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<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2012-10-12T13:20:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-12T13:20:28+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has four bug-fixes and one tiny feature that I forgot to put
  initially in my tree due to oversight.

  The feature is for kdump kernels to speed up the /proc/vmcore reading.
  There is a ram_is_pfn helper function that the different platforms can
  register for.  We are now doing that.

  The bug-fixes cover some embarrassing struct pv_cpu_ops variables
  being set to NULL on Xen (but not baremetal).  We had a similar issue
  in the past with {write|read}_msr_safe and this fills the three
  missing ones.  The other bug-fix is to make the console output (hvc)
  be capable of dealing with misbehaving backends and not fall flat on
  its face.  Lastly, a quirk for older XenBus implementations that came
  with an ancient v3.4 hypervisor (so RHEL5 based) - reading of certain
  non-existent attributes just hangs the guest during bootup - so we
  take precaution of not doing that on such older installations.

  Feature:
   - Register a pfn_is_ram helper to speed up reading of /proc/vmcore.
  Bug-fixes:
   - Three pvops call for Xen were undefined causing BUG_ONs.
   - Add a quirk so that the shutdown watches (used by kdump) are not
     used with older Xen (3.4).
   - Fix ungraceful state transition for the HVC console."

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches.
  xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call.
  xen/bootup: allow read_tscp call for Xen PV guests.
  xen pv-on-hvm: add pfn_is_ram helper for kdump
  xen/hvc: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
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Pull Xen fixes from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "This has four bug-fixes and one tiny feature that I forgot to put
  initially in my tree due to oversight.

  The feature is for kdump kernels to speed up the /proc/vmcore reading.
  There is a ram_is_pfn helper function that the different platforms can
  register for.  We are now doing that.

  The bug-fixes cover some embarrassing struct pv_cpu_ops variables
  being set to NULL on Xen (but not baremetal).  We had a similar issue
  in the past with {write|read}_msr_safe and this fills the three
  missing ones.  The other bug-fix is to make the console output (hvc)
  be capable of dealing with misbehaving backends and not fall flat on
  its face.  Lastly, a quirk for older XenBus implementations that came
  with an ancient v3.4 hypervisor (so RHEL5 based) - reading of certain
  non-existent attributes just hangs the guest during bootup - so we
  take precaution of not doing that on such older installations.

  Feature:
   - Register a pfn_is_ram helper to speed up reading of /proc/vmcore.
  Bug-fixes:
   - Three pvops call for Xen were undefined causing BUG_ONs.
   - Add a quirk so that the shutdown watches (used by kdump) are not
     used with older Xen (3.4).
   - Fix ungraceful state transition for the HVC console."

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen:
  xen/pv-on-hvm kexec: add quirk for Xen 3.4 and shutdown watches.
  xen/bootup: allow {read|write}_cr8 pvops call.
  xen/bootup: allow read_tscp call for Xen PV guests.
  xen pv-on-hvm: add pfn_is_ram helper for kdump
  xen/hvc: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc</title>
<updated>2012-10-05T18:16:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-05T18:16:12+00:00</published>
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Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Some highlights in addition to the usual batch of fixes:

   - 64TB address space support for 64-bit processes by Aneesh Kumar

   - Gavin Shan did a major cleanup &amp; re-organization of our EEH support
     code (IBM fancy PCI error handling &amp; recovery infrastructure) which
     paves the way for supporting different platform backends, along
     with some rework of the PCIe code for the PowerNV platform in order
     to remove home made resource allocations and instead use the
     generic code (which is possible after some small improvements to it
     done by Gavin).

   - Uprobes support by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli

   - A pile of embedded updates from Freescale folks, including new SoC
     and board supports, more KVM stuff including preparing for 64-bit
     BookE KVM support, ePAPR 1.1 updates, etc..."

Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/scsi/ipr.c

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (146 commits)
  powerpc/iommu: Fix multiple issues with IOMMU pools code
  powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case
  driver/mtd:IFC NAND:Initialise internal SRAM before any write
  powerpc/fsl-pci: use 'Header Type' to identify PCIE mode
  powerpc/eeh: Don't release eeh_mutex in eeh_phb_pe_get
  powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk
  powerpc: Set paca-&gt;data_offset = 0 for boot cpu
  powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
  powerpc/fsl-pci: fix warning when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is disabled
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Update interrupt handling for IFC controller
  powerpc/85xx: Enable USB support in p1023rds_defconfig
  powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend
  powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev
  powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event
  powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1
  powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame
  powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag
  powerpc: Remove unused __get_user64() and __put_user64()
  powerpc/eeh: Global mutex to protect PE tree
  powerpc/eeh: Remove EEH PE for normal PCI hotplug
  ...
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Pull powerpc updates from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
 "Some highlights in addition to the usual batch of fixes:

   - 64TB address space support for 64-bit processes by Aneesh Kumar

   - Gavin Shan did a major cleanup &amp; re-organization of our EEH support
     code (IBM fancy PCI error handling &amp; recovery infrastructure) which
     paves the way for supporting different platform backends, along
     with some rework of the PCIe code for the PowerNV platform in order
     to remove home made resource allocations and instead use the
     generic code (which is possible after some small improvements to it
     done by Gavin).

   - Uprobes support by Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli

   - A pile of embedded updates from Freescale folks, including new SoC
     and board supports, more KVM stuff including preparing for 64-bit
     BookE KVM support, ePAPR 1.1 updates, etc..."

Fixup trivial conflicts in drivers/scsi/ipr.c

* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (146 commits)
  powerpc/iommu: Fix multiple issues with IOMMU pools code
  powerpc: Fix VMX fix for memcpy case
  driver/mtd:IFC NAND:Initialise internal SRAM before any write
  powerpc/fsl-pci: use 'Header Type' to identify PCIE mode
  powerpc/eeh: Don't release eeh_mutex in eeh_phb_pe_get
  powerpc: Remove tlb batching hack for nighthawk
  powerpc: Set paca-&gt;data_offset = 0 for boot cpu
  powerpc/perf: Sample only if SIAR-Valid bit is set in P7+
  powerpc/fsl-pci: fix warning when CONFIG_SWIOTLB is disabled
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Update interrupt handling for IFC controller
  powerpc/85xx: Enable USB support in p1023rds_defconfig
  powerpc/smp: Do not disable IPI interrupts during suspend
  powerpc/eeh: Fix crash on converting OF node to edev
  powerpc/eeh: Lock module while handling EEH event
  powerpc/kprobe: Don't emulate store when kprobe stwu r1
  powerpc/kprobe: Complete kprobe and migrate exception frame
  powerpc/kprobe: Introduce a new thread flag
  powerpc: Remove unused __get_user64() and __put_user64()
  powerpc/eeh: Global mutex to protect PE tree
  powerpc/eeh: Remove EEH PE for normal PCI hotplug
  ...
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<entry>
<title>xen/hvc: handle backend CLOSED without CLOSING</title>
<updated>2012-10-04T15:30:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Vrabel</name>
<email>david.vrabel@citrix.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-21T16:04:24+00:00</published>
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Backend drivers shouldn't transistion to CLOSED unless the frontend is
CLOSED.  If a backend does transition to CLOSED too soon then the
frontend may not see the CLOSING state and will not properly shutdown.

So, treat an unexpected backend CLOSED state the same as CLOSING.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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Backend drivers shouldn't transistion to CLOSED unless the frontend is
CLOSED.  If a backend does transition to CLOSED too soon then the
frontend may not see the CLOSING state and will not properly shutdown.

So, treat an unexpected backend CLOSED state the same as CLOSING.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel &lt;david.vrabel@citrix.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-x86-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen</title>
<updated>2012-10-03T05:09:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-03T05:09:10+00:00</published>
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Pull Xen update from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Features:
   - When hotplugging PCI devices in a PV guest we can allocate
     Xen-SWIOTLB later.
   - Cleanup Xen SWIOTLB.
   - Support pages out grants from HVM domains in the backends.
   - Support wild cards in xen-pciback.hide=(BDF) arguments.
   - Update grant status updates with upstream hypervisor.
   - Boot PV guests with more than 128GB.
   - Cleanup Xen MMU code/add comments.
   - Obtain XENVERS using a preferred method.
   - Lay out generic changes to support Xen ARM.
   - Allow privcmd ioctl for HVM (used to do only PV).
   - Do v2 of mmap_batch for privcmd ioctls.
   - If hypervisor saves the LED keyboard light - we will now instruct
     the kernel about its state.
  Fixes:
   - More fixes to Xen PCI backend for various calls/FLR/etc.
   - With more than 4GB in a 64-bit PV guest disable native SWIOTLB.
   - Fix up smatch warnings.
   - Fix up various return values in privmcmd and mm."

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-x86-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (48 commits)
  xen/pciback: Restore the PCI config space after an FLR.
  xen-pciback: properly clean up after calling pcistub_device_find()
  xen/vga: add the xen EFI video mode support
  xen/x86: retrieve keyboard shift status flags from hypervisor.
  xen/gndev: Xen backend support for paged out grant targets V4.
  xen-pciback: support wild cards in slot specifications
  xen/swiotlb: Fix compile warnings when using plain integer instead of NULL pointer.
  xen/swiotlb: Remove functions not needed anymore.
  xen/pcifront: Use Xen-SWIOTLB when initting if required.
  xen/swiotlb: For early initialization, return zero on success.
  xen/swiotlb: Use the swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl to init Xen-SWIOTLB late when PV PCI is used.
  xen/swiotlb: Move the error strings to its own function.
  xen/swiotlb: Move the nr_tbl determination in its own function.
  xen/arm: compile and run xenbus
  xen: resynchronise grant table status codes with upstream
  xen/privcmd: return -EFAULT on error
  xen/privcmd: Fix mmap batch ioctl error status copy back.
  xen/privcmd: add PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_V2 ioctl
  xen/mm: return more precise error from xen_remap_domain_range()
  xen/mmu: If the revector fails, don't attempt to revector anything else.
  ...
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<pre>
Pull Xen update from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk:
 "Features:
   - When hotplugging PCI devices in a PV guest we can allocate
     Xen-SWIOTLB later.
   - Cleanup Xen SWIOTLB.
   - Support pages out grants from HVM domains in the backends.
   - Support wild cards in xen-pciback.hide=(BDF) arguments.
   - Update grant status updates with upstream hypervisor.
   - Boot PV guests with more than 128GB.
   - Cleanup Xen MMU code/add comments.
   - Obtain XENVERS using a preferred method.
   - Lay out generic changes to support Xen ARM.
   - Allow privcmd ioctl for HVM (used to do only PV).
   - Do v2 of mmap_batch for privcmd ioctls.
   - If hypervisor saves the LED keyboard light - we will now instruct
     the kernel about its state.
  Fixes:
   - More fixes to Xen PCI backend for various calls/FLR/etc.
   - With more than 4GB in a 64-bit PV guest disable native SWIOTLB.
   - Fix up smatch warnings.
   - Fix up various return values in privmcmd and mm."

* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.7-x86-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: (48 commits)
  xen/pciback: Restore the PCI config space after an FLR.
  xen-pciback: properly clean up after calling pcistub_device_find()
  xen/vga: add the xen EFI video mode support
  xen/x86: retrieve keyboard shift status flags from hypervisor.
  xen/gndev: Xen backend support for paged out grant targets V4.
  xen-pciback: support wild cards in slot specifications
  xen/swiotlb: Fix compile warnings when using plain integer instead of NULL pointer.
  xen/swiotlb: Remove functions not needed anymore.
  xen/pcifront: Use Xen-SWIOTLB when initting if required.
  xen/swiotlb: For early initialization, return zero on success.
  xen/swiotlb: Use the swiotlb_late_init_with_tbl to init Xen-SWIOTLB late when PV PCI is used.
  xen/swiotlb: Move the error strings to its own function.
  xen/swiotlb: Move the nr_tbl determination in its own function.
  xen/arm: compile and run xenbus
  xen: resynchronise grant table status codes with upstream
  xen/privcmd: return -EFAULT on error
  xen/privcmd: Fix mmap batch ioctl error status copy back.
  xen/privcmd: add PRIVCMD_MMAPBATCH_V2 ioctl
  xen/mm: return more precise error from xen_remap_domain_range()
  xen/mmu: If the revector fails, don't attempt to revector anything else.
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq</title>
<updated>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-02T16:54:49+00:00</published>
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Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull workqueue changes from Tejun Heo:
 "This is workqueue updates for v3.7-rc1.  A lot of activities this
  round including considerable API and behavior cleanups.

   * delayed_work combines a timer and a work item.  The handling of the
     timer part has always been a bit clunky leading to confusing
     cancelation API with weird corner-case behaviors.  delayed_work is
     updated to use new IRQ safe timer and cancelation now works as
     expected.

   * Another deficiency of delayed_work was lack of the counterpart of
     mod_timer() which led to cancel+queue combinations or open-coded
     timer+work usages.  mod_delayed_work[_on]() are added.

     These two delayed_work changes make delayed_work provide interface
     and behave like timer which is executed with process context.

   * A work item could be executed concurrently on multiple CPUs, which
     is rather unintuitive and made flush_work() behavior confusing and
     half-broken under certain circumstances.  This problem doesn't
     exist for non-reentrant workqueues.  While non-reentrancy check
     isn't free, the overhead is incurred only when a work item bounces
     across different CPUs and even in simulated pathological scenario
     the overhead isn't too high.

     All workqueues are made non-reentrant.  This removes the
     distinction between flush_[delayed_]work() and
     flush_[delayed_]_work_sync().  The former is now as strong as the
     latter and the specified work item is guaranteed to have finished
     execution of any previous queueing on return.

   * In addition to the various bug fixes, Lai redid and simplified CPU
     hotplug handling significantly.

   * Joonsoo introduced system_highpri_wq and used it during CPU
     hotplug.

  There are two merge commits - one to pull in IRQ safe timer from
  tip/timers/core and the other to pull in CPU hotplug fixes from
  wq/for-3.6-fixes as Lai's hotplug restructuring depended on them."

Fixed a number of trivial conflicts, but the more interesting conflicts
were silent ones where the deprecated interfaces had been used by new
code in the merge window, and thus didn't cause any real data conflicts.

Tejun pointed out a few of them, I fixed a couple more.

* 'for-3.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq: (46 commits)
  workqueue: remove spurious WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq()) from try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use cwq_set_max_active() helper for workqueue_set_max_active()
  workqueue: introduce cwq_set_max_active() helper for thaw_workqueues()
  workqueue: remove @delayed from cwq_dec_nr_in_flight()
  workqueue: fix possible stall on try_to_grab_pending() of a delayed work item
  workqueue: use hotcpu_notifier() for workqueue_cpu_down_callback()
  workqueue: use __cpuinit instead of __devinit for cpu callbacks
  workqueue: rename manager_mutex to assoc_mutex
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for idle rebinding
  workqueue: WORKER_REBIND is no longer necessary for busy rebinding
  workqueue: reimplement idle worker rebinding
  workqueue: deprecate __cancel_delayed_work()
  workqueue: reimplement cancel_delayed_work() using try_to_grab_pending()
  workqueue: use mod_delayed_work() instead of __cancel + queue
  workqueue: use irqsafe timer for delayed_work
  workqueue: clean up delayed_work initializers and add missing one
  workqueue: make deferrable delayed_work initializer names consistent
  workqueue: cosmetic whitespace updates for macro definitions
  workqueue: deprecate system_nrt[_freezable]_wq
  workqueue: deprecate flush[_delayed]_work_sync()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>tty/serial: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL dependencies</title>
<updated>2012-09-18T15:19:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
<email>gregkh@linuxfoundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-18T15:19:27+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=8b77562b4f867e4bc0c6effb7dfe3255fc265ad0'/>
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<content type='text'>
As discussed at the kernel summit this year, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL means
nothing, so let's get rid of it.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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As discussed at the kernel summit this year, CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL means
nothing, so let's get rid of it.

Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
Cc: Stefano Stabellini &lt;stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com&gt;
Cc: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;konrad.wilk@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: Fix hvc return</title>
<updated>2012-09-17T11:45:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-17T11:03:39+00:00</published>
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HVC returns a size of -1 bytes for the write room in some cases.
This is bogus and not handled by the tty layer at all.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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HVC returns a size of -1 bytes for the write room in some cases.
This is bogus and not handled by the tty layer at all.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'x86/platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into stable/for-linus-3.7</title>
<updated>2012-09-12T15:14:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk</name>
<email>konrad.wilk@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-12T15:14:33+00:00</published>
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* 'x86/platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (9690 commits)
  x86: Document x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: xen: Cleanup and remove x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done()
  x86: Move paging_init() call to x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: Rename pagetable_setup_start() to pagetable_init()
  x86: Remove base argument from x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start
  Linux 3.6-rc5
  HID: tpkbd: work even if the new Lenovo Keyboard driver is not configured
  Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
  xen/pciback: Fix proper FLR steps.
  uml: fix compile error in deliver_alarm()
  dj: memory scribble in logi_dj
  Fix order of arguments to compat_put_time[spec|val]
  xen: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent.
  xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
  xen/p2m: Fix one-off error in checking the P2M tree directory.
  powerpc: Don't use __put_user() in patch_instruction
  powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders
  powerpc: Restore correct DSCR in context switch
  powerpc: Fix DSCR inheritance in copy_thread()
  powerpc: Keep thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit in sync
  ...
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* 'x86/platform' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (9690 commits)
  x86: Document x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: xen: Cleanup and remove x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_done()
  x86: Move paging_init() call to x86_init.paging.pagetable_init()
  x86: Rename pagetable_setup_start() to pagetable_init()
  x86: Remove base argument from x86_init.paging.pagetable_setup_start
  Linux 3.6-rc5
  HID: tpkbd: work even if the new Lenovo Keyboard driver is not configured
  Remove user-triggerable BUG from mpol_to_str
  xen/pciback: Fix proper FLR steps.
  uml: fix compile error in deliver_alarm()
  dj: memory scribble in logi_dj
  Fix order of arguments to compat_put_time[spec|val]
  xen: Use correct masking in xen_swiotlb_alloc_coherent.
  xen: fix logical error in tlb flushing
  xen/p2m: Fix one-off error in checking the P2M tree directory.
  powerpc: Don't use __put_user() in patch_instruction
  powerpc: Make sure IPI handlers see data written by IPI senders
  powerpc: Restore correct DSCR in context switch
  powerpc: Fix DSCR inheritance in copy_thread()
  powerpc: Keep thread.dscr and thread.dscr_inherit in sync
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>hvc_vio: Improve registration of udbg backend</title>
<updated>2012-09-05T05:19:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T21:47:38+00:00</published>
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The pseries hvterm driver only registers a udbg backend (for xmon and
other low level debugging mechanisms) when hvc0 is recognized as the
firmware console at boot time, not if it's detected later on, for
example because the firmware is using a graphics card.

This can make debugging challenging especially under X11, and there's
really no good reason for that limitation, so let's hookup udbg
whenever hvc0 is detected instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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The pseries hvterm driver only registers a udbg backend (for xmon and
other low level debugging mechanisms) when hvc0 is recognized as the
firmware console at boot time, not if it's detected later on, for
example because the firmware is using a graphics card.

This can make debugging challenging especially under X11, and there's
really no good reason for that limitation, so let's hookup udbg
whenever hvc0 is detected instead.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>hvc_console: Better kernel console support</title>
<updated>2012-09-05T05:19:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Benjamin Herrenschmidt</name>
<email>benh@kernel.crashing.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-07-23T21:33:13+00:00</published>
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hvc_console has two methods to instanciate the consoles.

hvc_instanciate is meant to be called at early boot, while hvc_alloc is
called for more dynamically probed objects.

Currently, it only deals with adding kernel consoles in the former case,
which means for example that if a console only uses dynamic probing, it
will never be usable as a kernel console even when specifying
console=hvc0 explicitly, which could be considered annoying...

More specifically, on pseries, we only do the early instanciate for the
console currently used by the firmware, so if you have your firmware
configured to go to a video card, for example, you cannot get your
kernel console, oops messages, etc... on your serial port or hypervisor
console, which would be handy to deal with oopses.

This fixes it by checking if hvc_console.flags &amp; CON_ENABLED is set when
registering a new dynamic console, and if not, redo the index check and
re-register the console if the index matches, allowing console=hvcN to
work.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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hvc_console has two methods to instanciate the consoles.

hvc_instanciate is meant to be called at early boot, while hvc_alloc is
called for more dynamically probed objects.

Currently, it only deals with adding kernel consoles in the former case,
which means for example that if a console only uses dynamic probing, it
will never be usable as a kernel console even when specifying
console=hvc0 explicitly, which could be considered annoying...

More specifically, on pseries, we only do the early instanciate for the
console currently used by the firmware, so if you have your firmware
configured to go to a video card, for example, you cannot get your
kernel console, oops messages, etc... on your serial port or hypervisor
console, which would be handy to deal with oopses.

This fixes it by checking if hvc_console.flags &amp; CON_ENABLED is set when
registering a new dynamic console, and if not, redo the index check and
re-register the console if the index matches, allowing console=hvcN to
work.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt &lt;benh@kernel.crashing.org&gt;
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