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Add a size check in smi_data_write to prevent possible wrapping problems
with large pos values when calling smi_data_buf_realloc on 32-bit.
Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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These returns should be negative, like the others in this function.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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ioremap must be balanced by an iounmap and failing to do so can result
in a memory leak.
Signed-off-by: Amol Lad <amol@verismonetworks.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I wrote a patch to avoid redundant memory hot-add call at boot time. This
was cause of strange fail message of memory hotplug like "ACPI: add_memory
failed". Memory is recognized by early boot code with EFI/E820.
But, if DSDT describes memory devices for them, then hot-add code is called
for already recognized memory, and it shows fail messages with -EEXIST.
So, sys admin will misunderstand this message as something wrong by it.
This patch avoids them by preventing redundant hot-add call until
completion of driver initialization.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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I suppose this message seems quite useless except debugging. It just shows
"Hotplug Mem Device". System admin can't know anything by this message.
So, I would like to change it to KERN_DEBUG.
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch breaks C-state discovery on my IBM IntelliStation Z30 because
the return value of acpi_processor_get_power_info_fadt is not assigned to
"result" in the case that acpi_processor_get_power_info_cst returns
-ENODEV. Thus, if ACPI provides C-state data via the FADT and not _CST (as
is the case on this machine), we incorrectly exit the function with -ENODEV
after reading the FADT. The attached patch sets the value of result so
that we don't exit early.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix typo (repeated) in serial Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Separate out the concept of "queue congestion" from "backing-dev congestion".
Congestion is a backing-dev concept, not a queue concept.
The blk_* congestion functions are retained, as wrappers around the core
backing-dev congestion functions.
This proper layering is needed so that NFS can cleanly use the congestion
functions, and so that CONFIG_BLOCK=n actually links.
Cc: "Thomas Maier" <balagi@justmail.de>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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When rebooting with netconsole over e100, the driver shutdown code would
deadlock with netpoll. Reduce shutdown code to a bare minimum while retaining
WoL and suspend functionality.
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-2.6
* 'ubuntu-updates' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-2.6:
[pci_ids] Add Quicknet XJ vendor/device ID's.
[valkyriefb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
[platinumfb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
[igafb] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
[controlfb] Ifdef for when CONFIG_NVRAM isn't enabled.
[hid-core] TurboX Keyboard needs NOGET quirk.
[ixj] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
[initio] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
[fdomain] Add pci dev table for module auto loading.
[BusLogic] Add pci dev table for auto module loading.
[mv643xx] Add pci device table for auto module loading.
[alim7101] Add pci dev table for auto module loading.
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Also fixes comment for nowayout module param.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/hwmon-2.6:
hwmon: Fix debug messages in w83781d
hwmon: Let w83781d and lm78 load again
w83627ehf: Fix the detection of fan5
k8temp: Documentation update
smsc47m1: List the SMSC LPC47M112 as supported
hwmon: Fix documentation typos
adm9240: Update Grant Coady's email address
w83791d: Fix unchecked return status
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Fix debug messages in w83781d at detection time. We can't use dev_dbg()
on an i2c client's device before calling i2c_attach_client() on that
client.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Let the w83781d and lm78 hardware monitoring drivers load even when
no chip was detected at the ISA address. There can still be supported
chips connected to an I2C bus or SMBus.
This fixes bug #7293.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Fix the detection of fan5 and preserve the bit between the
register writes, because the bit is write only.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Update the documentation for the k8temp driver.
Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The SMSC LPC47M112 Super-I/O chip appears to be compatible with the
LPC47M10x and LPC47M13x as far as hardware monitoring is concerned.
The device ID is even the same, so it's really only a documentation
update.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Replace a bouncing email that I cannot recover from Mr Google.
Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Replace all unchecked calls to device_create_file with a single group
declaration, and one call to sysfs_create_group, and check that one
return status. Also remove the files on device detach.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off by: Charles Spirakis <bezaur@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/aoe-2.6:
aoe: fix sysfs_create_file warnings
aoe: revert printk macros
aoe: update driver version
aoe: remove sysfs comment
aoe: use bio->bi_idx
aoe: module parameter for device timeout
aoe: zero copy write 2 of 2
aoe: improve retransmission heuristics
aoe: jumbo frame support 2 of 2
aoe: clean up printks via macros
aoe: jumbo frame support 1 of 2
aoe: zero copy write 1 of 2
aoe: remove unused NARGS enum
aoe: update copyright date
aoe: eliminate isbusy message
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Moved the attributes into a group, making the compiler be quiet about
ignoring the return value of the file create calls. This also also
fixed a bug when removing the files, which were not symlinks.
Cc: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch addresses the concern that the aoe driver should
not introduce unecessary conventions that must be learned by
the reader. It reverts patch 6.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Update aoe driver version number to 32.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Remove unecessary comment.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Instead of starting with bio->bi_io_vec, use the offset in bio->bi_idx.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The aoe_deadsecs module parameter sets the number of seconds that
elapse before a nonresponsive AoE device is marked as dead.
This is runtime settable in sysfs or settable with a module load or
kernel boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Avoid memory copy on writes.
(This patch follows patch 4.)
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add a dynamic minimum timer for better retransmission behavior.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add support for jumbo ethernet frames.
(This patch follows patch 5.)
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Use simple macros to clean up the printks.
(This patch is reverted by the 14th patch to follow.)
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Add support for jumbo ethernet frames.
(This patch depends on patch 7 to follow.)
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Avoid memory copy on writes.
(This patch depends on fixes in patch 9 to follow.)
Although skb->len should not be set when working with linear skbuffs,
the skb->tail pointer maintained by skb_put/skb_trim is not relevant
to what happens when the skb_fill_page_desc function is called. This
issue was raised without comment in linux-kernel and netdev earlier
this month:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/446474/
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/45444/
So until there is something analogous to skb_put that works for
zero-copy write skbuffs, we will do what the other callers of
skb_fill_page_desc are doing.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The NARGS enum is left over from older code versions.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Update the copyright year to 2006.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This message doesn't help users because the circumstance isn't problematic.
Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" <ecashin@coraid.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (22 commits)
PCI Hotplug: move pci_hotplug.h to include/linux/
change pci hotplug subsystem maintainer to Kristen
PCI: optionally sort device lists breadth-first
cpcihp_generic: prevent loading without "bridge" parameter
pci: Additional search functions
PCI: quirks: switch quirks code offender to use pci_get API
PCI: Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported()
PCI: Improve pci_msi_supported() comments
PCI hotplug: ioremap balanced with iounmap
shpchp: remove unnecessary cmd_busy member from struct controller
shpchp: fix command completion check
pci: Stamp out pci_find_* usage in fakephp
PCI: fix pcie_portdrv_restore_config undefined without CONFIG_PM error
Fix DMA resource allocation in ACPIPnP
PCI: Turn pci_fixup_video into generic for embedded VGA
PCI: add ICH7/8 ACPI/GPIO io resource quirks
PCI: pcie-check-and-return-bus_register-errors fix
PCI: VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change
pciehp: Remove unnecessary check in pciehp_ctrl.c
pciehp - add missing locking
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This makes it possible to build pci hotplug drivers outside of the main
kernel tree, and Sam keeps telling me to move local header files to
their proper places...
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Here's a patch adding me to the maintainers file for the pci
hotplug subsystem, as we discussed.
Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Problem:
New Dell PowerEdge servers have 2 embedded ethernet ports, which are
labeled NIC1 and NIC2 on the chassis, in the BIOS setup screens, and
in the printed documentation. Assuming no other add-in ethernet ports
in the system, Linux 2.4 kernels name these eth0 and eth1
respectively. Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6
kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from
expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers
have similar behavior.
Root cause:
Linux 2.4 kernels walk the pci_devices list, which happens to be
sorted in breadth-first order (or pcbios_find_device order on i386,
which most often is breadth-first also). 2.6 kernels have both the
pci_devices list and the pci_bus_type.klist_devices list, the latter
is what is walked at driver load time to match the pci_id tables; this
klist happens to be in depth-first order.
On systems where, for physical routing reasons, NIC1 appears on a
lower bus number than NIC2, but NIC2's bridge is discovered first in
the depth-first ordering, NIC2 will be discovered before NIC1. If the
list were sorted breadth-first, NIC1 would be discovered before NIC2.
A PowerEdge 1955 system has the following topology which easily
exhibits the difference between depth-first and breadth-first device
lists.
-[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub
+-02.0-[0000:03-08]--+-00.0-[0000:04-07]--+-00.0-[0000:05-06]----00.0-[0000:06]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC2, 2.4 kernel name eth1, 2.6 kernel name eth0)
+-1c.0-[0000:01-02]----00.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC1, 2.4 kernel name eth0, 2.6 kernel name eth1)
Other factors, such as device driver load order and the presence of
PCI slots at various points in the bus hierarchy further complicate
this problem; I'm not trying to solve those here, just restore the
device order, and thus basic behavior, that 2.4 kernels had.
Solution:
The solution can come in multiple steps.
Suggested fix #1: kernel
Patch below optionally sorts the two device lists into breadth-first
ordering to maintain compatibility with 2.4 kernels. It adds two new
command line options:
pci=bfsort
pci=nobfsort
to force the sort order, or not, as you wish. It also adds DMI checks
for the specific Dell systems which exhibit "backwards" ordering, to
make them "right".
Suggested fix #2: udev rules from userland
Many people also have the expectation that embedded NICs are always
discovered before add-in NICs (which this patch does not try to do).
Using the PCI IRQ Routing Table provided by system BIOS, it's easy to
determine which PCI devices are embedded, or if add-in, which PCI slot
they're in. I'm working on a tool that would allow udev to name
ethernet devices in ascending embedded, slot 1 .. slot N order,
subsort by PCI bus/dev/fn breadth-first. It'll be possible to use it
independent of udev as well for those distributions that don't use
udev in their installers.
Suggested fix #3: system board routing rules
One can constrain the system board layout to put NIC1 ahead of NIC2
regardless of breadth-first or depth-first discovery order. This adds
a significant level of complexity to board routing, and may not be
possible in all instances (witness the above systems from several
major manufacturers). I don't want to encourage this particular train
of thought too far, at the expense of not doing #1 or #2 above.
Feedback appreciated. Patch tested on a Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade
with 2.6.18.
You'll also note I took some liberty and temporarily break the klist
abstraction to simplify and speed up the sort algorithm. I think
that's both safe and appropriate in this instance.
Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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