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2007-05-08ipmi: allow shared interruptsCorey Minyard
The IPMI driver used enable_irq and disable_irq when it got into situations where it couldn't allocate memory; it did this to avoid having the interrupt just lock the machine when it couldn't get memory to perform the transaction to disable the interrupt. This patch modifies the driver to not use disable_irq and enable_irq. It instead sends the messages to the BMC to perform this operation. It also makes sure interrupts are cleanly disabled when the interface is shut down and cleans up some shutdown things that are no longer necessary. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-08ipmi: add powerpc openfirmware sensingCorey Minyard
Add support for of_platform_driver to the ipmi_si module. When loading the module, the driver will be registered to of_platform. The driver will be probed for all devices with the type ipmi. It's supporting devices with compatible settings ipmi-kcs, ipmi-smic and ipmi-bt. Only ipmi-kcs could be tested. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Heiko J Schick <schihei@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-05[PATCH] ipmi: check, if default ports are accessible on PPCChristian Krafft
ipmi_si_intf tries to access default ports, if no device could be found elsewhere. On PPC we have a function to check, if these legacy IO ports are accessible. This patch adds a check for these ports on PPC. This patch fixes a breakage of IPMI module on PPC machines without a BMC. Signed-off-by: Christian Krafft <krafft@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctlEric W. Biederman
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented. I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register duplicate sysctl entries. So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future enhancments harder. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] sysctl: ipmi: remove unnecessary insert_at_head flagEric W. Biederman
With unique sysctl binary numbers setting insert_at_head is pointless. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14[PATCH] remove many unneeded #includes of sched.hTim Schmielau
After Al Viro (finally) succeeded in removing the sched.h #include in module.h recently, it makes sense again to remove other superfluous sched.h includes. There are quite a lot of files which include it but don't actually need anything defined in there. Presumably these includes were once needed for macros that used to live in sched.h, but moved to other header files in the course of cleaning it up. To ease the pain, this time I did not fiddle with any header files and only removed #includes from .c-files, which tend to cause less trouble. Compile tested against 2.6.20-rc2 and 2.6.20-rc2-mm2 (with offsets) on alpha, arm, i386, ia64, mips, powerpc, and x86_64 with allnoconfig, defconfig, allmodconfig, and allyesconfig as well as a few randconfigs on x86_64 and all configs in arch/arm/configs on arm. I also checked that no new warnings were introduced by the patch (actually, some warnings are removed that were emitted by unnecessarily included header files). Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settingsAlexey Dobriyan
Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1. create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-11[PATCH] IPMI: Fix some RCU problemsCorey Minyard
Fix some RCU problem pointed out by Paul McKenney of IBM. These are: The wholesale move of the command receivers list into a new list was not safe because the list will point to the new tail during a traversal, so the traversal will never end on a reader if this happens during a read. Memory barriers were needed to handle proper ordering of the setting of the IPMI interface as valid. Readers might not see proper ordering of data otherwise. In ipmi_smi_watcher_register(), the use of the _rcu suffix on the list is unnecessary. This require the list_splice_init_rcu() patch previously posted. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-02ACPICA: Remove duplicate table definitions (non-conflicting), contAlexey Starikovskiy
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-01-30[PATCH] IPMI: fix timeout list handlingDavid Barksdale
Fix a dangling pointer bug in ipmi_timeout_handler. A list of timedout messages is not re-initialized before reuse, causing the head of the list to point to freed memory. Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-12-30[PATCH] Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdupSebastien Dugué
set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when built into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the kmalloc slabs are setup. Signed-off-by: Sebastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] IPMI: misc fixesCorey Minyard
Fix various problems pointed out by Andrew Morton and others: * platform_device_unregister checks for NULL, no need to check here. * Formatting fixes. * Remove big macro and convert to a function. * Use strcmp instead of defining a broken case-insensitive comparison, and make the output parameter info match the case of the input one (change "I/O" to "i/o"). * Return the length instead of 0 from the hotmod parameter handler. * Remove some unused cruft. * The trydefaults parameter only has to do with scanning the "standard" addresses, don't check for that on ACPI. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10[PATCH] IPMI: remove zero initsRandy Dunlap
Remove all =0 and =NULL from static initializers. They are not needed and removing them saves space in the object files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08[PATCH] struct path: convert ipmiJosef Sipek
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: fix PROC_FS=n warningsRandy Dunlap
Fix build warnings for PROC_FS=n. drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_poweroff.c:707: warning: label 'out_err' defined but not used drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1774: warning: 'ipmb_file_read_proc' defined but not used drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1790: warning: 'version_file_read_proc' defined but not used drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c:1801: warning: 'stat_file_read_proc' defined but not used Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: increase KCS message sizeCorey Minyard
Increase the maximum message size a KCS interface supports to the maximum message size the rest of the driver supports. Some systems really support messages this big. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Cc: Patrick Schoeller <Patrick.Schoeller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: Fix BT long busyCorey Minyard
The IPMI BT subdriver has been patched to survive "long busy" timeouts seen during firmware upgrades and resets. The patch never returns the HOSED state, synthesizes response messages with meaningful completion codes, and recovers gracefully when the hardware finishes the long busy. The subdriver now issues a "Get BT Capabilities" command and properly uses those results. More informative completion codes are returned on error from transaction starts; this logic was propogated to the KCS and SMIC subdrivers. Finally, indent and other style quirks were normalized. Signed-off-by: Rocky Craig <rocky.craig@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: fix pci warningCorey Minyard
Change pci_module_init() to the new interface, and check the return code to avoid warnings and give the user useful information if this fails. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: add pigeonpoint poweroffCorey Minyard
X86 boards generally use ACPI for the power management interactions with the BMC. However, non-x86 boards need some help. This patch adds the help for the Motorola PigeonPoint-based IPMCs. Signed-off-by: Joseph Barnett <jbarnett@motorola.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: system interface hotplugCorey Minyard
Add the ability to hot add and remove interfaces in the ipmi_si driver. Any users who have the device open will get errors if they try to send a message. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: add poll delayCorey Minyard
Make sure to delay a little in the IPMI poll routine so we can pass in a timeout time and thus time things out. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: fix request eventsCorey Minyard
When the IPMI message handler requested that the interface look for events, the ipmi_si driver would request flags, see if the event buffer full flag was set, then request events. It's better to just send the request for events, as it cuts one message out of the transaction if there happens to be events, and it will fetch events even if the event buffer was not full. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: Add maintenance modeCorey Minyard
Some commands and operations on a BMC can cause the BMC to "go away" for a while. This can cause the automatic flag processing and other things of that nature to timeout and generate annoying logs, or possibly cause other bad things to happen when in firmware update mode. Add detection of those commands (cold reset, warm reset, and any firmware command) and turns off automatic processing for 30 seconds. It also add a manual override either way. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: Allow hot system interface removeCorey Minyard
This modifies the IPMI driver so that a lower-level interface can be dynamically removed while in use so it can support hot-removal of hardware. It also adds the ability to specify and dynamically change the IPMI interface the watchdog timer and the poweroff code use. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: pass sysfs name from lower level driverCorey Minyard
Pass in the sysfs name from the lower-level IPMI driver, as the coming IPMI serial driver will need that to link properly from the serial device sysfs directory. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: remove interface number limitsCorey Minyard
Remove the arbitrary limit of number of IPMI interfaces. This has been tested with 8 interfaces. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Carol Hebert <cah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] IPMI: Fix device model nameCorey Minyard
Add the product id to the driver model platform device name, in addition to the device id. The IPMI spec does not require that individual BMCs in a system have unique devices IDs, but it does require that the product id/device id combination be unique. This also removes a redundant check and cleans up error handling when the sysfs registration fails. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Carol Hebert <cah@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-16[PATCH] ipmi: use platform_device_add() instead of ↵Zhang, Yanmin
platform_device_register() to register device allocated dynamically I got below warning when running 2.6.19-rc5-mm1 on my ia64 machine. WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject_init() Call Trace: [<a0000001000137c0>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=e0000002ff9f7bc0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0d10 [<a000000100013850>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7d90 bsp=e0000002ff9f0cf8 [<a000000100407bb0>] kobject_init+0x90/0x160 sp=e0000002ff9f7d90 bsp=e0000002ff9f0cd0 [<a0000001005ae080>] device_initialize+0x40/0x1c0 sp=e0000002ff9f7da0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0cb0 [<a0000001005b88c0>] platform_device_register+0x20/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7dd0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0c90 [<a000000100592560>] try_smi_init+0xbc0/0x11e0 sp=e0000002ff9f7dd0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0c50 [<a000000100594900>] init_ipmi_si+0xaa0/0x12e0 sp=e0000002ff9f7de0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0bd8 [<a000000100009910>] init+0x350/0x780 sp=e0000002ff9f7e00 bsp=e0000002ff9f0ba8 [<a000000100011d30>] kernel_thread_helper+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7e30 bsp=e0000002ff9f0b80 [<a0000001000090c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40 sp=e0000002ff9f7e30 bsp=e0000002ff9f0b80 WARNING at lib/kobject.c:172 kobject_init() Call Trace: [<a0000001000137c0>] show_stack+0x40/0xa0 sp=e0000002ff9f7b40 bsp=e0000002ff9f0db0 [<a000000100013850>] dump_stack+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7d10 bsp=e0000002ff9f0d98 [<a000000100407bb0>] kobject_init+0x90/0x160 sp=e0000002ff9f7d10 bsp=e0000002ff9f0d70 [<a0000001005ae080>] device_initialize+0x40/0x1c0 sp=e0000002ff9f7d20 bsp=e0000002ff9f0d50 [<a0000001005b88c0>] platform_device_register+0x20/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7d50 bsp=e0000002ff9f0d30 [<a00000010058ac00>] ipmi_register_smi+0xcc0/0x18e0 sp=e0000002ff9f7d50 bsp=e0000002ff9f0c90 [<a000000100592600>] try_smi_init+0xc60/0x11e0 sp=e0000002ff9f7dd0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0c50 [<a000000100594900>] init_ipmi_si+0xaa0/0x12e0 sp=e0000002ff9f7de0 bsp=e0000002ff9f0bd8 [<a000000100009910>] init+0x350/0x780 sp=e0000002ff9f7e00 bsp=e0000002ff9f0ba8 [<a000000100011d30>] kernel_thread_helper+0x30/0x60 sp=e0000002ff9f7e30 bsp=e0000002ff9f0b80 [<a0000001000090c0>] start_kernel_thread+0x20/0x40 sp=e0000002ff9f7e30 bsp=e0000002ff9f0b80 The root cause is the device struct is initialized twice. If the device is allocated dynamically by platform_device_alloc, platform_device_alloc will initialize struct device, then, platform_device_add should be used to register the device. The difference between platform_device_register and platform_device_add is platform_device_register will initiate the device while platform_device_add won't. Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <yanmin.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-13[PATCH] IPMI: Fix more && typosCorey Minyard
Fix improper use of "&&" when "&" was intended. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] ipmi_si_intf.c: fix "&& 0xff" typosAlexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] IPMI: retry messages on certain error returnsCorey Minyard
Some more errors from the IPMI send message command are retryable, but are not being retried by the IPMI code. Make sure they get retried. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Frederic Lelievre <Frederic.Lelievre@ca.kontron.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] IPMI: Clean up the waiting message queue properly on unloadCorey Minyard
A wrong function was being used to free a list; this fixes the problem. Otherwise, an oops at unload time was possible. But not likely, since you can't have any users when you unload the modules and it is very hard to get messages into this queue without users. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Patrick Schoeller <Patrick.Schoeller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03[PATCH] ipmi_si_intf.c sets bad class_mask with PCI_DEVICE_CLASSYvan Seth
Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7439 It looks like device registration in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c was cleaned up and a small error was made when setting the class_mask. The fix is simple as the correct mask value is defined in the code but is not used. Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-20[PATCH] ipmi: fix return codes in failure caseDave Jones
These returns should be negative, like the others in this function. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-11[PATCH] ipmi: handle sysfs errorsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@acm.org> 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)
2006-10-03[PATCH] IPMI: allow user to override the kernel IPMI daemon enableCorey Minyard
After the previous patch to disable the kernel IPMI daemon if interrupts were available, the issue of broken hardware was raised, and a reasonable request to add an override was mode. So here it is. Allow the user to force the kernel ipmi daemon on or off. This way, hardware with broken interrupts or users that are not concerned with performance can turn it on or off to their liking. [akpm@osdl.org: save 4 bytes in vmlinux] Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03[PATCH] ipmi: fix uninitialized data bugJeff Garzik
gcc issues the following warning: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: In function ‘init_ipmi_si’: drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:1729: warning: ‘data.irq’ may be used uninitialized in this function This is indeed a bug. data.irq is completely uninitialized in some code paths. Worse than that, data from a previous decode_dmi() run can easily leak through successive calls. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] ipmi: don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interruptsCorey Minyard
If the driver has interrupts available to it, there is really no reason to have a kernel daemon push the IPMI state machine. Note that I have experienced machines where the interrupts do not work correctly. This was a long time ago and hopefully things are better now. If some machines still have broken interrupts, a blacklist will need to be added. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01[PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registrationCorey Minyard
This patch adds the ability to register for a command per-channel in the IPMI driver. If your BMC supports multiple channels, incoming messages can be useful to have the ability to register to receive commands on a specific channel instead the current behaviour of all channels. Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-16[PATCH] IPMI: fix handling of OEM flagsCorey Minyard
If one of the OEM flags becomes set in the flags from the hardware, the driver could hang if no OEM handler was set. Fix the code to handle this. This was tested by setting the flags by hand after they were fetched. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Ackde-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-16[PATCH] IPMI: Fix oops on ipmi_msghandler removal for non ipmi systemsArnaud Patard
When the ipmi_si module is loaded on a system without any ipmi device, it fails with nodev. It would be fine if all resources were freed. A call to device_unregister() is missing, resulting to a oops when you remove the ipmi_msghandler. Signed-off-by: Arnaud Patard <apatard@mandriva.com> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-01[PATCH] IPMI: fix occasional oops on module unloadCorey Minyard
Olaf Kirch of SuSE tracked down a problem where module unloads of the IPMI driver would occasionally result in Oopses. He tracked that down to a variable that wasn't always initialized properly in some situations. This patch initializes that variable. Olaf sent a patch that kzalloc-ed the data, but this structure is large enough that I would perfer to not do that. Thanks Olaf! Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-07-03[PATCH] make more file_operation structs staticArjan van de Ven
Mark the static struct file_operations in drivers/char as const. Making them const prevents accidental bugs, and moves them to the .rodata section so that they no longer do any false sharing; in addition with the proper debug option they are then protected against corruption.. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] 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>
2006-07-02[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>
2006-06-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits) [PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file [PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree. [PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV [PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed [PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem. [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code [PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code ...
2006-06-28[PATCH] IPMI: watchdog handle panic properlyCorey Minyard
Modify the watchdog timeout in IPMI to only do things at panic/reboot time if the watchdog timer was already running. Some BIOSes do not disable the watchdog timer at startup, and this led to a reboot a while later if the new OS running didn't start monitoring the watchdog, even if the watchdog was not running before. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] IPMI: remove high res timer codeCorey Minyard
There was some old high-res-timer code in the IPMI driver that is dead. Remove it. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-28[PATCH] IPMI: tidy msghandler timerCorey Minyard
Tidy up the timer usage in the IPMI driver. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>