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Simon Arlott a8de5ce989 [POWERPC] Spelling fixes: arch/ppc/
Spelling fixes in arch/ppc/.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-05-12 11:32:49 +10:00
Uwe Kleine-König 5886269962 fix file specification in comments
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>
2007-05-09 08:58:16 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 49e1900d4c Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-2.6.22 2007-04-30 12:38:01 +10:00
Adrian Bunk 8d1cea6e14 [POWERPC] Remove the unused HTDMSOUND driver
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>
2007-04-30 11:02:05 +10:00
Grant Likely 9be4dcb606 [POWERPC] Don't define a custom bd_t for Xilixn Virtex based boards.
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>
2007-04-30 11:02:04 +10:00
Grant Likely 30fea61fd0 [POWERPC] Add sane defaults for Xilinx EDK generated xparameters files
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-04-30 11:02:04 +10:00
Grant Likely 8c38fc2b74 [POWERPC] Stop using ppc_sys for Xilinx Virtex boards
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>
2007-04-30 11:02:04 +10:00
Grant Likely 5ff084f21d [POWERPC] Merge common virtex header files
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>
2007-04-30 11:02:04 +10:00
Grant Likely 2b10caf380 [POWERPC] Rework Kconfig dependancies for Xilinx Virtex ppc405 platform
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>
2007-04-30 11:02:04 +10:00
Bart Van Assche 0fbbeba242 [POWERPC] Ocotea board: ntpd complains that the frequency error exceeds the 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>
2007-04-13 03:55:15 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug 7a6491dffb [PPC] Fix compilation and linking errors of mpc86xads build.
Fix compilation of mpc866ads_setup.c

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-04-12 12:39:51 -05:00
Vitaly Bordug fa76abac92 [PPC] Fix compilation and linking errors of mpc885ads build.
Fix compilation of mpc885ads_setup.c

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-04-12 12:38:09 -05:00
Vitaly Bordug 6df7d40682 [PPC] MPC8272 ADS compile fixed, defconfig refreshed.
Fix compilation of mpc8272ads_setup.c

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-04-12 12:36:45 -05:00
Stefan Roese ec5f77e789 [POWERPC] ppc: Fix PCIX configuration of Ocotea & Taishan for > 512MB DDR
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>
2007-03-26 12:35:11 +10:00
Stefan Roese ab9367e38f [POWERPC] ppc: Add support for AMCC Taishan 440GX eval board
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>
2007-02-13 15:35:52 +11:00
Alon Bar-Lev bf71cecbe4 [PATCH] Dynamic kernel command-line: ppc
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>
2007-02-12 09:48:39 -08:00
Robert P. J. Day 2dc08572cc [POWERPC] Fix apparent typo "CONFIG_SERIAL_CPM_SMC".
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>
2007-02-07 14:03:17 +11:00
Adrian Bunk c53653130f [POWERPC] Remove the broken Gemini support
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-01-24 21:13:58 +11:00
David Woodhouse 9cdf083f98 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2007-01-18 10:34:51 +11:00
Robert P. J. Day bef1f40261 kconfig: Standardize "depends" -> "depends on" in Kconfig files
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>
2006-12-12 20:04:19 +01:00
Wojtek Kaniewski 1d30593e4c [POWERPC] Compilation fixes for ppc4xx PCI-less configs
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>
2006-12-04 20:39:24 +11:00
Burman Yan 95b93a0cd4 [MTD] replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc
Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <yan_952@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-11-28 23:47:21 +00:00
Andy Fleming a9b14973a8 [PATCH] Slight refactor of interrupt mapping for FSL parts
* 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>
2006-11-13 14:48:52 +11:00
Eric Sesterhenn bb579cf1d4 [POWERPC] Off-by-one in /arch/ppc/platforms/mpc8*
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>
2006-10-16 15:52:14 +10:00
Al Viro 39e3eb7265 [POWERPC] ARCH=ppc pt_regs fixes
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-10-10 11:55:25 +10:00
Olaf Hering 35a84c2f56 [POWERPC] Fix up after irq changes
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>
2006-10-07 22:08:26 +10:00
Dave Jones 038b0a6d8d Remove all inclusions of <linux/config.h>
kbuild explicitly includes this at build time.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-10-04 03:38:54 -04:00
Uwe Zeisberger f30c226954 fix file specification in comments
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>
2006-10-03 23:01:26 +02:00
Matt LaPlante cab00891c5 Still more typo fixes
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03 22:36:44 +02:00
Paul Mackerras 4e6d816e51 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vitb/linux-2.6-PQ 2006-09-28 07:18:28 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug d3465c921f POWERPC: overhaul with cpm2_map mechanism
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>
2006-09-21 22:38:05 +04:00
Amy Fong 8b9b5a77e3 [POWERPC] Fix compile error in sbc8560
The following fixes compile errors in sbc8560.

Signed-off-by: Amy Fong <amy.fong@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-09-21 22:59:38 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug 2ca2d5e84c [PATCH] ppc32: board-specific part of fs_enet update
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>
2006-08-19 17:44:31 -04:00
Jon Smirl 894673ee61 [PATCH] tty: Remove include of screen_info.h from tty.h
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>
2006-07-10 13:24:16 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner bc59d2800d [PATCH] irq-flags: PPC: Use the new IRQF_ constants
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>
2006-07-02 13:58:48 -07:00
Jörn Engel 6ab3d5624e Remove obsolete #include <linux/config.h>
Signed-off-by: Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-06-30 19:25:36 +02:00
Ingo Molnar d1bef4ed5f [PATCH] genirq: rename desc->handler to desc->chip
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>
2006-06-29 10:26:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 45c091bb2d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 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
2006-06-22 22:11:30 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 4d15a1779d [PATCH] PCI: fix error with pci_get_device() call in the mpc85xx driver
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21 12:00:01 -07:00
Matthias Fuchs 2ba73b1d6f [POWERPC] ppc32: fix CPCI405 board support
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>
2006-06-15 19:31:27 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug 8e30a9a299 [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: various fixes for pq2 uart users
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>
2006-05-26 22:38:56 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug 6e1976961c [PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: fixes and improvements
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>
2006-05-03 23:06:44 +10:00
Vitaly Bordug 4427d6bf96 [PATCH] ppc32: Update board-specific code of the CPM UART users
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>
2006-04-28 21:11:30 +10:00
Eugene Surovegin 30aacebed0 [PATCH] ppc32: add 440GX erratum 440_43 workaround
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>
2006-04-28 21:04:56 +10:00
Paul Mackerras bac30d1a78 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-29 13:24:50 +11:00
Matt Mackall 41623b064f [PATCH] RTC: Fix up some RTC whitespace and style
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>
2006-03-28 09:16:01 -08:00
Matt Mackall 59937bcdb2 [PATCH] RTC: Remove RTC UIP synchronization on PPC CHRP (arch/ppc)
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>
2006-03-28 09:16:00 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt e8222502ee [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.

We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 23:15:54 +11:00
Paul Mackerras 0a26b1364f ppc: Remove CHRP, POWER3 and POWER4 support from arch/ppc
32-bit CHRP machines are now supported only in arch/powerpc, as are
all 64-bit PowerPC processors.  This means that we don't use
Open Firmware on any platform in arch/ppc any more.

This makes PReP support a single-platform option like every other
platform support option in arch/ppc now, thus CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM
is gone from arch/ppc.  CONFIG_PPC_PREP is the option that selects
PReP support and is generally what has replaced
CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM within arch/ppc.

_machine is all but dead now, being #defined to 0.

Updated Makefiles, comments and Kconfig options generally to reflect
these changes.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 10:22:10 +11:00
Alan Stern e041c68341 [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes
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>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00