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2006-12-07[PATCH] Kexec / Kdump: Unify elf note codeMagnus Damm
The elf note saving code is currently duplicated over several architectures. This cleanup patch simply adds code to a common file and then replaces the arch-specific code with calls to the newly added code. The only drawback with this approach is that s390 doesn't fully support kexec-on-panic which for that arch leads to introduction of unused code. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <magnus@valinux.co.jp> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c should #include <linux/reboot.h>Adrian Bunk
Every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for its global functions. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] hotplug CPU: clean up hotcpu_notifier() useIngo Molnar
There was lots of #ifdef noise in the kernel due to hotcpu_notifier(fn, prio) not correctly marking 'fn' as used in the !HOTPLUG_CPU case, and thus generating compiler warnings of unused symbols, hence forcing people to add #ifdefs. the compiler can skip truly unused functions just fine: text data bss dec hex filename 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.before 1624412 728710 3674856 6027978 5bfaca vmlinux.after [akpm@osdl.org: topology.c fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] smp_call_function_single() check that local interrupts are enabledAndrew Morton
smp_call_function_single() can deadlock if the caller disabled local interrupts (the target CPU could be spinning on call_lock). Check for that. Why on earth do these functions use spin_lock_bh()?? Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernelMasami Hiramatsu
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer. There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing. However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency. The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release "dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if there are no unused slots. Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] initrd: remove unused false condition for initrd_startHenry Nestler
After LOADER_TYPE && INITRD_START are true, the short if-condition for INITRD_START can never be false. Remove unused code from the else condition. Signed-off-by: Henry Nestler <henry.ne@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] lockdep: name some old style locksPeter Zijlstra
Name some of the remaning 'old_style_spin_init' locks Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Add include/linux/freezer.h and move definitions from sched.hNigel Cunningham
Move process freezing functions from include/linux/sched.h to freezer.h, so that modifications to the freezer or the kernel configuration don't require recompiling just about everything. [akpm@osdl.org: fix ueagle driver] Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove SLAB_KERNELChristoph Lameter
SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] Allow NULL pointers in percpu_freeAlan Stern
The patch (as824b) makes percpu_free() ignore NULL arguments, as one would expect for a deallocation routine. (Note that free_percpu is #defined as percpu_free in include/linux/percpu.h.) A few callers are updated to remove now-unneeded tests for NULL. A few other callers already seem to assume that passing a NULL pointer to percpu_free() is okay! The patch also removes an unnecessary NULL check in percpu_depopulate(). Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c include/linux/libata.h Futher merge of Linus's head and compilation fixups. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Howells
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/infiniband/core/iwcm.c drivers/net/chelsio/cxgb2.c drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c drivers/net/wireless/prism54/islpci_eth.c drivers/usb/core/hub.h drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c net/core/netpoll.c Fix up merge failures with Linus's head and fix new compilation failures. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-12-04[PATCH] severing fs.h, radix-tree.h -> sched.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-04[PATCH] severing module.h->sched.hAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2006-12-02Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: Revert "ACPI: SCI interrupt source override"
2006-12-02Revert "ACPI: SCI interrupt source override"Len Brown
This reverts commit 281ea49b0c294649a6de47a6f8fbe5611137726b, which broke ACPI Interrupt source overrides that move the SCI from one IRQ in PIC mode to another in IOAPIC mode. If the SCI shared an interrupt line with another device, this would result in a "irq 18: nobody cared" type failure. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7601 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-12-01Merge 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: (28 commits) PCI: make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static PCI: ibmphp_pci.c: fix NULL dereference pciehp: remove unnecessary pci_disable_msi pciehp: remove unnecessary free_irq PCI: rpaphp: change device tree examination PCI: Change memory allocation for acpiphp slots i2c-i801: SMBus patch for Intel ICH9 PCI: irq: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel ICH9 PCI: pci_{enable,disable}_device() nestable ports PCI: switch pci_{enable,disable}_device() to be nestable PCI: arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c: ioremap balanced with iounmap pci/i386: style cleanups PCI: Block on access to temporarily unavailable pci device pci: fix __pci_register_driver error handling pci: clear osc support flags if no _OSC method acpiphp: fix missing acpiphp_glue_exit() acpiphp: fix use of list_for_each macro Altix: Initial ACPI support - ROM shadowing. Altix: SN ACPI hotplug support. Altix: Add initial ACPI IO support ...
2006-12-01Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the /sys/class directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01Driver core: convert msr code to use struct deviceGreg Kroah-Hartman
Converts from using struct "class_device" to "struct device" making everything show up properly in /sys/devices/ with symlinks from the /sys/class directory. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01PCI: arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c: ioremap balanced with iounmapAmol Lad
ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result in a memory leak. Tested (compilation only): - using allmodconfig - making sure the files are compiling without any warning/error due to new changes Signed-off-by: Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-11-22WorkStruct: make allyesconfigDavid Howells
Fix up for make allyesconfig. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
2006-11-17x86: be more careful when walking back the frame pointer chainLinus Torvalds
When showing the stack backtrace, make sure that we never accept not only an unchanging frame pointer, but also a frame pointer that moves back down the stack frame. It must always grow up (toward older stack frames). I doubt this has triggered, but a subtly corrupt stack with extremely unlucky contents could cause us to loop forever on a bogus endless frame pointer chain. This review was triggered by much worse problems happening in some of the other stack unwinding code. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-17[PATCH] i386/x86_64: ACPI cpu_idle_wait() fixIngo Molnar
The scheduler on Andreas Friedrich's hyperthreading system stopped working properly: the scheduler would never move tasks to another CPU! The lask known working kernel was 2.6.8. After a couple of attempts to corner the bug, the following smoking gun was found: BIOS reported wrong ACPI idfor the processor CPU#1: set_cpus_allowed(), swapper:1, 3 -> 2 [<c0103bbe>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x34/0x4a [<c0103ceb>] show_trace+0x2c/0x2e [<c01045f8>] dump_stack+0x2b/0x2d [<c0116a77>] set_cpus_allowed+0x52/0xec [<c0101d86>] cpu_idle_wait+0x2e/0x100 [<c0259c57>] acpi_processor_power_exit+0x45/0x58 [<c0259752>] acpi_processor_remove+0x46/0xea [<c025c6fb>] acpi_start_single_object+0x47/0x54 [<c025cee5>] acpi_bus_register_driver+0xa4/0xd3 [<c04ab2d7>] acpi_processor_init+0x57/0x77 [<c01004d7>] init+0x146/0x2fd [<c0103a87>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 a quick look at cpu_idle_wait() shows how broken that code is on i386: it changes the init task's affinity map but never restores it ... and because all userspace tasks get forked by init, they all inherited that single-CPU affinity mask. x86_64 cloned this bug too. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andreas Friedrich <andreas.friedrich@fujitsu-siemens.com> Cc: Wolfgang Erig <Wolfgang.Erig@fujitsu-siemens.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-15[PATCH] Use delayed disable mode of ioapic edge triggered interruptsEric W. Biederman
Komuro reports that ISA interrupts do not work after a disable_irq(), causing some PCMCIA drivers to not work, with messages like eth0: Asix AX88190: io 0x300, irq 3, hw_addr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx eth0: found link beat eth0: autonegotiation complete: 100baseT-FD selected eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! eth0: interrupt(s) dropped! ... Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> said: "Now, edge-triggered interrupts are a _lot_ harder to mask, because the Intel APIC is an unbelievable piece of sh*t, and has the edge-detect logic _before_ the mask logic, so if a edge happens _while_ the device is masked, you'll never ever see the edge ever again (unmasking will not cause a new edge, so you simply lost the interrupt). So when you "mask" an edge-triggered IRQ, you can't really mask it at all, because if you did that, you'd lose it forever if the IRQ comes in while you masked it. Instead, we're supposed to leave it active, and set a flag, and IF the IRQ comes in, we just remember it, and mask it at that point instead, and then on unmasking, we have to replay it by sending a self-IPI." This trivial patch solves the problem. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Acked-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14[PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boardsAndi Kleen
Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support. Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that don't have HPET, but need a timer override. We don't know yet how to handle this transparently, but at least add a command line option to force the timer override and let them boot. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-11-08[PATCH] htirq: refactor so we only have one function that writes to the chipEric W. Biederman
This refactoring actually optimizes the code a little by caching the value that we think the device is programmed with instead of reading it back from the hardware. Which simplifies the code a little and should speed things up a bit. This patch introduces the concept of a ht_irq_msg and modifies the architecture read/write routines to update this code. There is a minor consistency fix here as well as x86_64 forgot to initialize the htirq as masked. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@pathscale.com> Cc: <olson@pathscale.com> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] kretprobe: fix kretprobe-booster to save regs and set statusMasami Hiramatsu
There are two bugs in the kretprobe-booster. 1) It doesn't make room for gs registers. 2) It doesn't change status of the current kprobe. This status will effect the fault handling. This patch fixes these bugs and, additionally, saves skipped registers for compatibility with the original kretprobe. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] i386: Force data segment to be 4K alignedVivek Goyal
o Currently there is no specific alignment restriction in linker script and in some cases it can be placed non 4K aligned addresses. This fails kexec which checks that segment to be loaded is page aligned. o I guess, it does not harm data segment to be 4K aligned. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] Regression in 2.6.19-rc microcode driverArjan van de Ven
If the microcode driver is built in (rather than module) there are some, ehm, interesting effects happening due to the new "call out to userspace" behavior that is introduced.. and which runs too early. The result is a boot hang; which is really nasty. The patch below is a minimally safe patch to fix this regression for 2.6.19 by just not requesting actual microcode updates during early boot. (That is a good idea in general anyway) The "real" fix is a lot more complex given the entire cpu hotplug scenario (during cpu hotplug you normally need to load the microcode as well); but the interactions for that are just really messy at this point; this fix at least makes it work and avoids a full detangle of hotplug. 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>
2006-11-03[PATCH] acpi_noirq section fixAndrew Morton
WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:acpi_noirq from .text between 'pcibios_penalize_isa_irq' (at offset 0xc026ffa1) and 'pirq_serverworks_get' Acked-by: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-01i386: write IO APIC irq routing entries in correct orderLinus Torvalds
Since the "mask" bit is in the low word, when we write a new entry, we need to write the high word first, before we potentially unmask it. The exception is when we actually want to mask the interrupt, in which case we want to write the low word first to make sure that the high word doesn't change while the interrupt routing is still active. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-01i386: clean up io-apic accessesLinus Torvalds
This is preparation for fixing the ordering of the accesses that got broken by the commit cf4c6a2f27f5db810b69dcb1da7f194489e8ff88 when factoring out the "common" io apic routing entry accesses. Move the accessor function (that were only used by io_apic.c) out of a header file, and use proper memory-mapped accesses rather than making up our own "volatile" pointers. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-30[PATCH] APM: URL of APM 1.2 specs has changedKristian Mueller
APM BIOS Interface Secification can now be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/amp_12.mspx Signed-off-by: Kristian Mueller <Kristian-M@Kristian-M.de> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-28[PATCH] fix efi_memory_present_wrapper()bibo,mao
efi_memory_present_wrapper() parameter start/end is physical address, but function memory_present parameter is PFN, this patch converts physical address to PFN. Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-27[PATCH] vmlinux.lds: consolidate initcall sectionsAndrew Morton
Add a vmlinux.lds.h helper macro for defining the eight-level initcall table, teach all the architectures to use it. This is a prerequisite for a patch which performs initcall synchronisation for multithreaded-probing. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> [ Added AVR32 as well ] Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-21[PATCH] x86: Revert new unwind kernel stack terminationAndi Kleen
Jan convinced me that it was unnecessary because the assembly stubs do this already on the stack. Cc: jbeulich@novell.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-21[PATCH] i386: Disable nmi watchdog on all ThinkPadsAndi Kleen
Even newer Thinkpads have bugs in SMM code that causes hangs with NMI watchdog. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-10-21[PATCH] i386: Fix fake return addressJeremy Fitzhardinge
The fake return address was being set to __KERNEL_PDA, rather than 0. Push it earlier while %eax still equals 0. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-10-20[PATCH] Fix potential interrupts during alternative patchingZachary Amsden
Interrupts must be disabled during alternative instruction patching. On systems with high timer IRQ rates, or when running in an emulator, timing differences can result in random kernel panics because of running partially patched instructions. This doesn't yet fix NMIs, which requires extricating the patch code from the late bug checking and is logically separate (and also less likely to cause problems). Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17[PATCH] lockdep: annotate i386 apmPeter Zijlstra
Lockdep doesn't like to enable interrupts when they are enabled already. BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1814/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted) [<c04051ed>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x16a [<c04057fa>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c0405913>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043abfb>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa2/0x11e [<c041463c>] apm_bios_call_simple+0xcd/0xfd [<c0415242>] apm+0x92/0x5b1 [<c0402005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Leftover inexact backtrace: [<c04057fa>] show_trace+0xd/0x10 [<c0405913>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b [<c043abfb>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xa2/0x11e [<c041463c>] apm_bios_call_simple+0xcd/0xfd [<c0415242>] apm+0x92/0x5b1 [<c0402005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17[PATCH] genirq: clean up irq-flow-type namingIngo Molnar
Introduce desc->name and eliminate the handle_irq_name() hack. Add set_irq_chip_and_handler_name() to set the flow type and name at once. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-17[PATCH] i386 Time: Avoid PIT SMP lockupsjohn stultz
Avoid possible PIT livelock issues seen on SMP systems (and reported by Andi), by not allowing it as a clocksource on SMP boxes. However, since the PIT may no longer be present, we have to properly handle the cases where SMP systems have TSC skew and fall back from the TSC. Since the PIT isn't there, it would "fall back" to the TSC again. So this changes the jiffies rating to 1, and the TSC-bad rating value to 0. Thus you will get the following behavior priority on i386 systems: tsc [if present & stable] hpet [if present] cyclone [if present] acpi_pm [if present] pit [if UP] jiffies Rather then the current more complicated: tsc [if present & stable] hpet [if present] cyclone [if present] acpi_pm [if present] pit [if cpus < 4] tsc [if present & unstable] jiffies Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-14Pull sci into test branchLen Brown
2006-10-14ACPI: SCI interrupt source overrideKimball Murray
The Linux group at Stratus Technologies has come across an issue with SCI routing under ACPI. We were bitten by this when we made an x86_64 platform whose BIOS provides an Interrupt Source Override for the SCI itself. Apparently the override has no effect for the System Control Interrupt, and this appears to be because of the way the SCI is setup in the ACPI code. It does not handle the case where busirq != gsi. The code that sets up the SCI routing assumes that bus irq == global irq. So there is simply no provision for telling it otherwise. The attached patch provides this mechanism. This patch provided by David Bulkow, was tested on an i386 platform, which does not use the SCI override, and also on an x86_64 platform which does use an override. Signed-off-by: David Bulkow <david.bulkow@stratus.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-10-14ACPI: Processor native C-states using MWAITVenkatesh Pallipadi
Intel processors starting with the Core Duo support support processor native C-state using the MWAIT instruction. Refer: Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual http://www.intel.com/design/Pentium4/manuals/253668.htm Platform firmware exports the support for Native C-state to OS using ACPI _PDC and _CST methods. Refer: Intel Processor Vendor-Specific ACPI: Interface Specification http://www.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi/downloads/302223.htm With Processor Native C-state, we use 'MWAIT' instruction on the processor to enter different C-states (C1, C2, C3). We won't use the special IO ports to enter C-state and no SMM mode etc required to enter C-state. Overall this will mean better C-state support. One major advantage of using MWAIT for all C-states is, with this and "treat interrupt as break event" feature of MWAIT, we can now get accurate timing for the time spent in C1, C2, .. states. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-10-13[PATCH] thermal throttle: sysfs error checkingStephen Hemminger
Get rid of warning in the thermal throttling code about not checking sysfs return values. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] x86/microcode: handle sysfs errorJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] epoll_pwait()Davide Libenzi
Implement the epoll_pwait system call, that extend the event wait mechanism with the same logic ppoll and pselect do. The definition of epoll_pwait is: int epoll_pwait(int epfd, struct epoll_event *events, int maxevents, int timeout, const sigset_t *sigmask, size_t sigsetsize); The difference between the vanilla epoll_wait and epoll_pwait is that the latter allows the caller to specify a signal mask to be set while waiting for events. Hence epoll_pwait will wait until either one monitored event, or an unmasked signal happen. If sigmask is NULL, the epoll_pwait system call will act exactly like epoll_wait. For the POSIX definition of pselect, information is available here: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] use struct irq_chip instead of struct hw_interrupt_typeAneesh Kumar K.V
hw_interrupt_type is deprecated in favour of struct irq_chip. [mingo@elte.hu: do x86_64 too] Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] mm: use symbolic names instead of indices for zone initialisationMel Gorman
Arch-independent zone-sizing is using indices instead of symbolic names to offset within an array related to zones (max_zone_pfns). The unintended impact is that ZONE_DMA and ZONE_NORMAL is initialised on powerpc instead of ZONE_DMA and ZONE_HIGHMEM when CONFIG_HIGHMEM is set. As a result, the the machine fails to boot but will boot with CONFIG_HIGHMEM turned off. The following patch properly initialises the max_zone_pfns[] array and uses symbolic names instead of indices in each architecture using arch-independent zone-sizing. Two users have successfully booted their powerpcs with it (one an ibook G4). It has also been boot tested on x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64. Please merge for 2.6.19-rc2. Credit to Benjamin Herrenschmidt for identifying the bug and rolling the first fix. Additional credit to Johannes Berg and Andreas Schwab for reporting the problem and testing on powerpc. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>