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fast_io_fail_tmo_callbk
Add support for new dev_loss_tmo callback
Goodness is that it removes code for a parallel nodev timer that
existed in the driver
Add support for the new fast_io_fail callback
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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callback
This patch adds the following functionality to the FC transport:
- dev_loss_tmo LLDD callback :
Called to essentially confirm the deletion of an rport. Thus, it is
called whenever the dev_loss_tmo fires, or when the rport is deleted
due to other circumstances (module unload, etc). It is expected that
the callback will initiate the termination of any outstanding i/o on
the rport.
- fast_io_fail_tmo and LLD callback:
There are some cases where it may take a long while to truly determine
device loss, but the system is in a multipathing configuration that if
the i/o was failed quickly (faster than dev_loss_tmo), it could be
redirected to a different path and completed sooner.
Many thanks to Mike Reed who cleaned up the initial RFC in support
of this post.
The original RFC is at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115505981027246&w=2
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Add support to return adapter symbolic name (now that attribute is dynamic)
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Add support to post events via new FC event interfaces
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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During discussions with Mike Christie, I became convinced that we needed
a larger vendor id. This patch extends the id from 32 to 64 bits.
This applies on top of the prior patches that add SCSI transport events
via netlink.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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events
This patch formally adds support for the posting of FC events via netlink.
It is a followup to the original RFC at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=114530667923464&w=2
and the initial posting at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115507374832500&w=2
The patch has been updated to optimize the send path, per the discussions
in the initial posting.
Per discussions at the Storage Summit and at OLS, we are to use netlink for
async events from transports. Also per discussions, to avoid a netlink
protocol per transport, I've create a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol,
which can then be used by all transports.
This patch:
- Creates new files scsi_netlink.c and scsi_netlink.h, which contains the
single and shared definitions for the SCSI Transport. It is tied into the
base SCSI subsystem intialization.
Contains a single interface routine, scsi_send_transport_event(), for a
transport to send an event (via multicast to a protocol specific group).
- Creates a new scsi_netlink_fc.h file, which contains the FC netlink event
messages
- Adds 3 new routines to the fc transport:
fc_get_event_number() - to get a FC event #
fc_host_post_event() - to send a simple FC event (32 bits of data)
fc_host_post_vendor_event() - to send a Vendor unique event, with
arbitrary amounts of data.
Note: the separation of event number allows for a LLD to send a standard
event, followed by vendor-specific data for the event.
Note: This patch assumes 2 prior fc transport patches have been installed:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115555807316329&w=2
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-scsi&m=115581614930261&w=2
Sorry - next time I'll do something like making these individual
patches of the same posting when I know they'll be posted closely
together.
Signed-off-by: James Smart <James.Smart@emulex.com>
Tidy up configuration not to make SCSI always select NET
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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And use it in the stex driver.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Use block shared tags entirely within the driver. In the case of
shutdown, assume that there are no other outstanding commands, so tag
0 is fine.
Signed-off-by: Ed Lin <ed.lin@promise.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Add Promise SuperTrak 'stex' driver, supporting SuperTrak
EX8350/8300/16350/16300 controllers. The controller's firmware accepts
SCSI commands, handing them to the underlying RAID or JBOD disks.
The driver consisted of the following cleanups and fixes, beyond its
initial submission:
Ed Lin:
stex: cleanup and minor fixes
stex: add new device ids
stex: update internal copy code path
stex: add hard reset function
stex: adjust command timeout in slave_config routine
stex: use more efficient method for unload/shutdown flush
Jeff Garzik:
[SCSI] Add Promise SuperTrak 'shasta' driver.
Rename drivers/scsi/shasta.c to stex.c ("SuperTrak EX").
[SCSI] stex: update with community comments from 'Promise SuperTrak' thread
[SCSI] stex: Fix warning, trim trailing whitespace.
[SCSI] stex: remove last remnants of "shasta" project code name
[SCSI] stex: removed 6-byte command emulation
[SCSI] stex: minor cleanups
[SCSI] stex: minor fixes: irq flag, error return value
[SCSI] stex: use dma_alloc_coherent()
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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When accessing a device with disabled read access the capacity is set
randomly to 1GB. This makes it impossible to userspace tools to detect
invalid device capacities.
Signed-off-by: Mike Anderson <andmike@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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In the normal IO path we should not be calling back
into the LLD since the LLD will have cleaned up the
task before or after calling complete pdu.
For the fail_command path we still need to do this
to force the cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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If the scsi eh sends a TUR and the session is down we could
return SCSI_ML_HOST_BUSY. scsi eh will ignore this and send
ask us to abort the command and we blindly accesst the
command ptr.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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When a digest is spread across two network buffers, we currently
ignore this and try to check the digest with the partial buffer.
Or course this fails. This patch has use iscsi_tcp_copy to
copy the whole digest before testing it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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The first burst length is only relevant if immedate data = Yes
or if Initial R2T is No
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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When we relogin to a target, we have not yet negotiated digests
so we must reset the hdr_size var.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This patch built over the last ones fixes a bug in the partial header
resend code, where we add on another 4 bytes to the send length on the resend.
We want just the header plus digest.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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We currently allocated seperate tfms for data and header digests. There
is no reason for this since we can never calculate a rx header and
digest at the same time. Same for sends. So this patch removes the data
tfms and has the send and recv sides use the rx_tfm or tx_tfm.
I also made the connection creation code preallocate the tfms because I
thought I hit a bug where I changed the digests settings during a
relogin but could not allocate the tfm and then we just failed.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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iscsi_tcp calculates padding by using the expected transfer length. This
has the problem where if we have immediate data = no and initial R2T =
yes, and the transfer length ended up needing padding then we send:
1. header
2. padding which should have gone after data
3. data
Besides this bug, we also assume the target will always ask for nice
transfer lengths and the first burst length will always be a nice value.
As far as I can tell form the RFC this is not a requirement. It would be
silly to do this, but if someone did it we will end doing bad things.
Finally the last bug in that bit of code is in our handling of the
recalculation of data digests when we do not send a whole iscsi_buf in
one try. The bug here is that we call crypto_digest_final on a
iscsi_sendpage error, then when we send the rest of the iscsi_buf, we
doiscsi_data_digest_init and this causes the previous data digest to be
lost.
And to make matters worse, some of these bugs are replicated over and
over and over again for immediate data, solicited data and unsolicited
data. So the attached patch made over the iscsi git tree (see
kernel.org/git for details) which I updated today to include the patches
I said I merged, consolidates the sending of data, padding and digests
and calculation of data digests and fixes the above bugs.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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A couple targets like string bean and MDS, send r2ts with
a data len greater than the max burst we agreed to. We
were being strict in our enforcing of the iscsi rfc in that
code path, but there is no driver limitation that prevents
us from fullfilling the request. To allow those targets
to work we will ignore the max_burst length and send as
much data as the target asks for assuming it has consciously
decided to override its max burst length.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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It is possible that a ctask could be completing and getting
cleaned up at the same time, we are finishing up the last
data transfer. This could then result in the data transfer
code using stale or invalid values. This patch adds a refcount
to the ctask. When the count goes to zero then we know the
transmit thread and recv thread or softirq are not touching
it and we can safely release it.
The eh should not need to grab a reference because it only cleans
up a task if it has both the xmit mutex and recv lock (or recv
side suspended).
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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iSCSI RFC states that the first burst length must be smaller than the
max burst length. We currently assume targets will be good, but that may
not be the case, so this patch adds a check.
This patch also moves the unsol data out offset to the lib so the LLDs
do not have to track it.
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Sanitize the Vendor, Product, and Revision strings contained in an
INQUIRY result by setting all non-graphic or non-ASCII characters to ' '.
Since the standard disallows such characters, this will affect
only non-compliant devices.
To help maintain backward compatibility, NUL characters are treated
specially. They are taken as string terminators; they and all the
following characters are set to ' '. If some valid characters get
erased as a result... well, we weren't seeing them before so we haven't
lost anything.
The primary purpose of this change is to allow blacklist entries to
match devices with illegal Vendor or Product strings.
In addition, the patch updates a couple of function prototypes, giving
inq_result its correct type (unsigned char *).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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The fix isn't actually in sd: it's in scsi_device_get(). I modified it
to allow devices to be returned in SDEV_CANCEL, but not SDEV_DEL. This
means that the device_remove_driver, which occurs in device_del() in
scsi_remove_device() after the device has gone into SDEV_CANCEL is now
effective at flushing the cache.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This patch adds support for sharing tag maps at the host level
(i.e. either every queue [LUN] has its own tag map or there's a single
one for the entire host). This formulation is primarily intended to
help single issue queue hardware, like the aic7xxx
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This patch sets can_queue in the aic94xx driver's scsi_host to better
performing values than what's there currently. It seems that
asd_ha->seq.can_queue reflects the number of requests that can be
queued per controller; so long as there's one scsi_host per
controller, it seems logical that the scsi_host ought to have the same
can_queue value. To the best of my (still limited) knowledge, this
method provides the correct value.
The effect of leaving this value set to 1 is terrible performance in
the case of either (a) certain Maxtor SAS drives flying solo or (b)
flooding several disks with I/O simultaneously (md-raid). There may be
more scenarios where we see similar problems that I haven't uncovered.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Add a tag which shows what the firmware file we're requesting is.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This is the end point of the separate aic94xx driver based on the
original driver and transport class from Luben Tuikov
<ltuikov@yahoo.com>
The log of the separate development is:
Alexis Bruemmer:
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug for expanderless systems
o aic94xx: disable split completion timer/setting by default
o aic94xx: wide port off expander support
o aic94xx: remove various inline functions
o aic94xx: use bitops
o aic94xx: remove queue comment
o aic94xx: remove sas_common.c
o aic94xx: sas remove depot's
o aic94xx: use available list_for_each_entry_safe_reverse()
o aic94xx: sas header file merge
James Bottomley:
o aic94xx: fix TF_TMF_NO_CTX processing
o aic94xx: convert to request_firmware interface
o aic94xx: fix hotplug/unplug
o aic94xx: add link error counts to the expander phys
o aic94xx: add transport class phy reset capability
o aic94xx: remove local_attached flag
o Remove README
o Fixup Makefile variable for libsas rename
o Rename sas->libsas
o aic94xx: correct return code for sas_discover_event
o aic94xx: use parent backlink port
o aic94xx: remove channel abstraction
o aic94xx: fix routing algorithms
o aic94xx: add backlink port
o aic94xx: fix cascaded expander properties
o aic94xx: fix sleep under lock
o aic94xx: fix panic on module removal in complex topology
o aic94xx: make use of the new sas_port
o rename sas_port to asd_sas_port
o Fix for eh_strategy_handler move
o aic94xx: move entirely over to correct transport class formulation
o remove last vestages of sas_rphy_alloc()
o update for eh_timed_out move
o Preliminary expander support for aic94xx
o sas: remove event thread
o minor warning cleanups
o remove last vestiges of id mapping arrays
o Further updates
o Convert aic94xx over entirely to the transport class end device and
o update aic94xx/sas to use the new sas transport class end device
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Add missing completion removal from prior patch
o [PATCH] aic94xx: attaching to the sas transport class
o Build fixes from akpm
Jeff Garzik:
o [scsi aic94xx] Remove ->owner from PCI info table
Luben Tuikov:
o initial aic94xx driver
Mike Anderson:
o aic94xx: fix panic on module insertion
o aic94xx: stub out SATA_DEV case
o aic94xx: compile warning cleanups
o aic94xx: sas_alloc_task
o aic94xx: ref count update
o aic94xx nexus loss time value
o [PATCH] aic94xx: driver assertion in non-x86 BIOS env
Randy Dunlap:
o libsas: externs not needed
Robert Tarte:
o aic94xx: sequence patch - fixes SATA support
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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This flag denotes local attachment of the phy. There are two problems
with it:
1) It's actually redundant ... you can get the same information simply
by seeing whether a host is the phys parent
2) we condition a lot of phy parameters on it on the false assumption
that we can only control local phys. I'm wiring up phy resets in the
aic94xx now, and it will be able to reset non-local phys as well.
I fixed 2) by moving the local check into the reset and stats function
of the mptsas, since that seems to be the only HBA that can't
(currently) control non-local phys.
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Unlike the other tty comment patch this one has code changes. Specifically
it limits the queue size for a tty to 64K characters (128Kbytes) worst case
even if the tty is ignoring tty->throttle. This is because certain drivers
don't honour the throttle value correctly, although it is a useful
safeguard anyway.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Doesn't fix them but does show up some interesting areas that need review
and fixing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix printk format warning:
drivers/cdrom/gscd.c:269: warning: format â%luâ expects type âlong unsigned intâ, but argument 2 has type âunsigned intâ
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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None of the other /proc/meminfo lines have a space in the identifier. This
post-2.6.17 addition has the potential to break existing parsers, so use an
underscore instead (like Committed_AS).
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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idescsi_pc_intr() uses local_irq_enable() in IRQ context: annotate it.
(this has no effect on kernels with lockdep disabled. On kernels with lockdep
enabled this means that we wont actually disable interrupts, and the warning
message will go away as well.)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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A recent patch broke the ability to do a user-request check of a raid1.
This patch fixes the breakage and also moves a comment that was dislocated
by the same patch.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If we
- shut down a clean array,
- restart with one (or more) drive(s) missing
- make some changes
- pause, so that they array gets marked 'clean',
the event count on the superblock of included drives
will be the same as that of the removed drives.
So adding the removed drive back in will cause it
to be included with no resync.
To avoid this, we only update the eventcount backwards when the array
is not degraded. In this case there can (should) be no non-connected
drives that we can get confused with, and this is the particular case
where updating-backwards is valuable.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The recent hwctrl core conversion for MTD NAND devices broke the Amstrad
Delta driver. This fixes it up and uses the existing control line defines
rather than unclear magic numbers.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When reading /dev/vcsa while a font with more than 256 characters is
loaded, one of the attribute bits records the 9th bit of the character.
But depending on the console driver (vgacon or fbcon for instance), that's
bit 3 or bit 0. And there is no way for userland to know that, thus no way
for userland to safely grab the screen content. So here is a (tested)
patch:
Add a VT_GETHIFONTMASK ioctl for knowing which bit is the 9th bit for VC
text (vc_hi_font_mask field of the vc_data structure).
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I wish I was happier about this patch. It'll serve as a placeholder for
the moment. I'm still trying to get a G550 working in order to even
reproduce the problem this patch introduces. I find that the G450 has
jitter even without this patch, so it won't show me what the patch changed.
At this point, I'll continue trying to get the G550 to work, and in
parallel work with the G450 to work out the kinks.
The patch is below.
Set XDVICLKCTRL only on PPC, as doing this apparently introduces jitter on
the G550, at least on x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Paul A. Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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While testing Moxa C218T/PCI on PowerPC 405EP I found that loading firmware
using the linux kernel driver fails because calculation of the checksum is
not endianess independent in the original code.
After I fixed this I found that uploading firmware in a system with
multiple cards causes a kernel oops. I had a look in the recent moxa
sources and found that they do some kind of locking there. Applying this
lock fixed the problem.
Alan sayeth:
Checksum changes are clearly correct. Other changes is an improvement but
not I think enough to handle malicious firmware attacks. That said such an
attacker has CAP_SYS_RAWIO anyway so that part is irrelevant except for
neatness.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Dirk Eibach <eibach@gdsys.de>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Commit b64ef8afa58f397e1eaba2bd9ecaa6812064d464 ("[PATCH] add imacfb
documentation and detection") contained a wrong DMI_MATCH.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Read the return value before we release the nand device otherwise the
value can become corrupted by another user of chip->ops, ultimately
resulting in filesystem corruption.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Recently a patch was added for preliminary suspend/resume handling on
!PPC_PMAC. However, this broke both suspend and firewire on powerpc
because it saves the pci state after the device has already been disabled.
This moves the save state to before the pmac specific code.
Signed-off-by: Danny Tholen <obiwan@mailmij.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del().
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix the year check on setting the time with the S3C24XX RTC driver. Also
move the debug to before the set to see what is going on if it does fail.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On an nForce4-equipped machine with two SATA disk in raid1 setup using dmraid,
we experienced frequent deadlock of the system under high i/o load. 'cat
/dev/zero > ~/zero' was the most reliable way to reproduce them: Randomly
after a few GB, 'cp' would be left in 'D' state along with kjournald and
kmirrord. The functions cp and kjournald were blocked in did vary, but
kmirrord's wchan always pointed to 'mempool_alloc()'. We've seen this pattern
on 2.6.15 and 2.6.17 kernels. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/20/142 indicates
that this problem has been around even before.
So much for the facts, here's my interpretation: mempool_alloc() first tries
to atomically allocate the requested memory, or falls back to hand out
preallocated chunks from the mempool. If both fail, it puts the calling
process (kmirrord in this case) on a private waitqueue until somebody refills
the pool. Where the only 'somebody' is kmirrord itself, so we have a
deadlock.
I worked around this problem by falling back to a (blocking) kmalloc when
before kmirrord would have ended up on the waitqueue. This defeats part of
the benefits of using the mempool, but at least keeps the system running. And
it could be done with a two-line change. Note that mempool_alloc() clears the
GFP_NOIO flag internally, and only uses it to decide whether to wait or return
an error if immediate allocation fails, so the attached patch doesn't change
behaviour in the non-deadlocking case. Path is against current git
(2.6.18-rc4), but should apply to earlier versions as well. I've tested on
2.6.15, where this patch makes the difference between random lockup and a
stable system.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kobras <kobras@linux.de>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In the cleanups of drivers/rtc/s3c-rtc.c, the base address for the
registers got broken. This patch fixes that by ensuring the readb/writeb
are all prefixed with the base returned from ioremap()ing the registers.
Also fix check for valid year range, which was the wrong way around.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The existing unusual_devs entry for the UCR-61S2B appears to have too
wide a revision range. It matches at least one device that doesn't
respond to the initialization sequence. Perhaps the sequence needs to
be updated, or perhaps something else can be done. For now, this patch
(as764) restricts the range to include only the revision mentioned in
the original comment.
This resolves (for now!) Bugzilla entry #6950.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch removes support for a clone of Nokia DKU-5 cable made by Ours
Technology Inc, as it turned out that the cable does not use the pl2303
chip, but OTI-6858 chip which is not compatible with the pl2303.
Signed-off-by: Tomasz Kazmierczak <tomek.fizyk@op.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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