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Pull section attribute fix from Miguel Ojeda:
"Fix Oops in Clang-compiled kernels (Nick Desaulniers)"
* tag 'compiler-attributes-for-linus-v5.3-rc8' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
include/linux/compiler.h: fix Oops for Clang-compiled kernels
Pull GPIO fixes from Linus Walleij:
"All related to the PCA953x driver when handling chips with more than 8
ports, now that works again"
* tag 'gpio-v5.3-5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio:
gpio: pca953x: use pca953x_read_regs instead of regmap_bulk_read
gpio: pca953x: correct type of reg_direction
GCC unescapes escaped string section names while Clang does not. Because
__section uses the `#` stringification operator for the section name, it
doesn't need to be escaped.
This fixes an Oops observed in distro's that use systemd and not
net.core.bpf_jit_enable=1, when their kernels are compiled with Clang.
Link: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/619
Link: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42950
Link: https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=156412960619946&w=2
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190904181740.GA19688@gmail.com/
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
[Cherry-picked from the __section cleanup series for 5.3]
[Adjusted commit message]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@gmail.com>
This reverts commit 558682b5291937a70748d36fd9ba757fb25b99ae.
Chris Wilson reports that it breaks his CPU hotplug test scripts. In
particular, it breaks offlining and then re-onlining the boot CPU, which
we treat specially (and the BIOS does too).
The symptoms are that we can offline the CPU, but it then does not come
back online again:
smpboot: CPU 0 is now offline
smpboot: Booting Node 0 Processor 0 APIC 0x0
smpboot: do_boot_cpu failed(-1) to wakeup CPU#0
Thomas says he knows why it's broken (my personal suspicion: our magic
handling of the "cpu0_logical_apicid" thing), but for 5.3 the right fix
is to just revert it, since we've never touched the LDR bits before, and
it's not worth the risk to do anything else at this stage.
[ Hotpluging of the boot CPU is special anyway, and should be off by
default. See the "BOOTPARAM_HOTPLUG_CPU0" config option and the
cpu0_hotplug kernel parameter.
In general you should not do it, and it has various known limitations
(hibernate and suspend require the boot CPU, for example).
But it should work, even if the boot CPU is special and needs careful
treatment - Linus ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/156785100521.13300.14461504732265570003@skylake-alporthouse-com/
Reported-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
gpio fixes for v5.3-rc7
- two patches fixing a regression in the pca953x driver
Pull Documentation updates from Greg KH:
"A few small patches for the documenation file that came in through the
char-misc tree in -rc7 for your tree.
They fix the mistake in the .rst format that kept the table of
companies from showing up in the html output, and most importantly,
add people's names to the list showing support for our process"
* tag 'char-misc-5.3-rc8' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
Documentation/process: Add Qualcomm process ambassador for hardware security issues
Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues: Microsoft ambassador
Documentation/process: Add Google contact for embargoed hardware issues
Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Xen
The register number needs to be translated for chips with more than 8
ports. This patch fixes a bug causing all chips with more than 8 GPIO pins
to not work correctly.
Fixes: 0f25fda840a9 ("gpio: pca953x: Zap ad-hoc reg_direction cache")
Cc: Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Jander <david@protonic.nl>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Pull char/misc driver fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small char and misc driver fixes for reported issues for
5.3-rc7
Also included in here is the documentation for how we are handling
hardware issues under embargo that everyone has finally agreed on, as
well as a MAINTAINERS update for the suckers who agreed to handle the
LICENSES/ files.
All of these have been in linux-next last week with no reported
issues"
* tag 'char-misc-5.3-rc7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc:
fsi: scom: Don't abort operations for minor errors
vmw_balloon: Fix offline page marking with compaction
VMCI: Release resource if the work is already queued
Documentation/process: Embargoed hardware security issues
lkdtm/bugs: fix build error in lkdtm_EXHAUST_STACK
mei: me: add Tiger Lake point LP device ID
intel_th: pci: Add Tiger Lake support
intel_th: pci: Add support for another Lewisburg PCH
stm class: Fix a double free of stm_source_device
MAINTAINERS: add entry for LICENSES and SPDX stuff
fpga: altera-ps-spi: Fix getting of optional confd gpio
Pull dmaengine fixes from Vinod Koul:
"Some late fixes for drivers:
- memory leak in ti crossbar dma driver
- cleanup of omap dma probe
- Fix for link list configuration in sprd dma driver
- Handling fixed for DMACHCLR if iommu is mapped in rcar dma"
* tag 'dmaengine-fix-5.3' of git://git.infradead.org/users/vkoul/slave-dma:
dmaengine: rcar-dmac: Fix DMACHCLR handling if iommu is mapped
dmaengine: sprd: Fix the DMA link-list configuration
dmaengine: ti: omap-dma: Add cleanup in omap_dma_probe()
dmaengine: ti: dma-crossbar: Fix a memory leak bug
Add Trilok Soni as process ambassador for hardware security issues
from Qualcomm.
Signed-off-by: Trilok Soni <tsoni@codeaurora.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1567796517-8964-1-git-send-email-tsoni@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull auxdisplay cleanup from Miguel Ojeda:
"Make ht16k33_fb_fix and ht16k33_fb_var constant (Nishka Dasgupta)"
* tag 'auxdisplay-for-linus-v5.3-rc7' of git://github.com/ojeda/linux:
auxdisplay: ht16k33: Make ht16k33_fb_fix and ht16k33_fb_var constant
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