On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 05:26:20PM +0530, Sachin Sant wrote:
> Hello Heiko,
>
> Today while trying to boot next-20100118 i came across
> the following Oops :
>
> Brought up 4 CPUs
> Unable to handle kernel pointer dereference at virtual kernel address 0000000000
> 543000
> Oops: 0004 #1 SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 0 Not tainted 2.6.33-rc4-autotest-next-20100118-5-default #1
> Process swapper (pid: 1, task: 00000000fd792038, ksp: 00000000fd797a30)
> Krnl PSW : 0704200180000000 00000000001eb0b8 (shmem_parse_options+0xc0/0x328)
> R:0 T:1 IO:1 EX:1 Key:0 M:1 W:0 P:0 AS:0 CC:2 PM:0 EA:3
> Krnl GPRS: 000000000054388a 000000000000003d 0000000000543836 000000000000003d
> 0000000000000000 0000000000483f28 0000000000536112 00000000fd797d00
> 00000000fd4ba100 0000000000000100 0000000000483978 0000000000543832
> 0000000000000000 0000000000465958 00000000001eb0b0 00000000fd797c58
> Krnl Code: 00000000001eb0aa: c0e5000994f1 brasl %r14,31da8c
> 00000000001eb0b0: b9020022 ltgr %r2,%r2
> 00000000001eb0b4: a784010b brc 8,1eb2ca
> >00000000001eb0b8: 92002000 mvi 0(%r2),0
> 00000000001eb0bc: a7080000 lhi %r0,0
> 00000000001eb0c0: 41902001 la %r9,1(%r2)
> 00000000001eb0c4: b9040016 lgr %r1,%r6
> 00000000001eb0c8: b904002b lgr %r2,%r11
> Call Trace:
> (<00000000fd797c50> 0xfd797c50)
> <00000000001eb5da> shmem_fill_super+0x13a/0x25c
> <0000000000228cfa> get_sb_single+0xbe/0xdc
> <000000000034ffc0> dev_get_sb+0x2c/0x38
> <000000000066c602> devtmpfs_init+0x46/0xc0
> <000000000066c53e> driver_init+0x22/0x60
> <000000000064d40a> kernel_init+0x24e/0x3d0
> <000000000010a7ea> kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc
> <000000000010a7e4> kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc
>
> I never tried to boot a kernel with DEVTMPFS enabled on a s390 box.
> So am wondering if this is supported or not ? If you think this
> is supported i will send a mail to community on this.
There is nothing arch specific to devtmpfs. This part crashes because the
kernel tries to modify the data read-only section which is write protected
on s390.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The function prototype mismatches in call stack:
[<ffffffff81494268>] print_block_size+0x58/0x60
[<ffffffff81487e3f>] sysdev_class_show+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff811d629b>] sysfs_read_file+0xcb/0x1f0
[<ffffffff81176328>] vfs_read+0xc8/0x180
Due to prototype mismatch, print_block_size() will sprintf() into
*attribute instead of *buf, hence user space will read the initial
zeros from *buf:
$ hexdump /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000008
After patch:
cat /sys/devices/system/memory/block_size_bytes
0x8000000
This complements commits c29af9636 and 4a0b2b4dbe.
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Zheng, Shaohui" <shaohui.zheng@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Warning(drivers/base/power/main.c:453): No description found for parameter 'dev'
Warning(drivers/base/power/main.c:453): No description found for parameter 'cb'
Warning(drivers/base/power/main.c:719): No description found for parameter 'dev'
Warning(drivers/base/power/main.c:719): No description found for parameter 'state'
Warning(drivers/base/power/main.c:719): No description found for parameter 'cb'
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This allows MFD's to register/bind drivers for their sub devices while
still being compiled as a module.
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
priv is drv->p. So only free drv->p after we've finished using priv.
Found using a static code analysis tool
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
If device_add() is called with a device which does not have dev->p set
up, then device_private_init() is called. If that succeeds, then the
error variable is set to 0. Now if the dev_name(dev) check further
down fails, then device_add() correctly terminates, but returns 0.
That of course lets the driver progress. If later another driver uses
this half set up device as parent then device_add() of the child
device explodes and renders sysfs completely unusable.
Set the error to -EINVAL if dev_name() check fails.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Many struct driver_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore make
the promise not to, which will let those descriptors be put in
a ro section.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Many struct bin_attribute descriptors are purely read-only
structures, and there's no need to change them. Therefore
make the promise not to, which will let those descriptors
be put in a ro section.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Most device_attributes are const, and are begging to be
put in a ro section. However, the create and remove
file interfaces were failing to propagate the const promise
which the only functions they call offer.
Signed-off-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
devtmpfs has a rw_lock dirlock which serializes delete_path and
create_path.
This code was obviously never tested with the usual set of debugging
facilities enabled. In the dirlock held sections the code calls:
- vfs functions which take mutexes
- kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL)
In both code pathes the might sleep warning triggers and spams dmesg.
Convert the rw_lock to a mutex. There is no reason why this needs to
be a rwlock.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6:
PM: Runtime PM documentation update
PM / Runtime: Use device type and device class callbacks
PM: Use pm_runtime_put_sync in system resume
PM: Measure device suspend and resume times
PM: Make the initcall_debug style timing for suspend/resume complete
The power management of some devices is handled through device types
and device classes rather than through bus types. Since these
devices may also benefit from using the run-time power management
core, extend it so that the device type and device class run-time PM
callbacks can be taken into consideration by it if the bus type
callback is not defined.
Update the run-time PM core documentation to reflect this change.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
This patch (as1317) fixes a bug in the PM core. When a device is
resumed following a system sleep, the core decrements the device's
runtime PM usage counter but doesn't issue an idle notification if the
counter reaches 0. This could prevent an otherwise unused device from
being runtime-suspended again after the system sleep.
The fix is to call pm_runtime_put_sync() instead of
pm_runtime_put_noidle().
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not
movable but could be freed to accomodate memory hotplug remove.
Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the
pageblock is isolated. Currently, if the migrate type is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not proceed, causing the memory removal
for that page range to fail.
Rather than failing pageblock isolation if the migrateteype is not
MIGRATE_MOVABLE, this patch checks if all of the pages in the pageblock,
and not on the LRU, are owned by a registered balloon driver (or other
entity) using a notifier chain. If all of the non-movable pages are owned
by a balloon, they can be freed later through the memory notifier chain
and the range can still be isolated in set_migratetype_isolate().
Signed-off-by: Robert Jennings <rcj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Gerald Schaefer <geralds@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Commit f251177486
(PM: Add initcall_debug style timing for suspend/resume) introduced
basic timing instrumentation, needed for a scritps/bootgraph.pl
equivalent or humans, but it missed the fact that bus types and
device classes which haven't been switched to using struct dev_pm_ops
objects yet need special handling. As a result, the suspend/resume
timing information is only available for devices whose bus types or
device classes use struct dev_pm_ops objects, so the majority of
devices is not covered.
Fix this by adding basic suspend/resume timing instrumentation for
devices whose bus types and device classes still don't use struct
dev_pm_ops objects for power management. To reduce code duplication
move the timing code to helper functions.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* 'hwpoison' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-mce-2.6: (34 commits)
HWPOISON: Remove stray phrase in a comment
HWPOISON: Try to allocate migration page on the same node
HWPOISON: Don't do early filtering if filter is disabled
HWPOISON: Add a madvise() injector for soft page offlining
HWPOISON: Add soft page offline support
HWPOISON: Undefine short-hand macros after use to avoid namespace conflict
HWPOISON: Use new shake_page in memory_failure
HWPOISON: Use correct name for MADV_HWPOISON in documentation
HWPOISON: mention HWPoison in Kconfig entry
HWPOISON: Use get_user_page_fast in hwpoison madvise
HWPOISON: add an interface to switch off/on all the page filters
HWPOISON: add memory cgroup filter
memcg: add accessor to mem_cgroup.css
memcg: rename and export try_get_mem_cgroup_from_page()
HWPOISON: add page flags filter
mm: export stable page flags
HWPOISON: limit hwpoison injector to known page types
HWPOISON: add fs/device filters
HWPOISON: return 0 to indicate success reliably
HWPOISON: make semantics of IGNORED/DELAYED clear
...
This is a simpler, gentler variant of memory_failure() for soft page
offlining controlled from user space. It doesn't kill anything, just
tries to invalidate and if that doesn't work migrate the
page away.
This is useful for predictive failure analysis, where a page has
a high rate of corrected errors, but hasn't gone bad yet. Instead
it can be offlined early and avoided.
The offlining is controlled from sysfs, including a new generic
entry point for hard page offlining for symmetry too.
We use the page isolate facility to prevent re-allocation
race. Normally this is only used by memory hotplug. To avoid
races with memory allocation I am using lock_system_sleep().
This avoids the situation where memory hotplug is about
to isolate a page range and then hwpoison undoes that work.
This is a big hammer currently, but the simplest solution
currently.
When the page is not free or LRU we try to free pages
from slab and other caches. The slab freeing is currently
quite dumb and does not try to focus on the specific slab
cache which might own the page. This could be potentially
improved later.
Thanks to Fengguang Wu and Haicheng Li for some fixes.
[Added fix from Andrew Morton to adapt to new migrate_pages prototype]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
In device_resume_noirq() there is the 'End' label and the associated
goto statement that aren't strictly necessary, so rework the code to
get rid of them. Also modify device_suspend_noirq() so that it looks
completely analogous to device_resume_noirq().
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
In order to diagnose overall suspend/resume times, we need
basic instrumentation to break down the total time into per
device timing, similar to initcall_debug.
This patch adds the basic timing instrumentation, needed
for a scritps/bootgraph.pl equivalent or humans.
The bootgraph.pl program is still a work in progress, but
is far enough along to know that this patch is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
This patch (as1308c) fixes __pm_runtime_get(). Currently the routine
will resume a device if the prior usage count was 0. But this isn't
right; thanks to pm_runtime_get_noresume() the usage count can be
positive even while the device is suspended.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Nodemasks should not be allocated on the stack for large systems (when it
is larger than 256 bytes) since there is a threat of overflow.
This patch causes the unregister_mem_sect_under_nodes() nodemask to be
allocated on the stack for smaller systems and be allocated by slab for
larger systems.
GFP_KERNEL is used since remove_memory_block() can block.
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
You can discover which CPUs belong to a NUMA node by examining
/sys/devices/system/node/node#/
However, it's not convenient to go in the other direction, when looking at
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu#/
Yes, you can muck about in sysfs, but adding these symlinks makes life a
lot more convenient.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By returning early if the node is not online, we can unindent the
interesting code by two levels.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
By returning early if the node is not online, we can unindent the
interesting code by one level.
No functional change.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit c04fc586c (mm: show node to memory section relationship with
symlinks in sysfs) created symlinks from nodes to memory sections, e.g.
/sys/devices/system/node/node1/memory135 -> ../../memory/memory135
If you're examining the memory section though and are wondering what node
it might belong to, you can find it by grovelling around in sysfs, but
it's a little cumbersome.
Add a reverse symlink for each memory section that points back to the
node to which it belongs.
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Cc: Gary Hade <garyhade@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Offload the registration and unregistration of per node hstate sysfs
attributes to a worker thread rather than attempt the
allocation/attachment or detachment/freeing of the attributes in the
context of the memory hotplug handler.
I don't know that this is absolutely required, but the registration can
sleep in allocations and other mem hot plug handlers do it this way. If
it turns out this is NOT required, we can drop this patch.
N.B., Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression.
i.e., no memory hotplug testing.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Register per node hstate attributes only for nodes with memory. As
suggested by David Rientjes.
With Memory Hotplug, memory can be added to a memoryless node and a node
with memory can become memoryless. Therefore, add a memory on/off-line
notifier callback to [un]register a node's attributes on transition
to/from memoryless state.
N.B., Only tested build, boot, libhugetlbfs regression.
i.e., no memory hotplug testing.
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (34 commits)
m68k: rename global variable vmalloc_end to m68k_vmalloc_end
percpu: add missing per_cpu_ptr_to_phys() definition for UP
percpu: Fix kdump failure if booted with percpu_alloc=page
percpu: make misc percpu symbols unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in ia64 unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in powerpc unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in x86 unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in xen unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in cpufreq unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in oprofile unique
percpu: make percpu symbols in tracer unique
percpu: make percpu symbols under kernel/ and mm/ unique
percpu: remove some sparse warnings
percpu: make alloc_percpu() handle array types
vmalloc: fix use of non-existent percpu variable in put_cpu_var()
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in trace_functions_graph.c
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx for ftrace
this_cpu: Use this_cpu_xx in nmi handling
this_cpu: Use this_cpu operations in RCU
this_cpu: Use this_cpu ops for VM statistics
...
Fix up trivial (famous last words) global per-cpu naming conflicts in
arch/x86/kvm/svm.c
mm/slab.c
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: (151 commits)
powerpc: Fix usage of 64-bit instruction in 32-bit altivec code
MAINTAINERS: Add PowerPC patterns
powerpc/pseries: Track previous CPPR values to correctly EOI interrupts
powerpc/pseries: Correct pseries/dlpar.c build break without CONFIG_SMP
powerpc: Make "intspec" pointers in irq_host->xlate() const
powerpc/8xx: DTLB Miss cleanup
powerpc/8xx: Remove DIRTY pte handling in DTLB Error.
powerpc/8xx: Start using dcbX instructions in various copy routines
powerpc/8xx: Restore _PAGE_WRITETHRU
powerpc/8xx: Add missing Guarded setting in DTLB Error.
powerpc/8xx: Fixup DAR from buggy dcbX instructions.
powerpc/8xx: Tag DAR with 0x00f0 to catch buggy instructions.
powerpc/8xx: Update TLB asm so it behaves as linux mm expects.
powerpc/8xx: Invalidate non present TLBs
powerpc/pseries: Serialize cpu hotplug operations during deactivate Vs deallocate
pseries/pseries: Add code to online/offline CPUs of a DLPAR node
powerpc: stop_this_cpu: remove the cpu from the online map.
powerpc/pseries: Add kernel based CPU DLPAR handling
sysfs/cpu: Add probe/release files
powerpc/pseries: Kernel DLPAR Infrastructure
...
This patch (as1310) works around a race in dev_driver_string(). If
the device is unbound while the function is running, dev->driver might
become NULL after we test it and before we dereference it.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Add early_platform_init_buffer() support and update the
early platform driver code to allow passing parameters
to the driver on the kernel command line.
early_platform_init_buffer() simply allows early platform
drivers to provide a pointer and length to a memory area
where the remaining part of the kernel command line option
will be stored.
Needed to pass baud rate and other serial port options
to the reworked early serial console code on SuperH.
Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
device_shutdown is defined to just shutdown the hardware and to not
clean up any kernel data structures. Therefore don't put the kobjects
for /sys/dev and /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char.
This ensures we don't remove /sys/dev/block and /sys/dev/char while
we still have symlinks from there to the actual devices.
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).
Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently the cpu-allocation/deallocation process comprises of two steps:
- Set the indicators and to update the device tree with DLPAR node
information.
- Online/offline the allocated/deallocated CPU.
This is achieved by writing to the sysfs tunables "probe" during allocation
and "release" during deallocation.
At the sametime, the userspace can independently online/offline the CPUs of
the system using the sysfs tunable "online".
It is quite possible that when a userspace tool offlines a CPU
for the purpose of deallocation and is in the process of updating the device
tree, some other userspace tool could bring the CPU back online by writing to
the "online" sysfs tunable thereby causing the deallocate process to fail.
The solution to this is to serialize writes to the "probe/release" sysfs
tunable with the writes to the "online" sysfs tunable.
This patch employs a mutex to provide this serialization, which is a no-op on
all architectures except PPC_PSERIES
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Vaidyanathan Srinivasan <svaidy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Version 3 of this patch is updated with documentation added to
Documentation/ABI. There are no changes to any of the C code from v2
of the patch.
In order to support kernel DLPAR of CPU resources we need to provide an
interface to add (probe) and remove (release) the resource from the system.
This patch Creates new generic probe and release sysfs files to facilitate
cpu probe/release. The probe/release interface provides for allowing each
arch to supply their own routines for implementing the backend of adding
and removing cpus to/from the system.
This also creates the powerpc specific stubs to handle the arch callouts
from writes to the sysfs files.
The creation and use of these files is regulated by the
CONFIG_ARCH_CPU_PROBE_RELEASE option so that only architectures that need the
capability will have the files created.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <nfont@austin.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
