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Sometimes cpu_idle_wait gets stuck because it might miss CPUS that are
already in idle, have no tasks waiting to run and have no interrupts going
to them. This is common on bootup when switching cpu idle governors.
This patch gives those CPUS that don't check in an IPI kick.
Background:
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I notice this while developing the mcount patches, that every once in a
while the system would hang. Looking deeper, the hang was always at boot
up when registering init_menu of the cpu_idle menu governor. Talking
with Thomas Gliexner, we discovered that one of the CPUS had no timer
events scheduled for it and it was in idle (running with NO_HZ). So the
CPU would not set the cpu_idle_state bit.
Hitting sysrq-t a few times would eventually route the interrupt to the
stuck CPU and the system would continue.
Note, I would have used the PDA isidle but that is set after the
cpu_idle_state bit is cleared, and would leave a window open where we
may miss being kicked.
hmm, looking closer at this, we still have a small race window between
clearing the cpu_idle_state and disabling interrupts (hence the RFC).
CPU0: CPU 1:
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cpu_idle_wait(): cpu_idle():
| __cpu_cpu_var(is_idle) = 1;
| if (__get_cpu_var(cpu_idle_state)) /* == 0 */
per_cpu(cpu_idle_state, 1) = 1; |
if (per_cpu(is_idle, 1)) /* == 1 */ |
smp_call_function(1) |
| receives ipi and runs do_nothing.
wait on map == empty idle();
/* waits forever */
So really we need interrupts off for most of this then. One might think
that we could simply clear the cpu_idle_state from do_nothing, but I'm
assuming that cpu_idle governors can be removed, and this might cause a
race that a governor might be used after the module was removed.
Venki said:
I think your RFC patch is the right solution here. As I see it, there is
no race with your RFC patch. As long as you call a dummy smp_call_function
on all CPUs, we should be OK. We can get rid of cpu_idle_state and the
current wait forever logic altogether with dummy smp_call_function. And so
there wont be any wait forever scenario.
The whole point of cpu_idle_wait() is to make all CPUs come out of idle
loop atleast once. The caller will use cpu_idle_wait something like this.
// Want to change idle handler
- Switch global idle handler to always present default_idle
- call cpu_idle_wait so that all cpus come out of idle for an instant
and stop using old idle pointer and start using default idle
- Change the idle handler to a new handler
- optional cpu_idle_wait if you want all cpus to start using the new
handler immediately.
Maybe the below 1s patch is safe bet for .24. But for .25, I would say we
just replace all complicated logic by simple dummy smp_call_function and
remove cpu_idle_state altogether.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Decrement the slave counter only in ->release() callback instead of both
in ->release() and w1 control.
Patch is based on debug work and preliminary patch made by Henri Laakso.
Henri noticed in debug that this counter becomes negative after w1 slave
device is physically removed.
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: Henri Laakso <henri.laakso@wapice.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Kyle McMartin reports sysrq_timer_list_show() can hit the module mutex
from hard interrupt context. These paths don't need to though, since we
long ago changed all the module list manipulation to occur via
stop_machine().
Disabling preemption is enough.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] vfp: fix fuitod/fsitod instructions
[ARM] pxa: silence warnings from cpu_is_xxx() macros
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
spidernet MAINTAINERship update
sky2: remove check for PCI wakeup setting from BIOS
sky2: large memory workaround.
fs_enet: check for phydev existence in the ethtool handlers
[usb netdev] asix: fix regression
r8169: fix missing loop variable increment
ip1000: menu location change
Fixed a small typo in the loopback driver
3c509: PnP resource management fix
netxen: fix byte-swapping in tx and rx
netxen: optimize tx handling
netxen: stop second phy correctly
netxen: update driver version
netxen: update MAINTAINERS
endianness noise in tulip_core
de4x5 fixes
xircom_cb endianness fixes
rt2x00: Put 802.11 data on 4 byte boundary
rt2x00: Corectly initialize rt2500usb MAC
rt2x00: Allow rt61 to catch up after a missing tx report
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix CPU hotplug when using the SLB shadow buffer
[POWERPC] efika: add phy-handle property for fec_mpc52xx
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6:
pnpacpi: print resource shortage message only once
PM: ACPI and APM must not be enabled at the same time
ACPI: apply quirk_ich6_lpc_acpi to more ICH8 and ICH9
ACPICA: fix acpi_serialize hang regression
ACPI : Not register gsi for PCI IDE controller in legacy mode
ACPI: Reintroduce run time configurable max_cstate for !CPU_IDLE case
ACPI: Make sysfs interface in ACPI power optional.
ACPI: EC: Enable boot EC before bus_scan
increase PNP_MAX_PORT to 40 from 24
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When RPCSEC/GSS and krb5i is used, requests are padded, typically to a multiple
of 8 bytes. This can make the request look slightly longer than it
really is.
As of
f34b95689d2ce001c "The NFSv2/NFSv3 server does not handle zero
length WRITE request correctly",
the xdr decode routines for NFSv2 and NFSv3 reject requests that aren't
the right length, so krb5i (for example) WRITE requests can get lost.
This patch relaxes the appropriate test and enhances the related comment.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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task_ppid_nr_ns is called in three places. One of these should never
have called it. In the other two, using it broke the existing
semantics. This was presumably accidental. If the function had not
been there, it would have been much more obvious to the eye that those
patches were changing the behavior. We don't need this function.
In task_state, the pid of the ptracer is not the ppid of the ptracer.
In do_task_stat, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
I also moved the call outside of lock_task_sighand, since it doesn't
need it.
In sys_getppid, ppid is the tgid of the real_parent, not its pid.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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pnpacpi: exceeded the max number of IO resources: 40
While this message is a real error and should thus
remain KERN_ERR (even a new dmesg line is seen as a regression
by some, since it was not printed in 2.6.23...) it is certainly
impolite to print this warning 50 times should you happen to
have the oddball system with 90 io resources under a device...
So print the warning just once.
In 2.6.25 we'll get rid of the limits altogether
and these warnings will vanish with them.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9535
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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The driver checks status of PCI power management to mark
default setting of Wake On Lan. On some systems this works, but often
it reports a that WOL is disabled when it isn't.
This patch gets rid of that check and just reports the wake on
lan status based on the hardware capablity.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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This patch might fix problems with 4G or more of memory.
It stops the driver from doing a small optimization for Tx and Rx,
and instead always sets the high-page on tx/rx descriptors.
Fixes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9725
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Way back when (in commit 834f2a4a1554dc5b2598038b3fe8703defcbe467, aka
"VFS: Allow the filesystem to return a full file pointer on open intent"
to be exact), Trond changed the open logic to keep track of the original
flags to a file open, in order to pass down the the intent of a dentry
lookup to the low-level filesystem.
However, when doing that reorganization, it changed the meaning of
namei_flags, and thus inadvertently changed the test of access mode for
directories (and RO filesystem) to use the wrong flag. So fix those
test back to use access mode ("acc_mode") rather than the open flag
("flag").
Issue noticed by Bill Roman at Datalight.
Reported-and-tested-by: Bill Roman <bill.roman@datalight.com>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Otherwise oops will happen if ethernet device has not been opened:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x0000014c
Faulting instruction address: 0xc016f7f0
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
MPC85xx
NIP: c016f7f0 LR: c01722a0 CTR: 00000000
REGS: c79ddc70 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (2.6.24-rc3-g820a386b)
MSR: 00029000 <EE,ME> CR: 20004428 XER: 20000000
DEAR: 0000014c, ESR: 00000000
TASK = c789f5e0[999] 'snmpd' THREAD: c79dc000
GPR00: c01aceb8 c79ddd20 c789f5e0 00000000 c79ddd3c 00000000 c79ddd64 00000000
GPR08: 00000000 c7845b60 c79dde3c c01ace80 20004422 200249fc 000002a0 100da728
GPR16: 100c0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 20022078 00000009 200220e0 bfc85558
GPR24: c79ddd3c 00000000 00000000 c02e0e70 c022fc64 ffffffff c7845800 bfc85498
NIP [c016f7f0] phy_ethtool_gset+0x0/0x4c
LR [c01722a0] fs_get_settings+0x18/0x28
Call Trace:
[c79ddd20] [c79dde38] 0xc79dde38 (unreliable)
[c79ddd30] [c01aceb8] dev_ethtool+0x294/0x11ec
[c79dde30] [c01aaa44] dev_ioctl+0x454/0x6a8
[c79ddeb0] [c019b9d4] sock_ioctl+0x84/0x230
[c79dded0] [c007ded8] do_ioctl+0x34/0x8c
[c79ddee0] [c007dfbc] vfs_ioctl+0x8c/0x41c
[c79ddf10] [c007e38c] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x74
[c79ddf40] [c000d4c0] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x3c
Instruction dump:
81630000 800b0030 2f800000 419e0010 7c0803a6 4e800021 7c691b78 80010014
7d234b78 38210010 7c0803a6 4e800020 <8003014c> 7c6b1b78 38600000 90040004
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Acked-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes
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51bf2976b55d07f9daae9697a0a3ac9f58abcedc caused a regression in the asix
usbnet driver. usb_control_msg returns the number of bytes read on
success, not 0. Tested with NETGEAR FA120.
Signed-off-by: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Spotted-by: Citizen Lee <citizen_lee@thecus.com>
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Move the ip1000 driver into the expected place for gigabit cards
in the configuration menu structure. It should be under the gigabit
cards, not at the top level.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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This is probably a result of the changes from commit
854d836 - [NET]: Dynamically allocate the loopback device, part 2
Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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In order to release PnP resources a card type must be set to EL3_PNP.
Previously, it was never set hence the PnP resources were not
released and device was left in incorrect state.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Here's the reworked patch.
This cleans up some unnecessary byte-swapping while setting up tx and
interpreting rx desc. The 64 bit rx status data should be converted
to host endian format only once and the macros just need to extract
bitfields.
This saves a spate of interrupts on pseries blades caused by buggy
(non) processing rx status ring.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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netxen driver allows limited number of threads simultaneously posting
skb's in tx ring. If transmit slot is unavailable, driver calls
schedule() or loops in xmit_frame().
This patch returns TX_BUSY and lets the stack reschedule the packet if
transmit slot is unavailable. Also removes unnecessary check for tx
timeout in the driver itself, the network stack does that anyway.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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This patch fixes bug that doesn't quiesce second port when interface is
brought down, which could lead to unwarranted interrupt during rmmod /
ifdown.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Bumping up driver version to 3.4.18, several fixes have gone in since
version 3.4.2.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Changing MAINTAINERS for netxen nic driver.
Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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* (trivial) endianness annotations
* don't bother with del_timer() from the inside of timer handler itself
* disable_ast() really ought to do del_timer_sync(), not del_timer()
* clean the timer handling in general.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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* descriptors inside the rx and tx rings are l-e
* don't cpu_to_le32() the argument of outl()
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb:
V4L/DVB (7001): av7110: fix section mismatch
V4L/DVB (6999): ivtv: stick to udelay=10 after all
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* 'for-linus' of git://oss.sgi.com:8090/xfs/xfs-2.6:
[XFS] fix unaligned access in readdir
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6.24:
sh: Force __access_ok() to obey address space limit.
sh: Fix argument page dcache flushing regression.
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Replace 40c7869b693b18412491fdcff64682215b739f9e kludge
[MIPS] Lasat: Fix built in separate object directory.
[MIPS] Malta: Fix software reset on big endian
[MIPS] pnx8xxx: move to clocksource
[MIPS] Wrong CONFIG option prevents setup of DMA zone.
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Since the introduction of the acquire_console_sem calls in
0333d83509c7d8496c8965b5ba9bc0c98e83c259, kexecing can cause the
kernel to deadlock:
ps3fb_shutdown()
-> unregister_framebuffer()
-> fb_notifier_call_chain(FB_EVENT_FB_UNBIND)
-> fbcon_fb_unbind()
-> unbind_con_driver()
-> bind_con_driver()
[ acquires console_sem ]
-> fbcon_deinit()
-> fbops->fb_release(newinfo, 0)
-> ps3fb_release()
-> ps3fb_sync()
[ acquires console_sem ]
This change avoids the deadlock by moving the acquire_console_sem()
out of ps3fb_sync(), and puts it into the two other callsites, leaving
ps3fb_release() to call ps3fb_sync() without the console semaphore.
[Geert]
- Corrected call sequence above
- ps3fb_release() may be called with and without console_sem held. This is an
inconsistency that should be fixed at the fb level, but for now, try to
acquire console_sem in ps3fb_release().
I think it's safer to let ps3fb_release() try to acquire console_sem and
not refresh the screen if it fails, than to call ps3fb_sync() without
holding console_sem, as ps3fb_par may be modified at the same time, causing
crashes or lockups.
Besides, ps3fb_release() only calls ps3fb_sync() to refresh the screen
when display flipping is disabled, which is an uncommon case (except during
shutdown/kexec).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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In ps3fb_shutdown, freeing the framebuffer will cause fb_info (in
dev->core.driver_data) to be free()ed, which we potentially access
from the ps3fbd kthread.
This change frees the framebuffer after stopping the ps3fbd kthread.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
blktrace: kill the unneeded initcall
block: fix blktrace timestamps
loop: fix bad bio_alloc() nr_iovec request
Don't blatt first element of prv in sg_chain()
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The bug causes corruptions of data read from flash.
The original code performs cache invalidation from "adr" to "adr + len"
in do_write_buffer(). Since len and adr could be updated in the code
before invalidation - it causes improper setting of cache invalidation
regions.
Signed-off-by: Massimo Cirillo <maxcir@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Giuseppe D'Eliseo <giuseppedeliseo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jörn Engel <joern@logfs.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woohouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix oops reported by Trond.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ACPI and APM used "pm_active" to guarantee that
they would not be simultaneously active.
But pm_active was recently moved under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY,
so that without CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_active became a NOP --
allowing ACPI and APM to both be simultaneously enabled.
This caused unpredictable results, including boot hangs.
Further, the code under CONFIG_PM_LEGACY is scheduled
for removal.
So replace pm_active with pm_flags.
pm_flags depends only on CONFIG_PM,
which is present for both CONFIG_APM and CONFIG_ACPI.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9194
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
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Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
[Ralf: The LDSCRIPT script needed fixing, too]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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