David Brownell [Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:34 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
gpio: pcf857x: add lock and handle more chips
Two small updates to the pcf857x driver: (a) the max732[89] chips are
also second sources for the pcf8574/a, and (b) add a mutex to prevent
trashing the cached state. Adding the lock is effectively a bugfix,
although it seems unlikely that anyone would have run into the issue it
protects against.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Reiser [Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:21:32 +0000 (14:21 -0700)]
execve filename: document and export via auxiliary vector
The Linux kernel puts the filename argument of execve() into the new
address space. Many developers are surprised to learn this. Those who
know and could use it, object "But it's not documented."
Those who want to use it dislike the expression
(char *)(1+ strlen(env[-1+ n_env]) + env[-1+ n_env])
because it requires locating the last original environment variable,
and assumes that the filename follows the characters.
This patch documents the insertion of the filename, and makes it easier
to find by adding a new tag AT_EXECFN in the ElfXX_auxv_t; see <elf.h>.
In many cases readlink("/proc/self/exe",) gives the same answer. But if
all the original pages get unmapped, then the kernel erases the symlink
for /proc/self/exe. This can happen when a program decompressor does a
good job of cleaning up after uncompressing directly to memory, so that
the address space of the target program looks the same as if compression
had never happened. One example is http://upx.sourceforge.net .
One notable use of the underlying concept (what path containED the
executable) is glibc expanding $ORIGIN in DT_RUNPATH. In practice for
the near term, it may be a good idea for user-mode code to use both
/proc/self/exe and AT_EXECFN as fall-back methods for each other.
/proc/self/exe can fail due to unmapping, AT_EXECFN can fail because it
won't be present on non-new systems. The auxvec or {AT_EXECFN}.d_val
also can get overwritten, although in nearly all cases this would be the
result of a bug.
The runtime cost is one NEW_AUX_ENT using two words of stack space. The
underlying value is maintained already as bprm->exec; setup_arg_pages()
in fs/exec.c slides it for stack_shift, etc.
Signed-off-by: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kratochvil [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:00:47 +0000 (14:00 +0200)]
x86: fix crash due to missing debugctlmsr on AMD K6-3
currently if you use PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK on AMD K6-3 (i586) it will crash.
Kernel now wrongly assumes existing DEBUGCTLMSR MSR register there.
Removed the assumption also for some other non-K6 CPUs but I am not sure there
(but it can only bring small inefficiency there if my assumption is wrong).
Based on info from Roland McGrath, Chuck Ebbert and Mikulas Patocka.
More info at:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456175
Signed-off-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:00:20 +0000 (19:00 +0200)]
remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
One place is just a comment, the other a conditional, unused
inclusion of linux/kmod.h.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Johannes Berg [Tue, 8 Jul 2008 17:00:25 +0000 (19:00 +0200)]
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
Also includes a few Kconfig files (xtensa, blackfin)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:28 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in
order to speed up module_text_address().
Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines:
Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend
to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high
frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after
all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been
some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded
that this is a tad too slow.
This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every
slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address,
so that's 1024 slots. 1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot
of list walking.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding
exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL,
and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway
(because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then).
This patch adds required #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Richard Kennedy [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:26 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds.
saves 1 cacheline_size (128 on default x86_64 & 64 on AMD
Opteron/athlon) when CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD=y.
Signed-off-by: Richard Kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:25 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: generic each_symbol iterator function
Introduce an each_symbol() iterator to avoid duplicating the knowledge
about the 5 different sections containing symbols. Currently only
used by find_symbol(), but will be used by symbol_put_addr() too.
(Includes NULL ptr deref fix by Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Rusty Russell [Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:24:25 +0000 (19:24 -0500)]
module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
rmmod has a little-used "-w" option, meaning that instead of failing if the
module is in use, it should block until the module becomes unused.
In this case, we don't need to use stop_machine: Max Krasnyansky
indicated that would be useful for SystemTap which loads/unloads new
modules frequently.
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Rusty, in his peevish way, complained that macros defining constants
should have a name which somewhat accurately reflects the actual
purpose of the constant.
Aside from the fact that PTE_MASK gives no clue as to what's actually
being masked, and is misleadingly similar to the functionally entirely
different PMD_MASK, PUD_MASK and PGD_MASK, I don't really see what the
problem is.
But if this patch silences the incessent noise, then it will have
achieved its goal (TODO: write test-case).
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Rusty Russell [Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:40:46 +0000 (15:40 +1000)]
x86: fix pte_flags() to only return flags, fix lguest (updated)
(Jeremy said:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
When I asked:
jsgf: does that include the NX flag?
He responded eloquently:
rusty: use PTE_MASK
rusty: use PTE_MASK
yes, it's the official constant of masking flags out of ptes
)
Change a15af1c9ea2750a9ff01e51615c45950bad8221b 'x86/paravirt: add
pte_flags to just get pte flags' removed lguest's private pte_flags()
in favor of a generic one.
Unfortunately, the generic one doesn't filter out the non-flags bits:
this results in lguest creating corrupt shadow page tables and blowing
up host memory.
Since noone is supposed to use the pfn part of pte_flags(), it seems
safest to always do the filtering.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Signed-off-and-morning-tea-spilled-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
David Altobelli [Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:38:53 +0000 (09:38 -0600)]
HP iLO driver
A driver for the HP iLO/iLO2 management processor, which allows userspace
programs to query the management processor. Programs can open a channel
to the device (/dev/hpilo/dXccbN), and use this to send/receive queries.
The O_EXCL open flag is used to indicate that a particular channel cannot
be shared between processes. This driver will replace various packages
HP has shipped, including hprsm and hp-ilo.
Signed-off-by: David Altobelli <david.altobelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
Cornelia Huck [Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:09:08 +0000 (11:09 +0200)]
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
Renaming network devices to an already existing name is not
something we want sysfs to print a scary warning for, since the
callers can deal with this correctly. So let's introduce
sysfs_create_link_nowarn() which gets rid of the common warning.
Wang Chen [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 08:59:02 +0000 (16:59 +0800)]
kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
kobject_uevent_env() drops the return value of call_usermodehelper().
It will make upper caller, such as dm_send_uevents(), to lose error
information.
BTW, Previously kobject_uevent_env() transmitted return of
call_usermodehelper() to callers, but
commit 5f123fbd80f4f788554636f02bf73e40f914e0d6
"[PATCH] merge kobject_uevent and kobject_hotplug" removed it.
Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The first paragraph of this document implies that user space developers
shouldn't use sysfs at all, but then it goes on to describe rules that
developers should follow when accessing sysfs. Not only is this somewhat
self-contradictory, it has been shown to discourage developers from using
established sysfs interfaces.
A note of caution is more appropriate than a blanket "sysfs will never
be stable" assertion.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
debugfs_remove_recursive() will remove a dentry and all its children.
Drivers can use this to zap their whole debugfs tree so that they don't
need to keep track of every single debugfs dentry they created.
It may fail to remove the whole tree in certain cases:
sh-3.2# rmmod atmel-mci < /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/ios/clock
mmc0: card b368 removed
atmel_mci atmel_mci.0: Lost dma0chan1, falling back to PIO
sh-3.2# ls /sys/kernel/debug/mmc0/
ios
But I'm not sure if that case can be handled in any sane manner.
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:04:08 +0000 (19:04 +0300)]
always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
James Bottomley recently discovered that we have
{request,release}_firmware() dummies for the case of the actual
functions not being available and has a fix for the bug that was
actually causing build errors for built-in users with
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=m.
But now missing selects on FW_LOADER are no longer visible at
compile-time at all and can become runtime problems.
FW_LOADER is infrastructure with relatively small codesize we can safely
enable for everyone, and only for people who really need small kernels
(and can be expected to know what they are doing) it matters being able
to disable it.
This patch therefore always sets FW_LOADER=y and allows users only to
disable it with EMBEDDED=y.
As a bonus, we can then get rid of all "select FW_LOADER" plus the due
to it required "depends on HOTPLUG" which removes some complexity from
our Kconfig files.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike Frysinger [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:25:00 +0000 (14:25 -0700)]
uio-howto.tmpl: use unique output names
The Userspace I/O HOWTO template sets two different sections with the same
html output name (about.html). This clearly won't work, so change the
first one to a unique "aboutthis.html" to prevent clobbering.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mike Frysinger [Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:24:57 +0000 (14:24 -0700)]
uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings
The Userspace I/O HOWTO document uses straight <sect1> tags and plain text
to describe copyright/legal information. It should instead use the
<copyright> and <legalnotice> tags like all other documents in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Miklos Szeredi [Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:46:47 +0000 (13:46 +0200)]
sysfs: don't call notify_change
sysfs_chmod_file() calls notify_change() to change the permission bits
on a sysfs file. Replace with explicit call to sysfs_setattr() and
fsnotify_change().
This is equivalent, except that security_inode_setattr() is not
called. This function is called by drivers, so the security checks do
not make any sense.
Ben Dooks [Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:00:34 +0000 (19:00 +0100)]
sysdev: fix debugging statements in registration code.
The systdev_class_register() and sysdev_register() functions have
pr_debug() statements which are enabled when the user selects the
driver core debug. Both of these routines do not produce the
correct output, as they make assumptions about data which has not
been initialised.
In sysdev_class_register() the code uses the kobject_name(&cls->kset.kobj)
at the start of the function, but this is not setup until later in the
same call. Change this to use cls->name which is passed in from the caller.
The sysdev_register() function tries to get the name of the sysdev by
kobject_name(&sysdev->kobj), but that isn't setup until later in the same
function so change this message to use the name of the sysdev's class and
add another message once the name is initialised.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch adds a generic UIO platform driver. It eliminates the need for a
dedicated kernel module for simple platform devices. Users only need to
implement their irq handler in platform code and fill a struct uio_info
there. This helps avoiding code duplication as UIO platform drivers often
share a lot of common code.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Hans J. Koch [Fri, 23 May 2008 11:50:14 +0000 (13:50 +0200)]
UIO: Add write function to allow irq masking
Sometimes it is necessary to enable/disable the interrupt of a UIO device
from the userspace part of the driver. With this patch, the UIO kernel driver
can implement an "irqcontrol()" function that does this. Userspace can write
an s32 value to /dev/uioX (usually 0 or 1 to turn the irq off or on). The
UIO core will then call the driver's irqcontrol function.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Acked-by: Magnus Damm <damm@igel.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ae210f188614bb3d1ee3f19c64e28e3cdd44877c introduced a big "if UIO"/"endif"
where all uio drivers are defined. So know there is no need for them to
depend explicitly on UIO.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers [Wed, 28 May 2008 21:06:47 +0000 (23:06 +0200)]
pnp: add acpi:* modalias entries
Along with the non-modalias conformant "pnp:*" aliases, we add "acpi:*"
entries to PNP drivers, to allow module autoloading by ACPI PNP device
entries, which export proper modalias information, without any specific
userspace modprobe mangling.
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
There is no such thing as a "device id size" in the driver core, so
remove the define and fix up any users of this odd define in the rest of
the kernel.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Kay Sievers [Fri, 2 May 2008 04:02:41 +0000 (06:02 +0200)]
driver core: remove DEVICE_NAME_SIZE define
There is no such thing as a "device name size" in the driver core, so
remove the define and fix up any users of this odd define in the rest of
the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Dave Young [Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:39 +0000 (09:28 -0700)]
class: change internal semaphore to a mutex
Now that the lockdep infrastructure in the class core is in place, we
should be able to properly change the internal class semaphore to be a
mutex.
David wrote the original patch, and Greg fixed it up to apply properly
due to all of the recent changes in this area.
From: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Matthew Wilcox [Wed, 28 May 2008 16:28:39 +0000 (09:28 -0700)]
class: add lockdep infrastructure
This adds the infrastructure to properly handle lockdep issues when the
internal class semaphore is changed to a mutex.
Matthew wrote the original patch, and Greg fixed it up to work properly
with the class_create() function.
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
class: rename "sem" to "class_sem" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "sem" field to be "class_sem" to make
things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the future.
It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.
Based on an idea from Kay.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
class: rename "subsys" to "class_subsys" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "subsys" field to be "class_subsys" to
make things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the
future. It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.
Based on an idea from Kay.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
class: rename "interfaces" to "class_interfaces" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "interfaces" field to be
"class_interfaces" to make things easier when struct bus_type and struct
class merge in the future. It also makes grepping for fields easier as
well.
Based on an idea from Kay.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
class: rename "devices" to "class_devices" in internal class structure
This renames the struct class "devices" field to be "class_devices" to
make things easier when struct bus_type and struct class merge in the
future. It also makes grepping for fields easier as well.
Based on an idea from Kay.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
class: move driver core specific parts to a private structure
This moves the portions of struct class that are dynamic (kobject and
lock and lists) out of the main structure and into a dynamic, private,
structure.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
bluetooth: remove improper bluetooth class symlinks.
Don't create symlinks in a class to a device that is not owned by the
class. If the bluetooth subsystem really wants to point to all of the
devices it controls, it needs to create real devices, not fake symlinks.
infiniband: make cm_device use a struct device and not a kobject.
This object really should be a struct device, or at least contain a
pointer to a struct device, as it is trying to create a separate device
tree outside of the main device tree. This patch fixes this problem.
It is needed for the class core rework that is being done in the driver
core.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
infiniband: rename "device" to "ib_device" in cm_device
This pointer really is a struct ib_device, not a struct device, so name
it properly to help prevent confusion.
This makes the followon patch in this series much smaller and easier to
understand as well.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Cc: Hal Rosenstock <hal.rosenstock@gmail.com> Acked-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
block: move header for /proc/partitions to seq_start
The seq_start call is the better place for the header for the file, that
way we don't have to be mucking in the class structure to try to figure
out if this is the first partition or not.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
David Brownell [Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:48:07 +0000 (15:48 -0500)]
device create: spi: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
Switch over to use the shiny new device_create_drvdata() call
instead of the original device_create() calls, so this continues
to work after device_create() is removed.
Note that this driver never had the race which motivated removing
the original call; it locked correctly.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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