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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 19:12:41 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-05-20 19:12:41 +0200
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Merge tag 'powerpc-4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux
Pull powerpc updates from Michael Ellerman: "Highlights: - Support for Power ISA 3.0 (Power9) Radix Tree MMU from Aneesh Kumar K.V - Live patching support for ppc64le (also merged via livepatching.git) Various cleanups & minor fixes from: - Aaro Koskinen, Alexey Kardashevskiy, Andrew Donnellan, Aneesh Kumar K.V, Chris Smart, Daniel Axtens, Frederic Barrat, Gavin Shan, Ian Munsie, Lennart Sorensen, Madhavan Srinivasan, Mahesh Salgaonkar, Markus Elfring, Michael Ellerman, Oliver O'Halloran, Paul Gortmaker, Paul Mackerras, Rashmica Gupta, Russell Currey, Suraj Jitindar Singh, Thiago Jung Bauermann, Valentin Rothberg, Vipin K Parashar. General: - Update LMB associativity index during DLPAR add/remove from Nathan Fontenot - Fix branching to OOL handlers in relocatable kernel from Hari Bathini - Add support for userspace Power9 copy/paste from Chris Smart - Always use STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS from Michael Ellerman - Add mask of possible MMU features from Michael Ellerman PCI: - Enable pass through of NVLink to guests from Alexey Kardashevskiy - Cleanups in preparation for powernv PCI hotplug from Gavin Shan - Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() from Gavin Shan - Restore initial state in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() from Gavin Shan - Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell" from Guilherme G Piccoli - Remove the dependency on EEH struct in DDW mechanism from Guilherme G Piccoli selftests: - Test cp_abort during context switch from Chris Smart - Add several tests for transactional memory support from Rashmica Gupta perf: - Add support for sampling interrupt register state from Anju T - Add support for unwinding perf-stackdump from Chandan Kumar cxl: - Configure the PSL for two CAPI ports on POWER8NVL from Philippe Bergheaud - Allow initialization on timebase sync failures from Frederic Barrat - Increase timeout for detection of AFU mmio hang from Frederic Barrat - Handle num_of_processes larger than can fit in the SPA from Ian Munsie - Ensure PSL interrupt is configured for contexts with no AFU IRQs from Ian Munsie - Add kernel API to allow a context to operate with relocate disabled from Ian Munsie - Check periodically the coherent platform function's state from Christophe Lombard Freescale: - Updates from Scott: "Contains 86xx fixes, minor device tree fixes, an erratum workaround, and a kconfig dependency fix." * tag 'powerpc-4.7-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux: (192 commits) powerpc/86xx: Fix PCI interrupt map definition powerpc/86xx: Move pci1 definition to the include file powerpc/fsl: Fix build of the dtb embedded kernel images powerpc/fsl: Fix rcpm compatible string powerpc/fsl: Remove FSL_SOC dependency from FSL_LBC powerpc/fsl-pci: Add a workaround for PCI 5 errata powerpc/fsl: Fix SPI compatible on t208xrdb and t1040rdb powerpc/powernv/npu: Add PE to PHB's list powerpc/powernv: Fix insufficient memory allocation powerpc/iommu: Remove the dependency on EEH struct in DDW mechanism Revert "powerpc/eeh: Fix crash in eeh_add_device_early() on Cell" powerpc/eeh: Drop unnecessary label in eeh_pe_change_owner() powerpc/eeh: Ignore handlers in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() powerpc/eeh: Restore initial state in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() powerpc/eeh: Don't report error in eeh_pe_reset_and_recover() Revert "powerpc/powernv: Exclude root bus in pnv_pci_reset_secondary_bus()" powerpc/powernv/npu: Enable NVLink pass through powerpc/powernv/npu: Rework TCE Kill handling powerpc/powernv/npu: Add set/unset window helpers powerpc/powernv/ioda2: Export debug helper pe_level_printk() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt2
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
index 7fd737eed38a..4ba0a2a61926 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-cxl
@@ -233,3 +233,11 @@ Description: read/write
0 = don't trust, the image may be different (default)
1 = trust that the image will not change.
Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl
+
+What: /sys/class/cxl/<card>/psl_timebase_synced
+Date: March 2016
+Contact: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
+Description: read only
+ Returns 1 if the psl timebase register is synchronized
+ with the core timebase register, 0 otherwise.
+Users: https://github.com/ibm-capi/libcxl
diff --git a/Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
index e2b4a78ec543..f179b1fb26ef 100644
--- a/Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
+++ b/Documentation/features/perf/perf-regs/arch-support.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
- | powerpc: | TODO |
+ | powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | TODO |
| score: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
diff --git a/Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
index 3dc24b0673c0..85777c5c6353 100644
--- a/Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
+++ b/Documentation/features/perf/perf-stackdump/arch-support.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
| nios2: | TODO |
| openrisc: | TODO |
| parisc: | TODO |
- | powerpc: | TODO |
+ | powerpc: | ok |
| s390: | TODO |
| score: | TODO |
| sh: | TODO |
diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
index 9d4e33df624c..678189280bb4 100644
--- a/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
+++ b/Documentation/powerpc/eeh-pci-error-recovery.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Overview:
The IBM POWER-based pSeries and iSeries computers include PCI bus
controller chips that have extended capabilities for detecting and
reporting a large variety of PCI bus error conditions. These features
-go under the name of "EEH", for "Extended Error Handling". The EEH
+go under the name of "EEH", for "Enhanced Error Handling". The EEH
hardware features allow PCI bus errors to be cleared and a PCI
card to be "rebooted", without also having to reboot the operating
system.