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Michael Ernst
139b83dd57 [S390] cio: Remove cio_msg kernel parameter.
The only sporadically used CIO_DEBUG messages are replaced by ordinary
CIO_MSG_EVENT messages. The CIO_MSG_EVENT messages debug levels are
consolidated.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst <mernst@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07 09:23:01 +02:00
Christian Borntraeger
0eaeafa10f [S390] s390-kvm: leave sie context on work. Removes preemption requirement
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>

This patch fixes a bug with cpu bound guest on kvm-s390. Sometimes it
was impossible to deliver a signal to a spinning guest. We used
preemption as a circumvention. The preemption notifiers called
vcpu_load, which checked for pending signals and triggered a host
intercept. But even with preemption, a sigkill was not delivered
immediately.

This patch changes the low level host interrupt handler to check for the
SIE  instruction, if TIF_WORK is set. In that case we change the
instruction pointer of the return PSW to rerun the vcpu_run loop. The kvm
code sees an intercept reason 0 if that happens. This patch adds accounting
for these types of intercept as well.

The advantages:
- works with and without preemption
- signals are delivered immediately
- much better host latencies without preemption

Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07 09:23:01 +02:00
Martin Schwidefsky
2688905e6a [S390] s390: Optimize user and work TIF check
On return from syscall or interrupt, we have to check if we return to
userspace (likely) and if there is work todo (less likely) to decide
if we handle the work. We can optimize this check: we first check for
the less likely work case and then check for userspace.

This patch is also a preparation for an additional patch, that fixes a bug
in KVM dealing with cpu bound guests.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-05-07 09:23:00 +02:00
Jens Axboe
bf0f97025c block: sysfs store function needs to grab queue_lock and use queue_flag_*()
Concurrency isn't a big deal here since we have requests in flight
at this point, but do the locked variant to set a better example.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-05-07 09:09:39 +02:00
Mike Frysinger
45828b812d Blackfin Serial Driver: abstract away DLAB differences into header
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Mike Frysinger
89bf6dc51a Blackfin Serial Driver: macro away the IER differences between processors
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
56f8771302 [Blackfin] arch: remove useless IRQ_SW_INT defines
IRQ_SW_INT1 and IRQ_SW_INT2 obsolete:
Remove useless defines
Fix SYS_IRQS
Keep numbering scheme, so we don't break existing configurations.

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-10 00:11:59 +08:00
Mike Frysinger
e4f7c0bf1f [Blackfin] arch: protect linux/usb/musb.h include until the driver gets mainlined
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-10 00:08:12 +08:00
Mike Frysinger
b964c592d4 [Blackfin] arch: protect linux/usb/isp1362.h include until the driver gets mainlined
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-10 00:06:10 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
197fba5686 [Blackfin] arch: add EBIU supporting for BF54x EZKIT SMSC LAN911x/LAN921x families embedded ethernet driver
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 17:03:27 +08:00
Grace Pan
d7323696a9 [Blackfin] arch: Set spi flash partition on bf527 as like bf548.
Signed-off-by: Grace Pan <grace.pan@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Meihui Fan
96a87e2f15 [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - Remove module will not free L1 memory used
Remove module will not free L1 memory used which caused by
memory access after free.  This patch fixes it.

Signed-off-by: Meihui Fan <mhfan@hhcn.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Mike Frysinger
60c05953c1 [Blackfin] arch: fix wrong header name in comment
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
b9c9e78894 [Blackfin] arch: Fix BUG - spi flash on bf527 ezkit would fail at mount
BF527-EZKit features 16MBit M25P16 flash

Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bryan Wu
72268689cf [Blackfin] arch: add twi_lcd and twi_keypad i2c board info to bf527-ezkit
- JP3 should be installed for STAMP enable
 - IRQ for twi_keypad driver is IRQ_PF8

Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
d7e5dd41e3 [Blackfin] arch: Add physmap partition for BF527-EZkit
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt
0893f1250f [Blackfin] arch: fix gdb testing regression
When transferring to IRQ5 from an exception, save SYSCFG in memory across the
transfer and clear the trace bit.

When we get a single step exception, check whether we can safely clear the
trace bit in SYSCFG.  We can (and should) clear it after the first instruction
of the interrupt handler; the first insn saves SYSCFG to the stack in all
handlers.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt
8513c42edb [Blackfin] arch: disable single stepping when delivering a signal
When delivering a signal, disable single stepping but call
ptrace_notify if it was enabled before. The idea was taken
from the x86 port.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt
7d39270d31 [Blackfin] arch: Delete unused (copied from m68k) entries in asm-offsets.c.
Fix some really ancient code that was correct only for the m68k port.
Delete unused (i.e. copied from m68k) entries in asm-offsets.c.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt
ddb3f00ca0 [Blackfin] arch: In the double fault handler, set up the PT_RETI slot
In the double fault handler, set up the PT_RETI slot so that
we print out the correct return address in the dumping code.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Vitja Makarov
1bfb4b21c7 [Blackfin] arch: Support for CPU_FREQ and NOHZ
Singed-off-by: Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov@gmail.com>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
14b03204c8 [Blackfin] arch: Functional power management support: Add CPU and platform voltage scaling support
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Bernd Schmidt
19d6d7d53c [Blackfin] arch: fix bug - breaking the atomic sections code.
The following cleanup patch:
  add __user markings to a few userspace system functions

mysteriously added a "&" operator that doesn't belong in there, breaking the
atomic sections code.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
c2f9527979 [Blackfin] arch: Equalize include files: Add VR_CTL masks
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Michael Hennerich
67dea022d8 [Blackfin] arch: Cleanup Kconfig, fix comment and make sure we exclude CCLK=SCLK for some configurations
Signed-off-by: Michael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org>
2008-05-07 11:41:26 +08:00
Linus Torvalds
bd1d23a810 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  sparc64: Fix initrd regression.
  usb: Sparc build fix, make USB_ISP1760_OF depend on PPC_OF
  sparc64: remove online_page()
  sparc64: use compat_sys_utimes instead of home-grown local copy.
  sbus: Fix bpp driver build.
  sparc video: make blank use proper constant
  Revert "[SPARC64]: Wrap SMP IPIs with irq_enter()/irq_exit()."
  sparc: tcx.c remove unnecessary function
2008-05-06 18:18:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c0a18111e5 Revert "uml: fix gcc problem"
This reverts commit 22eecde2f9.  Uli
reports that it breaks UML on x86-64 with the Fedora 8 gcc (gcc 4.1.2),
causing a crash on startup. See

	http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=121011722806093&w=2

for a trace.

Reported-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-06 17:09:27 -07:00
Roland Dreier
273748cc90 RDMA/cxgb3: Fix severe limit on userspace memory registration size
Currently, iw_cxgb3 is severely limited on the amount of userspace
memory that can be registered in in a single memory region, which
causes big problems for applications that expect to be able to
register 100s of MB.

The problem is that the driver uses a single kmalloc()ed buffer to
hold the physical buffer list (PBL) for the entire memory region
during registration, which means that 8 bytes of contiguous memory are
required for each page of memory being registered.  For example, a 64
MB registration will require 128 KB of contiguous memory with 4 KB
pages, and it unlikely that such an allocation will succeed on a busy
system.

This is purely a driver problem: the temporary page list buffer is not
needed by the hardware, so we can fix this by writing the PBL to the
hardware in page-sized chunks rather than all at once.  We do this by
splitting the memory registration operation up into several steps:

 - Allocate PBL space in adapter memory for the full registration
 - Copy PBL to adapter memory in chunks
 - Allocate STag and enable memory region

This also allows several other cleanups to the __cxio_tpt_op()
interface and related parts of the driver.

This change leaves the reregister memory region and memory window
operations broken, but they already didn't work due to other
longstanding bugs, so fixing them will be left to a later patch.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-05-06 15:56:22 -07:00
Steve French
cf432eb50f [CIFS] cleanup cifsd completion
Was a holdover from the old kernel_thread based cifsd
code. We needed to know that the thread had set the task variable
before proceeding. Now that kthread_run returns the new task, this
doesn't appear to be needed anymore.

As best I can tell, this sleep was intended to try to prevent
cifs_umount from freeing the cifsSesInfo struct before cifsd had
exited. Now that cifsd is using the kthread API, we know that
when kthread_stop returns that cifsd has exited, so I don't
think this is needed any longer.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Christop Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-05-06 22:27:16 +00:00
David S. Miller
d45100f7b6 sparc64: Fix initrd regression.
We die because we forget to convert initrd_start and
initrd_end to virtual addresses.

Reported by Mikael Pettersson

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-06 15:19:54 -07:00
David S. Miller
3eb6753e20 usb: Sparc build fix, make USB_ISP1760_OF depend on PPC_OF
Sparc doesn't have some of the OF interfaces this driver
wants to use.

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-05-06 15:15:12 -07:00
Steve French
dea570e08a [CIFS] Remove over-indented code in find_unc().
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
2008-05-06 22:05:51 +00:00
Roland Dreier
0e9913362a RDMA/cxgb3: Don't add PBL memory to gen_pool in chunks
Current iw_cxgb3 code adds PBL memory to the driver's gen_pool in 2 MB
chunks.  This limits the largest single allocation that can be done to
the same size, which means that with 4 KB pages, each of which takes 8
bytes of PBL memory, the largest memory region that can be allocated
is 1 GB (256K PBL entries * 4 KB/entry).

Remove this limit by adding all the PBL memory in a single gen_pool
chunk, if possible.  Add code that falls back to smaller chunks if
gen_pool_add() fails, which can happen if there is not sufficient
contiguous lowmem for the internal gen_pool bitmap.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2008-05-06 15:03:38 -07:00
OGAWA Hirofumi
db176c6ed8 Fix bogus warning in sysdev_driver_register()
if ((drv->entry.next != drv->entry.prev) ||
            (drv->entry.next != NULL)) {

warns list_empty(&drv->entry).

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
[ Version 2 totally redone based on suggestions from Linus & Greg ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-06 13:22:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6ce07c7b61 VFS: fix unused variable warning
Commit 33dcdac2df ("kill ->put_inode")
removed the final use of i_op->put_inode, but left the now totally
unused "op" variable in iput().

Get rid of it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-06 13:13:37 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
aeed5fce37 x86: fix PAE pmd_bad bootup warning
Fix warning from pmd_bad() at bootup on a HIGHMEM64G HIGHPTE x86_32.

That came from 9fc34113f6 x86: debug pmd_bad();
but we understand now that the typecasting was wrong for PAE in the previous
version: pagetable pages above 4GB looked bad and stopped Arjan from booting.

And revert that cded932b75 x86: fix pmd_bad
and pud_bad to support huge pages.  It was the wrong way round: we shouldn't
weaken every pmd_bad and pud_bad check to let huge pages slip through - in
part they check that we _don't_ have a huge page where it's not expected.

Put the x86 pmd_bad() and pud_bad() definitions back to what they have long
been: they can be improved (x86_32 should use PTE_MASK, to stop PAE thinking
junk in the upper word is good; and x86_64 should follow x86_32's stricter
comparison, to stop thinking any subset of required bits is good); but that
should be a later patch.

Fix Hans' good observation that follow_page() will never find pmd_huge()
because that would have already failed the pmd_bad test: test pmd_huge in
between the pmd_none and pmd_bad tests.  Tighten x86's pmd_huge() check?
No, once it's a hugepage entry, it can get quite far from a good pmd: for
example, PROT_NONE leaves it with only ACCESSED of the KERN_PGTABLE bits.

However... though follow_page() contains this and another test for huge
pages, so it's nice to keep it working on them, where does it actually get
called on a huge page?  get_user_pages() checks is_vm_hugetlb_page(vma) to
to call alternative hugetlb processing, as does unmap_vmas() and others.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Earlier-version-tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans Rosenfeld <hans.rosenfeld@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-05-06 13:08:58 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bb78be8397 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
  [PATCH] fix SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk()
  [PATCH] kill ->put_inode
  [PATCH] fix reservation discarding in affs
2008-05-06 11:39:57 -07:00
Al Viro
0b2bac2f1e [PATCH] fix SMP ordering hole in fcntl_setlk()
fcntl_setlk()/close() race prevention has a subtle hole - we need to
make sure that if we *do* have an fcntl/close race on SMP box, the
access to descriptor table and inode->i_flock won't get reordered.

As it is, we get STORE inode->i_flock, LOAD descriptor table entry vs.
STORE descriptor table entry, LOAD inode->i_flock with not a single
lock in common on both sides.  We do have BKL around the first STORE,
but check in locks_remove_posix() is outside of BKL and for a good
reason - we don't want BKL on common path of close(2).

Solution is to hold ->file_lock around fcheck() in there; that orders
us wrt removal from descriptor table that preceded locks_remove_posix()
on close path and we either come first (in which case eviction will be
handled by the close side) or we'll see the effect of close and do
eviction ourselves.  Note that even though it's read-only access,
we do need ->file_lock here - rcu_read_lock() won't be enough to
order the things.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-06 13:58:34 -04:00
Steve French
a815752ac0 Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2008-05-06 17:55:32 +00:00
Christoph Hellwig
33dcdac2df [PATCH] kill ->put_inode
And with that last patch to affs killing the last put_inode instance we
can finally, after many years of transition kill this racy and awkward
interface.

(It's kinda funny that even the description in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt was entirely wrong..)

Also remove a very misleading comment above the defintion of
struct super_operations.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-06 13:45:34 -04:00
Roman Zippel
dca3c33652 [PATCH] fix reservation discarding in affs
- remove affs_put_inode, so preallocations aren't discared unnecessarily
  often.
- remove affs_drop_inode, it's called with a spinlock held, so it can't
  use a mutex.
- make i_opencnt atomic
- avoid direct b_count manipulations
- a few allocation failure fixes, so that these are more gracefully
  handled now.
Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2008-05-06 13:45:33 -04:00
Christian Ehrhardt
78be76476a [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix PCI mem in sequoia DTS
This patch is fixes the sequoia.dts device tree file to use the values defined
in the 440Epx data sheet from AMCC.

That fixes an issue where some devices, including graphics cards, would not
initialize properly because the PCI resource space was not big enough.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-05-06 12:37:15 -05:00
Stefan Roese
80daac3f86 [POWERPC] 4xx: Add endpoint support to 4xx PCIe driver
This patch adds basic endpoint support to the 4xx PCIe driver.

This is done by checking the device_type property of the PCIe
device node ("pci" for root-complex and "pci-endpoint" for endpoint
configuration).

Note: Currently we map a fixed 64MByte window to PLB address 0 (SDRAM).
This should probably be configurable via a dts property.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-05-06 12:10:43 -05:00
Kok, Auke
f227ec3ca2 e1000e: don't return half-read eeprom on error
On a read error, e1000e might have returned uninitialized block of
eeprom data back to userspace. The convention is that 0xff is "empty",
so mark the entire eeprom as empty in case of an error.

Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:38:02 -04:00
Joakim Tjernlund
e410553fd3 ucc_geth: Don't use RX clock as TX clock.
Commit 9fb1e350e1,
ucc_geth: use rx-clock-name and tx-clock-name device tree properties
Introduced a typo that made the driver use the RX clock
as TX clock, causing massive TX errors.

Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:27:58 -04:00
Alan Cox
1b3aa7afb6 cxgb3: Use CAP_SYS_RAWIO for firmware
Otherwise theoretically at least

	CAP_NET_ADMIN
	Reload new firmware
	Wait..
	Firmware patches kernel

So it should be CAY_SYS_RAWIO - not that I suspect this is in fact a
credible attack vector!

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:27:53 -04:00
Don Fry
01935d7d2c pcnet32: delete non NAPI code from driver.
Delete the non-napi code from the driver and Kconfig.
Tested x86_64.  Apply at next open opportunity.

Signed-off-by: Don Fry <pcnet32@verizon.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:22:39 -04:00
Scott Wood
a86e2cbe26 fs_enet: Fix a memory leak in fs_enet_mdio_probe
There are more memory leaks in the !PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING case, but that code
will disappear soon along with arch/ppc.

Reported by Daniel Marjamki <danielm77@spray.se> at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10591

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:22:37 -04:00
Bruce Robson
46fa06170d [netdrvr] eexpress: IPv6 fails - multicast problems
Taken from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10577

I was unable to access a computer containing an Intel EtherExpress 16 network
card using IPv6.

I traced this to failure of neighbour discovery.  When I used an "ip -6 neigh
add" command, on the computer attempting access, to insert a binding between
the IPv6 address of the computer with the Intel EtherExpress 16 network card
and the card's ethernet address, I was able to access that computer using
IPv6.

Neighbour discovery requires working multicast.  The driver sources file
eexpress.c contains an approximately 30 line function eexp_setup_filter used
when loading multicast addresses.

I found 3 problems in this function

1) It wrote the number of multicast addresses to the card instead of the
    number of bytes in the multicast addresses.

2) When loading multiple multicast addresses it loaded the first one
    provided multiple times instead of loading each one once.

3) The setting of pointer 'data' from 'dmi->dmi_addr' occured before the
    test for the error situation of 'dmi' being NULL.

Correcting these problems allows the computer with the Intel EtherExpress 16
network card to found by IPv6 neighbour discovery.

p.s. There is some information on the Intel EtherExpress 16 at
http://www.intel.com/support/etherexpress/vintage/sb/cs-013500.htm
Datasheet for the Intel 82586 ethernet controller used by the card
http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/8/2/5/8/82586.shtml

Signed-off-by: Bruce Robson <bns_robson@hotmail.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:22:34 -04:00
Paulius Zaleckas
1daad055bf 3c59x: use netstats in net_device structure
Use net_device_stats from net_device structure instead of local.

Signed-off-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <klassert@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-06 12:22:11 -04:00