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* [TCP]: sysctl to allow TCP window > 32767 sans wscaleRick Jones2006-03-211-0/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Back in the dark ages, we had to be conservative and only allow 15-bit window fields if the window scale option was not negotiated. Some ancient stacks used a signed 16-bit quantity for the window field of the TCP header and would get confused. Those days are long gone, so we can use the full 16-bits by default now. There is a sysctl added so that we can still interact with such old stacks Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV4] ARP: Documentation for new arp_accept sysctl variable.Neil Horman2006-03-211-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | As John pointed out, I had not added documentation to describe the arp_accpet sysctl that I posted in my last patch. This patch adds that documentation. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [CONNECTOR]: Use netlink_has_listeners() to avoind unnecessary allocations.Evgeniy Polyakov2006-03-211-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | Return -ESRCH from cn_netlink_send() when there are not listeners, just as it could be done by netlink_broadcast(). Propagate netlink_broadcast() error back to the caller. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-03-211-0/+9
| | | | | Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add router_probe_interval sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-03-211-0/+6
| | | | | Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_rtr_pref sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-03-211-0/+6
| | | | | Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: ADDRCONF: Add accept_ra_pinfo sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-03-211-2/+8
| | | | | | | This controls whether we accept Prefix Information in RAs. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPV6]: ROUTE: Add accept_ra_defrtr sysctl.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-03-211-0/+6
| | | | | | | | This controls whether we accept default router information in RAs. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] ipw2x00: expend Copyright to 2006Zhu Yi2006-03-172-8/+8
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* [PATCH] ipw2200: wireless extension sensitivity threshold supportOlivier Hochreutiner2006-03-171-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | The patch allows the user to set the handover threshold, i.e. the number of consecutively missed beacons that will trigger a roaming attempt. The disassociation threshold is set to 3 times the handover threshold. Signed-off-by: Olivier Hochreutiner <olivier.hochreutiner@epfl.ch> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* [PATCH] ipw2200: print geography code upon module loadHenrik Brix Andersen2006-03-171-0/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Given the amount of support requests for the meaning of the geography code I've written a patch for printing this information on module load no matter the debug level. I've also added a section to the README.ipw2200 file listing the geography codes and their meaning. Signed-off-by: Henrik Brix Andersen <brix@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
* Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'John W. Linville2006-03-152-63/+96
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| * [PATCH] Page migration documentation updateChristoph Lameter2006-03-152-63/+96
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation for page migration. - Fix up bits and pieces in cpusets.txt - Rework text in vm/page-migration to be clearer and reflect the final version of page migration in 2.6.16. Mention Andi Kleen's numactl package that contains user space tools for page migration via libnuma. Add reference to numa_maps and to the manpage in numactl. - Add todo list for outstanding issues Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-03-114-3/+35
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| * [MIPS] Threaten removal of code for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.Ralf Baechle2006-03-091-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: port ATI timer fix from x86_64 to i386 IIAndi Kleen2006-03-091-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ATI chipsets tend to generate double timer interrupts for the local APIC timer when both the 8254 and the IO-APIC timer pins are enabled. This is because they route it to both and the result is anded together and the CPU ends up processing it twice. This patch changes check_timer to disable the 8254 routing for interrupt 0. I think it would be safe on all chipsets actually (i tested it on a couple and it worked everywhere) and Windows seems to do it in a similar way, but to be conservative this patch only enables this mode on ATI (and adds options to enable/disable too) Ported over from a similar x86-64 change. I reused the ACPI earlyquirk infrastructure for the ATI bridge check, but tweaked it a bit to work even without ACPI. Inspired by a patch from Chuck Ebbert, but redone. Cc: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds2006-03-092-3/+7
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3413): Typos grab bag of the month V4L/DVB (3403): Workaround to fix initialization for Nexus CA Merge branch 'work-fixes' V4L/DVB (3395): Fixed Pinnacle 300i DVB-T support V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID V4L/DVB (3382): Fix stv0297 for qam128 on tt c1500 (saa7146) V4L/DVB (3300a): Removing personal email from DVB maintainers V4L/DVB (3385): Dvb: fix __init/__exit section references in av7110 driver V4L/DVB (3378): Restore power on defaults of tda9887 after tda8290 probe V4L/DVB (3354): Fix maximum for the saturation and contrast controls. V4L/DVB (3352): Cxusb: fix lgdt3303 naming V4L/DVB (3348): Fixed saa7134 ALSA initialization with multiple cards V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 input V4L/DVB (3341): Upstream sync - make 2 structs static V4L/DVB (3340): Make a struct static V4L/DVB (3337): Drivers/media/dvb/frontends/mt312.c: cleanups V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fix
| | * Merge branch 'work-fixes'Mauro Carvalho Chehab2006-03-032-3/+7
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| | | * V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION 500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem IDMichael Krufky2006-03-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - ELSA EX-VISION 500TV was incorrectly programmed to have the same subsystem ID as ELSA EX-VISION 300TV, (1048:226b) - This changeset replaces the incorrect subsystem ID (1048:226b) with the correct one (1048:226a) for the ELSA EX-VISION 500TV. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
| | | * V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV 40i: add filtered Composite2 inputKarsten Suehring2006-03-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds another composite input to the Pinnacle PCTV 100i definition which filters the chrominace signal from the luma input. This improves video quality for Composite signals on the S-Video connector of the card. In addition the name string of the card is changed to include PCTV 40i and 50i since these cards are identical. Signed-off-by: Karsten Suehring <ksuehring@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
| | | * V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx documentation authors fixMichael Krufky2006-03-031-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - use one Author per line, which allows us to add more authors later without creating a mess. - Add Michael Krufky due to -git commit 2cbeddc976645262dbe036d6ec0825f96af70da3 Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
| * | | [PATCH] rcu batch tuningDipankar Sarma2006-03-081-0/+13
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches. There are two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch (blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark, qlowmark). By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value. If the input RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX. Setting batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot. If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems anyway. Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the batch limit is set to the default. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] remove obsolete sis900 documentationAdrian Bunk2006-03-044-845/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This documentation is mostly obsolete, and should therefore either be updated or removed (this patch does the latter). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* | | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-03-011-0/+2
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| * | [IA64] Document the "nomca" boot parameterHorms2006-02-281-0/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | "nomca" can be used to disable machine check handling Signed-Off-By: Horms <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik2006-02-273-0/+19
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| * [PATCH] x86_64: Better ATI timer fixAndi Kleen2006-02-261-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous experiment for using apicmaintimer on ATI systems didn't work out very well. In particular laptops with C2/C3 support often don't let it tick during idle, which makes it useless. There were also some other bugs that made the apicmaintimer often not used at all. I tried some other experiments - running timer over RTC and some other things but they didn't really work well neither. I rechecked the specs now and it turns out this simple change is actually enough to avoid the double ticks on the ATI systems. We just turn off IRQ 0 in the 8254 and only route it directly using the IO-APIC. I tested it on a few ATI systems and it worked there. In fact it worked on all chipsets (NVidia, Intel, AMD, ATI) I tried it on. According to the ACPI spec routing should always work through the IO-APIC so I think it's the correct thing to do anyways (and most of the old gunk in check_timer should be thrown away for x86-64). But for 2.6.16 it's best to do a fairly minimal change: - Use the known to be working everywhere-but-ATI IRQ0 both over 8254 and IO-APIC setup everywhere - Except on ATI disable IRQ0 in the 8254 - Remove the code to select apicmaintimer on ATI chipsets - Add some boot options to allow to override this (just paranoia) In 2.6.17 I hope to switch the default over to this for everybody. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-241-0/+6
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| | * NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write byAnton Altaparmakov2006-02-241-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| * | [PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpolHugh Dickins2006-02-241-0/+9
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-02-245-17/+48
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| * Revert mount/umount uevent removalGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-02-221-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel. Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted, and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to properly detect this kind of event. A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this interface will be removed from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] tmpfs: fix mount mpol nodelist parsingHugh Dickins2006-02-221-9/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been dissatisfied with the mpol_nodelist mount option which was added to tmpfs earlier in -rc. Replace it by mpol=policy:nodelist. And it was broken: a nodelist is a comma-separated list of numbers and ranges; the mount options are a comma-separated list of token=values. Whoops, blindly strsep'ing on commas doesn't work so well: since we've no numeric tokens, and unlikely to add them, use that to distinguish. Move the mpol= parsing to shmem_parse_mpol under CONFIG_NUMA, reject all its options as invalid if not NUMA. /proc shows MPOL_PREFERRED as "prefer", so use that name for the policy instead of "preferred". Enforce that mpol=default has no nodelist; that mpol=prefer has one node only; that mpol=bind has a nodelist; but let mpol=interleave use node_online_map if no nodelist given. Describe this in tmpfs.txt. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] v9fs: update documentation and fix debug flagEric Van Hensbergen2006-02-211-6/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor updates to the documentation to bring them into sync with current websites and available features. The debug flag was switched back to hex to match the documentation. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] suspend-to-ram: allow video options to be set at runtimePavel Machek2006-02-211-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, acpi video options can only be set on kernel command line. That's little inflexible; I'd like userland s2ram application that just works, and modifying kernel command line according to whitelist is not fun. It is better to just allow s2ram application to set video options just before suspend (according to the whitelist). This implements sysctl to allow setting suspend video options without reboot. (akpm: Documentation updates for this new sysctl are pending..) Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] cpu hotplug documentation fixHeiko Carstens2006-02-211-2/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Looks like there was a merge conflict when patches 8f8b1138fc9f65e3591aac83a4ee394fef34ac1d and 255acee706b333b79f593dd366f16e1f107cccc3 were applied which wasn't properly resolved. Fix this and add some additional description. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'forcedeth'Jeff Garzik2006-02-201-5/+11
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| * [PATCH] s390: possible_cpus parameterHeiko Carstens2006-02-171-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce possible_cpus command line option. Hard sets the number of bits set in cpu_possible_map. Unlike the additional_cpus parameter this one guarantees that num_possible_cpus() will stay constant even if the system gets rebooted and a different number of cpus are present at startup. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] s390: additional_cpus parameterHeiko Carstens2006-02-171-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce additional_cpus command line option. By default no additional cpu can be attached to the system anymore. Only the cpus present at IPL time can be switched on/off. If it is desired that additional cpus can be attached to the system the maximum number of additional cpus needs to be specified with this option. This change is necessary in order to limit the waste of per_cpu data structures. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-02-178-43/+384
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| * Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-02-171-2/+12
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| | * [IA64] Count disabled cpus as potential hot-pluggable CPUsAshok Raj2006-02-161-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor updates to earlier patch. - Added to documentation to add ia64 as well. - Minor clarification on how to use disabled cpus - used plain max instead of max_t per Andew Morton. Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
| * | [PATCH] x86_64: Add boot option to disable randomized mappings and cleanupAndi Kleen2006-02-171-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | AMD SimNow!'s JIT doesn't like them at all in the guest. For distribution installation it's easiest if it's a boot time option. Also I moved the variable to a more appropiate place and make it independent from sysctl And marked __read_mostly which it is. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-161-0/+23
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| | * | [SCSI] megaraid_sas: support for 1078 type controller addedSumant Patro2006-02-041-0/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for 1078 type controller (device id : 0x60). Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | [SCSI] megaraid_sas: register 16 byte CDB capabilityJoshua Giles2006-02-041-0/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch properly registers the 16 byte command length capability of the megaraid_sas controlled hardware with the scsi midlayer. All megaraid_sas hardware supports 16 byte CDB's. Signed-off-by: Joshua Giles <joshua_giles@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Sumant Patro <Sumant.Patro@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | [PATCH] mmconfig: add kernel parameter documentationBjorn Helgaas2006-02-161-0/+2
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mention the "pci=nommconf" option in kernel-parameters.txt. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] FRV: Use virtual interrupt disablementDavid Howells2006-02-151-0/+234
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make the FRV arch use virtual interrupt disablement because accesses to the processor status register (PSR) are relatively slow and because we will soon have the need to deal with multiple interrupt controls at the same time (separate h/w and inter-core interrupts). The way this is done is to dedicate one of the four integer condition code registers (ICC2) to maintaining a virtual interrupt disablement state whilst inside the kernel. This uses the ICC2.Z flag (Zero) to indicate whether the interrupts are virtually disabled and the ICC2.C flag (Carry) to indicate whether the interrupts are physically disabled. ICC2.Z is set to indicate interrupts are virtually disabled. ICC2.C is set to indicate interrupts are physically enabled. Under normal running conditions Z==0 and C==1. Disabling interrupts with local_irq_disable() doesn't then actually physically disable interrupts - it merely sets ICC2.Z to 1. Should an interrupt then happen, the exception prologue will note ICC2.Z is set and branch out of line using one instruction (an unlikely BEQ). Here it will physically disable interrupts and clear ICC2.C. When it comes time to enable interrupts (local_irq_enable()), this simply clears the ICC2.Z flag and invokes a trap #2 if both Z and C flags are clear (the HI integer condition). This can be done with the TIHI conditional trap instruction. The trap then physically reenables interrupts and sets ICC2.C again. Upon returning the interrupt will be taken as interrupts will then be enabled. Note that whilst processing the trap, the whole exceptions system is disabled, and so an interrupt can't happen till it returns. If no pending interrupt had happened, ICC2.C would still be set, the HI condition would not be fulfilled, and no trap will happen. Saving interrupts (local_irq_save) is simply a matter of pulling the ICC2.Z flag out of the CCR register, shifting it down and masking it off. This gives a result of 0 if interrupts were enabled and 1 if they weren't. Restoring interrupts (local_irq_restore) is then a matter of taking the saved value mentioned previously and XOR'ing it against 1. If it was one, the result will be zero, and if it was zero the result will be non-zero. This result is then used to affect the ICC2.Z flag directly (it is a condition code flag after all). An XOR instruction does not affect the Carry flag, and so that bit of state is unchanged. The two flags can then be sampled to see if they're both zero using the trap (TIHI) as for the unconditional reenablement (local_irq_enable). This patch also: (1) Modifies the debugging stub (break.S) to handle single-stepping crossing into the trap #2 handler and into virtually disabled interrupts. (2) Removes superseded fixup pointers from the second instructions in the trap tables (there's no a separate fixup table for this). (3) Declares the trap #3 vector for use in .org directives in the trap table. (4) Moves irq_enter() and irq_exit() in do_IRQ() to avoid problems with virtual interrupt handling, and removes the duplicate code that has now been folded into irq_exit() (softirq and preemption handling). (5) Tells the compiler in the arch Makefile that ICC2 is now reserved. (6) Documents the in-kernel ABI, including the virtual interrupts. (7) Renames the old irq management functions to different names. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] kprobes: Update Documentation/kprobes.txtJim Keniston2006-02-151-39/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect Kprobes enhancements and other recent developments. Acked-by: Ananth Mavinakayanahalli <mananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [MIPS] Update docs to reflect the latest status of the Alchemy IDE driver.Ralf Baechle2006-02-141-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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