linux-stable.git/drivers/firmware, branch linux-2.6.34.y

pcdp: use early_ioremap/early_iounmap to access pcdp table

2014-02-10T21:11:35+00:00

commit 6c4088ac3a4d82779903433bcd5f048c58fb1aca upstream.

efi_setup_pcdp_console() is called during boot to parse the HCDP/PCDP
EFI system table and setup an early console for printk output.  The
routine uses ioremap/iounmap to setup access to the HCDP/PCDP table
information.

The call to ioremap is happening early in the boot process which leads
to a panic on x86_64 systems:

    panic+0x01ca
    do_exit+0x043c
    oops_end+0x00a7
    no_context+0x0119
    __bad_area_nosemaphore+0x0138
    bad_area_nosemaphore+0x000e
    do_page_fault+0x0321
    page_fault+0x0020
    reserve_memtype+0x02a1
    __ioremap_caller+0x0123
    ioremap_nocache+0x0012
    efi_setup_pcdp_console+0x002b
    setup_arch+0x03a9
    start_kernel+0x00d4
    x86_64_start_reservations+0x012c
    x86_64_start_kernel+0x00fe

This replaces the calls to ioremap/iounmap in efi_setup_pcdp_console()
with calls to early_ioremap/early_iounmap which can be called during
early boot.

This patch was tested on an x86_64 prototype system which uses the
HCDP/PCDP table for early console setup.

Signed-off-by: Greg Pearson 
Acked-by: Khalid Aziz 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

dmi: Feed DMI table to /dev/random driver

2012-08-17T19:36:11+00:00

commit d114a33387472555188f142ed8e98acdb8181c6d upstream.

Send the entire DMI (SMBIOS) table to the /dev/random driver to
help seed its pools.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck 
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

dcdbas: force SMI to happen when expected

2011-06-26T16:47:17+00:00

commit dd65c736d1b5312c80c88a64bf521db4959eded5 upstream.

The dcdbas driver can do an I/O write to cause a SMI to occur.  The SMI handler
looks at certain registers and memory locations, so the SMI needs to happen
immediately.  On some systems I/O writes are posted, though, causing the SMI to
happen well after the "outb" occurred, which causes random failures.  Following
the "outb" with an "inb" forces the write to go through even if it is posted.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Hayes 
Acked-by: Doug Warzecha 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina 
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip

2010-04-07T18:02:23+00:00

* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip:
  x86: Fix double enable_IR_x2apic() call on SMP kernel on !SMP boards
  x86: Increase CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT max to 10
  ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()
  x86, hpet: Fix bug in RTC emulation
  x86, hpet: Erratum workaround for read after write of HPET comparator
  bootmem, x86: Fix 32bit numa system without RAM on node 0
  nobootmem, x86: Fix 32bit numa system without RAM on node 0
  x86: Handle overlapping mptables
  x86: Make e820_remove_range to handle all covered case
  x86-32, resume: do a global tlb flush in S4 resume

ibft, x86: Change reserve_ibft_region() to find_ibft_region()

2010-04-01T23:12:48+00:00

This allows arch code could decide the way to reserve the ibft.

And we should reserve ibft as early as possible, instead of BOOTMEM
stage, in case the table is in RAM range and is not reserved by BIOS
(this will often be the case.)

Move to just after find_smp_config().

Also when CONFIG_NO_BOOTMEM=y, We will not have reserve_bootmem() anymore.

-v2: fix typo about ibft pointed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu 
LKML-Reference: <4BB510FB.80601@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk 
CC: Jan Beulich 
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

Driver core: Constify struct sysfs_ops in struct kobj_type

2010-03-08T01:04:49+00:00

Constify struct sysfs_ops.

This is part of the ops structure constification
effort started by Arjan van de Ven et al.

Benefits of this constification:

 * prevents modification of data that is shared
   (referenced) by many other structure instances
   at runtime

 * detects/prevents accidental (but not intentional)
   modification attempts on archs that enforce
   read-only kernel data at runtime

 * potentially better optimized code as the compiler
   can assume that the const data cannot be changed

 * the compiler/linker move const data into .rodata
   and therefore exclude them from false sharing

Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy 
Acked-by: David Teigland 
Acked-by: Matt Domsch 
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski 
Acked-by: Hans J. Koch 
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg 
Acked-by: Jens Axboe 
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

memory-hotplug: create /sys/firmware/memmap entry for new memory

2010-03-06T19:26:25+00:00

A memmap is a directory in sysfs which includes 3 text files: start, end
and type.  For example:

start: 	0x100000
end:	0x7e7b1cff
type:	System RAM

Interface firmware_map_add was not called explicitly.  Remove it and add
function firmware_map_add_hotplug as hotplug interface of memmap.

Each memory entry has a memmap in sysfs, When we hot-add new memory, sysfs
does not export memmap entry for it.  We add a call in function add_memory
to function firmware_map_add_hotplug.

Add a new function add_sysfs_fw_map_entry() to create memmap entry, it
will be called when initialize memmap and hot-add memory.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: un-kernedoc a no longer kerneldoc comment]
Signed-off-by: Shaohui Zheng 
Acked-by: Andi Kleen 
Acked-by: Yasunori Goto 
Reviewed-by: Wu Fengguang 
Cc: Dave Hansen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/

2010-03-01T03:23:06+00:00

Conflicts:
	drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c

drivers/firmware/iscsi_ibft.c: remove NIPQUAD_FMT, use %pI4

2010-02-26T21:02:14+00:00

Convert netmask to __be32 and format it with %pI4

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek 
Reviewed-by: Mike Christie 
Cc: Peter Jones 
Cc: James Bottomley 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton