linux-2.6
18 years ago[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper
Dave Hansen [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:29:04 +0000 (23:29 -0700)] 
[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: inc_nlink() helper

This is mostly included for parity with dec_nlink(), where we will have some
more hooks.  This one should stay pretty darn straightforward for now.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink
Dave Hansen [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:29:03 +0000 (23:29 -0700)] 
[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: unlink: monitor i_nlink

When a filesystem decrements i_nlink to zero, it means that a write must be
performed in order to drop the inode from the filesystem.

We're shortly going to have keep filesystems from being remounted r/o between
the time that this i_nlink decrement and that write occurs.

So, add a little helper function to do the decrements.  We'll tie into it in a
bit to note when i_nlink hits zero.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create()
Dave Hansen [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:29:02 +0000 (23:29 -0700)] 
[PATCH] r/o bind mount prepwork: move open_namei()'s vfs_create()

The code around vfs_create() in open_namei() is getting a bit too complex.
Right now, there is at least the reference count on the dentry, and the
i_mutex to worry about.  Soon, we'll also have mnt_writecount.

So, break the vfs_create() call out of open_namei(), and into a helper
function.  This duplicates the call to may_open(), but that isn't such a bad
thing since the arguments (acc_mode and flag) were being heavily massaged
anyway.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: prepare for write access checks: collapse if()
Dave Hansen [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:29:01 +0000 (23:29 -0700)] 
[PATCH] r/o bind mounts: prepare for write access checks: collapse if()

We're shortly going to be adding a bunch more permission checks in these
functions.  That requires adding either a bunch of new if() conditions, or
some gotos.  This patch collapses existing if()s and uses gotos instead to
prepare for the upcoming changes.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] csa accounting taskstats update
Jay Lan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:29:00 +0000 (23:29 -0700)] 
[PATCH] csa accounting taskstats update

ChangeLog:
   Feedbacks from Andrew Morton:
   - define TS_COMM_LEN to 32
   - change acct_stimexpd field of task_struct to be of
     cputime_t, which is to be used to save the tsk->stime
     of last timer interrupt update.
   - a new Documentation/accounting/taskstats-struct.txt
     to describe fields of taskstats struct.

   Feedback from Balbir Singh:
   - keep the stime of a task to be zero when both stime
     and utime are zero as recoreded in task_struct.

   Misc:
   - convert accumulated RSS/VM from platform dependent
     pages-ticks to MBytes-usecs in the kernel

Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routines
Jay Lan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:59 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] csa: convert CONFIG tag for extended accounting routines

There were a few accounting data/macros that are used in CSA but are #ifdef'ed
inside CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT.  This patch is to change those ifdef's from
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT to CONFIG_TASK_XACCT.  A few defines are moved from
kernel/acct.c and include/linux/acct.h to kernel/tsacct.c and
include/linux/tsacct_kern.h.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] csa: Extended system accounting over taskstats
Jay Lan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:58 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] csa: Extended system accounting over taskstats

Add extended system accounting handling over taskstats interface.  A
CONFIG_TASK_XACCT flag is created to enable the extended accounting code.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] csa: basic accounting over taskstats
Jay Lan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:55 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] csa: basic accounting over taskstats

Add some basic accounting fields to the taskstats struct, add a new
kernel/tsacct.c to handle basic accounting data handling upon exit.  A handle
is added to taskstats.c to invoke the basic accounting data handling.

Signed-off-by: Jay Lan <jlan@sgi.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Chris Sturtivant <csturtiv@sgi.com>
Cc: Tony Ernst <tee@sgi.com>
Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin <guillaume.thouvenin@bull.net>
Cc: "Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix getdelays.c - cpumask length and error reporting
Balbir Singh [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:54 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Fix getdelays.c - cpumask length and error reporting

Fix the length passed while (un)registering cpumask.  We were passing sizeof
the array, make it strlen().

Error value printed in fatal errors should be derived from the message.  The
message contains an nlmsgerr embedded with an error value.  We must report
that value to the user.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix taskstats size calculation (use the new genetlink utility functions)
Balbir Singh [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:53 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Fix taskstats size calculation (use the new genetlink utility functions)

The addition of the CSA patch pushed the size of struct taskstats to 256
bytes.  This exposed a problem with prepare_reply(), we were not allocating
space for the netlink and genetlink header.  It worked earlier because
alloc_skb() would align the skb to SMP_CACHE_BYTES, which added some additonal
bytes.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add genetlink utilities for payload length calculation
Balbir Singh [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:51 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Add genetlink utilities for payload length calculation

Add two utility helper functions genlmsg_msg_size() and genlmsg_total_size().
These functions are derived from their netlink counterparts.

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jamal Hadi <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] clean up unused kiocb variables
Chen, Kenneth W [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:50 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] clean up unused kiocb variables

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add vector AIO support
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:49 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Add vector AIO support

This work is initially done by Zach Brown to add support for vectored aio.
These are the core changes for AIO to support
IOCB_CMD_PREADV/IOCB_CMD_PWRITEV.

[akpm@osdl.org: huge build fix]
Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:48 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Streamline generic_file_* interfaces and filemap cleanups

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:47 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Remove readv/writev methods and use aio_read/aio_write instead

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods
Badari Pulavarty [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:46 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Vectorize aio_read/aio_write fileop methods

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().

Signed-off-by: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:45 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate minimum window size for bitmap searching

When a file system becomes fragmented (using MythTV, for example), the
bigalloc window searching ends up causing huge performance problems.  In a
file system presented by a user experiencing this bug, the file system was
90% free, but no 32-block free windows existed on the entire file system.
This causes the allocator to scan the entire file system for each 128k
write before backing down to searching for individual blocks.

In the end, finding a contiguous window for all the blocks in a write is an
advantageous special case, but one that can be found naturally when such a
window exists anyway.

This patch removes the bigalloc window searching, and has been proven to
fix the test case described above.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: use generic_file_open for open() checks
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:44 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: use generic_file_open for open() checks

The other common disk-based file systems (I checked ext[23], xfs, jfs)
check to ensure that opens of files > 2 GB fail unless O_LARGEFILE is
specified.  They check via generic_file_open or their own open routine.

ReiserFS doesn't have an f_op->open defined, and as such, it's possible to
open files > 2 GB without O_LARGEFILE.

This patch adds the f_op->open member to conform with the expected
behavior.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: on-demand bitmap loading
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:44 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: on-demand bitmap loading

This is the patch the three previous ones have been leading up to.

It changes the behavior of ReiserFS from loading and caching all the bitmaps
as special, to treating the bitmaps like any other bit of metadata and just
letting the system-wide caches figure out what to hang on to.

Buffer heads are allocated on the fly, so there is no need to retain pointers
to all of them.  The caching of the metadata occurs when the data is read and
updated, and is considered invalid and uncached until then.

I needed to remove the vs-4040 check for performing a duplicate operation on a
particular bit.  The reason is that while the other sites for working with
bitmaps are allowed to schedule, is_reusable() is called from do_balance(),
which will panic if a schedule occurs in certain places.

The benefit of on-demand bitmaps clearly outweighs a sanity check that depends
on a compile-time option that is discouraged.

[akpm@osdl.org: warning fix]
Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: reorganize bitmap loading functions
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:43 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: reorganize bitmap loading functions

This patch moves the bitmap loading code from super.c to bitmap.c

The code is also restructured somewhat.  The only difference between new
format bitmaps and old format bitmaps is where they are.  That's a two liner
before loading the block to use the correct one.  There's no need for an
entirely separate code path.

The load path is generally the same, with the pattern being to throw out a
bunch of requests and then wait for them, then cache the metadata from the
contents.

Again, like the previous patches, the purpose is to set up for later ones.

Update: There was a bug in the previously posted version of this that resulted
in corruption.  The problem was that bitmap 0 on new format file systems must
be treated specially, and wasn't.  A stupid bug with an easy fix.

This is hopefully the last fix for the disaster that is the reiserfs bitmap
patch set.

If a bitmap block was full, first_zero_hint would end up at zero since it
would never be changed from it's zeroed out value.  This just sets it
beyond the end of the bitmap block.  If any bits are freed, it will be
reset to a valid bit.  When info->free_count = 0, then we already know it's
full.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: clean up bitmap block buffer head references
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:42 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: clean up bitmap block buffer head references

Similar to the SB_JOURNAL cleanup that was accepted a while ago, this patch
uses a temporary variable for buffer head references from the bitmap info
array.

This makes the code much more readable in some areas.

It also uses proper reference counting, doing a get_bh() after using the
pointer from the array and brelse()'ing it later.  This may seem silly, but a
later patch will replace the simple temporary variables with an actual read,
so the reference freeing will be used then.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: fix is_reusable bitmap check to not traverse the bitmap info array
Jeff Mahoney [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:40 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] reiserfs: fix is_reusable bitmap check to not traverse the bitmap info array

There is a check in is_reusable to determine if a particular block is a bitmap
block.  It verifies this by going through the array of bitmap block buffer
heads and comparing the block number to each one.

Bitmap blocks are at defined locations on the disk in both old and current
formats.  Simply checking against the known good values is enough.

This is a trivial optimization for a non-production codepath, but this is the
first in a series of patches that will ultimately remove the buffer heads from
that array.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kill wall_jiffies
Atsushi Nemoto [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:31 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] kill wall_jiffies

With 2.6.18-rc4-mm2, now wall_jiffies will always be the same as jiffies.
So we can kill wall_jiffies completely.

This is just a cleanup and logically should not change any real behavior
except for one thing: RTC updating code in (old) ppc and xtensa use a
condition "jiffies - wall_jiffies == 1".  This condition is never met so I
suppose it is just a bug.  I just remove that condition only instead of
kill the whole "if" block.

[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: s390 build fix and cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kernel/time/ntp.c: possible cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:29 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] kernel/time/ntp.c: possible cleanups

This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- make the following needlessly global function static:
  - ntp_update_frequency()
- make the following needlessly global variables static:
  - time_state
  - time_offset
  - time_constant
  - time_reftime
- remove the following read-only global variable:
  - time_precision

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:29 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: cleanup defines and comments

Remove a few unused defines and remove obsolete information from comments.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: convert to the NTP4 reference model
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:28 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: convert to the NTP4 reference model

This converts the kernel ntp model into a model which matches the nanokernel
reference implementations.  The previous patches already increased the
resolution and precision of the computations, so that this conversion becomes
quite simple.

<linux@horizon.com> explains:

The original NTP kernel interface was defined in units of microseconds.
That's what Linux implements.  As computers have gotten faster and can now
split microseconds easily, a new kernel interface using nanosecond units was
defined ("the nanokernel", confusing as that name is to OS hackers), and
there's an STA_NANO bit in the adjtimex() status field to tell the application
which units it's using.

The current ntpd supports both, but Linux loses some possible timing
resolution because of quantization effects, and the ntpd hackers would really
like to be able to drop the backwards compatibility code.

Ulrich Windl has been maintaining a patch set to do the conversion for years,
but it's hard to keep in sync.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: convert time_freq to nsec value
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:27 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: convert time_freq to nsec value

This converts time_freq to a scaled nsec value and adds around 6bit of extra
resolution.  This pushes the time_freq to its 32bit limits so the calculatons
have to be done with 64bit.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: remove time_tolerance
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:26 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: remove time_tolerance

time_tolerance isn't changed at all in the kernel, so simply remove it, this
simplifies the next patch, as it avoids a number of conversions.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: add time_adjust to tick length
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:25 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: add time_adjust to tick length

This folds update_ntp_one_tick() into second_overflow() and adds time_adjust
to the tick length, this makes time_next_adjust unnecessary.  This slightly
changes the adjtime() behaviour, instead of applying it to the next tick, it's
applied to the next second.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: prescale time_offset
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:25 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: prescale time_offset

This converts time_offset into a scaled per tick value.  This avoids now
completely the crude compensation in second_overflow().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: add time_freq to tick length
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:24 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: add time_freq to tick length

This adds the frequency part to ntp_update_frequency().

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: add time_adj to tick length
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:23 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: add time_adj to tick length

This makes time_adj local to second_overflow() and integrates it into the tick
length instead of adding it everytime.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ntp: add ntp_update_frequency
Roman Zippel [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:22 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ntp: add ntp_update_frequency

This introduces ntp_update_frequency() and deinlines ntp_clear() (as it's not
performance critical).  ntp_update_frequency() calculates the base tick length
using tick_usec and adds a base adjustment, in case the frequency doesn't
divide evenly by HZ.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c
john stultz [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:22 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] NTP: Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c

Move all the NTP related code to ntp.c

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, build fix]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Pass sparse the lock expression given to lock annotations
Josh Triplett [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:21 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Pass sparse the lock expression given to lock annotations

The lock annotation macros __acquires, __releases, __acquire, and __release
all currently throw away the lock expression passed as an argument.  Now
that sparse can parse __context__ and __attribute__((context)) with a
context expression, pass the lock expression down to sparse as the context
expression.  This requires a version of sparse from GIT commit
37475a6c1c3e66219e68d912d5eb833f4098fd72 or later.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ipmi: don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interrupts
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:20 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ipmi: don't start kipmid if the IPMI driver can use interrupts

If the driver has interrupts available to it, there is really no reason to
have a kernel daemon push the IPMI state machine.

Note that I have experienced machines where the interrupts do not work
correctly.  This was a long time ago and hopefully things are better now.
If some machines still have broken interrupts, a blacklist will need to be
added.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] omap_cf works again (sync with linux-omap tree)
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:19 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] omap_cf works again (sync with linux-omap tree)

This syncs the omap_cf driver with the one from the linux-omap tree.  Changes
include fixing build warnings (section mismatch, unused return value) and
coping with various pcmcia core changes related to managing i/o memory and irq
resources.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RTC: rtc-ds1553, rtc-ds1742 update
Atsushi Nemoto [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:18 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] RTC: rtc-ds1553, rtc-ds1742 update

Check return value of sysfs_create_bin_file().  Fix polarity of
RTC_BATT_FLAG bit in DS1742.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] AT91rm9200 RTC can issue system wakeup events
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:17 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] AT91rm9200 RTC can issue system wakeup events

This lets the at91rm9200 RTC alarm be a system wakeup irq, according to the
setting of /sys/devices/platform/at91_rtc/power/wakeup.  User code can set the
alarm, put the system into a low power mode, and then rely on it waking up no
later than the specified moment.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] constify rtc_class_ops: update drivers
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:17 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] constify rtc_class_ops: update drivers

Update RTC framework so that drivers can constify their method tables, moving
them from ".data" to ".rodata".  Then update the drivers.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RTC class: error checks
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:16 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] RTC class: error checks

The rtc_is_valid_tm() routine needs to treat some of the fields it checks as
unsigned, to prevent wrongly accepting invalid rtc_time structs; this is the
same approach used elsewhere in the RTC code for such tests.

Conversely, rtc_proc_show() is missing one invalid-day-of-month test that
rtc_is_valid_tm() makes: there is no day zero.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RTC class uses subsys_init
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:15 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] RTC class uses subsys_init

This makes RTC core components use "subsys_init" instead of "module_init", as
appropriate for subsystem infrastructure.  This is mostly useful for
statically linking drivers in other parts of the tree that may provide an RTC
interface as a secondary functionality (e.g.  part of a multifunction chip);
they won't need to worry so much about drivers/Makefile link order.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] RTC class: Kconfig improvements
David Brownell [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:14 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] RTC class: Kconfig improvements

Small updates to make the RTC class Kconfig text be more informative.  This
should help folk used to the drivers/char/rtc.c support, or a single RTC, be
slightly less surprised by the differences.

Also, adds a new RTC_DEBUG option to predefine DEBUG in the framework and its
drivers, while debugging.  That's getting to be a standard idiom, and it's
pretty useful.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix EMBEDDED + SYSCTL menu
Randy Dunlap [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:13 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] fix EMBEDDED + SYSCTL menu

SYSCTL should still depend on EMBEDDED.  This unbreaks the EMBEDDED menu
(from the recent SYSCTL_SYCALL menu option patch).

Fix typos in new SYSCTL_SYSCALL menu.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rtc driver rtc-pcf8563 century bit inversed
Jean-Baptiste Maneyrol [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:12 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] rtc driver rtc-pcf8563 century bit inversed

The century bit PCF8563_MO_C in the month register is misinterpreted.  It
is set to 1 for the 20th century and 0 for 21th, and the driver is
expecting the opposite behavior.

Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Char: specialix, kill unneeded page alloc
Jiri Slaby [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:11 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Char: specialix, kill unneeded page alloc

The driver is allocating a page but doesn't actually use it for anything.

(History from the old ->write method before Linus cleaned it up)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: 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] completions: lockdep annotate on stack completions
Peter Zijlstra [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:10 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] completions: lockdep annotate on stack completions

All on stack DECLARE_COMPLETIONs should be replaced by:
DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove unnecessary check in drivers/rtc/rtc-v3020.c
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:09 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Remove unnecessary check in drivers/rtc/rtc-v3020.c

Looks like the probe function always gets a valid pdev, and checking it
after dereferencing it is pretty useless.  This patch removes the check
(cid #1365)

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Raphael Assenat <raph@raphnet.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remove BUG_ON(unlikely) in include/linux/aio.h
Rolf Eike Beer [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:09 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Remove BUG_ON(unlikely) in include/linux/aio.h

BUG_ON() does this unlikely check itself, as bugs in Linux are unlikely
anyway :)

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] typo fixes for rt-mutex-design.txt
Jan Altenberg [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:08 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] typo fixes for rt-mutex-design.txt

Address some simple typos in rt-mutex-design.txt It also changes the
indentation of the cmpxchg example (the cmpxchg example was indented by
spaces, while all other code snippets were indented by tabs).

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <tb10alj@tglx.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hdaps: support Lenovo ThinkPad T60
Soos Peter [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:06 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] hdaps: support Lenovo ThinkPad T60

Support hdaps on Lenovo ThinkPad T60.  It was tested with pivot utility
from http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rml/hdaps and it seems
to be OK.

Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Off-by-one in drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c
Eric Sesterhenn [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:05 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Off-by-one in drivers/char/mwave/mwavedd.c

This fixes two off by ones in the mwave driver, found
via find -iname \*.[ch] | xargs grep "> ARRAY_SIZE("

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] trident: fix pci_dev reference counting and buglet
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:03 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] trident: fix pci_dev reference counting and buglet

Switch trident to use pci_get/put_dev properly.  Also fix a bug where the
driver erroneously passed pdev not NULL to a second search.  This happened
to always work except with pci=reverse because of chip ordering.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sysrq: disable lockdep on reboot
Peter Zijlstra [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:02 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] sysrq: disable lockdep on reboot

SysRq : Emergency Sync
Emergency Sync complete
SysRq : Emergency Remount R/O
Emergency Remount complete
SysRq : Resetting
BUG: warning at kernel/lockdep.c:1816/trace_hardirqs_on() (Not tainted)

Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8026d56d>] show_trace+0xae/0x319
 [<ffffffff8026d7ed>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
 [<ffffffff802a68d1>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xbc/0x13d
 [<ffffffff803a8eec>] sysrq_handle_reboot+0x9/0x11
 [<ffffffff803a8f8d>] __handle_sysrq+0x99/0x130
 [<ffffffff803a903b>] handle_sysrq+0x17/0x19
 [<ffffffff803a36ee>] kbd_event+0x32e/0x57d
 [<ffffffff80401e35>] input_event+0x42d/0x45b
 [<ffffffff804063eb>] atkbd_interrupt+0x44d/0x53d
 [<ffffffff803fe5c5>] serio_interrupt+0x49/0x86
 [<ffffffff803ff2a4>] i8042_interrupt+0x202/0x21a
 [<ffffffff80210cf0>] handle_IRQ_event+0x2c/0x64
 [<ffffffff802bfd8b>] __do_IRQ+0xaf/0x114
 [<ffffffff8026ea24>] do_IRQ+0xf8/0x107
 [<ffffffff8025f886>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf
Leftover inexact backtrace:
 <IRQ> <EOI> [<ffffffff80258e36>] mwait_idle+0x3f/0x54
 [<ffffffff8024a33a>] cpu_idle+0xa2/0xc5
 [<ffffffff8026c34e>] rest_init+0x2b/0x2d
 [<ffffffff809708bc>] start_kernel+0x24a/0x24c
 [<ffffffff8097028b>] _sinittext+0x28b/0x292

Since we're shutting down anyway, don't bother being smart,
just turn the thing off.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cardbus: switch to ref counting/hotplug safe API
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:28:00 +0000 (23:28 -0700)] 
[PATCH] cardbus: switch to ref counting/hotplug safe API

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i2o: Switch to pci_get API
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:59 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] i2o: Switch to pci_get API

Use the safe ref-counted API for the bridge check

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ip2: use newer pci_get functions
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:59 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] ip2: use newer pci_get functions

This is one of a series of patches I plan to gradually trickle into the
tree which eliminates almost all remaining use of pci_find_* and lets me
build a pci_find_* free kernel for all but some obscure ISDN and SCSI
drivers.  This is important as all pci_find_* users are not hotplug safe -
even if they are not the device being plugged.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] update legacy io handling for pmac
Olaf Hering [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:57 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] update legacy io handling for pmac

ppc can boot one single binary on prep, chrp and pmac boards.  ppc64 can
boot one single binary on pseries and G5 boards.  pmac has no legacy io,
probing for PC style legacy hardware (or accessing the legacy io area
regulary) may lead to a hard crash:

* add check for parport_pc, exit on pmac.  32bit chrp has no
  ->check_legacy_ioport, the probe is always called.  64bit chrp has
  check_legacy_ioport, check for a "parallel" node

* add check for isapnp, only PReP boards may have real ISA slots.  32bit
  PReP will have no ->check_legacy_ioport, the probe is always called.

* update code in i8042_platform_init.  Run ->check_legacy_ioport first,
  always call request_region.  No functional change.  Remove whitespace
  before i8042_reset init.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registration
Corey Minyard [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:56 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] IPMI: per-channel command registration

This patch adds the ability to register for a command per-channel in the
IPMI driver.

If your BMC supports multiple channels, incoming messages can be useful to
have the ability to register to receive commands on a specific channel
instead the current behaviour of all channels.

Signed-off-by: David Barksdale <amatus@ocgnet.org>
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Move ncpfs 32bit compat ioctl to ncpfs
Petr Vandrovec [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:55 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Move ncpfs 32bit compat ioctl to ncpfs

The ncp specific compat ioctls are clearly local to one file system, so the
code can better live there.

This version of the patch moves everything into the generic ioctl handler
and uses it for both 32 and 64 bit calls.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Prevent multiple inclusion of linux/sysrq.h
Thomas Petazzoni [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:54 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Prevent multiple inclusion of linux/sysrq.h

Prevent multiple inclusions of include/linux/sysrq.h using traditional
#ifndef..#endif.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@enix.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mmc (mainly): add "or later" clause to licence statement.
Pierre Ossman [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:52 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] mmc (mainly): add "or later" clause to licence statement.

Clarify my (Pierre's) position on which GPL versions apply.  The patch only
touches the source files where I am the only major author.  The people who
have made the minor commits to the files have been contacted and have no
issues with this change.

Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300
Olaf Hering [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:51 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] remove SYSRQ_KEY and related defines from ppc/sh/h8300

Remove unused global SYSRQ_KEY from ppc and powerpc
Remove unused define SYSRQ_KEY from sh/sh64 and h8300
Remove unused pckbd_sysrq_xlate and kbd_sysrq_xlate usage

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] isicom: correct firmware loading
Jiri Slaby [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:50 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] isicom: correct firmware loading

- loading of firmware didn't fail when something went wrong (returned 0).

- pointer to frame was incremented only by sizeof(frame) excluding its
  data contents -- bad idea.

- tell the card we're ready just after checking is complete, not before.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting
Diego Calleja [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:49 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] HOWTO: mention bughunting

Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rtc: remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del()
Rolf Eike Beer [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:48 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] rtc: remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del()

If cdev_add() fails there is no good reason to call cdev_del().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cciss: remove unneeded spaces in output for attached volumes
Metathronius Galabant [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:47 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] cciss: remove unneeded spaces in output for attached volumes

It removes the awkwards spaces after the "=" when displaying the
geometry of the attached volumes.

Before:
cciss: using DAC cycles
     blocks= 286734240 block_size= 512
     heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 35139

After:
cciss: using DAC cycles
     blocks=286734240 block_size=512
     heads=255, sectors=32, cylinders=35139

Signed-off-by: Metathronius Galabant <m.galabant@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] synclink_gt: increase max devices
Paul Fulghum [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:46 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] synclink_gt: increase max devices

Increase maximum number of devices.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] synclink_gt: add bisync and monosync modes
Paul Fulghum [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:45 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] synclink_gt: add bisync and monosync modes

Add bisync and monosync serial protocol support to the synclink_gt driver.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390.
Martin Schwidefsky [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:45 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for s390.

Use the new diagnose 0x9c in the spinlock implementation for s390.  It
yields the remaining timeslice of the virtual cpu that tries to acquire a
lock to the virtual cpu that is the current holder of the lock.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for powerpc
Martin Schwidefsky [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:44 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Directed yield: direct yield of spinlocks for powerpc

Powerpc already has a directed yield for CONFIG_PREEMPT="n".  To make it
work with CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" as well the _raw_{spin,read,write}_relax
primitives need to be defined to call __spin_yield() for spinlocks and
__rw_yield() for rw-locks.

Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks
Martin Schwidefsky [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:43 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Directed yield: cpu_relax variants for spinlocks and rw-locks

On systems running with virtual cpus there is optimization potential in
regard to spinlocks and rw-locks.  If the virtual cpu that has taken a lock
is known to a cpu that wants to acquire the same lock it is beneficial to
yield the timeslice of the virtual cpu in favour of the cpu that has the
lock (directed yield).

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="n" this can be implemented by the architecture without
common code changes.  Powerpc already does this.

With CONFIG_PREEMPT="y" the lock loops are coded with _raw_spin_trylock,
_raw_read_trylock and _raw_write_trylock in kernel/spinlock.c.  If the lock
could not be taken cpu_relax is called.  A directed yield is not possible
because cpu_relax doesn't know anything about the lock.  To be able to
yield the lock in favour of the current lock holder variants of cpu_relax
for spinlocks and rw-locks are needed.  The new _raw_spin_relax,
_raw_read_relax and _raw_write_relax primitives differ from cpu_relax
insofar that they have an argument: a pointer to the lock structure.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] leds: turn LED off when changing triggers
Paul Collins [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:41 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] leds: turn LED off when changing triggers

I was playing with LED triggers when I noticed that changing from heartbeat
(or ide-disk) to "none" at the right moment would leave the LED stuck on.
This is easy to reproduce by doing "find / >/dev/null" with the ide-disk
trigger enabled and then switching to "none".

Here is a patch that fixes the problem by explicitly turning the LED off
after removing the existing trigger.

Signed-off-by: Paul Collins <paul@ondioline.org>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Doc/lockdep-design: explain display of {state-bits}
Jim Cromie [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:40 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Doc/lockdep-design: explain display of {state-bits}

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] submit checklist: mention headers_check
Andrew Morton [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:39 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] submit checklist: mention headers_check

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] proper flags type of spin_lock_irqsave()
Alexey Dobriyan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:37 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] proper flags type of spin_lock_irqsave()

Convert various spin_lock_irqsave() callers to correctly use `unsigned long'.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] VFS: Use SEEK_{SET, CUR, END} instead of hardcoded values
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:35 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] VFS: Use SEEK_{SET, CUR, END} instead of hardcoded values

VFS: Use SEEK_{SET,CUR,END} instead of hardcoded values

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EICON ISDN: Removed unused definitions for OS_SEEK_*
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:34 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] EICON ISDN: Removed unused definitions for OS_SEEK_*

EICON ISDN: Removed unused definitions for OS_SEEK_*

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Acked-by: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] MBCS: Use SEEK_{SET, CUR, END} instead of hardcoded values
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:33 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] MBCS: Use SEEK_{SET, CUR, END} instead of hardcoded values

MBCS: Use SEEK_{SET,CUR,END} instead of hardcoded values

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jeffpc@josefsipek.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] via* : switch to pci_get_device refcounted PCI API
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:32 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] via* : switch to pci_get_device refcounted PCI API

If we can clean up these remainders we can finally delete pci_find_*

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] sis5513: Switch to pci refcounting
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:30 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] sis5513: Switch to pci refcounting

Mirrors the drivers/ata version, hold a reference to the host bridge while we
are doing setup.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] serverworks: Switch to pci refcounted interfaces
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:29 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] serverworks: Switch to pci refcounted interfaces

As we don't support hotplug we end up leaking an isa_dev reference which if
unload was ever added we would drop at the end of unloading.  This is fine
because we do genuinely need the isa_dev pointer until unload.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] piix: Use refcounted interface when searching for a 450NX
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:28 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] piix: Use refcounted interface when searching for a 450NX

Simple conversion

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cs46xx OSS: switch to pci_get_device
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:27 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] cs46xx OSS: switch to pci_get_device

Fairly trivial change in this case

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] via82cxxx_audio: Use pci_get_device
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:26 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] via82cxxx_audio: Use pci_get_device

pci_find_device is not refcounting and should be getting killed off.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module
Ross Biro [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:25 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] allow /proc/config.gz to be built as a module

The driver for /proc/config.gz consumes rather a lot of memory and it is in
fact possible to build it as a module.

In some ways this is a bit risky, because the .config which is used for
compiling kernel/configs.c isn't necessarily the same as the .config which was
used to build vmlinux.

But OTOH the potential memory savings are decent, and it'd be fairly dumb to
build your configs.o with a different .config.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] CodingStyle cleanup for kernel/sys.c
Cal Peake [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:24 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] CodingStyle cleanup for kernel/sys.c

Fix up kernel/sys.c to be consistent with CodingStyle and the rest of the
file.

Signed-off-by: Cal Peake <cp@absolutedigital.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] serial: Fix up offenders peering at baud bits directly
Alan Cox [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:24 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] serial: Fix up offenders peering at baud bits directly

Stop some other people peering into the baud bits on their own and make
them use the tty_get_baud_rate() helper as a preperation for the move to
the new termios.  Corrected dependancy previous one had on new termios
structs

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cciss: support for >2TB logical volumes
Mike Miller (OS Dev) [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:23 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] cciss: support for >2TB logical volumes

Add support for logical volumes >2TB.  All SAS/SATA controllers support
large volumes.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Create fs/utimes.c
Alexey Dobriyan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:22 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Create fs/utimes.c

* fs/open.c is getting bit crowdy
* preparation to lutimes(2)

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kmemdup: some users
Alexey Dobriyan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:21 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] kmemdup: some users

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kmemdup: introduce
Alexey Dobriyan [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:20 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] kmemdup: introduce

One of idiomatic ways to duplicate a region of memory is

dst = kmalloc(len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dst)
return -ENOMEM;
memcpy(dst, src, len);

which is neat code except a programmer needs to write size twice.  Which
sometimes leads to mistakes.  If len passed to kmalloc is smaller that len
passed to memcpy, it's straight overwrite-beyond-end.  If len passed to
memcpy is smaller than len passed to kmalloc, it's either a) legit
behaviour ;-), or b) cloned buffer will contain garbage in second half.

Slight trolling of commit lists shows several duplications bugs
done exactly because of diverged lenghts:

Linux:
[CRYPTO]: Fix memcpy/memset args.
[PATCH] memcpy/memset fixes
OpenBSD:
kerberosV/src/lib/asn1: der_copy.c:1.4

If programmer is given only one place to play with lengths, I believe, such
mistakes could be avoided.

With kmemdup, the snippet above will be rewritten as:

dst = kmemdup(src, len, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dst)
return -ENOMEM;

This also leads to smaller code (kzalloc effect). Quick grep shows
200+ places where kmemdup() can be used.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] maximum latency tracking: ALSA support
Takashi Iwai [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:19 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] maximum latency tracking: ALSA support

Add maximum latency tracking to the ALSA subsystem for PCM playback.  In
ALSA, the playback application controls the buffer size and thus indirectly
the period of latency that it can deal with.  This patch uses 75% of the
total available latency as threshold to announce to the latency subsystem;
While 75% is a crude heuristic it's a quite reasonable one; the remaining
25% can be used for all driver processing for the next samples which is
also proportional to the size of the buffer.

With ogg123 a latency setting of about 4msec was seen (at 44Khz), while
with the "play" command a much longer maximum tolerable latency was seen.
Other, more multimedia oriented players as well as games, will have a lot
smaller buffers to allow better synchronization and those will actually get
into the latency domains where there is impact on the power management
rules.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] maximum latency tracking infrastructure
Arjan van de Ven [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:17 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] maximum latency tracking infrastructure

Add infrastructure to track "maximum allowable latency" for power saving
policies.

The reason for adding this infrastructure is that power management in the
idle loop needs to make a tradeoff between latency and power savings
(deeper power save modes have a longer latency to running code again).  The
code that today makes this tradeoff just does a rather simple algorithm;
however this is not good enough: There are devices and use cases where a
lower latency is required than that the higher power saving states provide.
 An example would be audio playback, but another example is the ipw2100
wireless driver that right now has a very direct and ugly acpi hook to
disable some higher power states randomly when it gets certain types of
error.

The proposed solution is to have an interface where drivers can

* announce the maximum latency (in microseconds) that they can deal with
* modify this latency
* give up their constraint

and a function where the code that decides on power saving strategy can
query the current global desired maximum.

This patch has a user of each side: on the consumer side, ACPI is patched
to use this, on the producer side the ipw2100 driver is patched.

A generic maximum latency is also registered of 2 timer ticks (more and you
lose accurate time tracking after all).

While the existing users of the patch are x86 specific, the infrastructure
is not.  I'd like to ask the arch maintainers of other architectures if the
infrastructure is generic enough for their use (assuming the architecture
has such a tradeoff as concept at all), and the sound/multimedia driver
owners to look at the driver facing API to see if this is something they
can use.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/partitions: Conversion to generic boolean
Richard Knutsson [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:15 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] fs/partitions: Conversion to generic boolean

Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/jfs: Conversion to generic boolean
Richard Knutsson [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:14 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] fs/jfs: Conversion to generic boolean

Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/ntfs: Conversion to generic boolean
Richard Knutsson [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:12 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] fs/ntfs: Conversion to generic boolean

Conversion of booleans to: generic-boolean.patch (2006-08-23)

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Generic boolean
Richard Knutsson [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:11 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] Generic boolean

This patch defines:
* a generic boolean-type, named 'bool'
* aliases to 0 and 1, named 'false' and 'true'

Removing colliding definitions of 'bool', 'false' and 'true'.

Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c tweaks
Andrew Morton [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:10 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c tweaks

- Add soothing comment

- uninline thrice-called function

Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hogawa@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hot-add-mem x86_64: use CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE
Keith Mannthey [Sun, 1 Oct 2006 06:27:09 +0000 (23:27 -0700)] 
[PATCH] hot-add-mem x86_64: use CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG_RESERVE

The api for hot-add memory already has a construct for finding nodes based on
an address, memory_add_physaddr_to_nid.  This patch allows the fucntion to do
something besides return 0.  It uses the nodes_add infomation to lookup to
node info for a hot add event.

Signed-off-by: Keith Mannthey <kmannth@us.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>