The driver calls cxgb_vlan_mode() from init_one(). This calls into
synchronize_rx(), which locks all the q locks, but the q locks are not
initialized until cxgb_up() -> setup_sge_qsets(). So move the call to
cxgb_vlan_mode() into cxgb_up(), after the call to setup_sge_qsets().
We also move the body of these functions up higher to avoid having to
a forward declaration.
This was found because of the lockdep warning:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
Pid: 323, comm: work_for_cpu Not tainted 3.4.0-rc5 #28
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106e767>] register_lock_class+0x108/0x2d0
[<ffffffff8106ff42>] __lock_acquire+0xd3/0xd06
[<ffffffff81070fd0>] lock_acquire+0xbf/0xfe
[<ffffffff813862a6>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x36/0x45
[<ffffffffa01e71aa>] cxgb_vlan_mode+0x96/0xcb [cxgb3]
[<ffffffffa01f90eb>] init_one+0x8c4/0x980 [cxgb3]
[<ffffffff811fcbf0>] local_pci_probe+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffff81042206>] do_work_for_cpu+0x10/0x22
[<ffffffff810482de>] kthread+0xa1/0xa9
[<ffffffff8138e234>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
Contrary to what lockdep says, the code is not fine: we are locking an
uninitialized spinlock.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@purestorage.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With the support to bounce buffer added, the skb is coming as nonlinear in the
case of non-DDPed data frames for FCoE, which is mostly ok as the FCoE stack
would take care of that. However, for target mode, we have to set the FC CRC
and FC EOF field to allow the protocol stack to not drop the frame for the last
data frame of that sequence. So fix this by linearizing the skb first before
doing skb_put().
Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Tested-by: Marcus Dennis <marcusx.e.dennis@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
The driver was freeing memory in shutdown instead of remove. As a result
we were leaking memory if IEEE DCB was enabled and we loaded/unloaded the
driver. This change moves the freeing of the memory into the remove
routine where it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com>
Tested-by: Ross Brattain <ross.b.brattain@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Maybe it's a typo, but it cause that igbvf can't be initialized successfully.
Set perm_addr value using valid dev_addr, although which is equal to hw.mac.addr.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Liao <samuelliao@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
This patch sets the automatic speed and duplex detection bits
in MAC_CR to enable the mac to determine its speed automatically
from the phy.
Note this must be done BEFORE the receiver or transmitter is
enabled.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
also explicitly set the phy to advertise 1000 speeds
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
smsc75xx phy interrupt acknowledge needs an mdio_write to clear
PHY_INT_SRC instead of just a read like in smsc95xx.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
fix bug in phy_init loop that was ignoring BMCR reset bit, akin to smsc95xx's d946092000
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
smsc75xx needs MII_ACCESS_BUSY to be set to correctly trigger mdio I/O. Note smsc75xx is different from smsc95xx in this regard.
Signed-off-by: Stephane Fillod <fillods@users.sf.net>
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch fixes the same issue as reported on smsc95xx, where the
usb device is connected with no ethernet cable plugged-in.
Without this patch sysfs reports the cable as present
flag@flag-desktop:~$ cat /sys/class/net/eth0/carrier
1
while it's not:
flag@flag-desktop:~$ sudo mii-tool eth0
eth0: no link
Signed-off-by: Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@shawell.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As s3c2412-i2s is using the s3c_i2sv2 it should call the more specialised
s3c_i2sv2_register_dai instead of simply calling snd_soc_register_dai.
Without this call the snd_soc_dai_ops structure isn't initialised correctly.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
The core allocates the live copies, we shouldn't try to duplicate it and
were buggy trying to do so as we were using uninitialised data for the
control data.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Pull ARM fixes from Russell King.
* 'fixes' of git://git.linaro.org/people/rmk/linux-arm:
ARM: 7406/1: hotplug: copy the affinity mask when forcefully migrating IRQs
ARM: 7405/1: kexec: call platform_cpu_kill on the killer rather than the victim
ARM: 7403/1: tls: remove covert channel via TPIDRURW
ARM: 7401/1: mm: Fix section mismatches
ARM: OMAP: fix DMA vs memory ordering
ARM: 7390/1: dts: versatile-pb/ab fix MMC IRQs
ARM: 7400/1: vfp: clear fpscr length and stride bits on entry to sig handler
ARM: 7399/1: vfp: move user vfp state save/restore code out of signal.c
ARM: 7398/1: l2x0: only write to debug registers on PL310
ARM: 7397/1: l2x0: only apply workaround for erratum #753970 on PL310
ARM: 7396/1: errata: only handle ARM erratum #326103 on affected cores
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Merge tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi
Pull SCSI fixes from James Bottomley:
"This is a set of SAS and SATA fixes; there are one or two longstanding
bug fixes, but most of this is regression fixes."
* tag 'scsi-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi:
[SCSI] libfc: update mfs boundry checking
[SCSI] Revert "[SCSI] libsas: fix sas port naming"
[SCSI] libsas: fix false positive 'device attached' conditions
[SCSI] libsas, libata: fix start of life for a sas ata_port
[SCSI] libsas: fix ata_eh clobbering ex_phys via smp_ata_check_ready
[SCSI] libsas: unify domain_device sas_rphy lifetimes
[SCSI] libsas: fix sas_get_port_device regression
[SCSI] libsas: fix sas_find_bcast_phy() in the presence of 'vacant' phys
[SCSI] libsas: introduce sas_work to fix sas_drain_work vs sas_queue_work
[SCSI] libata: Pass correct DMA device to scsi host
[SCSI] scsi_lib: use correct DMA device in __scsi_alloc_queue
A common flaw in UEFI systems is a refusal to POST triggered by a malformed
boot variable. Once in this state, machines may only be restored by
reflashing their firmware with an external hardware device. While this is
obviously a firmware bug, the serious nature of the outcome suggests that
operating systems should filter their variable writes in order to prevent
a malicious user from rendering the machine unusable.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
More recent versions of the UEFI spec have added new attributes for
variables. Add them.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
sh_symtab is set but not used.
[ hpa: putting this in urgent because of the sheer harmlessness of the patch:
it quiets a build warning but does not change any generated code. ]
Signed-off-by: Kusanagi Kouichi <slash@ac.auone-net.jp>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120401082932.D5E066FC03D@msa105.auone-net.jp
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
<asm-generic/statfs.h> is exported to userspace, so using
BITS_PER_LONG is invalid. We need to use __BITS_PER_LONG instead.
This is kernel bugzilla 43165.
Reported-by: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1335465916-16965-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Fix printk format warnings -- both items are size_t,
so use %zu to print them.
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:580:3: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'size_t'
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c:580:3: warning: format '%lu' expects type 'long unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'unsigned int'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
EAP frames for stations in an AP VLAN are sent on the main AP interface
to avoid race conditions wrt. moving stations.
For that to work properly, sta_info_get_bss must be used instead of
sta_info_get when sending EAP packets.
Previously this was only done for cooked monitor injected packets, so
this patch adds a check for tx->skb->protocol to the same place.
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Pull powerpc fixes from Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
"Here are a handful more fixes for powerpc. The irq stuff are all
regression fixes, and Gavin's patch is a simple compile fix."
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
tty/serial/pmac_zilog: Fix "nobody cared" IRQ message
powerpc/pseries: Rivet CONFIG_EEH for pSeries platform
powerpc/irqdomain: Fix broken NR_IRQ references
powerpc/8xx: Fix NR_IRQ bugs and refactor 8xx interrupt controller
When the cwnd reduction is done, ssthresh may be infinite
if TCP enters CWR via ECN or F-RTO. If cwnd is not undone, i.e.,
undo_marker is set, tcp_complete_cwr() falsely set cwnd to the
infinite ssthresh value. The correct operation is to keep cwnd
intact because it has been updated in ECN or F-RTO.
Signed-off-by: Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@google.com>
Acked-by: Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Now the helper function from filter.c for negative offsets is exported,
it can be used it in the jit to handle negative offsets.
First modify the asm load helper functions to handle:
- know positive offsets
- know negative offsets
- any offset
then the compiler can be modified to explicitly use these helper
when appropriate.
This fixes the case of a negative X register and allows to lift
the restriction that bpf programs with negative offsets can't
be jited.
Tested-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Seiffert <kaffeemonster@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Pull input fix from Dmitry Torokhov:
"A simple fix for a recent regression in Synaptics driver"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
Input: synaptics - fix regression with "image sensor" trackpads
We need to use the hostname of the process that created the nfs_client.
That hostname is now stored in the rpc_client->cl_nodename.
Also remove the utsname()->domainname component. There is no reason
to include the NIS/YP domainname in a client identifier string.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Now that the rpc client is namespace aware, it needs to use the
utsname of the process that created it instead of using the
init_utsname. Both rpc_new_client and rpc_clone_client need to
be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Cc: Stanislav Kinsbursky <skinsbursky@parallels.com>
* commit f9dfbf9 "ASoC: tlv320aic23: convert to soc-cache" leads to
a bug preventing resumeof the codec as regmap expects a 9 bits data
register but 0xFFFF is passed in tlv320aic23_set_bias_level and this
values gets cached preventing any write to the TLV320AIC23_PWR
register as the final value produced by regmap is (register << 9) | value
* this patch solves the problem by only working on the 9 bits the
register contains.
Signed-off-by: Eric Bénard <eric@eukrea.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
The current checking always succeeded. We have to check the first
character of the string to check that it's empty, thus, skipping
the timeout path.
This fixes the use of the CT target without the timeout option.
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Change order of init so netns init is ready
when register ioctl and netlink.
Ver2
Whitespace fixes and __init added.
Reported-by: "Ryan O'Hara" <rohara@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
ip_vs_create_timeout_table() can return NULL
All functions protocol init_netns is affected of this patch.
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Avoid crash when registering shedulers after
the IPVS core initialization for netns fails. Do this by
checking for present core (net->ipvs).
Signed-off-by: Hans Schillstrom <hans.schillstrom@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
We started using the connector table on nv4x a while back, and this VBIOS
has bad connector indices which causes the wrong encoders to get paired
with connectors.
Add a quirk to fix this...
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
Recently, Ryan Wang tried to compile PPC pSeries platform without
CONFIG_EEH and eventually run into errors. Nishanth Aravamudan
helped to narrow down the root cause. Actually, the pSeries platform
depends on CONFIG_EEH heavily and that won't work properly without
EEH support.
According to Ben's suggestion, the patch make CONFIG_EEH invisible
and keep it as always selected on pSeries platform.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <shangw@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The switch from using irq_map to irq_alloc_desc*() for managing irq
number allocations introduced new bugs in some of the powerpc
interrupt code. Several functions rely on the value of NR_IRQS to
determine the maximum irq number that could get allocated. However,
with sparse_irq and using irq_alloc_desc*() the maximum possible irq
number is now specified with 'nr_irqs' which may be a number larger
than NR_IRQS. This has caused breakage on powermac when
CONFIG_NR_IRQS is set to 32.
This patch removes most of the direct references to NR_IRQS in the
powerpc code and replaces them with either a nr_irqs reference or by
using the common for_each_irq_desc() macro. The powerpc-specific
for_each_irq() macro is removed at the same time.
Also, the Cell axon_msi driver is refactored to remove the global
build assumption on the size of NR_IRQS and instead add a limit to the
maximum irq number when calling irq_domain_add_nomap().
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
The mpc8xx driver uses a reference to NR_IRQS that is buggy. It uses
NR_IRQs for the array size of the ppc_cached_irq_mask bitmap, but
NR_IRQs could be smaller than the number of hardware irqs that
ppc_cached_irq_mask tracks.
Also, while fixing that problem, it became apparent that the interrupt
controller only supports 32 interrupt numbers, but it is written as if
it supports multiple register banks which is more complicated.
This patch pulls out the buggy reference to NR_IRQs and fixes the size
of the ppc_cached_irq_mask to match the number of HW irqs. It also
drops the now-unnecessary code since ppc_cached_irq_mask is no longer
an array.
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Fix for an issue causing hibernation to hang on systems with highmem (that
practically means i386) due to broken memory management (bug introduced in 3.2,
so -stable material) and PM documentation update making the freezer
documentation follow the code again after some recent updates.
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Merge tag 'pm-for-3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm
Pull power management fixes from Rafael J. Wysocki:
"Fix for an issue causing hibernation to hang on systems with highmem
(that practically means i386) due to broken memory management (bug
introduced in 3.2, so -stable material) and PM documentation update
making the freezer documentation follow the code again after some
recent updates."
* tag 'pm-for-3.4-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/linux-pm:
PM / Freezer / Docs: Update documentation about freezing of tasks
PM / Hibernate: fix the number of pages used for hibernate/thaw buffering
The autofs packet size has had a very unfortunate size problem on x86:
because the alignment of 'u64' differs in 32-bit and 64-bit modes, and
because the packet data was not 8-byte aligned, the size of the autofsv5
packet structure differed between 32-bit and 64-bit modes despite
looking otherwise identical (300 vs 304 bytes respectively).
We first fixed that up by making the 64-bit compat mode know about this
problem in commit a32744d4ab ("autofs: work around unhappy compat
problem on x86-64"), and that made a 32-bit 'systemd' work happily on a
64-bit kernel because everything then worked the same way as on a 32-bit
kernel.
But it turned out that 'automount' had actually known and worked around
this problem in user space, so fixing the kernel to do the proper 32-bit
compatibility handling actually *broke* 32-bit automount on a 64-bit
kernel, because it knew that the packet sizes were wrong and expected
those incorrect sizes.
As a result, we ended up reverting that compatibility mode fix, and
thus breaking systemd again, in commit fcbf94b9de.
With both automount and systemd doing a single read() system call, and
verifying that they get *exactly* the size they expect but using
different sizes, it seemed that fixing one of them inevitably seemed to
break the other. At one point, a patch I seriously considered applying
from Michael Tokarev did a "strcmp()" to see if it was automount that
was doing the operation. Ugly, ugly.
However, a prettier solution exists now thanks to the packetized pipe
mode. By marking the communication pipe as being packetized (by simply
setting the O_DIRECT flag), we can always just write the bigger packet
size, and if user-space does a smaller read, it will just get that
partial end result and the extra alignment padding will simply be thrown
away.
This makes both automount and systemd happy, since they now get the size
they asked for, and the kernel side of autofs simply no longer needs to
care - it could pad out the packet arbitrarily.
Of course, if there is some *other* user of autofs (please, please,
please tell me it ain't so - and we haven't heard of any) that tries to
read the packets with multiple writes, that other user will now be
broken - the whole point of the packetized mode is that one system call
gets exactly one packet, and you cannot read a packet in pieces.
Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The file Documentation/power/freezing-of-tasks.txt was still referencing
the TIF_FREEZE flag, that was removed by the commit
d88e4cb67197d007fb778d62fe17360e970d5bfa(freezer: remove now unused
TIF_FREEZE).
This patch removes all the references of TIF_FREEZE that were left
behind.
Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza <marcos.souza.org@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
The actual internal pipe implementation is already really about
individual packets (called "pipe buffers"), and this simply exposes that
as a special packetized mode.
When we are in the packetized mode (marked by O_DIRECT as suggested by
Alan Cox), a write() on a pipe will not merge the new data with previous
writes, so each write will get a pipe buffer of its own. The pipe
buffer is then marked with the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET flag, which in turn
will tell the reader side to break the read at that boundary (and throw
away any partial packet contents that do not fit in the read buffer).
End result: as long as you do writes less than PIPE_BUF in size (so that
the pipe doesn't have to split them up), you can now treat the pipe as a
packet interface, where each read() system call will read one packet at
a time. You can just use a sufficiently big read buffer (PIPE_BUF is
sufficient, since bigger than that doesn't guarantee atomicity anyway),
and the return value of the read() will naturally give you the size of
the packet.
NOTE! We do not support zero-sized packets, and zero-sized reads and
writes to a pipe continue to be no-ops. Also note that big packets will
currently be split at write time, but that the size at which that
happens is not really specified (except that it's bigger than PIPE_BUF).
Currently that limit is the system page size, but we might want to
explicitly support bigger packets some day.
The main user for this is going to be the autofs packet interface,
allowing us to stop having to care so deeply about exact packet sizes
(which have had bugs with 32/64-bit compatibility modes). But user
space can create packetized pipes with "pipe2(fd, O_DIRECT)", which will
fail with an EINVAL on kernels that do not support this interface.
Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Cc: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org # needed for systemd/autofs interaction fix
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here are some tiny drivers/staging/ bugfixes. Some build fixes that
were recently reported, as well as one kfree bug that is hitting a
number of users.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-3.4-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging tree fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"Here are some tiny drivers/staging/ bugfixes. Some build fixes that
were recently reported, as well as one kfree bug that is hitting a
number of users."
* tag 'staging-3.4-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
staging: ozwpan: Fix bug where kfree is called twice.
staging: octeon-ethernet: fix build errors by including interrupt.h
staging: zcache: fix Kconfig crypto dependency
staging: tidspbridge: remove usage of OMAP2_L4_IO_ADDRESS
