The hwcontrol function enforced a step by step state machine
for any kind of hardware chip access. Let the hardware driver
know which control bits are set and inform it about a change
of the control lines. Let the hardware driver write out the
command and address bytes directly. This gives a peformance
advantage for address bus controlled chips and simplifies the
quirks in the hardware drivers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
MTD clients are agnostic of FLASH which needs ECC suppport.
Remove the functions and fixup the callers.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
First step of modularizing ECC support.
- Move ECC related functionality into a seperate embedded data structure
- Get rid of the hardware dependend constants to simplify new ECC models
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The NAND driver used a mix of unsigned char, u_char amd uint8_t
data types. Consolidate to uint8_t usage
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Replace the chip lock by a the controller lock. For simple drivers a
dummy controller structure is created by the scan code.
This simplifies the locking algorithm in nand_get/release_chip().
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
At least two flashes exists that have the concept of a minimum write unit,
similar to NAND pages, but no other NAND characteristics. Therefore, rename
the minimum write unit to "writesize" for all flashes, including NAND.
Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
Device node major/minor numbers are just stored in the payload of a single
data node. Just extend that to 4 bytes and use new_encode_dev() for it.
We only use the 4-byte format if we _need_ to, if !old_valid_dev(foo).
This preserves backwards compatibility with older code as much as
possible. If we do make devices with major or minor numbers above 255, and
then mount the file system with the old code, it'll just read the first
two bytes and get the numbers wrong. If it comes to garbage-collect it,
it'll then write back those wrong numbers. But that's about the best we
can expect.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
We have to pack at least the jint16_t structure, because otherwise it'll
be four bytes in size. Thankfully, we can do that and _not_ pack the
actual node structures, and the compiler still doesn't emit stupid code.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
can_share_swap_page() is used to check if the page has the last reference.
This avoids allocating a new page for COW if it's the last page.
However, if CONFIG_SWAP is not set, can_share_swap_page() is defined as 0,
thus always causes a copy for the last COW page. The below simple patch
fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
slab_is_available() indicates slab based allocators are available for use.
SPARSEMEM code needs to know this as it can be called at various times
during the boot process.
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz <kravetz@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Even since a previous patch:
Fix race between CONFIG_DEBUG_SLABALLOC and modules
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 17:55:19 +0000 (17:55 +0000)
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=92b3db26d31cf21b70e3c1eadc56c179506d8fbe
The function symbol_put_addr() will deadlock the kernel.
symbol_put_addr() would acquire modlist_lock, then while holding the lock call
two functions kernel_text_address() and module_text_address() which also try
to acquire the same lock. This deadlocks the kernel of course.
This patch changes symbol_put_addr() to not acquire the modlist_lock, it
doesn't need it since it never looks at the module list directly. Also, it
now uses core_kernel_text() instead of kernel_text_address(). The latter has
an additional check for addr inside a module, but we don't need to do that
since we call module_text_address() (the same function kernel_text_address
uses) ourselves.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Cc: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@fsmlabs.com>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface. This can be used to tell if there
will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer.
This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu
would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called
on a different cpu.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If we use __attribute__((packed)), GCC will _also_ assume that the
structures aren't sensibly aligned, and it'll emit code to cope with
that instead of straight word load/save. This can be _very_ suboptimal
on architectures like ARM.
Ideally, we want an attribute which just tells GCC not to do any
padding, without the alignment side-effects. In the absense of that,
we'll just drop the 'packed' attribute and hope that everything stays as
it was (which to be fair is fairly much what we expect). And add some
paranoia checks in the initialisation code, which should be optimised
away completely in the normal case.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
This attached patches provide xattr support including POSIX-ACL and
SELinux support on JFFS2 (version.5).
There are some significant differences from previous version posted
at last December.
The biggest change is addition of EBS(Erase Block Summary) support.
Currently, both kernel and usermode utility (sumtool) can recognize
xattr nodes which have JFFS2_NODETYPE_XATTR/_XREF nodetype.
In addition, some bugs are fixed.
- A potential race condition was fixed.
- Unexpected fail when updating a xattr by same name/value pair was fixed.
- A bug when removing xattr name/value pair was fixed.
The fundamental structures (such as using two new nodetypes and exclusion
mechanism by rwsem) are unchanged. But most of implementation were reviewed
and updated if necessary.
Espacially, we had to change several internal implementations related to
load_xattr_datum() to avoid a potential race condition.
[1/2] xattr_on_jffs2.kernel.version-5.patch
[2/2] xattr_on_jffs2.utils.version-5.patch
Signed-off-by: KaiGai Kohei <kaigai@ak.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
One Block of the NAND Flash Array memory is reserved as
a One-Time Programmable Block memory area.
Also, 1st Block of NAND Flash Array can be used as OTP.
The OTP block can be read, programmed and locked using the same
operations as any other NAND Flash Array memory block.
OTP block cannot be erased.
OTP block is fully-guaranteed to be a valid block.
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial:
[SERIAL] 8250: add locking to console write function
[SERIAL] Remove unconditional enable of TX irq for console
[SERIAL] 8250: set divisor register correctly for AMD Alchemy SoC uart
[SERIAL] AMD Alchemy UART: claim memory range
[SERIAL] Clean up serial locking when obtaining a reference to a port
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
[NET_SCHED]: HFSC: fix thinko in hfsc_adjust_levels()
[IPV6]: skb leakage in inet6_csk_xmit
[BRIDGE]: Do sysfs registration inside rtnl.
[NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice.
[TG3]: Fix possible NULL deref in tg3_run_loopback().
[NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around
[IRDA]: Switching to a workqueue for the SIR work
[IRDA]: smsc-ircc: Minimal hotplug support.
[IRDA]: Removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs
[IRDA]: New maintainer.
[NET]: Make netdev_chain a raw notifier.
[IPV4]: ip_options_fragment() has no effect on fragmentation
[NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.
The last step of netdevice registration was being done by a delayed
call, but because it was delayed, it was impossible to return any error
code if the class_device registration failed.
Side effects:
* one state in registration process is unnecessary.
* register_netdevice can sleep inside class_device registration/hotplug
* code in netdev_run_todo only does unregistration so it is simpler.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This is a backout of earlier patch.
The whole rescheduling hack was a bad idea. It doesn't really solve
the problem and it makes the code more complicated for no good reason.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
After dwmw2 let me know it ought to be done, I rewrote the physmap map
driver to be a platform driver. I know zilch about the driver model,
so I probably botched it in some way, but I've done some tests on an
ixp23xx board which uses physmap, and it all seems to work.
In order to not break existing physmap users, I've added some compat
code that will instantiate a platform device iff CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_LEN
is defined and != 0. Also, I've changed the default value for
CONFIG_MTD_PHYSMAP_LEN to zero, so that people who inadvertently
compile in physmap (or new, platform-style, users of physmap) don't get
burned.
This works pretty well -- the new physmap driver is a drop-in replacement
for the old one, and works on said ixp23xx board without any code changes
needed. (This should hold as long as users don't touch 'physmap_map'
directly.)
Once all physmap users have been converted to instantiate their own
platform devices, the compat code can go. (Or we decide that we can
change all the in-tree users at the same time, and never merge the
compat code.)
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Atomically create attributes when class device is added. This avoids
the race between registering class_device (which generates hotplug
event), and the creation of attribute groups.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Extend the support of attribute groups in class_device's to allow
groups to be created as part of the registration process. This allows
network device's to avoid race between registration and creating
groups.
Note that unlike attributes that are a property of the class object,
the groups are a property of the class_device object. This is done
because there are different types of network devices (wireless for
example).
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc:
[PATCH] powerpc: Use the ibm,pa-features property if available
powerpc: Fix incorrect might_sleep in __get_user/__put_user on kernel addresses
[PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: fixes and improvements
[PATCH] ppc32 CPM_UART: Fixed break send on SCC
[PATCH] powerpc/kprobes: fix singlestep out-of-line
[PATCH] powerpc/pseries: avoid crash in PCI code if mem system not up
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>
Nick says that the current construct isn't safe. This goes back to the
original, but sets PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU on user pages as well as they all
seem to be on the LRU in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
A number of small issues are fixed, and added the header file, missed from the
original series. With this, driver should be pretty stable as tested among
both platform-device-driven and "old way" boards. Also added missing GPL
statement , and updated year field on existing ones to reflect
code update.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
The CSD contains a "read2write factor" which determines the multiplier to
be applied to the read timeout to obtain the write timeout. We were
ignoring this parameter, resulting in the possibility for writes being
timed out too early.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Currently we rely on the PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU flag being set correctly
to know whether we need to fiddle with page LRU state after stealing it,
however for some origins we just don't know if the page is on the LRU
list or not.
So remove PIPE_BUF_FLAG_LRU and do this check/add manually in pipe_to_file()
instead.
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
[PATCH] Audit Filter Performance
[PATCH] Rework of IPC auditing
[PATCH] More user space subject labels
[PATCH] Reworked patch for labels on user space messages
[PATCH] change lspp ipc auditing
[PATCH] audit inode patch
[PATCH] support for context based audit filtering, part 2
[PATCH] support for context based audit filtering
[PATCH] no need to wank with task_lock() and pinning task down in audit_syscall_exit()
[PATCH] drop task argument of audit_syscall_{entry,exit}
[PATCH] drop gfp_mask in audit_log_exit()
[PATCH] move call of audit_free() into do_exit()
[PATCH] sockaddr patch
[PATCH] deal with deadlocks in audit_free()
