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Heiko Carstens
cae7ca3d3d [IPVS]: Use IP_VS_WAIT_WHILE when encessary.
For architectures that don't have a volatile atomic_ts constructs like
while (atomic_read(&something)); might result in endless loops since a
barrier() is missing which forces the compiler to generate code that
actually reads memory contents.
Fix this in ipvs by using the IP_VS_WAIT_WHILE macro which resolves to
while (expr) { cpu_relax(); }
(why isn't this open coded btw?)

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:15 -07:00
Herbert Xu
7f353bf29e [NET]: Share correct feature code between bridging and bonding
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8797 shows that the
bonding driver may produce bogus combinations of the checksum
flags and SG/TSO.

For example, if you bond devices with NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM you'll end up with a bonding device that
has neither flag set.  If both have TSO then this produces
an illegal combination.

The bridge device on the other hand has the correct code to
deal with this.

In fact, the same code can be used for both.  So this patch
moves that logic into net/core/dev.c and uses it for both
bonding and bridging.

In the process I've made small adjustments such as only
setting GSO_ROBUST if at least one constituent device
supports it.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:14 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
f71417614d [ATM] drivers/atm/iphase.c: mostly kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
drivers/atm/iphase.c | 111508 -> 111431 (-77 bytes)
 drivers/atm/iphase.o | 254740 -> 254260 (-480 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:13 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
48e3eeb1a1 [IRDA] irda-usb.c: mostly kmalloc + memset conversion to k[cz]alloc
drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c | 59694 -> 59541 (-153 bytes)
 drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.o | 170588 -> 169256 (-1332 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:12 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
1ee325438c [WAN] drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc
drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c | 31260 -> 31223 (-37 bytes)
 drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.o | 144872 -> 144728 (-144 bytes)

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Acked-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-13 22:52:11 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
e576de82ee [DCCP]: fix memory leak and clean up style - dccp_feat_empty_confirm()
There's a memory leak in net/dccp/feat.c::dccp_feat_empty_confirm().  If we
hit the 'default:' case of the 'switch' statement, then we return without
freeing 'opt', thus leaking 'struct dccp_opt_pend' bytes.

The leak is fixed easily enough by adding a kfree(opt); before the return
statement.

The patch also changes the layout of the 'switch' to be more in line with
CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:10 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
d725fdc802 [DCCP]: fix theoretical ccids_{read,write}_lock() race
Make sure that spin_unlock_wait() is properly ordered wrt atomic_inc().

(akpm: can't we convert this code to use rwlocks?)

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:09 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
b5890d8ba4 [XFRM]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/xfrm/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/xfrm/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:08 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
897c77cab0 [TIPC]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/tipc/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/tipc/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:07 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
08dd2e2946 [SUNRPC]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/sunrpc/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/sunrpc/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:05 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
0a26f4cdc2 [PKT_SCHED]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/sched/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/sched/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:04 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
703310e645 [IPV6]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/ipv6/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/ipv6/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:03 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f49f9967b2 [IPV4]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/ipv4/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/ipv4/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:02 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
6869a35b36 [ATM]: Clean up duplicate includes in net/atm/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	net/atm/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:01 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
af3502184a [ATM]: Clean up duplicate includes in drivers/atm/
This patch cleans up duplicate includes in
	drivers/atm/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:52:00 -07:00
Joakim Tjernlund
dcbdc93c6c [IPCONFIG]: ip_auto_config fix
The following commandline:

 root=/dev/mtdblock6 rw rootfstype=jffs2 ip=192.168.1.10:::255.255.255.0:localhost.localdomain:eth1:off console=ttyS0,115200

makes ip_auto_config fall back to DHCP and complain "IP-Config: Incomplete
network configuration information." depending on if CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP is
set or not.

The only way I can make ip_auto_config accept my IP config is to add an
entry for the server IP:

ip=192.168.1.10:192.168.1.15::255.255.255.0:localhost.localdomain:eth1:off

I think this is a bug since I am not using a NFS root FS.

The following patch fixes the above problem.

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

Davem said (in February!):

  Well, first of all the change in question is not in 2.4.x either.  I just
  checked the current 2.4.x GIT tree and the test is exactly:

	if (ic_myaddr == INADDR_NONE ||
#ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS
	    (MAJOR(ROOT_DEV) == UNNAMED_MAJOR
	     && root_server_addr == INADDR_NONE
	     && ic_servaddr == INADDR_NONE) ||
#endif
	    ic_first_dev->next) {

  which matches 2.6.x

  I even checked 2.4.x when it was branched for 2.5.x and the test was the
  same at the point in time too.

  Looking at the proposed change a bit it appears that it is probably
  correct, as it's trying to check that ROOT_DEV is nfs root.  But if it is
  correct then the UNNAMED_MAJOR comparison in the same code block should be
  removed as it becomes superfluous.

  I'm happy to apply this patch with that modification made.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:51:59 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
8aee929eda [ATM]: fore200e_param_bs_queue() must be __devinit
WARNING: drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x6203bb): Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:fore200e_param_bs_queue (between 'fore200e_initialize' and 'fore200e_monitor_putc')

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-08-13 22:51:58 -07:00
Jeremy Fitzhardinge
10a273a673 xen-netfront: Avoid deref'ing skbafter it is potentially freed.
xennet_tx_bug_gc can free the skb before we use it, so make sure we don't.

Signed-off-by: Keir Fraser <keir@xensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:51:09 -04:00
Steffen Klassert
a6d89915aa 3c59x maintainer
Add 3c59x maintainer.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:38:37 -04:00
Steffen Klassert
373492d0bd 3c59x: fix duplex configuration
A special sequence of ifconfig up/down and plug/unplug the cable can break
the duplex configuration of the driver.

Setting
vp->mii.full_duplex = vp->full_duplex
in vortex_up should fix this.

Addresses Bug 8575 3c59x duplex configuration broken
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8575

Cc: Martin Buck <mb-tmp-ohtmvyyn.xreary.bet@gromit.dyndns.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:38:37 -04:00
Andrew Morton
c76720cf7b natsemi: fix netdev error acounting
When a detailed netdev error is counted, we also must account for it in the
aggregated error count.

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8106

Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Chongfeng Hu <loveminix@yahoo.com.cn>
Cc: Natalie Protasevich <protasnb@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:36:39 -04:00
Andrew Morton
b4efe22cc9 ax88796 printk fixes
drivers/net/ax88796.c: In function `ax_probe':
drivers/net/ax88796.c:825: warning: size_t format, different type arg (arg 4)
drivers/net/ax88796.c:825: warning: size_t format, different type arg (arg 5)

resource_size_t isn't size_t.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:34:53 -04:00
Brice Goglin
626fda9488 myri10ge: Use the pause counter to avoid a needless device reset
Use the pause counter to avoid a needless device reset, and
print a message telling the admin that our link partner is
flow controlling us down to 0 pkts/sec.

Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:27:10 -04:00
Dustin Marquess
b47157f004 via-rhine: disable rx_copybreak on archs that don't allow unaligned DMA access
Patch to disable the rx_copybreak feature on hardware architectures that
don't allow unaligned DMA access.

#ifdef code taken from tulip_core.c.  Problem pointed out by Ivan
Kokshaysky.

Signed-off-by: Dustin Marquess <jailbird@alcatraz.fdf.net>
Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-08-14 01:27:10 -04:00
Alexey Starikovskiy
c019b19330 ACPI: EC: Fix "no battery" regression
Restore deleted call to register query methods.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8886

Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-14 01:03:42 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
39d3520c92 Linux 2.6.23-rc3 2007-08-12 21:25:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
738ddd3039 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched:
  sched: run_rebalance_domains: s/SCHED_IDLE/CPU_IDLE/
  sched: fix sleeper bonus
  sched: make global code static
2007-08-12 11:06:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
cc75b92d11 genirq: mark io_apic level interrupts to avoid resend
Level type interrupts do not need to be resent.  It was also found that
some chipsets get confused in case of the resend.

Mark the ioapic level type interrupts as such to avoid the resend
functionality in the generic irq code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12 11:05:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
2464286ace genirq: suppress resend of level interrupts
Level type interrupts are resent by the interrupt hardware when they are
still active at irq_enable().

Suppress the resend mechanism for interrupts marked as level.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12 11:05:45 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
496634217e genirq: cleanup mismerge artifact
Commit 5a43a066b1: "genirq: Allow fasteoi
handler to retrigger disabled interrupts" was erroneously applied to
handle_level_irq().  This added the irq retrigger / resend functionality
to the level irq handler.

Revert the offending bits.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12 11:05:45 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov
de0cf899bb sched: run_rebalance_domains: s/SCHED_IDLE/CPU_IDLE/
rebalance_domains(SCHED_IDLE) looks strange (typo), change it to CPU_IDLE.

the effect of this bug was slightly more agressive idle-balancing on
SMP than intended.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12 18:08:19 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
5d2b3d3695 sched: fix sleeper bonus
Peter Ziljstra noticed that the sleeper bonus deduction code
was not properly rate-limited: a task that scheduled more
frequently would get a disproportionately large deduction.
So limit the deduction to delta_exec.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12 18:08:19 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
6707de00fd sched: make global code static
This patch makes the following needlessly global code static:

- arch_reinit_sched_domains()
- struct attr_sched_mc_power_savings
- struct attr_sched_smt_power_savings

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-12 18:08:19 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
963c6527e0 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits)
  ACPI: thermal: add DMI hooks to handle AOpen's broken Award BIOS
  ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.act=" to disable or override active trip point
  ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.nocrt" to disable critical actions
  ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points
  ACPI: thermal: expose "thermal.tzp=" to set global polling frequency
  ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.off=1" to disable ACPI thermal support
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix sysfs paths in documentation
  ACPI: static
  ACPI EC: remove potential deadlock from EC
  ACPI: dock: Send key=value pair instead of plain value
  ACPI: bay: send envp with uevent - fix
  acpi-cpufreq: Fix some x86/x86-64 acpi-cpufreq driver issues
  ACPI: fix "Time Problems with 2.6.23-rc1-gf695baf2"
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: change thinkpad-acpi input default and kconfig help
  ACPI: EC: fix run-together printk lines
  ACPI: sbs: remove dead code
  ACPI: EC: acpi_ec_remove(): fix use-after-free
  ACPI: EC: Switch from boot_ec as soon as we find its desc in DSDT.
  ACPI: EC: fix build warning
  ACPI: EC: If ECDT is not found, look up EC in DSDT.
  ...
2007-08-12 02:58:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c1502e2834 i386: Fix broken mmiocfg accesses
Commit 3320ad994a broke mmio config space
accesses totally on i386 - it dropped the "reg" offset to the address.

Cc: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12 02:23:16 -07:00
Petr Vandrovec
b8d3f2448b Do not replace whole memcpy in apply alternatives
apply_alternatives uses memcpy() to apply alternatives.  Which has the
unfortunate effect that while applying memcpy alternative to memcpy
itself it tries to overwrite itself with nops - which causes #UD fault
as it overwrites half of an instruction in copy loop, and from this
point on only possible outcome is triplefault and reboot.

So let's overwrite only first two instructions of memcpy - as long as
the main memcpy loop is not in first two bytes it will work fine.

Signed-off-by: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-12 01:42:37 -07:00
Len Brown
4e54e9f442 Pull sbs into release branch 2007-08-12 00:21:22 -04:00
Len Brown
27196c30db Pull processor into release branch 2007-08-12 00:21:08 -04:00
Len Brown
ad17b209dc Pull fluff into release branch 2007-08-12 00:20:59 -04:00
Len Brown
d88da66f93 Pull ec into release branch 2007-08-12 00:20:41 -04:00
Len Brown
6712a4fbb1 Pull dock-bay into release branch 2007-08-12 00:20:33 -04:00
Len Brown
d8dd3cbcf1 Pull bugzilla-8842 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:19:23 -04:00
Len Brown
fc0dc4d3aa Pull bugzilla-8768 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:18:11 -04:00
Len Brown
53fdc5185c Pull bugzilla-3774 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:17:59 -04:00
Len Brown
3b6919e536 pull asus sony thinkpad into release branch 2007-08-12 00:17:12 -04:00
Len Brown
0b5bfa1cbe ACPI: thermal: add DMI hooks to handle AOpen's broken Award BIOS
Use DMI to:
1. enable polling (BIOS thermal events are broken)
2. disable active trip points (BIOS fan control is broken)
3. disable passive trip point (BIOS hard-codes it too low)

The actual temperature reading does work,
and with the aid of polling, the critical
trip point should work too.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8842

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:13:02 -04:00
Len Brown
f8707ec964 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.act=" to disable or override active trip point
thermal.act=-1 disables all active trip points
in all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.act=C, where C > 0, overrides all lowest temperature
active trip points in all thermal zones to C degrees Celsius.
Raising this trip-point may allow you to keep your system silent
up to a higher temperature.  However, it will not allow you to
raise the lowest temperature trip point above the next higher
trip point (if there is one).  Lowering this trip point may
kick in the fan sooner.

Note that overriding this trip-point will disable any BIOS attempts
to implement hysteresis around the lowest temperature trip point.
This may result in the fan starting and stopping frequently
if temperature frequently crosses C.

WARNING: raising trip points above the manufacturer's defaults
may cause the system to run at higher temperature and shorten
its life.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04:00
Len Brown
f548714561 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.nocrt" to disable critical actions
thermal.nocrt=1 disables actions on _CRT and _HOT
ACPI thermal zone trip-points.  They will be marked
as <disabled> in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points.

There are two cases where this option is used:

1. Debugging a hot system crossing valid trip point.

   If your system fan is spinning at full speed,
   be sure that the vent is not clogged with dust.
   Many laptops have very fine thermal fins that are easily blocked.

   Check that the processor fan-sink is properly seated,
   has the proper thermal grease, and is really spinning.

   Check for fan related options in BIOS SETUP.
   Sometimes there is a performance vs quiet option.
   Defaults are generally the most conservative.

   If your fan is not spinning, yet /proc/acpi/fan/
   has files in it, please file a Linux/ACPI bug.

   WARNING: you risk shortening the lifetime of your
   hardware if you use this parameter on a hot system.
   Note that this refers to all system components,
   including the disk drive.

2. Working around a cool system crossing critical
   trip point due to erroneous temperature reading.

   Try again with CONFIG_HWMON=n
   There is known potential for conflict between the
   the hwmon sub-system and the ACPI BIOS.
   If this fixes it, notify lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
   and linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

   Otherwise, file a Linux/ACPI bug, or notify
   just linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:44 -04:00
Len Brown
a70cdc5200 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points
"thermal.psv=-1" disables passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

"thermal.psv=C", where 'C' is degrees Celsius,
overrides all existing passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.psv is checked at module load time,
and in response to trip-point change events.

Note that if the system does not deliver thermal zone
temperature change events near the new trip-point,
then it will not be noticed.  To force your custom
trip point to be noticed, you may need to enable polling:
eg. thermal.tzp=3000 invokes polling every 5 minutes.

Note that once passive thermal throttling is invoked,
it has its own internal Thermal Sampling Period (_TSP),
that is unrelated to _TZP.

WARNING: disabling or raising a thermal trip point
may result in increased running temperature and
shorter hardware lifetime on some systems.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:35 -04:00
Len Brown
730ff34de7 ACPI: thermal: expose "thermal.tzp=" to set global polling frequency
Thermal Zone Polling frequency (_TZP) is an optional ACPI object
recommending the rate that the OS should poll the associated thermal zone.

If _TZP is 0, no polling should be used.
If _TZP is non-zero, then the platform recommends that
the OS poll the thermal zone at the specified rate.
The minimum period is 30 seconds.
The maximum period is 5 minutes.

(note _TZP and thermal.tzp units are in deci-seconds,
 so _TZP = 300 corresponds to 30 seconds)

If _TZP is not present, ACPI 3.0b recommends that the
thermal zone be polled at an "OS provided default frequency".

However, common industry practice is:
1. The BIOS never specifies any _TZP
2. High volume OS's from this century never poll any thermal zones

Ie. The OS depends on the platform's ability to
provoke thermal events when necessary, and
the "OS provided default frequency" is "never":-)

There is a proposal that ACPI 4.0 be updated to reflect
common industry practice -- ie. no _TZP, no polling.

The Linux kernel already follows this practice --
thermal zones are not polled unless _TZP is present and non-zero.

But thermal zone polling is useful as a workaround for systems
which have ACPI thermal control, but have an issue preventing
thermal events.  Indeed, some Linux distributions still
set a non-zero thermal polling frequency for this reason.

But rather than ask the user to write a polling frequency
into all the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
files, here we simply document and expose the already
existing module parameter to do the same at system level,
to simplify debugging those broken platforms.

Note that thermal.tzp is a module-load time parameter only.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:26 -04:00