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* Merge branch 'next-i2c' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linuxLinus Torvalds2009-06-131-0/+17
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'next-i2c' of git://aeryn.fluff.org.uk/bjdooks/linux: i2c-ocores: Can add I2C devices to the bus i2c-s3c2410: move to using platform idtable to match devices i2c: OMAP3: Better noise suppression for fast/standard modes i2c: OMAP2/3: Fix scll/sclh calculations i2c: Blackfin TWI: implement I2C_FUNC_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK functionality i2c: Blackfin TWI: fix transfer errors with repeat start i2c: Blackfin TWI: fix REPEAT START mode doesn't repeat i2c: Blackfin TWI: make sure we don't end up with a CLKDIV=0
| * i2c-ocores: Can add I2C devices to the busRichard Röjfors2009-06-131-0/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is sometimes a need for the ocores driver to add devices to the bus when installed. i2c_register_board_info can not always be used, because the I2C devices are not known at an early state, they could for instance be connected on a I2C bus on a PCI device which has the Open Cores IP. i2c_new_device can not be used in all cases either since the resulting bus nummer might be unknown. The solution is the pass a list of I2C devices in the platform data to the Open Cores driver. This is useful for MFD drivers. Signed-off-by: Richard Röjfors <richard.rojfors.ext@mocean-labs.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
* | Merge branch 'x86-mce-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-134-8/+69
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-mce-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (80 commits) x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errors x86, mce: Fix mce printing x86, mce: fix for mce counters x86, mce: support action-optional machine checks x86, mce: define MCE_VECTOR x86, mce: rename mce_notify_user to mce_notify_irq x86: fix panic with interrupts off (needed for MCE) x86, mce: export MCE severities coverage via debugfs x86, mce: implement new status bits x86, mce: print header/footer only once for multiple MCEs x86, mce: default to panic timeout for machine checks x86, mce: improve mce_get_rip x86, mce: make non Monarch panic message "Fatal machine check" too x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election. x86, mce: implement panic synchronization x86, mce: implement bootstrapping for machine check wakeups x86, mce: check early in exception handler if panic is needed x86, mce: add table driven machine check grading x86, mce: remove TSC print heuristic x86, mce: log corrected errors when panicing ...
| * \ Merge branch 'linus' into x86/mce3Ingo Molnar2009-06-1123-75/+1034
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c arch/x86/kernel/irq.c Merge reason: Resolve the conflicts above. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | x86, mce: Add boot options for corrected errorsHidetoshi Seto2009-06-111-6/+30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch introduces three boot options (no_cmci, dont_log_ce and ignore_ce) to control handling for corrected errors. The "mce=no_cmci" boot option disables the CMCI feature. Since CMCI is a new feature so having boot controls to disable it will be a help if the hardware is misbehaving. The "mce=dont_log_ce" boot option disables logging for corrected errors. All reported corrected errors will be cleared silently. This option will be useful if you never care about corrected errors. The "mce=ignore_ce" boot option disables features for corrected errors, i.e. polling timer and cmci. All corrected events are not cleared and kept in bank MSRs. Usually this disablement is not recommended, however it will be a help if there are some conflict with the BIOS or hardware monitoring applications etc., that clears corrected events in banks instead of OS. [ And trivial cleanup (space -> tab) for doc is included. ] Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <4A30ACDF.5030408@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | | x86, mce: switch x86 machine check handler to Monarch election.Andi Kleen2009-06-032-1/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Intel platforms machine check exceptions are always broadcast to all CPUs. This patch makes the machine check handler synchronize all these machine checks, elect a Monarch to handle the event and collect the worst event from all CPUs and then process it first. This has some advantages: - When there is a truly data corrupting error the system panics as quickly as possible. This improves containment of corrupted data and makes sure the corrupted data never hits stable storage. - The panics are synchronized and do not reenter the panic code on multiple CPUs (which currently does not handle this well). - All the errors are reported. Currently it often happens that another CPU happens to do the panic first, but reports useless information (empty machine check) because the real error happened on another CPU which came in later. This is a big advantage on Nehalem where the 8 threads per CPU lead to often the wrong CPU winning the race and dumping useless information on a machine check. The problem also occurs in a less severe form on older CPUs. - The system can detect when no CPUs detected a machine check and shut down the system. This can happen when one CPU is so badly hung that that it cannot process a machine check anymore or when some external agent wants to stop the system by asserting the machine check pin. This follows Intel hardware recommendations. - This matches the recommended error model by the CPU designers. - The events can be output in true severity order - When a panic happens on another CPU it makes sure to be actually be able to process the stop IPI by enabling interrupts. The code is extremly careful to handle timeouts while waiting for other CPUs. It can't rely on the normal timing mechanisms (jiffies, ktime_get) because of its asynchronous/lockless nature, so it uses own timeouts using ndelay() and a "SPINUNIT" The timeout is configurable. By default it waits for upto one second for the other CPUs. This can be also disabled. From some informal testing AMD systems do not see to broadcast machine checks, so right now it's always disabled by default on non Intel CPUs or also on very old Intel systems. Includes fixes from Ying Huang Fixed a "ecception" in a comment (H.Seto) Moved global_nwo reset later based on suggestion from H.Seto v2: Avoid duplicate messages [ Impact: feature, fixes long standing problems. ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * | | Merge branch 'irq/numa' into x86/mce3H. Peter Anvin2009-06-014-24/+93
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge reason: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit_{32,64}.c unified in irq/numa and modified in x86/mce3; this merge resolves the conflict. Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/irqinit.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * | | | x86, mce: improve documentationAndi Kleen2009-05-282-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document that check_interval set to 0 means no polling. Noticed by Hidetoshi Seto Also add a reference from boot options to the sysfs tunables Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * | | | x86, mce: document new 32bit mcelog requirement in Documentation/ChangesAndi Kleen2009-05-281-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
| * | | | x86, mce: deprecate old 32bit machine check codeAndi Kleen2009-05-281-0/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Schedule for removal in 2.6.32 Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
* | | | | Merge branch 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2009-06-133-19/+246
|\ \ \ \ \ | |_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'docs-next' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Document the debugfs API Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatches SubmittingPatches: fix typo docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process document Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatches
| * | | | Document the debugfs APIJonathan Corbet2009-06-061-0/+158
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an updated document covering the internal API for the debugfs filesystem. Thanks to Shen Feng for suggesting that I put this text here and noting that the old LWN version was rather out of date. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Reported-by: Shen Feng <shen@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | Documentation: Add "how to write a good patch summary" to SubmittingPatchesTheodore Ts'o2009-06-041-14/+51
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Unfortunately many patch submissions are arriving with painfully poor patch descriptions. As a result of the discussion on LKML: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/15/296 explain how to submit a better patch description, in the (perhaps vain) hope that maintainers won't end up having to rewrite the git commit logs as often as they do today. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | SubmittingPatches: fix typoPavel Machek2009-06-041-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | docs: Encourage better changelogs in the development process documentJonathan Corbet2009-06-041-3/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a couple of paragraphs to the "patch formatting" section on how patches should be described. This text is shamelessly cribbed from suggestions posted by Rusty Russell. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | | | Document Reported-by in SubmittingPatchesJonathan Corbet2009-06-041-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Randy pointed out that the Reported-By tag should be documented with the others in SubmittingPatches. Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | | | PM: Remove bus_type suspend_late()/resume_early() V2Magnus Damm2009-06-121-29/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the ->suspend_late() and ->resume_early() callbacks from struct bus_type V2. These callbacks are legacy stuff at this point and since there seem to be no in-tree users we may as well remove them. New users should use dev_pm_ops. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
* | | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2009-06-125-20/+234
|\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: (290 commits) ALSA: pcm - Update document about xrun_debug proc file ALSA: lx6464es - support standard alsa module parameters ALSA: snd_usb_caiaq: set mixername ALSA: hda - add quirk for STAC92xx (SigmaTel STAC9205) ALSA: use card device as parent for jack input-devices ALSA: sound/ps3: Correct existing and add missing annotations ALSA: sound/ps3: Restructure driver source ALSA: sound/ps3: Fix checkpatch issues ASoC: Fix lm4857 control ALSA: ctxfi - Clear PCM resources at hw_params and hw_free ALSA: ctxfi - Check the presence of SRC instance in PCM pointer callbacks ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing start check in atc_pcm_playback_start() ALSA: ctxfi - Add use_system_timer module option ALSA: usb - Add boot quirk for C-Media 6206 USB Audio ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model id for UAA ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe routines ALSA: hda - Fix the previous tagra-8ch patch ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620 ALSA: pcm - A helper function to compose PCM stream name for debug prints ALSA: emu10k1 - Fix minimum periods for efx playback ...
| * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'topic/pcm-jiffies-check' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-121-14/+22
| |\ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/pcm-jiffies-check: ALSA: pcm - Update document about xrun_debug proc file
| | * | | | | ALSA: pcm - Update document about xrun_debug proc fileTakashi Iwai2009-06-111-14/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/sc6000' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-1/+3
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/sc6000: ALSA: sc6000: enable joystick port ALSA: sc6000: fix older card initialization ALSA: sc6000: add support for SC-6600 and SC-7000
| | * | | | | | ALSA: sc6000: enable joystick portKrzysztof Helt2009-05-041-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add module parameter to enable or disable joystick port (gameport) on the SC6600 and later cards. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/oxygen' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-1/+2
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/oxygen: sound: virtuoso: add Xonar Essence ST support sound: virtuoso: enable HDAV S/PDIF input sound: virtuoso: add another DX PCI ID sound: oxygen: reset DMA when stream is closed
| | * | | | | | | sound: virtuoso: add Xonar Essence ST supportClemens Ladisch2009-05-251-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for the Asus Xonar Essence ST and its daughterboard. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/maya44' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-102-1/+165
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/maya44: ALSA: ice1724 - Add ESI Maya44 support ALSA: ice1724 - Allow spec driver to create own routing controls ALSA: ice1724 - Add PCI postint to reset sequence ALSA: ice1724 - Clean up definitions of DMA records ALSA: ice1724 - Check error in set_rate function
| | * | | | | | | | ALSA: ice1724 - Add ESI Maya44 supportTakashi Iwai2009-05-062-1/+165
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added the support for ESI Maya44 board to ice1724 driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/lx6464es' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-0/+7
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/lx6464es: ALSA: Add missing description of lx6464es to ALSA-Configuration.txt ALSA: lx6464es - Disable lx_message_send() ALSA: lx6464es - Use snd_card_create() ALSA: lx6464es - driver for the digigram lx6464es interface
| | * | | | | | | | | ALSA: Add missing description of lx6464es to ALSA-Configuration.txtTakashi Iwai2009-04-141-0/+7
| | | |_|/ / / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-3/+15
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/hda: (51 commits) ALSA: hda - Fix the previous tagra-8ch patch ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620 ALSA: support Sony Vaio TT ALSA: hda_intel: fix build error when !PM ALSA: hda - More Aspire 8930G fixes ALSA: hda - Acer Aspire 8930G support ALSA: hda - Limit codec-verb retry to limited hardwares ALSA: hda - Add codec bus reset and verb-retry at critical errors ALSA: hda - Reorder and clean-up ALC268 quirk table ALSA: hda - fix audio on LG R510 ALSA: hda - Macbook[Pro] 5 6ch support ALSA: hda-intel: improve initialization for ALC262_HP_BPC model ALSA: hda - Jack Mode changes for Sigmatel boards ALSA: hda - Support NVIDIA 8 channel HDMI audio ALSA: hda - Fix a typo in the previous patch ALSA: hda - Fix reverted LED setup for HP ALSA: hda - Add more register bits definitions ALSA: hda - Always sync writes in single_cmd mode ALSA: hda - Support sync after writing a verb ALSA: hda - Allow concurrent RIRB access in single_cmd mode ...
| | * | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Add 7.1 support for MSI GX620David Heidelberger2009-06-081-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added 7.1 support for MSI GX620 and jack quirk. Reference: kernel bug#13430 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13430 Signed-off-by: David Heidelberger <d.okias@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | ALSA: support Sony Vaio TTGuido Günther2009-06-051-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | with BIOS probing only we offer a non functional headphone swith and volume slider. Signed-off-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Acer Aspire 8930G supportHector Martin2009-06-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Short story: this laptop has 5.1 built-in speakers which you *really* want to use (the not-so-"sub" woofer is what makes the audio above average for a laptop), so 6-channel support is important (plus a decent asound.conf to upmix stereo). It also has the 3 typical jacks that ought to have a selectable mode. And it's based on ALC889, which sucks. Rationale/explanations: The const_channel_count stuff was added because, for a laptop like this, you always have 6 channels available (internal speakers) but still need to set the mode for the 3 external jacks. Therefore, the device always needs to be in 6-channel mode but there still needs to be a mixer control for the jack mode. You could use line/mic-in at the same time as the 6 internal speakers, for example. You might be tempted to make it even smarter by dynamically switching the max channel count when headphones are plugged in (therefore muting the internal speakers and reducing the physical channel count to the jack channel mode), but as a user I consider this to be harmful because I want the audio to blow up to 6 channels / upmixed as soon as I unplug the headphones, and having opened the device while in 2-channel mode would prevent this from working (and always making 6-channel mode available doesn't do any harm). The hardware needs EAPD turned on and the DACs routed to the internal speaker pins, so the patch adds those verbs. The ALC889 CLFE and subsequent (side/aux, here unused) DACs do NOT work by default, at least here. I wasted much time trying to talk to Realtek/pshou about this, but they just kept sending me useless updates to patch_realtek.c that did nothing relevant. In the end I gave up and brute forced the issue by trying to flip every bit in the proprietary coefficient registers, and eventually found the two magic registers that need to be cleared to enable all DACs. I have only heard Acer users complain, but that might be because ALC889 is pretty new and using 5.1 (and noticing the missing center/lfe channels) might not be that common. If this is a generalized issue with all ALC889 systems then those verbs should probably be moved to a common verb array. The internal mic is untested and probably doesn't work. These settings will probably work for other Acer Gemstone laptops with the same 5.1 speaker config. When identified, those should be added to the PCI subsystem ID list. Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <hector@marcansoft.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'fix/hda' into topic/hdaTakashi Iwai2009-05-261-0/+1
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| | * | | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Improved MacBook 3,1 supportTorben Schulz2009-05-181-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds support for MacBook 3,1 sound by adding a model new "mb31" with the appropriate init verbs, mixers and channel modes to the ALC883 configuration. patch_alc882() and patch_alc883() are modified to handle the MacBook 3,1 sound-chip (Realtek ALC889A) correctly. Signed-off-by: Torben Schulz <public@letorbi.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Add support of Samsung NC10 mini notebookChris Pockelé2009-05-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add specific configuration for Samsung NC10 mini notebook. Internal mic/speakers will be correctly muted when plugging in external ones. Mixer controls are added for speakers, headphones and PC beep. "Boost" is added for the microphones. Signed-off-by: Chris Pockelé <chris.pockele.f1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Add missing models for Realtek codecsTakashi Iwai2009-05-111-2/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added the missing descriptions and the model names for Realtek codecs to the documentation and the config table. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| | * | | | | | | | | | ALSA: hda - Addition for HP dv4-1222nr laptop supportJames Gardiner2009-05-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Gardiner <renidragsemaj@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/ctxfi' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-0/+19
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/ctxfi: (35 commits) ALSA: ctxfi - Clear PCM resources at hw_params and hw_free ALSA: ctxfi - Check the presence of SRC instance in PCM pointer callbacks ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing start check in atc_pcm_playback_start() ALSA: ctxfi - Add use_system_timer module option ALSA: ctxfi - Fix wrong model id for UAA ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up probe routines ALSA: ctxfi - Fix / clean up hw20k2 chip code ALSA: ctxfi - Fix possible buffer pointer overrun ALSA: ctxfi - Remove useless initializations and cast ALSA: ctxfi - Fix DMA mask for emu20k2 chip ALSA: ctxfi - Make volume controls more intuitive ALSA: ctxfi - Optimize the native timer handling using wc counter ALSA: ctxfi - Add missing inclusion of linux/math64.h ALSA: ctxfi - Set device 0 for mixer control elements ALSA: ctxfi - Clean up / optimize ALSA: ctxfi - Set periods_min to 2 ALSA: ctxfi - Use native timer interrupt on emu20k1 ALSA: ctxfi - Fix previous fix for 64bit DMA ALSA: ctxfi - Fix endian-dependent codes ALSA: ctxfi - Allow 64bit DMA ...
| | * | | | | | | | | | | ALSA: SB X-Fi driver mergeWai Yew CHAY2009-05-141-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Sound Blaster X-Fi driver supports Creative solutions based on 20K1 and 20K2 chipsets. Supported hardware : Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty® Champion Series Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Professional Audio Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite Pro Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic Current release features: * ALSA PCM Playback * ALSA Record * ALSA Mixer Note: * External I/O modules detection not included. Signed-off-by: Wai Yew CHAY <wychay@ctl.creative.com> Singed-off-by: Ryan RICHARDS <ryan_richards@creativelabs.com> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/asoc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai2009-06-101-0/+1
| |\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | |_|_|_|_|_|_|_|/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * topic/asoc: (135 commits) ASoC: Apostrophe patrol ASoC: codec tlv320aic23 fix bogus divide by 0 message ASoC: fix NULL pointer dereference in soc_suspend() ASoC: Fix build error in twl4030.c ASoC: SSM2602: assign last substream to the master when shutting down ASoC: Blackfin: document how anomaly 05000250 is handled ASoC: Blackfin: set the transfer size according the ac97_frame size ASoC: SSM2602: remove unsupported sample rates ASoC: TWL4030: Check the interface format for 4 channel mode ASoC: TWL4030: Use reg_cache in twl4030_init_chip ASoC: Initialise dev for the dummy S/PDIF DAI ASoC: Add dummy S/PDIF codec support ASoC: correct print specifiers for unsigneds ASoC: Modify mpc5200 AC97 driver to use V9 of spin_event_timeout() ASoC: Switch FSL SSI DAI over to symmetric_rates ASoC: Mark MPC5200 AC97 as BROKEN until PowerPC merge issues are resolved ASoC: Fabric bindings for STAC9766 on the Efika ASoC: Support for AC97 on Phytec pmc030 base board. ASoC: AC97 driver for mpc5200 ASoC: Main rewite of the mpc5200 audio DMA code ...
| | * | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'topic/drvdata-fix' into topic/asocTakashi Iwai2009-05-1210-22/+471
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| | * | | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into topic/asocTakashi Iwai2009-05-0440-3577/+1357
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| | * | | | | | | | | | | | ASoC: Add power supply widget to DAPMMark Brown2009-04-221-0/+1
| | | |_|_|_|/ / / / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many modern CODECs have shared resources on chip which must be enabled for portions of the chip to work but which can be disabled at other times in order to achieve power savings. Examples of such resources include power supplies and some internal clocks. Since these widgets are dependencies for the audio path but do not carry audio signals they require slightly different handling to most widgets - they do not contribute to the audio path and so should not be counted as either inputs or outputs during path walks. Cases where one supply provides a supply for another will require additional work. There is also room for more optimisation of the graph walking to avoid repeated checks for the same thing. Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
* | | | | | | | | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguestLinus Torvalds2009-06-123-637/+375
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (31 commits) lguest: add support for indirect ring entries lguest: suppress notifications in example Launcher lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receive lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs. lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example Launcher lguest: remove obsolete LHREQ_BREAK call lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threads lguest: use eventfds for device notification eventfd: export eventfd_signal and eventfd_fget for lguest lguest: allow any process to send interrupts lguest: PAE fixes lguest: PAE support lguest: Add support for kvm_hypercall4() lguest: replace hypercall name LHCALL_SET_PMD with LHCALL_SET_PGD lguest: use native_set_* macros, which properly handle 64-bit entries when PAE is activated lguest: map switcher with executable page table entries lguest: fix writev returning short on console output lguest: clean up length-used value in example launcher lguest: Segment selectors are 16-bit long. Fix lg_cpu.ss1 definition. lguest: beyond ARRAY_SIZE of cpu->arch.gdt ...
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: add support for indirect ring entriesMark McLoughlin2009-06-121-12/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support the VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC feature. This is a simple matter of changing the descriptor walking code to operate on a struct vring_desc* and supplying it with an indirect table if detected. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: suppress notifications in example LauncherRusty Russell2009-06-121-0/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Guest only really needs to tell us about activity when we're going to listen to the eventfd: normally, we don't want to know. So if there are no available buffers, turn on notifications, re-check, then wait for the Guest to notify us via the eventfd, then turn notifications off again. There's enough else going on that the differences are in the noise. Before: Secs RxKicks TxKicks 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.94 4686 32815 1M normal pings: 104 142862 1000010 1M 1k pings (-l 120): 57 142026 1000007 After: 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.76 4691 32811 1M normal pings: 111 142859 997467 1M 1k pings (-l 120): 55 19648 501549 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: try to batch interrupts on network receiveRusty Russell2009-06-121-1/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than triggering an interrupt every time, we only trigger an interrupt when there are no more incoming packets (or the recv queue is full). However, the overhead of doing the select to figure this out is measurable: 1M pings goes from 98 to 104 seconds, and 1G Guest->Host TCP goes from 3.69 to 3.94 seconds. It's close to the noise though. I tested various timeouts, including reducing it as the number of pending packets increased, timing a 1 gigabyte TCP send from Guest -> Host and Host -> Guest (GSO disabled, to increase packet rate). // time tcpblast -o -s 65536 -c 16k 192.168.2.1:9999 > /dev/null Timeout Guest->Host Pkts/irq Host->Guest Pkts/irq Before 11.3s 1.0 6.3s 1.0 0 11.7s 1.0 6.6s 23.5 1 17.1s 8.8 8.6s 26.0 1/pending 13.4s 1.9 6.6s 23.8 2/pending 13.6s 2.8 6.6s 24.1 5/pending 14.1s 5.0 6.6s 24.4 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: avoid sending interrupts to Guest when no activity occurs.Rusty Russell2009-06-121-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If we track how many buffers we've used, we can tell whether we really need to interrupt the Guest. This happens as a side effect of spurious notifications. Spurious notifications happen because it can take a while before the Host thread wakes up and sets the VRING_USED_F_NO_NOTIFY flag, and meanwhile the Guest can more notifications. A real fix would be to use wake counts, rather than a suppression flag, but the practical difference is generally in the noise: the interrupt is usually coalesced into a pending one anyway so we just save a system call which isn't clearly measurable. Secs Spurious IRQS 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.93 58 1M normal pings: 100 72 1M 1k pings (-l 120): 57 492904 Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: implement deferred interrupts in example LauncherRusty Russell2009-06-121-19/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Rather than sending an interrupt on every buffer, we only send an interrupt when we're about to wait for the Guest to send us a new one. The console input and network input still send interrupts manually, but the block device, network and console output queues can simply rely on this logic to send interrupts to the Guest at the right time. The patch is cluttered by moving trigger_irq() higher in the code. In practice, two factors make this optimization less interesting: (1) we often only get one input at a time, even for networking, (2) triggering an interrupt rapidly tends to get coalesced anyway. Before: Secs RxIRQS TxIRQs 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.72 32784 32771 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 995541 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 49510 49058 After: 1G TCP Guest->Host: 3.69 32809 32769 1M normal pings: 99 1000004 996196 100,000 1k pings (-l 120): 5 52435 52361 (Note the interrupt count on 100k pings goes *up*: see next patch). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
| * | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest: have example Launcher service all devices in separate threadsRusty Russell2009-06-121-574/+259
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The Waker selects() on all the input file descriptors (eg. stdin, net devices, pipe to the block thread) and when one becomes readable it calls into the kernel to kick the Launcher thread out into userspace, which repeats the poll, services the device(s), and then tells the kernel to release the Waker before re-entering the kernel to run the Guest. Also, to make a slightly-decent network transmit routine, the Launcher would suppress further network interrupts while it set a timer: that signal handler would write to a pipe, which would rouse the Waker which would prod the Launcher out of the kernel to check the network device again. Now we can convert all our virtqueues to separate threads: each one has a separate eventfd for when the Guest pokes the device, and can trigger interrupts in the Guest directly. The linecount shows how much this simplifies, but to really bring it home, here's an strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping before: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, return control to Launcher * Launcher clears notification flag on xmit ring * Launcher writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\366\r\224`\2058\272m\224vf\274\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Launcher sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(10, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher sets up timer for interrupt mitigation setitimer(ITIMER_REAL, {it_interval={0, 0}, it_value={0, 505}}, NULL) = 0 * Launcher re-runs guest pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) ... * Waker notices reply packet in tun device (it was in select) select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [4]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher returns from running guest: ... = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks at input fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [4], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads pong from tun device: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"\272m\224vf\274\366\r\224`\2058\10\0E\0\0T\364\26\0\0@"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Launcher injects guest notification: write(10, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher reruns Guest: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) * Signal comes in, uses pipe to wake up Launcher: --- SIGALRM (Alarm clock) @ 0 (0) --- write(8, "\0", 1) = 1 sigreturn() = ? (mask now []) * Waker sees write on pipe: select(12, [0 3 4 6 11], NULL, NULL, NULL) = 1 (in [6]) * Waker kicks Launcher out of Guest: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\1\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher exits from kernel: pread64(10, 0xbfa5f4d4, 4, 0) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) * Launcher looks to see what fd woke it: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 1 (in [6], left {0, 0}) * Launcher reads timeout fd, sets notification flag on xmit ring read(6, "\0", 32) = 1 * Launcher rechecks fds: select(7, [0 3 4 6], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) * Launcher clears Waker: pwrite64(10, "\3\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8, 0) = 0 * Launcher resumes Guest: pread64(10, "\0p\0\4", 4, 0) .... strace analysis of single Guest->Host ping after: * Guest sends packet, notifies xmit vq, creates event on eventfd. * Network xmit thread wakes from read on eventfd: read(7, "\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 8) = 8 * Network xmit thread writes packet to TUN device writev(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"J\217\232FI\37j\27\375\276\0\304\10\0E\0\0T\0\0@\0@\1\265"..., 98}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread wakes up from read on tunfd: readv(4, [{"\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0", 10}, {"j\27\375\276\0\304J\217\232FI\37\10\0E\0\0TiO\0\0@\1\214"..., 1518}], 2) = 108 * Network recv thread sets up interrupt for the Guest write(6, "\2\0\0\0\2\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network recv thread goes back to reading tunfd 13:39:42.460285 readv(4, <unfinished ...> * Network xmit thread sets up interrupt for Guest (xmit ring is empty) write(6, "\2\0\0\0\3\0\0\0", 8) = 0 * Network xmit thread goes back to reading from eventfd read(7, <unfinished ...> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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