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authorMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2021-07-07 01:19:43 +0200
committerMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2021-07-07 01:19:43 +0200
commitd900385139e5aa8d584dee92c87bb85d0226253e (patch)
tree26aa082f242221c535f2d8aa03b0c314c713e8ea /Documentation
parent56168452b2a2fa8b4efc664d9fcb08536486a1ba (diff)
parent200ecf5055dfba12b9bff6984830a7cdddee8ab1 (diff)
Merge tag 'v4.4.274' into toradex_vf_4.4-next
Linux 4.4.274
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt15
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt4
5 files changed, 23 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
index 5b6cd9b3f628..0188bbd2e35f 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with NPC100 NFC controller on I2C2):
clock-frequency = <100000>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>;
- interrupts = <29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ interrupts = <29 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
enable-gpios = <&gpio0 30 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
firmware-gpios = <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
index dab69f36167c..8541e8dafd55 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with PN544 on I2C2):
clock-frequency = <400000>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>;
- interrupts = <17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ interrupts = <17 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
enable-gpios = <&gpio3 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
firmware-gpios = <&gpio3 19 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
index 24da7b32c489..1218a5e2975c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt
@@ -211,12 +211,10 @@ Other notes:
is 4096.
- show() methods should return the number of bytes printed into the
- buffer. This is the return value of scnprintf().
+ buffer.
-- show() must not use snprintf() when formatting the value to be
- returned to user space. If you can guarantee that an overflow
- will never happen you can use sprintf() otherwise you must use
- scnprintf().
+- show() should only use sysfs_emit() or sysfs_emit_at() when formatting
+ the value to be returned to user space.
- store() should return the number of bytes used from the buffer. If the
entire buffer has been used, just return the count argument.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index b19d872feb56..a8ceef14e781 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -2196,6 +2196,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
spec_store_bypass_disable=off [X86]
mds=off [X86]
tsx_async_abort=off [X86]
+ no_entry_flush [PPC]
+ no_uaccess_flush [PPC]
auto (default)
Mitigate all CPU vulnerabilities, but leave SMT
@@ -2476,6 +2478,8 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
noefi Disable EFI runtime services support.
+ no_entry_flush [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache when entering the kernel.
+
noexec [IA-64]
noexec [X86]
@@ -2518,6 +2522,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
nospec_store_bypass_disable
[HW] Disable all mitigations for the Speculative Store Bypass vulnerability
+ no_uaccess_flush
+ [PPC] Don't flush the L1-D cache after accessing user data.
+
noxsave [BUGS=X86] Disables x86 extended register state save
and restore using xsave. The kernel will fallback to
enabling legacy floating-point and sse state.
@@ -4488,6 +4495,14 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
Disables the PV optimizations forcing the HVM guest to
run as generic HVM guest with no PV drivers.
+ xen.event_eoi_delay= [XEN]
+ How long to delay EOI handling in case of event
+ storms (jiffies). Default is 10.
+
+ xen.event_loop_timeout= [XEN]
+ After which time (jiffies) the event handling loop
+ should start to delay EOI handling. Default is 2.
+
xirc2ps_cs= [NET,PCMCIA]
Format:
<irq>,<irq_mask>,<io>,<full_duplex>,<do_sound>,<lockup_hack>[,<irq2>[,<irq3>[,<irq4>]]]
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index 21ad4f3cece8..eac939abe6c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -868,12 +868,14 @@ icmp_ratelimit - INTEGER
icmp_msgs_per_sec - INTEGER
Limit maximal number of ICMP packets sent per second from this host.
Only messages whose type matches icmp_ratemask (see below) are
- controlled by this limit.
+ controlled by this limit. For security reasons, the precise count
+ of messages per second is randomized.
Default: 1000
icmp_msgs_burst - INTEGER
icmp_msgs_per_sec controls number of ICMP packets sent per second,
while icmp_msgs_burst controls the burst size of these packets.
+ For security reasons, the precise burst size is randomized.
Default: 50
icmp_ratemask - INTEGER