Merge tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux
Pull devicetree bug fixes from Grant Likely:
"These are some important bug fixes that need to get into v3.15.
This branch contains a pair of important bug fixes for the DT code:
- Fix some incorrect binding property names before they enter common
usage
- Fix bug where some platform devices will be unable to get their
interrupt number when they depend on an interrupt controller that
is not available at device creation time. This is a problem
causing mainline to fail on a number of ARM platforms"
* tag 'dt-for-linus' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux:
of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq
of: selftest: add deferred probe interrupt test
dt: Fix binding typos in clock-names and interrupt-names
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
Pull powerpc fixes from Ben Herrenschmidt:
"Here is a bunch of post-merge window fixes that have been accumulating
in patchwork while I was on vacation or buried under other stuff last
week.
We have the now usual batch of LE fixes from Anton (sadly some new
stuff that went into this merge window had endian issues, we'll try to
make sure we do better next time)
Some fixes and cleanups to the new 24x7 performance monitoring stuff
(mostly typos and cleaning up printk's)
A series of fixes for an issue with our runlatch bit, which wasn't set
properly for offlined threads/cores and under KVM, causing potentially
some counters to misbehave along with possible power management
issues.
A fix for kexec nasty race where the new kernel wouldn't "see" the
secondary processors having reached back into firmware in time.
And finally a few other misc (and pretty simple) bug fixes"
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (33 commits)
powerpc/4xx: Fix section mismatch in ppc4xx_pci.c
ppc/kvm: Clear the runlatch bit of a vcpu before napping
ppc/kvm: Set the runlatch bit of a CPU just before starting guest
ppc/powernv: Set the runlatch bits correctly for offline cpus
powerpc/pseries: Protect remove_memory() with device hotplug lock
powerpc: Fix error return in rtas_flash module init
powerpc: Bump BOOT_COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048
powerpc: Bump COMMAND_LINE_SIZE to 2048
powerpc: Rename duplicate COMMAND_LINE_SIZE define
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Catalog version number is be64, not be32
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Remove [static 4096], sparse chokes on it
powerpc/perf/hv-24x7: Use (unsigned long) not (u32) values when calling plpar_hcall_norets()
powerpc/perf/hv-gpci: Make device attr static
powerpc/perf/hv_gpci: Probe failures use pr_debug(), and padding reduced
powerpc/perf/hv_24x7: Probe errors changed to pr_debug(), padding fixed
powerpc/mm: Fix tlbie to add AVAL fields for 64K pages
powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL dump code
powerpc/powernv: Create OPAL sglist helper functions and fix endian issues
powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues in OPAL error log code
powerpc/powernv: Fix little endian issues with opal_do_notifier calls
...
mm: don't pointlessly use BUG_ON() for sanity check
BUG_ON() is a big hammer, and should be used _only_ if there is some
major corruption that you cannot possibly recover from, making it
imperative that the current process (and possibly the whole machine) be
terminated with extreme prejudice.
The trivial sanity check in the vmacache code is *not* such a fatal
error. Recovering from it is absolutely trivial, and using BUG_ON()
just makes it harder to debug for no actual advantage.
To make matters worse, the placement of the BUG_ON() (only if the range
check matched) actually makes it harder to hit the sanity check to begin
with, so _if_ there is a bug (and we just got a report from Srivatsa
Bhat that this can indeed trigger), it is harder to debug not just
because the machine is possibly dead, but because we don't have better
coverage.
BUG_ON() must *die*. Maybe we should add a checkpatch warning for it,
because it is simply just about the worst thing you can ever do if you
hit some "this cannot happen" situation.
Reported-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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