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The alignment callback returns a proposed location, which may have been
adjusted to avoid ISA aliases or for other architecture-specific reasons.
We already had a check ("tmp.start < tmp.end") to make sure the callback
doesn't return an area that extends past the available area. This patch
reworks the check to make sure it doesn't return an area that extends
either below or above the available area.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This factors out the min/max clipping to simplify find_resource().
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This removes a test from find_resource(), which is getting cluttered.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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The end of an MMCONFIG region depends on the ending bus number, not on the
number of buses the region covers. We previously computed the wrong ending
address whenever the starting bus number was non-zero, e.g.,:
MMCONFIG for [bus 00-1f] at [mem 0xe0000000-0xe1ffffff] (base 0xe0000000)
MMCONFIG for [bus 20-3f] at [mem 0xe2000000-0xe1ffffff] (base 0xe0000000)
The correct regions are:
MMCONFIG for [bus 00-1f] at [mem 0xe0000000-0xe1ffffff] (base 0xe0000000)
MMCONFIG for [bus 20-3f] at [mem 0xe2000000-0xe3ffffff] (base 0xe0000000)
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Not all hardware vendors hook up the PME line for legacy PCI devices,
meaning that wakeup events get lost. The only way around this is to poll
the devices to see if their state has changed, so add support for doing
that on legacy PCI devices that aren't part of the core chipset.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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It's helpful to have some extra PCI power management functions available to
platform code, so move the declarations to an exported header.
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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I missed the closing parenthesis on "(PCI address ...)".
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Previously we had to have CONFIG_PCI_DEBUG=y or CONFIG_DYNAMIC_DEBUG=y
to turn on this printk, but I think the IDs are valuable enough that it's
worth putting them in the log always.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This patch updates the defines for Intel devices in
include/linux/pci_ids.h, referenced in arch/x86/pci/irq.c and
drivers/i2c/busses/i2c-i801.c, reflecting approved legal branding, and
using fuller code-names for products under development.
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Replace EXTRA_CFLAGS with ccflags-y.
Signed-off-by: matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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These are already defined in pcilib's pci/header.h but not in kernel's
linux/pci_regs.h. Copy them to avoid using magic numbers.
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Signed-off-by: Anders Wallin <anders.wallin@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This patch adds the LPC Controller DeviceIDs for the Intel Patsburg PCH.
Signed-off-by: Seth Heasley <seth.heasley@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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This configuration type override is for XO-1 only and must not happen
on XO-1.5.
Acked-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@laptop.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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MCP55 northbridge
A long time ago I worked on a RHEL5 bug in which kdump hung during boot
on a set of systems. The systems hung because they never received timer
interrupts during calibrate_delay. These systems also all had Opteron
processors on a hypertransport bus, bridged to a pci bus via an Nvidia
MCP55 northbridge chip. After much wrangling I managed to learn from
Nvidia that they have an undocumented register in some versions of that
chip which control how legacy interrupts are send to the cpu complex
when the ioapic isn't active. Nvidia defaults this register to only
send legacy interrupts to the BSP, so if kdump happens to boot on an AP,
we never get timer interrupts and boom. I had initially used this quirk
as a workaround, with my intent being to move apic initalization to an
earlier point in the boot process, so the setting of the register would
be irrelevant. Given the work involved in doing that however, the
fragile nature of the apic initalization code, and the fact that, over
the 2 years since we found this bug, the MCP55 is the only chip which
seems to have this issue, I've figure at this point its likely safer to
just carry the quirk around. By setting the referenced bits in this
hidden register, interrupts will be broadcast to all cpus when the
ioapic isn't active on the above described systems.
Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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There is a design issue related to PCIe AER and _OSC that the BIOS
may be asked to grant control of the AER service even if some
Hardware Error Source Table (HEST) entries contain information
meaning that the BIOS really should control it. Namely,
pcie_port_acpi_setup() calls pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() that
determines whether or not the AER service should be controlled by
the BIOS on the basis of the HEST information for the given PCIe
port. The BIOS is asked to grant control of the AER service for
a PCIe Root Complex if pcie_aer_get_firmware_first() returns 'false'
for at least one root port in that complex, even if all of the other
root ports' HEST entries have the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set (and none
of them has the GLOBAL flag set). However, if the AER service is
controlled by the kernel, that may interfere with the BIOS' handling
of the error sources having the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag. Moreover,
there may be PCIe endpoints that have the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set in
HEST and are attached to the root ports in question, in which case it
also may be unsafe to ask the BIOS for control of the AER service.
For this reason, introduce a function checking if there's at least
one PCIe-related HEST entry with the FIRMWARE_FIRST flag set and
disable the native AER service altogether if this function returns
'true'.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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The name field in pci_driver should be const, it is not
modified by PCI subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Get rid of init_MUTEX[_LOCKED]() and use sema_init() instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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quiet the warning about use of uninitialized e_src in
aer_isr() e_src is initialized by get_e_source()
Signed-off-by: Bill Pemberton <wfp5p@virginia.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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All operations in the pci procfs ioctl functions are
atomic, so no lock is needed here.
Also add a compat_ioctl method, since all the commands
are compatible in 32 bit mode.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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Indent the branch of an if.
The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
// <smpl>
@r disable braces4@
position p1,p2;
statement S1,S2;
@@
(
if (...) { ... }
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if (...) S1@p1 S2@p2
)
@script:python@
p1 << r.p1;
p2 << r.p2;
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if (p1[0].column == p2[0].column):
cocci.print_main("branch",p1)
cocci.print_secs("after",p2)
// </smpl>
Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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If you build aout support as a module, you'll want these exported.
Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Tony Luck reports that the addition of the access_ok() check in commit
0eead9ab41da ("Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps") broke the
ia64 compile due to missing the necessary header file includes.
Rather than add yet another include (<asm/unistd.h>) to make everything
happy, just uninline the silly core dump helper functions and move the
bodies to fs/exec.c where they make a lot more sense.
dump_seek() in particular was too big to be an inline function anyway,
and none of them are in any way performance-critical. And we really
don't need to mess up our include file headers more than they already
are.
Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
ehea: Fix a checksum issue on the receive path
net: allow FEC driver to use fixed PHY support
tg3: restore rx_dropped accounting
b44: fix carrier detection on bind
net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions
NET: wimax, fix use after free
ATM: iphase, remove sleep-inside-atomic
ATM: mpc, fix use after free
ATM: solos-pci, remove use after free
net/fec: carrier off initially to avoid root mount failure
r8169: use device model DMA API
r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep
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akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct
dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes
back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping
code). Just remove it.
Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write(). It probably doesn't
matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he
points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ...
[ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of
calling ->write directly. That also does the whole fsnotify and write
statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ]
And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation
code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even
compile)
Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx:
ioat2: fix performance regression
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* 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux:
nfsd: fix BUG at fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h:199 on unlink
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per page
perf, MIPS: Support cross compiling of tools/perf for MIPS
perf: Fix incorrect copy_from_user() usage
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* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm:
ARM: relax ioremap prohibition (309caa9) for -final and -stable
ARM: 6440/1: ep93xx: DMA: fix channel_disable
cpuimx27: fix i2c bus selection
cpuimx27: fix compile when ULPI is selected
ARM: 6435/1: Fix HWCAP_TLS flag for ARM11MPCore/Cortex-A9
ARM: 6436/1: AT91: Fix power-saving in idle-mode on 926T processors
ARM: fix section mismatch warnings in Versatile Express
ARM: 6412/1: kprobes-decode: add support for MOVW instruction
ARM: 6419/1: mmu: Fix MT_MEMORY and MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED pte flags
ARM: 6416/1: errata: faulty hazard checking in the Store Buffer may lead to data corruption
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6
* 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6:
omap: iommu-load cam register before flushing the entry
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6:
drm/radeon/kms: Silent spurious error message
drm/radeon/kms: fix bad cast/shift in evergreen.c
drm/radeon/kms: make TV/DFP table info less verbose
drm/radeon/kms: leave certain CP int bits enabled
drm/radeon/kms: avoid corner case issue with unmappable vram V2
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, numa: For each node, register the memory blocks actually used
x86, AMD, MCE thresholding: Fix the MCi_MISCj iteration order
x86, mce, therm_throt.c: Fix missing curly braces in error handling logic
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Commit 0793448 "DMAENGINE: generic channel status v2" changed the interface for
how dma channel progress is retrieved. It inadvertently exported an internal
helper function ioat_tx_status() instead of ioat_dma_tx_status(). The latter
polls the hardware to get the latest completion state, while the helper just
evaluates the current state without touching hardware. The effect is that we
end up waiting for completion timeouts or descriptor allocation errors before
the completion state is updated.
iperf (before fix):
[SUM] 0.0-41.3 sec 364 MBytes 73.9 Mbits/sec
iperf (after fix):
[SUM] 0.0- 4.5 sec 499 MBytes 940 Mbits/sec
This is a regression starting with 2.6.35.
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com>
Cc: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Reported-by: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Currently we set all skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY, even
those whose protocol we don't know. This patch just
add the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE tag for non TCP/UDP packets.
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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As of commit 43a9aa64a2f4330a9cb59aaf5c5636566bce067c "NFSD:
Fill in WCC data for REMOVE, RMDIR, MKNOD, and MKDIR", we sometimes call
fh_unlock on a filehandle that isn't fully initialized.
We should fix up the callers, but as a quick fix it is also sufficient
just to remove this assertion.
Reported-by: Marius Tolzmann <tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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At least one board using the FEC driver does not have a conventional
PHY attached to it, it is directly connected to a somewhat simple
ethernet switch (the board is the SnapGear/LITE, and the attached
4-port ethernet switch is a RealTek RTL8305). This switch does not
present the usual register interface of a PHY, it presents nothing.
So a PHY scan will find nothing - it finds ID's of 0 for each PHY
on the attached MII bus.
After the FEC driver was changed to use phylib for supporting PHYs
it no longer works on this particular board/switch setup.
Add code support to use a fixed phy if no PHY is found on the MII bus.
This is based on the way the cpmac.c driver solved this same problem.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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... but produce a big warning about the problem as encouragement
for people to fix their drivers.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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When channel_disable() is called, it disables per channel interrupts and
waits until channels state becomes STATE_STALL, and then disables the
channel. Now, if the DMA transfer is disabled while the channel is in
STATE_NEXT we will not wait anything and disable the channel immediately.
This seems to cause weird data corruption for example in audio transfers.
Fix is to wait while we are in STATE_NEXT or STATE_ON and only then
disable the channel.
Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi>
Acked-by: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: x86: Move TSC reset out of vmcb_init
KVM: x86: Fix SVM VMCB reset
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Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between
two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp.
Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time
is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events
happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted
to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which
is good for ~18 years.
Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event.
If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering,
the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then
after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer.
This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds
a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the
beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual
data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill
more than a page without any data.
When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends
since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never
given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running
forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page,
a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the
iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page
a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace
is also disabled with it).
There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can
hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen
18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name
of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The
size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only
8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on
a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size
cutting the amount in half.
The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only
need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the
warning:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# echo function > current_tracer
# echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter
# echo > trace
# echo 1 > trace_marker
# sleep 120
# cat trace
Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace
functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing
the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer,
then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page,
sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this
guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will
trigger the bug.
This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning.
Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Changes:
v4: Fix the cosmetic issue of redundant dot-ops
v3: Change rmb() to use SYNC
v2: Include mips unistd.h and define rmb()/cpu_relax() in tools/perf/perf.h
Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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I see the following error message in my kernel log from time to time:
radeon 0000:07:00.0: ffff88007c334000 reserve failed for wait
radeon 0000:07:00.0: ffff88007c334000 reserve failed for wait
After investigation, it turns out that there's nothing to be afraid of
and everything works as intended. So remove the spurious log message.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Missing parens.
fixes:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30718
Reported-by: Dave Gilbert <freedesktop@treblig.org>
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Make TV standard and DFP table revisions debug only.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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These bits are used for internal communication and should
be left enabled. This may fix s/r issues on some systems.
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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We should not allocate any object into unmappable vram if we
have no means to access them which on all GPU means having the
CP running and on newer GPU having the blit utility working.
This patch limit the vram allocation to visible vram until
we have acceleration up and running.
Note that it's more than unlikely that we run into any issue
related to that as when acceleration is not woring userspace
should allocate any object in vram beside front buffer which
should fit in visible vram.
V2 use real_vram_size as mc_vram_size could be bigger than
the actual amount of vram
[airlied: fixup r700_cp_stop case]
Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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perf events: repair incorrect use of copy_from_user
This makes the perf_event_period() return 0 instead of
-EFAULT on success.
Signed-off-by: John Blackwood<john.blackwood@ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100928220311.GA18145@tsunami.ccur.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch disables the fanotify syscalls by just not building them and
letting the cond_syscall() statements in kernel/sys_ni.c redirect them
to sys_ni_syscall().
It was pointed out by Tvrtko Ursulin that the fanotify interface did not
include an explicit prioritization between groups. This is necessary
for fanotify to be usable for hierarchical storage management software,
as they must get first access to the file, before inotify-like notifiers
see the file.
This feature can be added in an ABI compatible way in the next release
(by using a number of bits in the flags field to carry the info) but it
was suggested by Alan that maybe we should just hold off and do it in
the next cycle, likely with an (new) explicit argument to the syscall.
I don't like this approach best as I know people are already starting to
use the current interface, but Alan is all wise and noone on list backed
me up with just using what we have. I feel this is needlessly ripping
the rug out from under people at the last minute, but if others think it
needs to be a new argument it might be the best way forward.
Three choices:
Go with what we got (and implement the new feature next cycle). Add a
new field right now (and implement the new feature next cycle). Wait
till next cycle to release the ABI (and implement the new feature next
cycle). This is number 3.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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