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Author SHA1 Message Date
Tony Luck
5833f1420b Pull new-efi-memmap into release branch 2005-10-28 14:32:30 -07:00
Tony Luck
dbcb25e621 Pull move-iosapic-to-acpi into release branch 2005-10-28 13:22:55 -07:00
Tony Luck
0ace57a96b Pull ar-k0-usage into release branch 2005-10-28 11:16:32 -07:00
Bryan Sutula
76e677e25d [IA64] Avoid kernel hang during CMC interrupt storm
I've noticed a kernel hang during a storm of CMC interrupts, which was
tracked down to the continual execution of the interrupt handler.

There's code in the CMC handler that's supposed to disable CMC
interrupts and switch to polling mode when it sees a bunch of CMCs.
Because disabling CMCs across all CPUs isn't safe in interrupt context,
the disable is done with a schedule_work().  But with continual CMC
interrupts, the schedule_work() never gets executed.

The following patch immediately disables CMC interrupts for the current
CPU.  This then allows (at least) one CPU to ignore CMC interrupts,
execute the schedule_work() code, and disable CMC interrupts on the rest
of the CPUs.

Acked-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Sutula <Bryan.Sutula@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-06 15:04:11 -07:00
Tony Luck
d719948e62 [IA64] end of kernel 'data' is at _end, not _edata
/proc/iomem describes a block of memory as "Kernel data",
but the end address is derived from "_edata".  The kernel
actually has many other sections beyond _edata.  Get the
real end address from _end.

Acked-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-28 16:09:46 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
4881e2cd25 [IA64] MCA recovery verify pfn_valid
Verify the pfn is valid before calling pfn_to_page(),
and cut isolation message if nothing was done.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-22 13:27:59 -07:00
Keith Owens
20bb86852a [IA64] Wire in the MCA/INIT handler stacks
Wire the MCA/INIT handler stacks into DTR[2] and track them in
IA64_KR(CURRENT_STACK).  This gives the MCA/INIT handler stacks the
same TLB status as normal kernel stacks.  Reload the old CURRENT_STACK
data on return from OS to SAL.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-22 13:24:19 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
650316f122 [IA64] move ACPI IOSAPIC locality domain mapping from pci.c to acpi.c
Move acpi_map_iosapics() from pci.c to acpi.c, since it doesn't
have anything to do with PCI.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:57:48 -07:00
Bjorn Helgaas
44c451208d [IA64] ia64: add ar.k0 usage note
Update comment about how ar.k0 is used.  Make the initialization the
same as in start_secondary() (no functional change, just make it look
more similar).

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:55:48 -07:00
Khalid Aziz
be379124c0 [IA64] include EFI memory information in /proc/iomem
User mode kexec tools expect to find information about physical
memory in /proc/iomem (as they do on x86) to validate the addresses
that the new kernel will use.

Signed-off-by: Khalid Aziz <khalid.aziz@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-19 15:42:36 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
4fb3a53860 [PATCH] files: fix preemption issues
With the new fdtable locking rules, you have to protect fdtable with either
->file_lock or rcu_read_lock/unlock().  There are some places where we
aren't doing either.  This patch fixes those places.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Hidetoshi Seto
20305e5972 [IA64] mca_drv cleanup
There were some trailing white spaces, long lines, brackets in
weird style etc.  This patch cleans them up.

Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 10:39:40 -07:00
Peter Chubb
24b8e0cc09 [IA64] Remove warnings for gcc 4.0 IA64 compilation.
This patch removes some compilation warnings, mostly
trivially. acpi.c fix also noted by Kenji Kaneshige.

Signed-off-by; Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 09:45:27 -07:00
Tony Luck
82f1b07b9a [IA64] fix circular dependency on generation of asm-offsets.h
Fix?  One ugly hack is replaced by a different ugly hack.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-13 08:50:39 -07:00
Tony Luck
c85b2a5fe2 Pull sim-fixes into release branch 2005-09-11 14:27:15 -07:00
Keith Owens
49a28cc8fd [IA64] MCA/INIT: remove obsolete unwind code
Delete the special case unwind code that was only used by the old
MCA/INIT handler.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:09:34 -07:00
Keith Owens
05f335ea04 [IA64] MCA/INIT: remove the physical mode path from minstate.h
Remove the physical mode path from minstate.h.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:09:12 -07:00
Keith Owens
7f613c7d22 [PATCH] MCA/INIT: use per cpu stacks
The bulk of the change.  Use per cpu MCA/INIT stacks.  Change the SAL
to OS state (sos) to be per process.  Do all the assembler work on the
MCA/INIT stacks, leaving the original stack alone.  Pass per cpu state
data to the C handlers for MCA and INIT, which also means changing the
mca_drv interfaces slightly.  Lots of verification on whether the
original stack is usable before converting it to a sleeping process.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:08:41 -07:00
Keith Owens
289d773ee8 [IA64] MCA/INIT: avoid reading INIT record during INIT event
Reading the INIT record from SAL during the INIT event has proved to be
unreliable, and a source of hangs during INIT processing.  The new
MCA/INIT handlers remove the need to get the INIT record from SAL.
Change salinfo.c so mca.c can just flag that a new record is available,
without having to read the record during INIT processing.  This patch
can be applied without the new MCA/INIT handlers.

Also clean up some usage of NR_CPUS which should have been using
cpu_online().

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-11 14:02:43 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
fb1c8f93d8 [PATCH] spinlock consolidation
This patch (written by me and also containing many suggestions of Arjan van
de Ven) does a major cleanup of the spinlock code.  It does the following
things:

 - consolidates and enhances the spinlock/rwlock debugging code

 - simplifies the asm/spinlock.h files

 - encapsulates the raw spinlock type and moves generic spinlock
   features (such as ->break_lock) into the generic code.

 - cleans up the spinlock code hierarchy to get rid of the spaghetti.

Most notably there's now only a single variant of the debugging code,
located in lib/spinlock_debug.c.  (previously we had one SMP debugging
variant per architecture, plus a separate generic one for UP builds)

Also, i've enhanced the rwlock debugging facility, it will now track
write-owners.  There is new spinlock-owner/CPU-tracking on SMP builds too.
All locks have lockup detection now, which will work for both soft and hard
spin/rwlock lockups.

The arch-level include files now only contain the minimally necessary
subset of the spinlock code - all the rest that can be generalized now
lives in the generic headers:

 include/asm-i386/spinlock_types.h       |   16
 include/asm-x86_64/spinlock_types.h     |   16

I have also split up the various spinlock variants into separate files,
making it easier to see which does what. The new layout is:

   SMP                         |  UP
   ----------------------------|-----------------------------------
   asm/spinlock_types_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_types_up.h
   linux/spinlock_types.h      |  linux/spinlock_types.h
   asm/spinlock_smp.h          |  linux/spinlock_up.h
   linux/spinlock_api_smp.h    |  linux/spinlock_api_up.h
   linux/spinlock.h            |  linux/spinlock.h

/*
 * here's the role of the various spinlock/rwlock related include files:
 *
 * on SMP builds:
 *
 *  asm/spinlock_types.h: contains the raw_spinlock_t/raw_rwlock_t and the
 *                        initializers
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
 *                        defines the generic type and initializers
 *
 *  asm/spinlock.h:       contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. lowlevel
 *                        implementations, mostly inline assembly code
 *
 *   (also included on UP-debug builds:)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:
 *                        contains the prototypes for the _spin_*() APIs.
 *
 *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
 *
 * on UP builds:
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_type_up.h:
 *                        contains the generic, simplified UP spinlock type.
 *                        (which is an empty structure on non-debug builds)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_types.h:
 *                        defines the generic type and initializers
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_up.h:
 *                        contains the __raw_spin_*()/etc. version of UP
 *                        builds. (which are NOPs on non-debug, non-preempt
 *                        builds)
 *
 *   (included on UP-non-debug builds:)
 *
 *  linux/spinlock_api_up.h:
 *                        builds the _spin_*() APIs.
 *
 *  linux/spinlock.h:     builds the final spin_*() APIs.
 */

All SMP and UP architectures are converted by this patch.

arm, i386, ia64, ppc, ppc64, s390/s390x, x64 was build-tested via
crosscompilers.  m32r, mips, sh, sparc, have not been tested yet, but should
be mostly fine.

From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>

  Booted and lightly tested on a500-44 (64-bit, SMP kernel, dual CPU).
  Builds 32-bit SMP kernel (not booted or tested).  I did not try to build
  non-SMP kernels.  That should be trivial to fix up later if necessary.

  I converted bit ops atomic_hash lock to raw_spinlock_t.  Doing so avoids
  some ugly nesting of linux/*.h and asm/*.h files.  Those particular locks
  are well tested and contained entirely inside arch specific code.  I do NOT
  expect any new issues to arise with them.

 If someone does ever need to use debug/metrics with them, then they will
  need to unravel this hairball between spinlocks, atomic ops, and bit ops
  that exist only because parisc has exactly one atomic instruction: LDCW
  (load and clear word).

From: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>

   ia64 fix

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>
Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
486a153f0e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild 2005-09-09 15:46:49 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
a9f6a0dd54 [PATCH] more SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED -> DEFINE_SPINLOCK conversions
This converts the final 20 DEFINE_SPINLOCK holdouts.  (another 580 places
are already using DEFINE_SPINLOCK).  Build tested on x86.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:48 -07:00
Dipankar Sarma
badf16621c [PATCH] files: break up files struct
In order for the RCU to work, the file table array, sets and their sizes must
be updated atomically.  Instead of ensuring this through too many memory
barriers, we put the arrays and their sizes in a separate structure.  This
patch takes the first step of putting the file table elements in a separate
structure fdtable that is embedded withing files_struct.  It also changes all
the users to refer to the file table using files_fdtable() macro.  Subsequent
applciation of RCU becomes easier after this.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:55 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W
383f2835eb [PATCH] Prefetch kernel stacks to speed up context switch
For architecture like ia64, the switch stack structure is fairly large
(currently 528 bytes).  For context switch intensive application, we found
that significant amount of cache misses occurs in switch_to() function.
The following patch adds a hook in the schedule() function to prefetch
switch stack structure as soon as 'next' task is determined.  This allows
maximum overlap in prefetch cache lines for that structure.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 13:57:31 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
39e01cb874 kbuild: ia64 use generic asm-offsets.h support
Delete obsolete stuff from arch Makefile
Rename file to asm-offsets.h
The trick used in the arch Makefile to circumvent the circular
dependency is kept.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-09 22:03:13 +02:00
Tony Luck
344a076110 [IA64] Manual merge fix for 3 files
arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
	include/asm-ia64/irq.h

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-08 14:27:13 -07:00
Tony Luck
d8c97d5f3a [IA64] simplified efi memory map parsing
New version leaves the original memory map unmodified.
Also saves any granule trimmings for use by the uncached
memory allocator.

Inspired by Khalid Aziz (various traces of his patch still
remain).  Fixes to uncached_build_memmap() and sn2 testing
by Martin Hicks.

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-08 12:39:59 -07:00
Len Brown
64e47488c9 Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6 2005-09-08 01:45:47 -04:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
deac66ae45 [PATCH] kprobes: fix bug when probed on task and isr functions
This patch fixes a race condition where in system used to hang or sometime
crash within minutes when kprobes are inserted on ISR routine and a task
routine.

The fix has been stress tested on i386, ia64, pp64 and on x86_64.  To
reproduce the problem insert kprobes on schedule() and do_IRQ() functions
and you should see hang or system crash.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:01 -07:00
Keshavamurthy Anil S
661e5a3d99 [PATCH] Kprobes/IA64: fix race when break hits and kprobe not found
This patch addresses a potential race condition for a case where Kprobe has
been removed right after another CPU has taken a break hit.

The way this is addressed here is when the CPU that has taken a break hit
does not find its corresponding kprobe, then we check to see if the
original instruction got replaced with other than break.  If it got
replaced with other than break instruction, then we continue to execute
from the replaced instruction, else if we find that it is still a break,
then we let the kernel handle this, as this might be the break instruction
inserted by other than kprobe(may be kernel debugger).

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
1f7ad57b75 [PATCH] Kprobes: prevent possible race conditions ia64 changes
This patch contains the ia64 architecture specific changes to prevent the
possible race conditions.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:58:00 -07:00
John Hawkes
9c1cfda20a [PATCH] cpusets: Move the ia64 domain setup code to the generic code
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:40 -07:00
John Hawkes
f68f447e83 [PATCH] ia64 cpuset + build_sched_domains() mangles structures
I've already sent this to the maintainers, and this is now being sent to a
larger community audience.  I have fixed a problem with the ia64 version of
build_sched_domains(), but a similar fix still needs to be made to the
generic build_sched_domains() in kernel/sched.c.

The "dynamic sched domains" functionality has recently been merged into
2.6.13-rcN that sees the dynamic declaration of a cpu-exclusive (a.k.a.
"isolated") cpuset and rebuilds the CPU Scheduler sched domains and sched
groups to separate away the CPUs in this cpu-exclusive cpuset from the
remainder of the non-isolated CPUs.  This allows the non-isolated CPUs to
completely ignore the isolated CPUs when doing load-balancing.

Unfortunately, build_sched_domains() expects that a sched domain will
include all the CPUs of each node in the domain, i.e., that no node will
belong in both an isolated cpuset and a non-isolated cpuset.  Declaring a
cpuset that violates this presumption will produce flawed data structures
and will oops the kernel.

To trigger the problem (on a NUMA system with >1 CPUs per node):
   cd /dev/cpuset
   mkdir newcpuset
   cd newcpuset
   echo 0 >cpus
   echo 0 >mems
   echo 1 >cpu_exclusive

I have fixed this shortcoming for ia64 NUMA (with multiple CPUs per node).
A similar shortcoming exists in the generic build_sched_domains() (in
kernel/sched.c) for NUMA, and that needs to be fixed also.  The fix
involves dynamically allocating sched_group_nodes[] and
sched_group_allnodes[] for each invocation of build_sched_domains(), rather
than using global arrays for these structures.  Care must be taken to
remember kmalloc() addresses so that arch_destroy_sched_domains() can
properly kfree() the new dynamic structures.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:39 -07:00
Ashok Raj
54d5d42404 [PATCH] x86/x86_64: deferred handling of writes to /proc/irqxx/smp_affinity
When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Kenji Kaneshige
697eaad417 [IA64] Minor cleanups - remove CONFIG_ACPI_DEALLOCATE_IRQ
The config option 'CONFIG_ACPI_DEALLOCATE_IRQ' is no longer
needed. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-07 14:00:08 -07:00
Chen, Kenneth W
0232622324 [IA64] minor performance tune-up in ia64_switch_to
The reenabling of psr.ic should really belong to dtr mapping code block.
It make the fall through code fast since it doesn't need to execute the
predicated-off instruction.  Logically make more sense as well since psr.ic
was turned off in .map code block.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-07 13:56:23 -07:00
Len Brown
129521dcc9 Merge linux-2.6 into linux-acpi-2.6 test 2005-09-03 02:44:09 -04:00
Martin Hicks
a994018a5f [IA64] uncached allocator: use generic (not sn2 specific) functions
Change sn2-specific calls into generic functions.  Without this change
the uncached allocator will not work on non-sn2 platforms.

Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-31 14:18:04 -07:00
Peter Chubb
714d2dc149 [IA64] Allow /proc/pal/cpu0/vm_info under the simulator
Not all of the PAL VM calls are implemented for the SKI simulator.
Don't just give up if one fails, print information from the calls
that succeed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-31 08:34:51 -07:00
Tony Luck
288ceb8f14 Auto-update from upstream 2005-08-30 09:30:09 -07:00
Tony Luck
3290580285 Pull rationalise-regions into release branch 2005-08-29 15:50:32 -07:00
Len Brown
27a639a92d Auto-update from upstream 2005-08-29 17:02:17 -04:00
Steven Rostedt
69be8f1896 [PATCH] convert signal handling of NODEFER to act like other Unix boxes.
It has been reported that the way Linux handles NODEFER for signals is
not consistent with the way other Unix boxes handle it.  I've written a
program to test the behavior of how this flag affects signals and had
several reports from people who ran this on various Unix boxes,
confirming that Linux seems to be unique on the way this is handled.

The way NODEFER affects signals on other Unix boxes is as follows:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals in sa_mask are still blocked.

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal is
still blocked. (Note: this is the behavior of all tested but Linux _and_
NetBSD 2.0 *).

The way NODEFER affects signals on Linux:

1) If NODEFER is set, other signals are _not_ blocked regardless of
sa_mask (Even NetBSD doesn't do this).

2) If NODEFER is set and the signal is in sa_mask, then the signal being
handled is not blocked.

The patch converts signal handling in all current Linux architectures to
the way most Unix boxes work.

Unix boxes that were tested:  DU4, AIX 5.2, Irix 6.5, NetBSD 2.0, SFU
3.5 on WinXP, AIX 5.3, Mac OSX, and of course Linux 2.6.13-rcX.

* NetBSD was the only other Unix to behave like Linux on point #2. The
main concern was brought up by point #1 which even NetBSD isn't like
Linux.  So with this patch, we leave NetBSD as the lonely one that
behaves differently here with #2.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-29 10:03:11 -07:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4db8699bcf [IA64] Add ACPI based P-state support
Patch to support P-state transitions on ia64. This driver is based on ACPI,
and uses the ACPI processor driver interface to find out the P-state support
information for the processor. This driver plugs into generic cpufreq
infrastructure.

Once this driver is loaded successfully, ondemand/userspace governor can be
used to change the CPU frequency dynamically based on load or on request from
userspace process.

Refer :
ACPI specification -
      http://www.acpi.info
P-state related PAL calls -
      http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/24869909.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-26 15:09:24 -07:00
Peter Chubb
0a41e25011 [IA64] Rationalise Region Definitions
Currently, region numbers are defined in several files, with several 
names.  For example, we have REGION_KERNEL in asm/page.h and 
RGN_KERNEL in pgtable.h 
 
We also have address definitions that should depend on the 
RGN_XXX macros, but are currently just long constants. 
 
The following patch reorganises all the definitions so that they have 
the same form (RGN_XXX), are in one place, and that addresses that 
depend on RGN_XXX are derived from them. 

(This is a necessary but not sufficient patch to allow UML-like 
operation on IA64). 

Thanks to David Mosberger for catching the change I missed in mmu_context.h.
 
Signed-off-by: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au> 
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-24 15:35:41 -07:00
Len Brown
888ba6c62b [ACPI] delete CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT
it has been a synonym for CONFIG_ACPI since 2.6.12

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-08-24 12:08:54 -04:00
Len Brown
84ffa74752 Merge from-linus to-akpm 2005-08-23 22:12:23 -04:00
Keith Owens
71841b8fe7 [IA64] Initialize some spinlocks
Some IA64 spinlocks are not being initialized, make it so.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-16 15:33:26 -07:00
Tony Luck
f7001e8f1f Auto-update from upstream 2005-08-16 11:29:57 -07:00
John Hawkes
367ae3cd74 [PATCH] fix for ia64 sched-domains code
Fix for ia64 sched domain building triggered by cpuset code.

Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-08-16 08:54:00 -07:00