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Frederic Barrat
816e8b31fc cxl: Fix PSL timebase synchronization detection
commit 923adb1646 upstream.

The PSL timebase synchronization is seemingly failing for
configuration not including VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_NATIVE. The driver
shows the following trace in dmesg:
PSL: Timebase sync: giving up!

The PSL timebase register is actually syncing correctly, but the cxl
driver is not detecting it. Fix is to use the proper timebase-to-time
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew R. Ochs <mrochs@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-09 15:34:55 -08:00
Andrew Donnellan
e3d4bcc39f cxl: use correct operator when writing pcie config space values
commit 48f0f6b717 upstream.

When writing a value to config space, cxl_pcie_write_config() calls
cxl_pcie_config_info() to obtain a mask and shift value, shifts the new
value accordingly, then uses the mask to combine the shifted value with the
existing value at the address as part of a read-modify-write pattern.

Currently, we use a logical OR operator rather than a bitwise OR operator,
which means any use of this function results in an incorrect value being
written. Replace the logical OR operator with a bitwise OR operator so the
value is written correctly.

Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Fixes: 6f7f0b3df6 ("cxl: Add AFU virtual PHB and kernel API")
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-03 15:07:17 -08:00
Alexander Usyskin
a007fc3d65 mei: validate request value in client notify request ioctl
commit 7326fffb71 upstream.

This patch address a possible security issue:

The request field in client notify request ioctl comes from user space
as u32 and is downcasted to u8 with out validation.
Check request field to have approved values
MEI_HBM_NOTIFICATION_STAR/STOP

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-03 15:07:13 -08:00
Tomas Winkler
6472e6b6af mei: fix fasync return value on error
commit ed6dc538e5 upstream.

fasync should return a negative value on error
and not poll mask POLLERR.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2016-03-03 15:07:13 -08:00
Frederic Barrat
e606e035cc cxl: Set endianess of kernel contexts
A process element (defined in CAIA) keeps track of the endianess of
contexts through the Little Endian (LE) bit of the State Register. It
is currently set for user contexts, but was somehow forgotten for
kernel contexts, so this patch fixes it.
It could lead to erratic behavior from an AFU when the context is
attached through the kernel API.

Fixes: 2f663527bd ("cxl: Configure PSL for kernel contexts and merge code")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.2+
Signed-off-by: Frederic Barrat <fbarrat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-12-08 16:57:01 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
9aa3d651a9 Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending
Pull SCSI target updates from Nicholas Bellinger:
 "This series contains HCH's changes to absorb configfs attribute
  ->show() + ->store() function pointer usage from it's original
  tree-wide consumers, into common configfs code.

  It includes usb-gadget, target w/ drivers, netconsole and ocfs2
  changes to realize the improved simplicity, that now renders the
  original include/target/configfs_macros.h CPP magic for fabric drivers
  and others, unnecessary and obsolete.

  And with common code in place, new configfs attributes can be added
  easier than ever before.

  Note, there are further improvements in-flight from other folks for
  v4.5 code in configfs land, plus number of target fixes for post -rc1
  code"

In the meantime, a new user of the now-removed old configfs API came in
through the char/misc tree in commit 7bd1d4093c ("stm class: Introduce
an abstraction for System Trace Module devices").

This merge resolution comes from Alexander Shishkin, who updated his stm
class tracing abstraction to account for the removal of the old
show_attribute and store_attribute methods in commit 517982229f
("configfs: remove old API") from this pull.  As Alexander says about
that patch:

 "There's no need to keep an extra wrapper structure per item and the
  awkward show_attribute/store_attribute item ops are no longer needed.

  This patch converts policy code to the new api, all the while making
  the code quite a bit smaller and easier on the eyes.

  Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>"

That patch was folded into the merge so that the tree should be fully
bisectable.

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nab/target-pending: (23 commits)
  configfs: remove old API
  ocfs2/cluster: use per-attribute show and store methods
  ocfs2/cluster: move locking into attribute store methods
  netconsole: use per-attribute show and store methods
  target: use per-attribute show and store methods
  spear13xx_pcie_gadget: use per-attribute show and store methods
  dlm: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_serial: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_phonet: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_obex: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_uac2: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_uac1: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_mass_storage: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_sourcesink: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_printer: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_midi: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_loopback: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/ether: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_acm: use per-attribute show and store methods
  usb-gadget/f_hid: use per-attribute show and store methods
  ...
2015-11-13 20:04:17 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b44a3d2a85 Merge tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC driver updates from Olof Johansson:
 "As we've enabled multiplatform kernels on ARM, and greatly done away
  with the contents under arch/arm/mach-*, there's still need for
  SoC-related drivers to go somewhere.

  Many of them go in through other driver trees, but we still have
  drivers/soc to hold some of the "doesn't fit anywhere" lowlevel code
  that might be shared between ARM and ARM64 (or just in general makes
  sense to not have under the architecture directory).

  This branch contains mostly such code:

   - Drivers for qualcomm SoCs for SMEM, SMD and SMD-RPM, used to
     communicate with power management blocks on these SoCs for use by
     clock, regulator and bus frequency drivers.

   - Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus driver, again used to communicate with
     PMICs.

   - Drivers for ARM's SCPI (System Control Processor).  Not to be
     confused with PSCI (Power State Coordination Interface).  SCPI is
     used to communicate with the assistant embedded cores doing power
     management, and we have yet to see how many of them will implement
     this for their hardware vs abstracting in other ways (or not at all
     like in the past).

   - To make confusion between SCPI and PSCI more likely, this release
     also includes an update of PSCI to interface version 1.0.

   - Rockchip support for power domains.

   - A driver to talk to the firmware on Raspberry Pi"

* tag 'armsoc-drivers' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (57 commits)
  soc: qcom: smd-rpm: Correct size of outgoing message
  bus: sunxi-rsb: Add driver for Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus
  bus: sunxi-rsb: Add Allwinner Reduced Serial Bus (RSB) controller bindings
  ARM: bcm2835: add mutual inclusion protection
  drivers: psci: make PSCI 1.0 functions initialization version dependent
  dt-bindings: Correct paths in Rockchip power domains binding document
  soc: rockchip: power-domain: don't try to print the clock name in error case
  soc: qcom/smem: add HWSPINLOCK dependency
  clk: berlin: add cpuclk
  ARM: berlin: dts: add CLKID_CPU for BG2Q
  ARM: bcm2835: Add the Raspberry Pi firmware driver
  soc: qcom: smem: Move RPM message ram out of smem DT node
  soc: qcom: smd-rpm: Correct the active vs sleep state flagging
  soc: qcom: smd: delete unneeded of_node_put
  firmware: qcom-scm: build for correct architecture level
  soc: qcom: smd: Correct SMEM items for upper channels
  qcom-scm: add missing prototype for qcom_scm_is_available()
  qcom-scm: fix endianess issue in __qcom_scm_is_call_available
  soc: qcom: smd: Reject send of too big packets
  soc: qcom: smd: Handle big endian CPUs
  ...
2015-11-10 15:00:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ad804a0b2a Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge second patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:

 - most of the rest of MM

 - procfs

 - lib/ updates

 - printk updates

 - bitops infrastructure tweaks

 - checkpatch updates

 - nilfs2 update

 - signals

 - various other misc bits: coredump, seqfile, kexec, pidns, zlib, ipc,
   dma-debug, dma-mapping, ...

* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (102 commits)
  ipc,msg: drop dst nil validation in copy_msg
  include/linux/zutil.h: fix usage example of zlib_adler32()
  panic: release stale console lock to always get the logbuf printed out
  dma-debug: check nents in dma_sync_sg*
  dma-mapping: tidy up dma_parms default handling
  pidns: fix set/getpriority and ioprio_set/get in PRIO_USER mode
  kexec: use file name as the output message prefix
  fs, seqfile: always allow oom killer
  seq_file: reuse string_escape_str()
  fs/seq_file: use seq_* helpers in seq_hex_dump()
  coredump: change zap_threads() and zap_process() to use for_each_thread()
  coredump: ensure all coredumping tasks have SIGNAL_GROUP_COREDUMP
  signal: remove jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()->allow_signal(SIGCONT)
  signal: introduce kernel_signal_stop() to fix jffs2_garbage_collect_thread()
  signal: turn dequeue_signal_lock() into kernel_dequeue_signal()
  signals: kill block_all_signals() and unblock_all_signals()
  nilfs2: fix gcc uninitialized-variable warnings in powerpc build
  nilfs2: fix gcc unused-but-set-variable warnings
  MAINTAINERS: nilfs2: add header file for tracing
  nilfs2: add tracepoints for analyzing reading and writing metadata files
  ...
2015-11-07 14:32:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
75021d2859 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
Pull trivial updates from Jiri Kosina:
 "Trivial stuff from trivial tree that can be trivially summed up as:

   - treewide drop of spurious unlikely() before IS_ERR() from Viresh
     Kumar

   - cosmetic fixes (that don't really affect basic functionality of the
     driver) for pktcdvd and bcache, from Julia Lawall and Petr Mladek

   - various comment / printk fixes and updates all over the place"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial:
  bcache: Really show state of work pending bit
  hwmon: applesmc: fix comment typos
  Kconfig: remove comment about scsi_wait_scan module
  class_find_device: fix reference to argument "match"
  debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values
  net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  mm: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  fs: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  drivers: net: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  drivers: misc: Drop unlikely before IS_ERR(_OR_NULL)
  UBI: Update comments to reflect UBI_METAONLY flag
  pktcdvd: drop null test before destroy functions
2015-11-07 13:05:44 -08:00
Mel Gorman
71baba4b92 mm, page_alloc: rename __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM
__GFP_WAIT was used to signal that the caller was in atomic context and
could not sleep.  Now it is possible to distinguish between true atomic
context and callers that are not willing to sleep.  The latter should
clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM so kswapd will still wake.  As clearing
__GFP_WAIT behaves differently, there is a risk that people will clear the
wrong flags.  This patch renames __GFP_WAIT to __GFP_RECLAIM to clearly
indicate what it does -- setting it allows all reclaim activity, clearing
them prevents it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-11-06 17:50:42 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
bc914532a0 Merge tag 'mfd-for-linus-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd
Pull MFD updates from Lee Jones:
 "New Device Support:
   - Add support for 88pm860; 88pm80x
   - Add support for 24c08 EEPROM; at24
   - Add support for Broxton Whiskey Cove; intel*
   - Add support for RTS522A; rts5227
   - Add support for I2C devices; intel_quark_i2c_gpio

  New Functionality:
   - Add microphone support; arizona
   - Add general purpose switch support; arizona
   - Add fuel-gauge support; da9150-core
   - Add shutdown support; sec-core
   - Add charger support; tps65217
   - Add flexible serial communication unit support; atmel-flexcom
   - Add power button support; axp20x
   - Add led-flash support; rt5033

  Core Frameworks:
   - Supply a generic macro for defining Regmap IRQs
   - Rework ACPI child device matching

  Fix-ups:
   - Use Regmap to access registers; tps6105x
   - Use DEFINE_RES_IRQ_NAMED() macro; da9150
   - Re-arrange device registration order; intel_quark_i2c_gpio
   - Allow OF matching; cros_ec_i2c, atmel-hlcdc, hi6421-pmic, max8997, sm501
   - Handle deferred probe; twl6040
   - Improve accuracy of headphone detect; arizona
   - Unnecessary MODULE_ALIAS() removal; bcm590xx, rt5033
   - Remove unused code; htc-i2cpld, arizona, pcf50633-irq, sec-core
   - Simplify code; kempld, rts5209, da903x, lm3533, da9052, arizona
   - Remove #iffery; arizona
   - DT binding adaptions; many

  Bug Fixes:
   - Fix possible NULL pointer dereference; wm831x, tps6105x
   - Fix 64bit bug; intel_soc_pmic_bxtwc
   - Fix signedness issue; arizona"

* tag 'mfd-for-linus-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lee/mfd: (73 commits)
  bindings: mfd: s2mps11: Add documentation for s2mps15 PMIC
  mfd: sec-core: Remove unused s2mpu02-rtc and s2mpu02-clk children
  extcon: arizona: Add extcon specific device tree binding document
  MAINTAINERS: Add binding docs for Cirrus Logic/Wolfson Arizona devices
  mfd: arizona: Remove bindings covered in new subsystem specific docs
  mfd: rt5033: Add RT5033 Flash led sub device
  mfd: lpss: Add Intel Broxton PCI IDs
  mfd: lpss: Add Broxton ACPI IDs
  mfd: arizona: Signedness bug in arizona_runtime_suspend()
  mfd: axp20x: Add a cell for the power button part of the, axp288 PMICs
  mfd: dt-bindings: Document pulled down WRSTBI pin on S2MPS1X
  mfd: sec-core: Disable buck voltage reset on watchdog falling edge
  mfd: sec-core: Dump PMIC revision to find out the HW
  mfd: arizona: Use correct type ID for device tree config
  mfd: arizona: Remove use of codec build config #ifdefs
  mfd: arizona: Simplify adding subdevices
  mfd: arizona: Downgrade type mismatch messages to dev_warn
  mfd: arizona: Factor out checking of jack detection state
  mfd: arizona: Factor out DCVDD isolation control
  mfd: Make TPS6105X select REGMAP_I2C
  ...
2015-11-06 10:23:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2f4bf528ec Merge tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman:

 - Kconfig: remove BE-only platforms from LE kernel build from Boqun
   Feng
 - Refresh ps3_defconfig from Geoff Levand
 - Emit GNU & SysV hashes for the vdso from Michael Ellerman
 - Define an enum for the bolted SLB indexes from Anshuman Khandual
 - Use a local to avoid multiple calls to get_slb_shadow() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Add gettimeofday() benchmark from Michael Neuling
 - Avoid link stack corruption in __get_datapage() from Michael Neuling
 - Add virt_to_pfn and use this instead of opencoding from Aneesh Kumar
   K.V
 - Add ppc64le_defconfig from Michael Ellerman
 - pseries: extract of_helpers module from Andy Shevchenko
 - Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent() from Nathan
   Fontenot
 - Free the MSI bitmap if it was slab allocated from Denis Kirjanov
 - Shorten irq_chip name for the SIU from Christophe Leroy
 - Wait 1s for secondaries to enter OPAL during kexec from Samuel
   Mendoza-Jonas
 - Fix _ALIGN_* errors due to type difference, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - powerpc/pseries/hvcserver: don't memset pi_buff if it is null from
   Colin Ian King
 - Disable hugepd for 64K page size, from Aneesh Kumar K.V
 - Differentiate between hugetlb and THP during page walk from Aneesh
   Kumar K.V
 - Make PCI non-optional for pseries from Michael Ellerman
 - Individual System V IPC system calls from Sam bobroff
 - Add selftest of unmuxed IPC calls from Michael Ellerman
 - discard .exit.data at runtime from Stephen Rothwell
 - Delete old orphaned PrPMC 280/2800 DTS and boot file, from Paul
   Gortmaker
 - Use of_get_next_parent to simplify code from Christophe Jaillet
 - Paginate some xmon output from Sam bobroff
 - Add some more elements to the xmon PACA dump from Michael Ellerman
 - Allow the tm-syscall selftest to build with old headers from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Run EBB selftests only on POWER8 from Denis Kirjanov
 - Drop CONFIG_TUNE_CELL in favour of CONFIG_CELL_CPU from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Avoid reference to potentially freed memory in prom.c from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - Quieten boot wrapper output with run_cmd from Geoff Levand
 - EEH fixes and cleanups from Gavin Shan
 - Fix recursive fenced PHB on Broadcom shiner adapter from Gavin Shan
 - Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id() from Michael
   Ellerman
 - Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc() from Denis
   Kirjanov
 - Fix ps3-lpm white space from Rudhresh Kumar J
 - Fix ps3-vuart null dereference from Colin King
 - nvram: Add missing kfree in error path from Christophe Jaillet
 - nvram: Fix function name in some errors messages, from Christophe
   Jaillet
 - drivers/macintosh: adb: fix misleading Kconfig help text from Aaro
   Koskinen
 - agp/uninorth: fix a memleak in create_gatt_table from Denis Kirjanov
 - cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing from Andrew Donnellan
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Allow KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to be a target from
   Michael Ellerman
 - scripts/kconfig/Makefile: Fix KBUILD_DEFCONFIG check when building
   with O= from Michael Ellerman
 - Freescale updates from Scott: Highlights include 64-bit book3e
   kexec/kdump support, a rework of the qoriq clock driver, device tree
   changes including qoriq fman nodes, support for a new 85xx board, and
   some fixes.
 - MPC5xxx updates from Anatolij: Highlights include a driver for
   MPC512x LocalPlus Bus FIFO with its device tree binding
   documentation, mpc512x device tree updates and some minor fixes.

* tag 'powerpc-4.4-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (106 commits)
  powerpc/msi: Fix section mismatch warning in msi_bitmap_alloc()
  powerpc/prom: Use of_get_next_parent() in of_get_ibm_chip_id()
  powerpc/pseries: Correct string length in pseries_of_derive_parent()
  powerpc/e6500: hw tablewalk: make sure we invalidate and write to the same tlb entry
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Add FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan support to the SoC device tree(s)
  powerpc/mpc85xx: Create dts components for the FSL QorIQ DPAA FMan
  powerpc/fsl: Add #clock-cells and clockgen label to clockgen nodes
  powerpc: handle error case in cpm_muram_alloc()
  powerpc: mpic: use IRQCHIP_SKIP_SET_WAKE instead of redundant mpic_irq_set_wake
  powerpc/book3e-64: Enable kexec
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Set "r4 = 0" when entering spinloop
  powerpc/booke: Only use VIRT_PHYS_OFFSET on booke32
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: Enable SMP release
  powerpc/book3e-64/kexec: create an identity TLB mapping
  powerpc/book3e-64: Don't limit paca to 256 MiB
  powerpc/book3e/kdump: Enable crash_kexec_wait_realmode
  powerpc/book3e: support CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
  powerpc/booke64: Fix args to copy_and_flush
  powerpc/book3e-64: rename interrupt_end_book3e with __end_interrupts
  powerpc/e6500: kexec: Handle hardware threads
  ...
2015-11-05 23:38:43 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
75f5db39ff Merge tag 'spi-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi
Pull spi updates from Mark Brown:
 "Quite a lot of activity in SPI this cycle, almost all of it in drivers
  with a few minor improvements and tweaks in the core.

   - Updates to pxa2xx to support Intel Broxton and multiple chip selects.
   - Support for big endian in the bcm63xx driver.
   - Multiple slave support for the mt8173
   - New driver for the auxiliary SPI controller in bcm2835 SoCs.
   - Support for Layerscale SoCs in the Freescale DSPI driver"

* tag 'spi-v4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/broonie/spi: (87 commits)
  spi: pxa2xx: Rework self-initiated platform data creation for non-ACPI
  spi: pxa2xx: Add support for Intel Broxton
  spi: pxa2xx: Detect number of enabled Intel LPSS SPI chip select signals
  spi: pxa2xx: Add output control for multiple Intel LPSS chip selects
  spi: pxa2xx: Use LPSS prefix for defines that are Intel LPSS specific
  spi: Add DSPI support for layerscape family
  spi: ti-qspi: improve ->remove() callback
  spi/spi-xilinx: Fix race condition on last word read
  spi: Drop owner assignment from spi_drivers
  spi: Add THIS_MODULE to spi_driver in SPI core
  spi: Setup the master controller driver before setting the chipselect
  spi: dw: replace magic constant by DW_SPI_DR
  spi: mediatek: mt8173 spi multiple devices support
  spi: mediatek: handle controller_data in mtk_spi_setup
  spi: mediatek: remove mtk_spi_config
  spi: mediatek: Update document devicetree bindings to support multiple devices
  spi: fix kernel-doc warnings about missing return desc in spi.c
  spi: fix kernel-doc warnings about missing return desc in spi.h
  spi: pxa2xx: Align a few defines
  spi: pxa2xx: Save other reg_cs_ctrl bits when configuring chip select
  ...
2015-11-05 13:15:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8e483ed134 Merge tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc
Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH:
 "Here is the big char/misc driver update for 4.4-rc1.  Lots of
  different driver and subsystem updates, hwtracing being the largest
  with the addition of some new platforms that are now supported.  Full
  details in the shortlog.

  All of these have been in linux-next for a long time with no reported
  issues"

* tag 'char-misc-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (181 commits)
  fpga: socfpga: Fix check of return value of devm_request_irq
  lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
  mcb: Destroy IDA on module unload
  mcb: Do not return zero on error path in mcb_pci_probe()
  mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup
  mei: bus: use correct lock ordering
  mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output
  char: ipmi: ipmi_ssif: Replace timeval with timespec64
  fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix issue with drvdata being overwritten.
  fpga manager: remove unnecessary null pointer checks
  fpga manager: ensure lifetime with of_fpga_mgr_get
  fpga: zynq-fpga: Change fw format to handle bin instead of bit.
  fpga: zynq-fpga: Fix unbalanced clock handling
  misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space
  coresight: etm3x: adding documentation for sysFS's cpu interface
  vme: 8-bit status/id takes 256 values, not 255
  fpga manager: Adding FPGA Manager support for Xilinx Zynq 7000
  ARM: zynq: dt: Updated devicetree for Zynq 7000 platform.
  ARM: dt: fpga: Added binding docs for Xilinx Zynq FPGA manager.
  ver_linux: proc/modules, limit text processing to 'sed'
  ...
2015-11-04 22:15:15 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e880e87488 Merge tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
 "Here's the "big" driver core updates for 4.4-rc1.  Primarily a bunch
  of debugfs updates, with a smattering of minor driver core fixes and
  updates as well.

  All have been in linux-next for a long time"

* tag 'driver-core-4.4-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  debugfs: Add debugfs_create_ulong()
  of: to support binding numa node to specified device in devicetree
  debugfs: Add read-only/write-only bool file ops
  debugfs: Add read-only/write-only size_t file ops
  debugfs: Add read-only/write-only x64 file ops
  debugfs: Consolidate file mode checks in debugfs_create_*()
  Revert "mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering"
  driver-core: platform: Provide helpers for multi-driver modules
  mm: Check if section present during memory block (un)registering
  devres: fix a for loop bounds check
  CMA: fix CONFIG_CMA_SIZE_MBYTES overflow in 64bit
  base/platform: assert that dev_pm_domain callbacks are called unconditionally
  sysfs: correctly handle short reads on PREALLOC attrs.
  base: soc: siplify ida usage
  kobject: move EXPORT_SYMBOL() macros next to corresponding definitions
  kobject: explain what kobject's sd field is
  debugfs: document that debugfs_remove*() accepts NULL and error values
  debugfs: Pass bool pointer to debugfs_create_bool()
  ACPI / EC: Fix broken 64bit big-endian users of 'global_lock'
2015-11-04 21:50:37 -08:00
Mark Brown
4c84518523 Merge remote-tracking branches 'spi/topic/omap-100k', 'spi/topic/omap-uwire', 'spi/topic/owner', 'spi/topic/pxa' and 'spi/topic/pxa2xx' into spi-next 2015-11-04 11:02:12 +00:00
Stephen Smalley
2cb202c188 lkdtm: fix ACCESS_USERSPACE test
Add a copy_to_user() call to the ACCESS_USERSPACE test
prior to attempting direct dereferencing of the user
address to ensure the page is present.  Otherwise,
a fault occurs on arm kernels even prior to the introduction
of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN, and there is no difference in
behavior for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n vs CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y.

Before this change, for any value of CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6fe8000
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address b6fe8000

After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=n:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6efc000
lkdtm: attempting bad write at b6efc000

After this change, for CONFIG_CPU_SW_DOMAIN_PAN=y:
lkdtm: Performing direct entry ACCESS_USERSPACE
lkdtm: attempting bad read at b6f7d000
Unhandled fault: page domain fault (0x01b) at 0xb6f7d000
...

Signed-off-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-29 09:02:16 +09:00
Tomas Winkler
213dd193fa mei: bus: set the device name before running fixup
The mei bus fixup use dev_xxx services for printing
to kernel log so we need to setup the device name
prior to running fixup hooks.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-29 09:02:16 +09:00
Tomas Winkler
2da55cfd60 mei: bus: use correct lock ordering
The correct lock order is
  cl_bus_lock
    device_lock
      me_clients_rwsem

This order was violated in bus rescan and remove routines
when me_client_rwsem was locked before cl_bus_lock.

Chain exists of:
[    4.321653]   &dev->device_lock --> &dev->me_clients_rwsem -->
&dev->cl_bus_lock
[    4.321653]
[    4.321679]  Possible unsafe locking scenario:
[    4.321679]
[    4.321693]        CPU0                    CPU1
[    4.321701]        ----                    ----
[    4.321709]   lock(&dev->cl_bus_lock);
[    4.321720]
lock(&dev->me_clients_rwsem);
[    4.321733]                                lock(&dev->cl_bus_lock);
[    4.321745]   lock(&dev->device_lock);
[    4.321755]
[    4.321755]  *** DEADLOCK ***
[    4.321755]

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-29 09:02:16 +09:00
Andrew F. Davis
3821a065f5 spi: Drop owner assignment from spi_drivers
An spi_driver does not need to set an owner, it will be populated by the
driver core.

Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
2015-10-28 10:30:17 +09:00
Alexander Kuleshov
2be7010cad mei: Fix debugfs filename in error output
Signed-off-by: Alexander Kuleshov <kuleshovmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-27 14:21:42 +09:00
Andy Shevchenko
40d8edc9bf at24: enable ACPI device found on Galileo Gen2
There is a 24c08 chip connected to i2c bus on Intel Galileo Gen2 board. Enable
it via ACPI ID INT3499.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
2015-10-26 15:25:56 +01:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy
525d12f27b misc: sram: partition base address belongs to __iomem space
The change fixes a warning found by sparse:

  drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
  drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20:    expected void *base
  drivers/misc/sram.c:134:20:    got void [noderef] <asn:2>*

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-18 19:00:36 -07:00
Vladimir Zapolskiy
b4c3fcb3c7 misc: sram: extend usage of reserved partitions
This change adds functionality to operate on reserved SRAM partitions
described in device tree file. Two partition properties are added,
"pool" and "export", the first one allows to share a specific partition
for usage by a kernel consumer in the same manner as it is done for
the whole SRAM device, and "export" property provides access to some
SRAM area from userspace over sysfs interface. Practically it is
possible to specify both properties for an SRAM partition, however
simultaneous access from a kernel consumer and from userspace is not
serialized, but still the combination may be useful for debugging
purpose.

The change opens the following scenarios of SRAM usage:
* updates in a particular SRAM area specified by offset and size are
  done by bootloader, then this information is utilized by the kernel,
* a particular SRAM area is rw accessed from userspace, the stored
  data is persistent on soft reboots,
* a device driver secures SRAM area for its purposes,
* etc.

Note, strictly speaking the added optional properties describe policy
of SRAM usage, rather than hardware, but here the policy mostly
resembles flash partitions in devicetree, which is undoubtedly
a very popular option but it does not describe hardware.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:51:47 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
e426115e0a misc: mic/scif: fix error code in scif_create_remote_lookup()
We should be returning -ENOMEM here instead of success.

Fixes: ba612aa8b4 ('misc: mic: SCIF memory registration and unregistration')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:49:48 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
ff65212cc4 misc: mic/scif: re-take a lock on error path
The caller expects that we take this lock again before returning
otherwise it you get double unlocks and races.

Fixes: ba612aa8b4 ('misc: mic: SCIF memory registration and unregistration')
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:49:48 -07:00
Alexander Usyskin
edf5600870 mei: amthif: Do not compare bool to 0/1
Spotted by coccicheck:
drivers/misc/mei/amthif.c:479:5-26: WARNING: Comparison of bool to 0/1

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:45:05 -07:00
Tomas Winkler
df7f5447d7 mei: bus: fix c&p issue in the kdoc
s/send/receive/
The buffer in the receive function is
not used for sending

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:45:05 -07:00
Alexander Usyskin
99c2658f00 mei: fix the KDoc formating
KDoc function section start with double start:  /** instead of /*

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:45:05 -07:00
Alexander Usyskin
34af19132e mei: keep the device awake during reads in chunks
Long messages are read in chunks, to prevent trashing runtime pm between
the reading of the chunks we call pm_runtime_mark_last_busy() on
non-final chunk message as the next chunk of the same message will be
received immediately in the next interrupt with high probablity.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:45:05 -07:00
Tomas Winkler
97ccf63f42 mei: cancel driver workers only after client devices were removed
In process of client devices removal from the bus there still
might be communication between a driver and the mei device
hence we need to cancel supporting workers only after all
the client devices were removed.

Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:45:05 -07:00
Sudip Mukherjee
a2a47d00c0 misc: mic: fix memory leak
In scif_node_connect() we were returning if the initialization of p2p_ji
fails. But at that time p2p_ij has already been initialized and
resources allocated for it. And since p2p_ij is not added to the list
till now so we will have a leak.
Lets deinitialize and release the resources connected to p2p_ij.

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
Reviewed-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:42:29 -07:00
Geliang Tang
82ff3ac764 misc: mic: replace kfree with put_device
Handle a failed device_register(), replace kfree() with put_device(),
which will call cosm/mbus/scif_release_dev().

Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:42:29 -07:00
Ashutosh Dixit
f8bf0dece0 misc: mic: Fix randconfig build error
Fixes randconfig build error reported at
http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2092346.html

Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Dasaratharaman Chandramouli <dasaratharaman.chandramouli@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-17 21:42:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ebb65c81e1 Merge tag 'powerpc-4.3-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc fixes from Michael Ellerman:
 - Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH in our defconfigs
 - Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
 - cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs() from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx->irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API from Andrew
 - cxl: fix leak of ctx->mapping when releasing kernel API contexts from Andrew
 - cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards from Philippe
 - cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA from Christophe Lombard
 - Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep from Cyril
 - Panic on unhandled Machine Check on powernv from Daniel
 - selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test

* tag 'powerpc-4.3-4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux:
  selftests/powerpc: Fix build failure of load_unaligned_zeropad test
  powerpc/powernv: Panic on unhandled Machine Check
  powerpc: Fix checkstop in native_hpte_clear() with lockdep
  cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA
  cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards
  cxl: fix leak of ctx->mapping when releasing kernel API contexts
  cxl: fix leak of ctx->irq_bitmap when releasing context via kernel API
  cxl: fix leak of IRQ names in cxl_free_afu_irqs()
  powerpc/ps3: Remove unused os_area_db_id_video_mode
  powerpc/configs: Re-enable CONFIG_SCSI_DH
2015-10-16 12:07:43 -07:00
Andrew Donnellan
2e1a2556eb cxl: Free virtual PHB when removing
When adding a vPHB in cxl_pci_vphb_add(), we allocate a pci_controller
struct using pcibios_alloc_controller(). However, we don't free it in
cxl_pci_vphb_remove(), causing a leak.

Call pcibios_free_controller() in cxl_pci_vphb_remove() to free the vPHB
data structure correctly.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-10-15 20:31:58 +11:00
Christoph Hellwig
64c6be0e6d spear13xx_pcie_gadget: use per-attribute show and store methods
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Pratyush Anand <pratyush.anand@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
2015-10-13 22:17:40 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
4970c0cb6a Merge 4.3-rc5 into char-misc next
We want the fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-12 10:29:36 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
f3c65c2892 Merge tag 'at91-cleanup-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux into next/drivers
Merge "First batch of cleanups for 4.4:" from Alexandre Belloni:
 - properly get the slow clock from timer-atmel-st, tcb_clksrc and pwm-atmel-tcb
 - small fix in an error path for tcb_clksrc

* tag 'at91-cleanup-4.4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/abelloni/linux:
  misc: atmel_tclib: get and use slow clock
  clocksource: tcb_clksrc: fix setup_clkevents error path
  clocksource: atmel-st: get and use slow clock
2015-10-08 17:26:27 +02:00
Christophe Lombard
4108efb02d cxl: Fix number of allocated pages in SPA
The scheduled process area is currently allocated before assigning the
correct maximum processes to the AFU, which will mean we only ever
allocate a fixed number of pages for the scheduled process area. This
will limit us to 958 processes with 2 x 64K pages. If we try to use more
processes than that we'd probably overrun the buffer and corrupt memory
or crash.

AFUs that require three or more interrupts per process will not be
affected as they are already limited to less processes than that, but we
could hit it on an AFU that requires 0, 1 or 2 interrupts per process,
or when using 4K pages.

This patch moves the initialisation of the num_procs to before the SPA
allocation so that enough pages will be allocated for the number of
processes that the AFU supports.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Lombard <clombard@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.18+
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-10-07 16:44:46 +11:00
Boris Brezillon
7d8d05d114 misc: atmel_tclib: get and use slow clock
Commit dca1a4b5ff ("clk: at91: keep slow clk enabled to prevent system
hang") added a workaround for the slow clock as it is not properly handled
by its users.

Get and use the slow clock as it is necessary for the timer counters.

Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@free-electrons.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>
2015-10-06 12:33:14 +02:00
Philippe Bergheaud
d79e6801b1 cxl: Workaround malformed pcie packets on some cards
This works around a pcie host bridge defect on some cards, that can cause
malformed Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) errors to be erroneously reported.

The upper nibble of the vendor section PSL revision is used to distinguish
between different cards. The affected ones have it set to 0.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Bergheaud <felix@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-10-06 20:59:46 +11:00
Sudeep Dutt
ac6d83ccd9 misc: mic: Fix SCIF build failure with IOMMU_SUPPORT disabled
SCIF depends on IOVA which requires IOMMU_SUPPORT to be enabled.
The long term fix is to move IOVA from drivers/iommu to lib/
but this current patch should fix the reported issue.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Ashutosh Dixit <ashutosh.dixit@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Dutt <sudeep.dutt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-05 04:37:28 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann
48e3d668b7 VMware balloon: Enable notification via VMCI
Get notified immediately when a balloon target is set, instead of waiting for
up to one second.

The up-to 1 second gap could be long enough to cause swapping inside of the
VM that receives the VM.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Siva Sankar Reddy B <sankars@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann
d7568c130d VMware balloon: Treat init like reset
Unify the behavior of the first start of the balloon and a reset. Also on
unload, declare that the balloon driver does not have any capabilities
anymore.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann
365bd7ef7e VMware balloon: Support 2m page ballooning.
2m ballooning significantly reduces the hypervisor side (and guest side)
overhead of ballooning and unballooning.

hypervisor only:
      balloon  unballoon
4 KB  2 GB/s   2.6 GB/s
2 MB  54 GB/s  767 GB/s

Use 2 MB pages as the hypervisor is alwys 64bit and 2 MB is the smallest
supported super-page size.

The code has to run on older versions of ESX and old balloon drivers run on
newer version of ESX. Hence match the capabilities with the host before 2m
page ballooning could be enabled.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann
33d268ed00 VMware balloon: Do not limit the amount of frees and allocations in non-sleep mode.
When VMware's hypervisor requests a VM to reclaim memory this is preferrably done
via ballooning. If the balloon driver does not return memory fast enough, more
drastic methods, such as hypervisor-level swapping are needed. These other methods
cause performance issues, e.g. hypervisor-level swapping requires the hypervisor to
swap in a page syncronously while the virtual CPU is blocked.

Hence it is in the interest of the VM to balloon memory as fast as possible. The
problem with doing this is that the VM might end up doing nothing else than
ballooning and the user might notice that the VM is stalled, esp. when the VM has
only a single virtual CPU.

This is less of a problem if the VM and the hypervisor perform balloon operations
faster. Also the balloon driver yields regularly, hence on a single virtual CPU
the Linux scheduler should be able to properly time-slice between ballooning and
other tasks.

Testing Done: quickly ballooned a lot of pages while wathing if there are any
perceived hickups (periods of non-responsiveness) in the execution of the
linux VM. No such hickups were seen.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Philip P. Moltmann
b36e89da86 VMware balloon: Show capabilities of balloon and resulting capabilities in the debug-fs node.
This helps with debugging vmw_balloon behavior, as it is clear what
functionality is enabled.

Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Xavier Deguillard
4670de4d7f VMware balloon: Update balloon target on each lock/unlock.
Instead of waiting for the next GET_TARGET command, we can react faster
by exploiting the fact that each hypervisor call also returns the
balloon target.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Andy King <acking@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00
Xavier Deguillard
f220a80f0c VMware balloon: add batching to the vmw_balloon.
Introduce a new capability to the driver that allow sending 512 pages in
one hypervisor call. This reduce the cost of the driver when reclaiming
memory.

Signed-off-by: Xavier Deguillard <xdeguillard@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Philip P. Moltmann <moltmann@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2015-10-04 12:59:11 +01:00