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Vojtech Pavlik
c08c820508 [PATCH] Add the vgetcpu vsyscall
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.

AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
a670fad0ad [PATCH] Add initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values
This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers
to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective
values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables.

AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
81af4449af [PATCH] Add macros for rdtscp
This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well
as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h

[AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils]

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
248dcb2fff [PATCH] x86: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted.

Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters
( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This
feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.

What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance
monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid).
And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural
events.

Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver.
Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1de84979df [PATCH] i386: Enable NMI watchdog by default
I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64.
It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses.

Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004.

This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason
it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted
registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific,
but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad
because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems
won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
260d6790b6 [PATCH] i386: Kdump i386 nmi event notification fix
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
3f22c5789e [PATCH] kdump x86_64 nmi event notification fix
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
c7c19f8e5e [PATCH] i386: make functions static
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- nmi_int.c: profile_exceptions_notify()
- nmi_timer_int.c: profile_timer_exceptions_notify()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
fac58550e8 [PATCH] Fix up panic messages for different NMI panics
When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout.
Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then.

Fix up the panic message to be generic
Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled.

Noticed by Jan Beulich

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Shaohua Li
4038f901cf [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix NMI watchdog suspend/resume
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline
APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume
method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path.

And:

+From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the
suspend/resume cases more gracefully.

AK: I merged the two patches together

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
c41c5cd3b2 [PATCH] x86: x86 clean up nmi panic messages
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more
sense when they are displayed.  This is mainly a cosmetic fix and
shouldn't impact any normal code path.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
8da5adda91 [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI
To quote Alan Cox:

The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.

A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.

This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
e33e89ab1a [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.

By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system.  By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
407984f1af [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctl
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
2fbe7b25c8 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as
they are no longer needed.  The various subsystems are modified to register
with the die_notifier instead.

Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
957dc87c1b [PATCH] Add ppoll/pselect syscalls
Needed TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK first

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1d001df19d [PATCH] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
We need TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in order to support ppoll() and pselect()
system calls. This patch originally came from Andi, and was based
heavily on David Howells' implementation of same on i386. I fixed a typo
which was causing do_signal() to use the wrong signal mask.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
3adbbcce9a [PATCH] x86: Cleanup NMI interrupt path
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path.  Instead of being gated by if
the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is
registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog,
reseting it if enabled.  This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if
they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback).

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
b7471c6da9 [PATCH] i386: Add SMP support on i386 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware.
A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In addition,
it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the
watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs
easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
f2802e7f57 [PATCH] Add SMP support on x86_64 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on x86_64 SMP
aware.  A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In
addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result
of the watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out
unknown NMIs easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
cb9c448c66 [PATCH] i386: Utilize performance counter reservation framework in oprofile
Incorporates the new performance counter reservation system in oprofile.
Also cleans up a lot of the initialization code.  The code original zero'd
out every register associated with performance counters regardless if those
registers were used or not.  This causes issues with the nmi watchdog.
Now oprofile tries to reserve registers and gives up if it can't get them.

Cc: levon@movementarian.org
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
828f0afda1 [PATCH] x86: Add performance counter reservation framework for UP kernels
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance
counters on the x86 chips.  Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to
make reviewing easier.  The SMP portion makes a lot more changes.

Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different
counter.  In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate
event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it
will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they
break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters).

This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the
nmi watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b07f8915cd [PATCH] x86: Temporarily revert parts of the Core 2 nmi nmi watchdog support
This makes merging easier.  They are readded a few patches later.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
874c4fe389 [PATCH] i386: Allow to use GENERICARCH for UP kernels
There are some machines around (large xSeries or Unisys ES7000) that
need physical IO-APIC destination mode to access all of their IO
devices. This currently doesn't work in UP kernels as used in
distribution installers.

This patch allows to compile even UP kernels as GENERICARCH which
allows to use physical or clustered APIC mode.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9142e0c839 [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig
This is based on the x86-64 defconfig which works on a wide range of systems.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
265baba316 [PATCH] Update defconfig
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Kyungmin Park
47e777e02e [MTD ONENAND] Fix OneNAND probe
- fix OneNAND probe whether OneNAND Sync. Burst read mode or not
        - fix OneNAND reset wait problem

Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-09-26 09:16:06 +01:00
Stephen Rothwell
d86d9b8cab [POWERPC] fix spin lock nesting in hvc_iseries
We had nested spinlocks using the same flags variable, but it turns out
that we don't need the nested locks at all (the lock protects a static
buffer that we aren't using here), so just remove the extra locks.

Spotted by Alexey Dobriyan.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:03 +10:00
Linas Vepstas
022d51b1b2 [POWERPC] EEH failure to mark pci slot as frozen.
Bug fix: when marking a slot as frozen, we forgot to mark
pci device itself as frozen. (we did manage to mark the
pci children, but forget the parent itself.)

This is needed so that some device drivers can check the
pci status in critical sections (e.g. in spin loops with
interrupts disabled).

Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:03 +10:00
Olaf Hering
2cec1b452c [POWERPC] update powerpc defconfig files after libata kconfig breakage
Update defconfig files after libata .config breakage

 sed -i 's/CONFIG_SCSI_SATA_/CONFIG_SATA_/;s/CONFIG_SCSI_SATA/CONFIG_ATA/' arch/powerpc/configs/*g

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:03 +10:00
Olaf Hering
0eab40ffad [POWERPC] enable sysrq in pmac32_defconfig
Enable sysrq also for pmac32

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:03 +10:00
Al Viro
9e84b60ed8 [POWERPC] UPIO_TSI cleanup
(le32_to_cpu(x) >> 8) & 0xff is a very odd way to spell (x >> 16) & 0xff,
even if that code is hit only on ppc.  The value is host-endian - we've
got it from readl(), after all...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:02 +10:00
Al Viro
c32527a140 [POWERPC] rewrite mkprep and mkbugboot in sane C
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:02 +10:00
Al Viro
8c42ec2c99 [POWERPC] maple/pci iomem annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:41:02 +10:00
Al Viro
62034f0338 [POWERPC] powerpc oprofile __user annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:25:33 +10:00
Al Viro
ed2bfcd2de [POWERPC] cell spufs iomem annotations
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:25:33 +10:00
Al Viro
e45d6634e5 [POWERPC] NULL noise removal: spufs
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:35 +10:00
Al Viro
054e51a44b [POWERPC] ppc math-emu needs -fno-builtin-fabs for math.c and fabs.c
... since they deal with internal function with that name.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:35 +10:00
Kim Phillips
8306e511d2 [POWERPC] update mpc8349_itx_defconfig and remove some debug settings
update mpc8349_itx_defconfig and turn off some debug settings

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:35 +10:00
Anton Blanchard
0ddd3e7d07 [POWERPC] Always call cede in pseries dedicated idle loop
The smt_snooze_delay logic changed a bit when the idle loops were
consolidated. A value of 0 used to mean we always polled, now it means
we always sleep. Instead of restoring the old behaviour, lets put a
reasonable default in smt_snooze_delay. This means we spin for a bit
(in case an external interrupt comes in) and then sleep.

Also the pseries dedicated idle loop currently does not cede both
threads in an SMT pair. The hypervisor wants us to call in so it can
power manage, so lets do that.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:34 +10:00
Michael Ellerman
e12514650b [POWERPC] Fix loop logic in irq_alloc_virt()
There's a bug in irq_alloc_virt() if it's asked for more than 1 interrupt,
if it can't find a slot it might look past the end of the irq_map.
To be clear: the bug is that the continue affects the inner for loop,
not the outer one, so i becomes j + 1 and then we continue the inner
loop without checking if i is still <= limit.

This fixes it. No one in the kernel actually calls this with count >
1, so it's not critical.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:34 +10:00
David Woodhouse
94983cb788 [POWERPC] Fix PPC32 SECCOMP, unexport do_syscall_trace_{enter,leave}
The secure_computing() call which automatically aborts a process if it
tries to execute a syscall it shouldn't is much more useful if we
actually do it _before_ the syscall, rather than afterwards. PPC64 got
this right, but the original incorrect behaviour inherited from arch/ppc
was preserved by ifdefs. Make it the same on PPC32 too.

Also, I see no need to export do_syscall_trace_{leave,enter} on ppc32 --
they were only exported because the old do_syscall_trace() (which they
replaced) used to be.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:34 +10:00
David Woodhouse
4b9c876a81 [POWERPC] Fix audit syscall success/failure reporting on PowerPC
Due to my stupidity, we were checking for the wrong bit in CCR when
attempting to determine whether a syscall succeeded or not. Remedy the
symptom, if not the cause.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-26 15:24:34 +10:00
Alan Stern
7e9f4b2d3e Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
The klist utility routines currently call _put methods while holding a
spinlock.  This is of course illegal; a put routine could try to
unregister a device and hence need to sleep.

No problems have arisen until now because in many cases klist removals
were done synchronously, so the _put methods were never actually used.
In other cases we may simply have been lucky.

This patch (as784) reworks the klist routines so that _put methods are
called only _after_ the klist's spinlock has been released.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Alan Stern
81107bf531 Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core
This patch (as783) simplifies the driver core slightly by removing four
unnecessary _get and _put methods.

It is vital that when a driver is removed from its bus's klist of
registered drivers, or when a device is removed from a driver's klist
of bound devices, that the klist updates complete synchronously.
Otherwise the kernel might try binding an unregistered driver to a
newly-registered device, or adding a device to the klist for a new
driver before it has been removed from the old driver's klist.

Since the removals must be synchronous, they don't need to update any
reference counts.  Hence the _get and _put methods can be dispensed
with.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Alan Stern
f2eaae197f Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core
There is a potential deadlock in the driver core.  It boils down to
the fact that bus_remove_device() calls klist_remove() instead of
klist_del(), thereby waiting until the reference count of the
klist_node in the bus's klist of devices drops to 0.  The refcount
can't reach 0 so long as a modprobe process is trying to bind a new
driver to the device being removed, by calling __driver_attach().  The
problem is that __driver_attach() tries to acquire the device's
parent's semaphore, but the caller of bus_remove_device() is quite
likely to own that semaphore already.

It isn't sufficient just to replace klist_remove() with klist_del().
Doing so runs the risk that the device would remain on the bus's klist
of devices for some time, and so could be bound to another driver even
after it was unregistered.  What's needed is a new way to distinguish
whether or not a device is registered, based on a criterion other than
whether its klist_node is linked into the bus's klist of devices.  That
way driver binding can fail when the device is unregistered, even if
it is still linked into the klist.

This patch (as782) implements the solution, by adding a new bitflag to
indiate when a struct device is registered, by testing the flag before
allowing a driver to bind a device, and by changing the definition of
the device_is_registered() inline.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0f397f8650 PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe
This provides a build and run-time option to turn on multhreaded probe
for all PCI drivers.  It can cause bad problems on multi-processor
machines that take a while to find their root disks, and play havoc on
machines that don't use persistant device names for block or network
devices.

But it can cause speedups on some machines, my tiny laptop's boot goes
up by 0.4 seconds, and my desktop boots up several seconds faster.

Use at your own risk!!!

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d779249ed4 Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe
This adds the infrastructure for drivers to do a threaded probe, and
waits at init time for all currently outstanding probes to complete.

A new kernel thread will be created when the probe() function for the
driver is called, if the multithread_probe bit is set in the driver
saying it can support this kind of operation.

I have tested this with USB and PCI, and it works, and shaves off a lot
of time in the boot process, but there are issues with finding root boot
disks, and some USB drivers assume that this can never happen, so it is
currently not enabled for any bus type.  Individual drivers can enable
this right now if they wish, and bus authors can selectivly turn it on
as well, once they determine that their subsystem will work properly
with it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f20a9ead0d sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype
Don't be crufty.  Mark it __must_check too.

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00
Andrew Morton
f86db396ff drivers/base: check errors
Add lots of return-value checking.

<pcornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>: fix bus_rescan_devices()]
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:39 -07:00