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-rw-r--r--Documentation/IPMI.txt5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/atmel,aic.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,intc-irqpin.txt39
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/jedec,spi-nor.txt (renamed from Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt)6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt30
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kasan.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/serial/tty.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt18
14 files changed, 108 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
index 653d5d739d7f..31d1d658827f 100644
--- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt
+++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt
@@ -505,7 +505,10 @@ at module load time (for a module) with:
The addresses are normal I2C addresses. The adapter is the string
name of the adapter, as shown in /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-<n>/name.
-It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself.
+It is *NOT* i2c-<n> itself. Also, the comparison is done ignoring
+spaces, so if the name is "This is an I2C chip" you can say
+adapter_name=ThisisanI2cchip. This is because it's hard to pass in
+spaces in kernel parameters.
The debug flags are bit flags for each BMC found, they are:
IPMI messages: 1, driver state: 2, timing: 4, I2C probe: 8
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
index 750401f91341..15dfce708ebf 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt
@@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ input driver:
GPIO support
~~~~~~~~~~~~
ACPI 5 introduced two new resources to describe GPIO connections: GpioIo
-and GpioInt. These resources are used be used to pass GPIO numbers used by
+and GpioInt. These resources can be used to pass GPIO numbers used by
the device to the driver. ACPI 5.1 extended this with _DSD (Device
Specific Data) which made it possible to name the GPIOs among other things.
diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
index ae36fcf86dc7..f35dad11f0de 100644
--- a/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
+++ b/Documentation/acpi/gpio-properties.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
_DSD Device Properties Related to GPIO
--------------------------------------
-With the release of ACPI 5.1 and the _DSD configuration objecte names
-can finally be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned by
-_CRS. Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find
+With the release of ACPI 5.1, the _DSD configuration object finally
+allows names to be given to GPIOs (and other things as well) returned
+by _CRS. Previously, we were only able to use an integer index to find
the corresponding GPIO, which is pretty error prone (it depends on
the _CRS output ordering, for example).
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt
index 974624ea68f6..161448da959d 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/arm/omap/l3-noc.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ provided by Arteris.
Required properties:
- compatible : Should be "ti,omap3-l3-smx" for OMAP3 family
Should be "ti,omap4-l3-noc" for OMAP4 family
+ Should be "ti,omap5-l3-noc" for OMAP5 family
Should be "ti,dra7-l3-noc" for DRA7 family
Should be "ti,am4372-l3-noc" for AM43 family
- reg: Contains L3 register address range for each noc domain.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt
index c40711e8e8f7..28b28309f535 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/silabs,si5351.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@ Required properties:
- #clock-cells: from common clock binding; shall be set to 1.
- clocks: from common clock binding; list of parent clock
handles, shall be xtal reference clock or xtal and clkin for
- si5351c only.
+ si5351c only. Corresponding clock input names are "xtal" and
+ "clkin" respectively.
- #address-cells: shall be set to 1.
- #size-cells: shall be set to 0.
@@ -71,6 +72,7 @@ i2c-master-node {
/* connect xtal input to 25MHz reference */
clocks = <&ref25>;
+ clock-names = "xtal";
/* connect xtal input as source of pll0 and pll1 */
silabs,pll-source = <0 0>, <1 0>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt
index a4873e5e3e36..e30e184f50c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/fsl-mxs-dma.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ dma_apbx: dma-apbx@80024000 {
80 81 68 69
70 71 72 73
74 75 76 77>;
- interrupt-names = "auart4-rx", "aurat4-tx", "spdif-tx", "empty",
+ interrupt-names = "auart4-rx", "auart4-tx", "spdif-tx", "empty",
"saif0", "saif1", "i2c0", "i2c1",
"auart0-rx", "auart0-tx", "auart1-rx", "auart1-tx",
"auart2-rx", "auart2-tx", "auart3-rx", "auart3-tx";
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/atmel,aic.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/atmel,aic.txt
index f292917fa00d..0e9f09a6a2fe 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/atmel,aic.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/atmel,aic.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
Required properties:
- compatible: Should be "atmel,<chip>-aic"
- <chip> can be "at91rm9200", "sama5d3" or "sama5d4"
+ <chip> can be "at91rm9200", "sama5d2", "sama5d3" or "sama5d4"
- interrupt-controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller.
- interrupt-parent: For single AIC system, it is an empty property.
- #interrupt-cells: The number of cells to define the interrupts. It should be 3.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,intc-irqpin.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,intc-irqpin.txt
index 4f7946ae8adc..772c550d3b4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,intc-irqpin.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/interrupt-controller/renesas,intc-irqpin.txt
@@ -13,9 +13,12 @@ Required properties:
- reg: Base address and length of each register bank used by the external
IRQ pins driven by the interrupt controller hardware module. The base
addresses, length and number of required register banks varies with soctype.
-
+- interrupt-controller: Identifies the node as an interrupt controller.
- #interrupt-cells: has to be <2>: an interrupt index and flags, as defined in
- interrupts.txt in this directory
+ interrupts.txt in this directory.
+- interrupts: Must contain a list of interrupt specifiers. For each interrupt
+ provided by this irqpin controller instance, there must be one entry,
+ referring to the corresponding parent interrupt.
Optional properties:
@@ -25,3 +28,35 @@ Optional properties:
if different from the default 4 bits
- control-parent: disable and enable interrupts on the parent interrupt
controller, needed for some broken implementations
+- clocks: Must contain a reference to the functional clock. This property is
+ mandatory if the hardware implements a controllable functional clock for
+ the irqpin controller instance.
+- power-domains: Must contain a reference to the power domain. This property is
+ mandatory if the irqpin controller instance is part of a controllable power
+ domain.
+
+
+Example
+-------
+
+ irqpin1: interrupt-controller@e6900004 {
+ compatible = "renesas,intc-irqpin-r8a7740",
+ "renesas,intc-irqpin";
+ #interrupt-cells = <2>;
+ interrupt-controller;
+ reg = <0xe6900004 4>,
+ <0xe6900014 4>,
+ <0xe6900024 1>,
+ <0xe6900044 1>,
+ <0xe6900064 1>;
+ interrupts = <0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH
+ 0 149 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+ clocks = <&mstp2_clks R8A7740_CLK_INTCA>;
+ power-domains = <&pd_a4s>;
+ };
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/jedec,spi-nor.txt
index f20b111b502a..2bee68103b01 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/m25p80.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mtd/jedec,spi-nor.txt
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ Required properties:
is not Linux-only, but in case of Linux, see the "m25p_ids"
table in drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c for the list of supported
chips.
- Must also include "nor-jedec" for any SPI NOR flash that can be
- identified by the JEDEC READ ID opcode (0x9F).
+ Must also include "jedec,spi-nor" for any SPI NOR flash that can
+ be identified by the JEDEC READ ID opcode (0x9F).
- reg : Chip-Select number
- spi-max-frequency : Maximum frequency of the SPI bus the chip can operate at
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example:
flash: m25p80@0 {
#address-cells = <1>;
#size-cells = <1>;
- compatible = "spansion,m25p80", "nor-jedec";
+ compatible = "spansion,m25p80", "jedec,spi-nor";
reg = <0>;
spi-max-frequency = <40000000>;
m25p,fast-read;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt
index abd67c13d344..4451ee973223 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/cdns-emac.txt
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
Required properties:
- compatible: Should be "cdns,[<chip>-]{emac}"
Use "cdns,at91rm9200-emac" Atmel at91rm9200 SoC.
- or the generic form: "cdns,emac".
+ Use "cdns,zynq-gem" Xilinx Zynq-7xxx SoC.
+ Or the generic form: "cdns,emac".
- reg: Address and length of the register set for the device
- interrupts: Should contain macb interrupt
- phy-mode: see ethernet.txt file in the same directory.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..be789685a1c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/rtc/abracon,abx80x.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+Abracon ABX80X I2C ultra low power RTC/Alarm chip
+
+The Abracon ABX80X family consist of the ab0801, ab0803, ab0804, ab0805, ab1801,
+ab1803, ab1804 and ab1805. The ab0805 is the superset of ab080x and the ab1805
+is the superset of ab180x.
+
+Required properties:
+
+ - "compatible": should one of:
+ "abracon,abx80x"
+ "abracon,ab0801"
+ "abracon,ab0803"
+ "abracon,ab0804"
+ "abracon,ab0805"
+ "abracon,ab1801"
+ "abracon,ab1803"
+ "abracon,ab1804"
+ "abracon,ab1805"
+ Using "abracon,abx80x" will enable chip autodetection.
+ - "reg": I2C bus address of the device
+
+Optional properties:
+
+The abx804 and abx805 have a trickle charger that is able to charge the
+connected battery or supercap. Both the following properties have to be defined
+and valid to enable charging:
+
+ - "abracon,tc-diode": should be "standard" (0.6V) or "schottky" (0.3V)
+ - "abracon,tc-resistor": should be <0>, <3>, <6> or <11>. 0 disables the output
+ resistor, the other values are in ohm.
diff --git a/Documentation/kasan.txt b/Documentation/kasan.txt
index 092fc10961fe..4692241789b1 100644
--- a/Documentation/kasan.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kasan.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ a fast and comprehensive solution for finding use-after-free and out-of-bounds
bugs.
KASan uses compile-time instrumentation for checking every memory access,
-therefore you will need a certain version of GCC > 4.9.2
+therefore you will need a gcc version of 4.9.2 or later. KASan could detect out
+of bounds accesses to stack or global variables, but only if gcc 5.0 or later was
+used to built the kernel.
Currently KASan is supported only for x86_64 architecture and requires that the
kernel be built with the SLUB allocator.
@@ -23,8 +25,8 @@ To enable KASAN configure kernel with:
and choose between CONFIG_KASAN_OUTLINE and CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE. Outline/inline
is compiler instrumentation types. The former produces smaller binary the
-latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires GCC 5.0 or
-latter.
+latter is 1.1 - 2 times faster. Inline instrumentation requires a gcc version
+of 5.0 or later.
Currently KASAN works only with the SLUB memory allocator.
For better bug detection and nicer report, enable CONFIG_STACKTRACE and put
diff --git a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
index 1e52d67d0abf..dbe6623fed1c 100644
--- a/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
+++ b/Documentation/serial/tty.txt
@@ -198,6 +198,9 @@ TTY_IO_ERROR If set, causes all subsequent userspace read/write
TTY_OTHER_CLOSED Device is a pty and the other side has closed.
+TTY_OTHER_DONE Device is a pty and the other side has closed and
+ all pending input processing has been completed.
+
TTY_NO_WRITE_SPLIT Prevent driver from splitting up writes into
smaller chunks.
diff --git a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
index 53838d9c6295..c59bd9bc41ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
+++ b/Documentation/virtual/kvm/mmu.txt
@@ -169,6 +169,10 @@ Shadow pages contain the following information:
Contains the value of cr4.smep && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid
(pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the
treatment of cr0.wp=0 below).
+ role.smap_andnot_wp:
+ Contains the value of cr4.smap && !cr0.wp for which the page is valid
+ (pages for which this is true are different from other pages; see the
+ treatment of cr0.wp=0 below).
gfn:
Either the guest page table containing the translations shadowed by this
page, or the base page frame for linear translations. See role.direct.
@@ -344,10 +348,16 @@ on fault type:
(user write faults generate a #PF)
-In the first case there is an additional complication if CR4.SMEP is
-enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page, the kernel may now
-execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx. If we get a user
-fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and spte.nx=gpte.nx back.
+In the first case there are two additional complications:
+- if CR4.SMEP is enabled: since we've turned the page into a kernel page,
+ the kernel may now execute it. We handle this by also setting spte.nx.
+ If we get a user fetch or read fault, we'll change spte.u=1 and
+ spte.nx=gpte.nx back.
+- if CR4.SMAP is disabled: since the page has been changed to a kernel
+ page, it can not be reused when CR4.SMAP is enabled. We set
+ CR4.SMAP && !CR0.WP into shadow page's role to avoid this case. Note,
+ here we do not care the case that CR4.SMAP is enabled since KVM will
+ directly inject #PF to guest due to failed permission check.
To prevent an spte that was converted into a kernel page with cr0.wp=0
from being written by the kernel after cr0.wp has changed to 1, we make
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