kernel.git/Documentation/driver-api/index.rst, branch linux-5.12.y

Merge tag 'char-misc-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc

2021-02-24T18:25:37Z

Pull char/misc driver updates from Greg KH: "Here is the large set of char/misc/whatever driver subsystem updates for 5.12-rc1. Over time it seems like this tree is collecting more and more tiny driver subsystems in one place, making it easier for those maintainers, which is why this is getting larger. Included in here are: - coresight driver updates - habannalabs driver updates - virtual acrn driver addition (proper acks from the x86 maintainers) - broadcom misc driver addition - speakup driver updates - soundwire driver updates - fpga driver updates - amba driver updates - mei driver updates - vfio driver updates - greybus driver updates - nvmeem driver updates - phy driver updates - mhi driver updates - interconnect driver udpates - fsl-mc bus driver updates - random driver fix - some small misc driver updates (rtsx, pvpanic, etc.) All of these have been in linux-next for a while, with the only reported issue being a merge conflict due to the dfl_device_id addition from the fpga subsystem in here" * tag 'char-misc-5.12-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc: (311 commits) spmi: spmi-pmic-arb: Fix hw_irq overflow Documentation: coresight: Add PID tracing description coresight: etm-perf: Support PID tracing for kernel at EL2 coresight: etm-perf: Clarify comment on perf options ACRN: update MAINTAINERS: mailing list is subscribers-only regmap: sdw-mbq: use MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") regmap: sdw: use no_pm routines for SoundWire 1.2 MBQ regmap: sdw: use _no_pm functions in regmap_read/write soundwire: intel: fix possible crash when no device is detected MAINTAINERS: replace my with email with replacements mhi: Fix double dma free uapi: map_to_7segment: Update example in documentation uio: uio_pci_generic: don't fail probe if pdev->irq equals to IRQ_NOTCONNECTED drivers/misc/vmw_vmci: restrict too big queue size in qp_host_alloc_queue firewire: replace tricky statement by two simple ones vme: make remove callback return void firmware: google: make coreboot driver's remove callback return void firmware: xilinx: Use explicit values for all enum values sample/acrn: Introduce a sample of HSM ioctl interface usage virt: acrn: Introduce an interface for Service VM to control vCPU ...

Merge tag 'cxl-for-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm

2021-02-24T17:38:36Z

Pull initial support for CXL (Compute Express Link) from Dan Williams: "Introduce an initial driver for CXL 2.0 Type-3 Memory Devices. CXL is Compute Express Link which released the 2.0 specification in November. The Linux relevant changes in CXL 2.0 are support for an OS to dynamically assign address space to memory devices, support for switches, persistent memory, and hotplug. A Type-3 Memory Device is a PCI enumerated device presenting the CXL Memory Device Class Code and implementing the CXL.mem protocol. CXL.mem allows device to advertise CPU and I/O coherent memory to the system, i.e. typical "System RAM" and "Persistent Memory" in Linux /proc/iomem terms. In addition to the CXL.mem fast path there is an administrative command hardware mailbox interface for maintenance and provisioning. It is this command interface that is the focus of the initial driver. With this driver a CXL device that is mapped by the BIOS can be administered by Linux. Linux support for CXL PMEM and dynamic CXL address space management are to be implemented post v5.12" Reviewed-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 4cdadfd5e0a7 ("cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints") 13237183c735 ("cxl/mem: Add a "RAW" send command") 472b1ce6e9d6 ("cxl/mem: Enable commands via CEL") 57ee605b976c ("cxl/mem: Add set of informational commands") Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron 8adaf747c9f0 ("cxl/mem: Find device capabilities") b39cb1052a5c ("cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices") * tag 'cxl-for-5.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/nvdimm/nvdimm: cxl/mem: Fix potential memory leak cxl/mem: Return -EFAULT if copy_to_user() fails MAINTAINERS: Add maintainers of the CXL driver cxl/mem: Add set of informational commands cxl/mem: Enable commands via CEL cxl/mem: Add a "RAW" send command cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface cxl/mem: Register CXL memX devices cxl/mem: Find device capabilities cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints

cxl/mem: Introduce a driver for CXL-2.0-Type-3 endpoints

2021-02-17T04:36:38Z

The CXL.mem protocol allows a device to act as a provider of "System RAM" and/or "Persistent Memory" that is fully coherent as if the memory was attached to the typical CPU memory controller. With the CXL-2.0 specification a PCI endpoint can implement a "Type-3" device interface and give the operating system control over "Host Managed Device Memory". See section 2.3 Type 3 CXL Device. The memory range exported by the device may optionally be described by the platform firmware memory map, or by infrastructure like LIBNVDIMM to provision persistent memory capacity from one, or more, CXL.mem devices. A pre-requisite for Linux-managed memory-capacity provisioning is this cxl_mem driver that can speak the mailbox protocol defined in section 8.2.8.4 Mailbox Registers. For now just land the initial driver boiler-plate and Documentation/ infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron Acked-by: David Rientjes (v1) Cc: Jonathan Corbet Link: https://www.computeexpresslink.org/download-the-specification Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-2-ben.widawsky@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

misc: pti: Remove a leftover in documentation

2021-01-29T12:30:02Z

Driver is gone, so is the documentation. Remove a leftover in documentation. Fixes: 8ba59e9dee31 ("misc: pti: Remove driver for deprecated platform") Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210129112729.65363-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: driver-api: Add Surface Aggregator subsystem documentation

2021-01-06T23:06:39Z

Add documentation for the Surface Aggregator subsystem and its client drivers, giving an overview of the subsystem, its use-cases, its internal structure and internal API, as well as its external API for writing client drivers. Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201221183959.1186143-8-luzmaximilian@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede

Merge tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next

2020-12-15T21:22:29Z

Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski: "Core: - support "prefer busy polling" NAPI operation mode, where we defer softirq for some time expecting applications to periodically busy poll - AF_XDP: improve efficiency by more batching and hindering the adjacency cache prefetcher - af_packet: make packet_fanout.arr size configurable up to 64K - tcp: optimize TCP zero copy receive in presence of partial or unaligned reads making zero copy a performance win for much smaller messages - XDP: add bulk APIs for returning / freeing frames - sched: support fragmenting IP packets as they come out of conntrack - net: allow virtual netdevs to forward UDP L4 and fraglist GSO skbs BPF: - BPF switch from crude rlimit-based to memcg-based memory accounting - BPF type format information for kernel modules and related tracing enhancements - BPF implement task local storage for BPF LSM - allow the FENTRY/FEXIT/RAW_TP tracing programs to use bpf_sk_storage Protocols: - mptcp: improve multiple xmit streams support, memory accounting and many smaller improvements - TLS: support CHACHA20-POLY1305 cipher - seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT4/DT6 behavior - sctp: Implement RFC 6951: UDP Encapsulation of SCTP - ppp_generic: add ability to bridge channels directly - bridge: Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) support as is defined in IEEE 802.1Q section 12.14. Drivers: - mlx5: make use of the new auxiliary bus to organize the driver internals - mlx5: more accurate port TX timestamping support - mlxsw: - improve the efficiency of offloaded next hop updates by using the new nexthop object API - support blackhole nexthops - support IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q) bridging - rtw88: major bluetooth co-existance improvements - iwlwifi: support new 6 GHz frequency band - ath11k: Fast Initial Link Setup (FILS) - mt7915: dual band concurrent (DBDC) support - net: ipa: add basic support for IPA v4.5 Refactor: - a few pieces of in_interrupt() cleanup work from Sebastian Andrzej Siewior - phy: add support for shared interrupts; get rid of multiple driver APIs and have the drivers write a full IRQ handler, slight growth of driver code should be compensated by the simpler API which also allows shared IRQs - add common code for handling netdev per-cpu counters - move TX packet re-allocation from Ethernet switch tag drivers to a central place - improve efficiency and rename nla_strlcpy - number of W=1 warning cleanups as we now catch those in a patchwork build bot Old code removal: - wan: delete the DLCI / SDLA drivers - wimax: move to staging - wifi: remove old WDS wifi bridging support" * tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1922 commits) net: hns3: fix expression that is currently always true net: fix proc_fs init handling in af_packet and tls nfc: pn533: convert comma to semicolon af_vsock: Assign the vsock transport considering the vsock address flags af_vsock: Set VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST flag on the receive path vsock_addr: Check for supported flag values vm_sockets: Add VMADDR_FLAG_TO_HOST vsock flag vm_sockets: Add flags field in the vsock address data structure net: Disable NETIF_F_HW_TLS_TX when HW_CSUM is disabled tcp: Add logic to check for SYN w/ data in tcp_simple_retransmit net: mscc: ocelot: install MAC addresses in .ndo_set_rx_mode from process context nfc: s3fwrn5: Release the nfc firmware net: vxget: clean up sparse warnings mlxsw: spectrum_router: Use eXtended mezzanine to offload IPv4 router mlxsw: spectrum: Set KVH XLT cache mode for Spectrum2/3 mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Introduce basic XM cache flushing mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache Enable Register mlxsw: reg: Add Router LPM Cache ML Delete Register mlxsw: spectrum_router_xm: Implement L-value tracking for M-index mlxsw: reg: Add XM Router M Table Register ...

docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs

2020-12-08T17:48:04Z

Add initial reset controller API documentation. This is mostly intended to describe the concepts to users of the consumer API, and to tie the kerneldoc comments we already have into the driver API documentation. Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap Reviewed-by: Amjad Ouled-Ameur Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201201115754.1713-1-p.zabel@pengutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Add auxiliary bus support

2020-12-04T11:23:25Z

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 Co-developed-by: Ranjani Sridharan Co-developed-by: Fred Oh Co-developed-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Kiran Patil Signed-off-by: Ranjani Sridharan Signed-off-by: Fred Oh Signed-off-by: Leon Romanovsky Signed-off-by: Dave Ertman Reviewed-by: Pierre-Louis Bossart Reviewed-by: Shiraz Saleem Reviewed-by: Parav Pandit Reviewed-by: Dan Williams Reviewed-by: Martin Habets Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201113161859.1775473-2-david.m.ertman@intel.com Signed-off-by: Dan Williams Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/160695681289.505290.8978295443574440604.stgit@dwillia2-desk3.amr.corp.intel.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

2020-10-24T00:13:53Z

Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet: "A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes" * tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: docs: Add two missing entries in vm sysctl index docs/vm: trivial fixes to several spelling mistakes docs: submitting-patches: describe preserving review/test tags Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/arm64/hugetlbpage.rst Documentation: x86: fix a missing word in x86_64/mm.rst. docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry docs: lkdtm: Modernize and improve details docs: deprecated.rst: Expand str*cpy() replacement notes docs/cpu-load: format the example code.

docs: driver-api: remove a duplicated index entry

2020-10-21T21:12:50Z

The ipmb file was added twice at index.rst. That sounds to be because the same patch was applied twice, via different git trees: commit f6ae22d64433fd8e08654adad7966299da931bb9 Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Commit: Jonathan Corbet docs: ipmb: place it at driver-api and convert to ReST commit ac499fba98c3c65078fd84fa0a62cd6f6d5837ed Author: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Commit: Corey Minyard docs: ipmb: place it at driver-api and convert to ReST With Sphinx 4.0.0 development tree, a new warning is produced due to that: .../Documentation/driver-api/index.rst:14: WARNING: duplicated entry found in toctree: driver-api/ipmb The fix is trivial: just drop the duplicated line. Fixes: f6ae22d64433 ("docs: ipmb: place it at driver-api and convert to ReST") Fixes: ac499fba98c3 ("docs: ipmb: place it at driver-api and convert to ReST") Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/623fb26a8409a7b002e45bdbb6f517ac08fd508a.1602753121.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet