linux.git/arch/v850, branch master

remove the v850 port

2008-07-24T17:47:24+00:00

Trying to compile the v850 port brings many compile errors, one of them exists
since at least kernel 2.6.19.

There also seems to be noone willing to bring this port back into a usable
state.

This patch therefore removes the v850 port.

If anyone ever decides to revive the v850 port the code will still be
available from older kernels, and it wouldn't be impossible for the port to
reenter the kernel if it would become actively maintained again.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Acked-by: Greg Ungerer 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: drop unneeded pgdat argument from free_area_init_node()

2008-07-24T17:47:16+00:00

free_area_init_node() gets passed in the node id as well as the node
descriptor.  This is redundant as the function can trivially get the node
descriptor itself by means of NODE_DATA() and the node's id.

I checked all the users and NODE_DATA() seems to be usable everywhere
from where this function is called.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] take init_files to fs/file.c

2008-05-16T21:22:20+00:00

Signed-off-by: Al Viro

unified (weak) sys_pipe implementation

2008-05-03T20:50:33+00:00

This replaces the duplicated arch-specific versions of "sys_pipe()" with
one unified implementation.  This removes almost 250 lines of duplicated
code.

It's marked __weak, so that *if* an architecture wants to override the
default implementation it can do so by simply having its own replacement
version, since many architectures use alternate calling conventions for
the 'pipe()' system call for legacy reasons (ie traditional UNIX
implementations often return the two file descriptors in registers)

I still haven't changed the cris version even though Linus says the BKL
isn't needed.  The arch maintainer can easily do it if there are really
no obstacles.

Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

v850: use kbuild.h instead of defining macros in asm-offsets.c

2008-04-29T15:06:30+00:00

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Miles Bader 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

iomap: fix 64 bits resources on 32 bits

2008-04-29T15:06:02+00:00

Almost all implementations of pci_iomap() in the kernel, including the generic
lib/iomap.c one, copies the content of a struct resource into unsigned long's
which will break on 32 bits platforms with 64 bits resources.

This fixes all definitions of pci_iomap() to use resource_size_t.  I also
"fixed" the 64bits arch for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

arch: Remove unnecessary inclusions of asm/semaphore.h

2008-04-19T02:14:49+00:00

None of these files use any of the functionality promised by
asm/semaphore.h.  It's possible that they rely on it dragging in some
unrelated header file, but I can't build all these files, so we'll have
fix any build failures as they come up.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox

Generic semaphore implementation

2008-04-17T14:42:34+00:00

Semaphores are no longer performance-critical, so a generic C
implementation is better for maintainability, debuggability and
extensibility.  Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for fixing the lockdep
warning.  Thanks to Harvey Harrison for pointing out that the
unlikely() was unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox 
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar

ide: introduce HAVE_IDE

2008-02-09T09:46:40+00:00

To allow flexible configuration of IDE introduce HAVE_IDE.
All archs except arm, um and s390 unconditionally select it.
For arm the actual configuration determine if IDE is supported.

This is a step towards introducing drivers/Kconfig for arm.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg 
Acked-by: Russell King - ARM Linux 
Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz

avoid overflows in kernel/time.c

2008-02-08T17:22:39+00:00

When the conversion factor between jiffies and milli- or microseconds is
not a single multiply or divide, as for the case of HZ == 300, we currently
do a multiply followed by a divide.  The intervening result, however, is
subject to overflows, especially since the fraction is not simplified (for
HZ == 300, we multiply by 300 and divide by 1000).

This is exposed to the user when passing a large timeout to poll(), for
example.

This patch replaces the multiply-divide with a reciprocal multiplication on
32-bit platforms.  When the input is an unsigned long, there is no portable
way to do this on 64-bit platforms there is no portable way to do this
since it requires a 128-bit intermediate result (which gcc does support on
64-bit platforms but may generate libgcc calls, e.g.  on 64-bit s390), but
since the output is a 32-bit integer in the cases affected, just simplify
the multiply-divide (*3/10 instead of *300/1000).

The reciprocal multiply used can have off-by-one errors in the upper half
of the valid output range.  This could be avoided at the expense of having
to deal with a potential 65-bit intermediate result.  Since the intent is
to avoid overflow problems and most of the other time conversions are only
semiexact, the off-by-one errors were considered an acceptable tradeoff.

At Ralf Baechle's suggestion, this version uses a Perl script to compute
the necessary constants.  We already have dependencies on Perl for kernel
compiles.  This does, however, require the Perl module Math::BigInt, which
is included in the standard Perl distribution starting with version 5.8.0.
In order to support older versions of Perl, include a table of canned
constants in the script itself, and structure the script so that
Math::BigInt isn't required if pulling values from said table.

Running the script requires that the HZ value is available from the
Makefile.  Thus, this patch also adds the Kconfig variable CONFIG_HZ to the
architectures which didn't already have it (alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r,
m68k, m68knommu, sparc, v850, and xtensa.) It does *not* touch the sh or
sh64 architectures, since Paul Mundt has dealt with those separately in the
sh tree.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin 
Cc: Ralf Baechle ,
Cc: Sam Ravnborg ,
Cc: Paul Mundt ,
Cc: Richard Henderson ,
Cc: Michael Starvik ,
Cc: David Howells ,
Cc: Yoshinori Sato ,
Cc: Hirokazu Takata ,
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven ,
Cc: Roman Zippel ,
Cc: William L. Irwin ,
Cc: Chris Zankel ,
Cc: H. Peter Anvin ,
Cc: Jan Engelhardt 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds