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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-12-07 10:08:14 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-12-07 10:08:14 +0100
commita3ab07c642b2d75e645b1a07464291e325a496e0 (patch)
treec5b423b58698a9c7b7a9545d085ab4e776fa610f /Documentation
parent888982a847520a5abfd036a0cc6426c55e71f76c (diff)
parent0477e92881850d44910a7e94fc2c46f96faa131f (diff)
Merge 5.10-rc7 into char-misc-next
We want the fixes in here, and this resolves a merge issue with drivers/misc/habanalabs/common/memory.c. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt2
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
index a22024f9175e..9b90efcc3a35 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
@@ -137,15 +137,24 @@ Boot Kernel With a Boot Config
==============================
Since the boot configuration file is loaded with initrd, it will be added
-to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with size, checksum and
-12-byte magic word as below.
+to the end of the initrd (initramfs) image file with padding, size,
+checksum and 12-byte magic word as below.
-[initrd][bootconfig][size(u32)][checksum(u32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n]
+[initrd][bootconfig][padding][size(le32)][checksum(le32)][#BOOTCONFIG\n]
+
+The size and checksum fields are unsigned 32bit little endian value.
+
+When the boot configuration is added to the initrd image, the total
+file size is aligned to 4 bytes. To fill the gap, null characters
+(``\0``) will be added. Thus the ``size`` is the length of the bootconfig
+file + padding bytes.
The Linux kernel decodes the last part of the initrd image in memory to
get the boot configuration data.
Because of this "piggyback" method, there is no need to change or
-update the boot loader and the kernel image itself.
+update the boot loader and the kernel image itself as long as the boot
+loader passes the correct initrd file size. If by any chance, the boot
+loader passes a longer size, the kernel feils to find the bootconfig data.
To do this operation, Linux kernel provides "bootconfig" command under
tools/bootconfig, which allows admin to apply or delete the config file
@@ -176,7 +185,8 @@ up to 512 key-value pairs. If keys contains 3 words in average, it can
contain 256 key-value pairs. In most cases, the number of config items
will be under 100 entries and smaller than 8KB, so it would be enough.
If the node number exceeds 1024, parser returns an error even if the file
-size is smaller than 32KB.
+size is smaller than 32KB. (Note that this maximum size is not including
+the padding null characters.)
Anyway, since bootconfig command verifies it when appending a boot config
to initrd image, user can notice it before boot.
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt
index 3613c2c8f75d..0968b40aef1e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/can/tcan4x5x.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ tcan4x5x: tcan4x5x@0 {
spi-max-frequency = <10000000>;
bosch,mram-cfg = <0x0 0 0 32 0 0 1 1>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>;
- interrupts = <14 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
+ interrupts = <14 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_LOW>;
device-state-gpios = <&gpio3 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
device-wake-gpios = <&gpio1 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
reset-gpios = <&gpio1 27 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
index cfaf88998918..9e4dc510a40a 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/nxp-nci.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with NPC100 NFC controller on I2C2):
clock-frequency = <100000>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>;
- interrupts = <29 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ interrupts = <29 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
enable-gpios = <&gpio0 30 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
firmware-gpios = <&gpio0 31 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
index 92f399ec22b8..2bd82562ce8e 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/nfc/pn544.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Example (for ARM-based BeagleBone with PN544 on I2C2):
clock-frequency = <400000>;
interrupt-parent = <&gpio1>;
- interrupts = <17 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ interrupts = <17 IRQ_TYPE_LEVEL_HIGH>;
enable-gpios = <&gpio3 21 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
firmware-gpios = <&gpio3 19 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;