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* [PATCH] unnecessary long index i in schedSteven Rostedt2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | Unless we expect to have more than 2G CPUs, there's no reason to have 'i' as a long long here. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: fix interactive ceiling codeCon Kolivas2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The relationship between INTERACTIVE_SLEEP and the ceiling is not perfect and not explicit enough. The sleep boost is not supposed to be any larger than without this code and the comment is not clear enough about what exactly it does, just the reason it does it. Fix it. There is a ceiling to the priority beyond which tasks that only ever sleep for very long periods cannot surpass. Fix it. Prevent the on-runqueue bonus logic from defeating the idle sleep logic. Opportunity to micro-optimise. Signed-off-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: simplify bitmap definitionSteven Rostedt2006-06-27
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] sched: fix smt nice lock contention and optimizationChen, Kenneth W2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Initial report and lock contention fix from Chris Mason: Recent benchmarks showed some performance regressions between 2.6.16 and 2.6.5. We tracked down one of the regressions to lock contention in schedule heavy workloads (~70,000 context switches per second) kernel/sched.c:dependent_sleeper() was responsible for most of the lock contention, hammering on the run queue locks. The patch below is more of a discussion point than a suggested fix (although it does reduce lock contention significantly). The dependent_sleeper code looks very expensive to me, especially for using a spinlock to bounce control between two different siblings in the same cpu. It is further optimized: * perform dependent_sleeper check after next task is determined * convert wake_sleeping_dependent to use trylock * skip smt runqueue check if trylock fails * optimize double_rq_lock now that smt nice is converted to trylock * early exit in searching first SD_SHARE_CPUPOWER domain * speedup fast path of dependent_sleeper [akpm@osdl.org: cleanup] Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add proper Kconfig, Makefile ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | entries Replace the temp makefile hacks with proper CONFIG entries, which are also added to Kconfig. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: display pin values in/out in ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | gpio_dump Add current pin settings to gpio_dump() output. This adds the last 'word' to the syslog lines, which displays the input and output values that the pin is set to. pc8736x_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE io:1/1 The 2 values may differ for a number of reasons: 1- the pin output circuitry is diaabled, (as the above 'TS' indicates) 2- it needs a pullup resistor to drive the attached circuit, 3- the external circuit needs a pullup so the open-drain has something to pull-down 4- the pin is wired to Vcc or Ground It might be appropriate to add a WARN for 2,3,4, since they could damage the chip and/or circuit, esp if misconfig goes unnoticed. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] gpio-patchset-fixups: include linux/io.hJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hmm. Im somewhat ambivalent about this patch, since with it, driver wont build for vanilla 17 or older. Its also only 1/2 of your suggestion - when I tried it, I was building against vanilla 17, and asm/uaccess.h cause compilation failure. Looking back, Im perplexed as to why linux/io.h didnt cause same failure ?!? use linux/io.h rather than asm/io.h Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: replace spinlocks w mutexesJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes. This is a me-too patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: fix gpio_current, use shadow regsJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Add a working gpio_current() to pc8736x_gpio.c (the previous implementation just threw a dev_warn), and fix gpio_change() to use gpio_current() rather than the incorrect (and temporary) gpio_get(). Initialize shadow-regs so this all works. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: use dev_dbg in common moduleJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use of dev_dbg() and friends is considered good practice. dev_dbg() needs a struct device *devp, but nsc_gpio is only a helper module, so it doesnt have/need its own. To provide devp to the user-modules (scx200 & pc8736x _gpio), we add it to the vtable, and set it during init. Also squeeze nsc_gpio_dump()'s format a little. [ 199.259879] pc8736x_gpio.0: io09: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add platform_device for use w ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | dev_dbg Adds platform-device to (just introduced) driver, and uses it to replace many printks with dev_dbg() etc. This could trivially be merged into previous patch, but this way matches better with the corresponding patch that does the same change to scx200_gpio. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add new pc8736x_gpio moduleJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | Add the brand new pc8736x_gpio driver. This is mostly based upon scx200_gpio.c, but the platform_dev is treated separately, since its fairly big too. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: migrate gpio_dump to common moduleJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | Since the meaning of config-bits is the same for scx200 and pc8736x _gpios, we can share a function to deliver this to user. Since it is called via the vtable, its also completely replaceable. For now, we keep using printk... Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: migrate file-ops to common moduleJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that the read(), write() file-ops are dispatching gpio-ops via the vtable, they are generic, and can be moved 'verbatim' to the nsc_gpio common-support module. After the move, various symbols are renamed to update 'scx200_' to 'nsc_', and headers are adjusted accordingly. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add empty common-moduleJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | Add the nsc_gpio common-support module as an empty shell. Next patch starts the migration of the common gpio support routines. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: dispatch via vtableJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | Now actually call the gpio operations thru the vtable. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add gpio-ops vtableJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | Abstract the gpio operations into a new nsc_gpio_ops vtable. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: refactor scx200_probe to better ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | segregate _gpio initialization Pull shadow-reg initialization into separate function now, rather than doing it 2x later (scx200, pc8736x). When we revisit 2nd drvr below, it will be to reimplement an init function, rather than another refactor. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add 'v' command to device-fileJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new driver command: 'v' which calls gpio_dump() on the pin. The output goes to the log, like all other INFO messages in the original driver. Giving the user control over the feedback they 'need' is construed to be a user-friendly feature, and allows us (later) to dial down many INFO messages to DEBUG log-level. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: put gpio_dump on a dietJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Shrink scx200_gpio_dump() to a single printk with ternary ops. The function is still ifdef'd out, this is corrected in next patch, when it is actually used. The patch 'inadvertently' changed loglevel from DEBUG to INFO. This is Good, because in next patch, its wired to a 'command' which the user can invoke when they want. When they do so, its because they want INFO to support their developement effort, and we want to give it to them without compiling a DEBUG version of the driver. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: device minor numbers are ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | unsigned ints Per kernel headers, device minor numbers are unsigned ints. Do the same in this driver. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: add platforn_device for use w ↵Jim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | dev_dbg Add a platform-device to scx200_gpio, and use its struct device dev member (ie: devp) in dev_dbg() once. There are 2 alternatives here (Im soliciting guidance/commentary): - use isa_device, if/when its added to the kernel. - alter scx200.c to EXPORT_GPL its private devp so that both scx200_gpio, and the (to be added) nsc_gpio module can use it. Since the available devp is in 'grandparent', this seems like too much 'action at a distance'. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: modernize driver init to 2.6 apiJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | Adopt many modern 2.6 coding practices, ala LDD3, chapter 3. Changes are limited to initialization calls from module init, ie: cdev_init, cdev_add, *_chrdev_region, mkdev. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: whitespace pre-cleanJim Cromie2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | GPIO SUPPORT FOR SCx200 & PC8736x The patch-set reworks the 2.4 vintage scx200_gpio driver for modern 2.6, and refactors GPIO support to reuse it in a new driver for the GPIO on PC-8736x chips. Its handy for the Soekris.com net-4801, which has both chips. These patches have been seen recently on Kernel-Mentors, and then Kernel-Newbies ML, where Jesper Juhl kindly reviewed it. His feedback has been incorporated. Thanks Jesper ! Its also gone to soekris-tech@soekris.com for possible testing by linux folks, I've gotten 1 promise so far. Theyre mostly BSD folk over there, but we'll see.. Device-file & Sysfs The driver preserves the existing device-file interface, including the write/cmd set, but adds v to 'view' the pin-settings & configs by inducing, via gpio_dump(), a dev_info() call. Its a fairly crappy way to get status, but it sticks to the syslog approach, conservatively. Allowing users to voluntarily trigger logging is good, it gives them a familiar way to confirm their app's control & use of the pins, and I've thus reduced the pin-mode-updates from dev_info to dev_dbg. I've recently bolted on a proto sysfs interface for both new drivers. Im not including those patches here; they (the patch + doc-pre-patch) are still quite raw (and unreviewed on KNML), and since they 'invent' a convention for GPIO, a proper vetting is needed. Since this patchset is much bigger than my previous ones, Id like to keep things simpler, and address it 1st, before bolting on more stuff. The driver-split The Geode CPU and the PC-87366 Super-IO chip have GPIO units which share a common pin-architecture (same pin features, with same bits controlling), but with different addressing mechanics and port organizations. The vintage driver expresses the pin capabilities with pin-mode commands [OoPpTt],etc that change the pin configurations, and since the 2 chips share pin-arch, we can reuse the read(), write() commands, once the implementation is suitably adjusted. The patchset adds a vtable: struct nsc_gpio_ops, to abstract the existing gpio operations, then adjusts fileops.write() code to invoke operations via that vtable. Driver specific open()s set private_data to the vtable so its available for use by write(). The vtable gets the gpio_dump() too, since its user-friendly, and (could be construed as) part of the current device-file interface. To support use of dev_dbg() in write() & _dump(), the vtable gets a dev ptr too, set by both scx200 & pc8736x _gpio drivers. heres how the pins are presented in syslog: [ 1890.176223] scx200_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE [ 1890.287223] scx200_gpio.0: io01: 0x0003 OE PP PUD EDGE LO nsc_gpio.c: new file is new home of several file-ops methods, which are modified to get their vtable from filp->private_data, and use it where needed. scx200_gpio.c: keeps some of its existing gpio routines, but now wires them up via the vtable (they're invoked by nsc_gpio.c:nsc_gpio_write() thru this vtable). A driver-spcific open() initializes filp->private_data with the vtable. Once the split is clean, and the scx200_gpio driver is working, we copy and modify the function and variable names, and rework the access-method bodies for the different addressing scheme. Heres a working overview of the patchset: # series file for GPIO # Spring Cleaning gpio-scx/patch.preclean # scripts/Lindent fixes, editor-ctrl comments # API Modernization gpio-scx/patch.api26 # what I learned from LDD3 gpio-scx/patch.platform-dev-2 # get pdev, support for dev_dbg() gpio-scx/patch.unsigned-minor # fix to match std practice # Debuggability gpio-scx/patch.dump-diet # shrink gpio_dump() gpio-scx/patch.viewpins # add new 'command' to call dump() gpio-scx/patch.init-refactor # pull shadow-register init to sub # Access-Abstraction (add vtable) gpio-scx/patch.access-vtable # introduce nsg_gpio_ops vtable, w dump gpio-scx/patch.vtable-calls # add & use the vtable in scx200_gpio gpio-scx/patch.nscgpio-shell # add empty driver for common-fops # move code under abstraction gpio-scx/patch.migrate-fops # move file-ops methods from scx200_gpio gpio-scx/patch.common-dump # mv scx200.c:scx200_gpio_dump() to nsc_gpio.c gpio-scx/patch.add-pc8736x-gpio # add new driver, like old, w chip adapt # gpio-scx/patch.add-DEBUG # enable all dev_dbg()s # Cleanups # finish printk -> dev_dbg() etc gpio-scx/patch.pdev-pc8736x # new drvr needs pdev too, gpio-scx/patch.devdbg-nscgpio # add device to 'vtable', use in dev_dbg() # gpio-scx/patch.pin-config-view # another 'c' 'command' # gpio-scx/quiet-getset # take out excess dbg stuff (pretty quiet now) gpio-scx/patch.shadow-current # imitate scx200_gpio's shadow regs in pc87* # post KMentors-post patches .. gpio-scx/patch.mutexes # use mutexes for config-locks gpio-scx/patch.viewpins-values # extend dump to obsolete separate 'c' cmd gpio-scx/patch.kconfig # add stuff for kbuild # TBC # combine api26 with pdev, which is just one step. # merge c&v commands to single do-all-fn # delay viewpins, dump-diet should also un-ifdef it too. diff.sys-gpio-rollup-1 This patch: Removed editor format-control comments, and used scripts/Lindent to clean up whitespace, then deleted the bogus chunks :-( Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: use hotplug version of cpu notifier in appropriate placesChandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | Make use the of newly defined hotplug version of cpu_notifier functionality wherever appropriate. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: add hotplug versions of cpu_notifierChandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | Define new macros register_hotcpu_notifier() and unregister_hotcpu_notifier() that redefines register_cpu_notifier() and unregister_cpu_notifier() for use only when HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier calls __cpuinit onlyChandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Make notifier_calls associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinit. __cpuinit makes sure that the function is init time only unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. [akpm@osdl.org: section fix] Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make cpu_notifier related notifier blocks __cpuinit onlyChandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Make notifier_blocks associated with cpu_notifier as __cpuinitdata. __cpuinitdata makes sure that the data is init time only unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: make [un]register_cpu_notifier init time onlyChandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | CPUs come online only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). So, cpu_notifier functionality need to be available only at init time. This patch makes register_cpu_notifier() available only at init time, unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. This patch exports register_cpu_notifier() and unregister_cpu_notifier() only if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17Chandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | This patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17Chandra Seetharaman2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a band-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run time. This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rtc: fix idr lockingSonny Rao2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | We need to serialize access to the global rtc_idr even in this error path. Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] stallion clean upAlan Cox2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | There are two locking sets involved. One locks the board mappings and the other is the tty open/close locking. The low level code was clearly designed to be ported to OS's with spin locks already so pretty much comes out in the wash Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] IPMI: use schedule in kthreadakpm@osdl.org2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay in its busy-wait polling loop when the lower-level state machine told it to do a short delay. This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing bad problems with other tasks. Call schedule() instead. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rcutorture: add call_rcu_bh() operationsPaul E. McKenney2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | Add operations for the call_rcu_bh() variant of RCU. Also add an rcu_batches_completed_bh() function, which is needed by rcutorture. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rcutorture: add ops vector and Classic RCU opsPaul E. McKenney2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | Add an ops vector to rcutorture, and add the ops for Classic RCU. Update the rcutorture documentation to reflect slight change to the dmesg formats. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] rcutorture: catchup doc fixes for idle-hz testsPaul E. McKenney2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | This just catches the RCU torture documentation up with the recent fixes that test RCU for architectures that turn of the scheduling-clock interrupt for idle CPUs and the addition of a SUCCESS/FAILURE indication, fixing up an obsolete comment as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fix kernel-doc in kernel/ dirRandy Dunlap2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc parameters in kernel/ Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1376): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_msg_prio' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/auditsc.c:1420): No description found for parameter 'u_abs_timeout' Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2617-g9//kernel/acct.c:526): No description found for parameter 'pacct' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] tty: fix TCSBRK commentPaul Fulghum2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | Fix TCSBRK comment to prevent confusion or accidental removal. Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ufs: ufs_read_inode cleanupEvgeniy Dushistov2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add missed ufsi->i_dir_start_lookup initialization in ufs_read_inode in UFS2 case. Also it cleans ufs_read_inode function to prevent such kind of situation in the future: it move depend on UFS type parts of code into separate functions and leaves in ufs_read_inode only generic code. It cleans code and avoids duplication. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] RTC: Add a comment for ENOIOCTLCMD in ds1553_rtc_ioctlAtsushi Nemoto2006-06-27
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored writeVladimir V. Saveliev2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | generic_file_buffered_write() prefaults in user pages in order to avoid deadlock on copying from the same page as write goes to. However, it looks like there is a problem when write is vectored: fault_in_pages_readable brings in current segment or its part (maxlen). OTOH, filemap_copy_from_user_iovec is called to copy number of bytes (bytes) which may exceed current segment, so filemap_copy_from_user_iovec switches to the next segment which is not brought in yet. Pagefault is generated. That causes the deadlock if pagefault is for the same page write goes to: page being written is locked and not uptodate, pagefault will deadlock trying to lock locked page. [akpm@osdl.org: somewhat rewritten] Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Remove gratuitous inclusion of <linux/config.h> from <linux/dmaengine.h>David Woodhouse2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | We include config.h on the compiler command line. There's no need for it to be included again. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] spin/rwlock init cleanupsIngo Molnar2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | locking init cleanups: - convert " = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" to spin_lock_init() or DEFINE_SPINLOCK() - convert rwlocks in a similar manner this patch was generated automatically. Motivation: - cleanliness - lockdep needs control of lock initialization, which the open-coded variants do not give - it's also useful for -rt and for lock debugging in general Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fs/buffer.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | - add a proper prototype for the following global function: - buffer_init() - make the following needlessly global function static: - end_buffer_async_write() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] poison: add & use more constantsRandy Dunlap2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add more poison values to include/linux/poison.h. It's not clear to me whether some others should be added or not, so I haven't added any of these: ./include/linux/libata.h:#define ATA_TAG_POISON 0xfafbfcfdU ./arch/ppc/8260_io/fcc_enet.c:1918: memset((char *)(&(immap->im_dprambase[(mem_addr+64)])), 0x88, 32); ./drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c:429: memset(mem, 0xe5, sizeof(struct mon_event_text)); ./drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/ftape-ctl.c:738: memset(ft_buffer[i]->address, 0xAA, FT_BUFF_SIZE); ./drivers/block/sx8.c:/* 0xf is just arbitrary, non-zero noise; this is sorta like poisoning */ Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] update two drivers for poison.hRandy Dunlap2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | Update two drivers to use poison.h. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] add poison.h and patch primary usersRandy Dunlap2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Localize poison values into one header file for better documentation and easier/quicker debugging and so that the same values won't be used for multiple purposes. Use these constants in core arch., mm, driver, and fs code. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] vdso: randomize the i386 vDSO by moving it into a vmaIngo Molnar2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the i386 VDSO down into a vma and thus randomize it. Besides the security implications, this feature also helps debuggers, which can COW a vma-backed VDSO just like a normal DSO and can thus do single-stepping and other debugging features. It's good for hypervisors (Xen, VMWare) too, which typically live in the same high-mapped address space as the VDSO, hence whenever the VDSO is used, they get lots of guest pagefaults and have to fix such guest accesses up - which slows things down instead of speeding things up (the primary purpose of the VDSO). There's a new CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO (default=y) option, which provides support for older glibcs that still rely on a prelinked high-mapped VDSO. Newer distributions (using glibc 2.3.3 or later) can turn this option off. Turning it off is also recommended for security reasons: attackers cannot use the predictable high-mapped VDSO page as syscall trampoline anymore. There is a new vdso=[0|1] boot option as well, and a runtime /proc/sys/vm/vdso_enabled sysctl switch, that allows the VDSO to be turned on/off. (This version of the VDSO-randomization patch also has working ELF coredumping, the previous patch crashed in the coredumping code.) This code is a combined work of the exec-shield VDSO randomization code and Gerd Hoffmann's hypervisor-centric VDSO patch. Rusty Russell started this patch and i completed it. [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 2] [akpm@osdl.org: compile fix 3] [akpm@osdl.org: revernt MAXMEM change] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] voyager: fix compile after setup reworkJames Bottomley2006-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The following [PATCH] Clean up and refactor i386 sub-architecture setup Doesn't quite work, since it leaves out an include of asm/io.h, without which the use of inb/outb in the setup file won.t work. This corrects that and also removes a spurious acpi reference that apparently crept in ages ago but should never have been there. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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