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Pull devicetree updates from Rob Herring:
"A couple of new helper functions in preparation for some tree wide
clean-ups.
I'm sending these new helpers now for rc2 in order to simplify the
dependencies on subsequent cleanups across the tree in 4.20"
* tag 'devicetree-fixes-for-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux:
of: Add device_type access helper functions
of: add node name compare helper functions
of: add helper to lookup compatible child node
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
"First batch of fixes post-merge window:
- A handful of devicetree changes for i.MX2{3,8} to change over to
new panel bindings. The platforms were moved from legacy
framebuffers to DRM and some development board panels hadn't yet
been converted.
- OMAP fixes related to ti-sysc driver conversion fallout, fixing
some register offsets, no_console_suspend fixes, etc.
- Droid4 changes to fix flaky eMMC probing and vibrator DTS mismerge.
- Fixed 0755->0644 permissions on a newly added file.
- Defconfig changes to make ARM Versatile more useful with QEMU
(helps testing).
- Enable defconfig options for new TI SoC platform that was merged
this window (AM6)"
* tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
arm64: defconfig: Enable TI's AM6 SoC platform
ARM: defconfig: Update the ARM Versatile defconfig
ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: Fix emmc errors seen on some devices
ARM: dts: Fix file permission for am335x-osd3358-sm-red.dts
ARM: imx_v6_v7_defconfig: Select CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SEIKO_43WVF1G
ARM: mxs_defconfig: Select CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SEIKO_43WVF1G
ARM: dts: imx23-evk: Convert to the new display bindings
ARM: dts: imx23-evk: Move regulators outside simple-bus
ARM: dts: imx28-evk: Convert to the new display bindings
ARM: dts: imx28-evk: Move regulators outside simple-bus
Revert "ARM: dts: imx7d: Invert legacy PCI irq mapping"
arm: dts: am4372: setup rtc as system-power-controller
ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: fix vibrations on Droid 4
bus: ti-sysc: Fix no_console_suspend handling
bus: ti-sysc: Fix module register ioremap for larger offsets
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix module address for modules using mpu_rt_idx
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix null hwmod for ti-sysc debug
In preparation to remove direct access to device_node.type, add
of_node_is_type() and of_node_get_device_type() helpers to check and
retrieve the device type.
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Pull x86 fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Speculation:
- Make the microcode check more robust
- Make the L1TF memory limit depend on the internal cache physical
address space and not on the CPUID advertised physical address
space, which might be significantly smaller. This avoids disabling
L1TF on machines which utilize the full physical address space.
- Fix the GDT mapping for EFI calls on 32bit PTI
- Fix the MCE nospec implementation to prevent #GP
Fixes and robustness:
- Use the proper operand order for LSL in the VDSO
- Prevent NMI uaccess race against CR3 switching
- Add a lockdep check to verify that text_mutex is held in
text_poke() functions
- Repair the fallout of giving native_restore_fl() a prototype
- Prevent kernel memory dumps based on usermode RIP
- Wipe KASAN shadow stack before rewinding the stack to prevent false
positives
- Move the AMS GOTO enforcement to the actual build stage to allow
user API header extraction without a compiler
- Fix a section mismatch introduced by the on demand VDSO mapping
change
Miscellaneous:
- Trivial typo, GCC quirk removal and CC_SET/OUT() cleanups"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/pti: Fix section mismatch warning/error
x86/vdso: Fix lsl operand order
x86/mce: Fix set_mce_nospec() to avoid #GP fault
x86/efi: Load fixmap GDT in efi_call_phys_epilog()
x86/nmi: Fix NMI uaccess race against CR3 switching
x86: Allow generating user-space headers without a compiler
x86/dumpstack: Don't dump kernel memory based on usermode RIP
x86/asm: Use CC_SET()/CC_OUT() in __gen_sigismember()
x86/alternatives: Lockdep-enforce text_mutex in text_poke*()
x86/entry/64: Wipe KASAN stack shadow before rewind_stack_do_exit()
x86/irqflags: Mark native_restore_fl extern inline
x86/build: Remove jump label quirk for GCC older than 4.5.2
x86/Kconfig: Fix trivial typo
x86/speculation/l1tf: Increase l1tf memory limit for Nehalem+
x86/spectre: Add missing family 6 check to microcode check
Fixes for omap variants against v4.19-rc1
These are mostly fixes related to using ti-sysc interconnect target module
driver for accessing right register offsets for sgx and cpsw and for
no_console_suspend regression.
There is also a droid4 emmc fix where emmc may not get detected for some
models, and vibrator dts mismerge fix.
And we have a file permission fix for am335x-osd3358-sm-red.dts that
just got added. And we must tag RTC as system-power-controller for
am437x for PMIC to shut down during poweroff.
* tag 'omap-for-v4.19/fixes-v2-signed' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap:
ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: Fix emmc errors seen on some devices
ARM: dts: Fix file permission for am335x-osd3358-sm-red.dts
arm: dts: am4372: setup rtc as system-power-controller
ARM: dts: omap4-droid4: fix vibrations on Droid 4
bus: ti-sysc: Fix no_console_suspend handling
bus: ti-sysc: Fix module register ioremap for larger offsets
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix module address for modules using mpu_rt_idx
ARM: OMAP2+: Fix null hwmod for ti-sysc debug
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
In preparation to remove device_node.name pointer, add helper functions
for node name comparisons which are a common pattern throughout the kernel.
Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Pull CPU hotplug fix from Thomas Gleixner:
"Remove the stale skip_onerr member from the hotplug states"
* 'smp-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
cpu/hotplug: Remove skip_onerr field from cpuhp_step structure
Fix the section mismatch warning in arch/x86/mm/pti.c:
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x6972a): Section mismatch in reference from the function pti_clone_pgtable() to the function .init.text:pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte()
The function pti_clone_pgtable() references
the function __init pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte().
This is often because pti_clone_pgtable lacks a __init
annotation or the annotation of pti_user_pagetable_walk_pte is wrong.
FATAL: modpost: Section mismatches detected.
Fixes: 85900ea51577 ("x86/pti: Map the vsyscall page if needed")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/43a6d6a3-d69d-5eda-da09-0b1c88215a2a@infradead.org
Enable K3 SoC platform for TI's AM6 SoC.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Menon <nm@ti.com>
Acked-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Otherwise we can get the following errors occasionally on some devices:
mmc1: tried to HW reset card, got error -110
mmcblk1: error -110 requesting status
mmcblk1: recovery failed!
print_req_error: I/O error, dev mmcblk1, sector 14329
...
I have one device that hits this error almost on every boot, and another
one that hits it only rarely with the other ones I've used behave without
problems. I'm not sure if the issue is related to a particular eMMC card
model, but in case it is, both of the machines with issues have:
# cat /sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:0001/manfid \
/sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:0001/oemid \
/sys/class/mmc_host/mmc1/mmc1:0001/name
0x000045
0x0100
SEM16G
and the working ones have:
0x000011
0x0100
016G92
Note that "ti,non-removable" is different as omap_hsmmc_reg_get() does not
call omap_hsmmc_disable_boot_regulators() if no_regulator_off_init is set.
And currently we set no_regulator_off_init only for "ti,non-removable" and
not for "non-removable". It seems that we should have "non-removable" with
some other mmc generic property behave in the same way instead of having to
use a non-generic property. But let's fix the issue first.
Fixes: 7e2f8c0ae670 ("ARM: dts: Add minimal support for motorola droid 4
xt894")
Cc: Marcel Partap <mpartap@gmx.net>
Cc: Merlijn Wajer <merlijn@wizzup.org>
Cc: Michael Scott <hashcode0f@gmail.com>
Cc: NeKit <nekit1000@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Add of_get_compatible_child() helper that can be used to lookup
compatible child nodes.
Several drivers currently use of_find_compatible_node() to lookup child
nodes while failing to notice that the of_find_ functions search the
entire tree depth-first (from a given start node) and therefore can
match unrelated nodes. The fact that these functions also drop a
reference to the node they start searching from (e.g. the parent node)
is typically also overlooked, something which can lead to use-after-free
bugs.
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Pull core fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"A small set of updates for core code:
- Prevent tracing in functions which are called from trace patching
via stop_machine() to prevent executing half patched function trace
entries.
- Remove old GCC workarounds
- Remove pointless includes of notifier.h"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
objtool: Remove workaround for unreachable warnings from old GCC
notifier: Remove notifier header file wherever not used
watchdog: Mark watchdog touch functions as notrace
When notifiers were there, `skip_onerr` was used to avoid calling
particular step startup/teardown callbacks in the CPU up/down rollback
path, which made the hotplug asymmetric.
As notifiers are gone now after the full state machine conversion, the
`skip_onerr` field is no longer required.
Remove it from the structure and its usage.
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1535439294-31426-1-git-send-email-mojha@codeaurora.org
In the __getcpu function, lsl is using the wrong target and destination
registers. Luckily, the compiler tends to choose %eax for both variables,
so it has been working so far.
Fixes: a582c540ac1b ("x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available")
Signed-off-by: Samuel Neves <sneves@dei.uc.pt>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180901201452.27828-1-sneves@dei.uc.pt
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