Dean Nelson [Tue, 22 Mar 2005 23:00:00 +0000 (16:00 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] move nodepda pointer out of pda
Remove the p_nodepda and p_subnodepda pointers from the pda_s structure.
And then define a new per-cpu pointer to the nodepda and export it so
that it can be accessed by kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
- pfm_context_load(): change return value from EINVAL to EBUSY
when context is already loaded.
- pfm_check_task_state(): pass test if context state is MASKED.
It is safe to give access on PFM_CTX_MASKED because the PMU
state (PMD) is stable and saved in software state.
This helps multiplexing programs such as the example given
in libpfm-3.1.
Signed-off-by: stephane eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The pmu_active test is based on the values of PSR.up. THIS IS THE PROBLEM as
it does not take into account the lazy restore logic which is as follow (simplified):
context switch out:
save PMDs
clear psr.up
release ownership
context switch in:
if (ctx->last_cpu == smp_processor_id() && ctx->cpu_activation == cpu_activation) {
set psr.up
return
}
restore PMD
restore PMC
ctx->last_cpu = smp_processor_id();
ctx->activation = ++cpu_activation;
set psr.up
The key here is that on context switch out, we clear psr.up and on context switch in
we check if nobody else used the PMU on that processor since last time we came. In
that case, we assume the PMD/PMC are ours and we simply reactivate.
The Caliper problem is that between the moment we context switch out and the moment we
come back, nobody effectively used the PMU BUT the processor went idle. Normally this
would have no incidence but PAL_HALT does alter the PMU registers. In default_idle(),
the test on psr.up is not strong enough to cover this case and we go into PAL which
trashed the PMU resgisters. When we come back we falsely assume that this is our state
yet it is corrupted. Very nasty indeed.
To avoid the problem it is necessary to forbid going to PAL_HALT as soon as perfmon
installs some valid state in the PMU registers. This happens with an application
attaches a context to a thread or CPU. It is not enough to check the psr/dcr bits.
Hence I propose the attached patch. It adds a callback in process.c to modify the
condition to enter PAL on idle. Basically, now it is conditional to pal_halt=1 AND
perfmon saying it is okay.
Russ Anderson [Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:08:00 +0000 (00:08 -0700)]
[patch] MCA recovery module undefined symbol fix
The patch "MCA recovery improvements" added do_exit to mca_drv.c.
That's fine when the mca recovery code is built in the kernel
(CONFIG_IA64_MCA_RECOVERY=y) but breaks building the mca recovery
code as a module (CONFIG_IA64_MCA_RECOVERY=m).
Most users are currently building this as a module, as loading
and unloading the module provides a very convenient way to turn
on/off error recovery.
This patch exports do_exit, so mca_drv.c can build as a module.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson (rja@sgi.com) Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Russ Anderson [Wed, 6 Apr 2005 07:07:00 +0000 (00:07 -0700)]
[IA64] MCA recovery improvements
Jack Steiner uncovered some opportunities for improvement in
the MCA recovery code.
1) Set bsp to save registers on the kernel stack.
2) Disable interrupts while in the MCA recovery code.
3) Change the way the user process is killed, to avoid
a panic in schedule.
Testing shows that these changes make the recovery code much
more reliable with the 2.6.12 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
David Woodhouse [Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:47:00 +0000 (17:47 -0700)]
[IA64] fix ia64 syscall auditing
Attached is a patch against David's audit.17 kernel that adds checks
for the TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT thread flag to the ia64 system call and
signal handling code paths. The patch enables auditing of system
calls set up via fsys_bubble_down, as well as ensuring that
audit_syscall_exit() is called on return from sigreturn.
Neglecting to check for TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT at these points results in
incorrect information in audit_context, causing frequent system panics
when system call auditing is enabled on an ia64 system.
I have tested this patch and have seen no problems with it.
[Original patch from Amy Griffis ported to current kernel by David Woodhouse]
From: Amy Griffis <amy.griffis@hp.com>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Zwane Mwaikambo [Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:40:00 +0000 (21:40 -0700)]
[IA64] reduce cacheline bouncing in cpu_idle_wait
Andi noted that during normal runtime cpu_idle_map is bounced around a lot,
and occassionally at a higher frequency than the timer interrupt wakeup
which we normally exit pm_idle from. So switch to a percpu variable.
I didn't move things to the slow path because it would involve adding
scheduler code to wakeup the idle thread on the cpus we're waiting for.
Signed-off-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Mike Habeck [Sat, 26 Mar 2005 02:34:00 +0000 (19:34 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] Altix only: Fix for sn_dma_flush
The following patch fixes a bug in the SGI Altix sn_dma_flush code.
sn_dma_flush is broken in 2.6. The code isn't waiting for the DMA
data to be flushed out of the PIC ASIC. This patch is based off the
linux-ia64-test-2.6.12 tree
Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Dean Nelson [Mon, 4 Apr 2005 20:14:00 +0000 (13:14 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] convert AMO address found in XPC's reserved page
This patch detects the existence of an uncached physical AMO address setup
by EFI's XPBOOT (SGI) and converts it to an uncached virtual AMO address.
Depends on a patch submitted on 23 March 2005 with the subject of:
[PATCH 2/3] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (2nd revision)
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Dean Nelson [Thu, 24 Mar 2005 02:46:00 +0000 (19:46 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (2nd
This patch contains the shim module (XP) which interfaces between the
communication module (XPC) and the functional support modules (like XPNET).
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Dean Nelson [Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:41:00 +0000 (19:41 -0700)]
[PATCH] move cnodeid_to_nasid_table out of pda
Another step in the effort to eliminate the SN pda structure.
This patch moves the cnodeid_to_nasid_table field out of the pda,
making it a standalone per-cpu data item, and exports it so it can
be accessed by kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Bruce Losure [Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:28:00 +0000 (12:28 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] Altix only: Remove hubdev SAL call
Hi Tony,
This patch against ia64-test-2.6.12 fixes a bug where the tiocx code
was inadvertently un-doing some address modifications done in earlier
fixup code. This patch just removes the offending code.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Losure <blosure@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This is a small patch to switch fluch_icache_range() to use fc.i
instead of fc. This would save time on processors which can establish
i-cache coherency without flushing the cache-line out to memory (not
that any current processors do). On existing processors, fc.i behaves
like fc. The only caveat is that very old assemblers may not know
about fc.i yet.
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jes Sorensen [Thu, 17 Feb 2005 16:41:00 +0000 (09:41 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] cleanup shubio.h
This patch cleans up include/asm/sn/shubio.h by removing a ton of
whitespaces and running it through Lindent, reducing it's size by almost
30KB. No actual content has been changed.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jesse Barnes [Wed, 16 Feb 2005 23:38:00 +0000 (16:38 -0700)]
[IA64-SGI] remove unused sn header files
This patch makes Jes' patch (which also contains the removal of fetchop.h) a
bit smaller, and removes two other unused files at the same time, sndrv.h and
sn_fru.h.
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Patch below fixes 3 trivial typos which are caught by the new
assembler (v2.169.90). Please apply.
[Note: fix to memcpy that was also part of this patch was separately
applied from patches by H.J. and Andreas ... so the delta here only
has the other two fixes. -Tony]
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Now that we have MC/MT detection patches in, appended patch allows us to
configure MT scheduler optimizations. For now, we will this option off
by default.
There is some discussion going on lkml about setting up sched-domains
which are absolutely needed (like for example, we shouldn't setup SMT domain
for non MT processors). Once that patch goes in, we can enable this option by
default.
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The cpufreq core patch I sent earlier got only half-applied. I added a
flag to let the low level driver disable an annoying warning on
suspend/resume that is normal on ppc, but the "resume" part of it wasn't
applied.
This just adds back that missing bit. The original patch also reworked
the resume() function to avoid nesting too many if () statements along
the way I did the suspend() one, but I didn't include that in the patch
below.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ppc32: Fix might_sleep() warning with clock spreading
The clock spreading disable/enable code was called to late/early during
the suspend/resume code on some laptops and would trigger a
might_sleep() warning due to the down() call in the low level i2c code.
This fixes it by calling those functions earlier/later when interrupts
are still enabled.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As Al Viro noticed, my previous fix missed one instance of "device" in
the driver local debug code. Harmless unless you tweak the #define's in
there but still work fixing.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
A typo in the machine table incorrectly mark the 101 PowerBook as
needing explicit callback from the video driver to enable sleep mode. I
did not implement that mecanism for chipsest older than r128, so we need
to mark this machine as always beeing able to sleep for now.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] ppc32: Workaround a cache flush issue on sleep
We are experiencing a problem when flushing the CPU caches before sleep
on some laptop models using the 750FX CPU rev 1.X. While I haven't been
able to figure out a proper explanation for what's going on, I do have a
workaround that seem to work reliably and allows those machine to sleep
and wakeup properly again.
I'll re-update that code if/when I ever find exactly what is happening
with those CPU revisions.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} to reflect fs/super.c
The patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have
been dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues.
This change was not documented in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Martin Waitz [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:27 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.
xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and
XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than
using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of
kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Pavel Pisa [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:25 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentation
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our
university students again. The documentation could be extended for more
sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I
have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0
time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel
compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to
some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well.
So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are
not too much skewed.
I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved
by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the
comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do
not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some
#ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc.
You can see result of the modified documentation build at
http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz
Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated
documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more
section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick
cleanup work.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Clean-up and bug fix for tdfxfb framebuffer size detection
Attached is a patch against 2.6.11.7 which tidies up the tdfxfb framebuffer
size detection code a little and fixes the broken support for Voodoo4/5
cards. (I haven't tested this on a Voodoo5, however, because I don't have
the hardware).
Signed-off-by: Richard Drummond <evilrich@rcdrummond.net> Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Better PLL frequency matching for tdfxfb driver
Improve the PLL frequency matching in the tdfxfb driver. Instead of
requiring 64260 iterations to obtain the closest supported PLL frequency,
this code does it with the same degree of accuracy in at most 768
iterations.
Signed-off-by: Richard Drummond <evilrich@rcdrummond.net> Cc: <linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch adds support for the framebuffer on the freescale i.MX SOC
architecture. The driver has been tested on the mx1ads board, the pimx1 board
and another custom board with different displays.
- Add 'vram' option to specify amount of video RAM to remap
- Limit remap size to 64 MIB
- Use info->screen_size for remapped RAM
- Fix misplaced label in failure path
This patch adds to the fbdev interface a set_cmap callback that allow the
driver to "batch" palette changes. This is useful for drivers like
radeonfb which might require lenghtly workarounds on palette accesses, thus
allowing to factor out those workarounds efficiently.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mingming Cao [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:20 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ext3: remove unnecessary race then retry in ext3_get_block
The extra race-with-truncate-then-retry logic around
ext3_get_block_handle(), which was inherited from ext2, becomes unecessary
for ext3, since we have already obtained the ei->truncate_sem in
ext3_get_block_handle() before calling ext3_alloc_branch(). The
ei->truncate_sem is already there to block concurrent truncate and block
allocation on the same inode. So the inode's indirect addressing tree
won't be changed after we grab that semaphore.
We could, after get the semaphore, re-verify the branch is up-to-date or
not. If it has been changed, then get the updated branch. If we still
need block allocation, we will have a safe version of the branch to work
with in the ext3_find_goal()/ext3_splice_branch().
The code becomes more readable after remove those retry logic. The patch
also clean up some gotos in ext3_get_block_handle() to make it more
readable.
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
comp_short_keys() massaged into sane form, which kills the last place where
pointer to in_core_key (or any object containing such) would be cast to or
from something else. At that point we are free to change layout of
in_core_key - nothing depends on it anymore.
So we drop the mess with union in there and simply use (unconditional) __u64
k_offset and __u8 k_type instead; places using in_core_key switched to those.
That gives _far_ better code than current mess - on all platforms.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viro [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:18 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] reiserfs endianness: fix endianness bugs
fixes for a couple of bugs exposed by the above: le32_to_cpu() used on 16bit
value and missing conversion in comparison of host- and little-endian values.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
struct reiserfs_key cloned; (currently) identical struct in_core_key added.
Places that expect host-endian data in reiserfs_key switched to in_core_key.
Basically, we get annotation of reiserfs_key users and keep the resulting tree
obviously equivalent to original.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ian Kent [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:17 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] autofs4: tree race fix
For tree mount maps, a call to chdir or chroot, to a directory above the
moint point directories at a certain time during the expire results in the
expire incorrectly thinking the tree is not busy. This patch adds a check
to see if the filesystem above the tree mount points is busy and also locks
the filesystem during the tree mount expire to prevent the race.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Colin Leroy [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:16 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] hfs, hfsplus: don't leak s_fs_info and fix an oops
This patch fixes the leak of sb->s_fs_info in both the HFS and HFS+
modules. In addition to this, it fixes an oops happening when trying to
mount a non-hfsplus filesystem using hfsplus. This patch is from Roman
Zippel, based off patches sent by myself.
Signed-off-by: Colin Leroy <colin@colino.net> Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:16 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: optimize io_submit_one()
This patch optimizes io_submit_one to call aio_run_iocb() directly if
ctx->run_list is empty. When the list is empty, the operation of adding to
the list, then call to __aio_run_iocbs() is unnecessary because these
operations are done in one atomic step. ctx->run_list always has only one
element in this case. This optimization speeds up industry standard db
transaction processing benchmark by 0.2%.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: clean up debug code
Clean up code that was previously used for debug purpose. Remove aio_run,
aio_wakeups, iocb->ki_queued and iocb->ki_kicked. Also clean up unused
variable count in __aio_run_iocbs() and debug code in read_events().
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: ring wrapping simplification
Since the tail pointer in aio_ring structure never wrap ring size more than
once, so a simple compare is sufficient to wrap the index around. This avoid
a more expensive mod operation.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ken Chen [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:15 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] aio: remove superfluous kiocb member initialization
This patch removes superfluous kiocb member initialization in the AIO
allocation and deallocation path. For example, in really_put_req(),
right before kiocb is returned to slab, 5 variables are reset to NULL.
The same variables will be initialized at the kiocb allocation time,
so why bother reset them knowing that they will be set to valid data
at alloc time? Another example: ki_retry is initialized in __aio_get_req,
but is initialized again in io_submit_one.
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com> Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Makefile: fix for compatibility with *emacs ctags
I've noticed that, starting from linux-2.6.12-rc1, in the top Makefile the
"cmd_tags" variable has been changed in a way incompatible with *emacs
ctags. Since the "--extra" option exists only in "exuberant ctags", it
should be included in the CTAGSF shell variable.
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Yum Rayan [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:14 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] serial_cs: Reduce stack usage in serial_event()
This patch reduces the stack usage of the function serial_event() in
serial_cs from 2212 to 228. I used a patched version of gcc 3.4.3 on i386
with -fno-unit-at-a-time disabled.
This patch is only compile tested.
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Yum Rayan <yum.rayan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jesper Juhl [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:13 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] new valid_signal() function
This patch adds a new function valid_signal() that tests if its argument is
a valid signal number.
The reasons for adding this new function are:
- some code currently testing _NSIG directly has off-by-one errors.
Using this function instead avoids such errors.
- some code currently tests unsigned signal numbers for <0 which is
pointless and generates warnings when building with gcc -W. Using this
function instead avoids such warnings.
I considered various places to add this function but eventually settled on
include/linux/signal.h as the most logical place for it. If there's some
reason this is a bad choice then please let me know (hints as to a better
location are then welcome of course).
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:12 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: fix a deadlock
Correct an issue with the IPMI message layer taking a lock and calling
lower layer driver. If an error occrues at the lower layer the lock can be
taken again causing a deadlock. The lock is released before calling the
lower layer.
Signed-off-by: David Griego <dgriego@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:11 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] ipmi: enable interrupts on the BT driver
Enable interrupts for a BT interface. There is a specific register that
needs to be set up to enable interrupts that also must be modified to clear
the irq.
Also, don't reset the BMC on a BT interface. That's probably not a good
idea as the BMC may be performing other important functions and a reset
should only be a last resort. Also, that register is also used to
enable/disable interrupts to the BT; modifying it may screw up the
interrupts.
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:10 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad ACPI data
If the ACPI register bit width is zero (an invalid value) assume it is the
default spacing. This avoids some coredumps on invalid data and makes some
systems work that have broken ACPI data.
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 May 2005 15:59:10 +0000 (08:59 -0700)]
[PATCH] IPMI: fix for handling bad IPMI DMI data
Ignore the bottom bit of the base address from the DMI data. It is
supposed to be set to 1 if it is I/O space. Few systems do this, but this
enables the ones that do set it to work properly.