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* [S390] cio: Use strict_strtoul() for attributes.Cornelia Huck2008-04-30
| | | | | | | Make parsing of attribute writes handle incorrect input better. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* proc: remove proc_root from driversAlexey Dobriyan2008-04-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove proc_root export. Creation and removal works well if parent PDE is supplied as NULL -- it worked always that way. So, one useless export removed and consistency added, some drivers created PDEs with &proc_root as parent but removed them as NULL and so on. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.hMatthew Wilcox2008-04-18
| | | | Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
* [S390] qdio (new feature): enhancing info-retrieval from QDIO-adaptersUrsula Braun2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | Next generation of OSA adapters allows retrieval of further self-describing infos. This is the preparational infrastructure patch for further exploitation in the qeth driver. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: Unrecognized inbound traffic if many FCP devices are onlineUrsula Braun2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Problem: Usually every FCP device has its own indicator field the adapter uses to signal outstanding work. Once a certain limit of devices is reached, a common indicator field is used. In certain scenarios qdio resets this common indicator field, but handles only part of the FCP-devices sharing the common indicator field. Thus inbound traffic on the non-processed shared FCP-devices is not recognized immediately. Solution: Make sure common indicator field is reset only, if all FCP-devices sharing the indicator are processed. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: FCP/SCSI write I/O stagnates on LPARUrsula Braun2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | | If running on LPAR, qdio might overlook an incoming buffer in certain scenarios. The patch makes sure that incoming buffers are detected immediately in all situations. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: fix qdio_activate timeout handling.Heiko Carstens2008-02-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Current code in qdio_activate waits for at least 5 seconds until it returns. It may return earlier if an error occurs, but not if everything is ok. This large timeout value became visible with commit dfa77f611ff295598e218aa0eb6efa73a5cf26d0 "qdio: set QDIO_ACTIVATE_TIMEOUT to 5s", which intended to fix the timeout value which was zero. In turn setting an FCP adapter online took 5 seconds. In practice waiting for 5ms before continuing is sufficient as pointed out by Utz Bacher and Cornelia Huck. Cc: Utz Bacher <utz.bacher@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: avoid hang when establishing qdio queuesUrsula Braun2008-02-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | If qdio establish runs in parallel with a channel error, ccw_device_start_timeout may not trigger the qdio_timeout_handler. In this case neither QDIO_IRQ_STATE_ESTABLISHED nor QDIO_IRQ_STATE_ERR is reached and the following wait_event hangs forever. Solution: do not make use of the timeout option with ccw_device_start, but add a timeout to the following wait_event. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: Remove double checked value.Sebastian Ott2008-01-26
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] cio: Extend adapter interrupt interface.Peter Oberparleiter2008-01-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Change the adapter interrupt interface in order to allow multiple adapter interrupt handlers to be registered. Indicators are now allocated by cio instead of the device driver. The qdio parts have been Acked-by: Ursula Braun <ubraun@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: change QDIO performance_stats error message priorityUrsula Braun2007-10-12
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: dont cast function pointers and use them to call functions.Heiko Carstens2007-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | According to C99 6.3.2.3 it's undefined what happens if a converted pointer is used to call a function whose type is not compatible with the pointed-to type. That's what the qdio code is doing, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: Refresh buffer states for IQDIO Asynchronous output queueKlaus D. Wacker2007-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Hipersocket Multicast queue works asynchronously. When sending buffers, the buffer state change may happen delayed. The tasklet for checking changes in the outbound queue excluded IQDIO async queues from this process. This created either a hang situation when the queue ran full, or presented a hang situation a interface close time. The tasklet processing is changed to include IQDIO async queues when requesting buffer state refresh. Signed-off-by: Klaus D. Wacker <kdwacker@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: fix EQBS handling on CCQ96Klaus D. Wacker2007-08-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | QDIO returned from EQBS instruction in any case after return code CCQ=96 was issued regardless whether buffer states for at least one buffer were extracted or not. This caused FCP devices to hang when running under z/VM and having QIOASSASIST=ON and having high I/O rates. In order to fix this qdio return code processing of EQBS instruction after CCQ=96 is changed that buffers are returned and if no buffers where extracted the instruction is repeated at once. Signed-off-by: Klaus D. Wacker <kdwacker@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: make sure data structures are correctly aligned.Heiko Carstens2007-08-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The slsb structure contained at the beginning of the qdio_q structure must start on a 256 byte boundary. To make sure this is the case even if slab debugging is turned on create an own slab cache for qdio_q structures. Besides that don't use the slab allocator to allocate whole pages. Use the page allocator instead. Also fix a few memory leaks in error handling code. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] Fix broken logic, SIGA flags must be bitwise ORedJan Glauber2007-07-17
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: output queue stall on FCP and network devicesFrank Pavlic2007-07-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | When running QIOASSIST enabled qdio devices in a z/VM environment the output queue for such devices stall in heavy workload situations. When SQBS and EQBS instructions returns CCQ=96 qdio does not reissue the instruction again with the register settings done by millicode but processed the returned qdio buffer. This is wrong. qdio has to reissue the instruction once again on CCQ=96, as we already do it for CCQ=97. Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio: re-add lost perf_stats.tl_runs change in qdio_handle_pciUrsula Braun2007-05-10
| | | | | | | | Statement has been inadvertently lost with commit 00c0c6466c66bdf05f2a3dcf59e6895179ea8b76. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* s390: free skbs in finite amount of time in qethUrsula Braun2007-05-08
| | | | | | | | | | Free sent skbs in some finite amount of time. Affected are asynchronous queue of Hipersockets devices and the output queues of all eth-devices respectively. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [S390] qdio: make qdio statistics SMP-capableUrsula Braun2007-05-04
| | | | | | | | Use atomic_t/atomic64_t to make qdio performance statistics smp safe. Remove temporarily calculation of "total time of inbound actions". Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] cio: qdio slsb setupUrsula Braun2007-03-19
| | | | | | | | Make sure set_slsb problems are handled correctly in qdio_do_qdio_fill_input() and qdio_do_qdio_fill_output. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] cio: Fixup interface for setting options on ccw devices.Cornelia Huck2007-02-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current ccw_device_set_options() sets a specified mask of options and clears those not specified, but there is no way to find out which options have already been set. In order to fix this up, introduce the following interface changes: ccw_device_set_options() now only sets the specified bits, but does not clear those that are not specified. ccw_device_clear_options() clears the specified bits. ccw_device_set_options_mask() provides the old semantics (setting only the specified bits and clearing the others). Device drivers now work as expected. qdio has been adapted. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] Avoid excessive inlining.Heiko Carstens2007-02-05
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] Get rid of a lot of sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens2007-02-05
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] Hipersocket multicast queue: make sure outbound handler is calledUrsula Braun2006-12-15
| | | | | | | | | | A HiperSocket multicast queue works asynchronously. When sending buffers, the buffer state change from PRIMED to EMPTY may happen delayed. Reschedule the checking for changes in the outbound queue, if there are still PRIMED buffers. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] runtime switch for qdio performance statisticsUrsula Braun2006-12-08
| | | | | | | | Remove CONFIG_QETH_PERF_STATS and use a sysfs attribute instead. We want to have the ability to turn the statistics on/off at runtime. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] more workqueue fixes.Martin Schwidefsky2006-12-08
| | | | Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] non-unique constant/macro identifiers.Ursula Braun2006-12-04
| | | | | | | | | | | Add some prefixes to constands defined in drivers/s390/net/qdio.h and drivers/s390/lcs.h to make it possible to include the three header files drivers/s390/net/qeth.h, drivers/s390/net/qdio.h and drivers/net/s390/lcs.h in one C file. This is required for the patch that generates the kerntypes.o file for use by lcrash. Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] cio: sch_no -> schid.sch_no conversion.Cornelia Huck2006-10-18
| | | | | | | Overlooked one sch_no -> schid.sch_no conversion. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] cio: Use ccw_dev_id and subchannel_id in ccw_device_privateCornelia Huck2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | Use the proper structures to identify device and subchannel. Change get_disc_ccwdev_by_devno() to get_disc_ccwdev_by_dev_id(). Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio slsb processing state.Frank Pavlic2006-09-20
| | | | | | | | The last SLSB has to be set to STATE_PROCESSING if we really want to use the PROCESSING feature. Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] qdio_get_micros return value.Frank Pavlic2006-09-20
| | | | | | | | qdio_get_micros is supposed to return microseconds. The get_clock() return value needs to be shifted by 12 to get to microseconds. Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* [S390] Fix sparse warnings.Heiko Carstens2006-07-12
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-30
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] s390: fix slab debuggingChristian Borntraeger2006-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG=y networking over qeth doesn't work. The problem is that the qib structure embedded in the qeth_irq structure needs an alignment of 256 but kmalloc only guarantees an alignment of 8. When using SLAB debugging the alignment of qeth_irq is not sufficient for the embedded qib structure which causes all users of qdio (qeth and zfcp) to stop working. Allocate qeth_irq structure with __get_free_page. That wastes a small amount of memory (~2500 bytes) per online adapter. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: qdio memory allocationsAndreas Herrmann2006-04-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | Avoid memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL in qdio_establish/qdio_shutdown. Use memory pool instead. (Otherwise this can lead to an I/O stall where qdio waits for a free page and zfcp waits for end of error recovery in low memory situations.) Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/s390Eric Sesterhenn2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | Convert all kmalloc + memset sequences in drivers/s390 to kzalloc usage. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: V=V qdio fixesFrank Pavlic2006-02-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Using FCP devices with V=V support, the input queue stalled when CCQ 97 had been returned in qdio_do_eqbs. When this happen we have to reissue the eqbs instruction. Another bug was when V=V was enabled we checked if hardware has SIGA-sync support. If not we returned with 0 from tiqdio_is_inbound_q_done. Thus qdio lost initiative on FCP devices and input queue stalled. Running devices in V=V there is no SIGA-sync support but nevertheless we have to process tiqdio_is_inbound_q_done either. Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: Remove CVS generated informationHeiko Carstens2006-02-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove all CVS generated information like e.g. revision IDs from drivers/s390 and include/asm-s390 (none present in arch/s390). - Add newline at end of arch/s390/lib/Makefile to avoid diff message. Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: email-address changeCornelia Huck2006-01-14
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: cleanup KconfigMartin Schwidefsky2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | Sanitize some s390 Kconfig options. We have ARCH_S390, ARCH_S390X, ARCH_S390_31, 64BIT, S390_SUPPORT and COMPAT. Replace these 6 options by S390, 64BIT and COMPAT. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: multiple subchannel sets supportCornelia Huck2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for multiple subchannel sets. Works with arbitrary devices in subchannel set 1 and is transparent to device drivers. Although currently only two subchannel sets are available, this will work with the architectured maximum number of subchannel sets as well. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: introduce struct subchannel_idCornelia Huck2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces a struct subchannel_id containing the subchannel number (formerly referred to as "irq") and switches code formerly relying on the subchannel number over to it. While we're touching inline assemblies anyway, make sure they have correct memory constraints. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: qdio V=V pass-throughFrank Pavlic2006-01-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New feature V=V qdio pass-through. QDIO and HiperSockets processing in z/VM V=V guest environments (as well as V=R with z/VM running in LPAR mode) requires shadowing of all QDIO architecture queue elements. Especially the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs structures in the hypervisor, and the need to issue SIGA SYNC operations to observe state changes, eventually causes significant CPU processing overhead in the hypervisor. The QDIO pass-through support for V=V guests avoids the shadowing of SBALs and SLSBs. This significantly reduces the hypervisor overhead for QDIO based I/O. Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kfree cleanup: drivers/s390Jesper Juhl2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | This is the drivers/s390/ part of the big kfree cleanup patch. Remove pointless checks for NULL prior to calling kfree() in drivers/s390/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Stefan Bader <Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: duplicate timeout in qdioUrsula Braun-Krahl2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | Remove duplicate timeout in qdio_establish(). Signed-off-by: Ursula Braun-Krahl <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] bogus function type in qdioAl Viro2005-08-26
| | | | | | | | | In qdio_get_micros() volatile in return type is plain noise (even with old gccisms it would make no sense - noreturn function returning __u64 is a bit odd ;-) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] typo fix in qdio.cAl Viro2005-08-23
| | | | | | | dumb typo: u32 volatile * mistyped as u32 * volatile Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] clean up inline static vs static inlineJesper Juhl2005-07-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | `gcc -W' likes to complain if the static keyword is not at the beginning of the declaration. This patch fixes all remaining occurrences of "inline static" up with "static inline" in the entire kernel tree (140 occurrences in 47 files). While making this change I came across a few lines with trailing whitespace that I also fixed up, I have also added or removed a blank line or two here and there, but there are no functional changes in the patch. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] s390: debug feature changesMichael Holzheu2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the memory allocation method for the s390 debug feature. Trace buffers had been allocated using the get_free_pages() function before. Therefore it was not possible to get big memory areas in a running system due to memory fragmentation. Now the trace buffers are subdivided into several subbuffers with pagesize. Therefore it is now possible to allocate more memory for the trace buffers and more trace records can be written. In addition to that, dynamic specification of the size of the trace buffers is implemented. It is now possible to change the size of a trace buffer using a new debugfs file instance. When writing a number into this file, the trace buffer size is changed to 'number * pagesize'. In the past all the traces could be obtained from userspace by accessing files in the "proc" filesystem. Now with debugfs we have a new filesystem which should be used for debugging purposes. This patch moves the debug feature from procfs to debugfs. Since the interface of debug_register() changed, all device drivers, which use the debug feature had to be adjusted. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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