linux.git/drivers/Makefile, branch v4.2

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm

2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00

Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
"The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

NFIT:
Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
Interface table).

After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
devices. A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
boundaries of persistent memory media. A region may span multiple
NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller. In
turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
device (disk) interface to the memory.

PMEM:
Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

BLK:
This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
"Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT. The primary difference
of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
time.

Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
different portions of the media. BLK-mode, by definition, does not
support DAX.

BTT:
This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
not know they have a atomic sector dependency. At least today's
disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
gets a CRC error on access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always
silently. Until an application is audited to be robust in the
presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
libnvdimm: enable iostat
pmem: make_request cleanups
libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
nd_btt: atomic sector updates
libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
libnvdimm: write blk label set
libnvdimm: write pmem label set
libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
...

libnvdimm, nfit: initial libnvdimm infrastructure and NFIT support

2015-06-25T01:24:10+00:00

A struct nvdimm_bus is the anchor device for registering nvdimm
resources and interfaces, for example, a character control device,
nvdimm devices, and I/O region devices.  The ACPI NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
Interface Table) is one possible platform description for such
non-volatile memory resources in a system.  The nfit.ko driver attaches
to the "ACPI0012" device that indicates the presence of the NFIT and
parses the table to register a struct nvdimm_bus instance.

Cc: 
Cc: Lv Zheng 
Cc: Robert Moore 
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Tested-by: Toshi Kani 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

staging: I2O cleanup

2015-05-24T20:33:43+00:00

Remove the last reference on menuconfig I20 that has been removed by
commit 4a72a7af462d ("staging: remove i2o subsystem").

Signed-off-by: Valentin Rothberg 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

coresight: moving to new "hwtracing" directory

2015-04-03T14:17:04+00:00

Keeping drivers related to HW tracing on ARM, i.e coresight,
under "drivers/coresight" doesn't make sense when other
architectures start rolling out technologies of the same
nature.

As such creating a new "drivers/hwtracing" directory where all
drivers of the same kind can reside, reducing namespace
pollution under "drivers/".

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers: Move iommu/ before gpu/ in Makefile

2014-12-22T09:47:37+00:00

AMD GPU devices are dependent on AMD IOMMU controller functionality to allow
the GPU to access a process's virtual memory address space, without the need
for pinning the memory.

This patch changes the order in the drivers makefile, so iommu/ subsystem is
linked before gpu/ subsystem. That way, if the gpu and iommu drivers are
compiled inside the kernel image (not as modules), the correct order of device
loading is still maintained (iommu module is loaded before gpu module).

Signed-off-by: Oded Gabbay 
Reviewed-by: Christian König

Merge tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2014-12-16T02:06:13+00:00

Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big staging tree pull request for 3.19-rc1.

  We continued to delete more lines than were added, always a good
  thing, but not at a huge rate this release, only about 70k lines
  removed overall mostly from removing the horrid bcm driver.

  Lots of normal staging driver cleanups and fixes all over the place,
  well over a thousand of them, the shortlog shows all the horrid
  details.

  The "contentious" thing here is the movement of the Android binder
  code out of staging into the "real" part of the kernel.  This is code
  that has been stable for a few years now and is working as-is in the
  tens of millions of devices with no issues.  Yes, the code is horrid,
  and the userspace api leaves a lot to be desired, but it's not going
  to change due to legacy issues that we have no control over.  Because
  so many devices and companies rely on this, and the code is stable,
  might as well promote it out of staging.

  This was all discussed at the Linux Plumbers conference, and everyone
  participating agreed that this was the best way forward.

  There is work happening to replace the binder code with something new
  that is happening right now, but I don't expect to see the results of
  that work for another year at the earliest.  If that ever happens, and
  Android switches over to it, I'll gladly remove this version.

  As for maintainers, I'll be glad to maintain this code, I've been
  doing it for the past few years with no problems.  I'll send a
  MAINTAINERS entry for it before 3.19-final is out, still need to talk
  to the Google developers about if they are willing to help with it or
  not, last I checked they were, which was good.

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

* tag 'staging-3.19-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (1382 commits)
  Staging: slicoss: Fix long line issues in slicoss.c
  staging: rtl8712: remove unnecessary else after return
  staging: comedi: change some printk calls to pr_err
  staging: rtl8723au: hal: Removed the extra semicolon
  lustre: Deletion of unnecessary checks before three function calls
  staging: lustre: fix sparse warnings: static function declaration
  staging: lustre: fixed sparse warnings related to static declarations
  staging: unisys: remove duplicate header
  staging: unisys: remove unneeded structure
  staging: ft1000 : replace __attribute ((__packed__) with __packed
  drivers: staging: rtl8192e: Include "asm/unaligned.h" instead of "access_ok.h" in "rtl819x_BAProc.c"
  Drivers:staging:rtl8192e: Fixed checkpatch warning
  Drivers:staging:clocking-wizard: Added a newline
  staging: clocking-wizard: check for a valid clk_name pointer
  staging: rtl8723au: Hal_InitPGData() avoid unnecessary typecasts
  staging: rtl8723au: _DisableAnalog(): Avoid zero-init variables unnecessarily
  staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _ResetDigitalProcedure1()
  staging: rtl8723au: _ResetDigitalProcedure1_92C() reduce code obfuscation
  staging: rtl8723au: Remove unnecessary wrapper _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB()
  staging: rtl8723au: _DisableRFAFEAndResetBB8192C(): Reduce code obfuscation
  ...

coresight: add CoreSight core layer framework

2014-11-07T23:19:32+00:00

CoreSight components are compliant with the ARM CoreSight
architecture specification and can be connected in various
topologies to suit a particular SoC tracing needs. These trace
components can generally be classified as sources, links and
sinks. Trace data produced by one or more sources flows through
the intermediate links connecting the source to the currently
selected sink.

The CoreSight framework provides an interface for the CoreSight trace
drivers to register themselves with. It's intended to build up a
topological view of the CoreSight components and configure the
correct serie of components on user input via sysfs.

For eg., when enabling a source, the framework builds up a path
consisting of all the components connecting the source to the
currently selected sink(s) and enables all of them.

The framework also supports switching between available sinks
and provides status information to user space applications
through the debugfs interface.

Signed-off-by: Pratik Patel 
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Poirier 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: android: binder: move to the "real" part of the kernel

2014-10-20T02:30:15+00:00

The Android binder code has been "stable" for many years now.  No matter
what comes in the future, we are going to have to support this API, so
might as well move it to the "real" part of the kernel as there's no
real work that needs to be done to the existing code.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'driver-core-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

2014-08-05T01:34:04+00:00

Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver-core pull request for 3.17-rc1.

  Largest thing in here is the dma-buf rework and fence code, that
  touched many different subsystems so it was agreed it should go
  through this tree to handle merge issues.  There's also some firmware
  loading updates, as well as tests added, and a few other tiny changes,
  the changelog has the details.

  All have been in linux-next for a long time"

* tag 'driver-core-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (32 commits)
  ARM: imx: Remove references to platform_bus in mxc code
  firmware loader: Fix _request_firmware_load() return val for fw load abort
  platform: Remove most references to platform_bus device
  test: add firmware_class loader test
  doc: fix minor typos in firmware_class README
  staging: android: Cleanup style issues
  Documentation: devres: Sort managed interfaces
  Documentation: devres: Add devm_kmalloc() et al
  fs: debugfs: remove trailing whitespace
  kernfs: kernel-doc warning fix
  debugfs: Fix corrupted loop in debugfs_remove_recursive
  stable_kernel_rules: Add pointer to netdev-FAQ for network patches
  driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'
  driver core/platform: remove unused implicit padding in platform_object
  firmware loader: inform direct failure when udev loader is disabled
  firmware: replace ALIGN(PAGE_SIZE) by PAGE_ALIGN
  firmware: read firmware size using i_size_read()
  firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader
  reservation: add suppport for read-only access using rcu
  reservation: update api and add some helpers
  ...

Conflicts:
	drivers/base/platform.c

Merge tag 'char-misc-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2014-08-05T00:32:24+00:00

Pull char / misc driver patches from Greg KH:
 "Here's the big driver misc / char pull request for 3.17-rc1.

  Lots of things in here, the thunderbolt support for Apple laptops,
  some other new drivers, testing fixes, and other good things.  All
  have been in linux-next for a long time"

* tag 'char-misc-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (119 commits)
  misc: bh1780: Introduce the use of devm_kzalloc
  Lattice ECP3 FPGA: Correct endianness
  drivers/misc/ti-st: Load firmware from ti-connectivity directory.
  dt-bindings: extcon: Add support for SM5502 MUIC device
  extcon: sm5502: Change internal hardware switch according to cable type
  extcon: sm5502: Detect cable state after completing platform booting
  extcon: sm5502: Add support new SM5502 extcon device driver
  extcon: arizona: Get MICVDD against extcon device
  extcon: Remove unnecessary OOM messages
  misc: vexpress: Fix sparse non static symbol warnings
  mei: drop unused hw dependent fw status functions
  misc: bh1770glc: Use managed functions
  pcmcia: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE usage
  misc: remove DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE usage
  ipack: Replace DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro use
  drivers/char/dsp56k.c: drop check for negativity of unsigned parameter
  mei: fix return value on disconnect timeout
  mei: don't schedule suspend in pm idle
  mei: start disconnect request timer consistently
  mei: reset client connection state on timeout
  ...