The linux bitset operators (test_bit, set_bit etc) work on arrays of "unsigned
long". dm-log uses such bitsets but treats them as arrays of uint32_t, only
allocating and zeroing a multiple of 4 bytes (as 'clean_bits' is a uint32_t).
The patch below fixes this problem.
The problem is specific to 64-bit big endian machines such as s390x or ppc-64
and can prevent pvmove terminating.
In the simplest case, if "region_count" were (say) 30, then
bitset_size (below) would be 4 and bitset_uint32_count would be 1.
Thus the memory for this butset, after allocation and zeroing would
be
0 0 0 0 X X X X
On a bigendian 64bit machine, bit 0 for this bitset is in the 8th
byte! (and every bit that dm-log would use would be in the X area).
0 0 0 0 X X X X
^
here
which hasn't been cleared properly.
As the dm-raid1 code only syncs and counts regions which have a 0 in the
'sync_bits' bitset, and only finishes when it has counted high enough, a large
number of 1's among those 'X's will cause the sync to not complete.
It is worth noting that the code uses the same bitsets for in-memory and
on-disk logs. As these bitsets are host-endian and host-sized, this means
that they cannot safely be moved between computers with
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
In some circumstances the LIST_VERSIONS output is truncated because the size
calculation forgets about a 'uint32_t' in each structure - but the inclusion
of the whole of ALIGN_MASK frequently compensates for the omission.
This is a quick workaround to use an upper bound. (The code ought to be fixed
to supply the actual size.)
Running 'dmsetup targets' may demonstrate the problem: when I run it, the last
line comes out as 'erro' instead of 'error'. Consequently, 'lvcreate --type
error' doesn't work.
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Matthew Dobson [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:29 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix a bug in scsi_get_command
scsi_get_command() attempts to write into a structure that may not have
been successfully allocated. Move this write inside the if statement that
ensures we won't panic the kernel with a NULL pointer dereference.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Grant Coady [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:28 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpufreq: silence cpufreq for UP
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c: In function `cpufreq_remove_dev':
drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c:696: warning: unused variable `cpu_sys_dev'
Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Eric Paris [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:28 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] hugetlb: fix race in set_max_huge_pages for multiple updaters of nr_huge_pages
If there are multiple updaters to /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages simultaneously
it is possible for the nr_huge_pages variable to become incorrect. There
is no locking in the set_max_huge_pages function around
alloc_fresh_huge_page which is able to update nr_huge_pages. Two callers
to alloc_fresh_huge_page could race against each other as could a call to
alloc_fresh_huge_page and a call to update_and_free_page. This patch just
expands the area covered by the hugetlb_lock to cover the call into
alloc_fresh_huge_page. I'm not sure how we could say that a sysctl section
is performance critical where more specific locking would be needed.
My reproducer was to run a couple copies of the following script
simultaneously
and then watch /proc/meminfo and eventually you will see things like
HugePages_Total: 100
HugePages_Free: 109
After applying the patch all seemed well.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] vgacon: Fix usage of stale height value on vc initialization
Reported by: Wayne E. Harlan
"[1.] One line summary of the problem:
When the kernel option "vga=1" is used, additional tty's (alt+control+Fx
with x=2,3,4,5, etc) do not provide the full 50 lines of output. The first
one does have 50 lines, however.
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
These addtitional tty's show only 39 lines plus the top pixel of the 40-th
line. The remaining lines are black and not shown. Kernel version
2.6.13.4 does not show this problem."
This bug is caused by using a stale font height value on vgacon_init.
Booting with vga=1 gives an 80x50 screen with an 8x8 font. Somewhere
during the initialization, the font was changed to 8x9 and the first
vc was correctly resized to 80x44. However, the rest of the vc's were
not allocated yet, and when they were subsequently initialized, they
still used a font height of 8 (instead of 9) causing the mentioned bug.
Fix by saving the new font height to vga_video_font_height.
The shift value (amount to shift the bitmap so first pixel starts at
origin(0,0)) is incorrect. This causes corrupted characters or a kernel crash
if fontwidth is not divisible by 8 at 270 degrees, or fontheight not divisible
by 8 at 180 degrees.
Report and part of the fix contributed by Knut Petersen.
David Gibson [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:24 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix hugetlbfs_statfs() reporting of block limits
Currently, if a hugetlbfs is mounted without limits (the default), statfs()
will return -1 for max/free/used blocks. This does not appear to be in
line with normal convention: simple_statfs() and shmem_statfs() both return
0 in similar cases. Worse, it confuses the translation logic in
put_compat_statfs(), causing it to return -EOVERFLOW on such a mount.
This patch alters hugetlbfs_statfs() to return 0 for max/free/used blocks
on a mount without limits. Note that we need the test in the patch below,
rather than just using 0 in the sbinfo structure, because the -1 marked in
the free blocks field is used internally to tell the
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
David Gibson [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:23 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix error handling with put_compat_statfs()
In fs/compat.c, whenever put_compat_statfs() returns an error, the
containing syscall returns -EFAULT. This is presumably by analogy with the
non-compat case, where any non-zero code from copy_to_user() should be
translated into an EFAULT. However, put_compat_statfs() is also return
-EOVERFLOW. The same applies for put_compat_statfs64().
This bug can be observed with a statfs() on a hugetlbfs directory.
hugetlbfs, when mounted without limits reports available, free and total
blocks as -1 (itself a bug, another patch coming). statfs() will
mysteriously return EFAULT although it's parameters are perfectly valid
addresses.
This patch causes the compat versions of statfs() and statfs64() to
correctly propogate the return values from put_compat_statfs() and
put_compat_statfs64().
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:22 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: fix sound Bad page states
Earlier I unifdefed PageCompound, so that snd_pcm_mmap_control_nopage and
others can give out a 0-order component of a higher-order page, which won't
be mistakenly freed when zap_pte_range unmaps it. But many Bad page states
reported a PG_reserved was freed after all: I had missed that we need to
say __GFP_COMP to get compound page behaviour.
Some of these higher-order pages are allocated by snd_malloc_pages, some by
snd_malloc_dev_pages; or if SBUS, by sbus_alloc_consistent - but that has
no gfp arg, so add __GFP_COMP into its sparc32/64 implementations.
I'm still rather puzzled that DRM seems not to need a similar change.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:20 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: PG_reserved bad_page
It used to be the case that PG_reserved pages were silently never freed, but
in 2.6.15-rc1 they may be freed with a "Bad page state" message. We should
work through such cases as they appear, fixing the code; but for now it's
safer to issue the message without freeing the page, leaving PG_reserved set.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:19 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: ZERO_PAGE in VM_UNPAGED
It's strange enough to be looking out for anonymous pages in VM_UNPAGED areas,
let's not insert the ZERO_PAGE there - though whether it would matter will
depend on what we decide about ZERO_PAGE refcounting.
But whereas do_anonymous_page may (exceptionally) be called on a VM_UNPAGED
area, do_no_page should never be: just BUG_ON.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:18 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: anon in VM_UNPAGED
copy_one_pte needs to copy the anonymous COWed pages in a VM_UNPAGED area,
zap_pte_range needs to free them, do_wp_page needs to COW them: just like
ordinary pages, not like the unpaged.
But recognizing them is a little subtle: because PageReserved is no longer a
condition for remap_pfn_range, we can now mmap all of /dev/mem (whether the
distro permits, and whether it's advisable on this or that architecture, is
another matter). So if we can see a PageAnon, it may not be ours to mess with
(or may be ours from elsewhere in the address space). I suspect there's an
entertaining insoluble self-referential problem here, but the page_is_anon
function does a good practical job, and MAP_PRIVATE PROT_WRITE VM_UNPAGED will
always be an odd choice.
In updating the comment on page_address_in_vma, noticed a potential NULL
dereference, in a path we don't actually take, but fixed it.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:17 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: COW on VM_UNPAGED
Remove the BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_UNPAGED) from do_wp_page, and let it do
Copy-On-Write without touching the VM_UNPAGED's page counts - but this is
incomplete, because the anonymous page it inserts will itself need to be
handled, here and in other functions - next patch.
We still don't copy the page if the pfn is invalid, because the
copy_user_highpage interface does not allow it. But that's not been a problem
in the past: can be added in later if the need arises.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:16 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: VM_NONLINEAR VM_RESERVED
There's one peculiar use of VM_RESERVED which the previous patch left behind:
because VM_NONLINEAR's try_to_unmap_cluster uses vm_private_data as a swapout
cursor, but should never meet VM_RESERVED vmas, it was a way of extending
VM_NONLINEAR to VM_RESERVED vmas using vm_private_data for some other purpose.
But that's an empty set - they don't have the populate function required. So
just throw away those VM_RESERVED tests.
But one more interesting in rmap.c has to go too: try_to_unmap_one will want
to swap out an anonymous page from VM_RESERVED or VM_UNPAGED area.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:15 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: VM_UNPAGED
Although we tend to associate VM_RESERVED with remap_pfn_range, quite a few
drivers set VM_RESERVED on areas which are then populated by nopage. The
PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 changed VM_RESERVED not to free pages in
zap_pte_range, without changing those drivers not to set it: so their pages
just leak away.
Let's not change miscellaneous drivers now: introduce VM_UNPAGED at the core,
to flag the special areas where the ptes may have no struct page, or if they
have then it's not to be touched. Replace most instances of VM_RESERVED in
core mm by VM_UNPAGED. Force it on in remap_pfn_range, and the sparc and
sparc64 io_remap_pfn_range.
Revert addition of VM_RESERVED to powerpc vdso, it's not needed there. Is it
needed anywhere? It still governs the mm->reserved_vm statistic, and special
vmas not to be merged, and areas not to be core dumped; but could probably be
eliminated later (the drivers are probably specifying it because in 2.4 it
kept swapout off the vma, but in 2.6 we work from the LRU, which these pages
don't get on).
Use the VM_SHM slot for VM_UNPAGED, and define VM_SHM to 0: it serves no
purpose whatsoever, and should be removed from drivers when we clean up.
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Acked-by: William Irwin <wli@holomorphy.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:14 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: unifdefed PageCompound
It looks like snd_xxx is not the only nopage to be using PageReserved as a way
of holding a high-order page together: which no longer works, but is masked by
our failure to free from VM_RESERVED areas. We cannot fix that bug without
first substituting another way to hold the high-order page together, while
farming out the 0-order pages from within it.
That's just what PageCompound is designed for, but it's been kept under
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE. Remove the #ifdefs: which saves some space (out- of-line
put_page), doesn't slow down what most needs to be fast (already using
hugetlb), and unifies the way we handle high-order pages.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:13 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: sound nopage get_page
Something noticed when studying use of VM_RESERVED in different drivers:
snd_usX2Y_hwdep_pcm_vm_nopage omitted to get_page: fixed.
And how did this work before? Aargh! That nopage is returning a page from
within a buffer allocated by snd_malloc_pages, which allocates a high-order
page, then does SetPageReserved on each 0-order page within.
That would have worked in 2.6.14, because when the area was unmapped,
PageReserved inhibited put_page. 2.6.15-rc1 removed that inhibition (while
leaving ineffective PageReserveds around for now), but it hasn't caused
trouble because.. we've not been freeing from VM_RESERVED at all.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:12 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: private write VM_RESERVED
The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 issued a "deprecated" message when you
tried to mmap or mprotect MAP_PRIVATE PROT_WRITE a VM_RESERVED, and failed
with -EACCES: because do_wp_page lacks the refinement to COW pages in those
areas, nor do we expect to find anonymous pages in them; and it seemed just
bloat to add code for handling such a peculiar case. But immediately it
caused vbetool and ddcprobe (using lrmi) to fail.
So revert the "deprecated" messages, letting mmap and mprotect succeed. But
leave do_wp_page's BUG_ON(vma->vm_flags & VM_RESERVED) in place until we've
added the code to do it right: so this particular patch is only good if the
app doesn't really need to write to that private area.
Hugh Dickins [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:11 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] unpaged: get_user_pages VM_RESERVED
The PageReserved removal in 2.6.15-rc1 prohibited get_user_pages on the areas
flagged VM_RESERVED in place of PageReserved. That is correct in theory - we
ought not to interfere with struct pages in such a reserved area; but in
practice it broke BTTV for one.
So revert to prohibiting only on VM_IO: if someone gets into trouble with
get_user_pages on VM_RESERVED, it'll just be a "don't do that".
You can argue that videobuf_mmap_mapper shouldn't set VM_RESERVED in the first
place, but now's not the time for breaking drivers without notice.
Jeff Dike [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:10 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: eliminate use of libc PAGE_SIZE
On some systems, libc PAGE_SIZE calls getpagesize, which can't happen from a
stub. So, I use UM_KERN_PAGE_SIZE, which is less variable in its definition,
instead.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:09 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: properly invoke x86_64 system calls
This patch makes stub_segv use the stub_syscall macros. This was needed
anyway, but the bug that prompted this was the discovery that gcc was storing
stuff in RCX, which is trashed across a system call. This is exactly the sort
of problem that the new macros fix.
There is a stub_syscall0 for getpid. stub_segv was changed to be a libc file,
and that caused some include changes.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jeff Dike [Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:32:04 +0000 (21:32 -0800)]
[PATCH] uml: eliminate use of local in clone stub
We have a bug in the i386 stub_syscall6 which pushes ebp before the system
call and pops it afterwards. Because we use syscall6 to remap the stack, the
old contents of the stack (and the former value of ebp) are no longer
available. Some versions of gcc make from a real local, accessed through ebp,
despite my efforts to make it obvious that references to from are really
constants. This patch attempts to make it even more obvious by eliminating
from and using a macro to access the stub's data explicitly with constants.
My original thinking on this was to replace syscall6 with a remap_stack
interface which saved ebp someplace and restored it afterwards. The problem
is that there are no registers to put it in, except for esp. That could work,
since we can store a constant in esp after the mmap because we just replaced
the stack. However, this approach seems a tad cleaner.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
hawkes@sgi.com [Fri, 18 Nov 2005 19:30:34 +0000 (11:30 -0800)]
[IA64] fix bug in sn/ia64 for sparse CPU numbering
The kernel's use of the for_each_*cpu(i) macros has allowed for sparse CPU
numbering. When I hacked the kernel to test sparse cpu_present_map[] and
cpu_possible_map[] cpumasks, I discovered one remaining spot, in
sn_hwperf_ioctl() during sn initialization, that needs to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Dean Roe <roe@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Jens Axboe [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 18:49:41 +0000 (19:49 +0100)]
[PATCH] as-iosched: remove state assertion in as_add_request()
Kill the arq->state poison statement in as_add_request(), it can trigger
for perfectly valid code that just reuses a request after io completion
instead of freeing it and allocating a new one. We probably should
introduce a blk_init_request() to start from scratch, but for now just
kill it as we will be removing the as specific poisoning soon.
Russell King [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:26:18 +0000 (15:26 +0000)]
[ARM] Add asm/memory.h to asm/numnodes.h
Since the defintion of NODES_SHIFT may be overridden in asm/arch/memory.h
it's important to include asm/memory.h into asm/numnodes.h to ensure
that the correct value is always defined.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Nicolas Kaiser [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:11:31 +0000 (21:11 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: Remove ARRAY_SIZE duplicate
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yasuyuki Kozakai [Mon, 21 Nov 2005 05:09:55 +0000 (21:09 -0800)]
[NETFILTER]: fixed dependencies between modules related with ip_conntrack
- IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK is bool and depends on only IP_NF_CONNTRACK
which is tristate. If a variable depends on IP_NF_CONNTRACK_MARK and
doesn't care about IP_NF_CONNTRACK, it can be y. This must be avoided.
- IP_NF_CT_ACCT has same problem.
- IP_NF_TARGET_CLUSTERIP also depends on IP_NF_MANGLE.
Signed-off-by: Yasuyuki Kozakai <yasuyuki.kozakai@toshiba.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Yan Zheng [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:42:20 +0000 (13:42 -0800)]
[IPV6]: Acquire addrconf_hash_lock for read in addrconf_verify(...)
addrconf_verify(...) only traverse address hash table when
addrconf_hash_lock is held for writing, and it may hold
addrconf_hash_lock for a long time. So I think it's better to acquire
addrconf_hash_lock for reading instead of writing
Signed-off-by: Yan Zheng <yanzheng@21cn.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
From: Alexandra Kossovsky <Alexandra.Kossovsky@oktetlabs.ru>
From http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4746
There is user data corruption when using ioctl(SIOCGIFCONF) in 32-bit
application running amd64 kernel. I do not think that this problem is
exploitable, but any data corruption may lead to security problems.
Following code demonstrates the problem
main()
{
int s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
struct ifconf req;
int i;
req.ifc_buf = buf;
req.ifc_len = 41;
printf("Result %d\n", ioctl(s, SIOCGIFCONF, &req));
printf("Len %d\n", req.ifc_len);
for (i = 41; i < 256; i++)
if (buf[i] != 0)
printf("Byte %d is corrupted\n", i);
}
Steps to reproduce:
Compile the code above into 32-bit elf and run it. You'll get
Result 0
Len 32
Byte 48 is corrupted
Byte 52 is corrupted
Byte 53 is corrupted
Byte 54 is corrupted
Byte 55 is corrupted
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Andrea Bittau [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:41:05 +0000 (13:41 -0800)]
[PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem: correctly order packets to be sent simultaneously
If two packets were queued to be sent at the same time in the future,
their order would be reversed. This would occur because the queue is
traversed back to front, and a position is found by checking whether
the new packet needs to be sent before the packet being examined. If
the new packet is to be sent at the same time of a previous packet, it
would end up before the old packet in the queue. This patch places
packets in the correct order when they are queued to be sent at a same
time in the future.
Signed-off-by: Andrea Bittau <a.bittau@cs.ucl.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:56:43 +0000 (00:56 -0500)]
Input: make serio and gameport more swsusp friendly
kseriod and kgameportd used to process all pending events before
checking for freeze condition. This may cause swsusp to time out
while stopping tasks when resuming. Switch to process events one
by one to check freeze status more often.
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:51:43 +0000 (00:51 -0500)]
Input: uinput - don't use "interruptible" in FF code
If thread that submitted FF request gets interrupted somehow it
will release request structure and ioctl handler will work with
freed memory. TO prevent that from happening switch to using
wait_for_completion instead of wait_for_completion_interruptible.
Input: wistron - add support for Acer Aspire 1500 notebooks
Also fix a potential issue with some notebooks:
The current code assumes the response to bios_wifi_get_default_setting is
either 1 (disabled) or 3 (enabled), or wifi isn't supported. The BIOS
response appears to be a bit field w/ 0x1 indicating hardware presence, 0x2
indicating actiation status, and the other 6 bits being unknown/reserved --
with the patch, these 6 bits are ignored.
Signed-off-by: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:50:06 +0000 (00:50 -0500)]
Input: add Wistron driver
A driver for laptop buttons using an x86 BIOS interface that is
apparently used on quite a few laptops and seems to be originating
from Wistron.
This driver currently "knows" only about Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo Pro V2000
(i.e. it can detect the laptop using DMI and it contains the
keycode->key meaning mapping for this laptop) and Xeron SonicPro X 155G
(probably can't be reliably autodetected, requires a module parameter),
adding other laptops should be easy.
In addition to reporting button presses to the input layer the driver
also allows enabling/disabling the embedded wireless NIC (using the
"Wifi" button); this is done using the same BIOS interface, so it seems
only logical to keep the implementation together. Any flexibility
possibly gained by allowing users to remap the function of the "Wifi"
button is IMHO not worth it when weighted against the necessity to run
an user-space daemon to convert button presses to wifi state changes.
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 20 Nov 2005 05:49:42 +0000 (00:49 -0500)]
Input: atkbd - speed up setting leds/repeat state
Changing led state is pretty slow operation; when there are multiple
requests coming at a high rate they may interfere with normal typing.
Try optimize (skip) changing hardware state when multiple requests
are coming back-to-back.
Russell King [Sat, 19 Nov 2005 11:10:35 +0000 (11:10 +0000)]
[SERIAL] Fix status reporting with PL011 serial driver
The receiver status register reports latched error conditions, which
must be cleared by writing to it. However, the data register reports
unlatched conditions which are associated with the current character.
Use the data register to interpret error status rather than the RSR.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
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