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<title>powerpc/pseries/cmm: fix managed page counts when migrating pages between zones</title>
<updated>2019-12-16T12:15:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Hildenbrand</name>
<email>david@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-16T10:30:58+00:00</published>
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Commit 63341ab03706 (virtio-balloon: fix managed page counts when migrating
pages between zones) fixed a long existing BUG in the virtio-balloon
driver when pages would get migrated between zones.  I did not try to
reproduce on powerpc, but looking at the code, the same should apply to
powerpc/cmm ever since it started using the balloon compaction
infrastructure (luckily just recently).

In case we have to migrate a ballon page to a newpage of another zone, the
managed page count of both zones is wrong. Paired with memory offlining
(which will adjust the managed page count), we can trigger kernel crashes
and all kinds of different symptoms.

Fix it by properly adjusting the managed page count when migrating if
the zone changed.

We'll temporarily modify the totalram page count. If this ever becomes a
problem, we can fine tune by providing helpers that don't touch
the totalram pages (e.g., adjust_zone_managed_page_count()).

Fixes: fe030c9b85e6 ("powerpc/pseries/cmm: Implement balloon compaction")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216103058.4958-1-david@redhat.com
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Commit 63341ab03706 (virtio-balloon: fix managed page counts when migrating
pages between zones) fixed a long existing BUG in the virtio-balloon
driver when pages would get migrated between zones.  I did not try to
reproduce on powerpc, but looking at the code, the same should apply to
powerpc/cmm ever since it started using the balloon compaction
infrastructure (luckily just recently).

In case we have to migrate a ballon page to a newpage of another zone, the
managed page count of both zones is wrong. Paired with memory offlining
(which will adjust the managed page count), we can trigger kernel crashes
and all kinds of different symptoms.

Fix it by properly adjusting the managed page count when migrating if
the zone changed.

We'll temporarily modify the totalram page count. If this ever becomes a
problem, we can fine tune by providing helpers that don't touch
the totalram pages (e.g., adjust_zone_managed_page_count()).

Fixes: fe030c9b85e6 ("powerpc/pseries/cmm: Implement balloon compaction")
Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand &lt;david@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191216103058.4958-1-david@redhat.com
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/vcpu: Assume dedicated processors as non-preempt</title>
<updated>2019-12-13T10:06:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Srikar Dronamraju</name>
<email>srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-05T08:32:17+00:00</published>
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With commit 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on
pre-empted vCPUs"), the scheduler avoids preempted vCPUs to schedule
tasks on wakeup. This leads to wrong choice of CPU, which in-turn
leads to larger wakeup latencies. Eventually, it leads to performance
regression in latency sensitive benchmarks like soltp, schbench etc.

On Powerpc, vcpu_is_preempted() only looks at yield_count. If the
yield_count is odd, the vCPU is assumed to be preempted. However
yield_count is increased whenever the LPAR enters CEDE state (idle).
So any CPU that has entered CEDE state is assumed to be preempted.

Even if vCPU of dedicated LPAR is preempted/donated, it should have
right of first-use since they are supposed to own the vCPU.

On a Power9 System with 32 cores:
  # lscpu
  Architecture:        ppc64le
  Byte Order:          Little Endian
  CPU(s):              128
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-127
  Thread(s) per core:  8
  Core(s) per socket:  1
  Socket(s):           16
  NUMA node(s):        2
  Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
  Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
  Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
  Virtualization type: para
  L1d cache:           32K
  L1i cache:           32K
  L2 cache:            512K
  L3 cache:            10240K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-63
  NUMA node1 CPU(s):   64-127

  # perf stat -a -r 5 ./schbench
  v5.4                               v5.4 + patch
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 63
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 74
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 78
        *99.0000th: 91                     *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 707                     99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6920                    99.9th: 86
        min=0, max=10048                   min=0, max=96
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 691                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 3972                    99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 8368                    99.9th: 91
        min=0, max=16606                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 106                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 2364                    99.5th: 84
        99.9000th: 7480                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=10001                   min=0, max=95
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 47
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 65
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 78                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 93                     *99.0th: 84
        99.5000th: 108                     99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 6792                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=17681                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 46                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 73                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 113                    *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 2724                    99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6184                    99.9th: 93
        min=0, max=9887                    min=0, max=111

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs):

  context-switches    43,373  ( +-  0.40% )   44,597 ( +-  0.55% )
  cpu-migrations       1,211  ( +-  5.04% )      220 ( +-  6.23% )
  page-faults         15,983  ( +-  5.21% )   15,360 ( +-  3.38% )

Waiman Long suggested using static_keys.

Fixes: 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reported-by: Parth Shah &lt;parth@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ihor Pasichnyk &lt;Ihor.Pasichnyk@ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Parth Shah &lt;parth@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Move the key and setting of the key to pseries/setup.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213035036.6913-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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With commit 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on
pre-empted vCPUs"), the scheduler avoids preempted vCPUs to schedule
tasks on wakeup. This leads to wrong choice of CPU, which in-turn
leads to larger wakeup latencies. Eventually, it leads to performance
regression in latency sensitive benchmarks like soltp, schbench etc.

On Powerpc, vcpu_is_preempted() only looks at yield_count. If the
yield_count is odd, the vCPU is assumed to be preempted. However
yield_count is increased whenever the LPAR enters CEDE state (idle).
So any CPU that has entered CEDE state is assumed to be preempted.

Even if vCPU of dedicated LPAR is preempted/donated, it should have
right of first-use since they are supposed to own the vCPU.

On a Power9 System with 32 cores:
  # lscpu
  Architecture:        ppc64le
  Byte Order:          Little Endian
  CPU(s):              128
  On-line CPU(s) list: 0-127
  Thread(s) per core:  8
  Core(s) per socket:  1
  Socket(s):           16
  NUMA node(s):        2
  Model:               2.2 (pvr 004e 0202)
  Model name:          POWER9 (architected), altivec supported
  Hypervisor vendor:   pHyp
  Virtualization type: para
  L1d cache:           32K
  L1i cache:           32K
  L2 cache:            512K
  L3 cache:            10240K
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):   0-63
  NUMA node1 CPU(s):   64-127

  # perf stat -a -r 5 ./schbench
  v5.4                               v5.4 + patch
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 63
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 74
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 78
        *99.0000th: 91                     *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 707                     99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6920                    99.9th: 86
        min=0, max=10048                   min=0, max=96
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 691                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 3972                    99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 8368                    99.9th: 91
        min=0, max=16606                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 46
        75.0000th: 61                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 71                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 77                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 106                    *99.0th: 83
        99.5000th: 2364                    99.5th: 84
        99.9000th: 7480                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=10001                   min=0, max=95
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 45                      50.0th: 47
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 65
        90.0000th: 72                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 78                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 93                     *99.0th: 84
        99.5000th: 108                     99.5th: 85
        99.9000th: 6792                    99.9th: 90
        min=0, max=17681                   min=0, max=117
  Latency percentiles (usec)         Latency percentiles (usec)
        50.0000th: 46                      50.0th: 45
        75.0000th: 62                      75.0th: 64
        90.0000th: 73                      90.0th: 75
        95.0000th: 79                      95.0th: 79
        *99.0000th: 113                    *99.0th: 82
        99.5000th: 2724                    99.5th: 83
        99.9000th: 6184                    99.9th: 93
        min=0, max=9887                    min=0, max=111

   Performance counter stats for 'system wide' (5 runs):

  context-switches    43,373  ( +-  0.40% )   44,597 ( +-  0.55% )
  cpu-migrations       1,211  ( +-  5.04% )      220 ( +-  6.23% )
  page-faults         15,983  ( +-  5.21% )   15,360 ( +-  3.38% )

Waiman Long suggested using static_keys.

Fixes: 247f2f6f3c70 ("sched/core: Don't schedule threads on pre-empted vCPUs")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.18+
Reported-by: Parth Shah &lt;parth@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Reported-by: Ihor Pasichnyk &lt;Ihor.Pasichnyk@ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Waiman Long &lt;longman@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Gautham R. Shenoy &lt;ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju &lt;srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Phil Auld &lt;pauld@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan &lt;svaidy@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Parth Shah &lt;parth@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Move the key and setting of the key to pseries/setup.c]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191213035036.6913-1-mpe@ellerman.id.au
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<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Disable trace_imc pmu</title>
<updated>2019-12-05T06:06:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-18T03:44:52+00:00</published>
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When a root user or a user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege uses any
trace_imc performance monitoring unit events, to monitor application
or KVM threads, it may result in a checkstop (System crash).

The cause is frequent switching of the "trace/accumulation" mode of
the In-Memory Collection hardware (LDBAR).

This patch disables the trace_imc PMU unit entirely to avoid
triggering the checkstop. A future patch will reenable it at a later
stage once a workaround has been developed.

Fixes: 012ae244845f ("powerpc/perf: Trace imc PMU functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hariharan T.S. &lt;hari@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Add pr_info_once() so dmesg shows the PMU has been disabled]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118034452.9939-1-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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When a root user or a user with CAP_SYS_ADMIN privilege uses any
trace_imc performance monitoring unit events, to monitor application
or KVM threads, it may result in a checkstop (System crash).

The cause is frequent switching of the "trace/accumulation" mode of
the In-Memory Collection hardware (LDBAR).

This patch disables the trace_imc PMU unit entirely to avoid
triggering the checkstop. A future patch will reenable it at a later
stage once a workaround has been developed.

Fixes: 012ae244845f ("powerpc/perf: Trace imc PMU functions")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.2+
Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Hariharan T.S. &lt;hari@linux.ibm.com&gt;
[mpe: Add pr_info_once() so dmesg shows the PMU has been disabled]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191118034452.9939-1-maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/powernv: Avoid re-registration of imc debugfs directory</title>
<updated>2019-12-05T06:06:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Anju T Sudhakar</name>
<email>anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T07:20:35+00:00</published>
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export_imc_mode_and_cmd() function which creates the debugfs interface
for imc-mode and imc-command, is invoked when each nest pmu units is
registered.

When the first nest pmu unit is registered, export_imc_mode_and_cmd()
creates 'imc' directory under `/debug/powerpc/`. In the subsequent
invocations debugfs_create_dir() function returns, since the directory
already exists.

The recent commit &lt;c33d442328f55&gt; (debugfs: make error message a bit
more verbose), throws a warning if we try to invoke
`debugfs_create_dir()` with an already existing directory name.

Address this warning by making the debugfs directory registration in
the opal_imc_counters_probe() function, i.e invoke
export_imc_mode_and_cmd() function from the probe function.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry &lt;nasastry@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191127072035.4283-1-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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export_imc_mode_and_cmd() function which creates the debugfs interface
for imc-mode and imc-command, is invoked when each nest pmu units is
registered.

When the first nest pmu unit is registered, export_imc_mode_and_cmd()
creates 'imc' directory under `/debug/powerpc/`. In the subsequent
invocations debugfs_create_dir() function returns, since the directory
already exists.

The recent commit &lt;c33d442328f55&gt; (debugfs: make error message a bit
more verbose), throws a warning if we try to invoke
`debugfs_create_dir()` with an already existing directory name.

Address this warning by making the debugfs directory registration in
the opal_imc_counters_probe() function, i.e invoke
export_imc_mode_and_cmd() function from the probe function.

Signed-off-by: Anju T Sudhakar &lt;anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Tested-by: Nageswara R Sastry &lt;nasastry@in.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191127072035.4283-1-anju@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2019-12-02T02:43:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-02T02:43:25+00:00</published>
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The highlight this cycle is continuing integration fixes for PowerPC
  and some resulting optimizations.

  Summary:

   - Updates to better support vmalloc space restrictions on PowerPC
     platforms.

   - Cleanups to move common sysfs attributes to core 'struct
     device_type' objects.

   - Export the 'target_node' attribute (the effective numa node if pmem
     is marked online) for regions and namespaces.

   - Miscellaneous fixups and optimizations"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Remove Keith from NVDIMM maintainers
  libnvdimm: Export the target_node attribute for regions and namespaces
  dax: Add numa_node to the default device-dax attributes
  libnvdimm: Simplify root read-only definition for the 'resource' attribute
  dax: Simplify root read-only definition for the 'resource' attribute
  dax: Create a dax device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nvdimm_bus_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nvdimm_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_mapping_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_region_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_numa_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_device_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move region attribute group definition
  libnvdimm: Move attribute groups to device type
  libnvdimm: Remove prototypes for nonexistent functions
  libnvdimm/btt: fix variable 'rc' set but not used
  libnvdimm/pmem: Delete include of nd-core.h
  libnvdimm/namespace: Differentiate between probe mapping and runtime mapping
  libnvdimm/pfn_dev: Don't clear device memmap area during generic namespace probe
  libnvdimm: Trivial comment fix
  ...
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Pull libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams:
 "The highlight this cycle is continuing integration fixes for PowerPC
  and some resulting optimizations.

  Summary:

   - Updates to better support vmalloc space restrictions on PowerPC
     platforms.

   - Cleanups to move common sysfs attributes to core 'struct
     device_type' objects.

   - Export the 'target_node' attribute (the effective numa node if pmem
     is marked online) for regions and namespaces.

   - Miscellaneous fixups and optimizations"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: (21 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: Remove Keith from NVDIMM maintainers
  libnvdimm: Export the target_node attribute for regions and namespaces
  dax: Add numa_node to the default device-dax attributes
  libnvdimm: Simplify root read-only definition for the 'resource' attribute
  dax: Simplify root read-only definition for the 'resource' attribute
  dax: Create a dax device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nvdimm_bus_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nvdimm_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_mapping_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_region_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_numa_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move nd_device_attribute_group to device_type
  libnvdimm: Move region attribute group definition
  libnvdimm: Move attribute groups to device type
  libnvdimm: Remove prototypes for nonexistent functions
  libnvdimm/btt: fix variable 'rc' set but not used
  libnvdimm/pmem: Delete include of nd-core.h
  libnvdimm/namespace: Differentiate between probe mapping and runtime mapping
  libnvdimm/pfn_dev: Don't clear device memmap area during generic namespace probe
  libnvdimm: Trivial comment fix
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'compat-ioctl-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground</title>
<updated>2019-12-01T21:46:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-12-01T21:46:15+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=0da522107e5d9c000a4871d52e570912aa1225a2'/>
<id>0da522107e5d9c000a4871d52e570912aa1225a2</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull removal of most of fs/compat_ioctl.c from Arnd Bergmann:
 "As part of the cleanup of some remaining y2038 issues, I came to
  fs/compat_ioctl.c, which still has a couple of commands that need
  support for time64_t.

  In completely unrelated work, I spent time on cleaning up parts of
  this file in the past, moving things out into drivers instead.

  After Al Viro reviewed an earlier version of this series and did a lot
  more of that cleanup, I decided to try to completely eliminate the
  rest of it and move it all into drivers.

  This series incorporates some of Al's work and many patches of my own,
  but in the end stops short of actually removing the last part, which
  is the scsi ioctl handlers. I have patches for those as well, but they
  need more testing or possibly a rewrite"

* tag 'compat-ioctl-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (42 commits)
  scsi: sd: enable compat ioctls for sed-opal
  pktcdvd: add compat_ioctl handler
  compat_ioctl: move SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE handling
  compat_ioctl: ppp: move simple commands into ppp_generic.c
  compat_ioctl: handle PPPIOCGIDLE for 64-bit time_t
  compat_ioctl: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS to ppp_generic
  compat_ioctl: unify copy-in of ppp filters
  tty: handle compat PPP ioctls
  compat_ioctl: move SIOCOUTQ out of compat_ioctl.c
  compat_ioctl: handle SIOCOUTQNSD
  af_unix: add compat_ioctl support
  compat_ioctl: reimplement SG_IO handling
  compat_ioctl: move WDIOC handling into wdt drivers
  fs: compat_ioctl: move FITRIM emulation into file systems
  gfs2: add compat_ioctl support
  compat_ioctl: remove unused convert_in_user macro
  compat_ioctl: remove last RAID handling code
  compat_ioctl: remove /dev/raw ioctl translation
  compat_ioctl: remove PCI ioctl translation
  compat_ioctl: remove joystick ioctl translation
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull removal of most of fs/compat_ioctl.c from Arnd Bergmann:
 "As part of the cleanup of some remaining y2038 issues, I came to
  fs/compat_ioctl.c, which still has a couple of commands that need
  support for time64_t.

  In completely unrelated work, I spent time on cleaning up parts of
  this file in the past, moving things out into drivers instead.

  After Al Viro reviewed an earlier version of this series and did a lot
  more of that cleanup, I decided to try to completely eliminate the
  rest of it and move it all into drivers.

  This series incorporates some of Al's work and many patches of my own,
  but in the end stops short of actually removing the last part, which
  is the scsi ioctl handlers. I have patches for those as well, but they
  need more testing or possibly a rewrite"

* tag 'compat-ioctl-5.5' of git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/playground: (42 commits)
  scsi: sd: enable compat ioctls for sed-opal
  pktcdvd: add compat_ioctl handler
  compat_ioctl: move SG_GET_REQUEST_TABLE handling
  compat_ioctl: ppp: move simple commands into ppp_generic.c
  compat_ioctl: handle PPPIOCGIDLE for 64-bit time_t
  compat_ioctl: move PPPIOCSCOMPRESS to ppp_generic
  compat_ioctl: unify copy-in of ppp filters
  tty: handle compat PPP ioctls
  compat_ioctl: move SIOCOUTQ out of compat_ioctl.c
  compat_ioctl: handle SIOCOUTQNSD
  af_unix: add compat_ioctl support
  compat_ioctl: reimplement SG_IO handling
  compat_ioctl: move WDIOC handling into wdt drivers
  fs: compat_ioctl: move FITRIM emulation into file systems
  gfs2: add compat_ioctl support
  compat_ioctl: remove unused convert_in_user macro
  compat_ioctl: remove last RAID handling code
  compat_ioctl: remove /dev/raw ioctl translation
  compat_ioctl: remove PCI ioctl translation
  compat_ioctl: remove joystick ioctl translation
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux</title>
<updated>2019-11-30T22:35:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-30T22:35:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7794b1d4185e2587af46435e3e2f6696dae314c7'/>
<id>7794b1d4185e2587af46435e3e2f6696dae314c7</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Infrastructure for secure boot on some bare metal Power9 machines.
     The firmware support is still in development, so the code here
     won't actually activate secure boot on any existing systems.

   - A change to xmon (our crash handler / pseudo-debugger) to restrict
     it to read-only mode when the kernel is lockdown'ed, otherwise it's
     trivial to drop into xmon and modify kernel data, such as the
     lockdown state.

   - Support for KASLR on 32-bit BookE machines (Freescale / NXP).

   - Fixes for our flush_icache_range() and __kernel_sync_dicache()
     (VDSO) to work with memory ranges &gt;4GB.

   - Some reworks of the pseries CMM (Cooperative Memory Management)
     driver to make it behave more like other balloon drivers and enable
     some cleanups of generic mm code.

   - A series of fixes to our hardware breakpoint support to properly
     handle unaligned watchpoint addresses.

  Plus a bunch of other smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anthony Steinhauser, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Chris Smart,
  Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Claudio
  Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Hildenbrand, Deb McLemore, Diana
  Craciun, Eric Richter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
  Kurz, Gustavo L. F. Walbon, Hari Bathini, Harish, Jason Yan, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Leonardo Bras, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
  Michal Suchanek, Mimi Zohar, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nayna
  Jain, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Rasmus Villemoes,
  Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Thomas Huth,
  Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Valentin Longchamp, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (144 commits)
  powerpc/fixmap: fix crash with HIGHMEM
  x86/efi: remove unused variables
  powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep
  powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
  powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp
  powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang
  powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation
  powerpc/fixmap: don't clear fixmap area in paging_init()
  selftests/powerpc: spectre_v2 test must be built 64-bit
  powerpc/powernv: Disable native PCIe port management
  powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir.
  powerpc/32: Split kexec low level code out of misc_32.S
  powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio
  powerpc/83xx: map IMMR with a BAT.
  powerpc/32s: automatically allocate BAT in setbat()
  powerpc/ioremap: warn on early use of ioremap()
  powerpc: Add support for GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
  powerpc/fixmap: Use __fix_to_virt() instead of fix_to_virt()
  powerpc/8xx: use the fixmapped IMMR in cpm_reset()
  powerpc/8xx: add __init to cpm1 init functions
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:
 "Highlights:

   - Infrastructure for secure boot on some bare metal Power9 machines.
     The firmware support is still in development, so the code here
     won't actually activate secure boot on any existing systems.

   - A change to xmon (our crash handler / pseudo-debugger) to restrict
     it to read-only mode when the kernel is lockdown'ed, otherwise it's
     trivial to drop into xmon and modify kernel data, such as the
     lockdown state.

   - Support for KASLR on 32-bit BookE machines (Freescale / NXP).

   - Fixes for our flush_icache_range() and __kernel_sync_dicache()
     (VDSO) to work with memory ranges &gt;4GB.

   - Some reworks of the pseries CMM (Cooperative Memory Management)
     driver to make it behave more like other balloon drivers and enable
     some cleanups of generic mm code.

   - A series of fixes to our hardware breakpoint support to properly
     handle unaligned watchpoint addresses.

  Plus a bunch of other smaller improvements, fixes and cleanups.

  Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V,
  Anthony Steinhauser, Cédric Le Goater, Chris Packham, Chris Smart,
  Christophe Leroy, Christopher M. Riedl, Christoph Hellwig, Claudio
  Carvalho, Daniel Axtens, David Hildenbrand, Deb McLemore, Diana
  Craciun, Eric Richter, Geert Uytterhoeven, Greg Kroah-Hartman, Greg
  Kurz, Gustavo L. F. Walbon, Hari Bathini, Harish, Jason Yan, Krzysztof
  Kozlowski, Leonardo Bras, Mathieu Malaterre, Mauro S. M. Rodrigues,
  Michal Suchanek, Mimi Zohar, Nathan Chancellor, Nathan Lynch, Nayna
  Jain, Nick Desaulniers, Oliver O'Halloran, Qian Cai, Rasmus Villemoes,
  Ravi Bangoria, Sam Bobroff, Santosh Sivaraj, Scott Wood, Thomas Huth,
  Tyrel Datwyler, Vaibhav Jain, Valentin Longchamp, YueHaibing"

* tag 'powerpc-5.5-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (144 commits)
  powerpc/fixmap: fix crash with HIGHMEM
  x86/efi: remove unused variables
  powerpc: Define arch_is_kernel_initmem_freed() for lockdep
  powerpc/prom_init: Use -ffreestanding to avoid a reference to bcmp
  powerpc: Avoid clang warnings around setjmp and longjmp
  powerpc: Don't add -mabi= flags when building with Clang
  powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation
  powerpc/fixmap: don't clear fixmap area in paging_init()
  selftests/powerpc: spectre_v2 test must be built 64-bit
  powerpc/powernv: Disable native PCIe port management
  powerpc/kexec: Move kexec files into a dedicated subdir.
  powerpc/32: Split kexec low level code out of misc_32.S
  powerpc/sysdev: drop simple gpio
  powerpc/83xx: map IMMR with a BAT.
  powerpc/32s: automatically allocate BAT in setbat()
  powerpc/ioremap: warn on early use of ioremap()
  powerpc: Add support for GENERIC_EARLY_IOREMAP
  powerpc/fixmap: Use __fix_to_virt() instead of fix_to_virt()
  powerpc/8xx: use the fixmapped IMMR in cpm_reset()
  powerpc/8xx: add __init to cpm1 init functions
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux; tag 'dma-mapping-5.5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping</title>
<updated>2019-11-28T19:16:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-28T19:16:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=81b6b96475ac7a4ebfceae9f16fb3758327adbfe'/>
<id>81b6b96475ac7a4ebfceae9f16fb3758327adbfe</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - improve dma-debug scalability (Eric Dumazet)

 - tiny dma-debug cleanup (Dan Carpenter)

 - check for vmap memory in dma_map_single (Kees Cook)

 - check for dma_addr_t overflows in dma-direct when using DMA offsets
   (Nicolas Saenz Julienne)

 - switch the x86 sta2x11 SOC to use more generic DMA code (Nicolas
   Saenz Julienne)

 - fix arm-nommu dma-ranges handling (Vladimir Murzin)

 - use __initdata in CMA (Shyam Saini)

 - replace the bus dma mask with a limit (Nicolas Saenz Julienne)

 - merge the remapping helpers into the main dma-direct flow (me)

 - switch xtensa to the generic dma remap handling (me)

 - various cleanups around dma_capable (me)

 - remove unused dev arguments to various dma-noncoherent helpers (me)

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux:

* tag 'dma-mapping-5.5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (22 commits)
  dma-mapping: treat dev-&gt;bus_dma_mask as a DMA limit
  dma-direct: exclude dma_direct_map_resource from the min_low_pfn check
  dma-direct: don't check swiotlb=force in dma_direct_map_resource
  dma-debug: clean up put_hash_bucket()
  powerpc: remove support for NULL dev in __phys_to_dma / __dma_to_phys
  dma-direct: avoid a forward declaration for phys_to_dma
  dma-direct: unify the dma_capable definitions
  dma-mapping: drop the dev argument to arch_sync_dma_for_*
  x86/PCI: sta2x11: use default DMA address translation
  dma-direct: check for overflows on 32 bit DMA addresses
  dma-debug: increase HASH_SIZE
  dma-debug: reorder struct dma_debug_entry fields
  xtensa: use the generic uncached segment support
  dma-mapping: merge the generic remapping helpers into dma-direct
  dma-direct: provide mmap and get_sgtable method overrides
  dma-direct: remove the dma_handle argument to __dma_direct_alloc_pages
  dma-direct: remove __dma_direct_free_pages
  usb: core: Remove redundant vmap checks
  kernel: dma-contiguous: mark CMA parameters __initdata/__initconst
  dma-debug: add a schedule point in debug_dma_dump_mappings()
  ...
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<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull dma-mapping updates from Christoph Hellwig:

 - improve dma-debug scalability (Eric Dumazet)

 - tiny dma-debug cleanup (Dan Carpenter)

 - check for vmap memory in dma_map_single (Kees Cook)

 - check for dma_addr_t overflows in dma-direct when using DMA offsets
   (Nicolas Saenz Julienne)

 - switch the x86 sta2x11 SOC to use more generic DMA code (Nicolas
   Saenz Julienne)

 - fix arm-nommu dma-ranges handling (Vladimir Murzin)

 - use __initdata in CMA (Shyam Saini)

 - replace the bus dma mask with a limit (Nicolas Saenz Julienne)

 - merge the remapping helpers into the main dma-direct flow (me)

 - switch xtensa to the generic dma remap handling (me)

 - various cleanups around dma_capable (me)

 - remove unused dev arguments to various dma-noncoherent helpers (me)

* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux:

* tag 'dma-mapping-5.5' of git://git.infradead.org/users/hch/dma-mapping: (22 commits)
  dma-mapping: treat dev-&gt;bus_dma_mask as a DMA limit
  dma-direct: exclude dma_direct_map_resource from the min_low_pfn check
  dma-direct: don't check swiotlb=force in dma_direct_map_resource
  dma-debug: clean up put_hash_bucket()
  powerpc: remove support for NULL dev in __phys_to_dma / __dma_to_phys
  dma-direct: avoid a forward declaration for phys_to_dma
  dma-direct: unify the dma_capable definitions
  dma-mapping: drop the dev argument to arch_sync_dma_for_*
  x86/PCI: sta2x11: use default DMA address translation
  dma-direct: check for overflows on 32 bit DMA addresses
  dma-debug: increase HASH_SIZE
  dma-debug: reorder struct dma_debug_entry fields
  xtensa: use the generic uncached segment support
  dma-mapping: merge the generic remapping helpers into dma-direct
  dma-direct: provide mmap and get_sgtable method overrides
  dma-direct: remove the dma_handle argument to __dma_direct_alloc_pages
  dma-direct: remove __dma_direct_free_pages
  usb: core: Remove redundant vmap checks
  kernel: dma-contiguous: mark CMA parameters __initdata/__initconst
  dma-debug: add a schedule point in debug_dma_dump_mappings()
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core</title>
<updated>2019-11-27T19:06:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-27T19:06:20+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=9a3d7fd275be4559277667228902824165153c80'/>
<id>9a3d7fd275be4559277667228902824165153c80</id>
<content type='text'>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.5-rc1

  There's a few minor cleanups and fixes in here, but the majority of
  the patches in here fall into two buckets:

   - debugfs api cleanups and fixes

   - driver core device link support for boot dependancy issues

  The debugfs api cleanups are working to slowly refactor the debugfs
  apis so that it is even harder to use incorrectly. That work has been
  happening for the past few kernel releases and will continue over
  time, it's a long-term project/goal

  The driver core device link support missed 5.4 by just a bit, so it's
  been sitting and baking for many months now. It's from Saravana Kannan
  to help resolve the problems that DT-based systems have at boot time
  with dependancy graphs and kernel modules. Turns out that no one has
  actually tried to build a generic arm64 kernel with loads of modules
  and have it "just work" for a variety of platforms (like a distro
  kernel). The big problem turned out to be a lack of dependency
  information between different areas of DT entries, and the work here
  resolves that problem and now allows devices to boot properly, and
  quicker than a monolith kernel.

  All of these patches have been in linux-next for a long time with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (68 commits)
  tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS dependency
  of: property: Add device link support for interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)
  debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
  of: property: Add device link support for "iommu-map"
  of: property: Fix the semantics of of_is_ancestor_of()
  i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()
  drivers: base: Fix Kconfig indentation
  firmware_loader: Fix labels with comma for builtin firmware
  driver core: Allow device link operations inside sync_state()
  driver core: platform: Declare ret variable only once
  cpu-topology: declare parse_acpi_topology in &lt;linux/arch_topology.h&gt;
  crypto: hisilicon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  driver core: platform: use the correct callback type for bus_find_device
  firmware_class: make firmware caching configurable
  driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()
  mailbox: tegra: Fix superfluous IRQ error message
  net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
  mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
  media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  of: property: Add device link support for iommus, mboxes and io-channels
  ...
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" set of driver core patches for 5.5-rc1

  There's a few minor cleanups and fixes in here, but the majority of
  the patches in here fall into two buckets:

   - debugfs api cleanups and fixes

   - driver core device link support for boot dependancy issues

  The debugfs api cleanups are working to slowly refactor the debugfs
  apis so that it is even harder to use incorrectly. That work has been
  happening for the past few kernel releases and will continue over
  time, it's a long-term project/goal

  The driver core device link support missed 5.4 by just a bit, so it's
  been sitting and baking for many months now. It's from Saravana Kannan
  to help resolve the problems that DT-based systems have at boot time
  with dependancy graphs and kernel modules. Turns out that no one has
  actually tried to build a generic arm64 kernel with loads of modules
  and have it "just work" for a variety of platforms (like a distro
  kernel). The big problem turned out to be a lack of dependency
  information between different areas of DT entries, and the work here
  resolves that problem and now allows devices to boot properly, and
  quicker than a monolith kernel.

  All of these patches have been in linux-next for a long time with no
  reported issues"

* tag 'driver-core-5.5-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (68 commits)
  tracing: Remove unnecessary DEBUG_FS dependency
  of: property: Add device link support for interrupt-parent, dmas and -gpio(s)
  debugfs: Fix !DEBUG_FS debugfs_create_automount
  of: property: Add device link support for "iommu-map"
  of: property: Fix the semantics of of_is_ancestor_of()
  i2c: of: Populate fwnode in of_i2c_get_board_info()
  drivers: base: Fix Kconfig indentation
  firmware_loader: Fix labels with comma for builtin firmware
  driver core: Allow device link operations inside sync_state()
  driver core: platform: Declare ret variable only once
  cpu-topology: declare parse_acpi_topology in &lt;linux/arch_topology.h&gt;
  crypto: hisilicon: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  driver core: platform: use the correct callback type for bus_find_device
  firmware_class: make firmware caching configurable
  driver core: Clarify documentation for fwnode_operations.add_links()
  mailbox: tegra: Fix superfluous IRQ error message
  net: caif: Fix debugfs on 64-bit platforms
  mac80211: Use debugfs_create_xul() helper
  media: c8sectpfe: no need to check return value of debugfs_create functions
  of: property: Add device link support for iommus, mboxes and io-channels
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: Fix Kconfig indentation</title>
<updated>2019-11-25T10:45:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Krzysztof Kozlowski</name>
<email>krzk@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-11-21T03:21:01+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=5f017a56aa5da7f646a858475d57730cd155c9f1'/>
<id>5f017a56aa5da7f646a858475d57730cd155c9f1</id>
<content type='text'>
Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in
coding style with command like:
	$ sed -e 's/^        /\t/' -i */Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1574306461-7646-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Adjust indentation from spaces to tab (+optional two spaces) as in
coding style with command like:
	$ sed -e 's/^        /\t/' -i */Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski &lt;krzk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1574306461-7646-1-git-send-email-krzk@kernel.org
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
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