GitHub/LineageOS/android_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Don't build crash.c for PPC32
Michael Ellerman [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:41:29 +0000 (16:41 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Don't build crash.c for PPC32

arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c isn't safe for PPC32 (yet?), so don't build it.

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Fix clean_files in arch/powerpc/boot Makefile
Kumar Gala [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:36:37 +0000 (22:36 -0600)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Fix clean_files in arch/powerpc/boot Makefile

clean-files was being set twice rather than being appended to.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years agopowerpc/32: Fix compile error caused by pud_t/pgt_t confusion
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 05:27:21 +0000 (16:27 +1100)]
powerpc/32: Fix compile error caused by pud_t/pgt_t confusion

PPC32 is still using asm-generic/4level-fixup.h, but asm-powerpc/page.h
was defining pud_t and pgd_t.  Depending on the order in which files
got included, this could result in a compilation error.  Tweak the ifdef
so that page.h doesn't try to define pud_t on ppc32 (which uses 2-level
page tables).

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Remove redundant setting of htab_address
Michael Ellerman [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:27:25 +0000 (15:27 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Remove redundant setting of htab_address

iSeries doesn't need to set the htab_address explicitly, htab_initialize()
will do it for us later.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Add ibm,pft-size to iSeries device tree
Michael Ellerman [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:27:24 +0000 (15:27 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Add ibm,pft-size to iSeries device tree

To make iSeries just a teensy bit less special, create ibm,pft-size properties
in the iSeries device tree. We can then rely on htab_dt_scan_pftsize() to set
ppc64_pft_size for us.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Add some missing .gitignore's
Kumar Gala [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:12:23 +0000 (22:12 -0600)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Add some missing .gitignore's

ignore generated files under arch/powerpc

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Updated Kconfig and Makefiles for 83xx support
Kumar Gala [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:43:56 +0000 (21:43 -0600)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Updated Kconfig and Makefiles for 83xx support

Updated Kconfig & Makefiles in prep for adding support for the Freescale
MPC83xx family of processors to arch/powerpc.  Moved around some config
options that are more globally applicable to other PowerPC processors.
Added a temporary config option (83xx) to match existing arch/ppc support
for the MPC83xx line.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] spufs: Suspend/restore MFC DMA operations at SPU context switch.
Geoff Levand [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:47:37 +0000 (19:47 -0800)]
[PATCH] spufs: Suspend/restore MFC DMA operations at SPU context switch.

The SPE Book IV indicates that MFC DMA operations must be
suspended and restored on SPU context switch (in Step 8).

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

Signed-off-by: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: fix for compile problem in kdump code when SMP disabled
Haren Myneni [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:25:25 +0000 (19:25 -0800)]
[PATCH] powerpc: fix for compile problem in kdump code when SMP disabled

This patch fixes the compilation error (shown below) when CONFIG_SMP=n.
    arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c: In function `crash_kexec_prepare_cpus':
    arch/powerpc/kernel/crash.c:236: error: implicit declaration of
    function `smp_release_cpus'

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years agopowerpc: Fix compile error when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not defined
Paul Mackerras [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 04:30:07 +0000 (15:30 +1100)]
powerpc: Fix compile error when CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE is not defined

We were getting elfcorehdr_addr undefined in this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: fix up iSeries console after TTY layer buffering revamp
Stephen Rothwell [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:51:22 +0000 (13:51 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: fix up iSeries console after TTY layer buffering revamp

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc/64: per cpu data optimisations
Anton Blanchard [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 02:16:44 +0000 (13:16 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc/64: per cpu data optimisations

The current ppc64 per cpu data implementation is quite slow. eg:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: parallel port init fix
Michael Neuling [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 01:08:56 +0000 (12:08 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: parallel port init fix

This stops parport from accessing nonexistent parallel ports.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Make early debugging configurable via Kconfig
Michael Ellerman [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:54:09 +0000 (11:54 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Make early debugging configurable via Kconfig

This patch adds Kconfig entries to control the early debugging options,
currently in setup_64.c.

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: Early debugging support for iSeries
Michael Ellerman [Wed, 11 Jan 2006 00:54:08 +0000 (11:54 +1100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: Early debugging support for iSeries

Connect iSeries up to the standard early debugging infrastructure.

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

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] powerpc: remove remaining crash_notes variable from machine_kexec.c
Olaf Hering [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:31:53 +0000 (22:31 +0100)]
[PATCH] powerpc: remove remaining crash_notes variable from machine_kexec.c

remove remaining crash_notes definition to fix compile error

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

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: module build break
linas [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:18:16 +0000 (15:18 -0600)]
[PATCH] PCI Hotplug/powerpc: module build break

The RPAPHP hoplug driver will not build as a module, because it calls
on a pcibios routine which is not exported. This exports the symbol.
Problem reported by Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] enable the RTC driver in ppc64_defconfig
Olaf Hering [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:57:40 +0000 (21:57 +0100)]
[PATCH] enable the RTC driver in ppc64_defconfig

Enable the RTC driver.

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] mutex: trivial whitespace cleanups
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:15:02 +0000 (23:15 +0100)]
[PATCH] mutex: trivial whitespace cleanups

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:44:43 +0000 (13:44 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

18 years ago[PATCH] mark mutex_lock*() as might_sleep()
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:10:36 +0000 (22:10 +0100)]
[PATCH] mark mutex_lock*() as might_sleep()

Mark mutex_lock() and mutex_lock_interruptible() as might_sleep()
functions.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix i386 mutex fastpath on FRAME_POINTER && !DEBUG_MUTEXES
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:07:44 +0000 (22:07 +0100)]
[PATCH] fix i386 mutex fastpath on FRAME_POINTER && !DEBUG_MUTEXES

Call the mutex slowpath more conservatively - e.g.  FRAME_POINTERS can
change the calling convention, in which case a direct branch to the
slowpath becomes illegal.  Bug found by Hugh Dickins.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove unnecessary asm/mutex.h from kernel/mutex-debug.c
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:48:59 +0000 (15:48 -0500)]
[PATCH] remove unnecessary asm/mutex.h from kernel/mutex-debug.c

Remove unnecessary (and incorrect) inclusion of asm/mutex.h, pointed out
by David Howells.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[EBTABLES] Don't match tcp/udp source/destination port for IP fragments
Bart De Schuymer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:12:22 +0000 (13:12 -0800)]
[EBTABLES] Don't match tcp/udp source/destination port for IP fragments

Signed-off-by: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[IRDA] DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbol
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:11:44 +0000 (13:11 -0800)]
[IRDA] DONGLE_OLD: remove dependency on non-existing symbol

Jean-Luc Leger <reiga@dspnet.fr.eu.org> reported this alternative
dependency on a non-existing symbol.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[IRDA]: kill drivers/net/irda/sir_core.c
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:10:02 +0000 (13:10 -0800)]
[IRDA]: kill drivers/net/irda/sir_core.c

EXPORT_SYMBOL's do nowadays belong to the files where the actual
functions are.

Moving the module_init/module_exit to the file with the actual functions
has the advantage of saving a few bytes due to the removal of two
functions.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[ATM]: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts + tiny whitespace cleanup
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:09:01 +0000 (13:09 -0800)]
[ATM]: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts + tiny whitespace cleanup

Small cleanups for drivers/atm/zatm.c
 Get rid of unneeded cast of kmalloc() return value.
 Small whitespace/CodingStyle/formatting cleanup (since I was in there anyway).

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NET]: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:08:21 +0000 (13:08 -0800)]
[NET]: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts

Get rid of needless casting of kmalloc() return value in net/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[RXRPC]: Decrease number of pointer derefs in connection.c
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:07:44 +0000 (13:07 -0800)]
[RXRPC]: Decrease number of pointer derefs in connection.c

Decrease the number of pointer derefs in net/rxrpc/connection.c

Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[AF_NETLINK]: Fix DoS in netlink_rcv_skb()
Martin Murray [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:02:29 +0000 (13:02 -0800)]
[AF_NETLINK]: Fix DoS in netlink_rcv_skb()

From: Martin Murray <murrayma@citi.umich.edu>

Sanity check nlmsg_len during netlink_rcv_skb.  An nlmsg_len == 0 can
cause infinite loop in kernel, effectively DoSing machine.  Noted by
Matin Murray.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: Fix timeout sysctls on big-endian 64bit architectures
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:48:09 +0000 (17:48 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Fix timeout sysctls on big-endian 64bit architectures

The connection tracking timeout variables are unsigned long, but
proc_dointvec_jiffies is used with sizeof(unsigned int) in the sysctl
tables. Since there is no proc_doulongvec_jiffies function, change the
timeout variables to unsigned int.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: Remove unused function from NAT protocol helpers
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:44:36 +0000 (16:44 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Remove unused function from NAT protocol helpers

->print and ->print_range are not used (and apparently never were).

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: Fix return value confusion in PPTP NAT helper
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:44:18 +0000 (16:44 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Fix return value confusion in PPTP NAT helper

ip_nat_mangle_tcp_packet doesn't return NF_* values but 0/1 for
failure/success.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: Fix another crash in ip_nat_pptp
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:44:00 +0000 (16:44 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Fix another crash in ip_nat_pptp

The PPTP NAT helper calculates the offset at which the packet needs
to be mangled as difference between two pointers to the header. With
non-linear skbs however the pointers may point to two seperate buffers
on the stack and the calculation results in a wrong offset beeing
used.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: Fix crash in ip_nat_pptp
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:43:43 +0000 (16:43 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Fix crash in ip_nat_pptp

When an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet is received the
PPTP NAT helper uses a NULL pointer in pointer arithmentic to
calculate the offset in the packet which needs to be mangled
and corrupts random memory or crashes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NETFILTER]: net/ipv[46]/netfilter.c cleanups
Patrick McHardy [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:43:13 +0000 (16:43 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: net/ipv[46]/netfilter.c cleanups

Don't wrap entire file in #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER, remove a few
unneccessary includes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()
Kris Katterjohn [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 00:01:43 +0000 (16:01 -0800)]
[NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()

This changes some memcmp(one,two,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr(one,two).

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[INET]: congestion and af_ops can be const
Stephen Hemminger [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 23:56:09 +0000 (15:56 -0800)]
[INET]: congestion and af_ops can be const

The congestion ops and af_ops in the inet_connection_sock
can be const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
18 years ago[PATCH] moxa serial: add proper capability check
Alan Cox [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:35:28 +0000 (09:35 -0500)]
[PATCH] moxa serial: add proper capability check

This requires the proper capabilities for the moxa bios update ioctl's.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: save reg a5 on context change
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:02:57 +0000 (17:02 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: save reg a5 on context change

Fix a5 register corruption when processing user space signals handlers.
We need to save a5 through each contenxt change.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: fix find_next_zero_bit in bitops.h
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:00:39 +0000 (17:00 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: fix find_next_zero_bit in bitops.h

We're starting a number of big applications (memory footprint app.
1MByte) on our Arcturus uC5272.  Therefore memory fragmentation is a
real pain for us.  We've switched to uClinux-2.4.27-uc1 and found that
page_alloc2 fragments the memory heavily.

Digging into it we found a bug in the find_next_zero_bit function in the
m68knommu/bitops.h file.  if the size isn't a multiple of 32 than the
upper bits of the last word to be searched should be masked.  But the
functions masks the lower bits of the last word because it uses a right
shift instead of a left shift operator.

Patch submitted by Sascha Smejkal <s.smejkal@centersystems.at>

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] uclinux: delay binfmt_flat trace
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:59:37 +0000 (16:59 +1000)]
[PATCH] uclinux: delay binfmt_flat trace

Modify the initial trace output (which is based on flags in the binary
header) so that it is not done until after the magic number check.  This
may well not be a flat format binary, so the flags could be invalid.
(Prime example, running a script).

Changes prompted by patches from Stuart Hughs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: set irq priority/level different for each ColdFire serial port
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:59:04 +0000 (16:59 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: set irq priority/level different for each ColdFire serial port

Set the hardware interrupt priority to a different value for each
attached ColdFire serial port.  According to the CPU documentation you
should not use the same combination of level/priority on more than one
device.  People have reported odd serial port behavior with them set the
same.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: allow configure of FEC for M520x CPU family
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:58:16 +0000 (16:58 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: allow configure of FEC for M520x CPU family

Allow the ColdFire FEC ethernet driver to be enabled on the M520x CPU
family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: fix ram length of m5208evb board
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:43:39 +0000 (16:43 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: fix ram length of m5208evb board

Adjust length of M5208EVB ram define.  It should size up to 32MB after
adding in the dBUG reserved 128k.

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

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: fix a5 reg corruption in signal handlers
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:42:59 +0000 (16:42 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: fix a5 reg corruption in signal handlers

This is a patch adapted from a posting by Andrea Tarani which was
pointed out to me by Bernardo Innocenti.  Thanks to both of them for
their help and patience.

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

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

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

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

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

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: fix mangled 'truct' in ptrace.c
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:42:18 +0000 (16:42 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: fix mangled 'truct' in ptrace.c

Fix broken "truct" -> "struct" in arch_ptrace() parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] m68knommu: don't set gcc optimizer flags
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:40:21 +0000 (16:40 +1000)]
[PATCH] m68knommu: don't set gcc optimizer flags

Don't specify compiler optimization flags in the m68knommu Makefile.
Let the top level Makefile/config set it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from memory.c
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:39:35 +0000 (16:39 +1000)]
[PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from memory.c

Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from k8300_ksyms.c
Greg Ungerer [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 06:39:30 +0000 (16:39 +1000)]
[PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from k8300_ksyms.c

Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:00:55 +0000 (09:00 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/upstream-linus

18 years agoFix rpc shutdown event condition bug
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:56:39 +0000 (08:56 -0800)]
Fix rpc shutdown event condition bug

We want to wait for the cl_users to go down to zero, not for it to stay
positive.  Quoth Trond (who wasn't even the author, but acked the wrong
version): "Argh! I need to increase my daily caffeine dosages."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rcu: fix hotplug-cpu ->donelist leak
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:24:53 +0000 (17:24 +0300)]
[PATCH] rcu: fix hotplug-cpu ->donelist leak

Pointed out by Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>.

rcu_do_batch() stops after processing maxbatch callbacks
on ->donelist leaving rcu_tasklet in TASKLET_STATE_SCHED
state.

If CPU_DEAD event happens remaining ->donelist entries are
lost, rcu_offline_cpu() kills this tasklet.

With this patch ->donelist migrates along with ->curlist
and ->nxtlist to the current cpu.

Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state
Oleg Nesterov [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:48:02 +0000 (16:48 +0300)]
[PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state

This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
the parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide-cd: clear random-write capability it not supported
Andrey Borzenkov [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 10:27:00 +0000 (11:27 +0100)]
[PATCH] ide-cd: clear random-write capability it not supported

Add CDC-RAM to capability mask. This prevents udev incorrectly reporting
RAM capabilities for device.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] dm: don't enable bouncing by default
Jens Axboe [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:48:02 +0000 (10:48 +0100)]
[PATCH] dm: don't enable bouncing by default

DM doesn't need to bounce bio's on its own, but the block layer defaults
to that in blk_queue_make_request(). The lower level drivers should
bounce ios themselves, that is what they need to do if not layered below
dm anyways.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cdrom: kill "open failed" error message
Jens Axboe [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:43:54 +0000 (10:43 +0100)]
[PATCH] cdrom: kill "open failed" error message

This triggers all the time with the various polled event programs,
change it to CD_OPEN so it's supressed by default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: preserve errors for failed requests
Jens Axboe [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 08:44:39 +0000 (09:44 +0100)]
[PATCH] ide: preserve errors for failed requests

To preserve the ->errors values for requests that failed, use the normal
completion path for that.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Work around ppc64 compiler bug
Anton Blanchard [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:21:20 +0000 (18:21 +1100)]
[PATCH] Work around ppc64 compiler bug

In the process of optimising our per cpu data code, I found a ppc64
compiler bug that has been around forever. Basically the current
RELOC_HIDE can end up trashing r30. Details of the bug can be found at

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25572

This bug is present in all compilers before 4.1. It is masked by the
fact that our current per cpu data code is inefficient and causes
other loads that end up marking r30 as used.

A workaround identified by Alan Modra is to use the =r asm constraint
instead of =g.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[ Verified that this makes no real difference on x86[-64] */
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:30:29 +0000 (08:30 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/dtor/input

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:28:53 +0000 (08:28 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

18 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:28:32 +0000 (08:28 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge

18 years agoMerge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
Linus Torvalds [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:21:33 +0000 (08:21 -0800)]
Merge ssh:///pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

Fix up some trivial conflicts in {i386|ia64}/Makefile

18 years ago[PATCH] fs/hfsplus/: remove the hfsplus_inode_check() debug function
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:52 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/hfsplus/: remove the hfsplus_inode_check() debug function

This patch removes the hfsplus_inode_check() debug function.

It also removes the now obsolete last_inode_cnt and inode_cnt from struct
hfsplus_sb_info.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: 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] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:51 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNEL

I know several people using MAGIC_SYSRQ not for kernel debugging but for
trying to do a halfway normal shutdown in case of problems.

Since there's no technical reason why MAGIC_SYSRQ would have to depend on
DEBUG_KERNEL, I'm therefore suggesting to drop this dependency.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] include/linux/sched.h: no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:50 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] include/linux/sched.h: no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype

There's no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype with an #ifdef
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kernel/resource.c: __check_region(): remove pointless __deprecated
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:49 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] kernel/resource.c: __check_region(): remove pointless __deprecated

If a __deprecated is desired it should go to the prototype in the header
(where it currently isn't).

But at this place it's pointless.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c: remove dead code
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:48 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c: remove dead code

The Coverity checker spotted this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] include/asm-sh64/: "extern inline" -> "static inline"
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:47 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] include/asm-sh64/: "extern inline" -> "static inline"

"extern inline" doesn't make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] selinux: Remove unneeded k[cm]alloc() return value casts
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:46 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] selinux: Remove unneeded k[cm]alloc() return value casts

Remove redundant casts of k*alloc() return values in
security/selinux/ss/services.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: 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] fs/binfmt_elf: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:45 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts

Remove unneeded casts of kmalloc() return value in binfmt_elf.

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] Decrease number of pointer derefs in multipath.c
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:44 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in multipath.c

Decrease the number of pointer derefs in drivers/md/multipath.c

Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in exit.c
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:39 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in exit.c

Decrease the number of pointer derefs in kernel/exit.c

Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
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] char/isicom: More whitespaces and coding style
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:26 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: More whitespaces and coding style

Wrap all the code to 80 chars on a line.
`}\nelse' changed to `} else'.
Clean whitespaces in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] char/isicom: Firmware loading
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:25 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: Firmware loading

Firmware loading via hotplug added.
Cleanup firmware old-way fields in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
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] char/isicom: Pci probing added
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:24 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: Pci probing added

Pci probing functions added, most of functions rewrited because of it (some
for loops were redundant).  Used PCI_DEVICE macro.  dev_* used for printing
wherever possible.  Renamed some functions to have isicom_ in the name.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] char/isicom: Other little changes
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:23 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: Other little changes

Move some code from one place to another.  Get rid of ugly ifdefs in code in
next p[patches, so here create functions and macros to enable it.  Rename some
functions and align some code to 80 chars.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] char/isicom: Type conversion and variables deletion
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:22 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: Type conversion and variables deletion

Type which is needed to have accurate size was converted to [us]{8,16}.
Removed void * cast.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] char/isicom: Whitespace cleanup
Jiri Slaby [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:21 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] char/isicom: Whitespace cleanup

Trailing spaces and tabs and space used for indentation deleted.  Indented
content of structures.  Switch/case indent.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] clean up computone remaining cli use
Alan Cox [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:20 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] clean up computone remaining cli use

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] n_hdlc.c: remove unused declaration
Grant Coady [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:18 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] n_hdlc.c: remove unused declaration

drivers/char/n_hdlc.c:194: warning: `n_hdlc_tty_room' declared `static' but
never defined

Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
Alan Cox [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:13 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp

The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Description:

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

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

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

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

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

More description!

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

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

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

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

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

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

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

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

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

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

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

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

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] tty-layer-buffering-revamp: jsm is broken
Andrew Morton [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:09 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] tty-layer-buffering-revamp: jsm is broken

Looks like JSM will be uncompilable after the TTY layer rework is merged into
Linus's post-2.6.15 tree.

It was complex to fix - the maintainers were notified in September.

Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.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] Serial: disable jsm in ppc64 defconfig
Paul Jackson [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:08 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] Serial: disable jsm in ppc64 defconfig

Changes to the serial driver to remove flip buffers have broken the serial
jsm driver.  It doesn't even compile anymore.  The jsm driver was enabled
in only one defconfig - ppc64.  In order to keep defconfigs building,
disable CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] lib/zlib*: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:07 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] lib/zlib*: cleanups

This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- #if 0 the following unused functions:
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateSetDictionary
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateParams
  - zlib_deflate/deflate.c: zlib_deflateCopy
  - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_set_dictionary
  - zlib_inflate/infblock.c: zlib_inflate_blocks_sync_point
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSync
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_sync.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint
- remove the following unneeded EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
  - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateCopy
  - zlib_deflate/deflate_syms.c: zlib_deflateParams
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSync
  - zlib_inflate/inflate_syms.c: zlib_inflateSyncPoint

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/ext3/: small cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:06 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/ext3/: small cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups:
- there's no need for ext3_count_free() #ifndef EXT3FS_DEBUG
- having prototypes for ext3_count_free() in two different headers is
  nonsense

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fs/ext2/bitmap.c: ext2_count_free() is only required #ifdef EXT2FS_DEBUG
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:05 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] fs/ext2/bitmap.c: ext2_count_free() is only required #ifdef EXT2FS_DEBUG

There's no need for ext2_count_free() #ifndef EXT2FS_DEBUG.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] drivers/video/: possible cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:04 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/video/: possible cleanups

This patch contains the possible cleanups including the following:
- every file should #include the headers containing the prototypes for
  it's global functions
- make needlessly global functions static
- kyro/STG4000Interface.h: #include video/kyro.h and linux/pci.h
  instead of a manual "struct pci_dev"
- i810_main.{c,h}: prototypes for static functions belong to the
  C file

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] vr41xx: ARRAY_SIZE cleanup
Jean Delvare [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:03 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] vr41xx: ARRAY_SIZE cleanup

No need to define RTC_NUM_RESOURCES, it doesn't add any value to the code.

Signed-off-by: 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] drivers/char: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro
Tobias Klauser [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:02 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/char: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro

Use ARRAY_SIZE macro instead of sizeof(x)/sizeof(x[0]) and remove
duplicates of ARRAY_SIZE.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] turn "const static" into "static const"
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:01 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] turn "const static" into "static const"

ICC likes to complain about storage class not being first, GCC doesn't
care much (except for cases like "inline static").
have a hard time seeing how it could break anything.

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

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] drivers/net/irda/irport.c: cleanups
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:54:00 +0000 (20:54 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/net/irda/irport.c: cleanups

This patch contains the following cleanups:
- make a needlessly global function static
- remove the unneeded global function irport_probe

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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] Docs update: small fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:59 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: small fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt

Small spelling, formating & similar fixes to stable_kernel_rules.txt

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] Docs update: remove obsolete patch from locks.txt
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:58 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: remove obsolete patch from locks.txt

Remove obsolete patch from Documentation/locks.txt

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] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for filesystems/ext3.txt
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:57 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: small spelling, formating etc fixes for filesystems/ext3.txt

Spelling fixes, formating changes and corrections for
 Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt

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] Docs update: typos, corrections and additions to applying-patches.txt
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:56 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] Docs update: typos, corrections and additions to applying-patches.txt

Typos/corrections.

A few extra additions on top of Randy's fixes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
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] DocBook: warn for missing macro parameters
Martin Waitz [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:55 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] DocBook: warn for missing macro parameters

Previously kernel-doc silently ignored missing parameter descriptions for
preprocessor macros.  Now that all such omissions are fixed up we can warn
about them in kernel-doc to be able to keep it that way.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc comments
Martin Waitz [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:55 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] DocBook: fix kernel-doc comments

Fix typos in comments to remove kernel-doc warnings.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add git tree for DocBook
Martin Waitz [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:53 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add git tree for DocBook

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] DocBook: add .gitignore file
Martin Waitz [Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:53:52 +0000 (20:53 -0800)]
[PATCH] DocBook: add .gitignore file

when ignoring all DocBook output files git-status output becomes meaningful
again.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>