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* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa:
[ALSA] version 1.0.14rc2
[ALSA] Fix a typo in __dev* changes in portman2x4.c
[ALSA] Change AT91 PDC register defines for 2.6.20 kernel
[ALSA] SoC codecs - fix Kconfig - depends -> depends on
[ALSA] Fix __devinit and __devexit issues with sound drivers
[ALSA] hda-codec - Patch for enabling LFE on more Dell laptops
[ALSA] hda-codec - More fixes for Conexant HD Audio support
[ALSA] usb-audio: add PCR-A PCM support
[ALSA] emu10k1: fix typo
[ALSA] usbaudio - remove urb->bandwidth reference
[ALSA] ac97 - Fix silent output problem with Cx20551 codec
[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix Oops with probing sigmatel codec chips
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* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (94 commits)
[PATCH] x86-64: Remove mk_pte_phys()
[PATCH] i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386
[PATCH] i386: fix 32-bit ioctls on x64_32
[PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64
[PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header.
[PATCH] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c
[PATCH] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h
[PATCH] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough
[PATCH] x86_64: Wire up compat epoll_pwait
[PATCH] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals
[PATCH] i386: Fix Cyrix MediaGX detection
[PATCH] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization
[PATCH] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c
[PATCH] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs
[PATCH] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo
[PATCH] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch]
[PATCH] x86-64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h
[PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector
[PATCH] i386: geode configuration fixes
[PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports
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It isn't needed anymore, all of the users are gone, and all of the ctl_table
initializers have been converted to use explicit names of the fields they are
initializing.
[akpm@osdl.org: NTFS fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add a parent entry into the ctl_table so you can walk the list of parents and
find the entire path to a ctl_table entry.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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With this change the sysctl inodes can be cached and nothing needs to be done
when removing a sysctl table.
For a cost of 2K code we will save about 4K of static tables (when we remove
de from ctl_table) and 70K in proc_dir_entries that we will not allocate, or
about half that on a 32bit arch.
The speed feels about the same, even though we can now cache the sysctl
dentries :(
We get the core advantage that we don't need to have a 1 to 1 mapping between
ctl table entries and proc files. Making it possible to have /proc/sys vary
depending on the namespace you are in. The currently merged namespaces don't
have an issue here but the network namespace under /proc/sys/net needs to have
different directories depending on which network adapters are visible. By
simply being a cache different directories being visible depending on who you
are is trivial to implement.
[akpm@osdl.org: fix uninitialised var]
[akpm@osdl.org: fix ARM build]
[bunk@stusta.de: make things static]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The current logic to walk through the list of sysctl table headers is slightly
painful and implement in a way it cannot be used by code outside sysctl.c
I am in the process of implementing a version of the sysctl proc support that
instead of using the proc generic non-caching monster, just uses the existing
sysctl data structure as backing store for building the dcache entries and for
doing directory reads. To use the existing data structures however I need a
way to get at them.
[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name. Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.
I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.
So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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There are currently no users in the kernel for CTL_ANY and it only has effect
on the binary interface which is practically unused.
So this complicates sysctl lookups for no good reason so just remove it.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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ocfs2 was did not have the binary number it uses under CTL_FS registered in
sysctl.h. Register it to avoid future conflicts, and change the name of the
definition to be in line with the rest of the sysctl numbers.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We need to have the the definition of all top level sysctl directories
registers in sysctl.h so we don't conflict by accident and cause abi problems.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Add support for using a filesystem UUID to identify and export point in the
filehandle.
For NFSv2, this UUID is xor-ed down to 4 or 8 bytes so that it doesn't take up
too much room. For NFSv3+, we use the full 16 bytes, and possibly also a
64bit inode number for exports beneath the root of a filesystem.
When generating an fsid to return in 'stat' information, use the UUID (hashed
down to size) if it is available and a small 'fsid' was not specifically
provided.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix the serial header breakage for the PNX8550 MIPS platform.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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On ia64, drivers/base/dma-mapping.c doesn't build because it calls
dma_alloc_noncoherent() and dma_free_noncoherent(), which appear to be
terminally broken; the calls end up generating errors like
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c: In function 'dmam_noncoherent_release':
drivers/base/dma-mapping.c:32: error: 'struct ia64_machine_vector' has no member named 'platform_dma_free_coherent'
because the multiple levels of macro expansion in <asm/dma-mapping.h> and
<asm/machvec.h> end up turning a call to dma_free_noncoherent() into
ia64_mv.platform_dma_free_coherent (instead of the intended
ia64_mv.dma_free_coherent).
This patch fixes this by converting dma_{alloc,free}_noncoherent() into
inline functions that call the corresponding coherent functions, instead of
trying to do this with macros.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[IPSEC]: Fix the address family to refer encap_family
[IPSEC]: changing API of xfrm6_tunnel_register
[IPSEC]: make sit use the xfrm4_tunnel_register
[IPSEC]: Changing API of xfrm4_tunnel_register.
[TCP]: Prevent pseudo garbage in SYN's advertized window
[NET_SCHED]: sch_hfsc: replace ASSERT macro by WARN_ON
[BRIDGE] br_if: Fix oops in port_carrier_check
[NETFILTER]: Clear GSO bits for TCP reset packet
[TG3]: Update copyright, version, and reldate.
[TG3]: Add some tx timeout debug messages.
[TG3]: Use constant for PHY register 0x1e.
[TG3]: Power down 5704 serdes transceiver when shutting down.
[TG3]: 5906 doesn't need to switch to slower clock.
[TG3]: 5722/5756 don't need PHY jitter workaround.
[TG3]: Use lower DMA watermark for 5703.
[TG3]: Save MSI state before suspend.
[XFRM]: Fix IPv4 tunnel mode decapsulation with IPV6=n
[IPV6] HASHTABLES: Use appropriate seed for caluculating ehash index.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (61 commits)
[POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32
[POWERPC] Open Firmware serial port driver
[POWERPC] Move MPIC smp routines into mpic.c
[POWERPC] Cleanup pseries kexec code
[POWERPC] Cleanup pseries smp initialisation code
[POWERPC] Consolidate pseries platform header files into pseries.h
[POWERPC] 85xx: Drop use of SYNC macro in head_fsl_booke.S
[POWERPC] cell: pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanup
[POWERPC] cell: PPU Oprofile cleanup patch
[POWERPC] spufs: avoid accessing kernel memory through mmapped /mem node
[POWERPC] spu sched: static timeslicing for SCHED_RR contexts
[POWERPC] spu sched: use DECLARE_BITMAP
[POWERPC] spu sched: forced preemption at execution
[POWERPC] spu sched: update some comments
[POWERPC] spu sched: simplity spu_remove_from_active_list
[POWERPC] spufs: optimize spu_run
[POWERPC] spufs: runqueue simplification
[POWERPC] spufs: move prio to spu_context
[POWERPC] spufs: state_mutex cleanup
[POWERPC] spufs: simplify state_mutex
...
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udbg_early_init() is a function used on 64 bit systems, which
initializes whichever early udbg backend is configured. This function
is not called on 32-bit, however if btext early debug is enabled it
does have an explicit, inline, #ifdef-ed assignment performing
analagous initialization.
This patch makes things more uniform by folding the btext
initialization as an option into udbg_early_init() and calling that
from the 32-bit setup path.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
i2c: Stop using i2c_adapter.class_dev
i2c: Remove the warning on missing adapter device
i2c: Declare more i2c_adapter parent devices
i2c: PA Semi SMBus driver
i2c-amd8111: Proposed cleanups
i2c-parport: Add support for One For All remote JP1 interface
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VIA CX700 south bridge
i2c: Add IDs to adapters
i2c: Update the list of bus IDs
i2c: Add driver suspend/resume/shutdown support
i2c: completion header cleanups
i2c-i801: Document the SMBus unhiding quirk
i2c-i801: Spelling fix
i2c: Fix typo in SMBus Write Word Data description
i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB600
i2c-nforce2: Drop unused reference to pci_dev
i2c/vt8231: Remove superfluous initialization
i2c-ali1563: Fix device initialization
i2c-ali1563: Improve the status messages
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Fix sigset_t endianess swapping issues in 32-bit compat code.
[MIPS] Fix uniprocessor Sibyte builds.
[MIPS] Make entry.S a little more readable.
[MIPS] Remove stray instruction from __get_user_asm_ll32.
[MIPS] 32-bit: Fix warning about cast for fetching pointer from userspace.
[MIPS] DECstation: Fix irq handling
[MIPS] signals: make common _BLOCKABLE macro
[MIPS] signal: Move sigframe definition for native O32/N64 into signal.c
[MIPS] signal: Move {restore,setup}_sigcontext prototypes to their user
[MIPS] signal: Fix warnings in o32 compat code.
[MIPS] IP27: Enable N32 support in defconfig.
Revert "[MIPS] Fix warning in get_user when fetching pointer object from userspace."
[MIPS] Don't claim we support dma_declare_coherent_memory - we don't.
[MIPS] Unify dma-{coherent,noncoherent.ip27,ip32}
[MIPS] Improve branch prediction in ll/sc atomic operations.
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This did result in double clearing of the error return value on success
only but should make a meassurable overhead for sigreturn.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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userspace."
This reverts commit 4ed3a77f38c023658784804cb39a7ce18063dc88.
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Platforms will now have to supply a function dma_device_is_coherent which
returns if a particular device participates in the coherence domain. For
most platforms this function will always return 0 or 1.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Now that finally all supported versions of binutils have functioning
support for .subsection use .subsection to tweak the branch prediction
I did not modify the R10000 errata variants because it seems unclear if
this will invalidate the workaround which actually relies on the cheesy
prediction of branch likely to cause a misspredict if the sc was
successful.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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IDs have been defined but not used by most of the I2C adapters.
By having a unique ID, clients can check for correct connection
during probe.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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* The Voodoo3 has no SMBus, it has two bit-banged busses which
already have an ID assigned (I2C_HW_B_VOO).
* The i2c-ipmi bus driver was a non-sense, it'll never be ported
to Linux 2.6.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
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Driver model updates for the I2C core:
- Add new suspend(), resume(), and shutdown() methods. Use them in the
standard driver model style; document them.
- Minor doc updates to highlight zero-initialized fields in drivers, and
the driver model accessors for "clientdata".
If any i2c drivers were previously using the old suspend/resume calls
in "struct driver", they were getting warning messages ... and will
now no longer work. Other than that, this patch changes no behaviors;
and it lets I2C drivers use conventional PM and shutdown support.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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Add support for the ATI SB600 SMBus controller.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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This is a clean up patch that includes the following changes:
-Some comments were added to clarify the code based on feedback
from the community.
-The write_pm_cntrl() and set_count_mode() were passed a
structure element from a global variable. The argument was
removed so the functions now just operate on the global directly.
-The set_pm_event() function call in the cell_virtual_cntr()
routine was moved to a for-loop before the for_each_cpu loop
Signed-off-by: Carl Love <carll@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
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This patch changes xfrm6_tunnel register and deregister
interface to prepare for solving the conflict of device
tunnels with inter address family IPsec tunnel.
There is no device which conflicts with IPv4 over IPv6
IPsec tunnel.
Signed-off-by: Kazunori MIYAZAWA <miyazawa@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It doesn't make any sense to have a priority field in the physical spu
structure. Move it into the spu context instead.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
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This patch changes xfrm4_tunnel register and deregister
interface to prepare for solving the conflict of device
tunnels with inter address family IPsec tunnel.
Signed-off-by: Kazunori MIYAZAWA <miyazawa@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- Convert last user to pfn_pte
- Remove mk_pte_phys
Suggested by Jan Beulich
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Extern declarations belong in headers. Times, they are a'changin.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
===================================================================
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When I implemented the DECLARE_PER_CPU(var) macros, I was careful that
people couldn't use "var" in a non-percpu context, by prepending
percpu__. I never considered that this would allow them to overload
the same name for a per-cpu and a non-percpu variable.
It is only one of many horrors in the i386 boot code, but let's rename
the non-perpcu cpu_gdt_descr to early_gdt_descr (not boot_gdt_descr,
that's something else...)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
===================================================================
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Allows external actors to disable mce.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
===================================================================
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and in other strange binfmts. vDSO is not necessarily mapped there.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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Not needed because fastcall is always default now
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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gcc 5.0 will likely not have the constraint problem
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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On the Unisys ES7000/ONE system, we encountered a problem where performing
a kexec reboot or dump on any cell other than cell 0 causes the system
timer to stop working, resulting in a hang during timer calibration in the
new kernel.
We traced the problem to one line of code in disable_IO_APIC(), which needs
to restore the timer's IO-APIC configuration before rebooting. The code is
currently using the 4-bit physical destination field, rather than using the
8-bit logical destination field, and it cuts off the upper 4 bits of the
timer's APIC ID. If we change this to use the logical destination field,
the timer works and we can kexec on the upper cells. This was tested on
two different cells (0 and 2) in an ES7000/ONE system.
For reference, the relevant Intel xAPIC spec is kept at
ftp://download.intel.com/design/chipsets/e8501/datashts/30962001.pdf,
specifically on page 334.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin M Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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During kernel bootup, a new T60 laptop (CoreDuo, 32-bit) hangs about
10%-20% of the time in acpi_init():
Calling initcall 0xc055ce1a: topology_init+0x0/0x2f()
Calling initcall 0xc055d75e: mtrr_init_finialize+0x0/0x2c()
Calling initcall 0xc05664f3: param_sysfs_init+0x0/0x175()
Calling initcall 0xc014cb65: pm_sysrq_init+0x0/0x17()
Calling initcall 0xc0569f99: init_bio+0x0/0xf4()
Calling initcall 0xc056b865: genhd_device_init+0x0/0x50()
Calling initcall 0xc056c4bd: fbmem_init+0x0/0x87()
Calling initcall 0xc056dd74: acpi_init+0x0/0x1ee()
It's a hard hang that not even an NMI could punch through! Frustratingly,
adding printks or function tracing to the ACPI code made the hangs go away
...
After some time an additional detail emerged: disabling the NMI watchdog
made these occasional hangs go away.
So i spent the better part of today trying to debug this and trying out
various theories when i finally found the likely reason for the hang: if
acpi_ns_initialize_devices() executes an _INI AML method and an NMI
happens to hit that AML execution in the wrong moment, the machine would
hang. (my theory is that this must be some sort of chipset setup method
doing stores to chipset mmio registers?)
Unfortunately given the characteristics of the hang it was sheer
impossible to figure out which of the numerous AML methods is impacted
by this problem.
As a workaround i wrote an interface to disable chipset-based NMIs while
executing _INI sections - and indeed this fixed the hang. I did a
boot-loop of 100 separate reboots and none hung - while without the patch
it would hang every 5-10 attempts. Out of caution i did not touch the
nmi_watchdog=2 case (it's not related to the chipset anyway and didnt
hang).
I implemented this for both x86_64 and i686, tested the i686 laptop both
with nmi_watchdog=1 [which triggered the hangs] and nmi_watchdog=2, and
tested an Athlon64 box with the 64-bit kernel as well. Everything builds
and works with the patch applied.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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