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Lee writes:
"MFD fixes for v4.19
- Fix Dialog DA9063 regulator constraints issue causing failure in
probe
- Fix OMAP Device Tree compatible strings to match DT"
* tag 'mfd-fixes-4.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd:
mfd: omap-usb-host: Fix dts probe of children
mfd: da9063: Fix DT probing with constraints
Juergen writes:
"xen:
Two small fixes for xen drivers."
* tag 'for-linus-4.19d-rc5-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen: issue warning message when out of grant maptrack entries
xen/x86/vpmu: Zero struct pt_regs before calling into sample handling code
It currently only works if the parent bus uses "simple-bus". We
currently try to probe children with non-existing compatible values.
And we're missing .probe.
I noticed this while testing devices configured to probe using ti-sysc
interconnect target module driver. For that we also may want to rebind
the driver, so let's remove __init and __exit.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Roger Quadros <rogerq@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Jens writes:
"Just a single fix in this pull request, fixing a regression in
/proc/diskstats caused by the unification of timestamps."
* tag 'for-linus-20180922' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block:
block: use nanosecond resolution for iostat
When a driver domain (e.g. dom0) is running out of maptrack entries it
can't map any more foreign domain pages. Instead of silently stalling
the affected domUs issue a rate limited warning in this case in order
to make it easier to detect that situation.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Commit 1c892e38ce59 ("regulator: da9063: Handle less LDOs on DA9063L")
reordered the da9063_regulator_info[] array, but not the DA9063_ID_*
regulator ids and not the da9063_matches[] array, because ids are used
as indices in the array initializer. This mismatch between regulator id
and da9063_regulator_info[] array index causes the driver probe to fail
because constraints from DT are not applied to the correct regulator:
da9063 0-0058: Device detected (chip-ID: 0x61, var-ID: 0x50)
DA9063_BMEM: Bringing 900000uV into 3300000-3300000uV
DA9063_LDO9: Bringing 3300000uV into 2500000-2500000uV
DA9063_LDO1: Bringing 900000uV into 3300000-3300000uV
DA9063_LDO1: failed to apply 3300000-3300000uV constraint(-22)
This patch reorders the DA9063_ID_* as apparently intended, and with
them the entries in the da90630_matches[] array.
Fixes: 1c892e38ce59 ("regulator: da9063: Handle less LDOs on DA9063L")
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <p.zabel@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Thomas writes:
"A set of fixes for x86:
- Resolve the kvmclock regression on AMD systems with memory
encryption enabled. The rework of the kvmclock memory allocation
during early boot results in encrypted storage, which is not
shareable with the hypervisor. Create a new section for this data
which is mapped unencrypted and take care that the later
allocations for shared kvmclock memory is unencrypted as well.
- Fix the build regression in the paravirt code introduced by the
recent spectre v2 updates.
- Ensure that the initial static page tables cover the fixmap space
correctly so early console always works. This worked so far by
chance, but recent modifications to the fixmap layout can -
depending on kernel configuration - move the relevant entries to a
different place which is not covered by the initial static page
tables.
- Address the regressions and issues which got introduced with the
recent extensions to the Intel Recource Director Technology code.
- Update maintainer entries to document reality"
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/mm: Expand static page table for fixmap space
MAINTAINERS: Add X86 MM entry
x86/intel_rdt: Add Reinette as co-maintainer for RDT
MAINTAINERS: Add Borislav to the x86 maintainers
x86/paravirt: Fix some warning messages
x86/intel_rdt: Fix incorrect loop end condition
x86/intel_rdt: Fix exclusive mode handling of MBA resource
x86/intel_rdt: Fix incorrect loop end condition
x86/intel_rdt: Do not allow pseudo-locking of MBA resource
x86/intel_rdt: Fix unchecked MSR access
x86/intel_rdt: Fix invalid mode warning when multiple resources are managed
x86/intel_rdt: Global closid helper to support future fixes
x86/intel_rdt: Fix size reporting of MBA resource
x86/intel_rdt: Fix data type in parsing callbacks
x86/kvm: Use __bss_decrypted attribute in shared variables
x86/mm: Add .bss..decrypted section to hold shared variables
Klaus Kusche reported that the I/O busy time in /proc/diskstats was not
updating properly on 4.18. This is because we started using ktime to
track elapsed time, and we convert nanoseconds to jiffies when we update
the partition counter. However, this gets rounded down, so any I/Os that
take less than a jiffy are not accounted for. Previously in this case,
the value of jiffies would sometimes increment while we were doing I/O,
so at least some I/Os were accounted for.
Let's convert the stats to use nanoseconds internally. We still report
milliseconds as before, now more accurately than ever. The value is
still truncated to 32 bits for backwards compatibility.
Fixes: 522a777566f5 ("block: consolidate struct request timestamp fields")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Klaus Kusche <klaus.kusche@computerix.info>
Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Otherwise we may leak kernel stack for events that sample user
registers.
Reported-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Thomas writes:
"- Provide a strerror_r wrapper so lib/bpf can be built on systems
without _GNU_SOURCE
- Unbreak the man page generator when building out of tree"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf Documentation: Fix out-of-tree asciidoctor man page generation
tools lib bpf: Provide wrapper for strerror_r to build in !_GNU_SOURCE systems
We met a kernel panic when enabling earlycon, which is due to the fixmap
address of earlycon is not statically setup.
Currently the static fixmap setup in head_64.S only covers 2M virtual
address space, while it actually could be in 4M space with different
kernel configurations, e.g. when VSYSCALL emulation is disabled.
So increase the static space to 4M for now by defining FIXMAP_PMD_NUM to 2,
and add a build time check to ensure that the fixmap is covered by the
initial static page tables.
Fixes: 1ad83c858c7d ("x86_64,vsyscall: Make vsyscall emulation configurable")
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> (Xen parts)
Cc: H Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirsky <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180920025828.23699-1-feng.tang@intel.com
Pull NVMe fix from Christoph.
* 'nvme-4.19' of git://git.infradead.org/nvme:
nvme: count all ANA groups for ANA Log page
Patch series "mmu_notifiers follow ups".
Tetsuo has noticed some fallouts from 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish
blockable mode for mmu notifiers"). One of them has been fixed and picked
up by AMD/DRM maintainer [1]. XEN issue is fixed by patch 1. I have also
clarified expectations about blockable semantic of invalidate_range_end.
Finally the last patch removes MMU_INVALIDATE_DOES_NOT_BLOCK which is no
longer used nor needed.
[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180824135257.GU29735@dhcp22.suse.cz
This patch (of 3):
93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers") has
introduced blockable parameter to all mmu_notifiers and the notifier has
to back off when called in !blockable case and it could block down the
road.
The above commit implemented that for mn_invl_range_start but both
in_range checks are done unconditionally regardless of the blockable mode
and as such they would fail all the time for regular calls. Fix this by
checking blockable parameter as well.
Once we are there we can remove the stale TODO. The lock has to be
sleepable because we wait for completion down in gnttab_unmap_refs_sync.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180827112623.8992-2-mhocko@kernel.org
Fixes: 93065ac753e4 ("mm, oom: distinguish blockable mode for mmu notifiers")
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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