| Change log for patch v2.5.40 |
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Summary of changes from v2.5.39 to v2.5.40
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<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Add Thumb syscall stubs and drop gcc asm workarounds.
Add support for Thumb stubs (for klibc.)
We drop a work-around for early gcc versions where register
variables didn't work as expected; this allows us to get rid
of several lines of ASM per syscall.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Move PHYS_TO_NID() to asm/memory.h
When CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=n, we define PHYS_TO_NID(x) to zero in each
architecture specific file. This cset moves it into the generic
ARM code.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Put back the CPU MM context switch avoidence test.
On context switch, when the MM hasn't changed, we can avoid calling
the architecture specific area.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Thumb fixes
This cset fixes a set of problems discovered while developing KLIBC
with Thumb support. We now allow pure Thumb executables, and prevent
such executables from being run on non-Thumb code aware CPUs.
We also fix a bug in the fixup of Thumb late aborts which rather
messed things up.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Always decend into compressed and bootp subdirectories.
Make was missing the need to rebuild the kernel decompressor when
files in arch/arm/boot/compressed are changed. This is because
make believes that the object contained within is up to date
(because it doesn't know any better.) This cset always forces us
to decend into these two directories if the objects inside these
are required.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Make "bootp" Image generation know that the zImage is now PIC.
Since a bootp image contains a zImage and an initrd (or maybe later
an initramfs) image, and the zImage is now PIC, we don't have to
copy the zImage to a specific address before calling it. We just
call it where it got loaded into memory and let it sort itself out.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix XScale "feature"
XScale does not guarantee that CPU control register writes complete
their side effects immediately. In fact, Intel give sample code to
demonstrate a way to ensure that the effect of the write has occurred.
This is specific to Xscale, but the fix should work on any ARM CPU.
We therefore jump through the loops in "spirit" but not necessarily
in exactly the same way as the sample code.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
Since irq_exit() now deals with softirqs, irq_enter and irq_exit
must be located at the top level of the interrupt handler.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Remove old AMBA KMI driver information.
We now have an input layer driver for the keyboard/mouse, so this
isn't required.
<ch@hpl.hp.com>
[ARM PATCH] 1255/1: [PATCH] SA-1111 PCI support for USB
Fixes several oopsen in the SA-1111 "fake" PCI support
Complete re-write of the SA-1111 DMA bug "bounce buffer" workaround.
Merge latest drivers/pci/pool.c into mach-sa1100/pcipool.c (pool
allocation debugging follows CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB a la drivers/pci/pool.c)
/arch/arm/mach-sa1100/pcipool.h can be deleted
(unrelated: /arch/arm/mach-sa1100/sa1111-ohci.c can be deleted)
Applies to 2.5.30-rmk1. Should be back ported to 2.4 as the existing
SA-1111 bounce buffer code is broken.
(This patch is *required* for the OHCI HCD driver that is part of 2.5.21+.)
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix up initcall ordering
ARM machine support gets initialised too late in the initialisation
order and can cause some things to unexpectedly fail. Fix the
ordering of these initcalls by placing them in the core and arch
initcall sections.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Provide hook for FP emulators to know when a new thread is created
This allows FP emulators to take their FP initialisation out of the
hot path.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Move machine config questions into machine class subdirs
This cset moves a fair amount of per-machine questions into their
relevant machine class subdirectory, making arch/arm/config.in
easier on the eyes.
<jeffs@accelent.com>
[ARM PATCH] 1238/1: Accelent PXA IDP config cleanups
This patch brings support for the PXA-IDP up to 2.5.30, plus adds
support in head.S for low level serial debugging support.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Update nwfpe to use new fp_init hook.
Take FPA11_CheckInit out of the hot path, and use the fp_init hook
instead.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[ALSA]: Add some missing includes.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[ALSA]: Fix ioctl32 build on sparc64.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[ALSA]: Add SBUS dma support.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[ALSA]: Add AMD7930 and CS4231 Sparc drivers.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC]: Blow away old sbus audio layer.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/i2c/i2c.c: Include linux/errno.h
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/core/seq/seq_midi_emul.c: Include linux/string.h
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/i2c/i2c.c: Include linux/string.h
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
UML updates to allow it to build and run as 2.5.38.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Cleaned up arch/um/Makefile and updated the ubd driver.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Trivial fix to the ubd driver.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
One last fix to the ubd driver, allowing UML to boot.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/synth/util_mem.c: Include asm/semaphore.h
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/synth/util_mem.c: Revert previous change.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
include/sound/core.h: Always include linux/sched.h and asm/semaphore.h
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/pci/emu10k1/emufx.c: Pass bitops pointer correctly.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC]: Comment out DBRI option/rules until driver is converted.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
arch/sparc64/defconfig: Update.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Bumped EXTRAVERSION for the 2.4 fixes and highmem support.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Added highmem support.
The UML initialization code marks memory that doesn't fit in the
kernel's address space as highmem, and later sets up the UML data
structures for it, and frees that memory to the mm system as highmem.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/sparc/cs4231.c: Fix probing bugs.
- Only check compatible OBP property if ebus device
name is audio
- Fix ebus device ioremap args
- Accept ID 0x0c as well as 0x0a
- Fix explicit inb, replace with __cs4231_readb
- Do not forget to set CS4231_FLAG_EBUS
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC]: OOPS, ffs return value is off by one :-)
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/sparc/cs4231.c: Fix register offsets.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/core/oss/mixer_oss.c: Use SIOC_{IN,OUT}
<alex_williamson@attbi.com>
fs/partitions/sun.c: raid autodetect for sun disk labels
<jes@trained-monkey.org>
acenic net drvr bug fix: remove '=' typo in intr mask argument to writel()
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
[X25] simplify facility negotiation.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
[X25] fix thinko in x25_facilities
<nico@cam.org>
[ARM PATCH] 1302/1: ARMv5 optimized findbit
Question: is there any reason to do all this with byte access rather than
word access besides alignment issues? Word access would be much faster.
<sam@mars.ravnborg.org>
Remove unused clean: target in various makefiles
Simple cleanup, kbuild does not use distributed clean target, so bettet get rid of them.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: cleanup ISDN net / ioctl code
Try to convert the setup of network interfaces into something readable.
In particular, use dummy inline functions to get rid of
#ifdef CONFIG_ISDN_* spread all over the place everywhere and separate
stuff into smaller functions.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Don't continue to process pending interrupts after disable_irq()
This solves a problem whereby the generic interrupt code repeatedly
called an interrupt handler, even though the interrupt handler had
called disable_irq().
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Parse initrd information early
We need the initrd location before the normal command line parsing
occurs so we can reserve the right bits of memory, and not double-
free the initrd during userspace boot.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Add DC21285 decompressor debug support
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move CISCO HDLCK protocol into separate file
SyncPPP and X25 are already (kind of) separated, so do the same for CISCO
HDLCK.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c: Refine IPv6 Address Validation Timer.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
Remove more tmp-file on clean (introduced with kallsyms)
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: More cleanup to isdn_net.c (X.25 / PPP)
Again, instead of having stuff cluttered all over isdn_net.c, put
it into the files where it belongs and get rid of the
#ifdef CONFIG_ISDN_X25 / CONFIG_ISDN_PPP by using dummy stubs if
necessary.
Same thing for CONFIG_ISDN_PPP.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move net_device setup to a type-specific method
isdn_net handles all kind of interfaces, e.g. raw IP, ethernet over ISDN,
PPP - this is a cleanup making the setup of a net_device specific to the
type of interface.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: 'ethernet over ISDN' cleanups
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: net_device->header for CISCO HDLC
Break the CISCO specific part out of the generic isdn_net_header()
and move it to the CISCO code.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: net_device->header for syncPPP and UI HDLC
Break syncPPP and UI HDLC specific parts out of isdn_net_header()
and move it to more appropriate places.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: net_device->header for IPTYP
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: separate out 'ethernet over ISDN' receive function
First step in splitting isdn_net_receive into type specific functions.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: separate out IPTYP receive function
Another step in splitting isdn_net_receive into type specific functions.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: separate out RAWIP receive function
Another step in splitting isdn_net_receive into type specific functions.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: separate out CISCO HDLC receive function
Another step in splitting isdn_net_receive into type specific functions.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: separate out IPTYP receive function
Another step in splitting isdn_net_receive into type specific functions.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: finish separating out receive functions
Use the same form for the already existing PPP / X.25 receive functions
as for all the other ones, + small fixes.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use a function pointer for type-specific receive
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use a function pointer for type-specific connected() callback
Again, instead of a switch statement, just use a callback.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LLC: remove unused list_head from llc_opt & use rw_lock_init for rwlocks
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use a function pointer for type-specific disconnected() callback
Again, instead of a switch statement, just use a callback.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o X25: Simplify ioctl code, CodingStyle cleanups
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o X25: use refcounts and protect x25_route list
Also rename untypedefed x25_cb, renaming it to x25_opt, to make
it look like the other protocols.
Added some kerneldoc comments.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LLC: rename llc_sock.c to af_llc.c
To make it look like the other protocols.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
net/ipv6/ndisc.c: Add missing credits.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Fixed highmem support for 2.5.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Missed a change to fixmap.h in the highmem update.
<achirica@ttd.net>
airo wireless net drvr: add Cisco MIC support
Conditionally enabled when out-of-tree, but open source, crypto lib
is present.
<edward_peng@dlink.com.tw>
update sundance driver to support building on older kernel:
conditionally include crc32.h, ethtool.h, mii.h, and compat.h
if built outside the stock 2.4.x kernel.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o X25: use refcnts and protect x25_neigh structs and list
Simplify some other code.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
sundance net drvr: fix reset_tx logic
(contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link, cleaned up by me)
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
sundance net drvr: fix DFE-580TX packet drop issue, further reset_tx fixes
(contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link)
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
sundance net drvr: bump version to LK1.05
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] fix MII lib force-media ethtool path
(contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link)
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
sis900 net driver update:
* fix eeprom accesses
* fix tx desc overflow
* fix tx timeout bug
* add sis963 support
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o X25: protect x25 sockets and list with refcnt and rwlock
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
Fix "make mrproper" that broke when the files pattern matched
a directory pattern. Clean directories _first_, then files.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Updated to build with the 2.5.39 kbuild.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] MII lib update:
* add boolean 'init_media' arg to mii_check_media
* update all callers (just 8139cp, for now)
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o X25: x25_wait_for_{data,connection_establishemnt} and the death of the last cli/sti pair in X.25
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] Fix uninitialized swapper_space lists
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: inline function for testing if interface is bound
Put the test for lp->flags & ISDN_NET_CONNECTED into an inline
function called isdn_net_bound(), which more accurately names what
we are testing for, i.e. the interface being bound to a hardware
ISDN channel, which however is not necessarily online yet.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Put slot index of reserved channel into ->exclusive
We will need the index of the channel we reserved later, so override
the meaning of ->exclusive.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: exclusive handling in isdn_net_force_dial_lp()
When using exclusive mode, we already reserved our channel
at the time that mode was set, so no need to get a free channel
in this case.
Also, indent cleanups to isdn_net_start_xmit().
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] Rename MII lib API member, s/duplex_lock/force_media/,
and update all drivers that reference this struct member.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Share code for initiating dial out
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use net/ethernet/eth.c eth_rebuild_header()
No need to duplicate that function privately.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Remove ISDN_NET_CONNECTED flags
The same information is present as (->isdn_slot >= 0), so don't
duplicate it (and risk it getting out of sync)
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LAPB: use refcounts and rwlock to protect lapb_cb and list
Also some CodingStyle code reformatting.
Ah, killed the typedef for lapb_cb.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Add helper function generic_mii_ioctl to MII lib, use it in 8139cp net drvr
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: unclutter isdn_net_find_icall()
The method to find out if an incoming call is addressed to
any of the ISDN network interfaces is horrible. A bit of splitting
and dropping the swap channels if exclusive logic makes it a bit
better at least.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Introduce generic bind/unbind callbacks
PPP wants callbacks at the time a connection between ISDN channel
and network interface is established, i.e. before dialing to
avoid dialing when no ipppd is present, so use generic
bind/unbind callbacks.
<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c: Default route support on router.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Use new MII lib helper generic_mii_ioctl in several net drivers:
8139too, epic100, fealnx, sundance and via-rhine.
In the process, several of these net drivers gained MII ioctl
locking fixes simply by virtue of being brought in line with
standardized code.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] Remove 'dev' argument from generic_mii_ioctl helper
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] add optional duplex-changed arg to generic_mii_ioctl helper
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC64]: Rework all EBUS DMA support.
- Add EBUS DMA layer so the same code does not need to
be debugged/duplicated several times.
- Convert Parport/Floppy/CS4231 to use new EBUS DMA layer.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
[net drivers] update hamachi.c and starfire.c to use MII lib
<zaitcev@redhat.com>
[sparc]: defconfig update
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o lapbether: get rid of cli/sti, use refcnts for devs, etc
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 2.5.34 update
Update for changes in mainline 2.5.3[01234].
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Unify integer register usage passed into FP module.
This allows the FP module to perform some extra optimisations.
<gilbertd@treblig.org>
[ARM PATCH] 1257/1: Helpful comment in stat.h
Hi,
For reasons of great complexity I found out the hard way that the
kernel must (and does) zero the pad sections in the stat structures.
Here is a comment that states this for the next person who needs to
know.
<gilbertd@treblig.org>
[ARM PATCH] 1260/1: Fix comment in nwfpe
Hi,
I believe the comment in the nwfpe fpopcodes is slightly wrong -
although a 2nd pair of eyes on this would be a good idea.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] NWFPE updates for new entry conditions.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Remove keyboard.h includes and some generic ARM keyboard bits.
This keeps ARM in line with the continued transition to the input
layer.
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sigfix-2.5.39-A1
This fixes the bug reported by David Mosberger, force_sig_info() dropped
the siginfo structure, which broke things like SIGFPU or alignment-error
exceptions. This bug was introduced by the threading signal changes.
(The patch also fixes signal declaration whitespaces in sched.h.)
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] futex-fix-2.5.39-A1
This fixes one more race left in the new futex hashing code, which
triggers if a futex waiter gets a signal after it has been woken up but
before it actually wakes up.
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] signal delivery to thread groups bugfix
Fix thread group signal sending
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] thread-group SIGSTOP handling
Fix thread-group SIGSTOP handling - the SIGSTOP notification was not
propagated to the parent of the thread group leader. Now Ctrl-Z-ing of
thread groups works again.
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] atomic-thread-signals
Avoid racing on signal delivery with thread signal blocking in thread
groups.
The method to do this is to eliminate the per-thread sigmask_lock, and
use the per-group (per 'process') siglock for all signal related
activities. This immensely simplified some of the locking interactions
within signal.c, and enabled the fixing of the above category of signal
delivery races.
This became possible due to the former thread-signal patch, which made
siglock an irq-safe thing. (it used to be a process-context-only
spinlock.) And this is even a speedup for non-threaded applications:
only one lock is used.
I fixed all places within the kernel except the non-x86 arch sections.
Even for them the transition is very straightforward, in almost every
case the following is sufficient in arch/*/kernel/signal.c:
:1,$s/->sigmask_lock/->sig->siglock/g
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] smptimers, old BH removal, tq-cleanup
This is the smptimers patch plus the removal of old BHs and a rewrite of
task-queue handling.
Basically with the removal of TIMER_BH i think the time is right to get
rid of old BHs forever, and to do a massive cleanup of all related
fields. The following five basic 'execution context' abstractions are
supported by the kernel:
- hardirq
- softirq
- tasklet
- keventd-driven task-queues
- process contexts
I've done the following cleanups/simplifications to task-queues:
- removed the ability to define your own task-queue, what can be done is
to schedule_task() a given task to keventd, and to flush all pending
tasks.
This is actually a quite easy transition, since 90% of all task-queue
users in the kernel used BH_IMMEDIATE - which is very similar in
functionality to keventd.
I believe task-queues should not be removed from the kernel altogether.
It's true that they were written as a candidate replacement for BHs
originally, but they do make sense in a different way: it's perhaps the
easiest interface to do deferred processing from IRQ context, in
performance-uncritical code areas. They are easier to use than
tasklets.
code that cares about performance should convert to tasklets - as the
timer code and the serial subsystem has done already. For extreme
performance softirqs should be used - the net subsystem does this.
and we can do this for 2.6 - there are only a couple of areas left after
fixing all the BH_IMMEDIATE places.
i have moved all the taskqueue handling code into kernel/context.c, and
only kept the basic 'queue a task' definitions in include/linux/tqueue.h.
I've converted three of the most commonly used BH_IMMEDIATE users:
tty_io.c, floppy.c and random.c. [random.c might need more thought
though.]
i've also cleaned up kernel/timer.c over that of the stock smptimers
patch: privatized the timer-vec definitions (nothing needs it,
init_timer() used it mistakenly) and cleaned up the code. Plus i've moved
some code around that does not belong into timer.c, and within timer.c
i've organized data and functions along functionality and further
separated the base timer code from the NTP bits.
net_bh_lock: i have removed it, since it would synchronize to nothing. The
old protocol handlers should still run on UP, and on SMP the kernel prints
a warning upon use. Alexey, is this approach fine with you?
scalable timers: i've further improved the patch ported to 2.5 by wli and
Dipankar. There is only one pending issue i can see, the question of
whether to migrate timers in mod_timer() or not. I'm quite convinced that
they should be migrated, but i might be wrong. It's a 10 lines change to
switch between migrating and non-migrating timers, we can do performance
tests later on. The current, more complex migration code is pretty fast
and has been stable under extremely high networking loads in the past 2
years, so we can immediately switch to the simpler variant if someone
proves it improves performance. (I'd say if non-migrating timers improve
Apache performance on one of the bigger NUMA boxes then the point is
proven, no further though will be needed.)
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Bring asm/setup.h and asm/unistd.h into line with main ARM tree
This removes some minor differences between Linus' tree and the main
ARM tree; comment clarification and some weird formatting.
<pwaechtler@mac.com>
[PATCH] oss sound cli cleanup
More cleanups for the OSS sound modules
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] (1/5) CPUfreq core
CPUFreq core for 2.5.39
include/linux/cpufreq.h CPUFreq header
kernel/Makefile add cpufreq.c if necessary
kernel/cpufreq.c CPUFreq core
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] (2/5) CPUfreq i386 core
CPUFreq i386 core for 2.5.39:
arch/i386/kernel/i386_ksyms.c export cpu_khz
arch/i386/kernel/time.c update various i386 values on frequency
changes
include/asm-i386/msr.h add Transmeta MSR defines
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] (3/5) CPUfreq i386 drivers
CPUFreq i386 drivers for 2.5.39:
arch/i386/config.in Necessary config options
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/Makefile allow for compilation of the CPUFreq subdirectory
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/Makefile Makefile for CPUFreq drivers
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/elanfreq.c CPUFreq driver for AMD Elan processors
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longhaul.c CPUFreq driver for VIA Longhaul processors
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/longrun.c CPUFreq driver for Transmeta Crusoe processors
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/p4-clockmod.c CPUFreq driver for Pentium 4 Xeon processors (using clock modulation)
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k6.c CPUFreq driver for mobile AMD K6-2+ and mobile AMD K6-3+ processors
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep.c CPUFreq drivers for ICH2-M and ICH3-M chipsets and Intel Pentium 3-M and 4-M processor+
s.
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] (4/5) CPUfreq Documentation
CPUFreq documentation for 2.5.39:
CREDITS one further CREDIT entry
Documentation/cpufreq documentation of CPU frequency and voltage scaling
support in the Linux kernel.
MAINTAINERS one further MAINTAINERS entry
arch/i386/Config.help Config.help texts for i386 CPUFreq drivers
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Correct the usage of __FUNCTION__ to make gcc happy.
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] (5/5) CPUfreq /proc/sys/cpu/ add-on patch
CPUFreq 24-API add-on patch for 2.5.39:
kernel/cpufreq.c cpufreq-24-API
include/linux/cpufreq.h cpufreq-24-API
arch/i386/config.in Transmeta LongRun does not work well with cpufreq-24-API
arch/i386/Config.help help text for CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_24_API
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] CPUfreq i386 drivers update
This add-on patch is needed to abort on Dell Inspiron 8000 / 8100 which
would lock up during speedstep.c and to resolve an oops (thanks to Hu Gang
for reporting this)
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Update PCI host bridge drivers for GregKH PCI cleanups.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Don't return a value from ptrace_set_bpt()
The return value from ptrace_set_bit() is never used. This cset
makes it a void function.
<nico@cam.org>
[ARM PATCH] 1293/1: fix to the ARM optimized strchr()
Two bugs here:
1) The return value of strchr("foo",0) should be the start address of
"foo" + 3, not NULL.
2) Since the second argument for strchr() is defined as an int, some
characters such as 'é' might validly end up to be the value -23 due to
signedness issues. Corectly handle those.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
kbuild: Make scripts/Configure follow the definition of 'int'
Currently, scripts/Configure has code for the 'int' verb to take a
min/max. This violates the spec described in
Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt. It also requires that if a
default is outside of +/- 10,000,000 that defaults be provided, or
'config' and 'oldconfig' will get stuck. The following removes the
support for a min/max from scripts/Configure.
(by Tom Rini)
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
kbuild: Fix typo for 'tags' target
by Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix up export-objs for clps711x, integrator and sa1100
(From Thunder)
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
kbuild: Make KBUILD_VERBOSE=0 work better under emacs
(slightly modified to unconditionally add the relative path to the subdir)
Rusty Russel wrote:
"M-x compile" in emacs stars a compilation and can jump to the next
error. With KBUILD_VERSBOSE=0 (as I have in my env, great work Kai)
it can't figure out the directory, since it doesn't see the make[XXX]
markers.
This makes it work.
<rscott@attbi.com>
[ARM PATCH] 1243/1: Add support for Ceiva Photoframe, part2: machine specifics (fixed)
Adds machine specific support for Ceiva Photoframe. Affects:
arch/arm/mach-clps711x/Makefile
arch/arm/mach-clps711x/ceiva.c (new)
include/asm-arm/arch-clps711x/hardware.h
include/asm-arm/arch-clps711x/memory.h
Differences from 1st patch:
Removed redundant static I/O mapping for flash from hardware.h
Reverted to original CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM enabling in memory.h
Added PHYS_TO_NID definition, when DISCONTIG undefined in memory.h
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Cleanup Ceiva merge.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Add kmap_types.h and percpu.h
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix clps711x and ftvpci LEDs initialisation.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use a struct to describe types of ISDN net interfaces
Use a struct of methods and parameters to describe the
different kinds of network interfaces supported by isdn_net.c
and friends.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix assabet backlight and power supply settings.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Introduce generic init/cleanup callbacks
X25 needs notification when encapsulation is set to X25 and when
it is changed to something else again, so let's have some callbacks
for init/cleanup.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Use ether_setup() for ethernet over ISDN only
The ->init() callback can be used for calling ether_setup() in case
of encapsulation "ISDN over ethernet", for the other cases it does not
make sense anyway.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Add close()/open() callbacks to ISDN net interface implementation
X25 needs notification if an interface is brought up or down, and
ethernet over ISDN creates a fake MAC address at open time, so put this
into appropriate callbacks as well.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move "name" member from isdn_net_local to isdn_net_dev
This is the first step of a long series moving members between
isdn_net_local and isdn_net_dev.
Today, a one-to-one relationship between these both structures exist, so
it does not really matter where the members live. However, the goal
is to get a correspondence like
net_device -> isdn_net_local -> master isdn_net_device
|
slave isdn_net_device
|
slave isdn_net_device
where more than one isdn_net_device can exist per actual net_device,
due to channel bundling.
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] tq-cleanup module compile
This removes some more old symbols from ksyms.c. This makes the kernel
compile with modules enabled.
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] tq_struct removal fixups..
Update radeon_irq.c and reiserfs for tq simplifications
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LLC: CONFIG_LLC_UI is really a bool, not a tristate
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move dial/channel related members to isdn_net_dev
Dialing happens per channel / isdn_net_dev, so the move the
corresponding members there.
<urban@teststation.com>
[PATCH] wait_event_interruptible_timeout
smbfs wants a wait_event_interruptible_timeout to be able to replace
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout.
<urban@teststation.com>
[PATCH] SMB Unix Extensions
This patch adds symlinks, hardlinks, device nodes, uid/gid, unix
permissions vs servers that support it (ie samba). Most of this is the
work of John Newbigin, I just modified it for 2.5.
There are issues with what samba allows (eg you can't make arbitrary
symlinks) and room for improvements (use the servers value for ino?). But
it doesn't affect "normal" users.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LLC: make it clear that Appletalk and IPX needs LLC
Thanks to Andries Brouwer for providing a patch.
<urban@teststation.com>
[PATCH] might_sleep fixes
+ Fixes 2 cases caught by might_sleep testing.
+ Replace sleep_on with wait_event.
+ MOD_INC_USE_COUNT to prevent module unload vs smbiod thread exit race.
<Kai.Makisara@kolumbus.fi>
[PATCH] SCSI tape driver locking fixes
This contains the following changes for the SCSI tape driver in 2.5.39:
- move driverfs file creation and removal outside the st_dev_arr_lock
spinlock
- change page pointer array allocation from GFP_ATOMIC to GFP_KERNEL
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] additional might_sleep checks
- Dave says that lock_sock() inside locks is a popular bug. Put a
check there.
- Also in wait_for_completion().
- Add the text "Debug" to the warning message so people are less
likely to think that they've oopsed.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] kmem_cache_destroy fix
Slab currently has a policy of buffering a single spare page per slab.
We're putting that on the partially-full list, which confuses
kmem_cache_destroy().
So put it on cachep->slabs_free, which is where empty pages go.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
From Rohit
Creates Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] get_user_pages PageReserved fix
From David Miler.
get_user_pages() needs to avoid running page_cache_get() against
PageReserved pages. Things like video driver and audio driver
remap_page_range() mappings.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] move_one_page kmap atomicity fix
move_one_page() is calling alloc_one_pte_map() while holding an atomic
kmap for the source pte's page. But alloc_one_pte_map() can sleep in
the page allocator.
So change move_one_page() to take a peek at the destination pagetables
to work out whether the alloc_one_pte_map() will need to perform page
allocation. If so, drop the atomic kmap and retake it after allocating
the pte.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] fix uninitialised vma list_head
From Zach Brown. Lots of places forget to initialise list_heads in
vm_area_structs, and other places then go and test the state of those
list_heads.
Plug the gaps for now, Zach is working on a broader cleanup.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] remove GFP_NFS
GFP_NFS has been obsolete for a while now. Kill its only remaining
user, its definition and the SLAB_NFS define too.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] add /proc/buddyinfo
From David Hansen, Bill Irwin, Martin Bligh.
"It's easier to cat /proc/buddyinfo than to beg users to press
shift-scrolllock on a machine millions of miles away. Order 1 and 2
memory allocations are common. Memory fragmentation is a problem
under some workloads, and this is a useful tool for helping diagnose
these problems."
The following patch exports some information about the buddy allocator.
Each column of numbers represents the number of pages of that order
which are available. In this case, there are 5 chunks of
2^2*PAGE_SIZE available in ZONE_DMA, and 101 chunks of 2^4*PAGE_SIZE
availble in ZONE_NORMAL, etc... This information can give you a good
idea about how fragmented memory is and give you a clue as to how big
an area you can safely allocate.
Node 0, zone DMA 0 4 5 4 4 3 ...
Node 0, zone Normal 1 0 0 1 101 8 ...
Node 0, zone HighMem 2 0 0 1 1 0 ...
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] remove free_area_t typedef
typedef eradication.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] per-node kswapd instances
Patch from David Hansen.
Start one kswapd instance for each NUMA node. That kswapd instance
only works against the pages which are local to that node.
We need to bind that kswapd to that node's CPU set, but the
infrastructure for this is not yet in place.
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] in-kernel topology API
From Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
"This patch adds a 'simple' in-kernel topology API. This API allows
for three primary topology elements: CPUs, memory blocks, and nodes.
The API allows for the discovery of which CPUs/Memory Blocks reside on
which nodes, and vice versa. Also implemented is a macro to get a
bitmask of CPUs on a particular node. This API is platform neutral."
We need this API for per-node-kswapd - without it there is no means by
which each kswapd can be bound to its node's CPUs. And we rather need
per-node-kswapd...
The patch also uses the new API to bind each kswapd instance to its
node's CPUs
<akpm@digeo.com>
[PATCH] topology API updates
From Matthew Dobson.
Leaves any functions which architectures haven't defined as undefined,
rather than using non-NUMA functions where users would expect
NUMA-functions.
This will cause compilation errors if someone tries to use an undefined
function, hopefully causing them to actually define those functions.
Also removes lingering topology-like macros that aren't being used, and
a couple typo fixes.
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [1/10] - 2002/06/24
- ioctl32 emulation update
- intel8x0 driver
- fixed PCI ID of AMD8111
- compilation fixes for HDSP
- fixes for PCI memory allocation
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [2/10] - 2002/06/26
- Enhanced bitmasks in PCM - added support for more formats by Takashi and me
- RME32 driver - added support for ADAT (Digi 32/8)
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [3/10] - 2002/07/03
- added support for spdif on coexant cx20468 chip
- fixed compilation without CONFIG_PROC_FS
- YMFPCI driver
- fixed GPIO read/write
- a new module option snd_rear_switch
- ioctl32 - added support for old hw_params ioctl
- ES1968 driver
- enabled hw control IRQ
- calling es1968_reset() in free()
- VIA8233 driver - fixes for mono playback
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [4/10] - 2002/07/14
- seq_virmidi - exported snd_virmidi_receive() for processing the incoming events from the event handler of a remote virmidi po+
rt.
- pcm_lib.c - fixed wrong spinlock
- AC'97 code
- added VIA codecs, fixed order
- added S/PDIF support for Conexant CX20468
- ALI5451 - fixed wrong spinlock
- ES1968 - fixed wrong mutex
- ICE1712 - fixed SMP dead-lock
- HDSP driver update
- RME9652 - fixed wrong spinlock
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [5/10] - 2002/07/17
- AD1816A - fixed MIC playback volume
- OPL3SA2 - fixed non-ISA PnP build
- AC'97 code - 1st version of separated codec specific code
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [6/10] - 2002/07/20
- added vfree_nocheck()
- PCM midlevel & EMU10K1 - added support for SG buffer
- CS4236 - added new ISA PnP ID
- HDSP - fixed rate rules (OSS emulation works)
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [7/10] - 2002/07/24
- renamed snd-dt0197h to snd-dt019x
- added support for DT0196, DT0197h and ALS007 to snd-dt019x
- searial-u16550 - added support for generic adapter type
- pcm.c
- fixed the initialization of runtime->status
- removed unnecessary check of n_register callback
- timer.c
- fixed kmod behaviour
- Opti92x/93x fixes by Michael Corlett
- fixed compilation of YMFPCI driver (PPC)
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [8/10] - 2002/07/31
- AC'97 codec
- added reset callback to do reset and skip the standard procedure
- added limited_regs flag to avoid to touch unexpected registers
- Fixes for AD1981A and added a special patch for an intel motherboard
- sequencer
- check the possible infinite loop in priority queues
- reset the timer at continue if not initialized yet
- changed synchronize_irq() for new api with an argument
- NM256 driver - fixes the lock up on NM256 ZX
- VIA8233 - implementation of SG buffer
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [9/10] - 2002/08/01
- CS46xx - added support for the new DSP image
- S/PDIF and dual-codec support
- sequencer
- fixed deadlock at snd_seq_timer_start/stop
<perex@suse.cz>
[PATCH] ALSA update [10/10] - 2002/08/05
- CS46xx
- fixed capture with new DSP firmware
- multiple pcm playback streams
- pcm playback instance is allocated dynamically
- fixed detection of secondary codec
- changed ctl/rawmidi/timer read() code to follow POSIX standard - when some data are ready, return immediately
- RME96 - added 32 bit sample formats for ADAT
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
Fix broken whitespacing in PPC Makefile
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] cpufreq bugfixes
- incorrect pointer calculation spotted by Gerald Britton
- speedstep.c cleanup (Gerald Britton)
<zaitcev@redhat.com>
[sparc] Stalingrad for kbuild army.
<zaitcev@redhat.com>
[sparc] Suppress warnings in srmmu printks.
<schoenfr@gaaertner.de>
net/ipv4/proc.c: Dont print dummy member of icmp_mib.
<hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
[PATCH] use fff/ffff/fffffff instead of ff8/fff8/ffffff8 for EOF of FAT
On FAT12, the current FAT driver recognizes 0xff8-0xfff as EOF, and it
writes in 0xff8 as EOF. This is right behavior. However, the firmware
of some MP3-Players recognize only 0xfff (standard EOF which Micorsoft
uses) as EOF.
So, we write 0xfff instead of 0xff8 as EOF, until the reason we need
values other than standard EOF is found.
[Randy Dunlap, I appreciate your help.]
<hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
[PATCH] remove fat_search_long() in vfat_add_entry()
This removes the fat_search_long() in the vfat_add_entry(). This path
is already checked by the vfs layer whether file/directory exists. So,
we don't need the fat_search_long() in vfat_add_entry().
The following is the result of created the 1000 files,
2.5.39
root@devron (a)[1007]# time ../../create
real 0m2.761s
user 0m0.006s
sys 0m2.752s
root@devron (a)[1008]#
2.5.39 + patch
root@devron (a)[1007]# time ../../create
real 0m1.601s
user 0m0.008s
sys 0m1.575s
root@devron (a)[1008]#
<bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be>
net/bridge/br_input.c: Missing read_unlock.
<rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
[PATCH] free_irq
Fix free_irq() comment - it definitely is not callable
from interrupt context..
<wim@iguana.be>
[PATCH] i8xx documentation
Make i810_rng documentation the same as in 2.4.19
<wim@iguana.be>
[PATCH] i8xx: new PCI ids
Add defines to pci_ids.h for 82801E and 82801DB I/O Controller Hub PCI-IDS.
<wim@iguana.be>
[PATCH] i810-tco update
i810-tco: Upgrade to version 0.05 .
Fix possible timer_alive race, add expect close support,
clean up ioctls (WDIOC_GETSTATUS, WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS and
WDIOC_SETOPTIONS), made i810tco_getdevice __init,
removed boot_status, removed tco_timer_read,
added support for 82801DB and 82801E chipset, general cleanup.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
Make sure the "devices" list is initialized in isapnp_device_driver
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializer for fs/bfs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/minix
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/efs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializer patch for fs/openpromfs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializer patch for fs/ramfs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializer patch for fs/exportfs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializer patch for fs/devpts.
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/romfs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/proc
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/isofs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/ufs
<ahaas@neosoft.com>
[PATCH] C99 designated initializers for fs/cramfs
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Use schedule_task() in tlan net driver, fixing build
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Include linux/tqueue.h in orinoco[_cs] net drvrs, fixing build
(contributed by James Blackwell)
<davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
[PATCH] avoid reference to struct page before it's declared
GCC currently warns when page-flags.h gets included before struct page
is declared. Declare it.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Use do_gettimeofday() in ATM drivers
(contributed by Francois Romieu)
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
One last fix to make the non-highmem build work.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Added CONFIG_HIGHMEM to defconfig.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move ppp-specifics to isdn_net_dev
Again, ipppd has one kernel connection per channel in a MPPP
setting, so we should keep track in isdn_net_dev.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
Moved the linker script from vmlinux.lds.S, which will be empty, to
uml.ld.S.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
ISDN: Move dial/hangup related stuff to isdn_net_dev
Keeping track of dialing / auto hangup is per ISDN channel, so should
go into isdn_net_dev.
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
o LLC: make sure llc.o is linked before the datalink protos when !module
Thanks do Andries Brouwer for reporting the problem and suggesting a
way to fix it.
<jdike@uml.karaya.com>
main.o needed to be added to the vmlinux dependencies so it would build.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
All .tmp* files are auto-generated
<david-b@pacbell.net>
[PATCH] Sleeping function called from illegal context...
Fix pci_pool_create() from calling device_create_file() under
pools_lock.
Found by the new "may_sleep" infrastructure.
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[PATCH] Fix: Orinoco driver update
Crud. Looks like my patch making script was borken, so orinoco_pci.c
wasn't updated properly. The patch below should fix that, and adds
some other minor updates (driver version 0.13a) as well.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
arch/sparc64/kernel/pci_schizo.c: Enable error interrupts in correct PBM.
<jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Replace local var in 8139cp net driver that was accidentally removed,
due to synchronize_irq() becoming a no-op when !CONFIG_SMP.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC]: sigmask_lock --> sig->siglock
<acme@conectiva.com.br>
. LLC: kill mac_send_pdu, use plain dev_queue_xmit
With this we avoid doing skb_clone on skbs that will not be kept on
unacked lists.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
[SPARC]: Rename private init_timers to sparc{,64}_init_timers.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
drivers/input/keyboard/sunkbd.c: queue_task --> schedule_task
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
drivers/net/ethertap.c: Use C99 initializers.
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/sparc/cs4231.c: Include sound/pcm_params.h
<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
sound/pci/cs46xx/dsp_spos.c: Include linux/vmalloc.h
<mingo@elte.hu>
[PATCH] sigfix-2.5.39-D0, BK-curr
This fixes a procfs crash noticed by Anton Blanchard.
The procfs code can have a reference even to an already exited task, so
it needs to follow special rules accessing p->sig. The atomic-signals
patch made this bug happen at a much higher frequency, but procfs i
believe was buggy ever since, it potentially used the freed signal
structure - which just did not result in a crash like it does today.
The proper fix is to take the tasklist read-lock in
collect_sigign_sigcatch(), this excludes __exit_sighand() freeing the
signal structure prematurely.
<bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net>
[PATCH] fix endless loop walking the MADT
Too trivial to see the first time when debugging on weekends ;-))
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Update SA1111 core and related drivers for LDM.
This cset updates the SA1111 core, PCMCIA, OHCI and keyboard drivers,
allowing them to take advantage of the Linux device manager code;
this implements initial suspend/resume support for the SA1111 in the
core. Many existing drivers currently rely on the old PM-based
interface for suspend/resume support.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Add LDM suspend/resume support to SA1100 suspend code.
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] request_irq() use GFP_ATOMIC
The might_sleep() thing caught ide, which calls request_irq() with a
lock held. It can be argued that this is a bad thing, however I think it
can also validly be argued that requesting an irq should not be a
blocking operation. This might even remove some driver bugs where usage
count is not incremented during init...
It can also be argued, that the very first irq requests cannot be
blocking for io anyways, for good reason :-)
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] add function to set q->merge_bvec_fn
Add a function to set queue merge_bvec_fn to mimic the rest of the api,
and also add documentation for that and blk_queue_prep_rq().
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] don't BUG() on too big a bio
There's really no reason to BUG() out on a bio that is too big, the
gentleman thing to do would be to print a warning and just end the bio
with -EIO quietly.
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] make loop set right queue restrictions
This makes loop honor the queue restrictions by basically stacking all
of those, and mirroring the merge_bvec_fn() on the target queue. It also
switches loop to use per-loop device queues, since that is the only sane
way to do this from a performance POV. Also, in principle I find it to
be much nicer if every distinct block device has its own queue.
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] raid5 BIO_UPTODATE set
These days we only require a clear of BIO_UPTODATE on -EIO, we don't set
it on success. This breaks raid5. It appears to clear BIO_UPTODATE fine
but doesn't start out with it set.
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] loop clear q->queuedata on exit
Just for niceness, loop should clear queue queuedata when it exits.
<axboe@suse.de>
[PATCH] set ide pci dma mask
Make IDE set the dma mask to full 32-bit dma.
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] gendisks list switched to list_head
The list used to generate /proc/partitions turned into list_head one;
we also restore the old order of elements (originally we added to the end
of list; recent changes had reverted that, now we are back to original
order).
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] get_gendisk() prototype change
get_gendisk() now takes dev_t (instead of kdev_t) and gets an additional
argument - int *part. Set to 0 for non-partitioned, partition number
for partititoned. Callers updated. Yes, I hate passing return values
that way ;-/ We need that since old "minor(dev) - disk->first_minor"
doesn't work for stuff with non-trivial numbers (e.g. floppy) and
get_gendisk() really has to return both gendisk and partition number.
Fortunately, amount of callers of gendisk() is about to drop RSN big way...
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] floppy fixes
corrected handling of sizes. Ugh.
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] ubd fixes
Cleans the handling of partitioning up. More or less the same story as with
other drivers...
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] register_disk() unexported
... now it can be done. We also drop almost all arguments - there is only
one caller and everything is determined by the first argument.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Remove "struct device" from sa1111_init() callers
This didn't follow the LDM model correctly. The SA1111 is always
a device on the root bus.
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] ->major_name inlined
char *major_name replaced with char disk_name[16]; All uses of ->major_name
replaced with those of ->disk_name and (obviously) simplified big way. Bunch
of arrays, kmallocs, etc. is gone.
<viro@math.psu.edu>
[PATCH] alloc_disk/put_disk
Beginning of proper refcounting. New helpers introduced, several drivers
switched to using them for dynamic allocation of gendisks. Once everything
is switched (and that will be way easier than per-drive gendisks series)
we will be able to add sane reference counts on gendisk, at which point
we can safely put pointer to gendisk in struct block_device / struct request
and we had pretty much won - from that point it's pretty straightforward
crapectomy in drivers.
<willy@debian.org>
[PATCH] Remove QDIO_BH
QDIO_BH was never actually used anyway, and won't do much good now BHs
are gone.
<linux@brodo.de>
[PATCH] cpufreq crashes on P4
In two drivers a wrong size of memory was allocated for cpufreq_driver: as
it must include NR_CPUS times a struct cpufreq_policy (and not struct
cpufreq_freqs). Thanks to Petr Vandrovec for this patch.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] sa1100fb updates
Update sa1100fb for recent fbcon changes, and move stork LCD power
handling into machine specific file.
<akpm@zip.com.au>
scsi_initialise_merge_fn() will only set highio if ->type == TYPE_DISK.
But it's called from scsi_add_lun()->scsi_alloc_sdev() before the type
is known. The type is -1 all the time in scsi_initialise_merge_fn()
and scsi always bounces.
This patch makes it do the right thing - just enable block-highmem for
all scsi devices.
Jens had this to say:
"I guess that block-highmem has been around long enough, that I can
use the term 'historically' at least in the kernel sense :-)
This extra check was added for IDE because each device type driver
(ide-disk, ide-cd, etc) needed to be updated to not assume virtual
mappings of request data was valid. I only did that for ide-disk,
since this is the only one where bounce buffering really hurt
performance wise. So while ide-cd and ide-tape etc could have been
updated, I deemed it uninteresting and not worthwhile.
Now, this was just carried straight into the scsi counter parts,
conveniently, because of laziness. A quick glance at sr shows that it
too can aviod bouncing easily (no changes needed). st may need some
changes, though. So again, for scsi it was a matter of not impacting
existing code in 2.4 too much.
So TYPE_DISK check can be killed in 2.5 if someone does the work of
checking that it is safe. I'm not so sure it will make eg your SCSI
CD-ROM that much faster :-)"
<jejb@mulgrave.(none)>
[SCSI 53c700] flag as able to do I/O from highmem
<fokkensr@fokkensr.vertis.nl>
[PATCH] sg.c and USER_HZ, kernel 2.5.37
Hi!
Since the introduction of USER_HZ the SG_[GS]ET_TIMEOUT ioctls may have
a serious BUG as userspace uses a different HZ from the HZ in kernelspace.
In x86 HZ=1000 and USER_HZ=100, resulting in confusing timouts as the
kernel measures time 10 times as fast as userspace.
This patch is an attempt to fix this by transforming USER_HZ based timing to
HZ based timing before storing it in timeout. To make sure that SG_GET_TIMEOUT
and SG_SET_TIMEOUT behave consistently a field timeout_user is added which
stores the exact value that's passed by SG_SET_TIMEOUT and it's returned on
SG_GET_TIMEOUT.
Rolf Fokkens
fokkensr@fokkensr.vertis.nl
P.S. this is the second post of this patch
<andmike@us.ibm.com>
Error handler general clean up
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Update cpufreq related sa1100 related drivers and CPU code
This cset updates sa1100 code for the now merged cpufreq next-gen.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Fix sa1111 IRQ handling
We must clear down all currently pending IRQs before servicing any
IRQ on the chip. This prevents immediate recursion into the
interrupt handling paths when we service the first IRQ.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] Prevent namespace clash with IRq numbering
Add "IRQ_" prefix to these sa1111 irq numbers.
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[PATCH] trivial bits.
Adrian Bunk went through .39-dj, and pulled out a bunch of
trivial bits (docs changes, whitespace fixes etc)
- CREDITS: update the web-address of Tigran A. Aivazian
- Documentation/Changes: higher minimum version of reiserfsprogs
- s/www.linuxdoc.org/www.tldp.org/g in:
- Documentation/DocBook/sis900.tmpl
- Documentation/kernel-docs.txt
- Documentation/scsi-generic.txt
- Documentation/scsi.txt
- Documentation/sound/oss/PAS16
- Documentation/filesystems/isofs.txt: document where to get ISO 9660
docs from
- Documentation/networking/00-INDEX: document that e100.txt and e1000.txt
are present
- typo fixes in:
- Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
- Documentation/s390/Debugging390.txt
- drivers/ide/Config.help
- MAINTAINERS:
- update location of the emu10k1-devel and linux-mips lists
- Remy Card is no longer ext2 maintainer
- list Andrew Morton instead of Remy Card as second ext3 maintainer
- update mail addresses of Riley H. Williams and Jack Hammer
- misc whitespace -> tab fixes
- arch/mips/kernel/time.c: correct the location of a README
- whitespace -> tab fixes in
drivers/net/{3c505,3c509,arcnet/arcnet,at1700,hamradio/scc,ni65,
pcmcia/aironet4500_cs}.c and drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_var.h
- drivers/pci/quirks.c: update URL
- remove tabs/whitespace at the end of lines in:
- drivers/tc/lk201-map.map
- drivers/tc/lk201-remap.c
- drivers/tc/zs.h
- fs/jfs/jfs_logmgr.c: remove two extra empty lines
- include/linux/auto_fs.h: s/__x86_64/__x86_64__/
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[PATCH] Various trivial module related fixes.
More bits from 2.5.39-dj sucked out by Adrian Bunk.
- drivers/char/toshiba.c: add
MODULE_{PARM_DESC,AUTHOR,DESCRIPTION,SUPPORTED_DEVICE}
- drivers/mtd/nand/nand_ecc.c: add MODULE_{AUTHOR,DESCRIPTION}
- drivers/net/skfp/skfddi.c: add MODULE_AUTHOR
- drivers/net/tokenring/olympic.c: remove "\n" at the end of
MODULE_DESCRIPTION
- fs/driverfs/inode.c: add MODULE_LICENSE
- fs/nls/nls_cp1250.c: correct MODULE_LICENSE
- include/linux/module.h: add "GPL v2" to the list of free software
licenses
<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
[PATCH] include fix
Trivial include file fix..
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: queue_task() fixups
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] General cleanups/missed bits in previous csets
This corrects spelling mistakes, adds missed configuration for
cpufreq, corrects free_irq comment, etc.
<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] iPAQ updates from Jamey Hicks
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: added Palm Zire id to the visor driver, thanks to Martin Brachtl
<greg@kroah.com>
driver core: added location of device in driverfs tree to /sbin/hotplug call.
/sbin/hotplug is now called when any device is added or removed from the
system.
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: add a lot more driverfs files for all usb devices.
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: Fix the name of usb hubs in driverfs.
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: allow /sbin/hotplug to be called for the main USB device.
<david-b@pacbell.net>
[PATCH] usbcore misc cleanup
This has minor usbcore cleanups:
DOC:
- the changes passing a usb_interface to driver probe() and disconnect()
weren't reflected in their adjacent docs. likewise they still said
it was possible to get a null usb_device_id (no more).
- the (root) hub API restrictions from rmk's ARM patch weren't
flagged
- mention the non-dma-coherent cache issue for usb_buffer_alloc()
- mention disconnect() cleanup issue with usb_{control,bulk}_msg()
[ you can't cancel those urbs from disconnect() ]
CODE
- make driver ioctl() use 'usb_interface' too ... this update
also resolves an old 'one instance per device' bad assumption
- module locking on driver->ioctl() was goofy, kept BKL way too
long and didn't try_inc_mod_count() like the rest of usbcore
- hcd unlink code treated iso inappropriately like interrupt;
only interrupt still wants that automagic mode
- move iso init out of ohci into shared submit_urb logic
- remove interrupt transfer length restriction; hcds that don't
handle packetization (just like bulk :) should be updated,
but device drivers won't care for now.
<greg@kroah.com>
USB: fix typo from previous schedule_task() patch.
<david-b@pacbell.net>
[PATCH] ehci-hcd, urb queuing
In doing some more extensive testing of the urb queueing behavior,
I noticed that (a) IOC wasn't always being set for each urb, while
for now it needs to be set; (b) a qh patchup wasn't done quite
where it should be. This resolves those two issues, as well
as making it a bit less noisy to unlink lots of urbs at the once.
<david-b@pacbell.net>
[PATCH] ohci-hcd, paranoia
In a test where some memory corruption happened, I noticed an
oops (null pointer exception in_irq) that's avoidable. Here's
a patch that avoids it ... anyone seeing the err() is likely
to hang some process, but that's better than the alternative.
(Also inlines some used-once routines, saving a bit of space
to make up for the new diagnostic.)
<mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
[PATCH] USB-storage: problem clearing halts
Greg, attached is a patch designed for diagnostic purposes. Please apply
to the 2.5 tree -- yes, we'll be removing this at some point in the future.
It appears that we have a problem clearing halts. This patch causes a very
clear message to be printed whenever a usb_stor_clear_halt() manages to
work. So far, I haven't seen such a thing happen. And I've seen _lots_ of
STALL conditions.
This problem has likely been around for a while... however, it hasn't been
noticed before because usb-storage was difficult to use because of other
bugs. Heck, the most recent 'bk pull' is the first one for me in _months_
which let me boot all the way into X11.
I'm going to hold my patch queue until this is resolved. On my test setup,
it's easy to see this failing. I've tried with 4 different devices, with
both UHCI and EHCI drivers. I don't want to confuse this problem with
other patches...
'result' in this function always seems to be -32. Which is odd, because
control endpoints shouldn't do that.
I'm open to suggestions as to where to look for this bug, but my instincts
are telling me that this is a core or HCD issue, not a usb-storage issue.
On a positive note, this means that the error-recovery system gets a good
workout.
<david-b@pacbell.net>
[PATCH] usb_sg_{init,wait,cancel}()
Here are the scatterlist primitives there's been mail about before.
Now the code has passed basic sanity testing, and is ready to merge
into Linus' tree to start getting wider use. Greg, please merge!
To recap, the routines are a utility layer packaging several usb
core facilities to improve system performance. It's synchronous.
The code uses functionality that drivers could use already, but
generally haven't:
- Request queueing. This is a big performance win. It lets
device drivers help the hcds avoid wasted i/o bandwidth, by
eliminating irq and scheduling latencies between requests. It
can make a huge difference at high speed, when the latencies
often exceed the time to handle each i/o request!
- The new usb_map_sg() primitives, leveraging IOMMU hardware
if it's there (better than entry-at-a-time mapping).
- URB_NO_INTERRUPT transfer flag, a hint to hcds that they
can avoid a 'success irq' for this urb. Only the urb for
the last scatterlist entry really needs an IRQ, the others
can be eliminated or delayed. (OHCI uses this today, and
any HCD can safely ignore it.)
The particular functionality in these APIs seemed to meet Matt's
requirements for usb-storage, so I'd hope the 2.5 usb-storage
code will start to use these routines in a while. (And maybe
those two scanner drivers: hpusbscsi, microtek.)
Brief summary of testing: this code seems correct for normal
reads and writes, but the fault paths (including cancelation)
haven't been tested yet. Both EHCI and OHCI seem to be mostly
OK with these more aggressive queued loads, but may need small
updates (like the two I sent yesterday). Unfortunately I have
to report that UHCI and urb queueing will sometimes lock up my
hardware (PIIX4), so while we're lots better than 2.4 this is
still a bit of a trouble spot for now.
I'll be making some testing software available shortly, which
will help track down remaining HCD level problems by giving the
queuing APIs (and some others!) a more strenuous workout than
most drivers will, in their day-to-day usage.
- Dave
<randy.dunlap@verizon.net>
[PATCH] hc_sl811 build and memory leak
It needs s/malloc.h/slab.h/ .
It also forgets to free some memory on an error exit patch.
Patch for 2.5.39 follows.
<david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[PATCH] Squash warning in fs/devfs/base.c
This removes an unused label in fs/devfs/base.c
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
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