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2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add Dell T3400 supportDouglas Kosovic1-0/+1
Added the support for Dell T3400 with AD1984 codec chip. ALSA bug#3699: https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3699 Signed-off-by: Douglas Kosovic <douglask@itee.uq.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add Conexant 5051 codec supportTakashi Iwai1-0/+4
Added the support for Conexant 5051 audio codec. Right now there are two preset models, laptop and hp. The whole patch is based on the information from the base patch by Linuxant. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] add TempoTec HiFier driverClemens Ladisch1-0/+9
Add a driver for the MediaTek/TempoTec HiFier Fantasia sound card. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] ASoC documentation updatesMark Brown8-93/+97
Update the ASoC documentation. Along with minor formatting and grammar cleanups it moves the ASoC overview into the present tense to reflect the fact that it has now been merged. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Fix laptop models for Cxt5045Marc Boucher1-2/+3
Change laptop models to three different models, laptop-hpsense, laptop-micsense and laptop-hpmicsense. The first two correspond to the old 'laptop' and 'fujitsu' models. Reassigned the quirk table for the new models. Signed-off-by: Marc Boucher <marc@linuxant.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] oxygen: TempoTec HiFier is probably not supportedClemens Ladisch1-1/+0
The TempoTec HiFier has a somwhat different architecture; remove it from the list of cards that are known to be supported. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] oxygen: update ALSA-Configuration.txtClemens Ladisch1-0/+27
Add documentation entries for snd-oxygen and snd-virtuoso. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - New model for conexant 5045 codec to support benq r55eJiang Zhe1-0/+1
The benq r55e laptop have 3 jacks on the front panel. One for HP, one for Line In and one for Mic In. This patch implemented a new model to support it. Signed-off-by: Jiang Zhe <zhe.jiang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] Add missing model for HD-audio Cx5045 codecTakashi Iwai1-0/+1
Added the description of the model fujitsu for Cx5045 codec chip. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add the support of Dell OEM laptops with ALC268Takashi Iwai1-0/+1
Added the support of Dell OEM laptops (Vostro 1200) with ALC268 codec. The new model=dell is provided. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda: Fix 5.1 sound in Dell 6stack ALC888 HDAClaudio Matsuoka1-0/+1
This patch fixes 5.1 surround output and headphone detection in the Dell Inspiron 530 and possibly other Dell systems using the ALC888 codec (mode 6stack-dell). Signed-off-by: Claudio Matsuoka <cmatsuoka@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Update realtek codec supportKailang Yang1-1/+3
1. Support HP rp5700 2. Fixed alc_subsystem_id function (Bug fixed and support Desktop) 3. Support ASUS EP20 Signed-off-by: Kailang Yang <kailang@realtek.com.tw> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] Remove sound/driver.hTakashi Iwai1-2/+0
This header file exists only for some hacks to adapt alsa-driver tree. It's useless for building in the kernel. Let's move a few lines in it to sound/core.h and remove it. With this patch, sound/driver.h isn't removed but has just a single compile warning to include it. This should be really killed in future. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] Remove PCM xfer_align sw paramsTakashi Iwai1-1/+0
The xfer_align sw_params parameter has never been used in a sane manner, and no one understands what this does exactly. The current implementation looks also buggy because it allows write of shorter size than xfer_align. So, if you do partial writes, the write isn't actually aligned at all. Removing this parameter will make some pcm_lib_* code more readable (and less buggy). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add test model for ALC268Jonathan Woithe1-0/+6
This implements a test model for the ALC268. It depends on the feature added by alc260-test-eapd-0.2.diff. This patch also adds a mention of the ALC260 test model to ALSA-Configuration.txt since this seems to have been missed. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-intel - Support multiple devicesTakashi Iwai1-2/+5
It turned out that there can be multiple HD-audio devices on a single machine (e.g. on-board audio and HDMI on graphic cards), so we need to support multiple devices with snd-hda-intel driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Initial support of the Mitac 8252D (based on ALC883)Andy Shevchenko1-0/+1
The attached patch adds initial support of the Mitac 8252D (http://www.mitac-mtc.com.tw/English/products/8252Dspec.htm). Working: - Front speakers (volume + mute) - Center/LFE speakers (volume + mute) - HP out (with Front Volume) - HP individual mute switch - HP Jack sense - Front Mic and its volume Not tested: - external mic and its volume Not working while now: - Mic Jack sense Questionable: - is Mic have Jack sense? - one or two Mic volume controls? - CD/Line-in: presense in the mixer Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy@smile.org.ua> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] Update descriptions of isapnp-specific module optionsRene Herman1-20/+63
Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] sound/isa: kill pnp_resource_changeRene Herman1-35/+0
This removes the pnp_resource_change use from the ALSA ISAPnP drivers. In 2.4 these were useful in providing an easy path to setting the resources, but in 2.6 they retain function as a layering violation only. This makes for a nice cleanup (-550 lines) of ALSA but moreover, ALSA is the only remaining user of pnp_init_resource_table(), pnp_resource_change() and pnp_manual_config_dev() (and, in fact, of 'struct pnp_resource_table') in the tree outide of drivers/pnp itself meaning it makes for more cleanup potential inside the PnP layer. Thomas Renninger acked their removal from that side, you did from the ALSA side (CC list just copied from that thread). Against current alsa-kernel HG. Many more potential cleanups in there, but this _only_ removes the pnp_resource_change code. Compile tested against current alsa-kernel HG and compile- and use-tested against 2.6.23.x (few offsets). Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add model=hp-tc-t5735 for ALC262Takashi Iwai1-0/+1
Added the missing model string for the new support of HP TC T5735. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] Introduce slots option to snd moduleTakashi Iwai1-1/+20
Introduced the global 'slots' option to snd module. This option provides an alternative way to handle the order of multiple sound card instances. It's an easier approach to avoid conflict with hotplug devices, and can be used together with the existing 'order' option of each card driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] HDA: Add support for Samsung Q1 Ultra Vista editionTobin Davis1-0/+1
This patch adds full record and playback support for the Samsung Q1 Ultra - Vista model (different codec than the earlier Q1 Ultra models). Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] writing-an-alsa-driver.tmpl: English style improvementsMichael Opdenacker1-462/+458
This patch brings some English style improvements throughout the document, as well as 1 or 2 extra technical details. Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] ice1724 - Add support of Onkyo SE-90PCI and SE-200PCIShin-ya Okada1-1/+4
Added the support for Onkyo SE-90PCI and SE-200PCI boards. Signed-off-by: Shin-ya Okada <sh_okada at d4.dion.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31[ALSA] hda-codec - Add missing eeepc-p701 model for ALC662Takashi Iwai1-0/+1
Added the missing model string 'eeepc-p701' for ALC662 codec. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
2008-01-31Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras70-665/+5460
2008-01-31Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds1-6/+43
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (27 commits) lguest: use __PAGE_KERNEL instead of _PAGE_KERNEL lguest: Use explicit includes rateher than indirect lguest: get rid of lg variable assignments lguest: change gpte_addr header lguest: move changed bitmap to lg_cpu lguest: move last_pages to lg_cpu lguest: change last_guest to last_cpu lguest: change spte_addr header lguest: per-vcpu lguest pgdir management lguest: make pending notifications per-vcpu lguest: makes special fields be per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu lguest task management lguest: replace lguest_arch with lg_cpu_arch. lguest: make registers per-vcpu lguest: make emulate_insn receive a vcpu struct. lguest: map_switcher_in_guest() per-vcpu lguest: per-vcpu interrupt processing. lguest: per-vcpu lguest timers lguest: make hypercalls use the vcpu struct lguest: make write() operation smp aware ... Manual conflict resolved (maybe even correctly, who knows) in drivers/lguest/x86/core.c
2008-01-31docbook: fix block api fatal errorRandy Dunlap1-1/+7
Fix docbook fatal error: docproc: linux-2.6.24-git8/block/ll_rw_blk.c: No such file or directory Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-30x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)Bernhard Kaindl1-0/+179
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch() to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early. If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that, all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled in standard, non-debug kernels. With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers, if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter. In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire. An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger, without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA access is granted. A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt and I've put a copy online at ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it another copy of it is online at: ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de> Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: GEODE add the "mfgptfix" boot time option to fix MFGPT timersWilly Tarreau1-0/+5
The new "mfgptfix" boot command line option may be usd to fix MFGPT timers on AMD Geode platforms when the BIOS has incorrectly applied a workaround. TinyBIOS version 0.98 is known to be affected, 0.99 fixes the problem by letting the user disable the workaround. Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86_32: trim memory by updating e820Yinghai Lu1-1/+1
when MTRRs are not covering the whole e820 table, we need to trim the RAM and need to update e820. reuse some code on 64-bit as well. here need to add early_get_cap and use it in early_cpu_detect, and move mtrr_bp_init early. The code successfully trimmed the memory map on Justin's system: from: [ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 000000022c000000 (usable) to: [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000100000000 - 0000000228000000 (usable) [ 0.000000] modified: 0000000228000000 - 000000022c000000 (reserved) According to Justin it makes quite a difference: | When I boot the box without any trimming it acts like a 286 or 386, | takes about 10 minutes to boot (using raptor disks). Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add generic clearcpuid=... optionAndi Kleen1-0/+13
Add a generic option to clear any cpuid bit. I added it because it was very easy to add with the new generic cpuid disable bitmap and perhaps it will be useful in the future. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add noclflush optionAndi Kleen1-0/+2
To disable CLFLUSH usage, especially in change_page_attr(). Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86, 32-bit: trim memory not covered by wb mtrrsJesse Barnes1-0/+6
On some machines, buggy BIOSes don't properly setup WB MTRRs to cover all available RAM, meaning the last few megs (or even gigs) of memory will be marked uncached. Since Linux tends to allocate from high memory addresses first, this causes the machine to be unusably slow as soon as the kernel starts really using memory (i.e. right around init time). This patch works around the problem by scanning the MTRRs at boot and figuring out whether the current end_pfn value (setup by early e820 code) goes beyond the highest WB MTRR range, and if so, trimming it to match. A fairly obnoxious KERN_WARNING is printed too, letting the user know that not all of their memory is available due to a likely BIOS bug. Something similar could be done on i386 if needed, but the boot ordering would be slightly different, since the MTRR code on i386 depends on the boot_cpu_data structure being setup. This patch fixes a bug in the last patch that caused the code to run on non-Intel machines (AMD machines apparently don't need it and it's untested on other non-Intel machines, so best keep it off). Further enhancements and fixes from: Yinghai Lu <Yinghai.Lu@Sun.COM> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com> Tested-by: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: disable the GART early, 64-bitYinghai Lu1-0/+4
For K8 system: 4G RAM with memory hole remapping enabled, or more than 4G RAM installed. when try to use kexec second kernel, and the first doesn't include gart_shutdown. the second kernel could have different aper position than the first kernel. and second kernel could use that hole as RAM that is still used by GART set by the first kernel. esp. when try to kexec 2.6.24 with sparse mem enable from previous kernel (from RHEL 5 or SLES 10). the new kernel will use aper by GART (set by first kernel) for vmemmap. and after new kernel setting one new GART. the position will be real RAM. the _mapcount set is lost. Bad page state in process 'swapper' page:ffffe2000e600020 flags:0x0000000000000000 mapping:0000000000000000 mapcount:1 count:0 Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed Backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7-smp-gcdf71a10-dirty #13 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8026401f>] bad_page+0x63/0x8d [<ffffffff80264169>] __free_pages_ok+0x7c/0x2a5 [<ffffffff80ba75d1>] free_all_bootmem_core+0xd0/0x198 [<ffffffff80ba3a42>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x3b/0x76 [<ffffffff80ba3461>] mem_init+0x3b/0x152 [<ffffffff80b959d3>] start_kernel+0x236/0x2c2 [<ffffffff80b9511a>] _sinittext+0x11a/0x121 and [ffffe2000e600000-ffffe2000e7fffff] PMD ->ffff81001c200000 on node 0 phys addr is : 0x1c200000 RHEL 5.1 kernel -53 said: PCI-DMA: aperture base @ 1c000000 size 65536 KB new kernel said: Mapping aperture over 65536 KB of RAM @ 3c000000 So could try to disable that GART if possible. According to Ingo > hm, i'm wondering, instead of modifying the GART, why dont we simply > _detect_ whatever GART settings we have inherited, and propagate that > into our e820 maps? I.e. if there's inconsistency, then punch that out > from the memory maps and just dont use that memory. > > that way it would not matter whether the GART settings came from a [old > or crashing] Linux kernel that has not called gart_iommu_shutdown(), or > whether it's a BIOS that has set up an aperture hole inconsistent with > the memory map it passed. (or the memory map we _think_ i tried to pass > us) > > it would also be more robust to only read and do a memory map quirk > based on that, than actively trying to change the GART so early in the > bootup. Later on we have to re-enable the GART _anyway_ and have to > punch a hole for it. > > and as a bonus, we would have shored up our defenses against crappy > BIOSes as well. add e820 modification for gart inconsistent setting. gart_fix_e820=off could be used to disable e820 fix. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add the "print code before the trapping instruction" feature to 64 bitArjan van de Ven1-2/+2
The 32 bit x86 tree has a very useful feature that prints the Code: line for the code even before the trapping instrution (and the start of the trapping instruction is then denoted with a <>). Unfortunately, the 64 bit x86 tree does not yet have this feature, making diagnosing backtraces harder than needed. This patch adds this feature in the same was as the 32 bit tree has (including the same kernel boot parameter), and including a bugfix to make the code use probe_kernel_address() rarther than a buggy (deadlocking) __get_user. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: 32-bit EFI runtime service support: fixes in sync with 64-bit supportHuang, Ying2-4/+2
support according to fixes of x86_64 support. - Delete efi_rt_lock because it is used during system early boot, before SMP is initialized. - Change local_flush_tlb() to __flush_tlb_all() to flush global page mapping. - Clean up includes. - Revise Kconfig description. - Enable noefi kernel parameter on i386. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: EFI runtime service support: document for EFI runtime servicesHuang, Ying2-1/+17
This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 runtime services support. Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: add ACPI reboot optionAaron Durbin1-1/+4
Add the ability to reboot an x86_64 based machine using the RESET_REG in the FADT ACPI table. Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <adurbin@google.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86 vDSO: consolidate vdso32Roland McGrath1-0/+5
This makes x86_64's ia32 emulation support share the sources used in the 32-bit kernel for the 32-bit vDSO and much of its setup code. The 32-bit vDSO mapping now behaves the same on x86_64 as on native 32-bit. The abi.syscall32 sysctl on x86_64 now takes the same values that vm.vdso_enabled takes on the 32-bit kernel. That is, 1 means a randomized vDSO location, 2 means the fixed old address. The CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO option is now available to make this the default setting, the same meaning it has for the 32-bit kernel. (This does not affect the 64-bit vDSO.) The argument vdso32=[012] can be used on both 32-bit and 64-bit kernels to set this paramter at boot time. The vdso=[012] argument still does this same thing on the 32-bit kernel. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay detailsIngo Molnar1-5/+7
various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details: - add the io_delay=none method - make each method selectable from the kernel config - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
2008-01-30x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.Rene Herman1-0/+8
x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these. David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine, with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger. Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the 2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has two problems. First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which would sort of work, but... Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has. It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus locking outb. Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such, this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems to fit that situation. This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override the DMI based choice again: io_delay=<standard|alternate> where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate" port 0xed. This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well. This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot code be. The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z. This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and David P. Reed. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30lguest: adapt launcher to per-cpunessGlauber de Oliveira Costa1-4/+13
This patch makes uses of pread() and pwrite() in lguest launcher to communicate the vcpu id to the lguest driver. The id is kept in a thread variable, which means we'll span in the future, vcpus as threads. But right now, only the infrastructure is out there. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-30lguest: Reboot supportBalaji Rao1-2/+30
Reboot Implemented (Prevent fd leak, fix style and fix documentation --RR) Signed-off-by: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-01-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25Linus Torvalds9-137/+970
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.25: (1470 commits) [IPV6] ADDRLABEL: Fix double free on label deletion. [PPP]: Sparse warning fixes. [IPV4] fib_trie: remove unneeded NULL check [IPV4] fib_trie: More whitespace cleanup. [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in ematches [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in actions [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in classifiers [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_policy for attribute validation in packet schedulers [NET_SCHED]: sch_api: introduce constant for rate table size [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute parsing helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use typeful attribute construction helpers [NET_SCHED]: Use NLA_PUT_STRING for string dumping [NET_SCHED]: Use nla_nest_start/nla_nest_end [NET_SCHED]: Propagate nla_parse return value [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use PTR_ERR in tcf_action_init/tcf_action_get [NET_SCHED]: act_api: use nlmsg_parse [NET_SCHED]: act_api: fix netlink API conversion bug [NET_SCHED]: sch_netem: use nla_parse_nested_compat [NET_SCHED]: sch_atm: fix format string warning [NETNS]: Add namespace for ICMP replying code. ...
2008-01-29Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds2-67/+0
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: (68 commits) [MIPS] remove Documentation/mips/GT64120.README [MIPS] Malta: remaining bits of the board support code cleanup [MIPS] Malta: make the helper function static [MIPS] Malta: fix braces at single statement blocks [MIPS] Malta, Atlas: move an extern function declaration to the header file [MIPS] Malta: Use C89 style for comments [MIPS] Malta: else should follow close brace in malta_int.c [MIPS] Malta: remove a superfluous comment [MIPS] Malta: include <linux/cpu.h> instead of <asm/cpu.h> [MIPS] Malta, Atlas, Sead: remove an extern from .c files [MIPS] Malta: fix oversized lines in malta_int.c [MIPS] Malta: remove a dead function declaration [MIPS] Malta: use tabs not spaces [MIPS] Malta: set up the screen info in a separate function [MIPS] Malta: check the PCI clock frequency in a separate function [MIPS] Malta: use the KERN_ facility level in printk() [MIPS] Malta: use Linux kernel style for structure initialization [MIPS]: constify function pointer tables [MIPS] compat: handle argument endianess of sys32_(f)truncate64 with merge_64 [MIPS] Cobalt 64-bits kernels can be safely unmarked experimental ...
2008-01-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds1-6/+105
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (79 commits) Remove references to "make dep" kconfig: document use of HAVE_* Introduce new section reference annotations tags: __ref, __refdata, __refconst kbuild: warn about ld added unique sections kbuild: add verbose option to Section mismatch reporting in modpost kconfig: tristate choices with mixed tristate and boolean values asm-generic/vmlix.lds.h: simplify __mem{init,exit}* dependencies remove __attribute_used__ kbuild: support ARCH=x86 in buildtar kconfig: remove "enable" kbuild: simplified warning report in modpost kbuild: introduce a few helpers in modpost kbuild: use simpler section mismatch warnings in modpost kbuild: link vmlinux.o before kallsyms passes kbuild: introduce new option to enhance section mismatch analysis Use separate sections for __dev/__cpu/__mem code/data compiler.h: introduce __section() all archs: consolidate init and exit sections in vmlinux.lds.h kbuild: check section names consistently in modpost kbuild: introduce blacklisting in modpost ...
2008-01-29[MIPS] remove Documentation/mips/GT64120.READMEDmitri Vorobiev2-67/+0
Based upon the 2.4 kernel, the information presented in the Documentation/mips/GT64120.README file is outdated. Worse, the document contents are plain misleading nowadays because the text mentions files and directories, which have been deleted, moved or restructured for 2.6. This patch removes the documentation, which is no more valid. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-01-29ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4Alex Tomas2-1/+48
Signed-off-by: Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-01-28ext4: Add the journal checksum featureGirish Shilamkar1-0/+10
The journal checksum feature adds two new flags i.e JBD2_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_ASYNC_COMMIT and JBD2_FEATURE_COMPAT_CHECKSUM. JBD2_FEATURE_CHECKSUM flag indicates that the commit block contains the checksum for the blocks described by the descriptor blocks. Due to checksums, writing of the commit record no longer needs to be synchronous. Now commit record can be sent to disk without waiting for descriptor blocks to be written to disk. This behavior is controlled using JBD2_FEATURE_ASYNC_COMMIT flag. Older kernels/e2fsck should not be able to recover the journal with _ASYNC_COMMIT hence it is made incompat. The commit header has been extended to hold the checksum along with the type of the checksum. For recovery in pass scan checksums are verified to ensure the sanity and completeness(in case of _ASYNC_COMMIT) of every transaction. Signed-off-by: Andreas Dilger <adilger@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Girish Shilamkar <girish@clusterfs.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>