- 23 Oct, 2007 2 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: fw-ohci: shut up a superfluous compiler warning firewire: fw-ohci: log a note about unsupported features
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git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds authored
* 'sg' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Add CONFIG_DEBUG_SG sg validation Change table chaining layout Update arch/ to use sg helpers Update swiotlb to use sg helpers Update net/ to use sg helpers Update fs/ to use sg helpers [SG] Update drivers to use sg helpers [SG] Update crypto/ to sg helpers [SG] Update block layer to use sg helpers [SG] Add helpers for manipulating SG entries
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- 22 Oct, 2007 38 commits
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Jens Axboe authored
Add a Kconfig entry which will toggle some sanity checks on the sg entry and tables. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Change the page member of the scatterlist structure to be an unsigned long, and encode more stuff in the lower bits: - Bits 0 and 1 zero: this is a normal sg entry. Next sg entry is located at sg + 1. - Bit 0 set: this is a chain entry, the next real entry is at ->page_link with the two low bits masked off. - Bit 1 set: this is the final entry in the sg entry. sg_next() will return NULL when passed such an entry. It's thus important that sg table users use the proper accessors to get and set the page member. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Stefan Richter authored
New warning since commit ab88ca48, "firewire: fw-ohci: missing dma_unmap_single": drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c: In function 'at_context_transmit': drivers/firewire/fw-ohci.c:609: warning: 'payload_bus' may be used uninitialized in this function Access to payload_bus is conditional on packet->payload_length > 0, and that won't change while in at_context_queue_packet. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Stefan Richter authored
because there seems to be more time needed to implement this. Also, change related error return values to more appropriate ones. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Jens Axboe authored
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Update documentation to the current state of affairs. Remove duplicated method descruptions in exportfs.h and point to Documentation/filesystems/ Exporting instead. Add a little file header comment in expfs.c describing what's going on and mentioning Neils and my copyright [1]. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that nfsd has stopped writing to the find_exported_dentry member we an mark the export_operations const Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Now that all filesystems are converted remove support for the old methods. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
OCFS2 has it's own 64bit-firendly filehandle format so we can't use the generic helpers here. I'll add a struct for the types later. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Convert gfs2 to the new ops. Uses a similar structure to the generic helpers, but gfs2 has it's own file handle formats. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Another nice little cleanup by using the new methods. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
I'm not sure what people were thinking when adding support to export tmpfs, but here's the conversion anyway: Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Nice little cleanup by consolidating things a little and using a structure for the special file handle format. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Very little changes here, fat had a mostly no op decode_fh before and does not store any parent information. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
This one is a lot more complicated than the previous ones. XFS already had a very clever scheme for supporting 64bit inode numbers in filehandles, and I've reworked this to be some kind of a prototype for the generic 64bit inode filehandle support. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Trivial switch over to the new generic helpers. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
Add the guts for the new filesystem API to exportfs. There's now a fh_to_dentry method that returns a dentry for the object looked for given a filehandle fragment, and a fh_to_parent operation that returns the dentry for the encoded parent directory in case the file handle contains it. There are default implementations for these methods that only take a callback for an nfs-enhanced iget variant and implement the rest of the semantics. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
This patchset is a medium scale rewrite of the export operations interface. The goal is to make the interface less complex, and easier to understand from the filesystem side, aswell as preparing generic support for exporting of 64bit inode numbers. This touches all nfs exporting filesystems, and I've done testing on all of the filesystems I have here locally (xfs, ext2, ext3, reiserfs, jfs) This patch: Add a structured fid type so that we don't have to pass an array of u32 values around everywhere. It's a union of possible layouts. As a start there's only the u32 array and the traditional 32bit inode format, but there will be more in one of my next patchset when I start to document the various filehandle formats we have in lowlevel filesystems better. Also add an enum that gives the various filehandle types human- readable names. Note: Some people might think the struct containing an anonymous union is ugly, but I didn't want to pass around a raw union type. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org> Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net> Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Cc: Timothy Shimmin <tes@sgi.com> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: "Vladimir V. Saveliev" <vs@namesys.com> Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Bernhard Walle authored
Add the BSS to the resource tree just as kernel text and kernel data are in the resource tree. The main reason behind this is to avoid crashkernel reservation in that area. While it's not strictly necessary to have the BSS in the resource tree (the actual collision detection is done in the reserve_bootmem() function before), the usage of the BSS resource should be presented to the user in /proc/iomem just as Kernel data and Kernel code. Note: The patch currently is only implemented for x86 and ia64 (because efi_initialize_iomem_resources() has the same signature on i386 and ia64). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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FUJITA Tomonori authored
x86_64 defines ARCH_HAS_SG_CHAIN. So if IOMMU implementations don't support sg chaining, we will get data corruption. Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
pci_dev's->sysdata is highly overloaded and currently IOMMU is broken due to IOMMU code depending on this field. This patch introduces new field in pci_dev's dev.archdata struct to hold IOMMU specific per device IOMMU private data. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
This patch adds PageSelectiveInvalidation support replacing existing DomainSelectiveInvalidation for intel_{map/unmap}_sg() calls and also enables to mapping one big contiguous DMA virtual address which is mapped to discontiguous physical address for SG map/unmap calls. "Doamin selective invalidations" wipes out the IOMMU address translation cache based on domain ID where as "Page selective invalidations" wipes out the IOMMU address translation cache for that address mask range which is more cache friendly when compared to Domain selective invalidations. Here is how it is done. 1) changes to iova.c alloc_iova() now takes a bool size_aligned argument, which when when set, returns the io virtual address that is naturally aligned to 2 ^ x, where x is the order of the size requested. Returning this io vitual address which is naturally aligned helps iommu to do the "page selective invalidations" which is IOMMU cache friendly over "domain selective invalidations". 2) Changes to driver/pci/intel-iommu.c Clean up intel_{map/unmap}_{single/sg} () calls so that s/g map/unamp calls is no more dependent on intel_{map/unmap}_single() intel_map_sg() now computes the total DMA virtual address required and allocates the size aligned total DMA virtual address and maps the discontiguous physical address to the allocated contiguous DMA virtual address. In the intel_unmap_sg() case since the DMA virtual address is contiguous and size_aligned, PageSelectiveInvalidation is used replacing earlier DomainSelectiveInvalidations. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: Suresh B <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
This config option (DMAR_FLPY_WA) sets up 1:1 mapping for the floppy device so that the floppy device which does not use DMA api's will continue to work. Once the floppy driver starts using DMA api's this config option can be turn off or this patch can be yanked out of kernel at that time. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups, rename things, build fix] [jengelh@computergmbh.de: Kconfig fixes] Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
When we fix all the opensource gfx drivers to use the DMA api's, at that time we can yank this config options out. [jengelh@computergmbh.de: Kconfig fixes] Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
MSI interrupt handler registrations and fault handling support for Intel-IOMMU hadrware. This patch enables the MSI interrupts for the DMA remapping units and in the interrupt handler read the fault cause and outputs the same on to the console. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
Introduce intel_iommu=forcedac commandline option. This option is helpful to verify the pci device capability of handling physical dma'able address greater than 4G. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Keshavamurthy, Anil S authored
Intel IOMMU driver needs memory during DMA map calls to setup its internal page tables and for other data structures. As we all know that these DMA map calls are mostly called in the interrupt context or with the spinlock held by the upper level drivers(network/storage drivers), so in order to avoid any memory allocation failure due to low memory issues, this patch makes memory allocation by temporarily setting PF_MEMALLOC flags for the current task before making memory allocation calls. We evaluated mempools as a backup when kmem_cache_alloc() fails and found that mempools are really not useful here because 1) We don't know for sure how much to reserve in advance 2) And mempools are not useful for GFP_ATOMIC case (as we call memory alloc functions with GFP_ATOMIC) (akpm: point 2 is wrong...) With PF_MEMALLOC flag set in the current->flags, the VM subsystem avoids any watermark checks before allocating memory thus guarantee'ing the memory till the last free page. Further, looking at the code in mm/page_alloc.c in __alloc_pages() function, looks like this flag is useful only in the non-interrupt context. If we are in the interrupt context and memory allocation in IOMMU driver fails for some reason, then the DMA map api's will return failure and it is up to the higher level drivers to retry. Suppose, if upper level driver programs the controller with the buggy DMA virtual address, the IOMMU will block that DMA transaction when that happens thus preventing any corruption to main memory. So far in our test scenario, we were unable to create any memory allocation failure inside dma map api calls. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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