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Pull rdma fixes from Doug Ledford:
"A small collection of -rc fixes. Mostly. One API addition, but that's
because we wanted to use it in a fix. There's also a bug fix that is
going to render the 5.5 kernel's soft-RoCE driver incompatible with
all soft-RoCE versions prior, but it's required to actually implement
the protocol according to the RoCE spec and required in order for the
soft-RoCE driver to be able to successfully work with actual RoCE
hardware.
Summary:
- Update Steve Wise info
- Fix for soft-RoCE crc calculations (will break back compatibility,
but only with the soft-RoCE driver, which has had this bug since it
was introduced and it is an on-the-wire bug, but will make
soft-RoCE fully compatible with real RoCE hardware)
- cma init fixup
- counters oops fix
- fix for mlx4 init/teardown sequence
- fix for mkx5 steering rules
- introduce a cleanup API, which isn't a fix, but we want to use it
in the next fix
- fix for mlx5 memory management that uses API in previous patch"
* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdma/rdma:
IB/mlx5: Fix device memory flows
IB/core: Introduce rdma_user_mmap_entry_insert_range() API
IB/mlx5: Fix steering rule of drop and count
IB/mlx4: Follow mirror sequence of device add during device removal
RDMA/counter: Prevent auto-binding a QP which are not tracked with res
rxe: correctly calculate iCRC for unaligned payloads
Update mailmap info for Steve Wise
RDMA/cma: add missed unregister_pernet_subsys in init failure
Pull RISC-V fixes from Paul Walmsley:
"Two minor build fixes:
- Fix builds of the ELF loader when built with 'make -j1' (nommu
only)
- Fix CONFIG_SOC_SIFIVE builds when CONFIG_TTY is disabled (found
during randconfig testing)"
* tag 'riscv/for-v5.5-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/riscv/linux:
riscv: only select serial sifive if TTY is enabled
riscv: Fix build dependency for loader
Fix device memory flows so that only once there will be no live mmaped
VA to a given allocation the matching object will be destroyed.
This prevents a potential scenario that existing VA that was mmaped by
one process might still be used post its deallocation despite that it's
owned now by other process.
The above is achieved by integrating with IB core APIs to manage
mmap/munmap. Only once the refcount will become 0 the DM object and its
underlay area will be freed.
Fixes: 3b113a1ec3d4 ("IB/mlx5: Support device memory type attribute")
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212100237.330654-3-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Pull xen fixes from Juergen Gross:
"Two fixes: one for a resource accounting bug in some configurations
and a fix for another patch which went into rc1"
* tag 'for-linus-5.5b-rc2-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/balloon: fix ballooned page accounting without hotplug enabled
xen-blkback: prevent premature module unload
There is some warning if TTY is not enabled, and lead to
build error, only select serial sifive if TTY enabled, and
this also makes randconfig happy.
Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
[paul.walmsley@sifive.com: updated to apply]
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Introduce rdma_user_mmap_entry_insert_range() API to be used once the
required key for the given entry should be in a given range.
Signed-off-by: Yishai Hadas <yishaih@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212100237.330654-2-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Pull ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() removal from Dominik Brodowski:
"This small series replaces all in-kernel calls to the
userspace-focused ksys_mount() and ksys_dup() with calls to
kernel-centric functions:
For each replacement of ksys_mount() with do_mount(), one needs to
verify that the first and third parameter (char *dev_name, char *type)
are strings allocated in kernelspace and that the fifth parameter
(void *data) is either NULL or refers to a full page (only occurence
in init/do_mounts.c::do_mount_root()). The second and fourth
parameters (char *dir_name, unsigned long flags) are passed by
ksys_mount() to do_mount() unchanged, and therefore do not require
particular care.
Moreover, instead of pretending to be userspace, the opening of
/dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr can be implemented using in-kernel
functions as well. Thereby, ksys_dup() can be removed for good"
[ This doesn't get rid of the special "kernel init runs with KERNEL_DS"
case, but it at least removes _some_ of the users of "treat kernel
pointers as user pointers for our magical init sequence".
One day we'll hopefully be rid of it all, and can initialize our
init_thread addr_limit to USER_DS. - Linus ]
* 'remove-ksys-mount-dup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/linux:
fs: remove ksys_dup()
init: unify opening /dev/console as stdin/stdout/stderr
init: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
initrd: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
devtmpfs: use do_mount() instead of ksys_mount()
When CONFIG_XEN_BALLOON_MEMORY_HOTPLUG is not defined
reserve_additional_memory() will set balloon_stats.target_pages to a
wrong value in case there are still some ballooned pages allocated via
alloc_xenballooned_pages().
This will result in balloon_process() no longer be triggered when
ballooned pages are freed in batches.
Reported-by: Nicholas Tsirakis <niko.tsirakis@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
The Makefile addition for the flat image loader missed an obj prefix.
For most parallel builds this worked out fine, but with -j1 the dependency
wasn't fulfilled and thus fails:
arch/riscv/boot/loader.S: Assembler messages:
arch/riscv/boot/loader.S:7: Error: file not found: arch/riscv/boot/Image
Fixes: 405fe7aa0dba ("riscv: provide a flat image loader")
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Reviewed-by: Anup Patel <anup@brainfault.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
There are two flow rule destinations: QP and packet. While users are
setting DROP packet rule, the QP should not be set as a destination.
Fixes: 3b3233fbf02e ("IB/mlx5: Add flow counters binding support")
Signed-off-by: Maor Gottlieb <maorg@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Raed Salem <raeds@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191212091214.315005-4-leon@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
Pull fall through fix from Gustavo Silva:
"Fix compile error on sh by marking expected switch fall-through"
* tag 'Wimplicit-fallthrough-5.5-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gustavoars/linux:
sh: kgdb: Mark expected switch fall-throughs
ksys_dup() is used only at one place in the kernel, namely to duplicate
fd 0 of /dev/console to stdout and stderr. The same functionality can be
achieved by using functions already available within the kernel namespace.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Objects allocated by xen_blkif_alloc come from the 'blkif_cache' kmem
cache. This cache is destoyed when xen-blkif is unloaded so it is
necessary to wait for the deferred free routine used for such objects to
complete. This necessity was missed in commit 14855954f636 "xen-blkback:
allow module to be cleanly unloaded". This patch fixes the problem by
taking/releasing extra module references in xen_blkif_alloc/free()
respectively.
Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <pdurrant@amazon.com>
Reviewed-by: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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