Add a watchdog driver interface to rtc-m41t80 driver. This is derived from
works by Alexander Bigga <ab@mycable.de>
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Bigga <ab@mycable.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a new-style i2c driver for ST M41T80 series RTC chip, derived from
works by Alexander Bigga <ab@mycable.de> who wrote the original
rtc-m41txx.c based on drivers/i2c/chips/m41t00.c driver.
This driver supports M41T8[0-4] and M41ST8[457]. The old m41t00 driver
supports M41T00, M41T81 and M41T85(M41ST85). While the M41T00 chip is now
supported by rtc-ds1307 driver, this driver does not include support for
the chip.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove bogus `static']
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Bigga <ab@mycable.de>
Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minor fix to the Kconfig for RTCs: don't display section headers for I2C or
SPI unless they're configured. And depend on SPI_MASTER; having slave
support wouldn't help.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested on the AT32AP7000/ATSTK1000. Driver does only suport time, wake up
and a very simple alarm, because of hardware limitations.
Hardware documentation can be found in the AT32AP7000 data sheet, which can
be downloaded from
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/datasheets.asp?family_id=682
From: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
- Strike some alarm setup code that's no longer needed.
(This patch seems to have gotten lost somewhere...)
- Make the driver name (and its module alias) match what
the platform setup code uses, so the driver can bind
and hotplug.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix several checkpatch.pl warnings]
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert rtc-rs5c372 to be a "new style" I2C driver, and update the
Kconfig text to be more complete..
Verified on an OMAP H4 development platform, along with a board
init patch to declare its rv5c387a device.
Only one defconfig -- powerpc/linkstation -- uses this driver; but
several other platforms use it, just without defconfig support.
Such platforms need to be converted so (a) their I2C adapter driver
supports new-style drivers, and (b) board init code declares this
I2C device.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Voipio Riku <Riku.Voipio@movial.fi>
Acked-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Cc: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This updates the rtc-ds1307 driver so that converting it to a "new style"
driver (driver model, not legacy i2c model) will involve fewer changes.
- Use pointer to i2c_client almost everywhere, so that it's easy
to let the i2c core create that object;
- Avoid using i2c_client.adapter, since that field is redundant and
thus may go away (same object as i2c_client.dev.parent).
- Extend type enum to include various RTCs this is expected to
work with, and include register support for them.
It also cleans up the support for multiple chip types, and fixes a
glitch that could appear with an un-initialized RTC.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix oops on reading from some i2o proc files (i2o_seq_show_driver_store() and
other) because their handlers uses "exec" field in struct i2o_controller
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need to free i2o msg in case of error.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes access to memory that has not been allocated:
i2o_msg_get_wait() can returns errors different from I2O_QUEUE_EMPTY. But the
result is checked only against this code. If it is not I2O_QUEUE_EMPTY then
we dereference the error code as the pointer later.
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch fixes a number of issues in i2o_cfg_passthru{,32}:
- i2o_msg_get_wait() return vaile is not checked;
- i2o_message memory leaks on error paths;
- infinite loop to sg_list_cleanup in passthru32
It's important issue because of i2o_cfg_passthru is used by raidutils for
monitorig controllers state, and in case of memory shortage it leads to the
node crash or disk IO stall.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix null-ptr deref]
Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Acked-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
coverity spotted a possible leak in the idifunc.c file (bug id #1252), in
um_new_card(), if the diva_user_mode_idi_create_adapter() fails, we dont
free the memory allocated for card
Signed-off-by: Eric Sesterhenn <snakebyte@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Armin Schindler <armin@melware.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c: In function 'handle_minor_send':
drivers/isdn/capi/capi.c:552: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
Of course, the code here might actually be buggy, in which case this patch
should not be applied?
Answer:
No this field is ignored inside linux kernel.Yes this is ugly, but it's
the CAPI spec for all OS.
CAPI DATA_B3 Request/Indication CAPI Message has a mandatory field which
represent the 32 bit buffer address of the payload data. In linux the
payload data do not use a sperate buffer, data follows directely after the
CAPI Message in the same skb and we use this assumption inside the drivers,
so we can ignore this field.
Inside the linux CAPI implemetation we never use this field, so it could
also have no value, but since random data in a message is bad as well (e.g.
displayed in CAPI traces) we set is to the most adequate value.
Outside the kernel the capi20 library sets the correct addresses (there is
an optional second field for 64 bit adresses for 64 bit systems, we do not
use here).
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transform Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter
the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transform Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so
that the user can disable the whole feature without having to enter
the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Transform Kconfig objects from "menu, config" into "menuconfig" so that the
user can disable the whole feature without having to enter the menu first.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The interrupts schould be disabled until the driver
is ready and the IRQ function was registered.
Thanks to Bastian Friedrich and Thomas Voegtle for spotting this.
Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bastian Friedrich <bastian@bastian-friedrich.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Voegtle <tv@lio96.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The similar code exists here and is called capi_driver_get_idx(). Use generic
helpers now and remember to convert list_head to struct capi_driver in .show
callback.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The {l1,l2,l3,lli,tei}_revision strings in the HiSax driver are 'const',
but have a mismatching declaration as 'extern char *' in config.c.
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The CAPI 2.0 driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead of
the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The SPI core/init code uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex API instead
of the (binary) semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a driver for SPI controller built into TXx9 MIPS SoCs.
This driver is derived from arch/mips/tx4938/toshiba_rbtx4938/spi_txx9.c.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add OMAP24XX McSPI (Multichannel SPI) controller driver. This driver is
tested very well under OMAP GIT tree with N800 - Nokia Internet Tablet, and
some other OMAP2 boards.
Recent updates included bugfixes, cleanups, speedups, and better
conformance to the current SPI programming interface. This doesn't yet
understand the third controller instance on the OMAP 2430.
[david-b@pacbell.net: more minor cleanups to the omap2_mcspi driver]
Signed-off-by: Juha Yrjölä <juha.yrjola@solidboot.com>
Signed-off-by: Trilok Soni <soni.trilok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Quicc Engine enabled mpc83xx CPU's has a somewhat different HW interface to
the SPI controller. This patch adds a qe_mode knob that sees to that
needed adaptions are performed.
Signed-off-by: Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund@transmode.se>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simple SPI master driver for Xilinx SPI controller.
No support for multiple masters.
Not using level 1 drivers from EDK.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: uninlining]
Signed-off-by: Yuri Frolov <yfrolov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrei Konovalov <akonovalov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the Infineon TLE62x0 series of low-side driver chips, such
as the TLE6220 or TLE6230. These can be viewed as output GPIOs specialized
for power switching applications. The driver provides a userspace
interface to those GPIOs, and to the switch status they provide.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tweak Kconfig for the S3C24XX SPI controller drivers. Both use the bitbang
framework; only one previously said that. Plus in this case "select" is
the right way to manage that dependency, since folk will not know up front
to enable bitbang in order to even see those S3C drivers in order to enable
them.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Update chipselect handling for atmel_spi:
* Teach it how to leave chipselect active between messages; this
helps various drivers work better.
* Cope with at91rm0200 errata: nCS0 can't be managed with GPIOs.
The MR.PCS value is now updated whenever a chipselect changes.
(This requires SPI pinmux init for that controller to change,
and also testing on rm9200; doesn't break at91sam9 or avr32.)
* Fix minor glitches: spi_setup() must leave chipselects inactive,
as must removal of the spi_device.
Also tweak diagnostic messaging to be a bit more useful.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minor updates to atmel_spi:
- DMA:
* Comments to explain the DMA policies
* Report any mapping errors from spi_transfer()
* Remove extra loop for DMA mapping
- Diagnostics: report minimum clock rate, if we need to reject a
spi_setup() request because that rate is too low.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The MPC83xx SPI controller clock divider can divide the system clock by not
more then 1024. The spi_mpc83xx driver does not check this and silently
writes garbage to the SPI controller registers when asked to run at lower
frequencies. I've tried to run the SPI on a 266MHz MPC8349E with 100kHz
for debugging a bus problem and suddenly was confronted with a 2nd problem
to debug.. ;-)
The patch adds an additional check which avoids writing garbage to the SPI
controller registers and warn the user about it. This might help others to
avoid simmilar problems.
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board
for the LM70 temperature sensor. For those without that board, it may be a
simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly.
Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com>
Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes. Minor rename.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Get rid of annoying GCC warning on 32-bit platforms.
drivers/spi/spidev.c: In function 'spidev_message':
drivers/spi/spidev.c:184: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
drivers/spi/spidev.c:216: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
The trick is to add an extra cast using "ptrdiff_t" to convert the u64 to
the correct size integer, and only then casting it into a "void *" pointer.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add a new spi->mode bit: SPI_3WIRE, for chips where the SI and SO signals
are shared (and which are thus only half duplex). Update the LM70 driver
to require support for that hardware mode from the controller.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Minor SPI controller driver updates: make the setup() methods reject
spi->mode bits they don't support, by masking aginst the inverse of bits
they *do* support. This insures against misbehavior later when new mode
bits get added.
Most controllers can't support SPI_LSB_FIRST; more handle SPI_CS_HIGH.
Support for all four SPI clock/transfer modes is routine.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IBMASM: must depend on CONFIG_INPUT
The driver registers couple of input devices and therefore must depend
on CONFIG_INPUT.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IBMASM: miscellaneous fixes
Fix some minor issues, such as:
- properly set up ID of keyboard device (was mixed up with mouse)
- constify translation tables
- change some variables to #defines
- set up input device's parent to form proper sysfs hierarchy
- minor formatting changes
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
IBMASM: don't use extern in function declarations
We normally don't use extern in function declarations located in header files.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Vernon Mauery <vernux@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Max Asbock <masbock@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is a driver for the SB1250 DUART, a dual serial port implementation
included in the Broadcom family of SOCs descending from the SiByte SB1250
MIPS64 chip multiprocessor. It is a new implementation replacing the
old-fashioned driver currently present in the linux-mips.org tree. It
supports all the usual features one would expect from a(n asynchronous)
serial driver, including modem line control (as far as hardware supports it
-- there is edge detection logic missing from the DCD and RI lines and the
driver does not implement polling of these lines at the moment), the serial
console, BREAK transmission and reception, including the magic SysRq. The
receive FIFO threshold is not maintained though.
The driver was tested with a SWARM board which uses a BCM1250 SOC (which is
dual MIPS64 CMP) and has both ports of the single DUART implemented wired
externally. Both were tested. Testing included using the ports as
terminal lines at 1200bps (which is the ports minimum), 115200bps and a
couple of random speeds inbetween. The modem lines were verified to
operate correctly. No testing was performed with a use as a network
interface, like with SLIP or PPP.
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by caller. (The previous patch
makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in error case)
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
No need to warn unregister_blkdev() failure by the callers. (The previous
patch makes unregister_blkdev() print error message in error case)
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested on Xilinx Virtex ppc405, Katmai 440SPe, and Microblaze
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: John William <jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Rolling forward PCMCIA driver, it was discovered that the indentation in
existing one, as well as in BSP side are very odd. This patch is just result
of Lindent run ontop of culprit files.
Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vitb@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.
It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.
The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kmalloc_node() and kmem_cache_alloc_node() were not available in a zeroing
variant in the past. But with __GFP_ZERO it is possible now to do zeroing
while allocating.
Use __GFP_ZERO to remove the explicit clearing of memory via memset whereever
we can.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mark Zhan