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<title>Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2015-07-28T17:09:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2015-07-28T17:09:53Z</published>
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Pull kselftest fix from Shuah Khan.

* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  selftests/futex: Fix futex_cmp_requeue_pi() error handling
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<title>selftests/futex: Fix futex_cmp_requeue_pi() error handling</title>
<updated>2015-07-21T00:29:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Darren Hart</name>
<email>dvhart@infradead.org</email>
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<published>2015-07-20T22:48:37Z</published>
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An earlier (pre-kernel-integration) refactoring of this code mistakenly
replaced the error condition, &lt;, with a &gt;. Use &lt; to detect an error as
opposed to a successful requeue or signal race.

Reported-by: David Binderman &lt;dcb314@hotmail.com&gt;
Cc: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart &lt;dvhart@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan &lt;shuahkh@osg.samsung.com&gt;
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<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: add mock acpi_nfit_flush_address entries to nfit_test</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T18:07:03Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-07-10T18:07:03Z</published>
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In preparation for fixing the BLK path to properly use "directed
pcommit" enable the unit test infrastructure to emit mock "flush"
tables.  Writes to these flush addresses trigger a memory controller to
flush its internal buffers to persistent media, similar to the x86
"pcommit" instruction.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: fix return code for unimplemented commands</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T17:50:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
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<published>2015-07-10T17:06:12Z</published>
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The implementation for the new "DIMM Flags" DSM relies on the -ENOTTY
return code to indicate that the flags are unimplimented and to fall
back to a safe default.  As is the -ENXIO error code erroneoously
indicates to fail enabling a BLK region.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: mock ioremap_wt</title>
<updated>2015-07-10T17:50:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-10T17:06:11Z</published>
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In the 4.2-rc1 merge the default_memremap_pmem() implementation switched
from ioremap_nocache() to ioremap_wt().  Add it to the list of mocked
routines to restore the ability to run the unit tests.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T17:34:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T17:34:42Z</published>
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Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
 "The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
  libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

  NFIT:
    Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
    devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
    Interface table).

    After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
    devices.  A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
    boundaries of persistent memory media.  A region may span multiple
    NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller.  In
    turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
    bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
    device (disk) interface to the memory.

  PMEM:
    Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
    persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
    PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

    In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
    that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
    through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
    See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

  BLK:
    This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
    "Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT.  The primary difference
    of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
    memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
    time.

    Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
    different portions of the media.  BLK-mode, by definition, does not
    support DAX.

  BTT:
    This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
    converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
    update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

    The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
    not know they have a atomic sector dependency.  At least today's
    disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
    gets a CRC error on access.  NVDIMMs will always tear and always
    silently.  Until an application is audited to be robust in the
    presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

  Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
  Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
  Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
  Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
  arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
  libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
  acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
  libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
  pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
  libnvdimm: enable iostat
  pmem: make_request cleanups
  libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
  libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
  libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
  fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
  libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
  tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
  libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
  nd_btt: atomic sector updates
  libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
  libnvdimm: write blk label set
  libnvdimm: write pmem label set
  libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
  ...
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<title>Merge tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest</title>
<updated>2015-06-29T16:11:10Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-29T16:11:10Z</published>
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Pull kselftest update from Shuah Khan:
 "This update adds two new test suites: futex and seccomp.

  In addition, it includes fixes for bugs in timers, other tests, and
  compile framework.  It introduces new quicktest feature to enable
  users to choose to run tests that complete in a short time"

* tag 'linux-kselftest-4.2-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shuah/linux-kselftest:
  selftests: add quicktest support
  selftests: add seccomp suite
  selftest, x86: fix incorrect comment
  tools selftests: Fix 'clean' target with make 3.81
  selftests/futex: Add .gitignore
  kselftest: Add exit code defines
  selftests: Add futex tests to the top-level Makefile
  selftests/futex: Increment ksft pass and fail counters
  selftests/futex: Update Makefile to use lib.mk
  selftests: Add futex functional tests
  kselftests: timers: Check _ALARM clockids are supported before suspending
  kselftests: timers: Ease alarmtimer-suspend unreasonable latency value
  kselftests: timers: Increase delay between suspends in alarmtimer-suspend
  selftests/exec: do not install subdir as it is already created
  selftests/ftrace: install test.d
  selftests: copy TEST_DIRS to INSTALL_PATH
  Test compaction of mlocked memory
  selftests/mount: output WARN messages when mount test skipped
  selftests/timers: Make git ignore all binaries in timers test suite
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<title>libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T00:08:34Z</published>
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Upon detection of an unarmed dimm in a region, arrange for descendant
BTT, PMEM, or BLK instances to be read-only.  A dimm is primarily marked
"unarmed" via flags passed by platform firmware (NFIT).

The flags in the NFIT memory device sub-structure indicate the state of
the data on the nvdimm relative to its energy source or last "flush to
persistence".  For the most part there is nothing the driver can do but
advertise the state of these flags in sysfs and emit a message if
firmware indicates that the contents of the device may be corrupted.
However, for the case of ACPI_NFIT_MEM_ARMED, the driver can arrange for
the block devices incorporating that nvdimm to be marked read-only.
This is a safe default as the data is still available and new writes are
held off until the administrator either forces read-write mode, or the
energy source becomes armed.

A 'read_only' attribute is added to REGION devices to allow for
overriding the default read-only policy of all descendant block devices.

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;
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<title>tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure</title>
<updated>2015-06-26T15:23:38Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Dan Williams</name>
<email>dan.j.williams@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-17T21:23:32Z</published>
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'libnvdimm' is the first driver sub-system in the kernel to implement
mocking for unit test coverage.  The nfit_test module gets built as an
external module and arranges for external module replacements of nfit,
libnvdimm, nd_pmem, and nd_blk.  These replacements use the linker
--wrap option to redirect calls to ioremap() + request_mem_region() to
custom defined unit test resources.  The end result is a fully
functional nvdimm_bus, as far as userspace is concerned, but with the
capability to perform otherwise destructive tests on emulated resources.

Q: Why not use QEMU for this emulation?
QEMU is not suitable for unit testing.  QEMU's role is to faithfully
emulate the platform.  A unit test's role is to unfaithfully implement
the platform with the goal of triggering bugs in the corners of the
sub-system implementation.  As bugs are discovered in platforms, or the
sub-system itself, the unit tests are extended to backstop a fix with a
reproducer unit test.

Another problem with QEMU is that it would require coordination of 3
software projects instead of 2 (kernel + libndctl [1]) to maintain and
execute the tests.  The chances for bit rot and the difficulty of
getting the tests running goes up non-linearly the more components
involved.


Q: Why submit this to the kernel tree instead of external modules in
   libndctl?
Simple, to alleviate the same risk that out-of-tree external modules
face.  Updates to drivers/nvdimm/ can be immediately evaluated to see if
they have any impact on tools/testing/nvdimm/.


Q: What are the negative implications of merging this?
It is a unique maintenance burden because the purpose of mocking an
interface to enable a unit test is to purposefully short circuit the
semantics of a routine to enable testing.  For example
__wrap_ioremap_cache() fakes the pmem driver into "ioremap()'ing" a test
resource buffer allocated by dma_alloc_coherent().  The future
maintenance burden hits when someone changes the semantics of
ioremap_cache() and wonders what the implications are for the unit test.

[1]: https://github.com/pmem/ndctl

Cc: &lt;linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Lv Zheng &lt;lv.zheng@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Robert Moore &lt;robert.moore@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Christoph Hellwig &lt;hch@lst.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams &lt;dan.j.williams@intel.com&gt;</content>
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<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next</title>
<updated>2015-06-24T23:49:49Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-24T23:49:49Z</published>
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Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Add TX fast path in mac80211, from Johannes Berg.

 2) Add TSO/GRO support to ibmveth, from Thomas Falcon

 3) Move away from cached routes in ipv6, just like ipv4, from Martin
    KaFai Lau.

 4) Lots of new rhashtable tests, from Thomas Graf.

 5) Run ingress qdisc lockless, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 6) Allow servers to fetch TCP packet headers for SYN packets of new
    connections, for fingerprinting.  From Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add mode parameter to pktgen, for testing receive.  From Alexei
    Starovoitov.

 8) Cache access optimizations via simplifications of build_skb(), from
    Alexander Duyck.

 9) Move page frag allocator under mm/, also from Alexander.

10) Add xmit_more support to hv_netvsc, from KY Srinivasan.

11) Add a counter guard in case we try to perform endless reclassify
    loops in the packet scheduler.

12) Extern flow dissector to be programmable and use it in new "Flower"
    classifier.  From Jiri Pirko.

13) AF_PACKET fanout rollover fixes, performance improvements, and new
    statistics.  From Willem de Bruijn.

14) Add netdev driver for GENEVE tunnels, from John W Linville.

15) Add ingress netfilter hooks and filtering, from Pablo Neira Ayuso.

16) Fix handling of epoll edge triggers in TCP, from Eric Dumazet.

17) Add an ECN retry fallback for the initial TCP handshake, from Daniel
    Borkmann.

18) Add tail call support to BPF, from Alexei Starovoitov.

19) Add several pktgen helper scripts, from Jesper Dangaard Brouer.

20) Add zerocopy support to AF_UNIX, from Hannes Frederic Sowa.

21) Favor even port numbers for allocation to connect() requests, and
    odd port numbers for bind(0), in an effort to help avoid
    ip_local_port_range exhaustion.  From Eric Dumazet.

22) Add Cavium ThunderX driver, from Sunil Goutham.

23) Allow bpf programs to access skb_iif and dev-&gt;ifindex SKB metadata,
    from Alexei Starovoitov.

24) Add support for T6 chips in cxgb4vf driver, from Hariprasad Shenai.

25) Double TCP Small Queues default to 256K to accomodate situations
    like the XEN driver and wireless aggregation.  From Wei Liu.

26) Add more entropy inputs to flow dissector, from Tom Herbert.

27) Add CDG congestion control algorithm to TCP, from Kenneth Klette
    Jonassen.

28) Convert ipset over to RCU locking, from Jozsef Kadlecsik.

29) Track and act upon link status of ipv4 route nexthops, from Andy
    Gospodarek.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1670 commits)
  bridge: vlan: flush the dynamically learned entries on port vlan delete
  bridge: multicast: add a comment to br_port_state_selection about blocking state
  net: inet_diag: export IPV6_V6ONLY sockopt
  stmmac: troubleshoot unexpected bits in des0 &amp; des1
  net: ipv4 sysctl option to ignore routes when nexthop link is down
  net: track link-status of ipv4 nexthops
  net: switchdev: ignore unsupported bridge flags
  net: Cavium: Fix MAC address setting in shutdown state
  drivers: net: xgene: fix for ACPI support without ACPI
  ip: report the original address of ICMP messages
  net/mlx5e: Prefetch skb data on RX
  net/mlx5e: Pop cq outside mlx5e_get_cqe
  net/mlx5e: Remove mlx5e_cq.sqrq back-pointer
  net/mlx5e: Remove extra spaces
  net/mlx5e: Avoid TX CQE generation if more xmit packets expected
  net/mlx5e: Avoid redundant dev_kfree_skb() upon NOP completion
  net/mlx5e: Remove re-assignment of wq type in mlx5e_enable_rq()
  net/mlx5e: Use skb_shinfo(skb)-&gt;gso_segs rather than counting them
  net/mlx5e: Static mapping of netdev priv resources to/from netdev TX queues
  net/mlx4_en: Use HW counters for rx/tx bytes/packets in PF device
  ...
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