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2005-11-07[PATCH] i810fb: Cleanup I2C codeAntonino A. Daplas
- The functions for reading the 1st and 2nd bus are essentially the same, except for the register. Consolidate them all. - According to Nicolas Boichat, there is an undocumented 3rd i2c bus for attaching daughter cards. Add support for this. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] vesafb: Disable mtrr as the defaultAntonino A. Daplas
vesafb occassionally gets the size wrong when setting the mtrr. When X or DRI attempts to set the mtrr, it will fail due to range overlap significantly affecting their performance. Disable mtrr and let the user explicitly enable it with the mtrr:n option. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] s3c2410fb: initialise device_driver .ownerBen Dooks
Initialise the .owner field, so that if the driver is built as a module, the system has a link to the owner Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbdev: fix the fb_find_nearest_mode() functionMichal Januszewski
Currently the fb_find_nearest_mode() function finds a mode with screen resolution closest to that described by the 'var' argument and with some arbitrary refresh rate (eg. in the following sequence of refresh rates: 70 60 53 85 75, 53 is selected). This patch fixes the function so that it looks for the closest mode as far as both resolution and refresh rate are concerned. The function's first argument is changed to fb_videomode so that the refresh rate can be specified by the caller, as fb_var_screeninfo doesn't have any fields that could directly hold this data. Signed-off-by: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] nvidiafb: Fix empty macroAntonino A. Daplas
Use do {} while(0) for empty reverse_order() macro. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbdev: Workaround for buggy EDID blocksAntonino A. Daplas
Some EDID blocks set the flag "prefer first detailed timing" without providing any detailed timing at all. Clear this flag if the block does not provide detailed timings. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] pm2fb: Manual configuration of timings for Elsa Winner 2000 OfficePeter 'p2' De Schrijver
Attached is a small patch which configures the correct memory clock and timings on the Elsa Winner 2000 Office pm2 based card. This is necessary when the card is used on a platform which does not support PC style BIOS initialization. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] savagefb: Convert from VGA IO access to MMIO accessAntonino A. Daplas
Use MMIO registers instead of banging the VGA IO registers. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] atyfb: Get initial mode timings from LCD BIOSAntonino A. Daplas
Reported by: Jean-Philippe Guérard (Bugzilla Bug 1782) "I've tried with video=atyfb:debug and video=atyfb:debug,mode:1280x600, \ nomtrr. In both case, the screen stays black, but seems divided into 4 vertical bands. Some white lines pop up randomly on each vertical band." The problem is a combination of an incorrect xclk plus lack of timing information. The adapter is attached to an LCD device that can do 1280x600 (which is not a standard resolution). The global mode database does not have an entry for it. Fortunately, the Video BIOS contains the complete timing info for this display, however, atyfb is not making use of it. Add support to get the timing information from the BIOS, if available. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] vesafb: Fix color palette handlingAntonino A. Daplas
Fix out-of-bounds bug. The pseudopalette has room only for 16 entries, thus, write only the first 16 entries to the pseudopalette. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbdev: Remove software clipping from drawing functionsAntonino A. Daplas
Remove software clipping from imageblit, fillrect and copyarea. Clipping is not needed because the console layer assures that reads/writes doest not happen beyond the extents of the framebuffer. And software clipping tends to hide bugs, if they do exist. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbcon: Initialize new driver when old driver is releasedAntonino A. Daplas
If machine has more than 1 driver installed, and they all drive the same hardware, it's possible that the driver's fb_release() method will attempt to restore the hardware state to the initial state. This will leave the new driver in an undefined state. To prevent this problem, initialize the new driver by calling fb_set_par() when the old driver is released by fbcon. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas<adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbcon: Use helper function when filling out var structureAntonino A. Daplas
Instead of manually filling up the fields in struct fb_var_screeninfo, use the display_to_var() helper. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbcon: Consolidate redundant codeAntonino A. Daplas
Lot's of redundant code scattered throughout fbcon.c. Consolidate them all into one function, fbcon_update_softback(). Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fbcon/fbdev: Move softcursor out of fbdev to fbconAntonino A. Daplas
According to Jon Smirl, filling in the field fb_cursor with soft_cursor for drivers that do not support hardware cursors is redundant. The soft_cursor function is usable by all drivers because it is just a wrapper around fb_imageblit. And because soft_cursor is an fbcon-specific hook, the file is moved to the console directory. Thus, drivers that do not support hardware cursors can leave the fb_cursor field blank. For drivers that do, they can fill up this field with their own version. The end result is a smaller code size. And if the framebuffer console is not loaded, module/kernel size is also reduced because the soft_cursor module will also not be loaded. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] radeonfb: prevent spurious recompilationsJean Delvare
Prevent spurious recompilations of the radeonfb driver when I2C/DDC support is not included and i2c header files are modified. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] intelfb: extend partial support of i915G to include i915GMScott MacKenzie
Add partial support for GMA900 within the i915GM chipset. Signed-off-by: Scott MacKenzie <irrational@poboxes.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] nvidiafb: Add flat panel dither supportBenjamin Herrenschmidt
nvidiafb didn't fully hook-up the code it borrowed from X for doing flat panel dithering (this is useful for 6 bits panels). This adds a driver option to force it, and by default "reads" the current value from the chip to get the firmware setting. It significantly improves the quality of images on the iMac G5 I have here (though the X driver doesn't yet "read" the current value and defaults to 0, so you have to add Option "FBDither" "true" to your X config file to get that, I'll try to fix X.org to "read" the default unless specified asap). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] nvidiafb-fix-mode-setting-ppc-support-warning-fixesAndrew Morton
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c: In function `NVCommonSetup': drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:408: warning: statement with no effect drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:496: warning: statement with no effect drivers/video/nvidia/nv_setup.c:504: warning: statement with no effect Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] nvidiafb: Fix mode setting & PPC supportBenjamin Herrenschmidt
This patch fixes nvifiafb mode setting code to be closer to what the X driver does, which actually makes it work on the 5200FX I have access to. It also fix the routine that gets the EDID from Open Firmware on PPC, it was broken in various ways and would crash at boot. Compared to the patch I posted to linux-fbdev last week, this one just changes a printk to be closer to the other ones in the driver. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fb: straighten up fb drivers menuRandy Dunlap
Arrange frame buffer menu: - puts all Epson drivers together - removes split of FB_PXA and FB_PXA_PARAMETERS by FB_W100 - results in PXA, W100, Epson, S3C2410, & Virtual FB drivers being presented at the same menu level as all other FB drivers Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Acked-by: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] framebuffer: add some help text in KconfigRandy.Dunlap
Frame buffer driver help text changes: - Move S3 Trio next to S3 Savage; - add or clarify help text for several FB drivers; - add help text for FB console; - add help text for bootup logos; Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] prevent dmesg warning in zr36067 driverRonald S. Bultje
Fix the warning "Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/asm/semaphore.h:102" that the zr36067 driver emits every time an application using JPEG capture starts up (e.g. mjpegtools' lavrec). The warning is harmless, but clogs up the dmesg output. This was logged as bugzilla #5403. (Thanks to Christian Casteyde for helping me in fixing this long-standing annoyance.) Signed-off-by: Ronald S. Bultje <rbultje@ronald.bitfreak.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] i4l: update hfc_usb driverMartin Bachem
- cleanup source - remove nonfunctional code parts Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] rapidio: message interface updatesMatt Porter
Updates the RIO messaging interface to pass a device instance into the event registeration and callbacks. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] rapidio: core updatesMatt Porter
Addresses issues raised with the 2.6.12-rc6-mm1 RIO support. Fix dma_mask init, shrink some code, general cleanup. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] RapidIO support: core enumMatt Porter
Adds RapidIO enumeration/discovery. The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] RapidIO support: core baseMatt Porter
Adds a RapidIO subsystem to the kernel. RIO is a switched fabric interconnect used in higher-end embedded applications. The curious can look at the specs over at http://www.rapidio.org The core code implements enumeration/discovery, management of devices/resources, and interfaces for RIO drivers. There's a lot more to do to take advantages of all the hardware features. However, this should provide a good base for folks with RIO hardware to start contributing. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: fix watchdog timeout panic handlingCorey Minyard
If a panic came from the IPMI watchdog pretimeout and that was reported via an NMI, it would also be reported via the standard IPMI flags, which would get picked up when reporting panic events and cause another panic. This adds an atomic to avoid calling panic twice. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: use rcu lock for using command receiversCorey Minyard
Use rcu_read_lock for the cmd_rcvrs list, since that was what what intended, anyway. This means that all the users of the cmd_rcvrs_lock are tasks, so the irq disables are no longer required for that lock and it can become a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: use kthread APIMatt Domsch
Convert ipmi driver thread to kthread API, only sleep when interface is idle. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: add timer threadCorey Minyard
We must poll for responses to commands when interrupts aren't in use. The default poll interval is based on using a kernel timer, which varies with HZ. For character-based interfaces like KCS and SMIC though, that can be way too slow (>15 minutes to flash a new firmware with KCS, >20 seconds to retrieve the sensor list). This creates a low-priority kernel thread to poll more often. If the state machine is idle, so is the kernel thread. But if there's an active command, it polls quite rapidly. This decrease a firmware flash time from 15 minutes to 1.5 minutes, and the sensor list time to 4.5 seconds, on a Dell PowerEdge x8x system. The timer-based polling remains, to ensure some amount of responsiveness even under high user process CPU load. Checking for a stopped timer at rmmod now uses atomics and del_timer_sync() to ensure safe stoppage. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: kcs error0 delayCorey Minyard
BMCs can get into ERROR0 state while flashing new firmware, particularly while the BMC is erasing the next flash block, which may take a just under 2 seconds on a Dell PowerEdge 2800 (1.75 seconds typical), during which time the single-threaded firmware may not be able to process new commands. In particular, clearing OBF may not take effect immediately. We want it to delay in ERROR0 after clearing OBF a bit waiting for OBF to actually be clear before proceeding. This introduces a new return value from the LLDD's event loop, SI_SM_CALL_WITH_TICK_DELAY. This means the calling thread/timer should schedule_timeout() at least 1 tick, rather than busy-wait. This is a longer delay than SI_SM_CALL_WITH_DELAY, which is typically a 250us busy-wait. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: bt restart reset fixesCorey Minyard
The current BT retry/reset mechanism fails to succeed on a PowerEdge 1650, when the controller is wedged with B2H_ATN asserted at XACTION_START. If this occurs, no further commands will ever succeed unless the state of the controller is first cleared out. Furthermore, the soft reset would only occur if the first command after insmod was the one that timed out, not if a later command timed out. This patch changes the retry/reset mechanism to be as follows: Before retrying a command, clear the state of the BT controller such that the flags represent ready for a new transaction. This increases the chance of success of the restarted transaction. After 2 retries, issue a soft reset and retry one more time before giving up and reporting back a failure. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Acked-by: Rocky Craig <rocky.craig@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: si start transaction hookCorey Minyard
Some commands, on some system BMCs, don't respond at at all. This is seen on Dell PowerEdge x6xx and x7xx systems with IPMI 1.0 BT controllers when a "Get SDR" command is issued, with a length field of 0x3A, which happens to be the length of about SDR entries. If another length is passed, this command succeeds. This patch adds general infrastructure for receiving commands before they're passed down to the low-level drivers, such that they can be completed immediately, or modified, prior to being sent to ->start_transaction(). Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: more dell fixesCorey Minyard
Make SMIC driver ignore EVT_AVAIL and SMS_ATN bits in flags register, as they're used by systems management interrupts, not the host OS. Make the OEM0 Data Available handler work for pre-IPMI 1.5 systems from Dell too. Without these two fixes, PowerEdge 2650 and other similar systems with SMIC may hang a process (modprobe or anything using /dev/ipmi0). Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: poweroff cleanupsCorey Minyard
Make module_param and MODULE_PARAM_DESC agree on poweroff_powercycle name. There was an extraneous ifdef in the IPMI poweroff code that prevented it from working if PROC_FS was disabled. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: watchdog parms in sysfsCorey Minyard
Modify the IPMI watchdog parameters (the ones that make sense) to be exported from sysfs. This is somewhat complicated because these parameters have side-effects that must be handled. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: various si cleanupCorey Minyard
A number of small changes for the various system interface drivers, consolidated from a number of patches from Matt Domsch. Clear B2H_ATN and drain the BMC message buffer on command timeout. This prevents further commands from failing after a timeout. Add bt_debug and smic_debug module parameters, expose them in sysfs. This lets you enable and disable debugging messages at runtime. Unsigned jiffies math in ipmi_si_intf.c causes a too-large value to be passed to ->event() after jiffies wrap-around. The BT driver had caught this, but didn't know how to fix it. Now all calls to ->event() use a sane value for time. Increase timeout for commands handed to the BT driver from 2 seconds to 5 seconds. This is necessary particularly when the previous command was a "Clear SEL", as that command completes, yet the BMC isn't really ready to handle another command yet. Silence BT debugging messages which were being printed on the console. Increase SMIC timeout form 1/10s to 2s. This is needed on Dell PowerEdge 2650 and PowerEdge 750 with ERA/O cards to allow commands to complete without timing out. Adds kcs_debug module param, to match behavior of BT and SMIC. This also prevents messages from being sent to the console unless explicitly requested. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ipmi: use refcount in message handlerCorey Minyard
This patch is rather large, but it really can't be done in smaller chunks easily and I believe it is an important change. This has been out and tested for a while in the latest IPMI driver release. There are no functional changes, just changes as necessary to convert the locking over (and a few minor style updates). The IPMI driver uses read/write locks to ensure that things exist while they are in use. This is bad from a number of points of view. This patch removes the rwlocks and uses refcounts and RCU lists to manage what the locks did. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] as: cooperating processesNick Piggin
Introduce the notion of cooperating processes (those that submit requests close to one another), and use these statistics to make better choices about whether or not to do anticipatory waiting. Help and analysis from Seetharami Seelam <seelam@cs.utep.edu> Performance testing from Seelam: I set up my system and executed a couple of tests that I used for OLS. I tested with AS, cooperative process patch merged in -mm tree (which I called Nick, below) and the cooperative patch with modifications to as_update_iohist (which I called Seelam). I used a dual-processor (2.28GHz Pentium 4 Xeon) system, with 1 GB main memory and 1 MB L2 cache, running Linux 2.6.9. Only a single processor is used for the experiments. I used 7.2K RPM Maxtor 10GB drive configured with ext2 file system. Experiment 1 (ex1) consists of reading one Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 2 (ex2) consists of reading two disjoint Linux source trees using find . -type f -exec cat '{}' ';' > /dev/null. Experiment 3 (ex3) consists of streaming read of a 2GB file in the background and 1 instance of the chunk reads in Experiment 1. Timings for reading the Linux source are shown below: AS Nick Seelam ex1: 0m25.813s 0m27.859s 0m27.640s ex2: 1m11.468s 1m13.918s 1m5.869s ex3: 81m44.352s 10m38.572s 6m47.994s The difference between the numbers in Experiment 3 must be due to the code in as_update_iohist. (akpm: that's not part of this patch. So this patch is "Nick"). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] fix remaining missing includesTim Schmielau
Fix more include file problems that surfaced since I submitted the previous fix-missing-includes.patch. This should now allow not to include sched.h from module.h, which is done by a followup patch. Signed-off-by: Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Only disallow _setting_ of function key stringMarcelo Tosatti
Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> noted that the current 2.6-git (and 2.4) patch to disallow KDSKBSENT for unpriviledged users should be less restrictive allowing reading of current function key string entry, but not writing. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] dell_rbu: Adding BIOS memory floor supportAbhay Salunke
This patch has the changes to support the memory floor fix done in Dell BIOS. The BIOS incase of packet update mechanism would not accept packet placed in memory below a cretain address. This address is by default 128K but can change. The driver now can accept the memory floor if the user chooses to make it will try to allocate contiguous physical memory above the memory floor by allocating a set of packets till a valid memory allocation is made. All the allocates then are freed. This repeats for everty packet. This patch was created by Michael E Brown and has been tested on 2.6.14-rc5 Signed-of-by: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com> Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] tpm: Fix lack of driver_unregister in init failcasesKylene Jo Hall
driver_unregister is not being properly called when the init function returns an error case. Restructured the return logic such that this and the other cleanups all happen in one place. Preformed many of the cleanups that Andrew Morton's patch on Thursday made in tpm_atmel.c. Fixed Matthieu's concern about writing before discovery. (akpm: rmk said: This driver is buggy. You must not provide your own release function - it doesn't solve the problem which the warning (which you get when you don't provide one) is telling you about. You should convert your device driver over to the replacement dynamic platform support, once it is merged. IOW, something like: pdev = platform_device_alloc("mydev", id); if (pdev) { err = platform_device_add_resources(pdev, &resources, ARRAY_SIZE(resources)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add_data(pdev, &platform_data, sizeof(platform_data)); if (err == 0) err = platform_device_add(pdev); } else { err = -ENOMEM; } if (err) platform_device_put(pdev); ) Signed-off-by: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] serial moxa: fix wrong BUGKirill Smelkov
There is a wrong BUG in mxser_close. The BUG is triggered when tty->driver_data == NULL, But in fact this is not a bug, because tty->driver->close is called even when tty->driver->open fails. LDD3 tells us to do nothing in such cases. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] serial moxa: fix leaks of struct tty_driverKirill Smelkov
Fix leak of struct tty_driver in mxser_init & mxser_module_exit Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] serial moxa: cleanup mxser_initKirill Smelkov
Remove explicit tty_driver ops initialisation, because this is already done by tty_set_operations. Signed-off-by: Kirill Smelkov <kirr@mns.spb.ru> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] Process Events ConnectorMatt Helsley
This patch adds a connector that reports fork, exec, id change, and exit events for all processes to userspace. It replaces the fork_advisor patch that ELSA is currently using. Applications that may find these events useful include accounting/auditing (e.g. ELSA), system activity monitoring (e.g. top), security, and resource management (e.g. CKRM). Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07[PATCH] serial console: touch NMI watchdogAndrew Morton
Large console spews from IRQ or local_irq_disable() sections can cause the NMI watchdog to go off. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>