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Herbert Xu 5cb1454b86 [CRYPTO] Allow multiple implementations of the same algorithm
This is the first step on the road towards asynchronous support in
the Crypto API.  It adds support for having multiple crypto_alg objects
for the same algorithm registered in the system.

For example, each device driver would register a crypto_alg object
for each algorithm that it supports.  While at the same time the
user may load software implementations of those same algorithms.

Users of the Crypto API may then select a specific implementation
by name, or choose any implementation for a given algorithm with
the highest priority.

The priority field is a 32-bit signed integer.  In future it will be
possible to modify it from user-space.

This also provides a solution to the problem of selecting amongst
various AES implementations, that is, aes vs. aes-i586 vs. aes-padlock.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2006-01-09 14:15:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f17578decc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb 2006-01-09 13:03:58 -08:00
Oliver Endriss 5b0fa4fff1 V4L/DVB (3325): WSS output interface for av7110
- Implemented v4l2 api for sliced vbi data output
to pass WSS data from userspace to the av7110

Signed-off-by: Oliver Endriss <o.endriss@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 18:21:37 -02:00
Linus Torvalds 6150c32589 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-09 10:03:44 -08:00
Knut Petersen 44637a12f8 [PATCH] Update cyblafb driver
This is a major update to the cyblafb framebuffer driver. Most
of the stuff has been tested in the mm tree.

Main advantages:
============
  - vxres > xres support
  - ywrap and xpan support
  - much faster for almost all modes (e.g. 1280x1024-16bpp
     draws more than 41 full screens of text instead of about 25
     full screens of text per second on authors Epia 5000)
  - module init/exit code fixed
  - bugs triggered by console rotation fixed
  - lots of minor improvements
  - startup modes suitable for high performance scrolling
     in all directions

This diff  also contains a lot of white space fixes.

No side effects are possible, only one single graphics core is affected.

Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 10:00:36 -08:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab cab462f716 V4L/DVB (3307): Some cleanups at I2C modules
- i2c names shorten
- removed obsoleted flags on newer modules
- small cleanups

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:53:26 -02:00
Oleg Nesterov 677517771b [PATCH] rcu: uninline __rcu_pending()
__rcu_pending() is rather fat and called twice from rcu_pending().

rcu_pending() has multiple callers, and not that small too.

This patch uninlines both of them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-09 09:35:44 -08:00
Hans Verkuil fac9e89999 V4L/DVB (3278): convert diagnostics over to the new v4l2-common.h macros.
- Convert diagnostics over to the new v4l2-common.h macros.
- deprecated tuner_debug option, the new option is debug.
- renamed cx25840_debug to debug.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:40 -02:00
Hans Verkuil 7e8b09ea16 V4L/DVB (3276): Added new diagnositics macros, convert msp3400 to the new macros.
- Added new v4l_err, v4l_warn, v4l_info and v4l_dbg macros to
v4l2-common.h for use in v4l-dvb i2c drivers. This ensures
a unique prefix for each device instance.
- At a later stage these macros may be reimplemented using the
device-generic macros from device.h.
- Converted the msp3400 driver to the new macros.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:40 -02:00
Michael Krufky 5e453dc757 V4L/DVB (3269): ioctls cleanups.
- Now, all internal ioctls are at v4l2-common.h
- removed unused ioctl at saa6752hs.h
- all debug ioctl code moved to v4l2-common.c
- removed duplicated stuff from other cards

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:32:31 -02:00
Linus Torvalds e2688f00dc Merge branch 'blk-softirq' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
Manual merge for trivial #include changes
2006-01-09 09:26:40 -08:00
Hans Verkuil 3578d3dd0b V4L/DVB (3214): Calculate the saa7115 AMCLK regs instead of using fixed values
- Calculate the audio master clock registers from the actual
frequencies. This simplifies the code and it also prepares
for adding CGC2 support.
- VIDIOC_INT_AUDIO_CLOCK_FREQ now receives an u32 instead of
an enum. It is more generic and actually easier to implement.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:41 -02:00
Hans Verkuil a544521ef0 V4L/DVB (3245): Added some comments about multiple tuner support.
- Added some comments to make clearer how to use ioctl api to handle
multiple tuners at the same board.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:39 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 21dcd8ccd7 V4L/DVB (3234): Included advanced debug option to tvp5150.c
- Included advanced debug option to tvp5150.c
- Now, advanced debug info is the first item at V4L menu.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:37 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 9bb13a6dc3 V4L/DVB (3233): Fixed API to set I2S speed control
- Created a new ioctl to control I2S speed. Old calls to an
inadequate V4L2 API replaced.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:37 -02:00
Michael Krufky 83ac8722be V4L/DVB (3196): correct Thomson DTT 761x frequency ranges
- Corrected Thomson DTT 7611 tuner programming, based on spec sheet
- renamed to Thomson DTT 761x
- applies to DTT 7611 7611A 7612 7613 7613A 7614 7615 7615A
(DTT 7610 is similar, but slightly different programming)
- corrected frequency ranges for analog and digital modes

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:29 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 7e57819169 V4L/DVB (3167): added ntsc parameter to tuner and more standardized debugs
- Debug message changed to be coherent with other modules
- added ntsc parameter
- parameters moved to the beginning at the file
- tuner_status moved to a better position.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:27 -02:00
Hans Verkuil f98c55ea18 V4L/DVB (3116): tda9887 improvements: better defaults, better configurability.
- Set the tuner takeover point to 0x10 for NTSC/radio and 0x14 for PAL/SECAM.
- Allow override through TDA9887_SET_CONFIG
- PAL-N belongs with PAL-BG as does PAL-H. PAL-Nc belongs to PAL-M
- Add SECAM-BGH
- Set video freq to cVideoIF_38_90 for DK standards.
- Add cTunerGainLow to radio, change deemphasis to 75 for mono.
- Add ntsc module param for 'M' and 'J' (Japanese) standards.
- Fix module handling for 2.4.
- Now able to select all standards through pal/secam/ntsc module options

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:18 -02:00
Hans Verkuil 39e8f40da2 V4L/DVB (3105): Remove AUDC_CONFIG_PINNACLE horror, fix mt20xx radio support.
- Remove AUDC_CONFIG_PINNACLE horror. This also fixes radio support
for mt20xx tuners.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:16 -02:00
Hans Verkuil 174329d951 V4L/DVB (3062): Fix wrong tuner.h define for tuner 46
- Fix wrong tuner.h define for tuner 46 (it's a Panasonic, not a Microtune).

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:10 -02:00
Andrew de Quincey 36cb557a2f DVB (2444): Implement frontend-specific tuning and the ability to disable zigzag
- Implement frontend-specific tuning and the ability to disable zigzag

Signed-off-by: Andrew de Quincey <adq_dvb@lidskialf.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:07 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab e142e5107f V4L (1021): Tuner description now follows the same CodingStyle as the others
- Tuner description now follows the same CodingStyle as the others

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:03 -02:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab f3c5987a38 V4L (0987): Added Secam L' std on tda9887 and common macros moved to videodev2.h
- Added SECAM L' video standard
- Common std macros moved to videodev2.h

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:25:00 -02:00
Arnd Bergmann 0d0fbf8152 V4L (926_2): Moves compat32 functions from fs to v4l subsystem
This moves the 32 bit ioctl compatibility handlers for
Video4Linux into a new file and adds explicit calls to them
to each v4l device driver.

Unfortunately, there does not seem to be any code handling
the v4l2 ioctls, so quite often the code goes through two
separate conversions, first from 32 bit v4l to 64 bit v4l,
and from there to 64 bit v4l2. My patch does not change
that, so there is still much room for improvement.

Also, some drivers have additional ioctl numbers, for
which the conversion should be handled internally to
that driver.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
2006-01-09 15:24:57 -02:00
Jens Axboe 8672d57138 [IDE] Use the block layer deferred softirq request completion
This patch makes IDE use the new blk_complete_request() interface.
There's still room for improvement, as __ide_end_request() really
could drop the lock after getting HWGROUP->rq (why does it need to
hold it in the first place? If ->rq access isn't serialized, we are
screwed anyways).

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:03:35 +01:00
Jens Axboe 1aea6434ee [SCSI] Kill the SCSI softirq handling
This patch moves the SCSI softirq handling to the block layer version.
There should be no functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:03:03 +01:00
Jens Axboe ff856bad67 [BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: Enable out-of-order request completions through softirq
Request completion can be a quite heavy process, since it needs to
iterate through the entire request and complete the bio's it holds.
This patch adds blk_complete_request() which moves this processing
into a dedicated block softirq.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 16:02:34 +01:00
Jens Axboe 356cebea11 [BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 15:30:20 +01:00
Coywolf Qi Hunt 769db45b73 make elv_try_merge() static, kill the dead declaration of
elv_try_last_merge().

Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-01-09 14:44:15 +01:00
Anton Blanchard 32a33994d5 [PATCH] ppc64: Fix oprofile when compiled as a module
My recent changes to oprofile broke it when built as a module. Fix it by
using an enum instead of a function pointer. This way we still retain
the oprofile configuration in the cputable.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 16:02:52 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5b9ca52691 [PATCH] 3/5 powerpc: Add platform functions interpreter
This is the platform function interpreter itself along with the backends
for UniN/U3/U4, mac-io, GPIOs and i2c. It adds the ability to execute
those do-platform-* scripts in the device-tree (at least for most
devices for which a backend is provided). This should replace the clock
spreading hacks properly. It might also have an impact on all sort of
machines since some of the scripts marked "at init" will now be executed
on boot (or some other on sleep/wakeup), those will possibly do things
that the kernel didn't do at all, like setting some values into some i2c
devices (changing thermal sensor calibration or conversion rate) etc...
Thus regression testing is MUCH welcome. Also loook for errors in dmesg.
That's also why I've left rather verbose debugging enabled in this
version of the patch.

(I do expect some Windtunnel G4s to show some errors as they have an i2c
clock chip on the PMU bus that uses some primitives that the i2c backend
doesn't implement yet. I really need users that have one of those
machine to come back to me so we can get that done right, though the
errors themselves should be harmless, I suspect the machine might not
run at full speed).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:18 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt a28d3af2a2 [PATCH] 2/5 powerpc: Rework PowerMac i2c part 2
This is the continuation of the previous patch. This one removes the old
PowerMac i2c drivers (i2c-keywest and i2c-pmac-smu) and replaces them
both with a single stub driver that uses the new PowerMac low i2c layer.

Now that i2c-keywest is gone, the low-i2c code is extended to support
interrupt driver transfers. All i2c busses now appear as platform
devices. Compatibility with existing drivers should be maintained as the
i2c bus names have been kept identical, except for the SMU bus but in
that later case, all users has been fixed.

With that patch added, matching a device node to an i2c_adapter becomes
trivial.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:17 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 730745a5c4 [PATCH] 1/5 powerpc: Rework PowerMac i2c part 1
This is the first part of a rework of the PowerMac i2c code. It
completely reworks the "low_i2c" layer. It is now more flexible,
supports KeyWest, SMU and PMU i2c busses, and provides functions to
match device nodes to i2c busses and adapters.

This patch also extends & fix some bugs in the SMU driver related to i2c
support and removes the clock spreading hacks from the pmac feature code
rather than adapting them to the new API since they'll be replaced by
the platform function code completely in patch 3/5

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:47:16 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 2fb9d20636 [PATCH] spufs: set irq affinity for running threads
For far, all SPU triggered interrupts always end up on
the first SMT thread, which is a bad solution.

This patch implements setting the affinity to the
CPU that was running last when entering execution on
an SPU. This should result in a significant reduction
in IPI calls and better cache locality for SPE thread
specific data.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:44:57 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann aeb013772a [PATCH] spufs: fix allocation on 64k pages
The size of the local store is architecture defined
and independent from the page size, so it should
not be defined in terms of pages in the first place.

This mistake broke a few places when building for
64kb pages.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:44:55 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann f0831acc4b [PATCH] spufs: abstract priv1 register access.
In a hypervisor based setup, direct access to the first
priviledged register space can typically not be allowed
to the kernel and has to be implemented through hypervisor
calls.

As suggested by Masato Noguchi, let's abstract the register
access trough a number of function calls. Since there is
currently no public specification of actual hypervisor
calls to implement this, I only provide a place that
makes it easier to hook into.

Cc: Masato Noguchi <Masato.Noguchi@jp.sony.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff.levand@am.sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:44:49 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann 8837d9216f [PATCH] spufs: clean up use of bitops
checking bits manually might not be synchonized with
the use of set_bit/clear_bit. Make sure we always use
the correct bitops by removing the unnecessary
identifiers.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:44:43 +11:00
Arnd Bergmann c902be71dc [PATCH] cell: enable pause(0) in cpu_idle
This patch enables support for pause(0) power management state
for the Cell Broadband Processor, which is import for power efficient
operation. The pervasive infrastructure will in the future enable
us to introduce more functionality specific to the Cell's
pervasive unit.

From: Maximino Aguilar <maguilar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arndb@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:44:32 +11:00
Haren Myneni 022930ebea [PATCH] Small fix in eeh definitions when CONFIG_EEH not enabled
Undefined symbols (eeh_add_device_tree_early and eeh_remove_bus_device)
when EEH is not enabled. This small patch will fix this.

Acked-by: Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:35:06 +11:00
Kumar Gala be6b843918 [PATCH] powerpc: added a udbg_progress
Added a common udbg_progress for use by ppc_md.progress()

Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:33:50 +11:00
Matt Mackall 64ca9004b8 [PATCH] Make vm86 support optional
This adds an option to remove vm86 support under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.  Saves
about 5k.

This version eliminates most of the #ifdefs of the previous version and
instead uses function stubs in vm86.h.  Also, release_vm86_irqs is moved
from asm-i386/irq.h to a more appropriate home in vm86.h so that the stubs
can live together.

$ size vmlinux-baseline vmlinux-novm86
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
2920821  523232  190652 3634705  377611 vmlinux-baseline
2916268  523100  190492 3629860  376324 vmlinux-novm86

Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:11 -08:00
Andrew Morton ef9ceab282 [PATCH] remove semicolons from save_flags()
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:08 -08:00
Jan Blunck 6a878184c2 [PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1
Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is
using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the
structure or union members.

GCC Manual:
  "Specifying Attributes of Types

   packed
    This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies
    that
    each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory
    required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the
    smallest integral type should be used.

    Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to
    specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union
    members."

Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:07 -08:00
Marko Kohtala d8a3349667 [PATCH] parport: bring back an unused phase for ppdev ioctl
Earlier fix removed unused phase, but that changed the values for other
phases.  Since these are exposed to userspace through ppdev, it is safer
not to change them.  Restore the unused phase value.

Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:07 -08:00
Paul Mackerras 42650d8c90 powerpc: Fix some #ifndef __KERNEL__ that should be #ifdef
Grrr....

Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-01-09 15:14:05 +11:00
Brian Gerst 7e7f358c8f [PATCH] Split out screen_info from tty.h
This makes it possible for boot code to use screen_info without dragging in
all of tty.h.

Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:05 -08:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso a12dea7af9 [PATCH] PTRACE_SYSEMU is only for i386 and clashes with other ptrace codes of other archs
PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP} is actually arch specific, for now, and the
current allocated number clashes with a ptrace code of frv, i.e.
PTRACE_GETFDPIC.  I should have submitted this much earlier, anyway we get no
breakage for this.

CC: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Andrew Morton 349aef0bc4 [PATCH] shrink struct page
Reduce the size of the pageframe for NR_CPUS>4, CONFIG_PREEMPT back to the
minimal size by unionising both ->private and ->mapping with the pagetable
lock.

It uses an anonymous struct and hence requires gcc-3.x.

Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:04 -08:00
Benjamin LaHaise 59d9136b98 [PATCH] aio: reorder kiocb structure elements to make sync iocb setup faster
Reorder members of the kiocb structure to make sync kiocb setup faster.  By
setting the elements sequentially, the write combining buffers on the CPU
are able to combine the writes into a single burst, which results in fewer
cache cycles being consumed, freeing them up for other code.  This results
in a 10-20KB/s[*] increase on the bw_unix part of LMbench on my test
system.

* The improvement varies based on what other patches are in the system,
  as there are a number of bottlenecks, so this number is not absolutely
  accurate.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:03 -08:00
Bjorn Helgaas 80851ef2a5 [PATCH] /dev/mem: validate mmap requests
Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests.

This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write
paths.

The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or
64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or
uncacheable).  This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a
machine check.

Sample problem scenario:
  - Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K
  - efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule
  - Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0
  - hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here")
  - Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB
    memory, e.g., sx1000)

In the scenario above, the only choices are
  - Use WB for hwinfo mmap.  Can't do this because it causes attribute
    aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space.
  - Use UC for hwinfo mmap.  Can't do this because the chipset may not
    support UC for that region.
  - Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL.  That's what this patch does.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-08 20:14:02 -08:00