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Fenghua Yu
62fdd7678a [IA64] Add Variable Page Size and IA64 Support in Intel IOMMU
The patch contains Intel IOMMU IA64 specific code. It defines new
machvec dig_vtd, hooks for IOMMU, DMAR table detection, cache line flush
function, etc.

For a generic kernel with CONFIG_DMAR=y, if Intel IOMMU is detected,
dig_vtd is used for machinve vector. Otherwise, kernel falls back to
dig machine vector. Kernel parameter "machvec=dig" or "intel_iommu=off"
can be used to force kernel to boot dig machine vector.

Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 12:14:13 -07:00
Helge Deller
81e192d6ce parisc: convert to generic compat_sys_ptrace
This patch does the compat_sys_ptrace conversion for parisc.
In addition it does convert the parisc ptrace code to use the
architecture-independent ptrace infrastructure instead of own coding.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
2008-10-17 19:03:23 +00:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
7eb923b80c 9p: add more conservative locking
During the reorganization some of the multi-theaded locking assumptions were
accidently relaxed.  This patch moves us back towards a more conservative 
locking strategy.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 12:45:40 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
f0a0ac2ee5 9p: fix oops in protocol stat parsing error path.
When we get an error on parsing a stat due to a protocol bug, 
we can generate an oops during cleanup because we didn't 
initialize the string pointers in the stat structure.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 12:45:23 -05:00
Magnus Deininger
57c7b4e68e 9p: fix device file handling
In v9fs_get_inode(), for block, as well as char devices (in theory), 
the function init_special_inode() is called to set up callback functions 
for file ops. this function uses the file mode's value to determine whether 
to use block or char dev functions. In v9fs_inode_from_fid(), the function 
p9mode2unixmode() is used, but for all devices it initially returns S_IFBLK, 
then uses v9fs_get_inode() to initialise a new inode, then finally uses 
v9fs_stat2inode(), which would determine whether the inode is a block or 
character device. However, at that point init_special_inode() had already 
decided to use the block device functions, so even if the inode's mode is 
turned to a character device, the block functions are still used to operate 
on them. The attached patch simply calls init_special_inode() again for devices 
after parsing device node data in v9fs_stat2inode() so that the proper functions 
are used.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 12:44:46 -05:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
e7f4b8f1a5 9p: Improve debug support
The new debug support lacks some of the information that the previous fcprint
code provided -- this patch focuses on better presentation of debug data along
with more helpful debug along error paths.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2008-10-17 16:20:07 -05:00
Steven A. Falco
878e7556bf powerpc/4xx: Add PowerPC 4xx GPIO driver
This patch adds support for the GPIO functions of PPC40x and PPC44x
SOCs.

Signed-off-by: Steve Falco <sfalco@harris.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-10-17 13:33:44 -04:00
Niklaus Giger
9fa126da4a powerpc/40x: Add support for Netstal HCU4 board
Adds support for a HCU4 PPC405GPr based board from Netstal Maschinen AG.

Signed-off-by: Niklaus Giger <niklaus.giger@member.fsf.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-10-17 13:28:05 -04:00
Isaku Yamahata
f8d1f99f39 ia64/pv_ops: paravirtualized instruction checker.
This patch implements a checker to detect instructions which
should be paravirtualized instead of direct writing raw instruction.
This patch does rough check so that it doesn't fully cover all cases,
but it can detects most cases of paravirtualization breakage of hand
written assembly codes.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:12:54 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
98c99d7c27 ia64/xen: a recipe for using xen/ia64 with pv_ops.
Recipe for using xen/ia64 with pv_ops domU.

Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:11:39 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
ba9cc328bf ia64/pv_ops: update Kconfig for paravirtualized guest and xen.
introduce CONFIG_PARAVIRT_GUEST, CONFIG_PARAVIRT for
paravirtualized guest.
introduce CONFIG_XEN, CONFIG_IA64_XEN_GUEST for xen.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:10:06 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
91834e685d ia64/xen: preliminary support for save/restore.
preliminary support for save/restore.
Although Save/restore isn't fully working yet, this patch is necessary
to compile.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:09:25 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
a0df655ccd ia64/xen: define xen machine vector for domU.
define xen machine vector for domU.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:08:56 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
dcbbecdad5 ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_time_ops.
implement xen pv_time_ops to account steal time.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:08:02 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
7477de989f ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_irq_ops.
implement xen pv_irq_ops to paravirtualize irq handling
with xen event channel.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:07:33 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
78c2ae4a0e ia64/pv_ops/xen: define the nubmer of irqs which xen needs.
define arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/irq.h to define the number of
irqs which xen needs.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:06:59 -07:00
Andy Adamson
ec9a05c94c NFS: use correct fs type for v4 submounts and referrals
Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson<andros@netapp.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-17 13:06:48 -04:00
Neil Brown
504e518953 Make nfs_file_cred more robust.
As not all files have an associated open_context (e.g. device special
files), it is safest to test for the existence of the open context
before de-referencing it.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-17 13:06:45 -04:00
Chuck Lever
18de973530 NFS: Enable NFSv4 callback server to listen on AF_INET6 sockets
Allow the NFS callback server to listen for requests via an AF_INET6 or
AF_INET socket when IPv6 support is present in the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2008-10-17 13:06:41 -04:00
Isaku Yamahata
bcdd48739d ia64/pv_ops/xen: implement xen pv_iosapic_ops.
implement xen pv_iosapic_ops for xen paravirtualized
iosapic.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:06:21 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
16583bc0b4 ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize entry.S for ia64/xen.
paravirtualize entry.S for ia64/xen by multi compile.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:05:46 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
5142ec4690 ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize ivt.S for xen.
paravirtualize ivt.S for xen by multi compile.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:05:08 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
21820cce17 ia64/pv_ops/xen: paravirtualize DO_SAVE_MIN for xen.
paravirtualize DO_SAVE_MIN in minstate.h for xen.

Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:04:13 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
d65b503edd ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen paravirtualized instructions for hand written assembly code
define xen paravirtualized instructions for hand written assembly code.

Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:03:47 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
4b83ce4367 ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen pv_cpu_ops.
define xen pv_cpu_ops which implementes xen paravirtualized
privileged instructions.

Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:03:24 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
b5a26e4db8 ia64/pv_ops/xen: define xen pv_init_ops for various xen initialization.
This patch implements xen version of pv_init_ops to do various
xen initialization.
This patch also includes ia64 counter part of x86 xen early printk support
patches.

Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:02:52 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
080104cd0f ia64/pv_ops/xen: elf note based xen startup.
This patch enables elf note based xen startup for IA-64, which gives the
kernel an early hint for running on xen like x86 case.
In order to avoid the multi entry point, presumably extending booting
protocol(i.e. extending struct ia64_boot_param) would be necessary.
It probably means that elilo also needs modification.

Signed-off-by: Qing He <qing.he@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:02:21 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
c7fdaf3386 ia64/xen: introduce helper function to identify domain mode.
There are four operating modes Xen code may find itself running in:
- native
- hvm domain
- pv dom0
- pv domU

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:01:46 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
8353b00f61 ia64/xen: add definitions necessary for xen event channel.
Xen paravirtualizes interrupt as event channel.
This patch defines arch specific part of xen event channel.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:01:13 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
7ad863132c ia64/xen: implement arch specific part of xen grant table.
Xen implements grant tables which is for sharing pages with
guest domains.
This patch implements arch specific part of grant table initialization.
and xen_alloc_vm_area()/xen_free_vm_area() which are helper functions
for xen grant table.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:00:47 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
f021c8b334 ia64/xen: xencomm conversion functions for hypercalls
On ia64/xen, pointer arguments for hypercall is passed
by pseudo physical address(guest physical address.)
So such hypercalls needs address conversion functions.
This patch implements concrete conversion functions for
such hypercalls.

Signed-off-by: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 10:00:19 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
11d437789d ia64/xen: implement the arch specific part of xencomm.
On ia64/xen, pointer argument for the hypercall is passed
by pseudo physical address (guest physical address.)
So it is necessary to convert virtual address into pseudo physical
address right before issuing hypercall. The frame work is called
xencomm. This patch implements arch specific part.

Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Cc: Akio Takebe <takebe_akio@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:59:40 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
ed50bd6096 ia64/xen: define helper functions for xen hypercalls.
introduce helper functions for xen hypercalls which
traps to hypervisor.

Signed-off-by: Yaozu (Eddie) Dong <eddie.dong@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:58:58 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
67fe8d27a8 ia64/xen: define helper functions for xen related address conversion.
Xen needs some address conversions between pseudo physical
address (guest phsyical address), guest machine address
(real machine address) and dma address.
Define helper functions for those address conversion.

Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:57:57 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
25c7bfaef2 ia64/xen: add a necessary header file to compile include/xen/interface/xen.h
Create include/asm-ia64/pvclock-abi.h to compile which contains
the same definitions of include/asm-x86/pvclock-abi.h because ia64/xen
uses same structure.
Hopefully include/asm-x86/pvclock-abi.h would be moved to somewhere
more generic.

Another approach is to include include/asm-x86/pvclock-abi.h
from include/asm-ia64/pvclock-abi.h. But this would break
if/when x86 header files are moved under arch/x86.
So for now, same definitions are duplicated as suggested by Tony.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:57:28 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
b31c09bd82 ia64/xen: define several constants for ia64/xen.
define several constants for ia64/xen.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:55:36 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
ffcc99e992 ia64/xen: introduce definitions necessary for ia64/xen hypercalls.
import arch/ia64/include/asm/xen/interface.h to introduce
definitions necessary for ia64/xen hypercalls.
They are basic structures to communicate with xen hypervisor and
will be used later.

Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:54:58 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
627308c907 ia64/xen: increase IA64_MAX_RSVD_REGIONS.
Xenlinux/ia64 needs to reserve one more region passed from xen hypervisor
as start info.

Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:54:03 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
1b051c6be3 ia64/xen: introduce sync bitops which is necessary for ia64/xen support.
define sync bitops which is necessary for ia64/xen.
This bit operation is used to communicate with VMM or other guest kernel
Even when this kernel is built for UP, VMM might be SMP so that those operation
must always use atomic operation.

Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:53:33 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
da0ac27213 ia64/xen: reserve "break" numbers used for xen hypercalls.
reserve "break" numbers used for xen hypercalls to avoid
reuse for something else.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:52:52 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
1b4a18fcfa ia64: move function declaration, ia64_cpu_local_tick() from .c to .h
eliminate the function declaration ia64_cpu_local_tick() in
process.c by defining in arch/ia64/include/asm/timex.h
The same function will be used in a different .c file later.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:52:08 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
41a6ba0983 ia64/pv_ops: update native/inst.h to clobber predicate.
add CLOBBER_PRED() to clobber predicate register.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:51:36 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
ce1fc742f9 ia64/pv_ops: avoid name conflict of get_irq_chip().
The macro get_irq_chip() is defined in linux/include/linux/irq.h
which cause name conflict with one in linux/arch/ia64/include/asm/paravirt.h.
rename the latter to __get_irq_chip().

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:50:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
26e9a39777 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits)
  staging: at76_usb wireless driver
  Staging: workaround build system bug
  Staging: Lindent sxg.c
  Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names
  Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage
  Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes
  Staging: go7007 v4l fixes
  Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg
  Staging: add echo cancelation module
  Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver
  Staging: add w35und wifi driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add host driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add client driver
  Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed
  Staging: add the go7007 video driver
  Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver
  Staging: add me4000 firmware files
  Staging: add sxg network driver
  Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver
  ...

Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in
MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
2008-10-17 09:50:12 -07:00
Isaku Yamahata
749da7912e ia64/pv_ops: fix paravirtualization of ivt.S with CONFIG_SMP=n
When CONFIG_SMP=n, three instruction in ivt.S were missed to paravirtualize.
paravirtualize them.

Signed-off-by: Isaku Yamahata <yamahata@valinux.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-10-17 09:50:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bdbf0ac7e1 Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (47 commits)
  hwmon: (adm1026) Prevent log spamming
  hwmon: (adm1026) Fix debug messages
  hwmon: (adm1029) Use mask for fan_div value
  hwmon: (adt7470) Add documentation
  hwmon: (ibmaem) Automatically load on IBM systems via DMI
  hwmon: (ibmpex) Automatically load on IBM systems via DMI
  hwmon: (w83781d) Use new style driver binding
  hwmon: (w83781d) Stop abusing struct i2c_client for ISA devices
  hwmon: (w83781d) Make ISA interface depend on CONFIG_ISA
  hwmon: (w83781d) Additional information about AS99127F PWM
  hwmon: (w83781d) Detect alias chips
  hwmon: (w83781d) Refactor beep enable handling
  hwmon: Drop dead links to old National Semiconductor chip datasheets
  hwmon: (w83791d) add support for thermal cruise mode
  hwmon: (w83791d) add pwm_enable support
  hwmon: (w83791d) add manual PWM support
  hwmon: (w83791d) fan 4/5 pins can also be used for gpio
  hwmon: (max1619) Use inline functions instead of macros
  hwmon: (it87) Fix thermal sensor type values
  hwmon: (lm78) Convert to a new-style i2c driver
  ...
2008-10-17 09:33:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8eb88c80d4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
  ALSA: Fix debugfs_create_dir's error checking method for sound/soc/
  ALSA: ASoC: Convert playpaq_wm8510 to bulk route registration API
  ALSA: kernel docs: fix sound/core/ kernel-doc
  ALSA: Handle NULL jacks in snd_jack_report()
  ALSA: hda - Fix PCM type of Nvidia HDMI devices
2008-10-17 09:30:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c53dbf5486 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: remove __generic_unplug_device() from exports
  block: move q->unplug_work initialization
  blktrace: pass zfcp driver data
  blktrace: add support for driver data
  block: fix current kernel-doc warnings
  block: only call ->request_fn when the queue is not stopped
  block: simplify string handling in elv_iosched_store()
  block: fix kernel-doc for blk_alloc_devt()
  block: fix nr_phys_segments miscalculation bug
  block: add partition attribute for partition number
  block: add BIG FAT WARNING to CONFIG_DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT
  softirq: Add support for triggering softirq work on softirqs.
2008-10-17 09:29:55 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
fb02fbc14d NOHZ: restart tick device from irq_enter()
We did not restart the tick device from irq_enter() to avoid double
reprogramming and extra events in the return immediate to idle case.

But long lasting softirqs can lead to a situation where jiffies become
stale:

idle()
  tick stopped (reprogrammed to next pending timer)
  halt()
   interrupt
     jiffies updated from irq_enter()
     interrupt handler
     softirq function 1 runs 20ms
     softirq function 2 arms a 10ms timer with a stale jiffies value
     jiffies updated from irq_exit()
     timer wheel has now an already expired timer
     (the one added in function 2)
     timer fires and timer softirq runs

This was discovered when debugging a timer problem which happend only
when the ath5k driver is active. The debugging proved that there is a
softirq function running for more than 20ms, which is a bug by itself.

To solve this we restart the tick timer right from irq_enter(), but do
not go through the other functions which are necessary to return from
idle when need_resched() is set.

Reported-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Elias Oltmanns <eo@nebensachen.de>
2008-10-17 18:13:38 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
c34bec5a44 NOHZ: split tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
Split out the clock event device reprogramming. Preparatory
patch.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-10-17 18:13:38 +02:00