This is useful for system management software so that it can kick
off things like gettys and everything that's started from a tty,
before we reuse it from/for something else or shut it down.
Without this ioctl it would have to temporarily become the owner of
the tty, then call vhangup() and then give it up again.
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Doing NMI startup as an early initcall doesn't work because we need
to have SMP started up by then.
So we'd only NMI startup one cpu, which causes perf PMU grab to
BUG because the nmi_active count isn't what it's supposed to be.
This also points out that we don't have proper CPU up/down notifiers
for the NMI code which will need to be fixed at some point.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'tty-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6: (36 commits)
serial: apbuart: Fixup apbuart_console_init()
TTY: Add tty ioctl to figure device node of the system console.
tty: add 'active' sysfs attribute to tty0 and console device
drivers: serial: apbuart: Handle OF failures gracefully
Serial: Avoid unbalanced IRQ wake disable during resume
tty: fix typos/errors in tty_driver.h comments
pch_uart : fix warnings for 64bit compile
8250: fix uninitialized FIFOs
ip2: fix compiler warning on ip2main_pci_tbl
specialix: fix compiler warning on specialix_pci_tbl
rocket: fix compiler warning on rocket_pci_ids
8250: add a UPIO_DWAPB32 for 32 bit accesses
8250: use container_of() instead of casting
serial: omap-serial: Add support for kernel debugger
serial: fix pch_uart kconfig & build
drivers: char: hvc: add arm JTAG DCC console support
RS485 documentation: add 16C950 UART description
serial: ifx6x60: fix memory leak
serial: ifx6x60: free IRQ on error
Serial: EG20T: add PCH_UART driver
...
Fixed up conflicts in drivers/serial/apbuart.c with evil merge that
makes the code look fairly sane (unlike either side).
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-next-2.6: (25 commits)
atyfb: Fix bootup hangs on sparc64.
sparc: update copyright in piggyback.c
sparc: unify strip command in boot/Makefile
sparc: rename piggyback_32 to piggyback
sparc: fix tftpboot.img for sparc64 on little-endian host
sparc: add $BITS to piggyback arguments
sparc: remove obsolete ELF support in piggyback_32.c
sparc: additional comments to piggyback_32.c
sparc: use _start for the start entry (like 64 bit does)
sparc: use trapbase in setup_arch
sparc: refactor piggy_32.c
Added support for ampopts in APBUART driver. Used in AMP systems.
APBUART: added raw AMBA vendor/device number to match against.
SPARC/LEON: avoid AMBAPP name duplicates in openprom fs when REG is missing
SPARC/LEON: added support for selecting Timer Core and Timer within core
LEON: added raw AMBA vendor/device number to find TIMER, IRQCTRL
SPARC/LEON: added support for IRQAMP IRQ Controller
SPARC/LEON: find IRQCTRL and Timer via OF-Tree, instead of hardcoded.
sparc: fix sparse warnings in arch/sparc/prom for 32 bit build
sparc: remove unused prom tree functions
...
Needed for LEON AMP systems where different CPUs are routed to
different IRQ controllers. This patch selects the IRQ Controller
which has been routed to the boot CPU, it is up to the boot loader
to configure the IRQ controller.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Hellstrom <daniel@gaisler.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fix following sparse warnings:
arch/sparc/prom/bootstr_32.c:32:35: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/sparc/prom/memory.c:61:13: warning: symbol 'prom_meminit' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/sparc/prom/misc_32.c:74:1: error: symbol 'prom_halt' redeclared with different type (originally declared at arch/sparc/include/asm/oplib_32.h:67) - different modifiers
arch/sparc/prom/ranges.c:16:26: warning: symbol 'promlib_obio_ranges' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/sparc/prom/ranges.c:17:5: warning: symbol 'num_obio_ranges' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/sparc/prom/ranges.c:39:1: warning: symbol 'prom_adjust_ranges' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/sparc/prom/ranges.c:69:13: warning: symbol 'prom_ranges_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/sparc/prom/tree_32.c:286:22: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
arch/sparc/prom/tree_32.c:286:38: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
None of the warnings indicated any serious issues.
We are now sparse clean for 32 bit build in arch/sparc/prom.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the following unused funtions:
prom_nodematch()
prom_firstprop()
prom_node_has_property()
Also declare a few local functions static.
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Remove the following unused funtions:
prom_stopcpu()
prom_idlecpu()
prom_restartcpu()
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
sparc: Write to prom console using indirect buffer.
sparc: Delete prom_*getchar().
sparc: Pass buffer pointer all the way down to prom_{get,put}char().
sparc: Do not export prom_nb{get,put}char().
sparc64: Delete prom_setcallback().
sparc64: Unexport prom_service_exists().
sparc: Kill prom devops_{32,64}.c
sparc: Remove prom_pathtoinode()
sparc64: Delete prom_puts() unused.
SPARC/LEON: removed constant timer initialization as if HZ=100, now it reflects the value of HZ
sparc64 systems have a restriction in that passing in buffer
addressses above 4GB to prom calls is not reliable.
We end up violating this when we do prom console writes, because we
use an on-stack buffer to translate '\n' into '\r\n'.
So instead, do this translation into an intermediate buffer, which is
in the kernel image and thus below 4GB, then pass that to the PROM
console write calls.
On the 32-bit side we don't have to deal with any of these issues, so
the new prom_console_write_buf() uses the existing prom_nbputchar()
implementation. However we can now mark those routines static.
Since the 64-bit side completely uses new code we can delete the
putchar bits as they are now completely unused.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This gets us closer to being able to eliminate the use
of dynamic and stack based buffers, so that we can adhere
to the "no buffer addresses above 4GB" rule for PROM calls.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The perf hardware pmu got initialized at various points in the boot,
some before early_initcall() some after (notably arch_initcall).
The problem is that the NMI lockup detector is ran from early_initcall()
and expects the hardware pmu to be present.
Sanitize this by moving all architecture hardware pmu implementations to
initialize at early_initcall() and move the lockup detector to an explicit
initcall right after that.
Cc: paulus <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: davem <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Cree <mcree@orcon.net.nz>
Cc: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1290707759.2145.119.camel@laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
jump label: Add work around to i386 gcc asm goto bug
x86, ftrace: Use safe noops, drop trap test
jump_label: Fix unaligned traps on sparc.
jump label: Make arch_jump_label_text_poke_early() optional
jump label: Fix error with preempt disable holding mutex
oprofile: Remove deprecated use of flush_scheduled_work()
oprofile: Fix the hang while taking the cpu offline
jump label: Fix deadlock b/w jump_label_mutex vs. text_mutex
jump label: Fix module __init section race
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: Check irq_remapped instead of remapping_enabled in destroy_irq()
The vmlinux.lds.h knobs to emit the __jump_table section in the main
kernel image takes care to align the section, but this doesn't help
for the __jump_table section that gets emitted into modules.
Fix the resulting lack of section alignment by explicitly specifying
it in the assembler.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <20101023.110624.226758370.davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
dma64_addr_t looks pointless (at least there is no point that an
architecture has the own dma64_addr_t typedef).
dma_addr_t is set to 32 or 64 bits appropriately. You can use u64
at places where you know that 64 bit address is always necessary.
Let's use u64 instead for sparc32.
Looks like PCI654_REQUIRED_MASK or PCI64_ADR_BASE isn't used. They can
be removed?
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fb_{read,write} access the framebuffer using lots of fb_{read,write}l's
but don't check that the file position is aligned which can cause problems
on some architectures which do not support unaligned accesses.
Since the operations are essentially memcpy_{from,to}io, new
fb_memcpy_{from,to}fb macros have been defined and these are used instead.
For Sparc, fb_{read,write} macros use sbus_{read,write}, so this defines
new sbus_memcpy_{from,to}io functions the same as memcpy_{from,to}io but
using sbus_{read,write}b instead of {read,write}b.
Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Since we no longer need to provide KM_type, the whole pte_*map_nested()
API is now redundant, remove it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Keep the current interface but ignore the KM_type and use a stack based
approach.
The advantage is that we get rid of crappy code like:
#define __KM_PTE \
(in_nmi() ? KM_NMI_PTE : \
in_irq() ? KM_IRQ_PTE : \
KM_PTE0)
and in general can stop worrying about what context we're in and what kmap
slots might be appropriate for that.
The downside is that FRV kmap_atomic() gets more expensive.
For now we use a CPP trick suggested by Andrew:
#define kmap_atomic(page, args...) __kmap_atomic(page)
to avoid having to touch all kmap_atomic() users in a single patch.
[ not compiled on:
- mn10300: the arch doesn't actually build with highmem to begin with ]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix up drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_overlay.c]
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
It seems that #include <asm/system.h> makes a circular dependency
between kernel.h and bitmap.h which breaks allmodconfig build.
Removing the line makes no change because jump_label.h doesn't
need it actually AFAICS. Compile tested on sparc32 allmodconfig.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'next-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
mtd/m25p80: add support to parse the partitions by OF node
of/irq: of_irq.c needs to include linux/irq.h
of/mips: Cleanup some include directives/files.
of/mips: Add device tree support to MIPS
of/flattree: Eliminate need to provide early_init_dt_scan_chosen_arch
of/device: Rework to use common platform_device_alloc() for allocating devices
of/xsysace: Fix OF probing on little-endian systems
of: use __be32 types for big-endian device tree data
of/irq: remove references to NO_IRQ in drivers/of/platform.c
of/promtree: add package-to-path support to pdt
of/promtree: add of_pdt namespace to pdt code
of/promtree: no longer call prom_ functions directly; use an ops structure
of/promtree: make drivers/of/pdt.c no longer sparc-only
sparc: break out some PROM device-tree building code out into drivers/of
of/sparc: convert various prom_* functions to use phandle
sparc: stop exporting openprom.h header
powerpc, of_serial: Endianness issues setting up the serial ports
of: MTD: Fix OF probing on little-endian systems
of: GPIO: Fix OF probing on little-endian systems
* 'core-memblock-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (74 commits)
x86-64: Only set max_pfn_mapped to 512 MiB if we enter via head_64.S
xen: Cope with unmapped pages when initializing kernel pagetable
memblock, bootmem: Round pfn properly for memory and reserved regions
memblock: Annotate memblock functions with __init_memblock
memblock: Allow memblock_init to be called early
memblock/arm: Fix memblock_region_is_memory() typo
x86, memblock: Remove __memblock_x86_find_in_range_size()
memblock: Fix wraparound in find_region()
x86-32, memblock: Make add_highpages honor early reserved ranges
x86, memblock: Fix crashkernel allocation
arm, memblock: Fix the sparsemem build
memblock: Fix section mismatch warnings
powerpc, memblock: Fix memblock API change fallout
memblock, microblaze: Fix memblock API change fallout
x86: Remove old bootmem code
x86, memblock: Use memblock_memory_size()/memblock_free_memory_size() to get correct dma_reserve
x86: Remove not used early_res code
x86, memblock: Replace e820_/_early string with memblock_
x86: Use memblock to replace early_res
x86, memblock: Use memblock_debug to control debug message print out
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in arch/x86/kernel/setup.c and kernel/Makefile
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-2.6-irqflags:
Fix IRQ flag handling naming
MIPS: Add missing #inclusions of <linux/irq.h>
smc91x: Add missing #inclusion of <linux/irq.h>
Drop a couple of unnecessary asm/system.h inclusions
SH: Add missing consts to sys_execve() declaration
Blackfin: Rename IRQ flags handling functions
Blackfin: Add missing dep to asm/irqflags.h
Blackfin: Rename DES PC2() symbol to avoid collision
Blackfin: Split the BF532 BFIN_*_FIO_FLAG() functions to their own header
Blackfin: Split PLL code from mach-specific cdef headers
Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.
Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
benefit.
The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.
Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
processing the work.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
[ various fixes ]
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <1287036094.7768.291.camel@yhuang-dev>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Clean up pdt.c:
- make build dependent upon config OF_PROMTREE
- #ifdef out the sparc-specific stuff
- create pdt-specific header
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Rather than passing around ints everywhere, use the
phandle type where appropriate for the various functions
that talk to the PROM.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
It's unknown why openprom.h was being exported; there doesn't seem to be any
reason for it currently, and it creates headaches with userspace being able
to potentially use the structures in there. So, don't export it anymore.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Fix the IRQ flag handling naming. In linux/irqflags.h under one configuration,
it maps:
local_irq_enable() -> raw_local_irq_enable()
local_irq_disable() -> raw_local_irq_disable()
local_irq_save() -> raw_local_irq_save()
...
and under the other configuration, it maps:
raw_local_irq_enable() -> local_irq_enable()
raw_local_irq_disable() -> local_irq_disable()
raw_local_irq_save() -> local_irq_save()
...
This is quite confusing. There should be one set of names expected of the
arch, and this should be wrapped to give another set of names that are expected
by users of this facility.
Change this to have the arch provide:
flags = arch_local_save_flags()
flags = arch_local_irq_save()
arch_local_irq_restore(flags)
arch_local_irq_disable()
arch_local_irq_enable()
arch_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
arch_irqs_disabled()
arch_safe_halt()
Then linux/irqflags.h wraps these to provide:
raw_local_save_flags(flags)
raw_local_irq_save(flags)
raw_local_irq_restore(flags)
raw_local_irq_disable()
raw_local_irq_enable()
raw_irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
raw_irqs_disabled()
raw_safe_halt()
with type checking on the flags 'arguments', and then wraps those to provide:
local_save_flags(flags)
local_irq_save(flags)
local_irq_restore(flags)
local_irq_disable()
local_irq_enable()
irqs_disabled_flags(flags)
irqs_disabled()
safe_halt()
with tracing included if enabled.
The arch functions can now all be inline functions rather than some of them
having to be macros.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> [X86, FRV, MN10300]
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [Tile]
Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu> [Microblaze]
Tested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> [ARM]
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <haavard.skinnemoen@atmel.com> [AVR]
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com> [IA-64]
Acked-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> [M32R]
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> [M68K/M68KNOMMU]
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> [MIPS]
Acked-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> [PA-RISC]
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> [PowerPC]
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> [S390]
Acked-by: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com> [Score]
Acked-by: Matt Fleming <matt@console-pimps.org> [SH]
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [Sparc]
Acked-by: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net> [Xtensa]
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> [Alpha]
Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> [H8300]
Cc: starvik@axis.com [CRIS]
Cc: jesper.nilsson@axis.com [CRIS]
Cc: linux-cris-kernel@axis.com
Add jump label support for sparc64.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
LKML-Reference: <3b5b071fcdb2afb7f67cacecfa78b14c740278a7.1284733808.git.jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
[ cleaned up some formatting ]
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
compat_alloc_user_space() expects the caller to independently call
access_ok() to verify the returned area. A missing call could
introduce problems on some architectures.
This patch incorporates the access_ok() check into
compat_alloc_user_space() and also adds a sanity check on the length.
The existing compat_alloc_user_space() implementations are renamed
arch_compat_alloc_user_space() and are used as part of the
implementation of the new global function.
This patch assumes NULL will cause __get_user()/__put_user() to either
fail or access userspace on all architectures. This should be
followed by checking the return value of compat_access_user_space()
for NULL in the callers, at which time the access_ok() in the callers
can also be removed.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@sota.gen.nz>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
This is based upon a report by Meelis Roos showing that it's possible
that we'll try to fetch a property that is 32K in size with some
devices. With the current fixed 3K buffer we use for moving data in
and out of the firmware during PROM calls, that simply won't work.
In fact, it will scramble random kernel data during bootup.
The reasoning behind the temporary buffer is entirely historical. It
used to be the case that we had problems referencing dynamic kernel
memory (including the stack) early in the boot process before we
explicitly told the firwmare to switch us over to the kernel trap
table.
So what we did was always give the firmware buffers that were locked
into the main kernel image.
But we no longer have problems like that, so get rid of all of this
indirect bounce buffering.
Besides fixing Meelis's bug, this also makes the kernel data about 3K
smaller.
It was also discovered during these conversions that the
implementation of prom_retain() was completely wrong, so that was
fixed here as well. Currently that interface is not in use.
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
If the code were already aligned to 64 bytes, wr instruction would be executed
twice --- once in delay slot and once in the jump target.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
As noticed by Mikulas Patocka, the backoff macros don't
completely nop out for UP builds, we still get a
branch always and a delay slot nop.
Fix this by making the branch to the backoff spin loop
selective, then we can nop out the spin loop completely.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Basically tip-off the powerpc code, use a 64-bit type and atomic64_t
interfaces for the implementation.
This gets us off of the by-hand asm code I wrote, which frankly I
think probably ruins I-cache hit rates.
The idea was the keep the call chains less deep, but anything taking
the rw-semaphores probably is also calling other stuff and therefore
already has allocated a stack-frame. So no real stack frame savings
ever.
Ben H. has posted patches to make powerpc use 64-bit too and with some
abstractions we can probably use a shared header file somewhere.
With suggestions from Sam Ravnborg.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
