Documentation: Add TI TPS6594 PFSM

This patch adds documentation for the TPS6594 PFSM driver.

The PFSM controls the operational states of the TPS6594 PMIC.
Depending on the operational mode, some p

Documentation: Add TI TPS6594 PFSM

This patch adds documentation for the TPS6594 PFSM driver.

The PFSM controls the operational states of the TPS6594 PMIC.
Depending on the operational mode, some power domain networks
remain energized while others can be off.

Signed-off-by: Julien Panis <jpanis@baylibre.com>
Message-ID: <20230511095126.105104-6-jpanis@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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cifs: correct references in Documentation to old fs/cifs path

The fs/cifs directory has moved to fs/smb/client, correct mentions
of this in Documentation and comments.

Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkin

cifs: correct references in Documentation to old fs/cifs path

The fs/cifs directory has moved to fs/smb/client, correct mentions
of this in Documentation and comments.

Acked-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

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char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers

These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It
was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers
completely. Let's sta

char: pcmcia: remove all the drivers

These char PCMCIA drivers are buggy[1] and receive only minimal care. It
was concluded[2], that we should try to remove most pcmcia drivers
completely. Let's start with these char broken one.

Note that I also removed a UAPI header: include/uapi/linux/cm4000_cs.h.
I found only coccinelle tests mentioning some ioctl constants from that
file. But they are not actually used. Anyway, should someone complain,
we may reintroduce the header (or its parts).

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/f41c2765-80e0-48bc-b1e4-8cfd3230fd4a@www.fastmail.com/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/c5b39544-a4fb-4796-a046-0b9be9853787@app.fastmail.com/

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org>
Cc: "Hyunwoo Kim" <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230222092302.6348-2-jirislaby@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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staging: media: remove davinci vpfe_capture driver

This driver was for the davinci dm644x and dm3xx platforms that are
now removed from the kernel, so there are no more users.

Acked-by: Hans Verkui

staging: media: remove davinci vpfe_capture driver

This driver was for the davinci dm644x and dm3xx platforms that are
now removed from the kernel, so there are no more users.

Acked-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil-cisco@xs4all.nl>
Acked-by: Lad Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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doc: add dma-buf IOCTL code to table

The code 'b' is used for dma-buf IOCTLs.

Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <da

doc: add dma-buf IOCTL code to table

The code 'b' is used for dma-buf IOCTLs.

Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@emersion.fr>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Cc: Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20221128133853.355645-1-contact@emersion.fr

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iommufd: File descriptor, context, kconfig and makefiles

This is the basic infrastructure of a new miscdevice to hold the iommufd
IOCTL API.

It provides:
- A miscdevice to create file descriptors

iommufd: File descriptor, context, kconfig and makefiles

This is the basic infrastructure of a new miscdevice to hold the iommufd
IOCTL API.

It provides:
- A miscdevice to create file descriptors to run the IOCTL interface over

- A table based ioctl dispatch and centralized extendable pre-validation
step

- An xarray mapping userspace ID's to kernel objects. The design has
multiple inter-related objects held within in a single IOMMUFD fd

- A simple usage count to build a graph of object relations and protect
against hostile userspace racing ioctls

The only IOCTL provided in this patch is the generic 'destroy any object
by handle' operation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/6-v6-a196d26f289e+11787-iommufd_jgg@nvidia.com
Reviewed-by: Lu Baolu <baolu.lu@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Auger <eric.auger@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Tested-by: Lixiao Yang <lixiao.yang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Rosato <mjrosato@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yi Liu <yi.l.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>

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Remove DECnet support from kernel

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux ker

Remove DECnet support from kernel

DECnet is an obsolete network protocol that receives more attention
from kernel janitors than users. It belongs in computer protocol
history museum not in Linux kernel.

It has been "Orphaned" in kernel since 2010. The iproute2 support
for DECnet was dropped in 5.0 release. The documentation link on
Sourceforge says it is abandoned there as well.

Leave the UAPI alone to keep userspace programs compiling.
This means that there is still an empty neighbour table
for AF_DECNET.

The table of /proc/sys/net entries was updated to match
current directories and reformatted to be alphabetical.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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scsi: dpt_i2o: Remove obsolete driver

The dpt_i2o driver was fixed to stop using virt_to_bus() in 2008, but it
still has a stale reference in an error handling code path that could never
work. I sub

scsi: dpt_i2o: Remove obsolete driver

The dpt_i2o driver was fixed to stop using virt_to_bus() in 2008, but it
still has a stale reference in an error handling code path that could never
work. I submitted a patch to fix this reference earlier, but Hannes
Reinecke suggested that removing the driver may be just as good here.

The i2o driver layer was removed in 2015 with commit 4a72a7af462d
("staging: remove i2o subsystem"), but the even older dpt_i2o scsi driver
stayed around.

The last non-cleanup patches I could find were from Miquel van Smoorenburg
and Mark Salyzyn back in 2008, they might know if there is any chance of
the hardware still being used anywhere.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/CAK8P3a1XfwkTOV7qOs1fTxf4vthNBRXKNu8A5V7TWnHT081NGA@mail.gmail.com/T/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220624155226.2889613-3-arnd@kernel.org
Cc: Miquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@xs4all.net>
Cc: Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>

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platform/x86: Add AMD system management interface

Recent Fam19h EPYC server line of processors from AMD support system
management functionality via HSMP (Host System Management Port) interface.

The

platform/x86: Add AMD system management interface

Recent Fam19h EPYC server line of processors from AMD support system
management functionality via HSMP (Host System Management Port) interface.

The Host System Management Port (HSMP) is an interface to provide
OS-level software with access to system management functions via a
set of mailbox registers.

More details on the interface can be found in chapter
"7 Host System Management Port (HSMP)" of the following PPR
https://www.amd.com/system/files/TechDocs/55898_B1_pub_0.50.zip

This patch adds new amd_hsmp module under the drivers/platforms/x86/
which creates miscdevice with an IOCTL interface to the user space.
/dev/hsmp is for running the hsmp mailbox commands.

Signed-off-by: Suma Hegde <suma.hegde@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Naveen Krishna Chatradhi <nchatrad@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Carlos Bilbao <carlos.bilbao@amd.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Fontenot <nathan.fontenot@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220222050501.18789-1-nchatrad@amd.com
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

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Documentation: Fix links for udftools project and pktcdvd tool

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220210192200.30828-1-pali@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonat

Documentation: Fix links for udftools project and pktcdvd tool

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220210192200.30828-1-pali@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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xen: update missing ioctl magic numers documentation

Add missing ioctl "magic numbers" for various Xen interfaces
(xenbus_dev.h, gntalloc.h, gntdev.h, and privcmd.h).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <r

xen: update missing ioctl magic numers documentation

Add missing ioctl "magic numbers" for various Xen interfaces
(xenbus_dev.h, gntalloc.h, gntdev.h, and privcmd.h).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220131161959.16509-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>

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ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver

Introduce the pfr_update driver which can be used for Platform Firmware
Runtime code injection and driver update [1].

The user is expe

ACPI: Introduce Platform Firmware Runtime Update device driver

Introduce the pfr_update driver which can be used for Platform Firmware
Runtime code injection and driver update [1].

The user is expected to provide the EFI capsule, and pass it to the
driver by writing the capsule to a device special file. The capsule
is transferred by the driver to the platform firmware with the help
of an ACPI _DSM method under the special ACPI Platform Firmware
Runtime Update device (INTC1080), and the actual firmware update is
carried out by the low-level Management Mode code in the platform
firmware.

This change allows certain pieces of the platform firmware to be
updated on the fly while the system is running (runtime) without the
need to restart it, which is key in the cases when the system needs to
be available 100% of the time and it cannot afford the downtime related
to restarting it, or when the work carried out by the system is
particularly important, so it cannot be interrupted, and it is not
practical to wait until it is complete.

Link: https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/Intel_MM_OS_Interface_Spec_Rev100.pdf # [1]
Tested-by: Hongyu Ning <hongyu.ning@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Chen Yu <yu.c.chen@intel.com>
[ rjw: Subject and changelog edits ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

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docs: counter: Document character device interface

This patch adds high-level documentation about the Counter subsystem
character device interface.

Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gr

docs: counter: Document character device interface

This patch adds high-level documentation about the Counter subsystem
character device interface.

Signed-off-by: William Breathitt Gray <vilhelm.gray@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/7a71dff2868195901d074ae2ec1b5611838d4b24.1632884256.git.vilhelm.gray@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

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ptp: Document the PTP_CLK_MAGIC ioctl number

Add PTP_CLK_MAGIC to the userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
documentation file.

Fixes: d94ba80ebbea ("ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp cloc

ptp: Document the PTP_CLK_MAGIC ioctl number

Add PTP_CLK_MAGIC to the userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst
documentation file.

Fixes: d94ba80ebbea ("ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211024163831.10200-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

This VDUSE driver enables implementing software-emulated vDPA
devices in userspace. The vDPA device is created by
ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on /dev/vd

vduse: Introduce VDUSE - vDPA Device in Userspace

This VDUSE driver enables implementing software-emulated vDPA
devices in userspace. The vDPA device is created by
ioctl(VDUSE_CREATE_DEV) on /dev/vduse/control. Then a char device
interface (/dev/vduse/$NAME) is exported to userspace for device
emulation.

In order to make the device emulation more secure, the device's
control path is handled in kernel. A message mechnism is introduced
to forward some dataplane related control messages to userspace.

And in the data path, the DMA buffer will be mapped into userspace
address space through different ways depending on the vDPA bus to
which the vDPA device is attached. In virtio-vdpa case, the MMU-based
software IOTLB is used to achieve that. And in vhost-vdpa case, the
DMA buffer is reside in a userspace memory region which can be shared
to the VDUSE userspace processs via transferring the shmfd.

For more details on VDUSE design and usage, please see the follow-on
Documentation commit.

NB(mst): when merging this with
b542e383d8c0 ("eventfd: Make signal recursion protection a task bit")
replace eventfd_signal_count with eventfd_signal_allowed,
and drop the previous
("eventfd: Export eventfd_wake_count to modules").

Signed-off-by: Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210831103634.33-13-xieyongji@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

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remove the lightnvm subsystem

Lightnvm supports the OCSSD 1.x and 2.0 specs which were early attempts
to produce Open Channel SSDs and never made it into the NVMe spec
proper. They have since been

remove the lightnvm subsystem

Lightnvm supports the OCSSD 1.x and 2.0 specs which were early attempts
to produce Open Channel SSDs and never made it into the NVMe spec
proper. They have since been superceeded by NVMe enhancements such
as ZNS support. Remove the support per the deprecation schedule.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210812132308.38486-1-hch@lst.de
Reviewed-by: Matias Bjørling <mb@lightnvm.io>
Reviewed-by: Javier González <javier@javigon.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

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platform/surface: aggregator_cdev: Add support for forwarding events to user-space

Currently, debugging unknown events requires writing a custom driver.
This is somewhat difficult, slow to adapt, an

platform/surface: aggregator_cdev: Add support for forwarding events to user-space

Currently, debugging unknown events requires writing a custom driver.
This is somewhat difficult, slow to adapt, and not entirely
user-friendly for quickly trying to figure out things on devices of some
third-party user. We can do better. We already have a user-space
interface intended for debugging SAM EC requests, so let's add support
for receiving events to that.

This commit provides support for receiving events by reading from the
controller file. It additionally introduces two new IOCTLs to control
which event categories will be forwarded. Specifically, a user-space
client can specify which target categories it wants to receive events
from by registering the corresponding notifier(s) via the IOCTLs and
after that, read the received events by reading from the controller
device.

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210604134755.535590-5-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

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platform/surface: Add DTX driver

The Microsoft Surface Book series devices consist of a so-called
clipboard part (containing the CPU, touchscreen, and primary battery)
and a base part (containing ke

platform/surface: Add DTX driver

The Microsoft Surface Book series devices consist of a so-called
clipboard part (containing the CPU, touchscreen, and primary battery)
and a base part (containing keyboard, secondary battery, and optional
discrete GPU). These parts can be separated, i.e. the clipboard can be
detached and used as tablet.

This detachment process is initiated by pressing a button. On the
Surface Book 2 and 3 (targeted with this commit), the Surface Aggregator
Module (i.e. the embedded controller on those devices) attempts to send
a notification to any listening client driver and waits for further
instructions (i.e. whether the detachment process should continue or be
aborted). If it does not receive a response in a certain time-frame, the
detachment process (by default) continues and the clipboard can be
physically separated. In other words, (by default and) without a driver,
the detachment process takes about 10 seconds to complete.

This commit introduces a driver for this detachment system (called DTX).
This driver allows a user-space daemon to control and influence the
detachment behavior. Specifically, it forwards any detachment requests
to user-space, allows user-space to make such requests itself, and
allows handling of those requests. Requests can be handled by either
aborting, continuing/allowing, or delaying (i.e. resetting the timeout
via a heartbeat commend). The user-space API is implemented via the
/dev/surface/dtx miscdevice.

In addition, user-space can change the default behavior on timeout from
allowing detachment to disallowing it, which is useful if the (optional)
discrete GPU is in use.

Furthermore, this driver allows user-space to receive notifications
about the state of the base, specifically when it is physically removed
(as opposed to detachment requested), in what manner it is connected
(i.e. in reverse-/tent-/studio- or laptop-mode), and what type of base
is connected. Based on this information, the driver also provides a
simple tablet-mode switch (aliasing all modes without keyboard access,
i.e. tablet-mode and studio-mode to its reported tablet-mode).

An implementation of such a user-space daemon, allowing configuration of
detachment behavior via scripts (e.g. safely unmounting USB devices
connected to the base before continuing) can be found at [1].

[1]: https://github.com/linux-surface/surface-dtx-daemon

Signed-off-by: Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210308184819.437438-2-luzmaximilian@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

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docs: ioctl-number.rst: reserve IIO subsystem ioctl() space

Currently, only the 'i' 0x90 ioctl() actually exists and is defined in
'include/uapi/linux/iio/events.h'.

It's the IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL

docs: ioctl-number.rst: reserve IIO subsystem ioctl() space

Currently, only the 'i' 0x90 ioctl() actually exists and is defined in
'include/uapi/linux/iio/events.h'.

It's the IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL, which is used to retrieve and FD for
reading events from an IIO device.
We will want to add more ioct() numbers, so with this change the 'i'
0x90-0x9F space is reserved for IIO ioctl() calls.

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Ardelean <alexandru.ardelean@analog.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210215104043.91251-8-alexandru.ardelean@analog.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@huawei.com>

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tty: cyclades, remove this orphan

The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c54 (MAINTAINERS:
remove two dead e-mail) 13 years ago. Noone stepped up to take care of
them and to fix all the

tty: cyclades, remove this orphan

The Cyclades driver was orphaned by commit d459883e6c54 (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>

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Documentation: ioctl: add entry for nsfs.h

All userspace ioctls major/magic number should be documented in
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst, so add
the entry for <linux/nsfs.h>.

S

Documentation: ioctl: add entry for nsfs.h

All userspace ioctls major/magic number should be documented in
Documentation/userspace-api/ioctl/ioctl-number.rst, so add
the entry for <linux/nsfs.h>.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrey Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge@hallyn.com>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210210182248.18101-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

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cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface

Add a straightforward IOCTL that provides a mechanism for userspace to
query the supported memory device commands. CXL commands as they appear
to userspace are des

cxl/mem: Add basic IOCTL interface

Add a straightforward IOCTL that provides a mechanism for userspace to
query the supported memory device commands. CXL commands as they appear
to userspace are described as part of the UAPI kerneldoc. The command
list returned via this IOCTL will contain the full set of commands that
the driver supports, however, some of those commands may not be
available for use by userspace.

Memory device commands first appear in the CXL 2.0 specification. They
are submitted through a mailbox mechanism specified in the CXL 2.0
specification.

The send command allows userspace to issue mailbox commands directly to
the hardware. The list of available commands to send are the output of
the query command. The driver verifies basic properties of the command
and possibly inspect the input (or output) payload to determine whether
or not the command is allowed (or might taint the kernel).

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com> # bug in earlier revision
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Ben Widawsky <ben.widawsky@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> (v2)
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210217040958.1354670-5-ben.widawsky@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

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virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces

The VM management interfaces expose several VM operations to ACRN
userspace via ioctls. For example, creating VM, starting VM, destroying
VM and so on.

virt: acrn: Introduce VM management interfaces

The VM management interfaces expose several VM operations to ACRN
userspace via ioctls. For example, creating VM, starting VM, destroying
VM and so on.

The ACRN Hypervisor needs to exchange data with the ACRN userspace
during the VM operations. HSM provides VM operation ioctls to the ACRN
userspace and communicates with the ACRN Hypervisor for VM operations
via hypercalls.

HSM maintains a list of User VM. Each User VM will be bound to an
existing file descriptor of /dev/acrn_hsm. The User VM will be
destroyed when the file descriptor is closed.

Cc: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Zhenyu Wang <zhenyuw@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yu Wang <yu1.wang@intel.com>
Cc: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Zhi Wang <zhi.a.wang@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Shuo Liu <shuo.a.liu@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210207031040.49576-7-shuo.a.liu@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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bus: fsl-mc: add fsl-mc userspace support

Adding userspace support for the MC (Management Complex) means exporting
an ioctl capable device file representing the root resource container.

This new fu

bus: fsl-mc: add fsl-mc userspace support

Adding userspace support for the MC (Management Complex) means exporting
an ioctl capable device file representing the root resource container.

This new functionality in the fsl-mc bus driver intends to provide
userspace applications an interface to interact with the MC firmware.

Commands that are composed in userspace are sent to the MC firmware
through the FSL_MC_SEND_MC_COMMAND ioctl. By default the implicit MC
I/O portal is used for this operation, but if the implicit one is busy,
a dynamic portal is allocated and then freed upon execution.

The command received through the ioctl interface is checked against a
known whitelist of accepted MC commands. Commands that attempt a change
in hardware configuration will need CAP_NET_ADMIN, while commands used
in debugging do not need it.

Acked-by: Laurentiu Tudor <laurentiu.tudor@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114170752.2927915-4-ciorneiioana@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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scsi: Drop gdth driver

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

scsi: Drop gdth driver

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>

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