- 06 Sep, 2008 5 commits
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Dominik Brodowski authored
On all hardware (some Intel ICH4, PIIX4 and PIIX4E chipsets) affected by a hardware errata there's about a 4.2% chance that initialization of the ACPI PMTMR fails. On those chipsets, we need to read out the timer value at least three times to get a correct result, for every once in a while (i.e. within a 3 ns window every 69.8 ns) the read returns a bogus result. During normal operation we work around this issue, but during initialization reading a bogus value may lead to -EINVAL even though the hardware is usable. Thanks to Andreas Mohr for spotting this issue. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Maciej W. Rozycki authored
We have a bug in the calculation of the next jiffie to trigger the RTC synchronisation. The aim here is to run sync_cmos_clock() as close as possible to the middle of a second. Which means we want this function to be called less than or equal to half a jiffie away from when now.tv_nsec equals 5e8 (500000000). If this is not the case for a given call to the function, for this purpose instead of updating the RTC we calculate the offset in nanoseconds to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8. The calculated offset is then converted to jiffies as these are the unit used by the timer. Hovewer timespec_to_jiffies() used here uses a ceil()-type rounding mode, where the resulting value is rounded up. As a result the range of now.tv_nsec when the timer will trigger is from 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC rather than the desired 5e8 - TICK_NSEC / 2 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2. As a result if for example sync_cmos_clock() happens to be called at the time when now.tv_nsec is between 5e8 + TICK_NSEC / 2 and 5e8 to 5e8 + TICK_NSEC, it will simply be rescheduled HZ jiffies later, falling in the same range of now.tv_nsec again. Similarly for cases offsetted by an integer multiple of TICK_NSEC. This change addresses the problem by subtracting TICK_NSEC / 2 from the nanosecond offset to the next point in time where now.tv_nsec will be equal 5e8, effectively shifting the following rounding in timespec_to_jiffies() so that it produces a rounded-to-nearest result. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
After fixing the u32 thinko I sill had occasional hickups on ATI chipsets with small deltas. There seems to be a delay between writing the compare register and the transffer to the internal register which triggers the interrupt. Reading back the value makes sure, that it hit the internal match register befor we compare against the counter value. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
We use the HPET only in 32bit mode because: 1) some HPETs are 32bit only 2) on i386 there is no way to read/write the HPET atomic 64bit wide The HPET code unification done by the "moron of the year" did not take into account that unsigned long is different on 32 and 64 bit. This thinko results in a possible endless loop in the clockevents code, when the return comparison fails due to the 64bit/332bit unawareness. unsigned long cnt = (u32) hpet_read() + delta can wrap over 32bit. but the final compare will fail and return -ETIME causing endless loops. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Until the C1E patches arrived there where no users of periodic broadcast before switching to oneshot mode. Now we need to trigger a possible waiter for a periodic broadcast when switching to oneshot mode. Otherwise we can starve them for ever. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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- 05 Sep, 2008 6 commits
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The minimum reprogramming delta was hardcoded in HPET ticks, which is stupid as it does not work with faster running HPETs. The C1E idle patches made this prominent on AMD/RS690 chipsets, where the HPET runs with 25MHz. Set it to 5us which seems to be a reasonable value and fixes the problems on the bug reporters machines. We have a further sanity check now in the clock events, which increases the delta when it is not sufficient. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Tested-by: Dmitry Nezhevenko <dion@inhex.net> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The C1E/HPET bug reports on AMDX2/RS690 systems where tracked down to a too small value of the HPET minumum delta for programming an event. The clockevents code needs to enforce an interrupt event on the clock event device in some cases. The enforcement code was stupid and naive, as it just added the minimum delta to the current time and tried to reprogram the device. When the minimum delta is too small, then this loops forever. Add a sanity check. Allow reprogramming to fail 3 times, then print a warning and double the minimum delta value to make sure, that this does not happen again. Use the same function for both tick-oneshot and tick-broadcast code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
While chasing the C1E/HPET bugreports I went through the clock events code inch by inch and found that the broadcast device can be initialized and shutdown multiple times. Multiple shutdowns are not critical, but useless waste of time. Multiple initializations are simply broken. Another CPU might have the device in use already after the first initialization and the second init could just render it unusable again. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
In tick_oneshot_setup we program the device to the given next_event, but we do not check the return value. We need to make sure that the device is programmed enforced so the interrupt handler engine starts working. Split out the reprogramming function from tick_program_event() and call it with the device, which was handed in to tick_setup_oneshot(). Set the force argument, so the devices is firing an interrupt. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Thomas Gleixner authored
The reprogramming of the periodic broadcast handler was broken, when the first programming returned -ETIME. The clockevents code stores the new expiry value in the clock events device next_event field only when the programming time has not been elapsed yet. The loop in question calculates the new expiry value from the next_event value and therefor never increases. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Venkatesh Pallipadi authored
There is a ordering related problem with clockevents code, due to which clockevents_register_device() called after tickless/highres switch will not work. The new clockevent ends up with clockevents_handle_noop as event handler, resulting in no timer activity. The problematic path seems to be * old device already has hrtimer_interrupt as the event_handler * new clockevent device registers with a higher rating * tick_check_new_device() is called * clockevents_exchange_device() gets called * old->event_handler is set to clockevents_handle_noop * tick_setup_device() is called for the new device * which sets new->event_handler using the old->event_handler which is noop. Change the ordering so that new device inherits the proper handler. This does not have any issue in normal case as most likely all the clockevent devices are setup before the highres switch. But, can potentially be affecting some corner case where HPET force detect happens after the highres switch. This was a problem with HPET in MSI mode code that we have been experimenting with. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 04 Sep, 2008 2 commits
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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: SELinux: memory leak in security_context_to_sid_core
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds authored
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: powerpc: Fix for getting CPU number in power_save_ppc32_restore() powerpc: Fix build error with 64K pages and !hugetlbfs powerpc: Work around gcc's -fno-omit-frame-pointer bug powerpc: Make sure _etext is after all kernel text powerpc: Only make kernel text pages of linear mapping executable powerpc: Fix uninitialised variable in VSX alignment code
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- 03 Sep, 2008 27 commits
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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: bnx2x: Accessing un-mapped page ath9k: Fix TX control flag use for no ACK and RTS/CTS ath9k: Fix TX status reporting iwlwifi: fix STATUS_EXIT_PENDING is not set on pci_remove iwlwifi: call apm stop on exit iwlwifi: fix Tx cmd memory allocation failure handling iwlwifi: fix rx_chain computation iwlwifi: fix station mimo power save values iwlwifi: remove false rxon if rx chain changes iwlwifi: fix hidden ssid discovery in passive channels iwlwifi: W/A for the TSF correction in IBSS netxen: Remove workaround for chipset quirk pcnet-cs, axnet_cs: add new IDs, remove dup ID with less info ixgbe: initialize interrupt throttle rate net/usb/pegasus: avoid hundreds of diagnostics tipc: Don't use structure names which easily globally conflict.
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Eric Paris authored
Fix a bug and a philosophical decision about who handles errors. security_context_to_sid_core() was leaking a context in the common case. This was causing problems on fedora systems which recently have started making extensive use of this function. In discussion it was decided that if string_to_context_struct() had an error it was its own responsibility to clean up any mess it created along the way. Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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David S. Miller authored
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Eilon Greenstein authored
The allocated RX buffer size was 64 bytes bigger than the PCI mapped size with no good reason. If the packet was actually using the buffer up to its limit and if the last 64 bytes of the buffer crossed 4KB boundary then an unmapped PCI page was accessed. The fix is to use only one parameter for the buffer size - there is no need to differentiate between the buffer size and the PCI mapping size since the extra 64 bytes can actually be used by the FW to align the Ethernet payload to 64 bytes. Also updating the driver version and date Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jouni Malinen authored
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Jouni Malinen authored
Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jouni.malinen@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gregory Greenman authored
This patch sets STATUS_EXIT_PENDING on pci_remove. Otherwise iwl4965_down may fail to uninitialize the driver. Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Gregory Greenman authored
This patch calls apm stop on exit and suspend. Without this patch hardware consumes power even after driver is removed or suspended. Signed-off-by: Gregory Greenman <gregory.greenman@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Tomas Winkler authored
This patch "iwlwifi: do not use GFP_DMA in iwl_tx_queue_init" removes GFP_DMA from allocation tx command buffers. GFP_DMA allows allocation only for memory under 16M which causes allocation problems suspend/resume flows. Using kmalloc is temporal solution and some consistent/coherent allocation schema will be more correct. Since iwlwifi hardware supports 64bit address this solution should work on x86 (32 and 64bit) for now. This patch fixes memory freeing problem in the previous patch. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Schram <ischram@telenet.be> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Tomas Winkler authored
This patch fixes rx_chain computation. The code that adjusts number of rx chains to number supported by HW was missing. Miss configuration causes firmware error. Note: iwlwifi supports HW with up to 3 RX chains (2x2, 2x3, 1x2, and 3x3 MIMO). This patch also simplifies the whole RX chain computation. Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ron Rindjunsky authored
This patch fixes the wrong use MIMO power save values. Our TX was configured with our MIMO power save values instead of peer's MIMO power save values, this may affect connectivity. The peer STA/AP may not sense our traffic at all as it doesn't have all RX chains opened. Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Mohamed Abbas authored
Rx chain might change during power save transitions but it doesn't require sending Full-ROXN command to the firmware. Full-RXON requires reconnection to an AP and thus affects user experience. The patch avoids the Full-RXON by removing the rx_chain modification check in iwl_full_rxon_required function. Signed-off-by: Mohamed Abbas <mohamed.abbas@intel.com Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Ron Rindjunsky authored
This enables sending of direct probes on passive channels, as long as traffic was detected on that channel. This enables connectivity to hidden/non broadcasting SSIDs APs on passive channels. Note 5000 HW declares all 5.2 spectrum as passive. Signed-off-by: Cahill Ben <ben.m.cahill@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ron Rindjunsky <ron.rindjunsky@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Assaf Krauss authored
This patch is a W/A for the TSF sync issue in IBSS merging. HW is not capable to sync TSF (it's constantly little behind). This creates constant IBSS merging upon reception of each beacon, adding and removing station which in turn creates above 50% packet loss and thus dramatically degrade the throughput. The W/A simply stops the driver from declaring it has a reliable TSF value and thus eliminates IBSS merging. Signed-off-by: Assaf Krauss <assaf.krauss@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Linus Torvalds authored
The TSC calibration function is still very complicated, but this makes it at least a little bit less so by moving the PIT part out into a helper function of its own. Tested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Signed-of-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dhananjay Phadke authored
Remove chipset-specific quirk workaround; the workaround caused unrecoverable DMA lockups when the driver was loaded following a PXE boot. Signed-off-by: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@netxen.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Komuro authored
pcnet_cs: add new ID: "corega Ether PCC-TD". remove duplicate ID: "IC-CARD". axnet_cs: add new ID: "IO DATA ETXPCM". Signed-off-by: Komuro <komurojun-mbn@nifty.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Andy Gospodarek authored
This commit dropped the setting of the default interrupt throttle rate. commit 021230d4 Author: Ayyappan Veeraiyan <ayyappan.veeraiyan@intel.com> Date: Mon Mar 3 15:03:45 2008 -0800 ixgbe: Introduce MSI-X queue vector code The following patch adds it back. Without this the default value of 0 causes the performance of this card to be awful. Restoring these to the default values yields much better performance. This regression has been around since 2.6.25. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Acked-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> CC: stable@kernel.org [2.6.25 and later] Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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David Brownell authored
Make the "pegasus" driver scream less loudly in the face of problems as it initializes, avoiding hundreds of messages: - ratelimit some key error messages - avoid some spurious diagnostics caused by strange codeflow And fix one instance of goofy indentation. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Kumar Gala authored
The calculation to get TI_CPU based off of SPRG3 was just plain wrong, meaning that we were getting garbage for the CPU number on 6xx/G3/G4 based SMP boxes in this code. Just offset off the stack pointer (to get to thread_info) like all the other references to TI_CPU do. This was pointed out by Chen Gong <G.Chen@freescale.com> [paulus@samba.org - use rlwinm r12,r11,... instead of rlwinm r12,r1,...; tophys()] Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Benjamin Herrenschmidt authored
HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA and HAVE_ARCH_UNMAPPED_AREA_TOPDOWN must be defined whenever CONFIG_PPC_MM_SLICES is enabled, not just when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE is. They used to be always defined together but this is no longer the case since 3a8247cc ("powerpc: Only demote individual slices rather than whole process"). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Tony Breeds authored
This bug is causing random crashes (http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11414). -fno-omit-frame-pointer is only needed on powerpc when -pg is also supplied, and there is a gcc bug that causes incorrect code generation on 32-bit powerpc when -fno-omit-frame-pointer is used---it uses stack locations below the stack pointer, which is not allowed by the ABI because those locations can and sometimes do get corrupted by an interrupt. This ensures that CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is only selected by ftrace. When CONFIG_FTRACE is enabled we also pass -mno-sched-epilog to work around the gcc codegen bug. Patch based on work by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Stephen Rothwell authored
This makes core_kernel_text() (and therefore kernel_text_address()) return the correct result. Currently all the __devinit routines (at least) will not be considered to be kernel text. This is just a quick fix for 2.6.27 - hopefully we will be able to fix this better in 2.6.28. Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Paul Mackerras authored
Commit bc033b63 ("powerpc/mm: Fix attribute confusion with htab_bolt_mapping()") moved the check for whether we should make pages of the linear mapping executable from htab_bolt_mapping into its callers, including htab_initialize. A side-effect of this is that the decision is now made once for each contiguous section in the LMB array rather than for each page individually. This can often mean that the whole of the linear mapping ends up being executable. This reverts to the previous behaviour, where individual pages are checked for being part of the kernel text or not, by moving the check back down into htab_bolt_mapping. Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Michael Neuling authored
This fixes an uninitialised variable in the VSX alignment code. It can cause warnings from GCC (noticed with gcc-4.1.1). Gcc is actually correct in this instance, and this bug could cause the alignment interrupt handler to send a SIGSEGV to the process on a legitimate access. Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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David S. Miller authored
Andrew Morton reported a build failure on sparc32, because TIPC uses names like "struct node" and there is a like named data structure defined in linux/node.h This just regexp replaces "struct node*" to "struct tipc_node*" to avoid this and any future similar problems. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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