> That helped a lot, the system seems to work normally now.
>
> Here's the relevant snippet from dmesg:
>
> [ 0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [ 0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
> [ 0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> failed.
> [ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer as Virtual Wire IRQ...<3> works.
>
> and the whole thing is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-2.log
Hmm, that only proved the 8259A is indeed wired to the pin #2 of the I/O
APIC.
> I, personally, don't have any and AMD only has SB600 documentation on its
> web page (it's still marked as "AMD confidential" ;-)).
Well, the IC block is most likely the same as that's not rocket science
and once done there is no need to fiddle with that. That written, I am
afraid there is nothing useful about the IC in the document, except that
it's there and consists of an I/O APIC providing 24 inputs and the usual
pair of 8259A cores. Thanks for the reference anyway.
> There is an interrupt controller in there, but I'm not sure if there's any
> 8259A. The northbridge is on the CPU, actually.
I will praise the day someone ships an x86 machine without an 8259A core!
As expressed in another mail I suspect there may actually be a direct
route from the 8254 to INTIN0 in the southbridge -- this is what other
bootstrap logs seen in the Internet suggest. This would mean this
particular BIOS is buggy (is it the latest version?) and provides an
incorrect IRQ override in its ACPI tables, for example because the
responsible block has been blindly copied from a machine using a commoner
wiring. This could be moderately easily fixed up with a quirk based on
the PCI ID (after checking it again, we actually used to have a quirk for
ATI in this area, but the way it was done suggests the issue was not
understood well enough).
Could you please remove the hack sent yesterday and test the patch
provided below? I do hope it builds, but I have no immediate means to
check it. Please report the output. The intent is to test INTIN0
directly before testing INTIN2 through the 8259A. Thanks.
Aside of that, what I have gathered from your reports (please correct me
if I have got it wrong) is that when the through-8259A mode is used, then
after a while 8254 timer interrupts stop arriving. What's interesting,
the "Virtual Wire IRQ" seems to work for you correctly (that's quite an
odd setup where a local APIC input is used in the native mode -- please
post /proc/interrupts for confirmation), which in turn implies the master
8259A drives its INT output as we expect. Why would the I/O APIC input
have problems then? Hmm...
[ mingo@elte.hu: revert the "x86: fix IO APIC breakage on HP nx6325"
version. ]
> > With such a configuration the "x86: I/O APIC: timer through 8259A
> > second-chance" patch should not matter, because the only change it
> > introduces is an attempt to try the same I/O APIC pin again, but with the
> > IRQ0 line of the master 8259A enabled. That's not a terribly unusual
> > configuration and nothing should get confused in the system.
>
> But it _does_ get confused, really.
Something certainly gets confused, but so far I am not sure which bit
exactly it is, are you?
> > Barring the unlikely possibility of the 8259A actually being wired to
> > INTIN2 of the I/O APIC I can see two possible explanations:
> >
> > 1. The 8259A interrupt actually escapes to the CPU somehow and is handled
> > as an ExtINTA interrupt. This would make the code in check_timer()
> > decide it has found a working configuration, while actually it has been
> > fooled.
[...]
> Here you go:
>
> [ 0.108006] ..TIMER: vector=0x30 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
> [ 0.108006] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
> [ 0.108006] ...trying to set up timer (IRQ0) through the 8259A ... <3>
> [ 0.108006] ..... (found apic 0 pin 2) ...<3> works.
>
> The full dmesg is at: http://www.sisk.pl/kernel/debug/20080618/dmesg-1.log
Thanks. In this case I suspect the case #1 quoted above happens, that is
the 8259A manages to deliver its interrupt somehow. Note at this stage it
is meant to be in the AEOI mode, so it can happily resubmit the interrupt
indefinitely with no additional handling as long as it receives INTA
cycles.
Can you please try the patch below on top of "x86: I/O APIC: timer
through 8259A second-chance" to see whether my hypothesis is true? It
modifies the through-8259A setup path so that the APIC input gets masked,
but the 8259A has the timer interrupt still enabled. Let me know how the
timer interrupt is routed in this case.
Bisected-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: APIC/SMP: Downgrade the NMI watchdog for "noapic"
If configured to use the I/O APIC, the NMI watchdog is deemed to fail if
the chip has been deactivated as a result of "noapic". Downgrade to the
local APIC watchdog similarly to what is done for the UP case.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: APIC/SMP: Downgrade the NMI watchdog for "nosmp"
If configured to use the I/O APIC, the NMI watchdog is deemed to fail if
the chip has been deactivated as a result of "nosmp". Downgrade to the
local APIC watchdog similarly to what is done for the UP case.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For the UP case the NMI watchdog downgrade is done consistently in
APIC_init_uniprocessor() now. Remove redundant code used only when
BIOS-disabled local APIC is activated.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: APIC/UP: Downgrade the NMI watchdog for no I/O APIC
If configured to use the I/O APIC, the NMI watchdog is deemed to fail if
the chip will not be used in the UP configuration, because "noapic" has
been specified or the chip is simply not there. Downgrade to the local
APIC watchdog to rectify.
The new #ifdef is ugly, I know. A proper solution is to provide suitable
definitions of smp_found_config, etc. for !CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC in a header.
Likewise the whole if () condition should be moved to a static inline
function. Such clean-ups are beyond the scope of this change and can be
done once the whole issue of the timer has been sorted out.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
A downgrade helper for the NMI watchdog to be used in all places where
the I/O APIC watchdog may have been requested, but the I/O APIC is found
not to be there or meant to be left disabled. This is so that the
reconfiguration is cosistent and defined in a single place only.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cyrill Gorcunov [Thu, 29 May 2008 18:32:30 +0000 (22:32 +0400)]
x86: IO-APIC - use NMI_NONE instead of numeric constant
Not sure but maybe it is better to use NMI_DISABLED,
will take a look. But for now this patch is not change
anything in logic so it will not hurt/broke the kernel.
For most cases nmi_watchdog assignment is by one of NMI_*
macro so I think there it make sense too.
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 31 May 2008 10:20:10 +0000 (12:20 +0200)]
x86 build fix:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c: In function 'check_timer':
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:1688: error: 'vector' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:1688: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c:1688: error: for each function it appears in.)
Some systems incorrectly report the ExtINTA pin of the I/O APIC as the
genuine target of the timer interrupt. Here is a change that copies timer
pin information found to the other pin if one has been found only. This
way both a direct and a through-8259A route is tested with the pin letting
these problematic systems work well enough. If no timer pin information
has been found for the I/O APIC, then local APIC variations are tried
only, similarly to what is done without the change (except without the
misleading messages).
Obviously if we try the first-chance path without being told by the BIOS
to do so, we should not complain either, so do not print the message in
this case.
The 64-bit variation should be updated with a call to
replace_pin_at_irq() which can be done with the upcoming merge. Since
add_pin_to_irq() is now always called in the first-chance path, the
condition to require it in the second-chance path no longer happens.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: unmask the second-chance timer interrupt
Unmask the timer interrupt line set up in the through-8259A mode
explicitly after setup_timer_IRQ0_pin() has set up the I/O APIC interrupt
redirection entry to let the two operations be unbound from each other.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rename setup_ExtINT_IRQ0_pin() to setup_timer_IRQ0_pin() to better
reflect the upcoming role of a function setting up a (semi-)arbitrary I/O
APIC pin appropriately for the 8254 timer. By "appropriate" the following
settings are meant: edge-triggered, active-high, all the other settings
per-architecture. Adjust comments to reflect code appropriately. No
functional changes.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The LINT0 line of the local APIC is masked in the LVT0 entry in
check_timer() before this function is ever called. Removed the
redundant unmasking for better control.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
For a better control the masking and unmasking of the timer interrupt
line in the 8259A operating in the 'Virtual Wire' mode has been moved out
of setup_ExtINT_IRQ0_pin() now, so remove the redundant calls from the
function.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: fix the name of the through-8259A handler
When the through-8259A mode is used for the timer, the call to
set_irq_handler() will register a NULL handler name, resulting in
"IO-APIC-<NULL>" reported. Fix by calling ioapic_register_intr() as done
for all the other I/O APIC interrupts.
The 64-bit variation calls set_irq_chip_and_handler_name() here
needlessly and should get fixed with the upcoming merge.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: fix the name of the L-APIC IRQ handler
The local APIC interrupt handler gets registered with
set_irq_chip_and_handler_name(), which results in
"local-APIC-edge-fasteoi" reported as the name of the handler. Fix by
removing the type of the handler left over from before the generic
handlers were introduced.
The 64-bit variation should get fixed with the upcoming merge.
NB It should really use the "edge" handler and not the "fasteoi" one,
but that's a separate issue.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: clean up the 8259A on a NMI watchdog failure
There is no point in keeping the 8259A enabled if the I/O APIC NMI
watchdog has failed and the 8259A is not used to pass through regular
timer interrupts. This fixes problems with some systems where some logic
gets confused.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: APIC/SMP: downgrade the NMI watchdog for "nosmp"
If configured to use the I/O APIC, the NMI watchdog is deemed to fail if
the chip has been deactivated as a result of "nosmp". Downgrade to the
local APIC watchdog similarly to what is done for the UP case.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: keep IRQ off when changing LVT registers
Disable the 8259A acting in the "virtual wire" mode to keep the interrupt
line inactive while fiddling with local APIC interrupt vector registers
associated with its destination inputs. To be on the safe side,
especially concerning flipping the trigger mode.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: I/O APIC: remove parameters to fiddle with the 8259A
Remove the "disable_8254_timer" and "enable_8254_timer" kernel
parameters. Now that AEOI acknowledgements are no longer needed for
correct timer operation, the 8259A can be kept disabled unconditionally
unless interrupts, either timer or watchdog ones, are actually passed
through it.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The code that used to be in do_slow_gettimeoffset() that relied on the
IRR bit of the master 8259A PIC for IRQ0 to check the state of the output
timer 0 of the PIT is no longer there. As a result, there is no need to
use the POLL command to acknowledge the timer interrupt in the "8259A
Virtual Wire", except for the NMI watchdog when the i82489DX APIC is used
(this is because this particular APIC treats NMIs as level-triggered and
keeping the input asserted would keep motherboard NMI sources held off for
too long). Remove the unneeded bits and adjust comments accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Andi Kleen [Fri, 2 May 2008 09:46:49 +0000 (11:46 +0200)]
x86, generic: CPA add statistics about state of direct mapping v4
Add information about the mapping state of the direct mapping to
/proc/meminfo. I chose /proc/meminfo because that is where all the other
memory statistics are too and it is a generally useful metric even
outside debugging situations. A lot of split kernel pages means the
kernel will run slower.
This way we can see how many large pages are really used for it and how
many are split.
Useful for general insight into the kernel.
v2: Add hotplug locking to 64bit to plug a very obscure theoretical race.
32bit doesn't need it because it doesn't support hotadd for lowmem.
Fix some typos
v3: Rename dpages_cnt
Add CONFIG ifdef for count update as requested by tglx
Expand description
v4: Fix stupid bugs added in v3
Move update_page_count to pageattr.c
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:12:03 +0000 (09:12 +0200)]
x86: add C1E aware idle function, fix
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> BTW, with the C1E patches reverted I don't get the
> WARNING: at /home/rafael/src/linux-next/kernel/smp.c:215 smp_call_function_single+0x3d/0xa2
> in the log. Thomas?
The BROADCAST_FORCE notification uses smp_function_call and therefor
must be run with interrupts enabled.
While at it, add a comment for the BROADCAST_EXIT notifier as well.
Reported-and-bisected-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Gleixner [Mon, 9 Jun 2008 17:15:00 +0000 (19:15 +0200)]
x86, clockevents: add C1E aware idle function
C1E on AMD machines is like C3 but without control from the OS. Up to
now we disabled the local apic timer for those machines as it stops
when the CPU goes into C1E. This excludes those machines from high
resolution timers / dynamic ticks, which hurts especially X2 based
laptops.
The current boot time C1E detection has another, more serious flaw
as well: some BIOSes do not enable C1E until the ACPI processor module
is loaded. This causes systems to stop working after that point.
To work nicely with C1E enabled machines we use a separate idle
function, which checks on idle entry whether C1E was enabled in the
Interrupt Pending Message MSR. This allows us to do timer broadcasting
for C1E and covers the late enablement of C1E as well.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Philipp Zabel [Sat, 5 Jul 2008 23:15:34 +0000 (01:15 +0200)]
pxamci: fix byte aligned DMA transfers
The pxa27x DMA controller defaults to 64-bit alignment. This caused
the SCR reads to fail (and, depending on card type, error out) when
card->raw_scr was not aligned on a 8-byte boundary.
For performance reasons all scatter-gather addresses passed to
pxamci_request should be aligned on 8-byte boundaries, but if
this can't be guaranteed, byte aligned DMA transfers in the
have to be enabled in the controller to get correct behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Philipp Zabel <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrey Borzenkov reports that it resulted in a totally hung machine for
him when loading the OHCI driver. Extensive netconsole capture with
SysRq output shows that modprobe gets stuck in ohci_hub_status_data()
when probing and enabling the OHCI controller, see for example
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/5/236
for an analysis.
The problem appears to be an interrupt flood triggered by the commit
that gets reverted, and Andrey confirmed that the revert makes things
work for him again.
Reported-and-tested-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark McLoughlin [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:23:15 +0000 (18:23 +0100)]
KVM: IOAPIC: Fix level-triggered irq injection hang
The "remote_irr" variable is used to indicate an interrupt
which has been received by the LAPIC, but not acked.
In our EOI handler, we unset remote_irr and re-inject the
interrupt if the interrupt line is still asserted.
However, we do not set remote_irr here, leading to a
situation where if kvm_ioapic_set_irq() is called, then we go
ahead and call ioapic_service(). This means that IRR is
re-asserted even though the interrupt is currently in service
(i.e. LAPIC IRR is cleared and ISR/TMR set)
The issue with this is that when the currently executing
interrupt handler finishes and writes LAPIC EOI, then TMR is
unset and EOI sent to the IOAPIC. Since IRR is now asserted,
but TMR is not, then when the second interrupt is handled,
no EOI is sent and if there is any pending interrupt, it is
not re-injected.
This fixes a hang only seen while running mke2fs -j on an
8Gb virtio disk backed by a fully sparse raw file, with
aliguori "avoid fragmented virtio-blk transfers by copying"
changes.
Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Anthony Liguori [Thu, 3 Jul 2008 16:02:36 +0000 (19:02 +0300)]
x86: KVM guest: Add memory clobber to hypercalls
Hypercalls can modify arbitrary regions of memory. Make sure to indicate this
in the clobber list. This fixes a hang when using KVM_GUEST kernel built with
GCC 4.3.0.
This was originally spotted and analyzed by Marcelo.
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>
Andrew Morton [Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:02:01 +0000 (01:02 -0700)]
Fix pagemap_read() use of struct mm_walk
Fix some issues in pagemap_read noted by Alexey:
- initialize pagemap_walk.mm to "mm" , so the code starts working as
advertised
- initialize ->private to "&pm" so it wouldn't immediately oops in
pagemap_pte_hole()
- unstatic struct pagemap_walk, so two threads won't fsckup each other
(including those started by root, including flipping ->mm when you don't
have permissions)
- pagemap_read() contains two calls to ptrace_may_attach(), second one
looks unneeded.
- avoid possible kmalloc(0) and integer wraparound.
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Personally, I'd just remove the functionality entirely - Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move _RET_IP_ and _THIS_IP_ to include/linux/kernel.h
These two macros are useful beyond lock debugging. Moved definitions from
include/linux/debug_locks.h to include/linux/kernel.h, so code that needs
them does not have to include the former, which would have been a less
intuitive choice of a header.
Signed-off-by: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64
x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume
ahci: give another shot at clearing all bits in irq_stat
Commit ea0c62f7cf70f13a67830471b613337bd0c9a62e tried to clear all
bits in irq_stat but it didn't actually achieve that as irq_stat was
anded with port_map right after read. This patch makes ahci driver
always use the unmasked value to clear irq_status.
While at it, add explanation on the peculiarities of ahci IRQ
clearing.
class->dev_release is called by device_release() iff dev->release
is not present so ide_port_class_release() is never called and the
last hwif->gendev reference is not dropped.
Fix it by removing ide_port_class_release() and get_device() call
from ide_register_port() (device_create_drvdata() takes a hwif->gendev
reference anyway).
This patch fixes hang on wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp)
in ide_unregister() reported by Pavel Machek.
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Arjan van de Ven [Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:51:08 +0000 (15:51 -0700)]
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
Most places in the kernel that go BUG: print a module list
(which is very useful for doing statistics and finding patterns),
however the softlockup detector does not do this yet.
This patch adds the one line change to fix this gap.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86 ACPI: fix resume from suspend to RAM on uniprocessor x86-64
Since the trampoline code is now used for ACPI resume from suspend to RAM,
the trampoline page tables have to be fixed up during boot not only on SMP
systems, but also on UP systems that use the trampoline.
H. Peter Anvin [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:03:48 +0000 (23:03 +0200)]
x86 ACPI: normalize segment descriptor register on resume
Some Dell laptops enter resume with apparent garbage in the segment
descriptor registers (almost certainly the result of a botched
transition from protected to real mode.) The only way to clean that
up is to enter protected mode ourselves and clean out the descriptor
registers.
This fixes resume on Dell XPS M1210 and Dell D620.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Tested-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Rientjes [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 19:24:13 +0000 (12:24 -0700)]
mempolicy: mask off internal flags for userspace API
Flags considered internal to the mempolicy kernel code are stored as part
of the "flags" member of struct mempolicy.
Before exposing a policy type to userspace via get_mempolicy(), these
internal flags must be masked. Flags exposed to userspace, however,
should still be returned to the user.
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pierre Ossman [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 10:51:20 +0000 (12:51 +0200)]
mmc: don't use DMA on newer ENE controllers
Even the newer ENE controllers have bugs in their DMA engine that make
it too dangerous to use. Disable it until someone has figured out under
which conditions it corrupts data.
This has caused problems at least once, and can be found as bug report
10925 in the kernel bugzilla.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
doc: document the relax_domain_level kernel boot argument
Document the kernel boot parameter: relax_domain_level=.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Reviewed-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In linux-next there is a commit ("x86: Add performance variants of cpumask
operators") which, as part of the 4096 cpu support work adds some new APIs
for dealing with cpu masks. Add trivial versions of these now so that
subsystems can update in a timely manner and avoid conflicts in linux-next
and the next merge window.
Cc: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:04 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's interrupt timeout
The CaFe chip has a hardware bug that ends up with us getting a timeout
value that's too small, causing the following sorts of problems:
[ 60.525138] mmcblk0: error -110 transferring data
[ 60.531477] end_request: I/O error, dev mmcblk0, sector 1484353
[ 60.533371] Buffer I/O error on device mmcblk0p2, logical block 181632
[ 60.533371] lost page write due to I/O error on mmcblk0p2
Presumably this is an off-by-one error in the hardware. Incrementing
the timeout count value that we stuff into the TIMEOUT_CONTROL register
gets us a value that works. This bug was originally discovered by
Pierre Ossman, I believe.
[thanks to Robert Millan for proving that this was still a problem]
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andres Salomon [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:03 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
olpc: sdhci: add quirk for the Marvell CaFe's vdd/powerup issue
This has been sitting around unloved for way too long..
The Marvell CaFe chip's SD implementation chokes during card insertion
if one attempts to set the voltage and power up in the same
SDHCI_POWER_CONTROL register write. This adds a quirk that does
that particular dance in two steps.
It also adds an entry to pci_ids.h for the CaFe chip's SD device.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Miller [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:02 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
cciss: read config to obtain max outstanding commands per controller
This patch changes the way we determine the maximum number of outstanding
commands for each controller.
Most Smart Array controllers can support up to 1024 commands, the notable
exceptions are the E200 and E200i.
The next generation of controllers which were just added support a mode of
operation called Zero Memory Raid (ZMR). In this mode they only support
64 outstanding commands. In Full Function Raid (FFR) mode they support
1024.
We have been setting the queue depth by arbitrarily assigning some value
for each controller. We needed a better way to set the queue depth to
avoid lots of annoying "fifo full" messages. So we made the driver a
little smarter. We now read the config table and subtract 4 from the
returned value. The -4 is to allow some room for ioctl calls which are
not tracked the same way as io commands are tracked.
Please consider this for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Jackson [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 17:00:01 +0000 (10:00 -0700)]
cpusets: document proc status cpus and mems allowed lists
Provide a little documentation for the two new fields, Cpus_allowed_list
and Mems_allowed_list, that were added to each /proc/<pid>/status file a
while back.
Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alpha Linux kernel fails with inconsistent kallsyms data
The build of the Alpha Linux kernel currently fails[1] with inconsistent
kallsyms data. As I never saw that before, I thought about hardware
problems. But in fact it is a bug in the Linux kernel.
The end of the rodata section is marked with the "__end_rodata" symbol.
This symbol have different aligning constraints than the inittext parts
and therefor the start marked "_sinittext". Because of that the
__end_rodata symbol shifts between < _sinittext and == _sinittext. The
later variant is seen as a code symbol and recorded in the kallsyms data.
On fix would be to move the exception table a little bit and get some
space between that two areas.
Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The filesystem capability support meaning for CAP_SETPCAP is less powerful
than the non-filesystem capability support. As such, when filesystem
capabilities are configured, we should not permit CAP_SETPCAP to 'enhance'
the current process through strace manipulation of a child process.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit includes a bugfix for the fragile setuid fixup code in the
case that filesystem capabilities are supported (in access()). The effect
of this fix is gated on filesystem capability support because changing
securebits is only supported when filesystem capabilities support is
configured.)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.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>
Randy Dunlap [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:57 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
doc: doc maintainers
Maintain the kernel's Documentation/ tree.
This includes tree layout and contents, although not much in terms of new
content production. That will usually have to be done by someone familiar
with the software, at least in some rough form.
Includes review and editorial assistance for people contributing changes
to /Documentation.
Also includes prodding people for content if something is in need of
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This got broken by the recent "fix rmmod $spi_driver while spidev-user is
active". I tested the rmmod & write path but didn't check the read path.
I am sorry. The read logic changed and spidev_sync_read() +
spidev_sync_write() do not return zero on success anymore but the number
of bytes that has been transfered over the bus. This patch changes the
logic and copy_to_user() gets called again.
The write path returns the number of bytes which are written to the
underlying device what may be less than the requested size. This patch
makes the same change to the read path or else we request a read of 20
bytes, get 10, don't call copy to user and report to the user that we read
10 bytes.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove test of known-to-be-zero local] Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Samuel Ortiz [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:53 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
MFD maintainer
We probably need someone to look after the few drivers/mfd patches coming
every now and then. As agreed with Andrew, I'm ok to do so and my
employer is fine with me spending a few working hours on it, if needed.
Ben, Philipp, feel free to add your names there too if you wish.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@openedhand.com> Cc: "pHilipp Zabel" <philipp.zabel@gmail.com> Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Cc: Dmitry Baryshkov <dbaryshkov@gmail.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>
Michael Kerrisk [Fri, 4 Jul 2008 16:59:49 +0000 (09:59 -0700)]
man-pages is supported
Starting last month, I reached a long-time goal: man-pages finally has a
paid, full-time maintainer, thanks to a fellowship from the Linux
Foundation. It's still a little unclear how long the LF money will last
for the fellowship, but for the foreseeable future, I'll be working on:
* Properly documenting every new Linux kernel-userland (and glibc) API,
and every API change, that is released into the mainline kernel, ideally
before actual release. (That's the ideal, but there's a quite a
backlog, so I'm not going to achieve the ideal immediately.)
* Testing new APIs, again ideally before they are released into the
mainline kernel, and probably doing some light bug fixing while I'm at
it (e.g., the recent utimensat() work).
* Design review of new APIs, which of course can only usefully be done
before they are released into the mainline kernel.
* And of course accepting patches and dealing with bug reports for
existing man pages.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
In linux-next there is a commit ("rcu: split list.h and move rcu-protected
lists into rculist.h") that moved the rcu related list iterators from
list.h to rculist.h. Add a trivial version of the file now so that
various subsystem trees can start using it now for -next changes and so
reduce the build errors caused by adding uses of the moved functions.
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Originally based on an Ubuntu patch that got it wrong, the dmidecode
output of the corresponding laptops shows LENOVO as the manufacturer.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/133636
Cc: Klaus S. Madsen <ubuntu@hjernemadsen.org> Cc: Chuck Short <zulcss@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Cc: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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