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Keshavamurthy Anil S
eb3a72921c [PATCH] kprobes: fix race in recovery of reentrant probe
There is a window where a probe gets removed right after the probe is hit
on some different cpu.  In this case probe handlers can't find a matching
probe instance related to break address.  In this case we need to read the
original instruction at break address to see if that is not a break/int3
instruction and recover safely.

Previous code had a bug where we were not checking for the above race in
case of reentrant probes and the below patch fixes this race.

Tested on IA64, Powerpc, x86_64.

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>
2006-01-11 18:42:12 -08:00
Jeff Dike
beb25c6e27 [PATCH] uml: kill an unused variable
The HDIO_GETGEO patch left an unused variable in the UML block driver.  This
gets rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Jeff Dike
621009f4ba [PATCH] uml: fix debug output on x86_64
The debug-stub patch was broken on x86_64 because it thinks the frame size
there is 168 words.  In reality, it is 168 bytes, and using HOST_FRAME_SIZE,
which is expressed in consistent units across architectures, fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:10 -08:00
Jeff Dike
a174b30e29 [PATCH] uml: eliminate doubled boot output
CON_PRINTBUFFER was a bad idea for the mconsole console.  It causes the boot
output to be printed twice.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
Jeff Dike
edc0e65956 [PATCH] uml: revert compile-time option checking
Undo the previous no-modes patch since Adrian Bunk sent in a kbuild way of
doing the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
Jeff Dike
114d1ff4f5 [PATCH] uml: update Kconfig help
The MODE_TT help was a little outdated.  This updates it in light of the
existence of skas0 mode.  It's also turned off by default since it is mostly
obsoleted by skas0 mode.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
Jeff Dike
4ee189a926 [PATCH] uml: fix missing KBUILD_BASENAME
2.6.15-mm1 caused kernel-offsets.c to stop compiling with a syntax error in a
header.  The problem was with KBUILD_BASENAME, which didn't get a definition
with the by-hand compilation in the main UML Makefile.

This was OK before since the expansion was syntactically the same as the
KBUILD_BASENAME token.  With -mm1, the expansion is now a quote-delimited
string, so there needs to be a definition of it.

Since kernel-offsets.c is basically the same as other arches' asm-offsets.c,
and those seem to build OK, this patch turns kernel-offsets.c into
asm-offsets.c.  kernel-offsets.c is in arch/um/sys-$(SUBARCH), i.e.  sys-i386
and sys-x86_64, while kbuild expects it to be in arch/um/kernel.
kernel-offsets.c is moved to
arch/um/include/sysdep-$(SUBARCH)/kernel-offsets.h, which is included by
arch/um/kernel/asm-offsets.c.  With that, include/asm-um/asm-offsets.h is
generated automatically.  kernel-offsets.h continues to exist because it needs
to be accessible to userspace UML code, and include/asm-um isn't.  So, a
symlink is made from arch/um/include/kernel-offsets.h to
include/asm-um/asm-offsets.h.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 18:42:09 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
99535ac2d4 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-11 17:06:31 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
61943c5015 [SPARC64] arch/sparc64/Kconfig: fix HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_64K dependencies
This patch fixes a typo in the dependencies of HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_64K.

It might be more logical to rename the HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_*K
dependencies to HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_*KB, but let's fix this bug first.

This bug was reported by Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org>.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-11 15:55:23 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7e4e574c39 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-11 08:16:57 -08:00
David Woodhouse
a4fc7ab1d0 [PATCH] fix/simplify mutex debugging code
Let's switch mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed() to take (addr, len) as
arguments instead, since all its callers were just calculating the 'to'
address for themselves anyway... (and sometimes doing so badly).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-11 08:14:16 -08:00
Michael Ellerman
97b1b99974 [PATCH] powerpc: Don't build crash.c for PPC32
arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c isn't safe for PPC32 (yet?), so don't build it.

Built with CONFIG_KEXEC=y for pmac32_defconfig, pseries_defconfig,
and g5_defconfig.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 19:52:05 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
05f6ece6f3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2006-01-10 21:31:24 -08:00
Kumar Gala
886c98d786 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix clean_files in arch/powerpc/boot Makefile
clean-files was being set twice rather than being appended to.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 16:28:13 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
d274ba2081 x86: fix "make install" target
Removing the dependency on the boot image build was good, but it also
meant that the $< expansion by make needed to be done explicitly.

Noted by Stephen Hemminger.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 21:09:19 -08:00
Michael Ellerman
c9c47b6e27 [PATCH] powerpc: Remove redundant setting of htab_address
iSeries doesn't need to set the htab_address explicitly, htab_initialize()
will do it for us later.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:35:46 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
7eb5476f68 [PATCH] powerpc: Add ibm,pft-size to iSeries device tree
To make iSeries just a teensy bit less special, create ibm,pft-size properties
in the iSeries device tree. We can then rely on htab_dt_scan_pftsize() to set
ppc64_pft_size for us.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:35:40 +11:00
Kumar Gala
0e5e39bfd8 [PATCH] powerpc: Add some missing .gitignore's
ignore generated files under arch/powerpc

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:35:35 +11:00
Kumar Gala
08264cbc9f [PATCH] powerpc: Updated Kconfig and Makefiles for 83xx support
Updated Kconfig & Makefiles in prep for adding support for the Freescale
MPC83xx family of processors to arch/powerpc.  Moved around some config
options that are more globally applicable to other PowerPC processors.
Added a temporary config option (83xx) to match existing arch/ppc support
for the MPC83xx line.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:35:29 +11:00
Geoff Levand
7f52eb0093 [PATCH] spufs: Suspend/restore MFC DMA operations at SPU context switch.
The SPE Book IV indicates that MFC DMA operations must be
suspended and restored on SPU context switch (in Step 8).

This patch adds that operation, which is missing from the
current spufs implementation.

Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:35:11 +11:00
Haren Myneni
f6cc82fc0b [PATCH] powerpc: fix for compile problem in kdump code when SMP disabled
This patch fixes the compilation error (shown below) when CONFIG_SMP=n.
    arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c: In function `crash_kexec_prepare_cpus':
    arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:236: error: implicit declaration of
    function `smp_release_cpus'

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:33:55 +11:00
Paul Mackerras
6bac953fa4 powerpc: Fix compile error when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not defined
We were getting elfcorehdr_addr undefined in this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 15:30:07 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
7a0268fa1a [PATCH] powerpc/64: per cpu data optimisations
The current ppc64 per cpu data implementation is quite slow. eg:

        lhz 11,18(13)           /* smp_processor_id() */
        ld 9,.LC63-.LCTOC1(30)  /* per_cpu__variable_name */
        ld 8,.LC61-.LCTOC1(30)  /* __per_cpu_offset */
        sldi 11,11,3            /* form index into __per_cpu_offset */
        mr 10,9
        ldx 9,11,8              /* __per_cpu_offset[smp_processor_id()] */
        ldx 0,10,9              /* load per cpu data */

5 loads for something that is supposed to be fast, pretty awful. One
reason for the large number of loads is that we have to synthesize 2
64bit constants (per_cpu__variable_name and __per_cpu_offset).

By putting __per_cpu_offset into the paca we can avoid the 2 loads
associated with it:

        ld 11,56(13)            /* paca->data_offset */
        ld 9,.LC59-.LCTOC1(30)  /* per_cpu__variable_name */
        ldx 0,9,11              /* load per cpu data

Longer term we can should be able to do even better than 3 loads.
If per_cpu__variable_name wasnt a 64bit constant and paca->data_offset
was in a register we could cut it down to one load. A suggestion from
Rusty is to use gcc's __thread extension here. In order to do this we
would need to free up r13 (the __thread register and where the paca
currently is). So far Ive had a few unsuccessful attempts at doing that :)

The patch also allocates per cpu memory node local on NUMA machines.
This patch from Rusty has been sitting in my queue _forever_ but stalled
when I hit the compiler bug. Sorry about that.

Finally I also only allocate per cpu data for possible cpus, which comes
straight out of the x86-64 port. On a pseries kernel (with NR_CPUS == 128)
and 4 possible cpus we see some nice gains:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:       4012228     212860    3799368          0          0 162424

             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:       4016200     212984    3803216          0          0 162424

A saving of 3.75MB. Quite nice for smaller machines. Note: we now have
to be careful of per cpu users that touch data for !possible cpus.

At this stage it might be worth making the NUMA and possible cpu
optimisations generic, but per cpu init is done so early we have to be
careful that all architectures have their possible map setup correctly.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:49:45 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
296167ae17 [PATCH] powerpc: Make early debugging configurable via Kconfig
This patch adds Kconfig entries to control the early debugging options,
currently in setup_64.c.

Doing this via Kconfig rather than #defines means you can have one source tree,
which is buildable for multiple platforms - and you can enable the correct
early debug option for each platform via .config.

I made udbg_early_init() a static inline because otherwise GCC is to daft to
optimise it away when debugging is off.

Now that we have udbg_init_rtas() we can make call_rtas_display_status* static.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:48:26 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
bf6a7112bd [PATCH] powerpc: Early debugging support for iSeries
Connect iSeries up to the standard early debugging infrastructure.

To actually use this you need to enable the iSeries early debugging
in setup_64.c. Then after the messages are logged hit Ctrl-x Ctrl-x on
your console to dump the Hypervisor console buffer.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:48:13 +11:00
Olaf Hering
f481f1edee [PATCH] powerpc: remove remaining crash_notes variable from machine_kexec.c
remove remaining crash_notes definition to fix compile error

/dev/shm/linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/kernel/machine_kexec.c:21: error: conflicting types for `crash_notes'
/dev/shm/linux-2.6/include/linux/kexec.h:129: error: previous declaration of `crash_notes'

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:48:02 +11:00
linas
af9deabeb0 [PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: module build break
The RPAPHP hoplug driver will not build as a module, because it calls
on a pcibios routine which is not exported. This exports the symbol.
Problem reported by Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:47:30 +11:00
Olaf Hering
ad2b2426bb [PATCH] enable the RTC driver in ppc64_defconfig
Enable the RTC driver.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-11 14:47:13 +11:00
Matthew Wilcox
58b6c58cae [PARISC] Use STABS_DEBUG macro from vmlinux.lds.h
Cleanup vmlinux.lds.S by using STABS_DEBUG macro from vmlinux.lds.h
instead of repeating the sections.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:53:19 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
f45adcf977 [PARISC] Fix Dino reporting on J2240
Fix Dino reporting on J2240. This particular machine thought it
had a Cujo. Also add J2240 Dino chip to the hp_hardware_list.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:53:14 -05:00
Grant Grundler
5cdb8205e9 [PARISC] Fix BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH on parisc by initializing max_low_pfn
max_low_pfn was not being set in arch/parisc/mm/init.c, causing severe
problems whenever anything tried to use BLK_BOUNCE_HIGH. Set it to
max_pfn like other similar architectures do.

Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:52:11 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
a01c8cb126 [PARISC] Fix GSC graphics cards with 64MB regions
Make knapps work with its 64MB gfx card.  I probably just broke another
machine in the process, but assuming 64MB when 64MB aligned is probably
safer than assuming 32MB all the time.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:51:33 -05:00
Kyle McMartin
e0565a1c83 [PARISC] Fix and cleanup ioremap.c to work with 4level-fixup.h
Fixup ioremap a bit. It seems to work on 32-bit kernels, but fails
miserably on the first ioremapped access on 64-bit kernels. Also, having
STI enabled causes it to fail. Probably because we're passing an ioremapped
region to a real-mode STI call...

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:51:25 -05:00
Matthew Wilcox
1b2425e3c7 [PARISC] Make local cache flushes take a void *
Make flush_data_cache_local, flush_instruction_cache_local and
flush_tlb_all_local take a void * so they don't have to be cast
when using on_each_cpu().  This becomes a problem when on_each_cpu
is a macro (as it is in current -mm).

Also move the prototype of flush_tlb_all_local into tlbflush.h and
remove its declaration from .c files.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 21:49:21 -05:00
Helge Deller
8039de10aa [PARISC] Add __read_mostly section for parisc
Flag a whole bunch of things as __read_mostly on parisc. Also flag a few
branches as unlikely() and cleanup a bit of code.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-01-10 20:35:03 -05:00
Greg Ungerer
694d855fbc [PATCH] m68knommu: fix ram length of m5208evb board
Adjust length of M5208EVB ram define.  It should size up to 32MB after
adding in the dBUG reserved 128k.

Problem pointed out be Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
01829e7212 [PATCH] m68knommu: fix a5 reg corruption in signal handlers
This is a patch adapted from a posting by Andrea Tarani which was
pointed out to me by Bernardo Innocenti.  Thanks to both of them for
their help and patience.

The original posting is here:
  http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2005-July/033543.html

The problem first manifest itself as busybox ping terminating with an
"Illegal instruction".  I reduced this to a test case and found that
variable size arrays allocated on the stack could lead to stacks not
aligned on 32 bit boundaries.  For the Coldfire this proved fatal.

Having been pointed out this patch by Bernardo, I applied it and it
fixed the first test case.  I then went back to busybox's ping.  This
still failed with "Illegal instruction", but in a different way.  Before
it depended on the size allocated for the ping buffer, now it happened
every time.  I also found it depended on optimisation level (gcc-3.4.0)
-Os was okay but not -O2.

After a lot of looking, it turned out that register a5 was being
corrupted by the signal handler (after applying the patch).  I re-worked
the patch a bit to save/restore a5 and now all seems well.

Patch submitted by Stuart Hughs <stuarth@freescale.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
afc7cd8950 [PATCH] m68knommu: fix mangled 'truct' in ptrace.c
Fix broken "truct" -> "struct" in arch_ptrace() parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
db10cb8e99 [PATCH] m68knommu: don't set gcc optimizer flags
Don't specify compiler optimization flags in the m68knommu Makefile.
Let the top level Makefile/config set it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
8240979985 [PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from memory.c
Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
7ba6b5ece3 [PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from k8300_ksyms.c
Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d936cfc720 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2006-01-10 09:00:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
dd49f96777 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-10 08:28:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a62e68488d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-10 08:28:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ab396e91bf Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
Fix up some trivial conflicts in {i386|ia64}/Makefile
2006-01-10 08:21:33 -08:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Paul Jackson
7e91c55b32 [PATCH] Serial: disable jsm in ppc64 defconfig
Changes to the serial driver to remove flip buffers have broken the serial
jsm driver.  It doesn't even compile anymore.  The jsm driver was enabled
in only one defconfig - ppc64.  In order to keep defconfigs building,
disable CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:57 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
3c6bee1d40 [PATCH] turn "const static" into "static const"
ICC likes to complain about storage class not being first, GCC doesn't
care much (except for cases like "inline static").
have a hard time seeing how it could break anything.

Thanks to Gabriel A. Devenyi for pointing out
http://linuxicc.sourceforge.net/ which is what made me create this patch.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:55 -08:00
Antonino A. Daplas
2b4f2f4b01 [PATCH] vesafb: Drop blank hook
From: Bugzilla Bug 5351

"After resuming from S3 (suspended while in X), the LCD panel stays black .
 However, the laptop is up again, and I can SSH into it from another
machine.

I can get the panel working again, when I first direct video output to the
CRT output of the laptop, and then back to LCD (done by repeatedly hitting
Fn+F5 buttons on the Toshiba, which directs output to either LCD, CRT or
TV) None of this ever happened with older kernels."

This bug is due to the recently added vesafb_blank() method in vesafb.  It
works with CRT displays, but has a high incidence of problems in laptop
users.  Since CRT users don't really get that much benefit from hardware
blanking, drop support for this.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:42 -08:00
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
0498b63504 [PATCH] kprobes: fix build breakage
The following patch (against 2.6.15-rc5-mm3) fixes a kprobes build break
due to changes introduced in the kprobe locking in 2.6.15-rc5-mm3.  In
addition, the patch reverts back the open-coding of kprobe_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-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>
2006-01-10 08:01:40 -08:00