- 21 Oct, 2010 3 commits
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
If we get a bit-flip of ECC error while reading the data area, do not add it to corrupted list, because it is possible that this is just unstable PEB with corruptions caused by unclean reboots. This patch also improves commentaries. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
When the data does not contain all 0xFF bytes, 'check_data_ff()' should return 1, not -EINVAL; Also, the caller ('process_eb()') should not add the PEB to the "corrupted" list if there was a read error. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
While scanning the flash we read all VID headers and store some important information in 'struct ubi_scan_leb'. Store also the 'copy_flag' value there as it is needed when comparing LEBs. We do not increase memory consumption because this is just one bit and we have plenty of spare bits in 'struct ubi_scan_leb' (sizeof(struct ubi_scan_leb) is 48 both with and without this patch). Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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- 19 Oct, 2010 13 commits
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Currently UBI erases all corrupted eraseblocks, irrespectively of the nature of corruption: corruption due to power cuts and non-power cut corruption. The former case is OK, but the latter is not, because UBI may destroy potentially important data. With this patch, during scanning, when UBI hits a PEB with corrupted VID header, it checks whether this PEB contains only 0xFF data. If yes, it is safe to erase this PEB and it is put to the 'erase' list. If not, this may be important data and it is better to avoid erasing this PEB. Instead, UBI puts it to the corr list and moves out of the pool of available PEB. IOW, UBI preserves this PEB. Such corrupted PEB lessen the amount of available PEBs. So the more of them we accumulate, the less PEBs are available. The maximum amount of non-power cut corrupted PEBs is 8. This patch is a response to UBIFS problem where reporter (Matthew L. Creech <mlcreech@gmail.com>) observes that UBIFS index points to an unmapped LEB. The theory is that corresponding PEB somehow got corrupted and UBI wiped it. This patch (actually a series of patches) tries to make sure such PEBs are preserved - this would make it is easier to analyze the corruption. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Start using the 'corr' list and add there PEBs which look truly corrupted, which means they have corrupted VID header and the data which follows the corrupted header does not contain all 0xFF bytes. At the moment, this does not change UBI functionality much because these PEBs will be erase when scanning finishes. But the plan is to teach UBI preserving them. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Introduce a helper function to print hexdump: 'ubi_dbg_print_hex_dump()'. It is compiled out if debugging is enabled. Will be used in the next patch. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
This patch turns static function 'check_pattern()' into a non-static 'ubi_check_pattern()'. This is just a preparation for the chages which are coming in the next patches. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Currently UBI maintains 2 lists of PEBs during scanning: 1. 'erase' list - PEBs which have no corruptions but should be erased 2. 'corr' list - PEBs which have some corruptions and should be erased But we do not really need 2 lists for PEBs which should be erased after scanning is done - this is redundant. So this patch makes sure all PEBs which are corrupted are moved to the head of the 'erase' list. We add them to the head to make sure they are erased first and we get rid of corruption ASAP. However, we do not remove the 'corr' list and realted functions, because the plan is to use this list for other purposes. Namely, we plan to put eraseblocks with corruption which does not look like it was caused by unclean power cut. Then we'll preserve thes PEBs in order to avoid killing potentially valuable user data. This patch also amends PEBs accounting, because it was closely tight to the 'erase'/'corr' lists separation. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
This patch introduces 'add_corrupted()' function and separates out 'corr' list manipulation from the common 'add_to_list()' function. This is just a preparation for further changes - this patch does not change functionality. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
This patch improves readability and simplifies scanning code by changing a long cascade of 'if' statements to a switch statement. This should presumably be a little faster as well. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Rename local variable 'ec_corr' into 'ec_err' to make the code a little bit more readable. 'ec_err' is more appropriate because it sounds more like 'error when EC was read' and it looks more logical because we use it together with 'err'. Just a minor nicification which should improve the rather complex scanning code. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Currently UBI has one small flaw - when we read EC or VID header, but find only 0xFF bytes, we return UBI_IO_FF and do not report whether we had bit-flips or not. In case of the VID header, the scanning code adds this PEB to the free list, even though there were bit-flips. Imagine the following situation: we start writing VID header to a PEB and have a power cut, so the PEB becomes unstable. When we scan and read the PEB, we get a bit-flip. Currently, UBI would just ignore this and treat the PEB as free. This patch changes UBI behavior and now UBI will schedule this PEB for erasure. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
The 'UBI_IO_PEB_EMPTY' and 'UBI_IO_PEB_FREE' are essentially the same and mean that there are only 0xFF bytes instead of headers. Simplify UBI a little by turning them into a single 'UBI_IO_FF' error code. Also, stop maintaining commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_vid_hdr()' which are almost identical to commentaries in 'ubi_io_read_ec_hdr()'. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
Rename UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_READ into UBI_IO_BAD_HDR_EBADMSG which is presumably more self-documenting and readable. Indeed, the '_READ' suffix does not tell much and even confuses, while '_EBADMSG' tells about uncorrectable ECC error, because we use -EBADMSG all over the place to represent ECC errors. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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Artem Bityutskiy authored
One line was longer than 80 lines, make it shorter. Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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H Hartley Sweeten authored
Cleanup the Kconfig for UBI by using menuconfig to enable/disable the entire driver. Remove the dependency checks for MTD_UBI and MTD_UBI_DEBUG by wrapping the options in if/endif blocks and remove any redundant checks. Remove all default n since that is the Kconfig default. Change menu "Additional UBI debugging messages" into a comment to remove one menu level. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@nokia.com>
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- 14 Oct, 2010 4 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
Tony Luck reports that the addition of the access_ok() check in commit 0eead9ab ("Don't dump task struct in a.out core-dumps") broke the ia64 compile due to missing the necessary header file includes. Rather than add yet another include (<asm/unistd.h>) to make everything happy, just uninline the silly core dump helper functions and move the bodies to fs/exec.c where they make a lot more sense. dump_seek() in particular was too big to be an inline function anyway, and none of them are in any way performance-critical. And we really don't need to mess up our include file headers more than they already are. Reported-and-tested-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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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: ehea: Fix a checksum issue on the receive path net: allow FEC driver to use fixed PHY support tg3: restore rx_dropped accounting b44: fix carrier detection on bind net: clear heap allocations for privileged ethtool actions NET: wimax, fix use after free ATM: iphase, remove sleep-inside-atomic ATM: mpc, fix use after free ATM: solos-pci, remove use after free net/fec: carrier off initially to avoid root mount failure r8169: use device model DMA API r8169: allocate with GFP_KERNEL flag when able to sleep
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Linus Torvalds authored
akiphie points out that a.out core-dumps have that odd task struct dumping that was never used and was never really a good idea (it goes back into the mists of history, probably the original core-dumping code). Just remove it. Also do the access_ok() check on dump_write(). It probably doesn't matter (since normal filesystems all seem to do it anyway), but he points out that it's normally done by the VFS layer, so ... [ I suspect that we should possibly do "vfs_write()" instead of calling ->write directly. That also does the whole fsnotify and write statistics thing, which may or may not be a good idea. ] And just to be anal, do this all for the x86-64 32-bit a.out emulation code too, even though it's not enabled (and won't currently even compile) Reported-by: akiphie <akiphie@lavabit.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 13 Oct, 2010 11 commits
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_txLinus Torvalds authored
* 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: ioat2: fix performance regression
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git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-2.6.36' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux: nfsd: fix BUG at fs/nfsd/nfsfh.h:199 on unlink
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ring-buffer: Fix typo of time extends per page perf, MIPS: Support cross compiling of tools/perf for MIPS perf: Fix incorrect copy_from_user() usage
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: ARM: relax ioremap prohibition (309caa9c) for -final and -stable ARM: 6440/1: ep93xx: DMA: fix channel_disable cpuimx27: fix i2c bus selection cpuimx27: fix compile when ULPI is selected ARM: 6435/1: Fix HWCAP_TLS flag for ARM11MPCore/Cortex-A9 ARM: 6436/1: AT91: Fix power-saving in idle-mode on 926T processors ARM: fix section mismatch warnings in Versatile Express ARM: 6412/1: kprobes-decode: add support for MOVW instruction ARM: 6419/1: mmu: Fix MT_MEMORY and MT_MEMORY_NONCACHED pte flags ARM: 6416/1: errata: faulty hazard checking in the Store Buffer may lead to data corruption
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6 * 'omap-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6: omap: iommu-load cam register before flushing the entry
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/radeon/kms: Silent spurious error message drm/radeon/kms: fix bad cast/shift in evergreen.c drm/radeon/kms: make TV/DFP table info less verbose drm/radeon/kms: leave certain CP int bits enabled drm/radeon/kms: avoid corner case issue with unmappable vram V2
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86, numa: For each node, register the memory blocks actually used x86, AMD, MCE thresholding: Fix the MCi_MISCj iteration order x86, mce, therm_throt.c: Fix missing curly braces in error handling logic
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Dan Williams authored
Commit 07934481 "DMAENGINE: generic channel status v2" changed the interface for how dma channel progress is retrieved. It inadvertently exported an internal helper function ioat_tx_status() instead of ioat_dma_tx_status(). The latter polls the hardware to get the latest completion state, while the helper just evaluates the current state without touching hardware. The effect is that we end up waiting for completion timeouts or descriptor allocation errors before the completion state is updated. iperf (before fix): [SUM] 0.0-41.3 sec 364 MBytes 73.9 Mbits/sec iperf (after fix): [SUM] 0.0- 4.5 sec 499 MBytes 940 Mbits/sec This is a regression starting with 2.6.35. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Jiang <dave.jiang@intel.com> Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@stericsson.com> Cc: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com> Reported-by: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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Breno Leitao authored
Currently we set all skbs with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY, even those whose protocol we don't know. This patch just add the CHECKSUM_COMPLETE tag for non TCP/UDP packets. Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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J. Bruce Fields authored
As of commit 43a9aa64 "NFSD: Fill in WCC data for REMOVE, RMDIR, MKNOD, and MKDIR", we sometimes call fh_unlock on a filehandle that isn't fully initialized. We should fix up the callers, but as a quick fix it is also sufficient just to remove this assertion. Reported-by: Marius Tolzmann <tolzmann@molgen.mpg.de> Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>
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Greg Ungerer authored
At least one board using the FEC driver does not have a conventional PHY attached to it, it is directly connected to a somewhat simple ethernet switch (the board is the SnapGear/LITE, and the attached 4-port ethernet switch is a RealTek RTL8305). This switch does not present the usual register interface of a PHY, it presents nothing. So a PHY scan will find nothing - it finds ID's of 0 for each PHY on the attached MII bus. After the FEC driver was changed to use phylib for supporting PHYs it no longer works on this particular board/switch setup. Add code support to use a fixed phy if no PHY is found on the MII bus. This is based on the way the cpmac.c driver solved this same problem. Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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- 12 Oct, 2010 9 commits
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Russell King authored
... but produce a big warning about the problem as encouragement for people to fix their drivers. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Mika Westerberg authored
When channel_disable() is called, it disables per channel interrupts and waits until channels state becomes STATE_STALL, and then disables the channel. Now, if the DMA transfer is disabled while the channel is in STATE_NEXT we will not wait anything and disable the channel immediately. This seems to cause weird data corruption for example in audio transfers. Fix is to wait while we are in STATE_NEXT or STATE_ON and only then disable the channel. Signed-off-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@iki.fi> Acked-by: Ryan Mallon <ryan@bluewatersys.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds authored
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: x86: Move TSC reset out of vmcb_init KVM: x86: Fix SVM VMCB reset
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Steven Rostedt authored
Time stamps for the ring buffer are created by the difference between two events. Each page of the ring buffer holds a full 64 bit timestamp. Each event has a 27 bit delta stamp from the last event. The unit of time is nanoseconds, so 27 bits can hold ~134 milliseconds. If two events happen more than 134 milliseconds apart, a time extend is inserted to add more bits for the delta. The time extend has 59 bits, which is good for ~18 years. Currently the time extend is committed separately from the event. If an event is discarded before it is committed, due to filtering, the time extend still exists. If all events are being filtered, then after ~134 milliseconds a new time extend will be added to the buffer. This can only happen till the end of the page. Since each page holds a full timestamp, there is no reason to add a time extend to the beginning of a page. Time extends can only fill a page that has actual data at the beginning, so there is no fear that time extends will fill more than a page without any data. When reading an event, a loop is made to skip over time extends since they are only used to maintain the time stamp and are never given to the caller. As a paranoid check to prevent the loop running forever, with the knowledge that time extends may only fill a page, a check is made that tests the iteration of the loop, and if the iteration is more than the number of time extends that can fit in a page a warning is printed and the ring buffer is disabled (all of ftrace is also disabled with it). There is another event type that is called a TIMESTAMP which can hold 64 bits of data in the theoretical case that two events happen 18 years apart. This code has not been implemented, but the name of this event exists, as well as the structure for it. The size of a TIMESTAMP is 16 bytes, where as a time extend is only 8 bytes. The macro used to calculate how many time extends can fit on a page used the TIMESTAMP size instead of the time extend size cutting the amount in half. The following test case can easily trigger the warning since we only need to have half the page filled with time extends to trigger the warning: # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ # echo function > current_tracer # echo 'common_pid < 0' > events/ftrace/function/filter # echo > trace # echo 1 > trace_marker # sleep 120 # cat trace Enabling the function tracer and then setting the filter to only trace functions where the process id is negative (no events), then clearing the trace buffer to ensure that we have nothing in the buffer, then write to trace_marker to add an event to the beginning of a page, sleep for 2 minutes (only 35 seconds is probably needed, but this guarantees the bug), and then finally reading the trace which will trigger the bug. This patch fixes the typo and prevents the false positive of that warning. Reported-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Tested-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Stable Kernel <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Deng-Cheng Zhu authored
Changes: v4: Fix the cosmetic issue of redundant dot-ops v3: Change rmb() to use SYNC v2: Include mips unistd.h and define rmb()/cpu_relax() in tools/perf/perf.h Signed-off-by: Deng-Cheng Zhu <dengcheng.zhu@gmail.com> Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jean Delvare authored
I see the following error message in my kernel log from time to time: radeon 0000:07:00.0: ffff88007c334000 reserve failed for wait radeon 0000:07:00.0: ffff88007c334000 reserve failed for wait After investigation, it turns out that there's nothing to be afraid of and everything works as intended. So remove the spurious log message. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Reviewed-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Alex Deucher authored
Missing parens. fixes: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30718Reported-by: Dave Gilbert <freedesktop@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Alex Deucher authored
Make TV standard and DFP table revisions debug only. Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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