[PATCH] serial/68328serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] serial/68360serial: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:30 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking
The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:29 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking (00-INDEX)
wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/cmpci: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:27 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1370: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:26 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/es1371: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tobias Klauser [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:25 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/esssolo1: Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant
Use the DMA_32BIT_MASK constant from dma-mapping.h when calling
pci_set_dma_mask() or pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=108001993000001&r=1&w=2 for details
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
J.A. Magallon [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:22 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kill signed chars
scripts/ is full of mismatches between char* params an signed char* arguments,
and viceversa. gcc4 now complaints loud about this. Patch below deletes all
those 'signed'.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:18 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hisax/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the compiled but unused st5481_hdlc.{c,h}
- kill enternow.h
- enternow_pci.c: kill InByte/OutByte/BYTE
- isdnl2.c: kill FreeSkb
- remove or #if 0 the following unused functions:
- config.c: IsdnCardState
- ipacx.c: ipacx_new_ph
- ipacx.c: dch_bh
- ipacx.c: setup_ipacx
- isdnl2.c: IsRR
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Kai Germaschewski <kai@germaschewski.name> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:16 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/ip2*: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- i2cmd.c: #if 0 the unused function i2cmdUnixFlags
- i2cmd.c: make the needlessly global funciton i2cmdBaudDef static
- ip2main.c: remove dead code that wasn't reachable due to an #ifdef
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:15 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] kfree cleanups for drivers/firmware/
Here's a patch with kfree() cleanups for drivers/firmware/efivars.c Patch
removes redundant NULL checks before kfree and also makes a small
whitespace cleanup - moves two statements on same line to separate lines.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:11 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] change the SOUND_PRIME handling
SOUND_PRIME (for OSS) is a tristate.
This doesn't make much sense if most users are checking for
SOUND_PRIME!=0.
This patch changes the semantics of SOUND_PRIME to being a limit for all
OSS modules, IOW: SOUND_PRIME=m does now say that all OSS drivers can
only be modular.
As a side effect, since SOUND_PRIME already depends on SOUND, there's no
longer a reason for drivers depending on SOUND_PRIME to additionally
depend on SOUND.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:10 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the following unused global functions:
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- blk_phys_contig_segment
- blk_hw_contig_segment
- blkdev_scsi_issue_flush_fn
- __blk_attempt_remerge
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:06 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/jffs/: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global functions static
- provide some debugging helper functions only for appropriate
values of CONFIG_JFFS_FS_VERBOSE
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:04 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/nvram.c: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the needlessly global function __nvram_set_checksum static
- #if 0 the unused global function nvram_set_checksum
- remove the EXPORT_SYMBOL's for both functions
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:59 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups
Remove some of the unnecessary differences between arch/i386 and
arch/x86_64. This patch fixes more whitespace issues, some miscellaneous
typos, a wrong URL and a factually incorrect statement about the current
boot sector code.
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:52 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/isicom.c: section fixes
This patch fixes the following bugs:
- __exit unregister_ioregion and unregister_drivers were called by
__init isicom_init
- __init isicom_init was called by __devinit isicom_setup
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:50 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/scsi/initio.c: cleanups
This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove or #if 0 the following unused functions:
- tul_pop_pend_scb
- tul_device_reset
- tul_reset_scsi_bus
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:49 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove redundant NULL checks before kfree() in sound/ and avoid casting pointers about to be kfree()'ed
Checking a pointer for NULL before calling kfree() on it is redundant,
kfree() deals with NULL pointers just fine.
This patch removes such checks from sound/
This patch also makes another, but closely related, change.
It avoids casting pointers about to be kfree()'ed.
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:42 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] char/tty_io: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
Use msleep_interruptible() instead of schedule_timeout() in send_break() to
guarantee the task delays as expected. Change @duration's units to
milliseconds, and modify arguments in callers appropriately. Patch is
compile-tested.
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:41 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] char/ds1620: use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout()
Not sure why any driver needs to sleep for *two* ticks, so let's fix it.
Use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout() to guarantee the task delays as
expected. Signals are never checked for by the callers or in the function
itself, so use TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE instead of TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE. The
delay is presumed to have been written when HZ==100, and thus has been
multiplied by 10 to pass to msleep().
Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
randy_dunlap [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:39 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] au1100fb: convert to C99 inits.
au1100: use C99 struct init.
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/i4l/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the following unused global function:
- isdn_audio.c: isdn_audio_2adpcm_flush
- remove the following unused struct:
- isdn_net.c: isdn_concap_demand_dial_dops
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:35 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/pcbit/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make some needlessly global functions static
- remove the following unused global functions:
- callbacks.c: cb_out_3
- capi.c: capi_decode_disc_conf
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:34 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/sc/: possible cleanups
This patch contains the following possible cleanips:
- make some needlessly global code static
- remove the compiled but completely unused debug.c
- remove or #if 0 the following unused global functions:
- command.c: loopback
- command.c: loadproc
- init.c: irq_supported
- packet.c: print_skb
- shmem.c: memset_shmem
- timer.c: trace_timer
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nico Golde [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:33 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] cpufreq: governors documentation fixes
I corrected a small error and enhanced the govenor.txt file with the
ondemand daemon because the kernel configs link to the documentation but
ondemand wasn't documentated. Feel free to include the patch in the
attachment.
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:30 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] Fix vesafb/mtrr scaling problem.
vesafb will do really silly things like..
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,800000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,400000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,200000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,100000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,80000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,40000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,20000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,10000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,8000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,4000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,2000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: type mismatch for e0000000,1000 old: write-back new: write-combining
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x800 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x400 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x200 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x100 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x80 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x40 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x20 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x10 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x8 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x4 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x2 base: 0xe0000000
mtrr: size and base must be multiples of 4 kiB
mtrr: size: 0x1 base: 0xe0000000
Stop scaling down at PAGE_SIZE.
Also fix up some broken indentation.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexander Nyberg [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:27 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Save trap information for later analysis
If we are faulting in kernel it is quite possible this will lead to a
panic. Save trap number, cr2 (in case of page fault) and error_code in the
current thread (these fields already exist for signal delivery but are not
used here).
This helps later kdump crash analyzing from user-space (a script has been
submitted to dig this info out in gdb).
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alexander Nyberg [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:26 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception
Makes kexec_crashdump() take a pt_regs * as an argument. This allows to
get exact register state at the point of the crash. If we come from direct
panic assertion NULL will be passed and the current registers saved before
crashdump.
This hooks into two places:
die(): check the conditions under which we will panic when calling
do_exit and go there directly with the pt_regs that caused the fatal
fault.
die_nmi(): If we receive an NMI lockup while in the kernel use the
pt_regs and go directly to crash_kexec(). We're probably nested up badly
at this point so this might be the only chance to escape with proper
information.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:24 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw format
Removed the dependency on backup region. Now all the information is encoded
in ELF format. /dev/oldmem is a dummy interface. User space tool need to be
intelligent enough to parse the elf headers and read the relevant memory areas
with the help of /dev/oldmem.
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:22 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcore
o Adds support for parsing core ELF32 headers.
o I am expecting ELF32 support to go away down the line. This patch has been
introduced for testing purposes as gdb can not parse ELF64 headers for
i386. When a decent user space solution is available, ELF32 support
can go away.
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:21 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image
either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers
have been stored by crashed kernel.
o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option.
o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore.
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in
the affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between
/proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c
From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the
previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot.
Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:19 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages
This patch provides the interfaces necessary to read the dump contents,
treating it as a high memory device.
Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:19 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Kconfig
- config option CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP
- Made it dependent on HIGHMEM. This is required as capture kernel treats
the previous kernel's memory as high memmory and stitches a PTE for
accessing it.
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:18 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn
This patch retrieves the max_pfn being used by previous kernel and stores it
in a safe location (saved_max_pfn) before it is overwritten due to user
defined memory map. This pfn is used to make sure that user does not try to
read the physical memory beyond saved_max_pfn.
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:17 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump documentation update to introduce use of irqpoll
o Specify "irqpoll" command line option which loading second kernel. This
helps in reducing driver initialization failures in second kernel due
to shared interrupts.
o Enabled LAPIC/IOAPIC support for UP kernels in second kernel. This reduces
the chances of devices sharing the irq and hence reduces the chances of
driver initialization failures in second kernel.
o Build a UP capture kernel and disabled SMP support.
2) Download and build the latest kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel patchset.
Two kernels need to be built in order to get this feature working.
A) First kernel:
a) Enable "kexec system call" feature:
CONFIG_KEXEC=y
b) Physical load address (use default):
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
c) Enable "sysfs file system support":
CONFIG_SYSFS=y
d) Boot into first kernel with the command line parameter "crashkernel=Y@X":
For example: "crashkernel=64M@16M".
B) Second kernel:
a) Enable "kernel crash dumps" feature:
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
b) Physical load addreess, use same load address as X in "crashkernel"
kernel parameter in d) above, e.g., 16 MB or 0x1000000.
CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:14 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kexec: Kexec on panic fix with nmi watchdog enabled
o Problem: Kexec on panic hangs if first kernel is booted with nmi_watchdog
command line parameter. This problem occurs because kexec crash shutdown
code replaces the NMI callback handler. This handler saves the cpu register
states and halts the cpu. If system is booted with nmi_watchdog parameter,
then crashing cpu also runs this nmi handler and halts itself.
o This patch fixes the problem by keeping a track of crashing cpu and not
executing the new nmi handler on crashing cpu.
o There is a dependence on smp_processor_id() function which might return
insane value for cpu, if cpu field of thread_info is corrupted.
CPU does not save ss and esp on stack if execution was already in kernel mode
at the time of NMI occurrence. This leads to saving of erractic values for ss
and esp. This patch fixes the issue.
Heiko Carstens [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:11 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: s390 support
Add kexec support for s390 architecture.
From: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
- Fix passing of first argument to relocate_kernel assembly.
- Fix Kconfig description.
- Remove wrong comment and comments that describe obvious things.
- Allow only KEXEC_TYPE_DEFAULT as image type -> dump not supported.
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
R Sharada [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:10 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64
This patch implements the kexec support for ppc64 platforms.
A couple of notes:
1) We copy the pages in virtual mode, using the full base kernel
and a statically allocated stack. At kexec_prepare time we
scan the pages and if any overlap our (0, _end[]) range we
return -ETXTBSY.
On PowerPC 64 systems running in LPAR (logical partitioning)
mode, only a small region of memory, referred to as the RMO,
can be accessed in real mode. Since Linux runs with only one
zone of memory in the memory allocator, and it can be orders of
magnitude more memory than the RMO, looping until we allocate
pages in the source region is not feasible. Copying in virtual
means we don't have to write a hash table generation and call
hypervisor to insert translations, instead we rely on the pinned
kernel linear mapping. The kernel already has move to linked
location built in, so there is no requirement to load it at 0.
If we want to load something other than a kernel, then a stub
can be written to copy a linear chunk in real mode.
2) The start entry point gets passed parameters from the kernel.
Slaves are started at a fixed address after copying code from
the entry point.
All CPUs get passed their firmware assigned physical id in r3
(most calling conventions use this register for the first
argument).
This is used to distinguish each CPU from all other CPUs.
Since firmware is not around, there is no other way to obtain
this information other than to pass it somewhere.
A single CPU, referred to here as the master and the one executing
the kexec call, branches to start with the address of start in r4.
While this can be calculated, we have to load it through a gpr to
branch to this point so defining the register this is contained
in is free. A stack of unspecified size is available at r1
(also common calling convention).
All remaining running CPUs are sent to start at absolute address
0x60 after copying the first 0x100 bytes from start to address 0.
This convention was chosen because it matches what the kernel
has been doing itself. (only gpr3 is defined).
Note: This is not quite the convention of the kexec bootblock v2
in the kernel. A stub has been written to convert between them,
and we may adjust the kernel in the future to allow this directly
without any stub.
3) Destination pages can be placed anywhere, even where they
would not be accessible in real mode. This will allow us to
place ram disks above the RMO if we choose.
Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: R Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I have tweaked this patch slightly to handle an empty list
of pages to relocate passed to relocate_new_kernel. And
I have added ppc_md.machine_crash_shutdown. To keep up with
the changes in the generic kexec infrastructure.
From: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
The following patch adds support for kexec on the ppc32 platform.
Non-OpenFirmware based platforms are likely to work directly without
additional changes on the kernel side. The kexec-tools userland package
may need to be slightly updated, though.
For OpenFirmware based machines, additional work is still needed on the
kernel side before kexec support is ready. Benjamin Herrenschmidt is
kindly working on that part.
In order for a ppc platform to use the kexec kernel services it must
implement some ppc_md hooks. Otherwise, kexec will be explicitly disabled,
as suggested by benh.
There are 3+1 new ppc_md hooks that a platform supporting kexec may
implement. Two of them are mandatory for kexec to work. See
include/asm-ppc/machdep.h for details.
- machine_kexec_prepare(image)
This function is called to make any arrangements to the image before it
is loaded.
This hook _MUST_ be provided by a platform in order to activate kexec
support for that platform. Otherwise, the platform is considered to not
support kexec and the kexec_load system call will fail (that makes all
existing platforms by default non-kexec'able).
- machine_kexec_cleanup(image)
This function is called to make any cleanups on image after the loaded
image data it is freed. This hook is optional. A platform may or may
not provide this hook.
- machine_kexec(image)
This function is called to perform the _actual_ kexec. This hook
_MUST_ be provided by a platform in order to activate kexec support for
that platform.
If a platform provides machine_kexec_prepare but forgets to provide
machine_kexec, a kexec will fall back to a reboot.
A ready-to-use machine_kexec_simple() generic function is provided to,
hopefully, simplify kexec adoption for embedded platforms. A platform
may call this function from its specific machine_kexec hook, like this:
This function is called to perform any machine specific shutdowns, not
already done by drivers. This hook is optional. A platform may or may
not provide this hook.
An example (trimmed) platform specific module for a platform supporting
kexec through the existing machine_kexec_simple follows:
/* ... */
#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
int myplatform_kexec_prepare(struct kimage *image)
{
/* here, we can place additional preparations
*/
return 0; /* yes, we support kexec */
}
The kexec ppc kernel support has been heavily tested on the GameCube Linux
port, and, as reported in the fastboot mailing list, it has been tested too
on a Moto 82xx ppc by Rick Richardson.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the x86_64 implementation of the crashkernel option. It reserves
a window of memory very early in the bootup process, so we never use
it for anything but the kernel to switch to when the running
kernel panics.
In addition to reserving this memory a resource structure is registered
so looking at /proc/iomem it is clear what happened to that memory.
ISSUES:
Is it possible to implement this in a architecture generic way?
What should be done with architectures that always use an iommu and
thus don't report their RAM memory resources in /proc/iomem?
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the x86_64 implementation of machine kexec. 32bit compatibility
support has been implemented, and machine_kexec has been enhanced to not care
about the changing internal kernel paget table structures.
From: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@dsv.su.se>
build fix
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is the x86 implementation of the crashkernel option. It reserves a
window of memory very early in the bootup process, so we never use it for
anything but the kernel to switch to when the running kernel panics.
In addition to reserving this memory a resource structure is registered so
looking at /proc/iomem it is clear what happened to that memory.
ISSUES:
Is it possible to implement this in a architecture generic way?
What should be done with architectures that always use an iommu and
thus don't report their RAM memory resources in /proc/iomem?
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kexec: x86 shutdown APICs during crash_shutdown
In the case of a crash/panic an architecture specific function
machine_crash_shutdown is called. This patch adds to the x86 machine_crash
function the standard kernel code for shutting down apics.
Every line of code added to that function increases the risk that we will call
code after a kernel panic that is not safe.
This patch should not make it to the stable kernel without a being reviewed a
lot more. It is unclear how much a hardned kernel can take when it comes to
misconfigured apics. So since a normal kernel has problems this patch does a
clean shutdown.
It is my expectation this patch will be dropped from future generations of the
kexec work. But for the moment it is a crutch to keep from breaking
everything.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] kexec: x86: snapshot registers during crash shutdown
After the kernel panics if we wish to generate an entire machine core file it
is very nice to know the register state at the time the machine crashed.
After long discussion it was realized that if you are going to be saving the
information anyway it is reasonable to store the information in a format that
it will be used and recognized in so the register state is stored in the
standard ELF note format.
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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