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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (36 commits)
[PATCH] hwmon: add required idr locking
[PATCH] I2C: hwmon: Rename register parameters
[PATCH] I2C: Drop unneeded i2c-dev.h includes
[PATCH] I2C: i2c-ixp4xx: Add hwmon class
[PATCH] I2C: i2c-piix4: Add Broadcom HT-1000 support
[PATCH] I2C: i2c-amd756-s4882: Improve static mutex initialization
[PATCH] I2C: i2c-ali1535: Drop redundant mutex
[PATCH] i2c: Cleanup isp1301_omap
[PATCH] i2c: Fix i2c-ite name initialization
[PATCH] i2c: Drop the i2c-frodo bus driver
[PATCH] i2c: Optimize core_lists mutex usage
[PATCH] w83781d: Don't reset the chip by default
[PATCH] w83781d: Document the alarm and beep bits
[PATCH] w83627ehf: Refactor the sysfs interface
[PATCH] hwmon: Support the Pentium M VID code
[PATCH] hwmon: Add support for the Winbond W83687THF
[PATCH] hwmon: f71805f semaphore to mutex conversions
[PATCH] hwmon: Semaphore to mutex conversions
[PATCH] i2c: Semaphore to mutex conversions, part 3
[PATCH] i2c: Semaphore to mutex conversions, part 2
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (49 commits)
[PATCH] acpiphp: fix acpi_path_name
[PATCH] ibmphp: remove TRUE and FALSE
[PATCH] PCI Hotplug: add common acpi functions to core
[PATCH] PCI: kzalloc() conversion in drivers/pci
[PATCH] acpiphp: Scan slots under the nested P2P bridge
[PATCH] PCI Hotplug: SN: Fix cleanup on hotplug removal of PPB
[PATCH] shpchp: cleanup bus speed handling
[PATCH] PCI: fix pci_request_region[s] arg
[PATCH] PCI: Provide a boot parameter to disable MSI
[PATCH] PCI: the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC
[PATCH] PCI: cpqphp_ctrl.c: board_replaced(): remove dead code
[PATCH] acpiphp: fix bridge handle
[PATCH] acpiphp - slot management fix - V4
[PATCH] acpi: remove dock event handling from ibm_acpi
[PATCH] acpiphp: add dock event handling
[PATCH] acpi: export acpi_bus_trim
[PATCH] acpiphp: add new bus to acpi
[PATCH] PCI: Move pci_dev_put outside a spinlock
[PATCH] PCI: PCI/Cardbus cards hidden, needs pci=assign-busses to fix
[PATCH] PCI: fix problems with MSI-X on ia64
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[TG3]: Update driver version and reldate.
[TG3]: Add 5755 nvram support
[TG3]: Add 5755 support
[IPV6]: ip6_xmit: remove unnecessary NULL ptr check
[NET_SCHED]: cls_u32: remove unnecessary NULL-ptr check
[IPV4]: Add fib rule netlink notifications
[BNX2]: Update version and reldate
[BNX2]: Separate tx producer and consumer fields
[BNX2]: Move .h files to bnx2.c
[BNX2]: Combine small mem allocations
[BNX2]: Fix link change handling
[PKTGEN]: Add MPLS extension.
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Add missing 'const' to pci_request_region[s] 'res_name' arg,
since we pass it directly to __request_region(), whose 'name' arg
is also const.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Export the acpi_bus_trim function so that the pci hotplug driver can
use it.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It turns out AMD 8131 quirk only affects MSI for devices behind the 8131 bridge.
Handle this by adding a flags field in pci_bus, inherited from parent to child.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@mellanox.co.il>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Change the semantics of this call to return the max reserved
bus number instead of just the max assigned bus number.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add Broadcom HT-1000 south bridge's PCI ID to i2c-piix driver. Note
that at least on Supermicro H8SSL it uses non-standard SMBHSTCFG = 3
and standard values like 0 or 9 causes hangup.
Signed-off-by: Martin Devera <devik@cdi.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Drop the i2c-frodo bus driver. It isn't referenced by the build
system, and depends on code which was never included in 2.6 kernels.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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semaphore to mutex conversion.
the conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
build tested.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch refactors SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_2 macro, following pattern set by
SENSOR_ATTR. First it creates a new macro SENSOR_ATTR_2() which expands
to an initialization expression, then it uses that in SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR_2,
which declares and initializes a struct sensor_device_attribute_2.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch refactors SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR macro. First it creates a new
macro SENSOR_ATTR() which expands to an initialization expression, then
it uses that in SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR, which declares and initializes a
struct sensor_device_attribute.
IOW, SENSOR_ATTR() imitates __ATTR() in include/linux/device.h.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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When we stop allocating percpu memory for not-possible CPUs we must not touch
the percpu data for not-possible CPUs at all. The correct way of doing this
is to test cpu_possible() or to use for_each_cpu().
This patch is a kernel-wide sweep of all instances of NR_CPUS. I found very
few instances of this bug, if any. But the patch converts lots of open-coded
test to use the preferred helper macros.
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Christian Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Eliminate a handful of cache references by keeping current in a register
instead of reloading (helps x86) and avoiding the overhead of a function
call. Inlining eventpoll_init_file() saves 24 bytes. Also reorder file
initialization to make writes occur more sequentially.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Without branch hints, the very unlikely chance of the loop repeating due to
cmpxchg failure is unrolled with gcc-4 that I have tested.
Improve this for architectures with a native cas/cmpxchg. llsc archs
should try to implement this natively.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch makes two needlessly global structs static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Attempt to fix the problem wherein people's oops reports scroll off the screen
due to repeated oopsing or to oopses on other CPUs.
If this happens the user can reboot with the `pause_on_oops=<seconds>' option.
It will allow the first oopsing CPU to print an oops record just a single
time. Second oopsing attempts, or oopses on other CPUs will cause those CPUs
to enter a tight loop until the specified number of seconds have elapsed.
The patch implements the infrastructure generically in the expectation that
architectures other than x86 will find it useful.
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch removes all occurances of _INLINE_ in the kernel.
With the exception of tty_flip.h, I've simply removed the inline's since
gcc should know best which functions to be inlined.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Declarations use struct notifier_block on both legs of the ifdef, so move the
notifier_block forward declaration outside the ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Consolidate all kernel bug printouts to begin with the "BUG: " string.
Makes it easier to find them in large bootup logs.
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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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The fat code uses the fat_lock always in a mutex way (taking and releasing
the lock in the same function), the patch below converts it into the new
mutex primitive. Please consider this patch for the code.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: 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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script 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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script 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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script 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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ext3's truncate_sem is always released in the same function it's taken
and it otherwise is a mutex as well..
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script 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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script 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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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Acked-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Semaphore to mutex conversion.
The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: 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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Seems like needless clutter having a bunch of #if defined(CONFIG_$ARCH) in
include/linux/cache.h. Move the per architecture section definition to
asm/cache.h, and keep the if-not-defined dummy case in linux/cache.h to
catch architectures which don't implement the section.
Verified that symbols still go in .data.read_mostly on parisc,
and the compile doesn't break.
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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Since early 2.4.x all cdrom drivers implement the block_device methods
themselves, so they can handle additional ioctls directly instead of going
through the cdrom layer.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: 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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1) Reduce the size of (struct fdtable) to exactly 64 bytes on 32bits
platforms, lowering kmalloc() allocated space by 50%.
2) Reduce the size of (files_struct), using a special 32 bits (or
64bits) embedded_fd_set, instead of a 1024 bits fd_set for the
close_on_exec_init and open_fds_init fields. This save some ram (248
bytes per task) as most tasks dont open more than 32 files. D-Cache
footprint for such tasks is also reduced to the minimum.
3) Reduce size of allocated fdset. Currently two full pages are
allocated, that is 32768 bits on x86 for example, and way too much. The
minimum is now L1_CACHE_BYTES.
UP and SMP should benefit from this patch, because most tasks will touch
only one cache line when open()/close() stdin/stdout/stderr (0/1/2),
(next_fd, close_on_exec_init, open_fds_init, fd_array[0 .. 2] being in the
same cache line)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Linus points out that ext3_readdir's readahead only cuts in when
ext3_readdir() is operating at the very start of the directory. So for large
directories we end up performing no readahead at all and we suck.
So take it all out and use the core VM's page_cache_readahead(). This means
that ext3 directory reads will use all of readahead's dynamic sizing goop.
Note that we're using the directory's filp->f_ra to hold the readahead state,
but readahead is actually being performed against the underlying blockdev's
address_space. Fortunately the readahead code is all set up to handle this.
Tested with printk. It works. I was struggling to find a real workload which
actually cared.
(The patch also exports page_cache_readahead() to GPL modules)
Cc: "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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It is unsafe to suspend devices if the hardware is controlled by X. Add an
extra check to prevent this from happening.
Signed-off-by: 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>
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Move externs from C source files to header files.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.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>
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Introduce the low level interface that can be used for handling the
snapshot of the system memory by the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code of
swsusp and the userland interface code (to be introduced shortly).
Also change the way in which swsusp records the allocated swap pages and,
consequently, simplifies the in-kernel swap-writing/reading code (this is
necessary for the userland interface too). To this end, it introduces two
helper functions in mm/swapfile.c, so that the swsusp code does not refer
directly to the swap internals.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Gcc reserves %ebx when compiling position-independent-code on i386. This
means, the _syscallX() macros in include/asm-i386/unistd.h will not
compile. This patch is changes the existing macros to take special care to
preserve %ebx.
The bug can be tracked at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6204
Signed-off-by: Markus Gutschke <markus@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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_raw_spin_lock_flags() is entered with interrupts disabled. If it cannot
obtain a spinlock, it checks the flags that were passed and re-enables
interrupts before spinning if that's how the flags are set. When the
spinlock might be available, it disables interrupts (even if they are
already disabled) before trying to get the lock. Change that so interrupts
are only disabled if they have been enabled. This costs nine bytes of
duplicated spinloop code.
Fastpath before patch:
jle <keep looping> not-taken conditional jump
cli disable interrupts
jmp <try for lock> unconditional jump
Fastpath after patch, if interrupts were not enabled:
jg <try for lock> taken conditional branch
Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Acked-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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arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c: In function `centaur_mcr_insert':
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/centaur.c:33: warning: implicit declaration of function `mtrr_centaur_report_mcr'
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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>commit 76381fee7e8feb4c22be636aa5d4765dbe4fbf9e
>Author: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
>Date: Thu Jun 23 00:08:46 2005 -0700
>
> [PATCH] xen: x86_64: use more usermode macro
>
> Make use of the user_mode macro where it's possible. This is useful for Xen
> because it will need only to redefine only the macro to a hypervisor call.
I am of the opinion that the above changeset is incomplete, i.e. it missed
converting some previous uses of user_mode to user_mode_vm. While most of
them could be considered just cosmetical, at least the one in die_nmi
doesn't appear to be.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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callbacks
Registering a callback handler through register_die_notifier() is obviously
primarily intended for use by modules. However, the way these currently
get called it is basically impossible for them to actually be used by
modules, as there is, on non-PAE configurationes, a good chance (the larger
the module, the better) for the system to crash as a result.
This is because the callback gets invoked
(a) in the page fault path before the top level page table propagation
gets carried out (hence a fault to propagate the top level page table
entry/entries mapping to module's code/data would nest infinitly) and
(b) in the NMI path, where nested faults must absolutely not happen,
since otherwise the IRET from the nested fault re-enables NMIs,
potentially resulting in nested NMI occurences.
Besides the modular aspect, similar problems would even arise for in-
kernel consumers of the API if they touched ioremap()ed or vmalloc()ed
memory inside their handlers.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The history is that -mm kernels do not work for me for a few months
already. The things started from crashing somewhere after starting init,
and for the last month - no boot at all, just "Uncompressing... OK,
booting kernel", and silence. Early console didn't work too. With the
latest releases this degraded into an infinite stream of the "Unknown
interrupt or fault" messages. So today my patience ran out and I started
to think how can I collect at least some info for the bug-report. Attached
is the patch that allows to gather some valueable debug info on the problem
by making an early console more useable. I can't properly test the patch,
as the kernel still doesn't boot, so I'll explain it in details in a hope
someone else can justify the intrusive changes.
arch_hooks.h: added prototypes for setup_early_printk() and early_printk().
setup.c: killed wrong setup_early_printk() prototype. Moved
setup_early_printk() a bit earlier, as it was not "early enough" to cover
the bug I was fighting with.
early_printk.c: made it to start printing from the bottom of the screen,
otherwise the messages interfere with the ones of the boot-loader, so you
can't read them.
Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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