linux.git/drivers/tty/serial, branch v4.9-rc2

kthread: kthread worker API cleanup

2016-10-11T22:06:33+00:00

A good practice is to prefix the names of functions by the name
of the subsystem.

The kthread worker API is a mix of classic kthreads and workqueues.  Each
worker has a dedicated kthread.  It runs a generic function that process
queued works.  It is implemented as part of the kthread subsystem.

This patch renames the existing kthread worker API to use
the corresponding name from the workqueues API prefixed by
kthread_:

__init_kthread_worker()		-> __kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_init_worker()
init_kthread_work()		-> kthread_init_work()
insert_kthread_work()		-> kthread_insert_work()
queue_kthread_work()		-> kthread_queue_work()
flush_kthread_work()		-> kthread_flush_work()
flush_kthread_worker()		-> kthread_flush_worker()

Note that the names of DEFINE_KTHREAD_WORK*() macros stay
as they are. It is common that the "DEFINE_" prefix has
precedence over the subsystem names.

Note that INIT() macros and init() functions use different
naming scheme. There is no good solution. There are several
reasons for this solution:

  + "init" in the function names stands for the verb "initialize"
    aka "initialize worker". While "INIT" in the macro names
    stands for the noun "INITIALIZER" aka "worker initializer".

  + INIT() macros are used only in DEFINE() macros

  + init() functions are used close to the other kthread()
    functions. It looks much better if all the functions
    use the same scheme.

  + There will be also kthread_destroy_worker() that will
    be used close to kthread_cancel_work(). It is related
    to the init() function. Again it looks better if all
    functions use the same naming scheme.

  + there are several precedents for such init() function
    names, e.g. amd_iommu_init_device(), free_area_init_node(),
    jump_label_init_type(),  regmap_init_mmio_clk(),

  + It is not an argument but it was inconsistent even before.

[arnd@arndb.de: fix linux-next merge conflict]
 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160908135724.1311726-1-arnd@arndb.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470754545-17632-3-git-send-email-pmladek@suse.com
Suggested-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Steven Rostedt 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Jiri Kosina 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Michal Hocko 
Cc: Vlastimil Babka 
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'tty-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

2016-10-04T03:11:49+00:00

Pull tty and serial updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big tty and serial patch set for 4.9-rc1.

  It also includes some drivers/dma/ changes, as those were needed by
  some serial drivers, and they were all acked by the DMA maintainer.

  Also in here is the long-suffering ACPI SPCR patchset, which was
  passed around from maintainer to maintainer like a hot-potato. Seems I
  was the sucker^Wlucky one. All of those patches have been acked by the
  various subsystem maintainers as well.

  All of this has been in linux-next with no reported issues"

* tag 'tty-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty: (111 commits)
  Revert "serial: pl011: add console matching function"
  MAINTAINERS: update entry for atmel_serial driver
  serial: pl011: add console matching function
  ARM64: ACPI: enable ACPI_SPCR_TABLE
  ACPI: parse SPCR and enable matching console
  of/serial: move earlycon early_param handling to serial
  Revert "drivers/tty: Explicitly pass current to show_stack"
  tty: amba-pl011: Don't complain on -EPROBE_DEFER when no irq
  nios2: dts: 10m50: Add tx-threshold parameter
  serial: 8250: Set Altera 16550 TX FIFO Threshold
  serial: 8250: of: Load TX FIFO Threshold from DT
  Documentation: dt: serial: Add TX FIFO threshold parameter
  drivers/tty: Explicitly pass current to show_stack
  serial: imx: Fix DCD reading
  serial: stm32: mark symbols static where possible
  serial: xuartps: Add some register initialisation to cdns_early_console_setup()
  serial: xuartps: Removed unwanted checks while reading the error conditions
  serial: xuartps: Rewrite the interrupt handling logic
  serial: stm32: use mapbase instead of membase for DMA
  tty/serial: atmel: fix fractional baud rate computation
  ...

Merge tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2016-10-04T02:57:49+00:00

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" char and misc driver update for 4.9-rc1.

  Lots of little things here, all over the driver tree for subsystems
  that flow through me. Nothing major that I can discern, full details
  are in the shortlog.

  All have been in the linux-next tree with no reported issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (144 commits)
  drivers/misc/hpilo: Changes to support new security states in iLO5 FW
  at25: fix debug and error messaging
  misc/genwqe: ensure zero initialization
  vme: fake: remove unexpected unlock in fake_master_set()
  vme: fake: mark symbols static where possible
  spmi: pmic-arb: Return an error code if sanity check fails
  Drivers: hv: get rid of id in struct vmbus_channel
  Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent
  mcb: Add a dma_device to mcb_device
  mcb: Enable PCI bus mastering by default
  mei: stop the stall timer worker if not needed
  clk: probe common clock drivers earlier
  vme: fake: fix build for 64-bit dma_addr_t
  ttyprintk: Neaten and simplify printing
  mei: me: add kaby point device ids
  coresight: tmc: mark symbols static where possible
  coresight: perf: deal with error condition properly
  Drivers: hv: hv_util: Avoid dynamic allocation in time synch
  fpga manager: Add hardware dependency to Zynq driver
  Drivers: hv: utils: Support TimeSync version 4.0 protocol samples.
  ...

Merge branch 'device-properties'

2016-10-01T23:35:42+00:00

* device-properties:
  serial: 8250_dw: Add quirk for APM X-Gene SoC
  ACPI / LPSS: Provide build-in properties of the UART
  ACPI / APD: Provide build-in properties of the UART
  driver core: Don't leak secondary fwnode on device removal

Revert "serial: pl011: add console matching function"

2016-09-30T05:46:35+00:00

This reverts commit 8b8f347d3a4859d22567f3b8e5bb4a69b1089739 as it
causes build errors in linux-next

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell 
Cc: Aleksey Makarov 
Cc: Peter Hurley 
Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Christopher Covington 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: pl011: add console matching function

2016-09-28T15:46:57+00:00

This patch adds function pl011_console_match() that implements
method match of struct console.  It allows to match consoles against
data specified in a string, for example taken from command line or
compiled by ACPI SPCR table handler.

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley 
Acked-by: Russell King 
Tested-by: Christopher Covington 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

ACPI: parse SPCR and enable matching console

2016-09-28T15:46:46+00:00

'ARM Server Base Boot Requiremets' [1] mentions SPCR (Serial Port
Console Redirection Table) [2] as a mandatory ACPI table that
specifies the configuration of serial console.

Defer initialization of DT earlycon until ACPI/DT decision is made.

Parse the ACPI SPCR table, setup earlycon if required,
enable specified console.

Thanks to Peter Hurley for explaining how this should work.

[1] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc.den0044a/index.html
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/dn639132(v=vs.85).aspx

Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley 
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang 
Tested-by: Christopher Covington 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

of/serial: move earlycon early_param handling to serial

2016-09-28T15:43:15+00:00

We have multiple "earlycon" early_param handlers - merge the DT one into
the main earlycon one.  It's a cleanup that also will be useful
to defer setting up DT console until ACPI/DT decision is made.

Rename the exported function to avoid clashing with the function from
arch/microblaze/kernel/prom.c

Signed-off-by: Leif Lindholm 
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov 
Acked-by: Rob Herring 
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley 
Tested-by: Kefeng Wang 
Tested-by: Christopher Covington 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: amba-pl011: Don't complain on -EPROBE_DEFER when no irq

2016-09-27T10:57:16+00:00

Don't complain on -EPROBE_DEFER when attempting to get the irq.
the driver probe will be retried later.

Cc: Russell King 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

serial: 8250: Set Altera 16550 TX FIFO Threshold

2016-09-27T10:55:50+00:00

The Altera 16550 soft IP UART requires 2 additional registers for
TX FIFO threshold support. These 2 registers enable the TX FIFO
Low Watermark and set the TX FIFO Low Watermark.
Set the TX FIFO threshold to the FIFO size - tx_loadsz.

Signed-off-by: Thor Thayer 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman