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This enables the Vivante GC7000L GPU on the i.MX8MQ SoC.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
The Zii Ultra design, also known as RDU3, is the i.MX8M based successor
to the the i.MX6 based RDU2. This adds the basic board support for all
components which are supported by the upstream kernel at this time.
The board comes in 2 different versions, called RMB3 and Zest, which
are derived from the same design, but have different layouts and a
few small differences in the populated components.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
According to the datasheet both industrial and consumer variants support
at least 1.3GHz CPU frequency at 1.0V. Only the OPP at 1.5GHz is
unavailable on some SKUs and thus need further fuse reading support.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
According to NXP's FAE feedback and a comment in ATF firmware, PCIE1
and PCIE2 power domains can't really be used independently. Due to
shared reset line both power domains have to be turned on at the same
time. Account for that quirk by combining PCIE power domains into a
single 'pgc_pcie' power domain.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Cc: "A.s. Dong" <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Cc: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>
Cc: linux-imx@nxp.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Mark iomuxc_gpr as compatible with "fsl,imx6q-iomuxc-gpr" in order for
to allow i.MX6 PCIe driver to use it.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Cc: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>
Cc: Chris Healy <cphealy@gmail.com>
Cc: Lucas Stach <l.stach@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Leonard Crestez <leonard.crestez@nxp.com>
Cc: "A.s. Dong" <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Cc: Richard Zhu <hongxing.zhu@nxp.com>
Cc: linux-imx@nxp.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
lpuart nodes are part of the ADMA subsystem. See Audio DMA
memory map in iMX8 QXP RM [1]
This patch is based on the dtsi file initially submitted by
Teo Hall in i.MX NXP internal tree.
[1] https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/reference-manual/IMX8DQXPRM.pdf
Signed-off-by: Teo Hall <teo.hall@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Add SATA device nodes for fsl-lx2160a and enable support
for QDS and RDB boards.
Signed-off-by: Peng Ma <peng.ma@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Ls1028a SATA ecc address with more than 32 bit, so we should corrrect the
address.
Signed-off-by: Peng Ma <peng.ma@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Set ahb clock on sdma1 to get rid of "Timeout waiting for CH0"
on the imx8mq.
Signed-off-by: Angus Ainslie (Purism) <angus@akkea.ca>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Fix a typo in the compatible string
Signed-off-by: Angus Ainslie (Purism) <angus@akkea.ca>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
thermal-zones node does not have any register properties and thus
shouldn't be placed inside the bus.
Move thermal-zones node from soc node to root node in order to fix
the following build warning with W=1:
arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi:305.18-364.6: Warning (simple_bus_reg): /soc@0/bus@30000000/thermal-zones: missing or empty reg/ranges property
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
The i.MX8M Mini is new SOC of the i.MX8M family. it is
focused on delivering the latest and greatest video and
audio experience combining state-of-the-art media-specific
features with high-performance processing while optimized
for lowest power consumption. The i.MX 8M Mini Media Applications
Processor is 14nm FinFET product of the growing i.MX8M family
targeting the consumer & industrial market. It is built in 14LPP
to achieve both high performance and low power consumption
and relies on a powerful fully coherent core complex based on
a quad Cortex-A53 cluster with video and graphics accelerators
This patch adds the basic dtsi support for i.MX8MM.
Signed-off-by: Jacky Bai <ping.bai@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Move opp-table node from soc node to root node.
opp-table node does not have any register properties and thus
shouldn't be placed inside the bus.
This fixes the following build warnings with W=1:
arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq.dtsi:687.28-703.5: Warning (simple_bus_reg): /soc@0/opp-table: missing or empty reg/ranges property
Fixes: 64d26f8c1dde ("arm64: dts: imx8mq: Add the opp table and cores opp properties")
Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
crypto node alias is needed by U-boot to identify the node and
perform fix-ups, like adding "fsl,sec-era" property or deleting
a job ring child node (in case ARM TF-A is running).
Signed-off-by: Horia Geantă <horia.geanta@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
After switching to the new FSL QSPI driver the properties
'fsl,qspi-has-second-chip' and 'big-endian' are not used anymore.
The driver now uses the 'reg' property to determine the bus and
the chipselect. The endianness is selected by the driver depending
on which SoC is used.
Signed-off-by: Frieder Schrempf <frieder.schrempf@kontron.de>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Add lsio_mu2 node which could be used communicate with SCU.
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Currently lsio_mu1 is used by Linux Kernel with mbox-cells as 2, but
actually mu0-4 could be used to communicate with SCU. So fix the
mbox-cells.
Signed-off-by: Peng Fan <peng.fan@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Dong Aisheng <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>
Fixes: 3d91ba65fecd ("arm64: dts: imx: add imx8qxp support")
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Enable PCI-E controller for Oxalis board based on NXP/Freescale LS1012a
SoC available as the Mini PCI-E connector on the bottom side.
Signed-off-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
The main Audio DAC used on the EVK board is wm8524
The EVK provides the MCLK to wm8524.
Digital interface is SAI2 which includes three signals:
SYNC_CLK, BCLK and DACDAT.
This patch sets:
* SAI2 pinctrl configuration
* clock hierarchy
* wm8524 codec
Then uses simple-card machine driver to connect them
into a sound card.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
SAI2 is part of AIPS-3 memory region.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
SDMA1 is part of AIPS-3 region and SDMA2 is part
of AIPS-1 region.
Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
i.MX8MQ has clock gate for each GPIO bank, add clock info
to GPIO node for clock management.
Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Add the 0.8GHz and 1GHz opps. According to the datasheet:
https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/data-sheet/IMX8MDQLQIEC.pdf
section 3.1.3 Operating ranges.
The 0.8GHz opp runs in nominal mode with the regulator set to 0.9V.
The 1GHz runs in overdrive mode with the regulator set to 1V.
Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
According to the schematics, this is a MP2147 switch converter
which is controlled by GPIO1_IO13. When set the gpio is set to
high the regulator output is set to 0.9V. When the gpio is set
to low the regulator output is set to 1V.
Signed-off-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
This patch adds Audio DT nodes for LS1028ARDB and LS1028AQDS boards.
Signed-off-by: Alison Wang <alison.wang@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Add the node for the OTP controller.
Signed-off-by: Carlo Caione <ccaione@baylibre.com>
Reviewed-by: Abel Vesa <abel.vesa@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Add i.MX8QXP CPU opp table to support cpufreq.
Signed-off-by: Anson Huang <Anson.Huang@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>
Pull x86 asm updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two cleanup patches removing dead conditionals and unused code"
* 'x86-asm-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/asm: Remove unused __constant_c_x_memset() macro and inlines
x86/asm: Remove dead __GNUC__ conditionals
Pull perf fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Three fixes for the fallout from the TSX errata workaround:
- Prevent memory corruption caused by a unchecked out of bound array
index.
- Two trivial fixes to address compiler warnings"
* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
perf/x86/intel: Make dev_attr_allow_tsx_force_abort static
perf/x86: Fixup typo in stub functions
perf/x86/intel: Fix memory corruption
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Merge tag 'for-linus-5.1b-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip
Pull xen fix from Juergen Gross:
"A fix for a Xen bug introduced by David's series for excluding
ballooned pages in vmcores"
* tag 'for-linus-5.1b-rc1b-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen/balloon: Fix mapping PG_offline pages to user space
Two fixes (leak on invalid mount argument and possible deadlock on
i_size update on 32bit smp) and a fall-through warning cleanup
----------------------------------------------------------------
Gustavo A. R. Silva (1):
9p: mark expected switch fall-through
Hou Tao (1):
9p: use inode->i_lock to protect i_size_write() under 32-bit
zhengbin (1):
9p/net: fix memory leak in p9_client_create
fs/9p/v9fs_vfs.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++--
fs/9p/vfs_file.c | 6 +++++-
fs/9p/vfs_inode.c | 23 +++++++++++------------
fs/9p/vfs_inode_dotl.c | 27 ++++++++++++++-------------
fs/9p/vfs_super.c | 4 ++--
net/9p/client.c | 2 +-
net/9p/trans_xen.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 32 deletions(-)
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Merge tag '9p-for-5.1' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux
Pull 9p updates from Dominique Martinet:
"Here is a 9p update for 5.1; there honestly hasn't been much.
Two fixes (leak on invalid mount argument and possible deadlock on
i_size update on 32bit smp) and a fall-through warning cleanup"
* tag '9p-for-5.1' of git://github.com/martinetd/linux:
9p/net: fix memory leak in p9_client_create
9p: use inode->i_lock to protect i_size_write() under 32-bit
9p: mark expected switch fall-through
When this .gitignore was added, lxdialog was an independent hostprogs-y.
Now that all objects in lxdialog/ are directly linked to mconf, the
lxdialog is no longer generated.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.
um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The generic-y is redundant under the following condition:
- arch has its own implementation
- the same header is added to generated-y
- the same header is added to mandatory-y
If a redundant generic-y is found, the warning like follows is displayed:
scripts/Makefile.asm-generic:20: redundant generic-y found in arch/arm/include/asm/Kbuild: timex.h
I fixed up arch Kbuild files found by this.
Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
This reverts commit caf6fe91ddf62a96401e21e9b7a07227440f4185.
The commit was fine but is no longer needed as of commit 3a2429e1faf4
("kbuild: change if_changed_rule for multi-line recipe"). Let's go
back to using ";" to be consistent.
For some discussion, see:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAK7LNASde0Q9S5GKeQiWhArfER4S4wL1=R_FW8q0++_X3T5=hQ@mail.gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
During a simple no-op (nothing changed) build I saw 39 invocations of
the C compiler with the argument "-print-file-name=include". We don't
need to call the C compiler 39 times for this--one time will suffice.
Let's change NOSTDINC_FLAGS to a simply expanded variable to avoid
this since there doesn't appear to be any reason it should be
recursively expanded.
On my build this shaved ~400 ms off my "no-op" build.
Note that the recursive expansion seems to date back to the (really
old) commit e8f5bdb02ce0 ("[PATCH] Makefile include path ordering").
It's a little unclear to me if the point of that patch was to switch
the variable to be recursively expanded (which it did) or to avoid
directly assigning to NOSTDINC_FLAGS (AKA to switch to +=) because
someone else (out of tree?) was setting it. I presume later since if
the only goal was to switch to recursive expansion the patch would
have just removed the ":".
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
* The man page for dpkg-source(1) notes:
> -b, --build directory [format-specific-parameters]
> Build a source package (--build since dpkg 1.17.14).
> <...>
>
> dpkg-source will build the source package with the first
> format found in this ordered list: the format indicated
> with the --format command line option, the format
> indicated in debian/source/format, “1.0”. The fallback
> to “1.0” is deprecated and will be removed at some point
> in the future, you should always document the desired
> source format in debian/source/format. See section
> SOURCE PACKAGE FORMATS for an extensive description of
> the various source package formats.
Thus it would be more foolproof to explicitly use 1.0 (as we always
did) than to rely on dpkg-source's defaults.
* In a similar vein, debian/rules is not made executable by mkdebian,
and dpkg-source warns about that but still silently fixes the file.
Let's be explicit once again.
Signed-off-by: Arseny Maslennikov <ar@cs.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
The of_find_device_by_node() takes a reference to the underlying device
structure, we should release that reference.
The implementation of this semantic code search is:
In a function, for a local variable returned by calling
of_find_device_by_node(),
a, if it is released by a function such as
put_device()/of_dev_put()/platform_device_put() after the last use,
it is considered that there is no reference leak;
b, if it is passed back to the caller via
dev_get_drvdata()/platform_get_drvdata()/get_device(), etc., the
reference will be released in other functions, and the current function
also considers that there is no reference leak;
c, for the rest of the situation, the current function should release the
reference by calling put_device, this code search will report the
corresponding error message.
By using this semantic code search, we have found some object reference leaks,
such as:
commit 11907e9d3533 ("ASoC: fsl-asoc-card: fix object reference leaks in
fsl_asoc_card_probe")
commit a12085d13997 ("mtd: rawnand: atmel: fix possible object reference leak")
commit 11493f26856a ("mtd: rawnand: jz4780: fix possible object reference leak")
There are still dozens of reference leaks in the current kernel code.
Further, for the case of b, the object returned to other functions may also
have a reference leak, we will continue to develop other cocci scripts to
further check the reference leak.
Signed-off-by: Wen Yang <wen.yang99@zte.com.cn>
Reviewed-by: Julia Lawall <Julia.Lawall@lip6.fr>
Reviewed-by: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com>
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Merge tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux
Pull pidfd system call from Christian Brauner:
"This introduces the ability to use file descriptors from /proc/<pid>/
as stable handles on struct pid. Even if a pid is recycled the handle
will not change. For a start these fds can be used to send signals to
the processes they refer to.
With the ability to use /proc/<pid> fds as stable handles on struct
pid we can fix a long-standing issue where after a process has exited
its pid can be reused by another process. If a caller sends a signal
to a reused pid it will end up signaling the wrong process.
With this patchset we enable a variety of use cases. One obvious
example is that we can now safely delegate an important part of
process management - sending signals - to processes other than the
parent of a given process by sending file descriptors around via scm
rights and not fearing that the given process will have been recycled
in the meantime. It also allows for easy testing whether a given
process is still alive or not by sending signal 0 to a pidfd which is
quite handy.
There has been some interest in this feature e.g. from systems
management (systemd, glibc) and container managers. I have requested
and gotten comments from glibc to make sure that this syscall is
suitable for their needs as well. In the future I expect it to take on
most other pid-based signal syscalls. But such features are left for
the future once they are needed.
This has been sitting in linux-next for quite a while and has not
caused any issues. It comes with selftests which verify basic
functionality and also test that a recycled pid cannot be signaled via
a pidfd.
Jon has written about a prior version of this patchset. It should
cover the basic functionality since not a lot has changed since then:
https://lwn.net/Articles/773459/
The commit message for the syscall itself is extensively documenting
the syscall, including it's functionality and extensibility"
* tag 'pidfd-v5.1-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brauner/linux:
selftests: add tests for pidfd_send_signal()
signal: add pidfd_send_signal() syscall
