* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code
remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib
remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
module: turn longs into ints for module sizes
Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
module: generic each_symbol iterator function
module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (49 commits)
powerpc: Fix build bug with binutils < 2.18 and GCC < 4.2
powerpc/eeh: Don't panic when EEH_MAX_FAILS is exceeded
fbdev: Teaches offb about palette on radeon r5xx/r6xx
powerpc/cell/edac: Log a syndrome code in case of correctable error
powerpc/cell: Add DMA_ATTR_WEAK_ORDERING dma attribute and use in Cell IOMMU code
powerpc: Indicate which oprofile counters to use while in compat mode
powerpc/boot: Change spaces to tabs
powerpc: Remove duplicate 6xx option in Kconfig
powerpc: Use PPC_LONG and PPC_LONG_ALIGN in lib/string.S
powerpc: Use PPC_LONG_ALIGN in uaccess.h
powerpc: Add a #define for aligning to a long-sized boundary
powerpc: Fix OF parsing of 64 bits PCI addresses
powerpc: Use WARN_ON(1) instead of __WARN()
powerpc: Fix support for latencytop
powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig
powerpc/ps3: Add a sub-match id to ps3_system_bus
powerpc: Add a 6xx defconfig
powerpc/dma: Use the struct dma_attrs in iommu code
powerpc/cell: Add support for power button of future IBM cell blades
powerpc/cell: Cleanup sysreset_hack for IBM cell blades
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (79 commits)
arm: bus_id -> dev_name() and dev_set_name() conversions
sparc64: fix up bus_id changes in sparc core code
3c59x: handle pci_name() being const
MTD: handle pci_name() being const
HP iLO driver
sysdev: Convert the x86 mce tolerant sysdev attribute to generic attribute
sysdev: Add utility functions for simple int/ulong variable sysdev attributes
sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
sysfs-rules.txt: reword API stability statement
debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()
HOWTO: change email addresses of James in HOWTO
always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
uio-howto.tmpl: use unique output names
uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings
sysfs: don't call notify_change
sysdev: fix debugging statements in registration code.
kobject: should use kobject_put() in kset-example
kobject: reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds
...
Alan Cox [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:44:14 +0000 (13:44 +0100)]
istallion: Use helpers
The ldisc needs to be referenced properly when used. The tty layer has a
helper for this which should have been used but this driver got missed
originally.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:22:14 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
synclink_gt: add rx DMA buffer fill level control
Add run time control for receive DMA buffer fill level to allow
application to control receive latency when using stream oriented serial
protocols that pass receive data to application only after a DMA buffer
fills. This was previously a compile time option, but run time control is
needed when application changes data rate (and latency requirements) or
uses different data rates on different ports.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:22:04 +0000 (11:22 +0100)]
synclink_gt: leave transmitter in reset state after configuration
Leave the transmitter in reset state after configuration so that transmit
signal is held at mark until transmitter is explicitly enabled by
application, otherwise transmitter sends idle pattern.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:21:55 +0000 (11:21 +0100)]
synclink_gt: improve TIOCOUTQ accuracy
Improve the accuracy of TIOCOUTQ value as implemented in chars_in_buffer()
method by walking and counting tx DMA buffers, reading controller tx FIFO
level and accounting for controller tx shift register. The greatly
improves application control of transmit latency at lower data rates.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Paul Fulghum [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:21:28 +0000 (11:21 +0100)]
synclink_gt: improve and simplify write method
Improve write method by allowing multiple HDLC frames to be loaded into tx
DMA buffer ring for continuous frame transmission. This simplifies the
transmit code by using the common procedures for all serial protocols.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Anton Vorontsov [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:21:07 +0000 (11:21 +0100)]
serial: 8250: fix shared interrupts issues with SMP and RT kernels
With SMP kernels _irqsave spinlock disables only local interrupts, while
the shared serial interrupt could be assigned to the CPU that is not
currently starting up the serial port.
This might cause issues because serial8250_startup() routine issues
IRQ-triggering operations before registering the port in the IRQ chain
(though, this is fine to do and done explicitly because we don't want to
process any interrupts on the port startup).
With RT kernels and preemptable hardirqs, _irqsave spinlock does not
disable local hardirqs, and the bug could be reproduced much easily:
After this, all serial ports on the given IRQ are non-functional.
To fix the issue we should explicitly disable shared IRQ before
issuing any IRQ-triggering operations.
I also changed spin_lock_irqsave to the ordinary spin_lock, since it
seems to be safe: chain does not contain new port (yet), thus nobody
will interfere us from the ISRs.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:18:03 +0000 (11:18 +0100)]
tty: rework break handling
Some hardware needs to do break handling itself and may have partial
support only. Make break_ctl return an error code. Add a tty driver flag
so you can indicate driver hardware side break support.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:53 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
tty: Mark unconverted drivers as BROKEN
Nobody seems to use these drivers anyway so if they want them they can
fix them up. I don't have the needed info to add break_ctl support to them.
Send patches if you don't like it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:17:16 +0000 (11:17 +0100)]
specialix: Code cleanups
Go through the inlines and other oddments that are iffy. Remove various bits
of dead code and bogus debug. Turn the crtsdts compile time option into a
runtime switch.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:09:07 +0000 (11:09 +0100)]
usb_serial: API all change
USB serial likes to use port->tty back pointers for the real work it does and
to do so without any actual locking. Unfortunately when you consider hangup
events, hangup/parallel reopen or even worse hangup followed by parallel close
events the tty->port and port->tty pointers are not guaranteed to be the same
as port->tty is the active tty while tty->port is the port the tty may or
may not still be attached to.
So rework the entire API to pass the tty struct. For console cases we need
to pass both for now. This shows up multiple drivers that immediately crash
with USB console some of which have been fixed in the process.
Longer term we need a proper tty as console abstraction
When a kernel was rebuilt, the previous Module.markers was not cleared.
It caused markers with different format strings to appear as duplicates
when a markers was changed. This problem is present since
scripts/mod/modpost.c started to generate Module.markers, commit b2e3e658b344c6bcfb8fb694100ab2f2b5b2edb0
It therefore applies to 2.6.25, 2.6.26 and linux-next.
I merely merged the patches from Roland, Wenji and Takashi here.
Credits to
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Wenji Huang <wenji.huang@oracle.com>
and
Takashi Nishiie <t-nishiie@np.css.fujitsu.com>
for providing the individual fixes.
- Changelog :
- Integrated Takashi's Makefile modification to clear Module.markers upon
make clean.
David Brownell [Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:34 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
gpio: pcf857x: add lock and handle more chips
Two small updates to the pcf857x driver: (a) the max732[89] chips are
also second sources for the pcf8574/a, and (b) add a mutex to prevent
trashing the cached state. Adding the lock is effectively a bugfix,
although it seems unlikely that anyone would have run into the issue it
protects against.
Signed-off-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>
John Reiser [Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:32 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
execve filename: document and export via auxiliary vector
The Linux kernel puts the filename argument of execve() into the new
address space. Many developers are surprised to learn this. Those who
know and could use it, object "But it's not documented."
Those who want to use it dislike the expression
(char *)(1+ strlen(env[-1+ n_env]) + env[-1+ n_env])
because it requires locating the last original environment variable,
and assumes that the filename follows the characters.
This patch documents the insertion of the filename, and makes it easier
to find by adding a new tag AT_EXECFN in the ElfXX_auxv_t; see <elf.h>.
In many cases readlink("/proc/self/exe",) gives the same answer. But if
all the original pages get unmapped, then the kernel erases the symlink
for /proc/self/exe. This can happen when a program decompressor does a
good job of cleaning up after uncompressing directly to memory, so that
the address space of the target program looks the same as if compression
had never happened. One example is http://upx.sourceforge.net .
One notable use of the underlying concept (what path containED the
executable) is glibc expanding $ORIGIN in DT_RUNPATH. In practice for
the near term, it may be a good idea for user-mode code to use both
/proc/self/exe and AT_EXECFN as fall-back methods for each other.
/proc/self/exe can fail due to unmapping, AT_EXECFN can fail because it
won't be present on non-new systems. The auxvec or {AT_EXECFN}.d_val
also can get overwritten, although in nearly all cases this would be the
result of a bug.
The runtime cost is one NEW_AUX_ENT using two words of stack space. The
underlying value is maintained already as bprm->exec; setup_arg_pages()
in fs/exec.c slides it for stack_shift, etc.
Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:00:20 +0000 (19:00 +0200)]
remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
One place is just a comment, the other a conditional, unused
inclusion of linux/kmod.h.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:00:25 +0000 (19:00 +0200)]
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
Also includes a few Kconfig files (xtensa, blackfin)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:28 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in
order to speed up module_text_address().
Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines:
Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend
to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high
frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after
all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been
some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded
that this is a tad too slow.
This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every
slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address,
so that's 1024 slots. 1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot
of list walking.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding
exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL,
and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway
(because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then).
This patch adds required #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Richard Kennedy [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:26 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds.
saves 1 cacheline_size (128 on default x86_64 & 64 on AMD
Opteron/athlon) when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:25 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: generic each_symbol iterator function
Introduce an each_symbol() iterator to avoid duplicating the knowledge
about the 5 different sections containing symbols. Currently only
used by find_symbol(), but will be used by symbol_put_addr() too.
(Includes NULL ptr deref fix by Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:25 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
rmmod has a little-used "-w" option, meaning that instead of failing if the
module is in use, it should block until the module becomes unused.
In this case, we don't need to use stop_machine: Max Krasnyansky
indicated that would be useful for SystemTap which loads/unloads new
modules frequently.
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
David Altobelli [Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:38:53 +0000 (09:38 -0600)]
HP iLO driver
A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
programs to query the management processor. Programs can open a channel
to the device (/dev/hpilo/dXccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.
The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
be shared between processes. This driver will replace various packages
HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.
Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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