This patch-queue improves the generic IRQ layer to be truly generic, by adding
various abstractions and features to it, without impacting existing
functionality.
While the queue can be best described as "fix and improve everything in the
generic IRQ layer that we could think of", and thus it consists of many
smaller features and lots of cleanups, the one feature that stands out most is
the new 'irq chip' abstraction.
The irq-chip abstraction is about describing and coding and IRQ controller
driver by mapping its raw hardware capabilities [and quirks, if needed] in a
straightforward way, without having to think about "IRQ flow"
(level/edge/etc.) type of details.
This stands in contrast with the current 'irq-type' model of genirq
architectures, which 'mixes' raw hardware capabilities with 'flow' details.
The patchset supports both types of irq controller designs at once, and
converts i386 and x86_64 to the new irq-chip design.
As a bonus side-effect of the irq-chip approach, chained interrupt controllers
(master/slave PIC constructs, etc.) are now supported by design as well.
The end result of this patchset intends to be simpler architecture-level code
and more consolidation between architectures.
We reused many bits of code and many concepts from Russell King's ARM IRQ
layer, the merging of which was one of the motivations for this patchset.
This patch:
rename desc->handler to desc->chip.
Originally i did not want to do this, because it's a big patch. But having
both "desc->handler", "desc->handle_irq" and "action->handler" caused a
large degree of confusion and made the code appear alot less clean than it
truly is.
I have also attempted a dual approach as well by introducing a
desc->chip alias - but that just wasnt robust enough and broke
frequently.
So lets get over with this quickly. The conversion was done automatically
via scripts and converts all the code in the kernel.
This renaming patch is the first one amongst the patches, so that the
remaining patches can stay flexible and can be merged and split up
without having some big monolithic patch act as a merge barrier.
[akpm@osdl.org: build fix]
[akpm@osdl.org: another build fix]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
AFAICT, this is x86 only, so the patch below is needed to stop this new
option showing up on PPC, IA64, etc..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Modify the watchdog timeout in IPMI to only do things at panic/reboot time if
the watchdog timer was already running. Some BIOSes do not disable the
watchdog timer at startup, and this led to a reboot a while later if the new
OS running didn't start monitoring the watchdog, even if the watchdog was not
running before.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There was some old high-res-timer code in the IPMI driver that is dead.
Remove it.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Tidy up the timer usage in the IPMI driver.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Turned out to be rather a monster
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Works better on SMP if...
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove 'active' field from tty buffer structure. This was added in 2.6.16
as part of a patch to make the new tty buffering SMP safe. This field is
unnecessary with the more intelligently written flush_to_ldisc that adds
receive_room handling.
Removing this field reverts to simpler logic where the tail buffer is
always the 'active' buffer, which should not be freed by flush_to_ldisc.
(active == buffer being filled with new data)
The result is simpler, smaller, and faster tty buffer code.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Flush data serially to line discipline in blocks no larger than
tty->receive_room to avoid losing data if line discipline is busy (such as
N_TTY operating at high speed on heavily loaded system) or does not accept
data in large blocks (such as N_MOUSE).
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remove TTY_DONT_FLIP tty flag. This flag was introduced in 2.1.X kernels
to prevent the N_TTY line discipline functions read_chan() and
n_tty_receive_buf() from running at the same time. 2.2.15 introduced
tty->read_lock to protect access to the N_TTY read buffer, which is the
only state requiring protection between these two functions.
The current TTY_DONT_FLIP implementation is broken for SMP, and is not
universally honored by drivers that send data directly to the line
discipline receive_buf function.
Because TTY_DONT_FLIP is not necessary, is broken in implementation, and is
not universally honored, it is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace the temp makefile hacks with proper CONFIG entries, which are also
added to Kconfig.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add current pin settings to gpio_dump() output. This adds the last 'word' to
the syslog lines, which displays the input and output values that the pin is
set to.
pc8736x_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE io:1/1
The 2 values may differ for a number of reasons:
1- the pin output circuitry is diaabled, (as the above 'TS' indicates)
2- it needs a pullup resistor to drive the attached circuit,
3- the external circuit needs a pullup so the open-drain has something
to pull-down
4- the pin is wired to Vcc or Ground
It might be appropriate to add a WARN for 2,3,4, since they could
damage the chip and/or circuit, esp if misconfig goes unnoticed.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hmm. Im somewhat ambivalent about this patch, since with it, driver wont
build for vanilla 17 or older.
Its also only 1/2 of your suggestion - when I tried it, I was building against
vanilla 17, and asm/uaccess.h cause compilation failure. Looking back, Im
perplexed as to why linux/io.h didnt cause same failure ?!?
use linux/io.h rather than asm/io.h
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes. This is a me-too
patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and
better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a working gpio_current() to pc8736x_gpio.c (the previous implementation
just threw a dev_warn), and fix gpio_change() to use gpio_current() rather
than the incorrect (and temporary) gpio_get(). Initialize shadow-regs so this
all works.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Use of dev_dbg() and friends is considered good practice. dev_dbg() needs a
struct device *devp, but nsc_gpio is only a helper module, so it doesnt
have/need its own. To provide devp to the user-modules (scx200 & pc8736x
_gpio), we add it to the vtable, and set it during init.
Also squeeze nsc_gpio_dump()'s format a little.
[ 199.259879] pc8736x_gpio.0: io09: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adds platform-device to (just introduced) driver, and uses it to replace many
printks with dev_dbg() etc. This could trivially be merged into previous
patch, but this way matches better with the corresponding patch that does the
same change to scx200_gpio.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add the brand new pc8736x_gpio driver. This is mostly based upon
scx200_gpio.c, but the platform_dev is treated separately, since its fairly
big too.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Since the meaning of config-bits is the same for scx200 and pc8736x _gpios, we
can share a function to deliver this to user. Since it is called via the
vtable, its also completely replaceable. For now, we keep using printk...
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now that the read(), write() file-ops are dispatching gpio-ops via the vtable,
they are generic, and can be moved 'verbatim' to the nsc_gpio common-support
module. After the move, various symbols are renamed to update 'scx200_' to
'nsc_', and headers are adjusted accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add the nsc_gpio common-support module as an empty shell. Next patch starts
the migration of the common gpio support routines.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Now actually call the gpio operations thru the vtable.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Abstract the gpio operations into a new nsc_gpio_ops vtable.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a new driver command: 'v' which calls gpio_dump() on the pin. The output
goes to the log, like all other INFO messages in the original driver. Giving
the user control over the feedback they 'need' is construed to be a
user-friendly feature, and allows us (later) to dial down many INFO messages
to DEBUG log-level.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a platform-device to scx200_gpio, and use its struct device dev member
(ie: devp) in dev_dbg() once.
There are 2 alternatives here (Im soliciting guidance/commentary):
- use isa_device, if/when its added to the kernel.
- alter scx200.c to EXPORT_GPL its private devp so that both scx200_gpio,
and the (to be added) nsc_gpio module can use it. Since the available devp
is in 'grandparent', this seems like too much 'action at a distance'.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Adopt many modern 2.6 coding practices, ala LDD3, chapter 3. Changes are
limited to initialization calls from module init, ie: cdev_init, cdev_add,
*_chrdev_region, mkdev.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
GPIO SUPPORT FOR SCx200 & PC8736x
The patch-set reworks the 2.4 vintage scx200_gpio driver for modern 2.6, and
refactors GPIO support to reuse it in a new driver for the GPIO on PC-8736x
chips. Its handy for the Soekris.com net-4801, which has both chips.
These patches have been seen recently on Kernel-Mentors, and then
Kernel-Newbies ML, where Jesper Juhl kindly reviewed it. His feedback has
been incorporated. Thanks Jesper !
Its also gone to soekris-tech@soekris.com for possible testing by linux folks,
I've gotten 1 promise so far. Theyre mostly BSD folk over there, but we'll
see..
Device-file & Sysfs
The driver preserves the existing device-file interface, including the
write/cmd set, but adds v to 'view' the pin-settings & configs by inducing,
via gpio_dump(), a dev_info() call. Its a fairly crappy way to get status,
but it sticks to the syslog approach, conservatively.
Allowing users to voluntarily trigger logging is good, it gives them a
familiar way to confirm their app's control & use of the pins, and I've thus
reduced the pin-mode-updates from dev_info to dev_dbg.
I've recently bolted on a proto sysfs interface for both new drivers. Im not
including those patches here; they (the patch + doc-pre-patch) are still quite
raw (and unreviewed on KNML), and since they 'invent' a convention for GPIO, a
proper vetting is needed. Since this patchset is much bigger than my previous
ones, Id like to keep things simpler, and address it 1st, before bolting on
more stuff.
The driver-split
The Geode CPU and the PC-87366 Super-IO chip have GPIO units which share a
common pin-architecture (same pin features, with same bits controlling), but
with different addressing mechanics and port organizations.
The vintage driver expresses the pin capabilities with pin-mode commands
[OoPpTt],etc that change the pin configurations, and since the 2 chips share
pin-arch, we can reuse the read(), write() commands, once the implementation
is suitably adjusted.
The patchset adds a vtable: struct nsc_gpio_ops, to abstract the existing gpio
operations, then adjusts fileops.write() code to invoke operations via that
vtable. Driver specific open()s set private_data to the vtable so its
available for use by write().
The vtable gets the gpio_dump() too, since its user-friendly, and (could be
construed as) part of the current device-file interface. To support use of
dev_dbg() in write() & _dump(), the vtable gets a dev ptr too, set by both
scx200 & pc8736x _gpio drivers.
heres how the pins are presented in syslog:
[ 1890.176223] scx200_gpio.0: io00: 0x0044 TS OD PUE EDGE LO DEBOUNCE
[ 1890.287223] scx200_gpio.0: io01: 0x0003 OE PP PUD EDGE LO
nsc_gpio.c: new file is new home of several file-ops methods, which are
modified to get their vtable from filp->private_data, and use it where needed.
scx200_gpio.c: keeps some of its existing gpio routines, but now wires them up
via the vtable (they're invoked by nsc_gpio.c:nsc_gpio_write() thru this
vtable). A driver-spcific open() initializes filp->private_data with the
vtable.
Once the split is clean, and the scx200_gpio driver is working, we copy and
modify the function and variable names, and rework the access-method bodies
for the different addressing scheme.
Heres a working overview of the patchset:
# series file for GPIO
# Spring Cleaning
gpio-scx/patch.preclean # scripts/Lindent fixes, editor-ctrl comments
# API Modernization
gpio-scx/patch.api26 # what I learned from LDD3
gpio-scx/patch.platform-dev-2 # get pdev, support for dev_dbg()
gpio-scx/patch.unsigned-minor # fix to match std practice
# Debuggability
gpio-scx/patch.dump-diet # shrink gpio_dump()
gpio-scx/patch.viewpins # add new 'command' to call dump()
gpio-scx/patch.init-refactor # pull shadow-register init to sub
# Access-Abstraction (add vtable)
gpio-scx/patch.access-vtable # introduce nsg_gpio_ops vtable, w dump
gpio-scx/patch.vtable-calls # add & use the vtable in scx200_gpio
gpio-scx/patch.nscgpio-shell # add empty driver for common-fops
# move code under abstraction
gpio-scx/patch.migrate-fops # move file-ops methods from scx200_gpio
gpio-scx/patch.common-dump # mv scx200.c:scx200_gpio_dump() to nsc_gpio.c
gpio-scx/patch.add-pc8736x-gpio # add new driver, like old, w chip adapt
# gpio-scx/patch.add-DEBUG # enable all dev_dbg()s
# Cleanups
# finish printk -> dev_dbg() etc
gpio-scx/patch.pdev-pc8736x # new drvr needs pdev too,
gpio-scx/patch.devdbg-nscgpio # add device to 'vtable', use in dev_dbg()
# gpio-scx/patch.pin-config-view # another 'c' 'command'
# gpio-scx/quiet-getset # take out excess dbg stuff (pretty quiet
now)
gpio-scx/patch.shadow-current # imitate scx200_gpio's shadow regs in
pc87*
# post KMentors-post patches ..
gpio-scx/patch.mutexes # use mutexes for config-locks
gpio-scx/patch.viewpins-values # extend dump to obsolete separate 'c' cmd
gpio-scx/patch.kconfig # add stuff for kbuild
# TBC
# combine api26 with pdev, which is just one step.
# merge c&v commands to single do-all-fn
# delay viewpins, dump-diet should also un-ifdef it too.
diff.sys-gpio-rollup-1
This patch:
Removed editor format-control comments, and used scripts/Lindent to clean up
whitespace, then deleted the bogus chunks :-(
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
There are two locking sets involved. One locks the board mappings and the
other is the tty open/close locking. The low level code was clearly
designed to be ported to OS's with spin locks already so pretty much comes
out in the wash
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
The kthread used to speed up polling for IPMI was using udelay in its
busy-wait polling loop when the lower-level state machine told it to do a
short delay. This just used CPU and didn't help scheduling, thus causing
bad problems with other tasks. Call schedule() instead.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix TCSBRK comment to prevent confusion or accidental removal.
Signed-off-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
locking init cleanups:
- convert " = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" to spin_lock_init() or DEFINE_SPINLOCK()
- convert rwlocks in a similar manner
this patch was generated automatically.
Motivation:
- cleanliness
- lockdep needs control of lock initialization, which the open-coded
variants do not give
- it's also useful for -rt and for lock debugging in general
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mark Bellon found a bug in my tlclk driver. Thanks!
I botch the register mask for store_received_ref_clk3a.
See http://download.intel.com/design/network/manuals/30412001.pdf
tables 124 and 136 for details.
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Rename the GART_IOMMU option to IOMMU to make clear it's not
just for AMD
- Rewrite the help text to better emphatise this fact
- Make it an embedded option because too many people get it wrong.
To my astonishment I discovered the aacraid driver tests this
symbol directly. This looks quite broken to me - it's an internal
implementation detail of the PCI DMA API. Can the maintainer
please clarify what this test was intended to do?
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: alan@redhat.com
Cc: markh@osdl.org
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Factor out the duplicated access/cache code into a single file
* Shared between i386/x86-64.
- Share flush code between AGP and IOMMU
* Fix a bug: AGP didn't wait for end of flush before
- Drop 8 northbridges limit and allocate dynamically
- Add lock to serialize AGP and IOMMU GART flushes
- Add PCI ID for next AMD northbridge
- Random related cleanups
The old K8 NUMA discovery code is unchanged. New systems
should all use SRAT for this.
Cc: "Navin Boppuri" <navin.boppuri@newisys.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To enable this feature, CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING must be set to 'y'. This
feature will default to 'n' to minimize users accidentally corrupting their
virtual terminals.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add sysfs control to the VT layer. A new sysfs class, 'vtconsole', and class
devices 'vtcon[n]' are added. Each class device file has the following
attributes:
/sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon[n]/name - read-only attribute showing the
name of the current backend
/sys/class/vtconsole/vtcon[n]/bind - read/write attribute
where: 0 - backend is unbound/unbind backend from the VT layer
1 - backend is bound/bind backend to the VT layer
In addition, if any of the consoles are in KD_GRAPHICS mode, binding and
unbinding will not succeed. KD_GRAPHICS mode usually indicates that the
underlying console hardware is used for other purposes other than displaying
text (ie X). This feature should prevent binding/unbinding from interfering
with a graphics application using the VT.
[akpm@osdl.org: warning fixes]
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The framebuffer console is now able to dynamically bind and unbind from the VT
console layer. Due to the way the VT console layer works, the drivers
themselves decide when to bind or unbind. However, it was decided that
binding must be controlled, not by the drivers themselves, but by the VT
console layer. With this, dynamic binding is possible for all VT console
drivers, not just fbcon.
Thus, the VT console layer will impose the following to all VT console
drivers:
- all registered VT console drivers will be entered in a private list
- drivers can register themselves to the VT console layer, but they cannot
decide when to bind or unbind. (Exception: To maintain backwards
compatibility, take_over_console() will automatically bind the driver after
registration.)
- drivers can remove themselves from the list by unregistering from the VT
console layer. A prerequisite for unregistration is that the driver must not
be bound.
The following functions are new in the vt.c:
register_con_driver() - public function, this function adds the VT console
driver to an internal list maintained by the VT console
bind_con_driver() - private function, it binds the driver to the console
take_over_console() is changed to call register_con_driver() followed by a
bind_con_driver(). This is the only time drivers can decide when to bind to
the VT layer. This is to maintain backwards compatibility.
unbind_con_driver() - private function, it unbinds the driver from its
console. The vacated consoles will be taken over by the default boot console
driver.
unregister_con_driver() - public function, removes the driver from the
internal list maintained by the VT console. It will only succeed if the
driver is currently unbound.
con_is_bound() checks if the driver is currently bound or not
give_up_console() is just a wrapper to unregister_con_driver().
There are also 3 additional functions meant to be called only by the tty layer
for sysfs control:
vt_bind() - calls bind_con_driver()
vt_unbind() - calls unbind_con_driver()
vt_show_drivers() - shows the list of registered drivers
Most VT console drivers will continue to work as is, but might have problems
when unbinding or binding which should be fixable with minimal changes.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To allow for detaching fbcon, it must be able to give up the console.
However, the function give_up_console() is plain broken. It just sets the
entries in the console driver map to NULL, it leaves the vt layer without a
console driver, and does not decrement the module reference count. Calling
give_up_console() is guaranteed to hang the machine..
To fix this problem, ensure that the virtual consoles are not left dangling
without a driver. All systems have a default boot driver (either vgacon or
dummycon) which is never unloaded. For those vt's that lost their driver, the
default boot driver is reassigned back to them.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Delay the update of the visible framebuffer console until all other consoles
have been initialized in order to avoid losing information. This only seems
to be a problem with modules, not with built-in drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Hollister <david.hollister@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
John's about to nuke x86's monotonic clock without grepping for it first. The
patch lamely borrows the ppc64 code for x86.
hangcheck-timer shouldn't be doing it this way
a) HAVE_MONOTONIC should be CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK and it should be defined
in arch/xxx/Kconfig.
b) That ifdef tangle shouldn't be in hangcheck-timer.c. It should be using
arch-provided helper functions, which CONFIG_MONOTONIC_CLOCK-enabling
architectures implement in arch/something.c
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch series replaces the old non-generic Hardware Random Number
Generator support by a fully generic RNG API.
This makes it possible to register additional RNGs from modules. With this
patch series applied, Laptops with a bcm43xx chip (PowerBook) have a HW RNG
available now.
Additionally two new RNG drivers are added for the "ixp4xx" and "omap"
devices. (Written by Deepak Saxena). This patch series includes the old
patches by Deepak Saxena.
The old x86-rng driver has beed split.
The userspace RNG daemon can later be updated to select the RNG through
/sys/class/misc/hw_random/ for convenience. For now it is sufficient to use
cat and echo -n on the sysfs attributes.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ingo Molnar