The patch aims to fix a performance issue for the syscall
personality(PER_LINUX32).
On IA-64 box, the syscall personality (PER_LINUX32) has poor performance
because it failed to find the Linux/x86 execution domain. Then it tried
to load the kernel module however it failed always and it used the default
execution domain PER_LINUX instead. Requesting kernel modules is very
expensive. It caused the performance issue. (see the function
lookup_exec_domain in kernel/exec_domain.c).
To resolve the issue, execution domain Linux/x86 is always registered in
initialization time for IA-64 architecture.
Signed-off-by: Xiaolan Huang <xiaolan.huang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
acpi_unregister_gsi() should "undo" what acpi_register_gsi() does.
On systems that have legacy interrupts, acpi_unregister_gsi erroneously calls
iosapci_unregister_intr() which is wrong to do and causes a loud warning.
acpi_unregister_gsi() should just return in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
There is only palinfo_handle_smp as (indirect) user of palinfo_smp_call (by
way of smp_call_function_single) and surely palinfo_handle_smp never pass
NULL as parameter for info.
Signed-off-by: Simon Holm Thøgersen <odie@cs.aau.dk>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch does:
- make comment at next to resched check more robust
- move "re-check" comments to next to where change predicate regs
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
[Bug-fix for "[BUG?][2.6.25-mm1] sleeping during IRQ disabled"]
This patch does:
- enable interrupts before calling schedule() as same as others, ex. x86
- enable interrupts during ia64_do_signal() and ia64_sync_krbs()
- do_notify_resume_user() is still called with interrupts disabled, since
we can take short path of fsys_mode if-statement quickly.
- pfm_handle_work() is also called with interrupts disabled, since
it can deal interrupt mask within itself.
- fix/add some comments/notes
Reported-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
The sequence executed in check_sal_cache_flush:
- pend a timer interrupt
- call SAL_CACHE_FLUSH
- see if interrupt is still pending
can hang HP machines with buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations.
Provide a kernel command-line argument to allow users skip this
check if desired. Using this parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush
to call ia64_pal_cache_flush() instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Some IA64 machines map all cell-local memory above 4 GB (32 bit limit).
However, in most cases, the kernel needs some memory below that limit that is
DMA-capable. So in this machine configuration, the crashkernel will be reserved
above 4 GB.
For machines that use SWIOTLB implementation because they lack an I/O MMU
the low memory is required by the SWIOTLB implementation. In that case,
it doesn't make sense to reserve the crashkernel at all because it's unusable
for kdump.
A special case is the "hpzx1" machine vector. In theory, it has a I/O MMU, so
it can be booted above 4 GB. However, in the kdump case that is not possible
because of changeset 51b58e3e26:
On HP zx1 machines, the 'machvec=dig' parameter is needed for the kdump
kernel to avoid problems with the HP sba iommu. The problem is that during
the boot of the kdump kernel, the iommu is re-initialized, so in-flight DMA
from improperly shutdown drivers causes an IOTLB miss which leads to an
MCA. With kdump, the idea is to get into the kdump kernel with as little
code as we can, so shutting down drivers properly is not an option.
The workaround is to add 'machvec=dig' to the kdump kernel boot parameters.
This makes the kdump kernel avoid using the sba iommu altogether, leaving
the IOTLB intact. Any ongoing DMA falls harmlessly outside the kdump
kernel. After the kdump kernel reboots, all devices will have been
shutdown properly and DMA stopped.
This patch pushes that functionality into the sba iommu initialization
code, so that users won't have to find the obscure documentation telling
them about 'machvec=dig'.
This means that also for hpzx1 it's not possible to boot when all
memory is above the 4 GB limit. So the only machine vectors that can handle
this case are "sn2" and "uv".
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
This patch adds the basic IA64 machvec infrastructure to support
the SGI "UV" platform.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
RDMA/cxgb3: Wrap the software send queue pointer as needed on flush
IB/ipath: Change ipath_devdata.ipath_sdma_status to be unsigned long
IB/ipath: Make ipath_portdata work with struct pid * not pid_t
IB/ipath: Fix RDMA read response sequence checking
IB/ipath: Fix many locking issues when switching to error state
IB/ipath: Fix RC and UC error handling
RDMA/nes: Fix up nes_lro_max_aggr module parameter
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
Driver core: struct class remove children list
block: do_mounts - accept root=<non-existant partition>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (22 commits)
USB: atmel_usba_udc fixes, mostly disconnect()
USB: pxa27x_udc: minor fixes
usbtest: comment on why this code "expects" negative and positive errnos
USB: remove PICDEM FS USB demo (04d8:000c) device from ldusb
USB: option: add new Dell 5520 HSDPA variant
USB: unusual_devs: Add support for GI 0401 SD-Card interface
USB: serial gadget: descriptor cleanup
USB: serial gadget: simplify endpoint handling
USB: serial gadget: remove needless data structure
USB: serial gadget: cleanup/reorg
usb: fix compile warning in isp1760
USB: do not handle device 1410:5010 in 'option' driver
USB: Fix unusual_devs.h ordering
USB: add Zoom Telephonics Model 3095F V.92 USB Mini External modem to cdc-acm
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem in option driver
USB: Support for the ET502HS HDSPA modem
usb: fix integer as NULL pointer warnings found by sparse
USB: isp1760: fix printk format
USB: add Telstra NextG CDMA id to option driver
USB: add association.h
...
because of the class_device was removed, now do the children list removing
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Some devices, like md, may create partitions only at first access,
so allow root= to be set to a valid non-existant partition of an
existing disk. This applies only to non-initramfs root mounting.
This fixes a regression from 2.6.24 which did allow this to happen and
broke some users machines :(
Acked-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Tested-by: Joao Luis Meloni Assirati <assirati@nonada.if.usp.br>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (73 commits)
net: Fix typo in net/core/sock.c.
ppp: Do not free not yet unregistered net device.
netfilter: xt_iprange: module aliases for xt_iprange
netfilter: ctnetlink: dump conntrack ID in event messages
irda: Fix a misalign access issue. (v2)
sctp: Fix use of uninitialized pointer
cipso: Relax too much careful cipso hash function.
tcp FRTO: work-around inorder receivers
tcp FRTO: Fix fallback to conventional recovery
New maintainer for Intel ethernet adapters
DM9000: Use delayed work to update MII PHY state
DM9000: Update and fix driver debugging messages
DM9000: Add __devinit and __devexit attributes to probe and remove
sky2: fix simple define thinko
[netdrvr] sfc: sfc: Add self-test support
[netdrvr] sfc: Increment rx_reset when reported as driver event
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove unused macro EFX_XAUI_RETRAIN_MAX
[netdrvr] sfc: Fix code formatting
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove kernel-doc comments for removed members of struct efx_nic
[netdrvr] sfc: Remove garbage from comment
...
There is a possible data race in the page table walking code. After the split
ptlock patches, it actually seems to have been introduced to the core code, but
even before that I think it would have impacted some architectures (powerpc
and sparc64, at least, walk the page tables without taking locks eg. see
find_linux_pte()).
The race is as follows:
The pte page is allocated, zeroed, and its struct page gets its spinlock
initialized. The mm-wide ptl is then taken, and then the pte page is inserted
into the pagetables.
At this point, the spinlock is not guaranteed to have ordered the previous
stores to initialize the pte page with the subsequent store to put it in the
page tables. So another Linux page table walker might be walking down (without
any locks, because we have split-leaf-ptls), and find that new pte we've
inserted. It might try to take the spinlock before the store from the other
CPU initializes it. And subsequently it might read a pte_t out before stores
from the other CPU have cleared the memory.
There are also similar races in higher levels of the page tables. They
obviously don't involve the spinlock, but could see uninitialized memory.
Arch code and hardware pagetable walkers that walk the pagetables without
locks could see similar uninitialized memory problems, regardless of whether
split ptes are enabled or not.
I prefer to put the barriers in core code, because that's where the higher
level logic happens, but the page table accessors are per-arch, and open-coding
them everywhere I don't think is an option. I'll put the read-side barriers
in alpha arch code for now (other architectures perform data-dependent loads
in order).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
read_barrie_depends has always been a noop (not a compiler barrier) on all
architectures except SMP alpha. This brings UP alpha and frv into line with all
other architectures, and fixes incorrect documentation.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Various fixes to Atmel's high speed UDC driver.
* Issue some missing disconnect() calls. Currently they are only made
when VBUS power goes away (on boards where the driver can sense such
changes), but that's not enough for gadget drivers to clean out all
the state that's needed. Missing calls were:
- After USB reset, before starting enumeration.
- When unregistering a gadget driver, before unbind().
* Don't assume gadget drivers provide disconnect callbacks; make sure
to not call through a null pointer!
* When the driver doesn't provide an unbind() callback, refuse to
unregister it.
Also remove two bogus "error" messages:
* Related to mis-handling of disconnect() ... don't emit error messages
for disconnect() handlers that disable endpoints. All of them should
be doing that; the problem is (unfixed) oddness in atmel_usba_udc.
* Don't emit a diagnostic for a curious and transient nonfatal error
that shows up sometimes with EP0.
Those messages spammed syslog, for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Minor fixes to pxa27x udc driver :
- don't clobber driver model bus_id field
- wrong endianess fix (no functional change; cpu is little-endian)
- double udc disable fix
- resume/suspend fix (OTG hold bit)
- make driver pxa27x dependant (check cpu at runtime)
Signed-off-by: Robert Jarzmik <rjarzmik@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:02:22AM -0700, David Brownell wrote:
> On Sunday 11 May 2008, Marcin Slusarz wrote:
> >
> > test_ctrl_queue expects (?) positive and negative errnos.
> > what is going on here?
>
> The sign is just a way to flag something:
>
> /* some faults are allowed, not required */
>
> The negative ones are required. Positive codes are optional,
> in the sense that, depending on how the peripheral happens
> to be implemented, they won't necessarily be triggered.
>
> For example, the test to fetch a device qualifier desriptor
> must succeed if the device is running at high speed. So that
> test is marked as negative. But when it's full speed, it
> could legitimately fail; marked as positive. And so on for
> other tests.
>
> Look at how the codes are *interpreted* to see it work.
Lets document it.
Based on comment from David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>.
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Microchip has changed the PICDEM FS USB demo device (0x04d8:000c)
to use bulk transfer and not interrupt transfer. So I've updated the libusb
based program here (Post #31).
http://forum.microchip.com/tm.aspx?m=106426&mpage=2
So I believe that the in-kernel ldusb driver will no longer work with the
demo firmware. It should be removed.
Signed-off-by: Xiaofan Chen <xiaofanc@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Hund <MHund@LD-Didactic.de>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
