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<title>afs: Support the AFS dynamic root</title>
<updated>2018-02-06T14:43:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-06T06:26:30+00:00</published>
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Support the AFS dynamic root which is a pseudo-volume that doesn't connect
to any server resource, but rather is just a root directory that
dynamically creates mountpoint directories where the name of such a
directory is the name of the cell.

Such a mount can be created thus:

	mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn

Dynamic root superblocks aren't shared except by bind mounts and
propagation.  Cell root volumes can then be mounted by referring to them by
name, e.g.:

	ls /afs/grand.central.org/
	ls /afs/.grand.central.org/

The kernel will upcall to consult the DNS if the address wasn't supplied
directly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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Support the AFS dynamic root which is a pseudo-volume that doesn't connect
to any server resource, but rather is just a root directory that
dynamically creates mountpoint directories where the name of such a
directory is the name of the cell.

Such a mount can be created thus:

	mount -t afs none /afs -o dyn

Dynamic root superblocks aren't shared except by bind mounts and
propagation.  Cell root volumes can then be mounted by referring to them by
name, e.g.:

	ls /afs/grand.central.org/
	ls /afs/.grand.central.org/

The kernel will upcall to consult the DNS if the address wasn't supplied
directly.

Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-02-05T21:05:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-05T21:05:20+00:00</published>
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Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This work from Amir adds NFS export capability to overlayfs. NFS
  exporting an overlay filesystem is a challange because we want to keep
  track of any copy-up of a file or directory between encoding the file
  handle and decoding it.

  This is achieved by indexing copied up objects by lower layer file
  handle. The index is already used for hard links, this patchset
  extends the use to NFS file handle decoding"

* 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (51 commits)
  ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()
  ovl: fix regression in fsnotify of overlay merge dir
  ovl: wire up NFS export operations
  ovl: lookup indexed ancestor of lower dir
  ovl: lookup connected ancestor of dir in inode cache
  ovl: hash non-indexed dir by upper inode for NFS export
  ovl: decode pure lower dir file handles
  ovl: decode indexed dir file handles
  ovl: decode lower file handles of unlinked but open files
  ovl: decode indexed non-dir file handles
  ovl: decode lower non-dir file handles
  ovl: encode lower file handles
  ovl: copy up before encoding non-connectable dir file handle
  ovl: encode non-indexed upper file handles
  ovl: decode connected upper dir file handles
  ovl: decode pure upper file handles
  ovl: encode pure upper file handles
  ovl: document NFS export
  vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()
  ovl: store 'has_upper' and 'opaque' as bit flags
  ...
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Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
 "This work from Amir adds NFS export capability to overlayfs. NFS
  exporting an overlay filesystem is a challange because we want to keep
  track of any copy-up of a file or directory between encoding the file
  handle and decoding it.

  This is achieved by indexing copied up objects by lower layer file
  handle. The index is already used for hard links, this patchset
  extends the use to NFS file handle decoding"

* 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (51 commits)
  ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()
  ovl: fix regression in fsnotify of overlay merge dir
  ovl: wire up NFS export operations
  ovl: lookup indexed ancestor of lower dir
  ovl: lookup connected ancestor of dir in inode cache
  ovl: hash non-indexed dir by upper inode for NFS export
  ovl: decode pure lower dir file handles
  ovl: decode indexed dir file handles
  ovl: decode lower file handles of unlinked but open files
  ovl: decode indexed non-dir file handles
  ovl: decode lower non-dir file handles
  ovl: encode lower file handles
  ovl: copy up before encoding non-connectable dir file handle
  ovl: encode non-indexed upper file handles
  ovl: decode connected upper dir file handles
  ovl: decode pure upper file handles
  ovl: encode pure upper file handles
  ovl: document NFS export
  vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()
  ovl: store 'has_upper' and 'opaque' as bit flags
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt</title>
<updated>2018-02-04T18:43:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-04T18:43:12+00:00</published>
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Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Refactor support for encrypted symlinks to move common code to fscrypt"

Ted also points out about the merge:
 "This makes the f2fs symlink code use the fscrypt_encrypt_symlink()
  from the fscrypt tree. This will end up dropping the kzalloc() -&gt;
  f2fs_kzalloc() change, which means the fscrypt-specific allocation
  won't get tested by f2fs's kmalloc error injection system; which is
  fine"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt: (26 commits)
  fscrypt: fix build with pre-4.6 gcc versions
  fscrypt: remove 'ci' parameter from fscrypt_put_encryption_info()
  fscrypt: document symlink length restriction
  fscrypt: fix up fscrypt_fname_encrypted_size() for internal use
  fscrypt: define fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() to be for presented names
  fscrypt: calculate NUL-padding length in one place only
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_symlink_data to fscrypt_private.h
  fscrypt: remove fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  ubifs: free the encrypted symlink target
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_get_symlink()
  fscrypt: new helper functions for -&gt;symlink()
  fscrypt: trim down fscrypt.h includes
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_is_dot_dotdot() to fs/crypto/fname.c
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_valid_enc_modes() to fscrypt_private.h
  ...
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<pre>
Pull fscrypt updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Refactor support for encrypted symlinks to move common code to fscrypt"

Ted also points out about the merge:
 "This makes the f2fs symlink code use the fscrypt_encrypt_symlink()
  from the fscrypt tree. This will end up dropping the kzalloc() -&gt;
  f2fs_kzalloc() change, which means the fscrypt-specific allocation
  won't get tested by f2fs's kmalloc error injection system; which is
  fine"

* tag 'fscrypt_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/fscrypt: (26 commits)
  fscrypt: fix build with pre-4.6 gcc versions
  fscrypt: remove 'ci' parameter from fscrypt_put_encryption_info()
  fscrypt: document symlink length restriction
  fscrypt: fix up fscrypt_fname_encrypted_size() for internal use
  fscrypt: define fscrypt_fname_alloc_buffer() to be for presented names
  fscrypt: calculate NUL-padding length in one place only
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_symlink_data to fscrypt_private.h
  fscrypt: remove fscrypt_fname_usr_to_disk()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ubifs: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  ubifs: free the encrypted symlink target
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  f2fs: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  ext4: switch to fscrypt_get_symlink()
  ext4: switch to fscrypt -&gt;symlink() helper functions
  fscrypt: new helper function - fscrypt_get_symlink()
  fscrypt: new helper functions for -&gt;symlink()
  fscrypt: trim down fscrypt.h includes
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_is_dot_dotdot() to fs/crypto/fname.c
  fscrypt: move fscrypt_valid_enc_modes() to fscrypt_private.h
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4</title>
<updated>2018-02-03T21:49:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-03T21:49:22+00:00</published>
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry-&gt;e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups
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Pull ext4 updates from Ted Ts'o:
 "Only miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes for ext4 this cycle"

* tag 'ext4_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4:
  ext4: create ext4_kset dynamically
  ext4: create ext4_feat kobject dynamically
  ext4: release kobject/kset even when init/register fail
  ext4: fix incorrect indentation of if statement
  ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option
  ext4: use 'sbi' instead of 'EXT4_SB(sb)'
  ext4: save error to disk in __ext4_grp_locked_error()
  jbd2: fix sphinx kernel-doc build warnings
  ext4: fix a race in the ext4 shutdown path
  mbcache: make sure c_entry_count is not decremented past zero
  ext4: no need flush workqueue before destroying it
  ext4: fixed alignment and minor code cleanup in ext4.h
  ext4: fix ENOSPC handling in DAX page fault handler
  dax: pass detailed error code from dax_iomap_fault()
  mbcache: revert "fs/mbcache.c: make count_objects() more robust"
  mbcache: initialize entry-&gt;e_referenced in mb_cache_entry_create()
  ext4: fix up remaining files with SPDX cleanups
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-02T18:01:04+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Enable support for memory protection keys aka "pkeys" on Power7/8/9
     when using the hash table MMU.

   - Extend our interrupt soft masking to support masking PMU interrupts
     as well as "normal" interrupts, and then use that to implement
     local_t for a ~4x speedup vs the current atomics-based
     implementation.

   - A new driver "ocxl" for "Open Coherent Accelerator Processor
     Interface (OpenCAPI)" devices.

   - Support for new device tree properties on PowerVM to describe
     hotpluggable memory and devices.

   - Add support for CLOCK_{REALTIME/MONOTONIC}_COARSE to the 64-bit
     VDSO.

   - Freescale updates from Scott: fixes for CPM GPIO and an FSL PCI
     erratum workaround, plus a minor cleanup patch.

  As well as quite a lot of other changes all over the place, and small
  fixes and cleanups as always.

  Thanks to: Alan Modra, Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy,
  Alistair Popple, Andreas Schwab, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anju T Sudhakar, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Arnd Bergmann,
  Balbir Singh, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhaktipriya Shridhar, Bryant G.
  Ly, Cédric Le Goater, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Cyril Bur,
  David Gibson, Desnes A. Nunes do Rosario, Dmitry Torokhov, Frederic
  Barrat, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Gustavo A. R. Silva,
  Gustavo Romero, Ivan Mikhaylov, Joakim Tjernlund, Joe Perches, Josh
  Poimboeuf, Juan J. Alvarez, Julia Cartwright, Kamalesh Babulal,
  Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Mathieu Malaterre, Michael
  Bringmann, Michael Hanselmann, Michael Neuling, Nathan Fontenot,
  Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Paul Mackerras, Philippe Bergheaud,
  Ram Pai, Russell Currey, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Seth Forshee,
  Simon Guo, Stewart Smith, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thiago Jung Bauermann,
  Vaibhav Jain, Vasyl Gomonovych"

* tag 'powerpc-4.16-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (199 commits)
  powerpc/mm/radix: Fix build error when RADIX_MMU=n
  macintosh/ams-input: Use true and false for boolean values
  macintosh: change some data types from int to bool
  powerpc/watchdog: Print the NIP in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: regs can't be null in soft_nmi_interrupt()
  powerpc/watchdog: Tweak watchdog printks
  powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver
  rtc-opal: Fix handling of firmware error codes, prevent busy loops
  powerpc/mpc52xx_gpt: make use of raw_spinlock variants
  macintosh/adb: Properly mark continued kernel messages
  powerpc/pseries: Fix cpu hotplug crash with memoryless nodes
  powerpc/numa: Ensure nodes initialized for hotplug
  powerpc/numa: Use ibm,max-associativity-domains to discover possible nodes
  powerpc/kernel: Block interrupts when updating TIDR
  powerpc/powernv/idoa: Remove unnecessary pcidev from pci_dn
  powerpc/mm/nohash: do not flush the entire mm when range is a single page
  powerpc/pseries: Add Initialization of VF Bars
  powerpc/pseries/pci: Associate PEs to VFs in configure SR-IOV
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH notify resume sysfs
  powerpc/eeh: Add EEH operations to notify resume
  ...
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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>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=ab486bc9a591689f3ac2b6ebc072309371f8f451'/>
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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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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux</title>
<updated>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-02-01T03:25:25+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=255442c93843f52b6891b21d0b485bf2c97f93c3'/>
<id>255442c93843f52b6891b21d0b485bf2c97f93c3</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
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<pre>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "Documentation updates for 4.16.

  New stuff includes refcount_t documentation, errseq documentation,
  kernel-doc support for nested structure definitions, the removal of
  lots of crufty kernel-doc support for unused formats, SPDX tag
  documentation, the beginnings of a manual for subsystem maintainers,
  and lots of fixes and updates.

  As usual, some of the changesets reach outside of Documentation/ to
  effect kerneldoc comment fixes. It also adds the new LICENSES
  directory, of which Thomas promises I do not need to be the
  maintainer"

* tag 'docs-4.16' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (65 commits)
  linux-next: docs-rst: Fix typos in kfigure.py
  linux-next: DOC: HWPOISON: Fix path to debugfs in hwpoison.txt
  Documentation: Fix misconversion of #if
  docs: add index entry for networking/msg_zerocopy
  Documentation: security/credentials.rst: explain need to sort group_list
  LICENSES: Add MPL-1.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 1.0 license
  LICENSES: Add Linux syscall note exception
  LICENSES: Add the MIT license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD-3-clause "Clear" license
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
  LICENSES: Add the BSD 2-clause "Simplified" license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL-2.1 license
  LICENSES: Add the LGPL 2.0 license
  LICENSES: Add the GPL 2.0 license
  Documentation: Add license-rules.rst to describe how to properly identify file licenses
  scripts: kernel_doc: better handle show warnings logic
  fs/*/Kconfig: drop links to 404-compliant http://acl.bestbits.at
  doc: md: Fix a file name to md-fault.c in fault-injection.txt
  errseq: Add to documentation tree
  ...
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs</title>
<updated>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-01-31T17:25:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=19e7b5f99474107e8d0b4b3e4652fa19ddb87efc'/>
<id>19e7b5f99474107e8d0b4b3e4652fa19ddb87efc</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
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Pull misc vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "All kinds of misc stuff, without any unifying topic, from various
  people.

  Neil's d_anon patch, several bugfixes, introduction of kvmalloc
  analogue of kmemdup_user(), extending bitfield.h to deal with
  fixed-endians, assorted cleanups all over the place..."

* 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (28 commits)
  alpha: osf_sys.c: use timespec64 where appropriate
  alpha: osf_sys.c: fix put_tv32 regression
  jffs2: Fix use-after-free bug in jffs2_iget()'s error handling path
  dcache: delete unused d_hash_mask
  dcache: subtract d_hash_shift from 32 in advance
  fs/buffer.c: fold init_buffer() into init_page_buffers()
  fs: fold __inode_permission() into inode_permission()
  fs: add RWF_APPEND
  sctp: use vmemdup_user() rather than badly open-coding memdup_user()
  snd_ctl_elem_init_enum_names(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  replace_user_tlv(): switch to vmemdup_user()
  new primitive: vmemdup_user()
  memdup_user(): switch to GFP_USER
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_get() into eventfd_ctx_fileget()
  eventfd: fold eventfd_ctx_read() into eventfd_read()
  eventfd: convert to use anon_inode_getfd()
  nfs4file: get rid of pointless include of btrfs.h
  uvc_v4l2: clean copyin/copyout up
  vme_user: don't use __copy_..._user()
  usx2y: don't bother with memdup_user() for 16-byte structure
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/cell: Remove axonram driver</title>
<updated>2018-01-28T06:00:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Michael Ellerman</name>
<email>mpe@ellerman.id.au</email>
</author>
<published>2017-11-02T23:56:32+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1d65b1c886be6111f2347bd1a548bec58da17ccf'/>
<id>1d65b1c886be6111f2347bd1a548bec58da17ccf</id>
<content type='text'>
The QS21/22 IBM Cell blades had a southbridge chip called Axon. This
could have DDR DIMMs attached to it, though they were not directly
usable as RAM, instead they could be used as some sort of buffer, if
applications were written specifically to use the block device
provided by the driver.

Although the driver supposedly had direct access support, it was
apparently never tested (see commit 91117a20245b ("axonram: Fix bug in
direct_access")).

These machines have not been available for over 5 years, and were
never widely in use. It seems highly unlikely anyone is using this
driver.

In general we're happy to leave old drivers in the tree, but because
DAX is involved this driver is caught up in the ongoing work in that
area, but none of the DAX folks are able to test it.

So remove the driver, if any one *is* using it, we'll be happy to put
it back.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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The QS21/22 IBM Cell blades had a southbridge chip called Axon. This
could have DDR DIMMs attached to it, though they were not directly
usable as RAM, instead they could be used as some sort of buffer, if
applications were written specifically to use the block device
provided by the driver.

Although the driver supposedly had direct access support, it was
apparently never tested (see commit 91117a20245b ("axonram: Fix bug in
direct_access")).

These machines have not been available for over 5 years, and were
never widely in use. It seems highly unlikely anyone is using this
driver.

In general we're happy to leave old drivers in the tree, but because
DAX is involved this driver is caught up in the ongoing work in that
area, but none of the DAX folks are able to test it.

So remove the driver, if any one *is* using it, we'll be happy to put
it back.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>ovl: document NFS export</title>
<updated>2018-01-24T10:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Amir Goldstein</name>
<email>amir73il@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-25T19:39:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=a01f64b5c06ca1130b0b72ceb5e2a25e4d37ab08'/>
<id>a01f64b5c06ca1130b0b72ceb5e2a25e4d37ab08</id>
<content type='text'>
Document NFS export design.
Followup patches will implement this design.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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Document NFS export design.
Followup patches will implement this design.

Signed-off-by: Amir Goldstein &lt;amir73il@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi &lt;mszeredi@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
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