This patch changes the memory allocation method for the s390 debug feature.
Trace buffers had been allocated using the get_free_pages() function before.
Therefore it was not possible to get big memory areas in a running system due
to memory fragmentation. Now the trace buffers are subdivided into several
subbuffers with pagesize. Therefore it is now possible to allocate more
memory for the trace buffers and more trace records can be written.
In addition to that, dynamic specification of the size of the trace buffers is
implemented. It is now possible to change the size of a trace buffer using a
new debugfs file instance. When writing a number into this file, the trace
buffer size is changed to 'number * pagesize'.
In the past all the traces could be obtained from userspace by accessing files
in the "proc" filesystem. Now with debugfs we have a new filesystem which
should be used for debugging purposes. This patch moves the debug feature
from procfs to debugfs.
Since the interface of debug_register() changed, all device drivers, which use
the debug feature had to be adjusted.
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[patch 10/10] s390: qeth bug fixes.
From: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
qeth network driver related changes:
- due to OSA hardware changes in TCP Segmentation Offload
support we are able now to pack TSO packets too.
This fits perfectly in design of qeth buffer handling and
sending data respectively.
- remove skb_realloc_headroom from the sending path since
hard_header_len value provides enough headroom now.
- device recovery behaviour improvement
- bug fixed in Enhanced Device Driver Packing functionality
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
[patch 8/10] s390: fakell for high speed token ring.
From: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com>
Implement fake-link-layer for high speed token ring. Without it
token ring packages get leading ethernet headers, which confuses
dhcp.
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
[patch 7/10] s390: qeth bug fixes.
From: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
qeth network driver changes:
- Removed redundant code, use the same qeth_fill_buffer_frag
for TSO path either
- Using skb->frags solely is not correct since skb->data still
points to the beginning of the whole data, even when it is
a small portion we have to fill the qdio buffer with it.
Signed-off-by: Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
Michael Holzheu