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Author SHA1 Message Date
Denys Vlasenko
e9cfaa9f4c Rename .text.start to .text..start.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
2010-03-03 11:26:01 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
606d62fa02 MIPS: Lasat: Fix botched changes to sysctl code.
Commit 1639319222 "sysctl mips/lasat: Remove
dead binary sysctl support" obviously wasn't test built ...

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-12-17 01:57:37 +00:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c0b4abdd52 MIPS: Lasat: Convert to proc_fops / seq_file
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/725/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-12-17 01:57:33 +00:00
Dmitri Vorobiev
7580c9c393 MIPS: Replace all usages of CL_SIZE by COMMAND_LINE_SIZE
The MIPS-specific macro CL_SIZE is merely aliasing the macro
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE. Other architectures use the latter; also,
COMMAND_LINE_SIZE is documented in kernel-parameters.txt, so
let's use it, and remove the alias.

Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@movial.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2009-12-17 01:56:56 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman
6d4561110a sysctl: Drop & in front of every proc_handler.
For consistency drop & in front of every proc_handler.  Explicity
taking the address is unnecessary and it prevents optimizations
like stubbing the proc_handlers to NULL.

Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-18 08:37:40 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
1639319222 sysctl mips/lasat: Remove dead binary sysctl support
Now that sys_sysctl is a generic wrapper around /proc/sys  .ctl_name
and .strategy members of sysctl tables are dead code.  Remove them.

The deleted strategy routines here surprise me.  ctl_name was
CTL_UNNUMBERED so they would not have been called at all.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-12 02:04:59 -08:00
Alexey Dobriyan
8d65af789f sysctl: remove "struct file *" argument of ->proc_handler
It's unused.

It isn't needed -- read or write flag is already passed and sysctl
shouldn't care about the rest.

It _was_ used in two places at arch/frv for some reason.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-24 07:21:04 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
d4f587c67f timekeeping: Increase granularity of read_persistent_clock()
The persistent clock of some architectures (e.g. s390) have a
better granularity than seconds. To reduce the delta between the
host clock and the guest clock in a virtualized system change the 
read_persistent_clock function to return a struct timespec.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090814134811.013873340@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-08-15 10:55:46 +02:00
Rusty Russell
1a8a51004a cpumask: remove references to struct irqaction's mask field.
Impact: cleanup

It's unused, since about 1995.  So remove all initialization of it in
preparation for actually removing the field.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-03-30 22:05:14 +10:30
Alexey Dobriyan
f221e726bf sysctl: simplify ->strategy
name and nlen parameters passed to ->strategy hook are unused, remove
them.  In general ->strategy hook should know what it's doing, and don't
do something tricky for which, say, pointer to original userspace array
may be needed (name).

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> [ networking bits ]
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16 11:21:47 -07:00
Thomas Bogendoerfer
b27418aa55 [MIPS] Remove mips_machtype for LASAT machines
This is the LASAT part of the mips_machtype removal.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-07-15 18:44:39 +01:00
Thomas Horsten
1f34f2e426 [MIPS] Lasat: sysctl fixup
LASAT's sysctl interface was broken, it failed a check during boot because
a single entry had a sysctl number and the rest were unnumbered. When I
fixed it I noticed that the whole sysctl file needed a spring clean, it was
using mutexes where it wasn't needed (it's only needed to protect during
writes to the EEPROM), so I moved that stuff out and generally cleaned the
whole thing up.

So now, LASAT's sysctl/proc interface is working again.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16 15:14:48 +01:00
Thomas Horsten
0c3bd83b09 [MIPS] Lasat: bring back from the dead
After the common MIPS CPU interrupt controller (for irq0-7) was introduced
the Lasat boards didn't get their interrupts right, so nothing worked. The
old routines need to be offset by the new 8 hardware interrupts common to
all MIPS CPU's.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsten <thomas@horsten.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-06-16 15:14:48 +01:00
Daniel Walker
8a39c520b2 [MIPS] Lasat: Convert pvc_sem semaphore to mutex
I also changed the name to pvc_mutex, and moved the define to the file
it's used in which allows it to be static.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-01-29 10:15:01 +00:00
WANG Cong
778bc145fe [MIPS] Lasat: Fix built in separate object directory.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

[Ralf: The LDSCRIPT script needed fixing, too]

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2008-01-11 17:05:42 +00:00
Yoichi Yuasa
89becf5c0d [MIPS] Lasat: Fix overlap of interrupt number ranges.
The range of MIPS_CPU IRQ and the range of LASAT IRQ overlap.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-11-15 23:21:50 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
ba5eac515f [MIPS] time: Merge lasat plat_timer_setup into plat_time_init.
Since the cp0 compare interrupt handler isn't initialized by the time
plat_time_init is called don't set IE_IRQ5 anymore, cevt-r4k.c will do
that a little later itself.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-29 19:35:34 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
a5ccfe5c1a [MIPS] Lasat: Fix build by conversion to irq_cpu.c.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-16 18:23:47 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
4b550488f8 [MIPS] Deforest the function pointer jungle in the time code.
Hard to follow who is pointing what to where and why so it's simply getting
in the way of the time code renovation.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:08 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
05dc8c02bf [MIPS] ARC: Get rid of mips_machgroup
This has not been any serious user of this ill conceived thing since the
original invention in like '95.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:08 +01:00
Brian Murphy
1f21d2bde0 [MIPS] Add back support for LASAT platforms
Signed-off-by: Brian Murphy <brian@murphy.dk>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-10-11 23:46:00 +01:00
Yoichi Yuasa
c99cabf034 [MIPS] remove LASAT Networks platforms support
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-07-10 17:33:04 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
36a885306f [MIPS] Fix and cleanup the mess that a dozen prom_printf variants are.
early_printk is a so much saner thing.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:37 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
12e4396bf0 [MIPS] No need to write c0_compare in plat_timer_setup
If R4k counter was used for hpt_timer and interrupt source,
c0_hpt_timer_init() initializes the c0_compare register.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-03-04 19:02:35 +00:00
Eric W. Biederman
0b4d414714 [PATCH] sysctl: remove insert_at_head from register_sysctl
The semantic effect of insert_at_head is that it would allow new registered
sysctl entries to override existing sysctl entries of the same name.  Which is
pain for caching and the proc interface never implemented.

I have done an audit and discovered that none of the current users of
register_sysctl care as (excpet for directories) they do not register
duplicate sysctl entries.

So this patch simply removes the support for overriding existing entries in
the sys_sysctl interface since no one uses it or cares and it makes future
enhancments harder.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:59 -08:00
Eric W. Biederman
8d8cb8a1bb [PATCH] sysctl: C99 convert arch/mips/lasat/sysctl.c and remove ABI breakage
While C99 converting the ctl_table initializers I realized that the binary
sysctl numbers were in conflict with the binary values under CTL_KERN.
Including CTL_KERN KERN_VERSION as used by glibc.  So I just removed the
sysctl binary interface for these values, as it was unsupportable.

Luckily these sysctl were inserted at the end of the sysctl list so this bug
was not visible to userspace.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-14 08:09:57 -08:00
Atsushi Nemoto
70d21cdeef [MIPS] use name instead of typename for each irq_chip
The "typename" field was obsoleted by the "name" field.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-06 16:53:14 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
c44e8d5e47 [MIPS] prom_free_prom_memory cleanup
Current prom_free_prom_memory() implementations are almost same as
free_init_pages(), or no-op.  Make free_init_pages() extern (again)
and make prom_free_prom_memory() use it.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2007-02-06 16:53:09 +00:00
Alexey Dobriyan
1f29bcd739 [PATCH] sysctl: remove unused "context" param
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-10 09:55:41 -08:00
Josef Sipek
1b04fe9a8e [PATCH] struct path: convert mips
Signed-off-by: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-08 08:28:47 -08:00
Franck Bui-Huu
e77c232cfc [MIPS] Compile __do_IRQ() when really needed
__do_IRQ() is needed only by irq handlers that can't use
default handlers defined in kernel/irq/chip.c.

For others platforms there's no need to compile this function
since it won't be used. For those platforms this patch defines
GENERIC_HARDIRQS_NO__DO_IRQ symbol which is used exactly for
this purpose.

Futhermore for platforms which do not use __do_IRQ(), end()
method which is part of the 'irq_chip' structure is not used.
This patch simply removes this method in this case.

Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-12-06 20:16:08 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
1417836e81 [MIPS] use generic_handle_irq, handle_level_irq, handle_percpu_irq
Further incorporation of generic irq framework.  Replacing __do_IRQ()
by proper flow handler would make the irq handling path a bit simpler
and faster.

* use generic_handle_irq() instead of __do_IRQ().
* use handle_level_irq for obvious level-type irq chips.
* use handle_percpu_irq for irqs marked as IRQ_PER_CPU.
* setup .eoi routine for irq chips possibly used with handle_percpu_irq.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-11-30 01:14:46 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
1603b5aca4 [MIPS] IRQ cleanups
This is a big irq cleanup patch.

* Use set_irq_chip() to register irq_chip.
* Initialize .mask, .unmask, .mask_ack field.  Functions for these
  method are already exist in most case.
* Do not initialize .startup, .shutdown, .enable, .disable fields if
  default routines provided by irq_chip_set_defaults() were suitable.
* Remove redundant irq_desc initializations.
* Remove unnecessary local_irq_save/local_irq_restore, spin_lock.

With this cleanup, it would be easy to switch to slightly lightwait
irq flow handlers (handle_level_irq(), etc.) instead of __do_IRQ().

Though whole this patch is quite large, changes in each irq_chip are
not quite simple.  Please review and test on your platform.  Thanks.

Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-11-30 01:14:46 +00:00
Ralf Baechle
937a801576 [MIPS] Complete fixes after removal of pt_regs argument to int handlers.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-10-08 02:38:28 +01:00
Russell King
bcf5111a58 [SERIAL] Remove wrong asm/serial.h inclusions
asm/serial.h is supposed to contain the definitions for the architecture
specific 8250 ports for the 8250 driver.  It may also define BASE_BAUD,
but this is the base baud for the architecture specific ports _only_.

Therefore, nothing other than the 8250 driver should be including this
header file.  In order to move towards this goal, here is a patch which
removes some of the more obvious incorrect includes of the file.

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Acked-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-10-01 17:09:16 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
54d0a216f4 [MIPS] Replace board_timer_setup function pointer by plat_timer_setup.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

---
2006-07-13 21:26:17 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
94dee171df [MIPS] Eleminate interrupt migration helper use.
> #define hw_interrupt_type       irq_chip
> typedef struct irq_chip         hw_irq_controller;
> #define no_irq_type             no_irq_chip
> typedef struct irq_desc         irq_desc_t;

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-07-13 21:25:58 +01:00
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
Ralf Baechle
2925aba422 [MIPS] Cleanup memory managment initialization.
Historically plat_mem_setup did the entire platform initialization.  This
was rather impractical because it meant plat_mem_setup had to get away
without any kind of memory allocator.  To keep old code from breaking
plat_setup was just renamed to plat_setup and a second platform
initialization hook for anything else was introduced.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-06-19 17:39:23 +01:00
Ralf Baechle
e4ac58afdf [MIPS] Rewrite all the assembler interrupt handlers to C.
Saves like 1,600 lines of code, is way easier to debug, compilers
frequently do a better job than the cut and paste type of handlers many
boards had.  And finally having all the stuff done in a single place
also means alot of bug potencial for the MT ASE is gone.

The only surviving handler in assembler is the DECstation one; I hope
Maciej will rewrite it.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-04-19 04:14:21 +02:00
Yoichi Yuasa
d23ee8fe6e [PATCH] mips: fixed collision of rtc function name
Fix the collision of rtc function name.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
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
Ingo Molnar
14cc3e2b63 [PATCH] sem2mutex: misc static one-file mutexes
Semaphore to mutex conversion.

The conversion was generated via scripts, and the result was validated
automatically via a script as well.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:55 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
a3dddd560e [MIPS] War on whitespace: cleanup initial spaces followed by tabs.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-03-21 13:27:47 +00:00
Linus Torvalds
17be03f0a1 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2006-02-08 15:21:22 -08:00
Ralf Baechle
fcdb27ad1d [MIPS] Rename _machine_power_off to pm_power_off so the kernel builds again.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2006-02-07 13:30:22 +00:00
Russell King
59a675b220 [SERIAL] uart_port flags member should use UPF_*
Convert usage of ASYNC_* to UPF_*.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-05 10:52:29 +00:00
Russell King
9b4a161777 [SERIAL] uart_port iotype member should use UPIO_*
Convert usage of SERIAL_IO_* to UPIO_*.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-02-05 10:48:10 +00:00
Atsushi Nemoto
53c2df2f4e Use rtc_lock to protect RTC operations
Many RTC routines were not protected against each other, so there are
potential races, for example, ntp-update against /dev/rtc.  This patch
fixes them using rtc_lock.
    
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2005-11-07 18:05:38 +00:00