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Justin P. Mattock
f3449bf31d m68k: fix comment typo diable -> disable.
The below patch fixes a typo "diable" to "disable". Please let me know if this
is correct or not.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 16:06:58 +01:00
Justin P. Mattock
62e45c14fb wireless: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
The below patch fixes a typo "diable" to "disable". Please let me know if this
is correct or not.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 16:05:53 +01:00
Justin P. Mattock
eb78bd7d8a media: comment typo fix diable -> disable.
The below patch fixes a typo "diable" to "disable".

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 16:03:38 +01:00
Jim Cromie
44dd4ff33c remove doc for obsolete dynamic-printk kernel-parameter
re:
  commit e9d376f0fa
  Author: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Feb 5 11:51:38 2009 -0500

    dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk

Above commit obsoleted the kernel parameter, and even removed its
entry in kernel-parameters.txt, but got reinsterted through
0cb55ad2ad ("docs: alphabetize entries in kernel-parameters.txt")

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 14:07:04 +01:00
Jim Cromie
50ed380afb remove extraneous 'is' from Documentation/iostats.txt
fix "is increases", drop "is"

Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 14:00:28 +01:00
Stefan Weil
9380f2af16 Fix spelling milisec -> ms in snd_ps3 module parameter description
Instead of replacing 'milisec' by 'millisec', I decided to use
the more common SI unit. Other drivers use 'milliseconds'
or 'ms', too ('millisec' is never used).

Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 13:54:21 +01:00
Stefan Weil
e8a8b252fb Fix spelling mistakes in comments
milisecond -> millisecond
 meassge -> message

Cc: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-01-03 13:51:58 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
bb9fb42029 Revert conflicting V4L changes
This is a partial revert of b595076a18
("tree-wide: fix comment/printk typos"), as it changes the code
that no longer exists in linux-next.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-28 14:16:15 +01:00
David Sterba
e7bf068aa3 i7core_edac: fix typos in comments
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-28 01:20:51 +01:00
Figo.zhang
23a0790af2 mm/rmap.c: fix comment
clean up comment.

Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-27 15:14:06 +01:00
Jesper Juhl
c521dde6a6 sound, ca0106: Fix assignment to 'channel'.
The assignment to the local variable 'channel' in
snd_ca0106_pcm_pointer_capture() is a little crazy.  Order of assignment is
undefined. This fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-27 15:09:53 +01:00
Namhyung Kim
43b210139a hrtimer: fix a typo in comment
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-22 19:01:47 +01:00
Jim Cromie
43d547f9ce init/Kconfig: fix typo
Signed-off-by:  Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-12-22 18:58:36 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
4b7bd36470 Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
	drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c

Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
2010-12-22 18:57:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
90a8a73c06 Linux 2.6.37-rc7 2010-12-21 11:26:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
e5fcdb7ed8 Merge branch 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  n_gsm: gsm_data_alloc buffer allocation could fail and it is not being checked
  n_gsm: Fix message length handling when building header
2010-12-20 21:34:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7bddaaca47 Merge branch 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  Revert "USB: gadget: Allow function access to device ID data during bind()"
  USB: misc: uss720.c: add another vendor/product ID
  USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for the Samsung YP-CP3
  USB: gadget: Remove suspended sysfs file before freeing cdev
  USB: core: Add input prompt and help text for USB_OTG config
  USB: ftdi_sio: Add D.O.Tec PID
  xhci: Fix issue with port array setup and buggy hosts.
2010-12-20 21:33:12 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9d5004fcf6 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client:
  ceph: handle partial result from get_user_pages
  ceph: mark user pages dirty on direct-io reads
  ceph: fix null pointer dereference in ceph_init_dentry for nfs reexport
  ceph: fix direct-io on non-page-aligned buffers
  ceph: fix msgr_init error path
2010-12-20 21:32:20 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
453434cf3f Fix build error in drivers/block/cciss.c
.. caused by a missing semi-colon, introduced in commit 0fc13c8995
("cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic").

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Reported-by: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-20 21:21:49 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8cad7f06e3 Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6
* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6:
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Better handling of the bridge registers 0x01 and 0x17
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Add the bit definitions of the bridge reg 0x01 and 0x17
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Set the flag for some devices
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Add a flag in the driver_info table
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Fix a bad probe exchange
  [media] gspca - sonixj: Move bridge init to sd start
  [media] bttv: remove unneeded locking comments
  [media] bttv: fix mutex use before init (BZ#24602)
  [media] Don't export format_by_forcc on two different drivers
2010-12-20 10:35:04 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
92d7c9b231 Merge branch 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'rmobile-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  ARM: mach-shmobile: INTC interrupt priority level demux fix
  ARM: mach-shmobile: fix compile warning in mm/init.c
2010-12-20 09:59:08 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
9e0afb9437 Merge branch 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* 'sh-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6:
  clocksource: sh_cmt: Remove nested spinlock fix
2010-12-20 09:53:50 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7aeb3be341 Merge branch 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6
* 'fbdev-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/fbdev-2.6:
  OMAP: OMAPFB: disable old omapfb for OMAP4 builds
  OMAP: DSS: VRAM: Align start & size of vram to 2M
2010-12-20 09:49:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
07058599b4 Merge branch 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung
* 's5p-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kgene/linux-samsung:
  ARM: S5PV210: update MAX8998 platform data to get rid of WARN()
  ARM S3C24XX: Fix compilation of PM code for S3C2416
  ARM: S3C24XX: Fix CONFIG_S3C_DEV_NAND Kconfig entry
2010-12-20 09:46:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
7f8635cc9e Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  cciss: fix cciss_revalidate panic
  block: max hardware sectors limit wrapper
  block: Deprecate QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER and use queue_limits instead
  blk-throttle: Correct the placement of smp_rmb()
  blk-throttle: Trim/adjust slice_end once a bio has been dispatched
  block: check for proper length of iov entries earlier in blk_rq_map_user_iov()
  drbd: fix for spin_lock_irqsave in endio callback
  drbd: don't recvmsg with zero length
2010-12-20 09:19:46 -08:00
Al Viro
3cb50ddf97 Fix btrfs b0rkage
Buggered-in: 76dda93c6a ("Btrfs: add snapshot/subvolume destroy
ioctl")

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-20 09:09:57 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
b8da46d3d5 clarify a usage constraint for cnt32_to_63()
The cnt32_to_63 algorithm relies on proper counter data evaluation
ordering to work properly. This was missing from the provided
documentation.

Let's augment the documentation with the missing usage constraint and
fix the only instance that got it wrong.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-12-20 09:07:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
de5e9d5820 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Remove debugging check
2010-12-20 09:05:26 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
050c6c9b89 sched: Remove debugging check
Linus reported that the new warning introduced by commit f26f9aff6a
"Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization" triggers. The need_resched
flag can be set by other CPUs asynchronously so this debug check is
bogus - remove it.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <AANLkTinJ8hAG1TpyC+CSYPR47p48+1=E7fiC45hMXT_1@mail.gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-12-19 23:24:27 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
55ec86f848 Merge branches 'x86-fixes-for-linus' and 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86-32: Make sure we can map all of lowmem if we need to
  x86, vt-d: Handle previous faults after enabling fault handling
  x86: Enable the intr-remap fault handling after local APIC setup
  x86, vt-d: Fix the vt-d fault handling irq migration in the x2apic mode
  x86, vt-d: Quirk for masking vtd spec errors to platform error handling logic
  x86, xsave: Use alloc_bootmem_align() instead of alloc_bootmem()
  bootmem: Add alloc_bootmem_align()
  x86, gcc-4.6: Use gcc -m options when building vdso
  x86: HPET: Chose a paranoid safe value for the ETIME check
  x86: io_apic: Avoid unused variable warning when CONFIG_GENERIC_PENDING_IRQ=n

* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  perf: Fix off by one in perf_swevent_init()
  perf: Fix duplicate events with multiple-pmu vs software events
  ftrace: Have recordmcount honor endianness in fn_ELF_R_INFO
  scripts/tags.sh: Add magic for trace-events
  tracing: Fix panic when lseek() called on "trace" opened for writing
2010-12-19 10:44:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
21228e4557 Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  sched: Fix the irqtime code for 32bit
  sched: Fix the irqtime code to deal with u64 wraps
  nohz: Fix get_next_timer_interrupt() vs cpu hotplug
  Sched: fix skip_clock_update optimization
  sched: Cure more NO_HZ load average woes
2010-12-19 10:37:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
0a59228168 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cmetcalf/linux-tile:
  arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly
  arch/tile: handle CLONE_SETTLS in copy_thread(), not user space
2010-12-18 10:28:54 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
2ba16c4f45 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  MIPS: Fix build errors in sc-mips.c
2010-12-18 10:23:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
46bdfe6a50 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6:
  x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space
  x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space
  x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space
  resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas
  Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"
  Revert "PCI: allocate bus resources from the top down"
  Revert "x86/PCI: allocate space from the end of a region, not the beginning"
  Revert "x86: allocate space within a region top-down"
  Revert "PCI: fix pci_bus_alloc_resource() hang, prefer positive decode"
  PCI: Update MCP55 quirk to not affect non HyperTransport variants
2010-12-18 10:13:24 -08:00
Chris Metcalf
81711cee93 arch/tile: handle rt_sigreturn() more cleanly
The current tile rt_sigreturn() syscall pattern uses the common idiom
of loading up pt_regs with all the saved registers from the time of
the signal, then anticipating the fact that we will clobber the ABI
"return value" register (r0) as we return from the syscall by setting
the rt_sigreturn return value to whatever random value was in the pt_regs
for r0.

However, this breaks in our 64-bit kernel when running "compat" tasks,
since we always sign-extend the "return value" register to properly
handle returned pointers that are in the upper 2GB of the 32-bit compat
address space.  Doing this to the sigreturn path then causes occasional
random corruption of the 64-bit r0 register.

Instead, we stop doing the crazy "load the return-value register"
hack in sigreturn.  We already have some sigreturn-specific assembly
code that we use to pass the pt_regs pointer to C code.  We extend that
code to also set the link register to point to a spot a few instructions
after the usual syscall return address so we don't clobber the saved r0.
Now it no longer matters what the rt_sigreturn syscall returns, and the
pt_regs structure can be cleanly and completely reloaded.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2010-12-17 16:59:29 -05:00
Chris Metcalf
bc4cf2bb27 arch/tile: handle CLONE_SETTLS in copy_thread(), not user space
Previously we were just setting up the "tp" register in the
new task as started by clone() in libc.  However, this is not
quite right, since in principle a signal might be delivered to
the new task before it had its TLS set up.  (Of course, this race
window still exists for resetting the libc getpid() cached value
in the new task, in principle.  But in any case, we are now doing
this exactly the way all other architectures do it.)

This change is important for 2.6.37 since the tile glibc we will
be submitting upstream will not set TLS in user space any more,
so it will only work on a kernel that has this fix.  It should
also be taken for 2.6.36.x in the stable tree if possible.

Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
2010-12-17 16:56:50 -05:00
Jean-Francois Moine
0e4d413af1 [media] gspca - sonixj: Better handling of the bridge registers 0x01 and 0x17
The initial values of the registers 0x01 and 0x17 are taken from the sensor
table at capture start and updated according to the flag PDN_INV.

Their values are updated at each step of the capture initialization and
memorized for reuse in capture stop.

This patch also fixed automatically some bad hardcoded values of these
registers.

Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:49:11 -02:00
Jean-Francois Moine
4fd350ee2b [media] gspca - sonixj: Add the bit definitions of the bridge reg 0x01 and 0x17
Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:49:00 -02:00
Jean-Francois Moine
b2272a49e7 [media] gspca - sonixj: Set the flag for some devices
The flag PDN_INV indicates that the sensor pin S_PWR_DN has not the same
value as other webcams with the same sensor. For now, only two webcams have
been so detected: the Microsoft's VX1000 and VX3000.

Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:48:46 -02:00
Jean-Francois Moine
c6c1433071 [media] gspca - sonixj: Add a flag in the driver_info table
Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:48:30 -02:00
Jean-Francois Moine
4f67f3adef [media] gspca - sonixj: Fix a bad probe exchange
Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:48:18 -02:00
Jean-Francois Moine
5e68f400aa [media] gspca - sonixj: Move bridge init to sd start
Signed-off-by: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:47:53 -02:00
Brandon Philips
692e42df12 [media] bttv: remove unneeded locking comments
After Mauro's "bttv: Fix locking issues due to BKL removal code" there
are a number of comments that are no longer needed about lock ordering.
Remove them.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:43:56 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
587f0d5d6d [media] bttv: fix mutex use before init (BZ#24602)
Fix a regression where bttv driver causes oopses when loading, since it
were using some non-initialized mutexes. While it would be possible to
fix the issue, there are some other lock troubles, like to the presence of
lock code at free_btres_lock().

It is possible to fix, but the better is to just use the core-assisted
locking schema. This way, V4L2 core will serialize access to all
ioctl's/open/close/mmap/read/poll operations, avoiding to have two
processes accessing the hardware at the same time. Also, as there's just
one lock, instead of 3, there's no risk of dead locks.

The net result is a cleaner code, with just one lock.

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Brandon Philips<brandon@ifup.org>
Reported-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Reported-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2010-12-17 18:39:43 -02:00
Kevin Cernekee
081d835fa4 MIPS: Fix build errors in sc-mips.c
Seen with malta_defconfig on Linus' tree:

  CC      arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.o
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c: In function 'mips_sc_is_activated':
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: 'config2' undeclared (first use in this function)
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:77: error: for each function it appears in.)
arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.c:81: error: 'tmp' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [arch/mips/mm/sc-mips.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [arch/mips/mm] Error 2
make: *** [arch/mips] Error 2

[Ralf: Cosmetic changes to minimize the number of arguments passed to
mips_sc_is_activated]

Signed-off-by: Kevin Cernekee <cernekee@gmail.com>
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1752/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-12-17 19:44:35 +00:00
Bjorn Helgaas
a2c606d53a x86: avoid high BIOS area when allocating address space
This prevents allocation of the last 2MB before 4GB.

The experiment described here shows Windows 7 ignoring the last 1MB:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23542#c27

This patch ignores the top 2MB instead of just 1MB because H. Peter Anvin
says "There will be ROM at the top of the 32-bit address space; it's a fact
of the architecture, and on at least older systems it was common to have a
shadow 1 MiB below."

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:01:30 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
4dc2287c18 x86: avoid E820 regions when allocating address space
When we allocate address space, e.g., to assign it to a PCI device, don't
allocate anything mentioned in the BIOS E820 memory map.

On recent machines (2008 and newer), we assign PCI resources from the
windows described by the ACPI PCI host bridge _CRS.  On many Dell
machines, these windows overlap some E820 reserved areas, e.g.,

    BIOS-e820: 00000000bfe4dc00 - 00000000c0000000 (reserved)
    pci_root PNP0A03:00: host bridge window [mem 0xbff00000-0xdfffffff]

If we put devices at 0xbff00000, they don't work, probably because
that's really RAM, not I/O memory.  This patch prevents that by removing
the 0xbfe4dc00-0xbfffffff area from the "available" resource.

I'm not very happy with this solution because Windows solves the problem
differently (it seems to ignore E820 reserved areas and it allocates
top-down instead of bottom-up; details at comment 45 of the bugzilla
below).  That means we're vulnerable to BIOS defects that Windows would not
trip over.  For example, if BIOS described a device in ACPI but didn't
mention it in E820, Windows would work fine but Linux would fail.

Reference: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16228
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:01:24 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
30919b0bf3 x86: avoid low BIOS area when allocating address space
This implements arch_remove_reservations() so allocate_resource() can
avoid any arch-specific reserved areas.  This currently just avoids the
BIOS area (the first 1MB), but could be used for E820 reserved areas if
that turns out to be necessary.

We previously avoided this area in pcibios_align_resource().  This patch
moves the test from that PCI-specific path to a generic path, so *all*
resource allocations will avoid this area.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:01:17 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
fcb119183c resources: add arch hook for preventing allocation in reserved areas
This adds arch_remove_reservations(), which an arch can implement if it
needs to protect part of the address space from allocation.

Sometimes that can be done by just putting a region in the resource tree,
but there are cases where that doesn't work well.  For example, x86 BIOS
E820 reservations are not related to devices, so they may overlap part of,
all of, or more than a device resource, so they may not end up at the
correct spot in the resource tree.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:01:09 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas
c0f5ac5426 Revert "resources: support allocating space within a region from the top down"
This reverts commit e7f8567db9.

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2010-12-17 10:00:59 -08:00