arm and arm64 share lot of code relative to parsing CPU capacity
information from DT, using that information for appropriate scaling and
exposing a sysfs interface for chaging such values at runtime.
Factorize such code in a common place (driver/base/arch_topology.c) in
preparation for further additions.
Suggested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here's the new driver core patches for 4.10-rc1.
Big thing here is the nice addition of "functional dependencies" to the
driver core. The idea has been talked about for a very long time, great
job to Rafael for stepping up and implementing it. It's been tested for
longer than the 4.9-rc1 date, we held off on merging it earlier in order
to feel more comfortable about it.
Other than that, it's just a handful of small other patches, some good
cleanups to the mess that is the firmware class code, and we have a test
driver for the deferred probe logic.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the new driver core patches for 4.10-rc1.
Big thing here is the nice addition of "functional dependencies" to
the driver core. The idea has been talked about for a very long time,
great job to Rafael for stepping up and implementing it. It's been
tested for longer than the 4.9-rc1 date, we held off on merging it
earlier in order to feel more comfortable about it.
Other than that, it's just a handful of small other patches, some good
cleanups to the mess that is the firmware class code, and we have a
test driver for the deferred probe logic.
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-4.10-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core: (30 commits)
firmware: Correct handling of fw_state_wait() return value
driver core: Silence device links sphinx warning
firmware: remove warning at documentation generation time
drivers: base: dma-mapping: Fix typo in dmam_alloc_non_coherent comments
driver core: test_async: fix up typo found by 0-day
firmware: move fw_state_is_done() into UHM section
firmware: do not use fw_lock for fw_state protection
firmware: drop bit ops in favor of simple state machine
firmware: refactor loading status
firmware: fix usermode helper fallback loading
driver core: firmware_class: convert to use class_groups
driver core: devcoredump: convert to use class_groups
driver core: class: add class_groups support
kernfs: Declare two local data structures static
driver-core: fix platform_no_drv_owner.cocci warnings
drivers/base/memory.c: Remove unused 'first_page' variable
driver core: add CLASS_ATTR_WO()
drivers: base: cacheinfo: support DT overrides for cache properties
drivers: base: cacheinfo: add pr_fmt logging
drivers: base: cacheinfo: fix boot error message when acpi is enabled
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Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.10' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux
Pull drm updates from Dave Airlie:
"This is the main pull request for drm for 4.10 kernel.
New drivers:
- ZTE VOU display driver (zxdrm)
- Amlogic Meson Graphic Controller GXBB/GXL/GXM SoCs (meson)
- MXSFB support (mxsfb)
Core:
- Format handling has been reworked
- Better atomic state debugging
- drm_mm leak debugging
- Atomic explicit fencing support
- fbdev helper ops
- Documentation updates
- MST fbcon fixes
Bridge:
- Silicon Image SiI8620 driver
Panel:
- Add support for new simple panels
i915:
- GVT Device model
- Better HDMI2.0 support on skylake
- More watermark fixes
- GPU idling rework for suspend/resume
- DP Audio workarounds
- Scheduler prep-work
- Opregion CADL handling
- GPU scheduler and priority boosting
amdgfx/radeon:
- Support for virtual devices
- New VM manager for non-contig VRAM buffers
- UVD powergating
- SI register header cleanup
- Cursor fixes
- Powermanagement fixes
nouveau:
- Powermangement reworks for better voltage/clock changes
- Atomic modesetting support
- Displayport Multistream (MST) support.
- GP102/104 hang and cursor fixes
- GP106 support
hisilicon:
- hibmc support (BMC chip for aarch64 servers)
armada:
- add tracing support for overlay change
- refactor plane support
- de-midlayer the driver
omapdrm:
- Timing code cleanups
rcar-du:
- R8A7792/R8A7796 support
- Misc fixes.
sunxi:
- A31 SoC display engine support
imx-drm:
- YUV format support
- Cleanup plane atomic update
mali-dp:
- Misc fixes
dw-hdmi:
- Add support for HDMI i2c master controller
tegra:
- IOMMU support fixes
- Error handling fixes
tda998x:
- Fix connector registration
- Improved robustness
- Fix infoframe/audio compliance
virtio:
- fix busid issues
- allocate more vbufs
qxl:
- misc fixes and cleanups.
vc4:
- Fragment shader threading
- ETC1 support
- VEC (tv-out) support
msm:
- A5XX GPU support
- Lots of atomic changes
tilcdc:
- Misc fixes and cleanups.
etnaviv:
- Fix dma-buf export path
- DRAW_INSTANCED support
- fix driver on i.MX6SX
exynos:
- HDMI refactoring
fsl-dcu:
- fbdev changes"
* tag 'drm-for-v4.10' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1343 commits)
drm/nouveau/kms/nv50: fix atomic regression on original G80
drm/nouveau/bl: Do not register interface if Apple GMUX detected
drm/nouveau/bl: Assign different names to interfaces
drm/nouveau/bios/dp: fix handling of LevelEntryTableIndex on DP table 4.2
drm/nouveau/ltc: protect clearing of comptags with mutex
drm/nouveau/gr/gf100-: handle GPC/TPC/MPC trap
drm/nouveau/core: recognise GP106 chipset
drm/nouveau/ttm: wait for bo fence to signal before unmapping vmas
drm/nouveau/gr/gf100-: FECS intr handling is not relevant on proprietary ucode
drm/nouveau/gr/gf100-: properly ack all FECS error interrupts
drm/nouveau/fifo/gf100-: recover from host mmu faults
drm: Add fake controlD* symlinks for backwards compat
drm/vc4: Don't use drm_put_dev
drm/vc4: Document VEC DT binding
drm/vc4: Add support for the VEC (Video Encoder) IP
drm: Add TV connector states to drm_connector_state
drm: Turn DRM_MODE_SUBCONNECTOR_xx definitions into an enum
drm/vc4: Fix ->clock_select setting for the VEC encoder
drm/amdgpu/dce6: Set MASTER_UPDATE_MODE to 0 in resume_mc_access as well
drm/amdgpu: use pin rather than pin_restricted in a few cases
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Merge tag 'soc-device-match-tag1' into next
Merge the immutable soc-device-match-tag1 provided by Geert Uytterhoeven
to pull in the new soc_device_match() interface for matching against
soc_bus attributes.
This test module tries to test asynchronous driver probing by having a
driver that sleeps for an extended period of time (5 secs) in its
probe() method. It measures the time needed to register this driver
(with device already registered) and a new device (with driver already
registered). The module will fail to load if the time spent in register
call is more than half the probing sleep time.
As a sanity check the driver will then try to synchronously register
driver and device and fail if registration takes less than half of the
probing sleep time.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Olof Johansson <olofj@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Escande <thierry.escande@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We keep running into cases where device drivers want to know the exact
version of the a SoC they are currently running on. In the past, this has
usually been done through a vendor specific API that can be called by a
driver, or by directly accessing some kind of version register that is
not part of the device itself but that belongs to a global register area
of the chip.
Common reasons for doing this include:
- A machine is not using devicetree or similar for passing data about
on-chip devices, but just announces their presence using boot-time
platform devices, and the machine code itself does not care about the
revision.
- There is existing firmware or boot loaders with existing DT binaries
with generic compatible strings that do not identify the particular
revision of each device, but the driver knows which SoC revisions
include which part.
- A prerelease version of a chip has some quirks and we are using the same
version of the bootloader and the DT blob on both the prerelease and the
final version. An update of the DT binding seems inappropriate because
that would involve maintaining multiple copies of the dts and/or
bootloader.
This patch introduces the soc_device_match() interface that is meant to
work like of_match_node() but instead of identifying the version of a
device, it identifies the SoC itself using a vendor-agnostic interface.
Unlike of_match_node(), we do not do an exact string compare but instead
use glob_match() to allow wildcards in strings.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Yangbo Lu <yangbo.lu@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Backmerge tag 'v4.9-rc4' into drm-next
Linux 4.9-rc4
This is needed for nouveau development.
The current state of driver removal is not great.
CONFIG_DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE finds lots of errors. The help text
currently undersells exactly how many errors this option will find. Add
a bit more description to indicate this option shouldn't be turned on
unless you actually want to debug driver removal. The text can be
changed later when more drivers are fixed up.
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In recent discussions on ksummit-discuss[1], it was suggested to do a
sequence of probe, remove, probe for testing driver remove paths. This
adds a kconfig option for said test.
[1] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/ksummit-discuss/2016-August/003459.html
Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This makes CMA memory area size zero for x86 in default configuration
(doesn't change on the other architectures). If default CMA size is
zero, DMA_CMA is disabled. It can be enabled by passing cma= to the
kernel.
This makes less impact on x86. Because there is no mainline driver that
requires it for x86, and Peter Hurley reported the performance
regression, as this is trying to drive _all_ dma mapping allocations
through a _very_ small window.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Don Dutile <ddutile@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The ENABLE_DEV_COREDUMP option is misleading as it implies that
it gets the framework enabled, this isn't true it just allows it
to get enabled if a driver needs it.
Rename it to ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP to better capture its semantics.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It's desirable for allnconfig and tinyconfig targets to result in the
least amount of code possible. DISABLE_DEV_COREDUMP exists as a way to
switch off DEV_COREDUMP regardless if any drivers select
WANT_DEV_COREDUMP.
This patch renames the option to ENABLE_DEV_COREDUMP and setting it to
'n' (as in allnconfig or tinyconfig) will effectively disable device
coredump.
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Aristeu Rozanski <arozansk@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It isn't obvious that CMA can be disabled on the kernel's command line, so
document it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert.lkml@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Many devices run firmware and/or complex hardware, and most of that
can have bugs. When it misbehaves, however, it is often much harder
to debug than software running on the host.
Introduce a "device coredump" mechanism to allow dumping internal
device/firmware state through a generalized mechanism. As devices
are different and information needed can vary accordingly, this
doesn't prescribe a file format - it just provides mechanism to
get data to be able to capture it in a generalized way (e.g. in
distributions.)
The dumped data will be readable in sysfs in the virtual device's
data file under /sys/class/devcoredump/devcd*/. Writing to it will
free the data and remove the device, as does a 5-minute timeout.
Note that generalized capturing of such data may result in privacy
issues, so users generally need to be involved. In order to allow
certain users/system integrators/... to disable the feature at all,
introduce a Kconfig option to override the drivers that would like
to have the feature.
For now, this provides two ways of dumping data:
1) with a vmalloc'ed area, that is then given to the subsystem
and freed after retrieval or timeout
2) with a generalized reader/free function method
We could/should add more options, e.g. a list of pages, since the
vmalloc area is very limited on some architectures.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently, there are two users on CMA functionality, one is the DMA
subsystem and the other is the KVM on powerpc. They have their own code
to manage CMA reserved area even if they looks really similar. From my
guess, it is caused by some needs on bitmap management. KVM side wants
to maintain bitmap not for 1 page, but for more size. Eventually it use
bitmap where one bit represents 64 pages.
When I implement CMA related patches, I should change those two places
to apply my change and it seem to be painful to me. I want to change
this situation and reduce future code management overhead through this
patch.
This change could also help developer who want to use CMA in their new
feature development, since they can use CMA easily without copying &
pasting this reserved area management code.
In previous patches, we have prepared some features to generalize CMA
reserved area management and now it's time to do it. This patch moves
core functions to mm/cma.c and change DMA APIs to use these functions.
There is no functional change in DMA APIs.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Tested-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[The patch was originally proposed by Tom Gundersen, and rewritten
afterwards by me; most of changelogs below borrowed from Tom's
original patch -- tiwai]
Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER,
which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through
udev without breaking other users (though some have).
Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the
kernel and in udev, but if we were to disable it in udev and not the
kernel, the result would be (seemingly) hung kernels as no one would
be around to cancel firmware requests.
This patch allows udev firmware loading to be disabled while still
allowing non-udev firmware loading, as done by the dell-rbu driver, to
continue working. This is achieved by only using the fallback
mechanism when the uevent is suppressed.
The patch renames the user-selectable Kconfig from FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
to FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK, and the former is reverse-selected
by the latter or the drivers that need userhelper like dell-rbu.
Also, the "default y" is removed together with this change, since it's
been deprecated in udev upstream, thus rather better to disable it
nowadays.
Tested with
FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n
LATTICE_ECP3_CONFIG=y
DELL_RBU=y
and udev without the firmware loading support, but I don't have the
hardware to test the lattice/dell drivers, so additional testing would
be appreciated.
Reviewed-by: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Balaji Singh <B_B_Singh@DELL.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
A fence can be attached to a buffer which is being filled or consumed
by hw, to allow userspace to pass the buffer without waiting to another
device. For example, userspace can call page_flip ioctl to display the
next frame of graphics after kicking the GPU but while the GPU is still
rendering. The display device sharing the buffer with the GPU would
attach a callback to get notified when the GPU's rendering-complete IRQ
fires, to update the scan-out address of the display, without having to
wake up userspace.
A driver must allocate a fence context for each execution ring that can
run in parallel. The function for this takes an argument with how many
contexts to allocate:
+ fence_context_alloc()
A fence is transient, one-shot deal. It is allocated and attached
to one or more dma-buf's. When the one that attached it is done, with
the pending operation, it can signal the fence:
+ fence_signal()
To have a rough approximation whether a fence is fired, call:
+ fence_is_signaled()
The dma-buf-mgr handles tracking, and waiting on, the fences associated
with a dma-buf.
The one pending on the fence can add an async callback:
+ fence_add_callback()
The callback can optionally be cancelled with:
+ fence_remove_callback()
To wait synchronously, optionally with a timeout:
+ fence_wait()
+ fence_wait_timeout()
When emitting a fence, call:
+ trace_fence_emit()
To annotate that a fence is blocking on another fence, call:
+ trace_fence_annotate_wait_on(fence, on_fence)
A default software-only implementation is provided, which can be used
by drivers attaching a fence to a buffer when they have no other means
for hw sync. But a memory backed fence is also envisioned, because it
is common that GPU's can write to, or poll on some memory location for
synchronization. For example:
fence = custom_get_fence(...);
if ((seqno_fence = to_seqno_fence(fence)) != NULL) {
dma_buf *fence_buf = seqno_fence->sync_buf;
get_dma_buf(fence_buf);
... tell the hw the memory location to wait ...
custom_wait_on(fence_buf, seqno_fence->seqno_ofs, fence->seqno);
} else {
/* fall-back to sw sync * /
fence_add_callback(fence, my_cb);
}
On SoC platforms, if some other hw mechanism is provided for synchronizing
between IP blocks, it could be supported as an alternate implementation
with it's own fence ops in a similar way.
enable_signaling callback is used to provide sw signaling in case a cpu
waiter is requested or no compatible hardware signaling could be used.
The intention is to provide a userspace interface (presumably via eventfd)
later, to be used in conjunction with dma-buf's mmap support for sw access
to buffers (or for userspace apps that would prefer to do their own
synchronization).
v1: Original
v2: After discussion w/ danvet and mlankhorst on #dri-devel, we decided
that dma-fence didn't need to care about the sw->hw signaling path
(it can be handled same as sw->sw case), and therefore the fence->ops
can be simplified and more handled in the core. So remove the signal,
add_callback, cancel_callback, and wait ops, and replace with a simple
enable_signaling() op which can be used to inform a fence supporting
hw->hw signaling that one or more devices which do not support hw
signaling are waiting (and therefore it should enable an irq or do
whatever is necessary in order that the CPU is notified when the
fence is passed).
v3: Fix locking fail in attach_fence() and get_fence()
v4: Remove tie-in w/ dma-buf.. after discussion w/ danvet and mlankorst
we decided that we need to be able to attach one fence to N dma-buf's,
so using the list_head in dma-fence struct would be problematic.
v5: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Updated for dma-bikeshed-fence and dma-buf-manager.
v6: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] I removed dma_fence_cancel_callback and some comments
about checking if fence fired or not. This is broken by design.
waitqueue_active during destruction is now fatal, since the signaller
should be holding a reference in enable_signalling until it signalled
the fence. Pass the original dma_fence_cb along, and call __remove_wait
in the dma_fence_callback handler, so that no cleanup needs to be
performed.
v7: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Set cb->func and only enable sw signaling if
fence wasn't signaled yet, for example for hardware fences that may
choose to signal blindly.
v8: [ Maarten Lankhorst ] Tons of tiny fixes, moved __dma_fence_init to
header and fixed include mess. dma-fence.h now includes dma-buf.h
All members are now initialized, so kmalloc can be used for
allocating a dma-fence. More documentation added.
v9: Change compiler bitfields to flags, change return type of
enable_signaling to bool. Rework dma_fence_wait. Added
dma_fence_is_signaled and dma_fence_wait_timeout.
s/dma// and change exports to non GPL. Added fence_is_signaled and
fence_enable_sw_signaling calls, add ability to override default
wait operation.
v10: remove event_queue, use a custom list, export try_to_wake_up from
scheduler. Remove fence lock and use a global spinlock instead,
this should hopefully remove all the locking headaches I was having
on trying to implement this. enable_signaling is called with this
lock held.
v11:
Use atomic ops for flags, lifting the need for some spin_lock_irqsaves.
However I kept the guarantee that after fence_signal returns, it is
guaranteed that enable_signaling has either been called to completion,
or will not be called any more.
Add contexts and seqno to base fence implementation. This allows you
to wait for less fences, by testing for seqno + signaled, and then only
wait on the later fence.
Add FENCE_TRACE, FENCE_WARN, and FENCE_ERR. This makes debugging easier.
An CONFIG_DEBUG_FENCE will be added to turn off the FENCE_TRACE
spam, and another runtime option can turn it off at runtime.
v12:
Add CONFIG_FENCE_TRACE. Add missing documentation for the fence->context
and fence->seqno members.
v13:
Fixup CONFIG_FENCE_TRACE kconfig description.
Move fence_context_alloc to fence.
Simplify fence_later.
Kill priv member to fence_cb.
v14:
Remove priv argument from fence_add_callback, oops!
v15:
Remove priv from documentation.
Explicitly include linux/atomic.h.
v16:
Add trace events.
Import changes required by android syncpoints.
v17:
Use wake_up_state instead of try_to_wake_up. (Colin Cross)
Fix up commit description for seqno_fence. (Rob Clark)
v18:
Rename release_fence to fence_release.
Move to drivers/dma-buf/.
Rename __fence_is_signaled and __fence_signal to *_locked.
Rename __fence_init to fence_init.
Make fence_default_wait return a signed long, and fix wait ops too.
Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com> #use smp_mb__before_atomic()
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some systems require a larger maximum PAGE_SIZE order for CMA allocations.
To accommodate such systems, increase the upper-bound of the
CMA_ALIGNMENT range to 12 (which ends up being 16MB on systems with 4K
pages).
Signed-off-by: Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee@gmail.com>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Support for uevent_helper, aka hotplug, is not required on many systems
these days but it can still be enabled via sysfs or sysctl.
Reported-by: Darren Shepherd <darren.s.shepherd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The x86 CPU feature modalias handling existed before it was reimplemented
generically. This patch aligns the x86 handling so that it
(a) reuses some more code that is now generic;
(b) uses the generic format for the modalias module metadata entry, i.e., it
now uses 'cpu:type:x86,venVVVVfamFFFFmodMMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' instead of
the 'x86cpu:vendor:VVVV👪FFFF:model:MMMM:feature:,XXXX,YYYY' that was
used before.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds support for advertising optional CPU features over udev
using the modalias, and for declaring compatibility with/dependency upon
such a feature in a module.
The mapping between feature numbers and actual features should be provided
by the architecture in a file called <asm/cpufeature.h> which exports the
following functions/macros:
- cpu_feature(FEAT), a preprocessor macro that maps token FEAT to a
numeric index;
- bool cpu_have_feature(n), returning whether this CPU has support for
feature #n;
- MAX_CPU_FEATURES, an upper bound for 'n' in the previous function.
The feature can then be enabled by setting CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE
for the architecture.
For instance, a module that registers its module init function using
module_cpu_feature_match(FEAT_X, module_init_function)
will be probed automatically when the CPU's support for the 'FEAT_X'
feature is advertised over udev, and will only allow the module to be
loaded by hand if the 'FEAT_X' feature is supported.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
We want to use CMA for allocating hash page table and real mode area for
PPC64. Hence move DMA contiguous related changes into a seperate config
so that ppc64 can enable CMA without requiring DMA contiguous.
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[removed defconfig changes]
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Ever since commit 45f035ab9b ("CONFIG_HOTPLUG should be always on"),
it has been basically impossible to build a kernel with CONFIG_HOTPLUG
turned off. Remove all the remaining references to it.
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds a new kconfig, CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, and
guards the user-helper codes in firmware_class.c with ifdefs.
Yeah, yeah, there are lots of ifdefs in this patch. The further
clean-up with code shuffling follows in the next.
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This pulls in the various driver core changes that were in 3.7-rc3 into the
driver-core-next branch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This config item has not carried much meaning for a while now and is
almost always enabled by default. As agreed during the Linux kernel
summit, remove it.
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Kconfig lists CMA_SIZE_SEL_ABSOLUTE as the default value fo the CMA
selected region size, but that option isn't available in the defined
choices. Set the default to CMA_SIZE_SEL_MBYTES instead.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
mm/page_alloc.c has some memory isolation functions but they are used only
when we enable CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}. So let's make
it configurable by new CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION so that it can reduce
binary size and we can check it simple by CONFIG_MEMORY_ISOLATION, not if
defined CONFIG_{CMA|MEMORY_HOTPLUG|MEMORY_FAILURE}.
Signed-off-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The Contiguous Memory Allocator is a set of helper functions for DMA
mapping framework that improves allocations of contiguous memory chunks.
CMA grabs memory on system boot, marks it with MIGRATE_CMA migrate type
and gives back to the system. Kernel is allowed to allocate only movable
pages within CMA's managed memory so that it can be used for example for
page cache when DMA mapping do not use it. On
dma_alloc_from_contiguous() request such pages are migrated out of CMA
area to free required contiguous block and fulfill the request. This
allows to allocate large contiguous chunks of memory at any time
assuming that there is enough free memory available in the system.
This code is heavily based on earlier works by Michal Nazarewicz.
Signed-off-by: Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Tested-by: Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Robert Nelson <robertcnelson@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Barry Song <Baohua.Song@csr.com>
Traditionally, any System-on-Chip based platform creates a flat list
of platform_devices directly under /sys/devices/platform.
In order to give these some better structure, this introduces a new
bus type for soc_devices that are registered with the new
soc_device_register() function. All devices that are on the same
chip should then be registered as child devices of the soc device.
The soc bus also exports a few standardised device attributes which
allow user space to query the specific type of soc.
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
frv, h8300, m68k, microblaze, openrisc, score, um and xtensa currently
do not register a CPU device. Add the config option GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES
which causes a generic CPU device to be registered for each present CPU,
and make all these architectures select it.
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> covered UML and suggested using
per_cpu.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark dma-buf buffer sharing API as EXPERIMENTAL for first release.
We will remove this in later versions, once it gets smoothed out
and has more users.
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
This is the first step in defining a dma buffer sharing mechanism.
A new buffer object dma_buf is added, with operations and API to allow easy
sharing of this buffer object across devices.
The framework allows:
- creation of a buffer object, its association with a file pointer, and
associated allocator-defined operations on that buffer. This operation is
called the 'export' operation.
- different devices to 'attach' themselves to this exported buffer object, to
facilitate backing storage negotiation, using dma_buf_attach() API.
- the exported buffer object to be shared with the other entity by asking for
its 'file-descriptor (fd)', and sharing the fd across.
- a received fd to get the buffer object back, where it can be accessed using
the associated exporter-defined operations.
- the exporter and user to share the scatterlist associated with this buffer
object using map_dma_buf and unmap_dma_buf operations.
Atleast one 'attach()' call is required to be made prior to calling the
map_dma_buf() operation.
Couple of building blocks in map_dma_buf() are added to ease introduction
of sync'ing across exporter and users, and late allocation by the exporter.
For this first version, this framework will work with certain conditions:
- *ONLY* exporter will be allowed to mmap to userspace (outside of this
framework - mmap is not a buffer object operation),
- currently, *ONLY* users that do not need CPU access to the buffer are
allowed.
More details are there in the documentation patch.
This is based on design suggestions from many people at the mini-summits[1],
most notably from Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Rob Clark <rob@ti.com> and
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>.
The implementation is inspired from proof-of-concept patch-set from
Tomasz Stanislawski <t.stanislaws@samsung.com>, who demonstrated buffer sharing
between two v4l2 devices. [2]
[1]: https://wiki.linaro.org/OfficeofCTO/MemoryManagement
[2]: http://lwn.net/Articles/454389
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Reviewed-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Reviewed-and-Tested-by: Rob Clark <rob.clark@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
* 'driver-core-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
updated Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches
debugfs: add documentation for debugfs_create_x64
uio: uio_pdrv_genirq: Add OF support
firmware: gsmi: remove sysfs entries when unload the module
Documentation/zh_CN: Fix messy code file email-clients.txt
driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"
driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message
driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration
DOCUMENTATION: Replace create_device() with device_create().
DOCUMENTATION: Update overview.txt in Doc/driver-model.
pti: pti_tty_install documentation mispelling.
There are many places in the tree where we implement register access for
devices on non-memory mapped buses, especially I2C and SPI. Since hardware
designers seem to have settled on a relatively consistent set of register
interfaces this can be effectively factored out into shared code. There
are a standard set of formats for marshalling data for exchange with the
device, with the actual I/O mechanisms generally being simple byte
streams.
We create an abstraction for marshaling data into formats which can be
sent on the control interfaces, and create a standard method for
plugging in actual transport underneath that.
This is mostly a refactoring and renaming of the bottom level of the
existing code for sharing register I/O which we have in ASoC. A
subsequent patch in this series converts ASoC to use this. The main
difference in interface is that reads return values by writing to a
location provided by a pointer rather than in the return value, ensuring
we can use the full range of the type for register data. We also use
unsigned types rather than ints for the same reason.
As some of the devices can have very large register maps the existing
ASoC code also contains infrastructure for managing register caches.
This cache work will be moved over in a future stage to allow for
separate review, the current patch only deals with the physical I/O.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Acked-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@ti.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
The kernel configuration UEVENT_HELPER_PATH is a string to
the uevent helper program. Add more description about how
to disable this feature and how to enable it again during
runtime.
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The help message for the configuration variable was inconsistent
with the way "make firmware_install" really works.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fix some grammatical errors and reword a few sentences.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Since suspend, resume and shutdown operations in struct sysdev_class
and struct sysdev_driver are not used any more, remove them. Also
drop sysdev_suspend(), sysdev_resume() and sysdev_shutdown() used
for executing those operations and modify all of their users
accordingly. This reduces kernel code size quite a bit and reduces
its complexity.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Introduce Kconfig option allowing architectures where sysdev
operations used during system suspend, resume and shutdown have been
completely replaced with struct sycore_ops operations to avoid
building sysdev code that will never be used.
Make callbacks in struct sys_device and struct sysdev_driver depend
on ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS to allows us to verify if all of the references
have been actually removed from the code the given architecture
depends on.
Make x86 select ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The meaning of CONFIG_EMBEDDED has long since been obsoleted; the option
is used to configure any non-standard kernel with a much larger scope than
only small devices.
This patch renames the option to CONFIG_EXPERT in init/Kconfig and fixes
references to the option throughout the kernel. A new CONFIG_EMBEDDED
option is added that automatically selects CONFIG_EXPERT when enabled and
can be used in the future to isolate options that should only be
considered for embedded systems (RISC architectures, SLOB, etc).
Calling the option "EXPERT" more accurately represents its intention: only
expert users who understand the impact of the configuration changes they
are making should enable it.
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kconfig dependency warning for FW_LOADER.
Lots of drivers select FW_LOADER without bothering to depend on
HOTPLUG and/or without selecting HOTPLUG. A kernel builds fine
when FW_LOADER is enabled, whether HOTPLUG is enabled or not, and
a kernel config file (make oldconfig) is not changed by this patch.
(Yes, drivers/base/firmware_class.c uses interfaces from linux/kobject.h,
which does have some CONFIG_HOTPLUG dependencies, but this patch does
not change that.)
warning: (MICROCODE || MICROCODE_INTEL && MICROCODE || MICROCODE_AMD && MICROCODE || PCMCIA_LOAD_CIS && PCCARD && PCMCIA && EXPERIMENTAL || USB_IRDA && NET && IRDA && USB || BT_HCIBCM203X && NET && BT && USB || BT_HCIBFUSB && NET && BT && USB || BT_HCIBT3C && NET && BT && PCMCIA || BT_MRVL_SDIO && NET
...
!STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && USB && (X86 || ARM) && WLAN || DRM_NOUVEAU && STAGING && !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && DRM && PCI || TI_ST && STAGING && !STAGING_EXCLUDE_BUILD && RFKILL || DELL_RBU && X86) selects FW_LOADER which has unmet direct dependencies (HOTPLUG)
(5200 byte line reduced a lot)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Make devtmpfs available on (embedded) configurations without SHMEM/TMPFS,
using ramfs instead.
Saves ~15KB.
Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
No recent mainstream system uses the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb any more.
Disable it by default to reflect how it is used these days.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
All major distros enable devtmpfs on recent systems, so remove
the EXPERIMENTAL flag, and make the description a bit more instructive.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Devtmpfs lets the kernel create a tmpfs instance called devtmpfs
very early at kernel initialization, before any driver-core device
is registered. Every device with a major/minor will provide a
device node in devtmpfs.
Devtmpfs can be changed and altered by userspace at any time,
and in any way needed - just like today's udev-mounted tmpfs.
Unmodified udev versions will run just fine on top of it, and will
recognize an already existing kernel-created device node and use it.
The default node permissions are root:root 0600. Proper permissions
and user/group ownership, meaningful symlinks, all other policy still
needs to be applied by userspace.
If a node is created by devtmps, devtmpfs will remove the device node
when the device goes away. If the device node was created by
userspace, or the devtmpfs created node was replaced by userspace, it
will no longer be removed by devtmpfs.
If it is requested to auto-mount it, it makes init=/bin/sh work
without any further userspace support. /dev will be fully populated
and dynamic, and always reflect the current device state of the kernel.
With the commonly used dynamic device numbers, it solves the problem
where static devices nodes may point to the wrong devices.
It is intended to make the initial bootup logic simpler and more robust,
by de-coupling the creation of the inital environment, to reliably run
userspace processes, from a complex userspace bootstrap logic to provide
a working /dev.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Tested-By: Harald Hoyer <harald@redhat.com>
Tested-By: Scott James Remnant <scott@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Juri Lelli