- 11 Dec, 2019 11 commits
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Abel Vesa authored
Renaming the imx_clk_pfdv2 register function to imx_clk_hw_pfdv2 to be more obvious it is clk_hw based. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Renaming the imx_clk_pllv4 register function to imx_clk_hw_pllv4 to be more obvious it is clk_hw based. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Renaming the imx_clk_frac_pll and imx_clk_sccg_pll register functions to imx_clk_hw_frac_pll, respectively imx_clk_hw_sccg_pll to be more obvious that they are clk_hw based. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Renaming the imx7ulp_clk_composite register function to imx7ulp_clk_hw_composite to show it is clk_hw based. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Switch the imx_clk_pllv2 register function to clk_hw based API, rename accordingly and add a macro for clk based legacy. This allows us to move closer to a clear split between consumer and provider clk APIs. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Switch the imx_clk_pllv1 register function to clk_hw based API, rename accordingly and add a macro for clk based legacy. This allows us to move closer to a clear split between consumer and provider clk APIs. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
Replacing with macros all the clk based API helpers we reduce the code duplication. The end goal is to get rid of all these macros when there will be no more users of the clk based API, that is, when all the i.MX clock provider drivers will be switched completely to the clk_hw based API. This is another step in moving away from the non clk_hw based API usage throughout the i.MX clock drivers. The reason for doing that is to have a clear split between the clock provider and the clock consumer API. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
According to the manual the acronym stands for Spread Sprectum Clock Generator. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Abel Vesa authored
If the clk_hw based API returns an error, trying to return the clk from hw will end up in a NULL pointer dereference. So adding the to_clk checker and using it inside every clk based macro helper we handle that case correctly. This to_clk is also temporary and will go away along with the clk based macro helpers once there is no user that need them anymore. Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Leonard Crestez authored
On imx8 the LPCG nodes map entire subsystems and overlap peripherals, this means that using devm_platform_ioremap_resource will cause many devices to fail to probe including serial ports. Well-meaning but boot-breaking patches were posted multiple times so add a comment explaining this issue. Suggested-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Li Jun authored
Per latest imx8mn datasheet of CCM, the parent of usb1_ctrl_root_clk should be usb_bus. Signed-off-by: Li Jun <jun.li@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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- 09 Dec, 2019 7 commits
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Leonard Crestez authored
The clock drivers on imx8m series are registered as platform devices and this opens the possibility of reloading the driver at runtime. This doesn't actually work: clocks are never removed and attempting to bind again results in registration errors and a crash. Almost all devices depend on clocks anyway so rebinding is unlikely to ever be useful Fix this by explicitly suppressing bind attrs like several other clock drivers. Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Fabio Estevam authored
There is a typo in the watchdog2 clock name. Fix it by changing it to "wdg2". Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Jan Remmet authored
The /2 divider between pll4_audio_div and pll4_post_div is not working on imx6q. The frequency is not halved as reported by the clock tree and measured on clko. In the technical reference manual the divider was removed in revision 4. It's also not listed in the imx6qp manual. imx6dl manual mentions a divider for PLL4 and the according register description. So keep the divider here. Signed-off-by: Jan Remmet <j.remmet@phytec.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Leonard Crestez authored
DRAM frequency switches are executed in firmware and can change the configuration of the DRAM PLL outside linux. Mark these CLKs with CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE so we always read back the PLL config registers and recalculate rates. In current DRAM frequency tables on 8mm/8mn only the maximum frequency uses the PLL so it's always configured in the same way. However reading back the PLL configuration is the correct behavior and allows additional setpoints in the future. Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Leonard Crestez authored
These clocks are only modified as part of DRAM frequency switches during which DRAM itself is briefly inaccessible. The switch is performed with a SMC call to by TF-A which runs from a SRAM area; upon returning to linux several clocks bits are modified and we need to update them. For rate bits an easy solution is to just mark with CLK_GET_RATE_NOCACHE so that new rates are always read back from registers. Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Acked-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Peng Fan authored
There is no need to initialize flags as 0. Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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Peng Fan authored
Fix a typo in comment: resue -> reuse. Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
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- 08 Dec, 2019 12 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/netLinus Torvalds authored
Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) More jumbo frame fixes in r8169, from Heiner Kallweit. 2) Fix bpf build in minimal configuration, from Alexei Starovoitov. 3) Use after free in slcan driver, from Jouni Hogander. 4) Flower classifier port ranges don't work properly in the HW offload case, from Yoshiki Komachi. 5) Use after free in hns3_nic_maybe_stop_tx(), from Yunsheng Lin. 6) Out of bounds access in mqprio_dump(), from Vladyslav Tarasiuk. 7) Fix flow dissection in dsa TX path, from Alexander Lobakin. 8) Stale syncookie timestampe fixes from Guillaume Nault. [ Did an evil merge to silence a warning introduced by this pull - Linus ] * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (84 commits) r8169: fix rtl_hw_jumbo_disable for RTL8168evl net_sched: validate TCA_KIND attribute in tc_chain_tmplt_add() r8169: add missing RX enabling for WoL on RTL8125 vhost/vsock: accept only packets with the right dst_cid net: phy: dp83867: fix hfs boot in rgmii mode net: ethernet: ti: cpsw: fix extra rx interrupt inet: protect against too small mtu values. gre: refetch erspan header from skb->data after pskb_may_pull() pppoe: remove redundant BUG_ON() check in pppoe_pernet tcp: Protect accesses to .ts_recent_stamp with {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() tcp: tighten acceptance of ACKs not matching a child socket tcp: fix rejected syncookies due to stale timestamps lpc_eth: kernel BUG on remove tcp: md5: fix potential overestimation of TCP option space net: sched: allow indirect blocks to bind to clsact in TC net: core: rename indirect block ingress cb function net-sysfs: Call dev_hold always in netdev_queue_add_kobject net: dsa: fix flow dissection on Tx path net/tls: Fix return values to avoid ENOTSUPP net: avoid an indirect call in ____sys_recvmsg() ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsiLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more SCSI updates from James Bottomley: "Eleven patches, all in drivers (no core changes) that are either minor cleanups or small fixes. They were late arriving, but still safe for -rc1" * tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: scsi: MAINTAINERS: Add the linux-scsi mailing list to the ISCSI entry scsi: megaraid_sas: Make poll_aen_lock static scsi: sd_zbc: Improve report zones error printout scsi: qla2xxx: Fix qla2x00_request_irqs() for MSI scsi: qla2xxx: unregister ports after GPN_FT failure scsi: qla2xxx: fix rports not being mark as lost in sync fabric scan scsi: pm80xx: Remove unused include of linux/version.h scsi: pm80xx: fix logic to break out of loop when register value is 2 or 3 scsi: scsi_transport_sas: Fix memory leak when removing devices scsi: lpfc: size cpu map by last cpu id set scsi: ibmvscsi_tgt: Remove unneeded variable rc
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull cifs fixes from Steve French: "Nine cifs/smb3 fixes: - one fix for stable (oops during oplock break) - two timestamp fixes including important one for updating mtime at close to avoid stale metadata caching issue on dirty files (also improves perf by using SMB2_CLOSE_FLAG_POSTQUERY_ATTRIB over the wire) - two fixes for "modefromsid" mount option for file create (now allows mode bits to be set more atomically and accurately on create by adding "sd_context" on create when modefromsid specified on mount) - two fixes for multichannel found in testing this week against different servers - two small cleanup patches" * tag '5.5-rc-smb3-fixes-part2' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: smb3: improve check for when we send the security descriptor context on create smb3: fix mode passed in on create for modetosid mount option cifs: fix possible uninitialized access and race on iface_list cifs: Fix lookup of SMB connections on multichannel smb3: query attributes on file close smb3: remove unused flag passed into close functions cifs: remove redundant assignment to pointer pneg_ctxt fs: cifs: Fix atime update check vs mtime CIFS: Fix NULL-pointer dereference in smb2_push_mandatory_locks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull misc vfs cleanups from Al Viro: "No common topic, just three cleanups". * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: make __d_alloc() static fs/namespace: add __user to open_tree and move_mount syscalls fs/fnctl: fix missing __user in fcntl_rw_hint()
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git://github.com/jonmason/ntbLinus Torvalds authored
Pull NTB update from Jon Mason: "Just a simple patch to add a new Hygon Device ID to the AMD NTB device driver" * tag 'ntb-5.5' of git://github.com/jonmason/ntb: NTB: Add Hygon Device ID
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/inputLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more input updates from Dmitry Torokhov: - fixups for Synaptics RMI4 driver - a quirk for Goodinx touchscreen on Teclast tablet - a new keycode definition for activating privacy screen feature found on a few "enterprise" laptops - updates to snvs_pwrkey driver - polling uinput device for writing (which is always allowed) now works * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: synaptics-rmi4 - don't increment rmiaddr for SMBus transfers Input: synaptics-rmi4 - re-enable IRQs in f34v7_do_reflash Input: goodix - add upside-down quirk for Teclast X89 tablet Input: add privacy screen toggle keycode Input: uinput - fix returning EPOLLOUT from uinput_poll Input: snvs_pwrkey - remove gratuitous NULL initializers Input: snvs_pwrkey - send key events for i.MX6 S, DL and Q
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull iomap fixes from Darrick Wong: "Fix a race condition and a use-after-free error: - Fix a UAF when reporting writeback errors - Fix a race condition when handling page uptodate on fragmented file with blocksize < pagesize" * tag 'iomap-5.5-merge-14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: iomap: stop using ioend after it's been freed in iomap_finish_ioend() iomap: fix sub-page uptodate handling
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull xfs fixes from Darrick Wong: "Fix a couple of resource management errors and a hang: - fix a crash in the log setup code when log mounting fails - fix a hang when allocating space on the realtime device - fix a block leak when freeing space on the realtime device" * tag 'xfs-5.5-merge-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/fs/xfs/xfs-linux: xfs: fix mount failure crash on invalid iclog memory access xfs: don't check for AG deadlock for realtime files in bunmapi xfs: fix realtime file data space leak
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull orangefs update from Mike Marshall: "orangefs: posix open permission checking... Orangefs has no open, and orangefs checks file permissions on each file access. Posix requires that file permissions be checked on open and nowhere else. Orangefs-through-the-kernel needs to seem posix compliant. The VFS opens files, even if the filesystem provides no method. We can see if a file was successfully opened for read and or for write by looking at file->f_mode. When writes are flowing from the page cache, file is no longer available. We can trust the VFS to have checked file->f_mode before writing to the page cache. The mode of a file might change between when it is opened and IO commences, or it might be created with an arbitrary mode. We'll make sure we don't hit EACCES during the IO stage by using UID 0" [ This is "posixish", but not a great solution in the long run, since a proper secure network server shouldn't really trust the client like this. But proper and secure POSIX behavior requires an open method and a resulting cookie for IO of some kind, or similar. - Linus ] * tag 'for-linus-5.5-ofs1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hubcap/linux: orangefs: posix open permission checking...
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull nfsd updates from Bruce Fields: "This is a relatively quiet cycle for nfsd, mainly various bugfixes. Possibly most interesting is Trond's fixes for some callback races that were due to my incomplete understanding of rpc client shutdown. Unfortunately at the last minute I've started noticing a new intermittent failure to send callbacks. As the logic seems basically correct, I'm leaving Trond's patches in for now, and hope to find a fix in the next week so I don't have to revert those patches" * tag 'nfsd-5.5' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: (24 commits) nfsd: depend on CRYPTO_MD5 for legacy client tracking NFSD fixing possible null pointer derefering in copy offload nfsd: check for EBUSY from vfs_rmdir/vfs_unink. nfsd: Ensure CLONE persists data and metadata changes to the target file SUNRPC: Fix backchannel latency metrics nfsd: restore NFSv3 ACL support nfsd: v4 support requires CRYPTO_SHA256 nfsd: Fix cld_net->cn_tfm initialization lockd: remove __KERNEL__ ifdefs sunrpc: remove __KERNEL__ ifdefs race in exportfs_decode_fh() nfsd: Drop LIST_HEAD where the variable it declares is never used. nfsd: document callback_wq serialization of callback code nfsd: mark cb path down on unknown errors nfsd: Fix races between nfsd4_cb_release() and nfsd4_shutdown_callback() nfsd: minor 4.1 callback cleanup SUNRPC: Fix svcauth_gss_proxy_init() SUNRPC: Trace gssproxy upcall results sunrpc: fix crash when cache_head become valid before update nfsd: remove private bin2hex implementation ...
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git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust: "Highlights include: Features: - NFSv4.2 now supports cross device offloaded copy (i.e. offloaded copy of a file from one source server to a different target server). - New RDMA tracepoints for debugging congestion control and Local Invalidate WRs. Bugfixes and cleanups - Drop the NFSv4.1 session slot if nfs4_delegreturn_prepare waits for layoutreturn - Handle bad/dead sessions correctly in nfs41_sequence_process() - Various bugfixes to the delegation return operation. - Various bugfixes pertaining to delegations that have been revoked. - Cleanups to the NFS timespec code to avoid unnecessary conversions between timespec and timespec64. - Fix unstable RDMA connections after a reconnect - Close race between waking an RDMA sender and posting a receive - Wake pending RDMA tasks if connection fails - Fix MR list corruption, and clean up MR usage - Fix another RPCSEC_GSS issue with MIC buffer space" * tag 'nfs-for-5.5-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs: (79 commits) SUNRPC: Capture completion of all RPC tasks SUNRPC: Fix another issue with MIC buffer space NFS4: Trace lock reclaims NFS4: Trace state recovery operation NFSv4.2 fix memory leak in nfs42_ssc_open NFSv4.2 fix kfree in __nfs42_copy_file_range NFS: remove duplicated include from nfs4file.c NFSv4: Make _nfs42_proc_copy_notify() static NFS: Fallocate should use the nfs4_fattr_bitmap NFS: Return -ETXTBSY when attempting to write to a swapfile fs: nfs: sysfs: Remove NULL check before kfree NFS: remove unneeded semicolon NFSv4: add declaration of current_stateid NFSv4.x: Drop the slot if nfs4_delegreturn_prepare waits for layoutreturn NFSv4.x: Handle bad/dead sessions correctly in nfs41_sequence_process() nfsv4: Move NFSPROC4_CLNT_COPY_NOTIFY to end of list SUNRPC: Avoid RPC delays when exiting suspend NFS: Add a tracepoint in nfs_fh_to_dentry() NFSv4: Don't retry the GETATTR on old stateid in nfs4_delegreturn_done() NFSv4: Handle NFS4ERR_OLD_STATEID in delegreturn ...
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- 07 Dec, 2019 10 commits
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Steve French authored
We had cases in the previous patch where we were sending the security descriptor context on SMB3 open (file create) in cases when we hadn't mounted with with "modefromsid" mount option. Add check for that mount flag before calling ad_sd_context in open init. Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
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git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfioLinus Torvalds authored
Pull VFIO updates from Alex Williamson: - Remove hugepage checks for reserved pfns (Ben Luo) - Fix irq-bypass unregister ordering (Jiang Yi) * tag 'vfio-v5.5-rc1' of git://github.com/awilliam/linux-vfio: vfio/pci: call irq_bypass_unregister_producer() before freeing irq vfio/type1: remove hugepage checks in is_invalid_reserved_pfn()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tipLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more xen updates from Juergen Gross: - a patch to fix a build warning - a cleanup of no longer needed code in the Xen event handling - a small series for the Xen grant driver avoiding high order allocations and replacing an insane global limit by a per-call one - a small series fixing Xen frontend/backend module referencing * tag 'for-linus-5.5b-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip: xen-blkback: allow module to be cleanly unloaded xen/xenbus: reference count registered modules xen/gntdev: switch from kcalloc() to kvcalloc() xen/gntdev: replace global limit of mapped pages by limit per call xen/gntdev: remove redundant non-zero check on ret xen/events: remove event handling recursion detection
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge misc Kconfig updates from Andrew Morton: "A number of changes to Kconfig files under lib/ from Changbin Du and Krzysztof Kozlowski" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: lib/: fix Kconfig indentation kernel-hacking: move DEBUG_FS to 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments' kernel-hacking: move DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE to 'printk and dmesg options' kernel-hacking: create a submenu for scheduler debugging options kernel-hacking: move SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK after DEBUG_STACK_USAGE kernel-hacking: move Oops into 'Lockups and Hangs' kernel-hacking: move kernel testing and coverage options to same submenu kernel-hacking: group kernel data structures debugging together kernel-hacking: create submenu for arch special debugging options kernel-hacking: group sysrq/kgdb/ubsan into 'Generic Kernel Debugging Instruments'
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Heiner Kallweit authored
In referenced fix we removed the RTL8168e-specific jumbo config for RTL8168evl in rtl_hw_jumbo_enable(). We have to do the same in rtl_hw_jumbo_disable(). v2: fix referenced commit id Fixes: 14012c9f ("r8169: fix jumbo configuration for RTL8168evl") Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
pipe_wait() may be simple, but since it relies on the pipe lock, it means that we have to do the wakeup while holding the lock. That's unfortunate, because the very first thing the waked entity will want to do is to get the pipe lock for itself. So get rid of the pipe_wait() usage by simply releasing the pipe lock, doing the wakeup (if required) and then using wait_event_interruptible() to wait on the right condition instead. wait_event_interruptible() handles races on its own by comparing the wakeup condition before and after adding itself to the wait queue, so you can use an optimistic unlocked condition for it. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jiasen Lin authored
Signed-off-by: Jiasen Lin <linjiasen@hygon.cn> Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@kudzu.us>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This code is ancient, and goes back to when we only had a single page for the pipe buffers. The exact history is hidden in the mists of time (ie "before git", and in fact predates the BK repository too). At that long-ago point in time, it actually helped to try to merge big back-and-forth pipe reads and writes, and not limit pipe reads to the single pipe buffer in length just because that was all we had at a time. However, since then we've expanded the pipe buffers to multiple pages, and this logic really doesn't seem to make sense. And a lot of it is somewhat questionable (ie "hmm, the user asked for a non-blocking read, but we see that there's a writer pending, so let's wait anyway to get the extra data that the writer will have"). But more importantly, it makes the "go to sleep" logic much less obvious, and considering the wakeup issues we've had, I want to make for less of those kinds of things. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
This is the read side version of the previous commit: it simplifies the logic to only wake up waiting writers when necessary, and makes sure to use a synchronous wakeup. This time not so much for GNU make jobserver reasons (that pipe never fills up), but simply to get the writer going quickly again. A bit less verbose commentary this time, if only because I assume that the write side commentary isn't going to be ignored if you touch this code. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The pipe rework ends up having been extra painful, partly becaused of actual bugs with ordering and caching of the pipe state, but also because of subtle performance issues. In particular, the pipe rework caused the kernel build to inexplicably slow down. The reason turns out to be that the GNU make jobserver (which limits the parallelism of the build) uses a pipe to implement a "token" system: a parallel submake will read a character from the pipe to get the job token before starting a new job, and will write a character back to the pipe when it is done. The overall job limit is thus easily controlled by just writing the appropriate number of initial token characters into the pipe. But to work well, that really means that the old behavior of write wakeups being synchronous (WF_SYNC) is very important - when the pipe writer wakes up a reader, we want the reader to actually get scheduled immediately. Otherwise you lose the parallelism of the build. The pipe rework lost that synchronous wakeup on write, and we had clearly all forgotten the reasons and rules for it. This rewrites the pipe write wakeup logic to do the required Wsync wakeups, but also clarifies the logic and avoids extraneous wakeups. It also ends up addign a number of comments about what oit does and why, so that we hopefully don't end up forgetting about this next time we change this code. Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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