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Adrian Bunk
30aaa154fc [IPV6]: Unexport secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral
This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:29:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
7f344f0aa7 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  [WATCHDOG] at91_wdt.c - Atmel AT91RM9200 watchdog driver
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd_usb.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c sprintf/strcpy fix
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c general clean-up after patches
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c add debug info
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c pcwd_cleanup_module patch
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c firmware-info patch
  [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c control status patch
2006-04-02 13:01:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
86dca4f8e6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6: (33 commits)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: declare pccard_iodyn_ops (fix m8xx_pcmcia.c compilation error)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: fix pcmcia_device_remove oops
  [PATCH] pcmcia: Add support for Possio GCC AKA PCMCIA Siemens MC45
  [PATCH] pcmcia: pseudo device handling update
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert DEV_OK to pcmcia_dev_present
  [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unused p_dev->state flags
  [PATCH] pcmcia: make pcmcia_release_{io,irq} static
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirection
  [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device
  [PATCH] pcmcia: rename pcmcia_device.state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo setting
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove export of pcmcia_release_configuration
  [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handling
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert remaining users of pcmcia_release_io and _irq
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
  [PATCH] serial_cs: add Merlin U630 IDs
  [PATCH] pcmcia: AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver
  [PATCH] pcmcia: socket.functions starts with 1
  ...
2006-04-02 12:49:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9c8680e2cf Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (26 commits)
  Input: add support for Braille devices
  Input: synaptics - limit rate to 40pps on Toshiba Protege M300
  Input: gamecon - add SNES mouse support
  Input: make modalias code respect allowed buffer size
  Input: convert /proc handling to seq_file
  Input: limit attributes' output to PAGE_SIZE
  Input: gameport - fix memory leak
  Input: serio - fix memory leak
  Input: zaurus keyboard driver updates
  Input: i8042 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver()
  Input: ns558 - fix logic around pnp_register_driver()
  Input: pcspkr - separate device and driver registration
  Input: atkbd - allow disabling on X86_PC (if EMBEDDED)
  Input: atkbd - disable softrepeat for dumb keyboards
  Input: atkbd - fix complaints about 'releasing unknown key 0x7f'
  Input: HID - fix duplicate key mapping for Logitech UltraX remote
  Input: use kzalloc() throughout the code
  Input: fix input_free_device() implementation
  Input: initialize serio and gameport at subsystem level
  Input: uinput - semaphore to mutex conversion
  ...
2006-04-02 12:49:19 -07:00
Andrew Victor
853807fb50 [WATCHDOG] at91_wdt.c - Atmel AT91RM9200 watchdog driver
Watchdog driver for the Atmel AT91RM9200 processor.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-04-02 18:52:01 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
c9d1a0b8d5 [WATCHDOG] pcwd_usb.c: fix a NULL pointer dereference
The Coverity checker noted that this resulted in a NULL pointer
reference if we were coming from

        if (usb_pcwd == NULL) {
                printk(KERN_ERR PFX "Out of memory\n");
                    goto error;
        }

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-04-02 18:51:50 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
6bbc20bc0b [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c sprintf/strcpy fix
change sprintf(pcwd_private.fw_ver_str, "ERROR");
to strcpy... as pointed out by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-04-02 18:51:40 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
369fa25294 [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c general clean-up after patches
removal of includes (since we don't use kmalloc and
TASK_INTERRUPTABLE anymore).
Addition of missing commands.
Printk that lets the user know when the module was
unloaded.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-04-02 18:51:24 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
c324ab4281 [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c add debug info
Add debugging info for the pcwd.c module.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-04-02 18:51:15 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
69f83d5216 [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c pcwd_cleanup_module patch
static void pcwd_cleanup_module doesn't need a return;

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-04-02 18:50:57 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
2891b6ad18 [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c firmware-info patch
Get the firmware version into the private data struct
of the ISA-PC watchdog card.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-04-02 18:39:48 +02:00
Wim Van Sebroeck
4206f0c4de [WATCHDOG] pcwd.c control status patch
Clean-up the control status code (insert tabs where relevant),
Add new Control Status defines, Make sure that the R2DS bit
stays the same.

Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2006-04-02 18:36:43 +02:00
Samuel Thibault
b9ec4e109d Input: add support for Braille devices
- Add KEY_BRL_* input keys and K_BRL_* keycodes;
- Add emulation of how braille keyboards usually combine braille dots
  to the console keyboard driver;
- Add handling of unicode U+28xy diacritics.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2006-04-02 00:10:28 -05:00
Segher Boessenkool
706c8c93ba [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS
Also cleans up some nearby whitespace problems.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:36:57 +11:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
0ca07731e4 [PATCH] vt: add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT
Add TIOCL_GETKMSGREDIRECT needed by the userland suspend tool to get the
current value of kmsg_redirect from the kernel so that it can save it and
restore it after resume.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:56 -08:00
Tobias Klauser
b0b4ed728c [PATCH] drivers/char/[i]stallion: Clean up kmalloc usage
Delete two useless kmalloc wrappers and use kmalloc/kzalloc.  Some weird
NULL checks are also simplified.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:56 -08:00
Corey Minyard
d6dfd1310d [PATCH] IPMI: convert from semaphores to mutexes
Convert the remaining semaphores to mutexes in the IPMI driver.  The
watchdog was using a semaphore as a real semaphore (for IPC), so the
conversion there required adding a completion.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
Corey Minyard
8a3628d53f [PATCH] IPMI: tidy up various things
Tidy up various coding standard things, mostly removing the space after !,
but also break some long lines and fix a few other spacing inconsistencies.
Also fixes some bad error reporting when deleting an IPMI user.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
Corey Minyard
453823ba08 [PATCH] IPMI: fix startup race condition
Matt Domsch noticed a startup race with the IPMI kernel thread, it was
possible (though extraordinarly unlikely) that a message could come in
before the upper layer was ready to handle it.  This patch splits the
startup processing of an IPMI interface into two parts, one to get ready
and one to actually start the processes to receive messages from the
interface.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
Andrew Morton
ee37df7877 [PATCH] make tty_insert_flip_string a non-GPL export
Alan sayeth "Based on Linus original comments about _GPL we should export
tty_insert_flip_char as EXPORT_SYMBOL because it used to be EXPORT_SYMBOL
equivalent (trivial inline).  The other features are new extensions are were
not available to drivers before so need not be provided except as _GPL
functionality as far as I can see."

Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6294

Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Philippe Vouters <Philippe.Vouters@laposte.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:54 -08:00
Dominik Brodowski
9940ec3617 [PATCH] pcmcia: convert DEV_OK to pcmcia_dev_present
Instead of the DEV_OK macro, drivers should use pcmcia_dev_present().

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:26:57 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
e2d4096365 [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and state
Instead of the two status values struct pcmcia_device->p_state and state,
use descriptive bitfields. Most value-checking in drivers was invalid, as
the core now only calls the ->remove() (a.k.a. detach) function in case the
attachement _and_ configuration was successful.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:26:33 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
15b99ac172 [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions
Most of the driver initialization isn't done in the .probe function, but in
the internal _config() functions. Make them return a value, so that .probe
can properly report whether the probing of the device succeeded or not.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:26:06 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
fba395eee7 [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirection
dev_link_t * and client_handle_t both mean struct pcmcai_device * by now.
Therefore, remove all such indirections.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:21:06 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
fd238232cd [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device
Embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device(), as they basically address the
same entity. The actual contents of dev_link_t will be cleaned up step by step.
This patch includes a bugfix from and signed-off-by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:57 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
70294b4683 [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo setting
As we do not allow setting Vcc in the pcmcia core, and Vpp1 and
Vpp2 can only be set to the same value, a lot of code can be
streamlined.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:55 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
8661bb5b4a [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handling
In all but one case, the suspend and resume functions of PCMCIA drivers
contain mostly of calls to pcmcia_release_configuration() and
pcmcia_request_configuration(). Therefore, move this code out of the
drivers and into the core.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:52 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
5f2a71fcb7 [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
pcmcia_disable_device(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev) performs the necessary
cleanups upon device or driver removal: it calls the appropriate
pcmcia_release_* functions, and can replace (most) of the current drivers'
_release() functions.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:50 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
63e8d9114d Merge branch 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-patches' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
  drm: remove drm_{alloc,free}_pages
  drm: sis fix compile warning
  drm: add new radeon PCI ids..
  drm: read breadcrumb in IRQ handler
  drm: fixup i915 breadcrumb read/write
  drm:  remove pointless checks in radeon_state
  drm: fixup improper cast.
  drm: rationalise some pci ids
  drm: Add general-purpose packet for manipulating scratch registers (r300)
  drm: rework radeon memory map (radeon 1.23)
  drm: update r300 register names
  drm: fixup PCI DMA support
2006-03-30 14:26:27 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
76babde121 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (67 commits)
  [PATCH] powerpc: Remove oprofile spinlock backtrace code
  [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support to all powerpc cpus
  [PATCH] powerpc: Add oprofile calltrace support
  [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: ppc
  [PATCH] for_each_possible_cpu: powerpc
  [PATCH] lock PTE before updating it in 440/BookE page fault handler
  [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
  ppc: Fix compile error in arch/ppc/lib/strcase.c
  [PATCH] git-powerpc: WARN was a dumb idea
  [PATCH] powerpc: a couple of trivial compile warning fixes
  powerpc: remove OCP references
  powerpc: Make uImage default build output for MPC8540 ADS
  powerpc: move math-emu over to arch/powerpc
  powerpc: use memparse() for mem= command line parsing
  ppc: fix strncasecmp prototype
  [PATCH] powerpc: make ISA floppies work again
  [PATCH] powerpc: Fix some initcall return values
  [PATCH] powerpc: Workaround for pSeries RTAS bug
  [PATCH] spufs: fix __init/__exit annotations
  [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas
  ...
2006-03-29 11:28:30 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
652486fb84 [PATCH] do_SAK: don't depend on session ID 0
I'm not really certain what the thinking was but the code obviously wanted to
walk processes other than just those in it's session, for purposes of do_SAK.
Just walking those tasks that don't have a session assigned sounds at the very
least incomplete.

So modify the code to kill everything in the session and anything else that
might have the tty open.  Hopefully this helps if the do_SAK functionality is
ever finished.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 18:36:40 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
f96a795d4f [PATCH] do_tty_hangup: use group_send_sig_info not send_group_sig_info
We already have the tasklist_lock so there is no need for us to reacquire it
with send_group_sig_info.  reader/writer locks allow multiple readers and thus
recursion so the old code was ok just wastful.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 18:36:40 -08:00
Paul Mackerras
bac30d1a78 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-29 13:24:50 +11:00
Dave Airlie
55eb061326 drm: remove drm_{alloc,free}_pages
drm_alloc_pages and drm_free_pages can now be removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2006-03-29 08:16:12 +10:00
Dave Airlie
d2b58b5883 drm: sis fix compile warning
Prevent a gcc warning in the SIS DRM driver.  offset is a unsigned int and
the printk wants a long.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
2006-03-29 08:12:52 +10:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7f927fcc2f [PATCH] Typo fixes
Fix a lot of typos.  Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:08 -08:00
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi
05613bdd86 [PATCH] nvidia-agp: use time_before_eq()
It deals with wrapping correctly and is nicer to read.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
Arjan van de Ven
99ac48f54a [PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode
Mark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the
ripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then "do
stuff" with it.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:05 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
be4676e61f [PATCH] synclink_gt: remove uneeded async code
Remove code in async receive handling that serves no purpose with new tty
receive buffering.  Previously this code tried to free up receive buffer
space, but now does nothing useful while making expensive calls.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:02 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
0080b7aae8 [PATCH] synclink_gt add gpio feature
Add driver support for general purpose I/O feature of the Synclink GT
adapters.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@micrgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:02 -08:00
Paul Fulghum
86a34147d1 [PATCH] synclink: remove dead code
Remove dead code from synclink driver.  This was used previously when the
write method had a from_user flag, which has been removed.

Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:01 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
e8222502ee [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.

We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 23:15:54 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann
f4d1749e95 [PATCH] powerpc: add hvc backend for rtas
Current Cell hardware is using the console through a set
of rtas calls. This driver is needed to get console
output on those boards.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:28 +11:00
Ryan S. Arnold
45d607ed92 [PATCH] powerpc: hvc_console updates
These are some updates from both Ryan and Arnd for the hvc_console
driver:

The main point is to enable the inclusion of a console driver
for rtas, which is currrently needed for the cell platform.

Also shuffle around some data-type declarations and moves some
functions out of include/asm-ppc64/hvconsole.h and into a new
drivers/char/hvc_console.h file.

Signed-off-by: "Ryan S. Arnold" <rsa@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <abergman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 16:45:26 +11:00
Alessandro Zummo
12b824fb15 [PATCH] RTC subsystem: ARM cleanup
This patch removes from the ARM subsytem some of the rtc-related functions
that have been included in the RTC subsystem.  It also fixes some naming
collisions.

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
Alan Stern
e041c68341 [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

  ATOMIC CHAINS
  -------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain

  BLOCKING CHAINS
  ---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
Michael Neuling
55aab8cd3a [PATCH] powerpc: HVC init race
I've been hitting a crash on boot where tty_open is being called before the
hvc console driver setup is complete.  This fixes the problem.

Thanks to benh for his help on this.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27 14:49:48 +11:00
Anton Blanchard
b8c7b976a5 [PATCH] powerpc: Compile warning in hvcs driver
We ended up with an unused variable after the tty updates went in. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-27 14:48:52 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
9ae21d1bb3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c: Correct a comment
  Kconfig help: MTD_JEDECPROBE already supports Intel
  Remove ugly debugging stuff
  do_mounts.c: Minor ROOT_DEV comment cleanup
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd_devmap.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/mempool.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/memory.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/fork.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/sem.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/ext2/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/hfs/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dcache.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/buffer.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hp_sdc_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-table.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-path-selector.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/isdn
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/char
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/mtd/
2006-03-26 09:41:18 -08:00
Bastien Roucaries
e9415777b1 drivers/char/ftape/lowlevel/fdc-io.c: Correct a comment
This patch correct a comment about cli().

Signed-off-by: Bastien Roucaries <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-03-26 19:18:07 +02:00