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* [ALSA] Remove sound/driver.hTakashi Iwai2008-01-311-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | This header file exists only for some hacks to adapt alsa-driver tree. It's useless for building in the kernel. Let's move a few lines in it to sound/core.h and remove it. With this patch, sound/driver.h isn't removed but has just a single compile warning to include it. This should be really killed in future. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] Remove PCM xfer_align sw paramsTakashi Iwai2008-01-311-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | The xfer_align sw_params parameter has never been used in a sane manner, and no one understands what this does exactly. The current implementation looks also buggy because it allows write of shorter size than xfer_align. So, if you do partial writes, the write isn't actually aligned at all. Removing this parameter will make some pcm_lib_* code more readable (and less buggy). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] hda-codec - Add test model for ALC268Jonathan Woithe2008-01-311-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | This implements a test model for the ALC268. It depends on the feature added by alc260-test-eapd-0.2.diff. This patch also adds a mention of the ALC260 test model to ALSA-Configuration.txt since this seems to have been missed. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] hda-intel - Support multiple devicesTakashi Iwai2008-01-311-2/+5
| | | | | | | | | It turned out that there can be multiple HD-audio devices on a single machine (e.g. on-board audio and HDMI on graphic cards), so we need to support multiple devices with snd-hda-intel driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] hda-codec - Initial support of the Mitac 8252D (based on ALC883)Andy Shevchenko2008-01-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch adds initial support of the Mitac 8252D (http://www.mitac-mtc.com.tw/English/products/8252Dspec.htm). Working: - Front speakers (volume + mute) - Center/LFE speakers (volume + mute) - HP out (with Front Volume) - HP individual mute switch - HP Jack sense - Front Mic and its volume Not tested: - external mic and its volume Not working while now: - Mic Jack sense Questionable: - is Mic have Jack sense? - one or two Mic volume controls? - CD/Line-in: presense in the mixer Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@smile.org.ua> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] Update descriptions of isapnp-specific module optionsRene Herman2008-01-311-20/+63
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] sound/isa: kill pnp_resource_changeRene Herman2008-01-311-35/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This removes the pnp_resource_change use from the ALSA ISAPnP drivers. In 2.4 these were useful in providing an easy path to setting the resources, but in 2.6 they retain function as a layering violation only. This makes for a nice cleanup (-550 lines) of ALSA but moreover, ALSA is the only remaining user of pnp_init_resource_table(), pnp_resource_change() and pnp_manual_config_dev() (and, in fact, of 'struct pnp_resource_table') in the tree outide of drivers/pnp itself meaning it makes for more cleanup potential inside the PnP layer. Thomas Renninger acked their removal from that side, you did from the ALSA side (CC list just copied from that thread). Against current alsa-kernel HG. Many more potential cleanups in there, but this _only_ removes the pnp_resource_change code. Compile tested against current alsa-kernel HG and compile- and use-tested against 2.6.23.x (few offsets). Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] hda-codec - Add model=hp-tc-t5735 for ALC262Takashi Iwai2008-01-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | Added the missing model string for the new support of HP TC T5735. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] Introduce slots option to snd moduleTakashi Iwai2008-01-311-1/+20
| | | | | | | | | | Introduced the global 'slots' option to snd module. This option provides an alternative way to handle the order of multiple sound card instances. It's an easier approach to avoid conflict with hotplug devices, and can be used together with the existing 'order' option of each card driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] HDA: Add support for Samsung Q1 Ultra Vista editionTobin Davis2008-01-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds full record and playback support for the Samsung Q1 Ultra - Vista model (different codec than the earlier Q1 Ultra models). Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl: English style improvementsMichael Opdenacker2008-01-311-462/+458
| | | | | | | | | This patch brings some English style improvements throughout the document, as well as 1 or 2 extra technical details. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] ice1724 - Add support of Onkyo SE-90PCI and SE-200PCIShin-ya Okada2008-01-311-1/+4
| | | | | | | | Added the support for Onkyo SE-90PCI and SE-200PCI boards. Signed-off-by: Shin-ya Okada <sh_okada at d4.dion.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* [ALSA] hda-codec - Add missing eeepc-p701 model for ALC662Takashi Iwai2008-01-311-0/+1
| | | | | | | Added the missing model string 'eeepc-p701' for ALC662 codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
* Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras2008-01-3170-665/+5460
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| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds2008-01-311-6/+43
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (27 commits) lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL lguest: Use explicit includes rateher than indirect lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments lguest: change gpte_addr header lguest: move changed bitmap to lg_cpu lguest: move last_pages to lg_cpu lguest: change last_guest to last_cpu lguest: change spte_addr header lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management lguest: make pending notifications per-vcpu lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu lguest task management lguest: replace lguest_arch with lg_cpu_arch. lguest: make registers per-vcpu lguest: make emulate_insn receive a vcpu struct. lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu interrupt processing. lguest: per-vcpu lguest timers lguest: make hypercalls use the vcpu struct lguest: make write() operation smp aware ... Manual conflict resolved (maybe even correctly, who knows) in drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
| | * lguest: adapt launcher to per-cpunessGlauber de Oliveira Costa2008-01-301-4/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes uses of pread() and pwrite() in lguest launcher to communicate the vcpu id to the lguest driver. The id is kept in a thread variable, which means we'll span in the future, vcpus as threads. But right now, only the infrastructure is out there. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| | * lguest: Reboot supportBalaji Rao2008-01-301-2/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reboot Implemented (Prevent fd leak, fix style and fix documentation --RR) Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | docbook: fix block api fatal errorRandy Dunlap2008-01-311-1/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix docbook fatal error: docproc: linux-2.6.24-git8/block/ll_rw_blk.c: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
| * | x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)Bernhard Kaindl2008-01-301-0/+179
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch() to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early. If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that, all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled in standard, non-debug kernels. With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers, if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter. In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire. An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger, without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA access is granted. A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt and I've put a copy online at ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it another copy of it is online at: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: GEODE add the "mfgptfix" boot time option to fix MFGPT timersWilly Tarreau2008-01-301-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The new "mfgptfix" boot command line option may be usd to fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the problem by letting the user disable the workaround. Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86_32: trim memory by updating e820Yinghai Lu2008-01-301-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | when MTRRs are not covering the whole e820 table, we need to trim the RAM and need to update e820. reuse some code on 64-bit as well. here need to add early_get_cap and use it in early_cpu_detect, and move mtrr_bp_init early. The code successfully trimmed the memory map on Justin's system: from: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000022c000000 (usable) to: [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000228000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000228000000 - 000000022c000000 (reserved) According to Justin it makes quite a difference: | When I boot the box without any trimming it acts like a 286 or 386, | takes about 10 minutes to boot (using raptor disks). Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: add generic clearcpuid=... optionAndi Kleen2008-01-301-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a generic option to clear any cpuid bit. I added it because it was very easy to add with the new generic cpuid disable bitmap and perhaps it will be useful in the future. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: add noclflush optionAndi Kleen2008-01-301-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | To disable CLFLUSH usage, especially in change_page_attr(). Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86, 32-bit: trim memory not covered by wb mtrrsJesse Barnes2008-01-301-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time). This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code) goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug. Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the boot_cpu_data structure being setup. This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off). Further enhancements and fixes from: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: disable the GART early, 64-bitYinghai Lu2008-01-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM installed. when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec 2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES 10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost. Bad page state in process 'swapper' page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0 Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d [<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5 [<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198 [<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76 [<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152 [<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2 [<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121 and [ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0 phys addr is : 0x1c200000 RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said: PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB new kernel said: Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000 So could try to disable that GART if possible. According to Ingo > hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply > _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that > into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out > from the memory maps and just dont use that memory. > > that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old > or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or > whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with > the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass > us) > > it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk > based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the > bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to > punch a hole for it. > > and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy > BIOSes as well. add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting. gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: add the "print code before the trapping instruction" feature to 64 bitArjan van de Ven2008-01-301-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder than needed. This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has (including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking) __get_user. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: 32-bit EFI runtime service support: fixes in sync with 64-bit supportHuang, Ying2008-01-302-4/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | support according to fixes of x86_64 support. - Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot, before SMP is initialized. - Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page mapping. - Clean up includes. - Revise Kconfig description. - Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: EFI runtime service support: document for EFI runtime servicesHuang, Ying2008-01-302-1/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 runtime services support. Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: add ACPI reboot optionAaron Durbin2008-01-301-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the ability to reboot an x86_64 based machine using the RESET_REG in the FADT ACPI table. Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32Roland McGrath2008-01-301-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the 32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code. The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit. The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel. That is, 1 means a randomized vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address. The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning it has for the 32-bit kernel. (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.) The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to set this paramter at boot time. The vdso=[012] argument still does this same thing on the 32-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay detailsIngo Molnar2008-01-301-5/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details: - add the io_delay=none method - make each method selectable from the kernel config - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
| * | x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.Rene Herman2008-01-301-0/+8
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these. David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine, with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger. Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the 2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has two problems. First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which would sort of work, but... Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has. It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus locking outb. Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such, this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems to fit that situation. This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override the DMI based choice again: io_delay=<standard|alternate> where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate" port 0xed. This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well. This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot code be. The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z. This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and David P. Reed. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25Linus Torvalds2008-01-299-137/+970
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25: (1470 commits) [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix double free on label deletion. [PPP]: Sparse warning fixes. [IPV4] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check [IPV4] fib_trie: More whitespace cleanup. [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in ematches [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in actions [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in classifiers [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in packet schedulers [NET_SCHED]: sch_api: introduce constant for rate table size [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute parsing helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute construction helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use NLA_PUT_STRING for string dumping [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_nest_start/nla_nest_end [NET_SCHED]: Propagate nla_parse return value [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use nlmsg_parse [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix netlink API conversion bug [NET_SCHED]: sch_netem: use nla_parse_nested_compat [NET_SCHED]: sch_atm: fix format string warning [NETNS]: Add namespace for ICMP replying code. ...
| | * b43: Add support for new firmwareMichael Buesch2008-01-281-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for new firmware. Old firmware is still supported until July 2008. To get new firmware, go to ftp://ftp.linksys.com/opensourcecode/wrt150nv11/1.51.3/ and download the tarball. We don't have a smaller tarball, yet. That will be fixed later. You can extract firmware out of the "wl_ap.o" file contained in this tarball using latest fwcutter. You must pass the option --unsupported to fwcutter. Fwcutter-010 with official support for a new firmware image will be released soon. Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [BONDING]: Documentation updateJay Vosburgh2008-01-281-61/+143
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the bonding documentation: more discussion on initialization and configuration, changes to discussion of packet reordering in balance-rr, update some out of date information. Based in part on input from Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> and Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [NETFILTER]: Update feature-removal-schedule.txtJan Engelhardt2008-01-281-0/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With all the newly introduced features, there is a lot to remove later on after a compatibility grace period of 2 years. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [SHAPER]: The scheduled shaper removal.Adrian Bunk2008-01-283-59/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the scheduled removal of the shaper driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [UDP]: Add memory accounting.Hideo Aoki2008-01-281-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takahiro Yasui <tyasui@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [XFRM] Documentaion: Fix error example at XFRMOUTSTATEMODEERROR.Masahide NAKAMURA2008-01-281-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * doc: fix typo in feature-removal-scheduleStefano Brivio2008-01-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * mac80211: make PID rate control algorithm the defaultStefano Brivio2008-01-281-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes the new PID TX rate control algorithm the default instead of the rc80211_simple rate control algorithm. The simple algorithm was flawed in several ways: it wasn't responsive at all and didn't age the information it was relying on properly. The PID algorithm allows us to tune characteristics such as responsiveness by adjusting parameters and was found to generally behave better. The default algorithm can be overridden to select simple instead. Which ever algorithm is the default is included as part of the mac80211 module automatically. The other algorithm (simple vs. pid) can be selected for inclusion as well. If EMBEDDED is selected then the choice is available to have no default specified and neither algorithm included in mac80211. The default algorithm can be set through a modparam. While at it, mark rc80211-simple as deprecated, and schedule it for removal. Signed-off-by: Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [XFRM]: Define packet dropping statistics.Masahide NAKAMURA2008-01-281-0/+71
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This statistics is shown factor dropped by transformation at /proc/net/xfrm_stat for developer. It is a counter designed from current transformation source code and defined as linux private MIB. See Documentation/networking/xfrm_proc.txt for the detail. Signed-off-by: Masahide NAKAMURA <nakam@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [DCCP]: Support for server holding timewait stateGerrit Renker2008-01-281-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds a socket option and signalling support for the case where the server holds timewait state on closing the connection, as described in RFC 4340, 8.3. Since holding timewait state at the server is the non-usual case, it is enabled via a socket option. Documentation for this socket option has been added. The setsockopt statement has been made resilient against different possible cases of expressing boolean `true' values using a suggestion by Ian McDonald. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [NETFILTER]: ip_tables: remove obsolete SAME targetPatrick McHardy2008-01-281-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the ipt_SAME target as scheduled in feature-removal-schedule. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [UDP]: Defer InDataGrams increment until recvmsg() does checksumWang Chen2008-01-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks dave, herbert, gerrit, andi and other people for your discussion about this problem. UdpInDatagrams can be confusing because it counts packets that might be dropped later. Move UdpInDatagrams into recvmsg() as allowed by the RFC. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * softmac: mark as obsolete and schedule for removalJohn W. Linville2008-01-281-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Schedule softmac for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * bcm43xx: mark as obsolete and schedule for removalJohn W. Linville2008-01-281-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Schedule bcm43xx for for removal in the 2.6.26 development window. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [DCCP]: Update documentation on ioctlsGerrit Renker2008-01-281-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [DCCP]: Promote CCID2 as default CCIDGerrit Renker2008-01-281-2/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch addresses the following problems: 1. DCCP relies for its proper functioning on having at least one CCID module enabled (as in TCP plugable congestion control). Currently it is possible to disable both CCIDs and thus leave the DCCP module in a compiled, but entirely non-functional state: no sockets can be created when no CCID is available. Furthermore, the protocol is (again like TCP) not intended to be used without CCIDs. Last, a non-empty CCID list is needed for doing CCID feature negotiation. 2. Internally the default CCID that is advertised by the Linux host is set to CCID2 (DCCPF_INITIAL_CCID in include/linux/dccp.h). Disabling CCID2 in the Kconfig menu without changing the defaults leads to a failure `module not found' when trying to load the dccp module (which internally tries to load the default CCID). 3. The specification (RFC 4340, sec. 10) treats CCID2 somewhat like a `minimum common denominator'; the specification says that: * "New connections start with CCID 2 for both endpoints" * "A DCCP implementation intended for general use, such as an implementation in a general-purpose operating system kernel, SHOULD implement at least CCID 2. The intent is to make CCID 2 broadly available for interoperability [...]" Providing CCID2 as minimum-required CCID (like Reno/Cubic in TCP) thus seems reasonable. Hence this patch automatically selects CCID2 when DCCP is enabled. Documentation also added. Discussions with Ian McDonald on this subject are gratefully acknowledged. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [DCCP]: Update documentationGerrit Renker2008-01-281-5/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the DCCP documentation, following input from Ian McDonald, clarifiying the status of DCCP, and adding a note about the test tree. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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