History log of /linux-master/drivers/base/Kconfig
Revision Date Author Comments
# 8ad266d1 17-Mar-2023 Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>

driver core: Add CONFIG_FW_DEVLINK_SYNC_STATE_TIMEOUT

Add a build time equivalent of fw_devlink.sync_state=timeout so that
board specific kernels could enable it and not have to deal with setting
or cluttering the kernel commandline.

Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230317205134.964098-1-saravanak@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 28f0c335 22-Dec-2021 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

devtmpfs: mount with noexec and nosuid

devtmpfs is writable. Add the noexec and nosuid as default mount flags
to prevent code execution from /dev. The systems who don't use systemd
and who rely on CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y are the ones to be protected by
this patch. Other systems are fine with the udev solution.

No sane program should be relying on executing from /dev. So this patch
reduces the attack surface. It doesn't prevent any specific attack, but
it reduces the possibility that someone can use /dev as a place to put
executable code. Chrome OS has been carrying this patch for several
years. It seems trivial and simple solution to improve the protection of
/dev when CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y.

Original patch:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20121120215059.GA1859@www.outflux.net/

Cc: ellyjones@chromium.org
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Roland Eggner <edvx1@systemanalysen.net>
Co-developed-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@collabora.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YcMfDOyrg647RCmd@debian-BULLSEYE-live-builder-AMD64
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# ae3c107c 18-Nov-2020 Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>

numa: Move numa implementation to common code

ARM64 numa implementation is generic enough that RISC-V can reuse that
implementation with very minor cosmetic changes. This will help both
ARM64 and RISC-V in terms of maintanace and feature improvement

Move the numa implementation code to common directory so that both ISAs
can reuse this. This doesn't introduce any function changes for ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Atish Patra <atish.patra@wdc.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Palmer Dabbelt <palmerdabbelt@google.com>


# fb88c9a3 15-Dec-2020 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

drivers: base: Kconfig: fix spelling mistake "heterogenous" -> "heterogeneous"

There is a spelling mistake in the Kconfig help text. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201215145440.204362-1-colin.king@canonical.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 7de3697e 02-Dec-2020 Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>

Add auxiliary bus support

Add support for the Auxiliary Bus, auxiliary_device and auxiliary_driver.
It enables drivers to create an auxiliary_device and bind an
auxiliary_driver to it.

The bus supports probe/remove shutdown and suspend/resume callbacks.
Each auxiliary_device has a unique string based id; driver binds to
an auxiliary_device based on this id through the bus.

Co-developed-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil <kiran.patil@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan <ranjani.sridharan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Fred Oh <fred.oh@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky <leonro@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman <david.m.ertman@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem <shiraz.saleem@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit <parav@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Martin Habets <mhabets@solarflare.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160695681289.505290.8978295443574440604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# bebe94b5 11-May-2020 Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>

drivers: base: default KUNIT_* fragments to KUNIT_ALL_TESTS

This makes it easier to enable all KUnit fragments.

Adding 'if !KUNIT_ALL_TESTS' so individual tests can not be turned off.
Therefore if KUNIT_ALL_TESTS is enabled that will hide the prompt in
menuconfig.

Reviewed-by: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>


# 35c57fc3 10-Jan-2020 Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>

kunit: building kunit as a module breaks allmodconfig

kunit tests that do not support module build should depend
on KUNIT=y rather than just KUNIT in Kconfig, otherwise
they will trigger compilation errors for "make allmodconfig"
builds.

Fixes: 9fe124bf1b77 ("kunit: allow kunit to be loaded as a module")
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>


# 14e08757 26-Nov-2019 Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>

PM / QoS: Initial kunit test

The pm_qos family of APIs are used in relatively difficult to reproduce
scenarios such as thermal throttling so they benefit from unit testing.

Start by adding basic tests from the the freq_qos APIs. It includes
tests for issues that were brought up on mailing lists:

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11252425/#23017005
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11253421/

Signed-off-by: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


# c181831f 27-Jun-2019 Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>

base: arch_topology: update Kconfig help description

Commit 5d777b185f6d ("arch_topology: Make cpu_capacity sysfs node as read-only")
made cpu_capacity sysfs node read-only. Update the GENERIC_ARCH_TOPOLOGY
Kconfig help section to reflect the same.

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>


# 5dd50aae 05-Nov-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Make anon_inodes unconditional

Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code and pidfd code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
[christian@brauner.io: adapt commit message to mention pidfds]
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>


# e1cf33aa 11-Mar-2019 Keith Busch <kbusch@kernel.org>

node: Add heterogenous memory access attributes

Heterogeneous memory systems provide memory nodes with different latency
and bandwidth performance attributes. Provide a new kernel interface
for subsystems to register the attributes under the memory target
node's initiator access class. If the system provides this information,
applications may query these attributes when deciding which node to
request memory.

The following example shows the new sysfs hierarchy for a node exporting
performance attributes:

# tree -P "read*|write*"/sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/accessZ/initiators/
/sys/devices/system/node/nodeY/accessZ/initiators/
|-- read_bandwidth
|-- read_latency
|-- write_bandwidth
`-- write_latency

The bandwidth is exported as MB/s and latency is reported in
nanoseconds. The values are taken from the platform as reported by the
manufacturer.

Memory accesses from an initiator node that is not one of the memory's
access "Z" initiator nodes linked in the same directory may observe
different performance than reported here. When a subsystem makes use
of this interface, initiators of a different access number may not have
the same performance relative to initiators in other access numbers, or
omitted from the any access class' initiators.

Descriptions for memory access initiator performance access attributes
are added to sysfs stable documentation.

Acked-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@inria.fr>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 1be01d4a 13-Mar-2019 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>

driver: base: Disable CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER by default

Since commit 7934779a69f1184f ("Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by
default"), the help text for the /sbin/hotplug fork-bomb says
"This should not be used today [...] creates a high system load, or
[...] out-of-memory situations during bootup". The rationale for this
was that no recent mainstream system used this anymore (in 2010!).

A few years later, the complete uevent helper support was made optional
in commit 86d56134f1b67d0c ("kobject: Make support for uevent_helper
optional."). However, if was still left enabled by default, to support
ancient userland.

Time passed by, and nothing should use this anymore, so it can be
disabled by default.

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# dadd2299 05-Nov-2018 David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Make anon_inodes unconditional

Make the anon_inodes facility unconditional so that it can be used by core
VFS code.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# ddb26d8e 13-Feb-2019 Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

dma-mapping: move CONFIG_DMA_CMA to kernel/dma/Kconfig

This is where all the related code already lives.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 06bfd3c8 10-May-2018 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

firmware_loader: move kconfig FW_LOADER entries to its own file

This will make it easier to track and easier to understand
what components and features are part of the FW_LOADER. There
are some components related to firmware which have *nothing* to
do with the FW_LOADER, souch as PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD.

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 367d0982 10-May-2018 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

firmware_loader: replace ---help--- with help

As per checkpatch using help is preferred over ---help---.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 02c39930 10-May-2018 Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>

firmware_loader: enhance Kconfig documentation over FW_LOADER

If you try to read FW_LOADER today it speaks of old riddles and
unless you have been following development closely you will lose
track of what is what. Even the documentation for PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD
is a bit fuzzy and how it fits into this big picture.

Give the FW_LOADER kconfig documentation some love with more up to
date developments and recommendations. While at it, wrap the FW_LOADER
code into its own menu to compartmentalize and make it clearer which
components really are part of the FW_LOADER. This should also make
it easier to later move these kconfig entries into the firmware_loader/
directory later.

This also now recommends using firmwared [0] for folks left needing a
uevent handler in userspace for the sysfs firmware fallback mechanis
given udev's uevent firmware mechanism was ripped out a while ago.

[0] https://github.com/teg/firmwared

Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 7f55c733 23-Jan-2018 Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>

firmware: Drop FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL Kconfig option

It doesn't actually do anything. Merge its help text into
EXTRA_FIRMWARE.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Fixes: 0946b2fb38fd ("firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message")
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gilbert <benjamin.gilbert@coreos.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 87590ce6 07-Jan-2018 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

sysfs/cpu: Add vulnerability folder

As the meltdown/spectre problem affects several CPU architectures, it makes
sense to have common way to express whether a system is affected by a
particular vulnerability or not. If affected the way to express the
mitigation should be common as well.

Create /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities folder and files for
meltdown, spectre_v1 and spectre_v2.

Allow architectures to override the show function.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180107214913.096657732@linutronix.de


# 0946b2fb 16-Nov-2017 Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>

firmware: cleanup FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL message

The help for FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL still references the firmware_install
command that was recently removed by commit 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware:
delete in-kernel firmware").

Clean up the message to direct the user to their distribution's
linux-firmware package, and remove any reference to firmware being
included in the kernel source tree.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware").
Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 03e4e0a9 14-Nov-2017 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

dma-buf/fence: Fix lock inversion within dma-fence-array

Ages ago Rob Clark noted,

"Currently with fence-array, we have a potential deadlock situation. If
we fence_add_callback() on an array-fence, the array-fence's lock is
acquired first, and in it's ->enable_signaling() callback, it will install
cbs on it's array-member fences, so the array-member's lock is acquired
second.

But in the signal path, the array-member's lock is acquired first, and
the array-fence's lock acquired second."

Rob proposed either extensive changes to dma-fence to unnest the
fence-array signaling, or to defer the signaling onto a workqueue. This
is a more refined version of the later, that should keep the latency
of the fence signaling to a minimum by using an irq-work, which is
executed asap.

Reported-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
References: 1476635975-21981-1-git-send-email-robdclark@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20171114162719.30958-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# df85b2d7 16-Sep-2017 Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>

firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware

Commit 5620a0d1aac ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware") removed the
entire firmware directory. Unfortunately it thereby also removed the
support for built-in firmware.

This restores the ability to build firmware directly into the kernel by
pruning the original Makefile to the necessary minimum. The default for
EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR is now the standard directory /lib/firmware/.

Fixes: 5620a0d1aac ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware")
Signed-off-by: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de>
Acked-by: Greg K-H <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 2ef7a295 31-May-2017 Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>

arm, arm64: factorize common cpu capacity default code

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>


# 79543cf2 29-Sep-2016 Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@chromium.org>

driver-core: add test module for asynchronous probing

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>


# c97db7cc 21-Sep-2016 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

base: soc: Introduce soc_device_match() interface

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>


# 248ff021 07-Oct-2016 Laura Abbott <labbott@redhat.com>

driver core: Make Kconfig text for DEBUG_TEST_DRIVER_REMOVE stronger

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>


# f54d1867 25-Oct-2016 Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>

dma-buf: Rename struct fence to dma_fence

I plan to usurp the short name of struct fence for a core kernel struct,
and so I need to rename the specialised fence/timeline for DMA
operations to make room.

A consensus was reached in
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-July/113083.html
that making clear this fence applies to DMA operations was a good thing.
Since then the patch has grown a bit as usage increases, so hopefully it
remains a good thing!

(v2...: rebase, rerun spatch)
v3: Compile on msm, spotted a manual fixup that I broke.
v4: Try again for msm, sorry Daniel

coccinelle script:
@@

@@
- struct fence
+ struct dma_fence
@@

@@
- struct fence_ops
+ struct dma_fence_ops
@@

@@
- struct fence_cb
+ struct dma_fence_cb
@@

@@
- struct fence_array
+ struct dma_fence_array
@@

@@
- enum fence_flag_bits
+ enum dma_fence_flag_bits
@@

@@
(
- fence_init
+ dma_fence_init
|
- fence_release
+ dma_fence_release
|
- fence_free
+ dma_fence_free
|
- fence_get
+ dma_fence_get
|
- fence_get_rcu
+ dma_fence_get_rcu
|
- fence_put
+ dma_fence_put
|
- fence_signal
+ dma_fence_signal
|
- fence_signal_locked
+ dma_fence_signal_locked
|
- fence_default_wait
+ dma_fence_default_wait
|
- fence_add_callback
+ dma_fence_add_callback
|
- fence_remove_callback
+ dma_fence_remove_callback
|
- fence_enable_sw_signaling
+ dma_fence_enable_sw_signaling
|
- fence_is_signaled_locked
+ dma_fence_is_signaled_locked
|
- fence_is_signaled
+ dma_fence_is_signaled
|
- fence_is_later
+ dma_fence_is_later
|
- fence_later
+ dma_fence_later
|
- fence_wait_timeout
+ dma_fence_wait_timeout
|
- fence_wait_any_timeout
+ dma_fence_wait_any_timeout
|
- fence_wait
+ dma_fence_wait
|
- fence_context_alloc
+ dma_fence_context_alloc
|
- fence_array_create
+ dma_fence_array_create
|
- to_fence_array
+ to_dma_fence_array
|
- fence_is_array
+ dma_fence_is_array
|
- trace_fence_emit
+ trace_dma_fence_emit
|
- FENCE_TRACE
+ DMA_FENCE_TRACE
|
- FENCE_WARN
+ DMA_FENCE_WARN
|
- FENCE_ERR
+ DMA_FENCE_ERR
)
(
...
)

Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
Acked-by: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161025120045.28839-1-chris@chris-wilson.co.uk


# bea5b158 11-Aug-2016 Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>

driver core: add test of driver remove calls during probe

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>


# d7be003a 10-Dec-2014 Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>

cma: make default CMA area size zero for x86

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>


# cd3d9ea1 30-Oct-2014 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

tiny: rename ENABLE_DEV_COREDUMP to ALLOW_DEV_COREDUMP

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>


# 9c602699 16-Oct-2014 Aristeu Rozanski <aris@redhat.com>

tiny: reverse logic for DISABLE_DEV_COREDUMP

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>


# f0d6d1f6 09-Oct-2014 Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>

CMA: document cma=0

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>


# 833c9545 12-Sep-2014 Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>

device coredump: add new device coredump class

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>


# a254129e 06-Aug-2014 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>

CMA: generalize CMA reserved area management functionality

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>


# 5a1379e8 04-Jun-2014 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

[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>


# e941759c 30-Jun-2014 Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>

fence: dma-buf cross-device synchronization (v18)

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>


# fe54b1fd 04-Jun-2014 Marc Carino <marc.ceeeee@gmail.com>

cma: increase CMA_ALIGNMENT upper limit to 12

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>


# 86d56134 10-Apr-2014 Michael Marineau <mike@marineau.org>

kobject: Make support for uevent_helper optional.

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>


# 2b9c1f03 08-Feb-2014 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling

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:family: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>


# 67bad2fd 08-Feb-2014 Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>

cpu: add generic support for CPU feature based module autoloading

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>


# 0feb03af 02-Dec-2013 Emilio López <emilio@elopez.com.ar>

drivers: fix typo in DEVTMPFS_MOUNT Kconfig help text

rootfs was missing its f.

Signed-off-by: Emilio López <emilio@elopez.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# f825c736 01-Jul-2013 Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

mm/cma: Move dma contiguous changes into a seperate config

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>


# 40b31360 20-May-2013 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

Finally eradicate CONFIG_HOTPLUG

Ever since commit 45f035ab9b8f ("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>


# 7b1269f7 31-Jan-2013 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

firmware: Make user-mode helper optional

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>


# 967857df 23-Oct-2012 Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

drivers/base: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL

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>


# 5e97f3f9 18-Oct-2012 Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>

drivers: cma: Fix wrong CMA selected region size default value

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>


# ee6f509c 31-Jul-2012 Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>

mm: factor out memory isolate functions

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>


# c64be2bb 29-Dec-2011 Marek Szyprowski <m.szyprowski@samsung.com>

drivers: add Contiguous Memory Allocator

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>


# 74d1d82c 06-Feb-2012 Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>

drivers/base: add bus for System-on-Chip devices

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>


# 3b32a592 13-Jan-2012 Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

dma-buf: drop option text so users don't select it.

This is going to be used by other subsystems so they should select it.

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>


# 9f13a1fd 09-Jan-2012 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>

cpu: Register a generic CPU device on architectures that currently do not

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>


# a125a394 26-Dec-2011 Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>

dma-buf: mark EXPERIMENTAL for 1st release.

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>


# d15bd7ee 26-Dec-2011 Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@ti.com>

dma-buf: Introduce dma buffer sharing mechanism

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>


# b83a313b 11-May-2011 Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>

regmap: Add generic non-memory mapped register access API

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>


# 573c9774 19-Jun-2011 Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>

driver core: add more help description for "path to uevent helper"

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>


# 156faf90 12-Jun-2011 matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>

driver-core: modify FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help message

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>


# 113647a2 12-Jun-2011 matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>

driver-core: Kconfig grammar corrections in firmware configuration

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>


# 2e711c04 26-Apr-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>

PM: Remove sysdev suspend, resume and shutdown operations

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>


# d47d81c0 23-Mar-2011 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>

Introduce ARCH_NO_SYSDEV_OPS config option (v2)

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>


# 6a108a14 20-Jan-2011 David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>

kconfig: rename CONFIG_EMBEDDED to CONFIG_EXPERT

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>


# 5fc6e9cb 18-Sep-2010 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

FW_LOADER: fix kconfig dependency warning on HOTPLUG

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>


# da5e4ef7 16-Mar-2010 Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>

devtmpfs: support !CONFIG_TMPFS

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>


# 7934779a 14-Jan-2010 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Driver-Core: disable /sbin/hotplug by default

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>


# 4237e5fd 14-Jan-2010 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Driver-Core: devtmpfs - remove EXPERIMENTAL and flush out the description

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>


# 2b2af54a 30-Apr-2009 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Driver Core: devtmpfs - kernel-maintained tmpfs-based /dev

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>


# 11f1fbcf 03-Jan-2009 Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>

trivial: Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig

Fix misspelled firmware in Kconfig

It's spelled "firmware".

Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# d133181d 15-Oct-2008 Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>

Fix typo in the FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL help

Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# d9b19199 10-Jun-2008 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y

James Bottomley recently discovered that we have
{request,release}_firmware() dummies for the case of the actual
functions not being available and has a fix for the bug that was
actually causing build errors for built-in users with
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m.

But now missing selects on FW_LOADER are no longer visible at
compile-time at all and can become runtime problems.

FW_LOADER is infrastructure with relatively small codesize we can safely
enable for everyone, and only for people who really need small kernels
(and can be expected to know what they are doing) it matters being able
to disable it.

This patch therefore always sets FW_LOADER=y and allows users only to
disable it with EMBEDDED=y.

As a bonus, we can then get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due
to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes some complexity from
our Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# d172e7f5 25-Jun-2008 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

firmware: Add CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL option.

This will control whether we build firmware into the kernel image for
_every_ driver which we convert to request_firmware(), to avoid a
proliferation of 'CONFIG_XXX_FIRMWARE' options for each one.

Default to 'y' for now, which is the wrong thing to do but people seem
to be insisting on it and refusing to even review patches until it's
done. And it does preserve the existing behaviour for built-in drivers.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>


# 4d2acfbf 23-May-2008 David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

firmware: Add CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE option

This allows arbitrary firmware files to be included in the static kernel
where the firmware loader can find them without requiring userspace to
be alive.

(Updated and CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR added with lots of help from
Johannes Berg).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>


# 6a8d8abb 15-Aug-2007 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>

Driver core: add CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH

The kernel creates a process for every event that is send, even when
there is no binary it could execute. We are needlessly creating around
200-300 failing processes during early bootup, until we have the chance
to disable it from userspace.

This change allows us to disable /sbin/hotplug entirely, if you want to,
by setting UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="" in the kernel config.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# 9ac7849e 20-Jan-2007 Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>

devres: device resource management

Implement device resource management, in short, devres. A device
driver can allocate arbirary size of devres data which is associated
with a release function. On driver detach, release function is
invoked on the devres data, then, devres data is freed.

devreses are typed by associated release functions. Some devreses are
better represented by single instance of the type while others need
multiple instances sharing the same release function. Both usages are
supported.

devreses can be grouped using devres group such that a device driver
can easily release acquired resources halfway through initialization
or selectively release resources (e.g. resources for port 1 out of 4
ports).

This patch adds devres core including documentation and the following
managed interfaces.

* alloc/free : devm_kzalloc(), devm_kzfree()
* IO region : devm_request_region(), devm_release_region()
* IRQ : devm_request_irq(), devm_free_irq()
* DMA : dmam_alloc_coherent(), dmam_free_coherent(),
dmam_declare_coherent_memory(), dmam_pool_create(),
dmam_pool_destroy()
* PCI : pcim_enable_device(), pcim_pin_device(), pci_is_managed()
* iomap : devm_ioport_map(), devm_ioport_unmap(), devm_ioremap(),
devm_ioremap_nocache(), devm_iounmap(), pcim_iomap_table(),
pcim_iomap(), pcim_iounmap()

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>


# eba6cd67 28-Oct-2006 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

[PATCH] move SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver menu

Put SYS_HYPERVISOR inside the Generic Driver Config menu where it should
be. Otherwise xconfig displays it as a dangling (lost) menu item under
Device Drivers, all by itself (when all options are displayed).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 135c294f 10-Jul-2006 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

[PATCH] don't select CONFIG_HOTPLUG

It's useful to be able to turn off CONFIG_HOTPLUG for compile-coverage testing
and for section-checking coverage. But a few things go and select
CONFIG_HOTPLUG, making it a royal PITA to turn the thing off.

It's only turnable offable if CONFIG_EMBEDDED anyway. So let's make those
things depend on HOTPLUG, not select it.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>


# 4039483f 08-May-2006 Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>

[PATCH] Driver Core: Add /sys/hypervisor when needed

To have a home for all hypervisors, this patch creates /sys/hypervisor.
A new config option SYS_HYPERVISOR is introduced, which should to be set
by architecture dependent hypervisors (e.g. s390 or Xen).

Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# 312c004d 16-Nov-2005 Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>

[PATCH] driver core: replace "hotplug" by "uevent"

Leave the overloaded "hotplug" word to susbsystems which are handling
real devices. The driver core does not "plug" anything, it just exports
the state to userspace and generates events.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>


# 1da177e4 16-Apr-2005 Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!