Add additional overflow register setting for Laguna chips.
Also, simplify some code in the cirrusfb_pan_display() and
cirrusfb_blank().
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix memory detection and clock setting for Cirrus Laguna chipsets
(GD5464/GD5465). The changes are done after the Xorg code.
The driver still does not display anything on the GD5465 but it switches
resolutions correctly at least.
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Convert all printks to dev_dbg, dev_info or dev_err. Kill some excessive
debug information and code in the process.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: printk fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix trailing whitespace because quilt complained about it.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
GFP_KERNEL is legal here - we don't need to use gfp_any().
Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
new_alarm is unsigned so test before the subtraction.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: time-wrapping fix]
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
With a postfix decrement retries will reach -1 rather than 0, so the
warning and error-out will not occur.
Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the EPSON RX8025 RTC. The date/time registers of this
chip are compatible with the DS1307.
Signed-off-by: Matthias Fuchs <matthias.fuchs@esd-electronics.com>
Signed-off-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Allow the rtc-ds1307 driver to work with SMBus controllers like nforce2
that do not support i2c block transfers.
Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: BARRE Sebastien <sbarre@sdelcc.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This isn't a hotpluggable device, so call platform_driver_probe
directly in parisc_rtc_init
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the return value of rtc_valid_tm() instead of just returning 0.
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parisc_rtc now only includes an rtc_device pointer, so let's
just use the rtc_device type directly.
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The RTC subsystem proides ops locking, no need to implement our own
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- the LEAP_YEAR macro is buggy - it references its arg multiple times.
Fix this by turning it into a C function.
- give it a more approriate name
- Move it to rtc.h so that other .c files can use it, instead of copying it.
Cc: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: stephane eranian <eranian@googlemail.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
These are the only two ioctls so the ioctl() function is also removed.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Cc: Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
autofs_dev-ioctl.h is included by both the kernel module and user space tools
and it includes two kernel header files. Compiles work if the kernel headers
are installed but fail otherwise.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A deadlock can occur when user space uses a signal (autofs version 4 uses
SIGCHLD for this) to effect expire completion.
The order of events is:
Expire process completes, but before being able to send SIGCHLD to it's parent
...
Another process walks onto a different mount point and drops the directory
inode semaphore prior to sending the request to the daemon as it must ...
A third process does an lstat on on the expired mount point causing it to wait
on expire completion (unfortunately) holding the directory semaphore.
The mount request then arrives at the daemon which does an lstat and,
deadlock.
For some time I was concerned about releasing the directory semaphore around
the expire wait in autofs4_lookup as well as for the mount call back. I
finally realized that the last round of changes in this function made the
expiring dentry and the lookup dentry separate and distinct so the check and
possible wait can be done anywhere prior to the mount call back. This patch
moves the check to just before the mount call back and inside the directory
inode mutex release.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
A significant portion of the autofs_dev_ioctl_expire() and
autofs4_expire_multi() functions is duplicated code. This patch cleans that
up.
Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The advantages of this:
- Don't encourage legacy support;
- Less external symbols, less code to compile-in for !MPC832x_RDB
platforms.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
- Add gpio-controller node to manage QE GPIO Bank D;
- Add mmc-spi node;
- Modify board file so that it won't use legacy SPI support with the new
device trees.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The bindings describes a case where MMC/SD/SDIO slot directly connected to
a SPI bus. Such setups are widely used on embedded PowerPC boards.
The patch also adds the mmc-spi-slot entry to the OpenFirmware modalias
table.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Implement full support for OF SPI bindings. Now the driver can manage its
own chip selects without any help from the board files and/or fsl_soc
constructors.
The "legacy" code is well isolated and could be removed as time goes by.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The main purpose of this patch is to pass 'struct spi_device' to the chip
select handling routines. This is needed so that we could implement
full-fledged OpenFirmware support for this driver.
While at it, also:
- Replace two {de,activate}_cs routines by single cs_contol().
- Don't duplicate platform data callbacks in mpc83xx_spi struct.
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
The patch fixes following sparse warnings:
CHECK spi_mpc83xx.c
spi_mpc83xx.c:145:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_rx_buf_u8' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:146:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_rx_buf_u16' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:147:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_rx_buf_u32' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:148:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_tx_buf_u8' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:149:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_tx_buf_u16' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:150:1: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_tx_buf_u32' was not declared. Should it be static?
spi_mpc83xx.c:175:32: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:175:32: expected void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:175:32: got unsigned int [noderef] <asn:2>*<noident>
spi_mpc83xx.c:183:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:183:26: expected unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*reg
spi_mpc83xx.c:183:26: got void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:184:26: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:184:26: expected unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*reg
spi_mpc83xx.c:184:26: got void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:287:31: warning: incorrect type in initializer (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:287:31: expected void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:287:31: got unsigned int [noderef] <asn:2>*<noident>
spi_mpc83xx.c:295:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:295:25: expected unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*reg
spi_mpc83xx.c:295:25: got void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:296:25: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
spi_mpc83xx.c:296:25: expected unsigned int [noderef] [usertype] <asn:2>*reg
spi_mpc83xx.c:296:25: got void *tmp_ptr
spi_mpc83xx.c:486:13: warning: symbol 'mpc83xx_spi_irq' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Kumar Gala <galak@gate.crashing.org>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12843
"I use ramfs instead of tmpfs for /tmp because I don't use swap on my
laptop. Some apps need 1777 mode for /tmp directory, but ramfs does not
support 'mode=' mount option."
Reported-by: Avan Anishchuk <matimatik@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Make use of the new abstraction layer and add a new transport layer for
spi. Works fine on a PXA based board.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This solves the dependency between lis3lv02d.[ch] and ACPI specific
methods. It introduces a ->bus_priv pointer to the device struct which is
casted to 'struct acpi_device' in the ACIP layer. Changed hp_accel.c
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Move lis3lv02d_init_device() down so that the forward declaration of
lis3lv02d_add_fs() becomes unnecessary.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
I have a laptop HP Compaq 8710W, I compiled into my kernel the LIS3LV02DL
and HP_ACCEL module drivers. While loading it cannot recognize the laptop
model, so i am sending the necessary information to update the database of
axis orientations.
>When the laptop is horizontal the position reported is about 0 for X and Y
>and a positive value for Z
Yes, it is about 0,0,1000, the actual reading says: (-17,-26,1018);
> If the left side is elevated, X increases (becomes positive)
Yes, X goes toward to positive 1000.
>If the front side (where the touchpad is) is elevated, Y decreases (becomes negative)
No, Y goes toward to positive 1000.
>If the laptop is put upside-down, Z becomes negative
Yes, the laptop on a table Z gives 1000, and if upsidedown the Z reads
-1000.
So in few words the Y axis is inverted.
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add two more laptops to whitelist.
Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@caiaq.de>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Vladimir Botka <vbotka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add Linux support for the Linear Technology LTC4215 Hot Swap controller
I2C monitoring interface.
I have tested the driver with my board, and it appears to work fine. With
the power supplies disabled, it reads 11.93V input, 1.93V output, no
current and no power. With the supplies enabled, it reads 11.93V input,
11.98V output, no current, no power. I'm not drawing any current at the
moment, so this is reasonable. The value in the sense register never
reads anything except 0, so I expect to get zero from the current and
power calculations.
I didn't attempt to support changing any of the chip's settings or
enabling the FET. I'm not sure even how to do that and still fit within
the hwmon framework. :)
Signed-off-by: Ira W. Snyder <iws@ovro.caltech.edu>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
An hwmon driver for the National Semiconductor LM95241 triple temperature
sensors chip
Signed-off-by: Davide Rizzo <elpa-rizzo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
As Andrew noted, adev is pretty poor name for symbol being exported.
Rename it to lis3.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Vladimir Botka <vbotka@suse.cz>
Cc: <Quoc.Pham@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fix english in Documentation, add "how to test" description.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net>
Cc: Vladimir Botka <vbotka@suse.cz>
Cc: <Quoc.Pham@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce keyed event wakeups inside the TTY code.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce keyed event wakeups inside the eventfd code.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Use the events hint now sent by some devices, to avoid unnecessary wakeups
for events that are of no interest for the caller. This code handles both
devices that are sending keyed events, and the ones that are not (and
event the ones that sometimes send events, and sometimes don't).
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for event-aware wakeups to the sockets code. Events are
delivered to the wakeup target, so that epoll can avoid spurious wakeups
for non-interesting events.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Introduce new wakeup macros that allow passing an event mask to the wakeup
targets. They exactly mimic their non-_poll() counterpart, with the added
event mask passing capability. I did add only the ones currently
requested, avoiding the _nr() and _all() for the moment.
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patchset introduces wakeup hints for some of the most popular (from
epoll POV) devices, so that epoll code can avoid spurious wakeups on its
waiters.
The problem with epoll is that the callback-based wakeups do not, ATM,
carry any information about the events the wakeup is related to. So the
only choice epoll has (not being able to call f_op->poll() from inside the
callback), is to add the file* to a ready-list and resolve the real events
later on, at epoll_wait() (or its own f_op->poll()) time. This can cause
spurious wakeups, since the wake_up() itself might be for an event the
caller is not interested into.
The rate of these spurious wakeup can be pretty high in case of many
network sockets being monitored.
By allowing devices to report the events the wakeups refer to (at least
the two major classes - POLLIN/POLLOUT), we are able to spare useless
wakeups by proper handling inside the epoll's poll callback.
Epoll will have in any case to call f_op->poll() on the file* later on,
since the change to be done in order to have the full event set sent via
wakeup, is too invasive for the way our f_op->poll() system works (the
full event set is calculated inside the poll function - there are too many
of them to even start thinking the change - also poll/select would need
change too).
Epoll is changed in a way that both devices which send event hints, and
the ones that don't, are correctly handled. The former will gain some
efficiency though.
As a general rule for devices, would be to add an event mask by using
key-aware wakeup macros, when making up poll wait queues. I tested it
(together with the epoll's poll fix patch Andrew has in -mm) and wakeups
for the supported devices are correctly filtered.
Test program available here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/epoll_test.c
This patch:
Nothing revolutionary here. Just using the available "key" that our
wakeup core already support. The __wake_up_locked_key() was no brainer,
since both __wake_up_locked() and __wake_up_locked_key() are thin wrappers
around __wake_up_common().
The __wake_up_sync() function had a body, so the choice was between
borrowing the body for __wake_up_sync_key() and calling it from
__wake_up_sync(), or make an inline and calling it from both. I chose the
former since in most archs it all resolves to "mov $0, REG; jmp ADDR".
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
People started using eventfd in a semaphore-like way where before they
were using pipes.
That is, counter-based resource access. Where a "wait()" returns
immediately by decrementing the counter by one, if counter is greater than
zero. Otherwise will wait. And where a "post(count)" will add count to
the counter releasing the appropriate amount of waiters. If eventfd the
"post" (write) part is fine, while the "wait" (read) does not dequeue 1,
but the whole counter value.
The problem with eventfd is that a read() on the fd returns and wipes the
whole counter, making the use of it as semaphore a little bit more
cumbersome. You can do a read() followed by a write() of COUNTER-1, but
IMO it's pretty easy and cheap to make this work w/out extra steps. This
patch introduces a new eventfd flag that tells eventfd to only dequeue 1
from the counter, allowing simple read/write to make it behave like a
semaphore. Simple test here:
http://www.xmailserver.org/eventfd-sem.c
To be back-compatible with earlier kernels, userspace applications should
probe for the availability of this feature via
#ifdef EFD_SEMAPHORE
fd = eventfd2 (CNT, EFD_SEMAPHORE);
if (fd == -1 && errno == EINVAL)
<fallback>
#else
<fallback>
#endif
Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
eventpoll.c uses void * in one place for no obvious reason; change it to
use the real type instead.
Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com>
Acked-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
