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Dmitry Torokhov
29506415a0 Input: uinput - convert to dynalloc allocation
Also introduce proper locking when creating/deleting device.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2005-11-20 00:51:22 -05:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
e07bc70964 [PATCH] ide: remove dead code from flagged_taskfile()
flagged_taskfile() is called from execute_drive_cmd()
(the only user) only if args->tf_out_flags.all != 0.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-19 22:17:55 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
071ffcc0f7 [PATCH] ide: remove unused ide_action_t:ide_next
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-19 22:01:35 +01:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
84e7b9e94b [PATCH] ide: remove duplicate documentation for ide_do_drive_cmd()
Remove duplicate documentation for ide_do_drive_cmd() from
<linux/ide.h>, this function is already documented in ide-io.c.

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-19 21:54:04 +01:00
Aurelien Jarno
14351f8e57 [PATCH] sis5513: enable ATA133 for the SiS965 southbridge
Signed-off-by: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-19 21:43:45 +01:00
Mathias Kretschmer
4f1d774aad [PATCH] via82cxxx: add VIA VT6410 IDE support
From: Mathias Kretschmer <posting@blx4.net>

Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-19 21:32:38 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
b286e39207 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6 2005-11-18 15:58:38 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
62ae144f56 Merge branch 'parisc' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6 2005-11-18 14:25:40 -08:00
Matthew Wilcox
9ab8851549 [PARISC] Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards()
Fix compile warning caused by conflicting types of expand_upwards. IA64
requires it to not be static inline, as it's used outside mm/mmap.c

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2005-11-18 16:16:42 -05:00
Laurent Riffard
4ef3b8f4a5 [PATCH] ide: remove ide_driver_t.owner field
The structure ide_driver_t have a .owner field which is a duplicate
of .gendriver.owner field (.gen_driver is a struct device_driver).

This patch removes ide_driver_t's owner field.

Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2005-11-18 22:15:40 +01:00
mikem
7f0d50391a [PATCH 1/3] cciss: bug fix for hpacucli
This patch fixes a bug that breaks hpacucli, a command line interface
for the HP Array Config Utility. Without this fix the utility will
not detect any controllers in the system. I thought I had already fixed
this, but I guess not.

Thanks to all who reported the issue. Please consider this this inclusion.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mikem@beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-18 22:00:17 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
cd017fbdd3 Add definitions for the Dallas DS1742 RTC / non-volatile memory.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-11-17 16:23:43 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
443bf3292f Add definitions for the Dallas DS17287 RTC.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-11-17 16:23:42 +00:00
Yoichi Yuasa
6f17ce33fe Add GT64111 PCI ID back
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-11-17 16:23:41 +00:00
David S. Miller
6e87abd0b8 [DVB]: Add compat ioctl handling.
Based upon a patch by Guido Guenther <agx@sigxcpu.org>.

Some of these ioctls had embedded time_t objects
or pointers, so needed translation.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-16 00:52:57 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7ae8c5ec12 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-11-15 12:45:33 -08:00
Harald Welte
d4ed803c56 [PATCH] Make sysctl.h (again) usable from userspace
Make sysctl.h (again) useable from userspace

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-15 08:59:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4060994c3e Merge x86-64 update from Andi 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -08:00
Siddha, Suresh B
94605eff57 [PATCH] x86-64/i386: Intel HT, Multi core detection fixes
Fields obtained through cpuid vector 0x1(ebx[16:23]) and
vector 0x4(eax[14:25], eax[26:31]) indicate the maximum values and might not
always be the same as what is available and what OS sees.  So make sure
"siblings" and "cpu cores" values in /proc/cpuinfo reflect the values as seen
by OS instead of what cpuid instruction says. This will also fix the buggy BIOS
cases (for example where cpuid on a single core cpu says there are "2" siblings,
even when HT is disabled in the BIOS.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4359)

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:16 -08:00
Andi Kleen
69d81fcde7 [PATCH] x86_64: Speed up numa_node_id by putting it directly into the PDA
Not go from the CPU number to an mapping array.
Mode number is often used now in fast paths.

This also adds a generic numa_node_id to all the topology includes

Suggested by Eric Dumazet

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
Andi Kleen
07808b74e7 [PATCH] x86_64: Remove obsolete ARCH_HAS_ATOMIC_UNSIGNED and page_flags_t
Has been introduced for x86-64 at some point to save memory
in struct page, but has been obsolete for some time. Just
remove it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:14 -08:00
Andi Kleen
a2f1b42490 [PATCH] x86_64: Add 4GB DMA32 zone
Add a new 4GB GFP_DMA32 zone between the GFP_DMA and GFP_NORMAL zones.

As a bit of historical background: when the x86-64 port
was originally designed we had some discussion if we should
use a 16MB DMA zone like i386 or a 4GB DMA zone like IA64 or
both. Both was ruled out at this point because it was in early
2.4 when VM is still quite shakey and had bad troubles even
dealing with one DMA zone.  We settled on the 16MB DMA zone mainly
because we worried about older soundcards and the floppy.

But this has always caused problems since then because
device drivers had trouble getting enough DMA able memory. These days
the VM works much better and the wide use of NUMA has proven
it can deal with many zones successfully.

So this patch adds both zones.

This helps drivers who need a lot of memory below 4GB because
their hardware is not accessing more (graphic drivers - proprietary
and free ones, video frame buffer drivers, sound drivers etc.).
Previously they could only use IOMMU+16MB GFP_DMA, which
was not enough memory.

Another common problem is that hardware who has full memory
addressing for >4GB misses it for some control structures in memory
(like transmit rings or other metadata).  They tended to allocate memory
in the 16MB GFP_DMA or the IOMMU/swiotlb then using pci_alloc_consistent,
but that can tie up a lot of precious 16MB GFPDMA/IOMMU/swiotlb memory
(even on AMD systems the IOMMU tends to be quite small) especially if you have
many devices.  With the new zone pci_alloc_consistent can just put
this stuff into memory below 4GB which works better.

One argument was still if the zone should be 4GB or 2GB. The main
motivation for 2GB would be an unnamed not so unpopular hardware
raid controller (mostly found in older machines from a particular four letter
company) who has a strange 2GB restriction in firmware. But
that one works ok with swiotlb/IOMMU anyways, so it doesn't really
need GFP_DMA32. I chose 4GB to be compatible with IA64 and because
it seems to be the most common restriction.

The new zone is so far added only for x86-64.

For other architectures who don't set up this
new zone nothing changes. Architectures can set a compatibility
define in Kconfig CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32 that will define GFP_DMA32
as GFP_DMA. Otherwise it's a nop because on 32bit architectures
it's normally not needed because GFP_NORMAL (=0) is DMA able
enough.

One problem is still that GFP_DMA means different things on different
architectures. e.g. some drivers used to have #ifdef ia64  use GFP_DMA
(trusting it to be 4GB) #elif __x86_64__ (use other hacks like
the swiotlb because 16MB is not enough) ... . This was quite
ugly and is now obsolete.

These should be now converted to use GFP_DMA32 unconditionally. I haven't done
this yet. Or best only use pci_alloc_consistent/dma_alloc_coherent
which will use GFP_DMA32 transparently.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Harald Welte
37d2e7a20d [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: unconditionally require CAP_NET_ADMIN
This patch unconditionally requires CAP_NET_ADMIN for all nfnetlink
messages.  It also removes the per-message cap_required field, since all
existing subsystems use CAP_NET_ADMIN for all their messages anyway.

Patrick McHardy owes me a beer if we ever need to re-introduce this.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:24:59 -08:00
Pablo Neira Ayuso
c0400c4f5a [NETFILTER] nfnetlink: skip size check if size not specified (== 0)
Skip sizecheck if the size of the attribute wasn't specified, ie. zero.

Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-14 15:21:41 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
2c13b7cee0 [libata] minor fixes, new helpers
- in ata_dev_identify(), don't assume that all devices are either
  ATA or ATAPI.  In the future, this code will see port multipliers
  and other devices.
- make a debugging printk less verbose
- add new helper ata_qc_reinit()
- add new helper BPRINTK() and port flag ATA_FLAG_DEBUGMSG, for
  fine-grained debugging use.
2005-11-14 14:14:16 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
70ac551651 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2005-11-13 18:17:54 -08:00
Martin Waitz
aeec46b97a [PATCH] DocBook: allow to mark structure members private
Many structures contain both an internal part and one which is part of the API
to other modules.  With this patch it is possible to only include these public
members in the kernel documentation.

Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:21 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
800d3c6f90 [PATCH] v4l: (943) added secam l video standard
- Added SECAM L' video standard
- SECAM L' is a Secam variant that requires special config.

This patch adds support on V4L core. Requires aditional patches
on tuners to support.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:18 -08:00
George Anzinger
3f39894d1b [PATCH] timespec: normalize off by one errors
It would appear that the timespec normalize code has an off by one error.
Found in three places.  Thanks to Ben for spotting.

Signed-off-by: George Anzinger<george@mvista.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:17 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ff6ed4063d [PATCH] acct.h needs jiffies.h
allnoconfig:

In file included from fs/super.c:28:
include/linux/acct.h:173: warning: `TICK_NSEC' is not defined

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:17 -08:00
Zach Brown
5ef1c49f8f [PATCH] aio: don't ref kioctx after decref in put_ioctx
put_ioctx's refcount debugging was doing an atomic_read after dropping its
reference when it wasn't the last ref, leaving a tiny race for another freeing
thread to sneak into.  This shifts the debugging before the ops, uses BUG_ON,
and reformats the defines a little.  Sadly, moving to inlines increased the
code size but this change decreases the code size by a whole 9 bytes :)

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:16 -08:00
Zach Brown
20dcae3243 [PATCH] aio: remove kioctx from mm_struct
Sync iocbs have a life cycle that don't need a kioctx.  Their retrying, if
any, is done in the context of their owner who has allocated them on the
stack.

The sole user of a sync iocb's ctx reference was aio_complete() checking for
an elevated iocb ref count that could never happen.  No path which grabs an
iocb ref has access to sync iocbs.

If we were to implement sync iocb cancelation it would be done by the owner of
the iocb using its on-stack reference.

Removing this chunk from aio_complete allows us to remove the entire kioctx
instance from mm_struct, reducing its size by a third.  On a i386 testing box
the slab size went from 768 to 504 bytes and from 5 to 8 per page.

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:16 -08:00
Paul Mundt
66341a905e [PATCH] Shut up per_cpu_ptr() on UP
Currently per_cpu_ptr() doesn't really do anything with 'cpu' in the UP
case.  This is problematic in the cases where this is the only place the
variable is referenced:

  CC      kernel/workqueue.o
  kernel/workqueue.c: In function `current_is_keventd':
  kernel/workqueue.c:460: warning: unused variable `cpu'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:15 -08:00
Roman Zippel
3b66a1edb0 [PATCH] m68k: convert thread flags to use bit fields
Remove task_work structure, use the standard thread flags functions and use
shifts in entry.S to test the thread flags.  Add a few local labels to entry.S
to allow gas to generate short jumps.

Finally it changes a number of inline functions in thread_info.h to macros to
delay the current_thread_info() usage, which requires on m68k a structure
(task_struct) not yet defined at this point.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:14 -08:00
Al Viro
f037360f2e [PATCH] m68k: thread_info header cleanup
a) in smp_lock.h #include of sched.h and spinlock.h moved under #ifdef
   CONFIG_LOCK_KERNEL.

b) interrupt.h now explicitly pulls sched.h (not via smp_lock.h from
   hardirq.h as it used to)

c) in three more places we need changes to compensate for (a) - one place
   in arch/sparc needs string.h now, hardirq.h needs forward declaration of
   task_struct and preempt.h needs direct include of thread_info.h.

d) thread_info-related helpers in sched.h and thread_info.h put under
   ifndef __HAVE_THREAD_FUNCTIONS.  Obviously safe.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:13 -08:00
Al Viro
10ebffde3d [PATCH] m68k: introduce setup_thread_stack() and end_of_stack()
encapsulates the rest of arch-dependent operations with thread_info access.
Two new helpers - setup_thread_stack() and end_of_stack().  For normal case
the former consists of copying thread_info of parent to new thread_info and
the latter returns pointer immediately past the end of thread_info.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:13 -08:00
Al Viro
a1261f5461 [PATCH] m68k: introduce task_thread_info
new helper - task_thread_info(task).  On platforms that have thread_info
allocated separately (i.e.  in default case) it simply returns
task->thread_info.  m68k wants (and for good reasons) to embed its thread_info
into task_struct.  So it will (in later patch) have task_thread_info() of its
own.  For now we just add a macro for generic case and convert existing
instances of its body in core kernel to uses of new macro.  Obviously safe -
all normal architectures get the same preprocessor output they used to get.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:13 -08:00
Olof Johansson
7fce260a6b [PATCH] ppc: add support for new powerbooks
Enablement patch for the new PowerBooks (late 2005 edition).

This enables the ATA controller, Gigabit ethernet and basic AGP setup.
Bluetooth works out-of-the box after running hid2hci.

Still remaining is to get the touchpad to work, the simple change of just
adding the new USB ids isn't enough.

Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:13 -08:00
Paul Jackson
2d6c666e87 [PATCH] mm: gfp_noreclaim cleanup
Remove last remnant of the defunct early reclaim page logic, the no longer
used __GFP_NORECLAIM flag bit.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Acked-by: Martin Hicks <mort@bork.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Rohit Seth
7fb1d9fca5 [PATCH] mm: __alloc_pages cleanup
Clean up of __alloc_pages.

Restoration of previous behaviour, plus further cleanups by introducing an
'alloc_flags', removing the last of should_reclaim_zone.

Signed-off-by: Rohit Seth <rohit.seth@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Robin Holt
51c6f666fc [PATCH] mm: ZAP_BLOCK causes redundant work
The address based work estimate for unmapping (for lockbreak) is and always
was horribly inefficient for sparse mappings.  The problem is most simply
explained with an example:

If we find a pgd is clear, we still have to call into unmap_page_range
PGDIR_SIZE / ZAP_BLOCK_SIZE times, each time checking the clear pgd, in
order to progress the working address to the next pgd.

The fundamental way to solve the problem is to keep track of the end
address we've processed and pass it back to the higher layers.

From: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>

  Modification to completely get away from address based work estimate
  and instead use an abstract count, with a very small cost for empty
  entries as opposed to present pages.

  On 2.6.14-git2, ppc64, and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y, mapping and unmapping 1TB
  of virtual address space takes 1.69s; with the following patch applied,
  this operation can be done 1000 times in less than 0.01s

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

With CONFIG_HUTETLB_PAGE=n:

mm/memory.c: In function `unmap_vmas':
mm/memory.c:779: warning: division by zero

Due to

			zap_work -= (end - start) /
					(HPAGE_SIZE / PAGE_SIZE);

So make the dummy HPAGE_SIZE non-zero

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:12 -08:00
Kumar Gala
4c8d3d997e [PATCH] Update email address for Kumar
Changed jobs and the Freescale address is no longer valid.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:10 -08:00
Harald Welte
c1986ee9be [PATCH] New Omnikey Cardman 4000 driver
Add new Omnikey Cardman 4000 smartcard reader driver

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:10 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
bca73e4bf8 [PATCH] move pm_register/etc. to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, pm_legacy.h
Since few people need the support anymore, this moves the legacy
pm_xxx functions to CONFIG_PM_LEGACY, and include/linux/pm_legacy.h.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:10 -08:00
Eric Dumazet
95e861db3e [PATCH] reorder struct files_struct
The file_lock spinlock sits close to mostly read fields of 'struct
files_struct'

In SMP (and NUMA) environments, each time a thread wants to open or close
a file, it has to acquire the spinlock, thus invalidating the cache line
containing this spinlock on other CPUS.  So other threads doing
read()/write()/...  calls that use RCU to access the file table are going
to ask further memory (possibly NUMA) transactions to read again this
memory line.

Move the spinlock to another cache line, so that concurrent threads can
share the cache line containing 'count' and 'fdt' fields.

It's worth up to 9% on a microbenchmark using a 4-thread 2-package x86
machine.  See
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=112680448713342&w=2

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-13 18:14:10 -08:00
Richard Purdie
bd5d080ab9 [ARM] 3160/1: SharpSL: Add driver for Akita specific GPIOs
Patch from Richard Purdie

Add a driver for the extra GPIOs found on the Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita).
These GPIOs are found on a Maxim MAX7310 I2C i/o expander chip. A
generic GPIO driver for the MAX7310 was attempted but this mini
driver is a much simpler and much more effective solution avoiding
several issues and complexity the generic driver had (as discussed
on LKML).

The platform device is required so the device parent can be set
correctly which ensures the device is one of the last to suspend
and first to resume. Whilst the i2c suspend/resume calls can be
influenced, nothing guarantees this is easlier/later than the
subsystems the gpios are used on which are all independent of i2c
(sound, irda, video/backlight etc.).

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-11-13 10:07:48 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
535f8d65d8 [SPARC]: Fix RTC compat ioctl kernel log spam.
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:58:40PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> 
> This change:
> 
> diff-tree 8ca2bdc7a9 (from feee207e44d3643d19e648aAuthor: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
> Date:   Wed Nov 9 12:07:18 2005 -0800
> 
>     [SPARC] sbus rtc: implement ->compat_ioctl
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
>     Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> 
> results in the console now getting spewed on sparc64 systems
> with messages like:
> 
> [   11.968298] ioctl32(hwclock:464): Unknown cmd fd(3) cmd(401c7014){00} arg(efc
> What's happening is hwclock tries first the SBUS rtc device ioctls
> then the normal rtc driver ones.
> 
> So things actually worked better when we had the SBUS rtc compat ioctl
> directly handled via the generic compat ioctl code.
> 
> There are _so_ many rtc drivers in the kernel implementing the
> generic rtc ioctls that I don't think putting a ->compat_ioctl
> into all of them to fix this problem is feasible.  Unless we
> write a single rtc_compat_ioctl(), export it to modules, and hook
> it into all of those somehow.
> 
> But even that doesn't appear to have any pretty implementation.
> 
> Any better ideas?

We had similar problems with other ioctls where userspace did things
like that.  What we did there was to put the compat handler to generic
code.  The patch below does that, adding a big comment about what's
going on and removing the COMPAT_IOCTL entires for these on powerpc
that not only weren't ever useful but are duplicated now aswell.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-11-12 12:10:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0fde7f5918 Revert "[PATCH] fbcon: Add rl (Roman Large) font"
This reverts 998e6d5116 commit.
2005-11-12 10:14:02 -08:00
Tejun Heo
15853af9f0 [BLOCK] Implement elv_drain_elevator for improved switch error detection
This patch adds request_queue->nr_sorted which keeps the number of
requests in the iosched and implement elv_drain_elevator which
performs forced dispatching.  elv_drain_elevator checks whether
iosched actually dispatches all requests it has and prints error
message if it doesn't.  As buggy forced dispatching can result in
wrong barrier operations, I think this extra check is worthwhile.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:56:06 +01:00
Jens Axboe
47a004103d [BLOCK] Document the READ/WRITE splitup of the disk stats
Use the symbolic name where appropriate and add a comment to the
disk_stats structure.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-11-12 10:55:21 +01:00