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2006-01-12[PATCH] powerpc: iSeries fixes for build with no PCIStephen Rothwell
This reverts part of "ppc64 iSeries: allow build with no PCI" (145d01e4287b8cbf50f87c3283e33bf5c84e8468) which affected generic code and applies a fix in the arch specific code. Commit "partly merge iseries do_IRQ" (5fee9b3b39eb55c7e3619a3b36ceeabffeb8f144) introduced iSeries_get_irq which was only available if CONFIG_PCI is set. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09[PATCH] mutex subsystem, semaphore to mutex: VFS, ->i_semJes Sorensen
This patch converts the inode semaphore to a mutex. I have tested it on XFS and compiled as much as one can consider on an ia64. Anyway your luck with it might be different. Modified-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> (finished the conversion) Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-01-08[PATCH] /dev/mem: validate mmap requestsBjorn Helgaas
Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests. This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write paths. The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or 64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or uncacheable). This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a machine check. Sample problem scenario: - Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K - efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule - Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0 - hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here") - Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB memory, e.g., sx1000) In the scenario above, the only choices are - Use WB for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because it causes attribute aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space. - Use UC for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because the chipset may not support UC for that region. - Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL. That's what this patch does. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] /dev/mem __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT tidy-upBjorn Helgaas
Tidy up __HAVE_PHYS_MEM_ACCESS_PROT usage to make mmap_mem() easier to read. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08[PATCH] kmsg_write: don't return printk return valueGuillaume Chazarain
kmsg_write returns with printk, so some programs may be confused by a successful write() with a return value different than the buffer length. # /bin/echo something > /dev/kmsg /bin/echo: write error: Inappropriate ioctl for device The drawbacks is that the printk return value can no more be quickly checked from userspace. Signed-off-by: Guillaume Chazarain <guichaz@yahoo.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-28mm: re-architect the VM_UNPAGED logicLinus Torvalds
This replaces the (in my opinion horrible) VM_UNMAPPED logic with very explicit support for a "remapped page range" aka VM_PFNMAP. It allows a VM area to contain an arbitrary range of page table entries that the VM never touches, and never considers to be normal pages. Any user of "remap_pfn_range()" automatically gets this new functionality, and doesn't even have to mark the pages reserved or indeed mark them any other way. It just works. As a side effect, doing mmap() on /dev/mem works for arbitrary ranges. Sparc update from David in the next commit. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-22[PATCH] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE in VM_UNPAGEDHugh Dickins
It's strange enough to be looking out for anonymous pages in VM_UNPAGED areas, let's not insert the ZERO_PAGE there - though whether it would matter will depend on what we decide about ZERO_PAGE refcounting. But whereas do_anonymous_page may (exceptionally) be called on a VM_UNPAGED area, do_no_page should never be: just BUG_ON. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-31Merge ../linux-2.6 by handPaul Mackerras
2005-10-29[PATCH] ppc: make phys_mem_access_prot() work with pfns instead of addressesRoland Dreier
Change the phys_mem_access_prot() function to take a pfn instead of an address. This allows mmap64() to work on /dev/mem for addresses above 4G on 32-bit architectures. We start with a pfn in mmap_mem(), so there's no need to convert to an address; in fact, it's actively bad, since the conversion can overflow when the address is above 4G. Similarly fix the ppc32 page_is_ram() function to avoid a conversion to an address by directly comparing to max_pfn. Working with max_pfn instead of high_memory fixes page_is_ram() to give the right answer for highmem pages. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2005-10-28[PATCH] Driver Core: fix up all callers of class_device_create()Greg Kroah-Hartman
The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create(). This patch fixes up all in-kernel users of the function. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-07[PATCH] remove a dead extern in mem.cChristoph Hellwig
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-13Fix up mmap of /dev/kmemLinus Torvalds
This leaves the issue of whether we should deprecate the whole thing (or if we should check the whole mmap range, for that matter) open. Just do the minimal fix for now.
2005-06-25[PATCH] kexec code cleanupManeesh Soni
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>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kdump: cleanups for dump file access in linear raw formatVivek Goyal
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>
2005-06-25[PATCH] kdump: Accessing dump file in linear raw format (/dev/oldmem)Vivek Goyal
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>
2005-06-21[PATCH] ppc64 iSeries: allow build with no PCIStephen Rothwell
This patch allows iSeries to build with CONFIG_PCI=n. This is useful for partitions that have only virtual I/O. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-20[PATCH] class: convert drivers/char/* to use the new class api instead of ↵gregkh@suse.de
class_simple Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!