The rwsem is not used to protect anything, so the use of it by the PNP
subsystem isn't really useful, and it's doubtful if it really did anything or
not. So I've removed it.
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
USB: remove use of the bus rwsem, as it doesn't really protect anything.
The driver core stopped using the rwsem a long time ago, yet the USB
core still grabbed the lock, thinking it protected something. This
patch removes that useless use.
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type
Driver core: add suspend() and resume() to struct device_type
In cases when there are devices of different types in the same class
we can't use class's implementation of suspend and resume methods and
we need to add them to struct device_type instead.
Also fix error handling in resume code (we should not try to call
class's resume method iof bus's resume method for the device failed.
Cornelia Huck [Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:12:14 +0000 (11:12 +0200)]
Driver core: switch firmware_class to uevent_suppress.
Use uevent_suppress instead of returning an error code in
firmware_uevent(). Get rid of the now unneeded FW_STATUS_READY
and FW_STATUS_READY_NOHOTPLUG.
Cornelia Huck [Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:12:11 +0000 (11:12 +0200)]
Driver core: suppress uevents via filter
Suppress uevents for devices if uevent_suppress is set via
dev_uevent_filter(). This makes the driver core suppress all device
uevents, not just the add event in device_add().
Oliver Neukum [Mon, 2 Apr 2007 12:47:59 +0000 (14:47 +0200)]
kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs
some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed
to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is
obtained. This fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Driver core: remove unneeded completion from driver release path
The completion in the driver release path is due to ancient history in
the _very_ early 2.5 days when we were not tracking the module reference
count of attributes. It is not needed at all and can be removed.
Note, we now have an empty release function for the driver structure.
This is due to the fact that drivers are statically allocated in the
system at this point in time, something which I want to change in the
future. But remember, drivers are really code, which is reference
counted by the module, unlike devices, which are data and _must_ be
reference counted properly in order to work correctly.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cornelia Huck [Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:15:26 +0000 (16:15 -0800)]
driver core: don't fail attaching the device if it cannot be bound
Don't fail bus_attach_device() if the device cannot be bound.
If dev->driver has been specified, reset it to NULL if device_bind_driver()
failed and add the device as an unbound device. As a result,
bus_attach_device() now cannot fail, and we can remove some checking from
device_add().
Also remove an unneeded check in bus_rescan_devices_helper().
Cornelia Huck [Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:15:25 +0000 (16:15 -0800)]
driver core: per-subsystem multithreaded probing
Make multithreaded probing work per subsystem instead of per driver.
It doesn't make much sense to probe the same device for multiple drivers in
parallel (after all, only one driver can bind to the device). Instead, create
a probing thread for each device that probes the drivers one after another.
Also make the decision to use multi-threaded probe per bus instead of per
device and adapt the pci code.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers [Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:08:57 +0000 (21:08 +0100)]
Driver core: add name to device_type
If "name" of a device_type is specified, the uevent will
contain the device_type name in the DEVTYPE variable.
This helps userspace to distingiush between different types
of devices, belonging to the same subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sat, 10 Mar 2007 06:37:34 +0000 (01:37 -0500)]
driver core: Use attribute groups in struct device_type
Driver core: use attribute groups in struct device_type
Attribute groups are more flexible than attribute lists
(an attribute list can be represented by anonymous group)
so switch struct device_type to use them.
Also rework attribute creation for devices so that they all
cleaned up properly in case of errors.
The flag "drivers_autoprobe" controls the behavior of the bus to bind
devices by default, or just initialize the device and leave it alone.
The command "drivers_probe" accepts a bus_id and the bus tries to bind a
driver to this device.
Systems who want to control the driver binding with udev, switch off the
bus initiated probing:
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/usb/drivers_autoprobe
echo 0 > /sys/subsystem/pcmcia/drivers_autoprobe
...
and initiate the probing with udev rules like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pcmcia", ATTR{subsystem/drivers_probe}="$kernel"
...
Custom driver binding can happen in earlier rules by something like:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", \
ATTRS{idVendor}=="1234", ATTRS{idProduct}=="5678" \
ATTR{subsystem/drivers/<custom-driver>/bind}="$kernel"
This is intended to solve the modprobe.conf mess with "install-rules", custom
bind/unbind-scripts and all the weird things people invented over the years.
It should also provide the functionality "libusual" was supposed to do.
With udev, one can just write a udev rule to drive all USB-disks at the
third port of USB-hub by the "ub" driver, and everything else by
usb-storage. One can also instruct udev to bind different wireless
drivers to identical cards - just selected by the pcmcia slot-number, and
whatever ...
To use the mentioned rules, it needs udev version 106, to be able to
write ATTR{}="$kernel" to sysfs files.
Jean Delvare [Fri, 9 Mar 2007 15:33:10 +0000 (16:33 +0100)]
dev_printk and new-style class devices
As the new-style class devices (as opposed to old-style struct
class_device) are becoming more widely used, I noticed that the
dev_printk-based functions are not working properly with these.
New-style class devices have no driver nor bus, almost by definition,
and as a result dev_driver_string(), which is used as the first
parameter of dev_printk, resolves to an empty string. This causes
entries like the following to show in my logs:
i2c-2: adapter [SMBus stub driver] registered
Notice the unaesthetical leading whitespace. In order to fix this
problem, I suggest that we extend dev_driver_string to deal with
new-style class devices:
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers [Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:25:56 +0000 (03:25 +0100)]
driver core: fix namespace issue with devices assigned to classes
- uses a kset in "struct class" to keep track of all directories
belonging to this class
- merges with the /sys/devices/virtual logic.
- removes the namespace-dir if the last member of that class
leaves the directory.
There may be locking or refcounting fixes left, I stopped when it seemed
to work with network and sound modules. :)
From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Merge branch 'e1000-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'e1000-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
e1000: FIX: Stop raw interrupts disabled nag from RT
e1000: FIX: firmware handover bits
e1000: FIX: be ready for incoming irq at pci_request_irq
Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (49 commits)
IB: Set class_dev->dev in core for nice device symlink
IB/ehca: Implement modify_port
IB/umad: Clarify documentation of transaction ID
IPoIB/cm: spin_lock_irqsave() -> spin_lock_irq() replacements
IB/mad: Change SMI to use enums rather than magic return codes
IB/umad: Implement GRH handling for sent/received MADs
IB/ipoib: Use ib_init_ah_from_path to initialize ah_attr
IB/sa: Set src_path_bits correctly in ib_init_ah_from_path()
IB/ucm: Simplify ib_ucm_event()
RDMA/ucma: Simplify ucma_get_event()
IB/mthca: Simplify CQ cleaning in mthca_free_qp()
IB/mthca: Fix mthca_write_mtt() on HCAs with hidden memory
IB/mthca: Update HCA firmware revisions
IB/ipath: Fix WC format drift between user and kernel space
IB/ipath: Check that a UD work request's address handle is valid
IB/ipath: Remove duplicate stuff from ipath_verbs.h
IB/ipath: Check reserved memory keys
IB/ipath: Fix unit selection when all CPU affinity bits set
IB/ipath: Don't allow QPs 0 and 1 to be opened multiple times
IB/ipath: Disable IB link earlier in shutdown sequence
...
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6: (67 commits)
[SCSI] SUNESP: Complete driver rewrite to version 2.0
[SPARC64]: Convert PCI over to generic struct iommu/strbuf.
[SPARC]: device_node name constification fallout
[SPARC64]: Convert SBUS over to generic iommu/strbuf structs.
[SPARC64]: Add generic iommu and strbuf structs to iommu.h
[SPARC64]: Consolidate {sbus,pci}_iommu_arena.
[SPARC]: Make device_node name and type const
[SPARC64]: constify some paramaters of OF routines
[TIGON3]: of_get_property() returns const.
[SPARC64]: Fix PCI rework to adhere to of_get_property() const return.
[SPARC64]: Document and fix calculation of pages_avail.
[SPARC64]: Make sure pbm->prom_node is setup easly enough in psycho.c
[SPARC64]: Use bootmem_bootmap_pages() in choose_bootmap_pfn().
[SPARC64]: Add proper header file extern for cmdline_memory_size.
[SPARC64]: Kill sparc_ultra_dump_{i,d}tlb()
[SPARC64]: Use DECLARE_BITMAP and BITS_TO_LONGS in mm/init.c
[SPARC64]: Give move verbose show_mem() output just like i386.
[SPARC64]: Mark show_mem() printk's with KERN_INFO.
[SPARC64]: Kill kvaddr_to_phys() and friends.
[SPARC64]: Privatize sun4u_get_pte() and fix name.
...
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32
* 'for-linus' of git://www.atmel.no/~hskinnemoen/linux/kernel/avr32: (21 commits)
[AVR32] Fix compile error with gcc 4.1
avr32: remove unneeded cast in atomic.h
AVR32: Remove useless config option "GENERIC_BUST_SPINLOCK".
[AVR32] Optimize the TLB miss handler
[AVR32] Board code for ATNGW100
[AVR32] Use memcpy/memset in memcpy_{from,to}_io and memset_io
[AVR32] Get rid of board_setup_fbmem()
[AVR32] Reserve framebuffer memory in early_parse_fbmem()
[AVR32] Simplify early handling of memory regions
[AVR32] Move setup_bootmem() from mm/init.c to kernel/setup.c
[AVR32] Make I/O access macros work with external devices
[AVR32] Fix NMI handler
[AVR32] Clean up exception handling code
[AVR32] Clean up cpu identification and add features bitmap
[AVR32] Clean up asm/sysreg.h
[AVR32] Don't enable clocks with no users
[AVR32] Put cpu in sleep 0 when idle.
[AVR32] Change system timer from count-compare to Timer/Counter 0
[AVR32] Add mach-specific Kconfig
[AVR32] Add nwait and tdf parameters to SMC configuration
...
Do this really early in the 2.6.22-rc series, so that we'll get
feedback. And don't change by half measures. Just cut the default
dirty limit to a quarter of what it was, and see if anybody even
notices.
[MIPS] Don't force frame pointers for lockdep on MIPS
Stacktrace support on MIPS doesn't use frame pointers. Since this option
considerably increases the size of the kernel code, force lockdep to not
use it.
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:23:27 +0000 (06:23 -0400)]
[MIPS] Replace old fashioned "__typeof" with "__typeof__".
[Robert's original log message said this was a bug but it isn't, it's
just very old fashioned syntax that is not (no longer?) documented in the
gcc documentation. So for the sake of uniformity I'm applying his
patch but with a modified log message. -- Ralf]
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
PCI host bridge setup for SNI RM machines with PCI is quite broken, now
that Linux does it's resource setup own its own. It will use IO addresses,
which are needed by the EISA config detection and assigns PCI memory
addresses, which overlap with ISA legacy addresses (video ram). Below
is a patch, which changes the way how the PCI memory addresses are
used and sets the minimum IO address to give enough IO space for
8 EISA slots). This patch needs the other PCI resource change, I've
posted.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
PCI based SNI RM machines have their EISA bus behind an Intel PCI/EISA
bridge. So the PCI IO range must start at 0x0000. Changing that will
break the PCI bus, because i8259.c already has registered it's IO
addresses before the PCI bus gets initialized. Below is a patch,
which will register the PCI host bridge resources inside
register_pci_controller(). It also changes i8259.c to use insert_region(),
because request_resource() will fail, if the IO space of the PIT hanging
of the PCI host bridge (maybe passing the resource parent to
init_i8259_irqs() is a cleaner fix for that).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Mark Mason [Thu, 29 Mar 2007 18:39:56 +0000 (11:39 -0700)]
[MIPS] Add bcm1480 ZBus trace support, fix wait related bugs
Make ZBus tracing generic - moving it to a common direcotry under
arch/mips/sibyte, add bcm1480 support and fix some wait related
bugs (thanks to Ralf for assistance on that).
Signed-off-by: Mark Mason <mason@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Mark Mason [Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:40:25 +0000 (14:40 -0700)]
[MIPS] Updated Sibyte headers
This is an update to the earlier patch for the sibyte headers, and superceeds
the previous patch. Changes were necessary to get the tbprof driver working
on the bcm1480.
Patch to update Sibyte header files to match master versions maintained
at Broadcom. This patch also corrects some whitespace problems, and
(hopefully) shouldn't introduce any new ones.
Signed-off-by: Mark Mason <mason@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Yoichi Yuasa [Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:51:26 +0000 (21:51 +0900)]
[MIPS] merge GT64111 PCI routines and GT64120 PCI_0 routines
This patch has merged GT64111 PCI routines and GT64120 PCI_0 routines.
GT64111 PCI is almost the same as GT64120's PCI_0.
This patch don't change GT64120 PCI routines.
arch/s390/appldata/appldata_base.c has some confusing debugging code left
over to allow compiling it as a module. In practice, it cannot be configured
as module and there is no need to keep that code.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The clock synchronization of the ETR code requires an smp_call_function
to synchronize all cpus. Calling smp_call_function from a tasklet is
illegal. Replace the tasklet with a job on the global workqueue.
ETR work is rare and can be postponed to a be done by a kernel thread.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The page_test_and_clear_dirty primitive really consists of two
operations, page_test_dirty and the page_clear_dirty. The combination
of the two is not an atomic operation, so it makes more sense to have
two separate operations instead of one.
In addition to the improved readability of the s390 version of
SetPageUptodate, it now avoids the page_test_dirty operation which is
an insert-storage-key-extended (iske) instruction which is an expensive
operation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Generate uevents for all cpus if cpu capability changes. This can
happen e.g. because the cpus are overheating. The cpu capability can
be read via /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuN/capability.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Ahmed S. Darwish [Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:01:50 +0000 (16:01 +0200)]
[S390] ctc: kmalloc->kzalloc/casting cleanups.
A patch for the CTC / ESCON network driver. Switch from kmalloc to kzalloc
when appropriate, remove some unnecessary kmalloc casts too. Since I have no
s390 machine, I didn't compile it but I examined it carefully.
Signed-off-by: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com> Cc: Frank Pavlic <fpavlic@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ursula Braun <braunu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Michael Holzheu [Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:01:49 +0000 (16:01 +0200)]
[S390] zfcpdump support.
s390 machines provide hardware support for creating Linux dumps on SCSI
disks. For creating a dump a special purpose dump Linux is used. The first
32 MB of memory are saved by the hardware before the dump Linux is
booted. Via an SCLP interface, the saved memory can be accessed from
Linux. This patch exports memory and registers of the crashed Linux to
userspace via a debugfs file. For more information refer to
Documentation/s390/zfcpdump.txt, which is included in this patch.
Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
[S390] dasd: Add sysfs attribute status and generate uevents.
This patch adds a sysfs-attribute 'status' to make the DASD device-status
accessible from user-space. In addition, the DASD driver generates an
uevent(CHANGE) for the ccw-device on each device-status change.
This enables user-space applications (e.g. udev) to do related processing.
Recent cvs versions of gcc have support for an improved stack overflow
checking that calculates the size of the guard size for each function.
If the compiler accepts -mstack-size without -mstack-guard then the
new stack check is available. We always want to use the new stack
checker.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3270_consetup from .data
between 'con3270' (at offset 0x45c8) and 'con3270_fn'
Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:con3215_consetup from .data
between 'con3215' (at offset 0x4678) and
'raw3215_ccw_driver'
Since there is no difference between a non present console setup
function and one that returns only 0 remove them.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Simplify the signal_return function that checks for the two special
system calls sigreturn and rt_sigreturn. No need to do a page table
walk, a call to copy_from_user while disabled page faults will work
as well.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
The minor fault path has grown a lot in terms of cycles. In particular
the kprobes hook is very costly. Optimize the path to save a couple of
cycles. If kprobes is enabled more than 300 cycles can be avoided if
kprobes_running() is false.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Generic bug implementation for s390. Will increase the value of the
console output on BUG() statements since registers r0-r5,r14 will
not be clobbered by a printk() call that was previously done before
the illegal instruction of BUG() was hit.
Also implements an architecture specific WARN_ON(). Output of that
could be increased but requires common code change.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
This patch adds two improvements to the oops output. First it adds an
additional line after the PSW which decodes the different fields of it.
Second a disassembler is added that decodes the instructions surrounding
the faulting PSW. The output of a test oops now looks like this:
Remove system call glue for sys_clone, sys_fork, sys_vfork, sys_execve,
sys_sigreturn, sys_rt_sigreturn and sys_sigaltstack. Call do_execve from
kernel_execve directly, move pt_regs to the right place and branch to
sysc_return to start the user space program. This removes the last
in-kernel system call.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
We used to unregister ccw devices not directly from the I/O
subchannel remove function in order to avoid lifelocks on the
css bus semaphore. This semaphore is gone, and there is no reason
to not unregister the ccw device directly (it is even better since
it is more in keeping with the goal of immediate disconnect).
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
We allocage two pages when channel path measurements are enabled
via cm_enable. We must not forget to free them again when
channel path measurements are disabled again.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[S390] cio: replace subchannel evaluation queue with bitmap
Use a bitmap for indicating which subchannels require evaluation
instead of allocating memory for each evaluation request. This
approach reduces memory consumption during recovery in case of
massive evaluation request occurrence and removes the need for
memory allocation failure handling.
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Stefan Bader [Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:01:33 +0000 (16:01 +0200)]
[S390] cio: Re-start path verification after aborting internal I/O.
Path verification triggered by changes to the available CHPIDs will be
interrupted by another change but not re-started. This results in an
invalid path mask.
To solve this make sure to completely re-start path verification when
changing the available paths.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add a new attribute to the channel-path sysfs directory through which
channel-path configure operations can be triggered. Also listen for
hardware events requesting channel-path configure operations and
process them accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
gcc 4.1 doesn't seem to like const variables as inline assembly
outputs. Drop support for reading 64-bit values using get_user() so
that we can use an unsigned long to hold the result regardless of the
actual size. This should be safe since many architectures, including
i386, doesn't support reading 64-bit values with get_user().
Reorder some instructions and change the register usage to reduce
the number of pipeline stalls. Also use the bfextu and bfins
instructions for bitfield manipulations instead of shifting and
masking.
This makes gzipping a 80MB file approximately 2% faster.
Since the core setup code takes care of both allocation and
reservation of framebuffer memory, there's no need for this board-
specific hook anymore. Replace it with two global variables,
fbmem_start and fbmem_size, which can be used directly.
[AVR32] Reserve framebuffer memory in early_parse_fbmem()
With the current strategy of using the bootmem allocator to allocate
or reserve framebuffer memory, there's a slight chance that the
requested area has been taken by the boot allocator bitmap before we
get around to reserving it.
By inserting the framebuffer region as a reserved region as early as
possible, we improve our chances for success and we make the region
visible as a reserved region in dmesg and /proc/iomem without any
extra work.
Use struct resource to specify both physical memory regions and
reserved regions and push everything into the same framework,
including kernel code/data and initrd memory. This allows us to get
rid of many special cases in the bootmem initialization and will also
make it easier to implement more robust handling of framebuffer
memory later.
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