Linux kernel documentation tree maintained by Jonathan Corbet http://mirrors.hust.edu.cn/git/lwn.git/atom?h=v3.9-rc2 2013-03-07T04:34:43+00:00 2013-03-07T04:34:43+00:00 Peter Jones pjones@redhat.com 2013-03-06T18:00:23+00:00 urn:sha1:3c4aff6b9a183b4f24eb7b8dd6c8a92cdba3bc75 If the sentinel triggers, we do not want the boot loader authors to just poke it and make the error go away, we want them to actually fix the problem. This should help avoid making the incorrect change in non-compliant bootloaders. [ hpa: dropped the Documentation/x86/boot.txt hunk pending clarifications ] Signed-off-by: Peter Jones <pjones@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1362592823-28967-1-git-send-email-pjones@redhat.com Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 2013-03-07T04:23:30+00:00 Josh Boyer jwboyer@gmail.com 2013-03-07T04:23:30+00:00 urn:sha1:2e604c0f19dcdd433b3863ffc3da9bc0787ca765 When boot_params->sentinel is set, all we really know is that some undefined set of fields in struct boot_params contain garbage. In the particular case of efi_info, however, there is a private magic for that substructure, so it is generally safe to leave it even if the bootloader is broken. kexec (for which we did the initial analysis) did not initialize this field, but of course all the EFI bootloaders do, and most EFI bootloaders are broken in this respect (and should be fixed.) Reported-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CA%2B5PVA51-FT14p4CRYKbicykugVb=PiaEycdQ57CK2km_OQuRQ@mail.gmail.com Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> 2013-03-02T16:34:06+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-03-02T16:34:06+00:00 urn:sha1:14cc0b55b70e297a4b5411733d58c6cdc2d7f1be Pull signal/compat fixes from Al Viro: "Fixes for several regressions introduced in the last signal.git pile, along with fixing bugs in truncate and ftruncate compat (on just about anything biarch at least one of those two had been done wrong)." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: compat: restore timerfd settime and gettime compat syscalls [regression] braino in "sparc: convert to ksignal" fix compat truncate/ftruncate switch lseek to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE lseek() and truncate() on sparc really need sign extension 2013-02-28T00:17:42+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-28T00:17:42+00:00 urn:sha1:e3c4877de8b9d93bd47b6ee88eb594b1c1e10da5 Pull x86/EFI changes from Peter Anvin: - Improve the initrd handling in the EFI boot stub by allowing forward slashes in the pathname - from Chun-Yi Lee. - Cleanup code duplication in the EFI mixed kernel/firmware code - from Satoru Takeuchi. - efivarfs bug fixes for more strict filename validation, with lots of input from Al Viro. * 'x86-efi-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86, efi: remove duplicate code in setup_arch() by using, efi_is_native() efivarfs: guid part of filenames are case-insensitive efivarfs: Validate filenames much more aggressively efivarfs: Use sizeof() instead of magic number x86, efi: Allow slash in file path of initrd 2013-02-27T03:40:37+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-27T03:40:37+00:00 urn:sha1:f8ef15d6b9d8e38729cd740a43919adf88468119 Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar. * 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: perf/x86: Add Intel IvyBridge event scheduling constraints ftrace: Call ftrace cleanup module notifier after all other notifiers tracing/syscalls: Allow archs to ignore tracing compat syscalls 2013-02-26T05:18:18+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-26T05:18:18+00:00 urn:sha1:556f12f602ac0a18a82ca83e9f8e8547688fc633 Pull PCI changes from Bjorn Helgaas: "Host bridge hotplug - Major overhaul of ACPI host bridge add/start (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Major overhaul of PCI/ACPI binding (Rafael Wysocki, Yinghai Lu) - Split out ACPI host bridge and ACPI PCI device hotplug (Yinghai Lu) - Stop caching _PRT and make independent of bus numbers (Yinghai Lu) PCI device hotplug - Clean up cpqphp dead code (Sasha Levin) - Disable ARI unless device and upstream bridge support it (Yijing Wang) - Initialize all hot-added devices (not functions 0-7) (Yijing Wang) Power management - Don't touch ASPM if disabled (Joe Lawrence) - Fix ASPM link state management (Myron Stowe) Miscellaneous - Fix PCI_EXP_FLAGS accessor (Alex Williamson) - Disable Bus Master in pci_device_shutdown (Konstantin Khlebnikov) - Document hotplug resource and MPS parameters (Yijing Wang) - Add accessor for PCIe capabilities (Myron Stowe) - Drop pciehp suspend/resume messages (Paul Bolle) - Make pci_slot built-in only (not a module) (Jiang Liu) - Remove unused PCI/ACPI bind ops (Jiang Liu) - Removed used pci_root_bus (Bjorn Helgaas)" * tag 'pci-v3.9-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (51 commits) PCI/ACPI: Don't cache _PRT, and don't associate them with bus numbers PCI: Fix PCI Express Capability accessors for PCI_EXP_FLAGS ACPI / PCI: Make pci_slot built-in only, not a module PCI/PM: Clear state_saved during suspend PCI: Use atomic_inc_return() rather than atomic_add_return() PCI: Catch attempts to disable already-disabled devices PCI: Disable Bus Master unconditionally in pci_device_shutdown() PCI: acpiphp: Remove dead code for PCI host bridge hotplug PCI: acpiphp: Create companion ACPI devices before creating PCI devices PCI: Remove unused "rc" in virtfn_add_bus() PCI: pciehp: Drop suspend/resume ENTRY messages PCI/ASPM: Don't touch ASPM if forcibly disabled PCI/ASPM: Deallocate upstream link state even if device is not PCIe PCI: Document MPS parameters pci=pcie_bus_safe, pci=pcie_bus_perf, etc PCI: Document hpiosize= and hpmemsize= resource reservation parameters PCI: Use PCI Express Capability accessor PCI: Introduce accessor to retrieve PCIe Capabilities Register PCI: Put pci_dev in device tree as early as possible PCI: Skip attaching driver in device_add() PCI: acpiphp: Keep driver loaded even if no slots found ... 2013-02-25T00:18:31+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-25T00:06:13+00:00 urn:sha1:77be36de8b07027a70fbc8f02703ccd76cd16d09 Pull Xen update from Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk: "This has two new ACPI drivers for Xen - a physical CPU offline/online and a memory hotplug. The way this works is that ACPI kicks the drivers and they make the appropiate hypercall to the hypervisor to tell it that there is a new CPU or memory. There also some changes to the Xen ARM ABIs and couple of fixes. One particularly nasty bug in the Xen PV spinlock code was fixed by Stefan Bader - and has been there since the 2.6.32! Features: - Xen ACPI memory and CPU hotplug drivers - allowing Xen hypervisor to be aware of new CPU and new DIMMs - Cleanups Bug-fixes: - Fixes a long-standing bug in the PV spinlock wherein we did not kick VCPUs that were in a tight loop. - Fixes in the error paths for the event channel machinery" Fix up a few semantic conflicts with the ACPI interface changes in drivers/xen/xen-acpi-{cpu,mem}hotplug.c. * tag 'stable/for-linus-3.9-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/konrad/xen: xen: event channel arrays are xen_ulong_t and not unsigned long xen: Send spinlock IPI to all waiters xen: introduce xen_remap, use it instead of ioremap xen: close evtchn port if binding to irq fails xen-evtchn: correct comment and error output xen/tmem: Add missing %s in the printk statement. xen/acpi: move xen_acpi_get_pxm under CONFIG_XEN_DOM0 xen/acpi: ACPI cpu hotplug xen/acpi: Move xen_acpi_get_pxm to Xen's acpi.h xen/stub: driver for CPU hotplug xen/acpi: ACPI memory hotplug xen/stub: driver for memory hotplug xen: implement updated XENMEM_add_to_physmap_range ABI xen/smp: Move the common CPU init code a bit to prep for PVH patch. 2013-02-24T21:07:18+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-24T21:07:18+00:00 urn:sha1:89f883372fa60f604d136924baf3e89ff1870e9e Pull KVM updates from Marcelo Tosatti: "KVM updates for the 3.9 merge window, including x86 real mode emulation fixes, stronger memory slot interface restrictions, mmu_lock spinlock hold time reduction, improved handling of large page faults on shadow, initial APICv HW acceleration support, s390 channel IO based virtio, amongst others" * tag 'kvm-3.9-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (143 commits) Revert "KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte" x86: pvclock kvm: align allocation size to page size KVM: nVMX: Remove redundant get_vmcs12 from nested_vmx_exit_handled_msr x86 emulator: fix parity calculation for AAD instruction KVM: PPC: BookE: Handle alignment interrupts booke: Added DBCR4 SPR number KVM: PPC: booke: Allow multiple exception types KVM: PPC: booke: use vcpu reference from thread_struct KVM: Remove user_alloc from struct kvm_memory_slot KVM: VMX: disable apicv by default KVM: s390: Fix handling of iscs. KVM: MMU: cleanup __direct_map KVM: MMU: remove pt_access in mmu_set_spte KVM: MMU: cleanup mapping-level KVM: MMU: lazily drop large spte KVM: VMX: cleanup vmx_set_cr0(). KVM: VMX: add missing exit names to VMX_EXIT_REASONS array KVM: VMX: disable SMEP feature when guest is in non-paging mode KVM: Remove duplicate text in api.txt Revert "KVM: MMU: split kvm_mmu_free_page" ... 2013-02-24T15:52:26+00:00 Al Viro viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk 2013-02-24T15:52:26+00:00 urn:sha1:561c6731978fa128f29342495f47fc3365898b3d Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> 2013-02-24T02:50:11+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org 2013-02-24T02:50:11+00:00 urn:sha1:9e2d59ad580d590134285f361a0e80f0e98c0207 Pull signal handling cleanups from Al Viro: "This is the first pile; another one will come a bit later and will contain SYSCALL_DEFINE-related patches. - a bunch of signal-related syscalls (both native and compat) unified. - a bunch of compat syscalls switched to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE (fixing several potential problems with missing argument validation, while we are at it) - a lot of now-pointless wrappers killed - a couple of architectures (cris and hexagon) forgot to save altstack settings into sigframe, even though they used the (uninitialized) values in sigreturn; fixed. - microblaze fixes for delivery of multiple signals arriving at once - saner set of helpers for signal delivery introduced, several architectures switched to using those." * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/signal: (143 commits) x86: convert to ksignal sparc: convert to ksignal arm: switch to struct ksignal * passing alpha: pass k_sigaction and siginfo_t using ksignal pointer burying unused conditionals make do_sigaltstack() static arm64: switch to generic old sigaction() (compat-only) arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigaction() arm64: switch compat to generic old sigsuspend arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigqueueinfo() arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigpending() arm64: switch to generic compat rt_sigprocmask() arm64: switch to generic sigaltstack sparc: switch to generic old sigsuspend sparc: COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE does all sign-extension as well as SYSCALL_DEFINE sparc: kill sign-extending wrappers for native syscalls kill sparc32_open() sparc: switch to use of generic old sigaction sparc: switch sys_compat_rt_sigaction() to COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE mips: switch to generic sys_fork() and sys_clone() ...