A few of the Documentation .rst files begin with a Unicode
byte order mark (BOM). The BOM may signify endianess for
16-bit or 32-bit encodings or indicate that the text stream
is indeed Unicode. We don't need it for either of those uses.
It may also interfere with (confuse) some software.
Since we don't need it and its use is optional, just delete
the uses of it in Documentation/.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210506231907.14359-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the usual minor
fixes.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A few late-arriving documentation fixes, including some oprofile
cleanup, a kernel-doc fix, some regression-reporting updates, and the
usual minor fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.13-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Enlisted oprofile version line removed
oprofiled version output line removed from the list
Removed the oprofiled version option
docs: reporting-issues.rst: CC subsystem and maintainers on regressions
docs: correct URL to bios and kernel developer's guide
docs/core-api: Consistent code style
docs/zh_CN: Adjust order and content of zh_CN/index.rst
Documentation: input: joydev file corrections
docs: Fix typo in Documentation/x86/x86_64/5level-paging.rst
kernel-doc: Add support for __deprecated
well contained to Documentation/ itself. Highlights include:
- The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of stopping
anytime soon. Italian has also caught up.
- Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the kernel-doc
script.
- Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
documentation around regression reporting.
- Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual
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Merge tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle in docsland, though more than
usually well contained to Documentation/ itself. Highlights include:
- The Chinese translators have been busy and show no signs of
stopping anytime soon. Italian has also caught up.
- Aditya Srivastava has been working on improvements to the
kernel-doc script.
- Thorsten continues his work on reporting-issues.rst and related
documentation around regression reporting.
- Lots of documentation updates, typo fixes, etc. as usual"
* tag 'docs-5.13' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (139 commits)
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc todo.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add openrisc openrisc_port.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core api translation to zh_CN index
docs/zh_CN: add core-api index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irqflags-tracing.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-domain.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq irq-affinity.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add core-api irq concepts.rst translation
docs: sphinx-pre-install: don't barf on beta Sphinx releases
scripts: kernel-doc: improve parsing for kernel-doc comments syntax
docs/zh_CN: two minor fixes in zh_CN/doc-guide/
Documentation: dev-tools: Add Testing Overview
docs/zh_CN: add translations in zh_CN/dev-tools/gcov
docs: reporting-issues: make people CC the regressions list
MAINTAINERS: add regressions mailing list
doc:it_IT: align Italian documentation
docs/zh_CN: sync reporting-issues.rst
...
Explain when a submitter should tag a patch or a patch series with the
"RESEND" tag.
This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de
and incorporates follow-on comments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Resolves a merge issue with:
drivers/tty/hvc/hvcs.c
and we want the tty/serial fixes from 5.12-rc3 in here as well.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
First, it is never checked. Second, use of it as a debugging aid is
at least questionable. With the current tools, I don't think anyone used
this kind of thing for debugging purposes for years.
On the top of that, e.g. serdev does not set this field of tty_ldisc_ops
at all.
So get rid of this legacy.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-8-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
While the driver is still marked as maintained in MAINTAINERS, Comtrol
does not really care about this ancient driver. They are still
manufacturing serial devices, but those are controlled only by
out-of-tree drivers.
Comtrol didn't answer my pings, so this driver is apparently
unmaintained. Aside from that, the driver was untouched for years, only
whole-tree changes happened during the past years. The driver needs much
more care, so drop it for now. If someone steps up to reintroduce it,
they need to clean it up first.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-7-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Isicom driver was orphaned by commit d86b3001a1 (MAINTAINERS:
orphan isicom) 10 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of them and
to fix all the issues the driver has.
So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-6-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c (MAINTAINERS:
remove two dead e-mail) 13 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of
them and to fix all the issues the driver has.
On the top of that, there is no way to obtain the firmware for Z cards
from the vendor as cyclades.com ceased to exist.
So it's time to drop the driver with all its traces.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210302062214.29627-5-jslaby@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull networking fixes from David Miller:
1) Fix transmissions in dynamic SMPS mode in ath9k, from Felix Fietkau.
2) TX skb error handling fix in mt76 driver, also from Felix.
3) Fix BPF_FETCH atomic in x86 JIT, from Brendan Jackman.
4) Avoid double free of percpu pointers when freeing a cloned bpf prog.
From Cong Wang.
5) Use correct printf format for dma_addr_t in ath11k, from Geert
Uytterhoeven.
6) Fix resolve_btfids build with older toolchains, from Kun-Chuan
Hsieh.
7) Don't report truncated frames to mac80211 in mt76 driver, from
Lorenzop Bianconi.
8) Fix watcdog timeout on suspend/resume of stmmac, from Joakim Zhang.
9) mscc ocelot needs NET_DEVLINK selct in Kconfig, from Arnd Bergmann.
10) Fix sign comparison bug in TCP_ZEROCOPY_RECEIVE getsockopt(), from
Arjun Roy.
11) Ignore routes with deleted nexthop object in mlxsw, from Ido
Schimmel.
12) Need to undo tcp early demux lookup sometimes in nf_nat, from
Florian Westphal.
13) Fix gro aggregation for udp encaps with zero csum, from Daniel
Borkmann.
14) Make sure to always use imp*_ndo_send when necessaey, from Jason A.
Donenfeld.
15) Fix TRSCER masks in sh_eth driver from Sergey Shtylyov.
16) prevent overly huge skb allocationsd in qrtr, from Pavel Skripkin.
17) Prevent rx ring copnsumer index loss of sync in enetc, from Vladimir
Oltean.
18) Make sure textsearch copntrol block is large enough, from Wilem de
Bruijn.
19) Revert MAC changes to r8152 leading to instability, from Hates Wang.
20) Advance iov in 9p even for empty reads, from Jissheng Zhang.
21) Double hook unregister in nftables, from PabloNeira Ayuso.
22) Fix memleak in ixgbe, fropm Dinghao Liu.
23) Avoid dups in pkt scheduler class dumps, from Maximilian Heyne.
24) Various mptcp fixes from Florian Westphal, Paolo Abeni, and Geliang
Tang.
25) Fix DOI refcount bugs in cipso, from Paul Moore.
26) One too many irqsave in ibmvnic, from Junlin Yang.
27) Fix infinite loop with MPLS gso segmenting via virtio_net, from
Balazs Nemeth.
* git://git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (164 commits)
s390/qeth: fix notification for pending buffers during teardown
s390/qeth: schedule TX NAPI on QAOB completion
s390/qeth: improve completion of pending TX buffers
s390/qeth: fix memory leak after failed TX Buffer allocation
net: avoid infinite loop in mpls_gso_segment when mpls_hlen == 0
net: check if protocol extracted by virtio_net_hdr_set_proto is correct
net: dsa: xrs700x: check if partner is same as port in hsr join
net: lapbether: Remove netif_start_queue / netif_stop_queue
atm: idt77252: fix null-ptr-dereference
atm: uPD98402: fix incorrect allocation
atm: fix a typo in the struct description
net: qrtr: fix error return code of qrtr_sendmsg()
mptcp: fix length of ADD_ADDR with port sub-option
net: bonding: fix error return code of bond_neigh_init()
net: enetc: allow hardware timestamping on TX queues with tc-etf enabled
net: enetc: set MAC RX FIFO to recommended value
net: davicom: Use platform_get_irq_optional()
net: davicom: Fix regulator not turned off on driver removal
net: davicom: Fix regulator not turned off on failed probe
net: dsa: fix switchdev objects on bridge master mistakenly being applied on ports
...
Add more blurb about the level of detail that should be contained in a
patch's commit message. Extend and make more explicit what text should
be added under the --- line. Extend examples and split into more easily
palatable paragraphs.
This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
patchset by Thomas Gleixner:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de
and incorporates follow-on comments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215141949.GB21734@zn.tnic
[jc: Tweaked "example subjects" wording]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of late-arriving documentation fixes, nothing all that
notable"
* tag 'docs-5.12-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: proc.rst: fix indentation warning
Documentation: cgroup-v2: fix path to example BPF program
docs: powerpc: Fix tables in syscall64-abi.rst
Documentation: features: refresh feature list
Documentation: features: remove c6x references
docs: ABI: testing: ima_policy: Fixed missing bracket
Fix unaesthetic indentation
scripts: kernel-doc: fix array element capture in pointer-to-func parsing
doc: use KCFLAGS instead of EXTRA_CFLAGS to pass flags from command line
Documentation: proc.rst: add more about the 6 fields in loadavg
You should use KCFLAGS to pass additional compiler flags from the
command line. Using EXTRA_CFLAGS is wrong.
EXTRA_CFLAGS is supposed to specify flags applied only to the current
Makefile (and now deprecated in favor of ccflags-y).
It is still used in arch/mips/kvm/Makefile (and possibly in external
modules too). Passing EXTRA_CFLAGS from the command line overwrites
it and breaks the build.
I also fixed drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/Makefile because commit 816175dd1f
("drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc: Makefile, only -Werror when no -W* in
EXTRA_CFLAGS") was based on the same misunderstanding.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linux.alibaba.com>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210221152524.197693-1-masahiroy@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
- As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now 1.7,
and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That allowed the
removal of a bunch of compatibility code.
- A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.
- The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from relative
paths to RST files.
- More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes.
No conflicts with any other tree as far as I know.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.
- As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.
- A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.
- The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
relative paths to RST files.
- More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -> "performance"
docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
Docs: drop Python 2 support
Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
docs: Update DTB format references
docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
...
This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere). The
only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to clean
up our result handling code in the drivers to make it consistent.
Signed-off-by: James E.J. Bottomley <jejb@linux.ibm.com>
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Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
"This series consists of the usual driver updates (ufs, ibmvfc,
qla2xxx, hisi_sas, pm80xx) plus the removal of the gdth driver (which
is bound to cause conflicts with a trivial change somewhere).
The only big major rework of note is the one from Hannes trying to
clean up our result handling code in the drivers to make it
consistent"
* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (194 commits)
scsi: MAINTAINERS: Adjust to reflect gdth scsi driver removal
scsi: ufs: Give clk scaling min gear a value
scsi: lpfc: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: megaraid_mbox: Fix spelling of 'allocated'
scsi: qla2xxx: Simplify the calculation of variables
scsi: message: fusion: Fix 'physical' typos
scsi: target: core: Change ASCQ for residual write
scsi: target: core: Signal WRITE residuals
scsi: target: core: Set residuals for 4Kn devices
scsi: hisi_sas: Add trace FIFO debugfs support
scsi: hisi_sas: Flush workqueue in hisi_sas_v3_remove()
scsi: hisi_sas: Enable debugfs support by default
scsi: hisi_sas: Don't check .nr_hw_queues in hisi_sas_task_prep()
scsi: hisi_sas: Remove deferred probe check in hisi_sas_v2_probe()
scsi: lpfc: Add auto select on IRQ_POLL
scsi: ncr53c8xx: Fix typos
scsi: lpfc: Fix ancient double free
scsi: qla2xxx: Fix some memory corruption
scsi: qla2xxx: Remove redundant NULL check
scsi: megaraid: Fix ifnullfree.cocci warnings
...
The documentation explains the need to create internal syscalls' helpers,
and that they should be called `kern_xyzzy()`. However, the comment at
include/linux/syscalls.h says that they should be named as
`ksys_xyzzy()`, and so are all the helpers declared bellow it. Change the
documentation to reflect this.
Fixes: 819671ff84 ("syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel")
Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-1-andrealmeid@collabora.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Document that backtraces in commit messages should be trimmed down to
the useful information only.
This has been carved out from a tip subsystem handbook patchset by
Thomas Gleixner:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de
and incorporates follow-on comments.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.
Remove kernel's old oprofile support.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The gdth driver refers to a SCSI parallel, PCI-only HBA RAID adapter which
was manufactured by the now-defunct ICP Vortex company, later acquired by
Adaptec and superseded by the aacraid series of controllers. The driver
itself would require a major overhaul before any modifications can be
attempted, but seeing that it's unlikely to have any users left it should
rather be removed completely.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113090500.129644-2-hare@suse.de
Cautiously-Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Clear-up any confusion surrounding the Fixes: tag with regards to the
need to Cc: the stable mailing list when submitting stable patch
candidates.
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113163315.1331064-1-lee.jones@linaro.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The file Documentation/process/howto.rst points to bugzilla.kernel.org
as the primary place to report kernel bugs to. For most of the kernel
that's the wrong place, as the MAINTAINERS file shows. Adjust those
sections to make them match current practice.
This change also removes a contradiction with the recently added text
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst, which is a reason for a
'this needs further discussion' warning note in there. The change is
thus a prerequisite to remove that warning, nevertheless it is left for
now to make sure people review the text's approach more carefully.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210116143542.69199-1-linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Replace the lkml.org links with lore to better use a single source
that's more likely to stay available long-term.
Done by bash script:
cvt_lkml_to_lore ()
{
tmpfile=$(mktemp ./.cvt_links.XXXXXXX)
header=$(echo $1 | sed 's@/lkml/@/lkml/headers/@')
wget -qO - $header > $tmpfile
if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
link=$(grep -i '^Message-Id:' $tmpfile | head -1 | \
sed -r -e 's/^\s*Message-Id:\s*<\s*//' -e 's/\s*>\s*$//' -e 's@^@https://lore.kernel.org/r/@')
# echo "testlink: $link"
if [ -n "$link" ] ; then
wget -qO - $link > /dev/null
if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
echo $link
fi
fi
fi
rm -f $tmpfile
}
git grep -P -o "\bhttps?://(?:www.)?lkml.org/lkml[\/\w]+" $@ |
while read line ; do
echo $line
file=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d':')
link=$(echo $line | cut -f2- -d':')
newlink=$(cvt_lkml_to_lore $link)
if [[ -n "$newlink" ]] ; then
sed -i -e "s#\b$link\b#$newlink#" $file
fi
done
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1265849/#1462688
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77cdb7f32cfb087955bfc3600b86c40bed5d4104.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
We removed ENABLE_MUST_CHECK in 1967939462 ("Compiler Attributes:
remove CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK"), so let's remove docs' mentions.
At the same time, fix the outdated text related to
ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED that wasn't removed in 3337d5cfe5
("configs: get rid of obsolete CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED").
Finally, reflow the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210105055815.GA5173@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A small set of late-arriving, small documentation fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.11-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
docs: admin-guide: Fix default value of max_map_count in sysctl/vm.rst
Documentation/submitting-patches: Document the SoB chain
Documentation: process: Correct numbering
docs: submitting-patches: Trivial - fix grammatical error
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
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-5.11' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
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
...
of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:
- A set of new Chinese translations
- Italian translation updates
- A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format Documentation/features
for the built docs
- Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup
- A new reset-controller document
- An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten
That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual; there was
some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and an ack from Greg
for that addition.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A much quieter cycle for documentation (happily), with, one hopes, the
bulk of the churn behind us. Significant stuff in this pull includes:
- A set of new Chinese translations
- Italian translation updates
- A mechanism from Mauro to automatically format
Documentation/features for the built docs
- Automatic cross references without explicit :ref: markup
- A new reset-controller document
- An extensive new document on reporting problems from Thorsten
That last patch also adds the CC-BY-4.0 license to LICENSES/dual;
there was some discussion on this, but we seem to have consensus and
an ack from Greg for that addition"
* tag 'docs-5.11' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (50 commits)
docs: fix broken cross reference in translations/zh_CN
docs: Note that sphinx 1.7 will be required soon
docs: update requirements to install six module
docs: reporting-issues: move 'outdated, need help' note to proper place
docs: Update documentation to reflect what TAINT_CPU_OUT_OF_SPEC means
docs: add a reset controller chapter to the driver API docs
docs: make reporting-bugs.rst obsolete
docs: Add a new text describing how to report bugs
LICENSES: Add the CC-BY-4.0 license
Documentation: fix multiple typos found in the admin-guide subdirectory
Documentation: fix typos found in admin-guide subdirectory
kernel-doc: Fix example in Nested structs/unions
docs: clean up sysctl/kernel: titles, version
docs: trace: fix event state structure name
docs: nios2: add missing ReST file
scripts: get_feat.pl: reduce table width for all features output
scripts: get_feat.pl: change the group by order
scripts: get_feat.pl: make complete table more coincise
scripts: kernel-doc: fix parsing function-like typedefs
Documentation: fix typos found in process, dev-tools, and doc-guide subdirectories
...
Make various places which point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-bugs.rst point to
Documentation/admin-guide/reporting-issues.rst instead. That document is
brand new and as of now is not completely finished. But even at this
stage it's a lot more helpful and accurate than reporting-bugs.rst.
Hence also add a note to reporting-bugs.rst, telling people they're
better off reading reporting-issues.rst instead.
reporting-bugs.rst is scheduled for removal once reporting-issues.rst
is considered ready.
Signed-off-by: Thorsten Leemhuis <linux@leemhuis.info>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3df7c2d16de112b47bb6e6158138608e78562bf5.1607063223.git.linux@leemhuis.info
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix four typos in kcov.rst, sphinx.rst, clang-format.rst, and embargoed-hardware-issues.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202075438.GA35516@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix two typos in kernel-docs.rst
Signed-off-by: Andrew Klychkov <andrew.a.klychkov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201202074938.GA35075@spblnx124.lan
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Currently, we do not have any documentation on commit reverts regarding
the requirement of Signed-off-by tag for it. This may be misleading to
the users.
Evaluating MISSING_SIGN_OFF checkpatch warnings on v4.13..v5.8 showed
that 4 out of 11 cases missing a sign-off are revert commits.
Add documentation regarding the same to document the community
consensus and let readers know.
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110174749.32068-1-yashsri421@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Move to the kernel.org patchwork instance, it has significantly
lower latency for accessing from Europe and the US. Other quirks
include the reply bot.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201110035120.642746-1-kuba@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This driver transports LAPB (X.25 link layer) frames over TTY links.
I can safely say that this driver has no actual user because it was
not working at all until:
commit 8fdcabeac3 ("drivers/net/wan/x25_asy: Fix to make it work")
The code in its current state still has problems:
1.
The uses of "struct x25_asy" in x25_asy_unesc (when receiving) and in
x25_asy_write_wakeup (when sending) are not protected by locks against
x25_asy_change_mtu's changing of the transmitting/receiving buffers.
Also, all "netif_running" checks in this driver are not protected by
locks against the ndo_stop function.
2.
The driver stops all TTY read/write when the netif is down.
I think this is not right because this may cause the last outgoing frame
before the netif goes down to be incompletely transmitted, and the first
incoming frame after the netif goes up to be incompletely received.
And there may also be other problems.
I was planning to fix these problems but after recent discussions about
deleting other old networking code, I think we may just delete this
driver, too.
Signed-off-by: Xie He <xie.he.0141@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schiller <ms@dev.tdt.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201105073434.429307-1-xie.he.0141@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'docs-5.10-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
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.
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the module
linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
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Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild
Pull Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:
- Support 'make compile_commands.json' to generate the compilation
database more easily, avoiding stale entries
- Support 'make clang-analyzer' and 'make clang-tidy' for static checks
using clang-tidy
- Preprocess scripts/modules.lds.S to allow CONFIG options in the
module linker script
- Drop cc-option tests from compiler flags supported by our minimal
GCC/Clang versions
- Use always 12-digits commit hash for CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO=y
- Use sha1 build id for both BFD linker and LLD
- Improve deb-pkg for reproducible builds and rootless builds
- Remove stale, useless scripts/namespace.pl
- Turn -Wreturn-type warning into error
- Fix build error of deb-pkg when CONFIG_MODULES=n
- Replace 'hostname' command with more portable 'uname -n'
- Various Makefile cleanups
* tag 'kbuild-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild: (34 commits)
kbuild: Use uname for LINUX_COMPILE_HOST detection
kbuild: Only add -fno-var-tracking-assignments for old GCC versions
kbuild: remove leftover comment for filechk utility
treewide: remove DISABLE_LTO
kbuild: deb-pkg: clean up package name variables
kbuild: deb-pkg: do not build linux-headers package if CONFIG_MODULES=n
kbuild: enforce -Werror=return-type
scripts: remove namespace.pl
builddeb: Add support for all required debian/rules targets
builddeb: Enable rootless builds
builddeb: Pass -n to gzip for reproducible packages
kbuild: split the build log of kallsyms
kbuild: explicitly specify the build id style
scripts/setlocalversion: make git describe output more reliable
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -Werror=date-time
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-stack-check
kbuild: remove cc-option test of -fno-strict-overflow
kbuild: move CFLAGS_{KASAN,UBSAN,KCSAN} exports to relevant Makefiles
kbuild: remove redundant CONFIG_KASAN check from scripts/Makefile.kasan
kbuild: do not create built-in objects for external module builds
...
From time to time, the novice kernel contributors do not add Reviewed-by
or Tested-by tags to the next versions of the patches. Mostly because
they are unaware that responsibility of adding these tags in next
version is on submitter, not maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201013162725.13572-1-krzk@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The notes on replacing the deprecated str*cpy() functions didn't call
enough attention to the change in return type. Add these details and
clean up the language a bit more.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201015231730.2138505-1-keescook@chromium.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
namespace.pl is intended to help locate symbols which are defined but
are not used externally. The goal is to avoid bloat of the namespace in
the resulting kernel image.
The script relies on object data, and only finds unused symbols for the
configuration used to generate that object data. This results in a lot
of false positive warnings such as symbols only used by a single
architecture, or symbols which are used externally only under certain
configurations.
Running namespace.pl using allyesconfig, allmodconfig, and
x86_64_defconfig yields the following results:
* allmodconfig
* 11122 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* allyesconfig
* 10997 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 1194 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 214 symbols it can't resolve
* x86_64_defconfig
* 5757 unique symbol names with no external reference
* 528 symbols listed as multiply defined
* 154 symbols it can't resolve
The script also has no way to easily limit the scope of the checks to
a given subset of the kernel, such as only checking for symbols defined
within a module or subsystem.
Discussion on public mailing lists seems to indicate that many view the
tool output as suspect or not very useful (see discussions at [1] and
[2] for further context).
As described by Masahiro Yamada at [2], namespace.pl provides 3 types of
checks: listing multiply defined symbols, resolving external symbols,
and warnings about symbols with no reference.
The first category of issues is easily caught by the linker as any set
of multiply defined symbols should fail to link. The second category of
issues is also caught by linking, as undefined symbols would cause
issues. Even with modules, these types of issues where a module relies
on an external symbol are caught by modpost.
The remaining category of issues reported is the list of symbols with no
external reference, and is the primary motivation of this script.
However, it ought to be clear from the above examples that the output is
difficult to sort through. Even allyesconfig has ~10000 entries.
The current submit-checklist indicates that patches ought to go through
namespacecheck and fix any new issues arising. But that itself presents
problems. As described at [1], many cases of reports are due to
configuration where a function is used externally by some configuration
settings. Prominent maintainers appear to dislike changes modify code
such that symbols become static based on CONFIG_* flags ([3], and [4])
One possible solution is to adjust the advice and indicate that we only
care about the output of namespacecheck on allyesconfig or allmodconfig
builds...
However, given the discussion at [2], I suspect that few people are
actively using this tool. It doesn't have a maintainer in the
MAINTAINERS flie, and it produces so many warnings for unused symbols
that it is difficult to use effectively. Thus, I propose we simply
remove it.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200708164812.384ae8ea@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190129204319.15238-1-jacob.e.keller@intel.com/
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190828.154744.2058157956381129672.davem@davemloft.net/
[4] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190827210928.576c5fef@cakuba.netronome.com/
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Building the kernel with Clang doesn't rely on third party patches, and
has not for a few years now.
Signed-off-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200929211936.580805-1-ndesaulniers@google.com
[jc: Took out duplicated "docs" pointed out by Randy]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
There are two broken references at submitting-patches.rst:
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:240: WARNING: undefined label: security-bugs (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst:336: WARNING: undefined label: documentation/process/email-clients.rst (if the link has no caption the label must precede a section header)
Those are due to some recent renames and file moves.
It turns that maintaining :ref: is currently harder than using
:doc:, as we now have a script to help checking such references.
So, replace :ref: to :doc: there, making them to point to the
current file name.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3ba405f579cf35ef2b39dd210d8ad46adc79f0ad.1599660067.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Update information in the zero-length and one-element arrays section
and illustrate how to make use of the new flex_array_size() helper,
together with struct_size() and a flexible-array member.
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavoars@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200901010949.GA21398@embeddedor
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
