- 07 Oct, 2019 3 commits
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Vladimir Oltean authored
In this mode, the DSPI controller uses PIO to transfer word by word. In comparison, in EOQ mode the 4-word deep FIFO is being used, hence the current logic will need some adaptation for which I do not have the hardware (Coldfire) to test. It is not clear what is the timing of DMA transfers and whether timestamping in the driver brings any overall performance increase compared to regular timestamping done in the core. Short phc2sys summary after 58 minutes of running on LS1021A-TSN with interrupts disabled during the critical section: offset: min -26251 max 16416 mean -21.8672 std dev 863.416 delay: min 4720 max 57280 mean 5182.49 std dev 1607.19 lost servo lock 3 times Summary of the same phc2sys service running for 120 minutes with interrupts disabled: offset: min -378 max 381 mean -0.0083089 std dev 101.495 delay: min 4720 max 5920 mean 5129.38 std dev 154.899 lost servo lock 0 times The minimum delay (pre to post time) in nanoseconds is the same, but the maximum delay is quite a bit higher, due to interrupts getting sometimes executed and interfering with the measurement. Hence set disable_irqs whenever possible (aka when the driver runs in poll mode - otherwise it would be a contradiction in terms). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190905010114.26718-4-olteanv@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Vladimir Oltean authored
SPI is one of the interfaces used to access devices which have a POSIX clock driver (real time clocks, 1588 timers etc). The fact that the SPI bus is slow is not what the main problem is, but rather the fact that drivers don't take a constant amount of time in transferring data over SPI. When there is a high delay in the readout of time, there will be uncertainty in the value that has been read out of the peripheral. When that delay is constant, the uncertainty can at least be approximated with a certain accuracy which is fine more often than not. Timing jitter occurs all over in the kernel code, and is mainly caused by having to let go of the CPU for various reasons such as preemption, servicing interrupts, going to sleep, etc. Another major reason is CPU dynamic frequency scaling. It turns out that the problem of retrieving time from a SPI peripheral with high accuracy can be solved by the use of "PTP system timestamping" - a mechanism to correlate the time when the device has snapshotted its internal time counter with the Linux system time at that same moment. This is sufficient for having a precise time measurement - it is not necessary for the whole SPI transfer to be transmitted "as fast as possible", or "as low-jitter as possible". The system has to be low-jitter for a very short amount of time to be effective. This patch introduces a PTP system timestamping mechanism in struct spi_transfer. This is to be used by SPI device drivers when they need to know the exact time at which the underlying device's time was snapshotted. More often than not, SPI peripherals have a very exact timing for when their SPI-to-interconnect bridge issues a transaction for snapshotting and reading the time register, and that will be dependent on when the SPI-to-interconnect bridge figures out that this is what it should do, aka as soon as it sees byte N of the SPI transfer. Since spi_device drivers are the ones who'd know best how the peripheral behaves in this regard, expose a mechanism in spi_transfer which allows them to specify which word (or word range) from the transfer should be timestamped. Add a default implementation of the PTP system timestamping in the SPI core. This is not going to be satisfactory performance-wise, but should at least increase the likelihood that SPI device drivers will use PTP system timestamping in the future. There are 3 entry points from the core towards the SPI controller drivers: - transfer_one: The driver is passed individual spi_transfers to execute. This is the easiest to timestamp. - transfer_one_message: The core passes the driver an entire spi_message (a potential batch of spi_transfers). The core puts the same pre and post timestamp to all transfers within a message. This is not ideal, but nothing better can be done by default anyway, since the core has no insight into how the driver batches the transfers. - transfer: Like transfer_one_message, but for unqueued drivers (i.e. the driver implements its own queue scheduling). Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190905010114.26718-3-olteanv@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Stephen Boyd authored
This driver doesn't do anything with the match for the device node. The logic is the same as looking to see if a device node exists or not because this driver wouldn't probe unless there is a device node match when the device is created from DT. Just test for the presence of the device node to simplify and avoid referencing a potentially undefined match table when CONFIG_OF=n. Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org> Cc: Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org> Cc: Frank Rowand <frowand.list@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-spi@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191004214334.149976-9-swboyd@chromium.orgSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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- 02 Oct, 2019 1 commit
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Vladimir Oltean authored
With this patch, the "interrupts" property from the device tree bindings is ignored, even if present, if the driver runs in TCFQ mode. Switching to using the DSPI in poll mode has several distinct benefits: - With interrupts, the DSPI driver in TCFQ mode raises an IRQ after each transmitted word. There is more time wasted for the "waitq" event than for actual I/O. And the DSPI IRQ count can easily get the largest in /proc/interrupts on Freescale boards with attached SPI devices. - The SPI I/O time is both lower, and more consistently so. Attached to some Freescale devices are either PTP switches, or SPI RTCs. For reading time off of a SPI slave device, it is important that all SPI transfers take a deterministic time to complete. - In poll mode there is much less time spent by the CPU in hardirq context, which helps with the response latency of the system, and at the same time there is more control over when interrupts must be disabled (to get a precise timestamp measurement, which will come in a future patch): win-win. On the LS1021A-TSN board, where the SPI device is a SJA1105 PTP switch (with a bits_per_word=8 driver), I created a "benchmark" where I periodically transferred a 12-byte message once per second, for 120 seconds. I then recorded the time before putting the first byte in the TX FIFO, and the time after reading the last byte from the RX FIFO. That is the transfer delay in nanoseconds. Interrupt mode: delay: min 125120 max 168320 mean 150286 std dev 17675.3 Poll mode: delay: min 69440 max 119040 mean 70312.9 std dev 8065.34 Both the mean latency and the standard deviation are more than 50% lower in poll mode than in interrupt mode, and the 'max' in poll mode is lower than the 'min' in interrupt mode. This is with an 'ondemand' governor on an otherwise idle system - therefore running mostly at 600 MHz out of a max of 1200 MHz. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001205216.32115-1-olteanv@gmail.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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- 01 Oct, 2019 16 commits
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Felipe Balbi authored
Some devices support MSI interrupts. Let's at least try to use them in platforms that provide MSI capability. Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@linux.intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191001081405.764161-1-felipe.balbi@linux.intel.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Kuldeep Singh authored
Different platforms have different Master with different SourceID on AHB bus. The 0X0E Master ID is used by cluster 3 in case of LS2088A. So, patch introduce an invalid master id variable to fix invalid mastered on different platforms. Signed-off-by: Suresh Gupta <suresh.gupta@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Kuldeep Singh <kuldeep.singh@nxp.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1569920356-8953-1-git-send-email-kuldeep.singh@nxp.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Colin Ian King authored
The complete call is indented incorrectly, remove the extraneous tabs. Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190926113701.26986-1-colin.king@canonical.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Lukasz Majewski authored
This change provides the dspi_slave_abort() function, which is a callback for slave_abort() method of SPI controller generic driver. As in the SPI slave mode the transmission is driven by master, any distortion may cause the slave to enter undefined internal state. To avoid this problem the dspi_slave_abort() terminates all pending and ongoing DMA transactions (with sync) and clears internal FIFOs. Signed-off-by: Lukasz Majewski <lukma@denx.de> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190924110547.14770-3-lukma@denx.deSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Markus Elfring authored
Simplify this function implementation by using a known wrapper function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/178bb78e-714f-645f-d819-5732870c4272@web.deSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Markus Elfring authored
Simplify this function implementation by using a known wrapper function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/225b76ca-a367-4bef-d8ce-42c7af9242a5@web.deSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Markus Elfring authored
Simplify this function implementation by using a known wrapper function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/478e0df1-e800-8cf1-f9b3-d72f8e26aa0b@web.deSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Markus Elfring authored
Simplify this function implementation by using a known wrapper function. This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/230495a7-b754-bc6a-05e0-059a6b6c643d@web.deSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Miquel Raynal authored
Make use of a core helper to ensure the desired width is respected when calling spi-mem operators. Suggested-by: Boris Brezillon <bbrezillon@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miquel Raynal <miquel.raynal@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919202504.9619-2-miquel.raynal@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Gregory CLEMENT authored
AV32 support has been from the kernel a few release ago, but there was still some specific macro for this architecture in this driver. Lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@bootlin.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919154034.7489-1-gregory.clement@bootlin.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Phil Edworthy authored
The Renesas RZ/N1 SPI Controller is based on the Synopsys DW SSI, but has additional registers for software CS control and DMA. This patch does not address the changes required for DMA support, it simply adds the compatible string. The CS registers are not needed as Linux can use gpios for the CS signals. Signed-off-by: Gareth Williams <gareth.williams.jx@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1568793876-9009-5-git-send-email-gareth.williams.jx@renesas.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Phil Edworthy authored
Enable runtime PM so that the clock used to access the registers in the peripheral is turned on using a clock domain. Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Gareth Williams <gareth.williams.jx@renesas.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1568793876-9009-4-git-send-email-gareth.williams.jx@renesas.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Gareth Williams authored
Note in the bindings documentation that pclk should be renamed if a clock domain is used to enable the optional bus clock. Signed-off-by: Gareth Williams <gareth.williams.jx@renesas.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1568793876-9009-3-git-send-email-gareth.williams.jx@renesas.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Phil Edworthy authored
The Renesas RZ/N1 SPI Controller is based on the Synopsys DW SSI, but has additional registers for software CS control and DMA. This patch does not address the changes required for DMA support, it simply adds the compatible string. The CS functionality is not very useful and also not needed as Linux can use gpios for the CS signals. Add a compatible string to handle any unforeseen issues that may arise, and pave the way for DMA support. Signed-off-by: Gareth Williams <gareth.williams.jx@renesas.com> Signed-off-by: Phil Edworthy <phil.edworthy@renesas.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1568793876-9009-2-git-send-email-gareth.williams.jx@renesas.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Pragnesh Patel authored
Convert the spi-sifive binding to DT schema format. Signed-off-by: Pragnesh Patel <pragnesh.patel@sifive.com> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1568804927-13565-1-git-send-email-pragnesh.patel@sifive.comSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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Simon Horman authored
Convert Renesas HSPI bindings documentation to json-schema. Also name bindings documentation file according to the compat string being documented. As a side effect of this change all currently supported/used compat strings are listed while no while card compat string is documented. This, in my opinion, is desirable as only supported hardware should be documented. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms+renesas@verge.net.au> Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190916075352.32108-1-horms+renesas@verge.net.auSigned-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
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- 30 Sep, 2019 17 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull btrfs fixes from David Sterba: "A bunch of fixes that accumulated in recent weeks, mostly material for stable. Summary: - fix for regression from 5.3 that prevents to use balance convert with single profile - qgroup fixes: rescan race, accounting leak with multiple writers, potential leak after io failure recovery - fix for use after free in relocation (reported by KASAN) - other error handling fixups" * tag 'for-5.4-rc1-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux: btrfs: qgroup: Fix reserved data space leak if we have multiple reserve calls btrfs: qgroup: Fix the wrong target io_tree when freeing reserved data space btrfs: Fix a regression which we can't convert to SINGLE profile btrfs: relocation: fix use-after-free on dead relocation roots Btrfs: fix race setting up and completing qgroup rescan workers Btrfs: fix missing error return if writeback for extent buffer never started btrfs: adjust dirty_metadata_bytes after writeback failure of extent buffer Btrfs: fix selftests failure due to uninitialized i_mode in test inodes
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git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull csky updates from Guo Ren: "This round of csky subsystem just some fixups: - Fix mb() synchronization problem - Fix dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute - Fix cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs - Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range - Fix ioremap function losing - Fix arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation - Fix defer cache flush for 610 - Support kernel non-aligned access - Fix 610 vipt cache flush mechanism - Fix add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic - Move static keyword to the front of declaration - Fix csky_pmu.max_period assignment - Use generic free_initrd_mem() - entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop" * tag 'csky-for-linus-5.4-rc1' of git://github.com/c-sky/csky-linux: csky: Move static keyword to the front of declaration csky: entry: Remove unneeded need_resched() loop csky: Fixup csky_pmu.max_period assignment csky: Fixup add zero_fp fixup perf backtrace panic csky: Use generic free_initrd_mem() csky: Fixup 610 vipt cache flush mechanism csky: Support kernel non-aligned access csky: Fixup defer cache flush for 610 csky: Fixup arch_get_unmapped_area() implementation csky: Fixup ioremap function losing csky: Optimize arch_sync_dma_for_cpu/device with dma_inv_range csky/dma: Fixup cache_op failed when cross memory ZONEs csky: Fixup dma_alloc_coherent with PAGE_SO attribute csky: Fixup mb() synchronization problem
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/socLinus Torvalds authored
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson: "A few fixes that have trickled in through the merge window: - Video fixes for OMAP due to panel-dpi driver removal - Clock fixes for OMAP that broke no-idle quirks + nfsroot on DRA7 - Fixing arch version on ASpeed ast2500 - Two fixes for reset handling on ARM SCMI" * tag 'armsoc-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/soc/soc: ARM: aspeed: ast2500 is ARMv6K reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-traceLinus Torvalds authored
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt: "A few more tracing fixes: - Fix a buffer overflow by checking nr_args correctly in probes - Fix a warning that is reported by clang - Fix a possible memory leak in error path of filter processing - Fix the selftest that checks for failures, but wasn't failing - Minor clean up on call site output of a memory trace event" * tag 'trace-v5.4-3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: selftests/ftrace: Fix same probe error test mm, tracing: Print symbol name for call_site in trace events tracing: Have error path in predicate_parse() free its allocated memory tracing: Fix clang -Wint-in-bool-context warnings in IF_ASSIGN macro tracing/probe: Fix to check the difference of nr_args before adding probe
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmcLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more MMC updates from Ulf Hansson: "A couple more updates/fixes for MMC: - sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support - sdhci-tegra: Recover loss in throughput for DMA - sdhci-of-esdhc: Fix DMA bug" * tag 'mmc-v5.4-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ulfh/mmc: mmc: host: sdhci-pci: Add Genesys Logic GL975x support mmc: tegra: Implement ->set_dma_mask() mmc: sdhci: Let drivers define their DMA mask mmc: sdhci-of-esdhc: set DMA snooping based on DMA coherence mmc: sdhci: improve ADMA error reporting
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Krzysztof Wilczynski authored
Move the static keyword to the front of declaration of csky_pmu_of_device_ids, and resolve the following compiler warning that can be seen when building with warnings enabled (W=1): arch/csky/kernel/perf_event.c:1340:1: warning: ‘static’ is not at beginning of declaration [-Wold-style-declaration] Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Wilczynski <kw@linux.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Valentin Schneider authored
Since the enabling and disabling of IRQs within preempt_schedule_irq() is contained in a need_resched() loop, we don't need the outer arch code loop. Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-miscLinus Torvalds authored
Pull Documentation/process update from Greg KH: "Here are two small Documentation/process/embargoed-hardware-issues.rst file updates that missed my previous char/misc pull request. The first one adds an Intel representative for the process, and the second one cleans up the text a bit more when it comes to how the disclosure rules work, as it was a bit confusing to some companies" * tag 'char-misc-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: Documentation/process: Clarify disclosure rules Documentation/process: Volunteer as the ambassador for Intel
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfsLinus Torvalds authored
Pull more vfs updates from Al Viro: "A couple of misc patches" * 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: afs dynroot: switch to simple_dir_operations fs/handle.c - fix up kerneldoc
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git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
Pull more cifs updates from Steve French: "Fixes from the recent SMB3 Test events and Storage Developer Conference (held the last two weeks). Here are nine smb3 patches including an important patch for debugging traces with wireshark, with three patches marked for stable. Additional fixes from last week to better handle some newly discovered reparse points, and a fix the create/mkdir path for setting the mode more atomically (in SMB3 Create security descriptor context), and one for path name processing are still being tested so are not included here" * tag '5.4-rc-smb3-fixes' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6: CIFS: Fix oplock handling for SMB 2.1+ protocols smb3: missing ACL related flags smb3: pass mode bits into create calls smb3: Add missing reparse tags CIFS: fix max ea value size fs/cifs/sess.c: Remove set but not used variable 'capabilities' fs/cifs/smb2pdu.c: Make SMB2_notify_init static smb3: fix leak in "open on server" perf counter smb3: allow decryption keys to be dumped by admin for debugging
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Mao Han authored
The csky_pmu.max_period has type u64, and BIT() can only return 32 bits unsigned long on C-SKY. The initialization for max_period will be incorrect when count_width is bigger than 32. Use BIT_ULL() Signed-off-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com>
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Guo Ren authored
We need set fp zero to let backtrace know the end. The patch fixup perf callchain panic problem, because backtrace didn't know what is the end of fp. Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <ren_guo@c-sky.com> Reported-by: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>
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Mike Rapoport authored
The csky implementation of free_initrd_mem() is an open-coded version of free_reserved_area() without poisoning. Remove it and make csky use the generic version of free_initrd_mem(). Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge active entropy generation updates. This is admittedly partly "for discussion". We need to have a way forward for the boot time deadlocks where user space ends up waiting for more entropy, but no entropy is forthcoming because the system is entirely idle just waiting for something to happen. While this was triggered by what is arguably a user space bug with GDM/gnome-session asking for secure randomness during early boot, when they didn't even need any such truly secure thing, the issue ends up being that our "getrandom()" interface is prone to that kind of confusion, because people don't think very hard about whether they want to block for sufficient amounts of entropy. The approach here-in is to decide to not just passively wait for entropy to happen, but to start actively collecting it if it is missing. This is not necessarily always possible, but if the architecture has a CPU cycle counter, there is a fair amount of noise in the exact timings of reasonably complex loads. We may end up tweaking the load and the entropy estimates, but this should be at least a reasonable starting point. As part of this, we also revert the revert of the ext4 IO pattern improvement that ended up triggering the reported lack of external entropy. * getrandom() active entropy waiting: Revert "Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"" random: try to actively add entropy rather than passively wait for it
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Linus Torvalds authored
This reverts commit 72dbcf72. Instead of waiting forever for entropy that may just not happen, we now try to actively generate entropy when required, and are thus hopefully avoiding the problem that caused the nice ext4 IO pattern fix to be reverted. So revert the revert. Cc: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
For 5.3 we had to revert a nice ext4 IO pattern improvement, because it caused a bootup regression due to lack of entropy at bootup together with arguably broken user space that was asking for secure random numbers when it really didn't need to. See commit 72dbcf72 (Revert "ext4: make __ext4_get_inode_loc plug"). This aims to solve the issue by actively generating entropy noise using the CPU cycle counter when waiting for the random number generator to initialize. This only works when you have a high-frequency time stamp counter available, but that's the case on all modern x86 CPU's, and on most other modern CPU's too. What we do is to generate jitter entropy from the CPU cycle counter under a somewhat complex load: calling the scheduler while also guaranteeing a certain amount of timing noise by also triggering a timer. I'm sure we can tweak this, and that people will want to look at other alternatives, but there's been a number of papers written on jitter entropy, and this should really be fairly conservative by crediting one bit of entropy for every timer-induced jump in the cycle counter. Not because the timer itself would be all that unpredictable, but because the interaction between the timer and the loop is going to be. Even if (and perhaps particularly if) the timer actually happens on another CPU, the cacheline interaction between the loop that reads the cycle counter and the timer itself firing is going to add perturbations to the cycle counter values that get mixed into the entropy pool. As Thomas pointed out, with a modern out-of-order CPU, even quite simple loops show a fair amount of hard-to-predict timing variability even in the absense of external interrupts. But this tries to take that further by actually having a fairly complex interaction. This is not going to solve the entropy issue for architectures that have no CPU cycle counter, but it's not clear how (and if) that is solvable, and the hardware in question is largely starting to be irrelevant. And by doing this we can at least avoid some of the even more contentious approaches (like making the entropy waiting time out in order to avoid the possibly unbounded waiting). Cc: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@opentech.at> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Alexander E. Patrakov <patrakov@gmail.com> Cc: Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@0pointer.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 29 Sep, 2019 3 commits
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Olof Johansson authored
Merge tag 'fixes-5.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap into arm/fixes Fixes for omap variants Few fixes for ti-sysc interconnect target module driver for no-idle quirks that caused nfsroot to fail on some dra7 boards. And let's fixes to get LCD working again for logicpd board that got broken a while back with removal of panel-dpi driver. We need to now use generic CONFIG_DRM_PANEL_SIMPLE instead. * tag 'fixes-5.4-merge-window' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap: bus: ti-sysc: Remove unpaired sysc_clkdm_deny_idle() ARM: dts: logicpd-som-lv: Fix i2c2 and i2c3 Pin mux ARM: dts: am3517-evm: Fix missing video ARM: dts: logicpd-torpedo-baseboard: Fix missing video ARM: omap2plus_defconfig: Fix missing video bus: ti-sysc: Fix handling of invalid clocks bus: ti-sysc: Fix clock handling for no-idle quirks Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/pull-1568819401-72461@atomide.comSigned-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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Olof Johansson authored
Merge tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux into arm/fixes ARM SCMI fixes for v5.4 Couple of fixes: one in scmi reset driver initialising missed scmi handle and an other in scmi reset API implementation fixing the assignment of reset state * tag 'scmi-fixes-5.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sudeep.holla/linux: reset: reset-scmi: add missing handle initialisation firmware: arm_scmi: reset: fix reset_state assignment in scmi_domain_reset Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190918142139.GA4370@bogusSigned-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimmLinus Torvalds authored
More libnvdimm updates from Dan Williams: - Complete the reworks to interoperate with powerpc dynamic huge page sizes - Fix a crash due to missed accounting for the powerpc 'struct page'-memmap mapping granularity - Fix badblock initialization for volatile (DRAM emulated) pmem ranges - Stop triggering request_key() notifications to userspace when NVDIMM-security is disabled / not present - Miscellaneous small fixups * tag 'libnvdimm-fixes-5.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: libnvdimm/region: Enable MAP_SYNC for volatile regions libnvdimm: prevent nvdimm from requesting key when security is disabled libnvdimm/region: Initialize bad block for volatile namespaces libnvdimm/nfit_test: Fix acpi_handle redefinition libnvdimm/altmap: Track namespace boundaries in altmap libnvdimm: Fix endian conversion issues libnvdimm/dax: Pick the right alignment default when creating dax devices powerpc/book3s64: Export has_transparent_hugepage() related functions.
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