- 10 Jun, 2006 2 commits
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David Howells authored
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Apply some alterations to the memory barrier document that I worked out with Paul McKenney of IBM, plus some of the alterations suggested by Alan Stern. The following changes were made: (*) One of the examples given for what can happen with overlapping memory barriers was wrong. (*) The description of general memory barriers said that a general barrier is a combination of a read barrier and a write barrier. This isn't entirely true: it implies both, but is more than a combination of both. (*) The first example in the "SMP Barrier Pairing" section was wrong: the loads around the read barrier need to touch the memory locations in the opposite order to the stores around the write barrier. (*) Added a note to make explicit that the loads should be in reverse order to the stores. (*) Adjusted the diagrams in the "Examples Of Memory Barrier Sequences" section to make them clearer. Added a couple of diagrams to make it more clear as to how it could go wrong without the barrier. (*) Added a section on memory speculation. (*) Dropped any references to memory allocation routines doing memory barriers. They may do sometimes, but it can't be relied on. This may be worthy of further documentation later. (*) Made the fact that a LOCK followed by an UNLOCK should not be considered a full memory barrier more explicit and gave an example. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix cell blade detection [PATCH] powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
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- 09 Jun, 2006 3 commits
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Arnd Bergmann authored
The IBM Cell blade firmware might confuse the kernel to think it's a pSeries machine. This fixes it for now. With a bit of luck, the firmware will be updated to avoid that in the future but currently that patch is needed. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
The code in prom_init.c calling the firmware ibm,client-architecture-support method on pSeries has a bug where it fails to properly pass the instance handle of the firmware object when trying to call a method. Result ranges from the call doing nothing to the firmware crashing. (Found by Segher, thanks !) Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras authored
This fixes a bug found by Dave Jones that means that it is possible for userspace to provoke a machine check on 32-bit kernels. This also fixes a couple of other places where I found similar problems by inspection. Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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- 08 Jun, 2006 13 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe" [PATCH] bcm43xx: add DMA rx poll workaround to DMA4
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Martin Schwidefsky authored
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> __futex_atomic_op needs to do an atomic operation in the user address space, not the kernel address space. Add the missing sacf 256/sacf 0 to switch to the secondary mode before doing the compare-and-swap. In addition add another fixup for catch specification exceptions if the compare-and-swap address is not aligned. 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>
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Jens Axboe authored
Looking at the reiser4 crash, I found a leak in debugfs. In debugfs_mknod(), we create the inode before checking if the dentry already has one attached. We don't free it if that is the case. These bugs happen quite often, I'm starting to think we should disallow such coding in CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jens Axboe authored
There's a race between shutting down one io scheduler and firing up the next, in which a new io could enter and cause the io scheduler to be invoked with bad or NULL data. To fix this, we need to maintain the queue lock for a bit longer. Unfortunately we cannot do that, since the elevator init requires to be run without the lock held. This isn't easily fixable, without also changing the mempool API. So split the initialization into two parts, and alloc-init operation and an attach operation. Then we can preallocate the io scheduler and related structures, and run the attach inside the lock after we detach the old one. This patch has survived 30 minutes of 1 second io scheduler switching with a very busy io load. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Malcom Parsons authored
From: Malcom Parsons <malcolm.parsons@gmail.com> When scrolling up in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode with a large limited scroll region, the bottom few lines have to be redrawn. Without this patch, the wrong text is drawn into these lines, corrupting the display. Observed in 2.6.14 when running an IRC client in the Nintendo DS linux port. I haven't tested if scrolling down has the same problem. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> <linux/mempolicy.h> uses struct mm_struct and relies on a definition or declaration somehow magically being dragged in which may result in a build: [...] CC mm/mempolicy.o In file included from mm/mempolicy.c:69: include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: âstruct mm_structâ declared inside parameter list include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: warning: âstruct mm_structâ declared inside parameter list mm/mempolicy.c:622: error: conflicting types for âdo_migrate_pagesâ include/linux/mempolicy.h:175: error: previous declaration of âdo_migrate_pagesâ was here mm/mempolicy.c:1661: error: conflicting types for âmpol_rebind_mmâ include/linux/mempolicy.h:150: error: previous declaration of âmpol_rebind_mmâ was here make[1]: *** [mm/mempolicy.o] Error 1 make: *** [mm] Error 2 [ralf@denk linux-ip35]$ Including <linux/sched.h> is a step into direction of include hell so fixed by adding a forward declaration of struct mm_struct instead. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Lennert Buytenhek authored
From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> The recent renaming of m48t86's ->readb() and ->writeb() platform driver methods (2d7b20c1) to ->readbyte() and ->writebyte() to fix the ia64 build broke the build of the cirrus ep93xx ARM platform. This patch fixes it up. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andy Currid authored
From: "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com> This patch fixes a kernel panic during boot that occurs on NVIDIA platforms that have HPET enabled. When HPET is enabled, the standard timer IRQ is routed to IOAPIC pin 2 and is advertised as such in the ACPI APIC table - but an earlier workaround in the kernel was ignoring this override. The fix is to honor timer IRQ overrides from ACPI when HPET is detected on an NVIDIA platform. Signed-off-by: Andy Currid <acurrid@nvidia.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Andy Currid authored
From: "Andy Currid" <ACurrid@nvidia.com> This patch fixes a kernel panic during boot that occurs on NVIDIA platforms that have HPET enabled. When HPET is enabled, the standard timer IRQ is routed to IOAPIC pin 2 and is advertised as such in the ACPI APIC table - but an earlier workaround in the kernel was ignoring this override. The fix is to honor timer IRQ overrides from ACPI when HPET is detected on an NVIDIA platform. Signed-off-by: Andy Currid <acurrid@nvidia.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Jeff Garzik authored
Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~ahkok/git/netdev-2.6 into upstream-fixes
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Jeff Garzik authored
Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream-fixes
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Auke Kok authored
It was brought to our attention that the prefetches break e1000 traffic on xscale/arm architectures. Remove them for now. We'll let them stay in mm for a while, or find a better solution to enable. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
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Auke Kok authored
New code added in 2.6.17 caused setup_irq to print a warning when running ethtool -t eth0 offline. This test marks the request_irq call made by this test as a "probe" to see if the interrupt is shared or not. Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
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- 06 Jun, 2006 1 commit
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 05 Jun, 2006 21 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [BRIDGE]: fix locking and memory leak in br_add_bridge [IRDA]: Missing allocation result check in irlap_change_speed(). [PPPOE]: Missing result check in __pppoe_xmit(). [NET]: Eliminate unused /proc/sys/net/ethernet [NETCONSOLE]: Clean up initcall warning. [TCP]: Avoid skb_pull if possible when trimming head
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Jiri Benc authored
There are several bugs in error handling in br_add_bridge: - when dev_alloc_name fails, allocated net_device is not freed - unregister_netdev is called when rtnl lock is held - free_netdev is called before netdev_run_todo has a chance to be run after unregistering net_device Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial: [SERIAL] typo: buad -> baud
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc: [MMC] Prevent au1xmmc.c breakage on non-Au1200 Alchemy [MMC] Add maintainers entry for MMC subsystem
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 3543/1: [Fwd: PXA270 bootparams address not set] [ARM] Trivial typo fixes
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Chad Reese authored
Move memory_present() in arch/mips/kernel/setup.c. When using sparsemem extreme, this function does an allocate for bootmem. This would always fail since init_bootmem hasn't been called yet. Move memory_present after free_bootmem. This only marks actual memory ranges as present instead of the entire address space. Signed-off-by: Chad Reese <creese@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
Fix following warnings: linux/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:432: warning: field width is not type int (arg 2) linux/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:432: warning: field width is not type int (arg 4) linux/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:279: warning: unused variable `len' linux/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:280: warning: unused variable `name' linux/arch/mips/math-emu/dp_fint.c:32: warning: unused variable `xc' linux/arch/mips/math-emu/dp_flong.c:32: warning: unused variable `xc' linux/arch/mips/math-emu/sp_fint.c:32: warning: unused variable `xc' linux/arch/mips/math-emu/sp_flong.c:32: warning: unused variable `xc' (original patch by Atsushi, slight changes to the setup.c part by me.) Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
Fix following warnings: linux/arch/mips/kernel/setup.c:249:12: warning: constant 0xffffffff00000000 is so big it is unsigned long linux/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-bugs64.c:209:10: warning: constant 0xffffffffffffdb9a is so big it is unsigned long linux/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-bugs64.c:227:10: warning: constant 0xffffffffffffdb9a is so big it is unsigned long linux/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-bugs64.c:283:10: warning: constant 0xffffffffffffdb9a is so big it is unsigned long linux/arch/mips/kernel/cpu-bugs64.c:299:10: warning: constant 0xffffffffffffdb9a is so big it is unsigned long Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
RM7000 has 40-bit virtual / 36-bit physical address space. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
The expressions are volatile; no need for temporary variables. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Fix the non-linear memory mapping done via remap_file_pages() -- it didn't work on any MIPS CPU because the page offset clashing with _PAGE_FILE and some other page protection bits which should have been left zeros for this kind of pages. Signed-off-by: Konstantin Baydarov <kbaidarov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
The wrong revision number in the check was forcing a fallback to FPU emulation for all SB1 cores in 2.6. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Thiemo Seufer authored
open() always sets the O_LARGEFILE flag for the o32 ABI implementation of a 64bit kernel. The appended patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Alchemy boards use YAMON which passes the environment variables as the tuples of strings (the name followed by the value) unlike PMON which passes "name=<val>" strings. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
With 64-bit physical address enabled, 'swapon' was causing kernel oops on Alchemy CPUs (MIPS32) because of the swap entry type field corrupting the _PAGE_FILE bit in 'pte_low' field. So, switch to storing the swap entry in 'pte_high' field using all its bits except _PAGE_GLOBAL and _PAGE_VALID which gives 25 bits for the swap entry offset. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Fix mprotect() syscall for MIPS32 CPUs with 36-bit physical address support: pte_modify() macro didn't clear the hardware page protection bits before modifying... Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Save the Config.OD bit from being clobbered by coherency_setup(). This bit, when set, fixes various errata in the early steppings of Au1x00 SOCs. Unfortunately, the bit was write-only on the most early of them. In addition, also restore the bit after a wakeup from sleep. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
A while ago prom_prepare_cpus was replaced by plat_prepare_cpus but the declaration has stayed unchanged. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Atsushi Nemoto authored
The modpost uses a whitelist for commonly used suffix on checking the section mismatch. Adding "_ops" suffix to op_modex_xxx get rid of this modpost warning. WARNING: arch/mips/oprofile/oprofile.o - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text: from .data after 'op_model_mipsxx' (at offset 0x528) Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Increase alignment of BogoMIPS loop to 8 bytes. Having the delay loop overlap cache line boundaries may cause instable delays. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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