Atsushi Nemoto [Tue, 20 Jun 2006 14:59:11 +0000 (23:59 +0900)]
[MIPS] Fix FIXADDR_TOP for TX39/TX49.
FIXADDR_TOP is used for HIGHMEM and for upper limit of vmalloc area on
32bit kernel. TX39XX and TX49XX have "reserved" segment in CKSEG3
area. 0xff000000-0xff3fffff on TX49XX and 0xff000000-0xfffeffff on
TX39XX are reserved (unmapped, uncached) therefore can not be used as
mapped area.
Ralf Baechle [Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:10:50 +0000 (21:10 +0100)]
elf-em.h: Define and explain both EM_MIPS_RS3_LE and EM_MIPS_RS4_BE.
They have been obsoleted by the ELF header EI_CLASS and EI_DATA fields
in combination with e_flags. Afaics EM_MIPS_RS3_LE and EM_MIPS_RS4_BE
never had any practical relevance. Binutils will not produce such
binaries and the kernel will not accept them as MIPS binaries.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 23:20:49 +0000 (16:20 -0700)]
Merge branch 'nommu' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'nommu' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] nommu: backtrace code must not reference a discarded section
[ARM] nommu: Initial uCLinux support for MMU-based CPUs
[ARM] nommu: prevent Xscale-based machines being selected
[ARM] nommu: export flush_dcache_page()
[ARM] nommu: remove fault-armv, mmap and mm-armv files from nommu build
[ARM] Remove TABLE_SIZE, and several unused function prototypes
[ARM] nommu: Provide a simple flush_dcache_page implementation
[ARM] nommu: add arch/arm/Kconfig-nommu to Kconfig files
[ARM] nommu: add stubs for ioremap and friends
[ARM] nommu: avoid selecting TLB and CPU specific copy code
[ARM] nommu: uaccess tweaks
[ARM] nommu: adjust headers for !MMU ARM systems
[ARM] nommu: we need the TLS register emulation for nommu mode
Thomas Gleixner [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:14:07 +0000 (17:14 +0200)]
[PATCH] Fix plist include dependency
plist.h uses container_of, which is defined in kernel.h.
Include kernel.h in plist.h as the kernel.h include does not longer
happen automatically on all architectures.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Brownell [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:47:15 +0000 (07:47 -0700)]
[PATCH] SPI: infrastructure to initialize spi_device.mode early
This patch adds earlier initialization of spi_device.mode, as needed
on boards using nondefault chipselect polarity. An example would be
ones using the RS5C348 RTC without an external signal inverter between
the RTC chipselect and the SPI controller.
Without this mechanism, the first setup() call for that chip would
wrongly enable chips, corrupting transfers to/from other chips sharing
that SPI bus.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Greg Ungerer [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:39:19 +0000 (16:39 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: configuration options for ROM region
Use Kconfig options to setup the optional ROM region used on some
platforms. We used to define this in the linker script on a per
board basis. The configure options are more flexible and clean up
the linker script a lot.
Linus Torvalds [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:00:49 +0000 (15:00 -0700)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64-SGI] fix prom revision checks in SN kernel
[IA64] tiger_defconfig s/NR_CPUS=4/NR_CPUS=16/
[IA64-SGI] - Pass OS logical cpu number to the SN prom (bios)
[IA64] palinfo.c: s/register_cpu_notifier/register_hotcpu_notifier/
Alan Cox [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:59 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide: clean up siimage
Remove all the ifdef preparation for enhanced features that never occcurred
and is only in libata. For the SATA chips (but not yet PATA ones) politely
suggest to the user that libata may offer more features.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Sergei Shtylylov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:58 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] Old IDE, fix SATA detection for cabling
This is based on the proposed patches flying around but also checks that
the device in question is new enough to have word 93 rather thanb blindly
assuming word 93 == 0 means SATA (see ATA-5, ATA-7)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:57 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] ac97_codec: make bitfield unsigned
Make a 1-bit bitfield unsigned (no space for sign bit).
Removes 24 sparse warnings from this one file:
include/linux/ac97_codec.h:262:13: error: dubious one-bit signed bitfield
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:56 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound: fix cs4232 section mismatch
Fix section mismatch: adds __init to probe function,
frees some init memory, not critical.
WARNING: sound/oss/cs4232.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .text after 'cs4232_pnp_probe' (at offset 0x152)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix a erroneous calculation of the legacy brightness values as reported by
Paul Collins. Additionally, it moves the calculation of the negative value
in the radeonfb driver after the value check.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hanselmann <linux-kernel@hansmi.ch> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Paul Collins <paul@briny.ondioline.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:55 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: watchdog handle panic properly
Modify the watchdog timeout in IPMI to only do things at panic/reboot time if
the watchdog timer was already running. Some BIOSes do not disable the
watchdog timer at startup, and this led to a reboot a while later if the new
OS running didn't start monitoring the watchdog, even if the watchdog was not
running before.
Latchesar Ionkov [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:50 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] v9fs: return the correct error when interrupted by signal
If a signal interrupts the user process, v9fs sends a flush request to the
file server and waits for its response. It error code is incorrectly set
to the error code of the flush message instead of ERESTARTSYS. The patch
sets the error code to the correct value.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:49 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove active field from tty buffer structure
Remove 'active' field from tty buffer structure. This was added in 2.6.16
as part of a patch to make the new tty buffering SMP safe. This field is
unnecessary with the more intelligently written flush_to_ldisc that adds
receive_room handling.
Removing this field reverts to simpler logic where the tail buffer is
always the 'active' buffer, which should not be freed by flush_to_ldisc.
(active == buffer being filled with new data)
The result is simpler, smaller, and faster tty buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:48 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] add receive_room flow control to flush_to_ldisc
Flush data serially to line discipline in blocks no larger than
tty->receive_room to avoid losing data if line discipline is busy (such as
N_TTY operating at high speed on heavily loaded system) or does not accept
data in large blocks (such as N_MOUSE).
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Paul Fulghum [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:47 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove TTY_DONT_FLIP
Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag. This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels
to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and
n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time. 2.2.15 introduced
tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the
only state requiring protection between these two functions.
The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not
universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line
discipline receive_buf function.
Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is
not universally honored, it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Arjan van de Ven [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:26:45 +0000 (04:26 -0700)]
[PATCH] Add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL
Temporarily add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL. These
will be used as a transition measure for symbols that aren't used in the
kernel and are on the way out. When a module uses such a symbol, a warning
is printk'd at modprobe time.
The main reason for removing unused exports is size: eacho export takes
roughly between 100 and 150 bytes of kernel space in the binary. This
patch gives users the option to immediately get this size gain via a config
option.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Same as with already do with the file operations: keep them in .rodata and
prevents people from doing runtime patching.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Randy Dunlap [Mon, 22 May 2006 03:58:10 +0000 (20:58 -0700)]
[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog update
Documentation/watchdog/:
Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in
their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files.
This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need
to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and
to janitors who would update them if they were more visible.
Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at
all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if
they should be removed.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Aaron Young [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 15:34:55 +0000 (08:34 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] fix prom revision checks in SN kernel
The following patch fixes two spots in the SN kernel
that check a fixed prom revision number to determine prom
feature support. These checks are only valid on shub1 systems.
They are invalid on shub2 systems which have a different prom
with different revision numbers.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Young <ayoung@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Russell King [Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:43:55 +0000 (20:43 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: backtrace code must not reference a discarded section
The code in "1007:" is in the .fixup section, which in the mmuless
case is discarded. Since this code is referenced from the .text
section, it causes an link error. Move this code into the .text
section instead.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Hyok S. Choi [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 13:10:01 +0000 (14:10 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: Initial uCLinux support for MMU-based CPUs
In noMMU mode, various of functions which are defined in mm/proc-*.S
is not valid or needed to be avoided. i.g. switch_mm is not needed,
just returns and this makes the I & D caches are valid which shows
great improvement of performance including task switching and IPC.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:52:41 +0000 (12:52 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: prevent Xscale-based machines being selected
Hyok says Intel Xscale is not currently supported by uCLinux.
Rather than adding #error statements to the Xscale support files
and causing !MMU+Xscale configurations to fail to build, prevent
Xscale-based machines from being selected in !MMU mode.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:46:23 +0000 (10:46 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: Provide a simple flush_dcache_page implementation
nommu doesn't require a complex flush_dcache_page implementation
like the MMU-ful CPUs do, so provide a simplified version in nommu.c
and omit flush.c from the build as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Wed, 21 Jun 2006 19:38:17 +0000 (20:38 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: uaccess tweaks
MMUless systems have only one address space for all threads, so
both the usual access_ok() checks, and the exception handling do
not make much sense.
Hence, discard the fixup and exception tables at link time, use
memcpy/memset for the user copy/clearing functions, and define
the permission check macros to be constants.
Some of this patch was derived from the equivalent patch by
Hyok S. Choi.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:46:52 +0000 (20:46 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: adjust headers for !MMU ARM systems
Majorily based on Hyok Choi's patches, this fixes up the asm-arm
header files for mmuless systems. Over and above Hyok's patches:
- nommu.h merged into mmu.h (it's only a structure)
- nommu_context.h is essentially the same as mmu_context.h, but
without the MM switching code.
so there's no point having separate files. Also, in memory.h,
there's no point #ifndef'ing PHYS_OFFSET and END_MEM - both
CONFIG_DRAM_BASE and CONFIG_DRAM_SIZE will always be set by the
configuration scripts.
Other files have minor formatting changes, but are essentially
the same. Hyok's original patches were signed off thusly:
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Russell King [Mon, 19 Jun 2006 16:36:43 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
[ARM] nommu: we need the TLS register emulation for nommu mode
Since there can be no fixed location for the TLS value with nommu
systems, we must provide TLS register emulation in order to support
TLS binaries on CPUs without the thread register.
Part of a patch from Hyok S. Choi, and cleaned up by rmk.
Signed-off-by: Hyok S. Choi <hyok.choi@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Chandra Seetharaman missed one place in commit: 65edc68c345cbe21d0b0375c3452a3ed5e322868
[but it only shows up when building the ski simulator configuration
of ia64, so thats understandable]
[ARM] 3672/1: PXA: don't probe output GPIOs for interrupt
Patch from Guennadi Liakhovetski
Currently probe_irq_on() on PXA will silently reconfigure all output GPIOs, that are not configured as alternate functions, for input. Avoid that. Upon CPU reset all GPIOs are configured as inputs, so, if a GPIO is configured as output, it has been done so intentionally.
Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski <gl@dsa-ac.de> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
[ARM] 3671/1: ep93xx: add cirrus logic edb9315 support
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch adds support for the Cirrus Logic EDB9315, an evaluation
board based on the Cirrus Logic EP9315 SoC, with 64M RAM, two USB host
ports, audio in/out, three serial ports, 10/100 ethernet, and IDE, VGA,
and LCD interfaces.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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