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Follow the noncoherent changes from sh.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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A few interrupt handlers were never updated, fix them up.
We were missing the irq_regs conversion also, so do that
at the same time.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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This has suffered a bit of bitrot, so we're a bit behind on the
syscalls. There were a few that were wrapped incorrectly as well,
caught by the syscall checker. Fix them all up.
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
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there is a wrong id in drivers/char/agp/via-agp.c
#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700 0x8324
It must be 0x0324
Notice that PCI_DEVICE_ID_VIA_CX700 is also used in
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro.c and
drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c
So, I think that constant must be renamed to avoid conflicting.
I attached a proposed patch.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
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Avoid the costly notifier list in the pagefault path and call
the kprobes code directly. The same change went into the 2.6.22
cycle for powerpc, 2s390 and sparc64 already.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
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* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (30 commits)
[ARM] Use new get_irqnr_preamble
[ARM] Ensure machine class menu is sorted alphabetically
[ARM] 4333/2: KS8695: Micrel Development board
[ARM] 4332/2: KS8695: Serial driver
[ARM] 4331/3: Support for Micrel/Kendin KS8695 processor
[ARM] 4371/1: AT91: Support for Atmel AT91SAM9RL-EK development board
[ARM] 4372/1: Define byte sizes in asm-arm/sizes.h
[ARM] 4370/3: AT91: Support for Atmel AT91SAM9RL processors.
[ARM] Update mach-types
[ARM] export symbol csum_partial_copy_from_user
[ARM] iop13xx: msi support
[ARM] stacktrace fix
[ARM] Spinlock initializer cleanup
[ARM] remove useless config option GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK
[ARM] 4303/3: base kernel support for TI DaVinci
[ARM] 4369/1: AT91: Fix circular dependency in header files
[ARM] 4368/1: S3C24xx: build fix
[ARM] 4364/1: AT91: LEDS on AT91SAM9261-EK
[ARM] Fix iop32x/iop33x build
[ARM] EBSA110: fix build errors caused by missing "const"
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Adding tabs where spaces currently are.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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SLUB cannot run on i386 at this point because i386 uses the page->private and
page->index field of slab pages for the pgd cache.
Make SLUB run on i386 by replacing the pgd slab cache with a quicklist.
Limit the changes as much as possible. Leave the improvised linked list in place
etc etc. This has been working here for a couple of weeks now.
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Use the new get_irqnr_preamble macro to move the address of the IRQ
controller outside the IRQ handling loop.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Besides those modes in ATI SB600 SATA controller, ATI SB700 supports one
more mode:the combined mode.
The combined mode is a Legacy IDE mode used for compatibility with some old
OS without AHCI driver, but now it is not necessary for Linux since the
kernel has supported AHCI.
Signed-off-by: Luugi Marsan <luugi.marsan@amd.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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ACPI applies to both SATA and PATA. Drop the 'S' from the config
variable.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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libata enables SCSI host during ATA host activation which happens
after IRQ handler is registered and IRQ is enabled. All ATA ports are
in frozen state when IRQ is enabled but frozen ports may raise limited
number of IRQs after being frozen - IOW, ->freeze() is not responsible
for clearing pending IRQs. During normal operation, the IRQ handler
is responsible for clearing spurious IRQs on frozen ports and it
usually doesn't require any extra code.
Unfortunately, during host initialization, the IRQ handler can end up
scheduling EH for a port whose SCSI host isn't initialized yet. This
results in OOPS in the SCSI midlayer. This is relatively short window
and scheduling EH for probing is the first thing libata does after
initialization, so ignoring EH scheduling until initialization is
complete solves the problem nicely.
This problem was spotted by Berck E. Nash in the following thread.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/519412
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Cc: Berck E. Nash <flyboy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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The intention of using port_mask in SFF init helpers was to eventually
support exoctic configurations such as combination of legacy and
native port on the same controller. This never became actually
necessary and the related code always has been subtly broken one way
or the other. Now that new init model is in place, there is no reason
to make common helpers capable of handling all corner cases. Exotic
cases can simply dealt within LLDs as necessary.
This patch removes port_mask handling in SFF init helpers. SFF init
helpers don't take n_ports argument and interpret it into port_mask
anymore. All information is carried via port_info. n_ports argument
is dropped and always two ports are allocated. LLD can tell SFF to
skip certain port by marking it dummy. Note that SFF code has been
treating unuvailable ports this way for a long time until recent
breakage fix from Linus and is consistent with how other drivers
handle with unavailable ports.
This fixes 1-port legacy host handling still broken after the recent
native mode fix and simplifies SFF init logic. The following changes
are made...
* ata_pci_init_native_host() and ata_init_legacy_host() both now try
to initialized whatever they can and mark failed ports dummy. They
return 0 if any port is successfully initialized.
* ata_pci_prepare_native_host() and ata_pci_init_one() now doesn't
take n_ports argument. All info should be specified via port_info
array. Always two ports are allocated.
* ata_pci_init_bmdma() exported to be used by LLDs in exotic cases.
* port_info handling in all LLDs are standardized - all port_info
arrays are const stack variable named ppi. Unless the second port
is different from the first, its port_info is specified as NULL
(tells libata that it's identical to the last non-NULL port_info).
* pata_hpt37x/hpt3x2n: don't modify static variable directly. Make an
on-stack copy instead as ata_piix does.
* pata_uli: It has 4 ports instead of 2. Don't use
ata_pci_prepare_native_host(). Allocate the host explicitly and use
init helpers. It's simple enough.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Reimplement suspend/resume support using sdev->manage_start_stop.
* Device suspend/resume is now SCSI layer's responsibility and the
code is simplified a lot.
* DPM is dropped. This also simplifies code a lot. Suspend/resume
status is port-wide now.
* ata_scsi_device_suspend/resume() and ata_dev_ready() removed.
* Resume now has to wait for disk to spin up before proceeding. I
couldn't find easy way out as libata is in EH waiting for the
disk to be ready and sd is waiting for EH to complete to issue
START_STOP.
* sdev->manage_start_stop is set to 1 in ata_scsi_slave_config().
This fixes spindown on shutdown and suspend-to-disk.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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A driver for the KS8695 internal UART.
Based on the 2.6.9 driver from Micrel.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Add core support for the Kendin/Micrel KS8695 processor family.
It is an ARM922-T based SoC with integrated USART, 4-port Ethernet
Switch, WAN Ethernet port, and optional PCI Host bridge, etc.
http://www.micrel.com/page.do?page=product-info/sys_on_chip.jsp
This patch is based on earlier patches from Lennert Buytenhek, Ben
Dooks and Greg Ungerer posted to the arm-linux-kernel mailing list in
March 2006; and Micrel's 2.6.9 port.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Define SZ_512, SZ_256 and SZ_16 in asm-arm/sizes.h.
Remove the definitions from the at91*_devices.c files.
(Dependent on ARM patch #4370/2)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Add support for Atmel's new AT91SAM9RL range of processors.
Includes similar peripherals as other AT91SAM9 processors, but with a
High-speed USB controller and various sizes of internal SRAM.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (122 commits)
[ALSA] version 1.0.14rc4
[ALSA] Add speaker pin sequencing to hda_codec.c:snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
[ALSA] hda-codec - Add ALC861VD Lenovo support
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix connection list in generic parser
[ALSA] usb-audio: work around wrong wMaxPacketSize on ESI M4U
[ALSA] usb-audio: work around broken M-Audio MidiSport Uno firmware
[ALSA] usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix a typo
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix ALC880 uniwill auto-mutes
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix AD1988 SPDIF playback route control
[ALSA] wm8750 typo fix
[ALSA] wavefront: only declare isapnp on CONFIG_PNP
[ALSA] hda-codec - bug fixes for stac92xx HDA codecs.
[ALSA] add MODULE_FIRMWARE entries
[ALSA] do not depend on FW_LOADER when internal firmware images are used
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix resume of STAC92xx codecs
[ALSA] usbaudio - Revert the minimal period size fix patch
[ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for new HP DV series laptops
[ALSA] usb-audio - Fix the minimum period size per transfer mode
[ALSA] sound/pcmcia/vx/vxpocket.c: fix an if() condition
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ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (44 commits)
V4L/DVB (5571): V4l1-compat: Make VIDIOCSPICT return errors in a useful way
V4L/DVB (5624): Radio-maestro.c cleanup
V4L/DVB (5623): Dsbr100.c Replace usb_dsbr100_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
V4L/DVB (5622): Radio-zoltrix.c cleanup
V4L/DVB (5621): Radio-cadet.c Replace cadet_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
V4L/DVB (5619): Dvb-usb: fix typo
V4L/DVB (5618): Cx88: Drop the generic i2c client from cx88-vp3054-i2c
V4L/DVB (5617): V4L2: videodev, allow debugging
V4L/DVB (5614): M920x: Disable second adapter on LifeView TV Walker Twin
V4L/DVB (5613): M920x: loosen up 80-col limit
V4L/DVB (5612): M920x: rename function prefixes from m9206_foo to m920x_foo
V4L/DVB (5611): M920x: replace deb_rc with deb
V4L/DVB (5610): M920x: remove duplicated code
V4L/DVB (5609): M920x: group like functions together
V4L/DVB (5608): M920x: various whitespace cleanups
V4L/DVB (5607): M920x: Initial support for devices likely manufactured by Dposh
V4L/DVB (5606): M920x: add "c-basic-offset: 8" to help emacs to enforce tabbing
V4L/DVB (5605): M920x: Add support for LifeView TV Walker Twin
V4L/DVB (5603): V4L: Prevent queueing queued buffers.
V4L/DVB (5602): Enable DiSEqC in Starbox II (vp7021a)
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] Quicklist support for IA64
[IA64] fix Kprobes reentrancy
[IA64] SN: validate smp_affinity mask on intr redirect
[IA64] drivers/char/snsc_event.c:206: warning: unused variable `p'
[IA64] mca.c:121: warning: 'cpe_poll_timer' defined but not used
[IA64] Fix - Section mismatch: reference to .init.data:mvec_name
[IA64] more warning cleanups
[IA64] Wire up epoll_pwait and utimensat
[IA64] Fix warnings resulting from type-checking in dev_dbg()
[IA64] typo s/kenrel/kernel/
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
further UTF-8 fixes and name correction
Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
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> -** Copyright 1994 by Bj<94>rn Brauel
> +** Copyright 1994 by Bj”rn Brauel
I think these were cp437, and it should read 'Björn'.
(asm-m68k/atari*.h)
Also note that Arnaldo just put more legacy noise into CREDITS...
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-ip22:
Convert SGI IP22 and specific drivers to platform_device.
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (28 commits)
[MIPS] Rework cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Use RTC_CMOS for Cobalt
[MIPS] Use platform_device for Cobalt UART
[MIPS] Separate Alchemy processor based boards config
[MIPS] Fix build error in atomic64_cmpxchg
[MIPS] Run checksyscalls for N32 and O32 ABI
[MIPS] tlbex: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] excite: use __maybe_unused
[MIPS] Add extern cobalt_board_id
[MIPS] Remove unused CONFIG_TOSHIBA_BOARDS
[MIPS] Rename tb0229_defconfig to tb0219_defconfig
[MIPS] Update tb0229_defconfig; add CONFIG_GPIO_TB0219.
[MIPS] Add minimum defconfig for RBHMA4200
[MIPS] SB1: Build fix.
[MIPS] Drop __devinit tag from allocate_irqno() and free_irqno()
[MIPS] clocksource: use CLOCKSOURCE_MASK() macro
[MIPS] Remove LIMITED_DMA support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Jaguar ATX support
[MIPS] Remove Momenco Ocelot G support
[MIPS] FPU hazard handling
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
Fix compile/link of init/do_mounts.c with !CONFIG_BLOCK
When stacked block devices are in-use (e.g. md or dm), the recursive calls
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current
* 'audit.b38' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] Abnormal End of Processes
[PATCH] match audit name data
[PATCH] complete message queue auditing
[PATCH] audit inode for all xattr syscalls
[PATCH] initialize name osid
[PATCH] audit signal recipients
[PATCH] add SIGNAL syscall class (v3)
[PATCH] auditing ptrace
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
USB HID: hiddev - fix race between hiddev_send_event() and hiddev_release()
HID: add hooks for getkeycode() and setkeycode() methods
HID: switch to using input_dev->dev.parent
USB HID: Logitech wheel 0x046d/0xc294 needs HID_QUIRK_NOGET quirk
USB HID: usb_buffer_free() cleanup
USB HID: report descriptor of Cypress USB barcode readers needs fixup
Bluetooth HID: HIDP - don't initialize force feedback
USB HID: update CONFIG_USB_HIDINPUT_POWERBOOK description
HID: add input mappings for non-working keys on Logitech S510 remote
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Enable devices to signal interrupts via PCI memory cycles.
rev6:
* fix enable/disable typo, Michael Ellerman
rev5:
* fix up ack, enable, and disable for iop13xx_msi_chip
rev4:
* move smp compile fix to separate patch
* use dynamic_irq_init in create_irq()
* hookup mask/unmask routines in iop13xx_msi_chip
rev3:
* change msi.c to use linux/smp.h instead of asm/smp.h
* call dynamic_irq_cleanup at destroy_irq time
rev2:
* destroy_irq did not take the full 128 bits of msi_irq_in_use into account
* added missing '&' for calls to test_and_set_bit and clear_bit
[ebiederm@xmission.com: review comments/suggestions]
[dan.j.williams@intel.com: cleanups/forward port to 2.6-git]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wolstenholme <daniel.e.wolstenholme@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Acked-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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IA64 is the origin of the quicklist implementation. So cut out the pieces
that are now in core code and modify the functions called.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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In case of reentrance i.e when a probe handler calls a functions which
inturn has a probe, we save a previous kprobe information and just single
step the reentrant probe without calling the actual probe handler. During
this reentracy period, if an interrupt occurs and if probe happens to
trigger in the inturrupt path, then we were corrupting the previous kprobe(
as we were overriding the previous kprobe info) info their by crashing the
system. This patch fixes this issues by having a an array of previous
kprobe info struct(with the array size of 2).
This similar technique is not needed on i386 and x86_64 because by default
interrupts are turn off in the break/int3 exception handler.
Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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On SN, only allow one bit to be set in the smp_affinty mask when
redirecting an interrupt. Currently setting multiple bits is allowed, but
only the first bit is used in determining the CPU to redirect to. This has
caused confusion among some customers.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fixes]
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add base kernel support for the TI DaVinci platform.
This patch only includes interrupts, timers, CPU identification,
serial support and basic power and sleep controller init. More
drivers to come.
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Resolve the circular dependency in the AT91 header files (io.h and
hardware.h) by moving the at91_sys_read() and at91_sys_write() functions
to io.h
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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arch/arm/plat-iop/io.c:26: error: conflicting types for '__iop3xx_ioremap'
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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This adds the ac97 clock to the s3c2443 machine files. It seems to
have been simply missed out previously.
Signed-off-by: Graeme Gregory <gg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Add devres ecardm_iomap() and ecardm_iounmap() for Acorn expansion
cards. Convert all expansion card drivers to use them.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Rather than having every driver fiddle about setting its private
IRQ operations and data, provide a helper function to contain
this functionality in one place.
Arrange to remove the driver-private IRQ operations and data when
the device is removed from the driver, and remove the driver
private code to do this.
This fixes potential problems caused by drivers forgetting to
remove these hooks.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (31 commits)
[NETFILTER]: xt_conntrack: add compat support
[NETFILTER]: iptable_raw: ignore short packets sent by SOCK_RAW sockets
[NETFILTER]: iptable_{filter,mangle}: more descriptive "happy cracking" message
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: Clears helper private area when NATing
[NETFILTER]: ctnetlink: clear helper area and handle unchanged helper
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes unused destroy operation of l3proto
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack: Removes duplicated declarations
[NETFILTER]: nf_nat: remove unused argument of function allocating binding
[NETFILTER]: Clean up table initialization
[NET_SCHED]: Avoid requeue warning on dev_deactivate
[NET_SCHED]: Reread dev->qdisc for NETDEV_TX_OK
[NET_SCHED]: Rationalise return value of qdisc_restart
[NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case
[UDP]: Fix AF-specific references in AF-agnostic code.
[IrDA]: KingSun/DonShine USB IrDA dongle support.
[IPV6] ROUTE: Assign rt6i_idev for ip6_{prohibit,blk_hole}_entry.
[IPV6]: Do no rely on skb->dst before it is assigned.
[IPV6]: Send ICMPv6 error on scope violations.
[SCTP]: Do not include ABORT chunk header in the notification.
[SCTP]: Correctly copy addresses in sctp_copy_laddrs
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Adds a framebuffer driver to ATMEL AT91SAM9x and AT32 aka AVR32 platforms.
Those chips share quite the same IP and this code is suitable for both
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a basic port from 2.4 kernel to 2.6. Acceleration is lost and big
endian support probably too. The driver works in 8, 16 and 32 bit mode.
[adaplas]
- change VESA_* to FB_BLANK_* constants
- removed unused function clear_memory
- fix uninitialized variable compiler warning
- some whitespace cleaning
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Nuke pestiferous CVS string]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is an example about how to add eventfd support to the current KAIO code,
in order to enable KAIO to post readiness events to a pollable fd (hence
compatible with POSIX select/poll). The KAIO code simply signals the eventfd
fd when events are ready, and this triggers a POLLIN in the fd. This patch
uses a reserved for future use member of the struct iocb to pass an eventfd
file descriptor, that KAIO will use to post events every time a request
completes. At that point, an aio_getevents() will return the completed result
to a struct io_event. I made a quick test program to verify the patch, and it
runs fine here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-aio-test.c
The test program uses poll(2), but it'd, of course, work with select and epoll
too.
This can allow to schedule both block I/O and other poll-able devices
requests, and wait for results using select/poll/epoll. In a typical
scenario, an application would submit KAIO request using aio_submit(), and
will also use epoll_ctl() on the whole other class of devices (that with the
addition of signals, timers and user events, now it's pretty much complete),
and then would:
epoll_wait(...);
for_each_event {
if (curr_event_is_kaiofd) {
aio_getevents();
dispatch_aio_events();
} else {
dispatch_epoll_event();
}
}
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch wires the eventfd system call to the x86 architectures.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This is a very simple and light file descriptor, that can be used as event
wait/dispatch by userspace (both wait and dispatch) and by the kernel
(dispatch only). It can be used instead of pipe(2) in all cases where those
would simply be used to signal events. Their kernel overhead is much lower
than pipes, and they do not consume two fds. When used in the kernel, it can
offer an fd-bridge to enable, for example, functionalities like KAIO or
syslets/threadlets to signal to an fd the completion of certain operations.
But more in general, an eventfd can be used by the kernel to signal readiness,
in a POSIX poll/select way, of interfaces that would otherwise be incompatible
with it. The API is:
int eventfd(unsigned int count);
The eventfd API accepts an initial "count" parameter, and returns an eventfd
fd. It supports poll(2) (POLLIN, POLLOUT, POLLERR), read(2) and write(2).
The POLLIN flag is raised when the internal counter is greater than zero.
The POLLOUT flag is raised when at least a value of "1" can be written to the
internal counter.
The POLLERR flag is raised when an overflow in the counter value is detected.
The write(2) operation can never overflow the counter, since it blocks (unless
O_NONBLOCK is set, in which case -EAGAIN is returned).
But the eventfd_signal() function can do it, since it's supposed to not sleep
during its operation.
The read(2) function reads the __u64 counter value, and reset the internal
value to zero. If the value read is equal to (__u64) -1, an overflow happened
on the internal counter (due to 2^64 eventfd_signal() posts that has never
been retired - unlickely, but possible).
The write(2) call writes an __u64 count value, and adds it to the current
counter. The eventfd fd supports O_NONBLOCK also.
On the kernel side, we have:
struct file *eventfd_fget(int fd);
int eventfd_signal(struct file *file, unsigned int n);
The eventfd_fget() should be called to get a struct file* from an eventfd fd
(this is an fget() + check of f_op being an eventfd fops pointer).
The kernel can then call eventfd_signal() every time it wants to post an event
to userspace. The eventfd_signal() function can be called from any context.
An eventfd() simple test and bench is available here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-bench.c
This is the eventfd-based version of pipetest-4 (pipe(2) based):
http://www.xmailserver.org/pipetest-4.c
Not that performance matters much in the eventfd case, but eventfd-bench
shows almost as double as performance than pipetest-4.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add sys_eventfd to sys_ni.c]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch implements the necessary compat code for the timerfd system call.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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