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Thomas Gleixner
f75e5097ef [MTD] NAND modularize write function
Modularize the write function and reorganaize the internal buffer
management. Remove obsolete chip options and fixup all affected
users.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-26 18:52:08 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
f5bbdacc41 [MTD] NAND Modularize read function
Split the core of the read function out and implement
seperate handling functions for software and hardware
ECC.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-25 12:45:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
9577f44a89 [MTD] NAND Add read/write function pointers to struct nand_ecc_ctrl
Add read/write function pointers to struct nand_ecc_ctrl to
prepare the modulaization of nand_read/write functions. The
current implementation handles every type of ecc mode
software/hardware and all kinds of strange ecc placement
schemes in one switch/if construct. Thats too complex to
maintain and too inflexible to expand. Modularization will
also shorten the code pathes of the read/write functions.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-25 12:45:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
7fac464868 [MTD] Add ECC statistics to struct mtd_info
FLASH - especially NAND FLASH - will become less reliable
and bit flips more likely. Add an ECC statistics struct
to struct mtd_info to keep track of this.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-25 12:45:27 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
7a30601b3a [MTD] NAND Introduce NAND_NO_READRDY option
The nand driver has a superflous read ready / command
delay in the read functions. This was added to handle
chips which have an automatic read forward. Newer
chips do not have this functionality anymore. Add this
option to avoid the delay / I/O operation. Mark all
large page chips with the new option flag.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-25 12:45:26 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
cad74f2c38 [MTD] NAND remove write_byte/word function from nand_chip
The previous change of the command / hardware control allows to
remove the write_byte/word functions completely, as their only
user were nand_command and nand_command_lp.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 23:28:48 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
7abd3ef987 [MTD] Refactor NAND hwcontrol to cmd_ctrl
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>
2006-05-23 23:25:53 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9223a456da [MTD] Remove read/write _ecc variants
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>
2006-05-23 17:21:03 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
2528e8cdf3 [MTD] Remove readv/readv_ecc
These functions were never implemented and added only bloat to
partition and concat code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 16:10:00 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9d8522df37 [MTD] Remove nand writev support
NAND writev(_ecc) support is not longer necessary. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 16:06:03 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
9a57d470fd [MTD] NAND ECC hwctl function has no return value
Fix the broken prototype

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 15:58:23 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
4cbb9b80e1 Merge branch 'master' of /home/tglx/work/kernel/git/mtd-2.6/
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 12:37:31 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
6dfc6d250d [MTD] NAND modularize ECC
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>
2006-05-23 12:00:46 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
58dd8f2bfd [MTD] NAND consolidate data types
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>
2006-05-23 11:52:35 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
2c0a2bed92 [MTD] NAND whitespace and formatting cleanup
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 11:50:56 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
ce4c61f184 [MTD] Add support for NDFC NAND controller
NDFC NAND Flash controller is embedded in PPC EP44x SoCs.
Add platform driver based support.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 11:43:28 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
41796c2ea9 [MTD] Add platform support for NAND
Add the data structures necessary to provide platform device support
for NAND

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2006-05-23 11:38:59 +02:00
Thomas Gleixner
a36ed2995c [MTD] Simplify NAND locking
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>
2006-05-23 11:37:03 +02:00
Joern Engel
5fa433942b [MTD] Introduce MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE
o Add a flag MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE for devices that allow single bits to be
  cleared.
o Replace MTD_PROGRAM_REGIONS with a cleared MTD_BIT_WRITEABLE flag for
  STMicro and Intel Sibley flashes with internal ECC.  Those flashes
  disallow clearing of single bits, unlike regular NOR flashes, so the
  new flag models their behaviour better.
o Remove MTD_ECC.  After the STMicro/Sibley merge, this flag is only set
  and never checked.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
2006-05-22 23:18:29 +02:00
Joern Engel
28318776a8 [MTD] Introduce writesize
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>
2006-05-22 23:18:05 +02:00
Joern Engel
8ca9ed5db3 [MTD] Use single flag to mark writeable devices.
Two flags exist to decide whether a device is writeable or not.  None of
those two flags is checked for independently, so they are clearly redundant,
if not an invitation to bugs.  This patch removed both of them, replacing
them with a single new flag.

Signed-off-by: Joern Engel <joern@wh.fh-wedel.de>
2006-05-22 23:17:23 +02:00
David Woodhouse
0cfc7da3ff Merge git://git.infradead.org/jffs2-xattr-2.6
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-20 17:27:32 +01:00
David Woodhouse
aef9ab4784 [JFFS2] Support new device nodes
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>
2006-05-19 00:28:49 +01:00
KaiGai Kohei
20a92fc74c Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2006-05-19 00:43:53 +09:00
David Woodhouse
ba9627b85f [JFFS2] Repack some on-medium structures. ARM is weirder than I thought.
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>
2006-05-16 23:03:08 +01:00
David Woodhouse
18594822fc Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-16 01:19:52 +01:00
Hua Zhong
e6333fd4dd [PATCH] fix can_share_swap_page() when !CONFIG_SWAP
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>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Mike Kravetz
39d24e6426 [PATCH] add slab_is_available() routine for boot code
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>
2006-05-15 11:20:56 -07:00
Trent Piepho
5e37661389 [PATCH] symbol_put_addr() locks kernel
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>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
Martin Schwidefsky
0159677857 [PATCH] s390: add vmsplice system call
Add new vmsplice system call and add missing __NR_xxx defines for
sys_set_robust_list, sys_get_robust_list, sys_splice, sys_sync_file_range
and sys_tee.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
Heiko Carstens
986733e01d [PATCH] RCU: introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface
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>
2006-05-15 11:20:55 -07:00
David Woodhouse
3e68fbb59b [JFFS2] Don't pack on-medium structures, because GCC emits crappy code
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>
2006-05-15 00:49:43 +01:00
David Woodhouse
0d4e30d26a [MTD] Clean up <linux/mtd/physmap.h> to fix modular build
... and also fix the multiple inclusion guard so it actually _works_

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-14 12:25:19 +01:00
David Woodhouse
151e76590f [MTD] Fix legacy character sets throughout drivers/mtd, include/linux/mtd
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-14 01:51:54 +01:00
KaiGai Kohei
aa98d7cf59 [JFFS2][XATTR] XATTR support on JFFS2 (version. 5)
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>
2006-05-13 15:09:47 +09:00
Simon Kelley
bd89efc532 [NEIGH]: Fix IP-over-ATM and ARP interaction.
The classical IP over ATM code maintains its own IPv4 <-> <ATM stuff>
ARP table, using the standard neighbour-table code. The
neigh_table_init function adds this neighbour table to a linked list
of all neighbor tables which is used by the functions neigh_delete()
neigh_add() and neightbl_set(), all called by the netlink code.

Once the ATM neighbour table is added to the list, there are two
tables with family == AF_INET there, and ARP entries sent via netlink
go into the first table with matching family. This is indeterminate
and often wrong.

To see the bug, on a kernel with CLIP enabled, create a standard IPv4
ARP entry by pinging an unused address on a local subnet. Then attempt
to complete that entry by doing

ip neigh replace <ip address> lladdr <some mac address> nud reachable

Looking at the ARP tables by using 

ip neigh show

will reveal two ARP entries for the same address. One of these can be
found in /proc/net/arp, and the other in /proc/net/atm/arp.

This patch adds a new function, neigh_table_init_no_netlink() which
does everything the neigh_table_init() does, except add the table to
the netlink all-arp-tables chain. In addition neigh_table_init() has a
check that all tables on the chain have a distinct address family.
The init call in clip.c is changed to call
neigh_table_init_no_netlink().

Since ATM ARP tables are rather more complicated than can currently be
handled by the available rtattrs in the netlink protocol, no
functionality is lost by this patch, and non-ATM ARP manipulation via
netlink is rescued. A more complete solution would involve a rtattr
for ATM ARP entries and some way for the netlink code to give
neigh_add and friends more information than just address family with
which to find the correct ARP table.

[ I've changed the assertion checking in neigh_table_init() to not
  use BUG_ON() while holding neigh_tbl_lock.  Instead we remember that
  we found an existing tbl with the same family, and after dropping
  the lock we'll give a diagnostic kernel log message and a stack dump.
  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-12 14:56:08 -07:00
Kyungmin Park
493c646077 OneNAND: One-Time Programmable (OTP) support
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>
2006-05-12 15:35:50 +01:00
Kyungmin Park
9c01f87db1 OneNAND: handle byte access on BufferRAM
Signed-off-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
2006-05-12 15:35:45 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
2bf9d6d0f2 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial
* 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
2006-05-11 15:46:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6572b2064a 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:
  [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.
2006-05-11 15:35:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f7a014af2d Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (25 commits)
  [SCSI] mptfc: race between mptfc_register_dev and mptfc_target_alloc
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.6 : Fix Data Corruption in Bus Reset Path
  [SCSI] mptspi: revalidate negotiation parameters after host reset and resume
  [SCSI] srp.h: avoid padding of structs
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: fix leak when failing to send srp event
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct eh_abort recovery logic.
  [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: fix a bug in reset handler
  [SCSI] fusion - bug fix stack overflow in mptbase
  [SCSI] scsi: Add IBM 2104-DU3 to blist
  [SCSI] Fix DVD burning issues.
  [SCSI] SCSI: aic7xxx_osm_pci resource leak fix.
  [SCSI] - fusion - mptfc bug fix's to prevent deadlock situations
  [SCSI] mptfusion: bug fix's for raid components adding/deleting
  [SCSI] aic7xxx: ahc_pci_write_config() fix
  [SCSI] megaraid: unused variable
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: only free_irq() after request_irq() succeeds
  [SCSI] Overrun in drivers/scsi/sim710.c
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Change version number to 8.1.5
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Misc small fixes
  [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Additional fixes to LOGO, PLOGI, and RSCN processing
  ...
2006-05-11 15:34:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6314410dd1 Merge branch 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/netdev-2.6:
  sis900: phy for FoxCon motherboard
  dl2k: use DMA_48BIT_MASK constant
  phy: mdiobus_register(): initialize all phy_map entries
  sky2: ifdown kills irq mask
2006-05-10 14:59:29 -07:00
Francois Romieu
4c1b46226c dl2k: use DMA_48BIT_MASK constant
Typo will be harder with this one.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
2006-05-10 14:04:22 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
b17a7c179d [NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice.
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>
2006-05-10 13:21:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3cd73eedde Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/netdev-2.6:
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix access to non-existent PHY registers
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix array overrun in bcm43xx_geo_init
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: check for valid MAC address in SPROM
  [PATCH] ieee80211: Fix A band channel count (resent)
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: fix iwmode crash when down
  [PATCH] softmac: make non-operational after being stopped
  [PATCH] softmac: don't reassociate if user asked for deauthentication
  spidernet: enable support for bcm5461 ethernet phy
  spidernet: introduce new setting
  Fix RTL8019AS init for Toshiba RBTX49xx boards
  au1000_eth.c: use ether_crc() from <linux/crc32.h>
  sky2: version 1.3
  Add more support for the Yukon Ultra chip found in dual core centino laptops.
  sky2: synchronize irq on remove
  sky2: dont write status ring
  sky2: edge triggered workaround enhancement
  sky2: use mask instead of modulo operation
  sky2: tx ring index mask fix
  sky2: status irq hang fix
  sky2: backout NAPI reschedule
2006-05-09 10:18:35 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
e4de00215c powerpc/32: Define an is_kernel_addr() to fix ARCH=ppc compilation
My commit 6bfd93c32a broke the ARCH=ppc
compilation by using the is_kernel_addr() macro in asm/uaccess.h.
This fixes it by defining a suitable is_kernel_addr() for ARCH=ppc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-05-09 16:00:59 +10:00
Stephen Hemminger
23aee82e75 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2006-05-08 16:01:20 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d324031245 sky2: backout NAPI reschedule
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>
2006-05-08 16:00:23 -07:00
David Woodhouse
6f18a022fb Finally remove the obnoxious inter_module_xxx()
This was already a bad plan when I argued against adding it in the first
place. Good riddance.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2006-05-08 22:40:05 +01:00
Andi Kleen
ac71d12c99 [PATCH] x86_64: Avoid EBDA area in early boot allocator
Based on analysis&patch from Robert Hentosch

Observed on a Dell PE6850 with 16GB

The problem occurs very early on, when the kernel allocates space for the
temporary memory map called bootmap. The bootmap overlaps the EBDA region.
EBDA region is not historically reserved in the e820 mapping. When the
bootmap is freed it marks the EBDA region as usable.

If you notice in setup.c there is already code to work around the EBDA
in reserve_ebda_region(), this check however occurs after the bootmap
is allocated and doesn't prevent the bootmap from using this range.

AK: I redid the original patch. Thanks also to Jan Beulich for
spotting some mistakes.

Cc: Robert_Hentosch@dell.com
Cc: jbeulich@novell.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-08 09:34:56 -07:00