linux.git/drivers/staging, branch v3.14-rc2

[media] go7007-loader: fix usb_dev leak

2014-02-04T08:28:00+00:00

There is usb_get_dev() in go7007_loader_probe(),
but there is no usb_put_dev() anywhere.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov 
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

Merge tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging

2014-02-01T18:29:59+00:00

Pull rtl8812ae staging wireless driver from Greg KH:
 "Here's a single staging driver for a wireless chipset that has shown
  up in the SteamBox hardware.  It is merged separately from the "main"
  staging pull request to sync up with the wireless api changes that
  came in from the networking tree.

  It's self-contained and works for me and others.  Larry will be
  replacing it with a "real" driver for 3.15, but for now this one is
  needed"

* tag 'staging-3.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
  staging: r8821ae: Enable build by reverting BROKEN marking
  staging: r8821ae: Fix build problems
  Staging: rtl8812ae: disable due to build errors
  Staging: rtl8821ae: add TODO file
  Staging: rtl8821ae: removed unused functions and variables
  Staging: rtl8821ae: rc.c: fix up function prototypes
  Staging: rtl8812ae: Add Realtek 8821 PCI WIFI driver

Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media

2014-01-31T17:31:14+00:00

Pull media updates from Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
 - a new jpeg codec driver for Samsung Exynos (jpeg-hw-exynos4)
 - a new dvb frontend for ds2103 chipset (m88ds2103)
 - a new sensor driver for Samsung S5K5BAF UXGA (s5k5baf)
 - new drivers for R-Car VSP1
 - a new radio driver: radio-raremono
 - a new tuner driver for ts2022 chipset (m88ts2022)
 - the analog part of em28xx is now a separate module that only
   load/runs if the device is not a pure digital TV device
 - added a staging driver for bcm2048 radio devices
 - the omap 2 video driver (omap24xx) was moved to staging.  This driver
   is for an old hardware and uses a deprecated Kernel internal API.  If
   nobody cares enough to fix it, it would be removed on a couple Kernel
   releases
 - the sn9c102 driver was moved to staging.  This driver was replaced by
   gspca, and disabled on some distros, as almost all devices are known
   to work properly with gspca.  It should be removed from kernel on a
   couple Kernel releases
 - lots of driver fixes, improvements and cleanups

* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-media: (421 commits)
  [media] media: v4l2-dev: fix video device index assignment
  [media] rc-core: reuse device numbers
  [media] em28xx-cards: properly initialize the device bitmap
  [media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_drv.c
  [media] Staging: media: Fix line length exceeding 80 characters in as102_fe.c
  [media] Staging: media: Fix quoted string split across line in as102_fe.c
  [media] media: st-rc: Add reset support
  [media] m2m-deinterlace: fix allocated struct type
  [media] radio-usb-si4713: fix sparse non static symbol warnings
  [media] em28xx-audio: remove needless check before usb_free_coherent()
  [media] au0828: Fix sparse non static symbol warning
  Revert "[media] go7007-usb: only use go->dev after allocated"
  [media] em28xx-audio: provide an error code when URB submit fails
  [media] em28xx: fix check for audio only usb interfaces when changing the usb alternate setting
  [media] em28xx: fix usb alternate setting for analog and digital video endpoints > 0
  [media] em28xx: make 'em28xx_ctrl_ops' static
  em28xx-alsa: Fix error patch for init/fini
  [media] em28xx-audio: flush work at .fini
  [media] drxk: remove the option to load firmware asynchronously
  [media] em28xx: adjust period size at runtime
  ...

zram: promote zram from staging

2014-01-31T00:56:55+00:00

Zram has lived in staging for a LONG LONG time and have been
fixed/improved by many contributors so code is clean and stable now.  Of
course, there are lots of product using zram in real practice.

The major TV companys have used zram as swap since two years ago and
recently our production team released android smart phone with zram
which is used as swap, too and recently Android Kitkat start to use zram
for small memory smart phone.  And there was a report Google released
their ChromeOS with zram, too and cyanogenmod have been used zram long
time ago.  And I heard some disto have used zram block device for tmpfs.
In addition, I saw many report from many other peoples.  For example,
Lubuntu start to use it.

The benefit of zram is very clear.  With my experience, one of the
benefit was to remove jitter of video application with backgroud memory
pressure.  It would be effect of efficient memory usage by compression
but more issue is whether swap is there or not in the system.  Recent
mobile platforms have used JAVA so there are many anonymous pages.  But
embedded system normally are reluctant to use eMMC or SDCard as swap
because there is wear-leveling and latency issues so if we do not use
swap, it means we can't reclaim anoymous pages and at last, we could
encounter OOM kill.  :(

Although we have real storage as swap, it was a problem, too.  Because
it sometime ends up making system very unresponsible caused by slow swap
storage performance.

Quote from Luigi on Google
 "Since Chrome OS was mentioned: the main reason why we don't use swap
  to a disk (rotating or SSD) is because it doesn't degrade gracefully
  and leads to a bad interactive experience.  Generally we prefer to
  manage RAM at a higher level, by transparently killing and restarting
  processes.  But we noticed that zram is fast enough to be competitive
  with the latter, and it lets us make more efficient use of the
  available RAM.  " and he announced.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg57717.html

Other uses case is to use zram for block device.  Zram is block device
so anyone can format the block device and mount on it so some guys on
the internet start zram as /var/tmp.
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-838198-start-0.html

Let's promote zram and enhance/maintain it instead of removing.

Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

zsmalloc: move it under mm

2014-01-31T00:56:55+00:00

This patch moves zsmalloc under mm directory.

Before that, description will explain why we have needed custom
allocator.

Zsmalloc is a new slab-based memory allocator for storing compressed
pages.  It is designed for low fragmentation and high allocation success
rate on large object, but <= PAGE_SIZE allocations.

zsmalloc differs from the kernel slab allocator in two primary ways to
achieve these design goals.

zsmalloc never requires high order page allocations to back slabs, or
"size classes" in zsmalloc terms.  Instead it allows multiple
single-order pages to be stitched together into a "zspage" which backs
the slab.  This allows for higher allocation success rate under memory
pressure.

Also, zsmalloc allows objects to span page boundaries within the zspage.
This allows for lower fragmentation than could be had with the kernel
slab allocator for objects between PAGE_SIZE/2 and PAGE_SIZE.  With the
kernel slab allocator, if a page compresses to 60% of it original size,
the memory savings gained through compression is lost in fragmentation
because another object of the same size can't be stored in the leftover
space.

This ability to span pages results in zsmalloc allocations not being
directly addressable by the user.  The user is given an
non-dereferencable handle in response to an allocation request.  That
handle must be mapped, using zs_map_object(), which returns a pointer to
the mapped region that can be used.  The mapping is necessary since the
object data may reside in two different noncontigious pages.

The zsmalloc fulfills the allocation needs for zram perfectly

[sjenning@linux.vnet.ibm.com: borrow Seth's quote]
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim 
Acked-by: Nitin Gupta 
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
Cc: Bob Liu 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Hugh Dickins 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Luigi Semenzato 
Cc: Mel Gorman 
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Rik van Riel 
Cc: Seth Jennings 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block

2014-01-30T19:19:05+00:00

Pull core block IO changes from Jens Axboe:
 "The major piece in here is the immutable bio_ve series from Kent, the
  rest is fairly minor.  It was supposed to go in last round, but
  various issues pushed it to this release instead.  The pull request
  contains:

   - Various smaller blk-mq fixes from different folks.  Nothing major
     here, just minor fixes and cleanups.

   - Fix for a memory leak in the error path in the block ioctl code
     from Christian Engelmayer.

   - Header export fix from CaiZhiyong.

   - Finally the immutable biovec changes from Kent Overstreet.  This
     enables some nice future work on making arbitrarily sized bios
     possible, and splitting more efficient.  Related fixes to immutable
     bio_vecs:

        - dm-cache immutable fixup from Mike Snitzer.
        - btrfs immutable fixup from Muthu Kumar.

  - bio-integrity fix from Nic Bellinger, which is also going to stable"

* 'for-3.14/core' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block: (44 commits)
  xtensa: fixup simdisk driver to work with immutable bio_vecs
  block/blk-mq-cpu.c: use hotcpu_notifier()
  blk-mq: for_each_* macro correctness
  block: Fix memory leak in rw_copy_check_uvector() handling
  bio-integrity: Fix bio_integrity_verify segment start bug
  block: remove unrelated header files and export symbol
  blk-mq: uses page->list incorrectly
  blk-mq: use __smp_call_function_single directly
  btrfs: fix missing increment of bi_remaining
  Revert "block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set"
  block: Warn and free bio if bi_end_io is not set
  blk-mq: fix initializing request's start time
  block: blk-mq: don't export blk_mq_free_queue()
  block: blk-mq: make blk_sync_queue support mq
  block: blk-mq: support draining mq queue
  dm cache: increment bi_remaining when bi_end_io is restored
  block: fixup for generic bio chaining
  block: Really silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Silence spurious compiler warnings
  block: Kill bio_pair_split()
  ...

staging: r8821ae: Enable build by reverting BROKEN marking

2014-01-27T17:41:05+00:00

When this driver failed to build in the linux-next tree, Stephen Rothwell
modified Kconfig to disable it. Now that the problems are fixed, that
change can be reverted.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

staging: r8821ae: Fix build problems

2014-01-27T17:39:40+00:00

As initially introduced, this driver failed to build in the linux-next
tree due to changes coming from newer developments arising in the
wireless trees. This patch removes incompatible code and provides
definitions for symbols that have been removed from mac80211.

In addition, several warnings were fixed.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'master' into staging-next

2014-01-27T13:44:53+00:00

We need the network changes in staging-next in order to be able to fix
up the rtl8821ae driver to build properly.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Staging: rtl8812ae: disable due to build errors

2014-01-27T13:43:05+00:00

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman