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2008-10-22Merge branch 'acpica' into testLen Brown
2008-10-22Merge branch 'bugfixes' into testLen Brown
2008-10-22Merge branch 'FW_BUG' into testLen Brown
2008-10-22ACPICA: Update version to 20080926Bob Moore
Update version to 20080926. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: New: Validation for predefined ACPI methods/objectsBob Moore
Validates predefined ACPI objects that appear in the namespace, at the time they are evaluated. The argument count and the type of the returned object are validated. The purpose of this validation is to detect problems with the BIOS-exposed predefined ACPI objects before the results are returned to the ACPI-related drivers. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Remove unused ACPI register bit definitionLin Ming
Removed the ACPI_BITREG_WAKE_ENABLE definition and entry in the global register table. This bit does not exist and is unused. http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=442 Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Update version to 20080829Bob Moore
Update version to 20080829. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Cleanup for internal Reference ObjectBob Moore
Fix some sloppiness in the Reference object. No longer use AML opcodes to differentiate the types, introduce new reference Class. Cleanup the debug output code. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Update for Reference ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECTBob Moore
1) Add new field for use by DdbHandle (Value) 2) Use ACPI_CAST_INDIRECT_PTR to eliminate strict type warnings 3) Cleanup debug output Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Remove obsolete exception codesBob Moore
Removed 10 exception codes (and corresponding name strings) that were obsolete for various reasons. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Add namespace node to operand object unionBob Moore
Add ACPI_NAMESPACE_NODE to the ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECT in order to simplify code that accepts both of these objects. A common type field is used to differentiate them. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Remove obsolete debug levels (WARN and ERROR)Bob Moore
Removed ACPI_DB_WARN and ACPI_DB_ERROR. These debug levels were made obsolete by the ACPI_WARNING and ACPI_ERROR/ACPI_EXCEPTION interfaces. Also added ACPI_DB_EVENTS to correspond with the existing ACPI_LV_EVENTS. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: add preemption point after each opcode parseAlexey Starikovskiy
Reference: http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=122236382701062&w=2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Update version to 20080729Bob Moore
Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: x2APIC support: changes for MADT and SRAT ACPI tablesBob Moore
Support for the x2APIC. There are 2 new subtables for the MADT and one new subtable for the SRAT. Includes disassembler and acpisrc support. Data from the Intel 64 Architecture x2APIC Specification, June 2008. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Add function to decode reference obj types to stringsBob Moore
Created for improved error messages. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Update version to 20080701Bob Moore
Update version to 20080701. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Return method arg count from acpi_get_object_infoBob Moore
Also update the debugger so that the correct number of arguments is passed to the method. Prevents a warning message from the debugger. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Cleanup macro definition file.Bob Moore
Removed unused macros. Ensure that multiple parameters always have a space after a comma. Cleanup some comments. Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Return status from global init functionYi Yang
Return status from acpi_ut_init_globals. This is used by both the kernel subsystem and the utilities such as iASL compiler. The function could possibly fail when the caches are initialized. Yang Yi. Signed-off-by: Yi Yang <yi.y.yang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPICA: Fix wrong resource descriptor length for 64-bit buildBob Moore
The "minimal" descriptors such as EndTag are calculated as 12 bytes long, but the actual length in the internal descriptor is 16 because of the round-up to 8 on 64-bit build. http://www.acpica.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=728 Signed-off-by: Bob Moore <robert.moore@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Lin Ming <ming.m.lin@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-22ACPI: Add "acpi.power_nocheck=1" to disable power state check in power ↵Zhao Yakui
transition Maybe the incorrect power state is returned on the bogus bios, which is different with the real power state. For example: the bios returns D0 state and the real power state is D3. OS expects to set the device to D0 state. In such case if OS uses the power state returned by the BIOS and checks the device power state very strictly in power transition, the device can't be transited to the correct power state. So the boot option of "acpi.power_nocheck=1" is added to avoid checking the device power in the course of device power transition. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8049 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11000 Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: ide: workaround for bogus gcc warning in ide_sysfs_register_port() ide-cd: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7200A does play audio IDE: Fix platform device registration in Swarm IDE driver (v2) ide-dma: fix ide_build_dmatable() for TRM290 ide-cd: temporary tray close fix
2008-10-06[MIPS] IP27: Fix build errors if CONFIG_MAPPED_KERNEL=yRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-05ide-cd: temporary tray close fixBorislav Petkov
This one fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11602. A more generic fix for drives which cannot autoclose tray will follow. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> [bart: add an extra parentheses for consistency with the rest of kernel code] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-10-03include/linux/stacktrace.h: declare struct task_structAndrew Morton
include/linux/stacktrace.h:13: warning: 'struct task_struct' declared inside parameter list (This might be a hard error on sparc64, which uses this header and has -Werror) Reported-by: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03[MIPS] SMTC: Fix SMTC dyntick support.Kevin D. Kissell
Rework of SMTC support to make it work with the new clock event system, allowing "tickless" operation, and to make it compatible with the use of the "wait_irqoff" idle loop. The new clocking scheme means that the previously optional IPI instant replay mechanism is now required, and has been made more robust. Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03[MIPS] SMTC: Close tiny holes in the SMTC IPI replay system.Kevin D. Kissell
Signed-off-by: Kevin D. Kissell <kevink@paralogos.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-03[MIPS] Build fix: Fix irq flags typeRalf Baechle
Though from a hardware perspective it would be sensible to use only a 32-bit unsigned int type Linux defines interrupt flags to be stored in an unsigned long and nothing else. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-10-02mm: tiny-shmem nommu fixNick Piggin
The previous patch db203d53d474aa068984e409d807628f5841da1b ("mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex") to fix the lock ordering in tiny-shmem breaks shared anonymous and IPC memory on NOMMU architectures because it was using the expanding truncate to signal ramfs to allocate a physically contiguous RAM backing the inode (otherwise it is unusable for "memory mapping" it to userspace). However do_truncate is what caused the lock ordering error, due to it taking i_mutex. In this case, we can actually just call ramfs directly to allocate memory for the mapping, rather than go via truncate. Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-02inotify: fix lock ordering wrt do_page_fault's mmap_semNick Piggin
Fix inotify lock order reversal with mmap_sem due to holding locks over copy_to_user. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Reported-by: "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Tested-by: "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: af_key: Free dumping state on socket close XFRM,IPv6: initialize ip6_dst_blackhole_ops.kmem_cachep ipv6: NULL pointer dereferrence in tcp_v6_send_ack tcp: Fix NULL dereference in tcp_4_send_ack() sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parameter iucv: Fix mismerge again. ipsec: Fix pskb_expand_head corruption in xfrm_state_check_space
2008-09-30Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimers hrtimer: mark migration state hrtimer: fix migration of CB_IRQSAFE_NO_SOFTIRQ hrtimers hrtimer: migrate pending list on cpu offline Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-09-30sctp: Fix kernel panic while process protocol violation parameterWei Yongjun
Since call to function sctp_sf_abort_violation() need paramter 'arg' with 'struct sctp_chunk' type, it will read the chunk type and chunk length from the chunk_hdr member of chunk. But call to sctp_sf_violation_paramlen() always with 'struct sctp_paramhdr' type's parameter, it will be passed to sctp_sf_abort_violation(). This may cause kernel panic. sctp_sf_violation_paramlen() |-- sctp_sf_abort_violation() |-- sctp_make_abort_violation() This patch fixed this problem. This patch also fix two place which called sctp_sf_violation_paramlen() with wrong paramter type. Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-29hrtimer: prevent migration of per CPU hrtimersThomas Gleixner
Impact: per CPU hrtimers can be migrated from a dead CPU The hrtimer code has no knowledge about per CPU timers, but we need to prevent the migration of such timers and warn when such a timer is active at migration time. Explicitely mark the timers as per CPU and use a more understandable mode descriptor for the interrupts safe unlocked callback mode, which is used by hrtimer_sleeper and the scheduler code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-29hrtimer: mark migration stateThomas Gleixner
Impact: during migration active hrtimers can be seen as inactive The migration code removes the hrtimers from the queues of the dead CPU and sets the state temporary to INACTIVE. The enqueue code sets it to ACTIVE/PENDING again. Prevent that the wrong state can be seen by using a separate migration state bit. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-26kgdb, x86_64: fix PS CS SS registers in gdb serialJason Wessel
On x86_64 the gdb serial register structure defines the PS (also known as eflags), CS and SS registers as 4 bytes entities. This patch splits the x86_64 regnames enum into a 32 and 64 version to account for the 32 bit entities in the gdb serial packets. Also the program counter is properly filled in for the sleeping threads. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-26kgdb, x86_64: gdb serial has BX and DX reversedJason Wessel
The BX and DX registers in the gdb serial register packet need to be flipped for gdb to receive the correct data. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-09-24Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: [MIPS] Fixe the definition of PTRS_PER_PGD [MIPS] au1000: Fix gpio direction
2008-09-24MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/David Howells
Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/ so that MN10300 can make use of it too. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-24Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: fix put_data error handling 9p: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test 9p: introduce missing kfree 9p-trans_fd: fix and clean up module init/exit paths 9p-trans_fd: don't do fs segment mangling in p9_fd_poll() 9p-trans_fd: clean up p9_conn_create() 9p-trans_fd: fix trans_fd::p9_conn_destroy() 9p: implement proper trans module refcounting and unregistration
2008-09-249p: implement proper trans module refcounting and unregistrationTejun Heo
9p trans modules aren't refcounted nor were they unregistered properly. Fix it. * Add 9p_trans_module->owner and reference the module on each trans instance creation and put it on destruction. * Protect v9fs_trans_list with a spinlock. This isn't strictly necessary as the list is manipulated only during module loading / unloading but it's a good idea to make the API safe. * Unregister trans modules when the corresponding module is being unloaded. * While at it, kill unnecessary EXPORT_SYMBOL on p9_trans_fd_init(). Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-09-24[MIPS] Fixe the definition of PTRS_PER_PGDJack Tan
When we use > 4KB's page size the original definition is not consistent with PGDIR_SIZE. For exeample, if we use 16KB page size the PGDIR_SHIFT is (14-2) + 14 = 26, PGDIR_SIZE is 2^26,so the PTRS_PER_PGD should be: 2^32/2^26 = 2^6 but the original definition of PTRS_PER_PGD is 4096 (PGDIR_ORDER = 0). So, this definition needs to be consistent with the PGDIR_SIZE. And the new definition is consistent with the PGD init in pagetable_init(). Signed-off-by: Dajie Tan <jiankemeng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-09-23Merge branch 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: timers: fix build error in !oneshot case x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
2008-09-23Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fix compiler warnings in pci_get_subsys() PCI: Fix pcie_aspm=force
2008-09-23smb.h: do not include linux/time.h in userspaceKirill A. Shutemov
linux/time.h conflicts with time.h from glibc It breaks building smbmount from samba. It's regression introduced by commit 76308da (" smb.h: uses struct timespec but didn't include linux/time.h"). Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.26.x] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machinesThomas Gleixner
Impact: System hang when AMD C1E machines switch into C2/C3 AMD C1E enabled systems do not work with normal ACPI C-states even if the BIOS is advertising them. Limit the C-states to C1 for the ACPI processor idle code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-23x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/onlineThomas Gleixner
Impact: hang which happens across CPU offline/online on AMD C1E systems. When a CPU goes offline then the corresponding bit in the broadcast mask is cleared. For AMD C1E enabled CPUs we do not reenable the broadcast when the CPU comes online again as we do not clear the corresponding bit in the c1e_mask, which keeps track which CPUs have been switched to broadcast already. So on those !$@#& machines we never switch back to broadcasting after a CPU offline/online cycle. Clear the bit when the CPU plays dead. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-09-22Introduce FW_BUG, FW_WARN and FW_INFO to consistenly tell users about BIOS bugsThomas Renninger
The idea is to add this to printk after the severity: printk(KERN_ERR FW_BUG "This is not our fault, BIOS developer: fix it by simply add ...\n"); If a Firmware issue should be hidden, because it is work-arounded, but you still want to see something popping up e.g. for info only: printk(KERN_INFO FW_INFO "This is done stupid, we can handle it, but it should better be avoided in future\n"); or on the Linuxfirmwarekit to tell vendors that they did something stupid or wrong without bothering the user: printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "This is done stupid, we can handle it, but it should better be avoided in future\n"); Some use cases: - If a user sees a [Firmware Bug] message in the kernel he should first update the BIOS before wasting time with debugging and submiting on old firmware code to mailing lists. - The linuxfirmwarekit (http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org) tries to detect firmware bugs. It currently is doing that in userspace which results in: - Huge test scripts that could be a one liner in the kernel - A lot of BIOS bugs are already absorbed by the kernel What do we need such a stupid linuxfirmwarekit for? - Vendors: Can test their BIOSes for Linux compatibility. There will be the time when vendors realize that the test utils on Linux are more strict and using them increases the qualitity and stability of their products. - Vendors: Can easily fix up their BIOSes and be more Linux compatible by: dmesg |grep "Firmware Bug" and send the result to their BIOS developer colleagues who should know what the messages are about and how to fix them, without the need of studying kernel code. - Distributions: can do a first automated HW/BIOS checks. This can then be done without the need of asking kernel developers who need to dig down the code and explain the details. Certification can/will just be rejected until dmesg |grep "Firmware Bug" is empty. - Thus this can be used as an instrument to enforce cleaner BIOS code. Currently every stupid Windows ACPI bug is re-implemented in Linux which is a rather unfortunate situation. We already have the power to avoid this in e.g. memory or cpu hot-plug ACPI implementations, because Linux certification is a must for most vendors in the server area. Working towards being able to do that in the laptop area (vendors are starting to look at Linux here also and will use this tool) is the goal. At least provide them a tool to make it as easy for this guys (e.g. not needing to browse kernel code) as possible. - The ordinary Linux user: can go into the next shop, boots the firmwarekit on his most preferred machines. He chooses one without BIOS bugs. Unsupported HW is ok, he likes to try out latest projects which might support them or likes to dig on it on his own, but he hates to workaround broken BIOSes like hell. I double checked with the firmwarekit. There they have: So the mapping generally is (also depending on how likely the BIOS is to blame, this could sometimes be difficult): FW_INFO = INFO FW_WARN = WARN FW_BUG = FAIL For more info about the linuxfirmwarekit and why this is needed can be found here: http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org While severity matches with the firmwarekit, it might be tricky to hide messages from the user. E.g. we recently found out that on HP BIOSes negative temperatures are returned, which seem to indicate that the thermal zone is invalid. We can work around that gracefully by ignoring the thermal zone and we do not want to bother the ordinary user with a frightening message: Firmware Bug: thermal management absolutely broken but want to hide it from the user. But in the linuxfirmwarekit this should be shown as a real show stopper (the temperatures could really be wrong, broken thermal management is one of the worst things that can happen and the BIOS guys of the machine must implement this properly). It is intended to do that (hide it from the user with KERN_INFO msg, but still print it as a BIOS bug) by: printk(KERN_INFO FW_BUG "Negativ temperature values detected. Try to workarounded, BIOS must get fixed\n"); Hope that works out..., no idea how to better hide it as printk is the only way to easily provide this functionality. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-09-19Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: IPoIB: Fix deadlock on RTNL between bcast join comp and ipoib_stop() RDMA/nes: Fix client side QP destroy IB/mlx4: Fix up fast register page list format mlx4_core: Set RAE and init mtt_sz field in FRMR MPT entries