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Kurt Garloff
6c7154c97e [SCSI] Better log messages for PQ3 devs
Some devices report a peripheral qualifier of 3 for LUN 0; with the original
code, we would still try a REPORT_LUNS scan (if SCSI level is >= 3 or if we
have the BLIST_REPORTLUNS2 passed in), but NOT any sequential scan.
Also, the device at LUN 0 (which is not connected according to the PQ) is not
registered with the OS.

Unfortunately, SANs exist that are SCSI-2 and do NOT support REPORT_LUNS, but
report a unknown device with PQ 3 on LUN 0. We still need to scan them, and
most probably we even need BLIST_SPARSELUN (and BLIST_LARGELUN). See the bug
reference for an infamous example.

This patch 2/3:
If a PQ3 device is found, log a message that describes the device
(INQUIRY DATA and C:B:T:U tuple) and make a suggestion for blacklisting
it.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-04-14 13:56:03 -05:00
Kurt Garloff
4186ab1973 [SCSI] Try LUN 1 and use bflags
Some devices report a peripheral qualifier of 3 for LUN 0; with the original
code, we would still try a REPORT_LUNS scan (if SCSI level is >= 3 or if we
have the BLIST_REPORTLUNS2 passed in), but NOT any sequential scan.
Also, the device at LUN 0 (which is not connected according to the PQ) is not
registered with the OS.

Unfortunately, SANs exist that are SCSI-2 and do NOT support REPORT_LUNS, but
report a unknown device with PQ 3 on LUN 0. We still need to scan them, and
most probably we even need BLIST_SPARSELUN (and BLIST_LARGELUN). See the bug
reference for an infamous example.

This is patch 1/3:
If we end up in sequential scan, at least try LUN 1 for devices
that reported a PQ of 3 for LUN 0.
Also return blacklist flags, even for PQ3 devices.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-04-14 13:53:43 -05:00
Dan Aloni
d220c37e0a [PATCH] sata_mv: properly print HC registers
Currently it crashes when trying to dump the registers.  This is an obvious
one-liner fix I suppose.

Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-04-12 18:05:56 -04:00
Andrew Morton
7551d9a20b [PATCH] 3ware: kmap_atomic() fix
We must disable local IRQs while holding KM_IRQ0 or KM_IRQ1.  Otherwise, an
IRQ handler could use those kmap slots while this code is using them,
resulting in memory corruption.

Thanks to Nick Orlov <bugfixer@list.ru> for reporting.

Cc: <linuxraid@amcc.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:46 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
1b72373491 [libata] sata_mv: fix can_queue line accidentally removed in scsi-eh patch 2006-04-10 14:56:39 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
9227c33de8 [PATCH] move ->eh_strategy_handler to the transport class
Overriding the whole EH code is a per-transport, not per-host thing.
Move ->eh_strategy_handler to the transport class, same as
->eh_timed_out.

Downside is that scsi_host_alloc can't check for the total lack of EH
anymore, but the transition period from old EH where we needed it is
long gone already.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-04-10 14:15:47 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
63589ed078 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: fix minor kernel-doc warnings
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/net/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/net/lcs.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/slab.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in mm/highmem.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/signal.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/ptrace.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/shm.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/freevxfs/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/udf/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/sysv/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/inode.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/fcntl.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/dquot.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid10.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid6main.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/raid5.c
  Fix minor documentation typo
  BFP->BPF in Documentation/networking/tuntap.txt
  ...
2006-04-02 12:58:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
86dca4f8e6 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6: (33 commits)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: declare pccard_iodyn_ops (fix m8xx_pcmcia.c compilation error)
  [PATCH] pcmcia: fix pcmcia_device_remove oops
  [PATCH] pcmcia: Add support for Possio GCC AKA PCMCIA Siemens MC45
  [PATCH] pcmcia: pseudo device handling update
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert DEV_OK to pcmcia_dev_present
  [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unused p_dev->state flags
  [PATCH] pcmcia: make pcmcia_release_{io,irq} static
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirection
  [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device
  [PATCH] pcmcia: rename pcmcia_device.state
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo setting
  [PATCH] pcmcia: remove export of pcmcia_release_configuration
  [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handling
  [PATCH] pcmcia: convert remaining users of pcmcia_release_io and _irq
  [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
  [PATCH] serial_cs: add Merlin U630 IDs
  [PATCH] pcmcia: AT91RM9200 Compact Flash driver
  [PATCH] pcmcia: socket.functions starts with 1
  ...
2006-04-02 12:49:59 -07:00
Segher Boessenkool
706c8c93ba [PATCH] powerpc/pseries: Change H_StudlyCaps to H_SHOUTING_CAPS
Also cleans up some nearby whitespace problems.

Signed-off-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-04-01 22:36:57 +11:00
Adrian Bunk
5637a2ee5d fix a typo in the AIC7XXX_DEBUG_MASK help text
This patch fixes a typo in the AIC7XXX_DEBUG_MASK help text.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-04-01 01:03:38 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
d21c356b08 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [PATCH] libata: fix ata_xfer_tbl termination
  [PATCH] libata: make ata_qc_issue complete failed qcs
  [PATCH] libata: fix ata_qc_issue failure path
  [PATCH] ata_piix: fix ich6/m_map_db
  [libata] ahci: add ATI SB600 PCI IDs
2006-03-31 12:28:01 -08:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
9b41046cd0 [PATCH] Don't pass boot parameters to argv_init[]
The boot cmdline is parsed in parse_early_param() and
parse_args(,unknown_bootoption).

And __setup() is used in obsolete_checksetup().

	start_kernel()
		-> parse_args()
			-> unknown_bootoption()
				-> obsolete_checksetup()

If __setup()'s callback (->setup_func()) returns 1 in
obsolete_checksetup(), obsolete_checksetup() thinks a parameter was
handled.

If ->setup_func() returns 0, obsolete_checksetup() tries other
->setup_func().  If all ->setup_func() that matched a parameter returns 0,
a parameter is seted to argv_init[].

Then, when runing /sbin/init or init=app, argv_init[] is passed to the app.
If the app doesn't ignore those arguments, it will warning and exit.

This patch fixes a wrong usage of it, however fixes obvious one only.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-31 12:18:53 -08:00
Dominik Brodowski
e2d4096365 [PATCH] pcmcia: use bitfield instead of p_state and state
Instead of the two status values struct pcmcia_device->p_state and state,
use descriptive bitfields. Most value-checking in drivers was invalid, as
the core now only calls the ->remove() (a.k.a. detach) function in case the
attachement _and_ configuration was successful.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:26:33 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
15b99ac172 [PATCH] pcmcia: add return value to _config() functions
Most of the driver initialization isn't done in the .probe function, but in
the internal _config() functions. Make them return a value, so that .probe
can properly report whether the probing of the device succeeded or not.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:26:06 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
fba395eee7 [PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_link_t and client_handle_t indirection
dev_link_t * and client_handle_t both mean struct pcmcai_device * by now.
Therefore, remove all such indirections.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:21:06 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
fd238232cd [PATCH] pcmcia: embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device
Embed dev_link_t into struct pcmcia_device(), as they basically address the
same entity. The actual contents of dev_link_t will be cleaned up step by step.
This patch includes a bugfix from and signed-off-by Andrew Morton.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:57 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
70294b4683 [PATCH] pcmcia: remove unneeded Vcc pseudo setting
As we do not allow setting Vcc in the pcmcia core, and Vpp1 and
Vpp2 can only be set to the same value, a lot of code can be
streamlined.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:55 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
8661bb5b4a [PATCH] pcmcia: default suspend and resume handling
In all but one case, the suspend and resume functions of PCMCIA drivers
contain mostly of calls to pcmcia_release_configuration() and
pcmcia_request_configuration(). Therefore, move this code out of the
drivers and into the core.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:52 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
50db3fdbbc [PATCH] pcmcia: convert remaining users of pcmcia_release_io and _irq
Convert the remaining drivers which use pcmcia_release_io or
pcmcia_release_irq, and remove the EXPORT of these symbols.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:51 +02:00
Dominik Brodowski
5f2a71fcb7 [PATCH] pcmcia: add pcmcia_disable_device
pcmcia_disable_device(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev) performs the necessary
cleanups upon device or driver removal: it calls the appropriate
pcmcia_release_* functions, and can replace (most) of the current drivers'
_release() functions.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
2006-03-31 17:15:50 +02:00
Tejun Heo
be9a50c852 [PATCH] libata: fix ata_xfer_tbl termination
ata_xfer_tbl is terminated by entry with -1 as ->shift.  However,
->shift was unsigned int making the termination condition bogus.  This
patch converts ->shift and ->bits to int.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-31 10:14:42 -05:00
Tejun Heo
8e0e694a3a [PATCH] libata: make ata_qc_issue complete failed qcs
There is no reason for the issuer to diddle with a failed qc as the
issuer has complete control over when a qc gets freed (usually in
->complete_fn).  Make ata_qc_issue() responsible for completing qcs
which failed to issue.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-31 10:14:42 -05:00
Tejun Heo
e4a70e76ad [PATCH] libata: fix ata_qc_issue failure path
On sg_err failure path, ata_qc_issue() doesn't mark the qc active
before returning.  This triggers WARN_ON() in __ata_qc_complete() when
the qc gets completed.  This patch moves ap->active_tag and
QCFLAG_ACTIVE setting to the top of the function.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-31 10:14:42 -05:00
Tejun Heo
79ea24e72e [PATCH] ata_piix: fix ich6/m_map_db
MAP tables of ich6 and ich6m are wrong.  Depending on port usage,
ata_piix may fail to initialize attached devices.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-31 10:14:41 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
ea19006f58 Merge branch 'master' 2006-03-31 10:03:19 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
ce362c0092 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kyle/parisc-2.6: (24 commits)
  [PARISC] Fix double free when removing HIL drivers
  [PARISC] Add atomic_sub_and_test
  [PARISC] Enabled some NLS modules in a500, b180 and c3000 defconfigs
  [PARISC] Kill duplicated EXPORT_SYMBOL warnings
  [PARISC] Move ioremap EXPORT_SYMBOL from parisc_ksyms.c
  [PARISC] Make local_t use atomic_long_t
  [PARISC] Update defconfigs
  [PARISC] Add PREEMPT support
  [PARISC] More useful readwrite lock helpers
  [PARISC] Convert HIL drivers to use input_allocate_device
  [PARISC] Fixup CONFIG_EISA a bit
  [PARISC] getsockopt should be ENTRY_COMP
  [PARISC] Remove obsolete CONFIG_DEBUG_IOREMAP
  [PARISC] Temporary FIXME for ioremapping EISA regions
  [PARISC] Enable ioremap functionality unconditionally
  [PARISC] Fix stifb with IOREMAP and a 64-bit kernel
  [PARISC] Add CONFIG_HPPA_IOREMAP to conditionally enable ioremap
  [PARISC] Add STRICT_MM_TYPECHECKS
  [PARISC] Fix IOREMAP with a 64-bit kernel
  [PARISC] Add parisc implementation of flush_kernel_dcache_page()
  ...
2006-03-30 15:04:13 -08:00
Jeff Garzik
8b316a3973 [libata] ahci: add ATI SB600 PCI IDs
From: Anatoli Antonovitch <antonovi@ati.com>

Signed-off-by: Felix Kuehling <fkuehlin@ati.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-30 17:07:32 -05:00
Helge Deller
5076c15862 [PARISC] I/O-Space must be ioremap_nocache()'d
Addresses in F-space must be accessed uncached on most parisc machines.

Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
2006-03-30 17:48:42 +00:00
Jeff Garzik
55d8ca4f80 Merge branch 'mv-merge'
Conflicts:

	drivers/scsi/sata_mv.c
2006-03-29 19:43:31 -05:00
Mark Lord
63af2a5c59 [PATCH] sata_mv: three bug fixes
(1) A DMA transfer size of 0x10000 was not being written
as 0x0000 in the PRDs.  Fixed.

(1) The DEV_IRQ interrupt cause bit happens spuriously
during EDMA operation, and was not being ignored by the driver.
This led to various "drive busy" errors being reported,
with associated unpredictable behaviour.  Fixed.

(2) If a SATA or PCI interrupt was received with no outstanding
command, the interrupt handler still attempted to invoke
ata_qc_complete(), triggering assert()/BUG_ON() behaviour
elsewhere in libata.  Fixed.

The driver still has issues with confusion after error-recovery,
but should now  be reliable in the absence of drive errors.
I will be looking more into the error-handling bugs next.

Signed-Off-By: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:40:24 -05:00
Albert Lee
00b6f5e9e0 [PATCH] libata: ata_dev_init_params() fixes
ata_dev_init_params() fixes:
- Get the "heads" and "sectors" parameters from caller instead of implicitly from dev->id[].
- Return AC_ERR_INVALID instead of 0 if an invalid parameter is found

Signed-off-by: Albert Lee <albertcc@tw.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:28 -05:00
Alan Cox
17efc5f723 [PATCH] libata: Fix interesting use of "extern" and also some bracketing
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Last of the set, just clean up some oddments. Assuming the whole set is
now ok then the remaining differences are the setup of PIO_0 at reset
and the ->data_xfer method.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:28 -05:00
Alan Cox
5444a6f405 [PATCH] libata: Simplex and other mode filtering logic
Add a field to the host_set called 'flags' (was host_set_flags changed
to suit Jeff)
Add a simplex_claimed field so we can remember who owns the DMA channel
Add a ->mode_filter() hook to allow drivers to filter modes
Add docs for mode_filter and set_mode
Filter according to simplex state
Filter cable in core

This provides the needed framework to support all the mode rules found
in the PATA world. The simplex filter deals with 'to spec' simplex DMA
systems found in older chips. The cable filter avoids duplicating the
same rules in each chip driver with PATA. Finally the mode filter is
neccessary because drive/chip combinations have errata that forbid
certain modes with some drives or types of ATA object.

Drive speed setup remains per channel for now and the filters now use
the framework Tejun put into place which cleans them up a lot from the
older libata-pata patches.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:28 -05:00
Alan Cox
692785e798 [PATCH] libata - ATA is both ATA and CFA
I think this is still needed with the new probe code (which btw seems to
be missing docs in upstream ?).

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:28 -05:00
Alan Cox
e35a9e01f2 [PATCH] libata: Add ->set_mode hook for odd drivers
Some hardware doesn't want the usual mode setup logic running. This
allows the hardware driver to replace it for special cases in the least
invasive way possible.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:27 -05:00
Alan Cox
4e5ec5dba2 [PATCH] libata: BMDMA handling updates
This is the minimal patch set to enable the current code to be used with
a controller following SFF (ie any PATA and early SATA controllers)
safely without crashes if there is no BMDMA area or if BMDMA is not
assigned by the BIOS for some reason.

Simplex status is recorded but not acted upon in this change, this isn't
a problem with the current drivers as none of them are for simplex
hardware. A following diff will deal with that.

The flags in the probe structure remain ->host_set_flags although Jeff
asked me to rename them, simply because the rename would break the usual
Linux rules that old code should break when there are changes. not
compile and run and then blow up/eat your computer/etc. Renaming this
later is a trivial exercise once a better name is chosen.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 19:30:27 -05:00
Tejun Heo
05c8e0ac5c [PATCH] libata: kill trailing whitespace
Kill trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-29 17:19:13 -05:00
Jeff Garzik
e02a4cabfc Merge branch 'master' 2006-03-29 17:18:49 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
bac30d1a78 Merge ../linux-2.6 2006-03-29 13:24:50 +11:00
Alexey Dobriyan
7f927fcc2f [PATCH] Typo fixes
Fix a lot of typos.  Eyeballed by jmc@ in OpenBSD.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:08 -08:00
Matthias Gehre
910638ae7e [PATCH] Replace 0xff.. with correct DMA_xBIT_MASK
Replace all occurences of 0xff..  in calls to function pci_set_dma_mask()
and pci_set_consistant_dma_mask() with the corresponding DMA_xBIT_MASK from
linux/dma-mapping.h.

Signed-off-by: Matthias Gehre <M.Gehre@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:07 -08:00
Marcelo Feitoza Parisi
60c904ae5b [PATCH] drivers/scsi/*: use time_after() and friends
They deal with wrapping correctly and are nicer to read.

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Feitoza Parisi <marcelo@feitoza.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-28 09:16:07 -08:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
e8222502ee [PATCH] powerpc: Kill _machine and hard-coded platform numbers
This removes statically assigned platform numbers and reworks the
powerpc platform probe code to use a better mechanism.  With this,
board support files can simply declare a new machine type with a
macro, and implement a probe() function that uses the flattened
device-tree to detect if they apply for a given machine.

We now have a machine_is() macro that replaces the comparisons of
_machine with the various PLATFORM_* constants.  This commit also
changes various drivers to use the new macro instead of looking at
_machine.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-03-28 23:15:54 +11:00
Alan Stern
e041c68341 [PATCH] Notifier chain update: API changes
The kernel's implementation of notifier chains is unsafe.  There is no
protection against entries being added to or removed from a chain while the
chain is in use.  The issues were discussed in this thread:

    http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113018709002036&w=2

We noticed that notifier chains in the kernel fall into two basic usage
classes:

	"Blocking" chains are always called from a process context
	and the callout routines are allowed to sleep;

	"Atomic" chains can be called from an atomic context and
	the callout routines are not allowed to sleep.

We decided to codify this distinction and make it part of the API.  Therefore
this set of patches introduces three new, parallel APIs: one for blocking
notifiers, one for atomic notifiers, and one for "raw" notifiers (which is
really just the old API under a new name).  New kinds of data structures are
used for the heads of the chains, and new routines are defined for
registration, unregistration, and calling a chain.  The three APIs are
explained in include/linux/notifier.h and their implementation is in
kernel/sys.c.

With atomic and blocking chains, the implementation guarantees that the chain
links will not be corrupted and that chain callers will not get messed up by
entries being added or removed.  For raw chains the implementation provides no
guarantees at all; users of this API must provide their own protections.  (The
idea was that situations may come up where the assumptions of the atomic and
blocking APIs are not appropriate, so it should be possible for users to
handle these things in their own way.)

There are some limitations, which should not be too hard to live with.  For
atomic/blocking chains, registration and unregistration must always be done in
a process context since the chain is protected by a mutex/rwsem.  Also, a
callout routine for a non-raw chain must not try to register or unregister
entries on its own chain.  (This did happen in a couple of places and the code
had to be changed to avoid it.)

Since atomic chains may be called from within an NMI handler, they cannot use
spinlocks for synchronization.  Instead we use RCU.  The overhead falls almost
entirely in the unregister routine, which is okay since unregistration is much
less frequent that calling a chain.

Here is the list of chains that we adjusted and their classifications.  None
of them use the raw API, so for the moment it is only a placeholder.

  ATOMIC CHAINS
  -------------
arch/i386/kernel/traps.c:		i386die_chain
arch/ia64/kernel/traps.c:		ia64die_chain
arch/powerpc/kernel/traps.c:		powerpc_die_chain
arch/sparc64/kernel/traps.c:		sparc64die_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/traps.c:		die_chain
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c:	xaction_notifier_list
kernel/panic.c:				panic_notifier_list
kernel/profile.c:			task_free_notifier
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:		hci_notifier
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_chain
net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c:	ip_conntrack_expect_chain
net/ipv6/addrconf.c:			inet6addr_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_chain
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_core.c:	nf_conntrack_expect_chain
net/netlink/af_netlink.c:		netlink_chain

  BLOCKING CHAINS
  ---------------
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/reconfig.c:	pSeries_reconfig_chain
arch/s390/kernel/process.c:		idle_chain
arch/x86_64/kernel/process.c		idle_notifier
drivers/base/memory.c:			memory_chain
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_policy_notifier_list
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c		cpufreq_transition_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/adb.c:		adb_client_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu68k.c		sleep_notifier_list
drivers/macintosh/windfarm_core.c	wf_client_list
drivers/usb/core/notify.c		usb_notifier_list
drivers/video/fbmem.c			fb_notifier_list
kernel/cpu.c				cpu_chain
kernel/module.c				module_notify_list
kernel/profile.c			munmap_notifier
kernel/profile.c			task_exit_notifier
kernel/sys.c				reboot_notifier_list
net/core/dev.c				netdev_chain
net/decnet/dn_dev.c:			dnaddr_chain
net/ipv4/devinet.c:			inetaddr_chain

It's possible that some of these classifications are wrong.  If they are,
please let us know or submit a patch to fix them.  Note that any chain that
gets called very frequently should be atomic, because the rwsem read-locking
used for blocking chains is very likely to incur cache misses on SMP systems.
(However, if the chain's callout routines may sleep then the chain cannot be
atomic.)

The patch set was written by Alan Stern and Chandra Seetharaman, incorporating
material written by Keith Owens and suggestions from Paul McKenney and Andrew
Morton.

[jes@sgi.com: restructure the notifier chain initialization macros]
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-27 08:44:50 -08:00
Matthew Dobson
93d2341c75 [PATCH] mempool: use mempool_create_slab_pool()
Modify well over a dozen mempool users to call mempool_create_slab_pool()
rather than calling mempool_create() with extra arguments, saving about 30
lines of code and increasing readability.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:00 -08:00
Matthew Dobson
0eaae62aba [PATCH] mempool: use common mempool kmalloc allocator
This patch changes several mempool users, all of which are basically just
wrappers around kmalloc(), to use the common mempool_kmalloc/kfree, rather
than their own wrapper function, removing a bunch of duplicated code.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:59 -08:00
Andrew Morton
a9312fb839 [PATCH] git-scsi-misc: min() warning fix
drivers/scsi/sd.c: In function `sd_store_cache_type':
drivers/scsi/sd.c:193: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:23:02 -08:00
Rusty Russell
8d3b33f67f [PATCH] Remove MODULE_PARM
MODULE_PARM was actually breaking: recent gcc version optimize them out as
unused.  It's time to replace the last users, which are generally in the
most unloved drivers anyway.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
Tejun Heo
600511e86b [PATCH] libata: add FIXME above ata_dev_xfermask()
Add FIXME above ata_dev_xfermask noting that the current
implementation limits all transfer modes to the fastest of the slowest
device on a port which isn't necessary.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-24 23:08:36 -05:00
Tejun Heo
298a41ca41 [PATCH] libata: cosmetic changes in ata_bus_softreset()
ata_bus_softreset() should return AC_ERR_* on failure not arbitrary
positive number.  While at it, reformat comment above it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-03-24 23:04:29 -05:00