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2007-10-17Delay creation of khcvd threadRusty Russell
This changes hvc_init() to be called only when someone actually uses the hvc_console driver. Dave Jones complained when profiling bootup. hvc_console used to only be for Power aka pSeries: now lguest and Xen both want it built-in in case the kernel is a guest under one of those, even though usually it will be a native boot. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-10[POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() staticAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-08drivers/char/hvc_console.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- make needlessly global code static - remove the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-04-24[POWERPC] hvc_console: Typo fixeswill schmidt
Fix a handful of comment typos for hvc_console. Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-24[POWERPC] hvc_console: Polling mode timer backoffWill Schmidt
Add a back-off mechanism to hvc_console's polling logic. This change drops the timers/second ratio from ~90 to ~1/2 while the console is idle. This change is most noticeable when watching /proc/timer_stats output. This only affects when the hvc_console is running in poll mode, i.e. power4 and cell systems. I've tested on Power4, Michael Ellerman has both contributed to the patch and tested on cell. Signed-off-by: Will Schmidt <will_schmidt@vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-26[PATCH] Make hvc_console.c compile on non-powerpc: Remove NO_IRQRusty Russell
Paulus preferred this over #defining NO_IRQ in the file, since that's 0 for powerpc anyway. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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>
2006-10-05IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlersDavid Howells
Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
2006-10-02[PATCH] const struct tty_operationsJeff Dike
As part of an SMP cleanliness pass over UML, I consted a bunch of structures in order to not have to document their locking. One of these structures was a struct tty_operations. In order to const it in UML without introducing compiler complaints, the declaration of tty_set_operations needs to be changed, and then all of its callers need to be fixed. This patch declares all struct tty_operations in the tree as const. In all cases, they are static and used only as input to tty_set_operations. As an extra check, I ran an i386 allyesconfig build which produced no extra warnings. 53 drivers are affected. I checked the history of a bunch of them, and in most cases, there have been only a handful of maintenance changes in the last six months. serial_core.c was the busiest one that I looked at. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-22Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (114 commits) [POWERPC] Fix ohare IDE irq workaround on old powermacs [POWERPC] EEH: Power4 systems sometimes need multiple resets. [POWERPC] Include <asm/mmu.h> in arch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_soc.h for phys_addr_t. [POWERPC] Demacrofy arch/powerpc/platforms/maple/pci.c [POWERPC] Maple U3 HT - reject inappropriate config space access [POWERPC] Fix IPIC pending register assignments [POWERPC] powerpc: fix building gdb against asm/ptrace.h [POWERPC] Remove DISCONTIGMEM cruft from page.h [POWERPC] Merge iSeries i/o operations with the rest [POWERPC] 40x: Fix debug status register defines [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560 [POWERPC] EEH: support MMIO enable recovery step [POWERPC] EEH: enable MMIO/DMA on frozen slot [POWERPC] EEH: code comment cleanup [POWERPC] EEH: balance pcidev_get/put calls [POWERPC] PPC: Fix xmon stack frame address in backtrace [POWERPC] Add AT_PLATFORM value for Xilinx Virtex-4 FX [POWERPC] Start arch/powerpc/boot code reorganization [POWERPC] Define of_read_ulong helper [POWERPC] iseries: eliminate a couple of warnings ...
2006-09-16[PATCH] hvc_console suspend fixAndrew Morton
Fix http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7152 Cc: Michael Tautschnig <tautschn@model.in.tum.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-13[POWERPC] Quiet hvc_console console output on failed opensOlof Johansson
No other tty driver will print on the console when the open of it fails. On systems that happen to be configured for both ttyS0 and hvc0 console, this will keep flooding the console output. This is most likely to happen with systems booted between with and without hypervisor from the same filesystem. Let's just remove it. When it's really needed (i.e. when the open fails and someone is trying to debug it), noone will see the output anyway. And init will report the opens failing in due time through the syslog. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Acked-by: Ryan S. Arnold <rsa@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-07-13[POWERPC] Make the hvc_console output buffer size settableStephen Rothwell
So the iSeries console will be faster since it can send up to 200 bytes at a time to the Hypervisor. This only affects the tty part of the console, the console writes are still in 16 byte lots. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
2006-07-02[PATCH] irq-flags: drivers/char: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-30Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer neededGreg Kroah-Hartman
Also fixes all drivers that set this field. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
2006-03-28[PATCH] powerpc: hvc_console updatesRyan S. Arnold
These are some updates from both Ryan and Arnd for the hvc_console driver: The main point is to enable the inclusion of a console driver for rtas, which is currrently needed for the cell platform. Also shuffle around some data-type declarations and moves some functions out of include/asm-ppc64/hvconsole.h and into a new drivers/char/hvc_console.h file. Signed-off-by: "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27[PATCH] powerpc: HVC init raceMichael Neuling
I've been hitting a crash on boot where tty_open is being called before the hvc console driver setup is complete. This fixes the problem. Thanks to benh for his help on this. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-02-24[PATCH] Fix race condition in hvc console.Michal Ostrowski
tty_schedule_flip() would schedule a thread that would call flush_to_ldisc(). If tty_buffer_request_room() gets called prior to that thread running -- which is likely in this loop in hvc_poll(), it would set the active flag in the tty buffer and consequently flush_to_ldisc() would ignore it. The result is that input on the hvc console is not processed. This fix calls tty_flip_buffer_push (and flags the tty as "low_latency"). The push to the ldisc thus happens synchronously. Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-10[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revampAlan Cox
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out. This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the kernel cycles between them as before. When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means that we can operate at higher speeds reliably. For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud). Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow. The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is read. We thus make it a variable not a function call. I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes. Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real. That means a lot of the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any more. Description: tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification]. It does now also return the number of chars inserted There are also tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len) which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space found. This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to transfer. and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len) to insert a string of characters and flags For a smart interface the usual code is len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says); tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len); More description! At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty. This is causing a lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments) I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of dynamically allocated buffers. This allows both for old style "byte I/O" devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of data suddenely materialise and need storing. So far so good. Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*. Several of them also call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides. This will all break. Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API but others need more. At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will be needed now is a good time to say int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size) Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be zero). At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change. Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative. (ie if you call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space. The other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a more efficient way when you know block sizes. int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag) As before insert a character if there is room. Now returns 1 for success, 0 for failure. int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len) Insert a block of non error characters. Returns the number inserted. int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len) Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added. Returns a buffer pointer in strptr and the length available. This allows for hardware that needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-14[PATCH] hvc_console: start kernel thread before registering ttyAnton Blanchard
Its possible that we can write to the hvc_console tty as soon it is registered. Recently this started happening due to (what looks like) a change to the hotplug code. Unfortunately at this stage we have not started the khvcd kernel thread and oops. The solution is to start the kernel thread before registering the tty. 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>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Register ops when setting up hvc_consoleMilton Miller
When registering the hvc console port, register a list of ops (read and write) to go with it, instead of calling fixed function names. This allows different ports to encode the data differently. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Separate hvc_console and vio code 2Milton Miller
Remove all the vio device driver code from hvc_console.c This will allow us to separate hvsi, hvc, and allow hvc_console to be used without the ppc64 vio layer. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Separate hvc_console and vio codeMilton Miller
Separate the console setup routines of the hvc_console and the vio layer. Remove the call to find_init_vty from hvc_console.c. Fail the setup routine if the console doesn't exist, but register the console again when the specified channel is instantiated. This scheme maintains the print buffer semantics while eliminating callout and call back for the console code. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Add some sanity checksMilton Miller
Check if a vterm was registered before accepting it as a console. Check that a slot hasn't been probed with a tty in hvc_instantiate(). Check that a slot hasn't been free'ed when handing out console device. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Statically initialize the vtermnos arrayMilton Miller
Statically initialize the vtermnos array. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: remove num_vterms and some dead codeMilton Miller
num_vterms hasn't been used since the hotplug support went in. Also, remove a dead code line from a list_for_each_entry conversion. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Add missing includeMilton Miller
hvc_console checks MAGIC_SYSRQ and XMON config vars. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Unregister the console in the exit routine.Milton Miller
Be thorough in our exit routine, since it says it is there to be so. Unregistering without registering is safe (checked in 2.6.10). Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: MAGIC_SYSRQ should only be on console channelMilton Miller
Guard the MAGIC_SYSRQ ^O to be just on the console channel. Make the other channels more transparent. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Dont always kick the poll thread in interruptMilton Miller
Have the hvc console code try to pull characters immediately when receiving an interrupt, and kick the poll thread only if the immediate poll indicates it needed a call back to do more work. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Match vio and console devices using vterm numbersMilton Miller
Use the vterm numbers to match the vio devices being probed with the indices already allocated via the console initcall function hvc_find_vtys. The old code required hvc_find_vtys to "guess" the matching devices the vio subsystem would find and its probe order. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07[PATCH] hvc_console: Rearrange codeMilton Miller
Milton Miller has done a lot of work to clean up our hvc_console code. One of the important things the following patch series does is separate the VIO layer from the hvc_console code. With the VIO specific code removed any ppc64 platform, or even any architecture, can use hvc_console as a generic polling console. You simply have to supply a get_chars and put_chars method and hvc_console does the rest of the work. You can even use it for an interrupt driven console. This patch: Rearrange the code in drivers/char/hvc_console.c to make future patches smaller. No actual code changes, just ordering of the functions in the file. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!