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Restores serial functionality for the BCM1480.
Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6:
pdc202xx_new: PLL detection fix
via82cxxx: add Arima W730-K8 and other rebadgings to short cables list
pmac: build fix
pata_ali/alim15x3: override 80-wire cable detection for Toshiba S1800-814
hpt366: UltraDMA filter for SATA cards (take 2)
ide: add ide_dev_is_sata() helper (take 2)
hpt366: fix PCI clock detection for HPT374 (take 4)
pdc202xx_new: fix PCI refcounting
ide: fix PCI refcounting
mpc8xx: Only build mpc8xx on arch/ppc
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Make the SATA drive detection code from eighty_ninty_three() into inline
ide_dev_is_sata() helper fixing it along the way to be more strict while
checking word 80 for the reserved values...
Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
PCI: irq and pci_ids patch for Intel Tolapai
PCI: unhide SMBus on Compaq Deskpro EP 401963-001 motherboard
PCI: Remove __devinit from pcibios_get_irq_routing_table
PCI: remove devinit from pci_read_bridge_bases
PCI AER: fix warnings when PCIEAER=n
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[INET_DIAG]: Fix oops in netlink_rcv_skb
[IPv6]: Fix NULL pointer dereference in ip6_flush_pending_frames
[NETFILTER]: Fix/improve deadlock condition on module removal netfilter
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_ipv4: fix "Frag of proto ..." messages
[NET] DOC: Update networking/multiqueue.txt with correct information.
[IPV6]: Freeing alive inet6 address
[DECNET]: Fix interface address listing regression.
[IPV4] devinet: show all addresses assigned to interface
[NET]: Do not dereference iov if length is zero
[TG3]: Workaround MSI bug on 5714/5780.
[Bluetooth] Fix parameter list for event filter command
[Bluetooth] Update security filter for Bluetooth 2.1
[Bluetooth] Add compat handling for timestamp structure
[Bluetooth] Add missing stat.byte_rx counter modification
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] libiscsi: sync up iscsi and scsi eh's access to the connection
[SCSI] libiscsi: fix null ptr regression when aborting a command with data to transfer
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k3.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct mailbox register dump for FWI2 capable ISPs.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct 8GB iIDMA support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct management-server login-state synchronization issue.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Don't modify parity bits during ISP25XX restart.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Allocate enough space for the full PCI descriptor.
[SCSI] zfcp: fix the data buffer accessor patch
[SCSI] zfcp: allocate gid_pn_data objects from gid_pn_cache
[SCSI] zfcp: fix memory leak
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This patch adds the Intel Tolapai LPC and SMBus Controller DID's.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gaston <jason.d.gaston@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix warnings when CONFIG_PCIEAER=n:
drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c:105: warning: statement with no effect
drivers/pci/pcie/portdrv_pci.c:226: warning: statement with no effect
drivers/scsi/arcmsr/arcmsr_hba.c:352: warning: statement with no effect
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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So I've had a deadlock reported to me. I've found that the sequence of
events goes like this:
1) process A (modprobe) runs to remove ip_tables.ko
2) process B (iptables-restore) runs and calls setsockopt on a netfilter socket,
increasing the ip_tables socket_ops use count
3) process A acquires a file lock on the file ip_tables.ko, calls remove_module
in the kernel, which in turn executes the ip_tables module cleanup routine,
which calls nf_unregister_sockopt
4) nf_unregister_sockopt, seeing that the use count is non-zero, puts the
calling process into uninterruptible sleep, expecting the process using the
socket option code to wake it up when it exits the kernel
4) the user of the socket option code (process B) in do_ipt_get_ctl, calls
ipt_find_table_lock, which in this case calls request_module to load
ip_tables_nat.ko
5) request_module forks a copy of modprobe (process C) to load the module and
blocks until modprobe exits.
6) Process C. forked by request_module process the dependencies of
ip_tables_nat.ko, of which ip_tables.ko is one.
7) Process C attempts to lock the request module and all its dependencies, it
blocks when it attempts to lock ip_tables.ko (which was previously locked in
step 3)
Theres not really any great permanent solution to this that I can see, but I've
developed a two part solution that corrects the problem
Part 1) Modifies the nf_sockopt registration code so that, instead of using a
use counter internal to the nf_sockopt_ops structure, we instead use a pointer
to the registering modules owner to do module reference counting when nf_sockopt
calls a modules set/get routine. This prevents the deadlock by preventing set 4
from happening.
Part 2) Enhances the modprobe utilty so that by default it preforms non-blocking
remove operations (the same way rmmod does), and add an option to explicity
request blocking operation. So if you select blocking operation in modprobe you
can still cause the above deadlock, but only if you explicity try (and since
root can do any old stupid thing it would like.... :) ).
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
libata clear horkage on ata_dev_init()
[libata, IDE] add new VIA bridge to VIA PATA drivers
pata_it821x: fix lost interrupt with atapi devices
Fix broken pata_via cable detection
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Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan@via.com.tw>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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The earlier crash dump fix on x86_64 depended on patches in -mm which
are intended for post-2.6.23. Without those, it broke the build when
it went into 2.6.23-rc5.
This changes the field references in ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS back to those
still used in mainline.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Ocelot: remove remaining bits
[MIPS] TLB: Fix instruction bitmasks
[MIPS] R10000: Fix wrong test in dma-default.c
[MIPS] Provide empty irq_enable_hazard definition for legacy and R1 cores.
[MIPS] Sibyte: Remove broken dependency on EXPERIMENTAL from SIBYTE_SB1xxx_SOC.
[MIPS] Kconfig: whitespace cleanup.
[MIPS] PCI: Set need_domain_info if controller domain index is non-zero.
[MIPS] BCM1480: Fix computation of interrupt mask address register.
[MIPS] i8259: Add disable method.
[MIPS] tty: add the new ioctls and definitions.
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* 'for-linus' of git://www.linux-m32r.org/git/takata/linux-2.6_dev:
m32r: Rename STI/CLI macros
m32r: build fix of entry.S
m32r: Separate syscall table from entry.S
m32r: Cosmetic updates of arch/m32r/kernel/entry.S
m32r: Exit ei_handler directly for no IRQ case or IPI operations
m32r: Simplify ei_handler code
m32r: Define symbols to unify platform-dependent ICU checks
m32r: Move dot.gdbinit files
m32r: Rearrange platform-dependent codes
m32r: Add defconfig file for the usrv platform.
m32r: Update defconfig files for 2.6.23-rc1
m32r: Move defconfig files to arch/m32r/configs/
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Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Following a strict interpretation the empty definition of irq_enable_hazard
has always been a bug - but an intentional one because it didn't bite.
This has now changed, for uniprocessor kernels mm/slab.c:do_drain()
[...]
on_each_cpu(do_drain, cachep, 1, 1);
check_irq_on();
[...]
may be compiled into a mtc0 c0_status; mfc0 c0_status sequence resulting
in a back-to-back hazard.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Same as all the others, just put in the constants for the existing kernel
code and termios2 structure
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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interrupt.
The Cell BE Architecture spec states that the SPU MFC Class 0 interrupt
is edge-triggered. The current spu interrupt handler assumes this
behavior and does not clear the interrupt status.
The PS3 hypervisor visualizes all SPU interrupts as level, and on return
from the interrupt handler the hypervisor will deliver a new virtual
interrupt for any unmasked interrupts which for which the status has not
been cleared. This fix clears the interrupt status in the interrupt
handler.
Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd.bergmann@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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The names of STI and CLI macros were derived from i386 arch historically,
but their name are incomprehensible.
So, for easy to understand, rename these macros to ENABLE_INTERRUPTS
and DISABLE_INTERRUPTS, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
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On some m32r platforms, cascaded ICUs are used.
This patch is required to simplify ei_handler and consolidate platform-
dependent ICU check routines.
platform ICU/INT1 ICU/INT0 ICU/INT2
-------------- -------- -------- --------
m32104ut o - -
m32700ut o o o
opsput o o o
usrv o - -
(others) - - -
Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Yamamoto <hitoshiy@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
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Ryusuke Konishi says:
The recent truncate_complete_page() clears the dirty flag from a page
before calling a_ops->invalidatepage(),
^^^^^^
static void
truncate_complete_page(struct address_space *mapping, struct page *page)
{
...
cancel_dirty_page(page, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); <--- Inserted here at
kernel 2.6.20
if (PagePrivate(page))
do_invalidatepage(page, 0); ---> will call
a_ops->invalidatepage()
...
}
and this is disturbing nfs_wb_page_priority() from calling
nfs_writepage_locked() that is expected to handle the pending
request (=nfs_page) associated with the page.
int nfs_wb_page_priority(struct inode *inode, struct page *page, int how)
{
...
if (clear_page_dirty_for_io(page)) {
ret = nfs_writepage_locked(page, &wbc);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
}
...
}
Since truncate_complete_page() will get rid of the page after
a_ops->invalidatepage() returns, the request (=nfs_page) associated
with the page becomes a garbage in nfs_inode->nfs_page_tree.
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Fix this by ensuring that nfs_wb_page_priority() recognises that it may
also need to clear out non-dirty pages that have an nfs_page associated
with them.
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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After my last patch we have a new header file for HP simulator use.
Here's code to use it for stuff that used to have `extern' statements
inline in the code. Functionality should not change with this patch.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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This patch cleans up the `enable early console for SKI' patch
(471e7a44848f467c9b83adc3463d019d2fa8817f), and
1. potentially allows the gensparse_defconfig to work again.
(there are other problems running a generic kernel on Ski)
2. fixes the `console registered twice' problem.
3. Cleans up the code by moving the `extern hpsim_cons' declaration to
a new asm/hpsim.h file.
Thanks to Jes for comments.
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Add additional support for CPU disable on SN platforms.
Correctly setup the smp_affinity mask for I/O error IRQs.
Restrict the use of the feature to Altix 4000 and 450 systems
running with a CPU disable capable PROM, and do not allow disabling
of CPU 0.
Signed-off-by: John Keller <jpk@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
sched: clean up task_new_fair()
sched: small schedstat fix
sched: fix wait_start_fair condition in update_stats_wait_end()
sched: call update_curr() in task_tick_fair()
sched: make the scheduler converge to the ideal latency
sched: fix sleeper bonus limit
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
[libata] Bump driver versions
ata_piix: implement IOCFG bit18 quirk
libata: implement BROKEN_HPA horkage and apply it to affected drives
sata_promise: FastTrack TX4200 is a second-generation chip
pata_marvell: Add more identifiers
ata_piix: add Satellite U200 to broken suspend list
ata: add ATA_MWDMA* and ATA_SWDMA* defines
ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel Tolapai
libata-core: Allow translation setting to fail
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For hugepage mappings, the file offset, like the address and size, needs to
be aligned to the size of a hugepage.
In commit 68589bc353037f233fe510ad9ff432338c95db66, the check for this was
moved into prepare_hugepage_range() along with the address and size checks.
But since BenH's rework of the get_unmapped_area() paths leading up to
commit 4b1d89290b62bb2db476c94c82cf7442aab440c8, prepare_hugepage_range()
is only called for MAP_FIXED mappings, not for other mappings. This means
we're no longer ever checking for an aligned offset - I've confirmed that
mmap() will (apparently) succeed with a misaligned offset on both powerpc
and i386 at least.
This patch restores the check, removing it from prepare_hugepage_range()
and putting it back into hugetlbfs_file_mmap(). I'm putting it there,
rather than in the get_unmapped_area() path so it only needs to go in one
place, than separately in the half-dozen or so arch-specific
implementations of hugetlb_get_unmapped_area().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We find that SB700 and SB800 use the same SMBus device ID as SB600, which is
0x4385, instead of the already submitted 0x4395.
Besides removing the wrong SB700 device ID, add SB800 support to kernel, by
renaming the PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_IXP600_SMBUS into
PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_SBX00_SMBUS.
Signed-off-by: Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dependencies of CONFIG_SUSPEND and CONFIG_HIBERNATION introduced by commit
296699de6bdc717189a331ab6bbe90e05c94db06 "Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND for
suspend-to-Ram and standby" are incorrect, as they don't cover the facts that
(1) not all architectures support suspend and (2) SMP hibernation is only
possible on X86 and PPC64 (if CONFIG_PPC64_SWSUSP is set).
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Stop UML crashing when trying to dump a process core on x86_64. This is the
minimal fix to stop the crash - more things are broken here, and patches are
forthcoming.
The immediate thing to do is define ELF_CORE_COPY_REGS and
ELF_CORE_COPY_FPREGS. Defining ELF_CORE_COPY_FPREGS allows dump_fpu to go
away. It is defined in terms of save_fp_registers, so that needs to be added.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix a class of bugs in the UML linker scripts which caused section boundary
variables to sometimes not line up with their sections.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Some drives choke on READ_NATIVE_MAX_ADDRESS[_EXT]. Implement
ATA_HORKAGE_BROKEN_HPA and apply it to affected drives.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Some compilers (especially older gcc releases) may skip inlining
sometimes which will lead to link failures. Force the inlining of
keyfunctions in slub_def.h to avoid these issues.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC64]: Fix several bugs in MSI handling.
[SPARC64]: Fix type and constant sizes wrt. sun4u IMAP/ICLR handling.
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[PKTGEN]: Remove write-only variable.
[NETFILTER]: xt_tcpudp: fix wrong struct in udp_checkentry
[NET_SCHED] sch_prio.c: remove duplicate call of tc_classify()
[BRIDGE]: Fix OOPS when bridging device without ethtool.
[BRIDGE]: Packets leaking out of disabled/blocked ports.
[TCP]: Allow minimum RTO to be configurable via routing metrics.
SCTP: Fix to handle invalid parameter length correctly
SCTP: Abort on COOKIE-ECHO if backlog is exceeded.
SCTP: Correctly disable listening when backlog is 0.
SCTP: Do not retransmit chunks that are newer then rtt.
SCTP: Uncomfirmed transports can't become Inactive
SCTP: Pick the correct port when binding to 0.
SCTP: Use net_ratelimit to suppress error messages print too fast
SCTP: Fix to encode PROTOCOL VIOLATION error cause correctly
SCTP: Fix sctp_addto_chunk() to add pad with correct length
SCTP: Assign stream sequence numbers to the entire message
SCTP: properly clean up fragment and ordering queues during FWD-TSN.
[PKTGEN]: Fix multiqueue oops.
[BNX2]: Add write posting comment.
[BNX2]: Use msleep().
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1) sun4{u,v}_build_msi() have improper return value handling.
We should always return negative error codes, instead of
using the magic value "0" which could in fact be a valid
MSI number.
2) sun4{u,v}_build_msi() should return -ENOMEM instead of
calling prom_prom() halt with kzalloc() of the interrupt
data fails.
3) We 'remembered' the MSI number using a singleton in the
struct device archdata area, this doesn't work for MSI-X
which can cause multiple MSIs assosciated with one device.
Delete that archdata member, and instead store the MSI
number in the IRQ chip data area.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Sometimes we were using 32-bit values and the top bits were
getting inadvertantly chopped off. This will matter for the
forthcoming Fire controller MSI support.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vxy/lksctp-dev
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Cell phone networks do link layer retransmissions and other
things that cause unnecessary timeout retransmits. So allow
the minimum RTO to be inflated per-route to deal with this.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
[ARM] 4561/1: i.MX/MX1 GPIO parenthes omission and input setup fix
[ARM] 4557/1: Fix PXA irq gpio initialization
[ARM] 4551/1: s3c24xx: fix wrong virtual address offsets
[ARM] 4552/1: i.MX/MX1 GPIO output setup fix
[ARM] 4553/1: ARM at91: define FIQ_START
[ARM] 4554/1: replace consistent_sync() with flush_ioremap_region()
ARM: OMAP: Enable serial idling and wakeup features
ARM: OMAP2: Force APLLs always active
ARM: OMAP: H3 workqueue fixes
ARM: OMAP: OSK led fixes
ARM: OMAP: fix OMAP1 dmtimer build warning
ARM: OMAP: Fix 32k timer unsupported one-shot mode
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PROTOCOL VIOLATION error cause in ABORT is bad encode when make abort
chunk. When SCTP encode ABORT chunk with PROTOCOL VIOLATION error cause,
it just add the error messages to PROTOCOL VIOLATION error cause, the
rest four bytes(struct sctp_paramhdr) is just add to the chunk, not
change the length of error cause. This cause the ABORT chunk to be a bad
format. The chunk is like this:
ABORT chunk
Chunk type: ABORT (6)
Chunk flags: 0x00
Chunk length: 72 (*1)
Protocol violation cause
Cause code: Protocol violation (0x000d)
Cause length: 62 (*2)
Cause information: 5468652063756D756C61746976652074736E2061636B2062...
Cause padding: 0000
[Needless] 00030010
Chunk Length(*1) = 72 but Cause length(*2) only 62, not include the
extend 4 bytes.
((72 - sizeof(chunk_hdr)) = 68) != (62 +3) / 4 * 4
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <yjwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com>
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When we recieve a FWD-TSN (meaning the peer has abandoned the data),
we need to clean up any partially received messages that may be
hanging out on the re-assembly or re-ordering queues. This is
a MUST requirement that was not properly done before.
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com.>
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de-HZ-ification of the granularity defaults unearthed a pre-existing
property of CFS: while it correctly converges to the granularity goal,
it does not prevent run-time fluctuations in the range of
[-gran ... 0 ... +gran].
With the increase of the granularity due to the removal of HZ
dependencies, this becomes visible in chew-max output (with 5 tasks
running):
out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40
out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 44 . 40
out: 27 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 36 . 40
out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 2 . 0 | ran: 17 . 13 | per: 46 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40
out: 29 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 18 . 13 | per: 47 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 32 | flu: 0 . 0 | ran: 9 . 13 | per: 37 . 40
average slice is the ideal 13 msecs and the period is picture-perfect 40
msecs. But the 'ran' field fluctuates around 13.33 msecs and there's no
mechanism in CFS to keep that from happening: it's a perfectly valid
solution that CFS finds.
to fix this we add a granularity/preemption rule that knows about
the "target latency", which makes tasks that run longer than the ideal
latency run a bit less. The simplest approach is to simply decrease the
preemption granularity when a task overruns its ideal latency. For this
we have to track how much the task executed since its last preemption.
( this adds a new field to task_struct, but we can eliminate that
overhead in 2.6.24 by putting all the scheduler timestamps into an
anonymous union. )
with this change in place, chew-max output is fluctuation-less all
around:
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 2 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
out: 28 . 27. 39 | flu: 0 . 1 | ran: 13 . 13 | per: 41 . 40
this patch has no impact on any fastpath or on any globally observable
scheduling property. (unless you have sharp enough eyes to see
millisecond-level ruckles in glxgears smoothness :-)
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
[SPARC32]: Make flush_tlb_kernel_range() an inline function.
[SERIAL]: Fix 32-bit warnings in sunzilog.c and sunsu.c
[SPARC32]: Kill unused vars and macros from prom/console.c
[SPARC32]: Add __cmpdi2() libcall implementation ala. MIPS.
[VIDEO]: Do not prom_halt() in cg3 and bw2 device probe.
[SUNVDC]: Use slice 0xff on VD_DISK_TYPE_DISK.
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NET]: Mark Paul Moore as maintainer of labelled networking.
[VLAN/BRIDGE]: Fix "skb_pull_rcsum - Fatal exception in interrupt"
[ISDN]: Get rid of some pointless allocation casts in common and bsd comp.
[NET]: Avoid pointless allocation casts in BSD compression module
[IRDA]: Do not do pointless kmalloc return value cast in KingSun driver
[NET]: Fix crash in dev_mc_sync()/dev_mc_unsync()
[PPPOL2TP]: Fix endianness annotations.
[IOAT]: ioatdma needs to to play nice in a multi-dma-client world
[SLIP]: trivial sparse warning fix
[EQL]: sparse warning fix
[NET]: is_power_of_2 in net/core/neighbour.c
[TCP]: Describe tcp_init_cwnd() thoroughly in a comment.
[NET]: Fix IP_ADD/DROP_MEMBERSHIP to handle only connectionless
[KBUILD]: Sanitize tc_ematch headers.
[IPSEC] AH4: Update IPv4 options handling to conform to RFC 4302.
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (60 commits)
[MIPS] Fulong doesn't need ISA DMA.
[MIPS] IP27: intr_sconnect_level: don't disable interrupts.
[MIPS] IP27: startup_bridge_irq: connect interrupt.
[MIPS] IP27: shutdown_bridge_irq: don't free irq.
[MIPS] Sort out handling of ISA-less PCI systems.
[MIPS] Add __cmpdi2
[MIPS] HOTPLUG: Make register_pci_controller __devinit.
[MIPS] PCI: Remove __devinit attribute from pcibios_fixup_bus.
[MIPS] PCI: Remove __devinit attribute from pcibios_fixup_bus.
[MIPS] Delete duplicate inclusion of <linux/delay.h>.
[MIPS] Polish <asm/edac.h>.
[MIPS] IP22: Export sgi_gfxaddr for use by the Newport console driver.
[MIPS] Maintain si_code field properly for FP exceptions
[MIPS] SMTC: Fix duplicate status dumps on NMI
[MIPS] Unconditionally writeback and invalidate caches on kexec.
[PATCH] rtc: Make rtc-rs5c348 driver hotplug-aware
[MIPS] Fix gcc 3.3 warning.
[MIPS] Fix invalid semicolon after if statement
[MIPS] Update Cobalt defconfig
[MIPS] Update workpad_defconfig
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[POWERPC] Fix SLB initialization at boot time
[POWERPC] Fix undefined reference to device_power_up/resume
[POWERPC] cell: Update cell_defconfig for 2.6.23
[POWERPC] axonram: Do not delete gendisks queue in error path
[POWERPC] axonram: Module modification for latest firmware API changes
[POWERPC] cell: Support pinhole-reset on IBM cell blades
[POWERPC] spu_manage: Use newer physical-id attribute
[POWERPC] pasemi: Another IOMMU bugfix for 64K PAGE_SIZE
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