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<title>linux.git/drivers/tty/serial, branch v4.12-rc2</title>
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<title>Merge tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs</title>
<updated>2017-05-11T02:13:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-11T02:13:03+00:00</published>
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Pull hw lockdown support from David Howells:
 "Annotation of module parameters that configure hardware resources
  including ioports, iomem addresses, irq lines and dma channels.

  This allows a future patch to prohibit the use of such module
  parameters to prevent that hardware from being abused to gain access
  to the running kernel image as part of locking the kernel down under
  UEFI secure boot conditions.

  Annotations are made by changing:

        module_param(n, t, p)
        module_param_named(n, v, t, p)
        module_param_array(n, t, m, p)

  to:

        module_param_hw(n, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_named(n, v, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_array(n, t, hwtype, m, p)

  where the module parameter refers to a hardware setting

  hwtype specifies the type of the resource being configured. This can
  be one of:

        ioport          Module parameter configures an I/O port
        iomem           Module parameter configures an I/O mem address
        ioport_or_iomem Module parameter could be either (runtime set)
        irq             Module parameter configures an I/O port
        dma             Module parameter configures a DMA channel
        dma_addr        Module parameter configures a DMA buffer address
        other           Module parameter configures some other value

  Note that the hwtype is compile checked, but not currently stored (the
  lockdown code probably won't require it). It is, however, there for
  future use.

  A bonus is that the hwtype can also be used for grepping.

  The intention is for the kernel to ignore or reject attempts to set
  annotated module parameters if lockdown is enabled. This applies to
  options passed on the boot command line, passed to insmod/modprobe or
  direct twiddling in /sys/module/ parameter files.

  The module initialisation then needs to handle the parameter not being
  set, by (1) giving an error, (2) probing for a value or (3) using a
  reasonable default.

  What I can't do is just reject a module out of hand because it may
  take a hardware setting in the module parameters. Some important
  modules, some ipmi stuff for instance, both probe for hardware and
  allow hardware to be manually specified; if the driver is aborts with
  any error, you don't get any ipmi hardware.

  Further, trying to do this entirely in the module initialisation code
  doesn't protect against sysfs twiddling.

  [!] Note that in and of itself, this series of patches should have no
      effect on the the size of the kernel or code execution - that is
      left to a patch in the next series to effect. It does mark
      annotated kernel parameters with a KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM flag in
      an already existing field"

* tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (38 commits)
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/pci/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/oss/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/isa/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/drivers/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in fs/pstore/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/watchdog/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/vme/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/speakup/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/scsi/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pcmcia/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pci/hotplug/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/parport/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wan/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/hamradio/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/ethernet/
  ...
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Pull hw lockdown support from David Howells:
 "Annotation of module parameters that configure hardware resources
  including ioports, iomem addresses, irq lines and dma channels.

  This allows a future patch to prohibit the use of such module
  parameters to prevent that hardware from being abused to gain access
  to the running kernel image as part of locking the kernel down under
  UEFI secure boot conditions.

  Annotations are made by changing:

        module_param(n, t, p)
        module_param_named(n, v, t, p)
        module_param_array(n, t, m, p)

  to:

        module_param_hw(n, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_named(n, v, t, hwtype, p)
        module_param_hw_array(n, t, hwtype, m, p)

  where the module parameter refers to a hardware setting

  hwtype specifies the type of the resource being configured. This can
  be one of:

        ioport          Module parameter configures an I/O port
        iomem           Module parameter configures an I/O mem address
        ioport_or_iomem Module parameter could be either (runtime set)
        irq             Module parameter configures an I/O port
        dma             Module parameter configures a DMA channel
        dma_addr        Module parameter configures a DMA buffer address
        other           Module parameter configures some other value

  Note that the hwtype is compile checked, but not currently stored (the
  lockdown code probably won't require it). It is, however, there for
  future use.

  A bonus is that the hwtype can also be used for grepping.

  The intention is for the kernel to ignore or reject attempts to set
  annotated module parameters if lockdown is enabled. This applies to
  options passed on the boot command line, passed to insmod/modprobe or
  direct twiddling in /sys/module/ parameter files.

  The module initialisation then needs to handle the parameter not being
  set, by (1) giving an error, (2) probing for a value or (3) using a
  reasonable default.

  What I can't do is just reject a module out of hand because it may
  take a hardware setting in the module parameters. Some important
  modules, some ipmi stuff for instance, both probe for hardware and
  allow hardware to be manually specified; if the driver is aborts with
  any error, you don't get any ipmi hardware.

  Further, trying to do this entirely in the module initialisation code
  doesn't protect against sysfs twiddling.

  [!] Note that in and of itself, this series of patches should have no
      effect on the the size of the kernel or code execution - that is
      left to a patch in the next series to effect. It does mark
      annotated kernel parameters with a KERNEL_PARAM_FL_HWPARAM flag in
      an already existing field"

* tag 'hwparam-20170420' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs: (38 commits)
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/pci/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/oss/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/isa/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in sound/drivers/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in fs/pstore/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/watchdog/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/video/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/vme/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/speakup/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/staging/media/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/scsi/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pcmcia/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/pci/hotplug/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/parport/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wireless/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/wan/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/irda/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/hamradio/
  Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/net/ethernet/
  ...
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'tty-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T01:49:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-09T01:49:23+00:00</published>
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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" TTY/Serial patch updates for 4.12-rc1

  Not a lot of new things here, the normal number of serial driver
  updates and additions, tiny bugs fixed, and some core files split up
  to make future changes a bit easier for Nicolas's "tiny-tty" work.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (62 commits)
  serial: small Makefile reordering
  tty: split job control support into a file of its own
  tty: move baudrate handling code to a file of its own
  console: move console_init() out of tty_io.c
  serial: 8250_early: Add earlycon support for Palmchip UART
  tty: pl011: use "qdf2400_e44" as the earlycon name for QDF2400 E44
  vt: make mouse selection of non-ASCII consistent
  vt: set mouse selection word-chars to gpm's default
  imx-serial: Reduce RX DMA startup latency when opening for reading
  serial: omap: suspend device on probe errors
  serial: omap: fix runtime-pm handling on unbind
  tty: serial: omap: add UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag for DT init
  serial: samsung: Remove useless spinlock
  serial: samsung: Add missing checks for dma_map_single failure
  serial: samsung: Use right device for DMA-mapping calls
  serial: imx: setup DCEDTE early and ensure DCD and RI irqs to be off
  tty: fix comment typo s/repsonsible/responsible/
  tty: amba-pl011: Fix spurious TX interrupts
  serial: xuartps: Enable clocks in the pm disable case also
  serial: core: Re-use struct uart_port {name} field
  ...
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Pull tty/serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the "big" TTY/Serial patch updates for 4.12-rc1

  Not a lot of new things here, the normal number of serial driver
  updates and additions, tiny bugs fixed, and some core files split up
  to make future changes a bit easier for Nicolas's "tiny-tty" work.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a while"

* tag 'tty-4.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (62 commits)
  serial: small Makefile reordering
  tty: split job control support into a file of its own
  tty: move baudrate handling code to a file of its own
  console: move console_init() out of tty_io.c
  serial: 8250_early: Add earlycon support for Palmchip UART
  tty: pl011: use "qdf2400_e44" as the earlycon name for QDF2400 E44
  vt: make mouse selection of non-ASCII consistent
  vt: set mouse selection word-chars to gpm's default
  imx-serial: Reduce RX DMA startup latency when opening for reading
  serial: omap: suspend device on probe errors
  serial: omap: fix runtime-pm handling on unbind
  tty: serial: omap: add UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag for DT init
  serial: samsung: Remove useless spinlock
  serial: samsung: Add missing checks for dma_map_single failure
  serial: samsung: Use right device for DMA-mapping calls
  serial: imx: setup DCEDTE early and ensure DCD and RI irqs to be off
  tty: fix comment typo s/repsonsible/responsible/
  tty: amba-pl011: Fix spurious TX interrupts
  serial: xuartps: Enable clocks in the pm disable case also
  serial: core: Re-use struct uart_port {name} field
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>format-security: move static strings to const</title>
<updated>2017-05-09T00:15:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>keescook@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-05-08T22:59:05+00:00</published>
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While examining output from trial builds with -Wformat-security enabled,
many strings were found that should be defined as "const", or as a char
array instead of char pointer.  This makes some static analysis easier,
by producing fewer false positives.

As these are all trivial changes, it seemed best to put them all in a
single patch rather than chopping them up per maintainer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405214711.GA5711@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;jes@trained-monkey.org&gt;	[runner.c]
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Yisen Zhuang &lt;yisen.zhuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Salil Mehta &lt;salil.mehta@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@st.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Mugunthan V N &lt;mugunthanvnm@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jarod Wilson &lt;jarod@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Antonio Quartulli &lt;a@unstable.cc&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kejian Yan &lt;yankejian@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Daode Huang &lt;huangdaode@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Qianqian Xie &lt;xieqianqian@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Philippe Reynes &lt;tremyfr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Gromm &lt;christian.gromm@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Shvetsov &lt;andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de&gt;
Cc: Jason Litzinger &lt;jlitzingerdev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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While examining output from trial builds with -Wformat-security enabled,
many strings were found that should be defined as "const", or as a char
array instead of char pointer.  This makes some static analysis easier,
by producing fewer false positives.

As these are all trivial changes, it seemed best to put them all in a
single patch rather than chopping them up per maintainer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405214711.GA5711@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jes Sorensen &lt;jes@trained-monkey.org&gt;	[runner.c]
Cc: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: Russell King &lt;linux@armlinux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" &lt;macro@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" &lt;rjw@rjwysocki.net&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Daniel Vetter &lt;daniel.vetter@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jani Nikula &lt;jani.nikula@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Sean Paul &lt;seanpaul@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: David Airlie &lt;airlied@linux.ie&gt;
Cc: Yisen Zhuang &lt;yisen.zhuang@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Salil Mehta &lt;salil.mehta@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
Cc: Patrice Chotard &lt;patrice.chotard@st.com&gt;
Cc: "David S. Miller" &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
Cc: James Hogan &lt;james.hogan@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paul Burton &lt;paul.burton@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Redfearn &lt;matt.redfearn@imgtec.com&gt;
Cc: Paolo Bonzini &lt;pbonzini@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Mugunthan V N &lt;mugunthanvnm@ti.com&gt;
Cc: Felipe Balbi &lt;felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jarod Wilson &lt;jarod@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Florian Westphal &lt;fw@strlen.de&gt;
Cc: Antonio Quartulli &lt;a@unstable.cc&gt;
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Kejian Yan &lt;yankejian@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Daode Huang &lt;huangdaode@hisilicon.com&gt;
Cc: Qianqian Xie &lt;xieqianqian@huawei.com&gt;
Cc: Philippe Reynes &lt;tremyfr@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Colin Ian King &lt;colin.king@canonical.com&gt;
Cc: Eric Dumazet &lt;edumazet@google.com&gt;
Cc: Christian Gromm &lt;christian.gromm@microchip.com&gt;
Cc: Andrey Shvetsov &lt;andrey.shvetsov@k2l.de&gt;
Cc: Jason Litzinger &lt;jlitzingerdev@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: WANG Cong &lt;xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Annotate hardware config module parameters in drivers/tty/</title>
<updated>2017-04-20T11:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Howells</name>
<email>dhowells@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-04T15:54:29+00:00</published>
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When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
device to access or modify the kernel image.

To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
default values for those parameters is.

Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
to manually coded parameters.

This patch annotates drivers in drivers/tty/.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
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When the kernel is running in secure boot mode, we lock down the kernel to
prevent userspace from modifying the running kernel image.  Whilst this
includes prohibiting access to things like /dev/mem, it must also prevent
access by means of configuring driver modules in such a way as to cause a
device to access or modify the kernel image.

To this end, annotate module_param* statements that refer to hardware
configuration and indicate for future reference what type of parameter they
specify.  The parameter parser in the core sees this information and can
skip such parameters with an error message if the kernel is locked down.
The module initialisation then runs as normal, but just sees whatever the
default values for those parameters is.

Note that we do still need to do the module initialisation because some
drivers have viable defaults set in case parameters aren't specified and
some drivers support automatic configuration (e.g. PNP or PCI) in addition
to manually coded parameters.

This patch annotates drivers in drivers/tty/.

Suggested-by: Alan Cox &lt;gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: David Howells &lt;dhowells@redhat.com&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.com&gt;
cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: small Makefile reordering</title>
<updated>2017-04-18T16:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Pitre</name>
<email>nicolas.pitre@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-12T22:37:17+00:00</published>
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Move 21285 entry down alongside other UART drivers to be more consistent
with the rest of the file. It is kept before 8250 though, to preserve the
existing link ordering between those two.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Move 21285 entry down alongside other UART drivers to be more consistent
with the rest of the file. It is kept before 8250 though, to preserve the
existing link ordering between those two.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre &lt;nico@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>serial: 8250_early: Add earlycon support for Palmchip UART</title>
<updated>2017-04-18T15:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Marc Gonzalez</name>
<email>marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T09:47:09+00:00</published>
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Define an OF early console for Palmchip UART, which can be enabled
by passing "earlycon" on the boot command line.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez &lt;marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Define an OF early console for Palmchip UART, which can be enabled
by passing "earlycon" on the boot command line.

Signed-off-by: Marc Gonzalez &lt;marc_gonzalez@sigmadesigns.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<title>tty: pl011: use "qdf2400_e44" as the earlycon name for QDF2400 E44</title>
<updated>2017-04-18T15:47:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Timur Tabi</name>
<email>timur@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-13T13:55:08+00:00</published>
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Define a new early console name for Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies
QDF2400 SOCs affected by erratum 44, instead of piggy-backing on "pl011".
Previously, to enable traditional (non-SPCR) earlycon, the documentation
said to specify "earlycon=pl011,&lt;address&gt;,qdf2400_e44", but the code was
broken and this didn't actually work.

So instead, the method for specifying the E44 work-around with traditional
earlycon is "earlycon=qdf2400_e44,&lt;address&gt;".  Both methods of earlycon
are now enabled with the same function.

Fixes: e53e597fd4c4 ("tty: pl011: fix earlycon work-around for QDF2400 erratum 44")
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.11
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;shankerd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Define a new early console name for Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies
QDF2400 SOCs affected by erratum 44, instead of piggy-backing on "pl011".
Previously, to enable traditional (non-SPCR) earlycon, the documentation
said to specify "earlycon=pl011,&lt;address&gt;,qdf2400_e44", but the code was
broken and this didn't actually work.

So instead, the method for specifying the E44 work-around with traditional
earlycon is "earlycon=qdf2400_e44,&lt;address&gt;".  Both methods of earlycon
are now enabled with the same function.

Fixes: e53e597fd4c4 ("tty: pl011: fix earlycon work-around for QDF2400 erratum 44")
Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi &lt;timur@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt; # 4.11
Tested-by: Shanker Donthineni &lt;shankerd@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: serial: omap: add UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag for DT init</title>
<updated>2017-04-12T20:12:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Reichel</name>
<email>sre@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-03-28T15:59:30+00:00</published>
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The UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag is needed for proper
flow control support.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sre@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
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The UPF_BOOT_AUTOCONF flag is needed for proper
flow control support.

Acked-by: Pavel Machek &lt;pavel@ucw.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sre@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann &lt;marcel@holtmann.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>imx-serial: Reduce RX DMA startup latency when opening for reading</title>
<updated>2017-04-11T19:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Senna Tschudin</name>
<email>peter.senna@collabora.com</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-07T09:45:24+00:00</published>
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Reduce RX DMA start latency for the first reception when port is opened
for reading. Instead of waiting for an interrupt signaling data on RX
FIFO or data too old on RX FIFO, start RX DMA immediately when the
serial port is opened for reading.

Before this patch, the average RX DMA latency for the first reception
was 42489 microseconds with a standard deviation of 25721 microseconds
in 36 samples.

After the patch the average RX DMA latency for the first reception, when
the serial port is opened for reading, is 653 microseconds with a
standard deviation of 294 microseconds in 36 samples.

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin &lt;peter.senna@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Reduce RX DMA start latency for the first reception when port is opened
for reading. Instead of waiting for an interrupt signaling data on RX
FIFO or data too old on RX FIFO, start RX DMA immediately when the
serial port is opened for reading.

Before this patch, the average RX DMA latency for the first reception
was 42489 microseconds with a standard deviation of 25721 microseconds
in 36 samples.

After the patch the average RX DMA latency for the first reception, when
the serial port is opened for reading, is 653 microseconds with a
standard deviation of 294 microseconds in 36 samples.

Signed-off-by: Peter Senna Tschudin &lt;peter.senna@collabora.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>serial: omap: suspend device on probe errors</title>
<updated>2017-04-11T19:36:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johan Hovold</name>
<email>johan@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2017-04-10T09:21:39+00:00</published>
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Make sure to actually suspend the device before returning after a failed
(or deferred) probe.

Note that autosuspend must be disabled before runtime pm is disabled in
order to balance the usage count due to a negative autosuspend delay as
well as to make the final put suspend the device synchronously.

Fixes: 388bc2622680 ("omap-serial: Fix the error handling in the omap_serial probe")
Cc: Shubhrajyoti D &lt;shubhrajyoti@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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Make sure to actually suspend the device before returning after a failed
(or deferred) probe.

Note that autosuspend must be disabled before runtime pm is disabled in
order to balance the usage count due to a negative autosuspend delay as
well as to make the final put suspend the device synchronously.

Fixes: 388bc2622680 ("omap-serial: Fix the error handling in the omap_serial probe")
Cc: Shubhrajyoti D &lt;shubhrajyoti@ti.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold &lt;johan@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren &lt;tony@atomide.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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