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<title>linux.git/arch/mips/kernel, branch v4.6-rc2</title>
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<title>arch, ftrace: for KASAN put hard/soft IRQ entries into separate sections</title>
<updated>2016-03-25T23:37:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alexander Potapenko</name>
<email>glider@google.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-25T21:22:05+00:00</published>
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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KASAN needs to know whether the allocation happens in an IRQ handler.
This lets us strip everything below the IRQ entry point to reduce the
number of unique stack traces needed to be stored.

Move the definition of __irq_entry to &lt;linux/interrupt.h&gt; so that the
users don't need to pull in &lt;linux/ftrace.h&gt;.  Also introduce the
__softirq_entry macro which is similar to __irq_entry, but puts the
corresponding functions to the .softirqentry.text section.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Potapenko &lt;glider@google.com&gt;
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Pekka Enberg &lt;penberg@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: David Rientjes &lt;rientjes@google.com&gt;
Cc: Joonsoo Kim &lt;iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Konovalov &lt;adech.fo@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov &lt;dvyukov@google.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin &lt;ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Konstantin Serebryany &lt;kcc@google.com&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Chernenkov &lt;dmitryc@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio</title>
<updated>2016-03-18T04:05:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-18T04:05:32+00:00</published>
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Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6.  There is quite a
  lot of interesting stuff going on.

  The patches to other subsystems and arch-wide are ACKed as far as
  possible, though I consider things like per-arch &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt; as
  essentially a part of the GPIO subsystem so it should not be needed.

  Core changes:

   - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*.  Until now the gpio chips
     were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
     space outside of the device model.

     We now finally make GPIO chips devices.  The gpio_chip will create
     a gpio_device which contains a struct device, and this gpio_device
     struct is kept private.  Anything that needs to be kept private
     from the rest of the kernel will gradually be moved over to the
     gpio_device.

   - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
     resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
     overhead and reduce code lines.  A huge slew of patches convert
     almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

   - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step of
     a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device.  We take small
     steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
     "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
     lines on these devices.

     We can now discover GPIOs properly from userspace.  We still have
     not come up with a way to actually *use* GPIOs from userspace.

   - To encourage people to use the character device for the future, we
     have it always-enabled when using GPIO.  The old sysfs ABI is still
     opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as deprecated.

     We will keep it around for the foreseeable future, but it will not
     be extended to cover ever more use cases.

  Cleanup:

   - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt;
     includes.

     This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and no shared
     library even existed: just a header file with proper prototypes was
     provided and all semantics were up to the arch to implement.  These
     patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper device and cleans out
     leftovers of the old in-kernel API here and there.

     Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

   - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going on,
     but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers and
     the errorpath is sanitized.  Some patches for powerpc, blackfin and
     unicore still drop in.

   - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
     implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
     lines.

   - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

   - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

  New drivers:

   - WinSystems WS16C48

   - Acces 104-DIO-48E

   - F81866 (a F7188x variant)

   - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

   - TS-4800

   - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected to
     SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

   - Texas Instruments TPIC2810

   - Texas Instruments TPS65218

   - Texas Instruments TPS65912

   - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller"

* tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (194 commits)
  Revert "Share upstreaming patches"
  gpio: mcp23s08: Fix clearing of interrupt.
  gpiolib: Fix comment referring to gpio_*() in gpiod_*()
  gpio: pca953x: Fix pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() on 64-bit
  gpio: xgene: Fix kconfig for standby GIPO contoller
  gpio: Add generic serializer DT binding
  gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major
  gpio: tps65912: fix bad merge
  Revert "gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free"
  gpio: omap: drop dev field from gpio_bank structure
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Slightly update the code for better readability
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Remove *read_reg and *write_reg from struct mpc8xxx_gpio_chip
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Fixup setting gpio direction output
  gpio: mcp23s08: Add support for mcp23s18
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: Fix altr,interrupt-type property
  gpio: add driver for MEN 16Z127 GPIO controller
  gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free
  gpio: timberdale: Switch to devm_ioremap_resource()
  gpio: ts4800: Add IMX51 dependency
  gpiolib: rewrite gpiodev_add_to_list
  ...
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Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for kernel v4.6.  There is quite a
  lot of interesting stuff going on.

  The patches to other subsystems and arch-wide are ACKed as far as
  possible, though I consider things like per-arch &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt; as
  essentially a part of the GPIO subsystem so it should not be needed.

  Core changes:

   - The gpio_chip is now a *real device*.  Until now the gpio chips
     were just piggybacking the parent device or (gasp) floating in
     space outside of the device model.

     We now finally make GPIO chips devices.  The gpio_chip will create
     a gpio_device which contains a struct device, and this gpio_device
     struct is kept private.  Anything that needs to be kept private
     from the rest of the kernel will gradually be moved over to the
     gpio_device.

   - As a result of making the gpio_device a real device, we have added
     resource management, so devm_gpiochip_add_data() will cut down on
     overhead and reduce code lines.  A huge slew of patches convert
     almost all drivers in the subsystem to use this.

   - Building on making the GPIO a real device, we add the first step of
     a new userspace ABI: the GPIO character device.  We take small
     steps here, so we first add a pure *information* ABI and the tool
     "lsgpio" that will list all GPIO devices on the system and all
     lines on these devices.

     We can now discover GPIOs properly from userspace.  We still have
     not come up with a way to actually *use* GPIOs from userspace.

   - To encourage people to use the character device for the future, we
     have it always-enabled when using GPIO.  The old sysfs ABI is still
     opt-in (and can be used in parallel), but is marked as deprecated.

     We will keep it around for the foreseeable future, but it will not
     be extended to cover ever more use cases.

  Cleanup:

   - Bjorn Helgaas removed a whole slew of per-architecture &lt;asm/gpio.h&gt;
     includes.

     This dates back to when GPIO was an opt-in feature and no shared
     library even existed: just a header file with proper prototypes was
     provided and all semantics were up to the arch to implement.  These
     patches make the GPIO chip even more a proper device and cleans out
     leftovers of the old in-kernel API here and there.

     Still some cruft is left but it's very little now.

   - There is still some clamping of return values for .get() going on,
     but we now return sane values in the vast majority of drivers and
     the errorpath is sanitized.  Some patches for powerpc, blackfin and
     unicore still drop in.

   - We continue to switch the ARM, MIPS, blackfin, m68k local GPIO
     implementations to use gpiochip_add_data() and cut down on code
     lines.

   - MPC8xxx is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

   - ATH79 is converted to use the generic GPIO helpers.

  New drivers:

   - WinSystems WS16C48

   - Acces 104-DIO-48E

   - F81866 (a F7188x variant)

   - Qoric (a MPC8xxx variant)

   - TS-4800

   - SPI serializers (pisosr): simple 74xx shift registers connected to
     SPI to obtain a dirt-cheap output-only GPIO expander.

   - Texas Instruments TPIC2810

   - Texas Instruments TPS65218

   - Texas Instruments TPS65912

   - X-Gene (ARM64) standby GPIO controller"

* tag 'gpio-v4.6-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (194 commits)
  Revert "Share upstreaming patches"
  gpio: mcp23s08: Fix clearing of interrupt.
  gpiolib: Fix comment referring to gpio_*() in gpiod_*()
  gpio: pca953x: Fix pca953x_gpio_set_multiple() on 64-bit
  gpio: xgene: Fix kconfig for standby GIPO contoller
  gpio: Add generic serializer DT binding
  gpio: uapi: use 0xB4 as ioctl() major
  gpio: tps65912: fix bad merge
  Revert "gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free"
  gpio: omap: drop dev field from gpio_bank structure
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Slightly update the code for better readability
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Remove *read_reg and *write_reg from struct mpc8xxx_gpio_chip
  gpio: mpc8xxx: Fixup setting gpio direction output
  gpio: mcp23s08: Add support for mcp23s18
  dt-bindings: gpio: altera: Fix altr,interrupt-type property
  gpio: add driver for MEN 16Z127 GPIO controller
  gpio: lp3943: Drop pin_used and lp3943_gpio_request/lp3943_gpio_free
  gpio: timberdale: Switch to devm_ioremap_resource()
  gpio: ts4800: Add IMX51 dependency
  gpiolib: rewrite gpiodev_add_to_list
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T20:50:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T20:50:29+00:00</published>
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Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:

   - Initial implementation of the state machine

   - Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
     not on some random processor

   - Replaces busy loop waiting with completions

   - Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"

More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
 "What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?

   - Asymmetry

     The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
     teardown.  This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.

   - Largely undocumented dependencies

     While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
     we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
     express dependencies without any documentation why.

   - Control processor driven

     Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
     processor.  While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
     like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
     of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
     there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
     processor.  Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

       bring the rest up

   - All or nothing approach

     There is no way to do partial bringups.  That's something which is
     really desired because we waste e.g.  at boot substantial amount of
     time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life.  That's stupid
     as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
     other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
     synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.

   - Minimal debuggability

     Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
     two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
     the correctness.  So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
     mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.

   - Notifier [un]registering is tedious

     To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
     every callsite.  There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
     callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
     do it itself.  That also includes error rollback.

  What's the new design?

     The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
     the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
     defined set of states.  Each state is symmetric in the end, except
     for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
     stopped and reversed at almost all states.

     So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

                                       bring itself up

     The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
     That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
     other mechanism.

     The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
     up and brings itself down.  Cleanups which need to be done after
     the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.

  There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
  cpu is available.  Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
  out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.

  The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
  threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
  cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
  general workloads can be scheduled on it.  The reverse happens on
  teardown.  First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
  workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
  off completely.

  This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
  core level.  This includes the following:

   - Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
     ordering and prioritization can be expressed.

   - Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks

     This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
     the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
     the state machine array.

     For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
     a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
     explicit hotplug state.

     If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
     previous state.

   - Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.

     This is only partially functional today.  Full functionality and
     therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
     existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.

   - Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
     processor:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu
       wait for boot
                                       bring itself up

                                       Signal completion to control cpu

     In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
     conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme.  The balance
     is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.

     This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
     different approach.  Instead of mechanically converting everything
     over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
     they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.

     I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
     converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
     completely buggered anyway.  So there is no point to do a
     mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
     sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
     testable behaviour"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Document states better
  cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
  cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
  cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
  rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
  cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
  cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
  arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
  cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
  cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
  cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
  cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
  cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
  cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
  cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
  cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
  cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
  cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
  ...
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<pre>
Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:

   - Initial implementation of the state machine

   - Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
     not on some random processor

   - Replaces busy loop waiting with completions

   - Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"

More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
 "What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?

   - Asymmetry

     The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
     teardown.  This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.

   - Largely undocumented dependencies

     While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
     we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
     express dependencies without any documentation why.

   - Control processor driven

     Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
     processor.  While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
     like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
     of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
     there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
     processor.  Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

       bring the rest up

   - All or nothing approach

     There is no way to do partial bringups.  That's something which is
     really desired because we waste e.g.  at boot substantial amount of
     time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life.  That's stupid
     as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
     other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
     synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.

   - Minimal debuggability

     Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
     two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
     the correctness.  So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
     mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.

   - Notifier [un]registering is tedious

     To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
     every callsite.  There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
     callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
     do it itself.  That also includes error rollback.

  What's the new design?

     The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
     the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
     defined set of states.  Each state is symmetric in the end, except
     for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
     stopped and reversed at almost all states.

     So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu

                                       bring itself up

     The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
     That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
     other mechanism.

     The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
     up and brings itself down.  Cleanups which need to be done after
     the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.

  There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
  cpu is available.  Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
  out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.

  The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
  threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
  cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
  general workloads can be scheduled on it.  The reverse happens on
  teardown.  First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
  workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
  off completely.

  This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
  core level.  This includes the following:

   - Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
     ordering and prioritization can be expressed.

   - Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks

     This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
     the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
     the state machine array.

     For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
     a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
     explicit hotplug state.

     If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
     previous state.

   - Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.

     This is only partially functional today.  Full functionality and
     therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
     existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.

   - Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
     processor:

       Control CPU                     Booting CPU

       do preparatory steps
       kick cpu into life

                                       do low level init

       sync with booting cpu           sync with control cpu
       wait for boot
                                       bring itself up

                                       Signal completion to control cpu

     In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
     conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme.  The balance
     is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.

     This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
     different approach.  Instead of mechanically converting everything
     over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
     they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.

     I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
     converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
     completely buggered anyway.  So there is no point to do a
     mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
     sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
     testable behaviour"

* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
  cpu/hotplug: Document states better
  cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
  cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
  cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
  rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
  cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
  cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
  arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
  cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
  cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
  cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
  cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
  cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
  cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
  cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
  cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
  cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
  cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
  cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-15T19:48:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-15T19:48:48+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=df2e37c814d51692803245fcbecca360d4882e96'/>
<id>df2e37c814d51692803245fcbecca360d4882e96</id>
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The 4.6 pile of irq updates contains:

   - Support for IPI irqdomains to support proper integration of IPIs to
     and from coprocessors.  The first user of this new facility is
     MIPS.  The relevant MIPS patches come with the core to avoid merge
     ordering issues and have been acked by Ralf.

   - A new command line option to set the default interrupt affinity
     mask at boot time.

   - Support for some more new ARM and MIPS interrupt controllers:
     tango, alpine-msix and bcm6345-l1

   - Two small cleanups for x86/apic which we merged into irq/core to
     avoid yet another branch in x86 with two tiny commits.

   - The usual set of updates, cleanups in drivers/irqchip.  Mostly in
     the area of ARM-GIC, arada-37-xp and atmel chips.  Nothing
     outstanding here"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  irqchip/irq-alpine-msi: Release the correct domain on error
  irqchip/mxs: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  irqchip/sunxi-nmi: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  genirq: Export IRQ functions for module use
  irqchip/gic/realview: Support more RealView DCC variants
  Documentation/bindings: Document the Alpine MSIX driver
  irqchip: Add the Alpine MSIX interrupt controller
  irqchip/gic-v3: Always return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE in gic_set_affinity
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Mark its_init() and its children as __init
  irqchip/gic-v3: Remove gic_root_node variable from the ITS code
  irqchip/gic-v3: ACPI: Add redistributor support via GICC structures
  irqchip/gic-v3: Add ACPI support for GICv3/4 initialization
  irqchip/gic-v3: Refactor gic_of_init() for GICv3 driver
  x86/apic: Deinline _flat_send_IPI_mask, save ~150 bytes
  x86/apic: Deinline __default_send_IPI_*, save ~200 bytes
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add SoC-specific compatible string to Marvell ODMI
  irqchip/mips-gic: Add new DT property to reserve IPIs
  MIPS: Delete smp-gic.c
  MIPS: Make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions
  MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support
  ...
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Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "The 4.6 pile of irq updates contains:

   - Support for IPI irqdomains to support proper integration of IPIs to
     and from coprocessors.  The first user of this new facility is
     MIPS.  The relevant MIPS patches come with the core to avoid merge
     ordering issues and have been acked by Ralf.

   - A new command line option to set the default interrupt affinity
     mask at boot time.

   - Support for some more new ARM and MIPS interrupt controllers:
     tango, alpine-msix and bcm6345-l1

   - Two small cleanups for x86/apic which we merged into irq/core to
     avoid yet another branch in x86 with two tiny commits.

   - The usual set of updates, cleanups in drivers/irqchip.  Mostly in
     the area of ARM-GIC, arada-37-xp and atmel chips.  Nothing
     outstanding here"

* 'irq-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (56 commits)
  irqchip/irq-alpine-msi: Release the correct domain on error
  irqchip/mxs: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  irqchip/sunxi-nmi: Fix error check of of_io_request_and_map()
  genirq: Export IRQ functions for module use
  irqchip/gic/realview: Support more RealView DCC variants
  Documentation/bindings: Document the Alpine MSIX driver
  irqchip: Add the Alpine MSIX interrupt controller
  irqchip/gic-v3: Always return IRQ_SET_MASK_OK_DONE in gic_set_affinity
  irqchip/gic-v3-its: Mark its_init() and its children as __init
  irqchip/gic-v3: Remove gic_root_node variable from the ITS code
  irqchip/gic-v3: ACPI: Add redistributor support via GICC structures
  irqchip/gic-v3: Add ACPI support for GICv3/4 initialization
  irqchip/gic-v3: Refactor gic_of_init() for GICv3 driver
  x86/apic: Deinline _flat_send_IPI_mask, save ~150 bytes
  x86/apic: Deinline __default_send_IPI_*, save ~200 bytes
  dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add SoC-specific compatible string to Marvell ODMI
  irqchip/mips-gic: Add new DT property to reserve IPIs
  MIPS: Delete smp-gic.c
  MIPS: Make smp CMP, CPS and MT use the new generic IPI functions
  MIPS: Add generic SMP IPI support
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'core-resources-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2016-03-14T22:15:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-14T22:15:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d37a14bb5fed13a52dada3fa9ef4488ac588b35e'/>
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Pull ram resource handling changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel resource handling changes to support NVDIMM error
  injection.

  This tree introduces a new I/O resource type, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM,
  for System RAM while keeping the current IORESOURCE_MEM type bit set
  for all memory-mapped ranges (including System RAM) for backward
  compatibility.

  With this resource flag it no longer takes a strcmp() loop through the
  resource tree to find "System RAM" resources.

  The new resource type is then used to extend ACPI/APEI error injection
  facility to also support NVDIMM"

* 'core-resources-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ACPI/EINJ: Allow memory error injection to NVDIMM
  resource: Kill walk_iomem_res()
  x86/kexec: Remove walk_iomem_res() call with GART type
  x86, kexec, nvdimm: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search
  resource: Add walk_iomem_res_desc()
  memremap: Change region_intersects() to take @flags and @desc
  arm/samsung: Change s3c_pm_run_res() to use System RAM type
  resource: Change walk_system_ram() to use System RAM type
  drivers: Initialize resource entry to zero
  xen, mm: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM to System RAM
  kexec: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM for System RAM
  arch: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM flag for System RAM
  ia64: Set System RAM type and descriptor
  x86/e820: Set System RAM type and descriptor
  resource: Add I/O resource descriptor
  resource: Handle resource flags properly
  resource: Add System RAM resource type
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Pull ram resource handling changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Core kernel resource handling changes to support NVDIMM error
  injection.

  This tree introduces a new I/O resource type, IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM,
  for System RAM while keeping the current IORESOURCE_MEM type bit set
  for all memory-mapped ranges (including System RAM) for backward
  compatibility.

  With this resource flag it no longer takes a strcmp() loop through the
  resource tree to find "System RAM" resources.

  The new resource type is then used to extend ACPI/APEI error injection
  facility to also support NVDIMM"

* 'core-resources-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  ACPI/EINJ: Allow memory error injection to NVDIMM
  resource: Kill walk_iomem_res()
  x86/kexec: Remove walk_iomem_res() call with GART type
  x86, kexec, nvdimm: Use walk_iomem_res_desc() for iomem search
  resource: Add walk_iomem_res_desc()
  memremap: Change region_intersects() to take @flags and @desc
  arm/samsung: Change s3c_pm_run_res() to use System RAM type
  resource: Change walk_system_ram() to use System RAM type
  drivers: Initialize resource entry to zero
  xen, mm: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM to System RAM
  kexec: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM for System RAM
  arch: Set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM flag for System RAM
  ia64: Set System RAM type and descriptor
  x86/e820: Set System RAM type and descriptor
  resource: Add I/O resource descriptor
  resource: Handle resource flags properly
  resource: Add System RAM resource type
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: smp.c: Fix uninitialised temp_foreign_map</title>
<updated>2016-03-13T09:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>James Hogan</name>
<email>james.hogan@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T10:10:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=d825c06bfe8b885b797f917ad47365d0e9c21fbb'/>
<id>d825c06bfe8b885b797f917ad47365d0e9c21fbb</id>
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When calculate_cpu_foreign_map() recalculates the cpu_foreign_map
cpumask it uses the local variable temp_foreign_map without initialising
it to zero. Since the calculation only ever sets bits in this cpumask
any existing bits at that memory location will remain set and find their
way into cpu_foreign_map too. This could potentially lead to cache
operations suboptimally doing smp calls to multiple VPEs in the same
core, even though the VPEs share primary caches.

Therefore initialise temp_foreign_map using cpumask_clear() before use.

Fixes: cccf34e9411c ("MIPS: c-r4k: Fix cache flushing for MT cores")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12759/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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When calculate_cpu_foreign_map() recalculates the cpu_foreign_map
cpumask it uses the local variable temp_foreign_map without initialising
it to zero. Since the calculation only ever sets bits in this cpumask
any existing bits at that memory location will remain set and find their
way into cpu_foreign_map too. This could potentially lead to cache
operations suboptimally doing smp calls to multiple VPEs in the same
core, even though the VPEs share primary caches.

Therefore initialise temp_foreign_map using cpumask_clear() before use.

Fixes: cccf34e9411c ("MIPS: c-r4k: Fix cache flushing for MT cores")
Signed-off-by: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/12759/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'linus' into irq/core, to pick up fixes</title>
<updated>2016-03-08T11:26:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-08T11:26:07+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fe36d8912c8e402c62ce5a8712b6a47baae1ceaa'/>
<id>fe36d8912c8e402c62ce5a8712b6a47baae1ceaa</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>MIPS: traps: Fix SIGFPE information leak from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp'</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T21:52:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Maciej W. Rozycki</name>
<email>macro@imgtec.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T01:42:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=e723e3f7f9591b79e8c56b3d7c5a204a9c571b55'/>
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<content type='text'>
Avoid sending a partially initialised `siginfo_t' structure along SIGFPE
signals issued from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp', leading to information
leaking from the kernel stack.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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Avoid sending a partially initialised `siginfo_t' structure along SIGFPE
signals issued from `do_ov' and `do_trap_or_bp', leading to information
leaking from the kernel stack.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki &lt;macro@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'v4.5-rc6' into core/resources, to resolve conflict</title>
<updated>2016-03-04T11:12:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-04T11:12:08+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=bc94b99636dc7bcccce439a9fb9c00065e2e2627'/>
<id>bc94b99636dc7bcccce439a9fb9c00065e2e2627</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</content>
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state</title>
<updated>2016-03-01T19:36:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thomas Gleixner</name>
<email>tglx@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2016-02-26T18:43:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=fc6d73d67436e7784758a831227bd019547a3f73'/>
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Let the non boot cpus call into idle with the corresponding hotplug state, so
the hotplug core can handle the further bringup. That's a first step to
convert the boot side of the hotplugged cpus to do all the synchronization
with the other side through the state machine. For now it'll only start the
hotplug thread and kick the full bringup of the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.614102639@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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Let the non boot cpus call into idle with the corresponding hotplug state, so
the hotplug core can handle the further bringup. That's a first step to
convert the boot side of the hotplugged cpus to do all the synchronization
with the other side through the state machine. For now it'll only start the
hotplug thread and kick the full bringup of the cpu.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel &lt;riel@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" &lt;srivatsa@mit.edu&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Arjan van de Ven &lt;arjan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sebastian Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Paul Turner &lt;pjt@google.com&gt;
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.614102639@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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