user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/features, branch v4.12.7

Merge tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux

2017-05-05T18:36:44Z

Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights include: - Larger virtual address space on 64-bit server CPUs. By default we use a 128TB virtual address space, but a process can request access to the full 512TB by passing a hint to mmap(). - Support for the new Power9 "XIVE" interrupt controller. - TLB flushing optimisations for the radix MMU on Power9. - Support for CAPI cards on Power9, using the "Coherent Accelerator Interface Architecture 2.0". - The ability to configure the mmap randomisation limits at build and runtime. - Several small fixes and cleanups to the kprobes code, as well as support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE. - Major improvements to handling of system reset interrupts, correctly treating them as NMIs, giving them a dedicated stack and using a new hypervisor call to trigger them, all of which should aid debugging and robustness. - Many fixes and other minor enhancements. Thanks to: Alastair D'Silva, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Alistair Popple, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Anshuman Khandual, Anton Blanchard, Balbir Singh, Ben Hutchings, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Bhupesh Sharma, Chris Packham, Christian Zigotzky, Christophe Leroy, Christophe Lombard, Daniel Axtens, David Gibson, Gautham R. Shenoy, Gavin Shan, Geert Uytterhoeven, Guilherme G. Piccoli, Hamish Martin, Hari Bathini, Kees Cook, Laurent Dufour, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh J Salgaonkar, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Masami Hiramatsu, Matt Brown, Matthew R. Ochs, Michael Neuling, Naveen N. Rao, Nicholas Piggin, Oliver O'Halloran, Pan Xinhui, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Sukadev Bhattiprolu, Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo, Tobin C. Harding, Tyrel Datwyler, Uma Krishnan, Vaibhav Jain, Vipin K Parashar, Yang Shi" * tag 'powerpc-4.12-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (214 commits) powerpc/64s: Power9 has no LPCR[VRMASD] field so don't set it powerpc/powernv: Fix TCE kill on NVLink2 powerpc/mm/radix: Drop support for CPUs without lockless tlbie powerpc/book3s/mce: Move add_taint() later in virtual mode powerpc/sysfs: Move #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU out of the function body powerpc/smp: Document irq enable/disable after migrating IRQs powerpc/mpc52xx: Don't select user-visible RTAS_PROC powerpc/powernv: Document cxl dependency on special case in pnv_eeh_reset() powerpc/eeh: Clean up and document event handling functions powerpc/eeh: Avoid use after free in eeh_handle_special_event() cxl: Mask slice error interrupts after first occurrence cxl: Route eeh events to all drivers in cxl_pci_error_detected() cxl: Force context lock during EEH flow powerpc/64: Allow CONFIG_RELOCATABLE if COMPILE_TEST powerpc/xmon: Teach xmon oops about radix vectors powerpc/mm/hash: Fix off-by-one in comment about kernel contexts ids powerpc/pseries: Enable VFIO powerpc/powernv: Fix iommu table size calculation hook for small tables powerpc/powernv: Check kzalloc() return value in pnv_pci_table_alloc powerpc: Add arch/powerpc/tools directory ...

docs: remove all references to AVR32 architecture

2017-05-01T07:27:15Z

The AVR32 architecture support has been removed from the Linux kernel, hence remove all references to it from Documentation. Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Noren Egtvedt Signed-off-by: Håvard Skinnemoen Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre Acked-by: Andy Shevchenko Acked-by: Boris Brezillon

powerpc/kprobes: Add support for KPROBES_ON_FTRACE

2017-04-24T09:07:58Z

Allow kprobes to be placed on ftrace _mcount() call sites. This optimization avoids the use of a trap, by riding on ftrace infrastructure. This depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS which depends on MPROFILE_KERNEL, which is only currently enabled on powerpc64le with newer toolchains. Based on the x86 code by Masami. Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc

2016-12-23T18:22:47Z

Pull more ARC updates from Vineet Gupta: - Fix for aliasing VIPT dcache in old ARC700 cores - micro-optimization in ARC700 ProtV handler - Enable SG_CHAIN [Vladimir] - ARC HS38 core intc default to prio 1 * tag 'arc-4.10-rc1-part2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vgupta/arc: ARC: mm: arc700: Don't assume 2 colours for aliasing VIPT dcache ARC: mm: No need to save cache version in @cpuinfo ARC: enable SG chaining ARCv2: intc: default all interrupts to priority 1 ARCv2: entry: document intr disable in hard isr ARC: ARCompact entry: elide re-reading ECR in ProtV handler

ARC: enable SG chaining

2016-12-19T02:45:32Z

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Kondratiev Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta

xtensa: update DMA-related Documentation/features entries

2016-12-15T18:41:51Z

xtensa supports DMA API debug and contiguous DMA, mark it as such. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov

Documentation: MIPS supports HAVE_REGS_AND_STACK_ACCESS_API

2016-10-13T15:19:19Z

This should have been part of 40e084a506eb ('MIPS: Add uprobes support.'). Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle Fixes: 40e084a506eb ("MIPS: Add uprobes support.") Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/14392/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle

powerpc: Add HAVE_PERF_USER_STACK_DUMP support

2016-05-11T11:54:05Z

With perf regs support enabled for powerpc, in commit ed4a4ef85cf5 ("powerpc/perf: Add support for sampling interrupt register state"), the support for obtaining perf user stack dump is already enabled. This patch declares the support for same and also updates documentation to mark the support for perf-regs and perf-stackdump. Signed-off-by: Chandan Kumar Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman

Merge tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux

2016-03-18T03:03:47Z

Pull arm64 updates from Catalin Marinas: "Here are the main arm64 updates for 4.6. There are some relatively intrusive changes to support KASLR, the reworking of the kernel virtual memory layout and initial page table creation. Summary: - Initial page table creation reworked to avoid breaking large block mappings (huge pages) into smaller ones. The ARM architecture requires break-before-make in such cases to avoid TLB conflicts but that's not always possible on live page tables - Kernel virtual memory layout: the kernel image is no longer linked to the bottom of the linear mapping (PAGE_OFFSET) but at the bottom of the vmalloc space, allowing the kernel to be loaded (nearly) anywhere in physical RAM - Kernel ASLR: position independent kernel Image and modules being randomly mapped in the vmalloc space with the randomness is provided by UEFI (efi_get_random_bytes() patches merged via the arm64 tree, acked by Matt Fleming) - Implement relative exception tables for arm64, required by KASLR (initial code for ARCH_HAS_RELATIVE_EXTABLE added to lib/extable.c but actual x86 conversion to deferred to 4.7 because of the merge dependencies) - Support for the User Access Override feature of ARMv8.2: this allows uaccess functions (get_user etc.) to be implemented using LDTR/STTR instructions. Such instructions, when run by the kernel, perform unprivileged accesses adding an extra level of protection. The set_fs() macro is used to "upgrade" such instruction to privileged accesses via the UAO bit - Half-precision floating point support (part of ARMv8.2) - Optimisations for CPUs with or without a hardware prefetcher (using run-time code patching) - copy_page performance improvement to deal with 128 bytes at a time - Sanity checks on the CPU capabilities (via CPUID) to prevent incompatible secondary CPUs from being brought up (e.g. weird big.LITTLE configurations) - valid_user_regs() reworked for better sanity check of the sigcontext information (restored pstate information) - ACPI parking protocol implementation - CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA enabled by default - VDSO code marked as read-only - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC support - ARCH_HAS_UBSAN_SANITIZE_ALL enabled - Erratum workaround Cavium ThunderX SoC - set_pte_at() fix for PROT_NONE mappings - Code clean-ups" * tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (99 commits) arm64: kasan: Fix zero shadow mapping overriding kernel image shadow arm64: kasan: Use actual memory node when populating the kernel image shadow arm64: Update PTE_RDONLY in set_pte_at() for PROT_NONE permission arm64: Fix misspellings in comments. arm64: efi: add missing frame pointer assignment arm64: make mrs_s prefixing implicit in read_cpuid arm64: enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA by default arm64: Rework valid_user_regs arm64: mm: check at build time that PAGE_OFFSET divides the VA space evenly arm64: KVM: Move kvm_call_hyp back to its original localtion arm64: mm: treat memstart_addr as a signed quantity arm64: mm: list kernel sections in order arm64: lse: deal with clobbered IP registers after branch via PLT arm64: mm: dump: Use VA_START directly instead of private LOWEST_ADDR arm64: kconfig: add submenu for 8.2 architectural features arm64: kernel: acpi: fix ioremap in ACPI parking protocol cpu_postboot arm64: Add support for Half precision floating point arm64: Remove fixmap include fragility arm64: Add workaround for Cavium erratum 27456 arm64: mm: Mark .rodata as RO ...

arm64: add support for ioremap() block mappings

2016-02-18T18:16:16Z

This wires up the existing generic huge-vmap feature, which allows ioremap() to use PMD or PUD sized block mappings. It also adds support to the unmap path for dealing with block mappings, which will allow us to unmap the __init region using unmap_kernel_range() in a subsequent patch. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas