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Add __start_rodata and __end_rodata to sections.h to avoid extern
declarations. Needed by s390 code (see following patch).
[akpm@osdl.org: update architectures]
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (23 commits)
[PARISC] Move os_id_to_string() inside #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
[PARISC] Fix do_gettimeofday() hang
[PARISC] Fix PCREL22F relocation problem for most modules
[PARISC] Refactor show_regs in traps.c
[PARISC] Add os_id_to_string helper
[PARISC] OS_ID_LINUX == 0x0006
[PARISC] Ensure Space ID hashing is turned off
[PARISC] Match show_cache_info with reality
[PARISC] Remove unused macro fixup_branch in syscall.S
[PARISC] Add is_compat_task() helper
[PARISC] Update Thibaut Varene's CREDITS entry
[PARISC] Reduce data footprint in pdc_stable.c
[PARISC] pdc_stable version 0.30
[PARISC] Work around machines which do not support chassis warnings
[PARISC] PDC_CHASSIS is implemented on all machines
[PARISC] Remove unconditional #define PIC in syscall macros
[PARISC] Use MFIA in current_text_addr on pa2.0 processors
[PARISC] Remove dead function pc_in_user_space
[PARISC] Test ioc_needs_fdc variable instead of open coding
[PARISC] Fix gcc 4.1 warnings in sba_iommu.c
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
[PATCH] i386: export memory more than 4G through /proc/iomem
[PATCH] 64bit Resource: finally enable 64bit resource sizes
[PATCH] 64bit Resource: convert a few remaining drivers to use resource_size_t where needed
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change pnp core to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change pci core and arch code to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: change resource core to use resource_size_t
[PATCH] 64bit resource: introduce resource_size_t for the start and end of struct resource
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in misc drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in arch and core code
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pcmcia drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in video drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in ide drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in mtd drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in pci core and hotplug drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in networks drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: fix up printks for resources in sound drivers
[PATCH] 64bit resource: C99 changes for struct resource declarations
Fixed up trivial conflict in drivers/ide/pci/cmd64x.c (the printk that
was changed by the 64-bit resources had been deleted in the meantime ;)
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Add ->retrigger() irq op to consolidate hw_irq_resend() implementations.
(Most architectures had it defined to NOP anyway.)
NOTE: ia64 needs testing. i386 and x86_64 tested.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Cleanup: change ARCH_HAS_IRQ_PER_CPU into a Kconfig method.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Consolidation: remove the irq_affinity[NR_IRQS] array and move it into the
irq_desc[NR_IRQS].affinity field.
[akpm@osdl.org: sparc64 build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
functionality.
While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
the new 'irq chip' abstraction.
The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
(level/edge/etc.) type of details.
This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.
As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
(master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.
The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
and more consolidation between architectures.
We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.
This patch:
rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch. But having
both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
truly is.
I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
frequently.
So lets get over with this quickly. The conversion was done automatically
via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.
This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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With Goto-san's patch, we can add new pgdat/node at runtime. I'm now
considering node-hot-add with cpu + memory on ACPI.
I found acpi container, which describes node, could evaluate cpu before
memory. This means cpu-hot-add occurs before memory hot add.
In most part, cpu-hot-add doesn't depend on node hot add. But register_cpu(),
which creates symbolic link from node to cpu, requires that node should be
onlined before register_cpu(). When a node is onlined, its pgdat should be
there.
This patch-set holds off creating symbolic link from node to cpu
until node is onlined.
This removes node arguments from register_cpu().
Now, register_cpu() requires 'struct node' as its argument. But the array of
struct node is now unified in driver/base/node.c now (By Goto's node hotplug
patch). We can get struct node in generic way. So, this argument is not
necessary now.
This patch also guarantees add cpu under node only when node is onlined. It
is necessary for node-hot-add vs. cpu-hot-add patch following this.
Moreover, register_cpu calculates cpu->node_id by cpu_to_node() without regard
to its 'struct node *root' argument. This patch removes it.
Also modify callers of register_cpu()/unregister_cpu, whose args are changed
by register-cpu-remove-node-struct patch.
[Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org: fix it]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <Brice.Goglin@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Apparently gettimeoffset can return small negative values (usually in
the 100us range). If xtime.tv_nsec is accidentally less than this,
though (a fortunately unlikely event) it triggers the loop forever.
I've added a test and correct adjustment for this case. It has a
warning printk in there which I'd like to leave for the time being
just in case this problem implicates some other part of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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The new problem, which has been affecting many more modules was that
our new ioremap really takes chunks out of our vmalloc space. The net
result being that any two kernel vmalloc's now have to slot into the
chunked up space. So the vmallocs for a modules init and core sectons
are no longer necessarily contiguous. Unfortunately, the module loader
thinks that any internal symbol references should be satisfiable using the
jump instruction, which isn't true if the symbol is referenced from init
to core and vmalloc placed them a long way apart.
Fix this by introducing a new stub type for intra module inter sectional
jumps and using it.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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show_regs() was one bloaty function. Split it into a few cleaner
functions and define a clean macro to print a line of registers.
[And from Thibaut, only print fprs on a usermode trap.]
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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We were assigned an OS_ID of 0x0006. Consistently use OS_ID_LINUX
instead of using the magic number. Also update the OS_ID_ defines in
asm/pdc.h to reflect this.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Check PDC_CACHE to see if spaceid hashing is turned on, and fail to
boot if that is the case.
However, some old machines do not implement the PDC_CACHE_RET_SPID
firmware call, so continue to boot if the call fails because of
PDC_BAD_OPTION (but fail in all other error returns).
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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show_cache_info and struct pdc_cache_cf were out of sync with
published documentation. Fix the reporting of cache associativity
and update the pdc_cache_cf bitfields to match documentation.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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... And convert signal.c and ptrace.c to use it instead of open
coded equivalents.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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pdc_stable v0.30:
This patch introduces 3 more files to the /sys/firmware/stable tree:
- diagnostic, which contains a cryptic hex string
- osdep1, a 16 bytes os-dependent storage area always available
- osdep2, another os-dependent storage area which existence/size depends
on hversion.
This patch also adds code to setup the "Linux" signature in stable
storage. That is to say that starting with this patch, the kernel will
now sign its OSID (0x0006, thx LaMont) in Stable Storage upon boot,
whether pdc_stable is enabled or not.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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pdc_chassis v0.05:
Some machines seems not to implement Chassis warn support. Work around these.
Also cleanup a bit of the code.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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This patch removes a limitation of the original code, so that CHASSIS
codes can be sent to all machines. On machines with a LCD panel, this
code displays "INI" during bootup, "RUN" when the system is booted and
running, "FLT" when a panic occurs, etc.
This part of the code can be enabled/disabled through CONFIG_PDC_CHASSIS
This patch also adds minimalistic support for Chassis warnings, through
a proc entry '/proc/chassis', which will reflect the warnings status (PSU
or fans failure when they happen, NVRAM battery level and temperature
thresholds overflows).
This part of the code can be enabled/disabled through CONFIG_PDC_CHASSIS_WARN
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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This code has been crufting up the file without any use for quite
a long time, so let's kill it.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Joel Soete noticed correctly that the fixup's clobbers must be listed
as the ASM clobbers. FIXUP_BRANCH in unaligned.c has a new macro which
lists all the clobbers in the fixup, we use this throughout the file
to simplify the process of listing clobbers in the future.
A missing "r1" clobber is added to our uaccess.h for the 64-bit
__put_kernel_asm. Interestingly this is a pretty serious bug since gcc
generates pretty good use of r1 as a temporary and the uses of
__put_kernel_asm are varied and dangerous if r1 is scratched during
an invalid write.
Signed-off-by: Joel Soete <soete.joel@tiscali.be>
Signed-off-by: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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ldcw,co should always be used on pa2.0, otherwise the strict cache
width alignment requirement is not relaxed.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Based on a patch series originally from Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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- When setting a sighandler using sigaction() call, if the flag
SA_ONSTACK is set and no alternate stack is provided via sigaltstack(),
the kernel still try to install the alternate stack. This behavior is
the opposite of the one which is documented in Single Unix Specifications
V3.
- Also when setting an alternate stack using sigaltstack() with the flag
SS_DISABLE, the kernel try to install the alternate stack on signal
delivery.
These two use cases makes the process crash at signal delivery.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Give the statfs superblock operation a dentry pointer rather than a superblock
pointer.
This complements the get_sb() patch. That reduced the significance of
sb->s_root, allowing NFS to place a fake root there. However, NFS does
require a dentry to use as a target for the statfs operation. This permits
the root in the vfsmount to be used instead.
linux/mount.h has been added where necessary to make allyesconfig build
successfully.
Interest has also been expressed for use with the FUSE and XFS filesystems.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Most are easy, but sync_file_range needed special handling when entering
through the 32-bit syscall table.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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More work towards supporing multiple page sizes on 64-bit. Convert
some assumptions that 64bit uses 3 level page tables into testing
PT_NLEVELS. Also some BUG() to BUG_ON() conversions and some cleanups
to assembler.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Make the defconfig more generally useful. Turn on IPv6, modules,
cardbus, etc. Boots 32bit on 715 with HIL, B160L with sound,
PrecisionBook, and C3000.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Fix a spelling mistake, add a KERN_INFO flag, and fix some whitespace
uglies.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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While cleaning up parisc_ksyms.c earlier, I noticed that strpbrk wasn't
being exported from lib/string.c. Investigating further, I noticed a
changeset that removed its export and added it to _ksyms.c on a few more
architectures. The justification was that "other arches do it."
I think this is wrong, since no architecture currently defines
__HAVE_ARCH_STRPBRK, there's no reason for any of them to be exporting it
themselves. Therefore, consolidate the export to lib/string.c.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch. Its definition is sometimes configurable. Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree. But it looks a bit messy.
SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config. Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture. So, I wrote configurable node's
number.
This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64. But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.
On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config. But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too. So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT. It
would be simpler.
See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114358010523896&w=2
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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With c3000_defconfig and b180_defconfig, FAT couldn't be used
because no NLS modules were built.
Signed-off-by: Stuart Brady <sdb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Some symbols are exported both in parisc_ksyms.c, and at their
definition site. Nuke the redundant EXPORT_SYMBOL in ksyms to quiet
warnings when vmlinux is linked.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Move ioremap/iounmap EXPORT_SYMBOL to ioremap.c where they belong.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Fix up some ISA/EISA stuff.
(Note: isa_ accessors have been removed from asm/io.h)
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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compat_sys_getsockopt exists, so we should use that, instead of directly
using sys_getsockopt on 64-bit compiles.
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Remove CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP, it's now obsolete and won't work anyway.
Remove it from lib/KConfig since it was only available on parisc.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Enable CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP by default and remove all now unnecessary code.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Instead of making it a #define in asm/io.h, allow user to select
to turn on IOREMAP from the config menu.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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We were only copying 32-bits of the PTE/PFN, not the full 52-bits.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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We need to do a little renaming of our original syntax because
of the difference in arguments.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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Addresses in F-space must be accessed uncached on most parisc machines.
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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I think it's time to enable free_initrd_mem() again...
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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pdc_stable.c is explicitly licensed under GPL version 2.
Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARENE <varenet@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
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The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2
We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:
"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;
"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.
We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.
With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)
There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)
Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.
Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.
ATOMIC CHAINS
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arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain
BLOCKING CHAINS
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arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain
kernel/module.c module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain
It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)
The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.
[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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