The ARM MHU's reference manual states following:
"The MHU drives the signal using a 32-bit register, with all 32 bits
logically ORed together. The MHU provides a set of registers to enable
software to set, clear, and check the status of each of the bits of this
register independently. The use of 32 bits for each interrupt line
enables software to provide more information about the source of the
interrupt. For example, each bit of the register can be associated with
a type of event that can contribute to raising the interrupt."
This patch thus extends the MHU controller's DT binding to add support
for doorbell mode.
Though the same MHU hardware controller is used in the two modes, A new
compatible string is added here to represent the combination of the MHU
hardware and the firmware sitting on the other side (which expects each
bit to represent a different signal now).
Reviewed-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Co-developed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jassi Brar <jaswinder.singh@linaro.org>
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"As hoped, things calmed down for docs this cycle; fewer changes and
almost no conflicts at all. This includes:
- A reworked and expanded user-mode Linux document
- Some simplifications and improvements for submitting-patches.rst
- An emergency fix for (some) problems with Sphinx 3.x
- Some welcome automarkup improvements to automatically generate
cross-references to struct definitions and other documents
- The usual collection of translation updates, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.10' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (81 commits)
gpiolib: Update indentation in driver.rst for code excerpts
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: Fix typo occured
Documentation: better locations for sysfs-pci, sysfs-tagging
docs: programming-languages: refresh blurb on clang support
Documentation: kvm: fix a typo
Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/amu.rst
doc: zh_CN: index files in arm64 subdirectory
mailmap: add entry for <mstarovoitov@marvell.com>
doc: seq_file: clarify role of *pos in ->next()
docs: trace: ring-buffer-design.rst: use the new SPDX tag
Documentation: kernel-parameters: clarify "module." parameters
Fix references to nommu-mmap.rst
docs: rewrite admin-guide/sysctl/abi.rst
docs: fb: Remove vesafb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove sstfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove matroxfb scrollback boot option
docs: fb: Remove framebuffer scrollback boot option
docs: replace the old User Mode Linux HowTo with a new one
Documentation/admin-guide: blockdev/ramdisk: remove use of "rdev"
Documentation/admin-guide: README & svga: remove use of "rdev"
...
Alexei Starovoitov says:
====================
pull-request: bpf-next 2020-10-12
The main changes are:
1) The BPF verifier improvements to track register allocation pattern, from Alexei and Yonghong.
2) libbpf relocation support for different size load/store, from Andrii.
3) bpf_redirect_peer() helper and support for inner map array with different max_entries, from Daniel.
4) BPF support for per-cpu variables, form Hao.
5) sockmap improvements, from John.
====================
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Pull EFI changes from Ingo Molnar:
- Preliminary RISC-V enablement - the bulk of it will arrive via the
RISCV tree.
- Relax decompressed image placement rules for 32-bit ARM
- Add support for passing MOK certificate table contents via a config
table rather than a EFI variable.
- Add support for 18 bit DIMM row IDs in the CPER records.
- Work around broken Dell firmware that passes the entire Boot####
variable contents as the command line
- Add definition of the EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO memory attribute so we
can identify it in the memory map listings.
- Don't abort the boot on arm64 if the EFI RNG protocol is available
but returns with an error
- Replace slashes with exclamation marks in efivarfs file names
- Split efi-pstore from the deprecated efivars sysfs code, so we can
disable the latter on !x86.
- Misc fixes, cleanups and updates.
* tag 'efi-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (26 commits)
efi: mokvar: add missing include of asm/early_ioremap.h
efi: efivars: limit availability to X86 builds
efi: remove some false dependencies on CONFIG_EFI_VARS
efi: gsmi: fix false dependency on CONFIG_EFI_VARS
efi: efivars: un-export efivars_sysfs_init()
efi: pstore: move workqueue handling out of efivars
efi: pstore: disentangle from deprecated efivars module
efi: mokvar-table: fix some issues in new code
efi/arm64: libstub: Deal gracefully with EFI_RNG_PROTOCOL failure
efivarfs: Replace invalid slashes with exclamation marks in dentries.
efi: Delete deprecated parameter comments
efi/libstub: Fix missing-prototypes in string.c
efi: Add definition of EFI_MEMORY_CPU_CRYPTO and ability to report it
cper,edac,efi: Memory Error Record: bank group/address and chip id
edac,ghes,cper: Add Row Extension to Memory Error Record
efi/x86: Add a quirk to support command line arguments on Dell EFI firmware
efi/libstub: Add efi_warn and *_once logging helpers
integrity: Load certs from the EFI MOK config table
integrity: Move import of MokListRT certs to a separate routine
efi: Support for MOK variable config table
...
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"These are the locking updates for v5.10:
- Add deadlock detection for recursive read-locks.
The rationale is outlined in commit 224ec489d3 ("lockdep/
Documention: Recursive read lock detection reasoning")
The main deadlock pattern we want to detect is:
TASK A: TASK B:
read_lock(X);
write_lock(X);
read_lock_2(X);
- Add "latch sequence counters" (seqcount_latch_t):
A sequence counter variant where the counter even/odd value is used
to switch between two copies of protected data. This allows the
read path, typically NMIs, to safely interrupt the write side
critical section.
We utilize this new variant for sched-clock, and to make x86 TSC
handling safer.
- Other seqlock cleanups, fixes and enhancements
- KCSAN updates
- LKMM updates
- Misc updates, cleanups and fixes"
* tag 'locking-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (67 commits)
lockdep: Revert "lockdep: Use raw_cpu_*() for per-cpu variables"
lockdep: Fix lockdep recursion
lockdep: Fix usage_traceoverflow
locking/atomics: Check atomic-arch-fallback.h too
locking/seqlock: Tweak DEFINE_SEQLOCK() kernel doc
lockdep: Optimize the memory usage of circular queue
seqlock: Unbreak lockdep
seqlock: PREEMPT_RT: Do not starve seqlock_t writers
seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Introduce PREEMPT_RT support
seqlock: seqcount_t: Implement all read APIs as statement expressions
seqlock: Use unique prefix for seqcount_t property accessors
seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Standardize naming convention
seqlock: seqcount latch APIs: Only allow seqcount_latch_t
rbtree_latch: Use seqcount_latch_t
x86/tsc: Use seqcount_latch_t
timekeeping: Use seqcount_latch_t
time/sched_clock: Use seqcount_latch_t
seqlock: Introduce seqcount_latch_t
mm/swap: Do not abuse the seqcount_t latching API
time/sched_clock: Use raw_read_seqcount_latch() during suspend
...
Pull irq updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for the interrupt subsystem:
Core:
- Allow trimming of interrupt hierarchy to support odd hardware
setups where only a subset of the interrupts requires the full
hierarchy.
- Allow the retrigger mechanism to follow a hierarchy to simplify
driver code.
- Provide a mechanism to force enable wakeup interrrupts on suspend.
- More infrastructure to handle IPIs in the core code
Architectures:
- Convert ARM/ARM64 IPI handling to utilize the interrupt core code.
Drivers:
- The usual pile of new interrupt chips (MStar, Actions Owl, TI
PRUSS, Designware ICTL)
- ARM(64) IPI related conversions
- Wakeup support for Qualcom PDC
- Prevent hierarchy corruption in the NVIDIA Tegra driver
- The usual small fixes, improvements and cleanups all over the
place"
* tag 'irq-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (59 commits)
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add MStar interrupt controller
irqchip/irq-mst: Add MStar interrupt controller support
soc/tegra: pmc: Don't create fake interrupt hierarchy levels
soc/tegra: pmc: Allow optional irq parent callbacks
gpio: tegra186: Allow optional irq parent callbacks
genirq/irqdomain: Allow partial trimming of irq_data hierarchy
irqchip/qcom-pdc: Reset PDC interrupts during init
irqchip/qcom-pdc: Set IRQCHIP_ENABLE_WAKEUP_ON_SUSPEND flag
pinctrl: qcom: Set IRQCHIP_ENABLE_WAKEUP_ON_SUSPEND flag
genirq/PM: Introduce IRQCHIP_ENABLE_WAKEUP_ON_SUSPEND flag
pinctrl: qcom: Use return value from irq_set_wake() call
pinctrl: qcom: Set IRQCHIP_SET_TYPE_MASKED and IRQCHIP_MASK_ON_SUSPEND flags
ARM: Handle no IPI being registered in show_ipi_list()
MAINTAINERS: Add entries for Actions Semi Owl SIRQ controller
irqchip: Add Actions Semi Owl SIRQ controller
dt-bindings: interrupt-controller: Add Actions SIRQ controller binding
dt-bindings: dw-apb-ictl: Update binding to describe use as primary interrupt controller
irqchip/dw-apb-ictl: Add primary interrupt controller support
irqchip/dw-apb-ictl: Refactor priot to introducing hierarchical irq domains
genirq: Add stub for set_handle_irq() when !GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
...
Pull timekeeping updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Updates for timekeeping, timers and related drivers:
Core:
- Early boot support for the NMI safe timekeeper by utilizing
local_clock() up to the point where timekeeping is initialized.
This allows printk() to store multiple timestamps in the ringbuffer
which is useful for coordinating dmesg information across a fleet
of machines.
- Provide a multi-timestamp accessor for printk()
- Make timer init more robust by checking for invalid timer flags.
- Comma vs semicolon fixes
Drivers:
- Support for new platforms in existing drivers (SP804 and Renesas
CMT)
- Comma vs semicolon fixes
* tag 'timers-core-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
clocksource/drivers/armada-370-xp: Use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
clocksource/drivers/mps2-timer: Use semicolons rather than commas to separate statements
timers: Mask invalid flags in do_init_timer()
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Enable Hisilicon sp804 timer 64bit mode
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Add support for Hisilicon sp804 timer
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Support non-standard register offset
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Prepare for support non-standard register offset
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Remove a mismatched comment
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Delete the leading "__" of some functions
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Remove unused sp804_timer_disable() and timer-sp804.h
clocksource/drivers/sp804: Cleanup clk_get_sys()
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,cmt: Document r8a774e1 CMT support
dt-bindings: timer: renesas,cmt: Document r8a7742 CMT support
alarmtimer: Convert comma to semicolon
timekeeping: Provide multi-timestamp accessor to NMI safe timekeeper
timekeeping: Utilize local_clock() for NMI safe timekeeper during early boot
Document all ARMv5, ARMv6 and ARMv7 i.MX compatibles to fix dtbs_check
warnings like:
arch/arm/boot/dts/imx6dl-colibri-eval-v3.dt.yaml: pwm@2080000: compatible:0:
'fsl,imx6q-pwm' is not one of ['fsl,imx8mm-pwm', 'fsl,imx8mn-pwm', 'fsl,imx8mp-pwm', 'fsl,imx8mq-pwm']
Acked-by: Thierry Reding <treding@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200925212609.23093-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Pull x86 cache resource control updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Misc cleanups to the resctrl code in preparation for the ARM side
(James Morse)
- Add support for controlling per-thread memory bandwidth throttling
delay values on hw which supports it (Fenghua Yu)
* tag 'x86_cache_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/resctrl: Enable user to view thread or core throttling mode
x86/resctrl: Enumerate per-thread MBA controls
cacheinfo: Move resctrl's get_cache_id() to the cacheinfo header file
x86/resctrl: Add struct rdt_cache::arch_has_{sparse, empty}_bitmaps
x86/resctrl: Merge AMD/Intel parse_bw() calls
x86/resctrl: Add struct rdt_membw::arch_needs_linear to explain AMD/Intel MBA difference
x86/resctrl: Use is_closid_match() in more places
x86/resctrl: Include pid.h
x86/resctrl: Use container_of() in delayed_work handlers
x86/resctrl: Fix stale comment
x86/resctrl: Remove struct rdt_membw::max_delay
x86/resctrl: Remove unused struct mbm_state::chunks_bw
Pull x86 fpu updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Allow clearcpuid= to accept multiple bits (Arvind Sankar)
- Move clearcpuid= parameter handling earlier in the boot, away from
the FPU init code and to a generic location (Mike Hommey)
* tag 'x86_fpu_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/fpu: Handle FPU-related and clearcpuid command line arguments earlier
x86/fpu: Allow multiple bits in clearcpuid= parameter
Pull misc x86 fixes fromm Borislav Petkov:
- Ratelimit the message about writes to unrecognized MSRs so that they
don't spam the console log (Chris Down)
- Document how the /proc/cpuinfo machinery works for future reference
(Kyung Min Park, Ricardo Neri and Dave Hansen)
- Correct the current NMI's duration calculation (Libing Zhou)
* tag 'x86_misc_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/nmi: Fix nmi_handle() duration miscalculation
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for /proc/cpuinfo feature flags
x86/msr: Make source of unrecognised MSR writes unambiguous
x86/msr: Prevent userspace MSR access from dominating the console
Pull x86 PASID updates from Borislav Petkov:
"Initial support for sharing virtual addresses between the CPU and
devices which doesn't need pinning of pages for DMA anymore.
Add support for the command submission to devices using new x86
instructions like ENQCMD{,S} and MOVDIR64B. In addition, add support
for process address space identifiers (PASIDs) which are referenced by
those command submission instructions along with the handling of the
PASID state on context switch as another extended state.
Work by Fenghua Yu, Ashok Raj, Yu-cheng Yu and Dave Jiang"
* tag 'x86_pasid_for_5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asm: Add an enqcmds() wrapper for the ENQCMDS instruction
x86/asm: Carve out a generic movdir64b() helper for general usage
x86/mmu: Allocate/free a PASID
x86/cpufeatures: Mark ENQCMD as disabled when configured out
mm: Add a pasid member to struct mm_struct
x86/msr-index: Define an IA32_PASID MSR
x86/fpu/xstate: Add supervisor PASID state for ENQCMD
x86/cpufeatures: Enumerate ENQCMD and ENQCMDS instructions
Documentation/x86: Add documentation for SVA (Shared Virtual Addressing)
iommu/vt-d: Change flags type to unsigned int in binding mm
drm, iommu: Change type of pasid to u32
Pull EDAC updates from Borislav Petkov:
- Add Amazon's Annapurna Labs memory controller EDAC driver (Talel
Shenhar)
- New AMD CPUs support (Yazen Ghannam)
- The usual misc fixes and cleanups all over the subsystem
* tag 'edac_updates_for_v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ras/ras:
EDAC/amd64: Set proper family type for Family 19h Models 20h-2Fh
EDAC/mc_sysfs: Add missing newlines when printing {max,dimm}_location
EDAC/aspeed: Use module_platform_driver() to simplify
EDAC, sb_edac: Simplify switch statement
EDAC/ti: Fix handling of platform_get_irq() error
EDAC/aspeed: Fix handling of platform_get_irq() error
EDAC/i5100: Fix error handling order in i5100_init_one()
EDAC/highbank: Handover Calxeda Highbank maintenance to Andre Przywara
EDAC/socfpga: Transfer SoCFPGA EDAC maintainership
EDAC/thunderx: Make symbol lmc_dfs_ents static
EDAC/al-mc-edac: Add Amazon's Annapurna Labs Memory Controller driver
dt-bindings: EDAC: Add Amazon's Annapurna Labs Memory Controller binding
EDAC/mce_amd: Add new error descriptions for existing types
EDAC: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
Pull arm64 updates from Will Deacon:
"There's quite a lot of code here, but much of it is due to the
addition of a new PMU driver as well as some arm64-specific selftests
which is an area where we've traditionally been lagging a bit.
In terms of exciting features, this includes support for the Memory
Tagging Extension which narrowly missed 5.9, hopefully allowing
userspace to run with use-after-free detection in production on CPUs
that support it. Work is ongoing to integrate the feature with KASAN
for 5.11.
Another change that I'm excited about (assuming they get the hardware
right) is preparing the ASID allocator for sharing the CPU page-table
with the SMMU. Those changes will also come in via Joerg with the
IOMMU pull.
We do stray outside of our usual directories in a few places, mostly
due to core changes required by MTE. Although much of this has been
Acked, there were a couple of places where we unfortunately didn't get
any review feedback.
Other than that, we ran into a handful of minor conflicts in -next,
but nothing that should post any issues.
Summary:
- Userspace support for the Memory Tagging Extension introduced by
Armv8.5. Kernel support (via KASAN) is likely to follow in 5.11.
- Selftests for MTE, Pointer Authentication and FPSIMD/SVE context
switching.
- Fix and subsequent rewrite of our Spectre mitigations, including
the addition of support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC.
- Support for the Armv8.3 Pointer Authentication enhancements.
- Support for ASID pinning, which is required when sharing
page-tables with the SMMU.
- MM updates, including treating flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() as a
no-op.
- Perf/PMU driver updates, including addition of the ARM CMN PMU
driver and also support to handle CPU PMU IRQs as NMIs.
- Allow prefetchable PCI BARs to be exposed to userspace using normal
non-cacheable mappings.
- Implementation of ARCH_STACKWALK for unwinding.
- Improve reporting of unexpected kernel traps due to BPF JIT
failure.
- Improve robustness of user-visible HWCAP strings and their
corresponding numerical constants.
- Removal of TEXT_OFFSET.
- Removal of some unused functions, parameters and prototypes.
- Removal of MPIDR-based topology detection in favour of firmware
description.
- Cleanups to handling of SVE and FPSIMD register state in
preparation for potential future optimisation of handling across
syscalls.
- Cleanups to the SDEI driver in preparation for support in KVM.
- Miscellaneous cleanups and refactoring work"
* tag 'arm64-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux: (148 commits)
Revert "arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier"
arm64: random: Remove no longer needed prototypes
arm64: initialize per-cpu offsets earlier
kselftest/arm64: Check mte tagged user address in kernel
kselftest/arm64: Verify KSM page merge for MTE pages
kselftest/arm64: Verify all different mmap MTE options
kselftest/arm64: Check forked child mte memory accessibility
kselftest/arm64: Verify mte tag inclusion via prctl
kselftest/arm64: Add utilities and a test to validate mte memory
perf: arm-cmn: Fix conversion specifiers for node type
perf: arm-cmn: Fix unsigned comparison to less than zero
arm64: dbm: Invalidate local TLB when setting TCR_EL1.HD
arm64: mm: Make flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault() a no-op
arm64: Add support for PR_SPEC_DISABLE_NOEXEC prctl() option
arm64: Pull in task_stack_page() to Spectre-v4 mitigation code
KVM: arm64: Allow patching EL2 vectors even with KASLR is not enabled
arm64: Get rid of arm64_ssbd_state
KVM: arm64: Convert ARCH_WORKAROUND_2 to arm64_get_spectre_v4_state()
KVM: arm64: Get rid of kvm_arm_have_ssbd()
KVM: arm64: Simplify handling of ARCH_WORKAROUND_2
...
Pull tpm updates from Jarkko Sakkinen:
"Support for a new TPM device and fixes and Git URL change (infraded ->
korg)"
* tag 'tpmdd-next-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jarkko/linux-tpmdd:
MAINTAINERS: TPM DEVICE DRIVER: Update GIT
tpm_tis: Add a check for invalid status
tpm: use %*ph to print small buffer
dt-bindings: Add SynQucer TPM MMIO as a trivial device
tpm: tis: add support for MMIO TPM on SynQuacer
Add a yamllint config file and support for running yamllint on DT
binding schema files. This runs on the whole tree as yamllint is Python
and suffers from Python's slow startup times.
Users can run on individual files doing:
yamllint -c Documentation/devicetree/bindings/.yamllint <binding file>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009170557.168785-1-robh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
SPI NOR core changes:
- Support for Winbond w25q64jwm flash
- Enable 4K sector support for mx25l12805d
SPI NOR controller drivers changes:
- intel-spi:
- Add Alder Lake-S PCI ID
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two fixes:
- Fix a (hopefully final) IRQ state tracking bug vs MCE handling
- Fix a documentation link"
* tag 'x86-urgent-2020-10-11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
Documentation/x86: Fix incorrect references to zero-page.txt
x86/mce: Use idtentry_nmi_enter/exit()
Pull irqchip updates from Marc Zyngier:
Core changes:
- Allow irq retriggering to follow a hierarchy
- Allow interrupt hierarchies to be trimmed at allocation time
- Allow interrupts to be hidden from /proc/interrupts (IPIs)
- Introduce stub for set_handle_irq() when !GENERIC_IRQ_MULTI_HANDLER
- New per-cpu IPI handling flow
Architecture changes:
- Move arm/arm64 IPI handling to the core interrupt code, removing
the home brewed accounting
Driver updates:
- New driver for the MStar (and more recently Mediatek) platforms
- New driver for the Actions Owl SIRQ controller
- New driver for the TI PRUSS infrastructure
- Wake-up support for the Qualcomm PDC controller
- Primary interrupt controller support for the Designware APB ICTL
- Convert the IPI code for GIC, GICv3, hip04, armada-270-xp and bcm2836
to using standard interrupts
- Improve GICv3 pseudo-NMI support to deal with both non-secure and secure
priorities on arm64
- Convert the GIC/GICv3 drivers to using HW-based irq retrigger
- A sprinkling of dev_err_probe() conversion
- A set of NVIDIA Tegra fixes for interrupt hierarchy corruption
- A reset fix for the Loongson HTVEC driver
- A couple of error handling fixes in the TI SCI drivers
namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.
The script relies on object data, and only finds unused symbols for the
configuration used to generate that object data. This results in a lot
of false positive warnings such as symbols only used by a single
architecture, or symbols which are used externally only under certain
configurations.
Running namespace.pl using allyesconfig, allmodconfig, and
x86_64_defconfig yields the following results:
* allmodconfig
* 11122 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* allyesconfig
* 10997 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* x86_64_defconfig
* 5757 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 528 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 154 symbols it can't resolve
The script also has no way to easily limit the scope of the checks to
a given subset of the kernel, such as only checking for symbols defined
within a module or subsystem.
Discussion on public mailing lists seems to indicate that many view the
tool output as suspect or not very useful (see discussions at [1] and
[2] for further context).
As described by Masahiro Yamada at [2], namespace.pl provides 3 types of
checks: listing multiply defined symbols, resolving external symbols,
and warnings about symbols with no reference.
The first category of issues is easily caught by the linker as any set
of multiply defined symbols should fail to link. The second category of
issues is also caught by linking, as undefined symbols would cause
issues. Even with modules, these types of issues where a module relies
on an external symbol are caught by modpost.
The remaining category of issues reported is the list of symbols with no
external reference, and is the primary motivation of this script.
However, it ought to be clear from the above examples that the output is
difficult to sort through. Even allyesconfig has ~10000 entries.
The current submit-checklist indicates that patches ought to go through
namespacecheck and fix any new issues arising. But that itself presents
problems. As described at [1], many cases of reports are due to
configuration where a function is used externally by some configuration
settings. Prominent maintainers appear to dislike changes modify code
such that symbols become static based on CONFIG_* flags ([3], and [4])
One possible solution is to adjust the advice and indicate that we only
care about the output of namespacecheck on allyesconfig or allmodconfig
builds...
However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are
actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the
MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols
that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply
remove it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Johannes Berg says:
====================
A handful of changes:
* fixes for the recent S1G work
* a docbook build time improvement
* API to pass beacon rate to lower-level driver
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Marc Kleine-Budde says:
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linux-can-next-for-5.10-20201007
The first 3 patches are by me and fix several warnings found
when compiling the kernel with W=1.
Lukas Bulwahn's patch adjusts the MAINTAINERS file, to accommodate
the renaming of the mcp251xfd driver.
Vincent Mailhol contributes 3 patches for the CAN networking layer.
First error queue support is added the the CAN RAW protocol.
The second patch converts the get_can_dlc() and get_canfd_dlc()
in-Kernel-only macros from using __u8 to u8.
The third patch adds a helper function to calculate the length of
one bit in in multiple of time quanta.
Oliver Hartkopp's patch add support for the ISO 15765-2:2016
transport protocol to the CAN stack.
Three patches by Lad Prabhakar add documentation for various
new rcar controllers to the device tree bindings of the rcar_can
and rcan_canfd driver.
Michael Walle's patch adds various processors to the flexcan
driver binding documentation.
The next two patches are by me and target the flexcan driver aswell.
The remove the ack_grp and ack_bit from the fsl,stop-mode DT property
and the driver, as they are not used anymore. As these are the last
two arguments this change will not break existing device trees.
The last three patches are by Srinivas Neeli and target
the xilinx_can driver.
The first one increases the lower limit for the bit rate
prescaler to 2, the other two fix sparse and coverity findings.
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Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add "fw.app.bundle_id" to display the DDP Track ID of the active DDP
package. This id is similar to "fw.bundle_id" and is a unique identifier
for the DDP package that is loaded in the device. Each new DDP has
a unique Track ID generated for it, and the ID can be used to identify
and track the DDP package.
Add documentation for the new devlink info version.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add devlink reload rst documentation file.
Update index file to include it.
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
The enable_remote_dev_reset devlink param flags that the host admin
allows device resets that can be initiated by other hosts. This
parameter is useful for setups where a device is shared by different
hosts, such as multi-host setup. Once the user set this parameter to
false, the driver should NACK any attempt to reset the device while the
driver is loaded.
Signed-off-by: Moshe Shemesh <moshe@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
sysfs-pci and sysfs-tagging were mis-filed: their locations within
Documentation/ implied that they were related to file systems. Actually,
each topic is about a very specific *use* of sysfs, and sysfs *happens*
to be a (virtual) filesystem, so this is not really the right place.
It's jarring to be reading about filesystems in general and then come
across these specific details about PCI, and tagging...and then back to
general filesystems again.
Move sysfs-pci to PCI, and move sysfs-tagging to networking. (Thanks to
Jonathan Corbet for coming up with the final locations.)
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201009070128.118639-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
