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misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: Use GFP_ATOMIC under spin lock The function alloc_dma_buffer() is called from ibmvmc_add_buffer(), in which a spin lock be held here, so we should use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held. Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-05-26 09:45:59 +00:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-06 23:18:13 -07:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-06 23:18:13 -07:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: Repair ill-named function argument descriptions Formatting is correct and descriptions are all present, but some of the argument names are not properly represented in the documentation. Fixes the following W=1 build warnings: drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Function parameter or member 'msg_len' not described in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg_length' description in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Function parameter or member 'buffer' not described in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Excess function parameter 'buf' description in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Excess function parameter 'session' description in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' Cc: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701083118.45744-30-lee.jones@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-07-01 09:31:17 +01:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session* Also, update the function header with information about the expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc. This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-16 10:46:16 -06:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' | xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/' to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL argument to just drop that argument. Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered: they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically. For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate conversion. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2026-02-21 16:37:42 -08:00
misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session* Also, update the function header with information about the expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc. This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-16 10:46:16 -06:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvsm: Fix potential NULL pointer dereference There is a potential NULL pointer dereference in case kzalloc() fails and returns NULL. Fix this by adding a NULL check on *session* Also, update the function header with information about the expected return on failure and remove unnecessary variable rc. This issue was detected with the help of Coccinelle. Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-01-16 10:46:16 -06:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
mm, treewide: rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() As said by Linus: A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use. Otherwise it's actively misleading. In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the caller wants. In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the future we really _might_ want to use that "memfill(0xdeadbeef)" or something. The "zero" part of the interface isn't even _relevant_. The main reason that kzfree() exists is to clear sensitive information that should not be leaked to other future users of the same memory objects. Rename kzfree() to kfree_sensitive() to follow the example of the recently added kvfree_sensitive() and make the intention of the API more explicit. In addition, memzero_explicit() is used to clear the memory to make sure that it won't get optimized away by the compiler. The renaming is done by using the command sequence: git grep -w --name-only kzfree |\ xargs sed -i 's/kzfree/kfree_sensitive/' followed by some editing of the kfree_sensitive() kerneldoc and adding a kzfree backward compatibility macro in slab.h. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c needs linux/slab.h] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix fs/crypto/inline_crypt.c some more] Suggested-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@linux.intel.com> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serge@hallyn.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Cc: "Jason A . Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200616154311.12314-3-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-08-06 23:18:13 -07:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: Repair ill-named function argument descriptions Formatting is correct and descriptions are all present, but some of the argument names are not properly represented in the documentation. Fixes the following W=1 build warnings: drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Function parameter or member 'msg_len' not described in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg_length' description in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Function parameter or member 'buffer' not described in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Excess function parameter 'buf' description in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Excess function parameter 'session' description in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' Cc: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701083118.45744-30-lee.jones@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-07-01 09:31:17 +01:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode() badly, at that... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2022-08-03 21:24:41 -04:00
misc: ibmvmc: release send buffer on write errors ibmvmc_get_valid_hmc_buffer() marks the selected send buffer busy before ibmvmc_write() validates the backing storage or copies data from user space. Error exits after that point leave the buffer permanently busy. Keep the buffer pointer until ownership is handed to the hypervisor, and mark it free again on local write failures. Also report an RDMA send failure instead of returning a successful byte count. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624185925.2133-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-06-24 20:59:25 +02:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode() badly, at that... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2022-08-03 21:24:41 -04:00
misc: convert to new timestamp accessors Convert to using the new inode timestamp accessor functions. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231004185347.80880-7-jlayton@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
2023-10-04 14:51:54 -04:00
ibmvmc: don't open-code file_inode() badly, at that... Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2022-08-03 21:24:41 -04:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: release send buffer on write errors ibmvmc_get_valid_hmc_buffer() marks the selected send buffer busy before ibmvmc_write() validates the backing storage or copies data from user space. Error exits after that point leave the buffer permanently busy. Keep the buffer pointer until ownership is handed to the hypervisor, and mark it free again on local write failures. Also report an RDMA send failure instead of returning a successful byte count. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624185925.2133-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-06-24 20:59:25 +02:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: release send buffer on write errors ibmvmc_get_valid_hmc_buffer() marks the selected send buffer busy before ibmvmc_write() validates the backing storage or copies data from user space. Error exits after that point leave the buffer permanently busy. Keep the buffer pointer until ownership is handed to the hypervisor, and mark it free again on local write failures. Also report an RDMA send failure instead of returning a successful byte count. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624185925.2133-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-06-24 20:59:25 +02:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
ibmvmc: replace deprecated strncpy with strscpy `strncpy` is deprecated for use on NUL-terminated destination strings [1] and as such we should prefer more robust and less ambiguous string interfaces. A suitable replacement is `strscpy` [2] due to the fact that it guarantees NUL-termination on the destination buffer without unnecessarily NUL-padding. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#strncpy-on-nul-terminated-strings [1] Link: https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy.9.en.html [2] Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/90 Cc: linux-hardening@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@google.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230927-strncpy-drivers-misc-ibmvmc-c-v1-1-29f56cd3a269@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-09-27 05:52:14 +00:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: Repair ill-named function argument descriptions Formatting is correct and descriptions are all present, but some of the argument names are not properly represented in the documentation. Fixes the following W=1 build warnings: drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Function parameter or member 'msg_len' not described in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:780: warning: Excess function parameter 'msg_length' description in 'ibmvmc_send_msg' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Function parameter or member 'buffer' not described in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1041: warning: Excess function parameter 'buf' description in 'ibmvmc_write' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Function parameter or member 'file' not described in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' drivers/misc/ibmvmc.c:1360: warning: Excess function parameter 'session' description in 'ibmvmc_ioctl' Cc: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: "Bryant G. Ly" <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200701083118.45744-30-lee.jones@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2020-07-01 09:31:17 +01:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: reject oversized inbound messages ibmvmc_recv_msg() trusts the message length from the CRQ. It passes that length directly to h_copy_rdma(). The destination buffer is only max_mtu bytes. A larger length can overrun it before userspace reads the message. Validate the CRQ length before issuing the RDMA copy. Signed-off-by: Yousef Alhouseen <alhouseenyousef@gmail.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260624175139.7981-1-alhouseenyousef@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-06-24 19:51:39 +02:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvsm: Fix wrong assignment of return code Currently the assignment is flipped and rc is always 0. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.ibm.com> Fixes: 0eca353e7ae7 ("misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC)") Reviewed-by: Bradley Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-08-06 08:31:00 -05:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
vio: make remove callback return void The driver core ignores the return value of struct bus_type::remove() because there is only little that can be done. To simplify the quest to make this function return void, let struct vio_driver::remove() return void, too. All users already unconditionally return 0, this commit makes it obvious that returning an error code is a bad idea. Note there are two nominally different implementations for a vio bus: one in arch/sparc/kernel/vio.c and the other in arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/vio.c. This patch only adapts the powerpc one. Before this patch for a device that was bound to a driver without a remove callback vio_cmo_bus_remove(viodev) wasn't called. As the device core still considers the device unbound after vio_bus_remove() returns calling this unconditionally is the consistent behaviour which is implemented here. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <uwe@kleine-koenig.org> Reviewed-by: Tyrel Datwyler <tyreld@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> [mpe: Drop unneeded hvcs_remove() forward declaration, squash in change from sfr to drop ibmvnic_remove() forward declaration] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210225221834.160083-1-uwe@kleine-koenig.org
2021-02-25 23:18:34 +01:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00
misc: ibmvmc: Use named initializers for vio_device_id array While being less compact, using named initializers allows to more easily see which members of the structs are assigned which value without having to lookup the declaration of the struct. And it's also more robust against changes to the struct definition. While touching this array, also simplify the list terminator. This change doesn't introduce differences to the compiled result. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/a451863ca59ab700b6e65b76a17a8b6eb1431e6b.1784299069.git.u.kleine-koenig@baylibre.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2026-07-17 16:50:55 +02:00
misc: IBM Virtual Management Channel Driver (VMC) This driver is a logical device which provides an interface between the hypervisor and a management partition. This interface is like a message passing interface. This management partition is intended to provide an alternative to HMC-based system management. VMC enables the Management LPAR to provide basic logical partition functions: - Logical Partition Configuration - Boot, start, and stop actions for individual partitions - Display of partition status - Management of virtual Ethernet - Management of virtual Storage - Basic system management This driver is to be used for the POWER Virtual Management Channel Virtual Adapter on the PowerPC platform. It provides a character device which allows for both request/response and async message support through the /dev/ibmvmc node. Signed-off-by: Bryant G. Ly <bryantly@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Royer <seroyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Adam Reznechek <adreznec@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Tested-by: Taylor Jakobson <tjakobs@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Brad Warrum <bwarrum@us.ibm.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-04-25 16:32:57 -05:00