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18 years ago[PATCH] s390: aes support
Jan Glauber [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:18 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: aes support

Add support for the hardware accelerated AES crypto algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: sha256 support
Jan Glauber [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:18 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: sha256 support

Add support for the hardware accelerated sha256 crypto algorithm.

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: in-kernel crypto rename
Jan Glauber [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:17 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: in-kernel crypto rename

Replace all references to z990 by s390 in the in-kernel crypto files in
arch/s390/crypto.  The code is not specific to a particular machine (z990) but
to the s390 platform.  Big diff, does nothing..

Signed-off-by: Jan Glauber <jan.glauber@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: add oprofile callgraph support
Andreas Krebbel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:16 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: add oprofile callgraph support

Signed-off-by: Andreas Krebbel <krebbel1@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: dasd failfast support
Horst Hummel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:15 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: dasd failfast support

To properly support multipath-failover handling, the linux block layer has
introduced a special request flag, 'REQ_FAILFAST'.  This flag is now used to
return requests immediately in case the device is not operational.

Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: BIODASDPRRD ioctl return code
Horst Hummel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:14 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: BIODASDPRRD ioctl return code

The IOCTL BIODASDPRRD had no return code for 'profiling is inactive' and
therefore tunedasd wrote misleading message for request-counter = 0.
Introduce return-code EIO for inactive profiling.

Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: move s390_root_dev_* out of the cio layer
Carsten Otte [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:14 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: move s390_root_dev_* out of the cio layer

Extract the s390_root_dev_* functions from the common I/O layer as they are
also used by non-ccw device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: re-activated path detection
Cornelia Huck [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:13 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: re-activated path detection

If we receive path not operational indications (pnom in pmcw nonzero), we
switch off those paths.  To catch them becoming available again, we have to
recalculate the lpm from the pmcw each time we start path verification.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: cputime_t fixes
Martin Schwidefsky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:12 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: cputime_t fixes

There are some more places where the use of cputime_t instead of an integer
type and the associated macros is necessary for the virtual cputime accounting
on s390.  Affected are the s390 specific appldata code and BSD process
accounting.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: update default configuration
Martin Schwidefsky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:11 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: update default configuration

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: rt_sigreturn fix
Cedric Le Goater [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:10 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: rt_sigreturn fix

Check return code of do_sigaltstack and force a SIGSEGV if it is -EFAULT.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: uaccess warnings
Martin Schwidefsky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:09 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: uaccess warnings

Convert __access_ok to an inline C function and change __get_user primitive to
avoid uaccess compiler warnings.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: cms volume label definitions
Peter Oberparleiter [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:09 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: cms volume label definitions

Moved definition of CMS volume label to vtoc.h and modify partitions/ibm.c to
use this volume label definition instead of anonymous array.

Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] s390: atomic primitives
Martin Schwidefsky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:07 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] s390: atomic primitives

      Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>

Fix the broken atomic_cmpxchg primitive.  Add atomic_sub_and_test,
atomic64_sub_return, atomic64_sub_and_test, atomic64_cmpxchg,
atomic64_add_unless and atomic64_inc_not_zero.  Replace old style
atomic_compare_and_swap by atomic_cmpxchg.  Shorten the whole header by
defining most primitives with the two inline functions atomic_add_return and
atomic_sub_return.

In addition this patch contains the s390 related fixes of Hugh's "mm: fill
arch atomic64 gaps" patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: free network IRQ correctly
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:06 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: free network IRQ correctly

Free the network IRQ when closing down the network devices at shutdown.
Delete the device from the opened devices list on close.

These prevent an -EBADF when later disabling SIGIO on all extant descriptors
and a complaint from free_irq about freeing the IRQ twice.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: fix whitespace in mconsole driver
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:05 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: fix whitespace in mconsole driver

Fix up some bogus spacing in the mconsole driver.  Also delete the
emacs formatting comment at the end.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: capture printk output for mconsole sysrq
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:05 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: capture printk output for mconsole sysrq

Pass sysrq output back to the mconsole client using the mechanism
introduced for stack output.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: capture printk output for mconsole stack
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:04 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: capture printk output for mconsole stack

The stack command now sends the printk output back to the mconsole client.
This is done by registering a special console for the mconsole driver.  This
receives all printk output.  Normally, it is ignored, but when a stack command
is issued, any printk output will be sent back to the client.

This will capture any printk output, whether it is stack output or not, since
we can't tell the difference.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: add mconsole_reply variant with length param
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:03 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: add mconsole_reply variant with length param

This is needed for the console output patch, since we have a possibly
non-NULL-terminated string there.  So, the new interface takes a string and a
length, and the old interface calls strlen on its string and calls the new
interface with the length.

There's also a bit of whitespace cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: better diagnostics for broken configs
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:02 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: better diagnostics for broken configs

Produce a compile-time error if both MODE_SKAS and MODE_TT are disabled.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: SIGWINCH handling cleanup
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:01 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: SIGWINCH handling cleanup

Code cleanup - unregister_winch and winch_cleanup had some duplicate code.
This is now abstracted out into free_winch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: umid cleanup
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:19:01 +0000 (00:19 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: umid cleanup

This patch cleans up the umid code:

- The only_if_set argument to get_umid is gone.

- get_umid returns an empty string rather than NULL if there is no umid.

- umid_is_random is gone since its users went away.

- Some printfs were turned into printks because the code runs late enough
  that printk is working.

- Error paths were cleaned up.

- Some functions now return an error and let the caller print the error
  message rather than printing it themselves.  This eliminates the practice of
  passing a pointer to printf or printk in, depending on where in the boot
  process we are.

- Major tidying of not_dead_yet - mostly error path cleanup, plus a comment
  explaining why it doesn't react to errors the way you might expect.

- Calls to os_* interfaces that were moved under os are changed back to
  their native libc forms.

- snprintf, strlcpy, and their bounds-checking friends are used more often,
  replacing by-hand bounds checking in some places.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: separate libc-dependent umid code
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:59 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: separate libc-dependent umid code

I reworked Gennady's umid OS abstraction patch because the code shouldn't
be moved entirely to os.  As it turns out, I moved most of it anyway.  This
patch is the minimal one needed to move the code and have it work.
It turns out that the concept of the umid is OS-independent, but
almost everything else about the implementation is OS-dependent.

This is code movement without cleanup - a follow-on patch tidies
everything up without shuffling code around.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Add throttling to console driver
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:58 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Add throttling to console driver

This patch adds support for throttling and unthrottling input when the tty
driver can't handle it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Fix flip_buf full handling
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:58 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Fix flip_buf full handling

When the tty flip_buf is full, it's a good idea to delay the input processing
for a jiffy, rather than just scheduling the tasklet immediately.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Simplify console opening/closing and irq registration
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:57 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Simplify console opening/closing and irq registration

This patch simplifies the opening and closing of host console devices and the
registration and deregistration of IRQs.  The intent is to make it obvious
that an IRQ can't exist without an open file descriptor.

chan_enable will now open the channel, and when both opening and IRQ
registration are desired, this should be used.  Opening only is done for the
initial console, so that interface still needs to exist.

The free_irqs_later interface is now gone.  It was intended to avoid freeing
an IRQ while it was being processed.  It did this, but it didn't eliminate the
possiblity of free_irq being called from an interrupt, which is bad.  In its
place is a list of irqs to be freed, which is processed by the signal handler
just before exiting.  close_one_chan now disables irqs.

When a host device disappears, it is just closed, and that disables IRQs.

The device id registered with the IRQ is now the chan structure, not the tty.
This is because the interrupt arrives on a descriptor associated with the
channel.  This caused equivalent changes in the arguments to line_timer_cb.
line_disable is gone since it is not used any more.

The count field in the line structure is gone.  tty->count is used instead.

The complicated logic in sigio_handler with freeing IRQs when necessary and
making sure its idea of the next irq is correct is now much simpler.  The irq
list can't be rearranged underneath it, so it is now a simple list walk.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: move console configuration
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:55 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: move console configuration

This patch changes when console devices are configured in order to prepare the
ground for the next patch.

parse_chan_pair is now done earlier, when initcalls are run, rather than when
the device is opened.

When a host device disappears, the channel list is closed, but not freed.
This is required by the previous change.  line_config now takes the options
structure as an argument, and line_open doesn't.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: line_setup interface change
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:54 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: line_setup interface change

line_setup is changed to return the device which it set up, rather than just
success or failure.  This will be important in the line-config patch.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Add static initializations and declarations
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:54 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Add static initializations and declarations

Some structure fields were being dynamically initialized when they could be
initialized at compile-time instead.  This also makes some declarations static
(in the C sense).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Move mconsole support out of generic code
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:53 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Move mconsole support out of generic code

A bit of restructuring which eliminates the all_allowed argument (which is
mconsole-specific) to line_setup.  That logic is moved to the mconsole
callback.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Remove unneeded structure field
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:52 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Remove unneeded structure field

This removes a structure field which turned out to be pointless, and
references to it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: use ARRAY_SIZE
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:51 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: use ARRAY_SIZE

This patch replaces instances of "sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0])" with
ARRAY_SIZE(foo), which expands to the same thing.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: Formatting changes
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:50 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: Formatting changes

This patch makes a bunch of non-functional changes -
    return(foo); becomes return foo;
    some statements are broken across lines for readability
    some trailing whitespace is cleaned up
    open_one_chan took four arguments, three of which could be
       deduced from the first.  Accordingly, they were eliminated.
    some examples of "} else {" had a newline added
    some whitespace cleanup in the indentation
    lines_init got some control flow cleanup
    some long lines were broken
    removed another emacs-specific C formatting comment

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: non-void functions should return something
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:49 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: non-void functions should return something

There are a few functions which are declared to return something, but don't.
These are actually infinite loops which are forced to be declared as non-void.
 This makes them all return 0.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uml: use kstrdup
Jeff Dike [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:48 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: use kstrdup

There were a bunch of calls to uml_strdup dating from before kstrdup was
introduced.  This changes those calls.  It doesn't eliminate the definition
since there is still a couple of calls in userspace code (which should
probably call the libc strdup).

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cris: kgdb: remove double_this()
Alexey Dobriyan [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:47 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] cris: kgdb: remove double_this()

Doesn't make much sense and unused.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: remove enable_irq_nosync()
Christoph Hellwig [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:46 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: remove enable_irq_nosync()

m68k, m68knommu and h8300 define this, but it's not actually used
anywhere.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: enable_irq/disable_irq
Christoph Hellwig [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:45 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: enable_irq/disable_irq

mach_enable_irq/mach_disable_irq are never actually set, so let's remove
them.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: Remove unnecessary icu_data_t definitions
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:45 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: Remove unnecessary icu_data_t definitions

This patch removes unnecessary struct icu_data_t definitions of
arch/m32r/kernel/setup_*.c.

Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: Fix M32104 cache flushing routines
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:44 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: Fix M32104 cache flushing routines

This patch fixes cache memory parameter setting for the M32104 target.  So
far, its performance seemed to have been degraded due to incorrect cache
parameter setting.

  * arch/m32r/boot/setup.S: Set SFR(Special Fuction Registers) region
    to be non-cachable explicitly.
  * arch/m32r/mm/cache.c: Fix cache flushing routines not to switch off
    the M32104 cache.

Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: Update _port2addr to use NONCACHE_OFFSET
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:43 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: Update _port2addr to use NONCACHE_OFFSET

Modify _port2addr*() routines in arch/m32r/kernel/io_*.c to use
NONCACHE_OFFSET instead of hard-coding of a constant address.

This modification is also required to support an M3A-ZA36 FPGA eva board in
case an MMU-less synthesizable m32r core is used.

Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: Update syscall macros for MMU-less targets
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:42 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: Update syscall macros for MMU-less targets

This patch is for updating m32r's MMU-less support.

Some legacy MMU-less m32r chips cannot return from a trap handler to the
right-hand side 16-bit halfword code of a 32-bit instrucion code pair, because
a "trap" instruction specification was expanded in M32R-II ISA.

This modification forces "trap" instructions to be placed in word alignment
location with a parallel "nop" code.

Signed-off-by: Kazuhiro Inaoka <inaoka@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: Support M32104UT target platform
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:41 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: Support M32104UT target platform

This patch is for supporting a new target platform, Renesas M32104UT
evaluation board.

The M32104UT is an eval board based on an uT-Engine specification.  This board
has an MMU-less M32R family processor, M32104.
http://www-wa0.personal-media.co.jp/pmc/archive/te/te_m32104_e.pdf

This board is one of the most popular M32R platform, so we have ported
Linux/M32R to it.

Signed-off-by: Naoto Sugai <Sugai.Naoto@ak.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m32r: trivial fix to remove unused instructions
Hirokazu Takata [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:39 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] m32r: trivial fix to remove unused instructions

A trivial fix to remove unused instructions.

Signed-off-by: Naoto Sugai <Sugai.Naoto@ak.MitsubishiElectric.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] don't freeze firewire on suspend.
Dave Jones [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:18:38 +0000 (00:18 -0800)]
[PATCH] don't freeze firewire on suspend.

We had a report from one loony user who tried out suspend to disk using a
swap partition on a firewire drive.  As the firewire thread was put to
sleep it didn't work out too well.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: save image header first
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:17:58 +0000 (00:17 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: save image header first

This makes the swsusp_info structure become the header of the image in the
literal sense (ie.  it is saved to the swap and read before any other image
data with the help of the swsusp's swap map structure, so generally it is
treated in the same way as the rest of the image).

The main thing it does is to make swsusp_header contain the offset of the swap
map used to track the image data pages rather than the offset of swsusp_info.
 Simultaneously, swsusp_info becomes the first image page written to the swap.

The other changes are generally consequences of the above with a few
exceptions (there's some consolidation in the image reading part as a few
functions turn into trivial wrappers around something else).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: improve handling of swap partitions
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:17:16 +0000 (00:17 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: improve handling of swap partitions

This changes the handling of swap partitions by swsusp to avoid locking of the
swap devices that are not used for suspend and, consequently, simplifies the
code.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mm: add a new function (needed for swap suspend)
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:16:37 +0000 (00:16 -0800)]
[PATCH] mm: add a new function (needed for swap suspend)

This adds the function get_swap_page_of_type() allowing us to specify an index
in swap_info[] and select a swap_info_struct structure to be used for
allocating a swap page.

This function (or another one of similar functionality) will be necessary for
implementing the image-writing part of swsusp in the user space.  Â It can also
be used for simplifying the current in-kernel implementation of the
image-writing part of swsusp.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: make image size limit tunable
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:56 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: make image size limit tunable

Make the suspend image size limit tunable via /sys/power/image_size.

It is necessary for systems on which there is a limited amount of swap
available for suspend.  It can also be useful for optimizing performance of
swsusp on systems with 1 GB of RAM or more.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: limit image size
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:22 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: limit image size

Limit the size of the suspend image to approx.  500 MB, which should
improve the overall performance of swsusp on systems with more than 1 GB of
RAM.

It introduces the constant IMAGE_SIZE that can be set to the preferred size
of the image (in MB) and modifies the memory-shrinking part of swsusp to
take this constant into account (500 is the default value of IMAGE_SIZE).

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: Drop duplicate prototypes
Pavel Machek [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:21 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: Drop duplicate prototypes

These two prototypes are already present in sched.h, remove duplicate
version.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from opl3sa2 driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:20 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from opl3sa2 driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the opl3sa2 driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from nm256 driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:19 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from nm256 driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the nm256 driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

Note that this driver has been obsoleted by an ALSA equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from maestro driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:18 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from maestro driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the maestro driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

The check_suspend() function and associated logic was not removed, even though
it is now unnecessary.

Note that this driver has been obsoleted by an ALSA equivalent.

Acked-by: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from cs46xx driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:17 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from cs46xx driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the cs46xx driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

Note this driver has PCI PM hooks which are set properly.  It also has the
ability to trigger suspend/resume from an ioctl.  This functionality was not
touched, though it could use a serious review if this driver continues to
persist in the mainline tree..

Note that this driver has been obsoleted by an ALSA equivalent.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from cs4281 driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:14 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from cs4281 driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the cs4281 driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

Note that this driver has been obsoleted by an ALSA equivalent.

Note that this driver has hooks for PCI power management, but does not
implement the ->suspend()/->resume() methods.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from ad1848 driver
Patrick Mochel [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:15:07 +0000 (00:15 -0800)]
[PATCH] oss: remove deprecated PM interface from ad1848 driver

This change removes the old, deprecated interface from the ad1848 driver,
including the pm_{,un}register() calls, the local storage of the pmdev object
and the reference to the old header files.  This change is done to assist in
eradicating the users of the legacy interface so as to help facilitate the
removal of the interface itself.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: fix enough_free_mem
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:14:20 +0000 (00:14 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: fix enough_free_mem

This patch fixes a problem with the function enough_free_mem() used by
swsusp to verify if there is a sufficient number of memory pages available
to it to create and save the suspend image.

Namely, enough_free_mem() uses nr_free_pages() to obtain the number of free
memory pages, which is incorrect, because this function returns the total
number of free pages, including free highmem pages, and the highmem pages
cannot be used by swsusp for storing the image data.

The patch makes enough_free_mem() avoid counting the free highmem
pages as available to swsusp.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: improve freeing of memory
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:13:46 +0000 (00:13 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: improve freeing of memory

This patch makes swsusp free only as much memory as needed to complete the
suspend and not as much as possible.  Â In the most of cases this should speed
up the suspend and make the system much more responsive after resume,
especially if a GUI (eg.  X Windows) is used.

If needed, the old behavior (ie to free as much memory as possible during
suspend) can be restored by unsetting FAST_FREE in power.h

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: introduce the swap map structure
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:13:05 +0000 (00:13 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: introduce the swap map structure

This patch introduces the swap map structure that can be used by swsusp for
keeping tracks of data pages written to the swap.  Â The structure itself is
described in a comment within the patch.

The overall idea is to reduce the amount of metadata written to the swap and
to write and read the image pages sequentially, in a file-alike way.  This
makes the swap-handling part of swsusp fairly independent of its
snapshot-handling part and will hopefully allow us to completely separate
these two parts in the future.

This patch is needed to remove the suspend image size limit imposed by the
limited size of the swsusp_info structure, which is essential for x86-64
systems with more than 512 MB of RAM.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] swsusp: remove encryption
Rafael J. Wysocki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:24 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] swsusp: remove encryption

This patch removes the image encryption that is only used by swsusp instead of
zeroing the image after resume in order to prevent someone from reading some
confidential data from it in the future and it does not protect the image from
being read by an unauthorized person before resume.  The functionality it
provides should really belong to the user space and will possibly be
reimplemented after the swap-handling functionality of swsusp is moved to the
user space.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (alpha part)
Ivan Kokshaysky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:22 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (alpha part)

Kconfig tweaks and tons of deletions.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (generic part)
Ivan Kokshaysky [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:21 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] Alpha: convert to generic irq framework (generic part)

Thanks to Christoph for doing most of the work.

This allows automatic SMP IRQ affinity assignment other than default "all
interrupts on all CPUs" which is rather expensive.  This might be useful if
the hardware can be programmed to distribute interrupts among different
CPUs, like Alpha does.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpu hotplug/x86_64: disable interrupt in play_dead
Shaohua Li [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:20 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpu hotplug/x86_64: disable interrupt in play_dead

With physical CPU hotplug, the CPU is hot removed and it should not receive
any interrupts.  Disabling interrupt is much safer.  This basically is what we
do in ia64 & x86.

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: Handle HP laptop rebooting properly.
Ben Collins [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:20 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: Handle HP laptop rebooting properly.

Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: ioapic virtual wire mode fix
Vivek Goyal [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:19 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: ioapic virtual wire mode fix

o Currently, during kexec reboot, IOAPIC is re-programmed back to virtual
  wire mode if there was an i8259 connected to it. This enables getting
  timer interrupts in second kernel in legacy mode.

o After putting into virtual wire mode, IOAPIC delivers the i8259 interrupts
  to CPU0. This works well for kexec but not for kdump as we might crash
  on a different CPU and second kernel will not see timer interrupts.

o This patch modifies the redirection table entry to deliver the timer
  interrupts to the cpu we are rebooting (instead of hardcoding to zero).
  This ensures that second kernel receives timer interrupts even on a
  non-boot cpu.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mpspec: remove unneeded packed attribute
Brian Gerst [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:18 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] mpspec: remove unneeded packed attribute

GCC 4.1 gives the following warning: include/asm/mpspec.h:79: warning:
`packed' attribute ignored for field of type `unsigned char'

The packed attribute isn't really necessary anyways so just remove it.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix cpu frequency detection in arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c::recalibra...
Larry Finger [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:17 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix cpu frequency detection in arch/i386/kernel/timers/timer_tsc.c::recalibrate_cpu_khz()

When we re-calibrate the frequency, it is likely that an interrupt (as for
example the main system clock) will be triggered by the system.  Therefore
the calibration may not be accurate.  This will also provide a fix to bug
#5266.

Many thanks to Larry Finger for helping resolving this issue.

Signed-off-by: Bruno Ducrot <ducrot@poupinou.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] APM Screen Blanking fix
Jordan Crouse [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:16 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] APM Screen Blanking fix

- Fix screen blanking on BIOSes that return APM_NOT_ENGAGED when APM enabled
  screen blanking is not turned on.

  The original code only tried to set the state on device 0x100, and then
  0x1FF, and I added 0x101 to the mix too.

- Clean up logic in apm_console_blank().

- Prevent the error message from printing out twice.

Cc: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Geode LX HW RNG Support
Jordan Crouse [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:15 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] Geode LX HW RNG Support

Add support to hw_random for the Geode LX HRNG device.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Base support for AMD Geode GX/LX processors
Jordan Crouse [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:14 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] Base support for AMD Geode GX/LX processors

Provide basic support for the AMD Geode GX and LX processors.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/cpuid.c: unused variable
Daniel Marjamaki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:13 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/cpuid.c: unused variable

Removed the unused variable "rv".

Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamaki <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/msr.c: removed unused variable
Daniel Marjamaki [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:12 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] arch/i386/kernel/msr.c: removed unused variable

Removed the unused variable "rv".

Signed-off-by: Daniel Marjamaki <daniel.marjamaki@comhem.se>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: fls() in asm
Stephen Hemminger [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:12 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: fls() in asm

There is a single instruction on i386 to find largest set bit; so it makes
sense to use it (like we use bfs for ffs()).

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: missing printk newline in apic boot option parser
Dave Jones [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:11 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: missing printk newline in apic boot option parser

Missing newline in printk.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: change_page_attr() fix
Dave Jones [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:10 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: change_page_attr() fix

The 'make rodata read-only' patch in -mm exposes a latent bug in the 32-bit
change_page_attr() function, which causes certain CPUs (Those with NX
basically) to reboot instantly after pages are marked read-only.

The same bug got fixed a while back on x86-64, but never got propagated to
i386.

Stuart Hayes from Dell also picked up on this last June, but it never got
fixed, as the only thing affected by it aparently was the nvidia driver.

Blatantly stealing description from his post..

"It doesn't appear to be fixed (in the i386 arch).  The
 change_page_attr()/split_large_page() code will still still set all the
 4K PTEs to PAGE_KERNEL (setting the _PAGE_NX bit) when a large page
 needs to be split.

 This wouldn't be a problem for the bulk of the kernel memory, but there
 are pages in the lower 4MB of memory that's free, and are part of large
 executable pages that also contain kernel code.  If change_page_attr()
 is called on these, it will set the _PAGE_NX bit on the whole 2MB region
 that was covered by the large page, causing a large chunk of kernel code
 to be non-executable."

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: <Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] make bigsmp the default mode if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
Ashok Raj [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:09 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] make bigsmp the default mode if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU

If we are using hotplug enabled kernel, then make bigsmp the default mode.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: convert bigsmp to use flat physical mode
Ashok Raj [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:08 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: convert bigsmp to use flat physical mode

When we bring up a new CPU via INIT/startup IPI messages, the CPU that's
coming up sends a xTPR message to the chipset.  Intel chipsets (at least)
don't provide any architectural guarantee on what the chipset will do with
this message.  For example, the E850x chipsets uses this xTPR message to
interpret the interrupt operating mode of the platform.  When the CPU
coming online sends this message, it always indicates that it is in logical
flat mode.  For the CPU hotplug case, the platform may already be
functioning in cluster APIC mode at this time, the chipset can get confused
and mishandle I/O device and IPI interrupt routing.

The situation eventually gets corrected when the new CPU sends another xTPR
update when we switch it to cluster mode, but there's a window during which
the chipset may be in an inconsistent state.  This patch avoids this
problem by using the flat physical interrupt delivery mode instead of
cluster mode for bigsmp (>8 cpu) support.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] allow flatmem to be disabled when only sparsemem is implemented
Anton Blanchard [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:07 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] allow flatmem to be disabled when only sparsemem is implemented

On architectures that implement sparsemem but not discontigmem we want to
be able to hide the flatmem option in some cases.  On ppc64 for example,
when we select NUMA we must not select flatmem.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386 sparsemem for single node systems
Andy Whitcroft [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:06 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386 sparsemem for single node systems

Allow SPARSEMEM to be enabled on non-numa x86 systems.  This is made
dependant on EXPERIMENTAL also being set.  When an in-tree user (such as
simulated numa) exists it should be made dependant on that.

The plan is to have no options and no selector as normal when
!EXPERIMENTAL.  When EXPERIMENTAL we enable the FLATMEM and SPARSEMEM
options for X86_PC whilst maintaining DISCONTIGMEM and SPARSEMEM for NUMA.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures const
Arjan van de Ven [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:05 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: make some datastructures const

Mark some key kernel datastructures readonly.  This patch was previously
posted on Jun 28th but was back then not merged because nothing was enforcing
rodata anyway..  well that changed now :)

Patch by Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> and Dave Jones
<davej@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: x86-64 support
Arjan van de Ven [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:04 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read-only: x86-64 support

x86-64 specific parts to make the .rodata section read only

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic x86-64 bugfix
Arjan van de Ven [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:03 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic x86-64 bugfix

Bug fix required for the .rodata work on x86-64:

when change_page_attr() and friends need to break up a 2Mb page into 4Kb
pages, it always set the NX bit on the PMD, which causes the cpu to consider
the entire 2Mb region to be NX regardless of the actual PTE perms.  This is
fine in general, with one big exception: the 2Mb page that covers the last
part of the kernel .text!  The fix is to not invent a new permission for the
new PMD entry, but to just inherit the existing one minus the PSE bit.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: x86 parts
Arjan van de Ven [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:02 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: x86 parts

x86 specific parts to make the .rodata section read only

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic infrastructure
Arjan van de Ven [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:12:01 +0000 (00:12 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86/x86_64: mark rodata section read only: generic infrastructure

Generic prep-work for marking the .rodata section readonly:
* Align the rodata section at 4Kb boundary
* call the mark_rodata_ro() function when available

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
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>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: handle -Wsign-compare in bitops
David Howells [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:59 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: handle -Wsign-compare in bitops

Make i386's find_first_bit() use an unsigned integer as a counter to avoid
getting warnings when -Wsign-compare is given.

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Deprecate useless bug
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:59 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Deprecate useless bug

Remove the "temporary debugging check" which has managed to live for quite
some time, and is clearly unneeded.  The mm can never be live at this point,
so clearly checking the LDT in the mm->context is redundant as well.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Apm is on cpu zero only
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:58 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Apm is on cpu zero only

APM BIOS code has a protective wrapper that runs it only on CPU zero.  Thus,
no need to set APM BIOS segments in the GDT for other CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Stop deleting nt
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:57 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Stop deleting nt

Stop deleting NT bit from EFLAGS.  See arch/i386/kernel/head.S line 223, which
does something even better.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Fixed pnp bios limits
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:56 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Fixed pnp bios limits

PnP BIOS data, code, and 32-bit entry segments all have fixed limits as well;
set them in the GDT rather than adding more code.  It would be nice to add
these fixups to the boot GDT rather than setting the GDT for each CPU; perhaps
I can wiggle this in later, but getting it in before the subsys init looks
tricky.

Also, make some progress on deprecating the ugly Q_SET_SEL macros.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Pnp byte granularity
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:55 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Pnp byte granularity

The one remaining caller of set_limit, the PnP BIOS code, calls into the PnP
BIOS, passing kernel parameters in and out.  These parameteres may be passed
from arbitrary kernel virtual memory, so they deserve strict protection to
stop a bad BIOS from smashing beyond the object size.

Unfortunately, the use of set_limit was badly botching this by setting the
limit in terms of pages, when it really should have byte granularity.

When doing this, I discovered my BIOS had the buggy code during the "get
system device node" call:

 mov ax, es:[bx]

Which is harmless, but has a trivial workaround.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Deprecate obsolete ldt accessors
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:54 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Deprecate obsolete ldt accessors

Old accessors to fetch LDT descriptors are unused and outdated and in the
wrong header file.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Apm seg in gdt
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:53 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Apm seg in gdt

Since APM BIOS segment limits are now fixed, set them in head.S GDT and don't
use the complicated _set_limit() macro expansion.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Always relax segments
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:53 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Always relax segments

APM BIOSes have many bugs regarding proper representation of the appropriate
segment limits for calling the BIOS.  By default, APM_RELAX_SEGMENTS is always
turned on to support running the APM BIOS on these buggy machines.  Keeping
64k limits poses very little danger to the kernel, because the pages where the
APM BIOS is located will always be in low physical memory BIOS areas, which
should already be marked reserved, and only buggy BIOSes would possibly
overstep the segment bounds with writes to data anyway.

Since forcing stricter limits breaks many machines and is not default
behavior, it seems reasonable to deprecate the older code which may cause APM
BIOS to fault.

If you really have a badly enough broken APM BIOS that you have to turn off
APM_RELAX_SEGMENTS, seems like the best recourse here would be to disable the
APM BIOS and / or not compile it into your kernel to begin with, and / or add
your system to the known bad list.

The reason I want to deprecate this code is there is underlying brokenness
with the set_limit macros, and getting rid of many of the call sites rather
than rewriting them seems to be the simplest and most correct course of
action.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Pnp segments in segment h
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:51 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Pnp segments in segment h

Move PnP BIOS segment definitions into segment.h; the segments are reserved
here, so they might as well be defined here as well.

Note I didn't do this for APM BIOS, as Macintosh and other systems use those
values to emulate APM in some scary way I don't want to understand.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: Cr4 is valid on some 486s
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:50 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: Cr4 is valid on some 486s

So some 486 processors do have CR4 register.  Allow them to present it in
register dumps by using the old fault technique rather than testing processor
family.

Thanks to Maciej for noticing this.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: fix bound check IDT gate
Jan Beulich [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:49 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: fix bound check IDT gate

Other than apparently commonly assumed, the bound instruction does not
require the corresponding IDT entry to have DPL 3.

Acked-by: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: move SIMD initialization
Jan Beulich [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:49 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: move SIMD initialization

Move some code unrelated to any dealing with hardware bugs from i386's
bugs.h to a more logical place.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i386: don't blindly enable interrupts in die()
Jan Beulich [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:48 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] i386: don't blindly enable interrupts in die()

Rather than blindly re-enabling interrupts in die(), save their state
upon entry and then restore that state.

If the kernel is in really bad condition and faults with interrupts disabled,
re-enabling them in die() may cause even more trouble, implying more chances
of data corruption.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fix
Zachary Amsden [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 08:11:47 +0000 (00:11 -0800)]
[PATCH] x86: GDT alignment fix

Make GDT page aligned and page padded to support running inside of a
hypervisor.  This prevents false sharing of the GDT page with other hot
data, which is not allowed in Xen, and causes performance problems in
VMware.

Rather than go back to the old method of statically allocating the GDT
(which wastes unneded space for non-present CPUs), the GDT for APs is
allocated dynamically.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: "Seth, Rohit" <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>