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transfer_objects should only be called when all of the cpus in the
node are online. CPU_DEAD notifier callback marks l3->shared to NULL.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add help text in Kconfig
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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As reported in Bugzilla Bug 6406, resume from S3 results in a blank screen.
For the IBM Thinkpad X30 using vesafb as the console driver, successful resume
from S3 requires option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode. Update documentation.
I would presume that, in any hardware, using vesafb as the console driver will
require as a minimum s3_mode.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: <igor47@uchicago.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add sys_set_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list, sys_splice, sys_sync_file and
sys_tee system calls.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Generate new sysfs-attribute 'uid' that contains an device specific unique
identifier. This can be used to identity multiple ALIASES of the same
physical device (PAV). In addition the sysfs-attributes 'vendor' (containing
the manufacturer of the device) and 'alias' (identify alias or base device) is
added. This is first part of PAV support in LPAR (also valid on zVM).
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add a read_mostly section and define __read_mostly to prevent cache line
pollution due to writes for mostly read variables. In addition fix the
incorrect alignment of the cache_line_aligned data section. s390 has a
cacheline size of 256 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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In case of an instruction processing damage (IPD) machine check in kernel mode
the resulting action is always to stop the kernel. This is not necessarily
the best solution since a retry of the failing instruction might succeed. Add
logic to retry the instruction if no more than 30 instruction processing
damage checks occured in the last 5 minutes.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Print a warning with the z/VM error code if segment_load, segment_type or
segment_save fail to ease the problem determination.
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <geraldsc@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Added some changes that where proposed by Andrew Morton. Added 3592 device
type.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Add support for atomic futex operations.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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With CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG=y networking over qeth doesn't work. The problem is
that the qib structure embedded in the qeth_irq structure needs an alignment
of 256 but kmalloc only guarantees an alignment of 8. When using SLAB
debugging the alignment of qeth_irq is not sufficient for the embedded qib
structure which causes all users of qdio (qeth and zfcp) to stop working.
Allocate qeth_irq structure with __get_free_page. That wastes a small amount
of memory (~2500 bytes) per online adapter.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <cborntra@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The dasd state machine is not designed to enable an unformatted device, since
'unformatted' is a final state. The BIODASDENABLE ioctl calls
dasd_enable_device() which never returns if the device is in this special
state. Return -EPERM in dasd_increase_state for unformatted devices to make
dasd_enable_device terminate. Note: To get such an unformatted device online
it has to be re-analyzed. This means that the device needs to be disabled
prior to re-enablement.
Signed-off-by: Horst Hummel <horst.hummel@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Avoid memory allocation with GFP_KERNEL in qdio_establish/qdio_shutdown. Use
memory pool instead. (Otherwise this can lead to an I/O stall where qdio
waits for a free page and zfcp waits for end of error recovery in low memory
situations.)
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <aherrman@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If a signal handler has been established with the SA_ONSTACK option but no
alternate stack is provided with sigaltstack(), the kernel still tries to
install the alternate stack. Also when setting an alternate stack with
sigalstack() and the SS_DISABLE flag, the kernel tries to install the
alternate stack on signal delivery. Use the correct conditions sas_ss_flags()
to check if the alternate stack has to be used.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Meyer <meyerlau@fr.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Interrupts can stay disabled if an error occurred in _chp_add(). Use
spin_unlock_irq on the error paths to reenable interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <shbader@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix a race condition in the I/O termination logic. The race can cause I/O to
a dasd device to fail with no retry left after turning one channel path to the
device off and on multiple times.
Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix resume_execution() to handle iret and absolute jump opcode correctly on
i386.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When trap happens in user space, kprobe_exceptions_notify() funtion will
skip it. This patch deletes some unnecessary code for VM_MASK judgement in
eflags.
Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Running abnormal VM splits causes weird problems - people can set non-standard
splits by accident, then lots of time gets wasted diagnosing it - see the long
"[stable] 2.6.16.6 breaks java... sort of" email thread.
So we need to make this option harder to set. Use CONFIG_EMBEDDED for this.
CONFIG_EMBEDDED isn't really the right thing to use, but there's nothing else
obvious and avoiding these problems is more important than Kconfig purity.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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CPU_HOTPLUG has race conditions when we use broadcast mode IPI.
- First we introduced no_broadcast option
(see include/asm-i386/mach-default/mach_ipi.h)
- x86_64 solved it by using physical flat mode (same as bigsmp on i386)
since this will not use broadcast shortcuts for IPI.
- We switched to use bigsmp on i386 so that we can have same handling as
x86_64, but apparently this caused an error message, if kernel was
compiled without X86_GENERICARCH, X86_BIGSMP. The message "You have >8
CPUS..." which was bogus and misleading, and only indicated one of the
above ARCH wasnt selected.
So we do not switch to automatic bigsmp for HOTPLUG_CPU support in i386
until the other related config dependencies for SMP_SUSPEND etc can be done
right.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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These messages are kinda silly..
CPU#0 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
CPU#1 had 0 usecs TSC skew, fixed it up.
inspired from: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=7713&action=view
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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A regression in the ALSA driver compared to the OSS driver was reported as
ALSA bug #1520, so let's keep the OSS driver for now.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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this fixes coverity id #489.
Since the last element in the array is always ARRAY_SIZE-1 we have to check
for ipcnum >= ARRAY_SIZE()
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If compiled into the kernel, parport_register_driver() is called before the
parport driver has been initalised.
This means that it is expected that tp_count is 0 after the
parport_register_driver() call() - tipar's attach function will not be
called until later during bootup.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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- Add new SA_PROBEIRQ which suppresses the new sharing-mismatch warning.
Some drivers like to use request_irq() to find an unused interrupt slot.
- Use it in i82365.c
- Kill unused SA_PROBE.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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There's an off-by-1 in kernel/power/main.c:state_store() ... if your
kernel just happens to have some non-zero data at pm_states[PM_SUSPEND_MAX]
(i.e. one past the end of the array) then it'll let you write anything you
want to /sys/power/state and in response the box will enter S5.
Signed-off-by: dean gaudet <dean@arctic.org>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
[IA64] update sn2 defconfig
[IA64] Add mca recovery failure messages
[IA64-SGI] fix SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32() bug
[IA64] enable dumps to capture second page of kernel stack
[IA64-SGI] - Reduce overhead of reading sn_topology
[IA64-SGI] - Fix discover of nearest cpu node to IO node
[IA64] IOC4 config option ordering
[IA64] Setup an IA64 specific reclaim distance
[IA64] eliminate compile time warnings
[IA64] eliminate compile time warnings
[IA64-SGI] SN SAL call to inject memory errors
[IA64] - Fix MAX_PXM_DOMAINS for systems with > 256 nodes
[IA64] Remove unused variable in sn_sal.h
[IA64] Remove redundant NULL checks before kfree
[IA64] wire up compat_sys_adjtimex()
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Update SN2 defconfig to latest kernel and add QLA FC drivers commonly
found in SN2 boxes.
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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When the mca recovery code encounters a condition that makes
the MCA non-recoverable, print the reason it could not recover.
This will make it easier to identify why the recovery code did
not recover.
Signed-off-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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The following patch fixes a bug in the SGI Altix tioce_reserve_m32()
code. The bug was that we could walking past the end of the CE ASIC
32/40bit PMU ATE Buffer, resulting in a PIO Reply Error.
Signed-off-by: Mike Habeck <habeck@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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In SLES10 (2.6.16) crash dumping (in my experience, LKCD) is unable to
capture the second page of the 2-page task/stack allocation.
This is particularly troublesome for dump analysis, as the stack traceback
cannot be done.
(A similar convention is probably needed throughout the kernel to make
kernel multi-page allocations detectable for dumping)
Multi-page kernel allocations are represented by the single page structure
associated with the first page of the allocation. The page structures
associated with the other pages are unintialized.
If the dumper is selecting only kernel pages it has no way to identify
any but the first page of the allocation.
The fix is to make the task/stack allocation a compound page.
Signed-off-by: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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MPI programs using certain debug options have a long
startup time. This was traced to a "vmalloc/vfree" in
the code that reads /proc/sgi_sn/sn_topology. On large
systems, vfree requires an IPI to all cpus to do TLB
purging.
Replace the vmalloc/vfree with kmalloc/kfree. Although
the size of the structure being allocated is unknown, it
will not not exceed 96 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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Fix a bug that causes discovery of the nearest node/cpu to
a TIO (IO node) to fail.
Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
[PATCH] PCI quirk: VIA IRQ fixup should only run for VIA southbridges
[PATCH] PCI: fix potential resource leak in drivers/pci/msi.c
[PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids
[PATCH] PCI: fix via irq SATA patch
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
[PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: add support for ASK RDR 400 series card reader
[PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio: Adds support for iPlus device.
[PATCH] USB: ftdi_sio vendor code for RR-CirKits LocoBuffer USB
[PATCH] USB: Use new PCI_CLASS_SERIAL_USB_* defines
[PATCH] USB: net2280: set driver data before it is used
[PATCH] USB: net2280: check for shared IRQs
[PATCH] USB: net2280: send 0-length packets for ep0
[PATCH] USB: net2280: Handle STALLs for 0-length control-IN requests
[PATCH] USB: storage: atmel unusual dev update
[PATCH] USB: Storage: unusual devs update
[PATCH] USB: add new iTegno usb CDMA 1x card support for pl2303
[PATCH] USB: Resource leak fix for whiteheat driver
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
[PATCH] Added URI of "linux kernel development process"
[PATCH] Kobject: possible cleanups
[PATCH] Fix OCFS2 warning when DEBUG_FS is not enabled
[PATCH] Kobject: fix build error
[PATCH] Frame buffer: remove cmap sysfs interface
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* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
[MIPS] Fix branch emulation for floating-point exceptions.
[MIPS] Cleanup inode->r_dev usage.
[MIPS] Update MIPS defconfigs.
[MIPS] Get rid of CONFIG_ADVANCED.
[MIPS] Kconfig: Clarify description of CROSSCOMPILE.
[MIPS] 24K LV: Add core card id.
[MIPS] Sparse: fix sparse for 64-bit kernels.
[MIPS] Use __ffs() instead of ffs() in ip32_irq0().
[MIPS] Fix bitops for MIPS32/MIPS64 CPUs.
[MIPS] Fix ip27 build.
[MIPS] Oprofile: fix sparse warning.
[MIPS] Fix oprofile module unloading
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* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
[PATCH] splice: make the read-side do batched page lookups
[PATCH] Add find_get_pages_contig(): contiguous variant of find_get_pages()
[PATCH] splice: switch to using page_cache_readahead()
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Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch contains the following possible cleanups:
- #if 0 the following unused global function:
- subsys_remove_file()
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL's:
- kset_find_obj
- subsystem_init
- remove the following unused EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL:
- kobject_add_dir
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix the following warning which happens when OCFS2_FS is enabled but
DEBUG_FS isn't:
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c: In function `ocfs2_dlm_init_debug':
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c:2036: warning: passing arg 5 of `debugfs_create_file' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This fixes a build error for various odd combinations of CONFIG_HOTPLUG
and CONFIG_NET.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Remove it as it does not work properly due to sysfs core changes.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Alan Cox pointed out that the VIA 'IRQ fixup' was erroneously running
on my system which has no VIA southbridge (but I do have a VIA IEEE
1394 device).
This should address that. I also changed "Via IRQ" to "VIA IRQ"
(initially I read Via as a capitalized via (by way/means of).
Signed-off-by: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The coverity checker spotted (as entry #599) that we might leak `entry' in
drivers/pci/msi.c::msix_capability_init()
This patch should take care of that.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids
but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h
Original text from Jeff Garzik.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This device id improperly got added to the VIA chipset list with a
previous patch. Remove it as it is not correct.
Cc: Grzegorz Janoszka <Grzegorz@Janoszka.pl>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Proposed fix for ptep_get_and_clear_full PAE bug. Pte_clear had the same bug,
so use the same fix for both. Turns out pmd_clear had it as well, but pgds
are not affected.
The problem is rather intricate. Page table entries in PAE mode are 64-bits
wide, but the only atomic 8-byte write operation available in 32-bit mode is
cmpxchg8b, which is expensive (at least on P4), and thus avoided. But it can
happen that the processor may prefetch entries into the TLB in the middle of an
operation which clears a page table entry. So one must always clear the P-bit
in the low word of the page table entry first when clearing it.
Since the sequence *ptep = __pte(0) leaves the order of the write dependent on
the compiler, it must be coded explicitly as a clear of the low word followed
by a clear of the high word. Further, there must be a write memory barrier
here to enforce proper ordering by the compiler (and, in the future, by the
processor as well).
On > 4GB memory machines, the implementation of pte_clear for PAE was clearly
deficient, as it could leave virtual mappings of physical memory above 4GB
aliased to memory below 4GB in the TLB. The implementation of
ptep_get_and_clear_full has a similar bug, although not nearly as likely to
occur, since the mappings being cleared are in the process of being destroyed,
and should never be dereferenced again.
But, as luck would have it, it is possible to trigger bugs even without ever
dereferencing these bogus TLB mappings, even if the clear is followed fairly
soon after with a TLB flush or invalidation. The problem is that memory above
4GB may now be aliased into the first 4GB of memory, and in fact, may hit a
region of memory with non-memory semantics. These regions include AGP and PCI
space. As such, these memory regions are not cached by the processor. This
introduces the bug.
The processor can speculate memory operations, including memory writes, as long
as they are committed with the proper ordering. Speculating a memory write to
a linear address that has a bogus TLB mapping is possible. Normally, the
speculation is harmless. But for cached memory, it does leave the falsely
speculated cacheline unmodified, but in a dirty state. This cache line will be
eventually written back. If this cacheline happens to intersect a region of
memory that is not protected by the cache coherency protocol, it can corrupt
data in I/O memory, which is generally a very bad thing to do, and can cause
total system failure or just plain undefined behavior.
These bugs are extremely unlikely, but the severity is of such magnitude, and
the fix so simple that I think fixing them immediately is justified. Also,
they are nearly impossible to debug.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch adds support for an ASK RDR 400 series contactless card
reader <http://www.ask.fr/uk/products_and_services/terminals.html> to
the ftdi_sio driver's device ID table. The product ID was supplied by
Adriano Couto on the ftdi-usb-sio-devel list.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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