blackbird-obmc-linux/Documentation/admin-guide, branch dev-5.0-raptor-04-16-2019

/dev/mem: add a devmem kernel parameter to activate the device

2019-03-20T04:43:33+00:00

For security reasons, some configuration needs to run without /dev/mem but on some occasions, to debug HW for instance, it's still useful to be able to reboot the system with access to physical memory. Add a kernel parameter which activates the /dev/mem device only when 'mem.devmem' is enabled. OpenBMC-Staging-Count: 3 Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater Signed-off-by: Joel Stanley

Merge tag 'docs-5.0-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-02-20T22:14:31+00:00

Pull documentation fix from Jonathan Corbet: "A single patch from Arnd bringing some top-level docs into the 5.0 era" * tag 'docs-5.0-fix' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x

Documentation: change linux-4.x references to 5.x

2019-02-17T22:41:05+00:00

As linux-5.0.x is coming up soon, the documentation should match, in particular the README.rst file, so change all 4.x references accordingly. There was a mix of lowercase and uppercase X here, which I changed to using lowercase consistently. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

iommu/vt-d: Leave scalable mode default off

2019-01-30T16:23:58+00:00

Commit 765b6a98c1de3 ("iommu/vt-d: Enumerate the scalable mode capability") enables VT-d scalable mode if hardware advertises the capability. As we will bring up different features and use cases to upstream in different patch series, it will leave some intermediate kernel versions which support partial features. Hence, end user might run into problems when they use such kernels on bare metals or virtualization environments. This leaves scalable mode default off and end users could turn it on with "intel-iommu=sm_on" only when they have clear ideas about which scalable features are supported in the kernel. Cc: Liu Yi L Cc: Jacob Pan Suggested-by: Ashok Raj Suggested-by: Kevin Tian Signed-off-by: Lu Baolu Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel

Merge tag 'docs-5.0-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2019-01-06T02:35:02+00:00

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.0-fixes' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: doc: filesystems: fix bad references to nonexistent ext4.rst file Documentation/admin-guide: update URL of LKML information link Docs/kernel-api.rst: Remove blk-tag.c reference

Merge tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc

2019-01-05T19:30:37+00:00

Pull more ARM SoC updates from Olof Johansson: "A few updates that we merged late but are low risk for regressions for other platforms (and a few other straggling patches): - I mis-tagged the 'drivers' branch, and missed 3 patches. Merged in here. They're for a driver for the PL353 SRAM controller and a build fix for the qualcomm scm driver. - A new platform, RDA Micro RDA8810PL (Cortex-A5 w/ integrated Vivante GPU, 256MB RAM, Wifi). This includes some acked platform-specific drivers (serial, etc). This also include DTs for two boards with this SoC, OrangePi 2G and OrangePi i86. - i.MX8 is another new platform (NXP, 4x Cortex-A53 + Cortex-M4, 4K video playback offload). This is the first i.MX 64-bit SoC. - Some minor updates to Samsung boards (adding a few peripherals in DTs). - Small rework for SMP bootup on STi platforms. - A couple of TEE driver fixes. - A couple of new config options (bcm2835 thermal, Uniphier MDMAC) enabled in defconfigs" * tag 'armsoc-late' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc: (27 commits) ARM: multi_v7_defconfig: enable CONFIG_UNIPHIER_MDMAC arm64: defconfig: Re-enable bcm2835-thermal driver MAINTAINERS: Add entry for RDA Micro SoC architecture tty: serial: Add RDA8810PL UART driver ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add interrupt support for UART dt-bindings: serial: Document RDA Micro UART ARM: dts: rda8810pl: Add timer support ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi i96 board ARM: dts: Add devicetree for OrangePi 2G IoT board ARM: dts: Add devicetree for RDA8810PL SoC ARM: Prepare RDA8810PL SoC dt-bindings: arm: Document RDA8810PL and reference boards dt-bindings: Add RDA Micro vendor prefix ARM: sti: remove pen_release and boot_lock arm64: dts: exynos: Add Bluetooth chip to TM2(e) boards arm64: dts: imx8mq-evk: enable watchdog arm64: dts: imx8mq: add watchdog devices MAINTAINERS: add i.MX8 DT path to i.MX architecture arm64: add support for i.MX8M EVK board arm64: add basic DTS for i.MX8MQ ...

panic: add options to print system info when panic happens

2019-01-04T21:13:47+00:00

Kernel panic issues are always painful to debug, partially because it's not easy to get enough information of the context when panic happens. And we have ramoops and kdump for that, while this commit tries to provide a easier way to show the system info by adding a cmdline parameter, referring some idea from sysrq handler. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543398842-19295-2-git-send-email-feng.tang@intel.com Signed-off-by: Feng Tang Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: John Stultz Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation/admin-guide: update URL of LKML information link

2019-01-03T16:23:59+00:00

Information regarding linux-kernel mailing list is no longer hosted on tux.org Update the link to point to the one available at kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ramunas Geciauskas Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge branch 'next-smack' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security

2019-01-02T18:56:09+00:00

Pull smack updates from James Morris: "Two Smack patches for 4.21. Jose's patch adds missing documentation and Zoran's fleshes out the access checks on keyrings" * 'next-smack' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: Smack: Improve Documentation smack: fix access permissions for keyring

Merge tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu

2019-01-01T23:55:29+00:00

Pull IOMMU updates from Joerg Roedel: - Page table code for AMD IOMMU now supports large pages where smaller page-sizes were mapped before. VFIO had to work around that in the past and I included a patch to remove it (acked by Alex Williamson) - Patches to unmodularize a couple of IOMMU drivers that would never work as modules anyway. - Work to unify the the iommu-related pointers in 'struct device' into one pointer. This work is not finished yet, but will probably be in the next cycle. - NUMA aware allocation in iommu-dma code - Support for r8a774a1 and r8a774c0 in the Renesas IOMMU driver - Scalable mode support for the Intel VT-d driver - PM runtime improvements for the ARM-SMMU driver - Support for the QCOM-SMMUv2 IOMMU hardware from Qualcom - Various smaller fixes and improvements * tag 'iommu-updates-v4.21' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/joro/iommu: (78 commits) iommu: Check for iommu_ops == NULL in iommu_probe_device() ACPI/IORT: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu/of: Don't call iommu_ops->add_device directly iommu: Consolitate ->add/remove_device() calls iommu/sysfs: Rename iommu_release_device() dmaengine: sh: rcar-dmac: Use device_iommu_mapped() xhci: Use device_iommu_mapped() powerpc/iommu: Use device_iommu_mapped() ACPI/IORT: Use device_iommu_mapped() iommu/of: Use device_iommu_mapped() driver core: Introduce device_iommu_mapped() function iommu/tegra: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/qcom: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/of: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/mediatek: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/ipmmu-vmsa: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/dma: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu/arm-smmu: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec ACPI/IORT: Use helper functions to access dev->iommu_fwspec iommu: Introduce wrappers around dev->iommu_fwspec ...