linux.git/drivers/char/ipmi, branch v2.6.17

[PATCH] IPMI: reserve I/O ports separately

2006-05-31T23:27:10+00:00

From: Corey Minyard 

This patch is pretty important to get in for IPMI, new systems have been
changing the way ACPI and IPMI interact, and this works around the problems
for now.  This is a temporary fix until we get proper ACPI handling in
IPMI.

Fixed releasing already-allocated regions when a later request fails, and
forward-ported it to HEAD.

Some BIOSes reserve disjoint I/O regions in their ACPI tables for the IPMI
controller.  This causes problems when trying to register the entire I/O
region.  Therefore we must register each I/O port separately.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave 
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch 
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Open IPMI BT overflow

2006-04-19T16:13:52+00:00

I was looking into random driver code and found a suspicious looking
memcpy() in drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_bt_sm.c on 2.6.17-rc1:

	if ((size < 2) || (size > IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH))
		return -1;
	...
	memcpy(bt->write_data + 3, data + 1, size - 1);

where sizeof bt->write_data is IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH.  It looks like the
memcpy would overflow by 2 bytes if size == IPMI_MAX_MSG_LENGTH.  A patch
attached to limit size to (IPMI_MAX_LENGTH - 2).

Cc: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IPMI: fix devinit placement

2006-04-19T16:13:52+00:00

gcc complains about __devinit in the wrong location:
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:2205: warning: '__section__' attribute does not apply to types

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ipmi: fix event queue limit

2006-04-11T13:18:45+00:00

The event handler mechanism in the IPMI driver had a limit on the number of
received events, but the counts were not being updated.  Update the counts
to impose a limit.  This is not a critical fix, as this function (the
sending of the events) has to be turned on by the user, anyway.  This
avoids problems if they forget to turn it back off.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IPMI: convert from semaphores to mutexes

2006-03-31T20:18:54+00:00

Convert the remaining semaphores to mutexes in the IPMI driver.  The
watchdog was using a semaphore as a real semaphore (for IPC), so the
conversion there required adding a completion.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IPMI: tidy up various things

2006-03-31T20:18:54+00:00

Tidy up various coding standard things, mostly removing the space after !,
but also break some long lines and fix a few other spacing inconsistencies.
Also fixes some bad error reporting when deleting an IPMI user.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IPMI: fix startup race condition

2006-03-31T20:18:54+00:00

Matt Domsch noticed a startup race with the IPMI kernel thread, it was
possible (though extraordinarly unlikely) that a message could come in
before the upper layer was ready to handle it.  This patch splits the
startup processing of an IPMI interface into two parts, one to get ready
and one to actually start the processes to receive messages from the
interface.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Cc: Matt Domsch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes

2006-03-27T16:44:50+00:00

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 
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman 
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ipmi: Increment driver version to v39.0

2006-03-26T16:56:56+00:00

Need to increment the version number because of the new PCI and sysfs
capabilities of the driver.  People maintaining things for distros have
asked that I do this after interface or major functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Acked-by: Matt Domsch 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ipmi: add full sysfs support

2006-03-26T16:56:56+00:00

Add full driver model support for the IPMI driver.  It links in the proper
bus and device support.

It adds an "ipmi" driver interface that has each BMC discovered by the
driver (as a device).  These BMCs appear in the devices/platform directory.
 If there are multiple interfaces to the same BMC, the driver should
discover this and will only have one BMC entry.  The BMC entry will have
pointers to each interface device that connects to it.

The device information (statistics and config information) has not yet been
ported over to the driver model from proc, that will come later.

This work was based on work by Yani Ioannou.  I basically rewrote it using
that code as a guide, but he still deserves credit :).

[bunk@stusta.de: make ipmi_find_bmc_guid() static]
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard 
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds