Current implementation allows the kernel to receive up to 255 characters from
the bootloader. While the boot protocol allows greater buffers to be sent.
In current environment, the command-line is used in order to specify many
values, including suspend/resume, module arguments, splash, initramfs and
more.
255 characters are not enough anymore.
After edd issue was fixed, and dynammic kernel command-line patch was
accepted, we can extend the COMMAND_LINE_SIZE without runtime memory
requirements.
Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The line discipline numbers N_* are currently defined for each architecture
individually, but (except for a seeming mistake) identically, in
asm/termios.h. There is no obvious reason why these numbers should be
architecture specific, nor any apparent relationship with the termios
structure. The total number of these, NR_LDISCS, is defined in linux/tty.h
anyway. So I propose the following patch which moves the definitions of
the individual line disciplines to linux/tty.h too.
Three of these numbers (N_MASC, N_PROFIBUS_FDL, and N_SMSBLOCK) are unused
in the current kernel, but the patch still keeps the complete set in case
there are plans to use them yet.
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
On all targets that sucker boils down to memcpy_fromio(sbk->data, from, len).
The function name is highly misguiding (it _never_ does any checksums), the
last argument is just a noise and simply expanding the call to memcpy_fromio()
gives shorter and more readable source. For a lot of reasons it has almost
no remaining users, so it's better to just outright kill it.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (140 commits)
ACPICA: reduce table header messages to fit within 80 columns
asus-laptop: merge with ACPICA table update
ACPI: bay: Convert ACPI Bay driver to be compatible with sysfs update.
ACPI: bay: new driver is EXPERIMENTAL
ACPI: bay: make drive_bays static
ACPI: bay: make bay a platform driver
ACPI: bay: remove prototype procfs code
ACPI: bay: delete unused variable
ACPI: bay: new driver adding removable drive bay support
ACPI: dock: check if parent is on dock
ACPICA: fix gcc build warnings
Altix: Add ACPI SSDT PCI device support (hotplug)
Altix: ACPI SSDT PCI device support
ACPICA: reduce conflicts with Altix patch series
ACPI_NUMA: fix HP IA64 simulator issue with extended memory domain
ACPI: fix HP RX2600 IA64 boot
ACPI: build fix for IBM x440 - CONFIG_X86_SUMMIT
ACPICA: Update version to 20070126
ACPICA: Fix for incorrect parameter passed to AcpiTbDeleteTable during table load.
ACPICA: Update copyright to 2007.
...
Add abstraction so that the file can be used by environments other than IA64
and EM64T, namely for Xen.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch fixes
- marking I-cache clean of pages DMAed to now only done for IA64
- broken multiple inclusion in include/asm-x86_64/swiotlb.h
- missing call to mark_clean in swiotlb_sync_sg()
- a (perhaps only theoretical) issue in swiotlb_dma_supported() when
io_tlb_end is exactly at the end of memory
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
On x86-64, a put_user call using a 64-bit pointer and a constant value that
is > 0xffffffff will produce code that doesn't assemble. This patch fixes
the asm construct to use the Z constraint for 32-bit constants.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
+m is really correct for a RMW instruction, but some older gccs
error out. I finally gave in and ifdefed it.
This fixes compilation errors with some compiler version.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
It has caused more problems than it ever really solved, and is
apparently not getting cleaned up and fixed. We can put it back when
it's stable and isn't likely to make warning or bug events worse.
In the meantime, enable frame pointers for more readable stack traces.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Virtually index, physically tagged cache architectures can get away
without cache flushing when forking. This patch adds a new cache
flushing function flush_cache_dup_mm(struct mm_struct *) which for the
moment I've implemented to do the same thing on all architectures
except on MIPS where it's a no-op.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Currently, to tell a task that it should go to the refrigerator, we set the
PF_FREEZE flag for it and send a fake signal to it. Unfortunately there
are two SMP-related problems with this approach. First, a task running on
another CPU may be updating its flags while the freezer attempts to set
PF_FREEZE for it and this may leave the task's flags in an inconsistent
state. Second, there is a potential race between freeze_process() and
refrigerator() in which freeze_process() running on one CPU is reading a
task's PF_FREEZE flag while refrigerator() running on another CPU has just
set PF_FROZEN for the same task and attempts to reset PF_FREEZE for it. If
the refrigerator wins the race, freeze_process() will state that PF_FREEZE
hasn't been set for the task and will set it unnecessarily, so the task
will go to the refrigerator once again after it's been thawed.
To solve first of these problems we need to stop using PF_FREEZE to tell
tasks that they should go to the refrigerator. Instead, we can introduce a
special TIF_*** flag and use it for this purpose, since it is allowed to
change the other tasks' TIF_*** flags and there are special calls for it.
To avoid the freeze_process()-refrigerator() race we can make
freeze_process() to always check the task's PF_FROZEN flag after it's read
its "freeze" flag. We should also make sure that refrigerator() will
always reset the task's "freeze" flag after it's set PF_FROZEN for it.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Support for Core CPUs was broken in two ways in speedstep-lib: for x86_64,
we missed a MSR definition; for both x86_64 and i386, the FSB calculation
was wrong by four (it's a quad-pumped bus). Also increase the accuracy
of the calculation.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Large sched domains can be very expensive to scan. Add an option SD_SERIALIZE
to the sched domain flags. If that flag is set then we make sure that no
other such domain is being balanced.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Peter Williams <pwil3058@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This turns on the split input/output speed features and arbitary baud rate
handling for the x86-64 platform. Nothing should break if you use existing
standard speeds. If you use the new speed stuff then you may see some
drivers failing to report the speed changes properly in error cases. This
will be worked on further. For the working cases this all seems happy.
I'll post a test suite used to test the basic stuff as well.
Patches for i386 will follow when I get a moment but are basically the
same. If people could patch/test-suite other architectures and submit them
that would be great.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In order to sort out our struct termios and add proper speed control we need
to separate the kernel and user termios structures. Glibc is fine but the
other libraries rely on the kernel exported struct termios and we need to
extend this without breaking the ABI/API
To do so we add a struct ktermios which is the kernel view of a termios
structure and overlaps the struct termios with extra fields on the end for
now. (That limitation will go away in later patches). Some platforms (eg
alpha) planned ahead and thus use the same struct for both, others did not.
This just adds the structures but does not use them, it seems a sensible
splitting point for bisect if there are compile failures (not that I expect
them)
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>