky found that all the function descriptors were in
     a special elf section and could be easily detected.

 - Remove printk_symbol() API:

     It has been obsoleted by "%pS" format specifier, and this change
     helped to remove few continuous lines and a less intuitive old API.

 - Remove redundant memsets:

     Sergey removed unnecessary memset when processing printk.devkmsg
     command line option.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk: (27 commits)
  printk: drop redundant devkmsg_log_str memsets
  printk: Never set console_may_schedule in console_trylock()
  printk: Hide console waiter logic into helpers
  printk: Add console owner and waiter logic to load balance console writes
  kallsyms: remove print_symbol() function
  checkpatch: add pF/pf deprecation warning
  symbol lookup: introduce dereference_symbol_descriptor()
  parisc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  powerpc64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  ia64: Add .opd based function descriptor dereference
  sections: split dereference_function_descriptor()
  openrisc: Fix conflicting types for _exext and _stext
  lib: do not use print_symbol()
  irq debug: do not use print_symbol()
  sysfs: do not use print_symbol()
  drivers: do not use print_symbol()
  x86: do not use print_symbol()
  unicore32: do not use print_symbol()
  sh: do not use print_symbol()
  mn10300: do not use print_symbol()
  ...
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<title>genirq: Make legacy autoprobing work again</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T10:09:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-30T18:36:32+00:00</published>
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Meelis reported the following warning on a quad P3 HP NetServer museum piece:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 258 at kernel/irq/chip.c:244 __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
EIP: __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
irq_startup+0x7e/0x170
probe_irq_on+0x128/0x2b0
parport_irq_probe.constprop.18+0x8d/0x1af [parport_pc]
parport_pc_probe_port+0xf11/0x1260 [parport_pc]
parport_pc_init+0x78a/0xf10 [parport_pc]
parport_parse_param.constprop.16+0xf0/0xf0 [parport_pc]
do_one_initcall+0x45/0x1e0

This is caused by the rewrite of the irq activation/startup sequence which
missed to convert a callsite in the irq legacy auto probing code.

To fix this irq_activate_and_startup() needs to gain a return value so the
pending logic can work proper.

Fixes: c942cee46bba ("genirq: Separate activation and startup")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801301935410.1797@nanos
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Meelis reported the following warning on a quad P3 HP NetServer museum piece:

WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 258 at kernel/irq/chip.c:244 __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
EIP: __irq_startup+0x80/0x100
irq_startup+0x7e/0x170
probe_irq_on+0x128/0x2b0
parport_irq_probe.constprop.18+0x8d/0x1af [parport_pc]
parport_pc_probe_port+0xf11/0x1260 [parport_pc]
parport_pc_init+0x78a/0xf10 [parport_pc]
parport_parse_param.constprop.16+0xf0/0xf0 [parport_pc]
do_one_initcall+0x45/0x1e0

This is caused by the rewrite of the irq activation/startup sequence which
missed to convert a callsite in the irq legacy auto probing code.

To fix this irq_activate_and_startup() needs to gain a return value so the
pending logic can work proper.

Fixes: c942cee46bba ("genirq: Separate activation and startup")
Reported-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Tested-by: Meelis Roos &lt;mroos@linux.ee&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.20.1801301935410.1797@nanos
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