/sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove was presumably added to support
auto offlining in the past. This is, however, inherently dangerous for
some hotplugable resources like memory. The memory offlining fails when
the memory is still in use and cannot be dropped or migrated. If we
ignore the failure we are basically allowing for subtle memory
corruption or a crash.
We have actually noticed the later while hitting BUG() during the memory
hotremove (remove_memory):
ret = walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1), NULL,
check_memblock_offlined_cb);
if (ret)
BUG();
it took us quite non-trivial time realize that the customer had
force_remove enabled. Even if the BUG was removed here and we could
propagate the error up the call chain it wouldn't help at all because
then we would hit a crash or a memory corruption later and harder to
debug. So force_remove is unfixable for the memory hotremove. We haven't
checked other hotplugable resources to be prone to a similar problems.
Remove the force_remove functionality because it is not fixable currently.
Keep the sysfs file and report an error if somebody tries to enable it.
Encourage users to report about the missing functionality and work with
them with an alternative solution.
Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the time has
come and we finally can do the cleanup.
The plan was as follows:
: per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
: The basic strategy is:
: -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
: -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
:
: The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
:
: Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs
: node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files
: (zram<id>/stat or zram<id>/io_stat or zram<id>/mm_stat) is considered
: to be deprecated.
The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups
`testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118035838.11090-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which
are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
"Highlights:
1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.
2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
Starovoitov.
3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.
4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
of incoming TCP/UDP connections. The muxing can be done using a
BPF program which hashes the incoming packet. From Craig Gallek.
5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
interface. BPF programs can be used to determine the message
boundaries. From Tom Herbert.
6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.
7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
with lots of configured addresses. We were doing things like
traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
well.
8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.
9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
ixgbe, from John Fastabend.
10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
from Kan Liang.
11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
From David Decotigny.
12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
(ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
level attributes as a whole. From Jiri Pirko.
13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.
14) Add "Local Checksum Offload". Basically, for a tunneled packet
the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
of that in various ways. From Edward Cree"
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
net: fix a comment typo
ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable
net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
...
There is still quite a bit of code using this interface, so we can't
just remove it. Hopefully it will be possible in the future, but since
its scheduled removal date is past 2 years already, we are better having
the documentation reflecting the current state of things.
Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This was scheduled to be removed in 2012 by:
commit 69c86373c6
Author: florian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org>
Date: Wed Feb 24 12:05:16 2010 +0100
Document the rfkill sysfs ABI
This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.
This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules
it for removal in 2020.
Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org>
Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Deprecates all Roccat sysfs attributes except the ones for the old Kone by
moving abi descriptions from testing to obsolete. For most devices everything
can be done using the hidraw ioctls HIDIOCGFEATURE and HIDIOCSFEATURE, so I
would suggest future removal of device specific drivers. The userspace tools
don't use these attributes for a year now. The first Kone is not fully
HID-compliant and will still need a module.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Add Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram file and list obsolete and
deprecated attributes there. The patch also adds additional information
to zram documentation and describes the basic strategy:
- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in 4.11)
- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in 4.11)
Users will be additionally notified about deprecated attr usage by
pr_warn_once() (added to every deprecated attr _show()), as suggested by
Minchan Kim.
User space is advised to use zram<id>/stat, zram<id>/io_stat and
zram<id>/mm_stat files.
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons
readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching.
Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers.
Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate
"firmware_version" attribute.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching.
Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers.
Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate other attributes.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Device can be reset to factory state by sending a command via info sysfs attr.
Added binary attribute info for this purpose, which obsoletes firmware_version
attribute.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush
mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through
/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless.
For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify
the users that the interface is removed.
Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in
a63d83f427 ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally
exported function for clarity.
The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove
it. There are no existing users.
Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts
them accordingly.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
startup_profile and actual_profile didn't work as expected. Also
as the actual profile is persistent, the distinction between the
two was ambiguous, so both use the same code now and startup_profile
has been deprecated. Also the event is now propagated through
chardev. The userland tool has been updated to support this change.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of
the new oom killer heuristic.
This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for
this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses
it.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The drivers
- ohci1394 (controller driver)
- ieee1394 (core)
- dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
- eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
- firewire-ohci (controller driver)
- firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
- firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.
The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.
The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.
The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.
There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
- The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
I am looking into the M52xx issue.
- The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
experimental cousin eth1394.
- Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
This issue is still under investigation.
- There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them,
only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.
All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
This patch (as1367) deprecates USB's power/level sysfs attribute in
favor of the power/control attribute provided by the runtime PM core.
The two attributes do the same thing.
It would be nice to replace power/level with a symlink to
power/control, but at the moment sysfs doesn't offer any way to do so.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the
ABI subfolder and reformats it.
This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in
2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file).
Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects.
Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain
backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After
some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds
documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb
is used for.
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no
justification to remove dv1394 right now.
Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense,
especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive
alternative to the existing ones. But we don't have a schedule at the
moment.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
