- 04 Sep, 2009 8 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
When the capacity drops low, we want to migrate load away. Allow the load-balancer to remove all tasks when we hit rock bottom. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.342231003@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Keep an average on the amount of time spend on RT tasks and use that fraction to scale down the cpu_power for regular tasks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.287778431@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Recompute the cpu_power for each cpu during load-balance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.162033479@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The idea is that multi-threading a core yields more work capacity than a single thread, provide a way to express a static gain for threads. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083826.073345955@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
In order to prepare for a more dynamic cpu_power, update the group sum while walking the sched domains during load-balance. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.985050292@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Do the placement thing using SD flags. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.897028974@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
cpu_power is supposed to be a representation of the process capacity of the cpu, not a value to randomly tweak in order to affect placement. Remove the placement hacks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Tested-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Acked-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20090901083825.810860576@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: both topics are ready now, and we want to merge dependent changes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 02 Sep, 2009 3 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
Add 3 schedstat tracepoints to help account for wait-time, sleep-time and iowait-time. They can also be used as a perf-counter source to profile tasks on these clocks. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> [ build fix for the !CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS case ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Arjan van de Ven authored
For counting how long an application has been waiting for (disk) IO, there currently is only the HZ sample driven information available, while for all other counters in this class, a high resolution version is available via CONFIG_SCHEDSTATS. In order to make an improved bootchart tool possible, we also need a higher resolution version of the iowait time. This patch below adds this scheduler statistic to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <4A64B813.1080506@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge reason: bump from rc5 to rc8, but also pick up TP_perf_assign() API, a patch will be queued that depends on it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 29 Aug, 2009 1 commit
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Anirban Sinha authored
... so that it does not share a common name with a function within the same scope. Signed-off-by: Anirban Sinha <asinha@zeugmasystems.com> LKML-Reference: <DDFD17CC94A9BD49A82147DDF7D545C501EA98A6@exchange.ZeugmaSystems.local> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 28 Aug, 2009 2 commits
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Peter Zijlstra authored
When re-computing the shares for each task group's cpu representation we need the ratio of weight on each cpu vs the total weight of the sched domain. Since load-balancing is loosely (read not) synchronized, the weight of individual cpus can change between doing the sum and calculating the ratio. The previous patch dealt with only one of the race scenarios, this patch side steps them all by saving a snapshot of all the individual cpu weights, thereby always working on a consistent set. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: jes@sgi.com Cc: jens.axboe@oracle.com Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <1251371336.18584.77.camel@twins> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Linus Torvalds authored
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- 27 Aug, 2009 26 commits
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James Bottomley authored
The root cause is a duplicate section name (.text); is this legal? [ Amerigo Wang: "AFAIK, yes." ] However, there's a problem with commit 6d760133 in that if you fail to allocate a mod->sect_attrs (in this case it's null because of the duplication), it still gets used without checking in add_notes_attrs() This should fix it [ This patch leaves other problems, particularly the sections directory, but recent parisc toolchains seem to produce these modules and this prevents a crash and is a minimal change -- RR ] Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Tested-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Rusty Russell authored
The rarely-used symbol_put_addr() needs to use dereference_function_descriptor on powerpc. Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge authored
As soon as the framebuffer is registered, our methods may be called by the kernel. This leads to a crash as xenfb_refresh() gets called before we have the irq. Connect to the backend before registering our framebuffer with the kernel. [ Fixes bug http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14059 ] Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notifyLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify: inotify: Ensure we alwasy write the terminating NULL. inotify: fix locking around inotify watching in the idr inotify: do not BUG on idr entries at inotify destruction inotify: seperate new watch creation updating existing watches
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
We call lmb_end_of_DRAM() to test whether a DMA mask is ok on a machine without IOMMU, but this function is marked as __init. I don't think there's a clean way to get the top of RAM max_pfn doesn't appear to include highmem or I missed (or we have a bug :-) so for now, let's just avoid having a broken 2.6.31 by making this function non-__init and we can revisit later. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fsLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: update documentation pointers 9p: remove unnecessary v9fses->options which duplicates the mount string net/9p: insulate the client against an invalid error code sent by a 9p server 9p: Add missing cast for the error return value in v9fs_get_inode 9p: Remove redundant inode uid/gid assignment 9p: Fix possible regressions when ->get_sb fails. 9p: Fix v9fs show_options 9p: Fix possible memleak in v9fs_inode_from fid. 9p: minor comment fixes 9p: Fix possible inode leak in v9fs_get_inode. 9p: Check for error in return value of v9fs_fid_add
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Julien TINNES authored
Add a check in ip_append_data() for NULL *rtp to prevent future bugs in callers from being exploitable. Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <julien@cr0.org> Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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David Howells authored
kAFS crashes when asked to read a symbolic link because page_getlink() passes a NULL file pointer to read_mapping_page(), but afs_readpage() expects a file pointer from which to extract a key. Modify afs_readpage() to request the appropriate key from the calling process's keyrings if a file struct is not supplied with one attached. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Some architectures initialize clocks and timers in late_time_init and x86 wants to do the same to avoid FIXMAP hackery for calibrating the TSC. That would result in undefined sched_clock readout and wreckaged printk timestamps again. We probably have those already on archs which do all their time/clock setup in late_time_init. There is no harm to move that after late_time_init except that a few more boot timestamps are stale. The scheduler is not active at that point so no real wreckage is expected. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
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Eric W. Biederman authored
Before the rewrite copy_event_to_user always wrote a terqminating '\0' byte to user space after the filename. Since the rewrite that terminating byte was skipped if your filename is exactly a multiple of event_size. Ouch! So add one byte to name_size before we round up and use clear_user to set userspace to zero like /dev/zero does instead of copying the strange nul_inotify_event. I can't quite convince myself len_to_zero will never exceed 16 and even if it doesn't clear_user should be more efficient and a more accurate reflection of what the code is trying to do. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris authored
The are races around the idr storage of inotify watches. It's possible that a watch could be found from sys_inotify_rm_watch() in the idr, but it could be removed from the idr before that code does it's removal. Move the locking and the refcnt'ing so that these have to happen atomically. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris authored
If an inotify watch is left in the idr when an fsnotify group is destroyed this will lead to a BUG. This is not a dangerous situation and really indicates a programming bug and leak of memory. This patch changes it to use a WARN and a printk rather than killing people's boxes. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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Eric Paris authored
There is nothing known wrong with the inotify watch addition/modification but this patch seperates the two code paths to make them each easy to verify as correct. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: virtio: net refill on out-of-memory smc91x: fix compilation on SMP
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc/ps3: Update ps3_defconfig powerpc/ps3: Add missing check for PS3 to rtc-ps3 platform device registration
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Geoff Levand authored
Update ps3_defconfig. o Refresh for 2.6.31. o Remove MTD support. o Add more HID drivers. Signed-off-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Geert Uytterhoeven authored
On non-PS3, we get: | kernel BUG at drivers/rtc/rtc-ps3.c:36! because the rtc-ps3 platform device is registered unconditionally in a kernel with builtin support for PS3. Reported-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/security-testing-2.6: IMA: iint put in ima_counts_get and put
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68kLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/geert/linux-m68k: m68k,m68knommu: Wire up rt_tgsigqueueinfo and perf_counter_open m68k: Fix redefinition of pgprot_noncached arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgalloc.h: fix kunmap arg m68k: cnt reaches -1, not 0 m68k: count can reach 51, not 50
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
If we change the inverted attribute to another value, the LED will not be inverted until we change the GPIO state. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Cc: Samuel R. C. Vale <srcvale@holoscopio.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo authored
When setting the same GPIO number, multiple IRQ shared requests will be done without freing the previous request. It will also try to free a failed request or an already freed IRQ if 0 was written to the gpio file. All these oops and leaks were fixed with the following solution: keep the previous allocated GPIO (if any) still allocated in case the new request fails. The alternative solution would desallocate the previous allocated GPIO and set gpio as 0. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Samuel R. C. Vale <srcvale@holoscopio.com> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Frans Pop authored
This failure is very common on many platforms. Handling it in the ACPI processor driver is enough, and we don't need a warning message unless CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG is set. Based on a patch from Zhang Rui. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Frans Pop authored
If the BIOS reports an invalid throttling state (which seems to be fairly common after system boot), a reset is done to state T0. Because of a check in acpi_processor_get_throttling_ptc(), the reset never actually gets executed, which results in the error reoccurring on every access of for example /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling. Add a 'force' option to acpi_processor_set_throttling() to ensure the reset really takes effect. Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13389 This patch, together with the next one, fixes a regression introduced in 2.6.30, listed on the regression list. They have been available for 2.5 months now in bugzilla, but have not been picked up, despite various reminders and without any reason given. Google shows that numerous people are hitting this issue. The issue is in itself relatively minor, but the bug in the code is clear. The patches have been in all my kernels and today testing has shown that throttling works correctly with the patches applied when the system overheats (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13918#c14). Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Costantino Leandro authored
Summary: Kernel panic arise when stack protection is enabled, since strncat will add a null terminating byte '\0'; So in functions like this one (wmi_query_block): char wc[4]="WC"; .... strncat(method, block->object_id, 2); ... the length of wc should be n+1 (wc[5]) or stack protection fault will arise. This is not noticeable when stack protection is disabled,but , isn't good either. Config used: [CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL=y, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR=y] Panic Trace ------------ .... stack-protector: kernel stack corrupted in : fa7b182c 2.6.30-rc8-obelisco-generic call_trace: [<c04a6c40>] ? panic+0x45/0xd9 [<c012925d>] ? __stack_chk_fail+0x1c/0x40 [<fa7b182c>] ? wmi_query_block+0x15a/0x162 [wmi] [<fa7b182c>] ? wmi_query_block+0x15a/0x162 [wmi] [<fa7e7000>] ? acer_wmi_init+0x00/0x61a [acer_wmi] [<fa7e7135>] ? acer_wmi_init+0x135/0x61a [acer_wmi] [<c0101159>] ? do_one_initcall+0x50+0x126 Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13514Signed-off-by: Costantino Leandro <lcostantino@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Yinghai Lu authored
Jens reported early_ioremap messages with old ASUS board... > [ 1.507461] pci 0000:00:09.0: Firmware left e100 interrupts enabled; disabling > [ 1.532778] early_ioremap(3fffd080, 0000005c) [0] => Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.31-rc4 #36 > [ 1.561007] Call Trace: > [ 1.568638] [<c136e48b>] ? printk+0x18/0x1d > [ 1.581734] [<c15513ff>] __early_ioremap+0x74/0x1e9 > [ 1.596898] [<c15515aa>] early_ioremap+0x1a/0x1c > [ 1.611270] [<c154a187>] __acpi_map_table+0x18/0x1a > [ 1.626451] [<c135a7f8>] acpi_os_map_memory+0x1d/0x25 > [ 1.642129] [<c119459c>] acpi_tb_verify_table+0x20/0x49 > [ 1.658321] [<c1193e50>] acpi_get_table_with_size+0x53/0xa1 > [ 1.675553] [<c1193eae>] acpi_get_table+0x10/0x15 > [ 1.690192] [<c155cc19>] acpi_processor_init+0x23/0xab > [ 1.706126] [<c1001043>] do_one_initcall+0x33/0x180 > [ 1.721279] [<c155cbf6>] ? acpi_processor_init+0x0/0xab > [ 1.737479] [<c106893a>] ? register_irq_proc+0xaa/0xc0 > [ 1.753411] [<c10689b7>] ? init_irq_proc+0x67/0x80 > [ 1.768316] [<c15405e7>] kernel_init+0x120/0x176 > [ 1.782678] [<c15404c7>] ? kernel_init+0x0/0x176 > [ 1.797062] [<c10038b7>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > [ 1.812984] 00000080 + ffe00000 that is rather later. acpi_gbl_permanent_mmap should be set in acpi_early_init() if acpi is not disabled and we have > [ 0.000000] ASUS P2B-DS detected: force use of acpi=ht just don't load acpi_processor_init... Reported-and-tested-by: Jens Rosenboom <jens@leia.mcbone.net> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Michael Brunner authored
The return value of the get_temp function is not checked when doing a thermal zone update. This may lead to a critical shutdown if get_temp fails and the content of the temp variable is incorrectly set higher than the critical trip point. This has been observed on a system with incorrect ACPI implementation where the corresponding methods were not serialized and therefore sometimes triggered ACPI errors (AE_ALREADY_EXISTS). The following critical shutdowns indicated a temperature of 2097 C, which was obviously wrong. The patch adds a return value check that jumps over all trip point evaluations printing a warning if get_temp fails. The trip points are evaluated again on the next polling interval with successful get_temp execution. Signed-off-by: Michael Brunner <mibru@gmx.de> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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