Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Many platforms have per-machine instance data (serial numbers,
asset tags, etc.) squirreled away in areas that are accessed
during early system bringup. Mixing this data into the random
pools has a very high value in providing better random data,
so we should allow (and even encourage) architecture code to
call add_device_randomness() from the setup_arch() paths.
However, this limits our options for internal structure of
the random driver since random_initialize() is not called
until long after setup_arch().
Add a big fat comment to rand_initialize() spelling out
this requirement.
Suggested-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Haojian Zhuang <haojian.zhuang@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule.
The flag was only commented-out in the driver, but we should just
remove it altogether.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Anton Vorontsov <cbou@mail.ru>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: "Ben Dooks" <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Cc: "Wolfram Sang" <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
With the changes in the random tree, IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM is now a
no-op; interrupt randomness is now collected unconditionally in a very
low-overhead fashion; see commit 775f4b297b. The IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM
flag was scheduled to be removed in 2009 on the
feature-removal-schedule, so this patch is preparation for the final
removal of this flag.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
With the new interrupt sampling system, we are no longer using the
timer_rand_state structure in the irq descriptor, so we can stop
initializing it now.
[ Merged in fixes from Sedat to find some last missing references to
rand_initialize_irq() ]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
wm831x devices contain a unique ID value. Feed this into the newly added
device_add_randomness() to add some per device seed data to the pool.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The tamper evident features of the RTC include the "write counter" which
is a pseudo-random number regenerated whenever we set the RTC. Since this
value is unpredictable it should provide some useful seeding to the random
number generator.
Only do this on boot since the goal is to seed the pool rather than add
useful entropy.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Matt Mackall stepped down as the /dev/random driver maintainer last
year, so Theodore Ts'o is taking back the /dev/random driver.
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Create a new function, get_random_bytes_arch() which will use the
architecture-specific hardware random number generator if it is
present. Change get_random_bytes() to not use the HW RNG, even if it
is avaiable.
The reason for this is that the hw random number generator is fast (if
it is present), but it requires that we trust the hardware
manufacturer to have not put in a back door. (For example, an
increasing counter encrypted by an AES key known to the NSA.)
It's unlikely that Intel (for example) was paid off by the US
Government to do this, but it's impossible for them to prove otherwise
--- especially since Bull Mountain is documented to use AES as a
whitener. Hence, the output of an evil, trojan-horse version of
RDRAND is statistically indistinguishable from an RDRAND implemented
to the specifications claimed by Intel. Short of using a tunnelling
electronic microscope to reverse engineer an Ivy Bridge chip and
disassembling and analyzing the CPU microcode, there's no way for us
to tell for sure.
Since users of get_random_bytes() in the Linux kernel need to be able
to support hardware systems where the HW RNG is not present, most
time-sensitive users of this interface have already created their own
cryptographic RNG interface which uses get_random_bytes() as a seed.
So it's much better to use the HW RNG to improve the existing random
number generator, by mixing in any entropy returned by the HW RNG into
/dev/random's entropy pool, but to always _use_ /dev/random's entropy
pool.
This way we get almost of the benefits of the HW RNG without any
potential liabilities. The only benefits we forgo is the
speed/performance enhancements --- and generic kernel code can't
depend on depend on get_random_bytes() having the speed of a HW RNG
anyway.
For those places that really want access to the arch-specific HW RNG,
if it is available, we provide get_random_bytes_arch().
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
If the CPU supports a hardware random number generator, use it in
xfer_secondary_pool(), where it will significantly improve things and
where we can afford it.
Also, remove the use of the arch-specific rng in
add_timer_randomness(), since the call is significantly slower than
get_cycles(), and we're much better off using it in
xfer_secondary_pool() anyway.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Send the USB device's serial, product, and manufacturer strings to the
/dev/random driver to help seed its pools.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Add a new interface, add_device_randomness() for adding data to the
random pool that is likely to differ between two devices (or possibly
even per boot). This would be things like MAC addresses or serial
numbers, or the read-out of the RTC. This does *not* add any actual
entropy to the pool, but it initializes the pool to different values
for devices that might otherwise be identical and have very little
entropy available to them (particularly common in the embedded world).
[ Modified by tytso to mix in a timestamp, since there may be some
variability caused by the time needed to detect/configure the hardware
in question. ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The real-time Linux folks don't like add_interrupt_randomness() taking
a spinlock since it is called in the low-level interrupt routine.
This also allows us to reduce the overhead in the fast path, for the
random driver, which is the interrupt collection path.
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
We've been moving away from add_interrupt_randomness() for various
reasons: it's too expensive to do on every interrupt, and flooding the
CPU with interrupts could theoretically cause bogus floods of entropy
from a somewhat externally controllable source.
This solves both problems by limiting the actual randomness addition
to just once a second or after 64 interrupts, whicever comes first.
During that time, the interrupt cycle data is buffered up in a per-cpu
pool. Also, we make sure the the nonblocking pool used by urandom is
initialized before we start feeding the normal input pool. This
assures that /dev/urandom is returning unpredictable data as soon as
possible.
(Based on an original patch by Linus, but significantly modified by
tytso.)
Tested-by: Eric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu>
Reported-by: Eric Wustrow <ewust@umich.edu>
Reported-by: Nadia Heninger <nadiah@cs.ucsd.edu>
Reported-by: Zakir Durumeric <zakir@umich.edu>
Reported-by: J. Alex Halderman <jhalderm@umich.edu>.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Another week, another batch of fixes.
All are small, contained, targeted fixes for explicit problems -- mostly
build and boot failures across i.MX, OMAP, Renesas/Shmobile and Samsung.
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Merge tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc
Pull ARM SoC fixes from Olof Johansson:
"Another week, another batch of fixes.
All are small, contained, targeted fixes for explicit problems --
mostly build and boot failures across i.MX, OMAP, Renesas/Shmobile and
Samsung."
* tag 'fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/arm-soc:
ARM: imx6q: fix suspend regression caused by common clk migration
ARM: OMAP4470: Fix OMAP4470 boot failure
ARM: EXYNOS: Fix EXYNOS_DEV_DMA Kconfig entry
ARM: OMAP2+: nand: fix build error when CONFIG_MTD_ONENAND_OMAP2=n
ARM: shmobile: r8a7779: Route all interrupts to ARM
ARM: shmobile: kzm9d: use late init machine hook
ARM: shmobile: kzm9g: use late init machine hook
ARM: mach-shmobile: armadillo800eva: Use late init machine hook
ARM: SAMSUNG: Fix for S3C2412 EBI memory mapping
ARM: mach-shmobile: add missing GPIO IRQ configuration on mackerel
ARM: mach-shmobile: Fix build when SMP is enabled and EMEV2 is not enabled
ARM: shmobile: sh7372: bugfix: chclr_offset base
ARM: shmobile: sh73a0: bugfix: SY-DMAC number
ARM: SAMSUNG: Should check for IS_ERR(clk) instead of NULL
Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: use correct parameter name.
Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): No description found for parameter 'buf'
Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): Excess function parameter 'line' description in 'kmsg_dump_get_buffer'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix kernel-doc warning. This struct member was removed in commit
875682648b ("irq: Remove irq_chip->release()") so remove its
associated kernel-doc entry also.
Warning(include/linux/irq.h:338): Excess struct/union/enum/typedef member 'release' description in 'irq_chip'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
When moving to common clk framework, the imx6q clks rom and mmdc_ch1_axi
get different on/off states than old clk driver, which breaks suspend
function. There might be a better way to manage these clocks, but let's
takes the old clk driver approach to fix the regression first.
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
trivial fix to get omap4470 booting.
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Merge tag 'omap-fixes-for-v3.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap into fixes
From Tony Lindgren:
"Here's one more regression fix that I missed earlier, and a
trivial fix to get omap4470 booting."
* tag 'omap-fixes-for-v3.5-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap:
ARM: OMAP4470: Fix OMAP4470 boot failure
ARM: OMAP2+: nand: fix build error when CONFIG_MTD_ONENAND_OMAP2=n
Pull ACPI & Power Management patches from Len Brown.
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux:
acpi_pad: fix power_saving thread deadlock
ACPI video: Still use ACPI backlight control if _DOS doesn't exist
ACPI, APEI, Avoid too much error reporting in runtime
ACPI: Add a quirk for "AMILO PRO V2030" to ignore the timer overriding
ACPI: Remove one board specific WARN when ignoring timer overriding
ACPI: Make acpi_skip_timer_override cover all source_irq==0 cases
ACPI, x86: fix Dell M6600 ACPI reboot regression via DMI
ACPI sysfs.c strlen fix
Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
reported by Stephen and others. Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.
The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel
rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to
hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
kernel releases.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
reported by Stephen and others. Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.
The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable
kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported,
to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
kernel releases.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"
* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues
The acpi_pad driver can get stuck in destroy_power_saving_task()
waiting for kthread_stop() to stop a power_saving thread. The problem
is that the isolated_cpus_lock mutex is owned when
destroy_power_saving_task() calls kthread_stop(), which waits for a
power_saving thread to end, and the power_saving thread tries to
acquire the isolated_cpus_lock when it calls round_robin_cpu(). This
patch fixes the issue by making round_robin_cpu() use its own mutex.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42981
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
This fixes a regression in 3.4-rc1 caused by commit
ea9f8856bd
(ACPI video: Harden video bus adding.)
Some platforms don't have _DOS control method, but the ACPI
backlight still works.
We should not invoke _DOS for these platforms.
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=43168
Cc: Igor Murzov <intergalactic.anonymous@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* Fix for a bug in async suspend error code path causing parents to wait
forever for their children in case of a suspend error from Mandeep Singh
Baines (-stable metarial).
* Fix for a suspend regression related to earlier changes in the ACPI
cpuidle driver from Deepthi Dharwar.
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Merge tag 'pm-for-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management fixes from Rafael J. Wysocki:
* Fix for a bug in async suspend error code path causing parents to
wait forever for their children in case of a suspend error from
Mandeep Singh Baines (-stable metarial).
* Fix for a suspend regression related to earlier changes in the ACPI
cpuidle driver from Deepthi Dharwar.
* tag 'pm-for-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
PM / ACPI: Fix suspend/resume regression caused by cpuidle cleanup.
PM / Sleep: Prevent waiting forever on asynchronous suspend after abort
In reviewing Kay's fix up patch: "printk: Have printk() never buffer its
data", I found two if statements that could be combined and optimized.
Put together the two 'cont.len && cont.owner == current' if statements
into a single one, and check if we need to call cont_add(). This also
removes the unneeded double cont_flush() calls.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340869133.876.10.camel@mop
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here are a few powerpc fixes. Arguably some of this should have come
to you earlier but I'm only just catching up after my medical leave.
Mostly these fixes regressions, a couple are long standing bugs."
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
powerpc/pseries: Fix software invalidate TCE
powerpc: check_and_cede_processor() never cedes
powerpc/ftrace: Do not trace restore_interrupts()
powerpc: Fix Section mismatch warnings in prom_init.c
ppc64: fix missing to check all bits of _TIF_USER_WORK_MASK in preempt
powerpc: Fix uninitialised error in numa.c
powerpc: Fix BPF_JIT code to link with multiple TOCs
Pull x86 fixes from Ingo Molnar.
* 'x86-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, cpufeature: Remove stray %s, add -w to mkcapflags.pl
x86, cpufeature: Catch duplicate CPU feature strings
x86, cpufeature: Rename X86_FEATURE_DTS to X86_FEATURE_DTHERM
x86: Fix kernel-doc warnings
x86, compat: Use test_thread_flag(TIF_IA32) in compat signal delivery
Pull oprofile fixlet from Ingo Molnar.
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
oprofile: perf: use NR_CPUS instead or nr_cpumask_bits for static array
Pull RCU fix from Ingo Molnar.
Fixes a bug introduced in this merge window by commit b1420f1c ("Make
rcu_barrier() less disruptive")
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu: Stop rcu_do_batch() from multiplexing the "count" variable
Tony Luck
Theodore Ts'o
Mark Brown
Linus Torvalds
Randy Dunlap
Olof Johansson
Shawn Guo
Len Brown
Stuart Hayes
Zhang Rui
Steven Rostedt