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Jonathan Cameron
e7e09cd667 params.c: Use new strtobool function to process boolean inputs
No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-25 16:04:52 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
8705b48e71 debugfs: move to new strtobool
No functional changes requires that we eat errors from strtobool.
If people want to not do this, then it should be fixed at a later date.

V2: Simplification suggested by Rusty Russell removes the need for
additional variable ret.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-25 16:04:52 -07:00
Jonathan Cameron
ad58671cf3 Add a strtobool function matching semantics of existing in kernel equivalents
This is a rename of the usr_strtobool proposal, which was a renamed,
relocated and fixed version of previous kstrtobool RFC

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@cam.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-25 16:04:51 -07:00
Wanlong Gao
8572394353 drivers:base:fix the coding format of memory.c
Fix the line longer than 80 of memory_uevent function .

Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-25 15:52:40 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
c870508240 driver core: let dev_set_drvdata return int instead of void as it can fail
Before commit

	b402843 (Driver core: move dev_get/set_drvdata to drivers/base/dd.c)

calling dev_set_drvdata with dev=NULL was an unchecked error. After some
discussion about what to return in this case removing the check (and so
producing a null pointer exception) seems fine.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:09:13 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
4a03d6f7c8 driver core/platform_device_add_resources: free resource before overwriting
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:09:13 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
cea896238f driver core/platform_device_add_resources: set resource to NULL if !res
This makes the res = NULL case more consistant to the res != NULL case
as now both overwrite pdev->resource.

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:09:13 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
251e031d13 driver core/platform_device_add_data: free platform data before overwriting
Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:09:12 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
27a33f9e8f driver core/platform_device_add_data: set platform_data to NULL if !data
This makes the data = NULL case more consistent to the data != NULL case.
The functional change is that now

	platform_device_add_data(somepdev, NULL, somesize)

sets pdev->dev.platform_data to NULL instead of not touching it.

Reviewed-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@st.com>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:09:11 -07:00
Karthigan Srinivasan
7f100d1566 drivers/base/core.c: Fixed brace coding style issue.
Fixed brace coding style issue.

Signed-off-by: Karthigan Srinivasan <karthigan.srinivasan@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:06:30 -07:00
Sebastian Ott
8497d6a21c driver-core: fix race between device_register and driver_register
When a device is registered to a bus it will be a) added to the list
of devices of the bus and b) bind to a driver (if one matches). As a
result of a driver being registered at this bus between a) and b) this
device could already be bound to a driver. This leads to a warning
and incorrect refcounting.
To fix this add a check to device_attach to identify an already bound
device.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:06:29 -07:00
Pavan Savoy
fc2711992b drivers:misc:ti-st: remove rfkill dependency
rfkill is no longer used by Texas Instruments shared transport driver to
communicate with user-space.
This patch removes the dependency of rfkill to be enabled to build
shared transport driver in the Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:01:09 -07:00
Pavan Savoy
764b0c4b32 drivers:misc:ti-st: handle delayed tty receive
When certain technologies shutdown their interface without waiting for
the acknowledgement from the chip. The receive_buf from the TTY would be
invoked a while after the relevant technology is unregistered.

This patch introduces a new flag "is_registered" which maintains the
state of protocols BT, FM or GPS and thereby removes the need to clear
the protocol data from ST when protocols gets unregistered.

This fixes corner cases when HCI RESET is sent down from bluetooth stack
and the receive_buf is called from tty after 250ms before which
bluetooth would have unregistered from the system.
OR - when FM application decides to close down the device without
sending a power-off FM command resulting in some RDS data or interrupt
data coming in after the driver is unregistered.

Signed-off-by: Pavan Savoy <pavan_savoy@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-22 17:01:09 -07:00
Andrew Morton
70a5f52165 kmsg: properly support writev to avoid interleaved printk lines fix
make `len' size_t, avoid multiple-assignments.

Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 17:00:48 -07:00
Kay Sievers
7e5b58bcbc printk: /dev/kmsg - properly support writev() to avoid interleaved printk() lines
printk: /dev/kmsg - properly support writev() to avoid interleaved printk lines

We should avoid calling printk() in a loop, when we pass a single
string to /dev/kmsg with writev().

Cc: Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:59:58 -07:00
Jie Zhou
47296b1962 uio: clean uioinfo when uninstall uio driver
The uioinfo should be cleaned up when uninstall, otherwise re-install
failure of uio_pdrv_genirq.ko will happen.

Signed-off-by: Jie Zhou <b30303@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Aisheng Dong <b29396@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:59:57 -07:00
Hillf Danton
c6edc42fe1 uio: fix allocating minor id for uio device
The number of uio devices that could be used should be less than
UIO_MAX_DEVICES by design, and this work guards any cases in which id
more than UIO_MAX_DEVICES is utilized.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:56:03 -07:00
Hillf Danton
f0c554fddd uio: fix finding mm index for vma
When finding mm index for vma it looks more flexible that the mm could
be sparse, and both the size of mm and the pgoff of vma could give
correct selection.

Signed-off-by: Hillf Danton <dhillf@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:56:02 -07:00
Daniel Trautmann
d8408aef91 uio_netx: Add support for netPLC cards
This patch adds support for Hilscher / IBHsoftec netPLC cards to uio_netx userspace IO driver.

Changes from v1 -> v2:
Fixed whitespace errors reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl which were caused by email client.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Trautmann <dtrautmann@ibhsoftec-sps.de>
Signed-off-by: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@hansjkoch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:56:02 -07:00
Tsugikazu Shibata
5934b5f3b0 HOWTO: sync up Documentaion/ja_JP/HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:53:45 -07:00
Ludwig Nussel
088ab0b4d8 kernel/ksysfs.c: expose file_caps_enabled in sysfs
A kernel booted with no_file_caps allows to install fscaps on a binary
but doesn't actually honor the fscaps when running the binary. Userspace
currently has no sane way to determine whether installing fscaps
actually has any effect. Since parsing /proc/cmdline is fragile this
patch exposes the current setting (1 or 0) via /sys/kernel/fscaps

Signed-off-by: Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:51 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
aed65af1cc drivers: make device_type const
The device_type structure does not contain data that changes
during usage and should be const. This allows devices to declare
the struct const.

I have patches to change all the subsystems, but need the infra
structure change first.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:51 -07:00
Mike Waychison
695cca8763 firmware: Fix grammar in sysfs-firmware-dmi doc
Fix the grammar in describing the position attribute of DMI entries in
the dmi-sysfs module.  While here, make a couple other small clarifying
fixups to the docs.

Reported-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:51 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
3116aabc81 efivars: handle errors from register_efivars()
We should unwind and return an error if register_efivars() fails.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:50 -07:00
Dan Carpenter
051d51bc6a efivars: memory leak on error in create_efivars_bin_attributes()
This is a cut and paste bug.  We intended to free ->del_var and
->new_var but we only free ->new_var.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:50 -07:00
Felipe Balbi
bcdd323b89 device: add dev_WARN_ONCE
it's quite useful to print the device name
on the stack dump caused by WARN(), but
there are other cases where we might want
to use WARN_ONCE.

Introduce a helper similar to dev_WARN() for
that case too.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-19 16:45:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f0e615c3cb Linux 2.6.39-rc4 2011-04-18 21:26:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e024f69de9 Merge branch 'for-39-rc4' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm
* 'for-39-rc4' of git://codeaurora.org/quic/kernel/davidb/linux-msm:
  msm: timer: fix missing return value
  msm: Remove extraneous ffa device check
2011-04-18 15:44:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
96fd2d57b8 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input:
  Input: xen-kbdfront - fix mouse getting stuck after save/restore
  Input: estimate number of events per packet
  Input: evdev - indicate buffer overrun with SYN_DROPPED
  Input: document event types and codes and their intended use
  Input: add KEY_IMAGES specifically for AL Image Browser
  Input: twl4030_keypad - fix potential NULL dereference in twl4030_kp_probe()
  Input: h3600_ts - fix error handling at connect
  Input: twl4030_keypad - avoid potential NULL-pointer dereference
2011-04-18 13:29:03 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
8a83f33100 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
  block: add blk_run_queue_async
  block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
  md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
  md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
  md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
  md - remove old plugging code.
  md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
  md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
  block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
  Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
  block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks
2011-04-18 13:21:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5d5b1b9f79 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc:
  powerpc/powermac: Build fix with SMP and CPU hotplug
  powerpc/perf_event: Skip updating kernel counters if register value shrinks
  powerpc: Don't write protect kernel text with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE enabled
  powerpc: Fix oops if scan_dispatch_log is called too early
  powerpc/pseries: Use a kmem cache for DTL buffers
  powerpc/kexec: Fix regression causing compile failure on UP
  powerpc/85xx: disable Suspend support if SMP enabled
  powerpc/e500mc: Remove CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_NAP/CPU_FTR_MAYBE_CAN_DOZE
  powerpc/book3e: Fix CPU feature handling on 64-bit e5500
  powerpc: Check device status before adding serial device
  powerpc/85xx: Don't add disabled PCIe devices
2011-04-18 12:24:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
adff377bb1 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mason/btrfs-unstable: (24 commits)
  Btrfs: fix free space cache leak
  Btrfs: avoid taking the chunk_mutex in do_chunk_alloc
  Btrfs end_bio_extent_readpage should look for locked bits
  Btrfs: don't force chunk allocation in find_free_extent
  Btrfs: Check validity before setting an acl
  Btrfs: Fix incorrect inode nlink in btrfs_link()
  Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_real_readdir()
  Btrfs: Check if btrfs_next_leaf() returns error in btrfs_listxattr()
  Btrfs: make uncache_state unconditional
  btrfs: using cached extent_state in set/unlock combinations
  Btrfs: avoid taking the trans_mutex in btrfs_end_transaction
  Btrfs: fix subvolume mount by name problem when default mount subvolume is set
  fix user annotation in ioctl.c
  Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
  btrfs: properly handle overlapping areas in memmove_extent_buffer
  Btrfs: fix memory leaks in btrfs_new_inode()
  Btrfs: check for duplicate iov_base's when doing dio reads
  Btrfs: reuse the extent_map we found when calling btrfs_get_extent
  Btrfs: do not use async submit for small DIO io's
  Btrfs: don't split dio bios if we don't have to
  ...
2011-04-18 12:24:05 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d8bdc59f21 proc: do proper range check on readdir offset
Rather than pass in some random truncated offset to the pid-related
functions, check that the offset is in range up-front.

This is just cleanup, the previous commit fixed the real problem.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-18 10:36:54 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c78193e9c7 next_pidmap: fix overflow condition
next_pidmap() just quietly accepted whatever 'last' pid that was passed
in, which is not all that safe when one of the users is /proc.

Admittedly the proc code should do some sanity checking on the range
(and that will be the next commit), but that doesn't mean that the
helper functions should just do that pidmap pointer arithmetic without
checking the range of its arguments.

So clamp 'last' to PID_MAX_LIMIT.  The fact that we then do "last+1"
doesn't really matter, the for-loop does check against the end of the
pidmap array properly (it's only the actual pointer arithmetic overflow
case we need to worry about, and going one bit beyond isn't going to
overflow).

[ Use PID_MAX_LIMIT rather than pid_max as per Eric Biederman ]

Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>
Analyzed-by: Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net>
Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-04-18 10:35:30 -07:00
Igor Mammedov
c36b58e8a9 Input: xen-kbdfront - fix mouse getting stuck after save/restore
Mouse gets "stuck" after restore of PV guest but buttons are in working
condition.

If driver has been configured for ABS coordinates at start it will get
XENKBD_TYPE_POS events and then suddenly after restore it'll start getting
XENKBD_TYPE_MOTION events, that will be dropped later and they won't get
into user-space.

Regression was introduced by hunk 5 and 6 of
5ea5254aa0ad269cfbd2875c973ef25ab5b5e9db
("Input: xen-kbdfront - advertise either absolute or relative
coordinates").

Driver on restore should ask xen for request-abs-pointer again if it is
available. So restore parts that did it before 5ea5254.

Acked-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
[v1: Expanded the commit description]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-04-18 10:17:45 -07:00
Jeff Brown
80b4895aa4 Input: estimate number of events per packet
Calculate a default based on the number of ABS axes, REL axes,
and MT slots for the device during input device registration.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Brown <jeffbrown@android.com>
Reviewed-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@euromail.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2011-04-18 10:15:43 -07:00
Chris Mason
f65647c29b Btrfs: fix free space cache leak
The free space caching code was recently reworked to
cache all the pages it needed instead of using find_get_page everywhere.

One loop was missed though, so it ended up leaking pages.  This fixes
it to use our page array instead of find_get_page.

Signed-off-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
2011-04-18 08:55:34 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
24ecfbe27f block: add blk_run_queue_async
Instead of overloading __blk_run_queue to force an offload to kblockd
add a new blk_run_queue_async helper to do it explicitly.  I've kept
the blk_queue_stopped check for now, but I suspect it's not needed
as the check we do when the workqueue items runs should be enough.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 11:41:33 +02:00
Jens Axboe
4521cc4ed5 block: blk_delay_queue() should use kblockd workqueue
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 11:36:39 +02:00
NeilBrown
c3b328ac84 md: fix up raid1/raid10 unplugging.
We just need to make sure that an unplug event wakes up the md
thread, which is exactly what mddev_check_plugged does.

Also remove some plug-related code that is no longer needed.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown
7c13edc875 md: incorporate new plugging into raid5.
In raid5 plugging is used for 2 things:
 1/ collecting writes that require a bitmap update
 2/ collecting writes in the hope that we can create full
    stripes - or at least more-full.

We now release these different sets of stripes when plug_cnt
is zero.

Also in make_request, we call mddev_check_plug to hopefully increase
plug_cnt, and wake up the thread at the end if plugging wasn't
achieved for some reason.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:43 +10:00
NeilBrown
97658cdd3a md: provide generic support for handling unplug callbacks.
When an md device adds a request to a queue, it can call
mddev_check_plugged.
If this succeeds then we know that the md thread will be woken up
shortly, and ->plug_cnt will be non-zero until then, so some
processing can be delayed.

If it fails, then no unplug callback is expected and the make_request
function needs to do whatever is required to make the request happen.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:42 +10:00
NeilBrown
482c083492 md - remove old plugging code.
md has some plugging infrastructure for RAID5 to use because the
normal plugging infrastructure required a 'request_queue', and when
called from dm, RAID5 doesn't have one of those available.

This relied on the ->unplug_fn callback which doesn't exist any more.

So remove all of that code, both in md and raid5.  Subsequent patches
with restore the plugging functionality.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:42 +10:00
NeilBrown
af1db72d8b md/dm - remove remains of plug_fn callback.
Now that unplugging is done differently, the unplug_fn callback is
never called, so it can be completely discarded.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
NeilBrown
e1dfa0a297 md: use new plugging interface for RAID IO.
md/raid submits a lot of IO from the various raid threads.
So adding start/finish plug calls to those so that some
plugging happens.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
2011-04-18 18:25:41 +10:00
Jens Axboe
99e22598e9 block: drop queue lock before calling __blk_run_queue() for kblockd punt
If we know we are going to punt to kblockd, we can drop the queue
lock before calling into __blk_run_queue() since it only does a
safe bit test and a workqueue call. Since kblockd needs to grab
this very lock as one of the first things it does, it's a good
optimization to drop the lock before waking kblockd.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:59:55 +02:00
Jens Axboe
b4cb290e0a Revert "block: add callback function for unplug notification"
MD can't use this since it really requires us to be able to
keep more than a single piece of state for the unplug. Commit
048c9374 added the required support for MD, so get rid of this
now unused code.

This reverts commit f75664570d.

Conflicts:

	block/blk-core.c

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:54:05 +02:00
NeilBrown
048c9374a7 block: Enhance new plugging support to support general callbacks
md/raid requires an unplug callback, but as it does not uses
requests the current code cannot provide one.

So allow arbitrary callbacks to be attached to the blk_plug.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
2011-04-18 09:52:22 +02:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
7b84b29b8c powerpc/powermac: Build fix with SMP and CPU hotplug
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-18 15:46:35 +10:00
Eric B Munson
86c74ab317 powerpc/perf_event: Skip updating kernel counters if register value shrinks
Because of speculative event roll back, it is possible for some event coutners
to decrease between reads on POWER7.  This causes a problem with the way that
counters are updated.  Delta calues are calculated in a 64 bit value and the
top 32 bits are masked.  If the register value has decreased, this leaves us
with a very large positive value added to the kernel counters.  This patch
protects against this by skipping the update if the delta would be negative.
This can lead to a lack of precision in the coutner values, but from my testing
the value is typcially fewer than 10 samples at a time.

Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2011-04-18 13:08:23 +10:00