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<title>linux.git/drivers, branch v4.1-rc8</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma</title>
<updated>2015-06-15T01:48:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-15T01:48:26+00:00</published>
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Pull dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
 "Here are hopefully last set of fixes for 4.1. This time we have:

   - fixing pause capability reporting on both dmaengine pause &amp; resume
     support by Krzysztof

   - locking fix fir at_xdmac by Ludovic

   - slave configuration fix for at_xdmac by Ludovic"

* 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
  dmaengine: Fix choppy sound because of unimplemented resume
  dmaengine: at_xdmac: rework slave configuration part
  dmaengine: at_xdmac: lock fixes
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Pull dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
 "Here are hopefully last set of fixes for 4.1. This time we have:

   - fixing pause capability reporting on both dmaengine pause &amp; resume
     support by Krzysztof

   - locking fix fir at_xdmac by Ludovic

   - slave configuration fix for at_xdmac by Ludovic"

* 'fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
  dmaengine: Fix choppy sound because of unimplemented resume
  dmaengine: at_xdmac: rework slave configuration part
  dmaengine: at_xdmac: lock fixes
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'ntb-4.1' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb</title>
<updated>2015-06-15T01:46:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-15T01:46:43+00:00</published>
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Pull NTB fixes from Jon Mason:
 "I apologize for the tardiness of this request.  Here are a couple of
  last minute NTB bug fixes for v4.1:

  NTB bug fixes to address issues in unmapping the MW reg base and
  vbase, and an uninitialized variable on Atom platforms"

* tag 'ntb-4.1' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
  ntb: initialize max_mw for Atom before using it
  ntb: iounmap MW reg and vbase in error path
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Pull NTB fixes from Jon Mason:
 "I apologize for the tardiness of this request.  Here are a couple of
  last minute NTB bug fixes for v4.1:

  NTB bug fixes to address issues in unmapping the MW reg base and
  vbase, and an uninitialized variable on Atom platforms"

* tag 'ntb-4.1' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb:
  ntb: initialize max_mw for Atom before using it
  ntb: iounmap MW reg and vbase in error path
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus</title>
<updated>2015-06-15T01:38:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-15T01:38:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=1f1e34f7231c7284f3acae37096a603f19bcd8b7'/>
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Pull more MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
 "Another round of 4.1 MIPS fixes, one fix to a MIPS-specific #if
  condition in lib/mpi, one fix to the MIPS GIC irqchip driver and one
  SSB fix.

  Details:
   - fix handling of clock in chipco SSB driver.
   - fix two MIPS-specific #if conditions to correctly work for GCC 5.1.
   - fix damage to R6 pgtable bits done by XPA support.
   - fix possible crash due to unloading modules that contain statically
     defined platform devices.
   - fix disabling of the MSA ASE on context switch to also work
     correctly when a new thread/process has the CPU for the very first
     time.

  This is part of linux-next and has been beaten to death on
  Imagination's test farm.

  While things are not looking too grim this pull request also means the
  rate of fixes for 4.1 remains nearly constant so I'd not be unhappy if
  you'd delay the release"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
  MPI: MIPS: Fix compilation error with GCC 5.1
  IRQCHIP: mips-gic: Don't nest calls to do_IRQ()
  MIPS: MSA: bugfix - disable MSA correctly for new threads/processes.
  MIPS: Loongson: Do not register 8250 platform device from module.
  MIPS: Cobalt: Do not build MTD platform device registration code as module.
  SSB: Fix handling of ssb_pmu_get_alp_clock()
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Fix XPA damage to R6 definitions.
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Pull more MIPS fixes from Ralf Baechle:
 "Another round of 4.1 MIPS fixes, one fix to a MIPS-specific #if
  condition in lib/mpi, one fix to the MIPS GIC irqchip driver and one
  SSB fix.

  Details:
   - fix handling of clock in chipco SSB driver.
   - fix two MIPS-specific #if conditions to correctly work for GCC 5.1.
   - fix damage to R6 pgtable bits done by XPA support.
   - fix possible crash due to unloading modules that contain statically
     defined platform devices.
   - fix disabling of the MSA ASE on context switch to also work
     correctly when a new thread/process has the CPU for the very first
     time.

  This is part of linux-next and has been beaten to death on
  Imagination's test farm.

  While things are not looking too grim this pull request also means the
  rate of fixes for 4.1 remains nearly constant so I'd not be unhappy if
  you'd delay the release"

* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus:
  MPI: MIPS: Fix compilation error with GCC 5.1
  IRQCHIP: mips-gic: Don't nest calls to do_IRQ()
  MIPS: MSA: bugfix - disable MSA correctly for new threads/processes.
  MIPS: Loongson: Do not register 8250 platform device from module.
  MIPS: Cobalt: Do not build MTD platform device registration code as module.
  SSB: Fix handling of ssb_pmu_get_alp_clock()
  MIPS: pgtable-bits: Fix XPA damage to R6 definitions.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip</title>
<updated>2015-06-15T00:53:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-15T00:53:02+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=baaae1921088079bdb8e71317b06d071511d74b1'/>
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Pull irqchip fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for an off by one bug in the sunxi irqchip driver"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip: sunxi-nmi: Fix off-by-one error in irq iterator
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Pull irqchip fix from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A single fix for an off by one bug in the sunxi irqchip driver"

* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  irqchip: sunxi-nmi: Fix off-by-one error in irq iterator
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>IRQCHIP: mips-gic: Don't nest calls to do_IRQ()</title>
<updated>2015-06-13T09:33:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rabin Vincent</name>
<email>rabin.vincent@axis.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T08:01:56+00:00</published>
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The GIC chained handlers use do_IRQ() to call the subhandlers.  This
means that irq_enter() calls get nested, which leads to preempt count
looking like we're in nested interrupts, which in turn leads to all
system time being accounted as IRQ time in account_system_time().

Fix it by using generic_handle_irq().  Since these same functions are
used in some systems (if cpu_has_veic) from a low-level vectored
interrupt handler which does not go throught do_IRQ(), we need to do it
conditionally.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: jason@lakedaemon.net
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10545/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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The GIC chained handlers use do_IRQ() to call the subhandlers.  This
means that irq_enter() calls get nested, which leads to preempt count
looking like we're in nested interrupts, which in turn leads to all
system time being accounted as IRQ time in account_system_time().

Fix it by using generic_handle_irq().  Since these same functions are
used in some systems (if cpu_has_veic) from a low-level vectored
interrupt handler which does not go throught do_IRQ(), we need to do it
conditionally.

Signed-off-by: Rabin Vincent &lt;rabin.vincent@axis.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bresticker &lt;abrestic@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
Cc: jason@lakedaemon.net
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/10545/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle &lt;ralf@linux-mips.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net</title>
<updated>2015-06-13T06:54:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-13T06:54:16+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c8d17b451aa18b07b60e771addf17a5fdd4138c7'/>
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix uninitialized struct station_info in cfg80211_wireless_stats(),
    from Johannes Berg.

 2) Revert commit attempt to fix ipv6 protocol resubmission, it adds
    regressions.

 3) Endless loops can be created in bridge port lists, fix from Nikolay
    Aleksandrov.

 4) Don't WARN_ON() if sk-&gt;sk_forward_alloc is non-zero in
    sk_clear_memalloc, it is a legal situation during swap deactivation.
    Fix from Mel Gorman.

 5) Fix order of disabling interrupts and unlocking NAPI in enic driver
    to avoid a race.  From Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

 6) High and low register writes are swapped when programming the start
    of periodic output in igb driver.  From Richard Cochran.

 7) Fix device rename handling in mpls stack, from Robert Shearman.

 8) Do not trigger compaction synchronously when optimistically trying
    to allocate an order 3 page in alloc_skb_with_frags() and
    skb_page_frag_refill().  From Shaohua Li.

 9) Authentication with COOKIE_ECHO is not handled properly in SCTP, fix
    from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  Doc: networking: Fix URL for wiki.wireshark.org in udplite.txt
  sctp: allow authenticating DATA chunks that are bundled with COOKIE_ECHO
  net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation
  mpls: handle device renames for per-device sysctls
  net: igb: fix the start time for periodic output signals
  enic: fix memory leak in rq_clean
  enic: check return value for stat dump
  enic: unlock napi busy poll before unmasking intr
  net, swap: Remove a warning and clarify why sk_mem_reclaim is required when deactivating swap
  bridge: fix multicast router rlist endless loop
  tipc: disconnect socket directly after probe failure
  Revert "ipv6: Fix protocol resubmission"
  cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver
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Pull networking fixes from David Miller:

 1) Fix uninitialized struct station_info in cfg80211_wireless_stats(),
    from Johannes Berg.

 2) Revert commit attempt to fix ipv6 protocol resubmission, it adds
    regressions.

 3) Endless loops can be created in bridge port lists, fix from Nikolay
    Aleksandrov.

 4) Don't WARN_ON() if sk-&gt;sk_forward_alloc is non-zero in
    sk_clear_memalloc, it is a legal situation during swap deactivation.
    Fix from Mel Gorman.

 5) Fix order of disabling interrupts and unlocking NAPI in enic driver
    to avoid a race.  From Govindarajulu Varadarajan.

 6) High and low register writes are swapped when programming the start
    of periodic output in igb driver.  From Richard Cochran.

 7) Fix device rename handling in mpls stack, from Robert Shearman.

 8) Do not trigger compaction synchronously when optimistically trying
    to allocate an order 3 page in alloc_skb_with_frags() and
    skb_page_frag_refill().  From Shaohua Li.

 9) Authentication with COOKIE_ECHO is not handled properly in SCTP, fix
    from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net:
  Doc: networking: Fix URL for wiki.wireshark.org in udplite.txt
  sctp: allow authenticating DATA chunks that are bundled with COOKIE_ECHO
  net: don't wait for order-3 page allocation
  mpls: handle device renames for per-device sysctls
  net: igb: fix the start time for periodic output signals
  enic: fix memory leak in rq_clean
  enic: check return value for stat dump
  enic: unlock napi busy poll before unmasking intr
  net, swap: Remove a warning and clarify why sk_mem_reclaim is required when deactivating swap
  bridge: fix multicast router rlist endless loop
  tipc: disconnect socket directly after probe failure
  Revert "ipv6: Fix protocol resubmission"
  cfg80211: wext: clear sinfo struct before calling driver
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block</title>
<updated>2015-06-12T18:35:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T18:35:19+00:00</published>
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Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Remember about a week ago when I sent the last pull request for 4.1?
  Well, I lied.  Now, I don't want to shift the blame, but Dan, Ming,
  and Richard made a liar out of me.

  Here are three small patches that should go into 4.1.  More
  specifically, this pull request contains:

   - A Kconfig dependency for the pmem block driver, so it can't be
     selected if HAS_IOMEM isn't availble.  From Richard Weinberger.

   - A fix for genhd, making the ext_devt_lock softirq safe.  This makes
     lockdep happier, since we also end up grabbing this lock on release
     off the softirq path.  From Dan Williams.

   - A blk-mq software queue release fix from Ming Lei.

  Last two are headed to stable, first fixes an issue introduced in this
  cycle"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: pmem: Add dependency on HAS_IOMEM
  block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report
  blk-mq: free hctx-&gt;ctxs in queue's release handler
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Pull block layer fixes from Jens Axboe:
 "Remember about a week ago when I sent the last pull request for 4.1?
  Well, I lied.  Now, I don't want to shift the blame, but Dan, Ming,
  and Richard made a liar out of me.

  Here are three small patches that should go into 4.1.  More
  specifically, this pull request contains:

   - A Kconfig dependency for the pmem block driver, so it can't be
     selected if HAS_IOMEM isn't availble.  From Richard Weinberger.

   - A fix for genhd, making the ext_devt_lock softirq safe.  This makes
     lockdep happier, since we also end up grabbing this lock on release
     off the softirq path.  From Dan Williams.

   - A blk-mq software queue release fix from Ming Lei.

  Last two are headed to stable, first fixes an issue introduced in this
  cycle"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
  block: pmem: Add dependency on HAS_IOMEM
  block: fix ext_dev_lock lockdep report
  blk-mq: free hctx-&gt;ctxs in queue's release handler
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'md/4.1-rc7-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md</title>
<updated>2015-06-12T18:33:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T18:33:03+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=7b565d9d1f9bfa16db5f78e4f547ce4bb1ecbdce'/>
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Pull three more md fixes from Neil Brown:
 "Hasn't been a good cycle for md has it :-(

  The main issue fixed here is a rare race which can result in two
  reshape threads running at once, which doesn't end well.

  Also a minor issue with a write to a sysfs file returning the wrong
  value.  Backports to 4.0-stable are indicated"

* tag 'md/4.1-rc7-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: make sure MD_RECOVERY_DONE is clear before starting recovery/resync
  md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.
  md: don't return 0 from array_state_store
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Pull three more md fixes from Neil Brown:
 "Hasn't been a good cycle for md has it :-(

  The main issue fixed here is a rare race which can result in two
  reshape threads running at once, which doesn't end well.

  Also a minor issue with a write to a sysfs file returning the wrong
  value.  Backports to 4.0-stable are indicated"

* tag 'md/4.1-rc7-fixes' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
  md: make sure MD_RECOVERY_DONE is clear before starting recovery/resync
  md: Close race when setting 'action' to 'idle'.
  md: don't return 0 from array_state_store
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.infradead.org/intel-iommu</title>
<updated>2015-06-12T18:28:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T18:28:57+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c39f3bc659b6f32e0e88113ec359a504be259e4f'/>
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Pull VT-d hardware workarounds from David Woodhouse:
 "This contains a workaround for hardware issues which I *thought* were
  never going to be seen on production hardware.  I'm glad I checked
  that before the 4.1 release...

  Firstly, PASID support is so broken on existing chips that we're just
  going to declare the old capability bit 28 as 'reserved' and change
  the VT-d spec to move PASID support to another bit.  So any existing
  hardware doesn't support SVM; it only sets that (now) meaningless bit
  28.

  That patch *wasn't* imperative for 4.1 because we don't have PASID
  support yet.  But *even* the extended context tables are broken — if
  you just enable the wider tables and use none of the new bits in them,
  which is precisely what 4.1 does, you find that translations don't
  work.  It's this problem which I thought was caught in time to be
  fixed before production, but wasn't.

  To avoid triggering this issue, we now *only* enable the extended
  context tables on hardware which also advertises "we have PASID
  support and we actually tested it this time" with the new PASID
  feature bit.

  In addition, I've added an 'intel_iommu=ecs_off' command line
  parameter to allow us to disable it manually if we need to"

* git://git.infradead.org/intel-iommu:
  iommu/vt-d: Only enable extended context tables if PASID is supported
  iommu/vt-d: Change PASID support to bit 40 of Extended Capability Register
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Pull VT-d hardware workarounds from David Woodhouse:
 "This contains a workaround for hardware issues which I *thought* were
  never going to be seen on production hardware.  I'm glad I checked
  that before the 4.1 release...

  Firstly, PASID support is so broken on existing chips that we're just
  going to declare the old capability bit 28 as 'reserved' and change
  the VT-d spec to move PASID support to another bit.  So any existing
  hardware doesn't support SVM; it only sets that (now) meaningless bit
  28.

  That patch *wasn't* imperative for 4.1 because we don't have PASID
  support yet.  But *even* the extended context tables are broken — if
  you just enable the wider tables and use none of the new bits in them,
  which is precisely what 4.1 does, you find that translations don't
  work.  It's this problem which I thought was caught in time to be
  fixed before production, but wasn't.

  To avoid triggering this issue, we now *only* enable the extended
  context tables on hardware which also advertises "we have PASID
  support and we actually tested it this time" with the new PASID
  feature bit.

  In addition, I've added an 'intel_iommu=ecs_off' command line
  parameter to allow us to disable it manually if we need to"

* git://git.infradead.org/intel-iommu:
  iommu/vt-d: Only enable extended context tables if PASID is supported
  iommu/vt-d: Change PASID support to bit 40 of Extended Capability Register
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>iommu/vt-d: Only enable extended context tables if PASID is supported</title>
<updated>2015-06-12T10:31:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Woodhouse</name>
<email>David.Woodhouse@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-12T09:15:49+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=c83b2f20fdde578bded3dfc4405c5db7a039c694'/>
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Although the extended tables are theoretically a completely orthogonal
feature to PASID and anything else that *uses* the newly-available bits,
some of the early hardware has problems even when all we do is enable
them and use only the same bits that were in the old context tables.

For now, there's no motivation to support extended tables unless we're
going to use PASID support to do SVM. So just don't use them unless
PASID support is advertised too. Also add a command-line bailout just in
case later chips also have issues.

The equivalent problem for PASID support has already been fixed with the
upcoming VT-d spec update and commit bd00c606a ("iommu/vt-d: Change
PASID support to bit 40 of Extended Capability Register"), because the
problematic platforms use the old definition of the PASID-capable bit,
which is now marked as reserved and meaningless.

So with this change, we'll magically start using ECS again only when we
see the new hardware advertising "hey, we have PASID support and we
actually tested it this time" on bit 40.

The VT-d hardware architect has promised that we are not going to have
any reason to support ECS *without* PASID any time soon, and he'll make
sure he checks with us before changing that.

In the future, if hypothetical new features also use new bits in the
context tables and can be seen on implementations *without* PASID support,
we might need to add their feature bits to the ecs_enabled() macro.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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Although the extended tables are theoretically a completely orthogonal
feature to PASID and anything else that *uses* the newly-available bits,
some of the early hardware has problems even when all we do is enable
them and use only the same bits that were in the old context tables.

For now, there's no motivation to support extended tables unless we're
going to use PASID support to do SVM. So just don't use them unless
PASID support is advertised too. Also add a command-line bailout just in
case later chips also have issues.

The equivalent problem for PASID support has already been fixed with the
upcoming VT-d spec update and commit bd00c606a ("iommu/vt-d: Change
PASID support to bit 40 of Extended Capability Register"), because the
problematic platforms use the old definition of the PASID-capable bit,
which is now marked as reserved and meaningless.

So with this change, we'll magically start using ECS again only when we
see the new hardware advertising "hey, we have PASID support and we
actually tested it this time" on bit 40.

The VT-d hardware architect has promised that we are not going to have
any reason to support ECS *without* PASID any time soon, and he'll make
sure he checks with us before changing that.

In the future, if hypothetical new features also use new bits in the
context tables and can be seen on implementations *without* PASID support,
we might need to add their feature bits to the ecs_enabled() macro.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse &lt;David.Woodhouse@intel.com&gt;
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