- 10 Jun, 2009 13 commits
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Arjan van de Ven authored
This patch turns on parallel scanning for the ata_piix driver. This driver is used on most netbooks (no AHCI for cheap storage it seems). The scan is the dominating time factor in the kernel boot for these devices; with this flag it gets cut in half for the device I used for testing (eeepc). Alan took a look at the driver source and concluded that it ought to be safe to do for this driver. Alan has also checked with the hardware team. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
When I thought it was finally defeated, it came back with vengeance. The failure cases are ever more convoluted. Now there is a single combination which fails boot probing - MCP5x + Intel SSD and there are two hotplug failure reports on different flavors where softreset fails to bring up the device. Through the many bug reports after the switch to hardreset, the following patterns emerged. - Softreset during boot always works. - Hardreset during boot sometimes fails to bring up the link on certain comibnations and device signature acquisition is unreliable. - Hardreset is often necessary after hotplug. It looks like the old behavior of preferring softreset was somehow pretty close to the working reset protocol although it could have lost a device during phy error handling by issuing hardreset. This patch implements nv_hardreset() which kicks in only for post-boot (!LOADING) device probing resets. This should be able to work around all known problem cases. This isn't perfect but given the various hardreset quirks on these controllers, I think this is as good as it can get. Tested on mcp5x (swncq), nf3 and ck804 for all both boot, warm and hot probing cases. Kudos to all the bug reporters and their painful hours with these damn controllers. ;-) Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> Reported-by: David Lang <david@lang.hm> Reported-by: Samo Vodopivec <lament.email.si@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Shane Huang authored
Community reported one SB600 SATA issue(BZ #9412), which led to 64 bit DMA disablement for all SB600 revisions by driver maintainers with commits c7a42156 and 4cde32fc. But the root cause is ASUS M2A-VM system BIOS bug in old revisions like 0901, while forcing into 32bit DMA happens to work as workaround. Now it's time to withdraw 4cde32fc so as to restore the SB600 SATA 64bit DMA capability. This patch is also adding the workaround for M2A-VM old BIOS revisions, but users are suggested to upgrade their system BIOS to the latest one if they meet this issue. Signed-off-by: Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Alan Cox authored
Combined mode pci quirk hacks went away - so the table to keep in sync no longer exists. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Alan Cox authored
We can't do this for the later ones as they have all sorts of magic boot time stuff that needs reviewing and the like. However we can do it for the older ones and it turns out we need to as some IBM docking stations have a second PIIX series device in them and without this change you can't use it very well Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Tejun Heo authored
Make the following EM related cleanups. * Use msleep(1) instead of udelay(100) and reduce retry count to 5. * s/MAX_SLOTS/EM_MAX_SLOTS/, s/MAX_RETRY/EM_MAX_RETRY/ * Make EM constants enums as suggested by Jeff. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
We very rarely (if ever) complete more than one command in the sactive mask at the time, even for extremely high IO rates. So looping over the entire range of possible tags is pointless, instead use __ffs() to just find the completed tags directly. Updated to clear the tag from the done_mask instead of shifting done_mask down as suggested by From: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Verified with a user space tester to produce the same results. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Robert Hancock authored
32-bit PIO seems to work fine on sata_sil hardware (tested on SiI3114) and is listed as OK in the Silicon Image datasheets. Enable it. Signed-off-by: Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Alexander Beregalov authored
ECC initialization takes too long. It writes zeroes by portions of 4 byte, it takes more than 6 minutes on my machine to initialize 512Mb ECC DIMM module. Change portion to 128Kb - it significantly reduces initialization time. Signed-off-by: Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Sergei Shtylyov authored
Handling of the trailing byte in ata_sff_data_xfer() is suboptimal bacause: - it always initializes the padding buffer to 0 which is not really needed in both the read and write cases; - it has to use memcpy() to transfer a single byte from/to the padding buffer; - it uses io{read|write}16() accessors which swap bytes on the big endian CPUs and so have to additionally convert the data from/to the little endian format instead of using io{read|write}16_rep() accessors which are not supposed to change the byte ordering. Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jeff Garzik authored
Also, remove unneeded prototype. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Peter Botha authored
There's a bug in the mxser kernel module that still appears in the 2.6.29.4 kernel. mxser_get_ISA_conf takes a ioaddress as its first argument, by passing the not of the ioaddr, you're effectively passing 0 which means it won't be able to talk to an ISA card. I have tested this, and removing the ! fixes the problem. Cc: "Peter Botha" <peterb@goldcircle.co.za> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 09 Jun, 2009 16 commits
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Jan Kara authored
In commit code, we scan buffers attached to a transaction. During this scan, we sometimes have to drop j_list_lock and then we recheck whether the journal buffer head didn't get freed by journal_try_to_free_buffers(). But checking for buffer_jbd(bh) isn't enough because a new journal head could get attached to our buffer head. So add a check whether the journal head remained the same and whether it's still at the same transaction and list. This is a nasty bug and can cause problems like memory corruption (use after free) or trigger various assertions in JBD code (observed). Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ian Kent authored
The recent ->lookup() deadlock correction required the directory inode mutex to be dropped while waiting for expire completion. We were concerned about side effects from this change and one has been identified. I saw several error messages. They cause autofs to become quite confused and don't really point to the actual problem. Things like: handle_packet_missing_direct:1376: can't find map entry for (43,1827932) which is usually totally fatal (although in this case it wouldn't be except that I treat is as such because it normally is). do_mount_direct: direct trigger not valid or already mounted /test/nested/g3c/s1/ss1 which is recoverable, however if this problem is at play it can cause autofs to become quite confused as to the dependencies in the mount tree because mount triggers end up mounted multiple times. It's hard to accurately check for this over mounting case and automount shouldn't need to if the kernel module is doing its job. There was one other message, similar in consequence of this last one but I can't locate a log example just now. When checking if a mount has already completed prior to adding a new mount request to the wait queue we check if the dentry is hashed and, if so, if it is a mount point. But, if a mount successfully completed while we slept on the wait queue mutex the dentry must exist for the mount to have completed so the test is not really needed. Mounts can also be done on top of a global root dentry, so for the above case, where a mount request completes and the wait queue entry has already been removed, the hashed test returning false can cause an incorrect callback to the daemon. Also, d_mountpoint() is not sufficient to check if a mount has completed for the multi-mount case when we don't have a real mount at the base of the tree. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Mike Frysinger authored
The massive nommu update (8feae131) resulted in these warnings: ipc/shm.c: In function `sys_shmdt': ipc/shm.c:974: warning: unused variable `size' ipc/shm.c:972: warning: unused variable `next' Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: kvm: fix kvm reboot crash when MAXSMP is used cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_ts cpumask: introduce zalloc_cpumask_var
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: bsg: setting rq->bio to NULL
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: cls_cgroup: Fix oops when user send improperly 'tc filter add' request r8169: fix crash when large packets are received
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git://neil.brown.name/mdLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: md/raid5: fix bug in reshape code when chunk_size decreases. md/raid5 - avoid deadlocks in get_active_stripe during reshape md/raid5: use conf->raid_disks in preference to mddev->raid_disk
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
Due to commit 1cd96c24 ("block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak"), BSG SMP requests get the false warnings: WARNING: at block/blk-core.c:1068 __blk_put_request+0x52/0xc0() This sets rq->bio to NULL to avoid that false warnings. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Avi Kivity authored
one system was found there is crash during reboot then kvm/MAXSMP Sending all processes the KILL signal... done Please stand by while rebooting the system... [ 1721.856538] md: stopping all md devices. [ 1722.852139] kvm: exiting hardware virtualization [ 1722.854601] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null) [ 1722.872219] IP: [<ffffffff8102c6b6>] hardware_disable+0x4c/0xb4 [ 1722.877955] PGD 0 [ 1722.880042] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP [ 1722.892548] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.0/0000:01:00.0/host0/target0:2:0/0:2:0:0/vendor [ 1722.900977] CPU 9 [ 1722.912606] Modules linked in: [ 1722.914226] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.30-rc7-tip-01843-g2305324-dirty #299 ... [ 1722.932589] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8102c6b6>] [<ffffffff8102c6b6>] hardware_disable+0x4c/0xb4 [ 1722.942709] RSP: 0018:ffffc900010b6ed8 EFLAGS: 00010046 [ 1722.956121] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffc9000e253140 RCX: 0000000000000009 [ 1722.972202] RDX: 000000000000b020 RSI: ffffc900010c3220 RDI: ffffffffffffd790 [ 1722.977399] RBP: ffffc900010b6f08 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 1722.995149] R10: 00000000000004b8 R11: 966912b6c78fddbd R12: 0000000000000009 [ 1723.011551] R13: 000000000000b020 R14: 0000000000000009 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 1723.019898] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffc900010b3000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 1723.034389] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b [ 1723.041164] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000001001000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 [ 1723.056192] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1723.072546] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 1723.080562] Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88107e464000, task ffff88047e5a2550) [ 1723.096144] Stack: [ 1723.099071] 0000000000000046 ffffc9000e253168 966912b6c78fddbd ffffc9000e253140 [ 1723.115471] ffff880c7d4304d0 ffffc9000e253168 ffffc900010b6f28 ffffffff81011022 [ 1723.132428] ffffc900010b6f48 966912b6c78fddbd ffffc900010b6f48 ffffffff8100b83b [ 1723.141973] Call Trace: [ 1723.142981] <IRQ> <0> [<ffffffff81011022>] kvm_arch_hardware_disable+0x26/0x3c [ 1723.158153] [<ffffffff8100b83b>] hardware_disable+0x3f/0x55 [ 1723.172168] [<ffffffff810b95f6>] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt+0x76/0x13c [ 1723.178836] [<ffffffff8104cbea>] smp_call_function_interrupt+0x3a/0x5e [ 1723.194689] [<ffffffff81035bf3>] call_function_interrupt+0x13/0x20 [ 1723.199750] <EOI> <0> [<ffffffff814ad3b4>] ? acpi_idle_enter_c1+0xd3/0xf4 [ 1723.217508] [<ffffffff814ad3ae>] ? acpi_idle_enter_c1+0xcd/0xf4 [ 1723.232172] [<ffffffff814ad4bc>] ? acpi_idle_enter_bm+0xe7/0x2ce [ 1723.235141] [<ffffffff81a8d93f>] ? __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0xac [ 1723.253381] [<ffffffff818c3dff>] ? menu_select+0x58/0xd2 [ 1723.258179] [<ffffffff818c2c9d>] ? cpuidle_idle_call+0xa4/0xf3 [ 1723.272828] [<ffffffff81034085>] ? cpu_idle+0xb8/0x101 [ 1723.277085] [<ffffffff81a80163>] ? start_secondary+0x1bc/0x1d7 [ 1723.293708] Code: b0 00 00 65 48 8b 04 25 28 00 00 00 48 89 45 e0 31 c0 48 8b 04 cd 30 ee 27 82 49 89 cc 49 89 d5 48 8b 04 10 48 8d b8 90 d7 ff ff <48> 8b 87 70 28 00 00 48 8d 98 90 d7 ff ff eb 16 e8 e9 fe ff ff [ 1723.335524] RIP [<ffffffff8102c6b6>] hardware_disable+0x4c/0xb4 [ 1723.342076] RSP <ffffc900010b6ed8> [ 1723.352021] CR2: 0000000000000000 [ 1723.354348] ---[ end trace e2aec53dae150aa1 ]--- it turns out that we need clear cpus_hardware_enabled in that case. Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Yinghai Lu authored
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used, they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Yinghai Lu authored
So can get cpumask_var with cpumask_clear Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Minoru Usui authored
I found a bug in cls_cgroup_change() in cls_cgroup.c. cls_cgroup_change() expected tca[TCA_OPTIONS] was set from user space properly, but tc in iproute2-2.6.29-1 (which I used) didn't set it. In the current source code of tc in git, it set tca[TCA_OPTIONS]. git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git If we always use a newest iproute2 in git when we use cls_cgroup, we don't face this oops probably. But I think, kernel shouldn't panic regardless of use program's behaviour. Signed-off-by: Minoru Usui <usui@mxm.nes.nec.co.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Eric Dumazet authored
Michael Tokarev reported receiving a large packet could crash a machine with RTL8169 NIC. ( original thread at http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/8/192 ) Problem is this driver tells that NIC frames up to 16383 bytes can be received but provides skb to rx ring allocated with smaller sizes (1536 bytes in case standard 1500 bytes MTU is used) When a frame larger than what was allocated by driver is received, dma transfert can occurs past the end of buffer and corrupt kernel memory. Fix is to tell to NIC what is the maximum size a frame can be. This bug is very old, (before git introduction, linux-2.6.10), and should be backported to stable versions. Reported-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Tested-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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NeilBrown authored
Now that we support changing the chunksize, we calculate "reshape_sectors" to be the max of number of sectors in old and new chunk size. However there is one please where we still use 'chunksize' rather than 'reshape_sectors'. This causes a reshape that reduces the size of chunks to freeze. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
md has functionality to 'quiesce' and array so that all pending IO completed and no new IO starts. This is used to achieve a stable state before making internal changes. Currently this quiescing applies equally to normal IO, resync IO, and reshape IO. However there is a problem with applying it to reshape IO. Reshape can have multiple 'stripe_heads' that must be active together. If the quiesce come between allocating the first and the last of such a collection, then we deadlock, as the last will not be allocated until the quiesce is lifted, the quiesce will not be lifted until the first (which has been allocated) gets used, and that first cannot be used until the last is allocated. It is not necessary to inhibit reshape IO when a quiesce is requested. Those places in the code that require a full quiesce will ensure the reshape thread is not running at all. So allow reshape requests to get access to new stripe_heads without being blocked by a 'quiesce'. This only affects in-place reshapes (i.e. where the array does not grow or shrink) and these are only newly supported. So this patch is not needed in earlier kernels. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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NeilBrown authored
mddev->raid_disks can be changed and any time by a request from user-space. It is a suggestion as to what number of raid_disks is desired. conf->raid_disks can only be changed by the raid5 module with suitable locks in place. It is a statement as to the current number of raid_disks. There are two places where the latter should be used, but the former is used. This can lead to a crash when reshaping an array. This patch changes to mddev-> to conf-> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
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- 08 Jun, 2009 11 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
Our async work synchronization was broken by "async: make sure independent async domains can't accidentally entangle" (commit d5a877e8), because it would report the wrong lowest active async ID when there was both running and pending async work. This caused things like no being able to read the root filesystem, resulting in missing console devices and inability to run 'init', causing a boot-time panic. This fixes it by properly returning the lowest pending async ID: if there is any running async work, that will have a lower ID than any pending work, and we should _not_ look at the pending work list. There were alternative patches from Jaswinder and James, but this one also cleans up the code by removing the pointless 'ret' variable and the unnecesary testing for an empty list around 'for_each_entry()' (if the list is empty, the for_each_entry() thing just won't execute). Fixes-bug: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13474Reported-and-tested-by: Chris Clayton <chris2553@googlemail.com> Cc: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@kernel.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: Outline udelay and fix a few issues. MIPS: ioctl.h: Fix headers_check warnings MIPS: Cobalt: PCI bus is always required to obtain the board ID MIPS: Kconfig: Remove "Support for" from Cavium system type MIPS: Sibyte: Honor CONFIG_CMDLINE SSB: BCM47xx: Export ssb_watchdog_timer_set
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Alan Cox authored
The previous patch submission had a I typo I didn't catch but Bartlomiej noted. Guess this proves the point about any patch being risky late in an rc Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: Explicity initialize cpus_hardware_enabled
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: pdc202xx_old: fix resetproc() method pdc202xx_old: fix 'pdc20246_dma_ops'
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Ralf Baechle authored
Outlining fixes the issue were on certain CPUs such as the R10000 family the delay loop would need an extra cycle if it overlaps a cacheline boundary. The rewrite also fixes build errors with GCC 4.4 which was changed in way incompatible with the kernel's inline assembly. Relying on pure C for computation of the delay value removes the need for explicit. The price we pay is a slight slowdown of the computation - to be fixed on another day. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Jaswinder Singh Rajput authored
Make ioctl.h compatible with asm-generic/ioctl.h and userspace fix the following 'make headers_check' warning: usr/include/asm-mips/ioctl.h:64: extern's make no sense in userspace Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Yoichi Yuasa authored
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Yoichi Yuasa authored
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp> Acked-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
Original patch by Imre Kaloz <kaloz@openwrt.org>. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Matthieu Castet authored
this patch export ssb_watchdog_timer_set to allow to use it in a Linux watchdog driver. Signed-off-by: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr> Acked-by : Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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