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  1. 06 Jun, 2003 10 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Console privacy for braille users · 9c481bc0
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: Samuel Thibault <Samuel.Thibault@ens-lyon.fr>

Still working on kernel facilities for braille devices, the need for being
able to force blanking and unblanking raised: even when a key is pressed, the
screen must remain blank, for privacy of the blind user who is typing on the
keyboard and reading on its braille terminal.

I merely added an ignore_poke variable which is set, and the screen blanked.
Then, poke_blanked_console returns immediatly.  Upon real unblank (because of
an Oops or an explicit tioclinux), ignore_poke is reset to get back to normal
operation mode.

I had to remove the (unnecessary ?) call to unblank_screen from set_selection
to prevent mouse selection unblanking the screen.

I also added a way for processes to know whether the screen is blanked (the
blind user might hence know whether people can read the screen).
      9c481bc0
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Console blanking fix · 520aa095
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: Samuel Thibault <Samuel.Thibault@ens-lyon.fr>

Some fixes for console blanking: on some laptops, doing VESA blanking after
the bios did an apm blanking because of a screen closure thrashes the
recovery (the video board doesn't seem to have synchronisation registers
correctly initialized, since the LCD panel progressively turns white, maybe
damaging it ?).

I hence moved the schedule for vesa powerdown after the apm blank hook
call, so that if it succeeds, it won't be called.  I also moved the apm
unblank & palette restoration after the vesa unblank, to have a more lifo
scheme (also required, or the screen remains black).

Btw, why del_timer_sync was called twice in timer_do_blank_screen when
vesa_off_interval==0 ?
      520aa095
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix wobbly /proc/stat:btime · daee4676
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

Since jiffies didn't necessarily start incrementing at a second boundary,
jiffies/HZ doesn't increment at the same moment as xtime.tv_sec.  This
causes one second wobbles in the calculation of btime (xtime.tv_sec -
jiffies/HZ).

This fix increases the precision of the calculation so the usec component
of xtime is used as well.  Additionally it fixes some of the non-atomic
reading of time values.
      daee4676
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] force_successful_syscall_return() · a4369a58
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>, Christoph Hellwig

I believe this is the last outstanding piece that prevents ia64 from being
fully in sync with Linus' tree (yes, there are some minor ACPI changes
outstanding and a toolchain bug that's left to fix, but other than that, I
think we're clean).

Many architectures (alpha, ia64, ppc, ppc64, sparc, and sparc64 at least)
use a syscall convention which provides for a return value and a separate
error flag.  On those architectures, it can be beneficial if the kernel
provides a mechanism to signal that a syscall call has completed
successfully, even when the returned value is potentially a (small)
negative number.  The patch below provides a hook for such a mechanism via
a macro called force_successful_syscall_return().  On x86, this would be
simply a no-op (because on x86, user-level has to be hacked to handle such
cases).  On Alpha, it would be something along the lines of:

 #define force_successful_syscall_return()  ptregs->r0 = 0

where "ptregs" is a pointer to the user's ptregs structure of the current
task.  On ia64, we have been using this for a long time:

 static inline void force_successful_syscall_return (void) {
	ia64_task_regs(current)->r8 = 0;
 }

The other architectures (ppc, ppc64, sparc, and sparc64) currently have no
mechanism to force a syscall return to be successful.  But since the
syscall convention already provide for a separate error flag, the arch
maintainers could change this if they wanted to.

There are only 3 places in the platform-independent portion of the kernel
that need this macro:

 - memory_lseek() in drivers/char/mem.c
 - fs/fcntl.c for F_GETOWN
 - lseek for /proc/mem in fs/proc/array.c

Ideally, there are a couple of other places that could benefit from this
macro:

 - sys_getpriority()
 - sys_shmat()
 - sys_brk()
 - do_mmap2()
 - do_mremap()

but these are not so critical, because the can be worked around in
platform-specific code (e.g., see arch/ia64/kernel/sys_ia64.c).

Note that for the above 3 cases, handling them in user level is rather
suboptimal:

 - it would affect all lseek() syscalls, even though only /proc/mem and
   /dev/mem need the special treatment (at least until there are
   filesystems that can handle files >= 2^63 bytes)

 - all fcntl() calls would be affected, even though only F_GETOWN needs
   the special treatment

so I think handling these in the kernel for the platforms that can makes
tons of sense.

The only limitation of force_successful_syscall_return() is that it doesn't
help with system calls performed by the kernel.  But the kernel does that
so rarely and for such a limited set of syscalls that this is not a real
problem.
      a4369a58
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] IRQs: fix up irq_desc initialisation for non-ia32 · 792fb4b7
      Andrew Morton authored 
      The addition of more fields to irq_desc_t may have broken compilation of
other architectures.  Go through and C99ify them (was needed anyway).
      792fb4b7
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] IRQs: handle bad return values from handlers · 13c01fe7
      Andrew Morton authored 
      Attempt to do something intelligent with IRQ handlers which don't return
IRQ_HANDLED.

- If they return neither IRQ_HANDLED nor IRQ_NONE, complain.

- If they return IRQ_NONE more than 99900 times in 100000 interrupts, complain
  and disable the IRQ.

  I did have it at 750-in-1000, but someone had an otherwise-functioning
  system which triggered it.

  The 99.9% ratio is designed to address the problem wherein the babbling
  device shares an IRQ with a good device.  We don't want the good device's
  trickle of IRQ_HANDLED callouts to defeat the lockup detector.  (fat chance
  os this working right).

- Add a kernel boot parameter `noirqdebug' to turn the whole thing off.
      13c01fe7
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] per-cpu support inside modules (minimal) · 21af2f02
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

OK, this does the *minimum* required to support DEFINE_PER_CPU inside
modules.  If we decide to change kmalloc_percpu later, great, we can turf
this out.

Basically, overallocates the amount of per-cpu data at boot to at least
PERCPU_ENOUGH_ROOM if CONFIG_MODULES=y (arch-specific by default 32k: I have
only 7744 bytes of percpu data in my kernel here, so makes sense), and a
special allocator in module.c dishes it out.
      21af2f02
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] kmalloc_percpu: interface change · 32028c70
      Andrew Morton authored 
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Several tweaks to the kmalloc_percpu()/kfree_percpu() interface, to
allow future implementations to be more flexible, and make easier to
use now we can see how it's actually being used.

1) No flags argument: GFP_ATOMIC doesn't make much sense,

2) Explicit alignment argument, so we don't have to give SMP_CACHE_BYTES
   alignment always,

3) Zeros memory, since most callers want that and it's not entirely
   trivial,

4) Convenient type-safe wrapper which takes a typename, and

5) Rename to alloc_percpu/__alloc_percpu, since usage no longer matches
   kmalloc.
      32028c70
    • Roman Zippel's avatar
      [PATCH] ignore attempts to change unchangable symbols · 6b206194
      Roman Zippel authored 
      This fixes a problem which can show up with the new select facility, e.g.
a symbol is forced to 'y', so we should never even try to change such
symbols.
      6b206194
    • Roman Zippel's avatar
      [PATCH] boolean symbol state fix · cffbe99e
      Roman Zippel authored 
      This is an important fix to allow changing boolean symbols, whose
dependency is 'm'. All internal symbol states must be converted from
the tristate into boolean the state.

I missed this change while adding expression support for defaults,
please apply.
      cffbe99e
  3. 05 Jun, 2003 30 commits
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