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2006-06-12Merge branch 'merge'Paul Mackerras
2006-06-11[PATCH] Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reportedPaul Mackerras
People have been reporting that PPP connections over ptys, such as used with PPTP, will hang randomly when transferring large amounts of data, for instance in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6530. I have managed to reproduce the problem, and the patch below fixes the actual cause. The problem is not in fact in ppp_async.c but in n_tty.c. What happens is that when pptp reads from the pty, we call read_chan() in drivers/char/n_tty.c on the master side of the pty. That copies all the characters out of its buffer to userspace and then calls check_unthrottle(), which calls the pty unthrottle routine, which calls tty_wakeup on the slave side, which calls ppp_asynctty_wakeup, which calls tasklet_schedule. So far so good. Since we are in process context, the tasklet runs immediately and calls ppp_async_process(), which calls ppp_async_push, which calls the tty->driver->write function to send some more output. However, tty->driver->write() returns zero, because the master tty->receive_room is still zero. We haven't returned from check_unthrottle() yet, and read_chan() only updates tty->receive_room _after_ calling check_unthrottle. That means that the driver->write call in ppp_async_process() returns 0. That would be fine if we were going to get a subsequent wakeup call, but we aren't (we just had it, and the buffer is now empty). The solution is for n_tty.c to update tty->receive_room _before_ calling the driver unthrottle routine. The patch below does this. With this patch I was able to transfer a 900MB file over a PPTP connection (taking about 25 minutes), whereas without the patch the connection would always stall in under a minute. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: [PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore order [PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback [PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume [PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled
2006-06-11[PATCH] typo in vmscan.cChristoph Lameter
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Looks like a comma was left from the conversion from a struct to an assignment. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: reverse pci config space restore orderYu, Luming
According to Intel ICH spec, there are several rules that Base Address should be programmed before IOSE (PCICMD register ) enabled. For example ICH7: 12.1.3 SATA : the base address register for the bus master register should be programmed before this bit is set. 11.1.3: PCICMD (USB): The base address register for USB should be programmed before this bit is set. .... To make sure kernel code follow this rule , and prevent unnecessary confusion. I proposal this patch. Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: Improve PCI config space writebackDave Jones
At least one laptop blew up on resume from suspend with a black screen due to a lack of this patch. By only writing back config space that is different, we minimise the possibility of accidents like this. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: Error handling on PCI device resumeJean Delvare
We currently don't handle errors properly when resuming a PCI device: * In pci_default_resume() we capture the error code returned by pci_enable_device() but don't pass it up to the caller. Introduced by commit 95a629657dbe28e44a312c47815b3dc3f1ce0970 * In pci_resume_device(), the errors possibly returned by the driver's .resume method or by the generic pci_default_resume() function are ignored. This patch fixes both issues. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-11[PATCH] PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabledakpm@osdl.org
Fix build error when CONFIG_ACPI not defined Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-10[SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.Krzysztof Helt
This patch sets the max_cache_size value required to tune up scheduler in SMP systems. Otherwise, the calculated migration_cost is too high and task scheduling may lock up. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-10[SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.David S. Miller
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-11powerpc: add context.vdso_base for 32-bit tooPaul Mackerras
This adds a vdso_base element to the mm_context_t for 32-bit compiles (both for ARCH=powerpc and ARCH=ppc). This fixes the compile errors that have been reported in arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems. [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set. [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly. [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
2006-06-10[PATCH] powerpc: console_initcall ordering issuesMilton Miller
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> The add_preferred_console call in rtas_console.c was not causing the console to be selected. It turns out that the add_preferred_console was being called after the hvc_console driver was registered. It only works when it is called before the console driver is registered. Reorder hvc_console.o after the hvc_console drivers to allow the selection during console_initcall processing. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working againMarkus Lidel
From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> - Fixed locking of struct i2o_exec_wait in Executive-OSM - Removed LCT Notify in i2o_exec_probe() which caused freeing memory and accessing freed memory during first enumeration of I2O devices - Added missing locking in i2o_exec_lct_notify() - removed put_device() of I2O controller in i2o_iop_remove() which caused the controller structure get freed to early - Fixed size of mempool in i2o_iop_alloc() - Fixed access to freed memory in i2o_msg_get() See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6561 Signed-off-by: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] powernow-k8 crash workaroundAndrew Morton
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Work around the oops reported in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6478. Thanks to Ralf Hildebrandt <ralf.hildebrandt@charite.de> for testing and reporting. Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10[PATCH] Further alterations for memory barrier documentDavid Howells
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan Stern. The following changes were made: (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory barriers was wrong. (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier. This isn't entirely true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both. (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the opposite order to the stores around the write barrier. (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to the stores. (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences" section to make them clearer. Added a couple of diagrams to make it more clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier. (*) Added a section on memory speculation. (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory barriers. They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on. This may be worthy of further documentation later. (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-10Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
2006-06-10powerpc: Fix bug in iommu_alloc_coherent causing hang during bootPaul Mackerras
In commit 8eb6c6e3b9c8bfed3d75536ab142d7694627c2e5, Christoph Hellwig made iommu_alloc_coherent able to do node-local allocations, but unfortunately got the order of the arguments to alloc_pages_node wrong. This fixes it. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-10[SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.David S. Miller
Doing PCI config space accesses to non-present PCI slots can result in fatal JBUS errors if the PCI config access hypervisor call is performed on cpus other than the boot cpu. PCI config space accesses to present PCI slots works just fine. Recursively traverse the OBP device tree under the PCI controller node and record all present device IDs into a small hash table. Avoid the hypervisor call for any PCI config space access attempt for a device not recorded in the hash table. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.Tom "spot" Callaway
Signed-off-by: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.David S. Miller
Get rid of all the SUN_570X logic and instead: 1) Make sure MEMARB_ENABLE is set when we probe the SRAM for config information. If that is off we will get timeouts. 2) Always try to sync with the firmware, if there is no firmware running do not treat it as an error and instead just report it the first time we notice this condition. 3) If there is no valid SRAM signature, assume the device is onboard by setting TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT. Update driver version and release date. With help from Michael Chan and Fabio Massimo Di Nitto. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()David S. Miller
This makes the debugging information more usable. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Cleanup hvc_rtas.c a littleMichael Ellerman
A few cleanups in hvc_rtas.c: 1. Remove unused RTASCONS_PUT_ATTEMPTS 2. Remove unused rtascons_put_delay. 3. Use i as a loop counter like everyone else on earth. 4. Remove pointless variables, eg. x = foo; if (x) return something_else; 5. Whitespace cleanups and formatting. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Make rtas console _much_ fasterMichael Ellerman
Currently the hvc_rtas driver is painfully slow to use. Our "benchmark" is ls -R /etc, which spits out about 27866 characters. The theoretical maximum speed would be about 2.2 seconds, the current code takes ~50 seconds. The core of the problem is that sometimes when the tty layer asks us to push characters the firmware isn't able to handle some or all of them, and so returns an error. The current code sees this and just returns to the tty code with the buffer half sent. The khvcd thread will eventually wake up and try to push more characters, which will usually work because by then the firmware's had time to make room. But the khvcd thread only wakes up every 10 milliseconds, which isn't fast enough. So change the khvcd thread logic so that if there's an incomplete write we yield() and then immediately try writing again. Doing so makes POLL_QUICK and POLL_WRITE synonymous, so remove POLL_QUICK. With this patch our "benchmark" takes ~2.8 seconds. Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Implement PR_[GS]ET_UNALIGN prctls for powerpcPaul Mackerras
This gives the ability to control whether alignment exceptions get fixed up or reported to the process as a SIGBUS, using the existing PR_SET_UNALIGN and PR_GET_UNALIGN prctls. We do not implement the option of logging a message on alignment exceptions. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Implement support for setting little-endian mode via prctlPaul Mackerras
This adds the PowerPC part of the code to allow processes to change their endian mode via prctl. This also extends the alignment exception handler to be able to fix up alignment exceptions that occur in little-endian mode, both for "PowerPC" little-endian and true little-endian. We always enter signal handlers in big-endian mode -- the support for little-endian mode does not amount to the creation of a little-endian user/kernel ABI. If the signal handler returns, the endian mode is restored to what it was when the signal was delivered. We have two new kernel CPU feature bits, one for PPC little-endian and one for true little-endian. Most of the classic 32-bit processors support PPC little-endian, and this is reflected in the CPU feature table. There are two corresponding feature bits reported to userland in the AT_HWCAP aux vector entry. This is based on an earlier patch by Anton Blanchard. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] Add a prctl to change the endianness of a process.Anton Blanchard
This new prctl is intended for changing the execution mode of the processor, on processors that support both a little-endian mode and a big-endian mode. It is intended for use by programs such as instruction set emulators (for example an x86 emulator on PowerPC), which may find it convenient to use the processor in an alternate endianness mode when executing translated instructions. Note that this does not imply the existence of a fully-fledged ABI for both endiannesses, or of compatibility code for converting system calls done in the non-native endianness mode. The program is expected to arrange for all of its system call arguments to be presented in the native endianness. Switching between big and little-endian mode will require some care in constructing the instruction sequence for the switch. Generally the instructions up to the instruction that invokes the prctl system call will have to be in the old endianness, and subsequent instructions will have to be in the new endianness. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Add udbg-immortal kernel optionBenjamin Herrenschmidt
When debugging early kernel crashes that happen after console_init() and before a proper console driver takes over, we often have to go hack into udbg.c to prevent it from unregistering so we can "see" what is happening. This patch adds a kernel command line option "udbg-immortal" instead to avoid having to modify the kernel. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: oprofile support for POWER6Michael Neuling
POWER6 moves some of the MMCRA bits and also requires some bits to be cleared each PMU interrupt. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: node-aware dma allocationsChristoph Hellwig
Make sure dma_alloc_coherent allocates memory from the local node. This is important on Cell where we avoid going through the slow cpu interconnect. Note: I could only test this patch on Cell, it should be verified on some pseries machine by those that have the hardware. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: implement pcibus_to_node and pcibus_to_cpumaskChristoph Hellwig
On 64bit powerpc we can find out what node a pci bus hangs off, so implement the topology.h macros that export this information. For 32bit this seems a little more difficult, but I don't know of 32bit powerpc NUMA machines either, so let's leave it out for now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: reorg RTAS delay codeJohn Rose
This patch attempts to handle RTAS "busy" return codes in a more simple and consistent manner. Typical callers of RTAS shouldn't have to manage wait times and delay calls. This patch also changes the kernel to use msleep() rather than udelay() when a runtime delay is necessary. This will avoid CPU soft lockups for extended delay conditions. Signed-off-by: John Rose <johnrose@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc kbuild warning fixAndrew Morton
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> arch/powerpc/Kconfig:339:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:347:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:357:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:373:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:382:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:394:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:842:warning: leading whitespace ignored arch/powerpc/Kconfig:847:warning: leading whitespace ignored Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: add num_pmcs to 970MP cputable entryAnton Blanchard
The 970MP cputable entry needs a num_pmcs entry for oprofile to work. Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: fix of_parse_dma_windowWill Schmidt
My js20 appears to lack the ibm,#dma- properties, and boot fails with a "Kernel panic - not syncing: iommu_init_table: Can't allocate 0 bytes" message. This adds a fallback to the "#address-cells" property in case the "#ibm,dma-address-cells" property is missing. Tested on js20 and power5 lpar. Unless there is a more elegant solution... :-) Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <willschm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Fix buglet with MMU hash managementBenjamin Herrenschmidt
Our MMU hash management code would not set the "C" bit (changed bit) in the hardware PTE when updating a RO PTE into a RW PTE. That would cause the hardware to possibly to a write back to the hash table to set it on the first store access, which in addition to being a performance issue, might also hit a bug when running with native hash management (non-HV) as our code is specifically optimized for the case where no write back happens. Thus there is a very small therocial window were a hash PTE can become corrupted if that HPTE has just been upgraded to read write, a store access happens on it, and that races with another processor evicting that same slot. Since eviction (caused by an almost full hash) is extremely rare, the bug is very unlikely to happen fortunately. This fixes by allowing the updating of the protection bits in the native hash handling to also set (but not clear) the "C" bit, and, in order to also improve performances in the general case, by always setting that bit on newly inserted hash PTE so that writeback really never happens. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc vdso updatesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch cleans up some locking & error handling in the ppc vdso and moves the vdso base pointer from the thread struct to the mm context where it more logically belongs. It brings the powerpc implementation closer to Ingo's new x86 one and also adds an arch_vma_name() function allowing to print [vsdo] in /proc/<pid>/maps if Ingo's x86 vdso patch is also applied. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: enable PPC_PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS on ppc32Renzo Davoli
I have tested PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS on umview. I do not understand why historically these tags has been defined as PPC_PTRACE_GETREGS and PPC_PTRACE_SETREGS instead of simply PTRACE_[GS]ETREGS. The other "originality" is that the address must be put into the "addr" field instead of the "data" field as stated in the manual. Signed-off-by: renzo davoli <renzo@cs.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detectionArnd Bergmann
The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is needed. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09[PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-supportBenjamin Herrenschmidt
The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-09powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernelsPaul Mackerras
This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels. This also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems by inspection. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-06-08Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe" [PATCH] bcm43xx: add DMA rx poll workaround to DMA4
2006-06-08[PATCH] s390: fix in-user atomic futex operation.Martin Schwidefsky
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> __futex_atomic_op needs to do an atomic operation in the user address space, not the kernel address space. Add the missing sacf 256/sacf 0 to switch to the secondary mode before doing the compare-and-swap. In addition add another fixup for catch specification exceptions if the compare-and-swap address is not aligned. 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>
2006-06-08[PATCH] debugfs inode leakJens Axboe
Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case. These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow such coding in CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] elevator switching raceJens Axboe
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be invoked with bad or NULL data. To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer. Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be run without the lock held. This isn't easily fixable, without also changing the mempool API. So split the initialization into two parts, and alloc-init operation and an attach operation. Then we can preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach inside the lock after we detach the old one. This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching with a very busy io load. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] fbcon: fix limited scroll in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW modeMalcom Parsons
From: Malcom Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com> When scrolling up in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode with a large limited scroll region, the bottom few lines have to be redrawn. Without this patch, the wrong text is drawn into these lines, corrupting the display. Observed in 2.6.14 when running an IRC client in the Nintendo DS linux port. I haven't tested if scrolling down has the same problem. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] Fix mempolicy.h build errorRalf Baechle
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> <linux/mempolicy.h> uses struct mm_struct and relies on a definition or declaration somehow magically being dragged in which may result in a build: [...] CC mm/mempolicy.o In file included from mm/mempolicy.c:69: include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: warning: ‘struct mm_struct’ declared inside parameter list mm/mempolicy.c:622: error: conflicting types for ‘do_migrate_pages’ include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: error: previous declaration of ‘do_migrate_pages’ was here mm/mempolicy.c:1661: error: conflicting types for ‘mpol_rebind_mm’ include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: error: previous declaration of ‘mpol_rebind_mm’ was here make[1]: *** [mm/mempolicy.o] Error 1 make: *** [mm] Error 2 [ralf@denk linux-ip35]$ Including <linux/sched.h> is a step into direction of include hell so fixed by adding a forward declaration of struct mm_struct instead. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] ep93xx build fixLennert Buytenhek
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> The recent renaming of m48t86's ->readb() and ->writeb() platform driver methods (2d7b20c1884777e66009be1a533641c19c4705f6) to ->readbyte() and ->writebyte() to fix the ia64 build broke the build of the cirrus ep93xx ARM platform. This patch fixes it up. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] Fix HPET operation on 64-bit NVIDIA platformsAndy Currid
From: "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com> This patch fixes a kernel panic during boot that occurs on NVIDIA platforms that have HPET enabled. When HPET is enabled, the standard timer IRQ is routed to IOAPIC pin 2 and is advertised as such in the ACPI APIC table - but an earlier workaround in the kernel was ignoring this override. The fix is to honor timer IRQ overrides from ACPI when HPET is detected on an NVIDIA platform. Signed-off-by: Andy Currid <acurrid@nvidia.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-08[PATCH] Fix HPET operation on 32-bit NVIDIA platformsAndy Currid
From: "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com> This patch fixes a kernel panic during boot that occurs on NVIDIA platforms that have HPET enabled. When HPET is enabled, the standard timer IRQ is routed to IOAPIC pin 2 and is advertised as such in the ACPI APIC table - but an earlier workaround in the kernel was ignoring this override. The fix is to honor timer IRQ overrides from ACPI when HPET is detected on an NVIDIA platform. Signed-off-by: Andy Currid <acurrid@nvidia.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>