linux.git/Documentation, branch v3.10-rc5

Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma

2013-06-08T17:05:10+00:00

Pull slave-dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
 "Fix from Andy is for dmatest regression reported by Will and Rabin has
  fixed runtime ref counting for st_dma40"

* 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
  dmatest: do not allow to interrupt ongoing tests
  dmaengine: ste_dma40: fix pm runtime ref counting

dmatest: do not allow to interrupt ongoing tests

2013-06-07T20:43:44+00:00

When user interrupts ongoing transfers the dmatest may end up with console
lockup, oops, or data mismatch. This patch prevents user to abort any ongoing
test.

Documentation is updated accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko 
Reported-by: Will Deacon 
Tested-by: Will Deacon 
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul

Merge tag 'for-linus-v3.10-rc5' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs

2013-06-06T23:15:25+00:00

Pull more xfs updates from Ben Myers:
 "Here are several fixes for filesystems with CRC support turned on:
  fixes for quota, remote attributes, and recovery.  There is also some
  feature work related to CRCs: the implementation of CRCs for the inode
  unlinked lists, disabling noattr2/attr2 options when appropriate, and
  bumping the maximum number of ACLs.

  I would have preferred to defer this last category of items to 3.11.
  This would require setting a feature bit for the on-disk changes, so
  there is some pressure to get these in 3.10.  I believe this
  represents the end of the CRC related queue.

   - Rework of dquot CRCs
   - Fix for remote attribute invalidation of a leaf
   - Fix ordering of transaction replay in recovery
   - Implement CRCs for inode unlinked list
   - Disable noattr2/attr2 mount options when CRCs are enabled
   - Bump the limitation of ACL entries for v5 superblocks"

* tag 'for-linus-v3.10-rc5' of git://oss.sgi.com/xfs/xfs:
  xfs: increase number of ACL entries for V5 superblocks
  xfs: disable noattr2/attr2 mount options for CRC enabled filesystems
  xfs: inode unlinked list needs to recalculate the inode CRC
  xfs: fix log recovery transaction item reordering
  xfs: fix remote attribute invalidation for a leaf
  xfs: rework dquot CRCs

xfs: disable noattr2/attr2 mount options for CRC enabled filesystems

2013-06-06T15:51:34+00:00

attr2 format is always enabled for v5 superblock filesystems, so the
mount options to enable or disable it need to be cause mount errors.

Signed-off-by: Dave Chinner 
Reviewed-by: Brian Foster 
Signed-off-by: Ben Myers 

(cherry picked from commit d3eaace84e40bf946129e516dcbd617173c1cf14)

powerpc/tm: Fix userspace stack corruption on signal delivery for active transactions

2013-05-31T22:29:23+00:00

When in an active transaction that takes a signal, we need to be careful with
the stack.  It's possible that the stack has moved back up after the tbegin.
The obvious case here is when the tbegin is called inside a function that
returns before a tend.  In this case, the stack is part of the checkpointed
transactional memory state.  If we write over this non transactionally or in
suspend, we are in trouble because if we get a tm abort, the program counter
and stack pointer will be back at the tbegin but our in memory stack won't be
valid anymore.

To avoid this, when taking a signal in an active transaction, we need to use
the stack pointer from the checkpointed state, rather than the speculated
state.  This ensures that the signal context (written tm suspended) will be
written below the stack required for the rollback.  The transaction is aborted
becuase of the treclaim, so any memory written between the tbegin and the
signal will be rolled back anyway.

For signals taken in non-TM or suspended mode, we use the
normal/non-checkpointed stack pointer.

Tested with 64 and 32 bit signals

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc:  # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/tm: Abort on emulation and alignment faults

2013-05-31T22:29:22+00:00

If we are emulating an instruction inside an active user transaction that
touches memory, the kernel can't emulate it as it operates in transactional
suspend context.  We need to abort these transactions and send them back to
userspace for the hardware to rollback.

We can service these if the user transaction is in suspend mode, since the
kernel will operate in the same suspend context.

This adds a check to all alignment faults and to specific instruction
emulations (only string instructions for now).  If the user process is in an
active (non-suspended) transaction, we abort the transaction go back to
userspace allowing the HW to roll back the transaction and tell the user of the
failure.  This also adds new tm abort cause codes to report the reason of the
persistent error to the user.

Crappy test case here http://neuling.org/devel/junkcode/aligntm.c

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc:  # v3.9
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

powerpc/tm: Update cause codes documentation

2013-05-31T22:29:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling 
Cc:  # 3.9 only
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt

Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew Morton)

2013-05-25T01:12:15+00:00

Merge fixes from Andrew Morton:
 "A bunch of fixes and one simple fbdev driver which missed the merge
  window because people will still talking about it (to no great
  effect)."

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (30 commits)
  aio: fix kioctx not being freed after cancellation at exit time
  mm/pagewalk.c: walk_page_range should avoid VM_PFNMAP areas
  drivers/rtc/rtc-max8998.c: check for pdata presence before dereferencing
  ocfs2: goto out_unlock if ocfs2_get_clusters_nocache() failed in ocfs2_fiemap()
  random: fix accounting race condition with lockless irq entropy_count update
  drivers/char/random.c: fix priming of last_data
  mm/memory_hotplug.c: fix printk format warnings
  nilfs2: fix issue of nilfs_set_page_dirty() for page at EOF boundary
  drivers/block/brd.c: fix brd_lookup_page() race
  fbdev: FB_GOLDFISH should depend on HAS_DMA
  drivers/rtc/rtc-pl031.c: pass correct pointer to free_irq()
  auditfilter.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
  aio: fix io_getevents documentation
  revert "selftest: add simple test for soft-dirty bit"
  drivers/leds/leds-ot200.c: fix error caused by shifted mask
  mm/THP: use pmd_populate() to update the pmd with pgtable_t pointer
  linux/kernel.h: fix kernel-doc warning
  mm compaction: fix of improper cache flush in migration code
  rapidio/tsi721: fix bug in MSI interrupt handling
  hfs: avoid crash in hfs_bnode_create
  ...

drivers/video: implement a simple framebuffer driver

2013-05-24T23:22:51+00:00

A simple frame-buffer describes a raw memory region that may be rendered
to, with the assumption that the display hardware has already been set
up to scan out from that buffer.

This is useful in cases where a bootloader exists and has set up the
display hardware, but a Linux driver doesn't yet exist for the display
hardware.

Examples use-cases include:

* The built-in LCD panels on the Samsung ARM chromebook, and Tegra
  devices, and likely many other ARM or embedded systems.  These cannot
  yet be supported using a full graphics driver, since the panel control
  should be provided by the CDF (Common Display Framework), which has been
  stuck in design/review for quite some time.  One could support these
  panels using custom SoC-specific code, but there is a desire to use
  common infra-structure rather than having each SoC vendor invent their
  own code, hence the desire to wait for CDF.

* Hardware for which a full graphics driver is not yet available, and
  the path to obtain one upstream isn't yet clear.  For example, the
  Raspberry Pi.

* Any hardware in early stages of upstreaming, before a full graphics
  driver has been tackled.  This driver can provide a graphical boot
  console (even full X support) much earlier in the upstreaming process,
  thus making new SoC or board support more generally useful earlier.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make simplefb_formats[] static]
Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren 
Cc: Arnd Bergmann 
Acked-by: Olof Johansson 
Cc: Rob Clark 
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat 
Cc: Tomasz Figa 
Cc: Laurent Pinchart 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

rapidio: documentation update for enumeration changes

2013-05-24T23:22:50+00:00

Update RapidIO documentation to reflect changes made to
enumeration/discovery build configuration and user space triggering
mechanism.

Signed-off-by: Alexandre Bounine 
Cc: Matt Porter 
Cc: Li Yang 
Cc: Kumar Gala 
Cc: Andre van Herk 
Cc: Micha Nelissen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds