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Andi Kleen
3f14c746a6 [PATCH] Remove old "focus disabled" chipset errata workaround
The new systems already use focus disabled and the comment was
completely outdated.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
6c96a29f20 [PATCH] Remove apic mismatch counter
Nobody has been setting the mismatch counter and the ifdef was never
set so remove it.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
7f11d8a5ef [PATCH] Remove all ifdefs for local/io apic
IO-APIC or local APIC can only be disabled at runtime anyways and
Kconfig has forced these options on for a long time now.

The Kconfigs are kept only now for the benefit of the shared acpi
boot.c code.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
5ba5891d44 [PATCH] Add some comments what tce.c actually does
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
cc1e684a9f [PATCH] Remove leftover CVS Id in thunk.S
And move the comment to a proper place.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
ecaf45ee5c [PATCH] i386: Redo semaphore and rwlock assembly helpers
- Move them to a pure assembly file. Previously they were in
a C file that only consisted of inline assembly. Doing it in pure
assembler is much nicer.
- Add a frame.i include with FRAME/ENDFRAME macros to easily
add frame pointers to assembly functions
- Add dwarf2 annotation to them so that the new dwarf2 unwinder
doesn't get stuck on them
- Random cleanups

Includes feedback from Jan Beulich and a UML build fix from Andrew
Morton.

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Cc: jdike@addtoit.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
07c9819b31 [PATCH] i386: add alternative-asm.h to allow LOCK_PREFIX replacement in .S files
LOCK_PREFIX is replaced by nops on UP systems, so it has to be a special
macro.  Previously this was only possible from C. Allow it for pure
assembly files too. Similar to earlier x86-64 patch.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b06babac45 [PATCH] Add proper alignment to ENTRY
Previously it didn't align. Use the same one as the C compiler
in blended mode, which is good for K8 and Core2 and doesn't hurt
on P4.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1a015b5644 [PATCH] i386: Remove const case for rwlocks
rwlocks are now out of line, so it near never triggers.  Also it was
incompatible with the new dwarf2 unwinder because it had unannotiatable
push/pops.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:29 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9a0b26e6bc [PATCH] Clean up read write lock assembly
- Move the slow path fallbacks to their own assembly files
This makes them much easier to read and is needed for the next change.
- Add CFI annotations for unwinding (XXX need review)
- Remove constant case which can never happen with out of line spinlocks
- Use patchable LOCK prefixes
- Don't use lock sections anymore for inline code because they can't
be expressed by the unwinder (this adds one taken jump to the lock
fast path)

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b4062b1609 [PATCH] Support patchable lock prefix for pure assembly files
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
538b5b419c [PATCH] Document backtracer selection options
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
31679f38d8 [PATCH] Simplify profile_pc on x86-64
Use knowledge about EFLAGS layout (bits 22:63 are always 0) to distingush
EFLAGS word and kernel address in the spin lock stack frame.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
0cb91a2293 [PATCH] i386: Account spinlocks to the caller during profiling for !FP kernels
This ports the algorithm from x86-64 (with improvements) to i386.
Previously this only worked for frame pointer enabled kernels.
But spinlocks have a very simple stack frame that can be manually
analyzed. Do this.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
c16b63e09d [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Don't randomize stack top when no randomization personality is set
Based on patch from Frank van Maarseveen <frankvm@frankvm.com>, but
extended.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Adam Henley
d5d9ca6d88 [PATCH] A few trivial spelling and grammar fixes
A few trivial spelling and grammar mistakes picked up in
"arch/x86_64/aperture.c", "arch/x86_64/crash.c" and
"arch/x86_64/apic.c". I think all are correct fixes but am ever aware
of my fallibility :o) This is my first patch submission so all
feedback is appreciated, esp. WRT CCing to Linus, Andi and
trivial@kernel.org, is this correct? And which is the most appropriate
kernel version to diff against? If any.

Should apply cleanly to 2.6.18-rc1

Signed-off-by: Adam Henley <adamazing@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

-  adam
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3034d11c93 [PATCH] Don't print virtual address in HPET initialization
virtual addresses don't belong into kernel logs for non debugging

Cc: clemens@ladisch.de
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Stephane Eranian
d3a4f48d48 [PATCH] x86-64 TIF flags for debug regs and io bitmap in ctxsw
Hello,

Following my discussion with Andi. Here is a patch that introduces
two new TIF flags to simplify the context switch code in __switch_to().
The idea is to minimize the number of cache lines accessed in the common
case, i.e., when neither the debug registers nor the I/O bitmap are used.

This patch covers the x86-64 modifications. A patch for i386 follows.

Changelog:
	- add TIF_DEBUG to track when debug registers are active
	- add TIF_IO_BITMAP to track when I/O bitmap is used
	- modify __switch_to() to use the new TIF flags

<signed-off-by>: eranian@hpl.hp.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
2f766d1606 [PATCH] Clean up asm/smp.h includes
No need to include it from entry.S
Drop all the #ifdef __ASSEMBLY__

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Andi Kleen
3cfc348bf9 [PATCH] x86: Add portable getcpu call
For NUMA optimization and some other algorithms it is useful to have a fast
to get the current CPU and node numbers in user space.

x86-64 added a fast way to do this in a vsyscall. This adds a generic
syscall for other architectures to make it a generic portable facility.

I expect some of them will also implement it as a faster vsyscall.

The cache is an optimization for the x86-64 vsyscall optimization. Since
what the syscall returns is an approximation anyways and user space
often wants very fast results it can be cached for some time.  The norma
methods to get this information in user space are relatively slow

The vsyscall is in a better position to manage the cache because it has direct
access to a fast time stamp (jiffies). For the generic syscall optimization
it doesn't help much, but enforce a valid argument to keep programs
portable

I only added an i386 syscall entry for now. Other architectures can follow
as needed.

AK: Also added some cleanups from Andrew Morton

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
c08c820508 [PATCH] Add the vgetcpu vsyscall
This patch adds a vgetcpu vsyscall, which depending on the CPU RDTSCP
capability uses either the RDTSCP or CPUID to obtain a CPU and node
numbers and pass them to the program.

AK: Lots of changes over Vojtech's original code:
Better prototype for vgetcpu()
It's better to pass the cpu / node numbers as separate arguments
to avoid mistakes when going from SMP to NUMA.
Also add a fast time stamp based cache using a user supplied
argument to speed things more up.
Use fast method from Chuck Ebbert to retrieve node/cpu from
GDT limit instead of CPUID
Made sure RDTSCP init is always executed after node is known.
Drop printk

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
a670fad0ad [PATCH] Add initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values
This patch adds initalization of the RDTSCP auxilliary values to CPU numbers
to time.c. If RDTSCP is available, the MSRs are written with the respective
values. It can be later used to initalize per-cpu timekeeping variables.

AK: Some cleanups. Move externs into headers and fix CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Vojtech Pavlik
81af4449af [PATCH] Add macros for rdtscp
This patch adds macros for reading tsc via the RDTSCP instruction, as well
as writing the auxilliary MSR read by RDTSCP to msr.h

[AK: changed rdtscp definition for old binutils]

Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:28 +02:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
248dcb2fff [PATCH] x86: i386/x86-64 Add nmi watchdog support for new Intel CPUs
AK: This redoes the changes I temporarily reverted.

Intel now has support for Architectural Performance Monitoring Counters
( Refer to IA-32 Intel Architecture Software Developer's Manual
http://www.intel.com/design/pentium4/manuals/253669.htm ). This
feature is present starting from Intel Core Duo and Intel Core Solo processors.

What this means is, the performance monitoring counters and some performance
monitoring events are now defined in an architectural way (using cpuid).
And there will be no need to check for family/model etc for these architectural
events.

Below is the patch to use this performance counters in nmi watchdog driver.
Patch handles both i386 and x86-64 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1de84979df [PATCH] i386: Enable NMI watchdog by default
I've had good experiences with having this on by default on x86-64.
It turns nasty hangs into easier to debug oopses.

Enable the local APIC wdog by default for systems newer than 2004.

This comes from a strange compromise: according to arjan the reason
it was off by default was some old IBM systems that corrupted
registered when NMI happened in SMI. Can't remember more specific,
but >= 2004 should avoid these. It's probably overly broad
because most older systems should be ok (and the really old systems
won't be supported by the local apic watchdog anyways)

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
260d6790b6 [PATCH] i386: Kdump i386 nmi event notification fix
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Vivek Goyal
3f22c5789e [PATCH] kdump x86_64 nmi event notification fix
After a crash we should wait for NMI IPI event and not for external NMI or
NMI watchdog tick.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
c7c19f8e5e [PATCH] i386: make functions static
This patch makes the following needlessly global functions static:
- nmi_int.c: profile_exceptions_notify()
- nmi_timer_int.c: profile_timer_exceptions_notify()

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
fac58550e8 [PATCH] Fix up panic messages for different NMI panics
When a unknown NMI happened the panic would claim a NMI watchdog timeout.
Also it would check the variable set by nmi_watchdog=panic and panic then.

Fix up the panic message to be generic
Unconditionally panic on unknown NMI when panic on unknown nmi is enabled.

Noticed by Jan Beulich

Cc: jbeulich@novell.com

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Shaohua Li
4038f901cf [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Fix NMI watchdog suspend/resume
Making NMI suspend/resume work with SMP. We use CPU hotplug to offline
APs in SMP suspend/resume. Only BSP executes sysdev's .suspend/.resume
method. APs should follow CPU hotplug code path.

And:

+From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Makes the start/stop paths of nmi watchdog more robust to handle the
suspend/resume cases more gracefully.

AK: I merged the two patches together

Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
c41c5cd3b2 [PATCH] x86: x86 clean up nmi panic messages
Clean up some of the output messages on the nmi error paths to make more
sense when they are displayed.  This is mainly a cosmetic fix and
shouldn't impact any normal code path.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
8da5adda91 [PATCH] x86: Allow users to force a panic on NMI
To quote Alan Cox:

The default Linux behaviour on an NMI of either memory or unknown is to
continue operation. For many environments such as scientific computing
it is preferable that the box is taken out and the error dealt with than
an uncorrected parity/ECC error get propogated.

A small number of systems do generate NMI's for bizarre random reasons
such as power management so the default is unchanged. In other respects
the new proc/sys entry works like the existing panic controls already in
that directory.

This is separate to the edac support - EDAC allows supported chipsets to
handle ECC errors well, this change allows unsupported cases to at least
panic rather than cause problems further down the line.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
e33e89ab1a [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog from procfs (update)
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi_watchdog call that will enable/disable the
nmi watchdog.

By entering a non-zero value here, a user can enable the nmi watchdog to
monitor the online cpus in the system.  By entering a zero value here, a
user can disable the nmi watchdog and free up a performance counter which
could then be utilized by the oprofile subsystem, otherwise oprofile may be
short a counter when in use.

Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
407984f1af [PATCH] x86: Add abilty to enable/disable nmi watchdog with sysctl
Adds a new /proc/sys/kernel/nmi call that will enable/disable the nmi
watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Don Zickus
2fbe7b25c8 [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Remove un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions
Removes the un/set_nmi_callback and reserve/release_lapic_nmi functions as
they are no longer needed.  The various subsystems are modified to register
with the die_notifier instead.

Also includes compile fixes by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
957dc87c1b [PATCH] Add ppoll/pselect syscalls
Needed TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK first

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:27 +02:00
Andi Kleen
1d001df19d [PATCH] Add TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK
We need TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK in order to support ppoll() and pselect()
system calls. This patch originally came from Andi, and was based
heavily on David Howells' implementation of same on i386. I fixed a typo
which was causing do_signal() to use the wrong signal mask.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
3adbbcce9a [PATCH] x86: Cleanup NMI interrupt path
This patch cleans up the NMI interrupt path.  Instead of being gated by if
the 'nmi callback' is set, the interrupt handler now calls everyone who is
registered on the die_chain and additionally checks the nmi watchdog,
reseting it if enabled.  This allows more subsystems to hook into the NMI if
they need to (without being block by set_nmi_callback).

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
b7471c6da9 [PATCH] i386: Add SMP support on i386 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on i386 SMP aware.
A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In addition,
it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result of the
watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out unknown NMIs
easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
f2802e7f57 [PATCH] Add SMP support on x86_64 to reservation framework
This patch includes the changes to make the nmi watchdog on x86_64 SMP
aware.  A bunch of code was moved around to make it simpler to read.  In
addition, it is now possible to determine if a particular NMI was the result
of the watchdog or not.  This feature allows the kernel to filter out
unknown NMIs easier.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
cb9c448c66 [PATCH] i386: Utilize performance counter reservation framework in oprofile
Incorporates the new performance counter reservation system in oprofile.
Also cleans up a lot of the initialization code.  The code original zero'd
out every register associated with performance counters regardless if those
registers were used or not.  This causes issues with the nmi watchdog.
Now oprofile tries to reserve registers and gives up if it can't get them.

Cc: levon@movementarian.org
Cc: oprofile-list@lists.sf.net

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Don Zickus
828f0afda1 [PATCH] x86: Add performance counter reservation framework for UP kernels
Adds basic infrastructure to allow subsystems to reserve performance
counters on the x86 chips.  Only UP kernels are supported in this patch to
make reviewing easier.  The SMP portion makes a lot more changes.

Think of this as a locking mechanism where each bit represents a different
counter.  In addition, each subsystem should also reserve an appropriate
event selection register that will correspond to the performance counter it
will be using (this is mainly neccessary for the Pentium 4 chips as they
break the 1:1 relationship to performance counters).

This will help prevent subsystems like oprofile from interfering with the
nmi watchdog.

Signed-off-by:  Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
b07f8915cd [PATCH] x86: Temporarily revert parts of the Core 2 nmi nmi watchdog support
This makes merging easier.  They are readded a few patches later.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
874c4fe389 [PATCH] i386: Allow to use GENERICARCH for UP kernels
There are some machines around (large xSeries or Unisys ES7000) that
need physical IO-APIC destination mode to access all of their IO
devices. This currently doesn't work in UP kernels as used in
distribution installers.

This patch allows to compile even UP kernels as GENERICARCH which
allows to use physical or clustered APIC mode.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
9142e0c839 [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig
This is based on the x86-64 defconfig which works on a wide range of systems.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Andi Kleen
265baba316 [PATCH] Update defconfig
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-09-26 10:52:26 +02:00
Alan Stern
7e9f4b2d3e Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
The klist utility routines currently call _put methods while holding a
spinlock.  This is of course illegal; a put routine could try to
unregister a device and hence need to sleep.

No problems have arisen until now because in many cases klist removals
were done synchronously, so the _put methods were never actually used.
In other cases we may simply have been lucky.

This patch (as784) reworks the klist routines so that _put methods are
called only _after_ the klist's spinlock has been released.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Alan Stern
81107bf531 Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core
This patch (as783) simplifies the driver core slightly by removing four
unnecessary _get and _put methods.

It is vital that when a driver is removed from its bus's klist of
registered drivers, or when a device is removed from a driver's klist
of bound devices, that the klist updates complete synchronously.
Otherwise the kernel might try binding an unregistered driver to a
newly-registered device, or adding a device to the klist for a new
driver before it has been removed from the old driver's klist.

Since the removals must be synchronous, they don't need to update any
reference counts.  Hence the _get and _put methods can be dispensed
with.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Alan Stern
f2eaae197f Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core
There is a potential deadlock in the driver core.  It boils down to
the fact that bus_remove_device() calls klist_remove() instead of
klist_del(), thereby waiting until the reference count of the
klist_node in the bus's klist of devices drops to 0.  The refcount
can't reach 0 so long as a modprobe process is trying to bind a new
driver to the device being removed, by calling __driver_attach().  The
problem is that __driver_attach() tries to acquire the device's
parent's semaphore, but the caller of bus_remove_device() is quite
likely to own that semaphore already.

It isn't sufficient just to replace klist_remove() with klist_del().
Doing so runs the risk that the device would remain on the bus's klist
of devices for some time, and so could be bound to another driver even
after it was unregistered.  What's needed is a new way to distinguish
whether or not a device is registered, based on a criterion other than
whether its klist_node is linked into the bus's klist of devices.  That
way driver binding can fail when the device is unregistered, even if
it is still linked into the klist.

This patch (as782) implements the solution, by adding a new bitflag to
indiate when a struct device is registered, by testing the flag before
allowing a driver to bind a device, and by changing the definition of
the device_is_registered() inline.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0f397f8650 PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe
This provides a build and run-time option to turn on multhreaded probe
for all PCI drivers.  It can cause bad problems on multi-processor
machines that take a while to find their root disks, and play havoc on
machines that don't use persistant device names for block or network
devices.

But it can cause speedups on some machines, my tiny laptop's boot goes
up by 0.4 seconds, and my desktop boots up several seconds faster.

Use at your own risk!!!

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-09-25 21:08:40 -07:00