Revision 1fd684346d41f6be2487c161f60d03a7feb68911 authored by Rafael J. Wysocki on 19 January 2009, 19:57:36 UTC, committed by Jeff Garzik on 27 January 2009, 07:15:51 UTC
Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.

To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.

Blacklist HP nx6310 that uses the AHCI driver.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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extable.c
/*
 * Derived from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and arch/i386/mm/extable.c.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2004 Paul Mackerras, IBM Corp.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
 * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
 * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 */

#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/sort.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SORT_EXTABLE
/*
 * The exception table needs to be sorted so that the binary
 * search that we use to find entries in it works properly.
 * This is used both for the kernel exception table and for
 * the exception tables of modules that get loaded.
 */
static int cmp_ex(const void *a, const void *b)
{
	const struct exception_table_entry *x = a, *y = b;

	/* avoid overflow */
	if (x->insn > y->insn)
		return 1;
	if (x->insn < y->insn)
		return -1;
	return 0;
}

void sort_extable(struct exception_table_entry *start,
		  struct exception_table_entry *finish)
{
	sort(start, finish - start, sizeof(struct exception_table_entry),
	     cmp_ex, NULL);
}
#endif

#ifndef ARCH_HAS_SEARCH_EXTABLE
/*
 * Search one exception table for an entry corresponding to the
 * given instruction address, and return the address of the entry,
 * or NULL if none is found.
 * We use a binary search, and thus we assume that the table is
 * already sorted.
 */
const struct exception_table_entry *
search_extable(const struct exception_table_entry *first,
	       const struct exception_table_entry *last,
	       unsigned long value)
{
	while (first <= last) {
		const struct exception_table_entry *mid;

		mid = ((last - first) >> 1) + first;
		/*
		 * careful, the distance between value and insn
		 * can be larger than MAX_LONG:
		 */
		if (mid->insn < value)
			first = mid + 1;
		else if (mid->insn > value)
			last = mid - 1;
		else
			return mid;
        }
        return NULL;
}
#endif
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