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Tejun Heo
0a2c0f5615 libata: improve EH retry delay handling
EH retries were delayed by 5 seconds to ensure that resets don't occur
back-to-back.  However, this 5 second delay is superflous or excessive
in many cases.  For example, after IDENTIFY times out, there's no
reason to wait five more seconds before retrying.

This patch adds ehc->last_reset timestamp and record the timestamp for
the last reset trial or success and uses it to space resets by
ATA_EH_RESET_COOL_DOWN which is 5 secs and removes unconditional 5 sec
sleeps.

As this change makes inter-try waits often shorter and they're
redundant in nature, this patch also removes the "retrying..."
messages.

While at it, convert explicit rounding up division to DIV_ROUND_UP().

This change speeds up EH in many cases w/o sacrificing robustness.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-14 15:59:32 -04:00
Tejun Heo
341c2c958e libata: consistently use msecs for time durations
libata has been using mix of jiffies and msecs for time druations.
This is getting confusing.  As writing sub HZ values in jiffies is
PITA and msecs_to_jiffies() can't be used as initializer, unify unit
for all time durations to msecs.  So, durations are in msecs and
deadlines are in jiffies.  ata_deadline() is added to compute deadline
from a start time and duration in msecs.

While at it, drop now superflous _msec suffix from arguments and
rename @timeout to @deadline if it represents a fixed point in time
rather than duration.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-14 15:59:32 -04:00
Michael Buesch
9c0c7a429a ssb: Include dma-mapping.h
ssb.h implements DMA mapping functions, so it should
include dma-mapping.h. This fixes compile failures on certain architectures.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-14 14:52:56 -04:00
Artem Bityutskiy
4ee6afd344 VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
This patch exports the 'sync_sb_inodes()' which is needed for
UBIFS because it has to force write-back from time to time.
Namely, the UBIFS budgeting subsystem forces write-back when
its pessimistic callculations show that there is no free
space on the media.

Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
2008-07-14 19:10:52 +03:00
Ingo Molnar
5806b81ac1 Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
	arch/x86/kernel/process_32.c
	arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c
	arch/x86/lib/Makefile
	include/asm-x86/irqflags.h
	kernel/Makefile
	kernel/sched.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-14 16:11:52 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
d14c8a680c Merge branch 'sched/for-linus' into tracing/for-linus 2008-07-14 16:11:02 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
6712e299b7 Merge branch 'tracing/ftrace' into auto-ftrace-next 2008-07-14 15:58:35 +02:00
Kumar Gala
2f3804edf9 powerpc/85xx: Add support for MPC8536DS
Add support for the MPC8536 process and MPC8536DS reference board.  The
MPC8536 is an e500v2 based SoC which eTSEC, USB, SATA, PCI, and PCIe.

The USB and SATA IP blocks are similiar to those on the PQ2 Pro SoCs and
thus use the same drivers.

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-07-14 07:55:37 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
361833efac Merge branch 'sched/clock' into sched/devel 2008-07-14 12:19:13 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
b4ba0ba24b Merge commit 'v2.6.26' into core/locking 2008-07-14 10:31:59 +02:00
Cornelia Huck
f08adc008d [S390] css: Use css_device_id for bus matching.
css_device_id exists, so use it for determining the right driver
(and add a match_flags which is always 1 for valid types).

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14 10:02:12 +02:00
Cornelia Huck
7e9db9eaef [S390] cio: Introduce modalias for css bus.
Add modalias and subchannel type attributes for all subchannels.
I/O subchannel specific attributes are now created in
io_subchannel_probe(). modalias and subchannel type are also
added to the uevent for the css bus. Also make the css modalias
known.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
2008-07-14 10:02:05 +02:00
James Morris
6f0f0fd496 security: remove register_security hook
The register security hook is no longer required, as the capability
module is always registered.  LSMs wishing to stack capability as
a secondary module should do so explicitly.

Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-14 15:04:06 +10:00
Miklos Szeredi
b478a9f988 security: remove unused sb_get_mnt_opts hook
The sb_get_mnt_opts() hook is unused, and is superseded by the
sb_show_options() hook.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-07-14 15:02:05 +10:00
Eric Paris
2069f45784 LSM/SELinux: show LSM mount options in /proc/mounts
This patch causes SELinux mount options to show up in /proc/mounts.  As
with other code in the area seq_put errors are ignored.  Other LSM's
will not have their mount options displayed until they fill in their own
security_sb_show_options() function.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-07-14 15:02:05 +10:00
Stephen Smalley
006ebb40d3 Security: split proc ptrace checking into read vs. attach
Enable security modules to distinguish reading of process state via
proc from full ptrace access by renaming ptrace_may_attach to
ptrace_may_access and adding a mode argument indicating whether only
read access or full attach access is requested.  This allows security
modules to permit access to reading process state without granting
full ptrace access.  The base DAC/capability checking remains unchanged.

Read access to /proc/pid/mem continues to apply a full ptrace attach
check since check_mem_permission() already requires the current task
to already be ptracing the target.  The other ptrace checks within
proc for elements like environ, maps, and fds are changed to pass the
read mode instead of attach.

In the SELinux case, we model such reading of process state as a
reading of a proc file labeled with the target process' label.  This
enables SELinux policy to permit such reading of process state without
permitting control or manipulation of the target process, as there are
a number of cases where programs probe for such information via proc
but do not need to be able to control the target (e.g. procps,
lsof, PolicyKit, ConsoleKit).  At present we have to choose between
allowing full ptrace in policy (more permissive than required/desired)
or breaking functionality (or in some cases just silencing the denials
via dontaudit rules but this can hide genuine attacks).

This version of the patch incorporates comments from Casey Schaufler
(change/replace existing ptrace_may_attach interface, pass access
mode), and Chris Wright (provide greater consistency in the checking).

Note that like their predecessors __ptrace_may_attach and
ptrace_may_attach, the __ptrace_may_access and ptrace_may_access
interfaces use different return value conventions from each other (0
or -errno vs. 1 or 0).  I retained this difference to avoid any
changes to the caller logic but made the difference clearer by
changing the latter interface to return a bool rather than an int and
by adding a comment about it to ptrace.h for any future callers.

Signed-off-by:  Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-07-14 15:01:47 +10:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
11c2d8174e Merge commit 'origin/HEAD' into test-merge
Manual fixup of include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h
2008-07-14 14:29:49 +10:00
Richard Kennedy
afc1246f91 file lock: reorder struct file_lock to save space on 64 bit builds
Reduce sizeof struct file_lock by 8 on 64 bit builds allowing +1 objects
per slab in the file_lock_cache

Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2008-07-13 17:22:24 -04:00
Russell King
044e5f45e4 Merge branch 'pxa' into devel
Conflicts:

	arch/arm/configs/em_x270_defconfig
	arch/arm/configs/xm_x270_defconfig
2008-07-13 12:05:49 +01:00
Gerrit Renker
5b5d0e7048 dccp: Upgrade NDP count from 3 to 6 bytes
RFC 4340, 7.7 specifies up to 6 bytes for the NDP Count option, whereas the code
is currently limited to up to 3 bytes. This seems to be a relict of an earlier 
draft version and is brought up to date by the patch.

Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
2008-07-13 11:51:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
54ef76f37b Merge branch 'linus' into sched/devel 2008-07-13 08:50:13 +02:00
Eric Miao
52256c0e06 [NET] smc91x: prepare SMC_USE_PXA_DMA to be specified in platform data
Now that the original SMC_USE_PXA_DMA specific code will always being
built if CONFIG_ARCH_PXA is defined, so to make this part of the code
to be PXA public, and still prevent it from being built if support of
PXA is not selected.

A SMC91X_USE_DMA flag is added to the platform data to allow platform
to choose its usage of DMA. Note this flag itself is so named to be
generic enough (assuming other platforms can also use DMA).

It keeps backward compatibility to set the SMC91X_USE_DMA flag if
SMC_USE_PXA_DMA is still defined.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-12 21:52:41 +01:00
Eric Miao
159198862a [NET] smc91x: prepare for SMC_IO_SHIFT to be a platform configurable variable
Now one can use the following code

  #define SMC_IO_SHIFT	lp->io_shift

to make SMC_IO_SHIFT a variable. This, however, will slightly increase
the CPU overhead and have negative impact on the network performance.
The tradeoff is, this can be specified in the smc91x platform data so
that multiple boards support can be built in a single zImage.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-12 21:52:40 +01:00
Eric Miao
c4f0e76747 [NET] smc91x: add SMC91X_NOWAIT flag to platform data
And also favors the usage of SMC91X_NOWAIT over the hardcoded SMC_NOWAIT
by converting "nowait" (module parameter overridable) to platform flag.

There are several possibilities:

  1. platform data present - preferred and use as is
  2. platform data absent  - use "nowait", it can be:
       a. SMC_NOWAIT if defined
       b. default to 0 if SMC_NOWAIT isn't defined
       c. overriden by module parameter

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-12 21:52:40 +01:00
Eric Miao
d280eadc4f [NET] smc91x: remove "irq_flags" from "struct smc91x_platdata"
IRQ trigger type can be specified in the IRQ resource definition by
IORESOURCE_IRQ_*, we need only one way to specify this.

This also fixes the following small issue:

To allow dynamic support for multiple platforms, when those relevant
macros are not defined for one specific platform, the default case
will be:

	- SMC_DYNAMIC_BUS_CONFIG defined
	- and SMC_IRQ_FLAGS = IRQF_TRIGGER_RISING

While if "irq_flags" is missing when defining the smc91x_platdata,
usually as follows:

  static struct smc91x_platdata xxxx_smc91x_data = {
	.flags	= SMC91X_USE_XXBIT,
  };

The lp->cfg.irq_flags will always be overriden by the above structure
(due to a memcpy), thus rendering lp->cfg.irq_flags to be "0" always.
(regardless of the default SMC_IRQ_FLAGS or IORESOURCE_IRQ_* flags)

Fixes this by forcing to use IORESOURCE_IRQ_* flags if present, and
make the only user of smc91x_platdata.irq_flags (renesas/migor) to
use IORESOURCE_IRQ_*.

Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-07-12 21:52:40 +01:00
Russell King
7fecc34e07 Merge branch 'pxa-tosa' into pxa
Conflicts:

	arch/arm/mach-pxa/Kconfig
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa.c
	arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c
2008-07-12 21:43:01 +01:00
Martin K. Petersen
f11f594edb [SCSI] lib: Add support for the T10 (SCSI) Data Integrity Field CRC
The SCSI Block Protocol uses this 16-bit CRC to verify the integrity
of each data sector.  crc_t10dif() is used by sd_dif.c when performing
I/O to or from disks formatted with protection information.

Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-07-12 08:22:32 -05:00
Ingo Molnar
ae94b8075a Merge branch 'linus' into x86/core
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-12 07:29:02 +02:00
Aneesh Kumar K.V
06d6cf6959 mm: Add range_cont mode for writeback
Filesystems like ext4 needs to start a new transaction in
the writepages for block allocation. This happens with delayed
allocation and there is limit to how many credits we can request
from the journal layer. So we call write_cache_pages multiple
times with wbc->nr_to_write set to the maximum possible value
limitted by the max journal credits available.

Add a new mode to writeback that enables us to handle this
behaviour. In the new mode we update the wbc->range_start
to point to the new offset to be written. Next call to
call to write_cache_pages will start writeout from specified
range_start offset. In the new mode we also limit writing
to the specified wbc->range_end.

Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Mingming Cao
e8ced39d5e percpu_counter: new function percpu_counter_sum_and_set
Delayed allocation need to check free blocks at every write time.
percpu_counter_read_positive() is not quit accurate. delayed
allocation need a more accurate accounting, but using
percpu_counter_sum_positive() is frequently is quite expensive.

This patch added a new function to update center counter when sum
per-cpu counter, to increase the accurate rate for next
percpu_counter_read() and require less calling expensive
percpu_counter_sum().

Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Alex Tomas
29a814d2ee vfs: add hooks for ext4's delayed allocation support
Export mpage_bio_submit() and __mpage_writepage() for the benefit of
ext4's delayed allocation support.   Also change __block_write_full_page
so that if buffers that have the BH_Delay flag set it will call
get_block() to get the physical block allocated, just as in the
!BH_Mapped case.

Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
87c89c232c jbd2: Remove data=ordered mode support using jbd buffer heads
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
c851ed5401 jbd2: Implement data=ordered mode handling via inodes
This patch adds necessary framework into JBD2 to be able to track inodes
with each transaction and write-out their dirty data during transaction
commit time.

This new ordered mode brings all sorts of advantages such as possibility 
to get rid of journal heads and buffer heads for data buffers in ordered 
mode, better ordering of writes on transaction commit, simplification of
 some JBD code, no more anonymous pages when truncate of data being 
committed happens.  Also with this new ordered mode, delayed allocation 
on ordered mode is much simpler.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Jan Kara
f4c0a0fdfa vfs: export filemap_fdatawrite_range()
Make filemap_fdatawrite_range() function public, so that it can later
be used in ordered mode rewrite by JBD/JBD2.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Theodore Ts'o
736603ab29 jbd2: Add commit time into the commit block
Carlo Wood has demonstrated that it's possible to recover deleted
files from the journal.  Something that will make this easier is if we
can put the time of the commit into commit block.

Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-07-11 19:27:31 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
af52a90a14 sched_clock: stop maximum check on NO HZ
Working with ftrace I would get large jumps of 11 millisecs or more with
the clock tracer. This killed the latencing timings of ftrace and also
caused the irqoff self tests to fail.

What was happening is with NO_HZ the idle would stop the jiffy counter and
before the jiffy counter was updated the sched_clock would have a bad
delta jiffies to compare with the gtod with the maximum.

The jiffies would stop and the last sched_tick would record the last gtod.
On wakeup, the sched clock update would compare the gtod + delta jiffies
(which would be zero) and compare it to the TSC. The TSC would have
correctly (with a stable TSC) moved forward several jiffies. But because the
jiffies has not been updated yet the clock would be prevented from moving
forward because it would appear that the TSC jumped too far ahead.

The clock would then virtually stop, until the jiffies are updated. Then
the next sched clock update would see that the clock was very much behind
since the delta jiffies is now correct. This would then jump the clock
forward by several jiffies.

This caused ftrace to report several milliseconds of interrupts off
latency at every resume from NO_HZ idle.

This patch adds hooks into the nohz code to disable the checking of the
maximum clock update when nohz is in effect. It resumes the max check
when nohz has updated the jiffies again.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:53:26 +02:00
Steven Rostedt
a2bb6a3d85 ftrace: add ftrace_kill_atomic
It has been suggested that I add a way to disable the function tracer
on an oops. This code adds a ftrace_kill_atomic. It is not meant to be
used in normal situations. It will disable the ftrace tracer, but will
not perform the nice shutdown that requires scheduling.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 15:49:21 +02:00
Andre Noll
7e93a89251 md: Remove some unused macros.
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Andre Noll
0f420358e3 md: Turn rdev->sb_offset into a sector-based quantity.
Rename it to sb_start to make sure all users have been converted.

Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
2008-07-11 22:02:23 +10:00
Neil Brown
0306d5efbf Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2008-07-11 21:57:40 +10:00
Ingo Molnar
0c81b2a144 Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Conflicts:

	include/linux/rculist.h
	kernel/rcupreempt.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 10:46:50 +02:00
Alexander Duyck
d815653404 net: add netif_napi_del function to allow for removal of napistructs
Adds netif_napi_del function which is used to remove the napi struct from
the netdev napi_list in cases where CONFIG_NETPOLL was enabled.
The motivation for adding this is to handle the case in which the number of
queues on a device changes due to a configuration change.  Previously the
napi structs for each queue would be left in the list until the netdev was
freed.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-11 01:20:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
e5a5816f78 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (27 commits)
  tun: Persistent devices can get stuck in xoff state
  xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_info
  ipv6: missed namespace context in ipv6_rthdr_rcv
  netlabel: netlink_unicast calls kfree_skb on error path by itself
  ipv4: fib_trie: Fix lookup error return
  tcp: correct kcalloc usage
  ip: sysctl documentation cleanup
  Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docs
  netfilter: nf_nat_snmp_basic: fix a range check in NAT for SNMP
  netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix endless loop
  libertas: fix memory alignment problems on the blackfin
  zd1211rw: stop beacons on remove_interface
  rt2x00: Disable synchronization during initialization
  rc80211_pid: Fix fast_start parameter handling
  sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variable
  ipv6: fix race between ipv6_del_addr and DAD timer
  irda: Fix netlink error path return value
  irda: New device ID for nsc-ircc
  irda: via-ircc proper dma freeing
  sctp: Mark the tsn as received after all allocations finish
  ...
2008-07-10 17:58:47 -07:00
Steffen Klassert
ccf9b3b83d xfrm: Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to xfrm_usersa_info
Add a XFRM_STATE_AF_UNSPEC flag to handle the AF_UNSPEC behavior for
the selector family. Userspace applications can set this flag to leave
the selector family of the xfrm_state unspecified.  This can be used
to to handle inter family tunnels if the selector is not set from
userspace.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10 16:55:37 -07:00
David Woodhouse
f1485f3deb ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmware
Provide a helper to load the file and validate it in one call, to
simplify error handling in the drivers which are going to use it.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:47:38 +01:00
David Woodhouse
bacfe09dd7 ihex.h: binary representation of ihex records
Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...}
records in some specific order rather than a simple blob.

The normal way of doing this kind of thing is 'ihex', which is a text
format and not entirely suitable for use in the kernel.

This provides a binary representation which is very similar, but much
more compact -- and a helper routine to skip to the next record,
because the alignment constraints mean that everybody will screw it up
for themselves otherwise.

Also a helper function which can verify that a 'struct firmware'
contains a valid set of ihex records, and that following them won't run
off the end of the loaded data.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:47:36 +01:00
David Woodhouse
5658c76944 firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image
Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.

Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.

A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:30:13 +01:00
David Woodhouse
b7a39bd0af firmware: make fw->data const
In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10 14:29:25 +01:00
Herbert Xu
18e33e6d5c crypto: hash - Move ahash functions into crypto/hash.h
All new crypto interfaces should go into individual files as much
as possible in order to ensure that crypto.h does not collapse under
its own weight.

This patch moves the ahash code into crypto/hash.h and crypto/internal/hash.h
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-07-10 20:35:18 +08:00
Herbert Xu
166247f46a crypto: hash - Removed vestigial ahash fields
The base field in ahash_tfm appears to have been cut-n-pasted from
ablkcipher.  It isn't needed here at all.  Similarly, the info field
in ahash_request also appears to have originated from its cipher
counter-part and is vestigial.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2008-07-10 20:35:18 +08:00