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2005-08-23Merge from-linus to-akpmLen Brown
2005-08-18[IA64] remove unused function __ia64_get_io_port_baseTony Luck
Not only was this unused, but its somewhat eccentric declaration of "static inline const unsigned long" gives gcc4 heartburn. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-10[IA64] fix iosapic_remove build error for !HOTPLUGKenji Kaneshige
This patch removes the following stupid compile error that happens when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not defined on ia64. arch/ia64/kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x712): In function `acpi_unregister_ioapic': : undefined reference to `iosapic_remove' Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-05[ACPI] Merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into 2.6.13-rc3Len Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-08-04[ACPI] fix IA64 build warningAndrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intelc.com>
2005-07-27[IA64] inotify: ia64 syscalls.Robert Love
Attached patch adds the inotify syscalls to ia64. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-26[PATCH] Add emergency_restart()Eric W. Biederman
When the kernel is working well and we want to restart cleanly kernel_restart is the function to use. But in many instances the kernel wants to reboot when thing are expected to be working very badly such as from panic or a software watchdog handler. This patch adds the function emergency_restart() so that callers can be clear what semantics they expect when calling restart. emergency_restart() is expected to be callable from interrupt context and possibly reliable in even more trying circumstances. This is an initial generic implementation for all architectures. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-13Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linusTony Luck
2005-07-12[IA64] Altix pcibus_to_node implementationChristoph Lameter
The Altix subarch does not provide node information via ACPI. Instead hooks are used to fixup pci structures. This patch determines the nodes for Altix PCI busses. Remote Bridges: --------------- Altix supports remote I/O nodes without memory or processors but with bridges. The TIOCA type of bridge is an AGP bridge and the PROM provides information about the closest node. That information will be returned by pcibus_to_node. The TIOCP remote bridge type is a PCI bridge but the PROM does not provide a closest node id. pcibus_to_node will return -1 for devices on those bridges meaning that device control structures may be allocated on any node. Safeguard: ---------- Should the fixups result in invalid node information for a pci controller then a warning will be printed and pcibus_to_node will return -1. This patch also fixes the "FIXME" in sn_dma_alloc_coherent. This means that dma_alloc_coherent will now use alloc_pages_node to allocate memory local to the node that the PCI device is connected to. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12[IA64] remove CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIMGreg Edwards
This patch removes the CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM option entirely, allowing any kernel bootable on sn2 to also be booted in the simulator. Boot tested on Altix and HP rx2600. Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-12[IA64] pcibus_to_node implementation for IA64Christoph Lameter
pcibus_to_node provides a way for the Linux kernel to identify to which node a certain pcibus connects to. Allocations of control structures for devices can then be made on the node where the pci bus is located to allow local access during interrupt and other device manipulation. This patch provides a new "node" field in the the pci_controller structure. The node field will be set based on ACPI information (thanks to Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com for that piece). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] PNPACPI vs sound IRQDavid Shaohua Li
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4016 Written-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Acked-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12[ACPI] Evaluate CPEI Processor Override flagAshok Raj
ACPI 3.0 added a Correctable Platform Error Interrupt (CPEI) Processor Overide flag to MADT.Platform_Interrupt_Source. Record the processor that was provided as hint from ACPI. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11[IA64] assign_irq_vector() should not panicKenji Kaneshige
Current assign_irq_vector() will panic if interrupt vectors is running out. But I think how to handle the case of lack of interrupt vectors should be handled by the caller of this function. For example, some PCI devices can raise the interrupt signal via both MSI and I/O APIC. So even if the driver for these device fails to allocate a vector for MSI, the driver still has a chance to use I/O APIC based interrupt. But currently there is no chance for these driver to use I/O APIC based interrupt because kernel will panic when assign_irq_vector() fails to allocate interrupt vector. The following patch changes assign_irq_vector() for ia64 to return -ENOSPC on error instead of panic (as i386 and x86_64 versions do). Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-11[IA64] remove linux/version.h include from arch/ia64Olaf Hering
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason. Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] fix generic/up buildsTony Luck
Jesse Barnes provided the original version of this patch months ago, but other changes kept conflicting with it, so it got deferred. Greg Edwards dug it out of obscurity just over a week ago, and almost immediately another conflicting patch appeared (Bob Picco's memory-less nodes). I've resolved the conflicts and got it running again. CONFIG_SGI_TIOCX is set to "y" in defconfig, which causes a Tiger to not boot (oops in tiocx_init). But that can be resolved later ... get this in now before it gets stale again. Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver - PREEMPT/pcibus_info fixPrarit Bhargava
This patch fixes an issue with the PROM and a kernel running with CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled. When CONFIG_PREEMPT is enabled, the size of a spinlock_t changes -- resulting in the PROM writing to an incorrect location. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver - SN Hotplug Driver codePrarit Bhargava
This patch is the SGI hotplug driver and additional changes required for the driver. These modifications include changes to the SN io_init.c code for memory management, the inclusion of new SAL calls to enable and disable PCI slots, and a hotplug-style driver. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver - new SN PROM version codePrarit Bhargava
This patch is a rewrite of the code to check the PROM version. The current code has some deficiences in the way PROM comparisons were made. The minimum value of PROM that will boot has also been changed to 4.04. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver: moving of header filesPrarit Bhargava
This patch moves header files out of the arch/ia64/sn directories and into include/asm-ia64/sn. These files were being included by other subsystems and should be under include/asm-ia64/sn. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-06[IA64] hotplug/ia64: SN Hotplug Driver: SN IRQ FixesPrarit Bhargava
This patch fixes the SN IRQ code such that cpu affinity and Hotplug can modify IRQ values. The sn_irq_info structures are now locked using a RCU lock mechanism to avoid lock contention in the lost interrupt WAR code. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-29Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linusTony Luck
2005-06-28[IA64] Fix another IA64 preemption problemPeter Chubb
There's another problem shown up by Ingo's recent patch to make smp_processor_id() complain if it's called with preemption enabled. local_finish_flush_tlb_mm() calls activate_context() in a situation where it could be rescheduled to another processor. This patch disables preemption around the call. Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64-SGI] Altix patch to tiocx, add subsys_initcallBruce Losure
This patch fixes an ordering issue between the init code for the tiocx bus driver and tiocx-related device drivers. Also adds a new brick to the list of known FPGA bricks. Signed-off-by: Bruce Losure <blosure@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64] sparse cleanup of TIOCA filesPrarit Bhargava
This patch is a sparse compile cleanup of tioca_provider.c, sn_hwperf.h, and tioca_provider.h. Each of these files had sparse warnings when compiled. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64-SGI] Fix TIO IOSPACE MMR AddresColin Ngam
This patches provides support on Shub2 for the separate TIO IOSPACE MMR. This patch is SN specific. Signed-off-by: Colin Ngam <cngam@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64-SGI] - new macros for SGI SN simulator Jack Steiner
This patch changes some macros that are used when running kernel on the SGI simulator. Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64] sparse cleanup of shub_mmr.hPrarit Bhargava
This patch is a sparse compile cleanup of shub_mmr.h using both the defconfig and the sn2_defconfig config files. The issue with this file was the missing usage of __IA64_UL_CONST wrapper. This wrapper is defined in include/asm-ia64/types.h and wraps a long constant definition with UL or with nothing depending on its usage in the kernel. The missing wrapper caused many sparse compile errors like warning: constant 0x0x0000000010000380 so big it is long Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-28[IA64-SGI] pcdp: add PCDP pci interface supportMark Maule
Resend 2 with changes per Bjorn Helgaas comments. Changes from original: + Change globals to vga_console_iobase/vga_console_membase and make them unconditional. + Address style-related comments. Patch to extend the PCDP vga setup code to support PCI io/mem translations for the legacy vga ioport and ram spaces on architectures (e.g. altix) which need them. Summary of the changes: drivers/firmware/pcdp.c drivers/firmware/pcdp.h ----------------------- + add declaration for the spec-defined PCI interface struct (pcdp_if_pci) as well as support macros. + extend setup_vga_console() to know about pcdp_if_pci and add a couple of globals to hold the io and mem translation offsets if present. arch/ia64/kernel/setup.c ------------------------ + tweek early_console_setup() to allow multiple early console setup routines to be called. include/asm-ia64/vga.h ---------------------- + make VGA_MAP_MEM vga_console_membase aware Signed-off-by: Mark Maule <maule@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-27Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Greg KH
2005-06-27[PATCH] PCI: fix up errors after dma bursting patch and CONFIG_PCI=nAndrew Morton
With CONFIG_PCI=n: In file included from include/linux/pci.h:917, from lib/iomap.c:6: include/asm/pci.h:104: warning: `enum pci_dma_burst_strategy' declared inside parameter list include/asm/pci.h:104: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want. include/asm/pci.h: In function `pci_dma_burst_advice': include/asm/pci.h:106: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type include/asm/pci.h:106: `PCI_DMA_BURST_INFINITY' undeclared (first use in this function) include/asm/pci.h:106: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once include/asm/pci.h:106: for each function it appears in.) make[1]: *** [lib/iomap.o] Error 1 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27[PATCH] PCI: DMA bursting adviceDavid S. Miller
After seeing, at best, "guesses" as to the following kind of information in several drivers, I decided that we really need a way for platforms to specifically give advice in this area for what works best with their PCI controller implementation. Basically, this new interface gives DMA bursting advice on PCI. There are three forms of the advice: 1) Burst as much as possible, it is not necessary to end bursts on some particular boundary for best performance. 2) Burst on some byte count multiple. A DMA burst to some multiple of number of bytes may be done, but it is important to end the burst on an exact multiple for best performance. The best example of this I am aware of are the PPC64 PCI controllers, where if you end a burst mid-cacheline then chip has to refetch the data and the IOMMU translations which hurts performance a lot. 3) Burst on a single byte count multiple. Bursts shall end exactly on the next multiple boundary for best performance. Sparc64 and Alpha's PCI controllers operate this way. They disconnect any device which tries to burst across a cacheline boundary. Actually, newer sparc64 PCI controllers do not have this behavior. That is why the "pdev" is passed into the interface, so I can add code later to check which PCI controller the system is using and give advice accordingly. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27[PATCH] ACPI based I/O APIC hot-plug: ia64 supportKenji Kaneshige
This is an ia64 implementation of acpi_register_ioapic() and acpi_unregister_ioapic() interfaces. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27[PATCH] kprobes/ia64: refuse kprobe on ivt codeKeshavamurthy Anil S
Not safe to insert kprobes on IVT code. This patch checks to see if the address on which Kprobes is being inserted is in ivt code and if it is in ivt code then refuse to register kprobe. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] Return probe redesign: ia64 specific implementationRusty Lynch
The following patch implements function return probes for ia64 using the revised design. With this new design we no longer need to do some of the odd hacks previous required on the last ia64 return probe port that I sent out for comments. Note that this new implementation still does not resolve the problem noted by Keith Owens where backtrace data is lost after a return probe is hit. Changes include: * Addition of kretprobe_trampoline to act as a dummy function for instrumented functions to return to, and for the return probe infrastructure to place a kprobe on on, gaining control so that the return probe handler can be called, and so that the instruction pointer can be moved back to the original return address. * Addition of arch_init(), allowing a kprobe to be registered on kretprobe_trampoline * Addition of trampoline_probe_handler() which is used as the pre_handler for the kprobe inserted on kretprobe_implementation. This is the function that handles the details for calling the return probe handler function and returning control back at the original return address * Addition of arch_prepare_kretprobe() which is setup as the pre_handler for a kprobe registered at the beginning of the target function by kernel/kprobes.c so that a return probe instance can be setup when a caller enters the target function. (A return probe instance contains all the needed information for trampoline_probe_handler to do it's job.) * Hooks added to the exit path of a task so that we can cleanup any left-over return probe instances (i.e. if a task dies while inside a targeted function then the return probe instance was reserved at the beginning of the function but the function never returns so we need to mark the instance as unused.) Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] kprobes: fix single-step out of line - take2Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Now that PPC64 has no-execute support, here is a second try to fix the single step out of line during kprobe execution. Kprobes on x86_64 already solved this problem by allocating an executable page and using it as the scratch area for stepping out of line. Reuse that. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27[PATCH] Update cfq io scheduler to time sliced designJens Axboe
This updates the CFQ io scheduler to the new time sliced design (cfq v3). It provides full process fairness, while giving excellent aggregate system throughput even for many competing processes. It supports io priorities, either inherited from the cpu nice value or set directly with the ioprio_get/set syscalls. The latter closely mimic set/getpriority. This import is based on my latest from -mm. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] sched: cleanup context switch lockingNick Piggin
Instead of requiring architecture code to interact with the scheduler's locking implementation, provide a couple of defines that can be used by the architecture to request runqueue unlocked context switches, and ask for interrupts to be enabled over the context switch. Also replaces the "switch_lock" used by these architectures with an oncpu flag (note, not a potentially slow bitflag). This eliminates one bus locked memory operation when context switching, and simplifies the task_running function. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25[PATCH] sched: sched tuningNick Piggin
Do some basic initial tuning. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[IA64] Fix pfn_to_nid() so the kernel compiles again for !CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM.David Mosberger-Tang
Signed-off-by: David Mosberger-Tang <davidm@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-23[PATCH] compat: introduce compat_time_tStephen Rothwell
This patch is based on work by Carlos O'Donell and Matthew Wilcox. It introduces/updates the compat_time_t type and uses it for compat siginfo structures. I have built this on ppc64 and x86_64. 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>
2005-06-23[PATCH] adjust per_cpu definition in non-SMP caseJan Beulich
Fix (in the architectures I'm actually building for) the UP definition of per_cpu so that the cpu specified may be any expression, not just an identifier or a suffix expression. Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Don't force O_LARGEFILE for 32 bit processes on ia64Yoav Zach
In ia64 kernel, the O_LARGEFILE flag is forced when opening a file. This is problematic for execution of 32 bit processes, which are not largefile aware, either by SW emulation or by HW execution. For such processes, the problem is two-fold: 1) When trying to open a file that is larger than 4G the operation should fail, but it's not 2) Writing to offset larger than 4G should fail, but it's not The proposed patch takes advantage of the way 32 bit processes are identified in ia64 systems. Such processes have PER_LINUX32 for their personality. With the patch, the ia64 kernel will not enforce the O_LARGEFILE flag if the current process has PER_LINUX32 set. The behavior for all other architectures remains unchanged. Signed-off-by: Yoav Zach <yoav.zach@intel.com> Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes IA64: cmp ctype unc supportAnil S Keshavamurthy
The current Kprobes when patching the original instruction with the break instruction tries to retain the original qualifying predicate(qp), however for cmp.crel.ctype where ctype == unc, which is a special instruction always needs to be executed irrespective of qp. Hence, if the instruction we are patching is of this type, then we should not copy the original qp to the break instruction, this is because we always want the break fault to happen so that we can emulate the instruction. This patch is based on the feedback given by David Mosberger Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes ia64 cleanupRusty Lynch
A cleanup of the ia64 kprobes implementation such that all of the bundle manipulation logic is concentrated in arch_prepare_kprobe(). With the current design for kprobes, the arch specific code only has a chance to return failure inside the arch_prepare_kprobe() function. This patch moves all of the work that was happening in arch_copy_kprobe() and most of the work that was happening in arch_arm_kprobe() into arch_prepare_kprobe(). By doing this we can add further robustness checks in arch_arm_kprobe() and refuse to insert kprobes that will cause problems. Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: support kprobe on branch/call instructionsAnil S Keshavamurthy
This patch is required to support kprobe on branch/call instructions. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: architecture specific JProbes supportAnil S Keshavamurthy
This patch adds IA64 architecture specific JProbes support on top of Kprobes Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: arch specific handlingAnil S Keshavamurthy
This is an IA64 arch specific handling of Kprobes Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: kdebug die notification mechanismAnil S Keshavamurthy
As many of you know that kprobes exist in the main line kernel for various architecture including i386, x86_64, ppc64 and sparc64. Attached patches following this mail are a port of Kprobes and Jprobes for IA64. I have tesed this patches for kprobes and Jprobes and this seems to work fine. I have tested this patch by inserting kprobes on various slots and various templates including various types of branch instructions. I have also tested this patch using the tool http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111657358022586&w=2 and the kprobes for IA64 works great. Here is list of TODO things and pathes for the same will appear soon. 1) Support kprobes on "mov r1=ip" type of instruction 2) Support Kprobes and Jprobes to exist on the same address 3) Support Return probes 3) Architecture independent cleanup of kprobes This patch adds the kdebug die notification mechanism needed by Kprobes. For break instruction on Branch type slot, imm21 is ignored and value zero is placed in IIM register, hence we need to handle kprobes for switch case zero. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Lynch <Rusty.lynch@intel.com> From: Rusty Lynch <rusty.lynch@intel.com> At the point in traps.c where we recieve a break with a zero value, we can not say if the break was a result of a kprobe or some other debug facility. This simple patch changes the informational string to a more correct "break 0" value, and applies to the 2.6.12-rc2-mm2 tree with all the kprobes patches that were just recently included for the next mm cut. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>