Eddie C. Dost [Wed, 18 Jan 2006 22:54:31 +0000 (14:54 -0800)]
[SPARC64]: Serial Console for E250 Patch
From: Eddie C. Dost <ecd@brainaid.de>
I have the following patch for serial console over the RSC
(remote system controller) on my E250 machine. It basically adds
support for input-device=rsc and output-device=rsc from OBP, and
allows 115200,8,n,1,- serial mode setting.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Bryan O'Sullivan [Wed, 18 Jan 2006 01:00:05 +0000 (17:00 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix sparse parse error in lppaca.h
sparse can't parse a struct definition in include/asm-powerpc/lppaca.h,
even though gcc can accept it. The form looks like this:
struct __attribute__((whatever)) foo { };
An equivalent that both gcc and sparse can handle is
struct foo { } __attribute__((whatever));
This is the only definition of this type in the tree, and fixing it is
easier than fixing sparse.
Signed-off-by: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
[ Side note: fixing sparse wouldn't be hard, but the "attribute at the
end" version is the canonical one, and the one that makes sense. So
let's just fix the kernel instead. Luc Van Oostenryck already sent
out a sparse patch to the sparse mailing list in case anybody cares.
-- Linus ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are a couple of problems in the DMA setup code for skge.
* In the 64 bit case, it doesn't set the consistent mask.
* In the 32 bit case, the error check is backwards!
It likely will only be visible as a bug on 64 bit platforms.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Alan Cox [Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:53:50 +0000 (20:53 +0000)]
[PATCH] libata: Code for the IRQ mask flag
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Somewhat cleaner in the resync as someone cleaned up the pio xfer users Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Fix problems with Yukon FE rev 2 chipset. Don't cut and paste bugs in from
sk98lin driver. Change how the ram buffer is divided up, and make the math
clearer. Also, set the thresholds where rx takes precedence. The threshold
values are just guesses at this point, it might be worth tuning them later.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Ensure a consistent value is read from the STICK register by ensuring
that both high and low are read without high changing due to a roll
over of the low register.
Various Debian/SPARC users (myself include) have noticed problems with
Hummingbird based systems. The symptoms are that the system time is
seen to jump forward 3 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes give or take a few
seconds. In many cases the system then hangs some time afterwards.
I've spotted a race condition in the code to read the STICK register.
I could not work out why 3d, 6h, 11m is important but guess that it is
due to the 2^32 jump of STICK (forwards on one read and then the next
read will seem to be backwards) during a timer interrupt. I'm guessing
that a change of -2^32 will get converted to a large unsigned
increment after the arithmetic manipulation between STICK,
nanoseconds, jiffies etc.
I did a test where I modified __hbird_read_stick to artificially
inject rollover faults forcefully every few seconds. With this I saw
the clock jump over 6 times in 12 hours compared to once every month
or so.
Signed-off-by: Richard Mortimer <richm@oldelvet.org.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Alan Cox [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 17:14:40 +0000 (17:14 +0000)]
[PATCH] libata: Pre UDMA EIDE PIO mode selection
I misread the spec when doing the original. I've tested the corrected
version with pre UDMA drives and it now picks the right modes. This is a
specific bug fix rather than an update or new feature item.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:51:25 +0000 (16:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Added PCIe bus information
This is two patches, the first is adding additional bus information for the 8257{1|2|3} controllers. The second patch was orginally a community patch to print bus type/speed/width, and enhanced by us.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:51:21 +0000 (16:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Added hardware support for PCI express, 82546GB, and 82571 Fiber
Added 82571 fiber to WOL fix for dual port adapters.
Added support for 82546GB (Quad Copper).
Added PCIe typedef for x2, igp cable length 115, and extended TX CTRL registers.
Added parity error detection and PCIe CTRL registers.
Added EEPROM config registers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:51:14 +0000 (16:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Fix Netpoll issue
Fixed an issue netpoll would error out during communication, generating the following error:
--netdump[14973]: Got toomany timeouts in handshaking, ...
Even after a kernel panic, netpoll requires two way communication to successfully transfer the crash log to the remote server.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:50:55 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Fix Desc. Rings and Jumbo Frames
This patch contains two fixes. The first fix is to the tx and rx descriptor rings clean up process. The second fix is to jumbo frames, which cleans up the code logic and removes most of the fifo related limitations on jumbo frames. This is because the driver code now supports splitting a packet across multiple descriptors.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:50:53 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Fix TX queue length based on link speed
10/100 speeds seem to have some problems reporting false tx timeouts especially at half duplex. Fixed by using a timeout factor to attempt to mitigate the false timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:50:39 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Fix adapter structure and prepare for multique fix
Fix adapter structure to handle multiple queues and prepping the driver for full multiple queue support, some changes are ifdef'd our unless you define CONFIG_E1000_MQ.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jeff Kirsher [Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:50:23 +0000 (16:50 -0800)]
[PATCH] e1000: Fix TSO
Fixed the TSO workaround for 82571/2 controllers.
Fixed TSO issue where a non-tso packet in a linear SKB which followed a TSO packet would get written back prematurely.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John Ronciak <john.ronciak@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Arnd Bergmann [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:16:44 +0000 (17:16 -0500)]
[PATCH] spidernet: performance optimizations
Performance optimizations, changes in these areas:
- RX and TX checksum offload
- correct maximum MTU
- don't use TX interrupts anymore, use a timer instead
- remove some superfluous barriers
- improve RX RAM full handling
Arnd Bergmann [Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:16:42 +0000 (17:16 -0500)]
[PATCH] spidernet: read firmware from the OF device tree
request_firmware() is sometimes problematic, especially
in initramfs, reading the firmware from Open Firmware
is much preferrable.
We still try to get the firmware from the file system
first, in order to support old SLOF releases and to allow
updates of the spidernet firmware without reflashing
the system.
Dale Farnsworth [Tue, 17 Jan 2006 00:00:24 +0000 (17:00 -0700)]
[PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Remove needless mask of extended intr register
All interrupts controlled by the extended mask register are also
masked by a bit in the main mask register, so there is no need to
directly manipulate the extended mask register.
Wolfram Joost [Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:57:41 +0000 (16:57 -0700)]
[PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Request HW checksum generation only for IPv4
This patch removes the NETIF_F_HW_CSUM flag to be able to use other protocols
than IPv4. Hardware checksums for IPv4 should continue to work because
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM is still set. The sanity-check has been enhanced to check
the used protocol and to not access skb->iph for non-ipv4-packets.
Dale Farnsworth [Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:56:30 +0000 (16:56 -0700)]
[PATCH] mv643xx_eth: Hold spinlocks only where needed
This driver has historically held a spin_lock during the entire open
and stop functions and while receiving multiple packets. This is
unecessarily long and holds locks during calls that may sleep.
This patch reduces the size of windows where locks are held.
The Marvell mv643xx ethernet hardware requires that DMA buffers be
aligned to 8-byte boundaries. This patch satisfies this requirement.
Buffers allocated by dev_alloc_skb() only have 4-byte alignment when
slab debugging is enabled.
Also, document that the 2-byte offset to align the IP packets on
receive is a hardware feature and is not tied to NET_IP_ALIGN.
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 17 Jan 2006 10:54:36 +0000 (02:54 -0800)]
[IPV4]: rt_cache_stat can be statically defined
Using __get_cpu_var(obj) is slightly faster than per_cpu_ptr(obj,
raw_smp_processor_id()).
1) Smaller code and memory use
For static and small objects, DEFINE_PER_CPU(type, object) is preferred over a
alloc_percpu() : Better and smaller code to access them, and no extra memory
(storing the pointer, and the percpu array of pointers)
x86_64 code before patch
mov 1237577(%rip),%rax # ffffffff803e5990 <rt_cache_stat>
not %rax # part of per_cpu machinery
mov %gs:0x3c,%edx # get cpu number
movslq %edx,%rdx # extend 32 bits cpu number to 64 bits
mov (%rax,%rdx,8),%rax # get the pointer for this cpu
incl 0x38(%rax)
x86_64 code after patch
mov $per_cpu__rt_cache_stat,%rdx
mov %gs:0x48,%rax # get percpu data offset
incl 0x38(%rax,%rdx,1)
2) False sharing avoidance for SMP :
For a small NR_CPUS, the array of per cpu pointers allocated in alloc_percpu()
can be <= 32 bytes. This let slab code gives a part of a cache line. If the
other part of this 64 bytes (or 128 bytes) cache line is used by a mostly
written object, we can have false sharing and expensive per_cpu_ptr() operations.
Size of rt_cache_stat is 64 bytes, so this patch is not a danger of a too big
increase of bss (in UP mode) or static per_cpu data for SMP
(PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM is currently 32768 bytes)
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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