- 25 Feb, 2009 3 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: make more types of copies non-temporal This change makes the following simple fix: 30d697fa: x86: fix performance regression in write() syscall A bit more sophisticated: we check the 'total' number of bytes written to decide whether to copy in a cached or a non-temporal way. This will for example cause the tail (modulo 4096 bytes) chunk of a large write() to be non-temporal too - not just the page-sized chunks. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup, enable future change Add a 'total bytes copied' parameter to __copy_from_user_*nocache(), and update all the callsites. The parameter is not used yet - architecture code can use it to more intelligently decide whether the copy should be cached or non-temporal. Cc: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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- 24 Feb, 2009 8 commits
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Yinghai Lu authored
Impact: cleanup one 32-bit system reports: BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001c000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) DMI 2.0 present. last_pfn = 0x1c000 max_arch_pfn = 0x100000 kernel direct mapping tables up to 1c000000 @ 7000-c000 .. RAMDISK: 1bc69000 - 1bfef4fa .. 0MB HIGHMEM available. 448MB LOWMEM available. mapped low ram: 0 - 1c000000 low ram: 00000000 - 1c000000 bootmap 00002000 - 00005800 (9 early reservations) ==> bootmem [0000000000 - 001c000000] #0 [0000000000 - 0000001000] BIOS data page ==> [0000000000 - 0000001000] #1 [0000001000 - 0000002000] EX TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000001000 - 0000002000] #2 [0000006000 - 0000007000] TRAMPOLINE ==> [0000006000 - 0000007000] #3 [0000400000 - 00009ed14c] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000400000 - 00009ed14c] #4 [001bc69000 - 001bfef4fa] RAMDISK ==> [001bc69000 - 001bfef4fa] #5 [00009ee000 - 00009f2000] INIT_PG_TABLE ==> [00009ee000 - 00009f2000] #6 [000009f400 - 0000100000] BIOS reserved ==> [000009f400 - 0000100000] #7 [0000007000 - 0000007000] PGTABLE #8 [0000002000 - 0000006000] BOOTMAP ==> [0000002000 - 0000006000] Notice the strange blank PGTABLE entry. The reason is init_pg_table is big enough, and zero range is called with init_memory_mapping/reserve_early(). So try to check the range in reserve_early() v2: fix the reversed compare Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au Cc: ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
native_usergs_sysret64 is described as extern void native_usergs_sysret64(void) so lets add ENDPROC here Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Cyrill Gorcunov authored
Impact: cleanup NEXT_PAGE already has 'balign' so no need to keep this redundant one. Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org> Cc: heukelum@fastmail.fm Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Salman Qazi authored
While the introduction of __copy_from_user_nocache (see commit: 0812a579) may have been an improvement for sufficiently large writes, there is evidence to show that it is deterimental for small writes. Unixbench's fstime test gives the following results for 256 byte writes with MAX_BLOCK of 2000: 2.6.29-rc6 ( 5 samples, each in KB/sec ): 283750, 295200, 294500, 293000, 293300 2.6.29-rc6 + this patch (5 samples, each in KB/sec): 313050, 3106750, 293350, 306300, 307900 2.6.18 395700, 342000, 399100, 366050, 359850 See w_test() in src/fstime.c in unixbench version 4.1.0. Basically, the above test consists of counting how much we can write in this manner: alarm(10); while (!sigalarm) { for (f_blocks = 0; f_blocks < 2000; ++f_blocks) { write(f, buf, 256); } lseek(f, 0L, 0); } Note, there are other components to the write syscall regression that are not addressed here. Signed-off-by: Salman Qazi <sqazi@google.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 22 Feb, 2009 1 commit
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Ingo Molnar authored
Clarify the kmmio_fault() comment. Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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- 20 Feb, 2009 22 commits
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Ingo Molnar authored
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: extend prefetch handling on 64-bit Currently there's an extra is_prefetch() check done in do_sigbus(), which we only do on 32 bits. This is a last-ditch check before we terminate a task, so it's worth giving prefetch instructions another chance - should none of our existing quirks have caught a prefetch instruction related spurious fault. The only risk is if a prefetch causes a real sigbus, in that case we'll not OOM but try another fault. But this code has been on 32-bit for a long time, so it should be fine in practice. So do this on 64-bit too - and thus remove one more #ifdef. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Removal of an #ifdef in fault_in_kernel_space(), by making use of the new TASK_SIZE_MAX symbol which is now available on 32-bit too. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Rename TASK_SIZE64 to TASK_SIZE_MAX, and provide the define on 32-bit too. (mapped to TASK_SIZE) This allows 32-bit code to make use of the (former-) TASK_SIZE64 symbol as well, in a clean way. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup do_page_fault() has this ugly #ifdef in its prototype: #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 asmlinkage #endif void __kprobes do_page_fault(struct pt_regs *regs, unsigned long error_code) Replace it with 'dotraplinkage' which maps to exactly the above construct: nothing on 32-bit and asmlinkage on 64-bit. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: add oops-recursion check to 32-bit Unify the oops state-machine, to the 64-bit version. It is slightly more careful in that it does a recursion check in oops_begin(), and is thus more likely to show the relevant oops. It also means that 32-bit will print one more line at the end of pagefault triggered oopses: printk(KERN_EMERG "CR2: %016lx\n", address); Which is generally good information to be seen in partial-dump digital-camera jpegs ;-) The downside is the somewhat more complex critical path. Both variants have been tested well meanwhile by kernel developers crashing their boxes so i dont think this is a practical worry. This removes 3 ugly #ifdefs from no_context() and makes the function a lot nicer read. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: refine/extend page fault related oops printing on 64-bit - honor the pause_on_oops logic on 64-bit too - print out NX fault warnings on 64-bit as well - factor out the NX fault message to make it git-greppable and readable Note that this means that we do the PF_INSTR check on 32-bit non-PAE as well where it should not occur ... normally. Cannot hurt. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Avoid a couple more #ifdefs by moving fundamentally non-unifiable functions into a single #ifdef 32-bit / #else / #endif block in fault.c: vmalloc*(), dump_pagetable(), check_vm8086_mode(). No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.before 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Remove an #ifdef from notify_page_fault(). The function still compiles to nothing in the !CONFIG_KPROBES case. Introduce kprobes_built_in() and kprobe_fault_handler() helpers to allow this - they returns 0 if !CONFIG_KPROBES. No code changed: text data bss dec hex filename 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.before 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Remove an #ifdef from kmmio_fault() - we can do this by providing default implementations for is_kmmio_active() and kmmio_handler(). The compiler optimizes it all away in the !CONFIG_MMIOTRACE case. Also, while at it, clean up mmiotrace.h a bit: - standard header guards - standard vertical spaces for structure definitions No code changed (both with mmiotrace on and off in the config): text data bss dec hex filename 2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.before 2947 12 12 2971 b9b fault.o.after Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: improve page fault handling robustness The 'PF_RSVD' flag (bit 3) of the page-fault error_code is a relatively recent addition to x86 CPUs, so the 32-bit do_fault() implementation never had it. This flag gets set when the CPU detects nonzero values in any reserved bits of the page directory entries. Extend the existing 64-bit check for PF_RSVD in do_page_fault() to 32-bit too. If we detect such a fault then we print a more informative oops and the pagetables. This unifies the code some more, removes an ugly #ifdef and improves the 32-bit page fault code robustness a bit. It slightly increases the 32-bit kernel text size. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup Instead of an ugly, open-coded, #ifdef-ed vm86 related legacy check in do_page_fault(), put it into the check_v8086_mode() helper function and merge it with an existing #ifdef. Also, simplify the code flow a tiny bit in the helper. No code changed: arch/x86/mm/fault.o: text data bss dec hex filename 2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.before 2711 12 12 2735 aaf fault.o.after Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: no functionality changed Factor out the opcode checker into a helper inline. The code got a tiny bit smaller: text data bss dec hex filename 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before 4618 32 24 4674 1242 fault.o.after And it got cleaner / easier to review as well. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: cleanup, no code changed Clean up various small details, which can be correctness checked automatically: - tidy up the include file section - eliminate unnecessary includes - introduce show_signal_msg() to clean up code flow - standardize the code flow - standardize comments and other style details - more cleanups, pointed out by checkpatch No code changed on either 32-bit nor 64-bit: arch/x86/mm/fault.o: text data bss dec hex filename 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.before 4632 32 24 4688 1250 fault.o.after the md5 changed due to a change in a single instruction: 2e8a8241e7f0d69706776a5a26c90bc0 fault.o.before.asm c5c3d36e725586eb74f0e10692f0193e fault.o.after.asm Because a __LINE__ reference in a WARN_ONCE() has changed. On 32-bit a few stack offsets changed - no code size difference nor any functionality difference. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'tip/x86/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into x86/mm
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Ingo Molnar authored
Impact: future-proof the split_large_page() function Linus noticed that split_large_page() is not safe wrt. the PAT bit: it is bit 12 on the 1GB and 2MB page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE), and it is bit 7 on the 4K page table level (_PAGE_BIT_PAT). Currently it is not a problem because we never set _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE on any of the large-page mappings - but should this happen in the future the split_large_page() would silently lift bit 12 into the lowlevel 4K pte and would start corrupting the physical page frame offset. Not fun. So add a debug warning, to make sure if something ever sets the PAT bit then this function gets updated too. Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Steven Rostedt authored
Impact: fix to prevent hard lockup on bad PMD permissions If the PMD does not have the correct permissions for a page access, but the PTE does, the spurious fault handler will mistake the fault as a lazy TLB transaction. This will result in an infinite loop of: fault -> spurious_fault check (pass) -> return to code -> fault This patch adds a check and a warn on if the PTE passes the permissions but the PMD does not. [ Updated: Ingo Molnar suggested using WARN_ONCE with some text ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Ingo Molnar authored
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Vegard Nossum authored
Impact: Cleanup. No functional changes. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Ingo Molnar authored
Steven Rostedt found a bug in where in his modified kernel ftrace was unable to modify the kernel text, due to the PMD itself having been marked read-only as well in split_large_page(). The fix, suggested by Linus, is to not try to 'clone' the reference protection of a huge-page, but to use the standard (and permissive) page protection bits of KERNPG_TABLE. The 'cloning' makes sense for the ptes but it's a confused and incorrect concept at the page table level - because the pagetable entry is a set of all ptes and hence cannot 'clone' any single protection attribute - the ptes can be any mixture of protections. With the permissive KERNPG_TABLE, even if the pte protections get changed after this point (due to ftrace doing code-patching or other similar activities like kprobes), the resulting combined protections will still be correct and the pte's restrictive (or permissive) protections will control it. Also update the comment. This bug was there for a long time but has not caused visible problems before as it needs a rather large read-only area to trigger. Steve possibly hacked his kernel with some really large arrays or so. Anyway, the bug is definitely worth fixing. [ Huang Ying also experienced problems in this area when writing the EFI code, but the real bug in split_large_page() was not realized back then. ] Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Alok N Kataria authored
Impact: fix time warps under vmware Similar to the check for TSC going backwards in the TSC clocksource, we also need this check for VMI clocksource. Signed-off-by: Alok N Kataria <akataria@vmware.com> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: stable@kernel.org
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- 19 Feb, 2009 6 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 5405/1: ep93xx: remove unused gesbc9312.h header [ARM] 5404/1: Fix condition in arm_elf_read_implies_exec() to set READ_IMPLIES_EXEC [ARM] omap: fix clock reparenting in omap2_clk_set_parent() [ARM] 5403/1: pxa25x_ep_fifo_flush() *ep->reg_udccs always set to 0 [ARM] 5402/1: fix a case of wrap-around in sanity_check_meminfo() [ARM] 5401/1: Orion: fix edge triggered GPIO interrupt support [ARM] 5400/1: Add support for inverted rdy_busy pin for Atmel nand device controller [ARM] 5391/1: AT91: Enable GPIO clocks earlier [ARM] 5390/1: AT91: Watchdog fixes [ARM] 5398/1: Add Wan ZongShun to MAINTAINERS for W90P910 [ARM] omap: fix _omap2_clksel_get_src_field() [ARM] omap: fix omap2_divisor_to_clksel() error return value
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Ingo Molnar authored
Merge branch 'x86/untangle2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen into x86/headers
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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, mce: fix ifdef for 64bit thermal apic vector clear on shutdown x86, mce: use force_sig_info to kill process in machine check x86, mce: reinitialize per cpu features on resume x86, rcu: fix strange load average and ksoftirqd behavior
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Linus Torvalds authored
Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: tracing: limit the number of loops the ring buffer self test can make tracing: have function trace select kallsyms tracing: disable tracing while testing ring buffer tracing/function-graph-tracer: trace the idle tasks
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git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] fix "mem=" handling in case of standby memory [S390] Fix timeval regression on s390 [S390] sclp: handle empty event buffers
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: sound: virtuoso: revert "do not overwrite EEPROM on Xonar D2/D2X" ALSA: jack - Use card->shortname for input name ALSA: usb-audio - Workaround for misdetected sample rate with CM6207 ALSA: usb-audio - Fix non-continuous rate detection sound: usb-audio: fix uninitialized variable with M-Audio MIDI interfaces Revert "Sound: hda - Restore PCI configuration space with interrupts off"
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