Esteban-Rocha · Esteban-Rocha · Jan 18, 2018 · Jan 6, 2018 · Jan 6, 2018 · Jan 8, 2018
diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> <linus.luessing@ascom.ch>
 Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@mips.com> <macro@imgtec.com>
 Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@mips.com> <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com>
 Mark Brown <broonie@sirena.org.uk>
+Mark Yao <markyao0591@gmail.com> <mark.yao@rock-chips.com>
 Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> <martin.kepplinger@theobroma-systems.com>
 Martin Kepplinger <martink@posteo.de> <martin.kepplinger@ginzinger.com>
 Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-system-cpu
@@ -375,3 +375,19 @@ Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
 Description:	information about CPUs heterogeneity.
 
 		cpu_capacity: capacity of cpu#.
+
+What:		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/meltdown
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v1
+		/sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/spectre_v2
+Date:		January 2018
+Contact:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
+Description:	Information about CPU vulnerabilities
+
+		The files are named after the code names of CPU
+		vulnerabilities. The output of those files reflects the
+		state of the CPUs in the system. Possible output values:
+
+		"Not affected"	  CPU is not affected by the vulnerability
+		"Vulnerable"	  CPU is affected and no mitigation in effect
+		"Mitigation: $M"  CPU is affected and mitigation $M is in effect
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.rst
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@ parameter is applicable::
 	IPV6	IPv6 support is enabled.
 	ISAPNP	ISA PnP code is enabled.
 	ISDN	Appropriate ISDN support is enabled.
+	ISOL	CPU Isolation is enabled.
 	JOY	Appropriate joystick support is enabled.
 	KGDB	Kernel debugger support is enabled.
 	KVM	Kernel Virtual Machine support is enabled.

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -328,11 +328,15 @@
 			not play well with APC CPU idle - disable it if you have
 			APC and your system crashes randomly.
 
-	apic=		[APIC,X86-32] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
+	apic=		[APIC,X86] Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller
 			Change the output verbosity whilst booting
 			Format: { quiet (default) | verbose | debug }
 			Change the amount of debugging information output
 			when initialising the APIC and IO-APIC components.
+			For X86-32, this can also be used to specify an APIC
+			driver name.
+			Format: apic=driver_name
+			Examples: apic=bigsmp
 
 	apic_extnmi=	[APIC,X86] External NMI delivery setting
 			Format: { bsp (default) | all | none }
@@ -709,9 +713,6 @@
 			It will be ignored when crashkernel=X,high is not used
 			or memory reserved is below 4G.
 
-	crossrelease_fullstack
-			[KNL] Allow to record full stack trace in cross-release
-
 	cryptomgr.notests
                         [KNL] Disable crypto self-tests
 
@@ -1737,7 +1738,7 @@
 	isapnp=		[ISAPNP]
 			Format: <RDP>,<reset>,<pci_scan>,<verbosity>
 
-	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
+	isolcpus=	[KNL,SMP,ISOL] Isolate a given set of CPUs from disturbance.
 			[Deprecated - use cpusets instead]
 			Format: [flag-list,]<cpu-list>
 
@@ -2622,6 +2623,11 @@
 	nosmt		[KNL,S390] Disable symmetric multithreading (SMT).
 			Equivalent to smt=1.
 
+	nospectre_v2	[X86] Disable all mitigations for the Spectre variant 2
+			(indirect branch prediction) vulnerability. System may
+			allow data leaks with this option, which is equivalent
+			to spectre_v2=off.
+
 	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.
@@ -2662,7 +2668,7 @@
 			Valid arguments: on, off
 			Default: on
 
-	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT]
+	nohz_full=	[KNL,BOOT,SMP,ISOL]
 			The argument is a cpu list, as described above.
 			In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, set
 			the specified list of CPUs whose tick will be stopped
@@ -3094,6 +3100,12 @@
 		pcie_scan_all	Scan all possible PCIe devices.  Otherwise we
 				only look for one device below a PCIe downstream
 				port.
+		big_root_window	Try to add a big 64bit memory window to the PCIe
+				root complex on AMD CPUs. Some GFX hardware
+				can resize a BAR to allow access to all VRAM.
+				Adding the window is slightly risky (it may
+				conflict with unreported devices), so this
+				taints the kernel.
 
 	pcie_aspm=	[PCIE] Forcibly enable or disable PCIe Active State Power
 			Management.
@@ -3282,6 +3294,21 @@
 	pt.		[PARIDE]
 			See Documentation/blockdev/paride.txt.
 
+	pti=		[X86_64] Control Page Table Isolation of user and
+			kernel address spaces.  Disabling this feature
+			removes hardening, but improves performance of
+			system calls and interrupts.
+
+			on   - unconditionally enable
+			off  - unconditionally disable
+			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
+			       vulnerable to issues that PTI mitigates
+
+			Not specifying this option is equivalent to pti=auto.
+
+	nopti		[X86_64]
+			Equivalent to pti=off
+
 	pty.legacy_count=
 			[KNL] Number of legacy pty's. Overwrites compiled-in
 			default number.
@@ -3931,6 +3958,29 @@
 	sonypi.*=	[HW] Sony Programmable I/O Control Device driver
 			See Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
 
+	spectre_v2=	[X86] Control mitigation of Spectre variant 2
+			(indirect branch speculation) vulnerability.
+
+			on   - unconditionally enable
+			off  - unconditionally disable
+			auto - kernel detects whether your CPU model is
+			       vulnerable
+
+			Selecting 'on' will, and 'auto' may, choose a
+			mitigation method at run time according to the
+			CPU, the available microcode, the setting of the
+			CONFIG_RETPOLINE configuration option, and the
+			compiler with which the kernel was built.
+
+			Specific mitigations can also be selected manually:
+
+			retpoline	  - replace indirect branches
+			retpoline,generic - google's original retpoline
+			retpoline,amd     - AMD-specific minimal thunk
+
+			Not specifying this option is equivalent to
+			spectre_v2=auto.
+
 	spia_io_base=	[HW,MTD]
 	spia_fio_base=
 	spia_pedr=

diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/thunderbolt.rst
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ If supported by your machine this will be exposed by the WMI bus with
 a sysfs attribute called "force_power".
 
 For example the intel-wmi-thunderbolt driver exposes this attribute in:
-  /sys/devices/platform/PNP0C14:00/wmi_bus/wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00/86CCFD48-205E-4A77-9C48-2021CBEDE341/force_power
+  /sys/bus/wmi/devices/86CCFD48-205E-4A77-9C48-2021CBEDE341/force_power
 
   To force the power to on, write 1 to this attribute file.
   To disable force power, write 0 to this attribute file.

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/da7218.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/da7218.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Example:
 		compatible = "dlg,da7218";
 		reg = <0x1a>;
 		interrupt-parent = <&gpio6>;
-		interrupts = <11 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+		interrupts = <11 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
 		wakeup-source;
 
 		VDD-supply = <&reg_audio>;

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/da7219.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/sound/da7219.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Example:
 		reg = <0x1a>;
 
 		interrupt-parent = <&gpio6>;
-		interrupts = <11 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
+		interrupts = <11 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
 
 		VDD-supply = <&reg_audio>;
 		VDDMIC-supply = <&reg_audio>;

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/fsl-imx-cspi.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/spi/fsl-imx-cspi.txt
@@ -12,24 +12,30 @@ Required properties:
   - "fsl,imx53-ecspi" for SPI compatible with the one integrated on i.MX53 and later Soc
 - reg : Offset and length of the register set for the device
 - interrupts : Should contain CSPI/eCSPI interrupt
-- cs-gpios : Specifies the gpio pins to be used for chipselects.
 - clocks : Clock specifiers for both ipg and per clocks.
 - clock-names : Clock names should include both "ipg" and "per"
 See the clock consumer binding,
 	Documentation/devicetree/bindings/clock/clock-bindings.txt
-- dmas: DMA specifiers for tx and rx dma. See the DMA client binding,
-		Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt
-- dma-names: DMA request names should include "tx" and "rx" if present.
 
-Obsolete properties:
-- fsl,spi-num-chipselects : Contains the number of the chipselect
+Recommended properties:
+- cs-gpios : GPIOs to use as chip selects, see spi-bus.txt.  While the native chip
+select lines can be used, they appear to always generate a pulse between each
+word of a transfer.  Most use cases will require GPIO based chip selects to
+generate a valid transaction.
 
 Optional properties:
+- num-cs :  Number of total chip selects, see spi-bus.txt.
+- dmas: DMA specifiers for tx and rx dma. See the DMA client binding,
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/dma/dma.txt.
+- dma-names: DMA request names, if present, should include "tx" and "rx".
 - fsl,spi-rdy-drctl: Integer, representing the value of DRCTL, the register
 controlling the SPI_READY handling. Note that to enable the DRCTL consideration,
 the SPI_READY mode-flag needs to be set too.
 Valid values are: 0 (disabled), 1 (edge-triggered burst) and 2 (level-triggered burst).
 
+Obsolete properties:
+- fsl,spi-num-chipselects : Contains the number of the chipselect
+
 Example:
 
 ecspi@70010000 {

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ available from the following download page.  At least "mkfs.nilfs2",
 cleaner or garbage collector) are required.  Details on the tools are
 described in the man pages included in the package.
 
-Project web page:    http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/
-Download page:       http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/download.html
+Project web page:    https://nilfs.sourceforge.io/
+Download page:       https://nilfs.sourceforge.io/en/download.html
 List info:           http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-nilfs
 
 Caveats

diff --git a/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst b/Documentation/gpu/i915.rst
@@ -341,10 +341,7 @@ GuC
 GuC-specific firmware loader
 ----------------------------
 
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c
-   :doc: GuC-specific firmware loader
-
-.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_loader.c
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_guc_fw.c
    :internal:
 
 GuC-based command submission

diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt
@@ -200,10 +200,14 @@ module state. Dependency expressions have the following syntax:
 <expr> ::= <symbol>                             (1)
            <symbol> '=' <symbol>                (2)
            <symbol> '!=' <symbol>               (3)
-           '(' <expr> ')'                       (4)
-           '!' <expr>                           (5)
-           <expr> '&&' <expr>                   (6)
-           <expr> '||' <expr>                   (7)
+           <symbol1> '<' <symbol2>              (4)
+           <symbol1> '>' <symbol2>              (4)
+           <symbol1> '<=' <symbol2>             (4)
+           <symbol1> '>=' <symbol2>             (4)
+           '(' <expr> ')'                       (5)
+           '!' <expr>                           (6)
+           <expr> '&&' <expr>                   (7)
+           <expr> '||' <expr>                   (8)
 
 Expressions are listed in decreasing order of precedence. 
 
@@ -214,10 +218,13 @@ Expressions are listed in decreasing order of precedence.
     otherwise 'n'.
 (3) If the values of both symbols are equal, it returns 'n',
     otherwise 'y'.
-(4) Returns the value of the expression. Used to override precedence.
-(5) Returns the result of (2-/expr/).
-(6) Returns the result of min(/expr/, /expr/).
-(7) Returns the result of max(/expr/, /expr/).
+(4) If value of <symbol1> is respectively lower, greater, lower-or-equal,
+    or greater-or-equal than value of <symbol2>, it returns 'y',
+    otherwise 'n'.
+(5) Returns the value of the expression. Used to override precedence.
+(6) Returns the result of (2-/expr/).
+(7) Returns the result of min(/expr/, /expr/).
+(8) Returns the result of max(/expr/, /expr/).
 
 An expression can have a value of 'n', 'm' or 'y' (or 0, 1, 2
 respectively for calculations). A menu entry becomes visible when its

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/index.rst
@@ -9,11 +9,11 @@ Contents:
    batman-adv
    kapi
    z8530book
+   msg_zerocopy
 
 .. only::  subproject
 
    Indices
    =======
 
    * :ref:`genindex`
-
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst b/Documentation/networking/msg_zerocopy.rst
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ this flag, a process must first signal intent by setting a socket option:
 	if (setsockopt(fd, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ZEROCOPY, &one, sizeof(one)))
 		error(1, errno, "setsockopt zerocopy");
 
+Setting the socket option only works when the socket is in its initial
+(TCP_CLOSED) state.  Trying to set the option for a socket returned by accept(),
+for example, will lead to an EBUSY error. In this case, the option should be set
+to the listening socket and it will be inherited by the accepted sockets.
 
 Transmission
 ------------

diff --git a/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.txt b/Documentation/usb/gadget-testing.txt
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ such specification consists of a number of lines with an inverval value
 in each line. The rules stated above are best illustrated with an example:
 
 # mkdir functions/uvc.usb0/control/header/h
-# cd functions/uvc.usb0/control/header/h
+# cd functions/uvc.usb0/control/
 # ln -s header/h class/fs
 # ln -s header/h class/ss
 # mkdir -p functions/uvc.usb0/streaming/uncompressed/u/360p