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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kernel_lock.c
/*
 * lib/kernel_lock.c
 *
 * This is the traditional BKL - big kernel lock. Largely
 * relegated to obsolescence, but used by various less
 * important (or lazy) subsystems.
 */
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/kallsyms.h>
#include <linux/semaphore.h>

/*
 * The 'big kernel lock'
 *
 * This spinlock is taken and released recursively by lock_kernel()
 * and unlock_kernel().  It is transparently dropped and reacquired
 * over schedule().  It is used to protect legacy code that hasn't
 * been migrated to a proper locking design yet.
 *
 * Don't use in new code.
 */
static  __cacheline_aligned_in_smp DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kernel_flag);


/*
 * Acquire/release the underlying lock from the scheduler.
 *
 * This is called with preemption disabled, and should
 * return an error value if it cannot get the lock and
 * TIF_NEED_RESCHED gets set.
 *
 * If it successfully gets the lock, it should increment
 * the preemption count like any spinlock does.
 *
 * (This works on UP too - _raw_spin_trylock will never
 * return false in that case)
 */
int __lockfunc __reacquire_kernel_lock(void)
{
	while (!_raw_spin_trylock(&kernel_flag)) {
		if (test_thread_flag(TIF_NEED_RESCHED))
			return -EAGAIN;
		cpu_relax();
	}
	preempt_disable();
	return 0;
}

void __lockfunc __release_kernel_lock(void)
{
	_raw_spin_unlock(&kernel_flag);
	preempt_enable_no_resched();
}

/*
 * These are the BKL spinlocks - we try to be polite about preemption.
 * If SMP is not on (ie UP preemption), this all goes away because the
 * _raw_spin_trylock() will always succeed.
 */
#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT
static inline void __lock_kernel(void)
{
	preempt_disable();
	if (unlikely(!_raw_spin_trylock(&kernel_flag))) {
		/*
		 * If preemption was disabled even before this
		 * was called, there's nothing we can be polite
		 * about - just spin.
		 */
		if (preempt_count() > 1) {
			_raw_spin_lock(&kernel_flag);
			return;
		}

		/*
		 * Otherwise, let's wait for the kernel lock
		 * with preemption enabled..
		 */
		do {
			preempt_enable();
			while (spin_is_locked(&kernel_flag))
				cpu_relax();
			preempt_disable();
		} while (!_raw_spin_trylock(&kernel_flag));
	}
}

#else

/*
 * Non-preemption case - just get the spinlock
 */
static inline void __lock_kernel(void)
{
	_raw_spin_lock(&kernel_flag);
}
#endif

static inline void __unlock_kernel(void)
{
	/*
	 * the BKL is not covered by lockdep, so we open-code the
	 * unlocking sequence (and thus avoid the dep-chain ops):
	 */
	_raw_spin_unlock(&kernel_flag);
	preempt_enable();
}

/*
 * Getting the big kernel lock.
 *
 * This cannot happen asynchronously, so we only need to
 * worry about other CPU's.
 */
void __lockfunc lock_kernel(void)
{
	int depth = current->lock_depth+1;
	if (likely(!depth))
		__lock_kernel();
	current->lock_depth = depth;
}

void __lockfunc unlock_kernel(void)
{
	BUG_ON(current->lock_depth < 0);
	if (likely(--current->lock_depth < 0))
		__unlock_kernel();
}

EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_kernel);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(unlock_kernel);

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