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* serial: add early_serial_setup() back to header fileYinghai Lu2007-07-1813-0/+13
| | | | | | | | | early_serial_setup was removed from serial.h, but forgot to put in serial_8250.h Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [POWERPC] Abolish unused ucBoardRev variablesDavid Gibson2007-06-281-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | asm-powerpc/processor.h declares, and arch/ppc/platforms/prep_setup.c defines variables ucBoardRev, ucBoardRevMaj and ucBoardRevMin which are used nowhere in the current kernel (neither in arch/ppc nor arch/powerpc). This removes them. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Spelling fixes: arch/ppc/Simon Arlott2007-05-1216-31/+31
| | | | | | | Spelling fixes in arch/ppc/. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* fix file specification in commentsUwe Kleine-König2007-05-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <ukleinek@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-2.6.22Paul Mackerras2007-04-303-26/+28
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| * [PPC] Fix compilation and linking errors of mpc86xads build.Vitaly Bordug2007-04-121-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix compilation of mpc866ads_setup.c Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
| * [PPC] Fix compilation and linking errors of mpc885ads build.Vitaly Bordug2007-04-121-10/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix compilation of mpc885ads_setup.c Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
| * [PPC] MPC8272 ADS compile fixed, defconfig refreshed.Vitaly Bordug2007-04-121-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix compilation of mpc8272ads_setup.c Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
* | [POWERPC] Remove the unused HTDMSOUND driverAdrian Bunk2007-04-303-49/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Recently, someone fixed a syntax error in the HTDMSOUND driver introduced 4 years ago. Unfortunately not by trying to compile this driver for his hardware but by code inspection - which seems to be a strong indication that there are no users left for this OSS sound driver. This patch therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com> Acked-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@kvack.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Don't define a custom bd_t for Xilixn Virtex based boards.Grant Likely2007-04-301-14/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Why create a platform specific board_info structure that is hacked together, ugly, and dangerous, when we've got a perfectly fine common board_info structure that is hacked-together, ugly and dangerous. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Add sane defaults for Xilinx EDK generated xparameters filesGrant Likely2007-04-301-0/+60
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Stop using ppc_sys for Xilinx Virtex boardsGrant Likely2007-04-305-184/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The arch/ppc/syslib/ppc_sys.c infrastructure does not work well for the virtex ports. Move the ml300 and ml403 board ports over to use the new virtex_devices infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Merge common virtex header filesGrant Likely2007-04-305-105/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The header files for the ml403 and ml300 are virtually identical, merge them into a single file. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Rework Kconfig dependancies for Xilinx Virtex ppc405 platformGrant Likely2007-04-301-8/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reverse dependency order for Xilinx Virtex parts. For these parts, It makes more sense for boards/chips to specify which features they provide instead of the features listing the parts they are implemented in. I think it also makes adding new board ports simpler. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] Ocotea board: ntpd complains that the frequency error exceeds the ↵Bart Van Assche2007-04-131-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tolerance Lifted from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8182 Steps to reproduce: - Boot an Ocotea board with the mainline 2.6.20.1 kernel. - Create an /etc/ntp.conf file with at least one NTP server and iburst mode set. - Issue the command "ntpd -g". - Wait about two minutes. - Verify ntpd's status via "ntpq -pn" and by looking in /var/log/ntp. This fixes this problem by adjusting the expected clock frequency. Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [POWERPC] ppc: Fix PCIX configuration of Ocotea & Taishan for > 512MB DDRStefan Roese2007-03-262-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | Change the configuration of the PCIX PCI->PLB inbound memory window to be 2GB instead of 512kB. The comment already mentioned 2GB, but the code unfortunately didn't reflect this. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] ppc: Add support for AMCC Taishan 440GX eval boardStefan Roese2007-02-134-2/+471
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for the AMCC Taishan PPC440GX evaluation board. This is still an arch/ppc port. I'm aware that the move of 4xx to arch/powerpc is making good progress right now. So this patch is mainly intended to make the Taishan support available for the community right now. Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: ppcAlon Bar-Lev2007-02-123-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Rename saved_command_line into boot_command_line. Signed-off-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* [POWERPC] Fix apparent typo "CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_SMC".Robert P. J. Day2007-02-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Replace an apparent typo of CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_SMC with CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_SMC2. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Acked-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Remove the broken Gemini supportAdrian Bunk2007-01-246-914/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of ↵David Woodhouse2007-01-1813-19/+25
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| * kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig filesRobert P. J. Day2006-12-121-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Standardize the miniscule percentage of occurrences of "depends" in Kconfig files to "depends on", and update kconfig-language.txt to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
| * [POWERPC] Compilation fixes for ppc4xx PCI-less configsWojtek Kaniewski2006-12-043-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix compilation without PCI support for Bubinga, CPCI405 and EP405. bios_fixup() for these boards uses functions available only with CONFIG_PCI, so linker fails. Signed-off-by: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
| * [PATCH] Slight refactor of interrupt mapping for FSL partsAndy Fleming2006-11-139-18/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Cleaned up interrupt mapping a little by adding a helper function which parses the irq out of the device-tree, and puts it into a resource. * Changed the arch/ppc platform files to specify PHY_POLL, instead of -1 * Changed the fixed phy to use PHY_IGNORE_INTERRUPT * Added ethtool.h and mii.h to phy.h includes Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [MTD] replace kmalloc+memset with kzallocBurman Yan2006-11-281-2/+1
|/ | | | | Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <yan_952@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
* [POWERPC] Off-by-one in /arch/ppc/platforms/mpc8*Eric Sesterhenn2006-10-163-6/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | A find -iname \*.[ch] | xargs grep "> ARRAY_SIZE(" revealed several incorrect usages of ARRAY_SIZE in the mpc drivers. The last element in the array is always ARRAY_SIZE()-1, this patch modifies the bounds checks accordingly. Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de> Cc: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] ARCH=ppc pt_regs fixesAl Viro2006-10-104-20/+18
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [POWERPC] Fix up after irq changesOlaf Hering2006-10-074-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | Remove struct pt_regs * from all handlers. Also remove the regs argument from get_irq() functions. Compile tested with arch/powerpc/config/* and arch/ppc/configs/prep_defconfig Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>Dave Jones2006-10-041-1/+0
| | | | | | kbuild explicitly includes this at build time. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* fix file specification in commentsUwe Zeisberger2006-10-039-9/+9
| | | | | | | Many files include the filename at the beginning, serveral used a wrong one. Signed-off-by: Uwe Zeisberger <Uwe_Zeisberger@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Still more typo fixesMatt LaPlante2006-10-031-7/+7
| | | | Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Paul Mackerras2006-09-283-13/+13
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| * POWERPC: overhaul with cpm2_map mechanismVitaly Bordug2006-09-213-13/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Incorporating the new way of cpm2 immr access, introduced in the previous patch, into CPM2 peripheral devices (fs_enet and cpm_uart). Both ppc and powerpc approved working( real actions taken in powerpc only, ppc just has a wrapper to keep init stuff consistent). Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
* | [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560Amy Fong2006-09-212-0/+19
|/ | | | | | | The following fixes compile errors in sbc8560. Signed-off-by: Amy Fong <amy.fong@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: board-specific part of fs_enet updateVitaly Bordug2006-08-196-356/+355
| | | | | | | | | | | | | This contains board-specific portion to respect driver changes (for 8272ads , 885ads and 866ads). Altered platform_data structures as well as initial setup routines relevant to fs_enet. Changes to the mpc8560ads ppc/ code are also introduced, but mainly as reference, since the entire board support is going to appear in arch/powerpc. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.hJon Smirl2006-07-101-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | screen_info.h doesn't have anything to do with the tty layer and shouldn't be included by tty.h. This patches removes the include and modifies all users to directly include screen_info.h. struct screen_info is mainly used to communicate with the console drivers in drivers/video/console. Note that this patch touches every arch and I have no way of testing it. If there is a mistake the worst thing that will happen is a compile error. [akpm@osdl.org: fix arm build] [akpm@osdl.org: fix alpha build] Signed-off-by: Jon Smirl <jonsmir@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] irq-flags: PPC: Use the new IRQF_ constantsThomas Gleixner2006-07-027-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | Use the new IRQF_ constants and remove the SA_INTERRUPT define Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>Jörn Engel2006-06-3098-98/+0
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chipIngo Molnar2006-06-292-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing functionality. While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is the new 'irq chip' abstraction. The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow" (level/edge/etc.) type of details. This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details. The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design. As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers (master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well. The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code and more consolidation between architectures. We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset. This patch: rename desc->handler to desc->chip. Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch. But having both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it truly is. I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke frequently. So lets get over with this quickly. The conversion was done automatically via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel. This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier. [akpm@osdl.org: build fix] [akpm@osdl.org: another build fix] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2006-06-223-31/+140
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (139 commits) [POWERPC] re-enable OProfile for iSeries, using timer interrupt [POWERPC] support ibm,extended-*-frequency properties [POWERPC] Extra sanity check in EEH code [POWERPC] Dont look for class-code in pci children [POWERPC] Fix mdelay badness on shared processor partitions [POWERPC] disable floating point exceptions for init [POWERPC] Unify ppc syscall tables [POWERPC] mpic: add support for serial mode interrupts [POWERPC] pseries: Print PCI slot location code on failure [POWERPC] spufs: one more fix for 64k pages [POWERPC] spufs: fail spu_create with invalid flags [POWERPC] spufs: clear class2 interrupt status before wakeup [POWERPC] spufs: fix Makefile for "make clean" [POWERPC] spufs: remove stop_code from struct spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix spu irq affinity setting [POWERPC] spufs: further abstract priv1 register access [POWERPC] spufs: split the Cell BE support into generic and platform dependant parts [POWERPC] spufs: dont try to access SPE channel 1 count [POWERPC] spufs: use kzalloc in create_spu [POWERPC] spufs: fix initial state of wbox file ... Manually resolved conflicts in: drivers/net/phy/Makefile include/asm-powerpc/spu.h
| * [POWERPC] ppc32: fix CPCI405 board supportMatthias Fuchs2006-06-153-31/+140
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hi, this patch brings the CPCI405 board support up to date and fixes several outstanding issues: -add bios_fixup() -enable RTC only when CONFIG_GEN_RTC defined -corrected CompactPCI interrupt map -added cpci405_early_serial_map for correct UART clocking -removed unused code Matthias Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] PCI: fix error with pci_get_device() call in the mpc85xx driverGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-06-211-5/+4
|/ | | | Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: various fixes for pq2 uart usersVitaly Bordug2006-05-261-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes various odd things that missed update together with cpm_uart platform_device move. Unified resources names, restructurisation, etc. Also, addressed issue with recent phys/virt translation rework. Being cache-coherent, CPM2's do alloc_bootmem() for the console stuff, and it was used to treat console buffer descriptor mapping 1:1 (as in CPM1 case), which is definitely wrong. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: fixes and improvementsVitaly Bordug2006-05-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | A number of small issues are fixed, and added the header file, missed from the original series. With this, driver should be pretty stable as tested among both platform-device-driven and "old way" boards. Also added missing GPL statement , and updated year field on existing ones to reflect code update. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: Update board-specific code of the CPM UART usersVitaly Bordug2006-04-284-1/+415
| | | | | | | | | This has the relevant updates/additions to the BSP code so that proper platform_info struct well be passed to the CPM UART drivers. The changes covered mpc866ads, mpc885ads and mpc8272ads. Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* [PATCH] ppc32: add 440GX erratum 440_43 workaroundEugene Surovegin2006-04-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | This patch adds workaround for PPC 440GX erratum 440_43. According to this erratum spurious MachineChecks (caused by L1 cache parity) can happen during DataTLB miss processing. We disable L1 cache parity checking for 440GX rev.C and rev.F Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* Merge ../linux-2.6Paul Mackerras2006-03-291-1/+1
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| * [PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and styleMatt Mackall2006-03-281-10/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix up some RTC whitespace and style Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)Matt Mackall2006-03-281-20/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changesAlan Stern2006-03-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe. There is no protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the chain is in use. The issues were discussed in this thread: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2 We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage classes: "Blocking" chains are always called from a process context and the callout routines are allowed to sleep; "Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and the callout routines are not allowed to sleep. We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API. Therefore this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is really just the old API under a new name). New kinds of data structures are used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for registration, unregistration, and calling a chain. The three APIs are explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in kernel/sys.c. With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by entries being added or removed. For raw chains the implementation provides no guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections. (The idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to handle these things in their own way.) There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with. For atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem. Also, a callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister entries on its own chain. (This did happen in a couple of places and the code had to be changed to avoid it.) Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use spinlocks for synchronization. Instead we use RCU. The overhead falls almost entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much less frequent that calling a chain. Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications. None of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder. ATOMIC CHAINS ------------- arch/i386/kernel/traps.c: i386die_chain arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c: ia64die_chain arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c: powerpc_die_chain arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c: sparc64die_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c: die_chain drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c: xaction_notifier_list kernel/panic.c: panic_notifier_list kernel/profile.c: task_free_notifier net/bluetooth/hci_core.c: hci_notifier net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_chain net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: ip_conntrack_expect_chain net/ipv6/addrconf.c: inet6addr_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_chain net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c: nf_conntrack_expect_chain net/netlink/af_netlink.c: netlink_chain BLOCKING CHAINS --------------- arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c: pSeries_reconfig_chain arch/s390/kernel/process.c: idle_chain arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c idle_notifier drivers/base/memory.c: memory_chain drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_policy_notifier_list drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c cpufreq_transition_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/adb.c: adb_client_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c sleep_notifier_list drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c wf_client_list drivers/usb/core/notify.c usb_notifier_list drivers/video/fbmem.c fb_notifier_list kernel/cpu.c cpu_chain kernel/module.c module_notify_list kernel/profile.c munmap_notifier kernel/profile.c task_exit_notifier kernel/sys.c reboot_notifier_list net/core/dev.c netdev_chain net/decnet/dn_dev.c: dnaddr_chain net/ipv4/devinet.c: inetaddr_chain It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong. If they are, please let us know or submit a patch to fix them. Note that any chain that gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems. (However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be atomic.) The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew Morton. [jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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