MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS first became available on Westmere Xeon.
It is implemented in all Sandy Bridge processors -- mobile, desktop and server.
It is expected to become increasingly important in subsequent generations.
x86_energy_perf_policy is a user-space utility to set the
hardware energy vs performance policy hint in the processor.
Most systems would benefit from "x86_energy_perf_policy normal"
at system startup, as the hardware default is maximum performance
at the expense of energy efficiency.
See x86_energy_perf_policy.8 man page for more information.
Background:
Linux-2.6.36 added "epb" to /proc/cpuinfo to indicate
if an x86 processor supports MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS,
without actually modifying the MSR.
In March, 2010, Venkatesh Pallipadi proposed a small driver
that programmed MSR_IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS, based on
the cpufreq governor in use. It also offered
a boot-time cmdline option to override.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/4/457
But hiding the hardware policy behind the
governor choice was deemed "kinda icky".
In June, 2010, I proposed a generic user/kernel API to
generalize the power/performance policy trade-off.
"RFC: /sys/power/policy_preference"
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/16/399
That is my preference for implementing this capability,
but I received no support on the list.
So in September, 2010, I sent x86_energy_perf_policy.c to LKML,
a user-space utility that scribbles directly to the MSR.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/28/246
Here is that same utility, after responding to some review feedback,
to live in tools/power/, where it is easily found.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls.
MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.
SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure
MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file.
MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.
If the host is slow in reading data or doesn't read data at all,
blocking write calls not only blocked the program that called write()
but the entire guest itself.
To overcome this, let's not block till the host signals it has given
back the virtio ring element we passed it. Instead, send the buffer to
the host and return to userspace. This operation then becomes similar
to how non-blocking writes work, so let's use the existing code for this
path as well.
This code change also ensures blocking write calls do get blocked if
there's not enough room in the virtio ring as well as they don't return
-EAGAIN to userspace.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
[Ralf: Michel's original patch only fixed N32; I replicated the same fix
for O32.]
Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau@windriver.com>
Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
IOC3 is also being used on SGI MIPS systems but this particular driver is
only being used on IA64 systems so linux-mips made no sense as a list. Pat
also thinks linux-serial@vger.kernel.org is the better list.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other
failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values.
A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@@
expression ret;
expression x,e1,e2,e3;
@@
ret = 0
... when != ret = e1
*x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...)
... when != ret = e2
if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3
return ret;
}
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
To: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1704/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
The platform specific files should be included via the platform-y
variable.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1719/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
When running make clean, Kbuild doesn't process the .config file, so nothing
generates a platform-y variable. We can get it to descend into the platform
directories by setting $(obj-).
The dec Platform file was unconditionally setting platform-, obliterating
its previous contents and preventing some directories from being cleaned.
This is change to an append operation '+=' to allow cavium-octeon to be
cleaned.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1718/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment
descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading
them.
Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead
of home grown unsafe versions.
This is CVE-2010-3698.
KVM-Stable-Tag.
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure
MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h
MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"
MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers
MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack
MIPS: Sanitize restart logics
MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.
MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe
This patch reverts the driver to enabling/disabling the NFC interrupt
mask rather than enabling/disabling the system interrupt. This cleans
up the driver so that it doesn't rely on interrupts being disabled
within the interrupt handler.
For i.MX21 we keep the current behaviour, that is calling
enable_irq/disable_irq_nosync to enable/disable interrupts. This patch
is based on earlier work by John Ogness.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux:
i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to complete
i2c-davinci: Fix TX setup for more SoCs
Add ISA_DMA_API config item and select it when GENERIC_ISA_DMA enabled.
This fixes build failure on allmodconfig like following:
CC sound/isa/es18xx.o
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback1_prepare':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:501:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_program'
sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback_pointer':
sound/isa/es18xx.c:818:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_pointer'
make[3]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 2
make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1717/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
[Ralf: I changed the patch to explicitly list all files to be deleted out
of paranoia.]
Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com>
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1590/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Put the original syscall number into ->regs[0] when we leave syscall
with error. Use it in restart logics. Everything else will have
it 0 since we pass through SAVE_SOME on all the ways in. Note that
in places like bad_stack and inllegal_syscall we leave it 0 - it's not
restartable.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1698/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
448cd16 ("Input: evdev - rearrange ioctl handling") broke EVIOCSABS by
checking for the wrong direction bit.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Tested-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
The i2c_imx_trx_complete() function is using
wait_event_interruptible_timeout() to wait for the I2C controller to
signal that it has completed an I2C bus operation. If the process that
causes the I2C operation receives a signal, the wait will be
interrupted, returning an error. It is better to let the I2C operation
finished before handling the signal (i.e. returning into userspace).
It is safe to use wait_event_timeout() instead, because the timeout
will allow the process to exit if the I2C bus hangs. It's also better
to allow the I2C operation to finish, because unacknowledged I2C
operations can cause the I2C bus to hang.
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
This patch is an improvement to 4bba0fd8d1
which got to mainline a little early.
Sudhakar Rajashekhara explains that at least OMAP-L138 requires MDR mode
settings before DXR for correct behaviour, so load MDR first with
STT cleared and later load again with STT set.
Tested on DM355 connected to Techwell TW2836 and Wolfson WM8985
Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk>
Acked-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com>
Tested-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Fixes cursor corruption in certain cases.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Revert commit 54672386cc
"firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips".
It caused massive slow-down and data corruption with a TSB82AA2 based
StarTech EC1394B2 ExpressCard and FireWire 800 harddisks.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/657081http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/4013
The fact that some card EEPROMs do not program these enhancements may be
related to TSB81BA3 phy chip errata, if not to bugs of TSB82AA2 itself.
We could re-add these configuration steps, but only conditional on a
whitelist of cards on which these enhancements bring a proven positive
effect.
Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Shattow <lucent@gmail.com>
Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
When a driver module is unloaded and the last still open file is a raw
MIDI device, the card and its devices will be actually freed in the
snd_card_file_remove() call when that file is closed. Afterwards, rmidi
and rmidi->card point into freed memory, so the module pointer is likely
to be garbage.
(This was introduced by commit 9a1b64caac82aa02cb74587ffc798e6f42c6170a.)
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Reported-by: Krzysztof Foltman <wdev@foltman.com>
Cc: 2.6.30-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Fixes build for me... these are what's tested in byteorder.h...
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit a7f8388e accidentally removed it... Al explains:
"Sorry, reordering breakage. In the signals tree here I have
static inline void sig_set_blocked(struct sigset_t *set)
...
and it's used all over the place (including quite a few places where
we currently have sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, set, NULL), which is what
it's equivalent to). With that done, m32r doesn't use _BLOCKABLE
anywhere, so it got removed. And that chunk got picked when I'd been
reordering the queue to pull the arch-specific fixes in front.
Sorry."
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We currently have a kernel internal type called aligned_u64 which aligns
__u64's on 8 bytes boundaries even on systems which would normally align
them on 4 byte boundaries. This patch creates a new type __aligned_u64
which does the same thing but which is exposed to userspace rather than
being kernel internal.
[akpm: merge early as both the net and audit trees want this]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64. Via Andreas and Andi.]
Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix a build error introduced by d6d1b650ae ("param: simple
locking for sysfs-writable charp parameters").
CC arch/um/kernel/trap.o
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostaudio_open':
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:204: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c: In function 'hostmixer_open_mixdev':
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:265: error: '__param_mixer' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c:272: error: '__param_dsp' undeclared (first use in this function)
Reported-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@gmx.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sysctl check complains with a WARN() when proc_doulongvec_minmax() or
proc_doulongvec_ms_jiffies_minmax() are used by a vector of longs (with
more than one element), with no min or max value specified.
This is unexpected, given we had a bug on this min/max handling :)
Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The compat code for the VIDIOCSMICROCODE ioctl is totally buggered.
It's only used by the VIDEO_STRADIS driver, and that one is scheduled to
staging and eventually removed unless somebody steps up to maintain it
(at which point it should use request_firmware() rather than some magic
ioctl). So we'll get rid of it eventually.
But in the meantime, the compatibility ioctl code is broken, and this
tries to get it to at least limp along (even if Mauro suggested just
deleting it entirely, which may be the right thing to do - I don't think
the compatibility translation code has ever worked unless you were very
lucky).
Reported-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Don't try to "optimize" rds_page_copy_user() by using kmap_atomic() and
the unsafe atomic user mode accessor functions. It's actually slower
than the straightforward code on any reasonable modern CPU.
Back when the code was written (although probably not by the time it was
actually merged, though), 32-bit x86 may have been the dominant
architecture. And there kmap_atomic() can be a lot faster than kmap()
(unless you have very good locality, in which case the virtual address
caching by kmap() can overcome all the downsides).
But these days, x86-64 may not be more populous, but it's getting there
(and if you care about performance, it's definitely already there -
you'd have upgraded your CPU's already in the last few years). And on
x86-64, the non-kmap_atomic() version is faster, simply because the code
is simpler and doesn't have the "re-try page fault" case.
People with old hardware are not likely to care about RDS anyway, and
the optimization for the 32-bit case is simply buggy, since it doesn't
verify the user addresses properly.
Reported-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix SDIO suspend/resume regression introduced by 4c2ef25fe0 "mmc: fix
all hangs related to mmc/sd card insert/removal during suspend/resume":
PM: Syncing filesystems ... done.
Freezing user space processes ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
Freezing remaining freezable tasks ... (elapsed 0.01 seconds) done.
Suspending console(s) (use no_console_suspend to debug)
pm_op(): platform_pm_suspend+0x0/0x5c returns -38
PM: Device pxa2xx-mci.0 failed to suspend: error -38
PM: Some devices failed to suspend
4c2ef25fe0 moved the card removal/insertion mechanism out of MMC's
suspend/resume path and into pm notifiers (mmc_pm_notify), and that
broke SDIO's expectation that mmc_suspend_host() will remove the card,
and squash the error, in case -ENOSYS is returned from the bus suspend
handler (mmc_sdio_suspend() in this case).
mmc_sdio_suspend() is using this whenever at least one of the card's SDIO
function drivers does not have suspend/resume handlers - in that case
it is agreed to force removal of the entire card.
This patch fixes this regression by trivially bringing back that part of
mmc_suspend_host(), which was removed by 4c2ef25fe0.
Reported-and-tested-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>
Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Ball <cjb@laptop.org>
* 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
HID: Add Cando touch screen 15.6-inch product id
HID: Add MULTI_INPUT quirk for turbox/mosart touchscreen
HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_write
HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl
bsg incorrectly returns sg's masked_status value for device_status.
[jejb: fix up expression logic]
Reported-by: Douglas Gilbert <dgilbert@interlog.com>
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
