random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799
and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:
> 8f4d37ec07 is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec07
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
> sched: high-res preemption tick
Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:
> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.
Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.
Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().
However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.
Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...
Mihai reported test success as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed. It is
declared if CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_RT_GROUP_SCHED, but only used if CONFIG_SMP.
This is a consequence of patch 1f11eb6a8b plus
patch 1100ac91b6.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
[PATCH] ocfs2: fix oops in mmap_truncate testing
configfs: call drop_link() to cleanup after create_link() failure
configfs: Allow ->make_item() and ->make_group() to return detailed errors.
configfs: Fix failing mkdir() making racing rmdir() fail
configfs: Fix deadlock with racing rmdir() and rename()
configfs: Make configfs_new_dirent() return error code instead of NULL
configfs: Protect configfs_dirent s_links list mutations
configfs: Introduce configfs_dirent_lock
ocfs2: Don't snprintf() without a format.
ocfs2: Fix CONFIG_OCFS2_DEBUG_FS #ifdefs
ocfs2/net: Silence build warnings on sparc64
ocfs2: Handle error during journal load
ocfs2: Silence an error message in ocfs2_file_aio_read()
ocfs2: use simple_read_from_buffer()
ocfs2: fix printk format warnings with OCFS2_FS_STATS=n
[PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: Instrument fs cluster locks
[PATCH 1/2] ocfs2: Add CONFIG_OCFS2_FS_STATS config option
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86: fix asm/e820.h for userspace inclusion
x86: fix numaq_tsc_disable
x86: fix kernel_physical_mapping_init() for large x86 systems
* 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
ftrace: do not trace library functions
ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions
ftrace: fix lockup with MAXSMP
ftrace: fix merge buglet
asm-x86/e820.h is included from userspace. 'x86: make e820.c to have
common functions' (b79cd8f126) broke it:
make -C Documentation/lguest
cc -Wall -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -O3 -I../../include
lguest.c -lz -o lguest
In file included from ../../include/asm-x86/bootparam.h:8,
from lguest.c:45:
../../include/asm/e820.h:66: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:67: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:68: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘start’
../../include/asm/e820.h:72: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’
or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘e820_update_range’
...
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
fix:
arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c: In function ‘numaq_tsc_disable’:
arch/x86/kernel/numaq_32.c:99: warning: ‘return’ with a value, in function returning void
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Fix calls of smp_call_function*() in arch/ia64/kvm for recent API
changes.
CC [M] arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.o
arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c: In function 'handle_global_purge':
arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c:398: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single'
arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c: In function 'kvm_vcpu_kick':
arch/ia64/kvm/kvm-ia64.c:1696: error: too many arguments to function 'smp_call_function_single'
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by Xiantao Zhang <xiantao.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'ptrace-cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace:
fix dangling zombie when new parent ignores children
do_wait: return security_task_wait() error code in place of -ECHILD
ptrace children revamp
do_wait reorganization
Also fix unwanted rebuilds of the firmware/ihex2fw tool by including
the .ihex2fw.cmd file when present.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reported-and-tested-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch named "powerpc/mpc5121: Add clock driver", also contained
an unrelated and bogus change to the top-level makefile. This patch
backs out the bad bit.
SHA1 of offending patch: 137e95906e)
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Repented-by: John Rigby <jrigby@freescale.com>
[ Heh. Normally I pick these out from the diffstats, but I guess
I've grown to trust the ppc tree too much ;) - Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
make function tracing more robust: do not trace library functions.
We've already got a sizable list of exceptions:
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
# Do not profile string.o, since it may be used in early boot or vdso
CFLAGS_REMOVE_string.o = -pg
# Also do not profile any debug utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_spinlock_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_list_debug.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_debugobjects.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_find_next_bit.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_cpumask.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_bitmap.o = -pg
endif
... and the pattern has been that random library functionality showed
up in ftrace's critical path (outside of its recursion check), causing
hard to debug lockups.
So be a bit defensive about it and exclude all lib/*.o functions by
default. It's not that they are overly interesting for tracing purposes
anyway. Specific ones can still be traced, in an opt-in manner.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
MAXSMP brings in lots of use of various bitops in smp_processor_id()
and friends - causing ftrace to lock up during bootup:
calling anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130
initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
[ hard hang ]
So exclude the bitops facilities from tracing.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
return value -ENOTSUPP is not valid in userspace context, use
-EOPNOTSUPP instead
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Make chsc_error_from_response() available to chsc callers outside
of chsc.c (namely qdio) to avoid duplicating error checking code.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Use -EOPNOTSUPP instead of -ENOTSUPP.
Signed-off-by: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add missing module.h include to fix this:
CC arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.o
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:84: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL'
arch/s390/kernel/stacktrace.c:97: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Compiling a kernel with allmodconfig or allyesconfig results in tons
of gcc warnings, because the default maximum stacksize from which on
gcc will emit a warning is just 256 bytes.
Increase this to 2048, so these warnings don't distract from the real
warnings that we need to watch at.
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Add missing schedule_bh and check that there is 32 bit sense data.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
The kernel part of zfcpdump establishes a new debugfs file zcore/memmap
which exports information on memory layout (start address and length of each
memory chunk) to its userspace counterpart.
Signed-off-by: Frank Munzert <munzert@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
-tip testing found a bootup hang here:
initcall anon_inode_init+0x0/0x130 returned 0 after 0 msecs
calling acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57
the bootup should have continued with:
initcall acpi_event_init+0x0/0x57 returned 0 after 45 msecs
but it hung hard there instead.
bisection led to this commit:
| commit 5806b81ac1
| Merge: d14c8a6... 6712e29...
| Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| Date: Mon Jul 14 16:11:52 2008 +0200
| Merge branch 'auto-ftrace-next' into tracing/for-linus
turns out that i made this mistake in the merge:
ifdef CONFIG_FTRACE
# Do not profile debug utilities
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_64.o = -pg
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc_32.o = -pg
those two files got unified meanwhile - so the dont-profile annotation
got lost. The proper rule is:
CFLAGS_REMOVE_tsc.o = -pg
i guess this could have been caught sooner if the CFLAGS_REMOVE* kbuild
rule aborted the build if it met a target that does not exist anymore?
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This fixes an arcane bug that we think was a regression introduced
by commit b2b2cbc4b2. When a parent
ignores SIGCHLD (or uses SA_NOCLDWAIT), its children would self-reap
but they don't if it's using ptrace on them. When the parent thread
later exits and ceases to ptrace a child but leaves other live
threads in the parent's thread group, any zombie children are left
dangling. The fix makes them self-reap then, as they would have
done earlier if ptrace had not been in use.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
This reverts the effect of commit f2cc3eb133
"do_wait: fix security checks". That change reverted the effect of commit
7324328446. The rationale for the original
commit still stands. The inconsistent treatment of children hidden by
ptrace was an unintended omission in the original change and in no way
invalidates its purpose.
This makes do_wait return the error returned by security_task_wait()
(usually -EACCES) in place of -ECHILD when there are some children the
caller would be able to wait for if not for the permission failure. A
permission error will give the user a clue to look for security policy
problems, rather than for mysterious wait bugs.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
ptrace no longer fiddles with the children/sibling links, and the
old ptrace_children list is gone. Now ptrace, whether of one's own
children or another's via PTRACE_ATTACH, just uses the new ptraced
list instead.
There should be no user-visible difference that matters. The only
change is the order in which do_wait() sees multiple stopped
children and stopped ptrace attachees. Since wait_task_stopped()
was changed earlier so it no longer reorders the children list, we
already know this won't cause any new problems.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
This breaks out the guts of do_wait into three subfunctions.
The control flow is less nonobvious without so much goto.
do_wait_thread and ptrace_do_wait contain the main work of the outer loop.
wait_consider_task contains the main work of the inner loop.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Before accessing the device data structure in hardware handlers,
make sure it is a indeed a sdev device.
Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> found the bug on Jul 16, 2008,
and later tested/verified the following fix.
Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'linux-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: (72 commits)
Revert "x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation"
PCI: remove unnecessary volatile in PCIe hotplug struct controller
x86/PCI: ACPI based PCI gap calculation
PCI: include linux/pm_wakeup.h for device_set_wakeup_capable
PCI PM: Fix pci_prepare_to_sleep
x86/PCI: Fix PCI config space for domains > 0
Fix acpi_pm_device_sleep_wake() by providing a stub for CONFIG_PM_SLEEP=n
PCI: Simplify PCI device PM code
PCI PM: Introduce pci_prepare_to_sleep and pci_back_from_sleep
PCI ACPI: Rework PCI handling of wake-up
ACPI: Introduce new device wakeup flag 'prepared'
ACPI: Introduce acpi_device_sleep_wake function
PCI: rework pci_set_power_state function to call platform first
PCI: Introduce platform_pci_power_manageable function
ACPI: Introduce acpi_bus_power_manageable function
PCI: make pci_name use dev_name
PCI: handle pci_name() being const
PCI: add stub for pci_set_consistent_dma_mask()
PCI: remove unused arch pcibios_update_resource() functions
PCI: fix pci_setup_device()'s sprinting into a const buffer
...
Fixed up conflicts in various files (arch/x86/kernel/setup_64.c,
arch/x86/pci/irq.c, arch/x86/pci/pci.h, drivers/acpi/sleep/main.c,
drivers/pci/pci.c, drivers/pci/pci.h, include/acpi/acpi_bus.h) from x86
and ACPI updates manually.
This patch fixes a mmap_truncate bug which was found by ocfs2 test suite.
In an ocfs2 cluster more than 1 node, run program mmap_truncate, which races
mmap writes and truncates from multiple processes. While the test is
running, a stat from another node forces writeout, causing an oops in
ocfs2_get_block() because it sees a buffer to write which isn't allocated.
This patch fixed the bug by clear dirty and uptodate bits in buffer, leave
the buffer unmapped and return.
Fix is suggested by Mark Fasheh, and I code up the patch.
Signed-off-by: Coly Li <coyli@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
* 'for_linus' of git://git.infradead.org/~dedekind/ubifs-2.6:
UBIFS: include to compilation
UBIFS: add new flash file system
UBIFS: add brief documentation
MAINTAINERS: add UBIFS section
do_mounts: allow UBI root device name
VFS: export sync_sb_inodes
VFS: move inode_lock into sync_sb_inodes
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bart/ide-2.6: (76 commits)
IDE: Report errors during drive reset back to user space
Update documentation of HDIO_DRIVE_RESET ioctl
IDE: Remove unused code
IDE: Fix HDIO_DRIVE_RESET handling
hd.c: remove the #include <linux/mc146818rtc.h>
update the BLK_DEV_HD help text
move ide/legacy/hd.c to drivers/block/
ide/legacy/hd.c: use late_initcall()
remove BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY
ide: endian annotations in ide-floppy.c
ide-floppy: zero out the whole struct ide_atapi_pc on init
ide-floppy: fold idefloppy_create_test_unit_ready_cmd into idefloppy_open
ide-cd: move request prep chunk from cdrom_do_newpc_cont to rq issue path
ide-cd: move request prep from cdrom_start_rw_cont to rq issue path
ide-cd: move request prep from cdrom_start_seek_continuation to rq issue path
ide-cd: fold cdrom_start_seek into ide_cd_do_request
ide-cd: simplify request issuing path
ide-cd: mv ide_do_rw_cdrom ide_cd_do_request
ide-cd: cdrom_start_seek: remove unused argument block
ide-cd: ide_do_rw_cdrom: add the catch-all bad request case to the if-else block
...
* 'release-2.6.27' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ak/linux-acpi-merge-2.6: (87 commits)
Fix FADT parsing
Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table.
ACPI: use dev_printk when possible
PNPACPI: add support for HP vendor-specific CCSR descriptors
PNP: avoid legacy IDE IRQs
PNP: convert resource options to single linked list
ISAPNP: handle independent options following dependent ones
PNP: remove extra 0x100 bit from option priority
PNP: support optional IRQ resources
PNP: rename pnp_register_*_resource() local variables
PNPACPI: ignore _PRS interrupt numbers larger than PNP_IRQ_NR
PNP: centralize resource option allocations
PNP: remove redundant pnp_can_configure() check
PNP: make resource assignment functions return 0 (success) or -EBUSY (failure)
PNP: in debug resource dump, make empty list obvious
PNP: improve resource assignment debug
PNP: increase I/O port & memory option address sizes
PNP: introduce pnp_irq_mask_t typedef
PNP: make resource option structures private to PNP subsystem
PNP: define PNP-specific IORESOURCE_IO_* flags alongside IRQ, DMA, MEM
...
Fail integrity check gracefully when request does not have a bio
attached (BLOCK_PC).
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6: (82 commits)
NFSv4: Remove BKL from the nfsv4 state recovery
SUNRPC: Remove the BKL from the callback functions
NFS: Remove BKL from the readdir code
NFS: Remove BKL from the symlink code
NFS: Remove BKL from the sillydelete operations
NFS: Remove the BKL from the rename, rmdir and unlink operations
NFS: Remove BKL from NFS lookup code
NFS: Remove the BKL from nfs_link()
NFS: Remove the BKL from the inode creation operations
NFS: Remove BKL usage from open()
NFS: Remove BKL usage from the write path
NFS: Remove the BKL from the permission checking code
NFS: Remove attribute update related BKL references
NFS: Remove BKL requirement from attribute updates
NFS: Protect inode->i_nlink updates using inode->i_lock
nfs: set correct fl_len in nlmclnt_test()
SUNRPC: Support registering IPv6 interfaces with local rpcbind daemon
SUNRPC: Refactor rpcb_register to make rpcbindv4 support easier
SUNRPC: None of rpcb_create's callers wants a privileged source port
SUNRPC: Introduce a specific rpcb_create for contacting localhost
...
The (1.0 inherited) separate length fields in the FADT are byte granular.
Further, PM1a/b may have distinct lengths and live in distinct address spaces.
acpi_tb_convert_fadt() should account for all of these conditions.
Apart from these changes I'm puzzled by the fact that, not just for
acpi_gbl_xpm1{a,b}_enable, acpi_hw_low_level_{read,write}() get an explicit
size passed rather than using the size found in the passed GAS. What happens
on a platform that defines PM1{a,b} wider than 16 bits? Of course,
acpi_hw_low_level_{read,write}() at present are entirely un-prepared to deal
with sizes other than 8, 16, or 32, not to speak of a non-zero bit_offset or
access_width...
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Convert printks to use dev_printk(). The most obvious change will
be messages like this:
-ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> GSI 31 (level, low) -> IRQ 31
+cciss 0000:00:04.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 31 (level, low) -> IRQ 31
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
The HP CCSR descriptor describes MMIO address space that should appear
as a MEM resource. This patch adds support for parsing these descriptors
in the _CRS data.
The visible effect of this is that these MEM resources will appear
in /sys/devices/pnp0/.../resources, which means that "lspnp -v" will
report it, user applications can use this to locate device CSR space,
and kernel drivers can use the normal PNP resource accessors to
locate them.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
If an IDE controller is in compatibility mode, it expects to use
IRQs 14 and 15, so PNP should avoid them.
This patch should resolve this problem report:
parallel driver grabs IRQ14 preventing legacy SFF ATA controller from working
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375836
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
ISAPNP, PNPBIOS, and ACPI describe the "possible resource settings" of
a device, i.e., the possibilities an OS bus driver has when it assigns
I/O port, MMIO, and other resources to the device.
PNP used to maintain this "possible resource setting" information in
one independent option structure and a list of dependent option
structures for each device. Each of these option structures had lists
of I/O, memory, IRQ, and DMA resources, for example:
dev
independent options
ind-io0 -> ind-io1 ...
ind-mem0 -> ind-mem1 ...
...
dependent option set 0
dep0-io0 -> dep0-io1 ...
dep0-mem0 -> dep0-mem1 ...
...
dependent option set 1
dep1-io0 -> dep1-io1 ...
dep1-mem0 -> dep1-mem1 ...
...
...
This data structure was designed for ISAPNP, where the OS configures
device resource settings by writing directly to configuration
registers. The OS can write the registers in arbitrary order much
like it writes PCI BARs.
However, for PNPBIOS and ACPI devices, the OS uses firmware interfaces
that perform device configuration, and it is important to pass the
desired settings to those interfaces in the correct order. The OS
learns the correct order by using firmware interfaces that return the
"current resource settings" and "possible resource settings," but the
option structures above doesn't store the ordering information.
This patch replaces the independent and dependent lists with a single
list of options. For example, a device might have possible resource
settings like this:
dev
options
ind-io0 -> dep0-io0 -> dep1->io0 -> ind-io1 ...
All the possible settings are in the same list, in the order they
come from the firmware "possible resource settings" list. Each entry
is tagged with an independent/dependent flag. Dependent entries also
have a "set number" and an optional priority value. All dependent
entries must be assigned from the same set. For example, the OS can
use all the entries from dependent set 0, or all the entries from
dependent set 1, but it cannot mix entries from set 0 with entries
from set 1.
Prior to this patch PNP didn't keep track of the order of this list,
and it assigned all independent options first, then all dependent
ones. Using the example above, that resulted in a "desired
configuration" list like this:
ind->io0 -> ind->io1 -> depN-io0 ...
instead of the list the firmware expects, which looks like this:
ind->io0 -> depN-io0 -> ind-io1 ...
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
