| 64c6d8e | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:42 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: add asynchronous request support Add possibility for requests to run asynchronously and call an 'end' callback when finished. With this, the special handling of the INIT and RELEASE requests can be cleaned up too. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:31 UTC |
| 69a53bf | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:41 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: add connection aborting Add ability to abort a filesystem connection. With the introduction of asynchronous reads, the ability to interrupt any request is not enough to dissolve deadlocks, since now waiting for the request completion (page unlocked) is independent of the actual request, so in a deadlock all threads will be uninterruptible. The solution is to make it possible to abort all requests, even those currently undergoing I/O to/from userspace. The natural interface for this is 'mount -f mountpoint', but that only works as long as the filesystem is attached. So also add an 'abort' attribute to the sysfs view of the connection. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| 0cd5b88 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:38 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: add number of waiting requests attribute This patch adds the 'waiting' attribute which indicates how many filesystem requests are currently waiting to be completed. A non-zero value without any filesystem activity indicates a hung or deadlocked filesystem. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| f543f25 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:35 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: make fuse connection a kobject Kobjectify fuse_conn, and make it visible under /sys/fs/fuse/connections. Lacking any natural naming, connections are numbered. This patch doesn't add any attributes, just the infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| 9ba7cbb | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:34 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: extend semantics of connected flag The ->connected flag for a fuse_conn object previously only indicated whether the device file for this connection is currently open or not. Change it's meaning so that it indicates whether the connection is active or not: now either umount or device release will clear the flag. The separate ->mounted flag is still needed for handling background requests. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| d77a1d5 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:31 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: introduce list for requests under I/O Create a new list for requests in the process of being transfered to/from userspace. This will be needed to be able to abort all requests even those currently under I/O Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| 83cfd49 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:31 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: introduce unified request state The state of request was made up of 2 bitfields (->sent and ->finished) and of the fact that the request was on a list or not. Unify this into a single state field. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| 6383bda | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:29 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: miscellaneous cleanup - remove some unneeded assignments - use kzalloc instead of kmalloc + memset - simplify setting sb->s_fs_info - in fuse_send_init() use fuse_get_request() instead of do_get_request() helper Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:30 UTC |
| 8bfc016 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:28 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: uninline some functions Inline keyword is unnecessary in most cases. Clean them up. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| b3bebd9 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:27 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: handle error INIT reply Handle the case when the INIT request is answered with an error. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| f43b155 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:26 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: fix request_end() This function used the request object after decrementing its reference count and releasing the lock. This could in theory lead to all sorts of problems. Fix and simplify at the same time. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| 222f1d6 | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:25 UTC | [PATCH] fuse: fuse_copy_finish() order fix fuse_copy_finish() must be called before request_end(), since the later might sleep, and no sleeping is allowed between fuse_copy_one() and fuse_copy_finish() because of kmap_atomic()/kunmap_atomic() used in them. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| f87fd4c | Miklos Szeredi | 17 January 2006, 06:14:23 UTC | [PATCH] add /sys/fs This patch adds an empty /sys/fs, which filesystems can use. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| 0e6e1db | Bob Copeland | 17 January 2006, 06:14:20 UTC | [PATCH] partitions: Read Rio Karma partition table The Rio Karma portable MP3 player has its own proprietary partition table. The partition layout is similar to a DOS boot sector but it begins at a different offset and uses a different magic number (0xAB56 instead of 0xAA55). Add support for it to enable mounting the device. Signed-off-by: Bob Copeland <me@bobcopeland.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:29 UTC |
| cad8244 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:19 UTC | [PATCH] sh: Move CPU subtype configuration to its own Kconfig Currently the CPU subtype options are cluttering up arch/sh/Kconfig somewhat. Given that, this moves all of that in to its own arch/sh/mm/Kconfig. Things like cache configuration are also moved to this new location. This also adds support for strict CPU tuning on newer cores, which requires the addition of as-option. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:28 UTC |
| aa01666 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:18 UTC | [PATCH] sh: Simple timer framework This builds on some of the clock framework code to support a simple system timer interface. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:28 UTC |
| 36ddf31 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:17 UTC | [PATCH] sh: Simplistic clock framework This adds a relatively simplistic clock framework for sh. The initial goal behind this is to clean up the arch/sh/kernel/time.c mess and to get the CPU subtype-specific frequency setting and calculation code moved somewhere more sensible. This only deals with the core clocks at the moment, though it's trivial for other drivers to define their own clocks as desired. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:28 UTC |
| b66c1a3 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:15 UTC | [PATCH] sh: I/O routine cleanups and ioremap() overhaul This introduces a few changes in the way that the I/O routines are defined on SH, specifically so that things like the iomap API properly wrap through the machvec for board-specific quirks. In addition to this, the old p3_ioremap() work is converted to a more generic __ioremap() that will map through the PMB if it's available, or fall back on page tables for everything else. An alpha-like IO_CONCAT is also added so we can start to clean up the board-specific io.h mess, which will be handled in board update patches.. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:28 UTC |
| bf3a00f | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:14 UTC | [PATCH] sh: IRQ handler updates This moves the various IRQ controller drivers into a new subdirectory, and also extends the INTC2 IRQ handler to also deal with SH7760 and SH7780 interrupts, rather than just ST-40. The old CONFIG_SH_GENERIC has also been removed from the IRQ definitions, as new ports are expected to be based off of CONFIG_SH_UNKNOWN. Since there are plenty of incompatible machvecs, CONFIG_SH_GENERIC doesn't make sense anymore. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:28 UTC |
| 9d44190 | kogiidena | 17 January 2006, 06:14:10 UTC | [PATCH] sh: kexec() support This adds kexec() support for SH. Signed-off-by: kogiidena <kogiidena@eggplant.ddo.jp> Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: <fastboot@lists.osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:27 UTC |
| 0d83177 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:09 UTC | [PATCH] sh: DMA updates This extends the current SH DMA API somewhat to support a proper virtual channel abstraction, and also works to represent this through the driver model by giving each DMAC its own platform device. There's also a few other minor changes to support a few new CPU subtypes, and make TEI generation for the SH DMAC configurable. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:27 UTC |
| 0025835 | Paul Mundt | 17 January 2006, 06:14:08 UTC | [PATCH] sh: consolidate hp620/hp680/hp690 targets into hp6xx Most of the reasons for keeping these separate before was due to hp690 discontig, and since we have a workaround for that now (abusing some shadow space so everything is magically contiguous), there's no reason to keep the targets separate. Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:27 UTC |
| 5ebdce7 | Christoph Hellwig | 17 January 2006, 06:14:06 UTC | [PATCH] fix up sbuslib for new fb_comapt_ioctl prototype After ages my fb ioctl prototype cleanup finally got in. Unfortunately the patch are so old that the sbus compat_ioctl helper didn't exist back then, so it's not covered. This patch should fix that issue. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:27 UTC |
| f63776d | Alexey Dobriyan | 17 January 2006, 06:14:05 UTC | [PATCH] arm26: s/task_threas_info/task_thread_info/ Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:27 UTC |
| b142159 | Yoichi Yuasa | 17 January 2006, 06:14:01 UTC | [PATCH] mips: add pm_power_off Adds pm_power_off() to MIPS. Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| 8f56a31 | Ingo Molnar | 17 January 2006, 06:14:00 UTC | [PATCH] drivers/char/esp.c spinlock fix There's incorrect spinlock usage in espserial_init(): autoconfig() uses info->lock before it's initialized. The fix is to initialize the spinlock earlier. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| fd27919 | Adrian Bunk | 17 January 2006, 06:13:59 UTC | [PATCH] build kernel/intermodule.c only when required Build kernel/intermodule.c only when required. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| 3001aa8 | Adrian Bunk | 17 January 2006, 06:13:58 UTC | [PATCH] no longer mark MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS as BROKEN This patch removes the wrong dependency of MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS on BROKEN and marks the non-compiling MTD_AMDSTD and MTD_JEDEC drivers as BROKEN. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| 3868cca | Alexey Dobriyan | 17 January 2006, 06:13:57 UTC | [PATCH] arm26: kernel/irq.c: fix compilation It's trying to "continue;" in "if" statement. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| 511c3a2 | Alexey Dobriyan | 17 January 2006, 06:13:56 UTC | [PATCH] arm26: add L1_CACHE_SHIFT Fix reiserfs compilation as a side effect =) Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:26 UTC |
| 96419b7 | Adrian Bunk | 17 January 2006, 06:13:55 UTC | [PATCH] fix arm26 THREAD_SIZE arm26 currently has a 256 kB THREAD_SIZE (sic). Looking at the comment in the code, this seems to be based on a misunderstanding. The comment says: this needs attention (see kernel/fork.c which gets a nice div by zero if this is lower than 8*32768 kernel/fork.c does: max_threads = mempages / (8 * THREAD_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE) Therefore, a division by 0 is impossible for all reasonable cases with THREAD_SIZE >= PAGE_SIZE. Since the minimum PAGE_SIZE Linux uses on the arm26 architecture is 16k, PAGE_SIZE should be sufficient for THREAD_SIZE. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:25 UTC |
| 6aa4c0e | Adrian Bunk | 17 January 2006, 06:13:53 UTC | [PATCH] i386: remove gcc version check for CONFIG_REGPARM Since we do no longer support any gcc < 3.0, there's no need to check for it.. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 07:15:25 UTC |
| a1bc5cd | Linus Torvalds | 17 January 2006, 04:56:49 UTC | Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 | 17 January 2006, 04:56:49 UTC |
| 8dca6f3 | Jonathan Corbet | 16 January 2006, 22:58:55 UTC | [PATCH] hrtimer comment tweak Fix a comment which missed an update cycle somewhere. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 17 January 2006, 04:27:03 UTC |
| 9bd5674 | Linus Torvalds | 17 January 2006, 04:26:19 UTC | Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6 | 17 January 2006, 04:26:19 UTC |
| 1f35f43 | Jens Axboe | 16 January 2006, 23:23:49 UTC | [PATCH] Fix drivers/block/ps2esdi.c compile Looks like fallout from the geo stuff. | 17 January 2006, 04:24:45 UTC |
| cd53505 | Linus Torvalds | 17 January 2006, 04:23:21 UTC | Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/scjody/ieee1394 | 17 January 2006, 04:23:21 UTC |
| 8595387 | Tony Luck | 17 January 2006, 04:02:24 UTC | Pull perfmon-montecito into release branch | 17 January 2006, 04:02:24 UTC |
| 53493dc | Prarit Bhargava | 17 January 2006, 03:54:40 UTC | [IA64] Cleanup of arch/ia64/sn and include/asm-ia64/sn Replace uintX_t declarations with uX declarations. Replace intX_t declarations with sX declarations. Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 17 January 2006, 03:54:40 UTC |
| 506eecd | Jody McIntyre | 17 January 2006, 00:21:57 UTC | Actually remove amdtp.[ch], cmp.[ch]. The feature removal was done in 7301c8d3a05dc52d33598364da7c4eb6ab6357eb but these files were not removed for some reason. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com> | 17 January 2006, 00:21:57 UTC |
| f15ac58 | Xu, Anthony | 09 January 2006, 02:36:35 UTC | [IA64] pal cache flush patch Because PAL spec has changed since 2002, you can goto http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/manuals/iiasdmanual.htm to download new SDM, all PAL calls should be invoked with psr.ic=1, and it's caller's responsibility to handle possible tlb miss. Ia64_pal_cache_flush was written according to old spec, it is obsolete, and this patch has ia64_pal_cache_flush conform to new spec. Signed-off-by Anthony Xu <anthony.xu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 16 January 2006, 23:44:53 UTC |
| 7b9c8ba | Kenji Kaneshige | 16 January 2006, 04:45:23 UTC | [IA64] Stop multiple pci_claim_resource() call for the same resource This patch fixes the bug that pci_claim_resource() is called multiple times for the same P2P bridge's resource structures if P2P bridges require their own PCI I/O resources. Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 16 January 2006, 23:30:10 UTC |
| 01ffe33 | Nathan Scott | 16 January 2006, 22:02:07 UTC | Make alloc_page_buffers() initialise buffer_heads using init_buffer(), like other routines here, to ensure buffers are correctly initialised with respect to b_private/b_end_io. Fixes an odd interaction between XFS and reiserfs. Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 16 January 2006, 22:02:07 UTC |
| 1681b8e | Yasunori Goto | 07 January 2006, 02:50:38 UTC | [IA64] Simple memory hot-add for ia64. First step to memory hotplug for ia64 (add only, all new memory is added to node 0, does not use ZONE_EASY_RECLAIM yet). Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 16 January 2006, 20:06:55 UTC |
| f74e667 | Linus Torvalds | 16 January 2006, 19:33:09 UTC | x86-64: fix initrd freeing The comparison of the initrd start address against "&_end" is unnecessary and incorrect. Make it match the x86 code that just compares the passed-in arguments. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:33:09 UTC |
| 5580ece | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:54 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: Increase NR_IRQ_VECTORS to 32 * NR_CPUS This prevents running out of GSIs on large Unisys ES7000 machines. Follows i386 Cc: "Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:59 UTC |
| ee408c7 | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:51 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: Don't try to put kernel page tables beyond ZONE_DMA32. For not fully explained reasons it broke mem=... on several setups. Also minor cleanup. Cc: axboe@suse.de Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:59 UTC |
| 142a64a | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:48 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: set do_not_nx as cpuinitdata 'check_efer' uses 'do_not_nx'. Hotpluged CPU could wrongly disable NX. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:59 UTC |
| 5b74357 | Shaohua Li | 16 January 2006, 00:56:45 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: lapic resume uses correct base address uses correct lapic base address. The set_fixmap appears useless. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li<shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:59 UTC |
| e25db98 | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:42 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: Only let user select PM timer support when EMBEDDED To avoid mistakes. I got a few reports where people got broken timing because they didn't have the PMTIMER fallback. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:59 UTC |
| 5f8efbb | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:39 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: Allow nesting of int3 by default for kprobes This unbreaks recursive kprobes which didn't work anymore due to an earlier patch which converted the debug entry point to use an IST. This also allows nesting of the debug entry point too. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:58 UTC |
| aa41eb9 | Andi Kleen | 16 January 2006, 00:56:36 UTC | [PATCH] x86_64: Mark powernow k8 init functions as __cpuinit cpufreq init can be called when a CPU is set online. Need to make powernow-k8's initialisation functions __cpuinit to prevents oopses when a CPU is off/onlined on a AMD system Cc: trenn@suse.de Cc: mark.langsdorf@amd.com Cc: davej@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 16 January 2006, 19:27:58 UTC |
| 9d8d5a2 | Linus Torvalds | 16 January 2006, 19:19:04 UTC | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild | 16 January 2006, 19:19:04 UTC |
| 9179cb6 | Stephane Eranian | 10 January 2006, 11:10:43 UTC | [IA64] Perfmon for Montecito Add Montecito PMU description table for perfmon2 Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> | 16 January 2006, 18:31:44 UTC |
| df9df03 | Sam Ravnborg | 16 January 2006, 11:46:07 UTC | kbuild: fix 'make all install_modules install' The command 'make all modules_install install' would fail in a virgin tree - pointing at a non-existing directory under /lib/modules/xxx KERNELRELEASE is part of MODLIB and we need to create .kernelrelease before we can properly evaluate KERNELRELEASE, Changing MODLIB to the recursively expanded flavor let it pick up the correct KERNELRELEASE value. Reported by: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 16 January 2006, 11:46:07 UTC |
| 2244cbd | Sam Ravnborg | 16 January 2006, 11:12:12 UTC | kbuild: create .kernelrelease at *config step To enable 'make kernelrelease' earlier now create .kernelrelease when one of the *config targets are used. Also introduce KERNELVERSION - only user is kconfig. KERNELVERSION was needed to display kernel version in menuconfig - KERNELRELEASE is not valid until configuration has completed. kconfig files modified to use KERNELVERSION. Bug reported by: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 16 January 2006, 11:12:12 UTC |
| 4a8e4a2 | Linus Torvalds | 16 January 2006, 06:18:04 UTC | Merge git://oss.sgi.com:8090/oss/git/xfs-2.6 | 16 January 2006, 06:18:04 UTC |
| 107a09c | Nathan Scott | 16 January 2006, 05:28:07 UTC | [XFS] remove no-longer-needed IS_NOATIME macro, twas just a build workaround Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 16 January 2006, 05:28:07 UTC |
| c2e8143 | Nathan Scott | 16 January 2006, 05:21:34 UTC | [XFS] mutex fallout - fix debug builds and remove no-longer-useful comment. Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 16 January 2006, 05:21:34 UTC |
| 5424570 | Nathan Scott | 16 January 2006, 04:54:05 UTC | [XFS] Fix symlink creation too, with respect to initialising SELinux context. SGI-PV: 946762 SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:24983a Signed-off-by: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 16 January 2006, 04:54:05 UTC |
| 3f02d07 | Linus Torvalds | 16 January 2006, 00:43:29 UTC | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial | 16 January 2006, 00:43:29 UTC |
| 0238cb4 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 21:33:09 UTC | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm | 15 January 2006, 21:33:09 UTC |
| 3527761 | Wim Van Sebroeck | 15 January 2006, 20:21:14 UTC | [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: watchdog device drivers Add a MAINTAINER entry for the watchdog device drivers. Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 15 January 2006, 20:21:14 UTC |
| a073404 | Ian Campbell | 02 November 2005, 08:56:49 UTC | [WATCHDOG] sa1100_wdt.c sparse cleanups The following makes drivers/char/watchdog/sa1100_wdt.c sparse clean. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <icampbell@arcom.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> | 15 January 2006, 20:06:13 UTC |
| 296e085 | Sam Ravnborg | 15 January 2006, 19:02:31 UTC | kbuild: fix make -jN with multiple targets with O=... The way multiple targets was handled with make O=... broke because for each high-level target make spawned a parallel make resulting in a broken build. Reported by Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 15 January 2006, 19:02:31 UTC |
| 6b4977c | Kyle McMartin | 15 January 2006, 17:10:55 UTC | [PATCH] Use atomic64_set for 64-bit case of atomic_long_set For some reason, the BITS_PER_LONG == 64 case of atomic_long_set was using atomic_set instead of atomic64_set. This does not jive with architectures which use an inline instead of a #define to implement their atomic_set() primitives. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 18:17:07 UTC |
| 69ff56c | Jean Delvare | 15 January 2006, 12:13:13 UTC | [PATCH] Fix zoran_card compilation warning Fix the following warning which was introduced in 2.6.15-git8 by commit 7408187d223f63d46a13b6a35b8f96b032c2f623: CC [M] drivers/media/video/zoran_card.o drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c: In function `zr36057_init': drivers/media/video/zoran_card.c:1053: warning: assignment makes integer from pointer without a cast Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 18:09:35 UTC |
| fc03da1 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 18:05:10 UTC | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge | 15 January 2006, 18:05:10 UTC |
| ef0498a | Russell King | 15 January 2006, 17:03:45 UTC | [ARM] Fix missing compiler.h include asm/mach/arch.h introduced a __deprecated, but didn't include compiler.h, causing: In file included from arch/arm/mach-at91rm9200/devices.c:13: include/asm/mach/arch.h:23: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union include/asm/mach/arch.h:23: error: syntax error before 'phys_ram' include/asm/mach/arch.h:34: error: syntax error before ':' token include/asm/mach/arch.h:35: error: syntax error before ':' token include/asm/mach/arch.h:36: error: syntax error before ':' token include/asm/mach/arch.h:37: error: syntax error before ':' token include/asm/mach/arch.h:45: error: syntax error before '}' token Add the necessary include. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 15 January 2006, 17:03:45 UTC |
| 60f33b8 | Sam Ravnborg | 15 January 2006, 14:28:35 UTC | kconfig: get rid of stray a.o, support ncursesw scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/check-lxdialog.sh uses gcc to check for what libraries are present. Redirect output to /dev/null so we do not generate an a.out. Also included support for ncursesw - so if present prefer that instead of ncurses. The order is now (first is preferred): 1) ncursesw 2) ncurses 3) curses The latter is to support SunOS. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> | 15 January 2006, 14:28:35 UTC |
| e05b3b4 | Paul Mackerras | 15 January 2006, 11:05:47 UTC | powerpc/32: Restore previous version of 32-bit PCI code When I removed the powermac support from arch/ppc/kernel/pci.c, I overlooked the fact that that file is used in 32-bit ARCH=powerpc builds. To prevent problems in future, restore the original version of that file as arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c, and use that. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 15 January 2006, 11:05:47 UTC |
| 820a8ce | Paul Mackerras | 15 January 2006, 06:33:52 UTC | powerpc: Make ARCH=powerpc the default for 32-bit ppc This makes ARCH=powerpc the default on 32-bit powerpc machines, where uname -m returns ppc, as well as on 64-bit powerpc machines. Most people who would be likely to build their own kernels on 32-bit powerpc machines would be using powermacs or CHRP machines, both of which are supported with ARCH=powerpc now. Embedded ppc developers whose ports haven't been moved over to arch/powerpc yet will have to explicitly set ARCH=ppc now. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 15 January 2006, 06:33:52 UTC |
| a7fdd90 | Paul Mackerras | 15 January 2006, 06:30:44 UTC | [PATCH] ppc: Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc This makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support. It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently. Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of ARCH=ppc. (This does mean that it is no longer possible to build a 32-bit kernel for a G5.) Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 15 January 2006, 06:30:44 UTC |
| caf5b04 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 06:08:28 UTC | x86: Work around compiler code generation bug with -Os Some versions of gcc generate incorrect code for the inet_check_attr() function, apparently due to a totally bogus index -> pointer comparison transformation. At least "gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)" from FC4 is affected, possibly others too. This changes the function subtly so that the buggy gcc transformation doesn't trigger. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 06:08:28 UTC |
| e8625d4 | Haren Myneni | 14 January 2006, 21:48:25 UTC | [PATCH] powerpc: Kconfig changes for CRASH_DUMP Noticed in 2.6.15-git9 that CRASH_DUMP option is moved to top level. Moved CRASH_DUMP into "kernel options" next to KEXEC and this config option supports only for PPC64 at this time. Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 15 January 2006, 05:50:04 UTC |
| 4683b54 | Benjamin Herrenschmidt | 14 January 2006, 05:46:47 UTC | [PATCH] powerpc: Update pmac32_defconfig Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> | 15 January 2006, 05:50:01 UTC |
| 650eec5 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 03:44:39 UTC | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial | 15 January 2006, 03:44:39 UTC |
| 150a631 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 03:44:01 UTC | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc | 15 January 2006, 03:44:01 UTC |
| 8d5c315 | Linus Torvalds | 15 January 2006, 03:43:21 UTC | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm | 15 January 2006, 03:43:21 UTC |
| a9df3d0 | Ingo Molnar | 14 January 2006, 21:21:33 UTC | [PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inlining If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc to inline all the time. This requires several places that require to be inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:16 UTC |
| ac89396 | Peter Osterlund | 14 January 2006, 21:21:32 UTC | [PATCH] pktcdvd: un-inline some functions Un-inline two functions in the pktcdvd driver. This makes the compiled code 172 bytes smaller on my system. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:16 UTC |
| f166235 | Arjan van de Ven | 14 January 2006, 21:21:31 UTC | [PATCH] Mark some key VFS functions as __always_inline Mark a few VFS functions as mandatory inline (based on Al Viro's request); these must be inline due to stack usage issues during a recursive loop that happens during the recursive symlink resolution (symlink to a symlink to a symlink ..) This patch at this point does not change behavior and is for documentation purposes only (but this changes later in the series) Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 652050a | Ingo Molnar | 14 January 2006, 21:21:30 UTC | [PATCH] mark several functions __always_inline Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Mark a number of functions as 'must inline'. The functions affected by this patch need to be inlined because they use knowledge that their arguments are constant so that most of the function optimizes away. At this point this patch does not change behavior, it's for documentation only (and for future patches in the inline series) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 9ab34fe | Ingo Molnar | 14 January 2006, 21:21:29 UTC | [PATCH] enable unit-at-a-time optimisations for gcc4 Allow gcc4 compilers to optimize unit-at-a-time. This flag enables gcc to "see" the entire C file before making optimisation decisions such as inline, which results in gcc making better decisions. One of the immediate effects of this is that static functions that are used only once now get inlined. gcc 3.4 has this flag as well, however gcc 3.x have a problem with inlining and stacks and as a result, enabling this flag there would cause excessive and unacceptable stack use. This problem is fixed in the gcc 4.x series. The x86-64 architecture already enables this feature so it's well tested already. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 40fc55c | Ingo Molnar | 14 January 2006, 21:21:28 UTC | [PATCH] Make __always_inline actually force always inlining This patch is the first in a series that tries to optimize the kernel in terms of size (and thus cache behavior, both cpu and pagecache). This first patch changes __always_inline to be a forced inline instead of the "regular" inline it was on everything except alpha. This forced inline matches the intention of the define better as a matter of documentation. There is no change in behavior by this patch, since "inline" currently is mapped to a forced inline anyway. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 9eb8ef7 | Antonino A. Daplas | 14 January 2006, 21:21:26 UTC | [PATCH] fbdev: Update maintainers list Update maintainers list. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 216d526 | Christoph Hellwig | 14 January 2006, 21:21:25 UTC | [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_mmap prototype No need for a file argument. If we'd really need it it's in vma->vm_file already. gbefb and sgivwfb used to set vma->vm_file to the file argument, but the kernel alrady did that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:15 UTC |
| 67a6680 | Christoph Hellwig | 14 January 2006, 21:21:25 UTC | [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_ioctl prototype The ioctl and file arguments to ->fb_mmap are totally unused and there's not reason a driver should need them. Also update the ->fb_compat_ioctl prototype to be the same as ->fb_mmap. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:14 UTC |
| a80da73 | David Vrabel | 14 January 2006, 21:21:23 UTC | [PATCH] gx1fb: (try to) play nicer with various BIOSes Seems that the CS5530A chip used in Geode GX1 systems has some crazy feature that causes SMI traps when accessing the PCI configuration space of the video device. Various GX1 BIOSes seem to use this 'feature' to hide the real BARs of the device. This patch disables these traps (in an early PCI fixup) so that Linux sees the real, physical BARs and not the virtual ones provided by the BIOS. This should allow the GX1 framebuffer driver to work on more systems that have different BIOSes as the driver no longer guesses at what the virtual BARs mean. I'm not entirely sure it the correct solution as I can neither test regular VGA console nor the X's 'cyrix' video driver so there might be some breakage there -- probably best to get some more testers before applying it. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:14 UTC |
| 4836f57 | Christian Trefzer | 14 January 2006, 21:21:21 UTC | [PATCH] neofb: take existing display configuration as default On a Dell Latitude CPi-A I noticed a strangeness wrt. the handling of an external monitor by the neomagic framebuffer driver, namely when the laptop is docked in a C/Dock II with the lid shut. A cold boot would result in the BIOS configuring the video chip to use the "external monitor only" mode, yet neofb would default to "internal LCD only". An attempt for a quick fix by using the Fn-F8 keystroke to toggle the display combination modes resulted in a reproductible hard lock, powering down being the only solution. The attached patch makes neofb probe the register for the current display mode, using that value as a default if nothing was specified as kernel/module parameter. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:14 UTC |
| 16ab3ad | Randy Dunlap | 14 January 2006, 21:21:20 UTC | [PATCH] Update kernel-parameters.txt IOSCHED to spell out 'anticipatory' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:14 UTC |
| a6b25b6 | Randy Dunlap | 14 January 2006, 21:21:19 UTC | [PATCH] nlm kernel-parameters update Add 2 lockd kernel parameters and spell 2 others correctly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Cc: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Cc: <buraphalinuxserver@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:14 UTC |
| 9c87896 | Deepak Saxena | 14 January 2006, 21:21:18 UTC | [PATCH] cs89x0: add ixdp2351 support This patch adds support for the Intel IXDP2351 to the CS89x0 driver. Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| a07f0db | Lennert Buytenhek | 14 January 2006, 21:21:17 UTC | [PATCH] cs89x0: use u16 for device register data cs89x0 inconsistently used 'int' and 'u32' for device register data. As the cs89x0 is a 16-bit chip, change the I/O accessors over to 'u16'. (Spotted by Deepak Saxena.) Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| 580d7b8 | Lennert Buytenhek | 14 January 2006, 21:21:16 UTC | [PATCH] cs89x0: use #elif instead of #else/#if/#endif Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| 032874e | Lennert Buytenhek | 14 January 2006, 21:21:15 UTC | [PATCH] cs89x0: credit Dmitry Pervushin Credit Dmitry Pervushin for the PNX010X platform support. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| 2c56084 | Abhay Salunke | 14 January 2006, 21:21:14 UTC | [PATCH] dell_rbu: fix Bug 5854 This fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5854 Root cause: The dell_rbu driver creates entries in /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/ by calling request_firmware_nowait (without hotplug ) this function inturn starts a kernel thread which creates the entries in /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading , data and the thread waits on the user action to return control back to the callback fucntion of dell_rbu. The thread calls wait_on_completion which puts it in a D state until the user action happens. If there is no user action happening the load average goes up as the thread D state is taken in to account. Also after downloading the BIOS image the enrties go away momentarily but they are recreated from the callback function in dell_rbu. This causes the thread to get recreated causing the load average to permenently stay around 1. Fix: The dell_rbu also creates the entry /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type at driver load time. The image type by default is mono if required the user can echo packet to image_type to make the BIOS update mechanism using packets. Also by echoing init in to image_type the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries can be created. The driver code was changed to not create /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries during load time, and also to not create the above entries from the callback function. The entries are only created by echoing init to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type The user now needs to create the entries to download the image monolithic or packet. This fixes the issue since the kernel thread only is created when ever the user is ready to download the BIOS image; this minimizes the life span of the kernel thread and the load average goes back to normal. Signed off by Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| d063389 | Pekka Enberg | 14 January 2006, 21:21:13 UTC | [PATCH] smbfs: remove kmalloc wrapper Remove the remaining kmalloc() wrapper bits from fs/smbfs/. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:13 UTC |
| 44db77f | Pekka Enberg | 14 January 2006, 21:21:12 UTC | [PATCH] ncpfs: remove kmalloc wrapper Remove remaining kmalloc wrapper bits from fs/ncpfs/. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:12 UTC |
| 69c99ac | Coywolf Qi Hunt | 14 January 2006, 21:21:11 UTC | [PATCH] abandon gcc 295x main.c tidy After abandon-gcc-295x.patch, this relocates the error-out-early comment. Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | 15 January 2006, 02:27:12 UTC |
