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drivers/scsi/sata_vsc.c: In function `vsc_sata_interrupt':
include/linux/libata.h:414: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 'ata_host_intr': function body not available
drivers/scsi/sata_vsc.c:187: sorry, unimplemented: called from here

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>

We should drop module sem before calling mod->exit, for practical reasons:
too many module exit functions oops or hang, resulting in a permenantly held
module sem, which blocks all module ops including lsmod.

From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>

Currently, for an existing DMA mapping, there is a way to transfer buffer
ownership back to the cpu, yet there is no way to give it back to the device
again explicitly.  The latter really is needed on platforms where the PCI
subsystem does not snoop the cpu caches, MIPS is one example.

Many drivers were expecting the existing DMA sync interface to handle both
directions, which was wrong.

Now, with this change, we have explicit interfaces for DMA syncing to/from
the device and the cpu.

This simply throws out the 53c700 driver's optimistic setting of the
best possible transport parameters and replaces it with DV
determination.  It also adds a missing report_bus_reset() callback and
finally does a delayed DV on device errors.

From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

This patch has been in the SuSE 2.4 kernel forever, but for some reason
never made it mainline.

It works around the infamous "only works stable when a mouse is plugged in"
problem some AMD 768MPX Dual Athlon chipsets have.  The problem happens
because the chipset can hang when PCI prefetch strides from a RAM page into
the VGA text buffer.  When a PS2 mouse is plugged in the BIOS reserves a
page before the VGA text buffer, which stops the prefetch early.

This patch always reserves this page when the chipset could be AMD768MPX.
This can be only done early in bootmem setup.  Because it's difficult to
scan the PCI bus that early it just always reserves this page when the CPU
is an Athlon.  Normally it should not make a difference because the BIOS
will have reserved that page anyways when a PS/2 mouse is plugged in.

From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

kernel parameters:

   raid=partitionable
     will make all auto-detected md arrays partitionable

   md=d....
     will assemble an array as a partitionable array.

From: NeilBrown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Use "shedule_timeout()" instead of yield() as it seems to wait for less
time.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Make it clear that the reason we do wait_task_inactive is because
kthread_bind frobs with k->thread_info->cpu, which is only legal because
the task is definitely not running.

We can't use the normal migration thread code here, because it doesn't let
us bind to cpus which are offline yet, and also because we use this to
start the migration threads themselves.

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Dave Jones already removed some of the useless __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ defines
in various files, this gets rid of almost all the others.  Replacing
execve() is nontrivial, so I left those in for now.

For all the other system calls that are currently used from inside the
kernel, calling the sys_* function directly should always have an identical
effect.

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

Distribute boot time memory allocations across all nodes, from Manfred
Spraul.

We want to spread memory across nodes to avoid all allocations ending
up on node 0.

Spreading boot time allocations around also helps us to avoid node 0
becoming the hot node.

I took it for a spin:

buddyinfo before:
Node 7, 0    2    1    1    0    2    1    2    1    2    1    2    741
Node 6, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    1    2    2    2    2   1002
Node 5, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    2    1    2    2    2   2006
Node 4, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    2    1    2    2    2   2006
Node 3, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    2    1    2    2    2   2006
Node 2, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    2    1    2    2    2   2006
Node 1, 0    0    0    2    0    2    1    1    2    2    2    2   1002
Node 0, 0    0   38    7    0    1    1    1    0    0    0    0   1998

buddyinfo after:
Node 7, 0    1    0    1    1    1    1    0    0    0    1    2    738
Node 6, 0    1    0    1    1    1    0    1    0    0    2    2   1002
Node 5, 0    0    0    1    1    1    1    0    0    0    2    2   2006
Node 4, 0    1    0    1    0    1    1    0    0    0    2    2   2006
Node 3, 0    0    0    1    0    1    1    0    0    0    2    2   2005
Node 2, 0    1    0    0    0    0    0    1    0    0    2    2   2006
Node 1, 0    2    1    1    0    1    1    1    0    0    2    2   1002
Node 0, 0   20   45    8    3    0    1    1    1    1    0    1   2004

Change in free memory due to patch:

Node 7 -54.08 MB
Node 6  -6.33 MB
Node 5  -6.09 MB
Node 4  -6.14 MB
Node 3 -22.15 MB
Node 2  -6.05 MB
Node 1  -6.12 MB
Node 0 107.35 MB

As you can see we gained over 100MB on node 0.

From: Kingsley Cheung <kingsley@aurema.com>

A number of scheduler counters wrap around after 47 days.  The context-switch
counter can wrap around after considerably less time.

Convert them to 64-bit values.

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

The recent NUMA changes fail to compile with large cpumasks, we need to use
a temporary to get around the type checking.

Remove unnecessary initialization in notifier_block

Version 0.03 of wdt977.c - Changes that were made are:
* Extract the stop code in a seperate function (wdt977_stop)
* Extract the start code in a seperate function (wdt977_start)
* Rename kick_wdog to wdt977_keepalive for consistency
* Extract the watchdog's status code to a seperate function (wdt977_get_status)
* Change the way we deal with the watchdog timeout:
   Up till now we used timeoutM (in minutes) as the correct value and then
   calculated timeout as being timeoutM*60 or *timeoutM*120 (depending on
   wether or not we have the netwinder hardware bug).

   From now on timeout is the correct value and we calculate timeoutM out
   of it. Because of this we start with checking wether or not we have a
   correct timeout value (if not we reset it to the default value) and we
   automatically calculate timeoutM. Each time we change timeout with a
   correct timeout value, we recalculate timeoutM.
* Extended ioctl code with WDIOC_SETOPTIONS and updated the watchdog_info structure
* Added notifier support

Code has been tested by Woody

Two small fixes:
* Make cards_found a global variable so that if we remove the
  pci device we can count down.
* If we can't find a correct I/O address for the card, then we
should disable the card again.

The actual problem reported was because there wasn't a corresponding
check on transport_classdev.class in the unregister.

However, on closer inspection I also turned up a nasty thinko in the
reference counting.  For reasons best known to the class code authors,
class devices have to obtain their own references to the devices they're
attached to which they release again in their .release routines, so you
have to remember to do a get_device() in the correct place after the
class_device_add().  I put comments in the code so that, hopefully, we
can avoid the problem in future.

Domain Validation is a fairly essential element to the SCSI Parallel
Interface (although if you look very few drivers actually do it).  The
premise is that the Parallel Bus, being a transmission line, might not
be correctly tuned to the transfers you want do perform.  DV probes the
parameters of the transport until it finds a setting that works (for the
interested, see http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/sdv/sdv-r08b.pdf)

The current code employs rather simplistic DV heuristics, although those
can be improved over time.  The change in scsi_scan.c is so that DV may
be done easily from the slave_configure routine, which is the most
natural place to begin.

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* the scan-channels message seemed to always give invalid output.
  Look at the constant, and discover we are sending another
  message entirely.  Fix the constant (CARM_MSG_IOCTL).

* s/MISC_SYNC_TIME/MISC_SET_TIME/

* list some additional messages

* bump version number

* Not setting cb->skb = NULL after releasing skb to OS or during
  initialization of cbs.  Reported by Deepak Saxena
  [dsaxena@plexity.net].

This patch just brings it up to date with the previous transport
attribute patch, moving it to the model where it sets the min/max of the
attribute if asked for something outside its range.  It also only makes
period and offset visible (it doesn't care about any of the others).

This does three things

- Fix the signedness of the bit attributes (otherwise they show up as -1
when on, not 1)
- Make the period adjust to the closest value rather than ignoring
values it doesn't understand.
- Add a visibility field to attributes, so drivers can get rid of
attributes they're never going to care about

This patch adds the ability to quiesce a SCSI device.  The idea is that
user issued commands (including filesystem ones) would get blocked,
while mid-layer and device issued ones would be allowed to proceed.
This is for things like Domain Validation which like to operate on an
otherwise quiet device.

There is one big change: to get all of this to happen correctly,
scsi_do_req() has to queue on the *head* of the request queue, not the
tail as it was doing previously.  The reason is that deferred requests
block the queue, so anything needing executing after a deferred request
has to go in front of it.  I don't think there are any untoward
consequences of this.

Mark S. said that there was another adapter added, and that they changed
the names of some boards.  Here is the updated version.

 - Correct a typo "mvram" -> "nvram".
 - Re-do the PQS/PDS support which I'd #if 0 out.  Should even work on
   multiple-domain boxes now ;-)
 - Move all the nvram definitions to sym_nvram.h (from Gerard's 2.1.19-pre3)
 - hcb_p -> struct sym_hcb *
 - sdev_p -> struct sym_device *
 - Delete a lot of unused macros from sym_misc.h
 - Move READ_BARRIER and WRITE_BARRIER definitions to sym_glue.h
 - SYM_CONF_NVRAM_WRITE_SUPPORT (from Gerard's 2.1.19-pre3).  Not enabled
   yet.
 - Fix some -W warnings (some courtesy of Adrian Bunk).

I submitted a patch last month for the aacraid driver's reset handler.
I left out setting function pointers in the adapter_ops structure for
the adapter_check_health element.

From: 	Moore, Eric Dean <Emoore@lsil.com>

This is an update for the MPT Fusion drivers 2.6 kernel.
Version 3.01.01.

This is a fix for poor performance in RAID Volumes. 
The dvStatus was being cleared for hidden physical disks
when mptscsih_slave_destroy is called.

Also, I have fixed the warning comming from mptscsih_reset_timeouts.

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