This patch fix some spelling typos in Documentation/ABI/stable.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The kernel NMI watchdog acts as both a hardlockup and softlockup detector.
However, the kernel parameter nmi_watchdog can only enable or disable the
hardlockup detector. Clarify that in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
On some places, people could use Private: to tag the private fields
of an struct. So, be case-insensitive when parsing "private:"
meta-tag.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The #kernelnewbies irc channel is no longer hosted on
irc.openprojects.net but on irc.oftc.net.
Removed pointer to different regional servers since oftc already uses
geo-IP load balancing.
The "description" quoted from the website no longer exists,
therefore removed the reference, quotes and carets.
The paragraph also contains a pointer to the kernelnewbies.org website.
Therefore changing the title to:
"Kernel Newbies IRC Channel and Website."
Signed-off-by: Richard Sailer <richard@weltraumpflege.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This patch fix spelling typos in Documentation/virtual/kvm.
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
bc is mentioned lower in a dedicated section.
Yet it is useful to have all dependencies listed in
"Current Minimal Requirements" section.
Signed-off-by: Benoit Lemarchand <benoit.lemarchand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently the encoding of documents generated by DocBook depends on
the current locale. Make the output reproducible independently of
the locale, by setting the encoding to UTF-8 (LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8) by
preference, or ASCII (LC_CTYPE=C) as a fallback.
LC_CTYPE can normally be overridden by LC_ALL, but the top-level
Makefile unsets that.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
[jc: added check-lc_ctype to .gitignore]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
For years I've waited in vain for Linus to see the error of his ways and go
back to our beloved 2.6.x naming scheme. But dispair has overtaken me at
last, so, with a heavy heart, I'm moving my repo to a more contemporary
name. My kids will be proud of me.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This form of the earlycon parameter was added by commit fb11ffe74c
("of/fdt: add FDT serial scanning for earlycon") without documentation.
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The examples should better match what kernel developers actually expect,
so that they set a good example both for this project and for other
projects with similar development processes.
Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie <alexhenrie24@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The gpiolib supports parsing DT properties of the form <function>-gpio
but it was only added for compatibility with older DT bindings that got
it wrong and should not be used in newer bindings.
The commit that added support for this was:
dd34c37aa3 ("gpio: of: Allow -gpio suffix for property names")
but didn't update the documentation to explain this so it's been a source
of confusion. So let's make clear this in the GPIO documentation.
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Just fix some typos in blkio-controller.txt, freezer-subsystem.txt,
unified-hierarchy.txt.
Signed-off-by: Yuan Sun <sunyuan3@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The nents argument to the DMA API functions operating on scatterlists is
always the same. The documentation used different argument names and the
matter was not mentioned in Documentation/DMA-API-HOWTO.txt at all. Fix
these.
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
In commit 94fb933 ("x86/crash: Allocate enough low memory when
crashkernel=high") the default value of crashkernel low memory
is changed to 256M. In this patch update it accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Several documentation changes.
First, we never mentioned any errors and never required any
error checks in documentation.
Second, mention that there is another way to configure and
manage zram devices -- zramctl, provided by util-linux.
Third, add a bit of clarification on why `mem_used_max' attr
is RW and correct some typos.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull spi fixes from Mark Brown:
"A disappointingly large collection of fixes for SPI issues, though
almost all in drivers (and there mainly the newly added Mediatek
driver) and the core fixes are documentation and error handling.
The driver fixes are all of the usual 'important if you see them'
variety"
* tag 'spi-fix-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi:
spi: xtensa-xtfpga: fix register endianness
spi: meson: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
spi: mediatek: fix wrong error return value on probe
spi: fix kernel-doc warnings in spi.h
spi: spidev: fix possible NULL dereference
spi: atmel: remove warning when !CONFIG_PM_SLEEP
spi: bcm2835: BUG: fix wrong use of PAGE_MASK
spi: mediatek: fix spi cs polarity error
spi: Fix documentation of spi_alloc_master()
spi: spi-pxa2xx: Check status register to determine if SSSR_TINT is disabled
spi: Mediatek: Document devicetree bindings update for spi bus
spi: mediatek: fix spi clock usage error
spi: mediatek: remove clk_disable_unprepare()
Pull regulator fixes from Mark Brown:
"A collection of fixes that came in since I tagged the merge window
pull request for v4.3:
- Error handling fixes in the core
- Fixes to a couple of TI drivers for device specific issues
- Several fixes for module autoloading"
* tag 'regulator-fix-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/regulator:
regulator: vexpress: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
regulator: gpio: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
regulator: anatop: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
regulator: core: Correct return value check in regulator_resolve_supply
regulator: tps65218: Fix missing zero typo
regulator: pbias: program pbias register offset in pbias driver
regulator: core: fix possible NULL dereference
Pull device mapper fixes from Mike Snitzer:
"Two stable@ fixes:
- DM thinp fix to properly advertise discard support as disabled for
thin devices backed by a thin-pool with discard support disabled.
- DM crypt fix to prevent the creation of bios that violate the
underlying block device's max_segments limits. This fixes a
relatively long-standing NCQ SSD corruption issue reported against
dm-crypt ever since the dm-crypt cpu parallelization patches were
merged back in 4.0"
* tag 'dm-4.3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/device-mapper/linux-dm:
dm crypt: constrain crypt device's max_segment_size to PAGE_SIZE
dm thin: disable discard support for thin devices if pool's is disabled
XTFPGA SPI controller has native endian registers.
Fix register acessors so that they work in big-endian configurations.
Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Pull cgroup fixes from Tejun Heo:
"The threadgroup locking changes which went in during 4.2 devel cycle
added write locking of a percpu_rwsem in cgroup task migration path;
unfortunately, that involved expedited rcu syncing which turned out to
be too slow and heavy for certain workloads. The patchset which is
dependent on this one didn't get committed during that devel cycle, so
these two patches can be reverted safely.
Oleg reworked percpu_rwsem for 4.4 so that the writer path is a lot
lighter. The reported issue goes away with Oleg's reworked
percpu_rwsem and I'll reapply these patches on the for-4.4 branch so
that they can land together with Oleg's changes"
* 'for-4.3-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/cgroup:
Revert "sched, cgroup: replace signal_struct->group_rwsem with a global percpu_rwsem"
Revert "cgroup: simplify threadgroup locking"
Pull SH drivers updates from Simon Horman:
"I am sending this change after v4.3-rc1 has been released as it
depends on SoC changes which are present in that rc release.
Summary:
- disable PM runtime for multi-platform ARM with genpd
- disable legacy default PM Domain on emev2"
* tag 'renesas-sh-drivers-for-v4.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/renesas:
drivers: sh: Disable PM runtime for multi-platform ARM with genpd
drivers: sh: Disable legacy default PM Domain on emev2
Pull s390 fixes from Martin Schwidefsky:
"A couple of system call updates. The two new system calls userfaultfd
and membarrier have been added, as well as the 17 direct calls for the
multiplexed socket system calls.
In addition the system call compat wrappers have been flagged as
notrace functions and a few wrappers could be removed.
And bug fixes for the vector register handling, cpu_mf, suspend/resume,
compat signals, SMT cputime accounting and the zfcp dumper"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux:
s390: wire up separate socketcalls system calls
s390/compat: remove superfluous compat wrappers
s390/compat: do not trace compat wrapper functions
s390/s390x: allocate sys_membarrier system call number
s390/configs//zfcpdump_defconfig: Remove CONFIG_MEMSTICK
s390: wire up userfaultfd system call
s390/vtime: correct scaled cputime for SMT
s390/cpum_cf: Corrected return code for unauthorized counter sets
s390/compat: correct uc_sigmask of the compat signal frame
s390: fix floating point register corruption
s390/hibernate: fix save and restore of vector registers
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King:
"Three fixes and a resulting cleanup for -rc2:
- Andre Przywara reported that he was seeing a warning with the new
cast inside DMA_ERROR_CODE's definition, and fixed the incorrect
use.
- Doug Anderson noticed that kgdb causes a "scheduling while atomic"
bug.
- OMAP5 folk noticed that their Thumb-2 compiled X servers crashed
when enabling support to cover ARMv6 CPUs due to a kernel bug
leaking some conditional context into the signal handler"
* 'fixes' of git://ftp.arm.linux.org.uk/~rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 8425/1: kgdb: Don't try to stop the machine when setting breakpoints
ARM: 8437/1: dma-mapping: fix build warning with new DMA_ERROR_CODE definition
ARM: get rid of needless #if in signal handling code
ARM: fix Thumb2 signal handling when ARMv6 is enabled
Pull kselftest fixes from Shuah Khan:
"This update contains 7 fixes for problems ranging from build failurs
to incorrect error reporting"
* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
selftests: exec: revert to default emit rule
selftests: change install command to rsync
selftests: mqueue: simplify the Makefile
selftests: mqueue: allow extra cflags
selftests: rename jump label to static_keys
selftests/seccomp: add support for s390
seltests/zram: fix syntax error
Pull power management and ACPI updates from Rafael Wysocki:
"Included are: a somewhat late devfreq update which however is mostly
fixes and cleanups with one new thing only (the PPMUv2 support on
Exynos5433), an ACPI cpufreq driver fixup and two ACPI core cleanups
related to preprocessor directives.
Specifics:
- Fix a memory allocation size in the devfreq core (Xiaolong Ye).
- Fix a mistake in the exynos-ppmu DT binding (Javier Martinez
Canillas).
- Add support for PPMUv2 ((Platform Performance Monitoring Unit
version 2.0) on the Exynos5433 SoCs (Chanwoo Choi).
- Fix a type casting bug in the Exynos PPMU code (MyungJoo Ham).
- Assorted devfreq code cleanups and optimizations (Javi Merino,
MyungJoo Ham, Viresh Kumar).
- Fix up the ACPI cpufreq driver to use a more lightweight way to get
to its private data in the ->get() callback (Rafael J Wysocki).
- Fix a CONFIG_ prefix bug in one of the ACPI drivers and make the
ACPI subsystem use IS_ENABLED() instead of #ifdefs in function
bodies (Sudeep Holla)"
* tag 'pm+acpi-4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Use cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() in ->get()
ACPI: Eliminate CONFIG_.*{, _MODULE} #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED()
ACPI: int340x_thermal: add missing CONFIG_ prefix
PM / devfreq: Fix incorrect type issue.
PM / devfreq: tegra: Update governor to use devfreq_update_stats()
PM / devfreq: comments for get_dev_status usage updated
PM / devfreq: drop comment about thermal setting max_freq
PM / devfreq: cache the last call to get_dev_status()
PM / devfreq: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: bit-wise operation bugfix.
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Update documentation to support PPMUv2
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Add the support of PPMUv2 for Exynos5433
PM / devfreq: event: Remove incorrect property in exynos-ppmu DT binding
Pull clk fixes from Stephen Boyd:
"A few driver fixes for tegra, rockchip, and st SoCs and a two-liner in
the framework to avoid oops when get_parent ops return out of range
values on tegra platforms"
* tag 'clk-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/clk/linux:
drivers: clk: st: Rename st_pll3200c32_407_c0_x into st_pll3200c32_cx_x
clk: check for invalid parent index of orphans in __clk_init()
clk: tegra: dfll: Properly protect OPP list
clk: rockchip: add critical clock for rk3368
Pull LED fixes from Jacek Anaszewski:
- fix module autoload for six OF platform drivers (aat1290, bcm6328,
bcm6358, ktd2692, max77693, ns2)
- aat1290: add missing static modifier
- ipaq-micro: add missing LEDS_CLASS dependency
- lp55xx: correct Kconfig dependecy for f/w user helper
* tag 'led-fixes-for-v4.3-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/j.anaszewski/linux-leds:
leds:lp55xx: Correct Kconfig dependency for f/w user helper
leds: leds-ipaq-micro: Add LEDS_CLASS dependency
leds: aat1290: add 'static' modifier to init_mm_current_scale
leds: leds-ns2: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
leds: max77693: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
leds: ktd2692: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
leds: bcm6358: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
leds: bcm6328: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
leds: aat1290: Fix module autoload for OF platform driver
Pull rdma fixes from Doug Ledford:
"The new hfi1 driver in staging/rdma has had a number of fixup patches
since being added to the tree. This is the first batch of those fixes"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dledford/rdma:
IB/hfi: Properly set permissions for user device files
IB/hfi1: mask vs shift confusion
IB/hfi1: clean up some defines
IB/hfi1: info leak in get_ctxt_info()
IB/hfi1: fix a locking bug
IB/hfi1: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR
IB/hfi1: fix sdma_descq_cnt parameter parsing
IB/hfi1: fix copy_to/from_user() error handling
IB/hfi1: fix pstateinfo from returning improperly byteswapped value
Pull libnvdimm fixes from Dan Williams:
- a boot regression (since v4.2) fix for some ARM configurations from
Tyler
- regression (since v4.1) fixes for mkfs.xfs on a DAX enabled device
from Jeff. These are tagged for -stable.
- a pair of locking fixes from Axel that are hidden from lockdep since
they involve device_lock(). The "btt" one is tagged for -stable, the
other only applies to the new "pfn" mechanism in v4.3.
- a fix for the pmem ->rw_page() path to use wmb_pmem() from Ross.
* 'libnvdimm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm:
mm: fix type cast in __pfn_to_phys()
pmem: add proper fencing to pmem_rw_page()
libnvdimm: pfn_devs: Fix locking in namespace_store
libnvdimm: btt_devs: Fix locking in namespace_store
blockdev: don't set S_DAX for misaligned partitions
dax: fix O_DIRECT I/O to the last block of a blockdev
Pull block updates from Jens Axboe:
"This is a bit bigger than it should be, but I could (did) not want to
send it off last week due to both wanting extra testing, and expecting
a fix for the bounce regression as well. In any case, this contains:
- Fix for the blk-merge.c compilation warning on gcc 5.x from me.
- A set of back/front SG gap merge fixes, from me and from Sagi.
This ensures that we honor SG gapping for integrity payloads as
well.
- Two small fixes for null_blk from Matias, fixing a leak and a
capacity propagation issue.
- A blkcg fix from Tejun, fixing a NULL dereference.
- A fast clone optimization from Ming, fixing a performance
regression since the arbitrarily sized bio's were introduced.
- Also from Ming, a regression fix for bouncing IOs"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: fix bounce_end_io
block: blk-merge: fast-clone bio when splitting rw bios
block: blkg_destroy_all() should clear q->root_blkg and ->root_rl.blkg
block: Copy a user iovec if it includes gaps
block: Refuse adding appending a gapped integrity page to a bio
block: Refuse request/bio merges with gaps in the integrity payload
block: Check for gaps on front and back merges
null_blk: fix wrong capacity when bs is not 512 bytes
null_blk: fix memory leak on cleanup
block: fix bogus compiler warnings in blk-merge.c
Commit 505a666ee3 ("writeback: plug writeback in wb_writeback() and
writeback_inodes_wb()") has us holding a plug during writeback_sb_inodes,
which increases the merge rate when relatively contiguous small files
are written by the filesystem. It helps both on flash and spindles.
For an fs_mark workload creating 4K files in parallel across 8 drives,
this commit improves performance ~9% more by unplugging before calling
cond_resched(). cond_resched() doesn't trigger an implicit unplug, so
explicitly getting the IO down to the device before scheduling reduces
latencies for anyone waiting on clean pages.
It also cuts down on how often we use kblockd to unplug, which means
less work bouncing from one workqueue to another.
Many more details about how we got here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/9/11/570
Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
This platform driver has a OF device ID table but the OF module
alias information is not created so module autoloading won't work.
Signed-off-by: Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
The various definitions of __pfn_to_phys() have been consolidated to
use a generic macro in include/asm-generic/memory_model.h. This hit
mainline in the form of 012dcef3f0 "mm: move __phys_to_pfn and
__pfn_to_phys to asm/generic/memory_model.h". When the generic macro
was implemented the type cast to phys_addr_t was dropped which caused
boot regressions on ARM platforms with more than 4GB of memory and
LPAE enabled.
It was suggested to use PFN_PHYS() defined in include/linux/pfn.h
as provides the correct logic and avoids further duplication.
Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <bot@kernelci.org>
Suggested-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tyler Baker <tyler.baker@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
* pm-cpufreq:
cpufreq: acpi-cpufreq: Use cpufreq_cpu_get_raw() in ->get()
* pm-devfreq:
PM / devfreq: Fix incorrect type issue.
PM / devfreq: tegra: Update governor to use devfreq_update_stats()
PM / devfreq: comments for get_dev_status usage updated
PM / devfreq: drop comment about thermal setting max_freq
PM / devfreq: cache the last call to get_dev_status()
PM / devfreq: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: bit-wise operation bugfix.
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Update documentation to support PPMUv2
PM / devfreq: exynos-ppmu: Add the support of PPMUv2 for Exynos5433
PM / devfreq: event: Remove incorrect property in exynos-ppmu DT binding
Pull virtio fixes and cleanups from Michael Tsirkin:
"This fixes the virtio-test tool, and improves the error handling for
virtio-ccw"
* tag 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mst/vhost:
virtio/s390: handle failures of READ_VQ_CONF ccw
tools/virtio: propagate V=X to kernel build
vhost: move features to core
tools/virtio: fix build after 4.2 changes
