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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f87d09be8c Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-16 08:39:30 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
3f02d072d4 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial 2006-01-15 16:43:29 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
21e2379b9e Merge branch 'work' 2006-01-15 21:31:10 -02:00
Michael Krufky
de03d21b90 V4L/DVB (3388): tuner_params->tda988x is currently unused, so disable
- Tuner_params->tda988x is unused right now, so let's disable it for 2.6.16
- This is currently happening at the card level, but the plan
  is to move this configuration into the tuner_params configuration.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 21:28:17 -02:00
Michael Krufky
01872c5d25 V4L/DVB (3387): clean up some comments
- clean up some comments

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 21:26:44 -02:00
Hans Verkuil
27487d4471 V4L/DVB (3384): Separate tv & radio freqs, fix cb/freq transmit order for tuners that need this.
- Moved MSP_SET_MATRIX to v4l2-common.h
- Fix typos and integer overflows in tea5767.c
- Split old freq field into a tv_freq and a radio_freq. Prevents
  that a radio tuner is initialized with a tv frequency or vice versa.
- When switching to radio mode initialize the tuner with the last
  used radio frequency (this was already done for the TV mode).
  As a result of these changes the tuner module now remembers the
  last set radio and TV frequencies, which is what you would expect
  to happen.
- Move out of range frequencies to the closest valid frequency as per
  v4l2 API spec.
- Fix incorrect initial radio frequency (multiplier is 16000, not 16)
- Add boundary check for out of range frequencies.
- Use new flag to check if the order of the CB and freq. depends on
  the last set frequency. That is needed for some tuners or you can
  get static as a result. The flag is added for those tuners where I know
  that the datasheet indicates that this is necessary.
- For this new check use the last set div value, not the last frequency
  as radio frequencies are always much higher due to the 16000 multiplier.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 21:25:32 -02:00
Michael Krufky
8f0bb9c069 V4L/DVB (3383): Move tda988x options into tuner_params struct.
- Tda988x parameters should be defined per tuner_param_type,
for each tuner_params array member.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 21:24:34 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
d04ae27bae Merge branch 'work' 2006-01-15 21:01:27 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
f1dccedc81 Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2006-01-15 20:59:29 -02:00
Linus Torvalds
0238cb4e75 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-15 13:33:09 -08:00
Kyle McMartin
6b4977ce0f [PATCH] Use atomic64_set for 64-bit case of atomic_long_set
For some reason, the BITS_PER_LONG == 64 case of atomic_long_set
was using atomic_set instead of atomic64_set. This does not jive
with architectures which use an inline instead of a #define to
implement their atomic_set() primitives.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-15 10:17:07 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fc03da1ca1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-15 10:05:10 -08:00
Russell King
ef0498a7bf [ARM] Fix missing compiler.h include
asm/mach/arch.h introduced a __deprecated, but didn't include compiler.h,
causing:

In file included from arch/arm/mach-at91rm9200/devices.c:13:
include/asm/mach/arch.h:23: warning: no semicolon at end of struct or union
include/asm/mach/arch.h:23: error: syntax error before 'phys_ram'
include/asm/mach/arch.h:34: error: syntax error before ':' token
include/asm/mach/arch.h:35: error: syntax error before ':' token
include/asm/mach/arch.h:36: error: syntax error before ':' token
include/asm/mach/arch.h:37: error: syntax error before ':' token
include/asm/mach/arch.h:45: error: syntax error before '}' token

Add the necessary include.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-15 17:03:45 +00:00
Tyler Trafford
436eddd035 V4L/DVB (3365): i2c ids for upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739
- Add i2c ids for drivers: upd64031a saa717x upd64083 wm8739

Signed-off-by: Tyler Trafford <tatrafford@comcast.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-01-15 09:02:44 -02:00
Paul Mackerras
a7fdd90bc4 [PATCH] ppc: Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc
This makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP
with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support.
It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently.
Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of
ARCH=ppc.  (This does mean that it is no longer possible to
build a 32-bit kernel for a G5.)

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-15 17:30:44 +11:00
Linus Torvalds
650eec5e04 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-01-14 19:44:39 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
8d5c315059 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2006-01-14 19:43:21 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
a9df3d0f31 [PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inlining
If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers
to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc
to inline all the time.  This requires several places that require to be
inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:16 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
652050aec9 [PATCH] mark several functions __always_inline
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>

Mark a number of functions as 'must inline'.  The functions affected by this
patch need to be inlined because they use knowledge that their arguments are
constant so that most of the function optimizes away.  At this point this
patch does not change behavior, it's for documentation only (and for future
patches in the inline series)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
40fc55cb69 [PATCH] Make __always_inline actually force always inlining
This patch is the first in a series that tries to optimize the kernel in terms
of size (and thus cache behavior, both cpu and pagecache).

This first patch changes __always_inline to be a forced inline instead of the
"regular" inline it was on everything except alpha.  This forced inline
matches the intention of the define better as a matter of documentation.
There is no change in behavior by this patch, since "inline" currently is
mapped to a forced inline anyway.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
216d526c89 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_mmap prototype
No need for a file argument.  If we'd really need it it's in vma->vm_file
already.  gbefb and sgivwfb used to set vma->vm_file to the file argument, but
the kernel alrady did that.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:15 -08:00
Christoph Hellwig
67a6680d64 [PATCH] fbdev: Sanitize ->fb_ioctl prototype
The ioctl and file arguments to ->fb_mmap are totally unused and there's not
reason a driver should need them.

Also update the ->fb_compat_ioctl prototype to be the same as ->fb_mmap.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:14 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
d063389ecf [PATCH] smbfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove the remaining kmalloc() wrapper bits from fs/smbfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:13 -08:00
Pekka Enberg
44db77f33c [PATCH] ncpfs: remove kmalloc wrapper
Remove remaining kmalloc wrapper bits from fs/ncpfs/.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:12 -08:00
Paul Jackson
505970b96e [PATCH] cpuset oom lock fix
The problem, reported in:

  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5859

and by various other email messages and lkml posts is that the cpuset hook
in the oom (out of memory) code can try to take a cpuset semaphore while
holding the tasklist_lock (a spinlock).

One must not sleep while holding a spinlock.

The fix seems easy enough - move the cpuset semaphore region outside the
tasklist_lock region.

This required a few lines of mechanism to implement.  The oom code where
the locking needs to be changed does not have access to the cpuset locks,
which are internal to kernel/cpuset.c only.  So I provided a couple more
cpuset interface routines, available to the rest of the kernel, which
simple take and drop the lock needed here (cpusets callback_sem).

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
Cornelia Huck
4ce3b30cf3 [PATCH] s390: email-address change
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:10 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
1f1c12afe5 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting
finish_arch_switch needs to update the user cpu time as well, not just the
system cpu time.  Otherwise the partial user cpu time of a process that is
stored in the lowcore will be (mis-)accounted to the next process.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
Martin Schwidefsky
6410dd5e07 [PATCH] s390: sigcontext.h vs __user
Add an include of linux/compiler.h in sigcontext.h to avoid compiler errors in
user space apps because of a missing definition for __user.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:08 -08:00
Robin Holt
7339ff8302 [PATCH] Add tmpfs options for memory placement policies
Anything that writes into a tmpfs filesystem is liable to disproportionately
decrease the available memory on a particular node.  Since there's no telling
what sort of application (e.g.  dd/cp/cat) might be dropping large files
there, this lets the admin choose the appropriate default behavior for their
site's situation.

Introduce a tmpfs mount option which allows specifying a memory policy and
a second option to specify the nodelist for that policy.  With the default
policy, tmpfs will behave as it does today.  This patch adds support for
preferred, bind, and interleave policies.

The default policy will cause pages to be added to tmpfs files on the node
which is doing the writing.  Some jobs expect a single process to create
and manage the tmpfs files.  This results in a node which has a
significantly reduced number of free pages.

With this patch, the administrator can specify the policy and nodes for
that policy where they would prefer allocations.

This patch was originally written by Brent Casavant and Hugh Dickins.  I
added support for the bind and preferred policies and the mpol_nodelist
mount option.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Christoph Lameter
852cf918dc [PATCH] Fix for CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP
Some people apparently run CONFIG_NUMA without CONFIG_SWAP.  The migration
code currently depends on swap.  This patch provides a set of inline
fallback functions so that the kernel properly compiles.  However, calls to
migration functions will fail.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:27:07 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
b0a9499c3d [PATCH] sched: add new SCHED_BATCH policy
Add a new SCHED_BATCH (3) scheduling policy: such tasks are presumed
CPU-intensive, and will acquire a constant +5 priority level penalty.  Such
policy is nice for workloads that are non-interactive, but which do not
want to give up their nice levels.  The policy is also useful for workloads
that want a deterministic scheduling policy without interactivity causing
extra preemptions (between that workload's tasks).

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Patrick Gefre
2d0cfb5279 [PATCH] Altix: ioc3 serial support
Add driver support for a 2 port PCI IOC3-based serial card on Altix boxes:

This is a re-submission.  On the original submission I was asked to
organize the code so that the MIPS ioc3 ethernet and serial parts could be
used with this driver.  Stanislaw Skowronek was kind enough to provide the
shim layer for this - thanks Stanislaw.  This patch includes the shim layer
and the Altix PCI ioc3 serial driver.  The MIPS merged ioc3 ethernet and
serial support is forthcoming.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:20 -08:00
Neil Horman
7170be5f58 [PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interface
A Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the
seq_file interface.  This patch does that.

I've obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that
they overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices.

Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-14 18:25:19 -08:00
Haren Myneni
8385a6a3ac [PATCH] powerpc: Fix kdump copy regs and dynamic allocate per-cpu crash notes
- This contains the arch specific changes for the following the
kdump generic fixes which were already accepted in the upstream.
       .   Capturing CPU registers (for the case of 'panic' and invoking
the dump using 'sysrq-trigger') from a function (stack frame) which will
be not be available during the kdump boot. Hence, might result in
invalid stack trace.
       .   Dynamically allocating per cpu ELF notes section instead of
statically for NR_CPUS.

- Fix the compiler warning in prom_init.c.

Signed-off-by: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-15 13:14:42 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan
3235798804 Fix "stuct", "strut", "struc" typos
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-01-15 02:12:54 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
12dbf3fc4d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6 2006-01-14 12:16:07 -08:00
Nicolas Pitre
3f471126ee [ARM] 3262/4: allow ptraced syscalls to be overriden
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This is needed by strace to properly handle the tracing of some system
calls. It could be useful for other applications as well.

Based on an earlier patch from Daniel Jacobowitz.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 19:30:04 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
61b7efddc5 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/spi-2.6 2006-01-14 10:43:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
3e2b32b693 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2006-01-14 10:42:40 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
59af70385f Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2006-01-14 09:55:28 -08:00
Mike Christie
7b8631b53b [SCSI] iscsi: seperate iscsi interface from setup functions
This is the second version of the patch to address Christoph's comments.
Instead of doing the lib, I just kept everything in scsi_trnapsort_iscsi.c
like the FC and SPI class. This was becuase the driver model and sysfs
class is tied to the session and connection setup so separating did not
buy very much at this time.

The reason for this patch was becuase HW iscsi LLDs like qla4xxx cannot
use the iscsi class becuase the scsi_host was tied to the interface and
class code. This patch just seperates the session from scsi host so
that LLDs that allocate the host per some resource like pci device
can still use the class.

This is also fixes a couple refcount bugs that can be triggered
when users have a sysfs file open, close the session, then
read or write to the file.

Signed-off-by: Alex Aizman <itn780@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Yusupov <dmitry_yus@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Christie <michaelc@cs.wisc.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:20 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
e02f3f5922 [SCSI] remove target parent limitiation
When James Smart fixed the issue of the userspace scan atributes
crashing the system with the FC transport class he added a patch to
let the transport class check if the parent is valid for a given
transport class.

When adding support for the integrated raid of fusion sas devices
we ran into a problem with that, as it didn't allow adding virtual
raid volumes without the transport class knowing about it.

So this patch adds a user_scan attribute instead, that takes over from
scsi_scan_host_selected if the transport class sets it and thus lets
the transport class control the user-initiated scanning.  As this
plugs the hole about user-initiated scanning the target_parent hook
goes away and we rely on callers of the scanning routines to do
something sensible.

For SAS this meant I had to switch from a spinlock to a mutex to
synchronize the topology linked lists, in FC they were completely
unsynchronized which seems wrong.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:05 -06:00
Moore, Eric
6d5b0c315e [SCSI] fusion - adding support for FC949ES
Add software recognition for the new LSI Logic Fibre Channel controller.

Signed-off-by: Eric Moore <Eric.Moore@lsil.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:04 -06:00
Jes Sorensen
d158d26167 [SCSI] sem2mutex: scsi_transport_spi.c
Convert the SCSI transport class code to use a mutex rather than a
semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:55:01 -06:00
Andreas Herrmann
6b7281d0a0 [SCSI] fc transport: add permanent_port_name fc_host attribute
Add fc_host attribute permanent_port_name which is
used to show the port name of the primary port -
the port that initially logged into the fabric.

For a virtual port (registered via the primary port with
FDISC command) it is useful to know not only its (virtual)
port name but also the permanent port name.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:54:48 -06:00
Christoph Hellwig
776b23a036 [SCSI] always handle REQ_BLOCK_PC requests in common code
LLDDs should never see REQ_BLOCK_PC requests, we can handle them just
fine in the core code.  There is a small behaviour change in that some
check in sr's rw_intr are bypassed, but I consider the old behaviour
a bug.

Mike found this cleanup opportunity and provdided early patches, so all
the credit goes to him, even if I redid the patches from scratch beause
that was easier than forward-porting the old patches.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-01-14 10:54:45 -06:00
Nicolas Pitre
dd35afc22b [ARM] 3110/5: old ABI compat: multi-ABI syscall entry support
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

This patch adds the required code to support both user space ABIs at
the same time. A second syscall table is created to include legacy ABI
syscalls that need an ABI compat wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:36:12 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
713c481519 [ARM] 3108/2: old ABI compat: statfs64 and fstatfs64
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

struct statfs64 has extra padding with EABI growing its size from 84 to
88. This struct is now __attribute__((packed,aligned(4))) with a small
assembly wrapper to force the sz argument to 84 if it is 88 to avoid
copying the extra padding over user space memory unexpecting it.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:35:03 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
c155fc95be [ARM] 3106/2: ARM EABI: some syscall adjustments
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

Fix a few syscalls for EABI requirements. They were sys_pread64 and
sys_pwrite64 where the last argument is now entirely pushed on stack,
but since commit 567bd98017 they don't
require any fixup.  Remains only the stat64 structure. Non EABI kernels
are unaffected.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:32:12 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
3f2829a315 [ARM] 3105/4: ARM EABI: new syscall entry convention
Patch from Nicolas Pitre

For a while we wanted to change the way syscalls were called on ARM.
Instead of encoding the syscall number in the swi instruction which
requires reading back the instruction from memory to extract that number
and polluting the data cache, it was decided that simply storing the
syscall number into r7 would be more efficient. Since this represents
an ABI change then making that change at the same time as EABI support
is the right thing to do.

It is now expected that EABI user space binaries put the syscall number
into r7 and use "swi 0" to call the kernel. Syscall register argument
are also expected to have "EABI arrangement" i.e. 64-bit arguments
should be put in a pair of registers from an even register number.

Example with long ftruncate64(unsigned int fd, loff_t length):

	legacy ABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r1-r2
	- use "swi #(0x900000 + 194)" to call the kernel

	new ARM EABI:
	- put fd into r0
	- put length into r2-r3 (skipping over r1)
	- put 194 into r7
	- use "swi 0" to call the kernel

Note that it is important to use 0 for the swi argument as backward
compatibility with legacy ABI user space relies on this.
The syscall macros in asm-arm/unistd.h were also updated to support
both ABIs and implement the right call method automatically.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-14 16:31:29 +00:00