Frank Pavlic [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:05:31 +0000 (18:05 +0200)]
[PATCH] s390: qeth driver fixes
[patch 4/4] s390: qeth driver fixes .
From: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
- Clear read channel first prior to using ccw_device_set_offline.
- use QETH_DBF_TEXT instead of QETH_DBF_SPRINTF
- invoke qeth_halt_channel and qeth_clear_channel for all channels,
even if halt/clear for one of the channel fails.
- enable qeth_arp_query function for GuestLAN devices
Frank Pavlic [Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:03:26 +0000 (18:03 +0200)]
[PATCH] s390: TSO related fixes in qeth driver
Jeff,
I'm sorry seems that they have not been sent out either ...
ok here they come ...
[patch 3/4] s390: TSO related fixes in qeth driver
From: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
TSO related fixes :
- changing value of large_send attribute while network traffic
is running caused program check and thus device recovery.
- Due to hardware restriction discard packet when it exceeds 60K
otherwise qeth will cause program checks and thus traffic stall
when trying to send such huge packets.
Frank Pavlic [Thu, 8 Sep 2005 07:50:06 +0000 (09:50 +0200)]
[PATCH] s390: ctc driver fixes
Jeff,
sorry if I have flooded your inbox, I had some problems with the
mail server here yesterday, but it seems to be fixed ...
Ok patch 3-4 have no dependencies on patch 2 since only qeth driver is
affected.Thus I have made a new patch 2 for ctc driver.
Thank you .
[patch 2/4] s390: ctc driver fixes
From: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com>
- race condition fixed
- minor cleanup
Signed-off-by: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
diffstat:
ctcmain.c | 41 ++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] skge: gmac register access errors in dual port
Merge of four previous patches and the Kconfig fix
* Remove debug printk's
* whitespace cleanup and version number change
* clear interrupts, reset phy, and reset hardware on shutdown
* ignore 64bit counter overflow interrupts
* fix a couple of places where second port could clobber state
of first port.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
John W. Linville [Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:48:59 +0000 (10:48 -0400)]
[PATCH] e100: correct rx_dropped and add rx_missed_errors
Do not count non-error frames dropped by the hardware as
part of rx_dropped. Instead, count those frames dropped as
rx_missed_errors. Also, do not count other error frames as part of
rx_dropped. Finally, do not count oversized frames in rx_dropped
(since they are counted as part of rx_length_errors).
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Keith Owens [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 05:05:13 +0000 (15:05 +1000)]
[PATCH] Correct xircom_cb use of CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER
xircom_cb.c does #if CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER instead of #ifdef,
resulting in drivers/net/tulip/xircom_cb.c:120:5: warning:
"CONFIG_NET_POLL_CONTROLLER" is not defined.
Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 06:21:55 +0000 (23:21 -0700)]
[PATCH] s2io warning fixes
drivers/net/s2io.c: In function `init_shared_mem':
drivers/net/s2io.c:431: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/net/s2io.c: In function `free_shared_mem':
drivers/net/s2io.c:662: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] sk98lin: remove PCI id info for cards for conflicting devices
Fix PCI device id issues with sk98lin driver.
1. DLINK 530-T card has no Vital Product Data (VPD) area so the sk98lin
driver won't work. (skge does however)
2. Remove commented out Yukon2 stuff
3. Restrict Linksys card to revisions that don't conflict with r8169 version.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[DCCP]: Check if already in the CLOSING state in dccp_rcv_closereq
It is possible to receive more than one CLOSEREQ packet if the
CLOSE packet sent in response is somehow lost, change the state
to DCCP_CLOSING only on the first CLOSEREQ packet received.
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
George G. Davis [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:55:00 +0000 (22:55 +0100)]
[ARM] 2896/1: Add sys_ipc_wrapper to pass 'fifth' argument on stack
Patch from George G. Davis
As pointed out be Matthew Klahn <MKLAHN@motorola.com>, some sys_ipc()
call options require six args, e.g. SEMTIMEDOP. This patch adds an ARM sys_ipc_wrapper to save the sys_ipc() 'fifth' arg on the stack.
Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
arch/arm/kernel/calls.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S | 5 +++++ Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 20:49:15 +0000 (13:49 -0700)]
[NETFILTER]: Fix DHCP + MASQUERADE problem
In 2.6.13-rcX the MASQUERADE target was changed not to exclude local
packets for better source address consistency. This breaks DHCP clients
using UDP sockets when the DHCP requests are caught by a MASQUERADE rule
because the MASQUERADE target drops packets when no address is configured
on the outgoing interface. This patch makes it ignore packets with a
source address of 0.
Thanks to Rusty for this suggestion.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Masked FPU exceptions should obviously not happen in the first place,
but if they do, ignoring them seems to be the right thing to do.
Although there is no documentation available for Cyrix MII, I did find
erratum F-7 for Winchip C6, "FPU instruction may result in spurious
exception under certain conditions" which seems to indicate that this
can happen.
That would also explain the behaviour Ondrej Zary reported on the MII.
Paul Mackerras [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:56:20 +0000 (20:56 +1000)]
[PATCH] ppc64: Make eeh_init function again
My patch "Separate pci bits out of struct device_node" (commit 1635317facea3094ddf34082cd86797efb1d9f7e) had the unfortunate
side-effect that it stopped eeh_init() from working correctly.
It needs the pointers set up by find_and_init_phbs(), but it was being
called just before find_and_init_phbs(). That meant that we didn't
enable EEH (pSeries PCI error recovery) on any devices, and that meant
that on POWER5 systems, the hypervisor wouldn't let us enable memory or
I/O space access to any devices, and their drivers got somewhat
confused.
This fixes it by moving the eeh_init call after find_and_init_phbs.
Tested on a POWER5 partition.
Signed-of-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Beulich [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:45 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] matroxfb adjustments
Some adjustments to the matroxfb code, for one part preventing the display
to be disabled for longer than necessary, and for the other part to make
information about the frame buffer position available so that a kernel
debugger might obtain that before the initial mode change.
Finally, some return code corrections to fit the generic fb code.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Beulich [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:44 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] fbcon: constify font data
const-ify the font control structures and data, to make somewhat better
guarantees that these are not modified anywhere in the kernel.
Specifically for a kernel debugger to share this information from the
normal kernel code, such a guarantee seems rather desirable.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds all defines, ioctls and structs needed for the sliced VBI API
VBI = Vertical Blank Interval.
It is related with the way TV signals work. It sends a line, then, it has a
retrace time to allow the tube to move electrons to the beginning of the next
line. This was the main reason at the beginning of analog B&W TV.
There is a lot of bandwidth lost on VBI. So, lots of TV systems use it to
send other information such as Closed Captions and Teletext. Also,
broadcasters uses this as a channel to exchange information from the content
producer to their subsidiaries at each city.
There's already a raw VBI interface on V4L2 api, used for Closed Captions and
Teletext. The decoding is doing at userlevel space and it is mostly for
analog TV signals, non encoded.
Encoded signals (MPEG, for example), may need also to transmit other
information (like, for example, display aspect, i.e. 4x3, widescreen...).
Sliced VBI interface is a method to allow the video stream to transmit this
kind of information.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:39 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] Code cleanups in calbacks in svcsock
Change a printk(KERN_WARNING to dprintk, and it is really only interesting
when trying to debug a problem, and can occur normally without error.
Remove various gratuitous gotos in surrounding code, and remove some
type-cast assignments from inside 'if' conditionals, as that is just
obscuring what it going on.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:39 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] nfsd4: fix setclientid unlock of unlocked state lock
We could try to unlock the state lock here without having first locked it.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:38 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] nfsd4: fix open seqid incrementing in lock
In the case of a lock which introduces a new lockowner, the openowner's
sequence id should be incremented, even when the operation fails, if the
error is a sequence-id-mutating error. The current code fails to do that
in some cases. Fix this by using the same sequence-id-incrementing
mechanism that all other such operations use.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:37 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] nfsd4: move replay_owner
It seems more natural to move the setting of the replay_owner into the
relevant procedure instead of doing it in nfsv4_proc_compound.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Neil Brown [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:36 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] nfsd4: printk reduction
Demote some printk's that look like they could be triggered by non-buggy
clients to dprintk's. (For example, stale clientid's are normal
occurrences on reboot, and on a server with a lot of clients these messages
could become annoying.)
Also remove some redundant dprintk's (e.g. no need for both STALE_CLIENTID
and its callers to do dprintks).
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:35 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Add an input keyboard driver for Zaurus cxx00 series
Add a input driver for the keyboard found on the Zaurus Cxx00 series (Spitz,
Akita, Borzoi). Its based on corgikbd but there are enough subtle differences
to justify a separate driver.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:34 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Add new ARM PXA machines Spitz and Borzoi with partial Akita Support
Add the platform support code for two new Sharp Zaurus Models, Spitz
(SL-C3000) and Borzoi (SL-C3100).
This patch also adds most of the foundations for Akita (SL-C1000) Support.
The missing link for Akita is the driver for its I2C io expander. Once this
has been finished, the missing Kconfig option and machine declaration can
easily be added to this code.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:33 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Abstract model specifics from Corgi Backlight driver
Separate out the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series specific code from the Corgi
backlight driver. Abstract model/machine specific functions to corgi_lcd.c
via sharpsl.h
This enables the driver to be used by the Zaurus cxx00 series.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:33 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi Touchscreen driver
Separate out the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series specific code from the Corgi
Touchscreen driver. Use the new functions in corgi_lcd.c via sharpsl.h for
hsync handling and pass the IRQ as a platform device resource. Move a
function prototype into the w100fb header file where it belongs.
This enables the driver to be used by the Zaurus cxx00 series.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:32 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Add cxx00 support to the Corgi LCD driver
The same LCD is present on both the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series and the cxx00 but
with different framebuffer drivers (w100fb vs. pxafb). This patch adds
support for the cxx00 series to the LCD driver. It also adds some LCD to
touchscreen interface logic needed by the touchscreen driver to prevent
interference problems, the idea being to keep all the ugly code in one place
leaving the drivers themselves clean. sharpsl.h is used to provide the
abstraction.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Richard Purdie [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:30 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] SharpSL: Abstract c7x0 specifics from Corgi SSP
Sharp's newer range of Zaurus clamshell handhelds, the cxx00's are similar to
the c7x0 series yet different. This patch series abstracts the differences
and generates a set of common drivers that support both series of devices. It
then adds machine support for Spitz (SL-C3000) and Borzoi (SL-C3100). Hooks
for Akita (SL-C1000) differences are also added. The I2C driver for its IO
expander is the only missing piece.
This patch:
Separate out the Sharp Zaurus c7x0 series specific code from corgi_ssp.c so
that other models such as the cxx00's can share it. Create sharpsl.h which
will be used to abstract machine/model specifics.
This enables the driver to be used by the Zaurus cxx00 series.
Signed-Off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Osterlund [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:28 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] pktcdvd: more accurate I/O accounting
In the /proc statistics, only count writes that upper layers have requested.
Don't count additional writes created inside the packet driver to satisfy the
requirement to only write full packets.
Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:26 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: SCSI tape info for /proc
Add SCSI host and device info not elsewhere available to /proc/scsi/cciss/*
Namely, connect cciss device instance with scsi host number, and give scsi
host number, bus, target, lun, devicetype, and 8-byte cciss LUNID for each
tapedrive/medium changer attached to a controller
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:25 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: One Button Disaster Recovery support
This patch adds support for "One Button Disaster Recovery" devices to the
cciss driver. (OBDR devices are tape drives which can pretend to be cd-rom
devices temporarily. Once booted the device can be reverted to a tape drive
and data recovery operations can be automatically begun.)
This is an enhancement request by a vendor/partner working on One Button
Disaster Recovery.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:24 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: fix for DMA brokeness
The CCISS driver seems to loose track of DMA mappings created by it's
fill_cmd() routine. Neither callers of this routine are extracting the DMA
address created in order to do the unmap.
Instead, they simply try to unmap 0x0. It's easy to see this problem on an
x86_64 system when using the "swiotlb=force" boot option. In this case, the
driver is leaking resources of the swiotlb and not causing a sync of the
bounce buffer.
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:22 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: direct lookup for command completions
This patch changes the way we complete commands. In the old method when we
got a completion we searched our command list from the top until we find it.
This method uses a tag associated with each command (not SCSI command tagging)
to index us directly to the completed command. This helps performance.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <dab@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:22 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: new disk register/deregister routines
This patch removes a couple of functions dealing with configuration and
replaces them with new functions. This implementation fixes some bugs
associated with the ACUXE. It also allows a logical volume to be removed from
the middle without deleting all volumes behind it.
If a user has 5 logical volumes and decides he wants to reconfigure volume
number 3, he can now do that without removing volumes 4 & 5 first. This code
has been tested in our labs against all application software.
Signed-off-by: Chase Maupin <chase.maupin@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:21 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: busy_initializing flag
This patch adds a flag called busy_initializing. If there are multiple
controllers in a server AND the HP agents are running it's possible the agents
may try to poll a card that is still initializing if the driver is removed and
then added again.
Signed-off-by: Don Brace <dab@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:19 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] cciss: new controller pci/subsystem ids
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec. It
also include a name change for one controller. I know there's a lot of
duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations.
Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms,
standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
We seem to use both asm-offsets.* and asm_offsets.*
Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Chris Mason [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:17 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: use mark_inode_dirty instead of reiserfs_update_sd
reiserfs should use mark_inode_dirty during reiserfs_file_write and
reiserfs_commit_write. This makes sure the inode is properly flagged as
dirty, which is used during O_SYNC to decide when to trigger log commits.
This patch also removes the O_SYNC check from reiserfs_commit_write, since
that gets dealt with properly at higher layers once we start using
mark_inode_dirty.
Thanks to Hifumi Hisashi <hifumi.hisashi@lab.ntt.co.jp> for catching this.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:14 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] set_current_state() commentary
Explain the mysteries of set_current_state().
Quoth Linus:
The scheduler itself never needs the memory barrier at all.
The barrier is needed only if the user itself ends up testing some other
thing afterwards, ie if you have
set_process_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
if (still_need_to_sleep())
schedule();
then the "still_need_to_sleep()" thing may test flags and wakeup events,
and then you _may_ want to (and often do) make sure that the write of
TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE is serialized wrt the reads of any wakeup data (since
the wakeup may have happened on another CPU).
So the comment is somewhat wrong. We don't really _care_ whether the state
propagates out to other CPU's since all of our actions are purely local,
and there is nothing we do that is conditional on any other CPU: we're
going to sleep unconditionally, and the scheduler only cares about _our_
state, not about somebody elses state.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Peter Staubach [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:12 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] open returns ENFILE but creates file anyway
When open(O_CREAT) is called and the error, ENFILE, is returned, the file
may be created anyway. This is counter intuitive, against the SUS V3
specification, and may cause applications to misbehave if they are not
coded correctly to handle this semantic. The SUS V3 specification
explicitly states "No files shall be created or modified if the function
returns -1.".
The error, ENFILE, is used to indicate the system wide open file table is
full and no more file structs can be allocated.
This is due to an ordering problem. The entry in the directory is created
before the file struct is allocated. If the allocation for the file struct
fails, then the system call must return an error, but the directory entry
was already created and can not be safely removed.
The solution to this situation is relatively easy. The file struct should
be allocated before the directory entry is created. If the allocation
fails, then the error can be returned directly. If the creation of the
directory entry fails, then the file struct can be easily freed.
Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tom Rini [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:09 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] ppc32: discard *.exit.text and *.exit.data sections
Discard *.exit.text sections on runtime. We cannot do this on link time
because of the way BUG macros are implemented. If "__exit function" calls
one of those macros, __bug_table section will reference this function.
This is similar to ".altinstructions" situation on i386.
*.exit.data seems to be OK in this respect and is discarded on link
time.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:25:04 +0000 (01:25 -0700)]
[PATCH] ide: clean up the garbage in eighty_ninty_three
Replace the foot long pile of festering garbage in eighty_ninty_three with
some actual clean code. All the ifdefs are fixed and havent changed since
2.4
Fix up more strange byte writes to the PCI_ROM_ADDRESS config word
It's a dword thing, and the value we write is a dword. Doing a byte
write to it is nonsensical, and writes only the low byte, which only
contains the enable bit. So we enable a nonsensical address (usually
zero), which causes the controller no end of problems.
[PATCH] m68knommu: optimized local_irq_disable, and platform reboot code
Switch to a space optimized version of local_irq_disable() for ColdFire
platforms. Also add reboot support for the Freescale M5272 platform.
Patch originally submitted by Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>.
Add reboot support for the Freescale M523x ColdFire platform. Patch originally
submitted by Jate Sujjavanich.
[PATCH] m68knommu: startup code for the Drangen Engine 68328 based board
Specialized startup code for the 68328 based DragenEngine board.
It doesn't easily fit into the common 68x328 startup code framework.
It doesn't want any of the common hardware setup to be done here.
[PATCH] m68knommu: fix cache actions for ColdFire 5249, 527x and 528x processors
Add better support for flushing the cache's on some ColdFire processors.
The 5249 cache code is now enabled (it was stubbed out), it really is
needed. Add support for the 527x and 528x families - we only use the
simple instruction cache on them.
[Bluetooth] Add ignore parameters to the HCI USB driver
This patch adds the module parameters ignore_csr and ignore_sniffer
to the HCI USB driver. This allows an easier use of CSR ROM chips
that need an additional initialization routine and the Frontline
sniffers.
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