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19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c: remove dead code
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:09 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c: remove dead code

This patch removes some dead code found by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c: remove dead code
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:08 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c: remove dead code

This patch removes some obviously dead code found by the Coverity
checker.

This patch was already ACK'ed by Petr Vandrovec.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fs/ncpfs/: remove unused #ifdef USE_OLD_SLOW_DIRECTORY_LISTING code
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:07 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] fs/ncpfs/: remove unused #ifdef USE_OLD_SLOW_DIRECTORY_LISTING code

This patch removes some unused #ifdef USE_OLD_SLOW_DIRECTORY_LISTING
code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] fs/jffs/: cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/rocket.c: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:05 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/rocket.c: cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make needlessly global code static
- remove the TRUE/FALSE macros

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/nvram.c: possible cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/3780i.c: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:03 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/3780i.c: cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make a needlessly global function static
- #if 0 the unused global function dsp3780I_ReadGenCfg

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/istallion.c: remove an unneeded variable
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:03 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/istallion.c: remove an unneeded variable

This patch removes an unneeded global variable.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sound/oss/sscape.c: remove dead code
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:02 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/sscape.c: remove dead code

The Coverity checker found that sscape_sb_enable never get's assigned any
value different from 0, and therefore some code paths are impossible.

This patch removes this variable and the dead code paths.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/scsi/dpt*: remove version.h dependencies
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:01 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/scsi/dpt*: remove version.h dependencies

This patch removes version.h dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] cosmetic fixes for example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:01 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] cosmetic fixes for example programs in Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd

This patch makes a few minor changes to the example programs in
Documentation/cdrom/sbpcd to kill off some warnings and build failures.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code
Nick Wilson [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:59:00 +0000 (14:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] Use ALIGN to remove duplicate code

This patch makes use of ALIGN() to remove duplicate round-up code.

Signed-off-by: Nick Wilson <njw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86_64: coding style and whitespace fixups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] lib/sha1.c: fix sparse warning
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:58 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] lib/sha1.c: fix sparse warning

lib/sha1.c:44:10: warning: cast to restricted type

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] printk: drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:57 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] printk: drivers/char/ftape/compressor/zftape-compress.c

printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] printk: drivers/char/applicom.c
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:56 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] printk: drivers/char/applicom.c

printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] serial/icom: Remove custom msescs_to_jiffies() macro
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:55 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] serial/icom: Remove custom msescs_to_jiffies() macro

Remove the MSECS_TO_JIFFIES() macro because msescs_to_jiffies() from
jiffies.h should be used.  The macro isn't referenced anywhere anyway.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:55 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/mwave/tp3780i.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's

This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 .

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sound/oss/rme96xx.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:54 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/rme96xx.c: remove kernel 2.2 #if's

This patch removes #if's for kernel 2.2 .

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] nm256 oss build failure
Dave Jones [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:53 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] nm256 oss build failure

static declaration follows non static

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sound/oss/: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:53 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] sound/oss/: cleanups

This patch contains cleanups including the following:
- make needlessly global code static

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/isicom.c: section fixes
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] selinux: kfree cleanup
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:51 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] selinux: kfree cleanup

kfree(NULL) is legal.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/scsi/initio.c: cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove redundant NULL checks before kfree() in sound/ and avoid casting point...
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.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] get rid of redundant NULL checks before kfree() in arch/i386/
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:48 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] get rid of redundant NULL checks before kfree() in arch/i386/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:48 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] remove redundant NULL check before before kfree() in kernel/sysctl.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] small partitions/msdos cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:47 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] small partitions/msdos cleanups

This patch makes the following changes to the msdos partition code:
- remove CONFIG_NEC98_PARTITION leftovers
- make parse_bsd static

This patch was already ACK'ed by Andries Brouwer.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:46 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/crypto/aes.c: fix sparse warnings

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/mm/fault.c: fix sparse warnings
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:46 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/mm/fault.c: fix sparse warnings

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/apm.c: fix sparse warnings
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:45 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/apm.c: fix sparse warnings

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: fix sparse warnings
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:44 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: fix sparse warnings

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] init/do_mounts_initrd.c: fix sparse warning
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:43 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] init/do_mounts_initrd.c: fix sparse warning

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kernel/timer: fix msleep_interruptible() comment
Domen Puncer [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:43 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kernel/timer: fix msleep_interruptible() comment

The comment for msleep_interruptible() is wrong, as it will ignore
wait-queue events, but will wake up early for signals.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] char/tty_io: replace schedule_timeout() with msleep_interruptible()
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] char/ds1620: use msleep() instead of schedule_timeout()
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] riotty.c cleanups and warning fix
M.Baris Demiray [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:40 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] riotty.c cleanups and warning fix

Fix a bunch of whitespace oddities and use `unsigned long' for a
jiffies-holding variable.

Signed-off-by: M.Baris Demiray <baris@labristeknoloji.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] au1100fb: convert to C99 inits.
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] x86-64: add memcpy/memset prototypes
randy_dunlap [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:39 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] x86-64: add memcpy/memset prototypes

Put function prototypes for memset() and memcpy() ahead of where
there are used, to kill sparse warnings:

arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:317:3: warning: undefined identifier 'memset'
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:601:11: warning: undefined identifier 'memcpy'
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c:151:2: warning: undefined identifier 'memcpy'
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:317:3: warning: call with no type!
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/../../../../lib/inflate.c:601:17: warning: call with no type!
arch/x86_64/boot/compressed/misc.c:151:9: warning: call with no type!

Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c: #if 0 an unused function
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:38 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/act2000/capi.c: #if 0 an unused function

This patch #if 0's an unused function.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/: misc cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:37 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/: misc cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make some needlessly global functions static
- b1dma.c __init/__exit the functions b1dma_{init,exit}

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] unexport mca_find_device_by_slot
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:36 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] unexport mca_find_device_by_slot

I didn't find any possible modular usage of mca_find_device_by_slot in
the kernel, and this patch therefore removes the EXPORT_SYMBOL.

This patch should be safe since mca-legacy is nothing drivers should
move to.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/isdn/i4l/: possible cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/isdn/pcbit/: possible cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] drivers/isdn/sc/: possible cleanups
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] cpufreq: governors documentation fixes
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] fbdev: remove unneeded fbsysfs printk
Jon Smirl [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:32 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] fbdev: remove unneeded fbsysfs printk

Remove unneeded fbsysfs printk.

Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] font selection Kconfig fixes
Jurriaan on adsl-gate [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:31 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] font selection Kconfig fixes

We're accidentally selecting the new fonts by default.  Don't.

Signed-off-by: Jurriaan Kalkman <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Fix vesafb/mtrr scaling problem.
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec code cleanup
Maneesh Soni [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:28 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec code cleanup

o Following patch provides purely cosmetic changes and corrects CodingStyle
  guide lines related certain issues like below in kexec related files

  o braces for one line "if" statements, "for" loops,
  o more than 80 column wide lines,
  o No space after "while", "for" and "switch" key words

o Changes:
  o take-2: Removed the extra tab before "case" key words.
  o take-3: Put operator at the end of line and space before "*/"

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Save trap information for later analysis
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Use real pt_regs from exception
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: sysrq trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps
Hariprasad Nellitheertha [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:25 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: sysrq trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps

Add a sysrq-trigger mechanism for kexec based crashdumps.  Alt-Sysrq-c
triggers a kexec based crashdump.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw format
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:23 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)

      Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>

This patch contains the code that enables us to access the previous kernel's
memory as /dev/oldmem.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Parse elf32 headers and export through /proc/vmcore
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:20 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] Retrieve elfcorehdr address from command line

This patch adds support for retrieving the address of elf core header if one
is passed in command line.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Routines for copying dump pages
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Kconfig
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Retrieve saved max pfn
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump documentation update to introduce use of irqpoll
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: Documentation for Kdump
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:15 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: Documentation for Kdump

This patch contains the documentation for the kexec based crash dump tool.

Quick kdump-howto
================================================================

1) Download and build kexec-tools.

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

3) Boot into the first kernel.

4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:

   kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
   maxcpus=1 init 1"

5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
   written to force the panic, for testing purposes.

6) See Documentation/kdump.txt for how to read the first kernel's
   memory image and how to analyze it.

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: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Kexec: Kexec on panic fix with nmi watchdog enabled
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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kdump: NMI handler segment selector, stack pointer fix
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:13 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kdump: NMI handler segment selector, stack pointer fix

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.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] Kdump: Export crash notes section address through sysfs
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:12 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kdump: Export crash notes section address through sysfs

o Following patch exports kexec global variable "crash_notes" to user space
  through sysfs as kernel attribute in /sys/kernel.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: s390 support
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] ppc64 kexec: native hash clear
R Sharada [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:08 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc64 kexec: native hash clear

Add code to clear the hash table and invalidate the tlb for native (SMP,
non-LPAR) mode.  Supports 16M and 4k pages.

Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>
Signed-off-by: R Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: kexec ppc support
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:07 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: kexec ppc support

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:

void myplatform_kexec(struct kimage *image)
{
        machine_kexec_simple(image);
}

- machine_shutdown()

  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 */
}

void myplatform_kexec(struct kimage *image)
{
        machine_kexec_simple(image);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_KEXEC */

/* ... */

void __init
platform_init(unsigned long r3, unsigned long r4,
unsigned long r5,
              unsigned long r6, unsigned long r7)
{

/* ... */

#ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
        ppc_md.machine_kexec_prepare =
myplatform_kexec_prepare;
        ppc_md.machine_kexec         =
myplatform_kexec;
#endif /* CONFIG_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>
19 years ago[PATCH] crashdump: x86_64: crashkernel option
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:04 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] crashdump: x86_64: crashkernel option

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64 kexec implementation
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:02 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64 kexec implementation

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: factor out apic shutdown code
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:02 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: factor out apic shutdown code

Factor out the apic and smp shutdown code from machine_restart so it can be
called by in the kexec reboot path as well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] crashdump: x86 crashkernel option
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:01 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[PATCH] crashdump: x86 crashkernel option

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86 shutdown APICs during crash_shutdown
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:58:00 +0000 (14:58 -0700)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: snapshot registers during crash shutdown
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:59 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[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>
19 years ago[PATCH] crashdump: x86: add NMI handler to capture other CPUs
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:58 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] crashdump: x86: add NMI handler to capture other CPUs

One of the dangers when switching from one kernel to another is what happens
to all of the other cpus that were running in the crashed kernel.  In an
attempt to avoid that problem this patch adds a nmi handler and attempts to
shoot down the other cpus by sending them non maskable interrupts.

The code then waits for 1 second or until all known cpus have stopped running
and then jumps from the running kernel that has crashed to the kernel in
reserved memory.

The kernel spin loop is used for the delay as that should behave continue to
be safe even in after a crash.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86 kexec core
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:56 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86 kexec core

This is the i386 implementation of kexec.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: factor out apic shutdown code
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:55 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: factor out apic shutdown code

Factor out the apic and smp shutdown code from machine_restart so it can be
called by in the kexec reboot path as well.

By switching to the bootstrap cpu by default on reboot I can delete/simplify
some motherboard fixups well.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Kexec on panic vmlinux initrd fix
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:55 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] Kexec on panic vmlinux initrd fix

This is a minor bug fix in kexec to resolve the problem of loading panic
kernel with initrd.

o Problem: Loading a capture kenrel fails if initrd is also being loaded.
  This has been observed for vmlinux image for kexec on panic case.

o This patch fixes the problem. In segment location and size verification
  logic, minor correction has been done. Segment memory end (mend) should be
  mstart + memsz - 1. This one byte offset was source of failure for initrd
  loading which was being loaded at hole boundary.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:52 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: add kexec syscalls

This patch introduces the architecture independent implementation the
sys_kexec_load, the compat_sys_kexec_load system calls.

Kexec on panic support has been integrated into the core patch and is
relatively clean.

In addition the hopefully architecture independent option
crashkernel=size@location has been docuemented.  It's purpose is to reserve
space for the panic kernel to live, and where no DMA transfer will ever be
setup to access.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:52 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START

For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory.  To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.

This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86_64 kernel
so we can do just that.  You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED

bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB.  If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: reserve Bootmem fix for booting nondefault location kernel
Vivek Goyal [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:51 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: reserve Bootmem fix for booting nondefault location kernel

This patch fixes a problem with reserving memory during boot up of a kernel
built for non-default location.  Currently boot memory allocator reserves
the memory required by kernel image, boot allocaotor bitmap etc.  It
assumes that kernel is loaded at 1MB (HIGH_MEMORY hard coded to 1024*1024).
 But kernel can be built for non-default locatoin, hence existing
hardcoding will lead to reserving unnecessary memory.  This patch fixes it.

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>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: add CONFIG_PYSICAL_START
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:49 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: add CONFIG_PYSICAL_START

For one kernel to report a crash another kernel has created we need
to have 2 kernels loaded simultaneously in memory.  To accomplish this
the two kernels need to built to run at different physical addresses.

This patch adds the CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START option to the x86 kernel
so we can do just that.  You need to know what you are doing and
the ramifications are before changing this value, and most users
won't care so I have made it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED

bzImage kernels will work and run at a different address when compiled
with this option but they will still load at 1MB.  If you need a kernel
loaded at a different address as well you need to boot a vmlinux.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: vmlinux: fix physical addresses
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:48 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: vmlinux: fix physical addresses

The vmlinux on x86_64 does not report the correct physical address of
the kernel.  Instead in the physical address field it currently
reports the virtual address of the kernel.

This is patch is a bug fix that corrects vmlinux to report the
proper physical addresses.

This is potentially a help for crash dump analysis tools.

This definitiely allows bootloaders that load vmlinux as a standard
ELF executable.  Bootloaders directly loading vmlinux become of
practical importance when we consider the kexec on panic case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: vmlinux: fix physical addresses
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:47 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: vmlinux: fix physical addresses

The vmlinux on i386 does not report the correct physical address of
the kernel.  Instead in the physical address field it currently
reports the virtual address of the kernel.

This is patch is a bug fix that corrects vmlinux to report the
proper physical addresses.

This is potentially a help for crash dump analysis tools.

This definitiely allows bootloaders that load vmlinux as a standard
ELF executable.  Bootloaders directly loading vmlinux become of
practical importance when we consider the kexec on panic case.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: vmlinux: fix physical addresses
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:46 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: vmlinux: fix physical addresses

In vmlinux.lds.h the code is carefull to define every section so vmlinux
properly reports the correct physical load address of code, as well as
it's virtual address.

The new SECURITY_INIT definition fails to follow that convention and
and causes incorrect physical address to appear in the vmlinux if
there are any security initcalls.

This patch updates the SECURITY_INIT to follow the convention in the rest of
the file.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: restore apic virtual wire mode on shutdown
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:45 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: restore apic virtual wire mode on shutdown

When coming out of apic mode attempt to set the appropriate
apic back into virtual wire mode.  This improves on previous versions
of this patch by by never setting bot the local apic and the ioapic
into veritual wire mode.

This code looks at data from the mptable to see if an ioapic has
an ExtInt input to make this decision.  A future improvement
is to figure out which apic or ioapic was in virtual wire mode
at boot time and to remember it.  That is potentially a more accurate
method, of selecting which apic to place in virutal wire mode.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: resture apic virtual wire mode on shutdown
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:44 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: resture apic virtual wire mode on shutdown

When coming out of apic mode attempt to set the appropriate
apic back into virtual wire mode.  This improves on previous versions
of this patch by by never setting bot the local apic and the ioapic
into veritual wire mode.

This code looks at data from the mptable to see if an ioapic has
an ExtInt input to make this decision.  A future improvement
is to figure out which apic or ioapic was in virtual wire mode
at boot time and to remember it.  That is potentially a more accurate
method, of selecting which apic to place in virutal wire mode.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add i8259 shutdown method
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:43 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: add i8259 shutdown method

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com

The following patch simply adds a shutdown method to the x86_64 i8259 code.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: i8259 shutdown: disable interrupts
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:43 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: i8259 shutdown: disable interrupts

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

This patch disables interrupt generation from the legacy pic on reboot.  Now
that there is a sys_device class it should not be called while drivers are
still using interrupts.

There is a report about this breaking ACPI power off on some systems.
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041
However the final comment seems to exonerate this code.  So until
I get more information I believe that was a false positive.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: e820 64bit fix
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:42 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86_64: e820 64bit fix

From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

It is ok to reserve resources > 4G on x86_64 struct resource is 64bit now :)

Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: local apic fix
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:41 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: local apic fix

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>

Fix a kexec problem whcih causes local APIC detection failure.

The problem is detect_init_APIC() is called early, before the command line
have been processed.  Therefore "lapic" (and "nolapic") have not been seen,
yet.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] kexec: x86: rename APIC_MODE_EXINT
Eric W. Biederman [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:40 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] kexec: x86: rename APIC_MODE_EXINT

From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>

Rename APIC_MODE_EXINT to APIC_MODE_EXTINT - I think it should be named
after what the mode is called in documentation.

From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@lnxi.com>

I have reduced this patch to just the name change in the header.  And
integrated the changes into the patches that add those
lines. Otherwise I ran into some ugly dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:39 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] sched: voluntary kernel preemption

This patch adds a new preemption model: 'Voluntary Kernel Preemption'.  The
3 models can be selected from a new menu:

            (X) No Forced Preemption (Server)
            ( ) Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop)
            ( ) Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop)

we still default to the stock (Server) preemption model.

Voluntary preemption works by adding a cond_resched()
(reschedule-if-needed) call to every might_sleep() check.  It is lighter
than CONFIG_PREEMPT - at the cost of not having as tight latencies.  It
represents a different latency/complexity/overhead tradeoff.

It has no runtime impact at all if disabled.  Here are size stats that show
how the various preemption models impact the kernel's size:

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 3618774  547184  179896 4345854  424ffe vmlinux.stock
 3626406  547184  179896 4353486  426dce vmlinux.voluntary   +0.2%
 3748414  548640  179896 4476950  445016 vmlinux.preempt     +3.5%

voluntary-preempt is +0.2% of .text, preempt is +3.5%.

This feature has been tested for many months by lots of people (and it's
also included in the RHEL4 distribution and earlier variants were in Fedora
as well), and it's intended for users and distributions who dont want to
use full-blown CONFIG_PREEMPT for one reason or another.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:38 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] enable PREEMPT_BKL on !PREEMPT+SMP too

The only sane way to clean up the current 3 lock_kernel() variants seems to
be to remove the spinlock-based BKL implementations altogether, and to keep
the semaphore-based one only.  If we dont want to do that for whatever
reason then i'm afraid we have to live with the current complexity.  (but
i'm open for other cleanup suggestions as well.)

To explore this possibility we'll (at a minimum) have to know whether the
semaphore-based BKL works fine on plain SMP too.  The patch below enables
this.

The patch may make sense in isolation as well, as it might bring
performance benefits: code that would formerly spin on the BKL spinlock
will now schedule away and give up the CPU.  It might introduce performance
regressions as well, if any performance-critical code uses the BKL heavily
and gets overscheduled due to the semaphore.  I very much hope there is no
such performance-critical codepath left though.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] consolidate PREEMPT options into kernel/Kconfig.preempt
Ingo Molnar [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:36 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] consolidate PREEMPT options into kernel/Kconfig.preempt

This patch consolidates the CONFIG_PREEMPT and CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL
preemption options into kernel/Kconfig.preempt.  This, besides reducing
source-code, also enables more centralized tweaking of preemption related
options.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: ia64 changes
Dinakar Guniguntala [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:36 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: ia64 changes

ia64 changes similar to kernel/sched.c.

Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
19 years ago[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: cpuset changes
Dinakar Guniguntala [Sat, 25 Jun 2005 21:57:34 +0000 (14:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] Dynamic sched domains: cpuset changes

Adds the core update_cpu_domains code and updated cpusets documentation

Signed-off-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>