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Linus Torvalds
460fbf82c0 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (35 commits)
  [IPV6]: Deinline few large functions in inet6 code
  [IPV4] ip_fragment: Always compute hash with ipfrag_lock held.
  [NETFILTER]: Fix DNAT in LOCAL_OUT
  [X25]: Restore skb->dev setting in x25_type_trans().
  [NET]: Fix hotplug race during device registration.
  [IPV6]: Unexport secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral
  [NETFILTER]: Fix build with CONFIG_NETFILTER=y/m on IA64
  [NET]: More kzalloc conversions.
  [NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev
  [PKT_SCHED] act_police: Rename methods.
  [TG3]: Speed up SRAM access (2nd version)
  [TG3]: Kill some less useful flags
  [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: remove changelog
  [NETFILTER]: Convert conntrack/ipt_REJECT to new checksumming functions
  [NETFILTER]: Add address family specific checksum helpers
  [NETFILTER]: Introduce infrastructure for address family specific operations
  [NETFILTER]: Fix IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK dependency
  [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: add parameter 'default_rrq_ttl'
  [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: make get_h245_addr() static
  [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: change EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
  ...
2006-04-10 08:46:00 -07:00
David S. Miller
68491d5892 [SPARC64]: Set ARCH_SELECT_MEMORY_MODEL
Otherwise the build breaks with EXPERIMENTAL disabled
because SPARSEMEM will not get selected properly.  See
mm/Kconfig for how that works.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:45 -07:00
David S. Miller
aa1d1a0af6 [SPARC64]: smp_call_function() fixups...
1) Take doc-book function comment from i386 implementation.
2) cacheline align call_lock, taken from powerpc
3) Need memory barrier after setting call_data
4) Remove timeout

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:44 -07:00
David S. Miller
731bbe431f [SPARC64]: Translate PTRACE_GETEVENTMSG for 32-bit tasks.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:41 -07:00
David S. Miller
1608a96e79 [SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:39 -07:00
David S. Miller
955c054f79 [SPARC64]: Print out return PC in cheetah_log_errors().
This makes debugging things a little bit easier.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:37 -07:00
David S. Miller
1759e58ed2 [SPARC64]: Add dummy PTRACE_PEEKUSR for gdb.
GDB uses a PTRACE_PEEKUSR call with offset 0 to see
if a thread is alive, so provide a success return for
this particular special case.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:56:35 -07:00
Denis Vlasenko
b1a7ffcb7a [IPV6]: Deinline few large functions in inet6 code
Deinline a few functions which produce 200+ bytes of code.

Size  Uses Wasted Name and definition
===== ==== ====== ================================================
  429    3    818 __inet6_lookup        include/net/inet6_hashtables.h
  404    2    384 __inet6_lookup_established    include/net/inet6_hashtables.h
  206    3    372 __inet6_hash  include/net/inet6_hashtables.h

Signed-off-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:48:59 -07:00
David S. Miller
55c0022e53 [IPV4] ip_fragment: Always compute hash with ipfrag_lock held.
Otherwise we could compute an inaccurate hash due to the
random seed changing.

Noticed by Zach Brown and patch is based upon some feedback
from Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:43:55 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
19910d1aec [NETFILTER]: Fix DNAT in LOCAL_OUT
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:38:29 -07:00
David S. Miller
9b591cbd4e [X25]: Restore skb->dev setting in x25_type_trans().
Noticed by Pascal Schlafer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:37:18 -07:00
Sergey Vlasov
9469d458b9 [NET]: Fix hotplug race during device registration.
From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>

On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 21:56:59 +0400,
Sergey Vlasov <vsu@altlinux.ru> wrote:

> However, show_address() does not output anything unless
> dev->reg_state == NETREG_REGISTERED - and this state is set by
> netdev_run_todo() only after netdev_register_sysfs() returns, so in
> the meantime (while netdev_register_sysfs() is busy adding the
> "statistics" attribute group) some process may see an empty "address"
> attribute.

I've tried the attached patch, suggested by Sergey Vlasov on
hotplug-devel@, and as far as i can test it works just fine.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:32:48 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
30aaa154fc [IPV6]: Unexport secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral
This patch removes the unused EXPORT_SYMBOL(secure_ipv6_port_ephemeral).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:29:17 -07:00
Brian Haley
503e4faad1 [NETFILTER]: Fix build with CONFIG_NETFILTER=y/m on IA64
Can't build with CONFIG_NETFILTER=y/m on IA64, there's a missing
#include in net/ipv6/netfilter.c

net/ipv6/netfilter.c: In function `nf_ip6_checksum':
net/ipv6/netfilter.c:92: warning: implicit declaration of function
`csum_ipv6_magic'

Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:49 -07:00
Andrew Morton
77d04bd957 [NET]: More kzalloc conversions.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:48 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
31380de95c [NET] kzalloc: use in alloc_netdev
Noticed this use, fixed it.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:47 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
83b950c89c [PKT_SCHED] act_police: Rename methods.
Rename policer specific _generic_ methods to be specific to
_act_police_

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:46 -07:00
Michael Chan
bbadf503d7 [TG3]: Speed up SRAM access (2nd version)
Speed up SRAM read and write functions if possible by using MMIO
instead of config. cycles. With this change, the post reset signature
done at the end of D3 power change must now be moved before the D3
power change.

IBM reported a problem on powerpc blades during ethtool self test that
was caused by the memory test taking excessively long. Config.  cycles
are very slow on powerpc and the memory test can take more than 10
seconds to complete using config. cycles.

David Miller informed me that an earlier version of the patch caused
problems on sparc64 systems with built-in tg3 chips. This version
fixes the problem by excluding all SUN built-in tg3 chips from doing
MMIO SRAM access.

TG3_FLAG_EEPROM_WRITE_PROT is also set unconditionally when
TG3_FLG2_SUN_570X is set. This should be sane as all SUN chips are
built-in and do not require Vaux switching.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:46 -07:00
Michael Chan
d2d746f83b [TG3]: Kill some less useful flags
Kill the TG3_FLAG_NO_{TX|RX}_PSEUDO_CSUM flags because they are not
very useful. This will free up some bits for new flags.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:44 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
7a43c99551 [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: remove changelog
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:43 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
96f6bf82ea [NETFILTER]: Convert conntrack/ipt_REJECT to new checksumming functions
Besides removing lots of duplicate code, all converted users benefit
from improved HW checksum error handling. Tested with and without HW
checksums in almost all combinations.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:42 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
422c346fad [NETFILTER]: Add address family specific checksum helpers
Add checksum operation which takes care of verifying the checksum and
dealing with HW checksum errors and avoids multiple checksum
operations by setting ip_summed to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY after
successful verification.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:41 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
bce8032ef3 [NETFILTER]: Introduce infrastructure for address family specific operations
Change the queue rerouter intrastructure to a generic usable
infrastructure for address family specific operations as a base for
some cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:40 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
a0aed49bdb [NETFILTER]: Fix IP_NF_CONNTRACK_NETLINK dependency
When NAT is built as a module, ip_conntrack_netlink can not be linked
statically.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:39 -07:00
Jing Min Zhao
a0b7db5e86 [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: add parameter 'default_rrq_ttl'
default_rrq_ttl is used when no TTL is included in the RRQ.

Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:38 -07:00
Jing Min Zhao
51d42f5e4e [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: make get_h245_addr() static
Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:37 -07:00
Jing Min Zhao
0f249685fd [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: change EXPORT_SYMBOL to EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL
Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:36 -07:00
Jing Min Zhao
48bfee5fad [NETFILTER]: H.323 helper: move some function prototypes to ip_conntrack_h323.h
Move prototypes of NAT callbacks to ip_conntrack_h323.h. Because the
use of typedefs as arguments, some header files need to be moved as
well.

Signed-off-by: Jing Min Zhao <zhaojingmin@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:35 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
32292a7ff1 [NETFILTER]: Fix section mismatch warnings
Fix section mismatch warnings caused by netfilter's init_or_cleanup
functions used in many places by splitting the init from the cleanup
parts.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:34 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
964ddaa10d [NETFILTER]: Clean up hook registration
Clean up hook registration by makeing use of the new mass registration and
unregistration helpers.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:33 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
972d1cb142 [NETFILTER]: Add helper functions for mass hook registration/unregistration
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:32 -07:00
Samuel Ortiz
137dc0233f [IRDA]: Support for Sigmatel STIR421x chip
This patch enables support for the Sigmatel's STIR421x IrDA chip.
Once patched with Sigmatel's firmware, this chip "almost" follows the
USB-IrDA spec. Thus this patch is against irda-usb.[ch].

The code has been tested by Nick Fedchik on an STIR4210 chipset based
dongle.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:31 -07:00
Linus Walleij
c1e14a6ea2 [IRDA]: smcinit merged into smsc-ircc driver
This patch integrates the smcinit code into the smsc-ircc driver.
Some laptops have their smsc-ircc chip not properly configured by the
BIOS and needs some preconfiguration. Currently, this can be done from
userspace with smcinit, a utility that comes with the irda-utils
package. It messes with ioports and PCI settings, from userspace.  Now
with this patch, if we happen to be on one of the known to be faulty
laptops, we preconfigure the chip from the driver.

Patch from Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Ortiz <samuel.ortiz@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:30 -07:00
Herbert Xu
45af08be6d [INET]: Use port unreachable instead of proto for tunnels
This patch changes GRE and SIT to generate port unreachable instead of
protocol unreachable errors when we can't find a matching tunnel for a
packet.

This removes the ambiguity as to whether the error is caused by no
tunnel being found or by the lack of support for the given tunnel
type.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:29 -07:00
Eric Sesterhenn
cdee5751bf [BLUETOOTH] sco: Possible double free.
this fixes coverity bug id #1068.
hci_send_sco() frees skb if (skb->len > hdev->sco_mtu).
Since it returns a negative error value only in this case, we
can directly return here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:29 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
ad96b485b4 [TG3]: Fix a memory leak.
This patch fixes a memory leak (buf wasn't freed) spotted by the
Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
e3a5cd9edf [NET]: Fix an off-by-21-or-49 error.
This patch fixes an off-by-21-or-49 error ;-) spotted by the Coverity
checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:26 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
d938ab44c0 [NET] netconsole: set .name in struct console
Set .name in netconsole's struct console to identify the
struct's owner.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:25 -07:00
Herbert Xu
50fba2aa7c [INET]: Move no-tunnel ICMP error to tunnel4/tunnel6
This patch moves the sending of ICMP messages when there are no IPv4/IPv6
tunnels present to tunnel4/tunnel6 respectively.  Please note that for now
if xfrm4_tunnel/xfrm6_tunnel is loaded then no ICMP messages will ever be
sent.  This is similar to how we handle AH/ESP/IPCOMP.

This move fixes the bug where we always send an ICMP message when there is
no ip6_tunnel device present for a given packet even if it is later handled
by IPsec.  It also causes ICMP messages to be sent when no IPIP tunnel is
present.

I've decided to use the "port unreachable" ICMP message over the current
value of "address unreachable" (and "protocol unreachable" by GRE) because
it is not ambiguous unlike the other ones which can be triggered by other
conditions.  There seems to be no standard specifying what value must be
used so this change should be OK.  In fact we should change GRE to use
this value as well.

Incidentally, this patch also fixes a fairly serious bug in xfrm6_tunnel
where we don't check whether the embedded IPv6 header is present before
dereferencing it for the inside source address.

This patch is inspired by a previous patch by Hugo Santos <hsantos@av.it.pt>.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:25 -07:00
Patrick McHardy
2e2f7aefa8 [NETFILTER]: Fix fragmentation issues with bridge netfilter
The conntrack code doesn't do re-fragmentation of defragmented packets
anymore but relies on fragmentation in the IP layer. Purely bridged
packets don't pass through the IP layer, so the bridge netfilter code
needs to take care of fragmentation itself.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:23 -07:00
Robert Olsson
550e29bc96 [FIB_TRIE]: Fix leaf freeing.
Seems like leaf (end-nodes) has been freed by __tnode_free_rcu and not
by __leaf_free_rcu. This fixes the problem. Only tnode_free is now
used which checks for appropriate node type. free_leaf can be removed.

Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@its.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:23 -07:00
Herbert Xu
8bf4b8a108 [IPSEC]: Check x->encap before dereferencing it
We need to dereference x->encap before dereferencing it for encap_type.
If it's absent then the encap_type is zero.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-09 22:25:22 -07:00
Dave Jones
6764472631 [SELINUX] Fix build after ipsec decap state changes.
security/selinux/xfrm.c: In function 'selinux_socket_getpeer_dgram':
    security/selinux/xfrm.c:284: error: 'struct sec_path' has no member named 'x'
    security/selinux/xfrm.c: In function 'selinux_xfrm_sock_rcv_skb':
    security/selinux/xfrm.c:317: error: 'struct sec_path' has no member named 'x'

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 12:35:53 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
66004a6ca2 Move request_standard_resources() back to before PCI probing
This effectively undoes the PCI resource allocation changes done in
commit b408cbc704, but leaves the cleanups
of that commit in place.

We're going back to marking the resources reported by e820 busy _before_
doing PCI probing, so that any PCI resource that clashes with the BIOS-
reported memory map will be reloacted to a non-clashing area.

The reason? Larry Finger reports that his laptop has the cardbus
controller set up by the BIOS so that it conflicts with the e820 memory
map, and needs to be relocated. See

   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6337

for more details.

We'll have to work out how to handle the fbcon problem that caused that
commit in the first place in some other way.

Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: <bjk@luxsci.net>
Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 12:14:02 -07:00
Andi Kleen
b8feb47f99 [PATCH] x86_64: Update 32-bit system call table
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00
Andi Kleen
67d53ea5a3 [PATCH] x86_64: Eliminate IA32_NR_syscalls define
Or rather compute it based on the table length automatically.

This also has the intended side effect of not warning for new system calls
anymore.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
bbd3aff89d [PATCH] x86_64: fix CONFIG_REORDER
Fix CONFIG_REORDER.

The value of cflags-y was assined to CFLAGS before cflags-y was assigned
the value used for CONFIG_REORDER.

Use cflags-y for all CFLAGS options in the Makefile to avoid this
happening again.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00
John Blackwood
97c2803c9c [PATCH] x86_64: Plug GS leak in arch_prctl()
In linux-2.6.16, we have noticed a problem where the gs base value
returned from an arch_prtcl(ARCH_GET_GS, ...) call will be incorrect if:

   - the current/calling task has NOT set its own gs base yet to a
     non-zero value,

   - some other task that ran on the same processor previously set their
     own gs base to a non-zero value.

In this situation, the ARCH_GET_GS code will read and return the
MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE msr register.

However, since the __switch_to() code does NOT load/zero the
MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE register when the task that is switched IN has a zero
next->gs value, the caller of arch_prctl(ARCH_GET_GS, ...) will get back
the value of some previous tasks's gs base value instead of 0.

    Change the arch_prctl() ARCH_GET_GS code to only read and return
    the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE msr register if the 'gs' register of the calling
    task is non-zero.

    Side note: Since in addition to using arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_GS, ...),
    a task can also setup a gs base value by using modify_ldt() and write
    an index value into 'gs' from user space, the patch below reads
    'gs' instead of using thread.gs, since in the modify_ldt() case,
    the thread.gs value will be 0, and incorrect value would be returned
    (the task->thread.gs value).

    When the user has not set its own gs base value and the 'gs'
    register is zero, then the MSR_KERNEL_GS_BASE register will not be
    read and a value of zero will be returned by reading and returning
    'task->thread.gs'.

    The first patch shown below is an attempt at implementing this
    approach.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00
Andi Kleen
e48c4729d2 [PATCH] i386: Remove printk about reboot fixups at reboot
Printk doesn't have any value

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00
Jordan Hargrave
b20367a6c2 [PATCH] x86_64: Fix drift with HPET timer enabled
If the HPET timer is enabled, the clock can drift by ~3 seconds a day.
This is due to the HPET timer not being initialized with the correct
setting (still using PIT count).

If HZ changes, this drift can become even more pronounced.

HPET patch initializes tick_nsec with correct tick_nsec settings for
HPET timer.

Vojtech comments:

  "It's not entirely correct (it assumes the HPET ticks totally
   exactly), but it's significantly better than assuming the PIT error
   there."

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-09 11:53:53 -07:00