linux.git/Documentation/ABI, branch v5.12 Linux kernel source tree treewide: change my e-mail address, fix my name 2021-04-09T21:54:23+00:00 Marek Behún kabel@kernel.org 2021-04-09T20:27:04+00:00 b37c38484375f5a204500e0b10b40da268090995 Change my e-mail address to kabel@kernel.org, and fix my name in non-code parts (add diacritical mark). Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325171123.28093-2-kabel@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org> Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Change my e-mail address to kabel@kernel.org, and fix my name in
non-code parts (add diacritical mark).

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210325171123.28093-2-kabel@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Marek Behún <kabel@kernel.org>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
docs: ABI: Fix the spelling oustanding to outstanding in the file sysfs-fs-xfs 2021-03-15T15:50:40+00:00 Bhaskar Chowdhury unixbhaskar@gmail.com 2021-03-09T17:45:51+00:00 08a204387e8063ba7375481281701137bd553dee s/oustanding/outstanding/ Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org> 
s/oustanding/outstanding/

Signed-off-by: Bhaskar Chowdhury <unixbhaskar@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Merge tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux 2021-02-26T22:21:18+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-26T22:21:18+00:00 3fb6d0e00efc958d01c2f109c8453033a2d96796 Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that notable" * tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: proc.rst: fix indentation warning Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program docs: powerpc: Fix tables in syscall64-abi.rst Documentation: features: refresh feature list Documentation: features: remove c6x references docs: ABI: testing: ima_policy: Fixed missing bracket Fix unaesthetic indentation scripts: kernel-doc: fix array element capture in pointer-to-func parsing doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg 
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
 "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that
  notable"

* tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
  docs: proc.rst: fix indentation warning
  Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program
  docs: powerpc: Fix tables in syscall64-abi.rst
  Documentation: features: refresh feature list
  Documentation: features: remove c6x references
  docs: ABI: testing: ima_policy: Fixed missing bracket
  Fix unaesthetic indentation
  scripts: kernel-doc: fix array element capture in pointer-to-func parsing
  doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line
  Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg
Merge tag 'for-linus-5.12b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip 2021-02-26T18:04:45+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-26T18:04:45+00:00 5c2e7a0af211cb7a3a24fcfe98f0ceb67560b53b Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross: - A small series for Xen event channels adding some sysfs nodes for per pv-device settings and statistics, and two fixes of theoretical problems. - two minor fixes (one for an unlikely error path, one for a comment). * tag 'for-linus-5.12b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen-front-pgdir-shbuf: don't record wrong grant handle upon error xen: Replace lkml.org links with lore xen/evtchn: use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for accessing ring indices xen/evtchn: use smp barriers for user event ring xen/events: add per-xenbus device event statistics and settings 
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross:

 - A small series for Xen event channels adding some sysfs nodes for per
   pv-device settings and statistics, and two fixes of theoretical
   problems.

 - two minor fixes (one for an unlikely error path, one for a comment).

* tag 'for-linus-5.12b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
  xen-front-pgdir-shbuf: don't record wrong grant handle upon error
  xen: Replace lkml.org links with lore
  xen/evtchn: use READ/WRITE_ONCE() for accessing ring indices
  xen/evtchn: use smp barriers for user event ring
  xen/events: add per-xenbus device event statistics and settings
Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2021-02-26T17:50:09+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-26T17:50:09+00:00 245137cdf0cd92077dad37868fe4859c90dada36 Merge more updates from Andrew Morton: "118 patches: - The rest of MM. Includes kfence - another runtime memory validator. Not as thorough as KASAN, but it has unmeasurable overhead and is intended to be usable in production builds. - Everything else Subsystems affected by this patch series: alpha, procfs, sysctl, misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, bitops, checkpatch, init, coredump, seq_file, gdb, ubsan, initramfs, and mm (thp, cma, vmstat, memory-hotplug, mlock, rmap, zswap, zsmalloc, cleanups, kfence, kasan2, and pagemap2)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits) MIPS: make userspace mapping young by default initramfs: panic with memory information ubsan: remove overflow checks kgdb: fix to kill breakpoints on initmem after boot scripts/gdb: fix list_for_each x86: fix seq_file iteration for pat/memtype.c seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed. fs/coredump: use kmap_local_page() init/Kconfig: fix a typo in CC_VERSION_TEXT help text init: clean up early_param_on_off() macro init/version.c: remove Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts checkpatch: add kmalloc_array_node to unnecessary OOM message check checkpatch: add warning for avoiding .L prefix symbols in assembly files checkpatch: improve TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT test message checkpatch: prefer ftrace over function entry/exit printks checkpatch: trivial style fixes checkpatch: ignore warning designated initializers using NR_CPUS checkpatch: improve blank line after declaration test ... 
Merge more updates from Andrew Morton:
 "118 patches:

   - The rest of MM.

     Includes kfence - another runtime memory validator. Not as thorough
     as KASAN, but it has unmeasurable overhead and is intended to be
     usable in production builds.

   - Everything else

  Subsystems affected by this patch series: alpha, procfs, sysctl,
  misc, core-kernel, MAINTAINERS, lib, bitops, checkpatch, init,
  coredump, seq_file, gdb, ubsan, initramfs, and mm (thp, cma,
  vmstat, memory-hotplug, mlock, rmap, zswap, zsmalloc, cleanups,
  kfence, kasan2, and pagemap2)"

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (118 commits)
  MIPS: make userspace mapping young by default
  initramfs: panic with memory information
  ubsan: remove overflow checks
  kgdb: fix to kill breakpoints on initmem after boot
  scripts/gdb: fix list_for_each
  x86: fix seq_file iteration for pat/memtype.c
  seq_file: document how per-entry resources are managed.
  fs/coredump: use kmap_local_page()
  init/Kconfig: fix a typo in CC_VERSION_TEXT help text
  init: clean up early_param_on_off() macro
  init/version.c: remove Version_<LINUX_VERSION_CODE> symbol
  checkpatch: do not apply "initialise globals to 0" check to BPF progs
  checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts
  checkpatch: add kmalloc_array_node to unnecessary OOM message check
  checkpatch: add warning for avoiding .L prefix symbols in assembly files
  checkpatch: improve TYPECAST_INT_CONSTANT test message
  checkpatch: prefer ftrace over function entry/exit printks
  checkpatch: trivial style fixes
  checkpatch: ignore warning designated initializers using NR_CPUS
  checkpatch: improve blank line after declaration test
  ...
Documentation: sysfs/memory: clarify some memory block device properties 2021-02-26T17:41:00+00:00 David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com 2021-02-26T01:17:28+00:00 a89107c0478137115c6647aa28caef75513b9f40 In commit 53cdc1cb29e8 ("drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory blocks as removable") we changed the output of the "removable" property of memory devices to return "1" if and only if the kernel supports memory offlining. Let's update documentation, stating that the interface is legacy. Also update documentation of the "state" property and "valid_zones" properties. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-3-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
In commit 53cdc1cb29e8 ("drivers/base/memory.c: indicate all memory blocks
as removable") we changed the output of the "removable" property of memory
devices to return "1" if and only if the kernel supports memory offlining.

Let's update documentation, stating that the interface is legacy.  Also
update documentation of the "state" property and "valid_zones" properties.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-3-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/memory: don't store phys_device in memory blocks 2021-02-26T17:41:00+00:00 David Hildenbrand david@redhat.com 2021-02-26T01:17:24+00:00 e9a2e48e8704c9d20a625c6f2357147d03ea7b97 No need to store the value for each and every memory block, as we can easily query the value at runtime. Reshuffle the members to optimize the memory layout. Also, let's clarify what the interface once was used for and why it's legacy nowadays. "phys_device" was used on s390x in older versions of lsmem[2]/chmem[3], back when they were still part of s390x-tools. They were later replaced by the variants in linux-utils. For example, RHEL6 and RHEL7 contain lsmem/chmem from s390-utils. RHEL8 switched to versions from util-linux on s390x [4]. "phys_device" was added with sysfs support for memory hotplug in commit 3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions") in 2005. It always returned 0. s390x started returning something != 0 on some setups (if sclp.rzm is set by HW) in 2010 via commit 57b552ba0b2f ("memory hotplug/s390: set phys_device"). For s390x, it allowed for identifying which memory block devices belong to the same storage increment (RZM). Only if all memory block devices comprising a single storage increment were offline, the memory could actually be removed in the hypervisor. Since commit e5d709bb5fb7 ("s390/memory hotplug: provide memory_block_size_bytes() function") in 2013 a memory block device spans at least one storage increment - which is why the interface isn't really helpful/used anymore (except by old lsmem/chmem tools). There were once RFC patches to make use of "phys_device" in ACPI context; however, the underlying problem could be solved using different interfaces [1]. [1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2163871/ [2] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/lsmem [3] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/chmem [4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504134 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-2-david@redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com> Cc: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
No need to store the value for each and every memory block, as we can
easily query the value at runtime.  Reshuffle the members to optimize the
memory layout.  Also, let's clarify what the interface once was used for
and why it's legacy nowadays.

"phys_device" was used on s390x in older versions of lsmem[2]/chmem[3],
back when they were still part of s390x-tools.  They were later replaced
by the variants in linux-utils.  For example, RHEL6 and RHEL7 contain
lsmem/chmem from s390-utils.  RHEL8 switched to versions from util-linux
on s390x [4].

"phys_device" was added with sysfs support for memory hotplug in commit
3947be1969a9 ("[PATCH] memory hotplug: sysfs and add/remove functions") in
2005.  It always returned 0.

s390x started returning something != 0 on some setups (if sclp.rzm is set
by HW) in 2010 via commit 57b552ba0b2f ("memory hotplug/s390: set
phys_device").

For s390x, it allowed for identifying which memory block devices belong to
the same storage increment (RZM).  Only if all memory block devices
comprising a single storage increment were offline, the memory could
actually be removed in the hypervisor.

Since commit e5d709bb5fb7 ("s390/memory hotplug: provide
memory_block_size_bytes() function") in 2013 a memory block device spans
at least one storage increment - which is why the interface isn't really
helpful/used anymore (except by old lsmem/chmem tools).

There were once RFC patches to make use of "phys_device" in ACPI context;
however, the underlying problem could be solved using different interfaces
[1].

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/2163871/
[2] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/lsmem
[3] https://github.com/ibm-s390-tools/s390-tools/blob/v2.1.0/zconf/chmem
[4] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1504134

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210201181347.13262-2-david@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Cc: Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@gmail.com>
Cc: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge tag 'acpi-5.12-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2021-02-25T20:03:13+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-25T20:03:13+00:00 268f77b5250998b871fa54a2a9703871fb44544e Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki: "These make additional changes to the platform profile interface merged recently and add support for the FPDT ACPI table. Specifics: - Rearrange Kconfig handling of ACPI_PLATFORM_PROFILE, add "balanced-performance" to the list of supported platform profiles and fix up some file references in a comment (Maximilian Luz). - Add support for parsing the ACPI Firmware Performance Data Table (FPDT) and exposing the data from there via sysfs (Zhang Rui)" * tag 'acpi-5.12-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: ACPI: platform: Add balanced-performance platform profile ACPI: platform: Fix file references in comment ACPI: platform: Hide ACPI_PLATFORM_PROFILE option ACPI: tables: introduce support for FPDT table 
Pull more ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
 "These make additional changes to the platform profile interface merged
  recently and add support for the FPDT ACPI table.

  Specifics:

   - Rearrange Kconfig handling of ACPI_PLATFORM_PROFILE, add
     "balanced-performance" to the list of supported platform profiles
     and fix up some file references in a comment (Maximilian Luz).

   - Add support for parsing the ACPI Firmware Performance Data Table
     (FPDT) and exposing the data from there via sysfs (Zhang Rui)"

* tag 'acpi-5.12-rc1-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  ACPI: platform: Add balanced-performance platform profile
  ACPI: platform: Fix file references in comment
  ACPI: platform: Hide ACPI_PLATFORM_PROFILE option
  ACPI: tables: introduce support for FPDT table
Merge branch 'acpi-tables' 2021-02-25T17:57:40+00:00 Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com 2021-02-25T17:57:40+00:00 b11ffaeacd1984b1fca41374c769fb0ff0aa0a42 * acpi-tables: ACPI: tables: introduce support for FPDT table 
* acpi-tables:
  ACPI: tables: introduce support for FPDT table
Merge tag 'sfi-removal-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm 2021-02-24T18:35:29+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2021-02-24T18:35:29+00:00 c4fbde84fedeaf513ec96f0c6ed3f352bdcd61d6 Pull Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) support removal from Rafael Wysocki: "Drop support for depercated platforms using SFI, drop the entire support for SFI that has been long deprecated too and make some janitorial changes on top of that (Andy Shevchenko)" * tag 'sfi-removal-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm: x86/platform/intel-mid: Update Copyright year and drop file names x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused header inclusion in intel-mid.h x86/platform/intel-mid: Drop unused __intel_mid_cpu_chip and Co. x86/platform/intel-mid: Get rid of intel_scu_ipc_legacy.h x86/PCI: Describe @reg for type1_access_ok() x86/PCI: Get rid of custom x86 model comparison sfi: Remove framework for deprecated firmware cpufreq: sfi-cpufreq: Remove driver for deprecated firmware media: atomisp: Remove unused header mfd: intel_msic: Remove driver for deprecated platform x86/apb_timer: Remove driver for deprecated platform x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (vRTC) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_thermal) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_power_btn) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_gpio) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_battery) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_ocd) x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_audio) platform/x86: intel_scu_wdt: Drop mistakenly added const 
Pull Simple Firmware Interface (SFI) support removal from Rafael Wysocki:
 "Drop support for depercated platforms using SFI, drop the entire
  support for SFI that has been long deprecated too and make some
  janitorial changes on top of that (Andy Shevchenko)"

* tag 'sfi-removal-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Update Copyright year and drop file names
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused header inclusion in intel-mid.h
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Drop unused __intel_mid_cpu_chip and Co.
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Get rid of intel_scu_ipc_legacy.h
  x86/PCI: Describe @reg for type1_access_ok()
  x86/PCI: Get rid of custom x86 model comparison
  sfi: Remove framework for deprecated firmware
  cpufreq: sfi-cpufreq: Remove driver for deprecated firmware
  media: atomisp: Remove unused header
  mfd: intel_msic: Remove driver for deprecated platform
  x86/apb_timer: Remove driver for deprecated platform
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (vRTC)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_thermal)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_power_btn)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_gpio)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_battery)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_ocd)
  x86/platform/intel-mid: Remove unused leftovers (msic_audio)
  platform/x86: intel_scu_wdt: Drop mistakenly added const