linux.git/arch/ia64/kernel/efi.c, branch v4.9.209

ia64: efi: use timespec64 for persistent clock

2016-06-17T20:45:05+00:00

We have a generic read_persistent_clock64 interface now, and can
change the ia64 implementation to provide that instead of
read_persistent_clock.

The main point of this is to avoid the use of struct timespec
in the global efi.h, which would cause build errors as soon
as we want to build a kernel without 'struct timespec' defined
on 32-bit architectures.

Aside from this, we get a little closer to removing the
__weak read_persistent_clock() definition, which relies on
converting all architectures to provide read_persistent_clock64
instead.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2016-05-18T00:05:30+00:00

Pull trivial tree updates from Jiri Kosina.

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (21 commits)
  gitignore: fix wording
  mfd: ab8500-debugfs: fix "between" in printk
  memstick: trivial fix of spelling mistake on management
  cpupowerutils: bench: fix "average"
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  IB/mlx4: printk fix
  pinctrl: sirf/atlas7: fix printk spelling
  serial: mctrl_gpio: Grammar s/lines GPIOs/line GPIOs/, /sets/set/
  w1: comment spelling s/minmum/minimum/
  Blackfin: comment spelling s/divsor/divisor/
  metag: Fix misspellings in comments.
  ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.
  hexagon: Fix misspellings in comments.
  tools/perf: Fix misspellings in comments.
  cris: Fix misspellings in comments.
  c6x: Fix misspellings in comments.
  blackfin: Fix misspelling of 'register' in comment.
  avr32: Fix misspelling of 'definitions' in comment.
  treewide: Fix typos in printk
  Doc: treewide : Fix typos in DocBook/filesystem.xml
  ...

efi: Get rid of the EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES status bit

2016-04-28T09:33:46+00:00

The EFI_SYSTEM_TABLES status bit is set by all EFI supporting architectures
upon discovery of the EFI system table, but the bit is never tested in any
code we have in the tree. So remove it.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Leif Lindholm 
Cc: Luck, Tony 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-efi@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461614832-17633-2-git-send-email-matt@codeblueprint.co.uk
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

ia64: Fix misspellings in comments.

2016-04-18T10:45:54+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

ia64: Set System RAM type and descriptor

2016-01-30T08:49:57+00:00

Change efi_initialize_iomem_resources() to set 'flags' and
'desc' for EFI memory types. IORESOURCE_SYSRAM, a modifier bit,
is set for System RAM as IORESOURCE_MEM is already set.
IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM is defined as
(IORESOURCE_MEM|IORESOURCE_SYSRAM). I/O resource descriptor is
set for "ACPI Non-volatile Storage" and "Persistent Memory".

Also set IORESOURCE_SYSTEM_RAM for "Kernel code", "Kernel data",
and "Kernel bss".

Signed-off-by: Toshi Kani 
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov 
Acked-by: Tony Luck 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Lutomirski 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: Brian Gerst 
Cc: Denys Vlasenko 
Cc: Fenghua Yu 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Cc: Matt Fleming 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Toshi Kani 
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-efi 
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1453841853-11383-6-git-send-email-bp@alien8.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm

2015-06-29T17:34:42+00:00

Pull libnvdimm subsystem from Dan Williams:
"The libnvdimm sub-system introduces, in addition to the
libnvdimm-core, 4 drivers / enabling modules:

NFIT:
Instantiates an "nvdimm bus" with the core and registers memory
devices (NVDIMMs) enumerated by the ACPI 6.0 NFIT (NVDIMM Firmware
Interface table).

After registering NVDIMMs the NFIT driver then registers "region"
devices. A libnvdimm-region defines an access mode and the
boundaries of persistent memory media. A region may span multiple
NVDIMMs that are interleaved by the hardware memory controller. In
turn, a libnvdimm-region can be carved into a "namespace" device and
bound to the PMEM or BLK driver which will attach a Linux block
device (disk) interface to the memory.

PMEM:
Initially merged in v4.1 this driver for contiguous spans of
persistent memory address ranges is re-worked to drive
PMEM-namespaces emitted by the libnvdimm-core.

In this update the PMEM driver, on x86, gains the ability to assert
that writes to persistent memory have been flushed all the way
through the caches and buffers in the platform to persistent media.
See memcpy_to_pmem() and wmb_pmem().

BLK:
This new driver enables access to persistent memory media through
"Block Data Windows" as defined by the NFIT. The primary difference
of this driver to PMEM is that only a small window of persistent
memory is mapped into system address space at any given point in
time.

Per-NVDIMM windows are reprogrammed at run time, per-I/O, to access
different portions of the media. BLK-mode, by definition, does not
support DAX.

BTT:
This is a library, optionally consumed by either PMEM or BLK, that
converts a byte-accessible namespace into a disk with atomic sector
update semantics (prevents sector tearing on crash or power loss).

The sinister aspect of sector tearing is that most applications do
not know they have a atomic sector dependency. At least today's
disk's rarely ever tear sectors and if they do one almost certainly
gets a CRC error on access. NVDIMMs will always tear and always
silently. Until an application is audited to be robust in the
presence of sector-tearing the usage of BTT is recommended.

Thanks to: Ross Zwisler, Jeff Moyer, Vishal Verma, Christoph Hellwig,
Ingo Molnar, Neil Brown, Boaz Harrosh, Robert Elliott, Matthew Wilcox,
Andy Rudoff, Linda Knippers, Toshi Kani, Nicholas Moulin, Rafael
Wysocki, and Bob Moore"

* tag 'libnvdimm-for-4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/nvdimm: (33 commits)
arch, x86: pmem api for ensuring durability of persistent memory updates
libnvdimm: Add sysfs numa_node to NVDIMM devices
libnvdimm: Set numa_node to NVDIMM devices
acpi: Add acpi_map_pxm_to_online_node()
libnvdimm, nfit: handle unarmed dimms, mark namespaces read-only
pmem: flag pmem block devices as non-rotational
libnvdimm: enable iostat
pmem: make_request cleanups
libnvdimm, pmem: fix up max_hw_sectors
libnvdimm, blk: add support for blk integrity
libnvdimm, btt: add support for blk integrity
fs/block_dev.c: skip rw_page if bdev has integrity
libnvdimm: Non-Volatile Devices
tools/testing/nvdimm: libnvdimm unit test infrastructure
libnvdimm, nfit, nd_blk: driver for BLK-mode access persistent memory
nd_btt: atomic sector updates
libnvdimm: infrastructure for btt devices
libnvdimm: write blk label set
libnvdimm: write pmem label set
libnvdimm: blk labels and namespace instantiation
...

ia64: remove paravirt code

2015-06-10T21:26:32+00:00

All the ia64 pvops code is now dead code since both
xen and kvm support have been ripped out [0] [1]. Just
that no one had troubled to rip this stuff out. The only
useful remaining pieces were the old pvops docs but that
was recently also generalized and moved out from ia64 [2].

This has been run time tested on an ia64 Madison system.

[0] 003f7de625890 "KVM: ia64: remove" since v3.19-rc1
[1] d52eefb47d4eb "ia64/xen: Remove Xen support for ia64" since v3.14-rc1
[2] "virtual: Documentation: simplify and generalize paravirt_ops.txt"

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck

e820, efi: add ACPI 6.0 persistent memory types

2015-05-28T01:46:05+00:00

ACPI 6.0 formalizes e820-type-7 and efi-type-14 as persistent memory.
Mark it "reserved" and allow it to be claimed by a persistent memory
device driver.

This definition is in addition to the Linux kernel's existing type-12
definition that was recently added in support of shipping platforms with
NVDIMM support that predate ACPI 6.0 (which now classifies type-12 as
OEM reserved).

Note, /proc/iomem can be consulted for differentiating legacy
"Persistent Memory (legacy)" E820_PRAM vs standard "Persistent Memory"
E820_PMEM.

Cc: Boaz Harrosh 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Christoph Hellwig 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Borislav Petkov 
Cc: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Matthew Wilcox 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Acked-by: Jeff Moyer 
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski 
Reviewed-by: Ross Zwisler 
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig 
Tested-by: Toshi Kani 
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

ia64: efi: Format EFI memory type & attrs with efi_md_typeattr_format()

2014-10-03T17:41:01+00:00

The effects of the patch on the i64 memory map log are similar to those
visible in the previous (x86) patch: the type enum and the attribute
bitmap are decoded.

Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek 
Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming

ia64/efi: Implement efi_enabled()

2014-03-04T16:17:20+00:00

There's no good reason to keep efi_enabled() under CONFIG_X86 anymore,
since nothing about the implementation is specific to x86.

Set EFI feature flags in the ia64 boot path instead of claiming to
support all features. The old behaviour was actually buggy since
efi.memmap never points to a valid memory map, so we shouldn't be
claiming to support EFI_MEMMAP.

Fortunately, this bug was never triggered because EFI_MEMMAP isn't used
outside of arch/x86 currently, but that may not always be the case.

Reviewed-and-tested-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming