1. 22 Dec, 2011 3 commits
    • Kay Sievers's avatar
      driver-core: remove sysdev.h usage. · edbaa603
      Kay Sievers authored
      The sysdev.h file should not be needed by any in-kernel code, so remove
      the .h file from these random files that seem to still want to include
      it.
      
      The sysdev code will be going away soon, so this include needs to be
      removed no matter what.
      
      Cc: Jiandong Zheng <jdzheng@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Scott Branden <sbranden@broadcom.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
      Cc: David Brown <davidb@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
      Cc: Bryan Huntsman <bryanh@codeaurora.org>
      Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
      Cc: Wan ZongShun <mcuos.com@gmail.com>
      Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
      Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
      Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
      Cc: "Venkatesh Pallipadi
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
      Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
      Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
      Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
      Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      edbaa603
    • Kay Sievers's avatar
      clockevents: remove sysdev.h · 7239f65c
      Kay Sievers authored
      This isn't needed in the clockevents.c file, and the header file is
      going away soon, so just remove the #include
      
      Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      7239f65c
    • Kay Sievers's avatar
      arm: convert sysdev_class to a regular subsystem · 4a858cfc
      Kay Sievers authored
      After all sysdev classes are ported to regular driver core entities, the
      sysdev implementation will be entirely removed from the kernel.
      
      Cc: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
      Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
      Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
      Cc: Boojin Kim <boojin.kim@samsung.com>
      Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
      Cc: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
      Cc: Heiko Stuebner <heiko@sntech.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      4a858cfc
  2. 21 Dec, 2011 13 commits
  3. 15 Dec, 2011 1 commit
  4. 14 Dec, 2011 7 commits
  5. 13 Dec, 2011 3 commits
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      kref: Remove the memory barriers · 3c8ed889
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Commit 1b0b3b99 ("kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs")
      wrongly adds memory barriers to kref.
      
      It states:
      
        some atomic operations are only atomic, not ordered. Thus a CPU is allowed
        to reorder memory references to an object to before the reference is
        obtained. This fixes it.
      
      While true, it fails to show why this is a problem. I say it is not a
      problem because if there is a race with kref_put() such that we could
      end up referencing a free'd object without this memory barrier, we
      would still have that race with the memory barrier.
      
      The kref_put() in question could complete (and free the object) before
      the atomic_inc() and we'd still be up shit creek.
      
      The kref_init() case is even worse, if your object is published at this
      time you're so wrong the memory barrier won't make a difference what
      so ever. If its not published, the act of publishing should include
      the needed barriers/locks to make sure all writes prior to the act of
      publishing are complete such that others will only observe a complete
      object.
      
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      3c8ed889
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      kref: Implement kref_put in terms of kref_sub · 47dbd7d9
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      Less lines of code is better.
      
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      47dbd7d9
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      kref: Inline all functions · 4af679cd
      Peter Zijlstra authored
      These are tiny functions, there's no point in having them out-of-line.
      
      Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-8eccvi2ur2fzgi00xdjlbf5z@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
      4af679cd
  6. 12 Dec, 2011 5 commits
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  8. 27 Nov, 2011 3 commits