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* [S390] nss: disable kexec.Heiko Carstens2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | nss and kexec don't work together since kexec wants to write to the read-only text section of the shared kernel image. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] reipl: move dump_prefix_page out of text section.Heiko Carstens2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | Reipl doesn't work on older machines were s390_reset_machine() gets called. The reason is that the text section is read-only but the variable dump_prefix_page is there. Since s390_reset_machine() writes to it we get a protection exception. Therefore move dump_prefix_page to the bss section. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] smp: disable preemption in smp_call_function/smp_call_function_onHeiko Carstens2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | Avoid sprinkling a _lot_ of preempt_disable/preempt_enable pairs. This would be necessary for e.g. the iucv driver. Also this way we are more consistent with other architectures which disable preemption at least for smp_call_function. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] kprobes breaks BUG_ONMartin Schwidefsky2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | The illegal operation handler calls the die notifier with DIE_BPT to let kprobes pick up its breakpoint. If kprobes does not find its breakpoint it returns NOTIFY_STOP instead of NOTIFY_DONE. Since we use stop_machine_run on s390 to arm/disarm the kprobes breakpoints the race that kprobe_handler tries to solve by checking for the kprobes breakpoints does not exist. Removing the check makes BUG_ON working again. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [PATCH] paravirt: re-enable COMPAT_VDSOIngo Molnar2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | CONFIG_PARAVIRT broke old glibc bootup: it silently turned off the selectability of CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO and thus rendered distro kernels unbootable on old-style VDSO glibc setups. the proper solution is to keep COMPAT_VDSO available - if a hypervisor needs any modification of that concept then we'll judge those changes in full context, once those changes are submitted. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlightLinus Torvalds2007-03-05
|\ | | | | | | | | | | * 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight: backlight: Allow enable/disable of fb backlights, fixing regressions backlight: Fix nvidia backlight initial brightness
| * backlight: Allow enable/disable of fb backlights, fixing regressionsRichard Purdie2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Enabling the backlight by default appears to cause problems for many users. This patch disables backlight controls unless explicitly enabled by users via a module parameter. Since PMAC users are known to work, default to enabled in that case. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
| * backlight: Fix nvidia backlight initial brightnessRichard Purdie2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix a mix up when the nvidia driver was converted resulting in the backlight having an incorrect initial brightness. Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
* | [PATCH] disable NMI watchdog by defaultIngo Molnar2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | there's a new NMI watchdog related problem: KVM crashes on certain bzImages because ... we enable the NMI watchdog by default (even if the user does not ask for it) , and no other OS on this planet does that so KVM doesnt have emulation for that yet. So KVM injects a #GP, which crashes the Linux guest: general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c011a8ae>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00000246 (2.6.20-rc5-rt0 #3) EIP is at setup_apic_nmi_watchdog+0x26d/0x3d3 and no, i did /not/ request an nmi_watchdog on the boot command line! Solution: turn off that darn thing! It's a debug tool, not a 'make life harder' tool!! with this patch the KVM guest boots up just fine. And with this my laptop (Lenovo T60) also stopped its sporadic hard hanging (sometimes in acpi_init(), sometimes later during bootup, sometimes much later during actual use) as well. It hung with both nmi_watchdog=1 and nmi_watchdog=2, so it's generally the fact of NMI injection that is causing problems, not the NMI watchdog variant, nor any particular bootup code. [ NMI breaks on some systems, esp in combination with SMM -Arjan ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] paravirt: let users decide whether they want VMIIngo Molnar2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | do not use default=y for CONFIG_VMI (we do not do that for any driver or special-hardware feature): the overwhelming majority of Linux users does not need it, and interested users and distributions can enable it as-needed. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] paravirt: clarify VMI descriptionIngo Molnar2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clarify the description of the CONFIG_VMI option: describe the reality that VMI is a VMWare-only interface for now. Once that changes and another hypervisor adopts the VMI ABI we can change the text. As can be seen from the Xen paravirtualization patches submitted to lkml the Xen project has chosen its own, non-VMI interface between Xen and the para-Linux - so remove Xen from the description. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] paravirt: remove NO_IDLE_HZ on x86Ingo Molnar2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Temove the mistaken turning on of NO_IDLE_HZ on x86+PARAVIRT kernels. It's an obsolete, limited form of dynticks. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] video/aty/mach64_ct.c: fix bogus delay loopDavid Miller2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CT based mach64 cards were reported to hang on sparc64 boxes when compiled with gcc-4.1.x and later. Looking at this piece of code, it's no surprise. A critical delay was implemented as an empty for() loop, and gcc 4.0.x and previous did not optimize it away, so we did get a delay. But gcc-4.1.x and later can optimize it away, and we get crashes. Use a real udelay() to fix this. Fix verified on SunBlade100. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c must #include <asm/kmap_types.h>Adrian Bunk2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CC arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c: In function 'vmi_map_pt_hook': /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE0' undeclared (first use in this function) /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: for each function it appears in.) /home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.6/linux-2.6.21-rc2-mm1/arch/i386/kernel/vmi.c:387: error: 'KM_PTE1' undeclared (first use in this function) make[2]: *** [arch/i386/kernel/vmi.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] usb-storage: do not rebuild when kernel version changesSam Ravnborg2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replacing use of UTS_RELEASE with utsname()->release avoids that the usb-storage driver is recompiled each time the kernel version changes. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] Documentation for io-accounting / reporting via procfsRoland Kletzing2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some documentation for the new and very useful io-accounting feature. It's being added to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt Signed-off-by: Roland Kletzing <devzero@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] atyfb: Fix kconfig errorAntonino A. Daplas2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix the following compile error: MODPOST 327 modules WARNING: "aty_st_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined! WARNING: "aty_ld_lcd" [drivers/video/aty/atyfb.ko] undefined! make[1]: *** [__modpost] Error 1 make: *** [modules] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] char/epca.c: remove unused functionMichal Piotrowski2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | "drivers/char/epca.c:2741: warning: 'get_termio' defined but not used" Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] timer/hrtimer: take per cpu locks in sane orderHeiko Carstens2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Doing something like this on a two cpu system # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/online # echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/online will give me this: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.21-rc2-g562aa1d4-dirty #7 ------------------------------------------------------- bash/1282 is trying to acquire lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f17e>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xc6/0x240 but task is already holding lock: (&cpu_base->lock_key#2){.+..}, at: [<000000000005f174>] hrtimer_cpu_notify+0xbc/0x240 which lock already depends on the new lock. This happens because we have the following code in kernel/hrtimer.c: migrate_hrtimers(int cpu) [...] old_base = &per_cpu(hrtimer_bases, cpu); new_base = &get_cpu_var(hrtimer_bases); [...] spin_lock(&new_base->lock); spin_lock(&old_base->lock); Which means the spinlocks are taken in an order which depends on which cpu gets shut down from which other cpu. Therefore lockdep complains that there might be an ABBA deadlock. Since migrate_hrtimers() gets only called on cpu hotplug it's safe to assume that it isn't executed concurrently on a The same problem exists in kernel/timer.c: migrate_timers(). As pointed out by Christian Borntraeger one possible solution to avoid the locking order complaints would be to make sure that the locks are always taken in the same order. E.g. by taking the lock of the cpu with the lower number first. To achieve this we introduce two new spinlock functions double_spin_lock and double_spin_unlock which lock or unlock two locks in a given order. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] clocksource init adjustments (fix bug #7426)john stultz2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch resolves the issue found here: http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7426 The basic summary is: Currently we register most of i386/x86_64 clocksources at module_init time. Then we enable clocksource selection at late_initcall time. This causes some problems for drivers that use gettimeofday for init calibration routines (specifically the es1968 driver in this case), where durring module_init, the only clocksource available is the low-res jiffies clocksource. This may cause slight calibration errors, due to the small sampling time used. It should be noted that drivers that require fine grained time may not function on architectures that do not have better then jiffies resolution timekeeping (there are a few). However, this does not discount the reasonable need for such fine-grained timekeeping at init time. Thus the solution here is to register clocksources earlier (ideally when the hardware is being initialized), and then we enable clocksource selection at fs_initcall (before device_initcall). This patch should probably get some testing time in -mm, since clocksource selection is one of the most important issues for correct timekeeping, and I've only been able to test this on a few of my own boxes. Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] x86_64: remove unusued 'flags' variableDavid Rientjes2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Removes unused 'flags' variable from setup_IO_APIC_irq(). Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] ipmi: check, if default ports are accessible on PPCChristian Krafft2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could be found elsewhere. On PPC we have a function to check, if these legacy IO ports are accessible. This patch adds a check for these ports on PPC. This patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module on PPC machines without a BMC. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] ecryptfs: handle AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE betterDmitriy Monakhov2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - In fact we don't have to fail if AOP_TRUNCATED_PAGE was returned from prepare_write or commit_write. It is beter to retry attempt where it is possible. - Rearange ecryptfs_get_lower_page() error handling logic, make it more clean. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] ecryptfs: lower root result must be adirectoryDmitriy Monakhov2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Currently after path_lookup succeed we dot't have any guarantie what it is DIR. This must be explicitly demanded. - path_lookup can't return negative dentry, So inode check is useless. Signed-off-by: Dmitriy Monakhov <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] fix "NMI appears to be stuck"Thomas Gleixner2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Testing NMI watchdog ... CPU#0: NMI appears to be stuck (54->54)! CPU#1: NMI appears to be stuck (0->0)! Keep the PIT/HPET alive when nmi_watchdog = 1 is given on the command line. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] md: fix for raid6 reshapeNeilBrown2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recent patch for raid6 reshape had a change missing that showed up in subsequent review. Many places in the raid5 code used "conf->raid_disks-1" to mean "number of data disks". With raid6 that had to be changed to "conf->raid_disk - conf->max_degraded" or similar. One place was missed. This bug means that if a raid6 reshape were aborted in the middle the recorded position would be wrong. On restart it would either fail (as the position wasn't on an appropriate boundary) or would leave a section of the array unreshaped, causing data corruption. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: smp fixesZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Critical fixes for SMP. Fix a couple functions which needed to be __devinit and fix a bogus parameter to AP startup that just so happened to work because the low virtual mapping of memory was still established. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: apic opsZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use para_fill instead of directly setting the APIC ops to the result of the vmi_get_function call - this allows one to implement a VMI ROM without implementing APIC functions, just using the native APIC functions. While doing this, I realized that there is a lot more cleanup that should have been done. Basically, we should never assume that the ROM implements a specific set of functions, and always allow fallback to the native implementation. This is critical for future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: fix nohz compileZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More goo from hrtimers integration. We do compile and run properly with NO_HZ enabled. There was a period when we didn't because of a missing export, but that was since fixed. And with the clocksource code now firmly in place, we can get rid of code that fixes up the wallclock, since this is done in the common infrastructure. This actually fixes a timer bug as well, that was caused by do_settimeofday no longer being callable with interrupts disabled due to the use of on_each_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: pit overrideZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The time_init_hook in paravirt-ops no longer functions in the correct manner after the integration of the hrtimers code. The problem is that now the call path for time initialization is: time_init : late_time_init = hpet_time_init; late_time_init -> hpet_time_init: setup_pit_timer (BAD) do_time_init --> (via paravirt.h) time_init_hook --> (via arch_hooks.h) time_init_hook (in SUBARCH/setup.c) If this isn't confusing enough, the paravirt case goes through an indirect function pointer in the paravirt-ops table. The problem is, by the time the paravirt hook is called, the pit timer is already enabled. But paravirt guests have their own timer, and don't want to use the PIT. Rather than intensify the struggle for power going on here, just make it all nice and simple and just unconditionally do all timer setup in the late_time_init hook. This also has the advantage of enabling timers in the same place in all code paths, so everyone has the same bugs and we don't have outliers who break other code because they turn on timer too early or too late. So the paravirt-ops time init function is now by default hpet_time_init, which is the time init function used for native hardware. Paravirt guests have the chance to override this when they setup the paravirt-ops table, and should need no change. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: paravirt drop udelay opZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Not respecting udelay causes problems with any virtual hardware that is passed through to real hardware. This can be noticed by any device that interacts with the real world in real time - like AP startup, which takes real time. Or keyboard LEDs, which should blink in real-time. Or floppy drives, but only when passed through to a real floppy controller on OSes which can't sufficiently buffer the floppy commands to emulate a zero latency floppy. Or IDE drives, when connecting to a physical CDROM. This was mostly a hack to get the kernel to boot faster, but it introduced a number of misvirtualization bugs, and Alan and Pavel argued pretty strongly against it. We were the only client, and now want to clean up this cruft. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: fix highpteZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide a PT map hook for HIGHPTE kernels to designate where they are mapping page tables. This information is required so the physical address of PTE updates can be determined; otherwise, the mm layer would have to carry the physical address all the way to each PTE modification callsite, which is even more hideous that the macros required to provide the proper hooks. So lets not mess up arch neutral code to achieve this, but keep the horror in an #ifdef HIGHPTE in include/asm-i386/pgtable.h. I had to use macros here because some types are not yet defined in all the include paths for this header. This patch is absolutely required for HIGHPTE kernels to operate properly with VMI. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: cpu cycles fixZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In order to share the common code in tsc.c which does CPU Khz calibration, we need to make an accurate value of CPU speed available to the tsc.c code. This value loses a lot of precision in a VM because of the timing differences with real hardware, but we need it to be as precise as possible so the guest can make accurate time calculations with the cycle counters. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: sched clock paravirt op fixZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The custom_sched_clock hook is broken. The result from sched_clock needs to be in nanoseconds, not in CPU cycles. The TSC is insufficient for this purpose, because TSC is poorly defined in a virtual environment, and mostly represents real world time instead of scheduled process time (which can be interrupted without notice when a virtual machine is descheduled). To make the scheduler consistent, we must expose a different nature of time, that is scheduled time. So deprecate this custom_sched_clock hack and turn it into a paravirt-op, as it should have been all along. This allows the tsc.c code which converts cycles to nanoseconds to be shared by all paravirt-ops backends. It is unfortunate to add a new paravirt-op, but this is a very distinct abstraction which is clearly different for all virtual machine implementations, and it gets rid of an ugly indirect function which I ashamedly admit I hacked in to try to get this to work earlier, and then even got in the wrong units. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] vmi: timer fixes round twoZachary Amsden2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Critical bugfixes for the VMI-Timer code. 1) Do not setup a one shot alarm if we are keeping the periodic alarm armed. Additionally, since the periodic alarm can be run at a lower rate than HZ, let's fixup the guard to the no-idle-hz mode appropriately. This fixes the bug where the no-idle-hz mode might have a higher interrupt rate than the non-idle case. 2) The interrupt handler can no longer adjust xtime due to nested lock acquisition. Drop this. We don't need to check for wallclock time at every tick, it can be done in userspace instead. 3) Add a bypass to disable noidle operation. This is useful as a last minute workaround, or testing measure. 4) The code to skip the IO_APIC timer testing (no_timer_check) should be conditional on IO_APIC, not SMP, since UP kernels can have this configured in as well. Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] Page migration: Fix vma flag checkingChristoph Lameter2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently we do not check for vma flags if sys_move_pages is called to move individual pages. If sys_migrate_pages is called to move pages then we check for vm_flags that indicate a non migratable vma but that still includes VM_LOCKED and we can migrate mlocked pages. Extract the vma_migratable check from mm/mempolicy.c, fix it and put it into migrate.h so that is can be used from both locations. Problem was spotted by Lee Schermerhorn Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] fb: sm501fb off-by-1 sysfs storePaul Mundt2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently sm501fb_crtsrc_store() won't allow the routing to be changed via echos from userspace in to the sysfs file. The reason for this is that the strnicmp() for both heads uses a sizeof() for the string length, which ends up being strlen() + 1 (\0 in the normal case, but the echo gives a newline, which is where the issue occurs), this then causes a mismatch and subsequently bails with the -EINVAL. In addition to this, the hardcoded lengths were then used for the store length that was returned, which ended up being erroneous and resulting in a write error. There's also no point in returning anything but the full length since it will -EINVAL out on a mismatch well before then anyways. sizeof("string") is great for making sure you have space in your buffer, but rather less so for string comparisons :-) Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Acked-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] sched: remove SMT niceCon Kolivas2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the SMT-nice feature which idles sibling cpus on SMT cpus to facilitiate nice working properly where cpu power is shared. The idling of cpus in the presence of runnable tasks is considered too fragile, easy to break with outside code, and the complexity of managing this system if an architecture comes along with many logical cores sharing cpu power will be unworkable. Remove the associated per_cpu_gain variable in sched_domains used only by this code. Also: The reason is that with dynticks enabled, this code breaks without yet further tweaks so dynticks brought on the rapid demise of this code. So either we tweak this code or kill it off entirely. It was Ingo's preference to kill it off. Either way this needs to happen for 2.6.21 since dynticks has gone in. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] shmem and simple const super_operationsHugh Dickins2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | shmem's super_operations were missed from the recent const-ification; and simple_fill_super()'s, which can share with get_sb_pseudo()'s. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] schedule wext/rtnl for removalJohannes Berg2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since wext is being replaced as fast as we can (it'll probably stick around for legacy drivers though) and the wext/netlink stuff was never really used, this schedules it for removal. The removal schedule is tight but there are no users of the code, the main user of the wext user interface are the wireless-tools, they only have an alpha version using the netlink interface and even that is incomplete. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] dz: remove struct pt_regs referencesMaciej W. Rozycki2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove remaining references to saved registers now that uart_handle_sysrq_char() does not want them. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] gpio_keys driver shouldn't be ARM-specificDavid Brownell2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The gpio_keys driver is wrongly ARM-specific; it can't build on other platforms with GPIO suport. This fixes that problem. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: pHilipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@iinet.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] add CONFIG_GENERIC_GPIODavid Brownell2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most drivers using GPIOs already know they are running on a system that supports the generic GPIO calls, because of other platform dependencies. But the generic GPIO-based LED and input button drivers can't know that. So this patch adds a Kconfig hook, GENERIC_GPIO, to mark the platforms where <asm/gpio.h> will do the right thing. Currently that's a bunch of ARMs, and AVR32; more are on the way. It also fixes a dependency bug for the gpio button input driver; it was wrong to start with, now it covers all platforms with GENERIC_GPIO. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@rtp-net.org> Cc: <raph@8d.com> Cc: <msvoboda@ra.rockwell.com> Cc: pHilipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driverTony Breeds2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix soft lockup with iSeries viocd driver, caused by eventually calling end_that_request_first() with nr_bytes 0. Some versions of hald do an SG_IO ioctl on the viocd device which becomes a request with hard_nr_sectors and hard_cur_sectors set to zero. Passing zero as the number of sectors to end_request() (which calls end_that_request_first()) causes an infinite loop when the bio is being freed. This patch makes sure that the zero is never passed. It only requires some number larger the the request size the terminate the loop. The lockup is triggered by hald, interrogating the device. Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] parport is an orphanDavid Brownell2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The writing on the wall seem to be that the parport stack is orphaned, rather than maintained by four folk ... and having a webpage that says the latest patches are based on a 2.5 kernel. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] ecryptfs: check xattr operation support fixDmitriy Monakhov2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - ecryptfs_write_inode_size_to_metadata() error code was ignored. - i_op->setxattr() must be supported by lower fs because used below. Signed-off-by: Monakhov Dmitriy <dmonakhov@openvz.org> Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] msi: support masking msi irqs without a mask bitEric W. Biederman2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For devices that do not support msi-x we only support 1 interrupt. Therefore we can disable that one interrupt by disabling the msi capability itself. If we leave the intx interrupts disabled while we have the msi capability disabled no interrupts should be delivered from that device. Devices with just the minimal msi support (and thus hitting this code path) include things like the intel e1000 nic, so it looks like is going to be a fairly common case and thus important to get right. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] msi: fix up the msi enable/disable logicEric W. Biederman2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | enable/disable_msi_mode have several side effects which keeps them from being generally useful. So this patch replaces them with with two much more targeted functions: msi_set_enable and msix_set_enable. This patch makes pci_dev->msi_enabled and pci_dev->msix_enabled the definitive way to test if linux has enabled the msi capability, and has the appropriate msi data structures set up. This patch ensures that while writing the msi messages in save/restore and during device initialization we have the msi capability disabled so we don't get into races. The pci spec requires that we do not have the msi capability enabled and the msi messages unmasked while we write the messages. Completely disabling the capability is overkill but it is easy :) Care has been taken so we never have both a msi capability and intx enabled simultaneously. We haven't run into a problem yet but better safe then sorry. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] msi: sanely support hardware level msi disablingEric W. Biederman2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In some cases when we are not using msi we need a way to ensure that the hardware does not have an msi capability enabled. Currently the code has been calling disable_msi_mode to try and achieve that. However disable_msi_mode has several other side effects and is only available when msi support is compiled in so it isn't really appropriate. Instead this patch implements pci_msi_off which disables all msi and msix capabilities unconditionally with no additional side effects. pci_disable_device was redundantly clearing the bus master enable flag and clearing the msi enable bit. A device that is not allowed to perform bus mastering operations cannot generate intx or msi interrupt messages as those are essentially a special case of dma, and require bus mastering. So the call in pci_disable_device to disable msi capabilities was redundant. quirk_pcie_pxh also called disable_msi_mode and is updated to use pci_msi_off. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | [PATCH] io_apic.h needs apicdef.hJean Delvare2007-03-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A -mm patch caused: In file included from drivers/pci/quirks.c:532: include/asm/io_apic.h:61: error: "MAX_IO_APICS" undeclared here (not in a function) So let's include the needed header. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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