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<title>linux.git/arch/parisc/kernel, branch v3.14</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>parisc: wire up sys_utimes</title>
<updated>2014-03-23T15:57:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-23T14:24:40+00:00</published>
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We seem to be nearly the only platform which does not provide the
sys_utimes syscall.  Adding it now makes our life much easier with
userspace applications (like dietlibc and e2fsprogs) since we then
behave like all other platforms too and don't need extra patches which
are hard to get upstream anyway because we are not a mainstream
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13
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<pre>
We seem to be nearly the only platform which does not provide the
sys_utimes syscall.  Adding it now makes our life much easier with
userspace applications (like dietlibc and e2fsprogs) since we then
behave like all other platforms too and don't need extra patches which
are hard to get upstream anyway because we are not a mainstream
architecture.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.13
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Remove unused CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS code</title>
<updated>2014-03-23T15:46:30+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-03-01T22:41:22+00:00</published>
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The attached change removes the unused and experimental
CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS code. It doesn't work and I don't believe it will
ever be used.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<pre>
The attached change removes the unused and experimental
CONFIG_PARISC_TMPALIAS code. It doesn't work and I don't believe it will
ever be used.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: add flexible mmap memory layout support</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T20:00:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T21:19:52+00:00</published>
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Add support for the flexible mmap memory layout (as described in
http://lwn.net/Articles/91829). This is especially very interesting on
parisc since we currently only support 32bit userspace (even with a
64bit Linux kernel).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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Add support for the flexible mmap memory layout (as described in
http://lwn.net/Articles/91829). This is especially very interesting on
parisc since we currently only support 32bit userspace (even with a
64bit Linux kernel).

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: wire up sched_setattr and sched_getattr</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T21:29:17+00:00</published>
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<id>998bbb2fc028b5cf37008ff8450391d94fe727f3</id>
<content type='text'>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<pre>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: fix cache-flushing</title>
<updated>2014-02-02T19:57:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-31T20:33:17+00:00</published>
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This commit:
f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40: parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
caused negative caching side-effects, e.g. hanging processes with expect and
too many inequivalent alias messages from flush_dcache_page() on Debian 5 systems.

This patch now partly reverts it and has been in production use on our debian buildd
makeservers since a week without any major problems.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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This commit:
f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40: parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap
caused negative caching side-effects, e.g. hanging processes with expect and
too many inequivalent alias messages from flush_dcache_page() on Debian 5 systems.

This patch now partly reverts it and has been in production use on our debian buildd
makeservers since a week without any major problems.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'pci-v3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci</title>
<updated>2014-01-23T00:39:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-23T00:39:28+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI changes for the v3.14 merge window:

  Resource management
    - Change pci_bus_region addresses to dma_addr_t (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Support 64-bit AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas, Yinghai Lu)
    - Add pci_bus_address() to get bus address of a BAR (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Use pci_resource_start() for CPU address of AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Enforce bus address limits in resource allocation (Yinghai Lu)
    - Allocate 64-bit BARs above 4G when possible (Yinghai Lu)
    - Convert pcibios_resource_to_bus() to take pci_bus, not pci_dev (Yinghai Lu)

  PCI device hotplug
    - Major rescan/remove locking update (Rafael J. Wysocki)
    - Make ioapic builtin only (not modular) (Yinghai Lu)
    - Fix release/free issues (Yinghai Lu)
    - Clean up pciehp (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Announce pciehp slot info during enumeration (Bjorn Helgaas)

  MSI
    - Add pci_msi_vec_count(), pci_msix_vec_count() (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Add pci_enable_msi_range(), pci_enable_msix_range() (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Deprecate "tri-state" interfaces: fail/success/fail+info (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
    - Drop "irq" param from *_restore_msi_irqs() (DuanZhenzhong)

  SR-IOV
    - Clear NumVFs when disabling SR-IOV in sriov_init() (ethan.zhao)

  Virtualization
    - Add support for save/restore of extended capabilities (Alex Williamson)
    - Add Virtual Channel to save/restore support (Alex Williamson)
    - Never treat a VF as a multifunction device (Alex Williamson)
    - Add pci_try_reset_function(), et al (Alex Williamson)

  AER
    - Ignore non-PCIe error sources (Betty Dall)
    - Support ACPI HEST error sources for domains other than 0 (Betty Dall)
    - Consolidate HEST error source parsers (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Add a TLP header print helper (Borislav Petkov)

  Freescale i.MX6
    - Remove unnecessary code (Fabio Estevam)
    - Make reset-gpio optional (Marek Vasut)
    - Report "link up" only after link training completes (Marek Vasut)
    - Start link in Gen1 before negotiating for Gen2 mode (Marek Vasut)
    - Fix PCIe startup code (Richard Zhu)

  Marvell MVEBU
    - Remove duplicate of_clk_get_by_name() call (Andrew Lunn)
    - Drop writes to bridge Secondary Status register (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Obey bridge PCI_COMMAND_MEM and PCI_COMMAND_IO bits (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Support a bridge with no IO port window (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Use max_t() instead of max(resource_size_t,) (Jingoo Han)
    - Remove redundant of_match_ptr (Sachin Kamat)
    - Call pci_ioremap_io() at startup instead of dynamically (Thomas Petazzoni)

  NVIDIA Tegra
    - Disable Gen2 for Tegra20 and Tegra30 (Eric Brower)

  Renesas R-Car
    - Add runtime PM support (Valentine Barshak)
    - Fix rcar_pci_probe() return value check (Wei Yongjun)

  Synopsys DesignWare
    - Fix crash in dw_msi_teardown_irq() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
    - Remove redundant call to pci_write_config_word() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
    - Fix missing MSI IRQs (Harro Haan)
    - Add dw_pcie prefix before cfg_read/write (Pratyush Anand)
    - Fix I/O transfers by using CPU (not realio) address (Pratyush Anand)
    - Whitespace cleanup (Jingoo Han)

  EISA
    - Call put_device() if device_register() fails (Levente Kurusa)
    - Revert EISA initialization breakage ((Bjorn Helgaas)

  Miscellaneous
    - Remove unused code, including PCIe 3.0 interfaces (Stephen Hemminger)
    - Prevent bus conflicts while checking for bridge apertures (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Stop clearing bridge Secondary Status when setting up I/O aperture (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Use dev_is_pci() to identify PCI devices (Yijing Wang)
    - Deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE (Joe Perches)
    - Update documentation 00-INDEX (Erik Ekman)"

* tag 'pci-v3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (119 commits)
  Revert "EISA: Initialize device before its resources"
  Revert "EISA: Log device resources in dmesg"
  vfio-pci: Use pci "try" reset interface
  PCI: Check parent kobject in pci_destroy_dev()
  xen/pcifront: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  powerpc/eeh: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  PCI: Fix pci_check_and_unmask_intx() comment typos
  PCI: Add pci_try_reset_function(), pci_try_reset_slot(), pci_try_reset_bus()
  MPT / PCI: Use pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked()
  platform / x86: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  PCI: hotplug: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  pcmcia: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  ACPI / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking in PCI root hotplug
  PCI: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove()
  PCI: Cleanup pci.h whitespace
  PCI: Reorder so actual code comes before stubs
  PCI/AER: Support ACPI HEST AER error sources for PCI domains other than 0
  ACPICA: Add helper macros to extract bus/segment numbers from HEST table.
  PCI: Make local functions static
  ...
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<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
Pull PCI updates from Bjorn Helgaas:
 "PCI changes for the v3.14 merge window:

  Resource management
    - Change pci_bus_region addresses to dma_addr_t (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Support 64-bit AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas, Yinghai Lu)
    - Add pci_bus_address() to get bus address of a BAR (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Use pci_resource_start() for CPU address of AGP BARs (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Enforce bus address limits in resource allocation (Yinghai Lu)
    - Allocate 64-bit BARs above 4G when possible (Yinghai Lu)
    - Convert pcibios_resource_to_bus() to take pci_bus, not pci_dev (Yinghai Lu)

  PCI device hotplug
    - Major rescan/remove locking update (Rafael J. Wysocki)
    - Make ioapic builtin only (not modular) (Yinghai Lu)
    - Fix release/free issues (Yinghai Lu)
    - Clean up pciehp (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Announce pciehp slot info during enumeration (Bjorn Helgaas)

  MSI
    - Add pci_msi_vec_count(), pci_msix_vec_count() (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Add pci_enable_msi_range(), pci_enable_msix_range() (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Deprecate "tri-state" interfaces: fail/success/fail+info (Alexander Gordeev)
    - Export MSI mode using attributes, not kobjects (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
    - Drop "irq" param from *_restore_msi_irqs() (DuanZhenzhong)

  SR-IOV
    - Clear NumVFs when disabling SR-IOV in sriov_init() (ethan.zhao)

  Virtualization
    - Add support for save/restore of extended capabilities (Alex Williamson)
    - Add Virtual Channel to save/restore support (Alex Williamson)
    - Never treat a VF as a multifunction device (Alex Williamson)
    - Add pci_try_reset_function(), et al (Alex Williamson)

  AER
    - Ignore non-PCIe error sources (Betty Dall)
    - Support ACPI HEST error sources for domains other than 0 (Betty Dall)
    - Consolidate HEST error source parsers (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Add a TLP header print helper (Borislav Petkov)

  Freescale i.MX6
    - Remove unnecessary code (Fabio Estevam)
    - Make reset-gpio optional (Marek Vasut)
    - Report "link up" only after link training completes (Marek Vasut)
    - Start link in Gen1 before negotiating for Gen2 mode (Marek Vasut)
    - Fix PCIe startup code (Richard Zhu)

  Marvell MVEBU
    - Remove duplicate of_clk_get_by_name() call (Andrew Lunn)
    - Drop writes to bridge Secondary Status register (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Obey bridge PCI_COMMAND_MEM and PCI_COMMAND_IO bits (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Support a bridge with no IO port window (Jason Gunthorpe)
    - Use max_t() instead of max(resource_size_t,) (Jingoo Han)
    - Remove redundant of_match_ptr (Sachin Kamat)
    - Call pci_ioremap_io() at startup instead of dynamically (Thomas Petazzoni)

  NVIDIA Tegra
    - Disable Gen2 for Tegra20 and Tegra30 (Eric Brower)

  Renesas R-Car
    - Add runtime PM support (Valentine Barshak)
    - Fix rcar_pci_probe() return value check (Wei Yongjun)

  Synopsys DesignWare
    - Fix crash in dw_msi_teardown_irq() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
    - Remove redundant call to pci_write_config_word() (Bjørn Erik Nilsen)
    - Fix missing MSI IRQs (Harro Haan)
    - Add dw_pcie prefix before cfg_read/write (Pratyush Anand)
    - Fix I/O transfers by using CPU (not realio) address (Pratyush Anand)
    - Whitespace cleanup (Jingoo Han)

  EISA
    - Call put_device() if device_register() fails (Levente Kurusa)
    - Revert EISA initialization breakage ((Bjorn Helgaas)

  Miscellaneous
    - Remove unused code, including PCIe 3.0 interfaces (Stephen Hemminger)
    - Prevent bus conflicts while checking for bridge apertures (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Stop clearing bridge Secondary Status when setting up I/O aperture (Bjorn Helgaas)
    - Use dev_is_pci() to identify PCI devices (Yijing Wang)
    - Deprecate DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE (Joe Perches)
    - Update documentation 00-INDEX (Erik Ekman)"

* tag 'pci-v3.14-changes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/helgaas/pci: (119 commits)
  Revert "EISA: Initialize device before its resources"
  Revert "EISA: Log device resources in dmesg"
  vfio-pci: Use pci "try" reset interface
  PCI: Check parent kobject in pci_destroy_dev()
  xen/pcifront: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  powerpc/eeh: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  PCI: Fix pci_check_and_unmask_intx() comment typos
  PCI: Add pci_try_reset_function(), pci_try_reset_slot(), pci_try_reset_bus()
  MPT / PCI: Use pci_stop_and_remove_bus_device_locked()
  platform / x86: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  PCI: hotplug: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  pcmcia: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  ACPI / hotplug / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking
  ACPI / PCI: Use global PCI rescan-remove locking in PCI root hotplug
  PCI: Add global pci_lock_rescan_remove()
  PCI: Cleanup pci.h whitespace
  PCI: Reorder so actual code comes before stubs
  PCI/AER: Support ACPI HEST AER error sources for PCI domains other than 0
  ACPICA: Add helper macros to extract bus/segment numbers from HEST table.
  PCI: Make local functions static
  ...
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: Ensure full cache coherency for kmap/kunmap</title>
<updated>2014-01-08T22:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John David Anglin</name>
<email>dave.anglin@bell.net</email>
</author>
<published>2014-01-06T02:25:00+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=f8dae00684d678afa13041ef170cecfd1297ed40'/>
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Helge Deller noted a few weeks ago problems with the AIO support on
parisc. This change is the result of numerous iterations on how best to
deal with this problem.

The solution adopted here is to provide full cache coherency in a
uniform manner on all parisc systems. This involves calling
flush_dcache_page() on kmap operations and flush_kernel_dcache_page() on
kunmap operations. As a result, the copy_user_page() and
clear_user_page() functions can be removed and the overall code is
simpler.

The change ensures that both userspace and kernel aliases to a mapped
page are invalidated and flushed. This is necessary for the correct
operation of PA8800 and PA8900 based systems which do not support
inequivalent aliases.

With this change, I have observed no cache related issues on c8000 and
rp3440. It is now possible for example to do kernel builds with "-j64"
on four way systems.

On systems using XFS file systems, the patch recently posted by Mikulas
Patocka to "fix crash using XFS on loopback" is needed to avoid a hang
caused by an uninitialized lock passed to flush_dcache_page() in the
page struct.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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<pre>
Helge Deller noted a few weeks ago problems with the AIO support on
parisc. This change is the result of numerous iterations on how best to
deal with this problem.

The solution adopted here is to provide full cache coherency in a
uniform manner on all parisc systems. This involves calling
flush_dcache_page() on kmap operations and flush_kernel_dcache_page() on
kunmap operations. As a result, the copy_user_page() and
clear_user_page() functions can be removed and the overall code is
simpler.

The change ensures that both userspace and kernel aliases to a mapped
page are invalidated and flushed. This is necessary for the correct
operation of PA8800 and PA8900 based systems which do not support
inequivalent aliases.

With this change, I have observed no cache related issues on c8000 and
rp3440. It is now possible for example to do kernel builds with "-j64"
on four way systems.

On systems using XFS file systems, the patch recently posted by Mikulas
Patocka to "fix crash using XFS on loopback" is needed to avoid a hang
caused by an uninitialized lock passed to flush_dcache_page() in the
page struct.

Signed-off-by: John David Anglin &lt;dave.anglin@bell.net&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.9+
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc/PCI: Use dev_is_pci() to identify PCI devices</title>
<updated>2013-12-11T23:53:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yijing Wang</name>
<email>wangyijing@huawei.com</email>
</author>
<published>2013-12-05T11:59:38+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
Use dev_is_pci() instead of equivalent local function.

Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</content>
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Use dev_is_pci() instead of equivalent local function.

Signed-off-by: Yijing Wang &lt;wangyijing@huawei.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas &lt;bhelgaas@google.com&gt;</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>parisc: fix kernel memory layout in vmlinux.ld.S</title>
<updated>2013-11-30T21:09:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Helge Deller</name>
<email>deller@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2013-11-30T21:07:51+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux.git/commit/?id=161bd3bf60ee2c5765455ad3e3da967d03449f4a'/>
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<content type='text'>
When building a 64bit kernel sometimes functions in the .init section were not
able to reach the standard kernel function. Main reason for this problem is,
that the linkage tables (.plt, .opd, .dlt) tend to become pretty huge and thus
the distance gets too big for short calls.

One option to avoid this is to use the -mlong-calls compiler option, but this
increases the binary size and introduces a performance penalty.

Instead, with this patch we just lay out the binary differently.  Init code is
stored first, followed by text, R/O and finally R/W data. This means, that init
and text code is now much closer to each other, which is sufficient to reach
each other by short calls.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
</content>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>
<pre>
When building a 64bit kernel sometimes functions in the .init section were not
able to reach the standard kernel function. Main reason for this problem is,
that the linkage tables (.plt, .opd, .dlt) tend to become pretty huge and thus
the distance gets too big for short calls.

One option to avoid this is to use the -mlong-calls compiler option, but this
increases the binary size and introduces a performance penalty.

Instead, with this patch we just lay out the binary differently.  Init code is
stored first, followed by text, R/O and finally R/W data. This means, that init
and text code is now much closer to each other, which is sufficient to reach
each other by short calls.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt;
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