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Linus Torvalds
4cb865deec Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx: (33 commits)
  x86: poll waiting for I/OAT DMA channel status
  maintainers: add dma engine tree details
  dmaengine: add TODO items for future work on dma drivers
  dmaengine: Add API documentation for slave dma usage
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: Update maintainer-ship
  dmaengine: move link order
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: implement pause and resume in dwc_control
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: Replace spin_lock* with irqsave variants and enable submission from callback
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: Divide one sg to many desc, if sg len is greater than DWC_MAX_COUNT
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: set residue as total len in dwc_tx_status if status is !DMA_SUCCESS
  dmaengine/dw_dmac: don't call callback routine in case dmaengine_terminate_all() is called
  dmaengine: at_hdmac: pause: no need to wait for FIFO empty
  pch_dma: modify pci device table definition
  pch_dma: Support new device ML7223 IOH
  pch_dma: Support I2S for ML7213 IOH
  pch_dma: Fix DMA setting issue
  pch_dma: modify for checkpatch
  pch_dma: fix dma direction issue for ML7213 IOH video-in
  dmaengine: at_hdmac: use descriptor chaining help function
  dmaengine: at_hdmac: implement pause and resume in atc_control
  ...

Fix up trivial conflict in drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
2011-05-28 12:35:15 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22e12bbc9b Merge branch 'timers-ptp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-ptp-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  ptp: Fix dp83640 build warning when building statically
  ptp: Added a clock driver for the National Semiconductor PHYTER.
  ptp: Added a clock driver for the IXP46x.
  ptp: Added a clock that uses the eTSEC found on the MPC85xx.
  ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.
2011-05-25 08:59:42 -07:00
Uwe Kleine-König
4440673a95 leds: provide helper to register "leds-gpio" devices
This function makes a deep copy of the platform data to allow it to live
in init memory.  For a kernel that supports several machines and so
includes the definition for several leds-gpio devices this saves quite
some memory because all but one definition can be free'd after boot.

As the function is used by arch code it must be builtin and so cannot go
into leds-gpio.c.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CONFIG_LED_REGISTER_GPIO/CONFIG_LEDS_REGISTER_GPIO/]
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König  <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>
Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hartleys@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-05-25 08:39:51 -07:00
Richard Cochran
d94ba80ebb ptp: Added a brand new class driver for ptp clocks.
This patch adds an infrastructure for hardware clocks that implement
IEEE 1588, the Precision Time Protocol (PTP). A class driver offers a
registration method to particular hardware clock drivers. Each clock is
presented as a standard POSIX clock.

The ancillary clock features are exposed in two different ways, via
the sysfs and by a character device.

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richard.cochran@omicron.at>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
2011-05-23 13:01:00 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
c44dead70a Merge branch 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* 'usb-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (205 commits)
  USB: EHCI: Remove SPARC_LEON {read,write}_be definitions from ehci.h
  USB: UHCI: Support big endian GRUSBHC HC
  sparc: add {read,write}*_be routines
  USB: UHCI: Add support for big endian descriptors
  USB: UHCI: Use ACCESS_ONCE rather than using a full compiler barrier
  USB: UHCI: Add support for big endian mmio
  usb-storage: Correct adjust_quirks to include latest flags
  usb/isp1760: Fix possible unlink problems
  usb/isp1760: Move function isp1760_endpoint_disable() within file.
  USB: remove remaining usages of hcd->state from usbcore and fix regression
  usb: musb: ux500: add configuration and build options for ux500 dma
  usb: musb: ux500: add dma glue layer for ux500
  usb: musb: ux500: add dma name for ux500
  usb: musb: ux500: add ux500 specific code for gadget side
  usb: musb: fix compile error
  usb-storage: fix up the unusual_realtek device list
  USB: gadget: f_audio: Fix invalid dereference of initdata
  EHCI: don't rescan interrupt QHs needlessly
  OHCI: fix regression caused by nVidia shutdown workaround
  USB: OTG: msm: Free VCCCX regulator even if we can't set the voltage
  ...
2011-05-23 12:33:02 -07:00
Linus Walleij
a0eb221a44 dmaengine: move link order
Move the dmaengine subsystem up early in the drivers Makefile so
DMA is made available early to all drivers, just like e.g.
regulators. Now even regulators can use DMA on the same initlevel.
As a result we can bump the ste_dma40 and coh901318 dmaengine
drivers down one initlevel to subsys_init().

Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com>
2011-05-19 16:56:26 +05:30
Rafał Miłecki
8369ae33b7 bcma: add Broadcom specific AMBA bus driver
Broadcom has released cards based on a new AMBA-based bus type. From a
programming point of view, this new bus type differs from AMBA and does
not use AMBA common registers. It also differs enough from SSB. We
decided that a new bus driver is needed to keep the code clean.

In its current form, the driver detects devices present on the bus and
registers them in the system. It allows registering BCMA drivers for
specified bus devices and provides them basic operations. The bus driver
itself includes two important bus managing drivers: ChipCommon core
driver and PCI(c) core driver. They are early used to allow correct
initialization.

Currently code is limited to supporting buses on PCI(e) devices, however
the driver is designed to be used also on other hosts. The host
abstraction layer is implemented and already used for PCI(e).

Support for PCI(e) hosts is working and seems to be stable (access to
80211 core was tested successfully on a few devices). We can still
optimize it by using some fixed windows, but this can be done later
without affecting any external code. Windows are just ranges in MMIO
used for accessing cores on the bus.

Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Michael Büsch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: George Kashperko <george@znau.edu.ua>
Cc: Arend van Spriel <arend@broadcom.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andy Botting <andy@andybotting.com>
Cc: linuxdriverproject <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2011-05-10 15:54:54 -04:00
Felipe Balbi
4661ffc91b usb: don't enter usb subdirectories directly
Instead, make we enter usb/ directory on all
needed cases and enter the subdirectories from
drivers/usb/Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-13 16:34:53 -07:00
Kuninori Morimoto
f1407d5c66 usb: renesas_usbhs: Add Renesas USBHS common code
Renesas SuperH has USBHS IP which can switch Host / Function.
This driver is designed so that Host / Function may dynamically change.
This patch add usb/renesas_usbhs and common code for SuperH USBHS.

Signed-off-by: Kuninori Morimoto <kuninori.morimoto.gx@renesas.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-04-13 16:07:07 -07:00
Ohad Ben-Cohen
bd9a4c7df2 drivers: hwspinlock: add framework
Add a platform-independent hwspinlock framework.

Hardware spinlock devices are needed, e.g., in order to access data
that is shared between remote processors, that otherwise have no
alternative mechanism to accomplish synchronization and mutual exclusion
operations.

Signed-off-by: Ohad Ben-Cohen <ohad@wizery.com>
Cc: Hari Kanigeri <h-kanigeri2@ti.com>
Cc: Benoit Cousson <b-cousson@ti.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
2011-02-17 09:52:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
fc887b15d9 Merge branch 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6
* 'tty-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6:
  tty: update MAINTAINERS file due to driver movement
  tty: move drivers/serial/ to drivers/tty/serial/
  tty: move hvc drivers to drivers/tty/hvc/
2011-01-20 16:39:23 -08:00
Nicholas Bellinger
c66ac9db8d [SCSI] target: Add LIO target core v4.0.0-rc6
LIO target is a full featured in-kernel target framework with the
following feature set:

High-performance, non-blocking, multithreaded architecture with SIMD
support.

Advanced SCSI feature set:

    * Persistent Reservations (PRs)
    * Asymmetric Logical Unit Assignment (ALUA)
    * Protocol and intra-nexus multiplexing, load-balancing and failover (MC/S)
    * Full Error Recovery (ERL=0,1,2)
    * Active/active task migration and session continuation (ERL=2)
    * Thin LUN provisioning (UNMAP and WRITE_SAMExx)

Multiprotocol target plugins

Storage media independence:

    * Virtualization of all storage media; transparent mapping of IO to LUNs
    * No hard limits on number of LUNs per Target; maximum LUN size ~750 TB
    * Backstores: SATA, SAS, SCSI, BluRay, DVD, FLASH, USB, ramdisk, etc.

Standards compliance:

    * Full compliance with IETF (RFC 3720)
    * Full implementation of SPC-4 PRs and ALUA

Significant code cleanups done by Christoph Hellwig.

[jejb: fix up for new block bdev exclusive interface. Minor fixes from
 Randy Dunlap and Dan Carpenter.]
Signed-off-by: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2011-01-14 10:12:29 -06:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
ab4382d274 tty: move drivers/serial/ to drivers/tty/serial/
The serial drivers are really just tty drivers, so move them to
drivers/tty/ to make things a bit neater overall.

This is part of the tty/serial driver movement proceedure as proposed by
Arnd Bergmann and approved by everyone involved a number of months ago.

Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@bitwizard.nl>
Cc: Michael H. Warfield <mhw@wittsend.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2011-01-13 12:10:18 -08:00
Matti J. Aaltonen
0329326e85 NFC: Driver for NXP Semiconductors PN544 NFC chip.
Creates a new "Near Field Communication" subsystem in drivers/nfc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_Field_Communication is useful ;)

This is a driver for the pn544 NFC device. The driver transfers
ETSI messages between the device and the user space.

Signed-off-by: Matti J. Aaltonen <matti.j.aaltonen@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-13 08:03:19 -08:00
Russell King
4ec3eb1363 Merge branch 'smp' into misc
Conflicts:
	arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
	arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
2011-01-06 22:32:03 +00:00
Jean-Christop PLAGNIOL-VILLARD
6d803ba736 ARM: 6483/1: arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c
factorise some generic infrastructure to assist looking up struct clks
for the ARM & SH architecture.

as the code is identical at 99%

put the arch specific code for allocation as example in asm/clkdev.h

Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-11-26 10:51:04 +00:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
96fd7ce58f TTY: create drivers/tty and move the tty core files there
The tty code should be in its own subdirectory and not in the char
driver with all of the cruft that is currently there.

Based on work done by Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-11-05 08:10:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b7d41a9fbb Merge branch 'ieee1394-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'ieee1394-removal' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
  ieee1394: move init_ohci1394_dma to drivers/firewire/

Fix trivial change/delete conflict: drivers/ieee1394/eth1394.c is
getting removed, but was modified by the networking merge.
2010-10-25 08:05:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1dfd166e93 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6: (110 commits)
  sh: i2c-sh7760: Replase from ctrl_* to __raw_*
  sh: clkfwk: Shuffle around to match the intc split up.
  sh: clkfwk: modify for_each_frequency end condition
  sh: fix clk_get() error handling
  sh: clkfwk: Fix fault in frequency iterator.
  sh: clkfwk: Add a helper for rate rounding by divisor ranges.
  sh: clkfwk: Abstract rate rounding helper.
  sh: clkfwk: support clock remapping.
  sh: pci: Convert to upper/lower_32_bits() helpers.
  sh: mach-sdk7786: Add support for the FPGA SRAM.
  sh: Provide a generic SRAM pool for tiny memories.
  sh: pci: Support secondary FPGA-driven PCIe clocks on SDK7786.
  sh: pci: Support slot 4 routing on SDK7786.
  sh: Fix up PMB locking.
  sh: mach-sdk7786: Add support for fpga gpios.
  sh: use pr_fmt for clock framework, too.
  sh: remove name and id from struct clk
  sh: free-without-alloc fix for sh_mobile_lcdcfb
  sh: perf: Set up perf_max_events.
  sh: perf: Support SH-X3 hardware counters.
  ...

Fix up trivial conflicts (perf_max_events got removed) in arch/sh/kernel/perf_event.c
2010-10-25 07:51:49 -07:00
Stefan Richter
66fa12c571 ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stack
The drivers
  - ohci1394 (controller driver)
  - ieee1394 (core)
  - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI)
  - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers)
are replaced by
  - firewire-ohci (controller driver)
  - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI)
  - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers)
which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older
drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base.

The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both
ieee1394 and firewire-core.  Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an
independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394.

The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without
replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare.  Owners of these cards
use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead.

The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of
the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal.

There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to
the older one:
  - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA
    NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394.
    I am looking into the M52xx issue.
  - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its
    experimental cousin eth1394.
  - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE
    chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet.
    This issue is still under investigation.
  - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers.  Of them,
    only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful.
    Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core.

All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of
overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a
reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden.  The coexistence of two
IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now,
as announced earlier this year.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-10-11 14:48:03 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
70057a5a61 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: nosy: fix build when CONFIG_FIREWIRE=N
  firewire: ohci: activate cycle timer register quirk on Ricoh chips
2010-09-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Stefan Richter
8702d33aa6 firewire: nosy: fix build when CONFIG_FIREWIRE=N
drivers/firewire/nosy* is a stand-alone driver that does not depend on
CONFIG_FIREWIRE.  Hence let make descend into drivers/firewire/ also
if that option is off.

The stand-alone driver drivers/ieee1394/init_ohci1394_dma*  will soon be
moved into drivers/firewire/ too and will require the same makefile fix.

Side effect:
As mentioned in https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586172#c24
this influences the order in which either firewire-ohci or ohci1394 is
going to be bound to an OHCI-1394 controller in case of a modular build
of both drivers if no modprobe blacklist entries are configured.
However, a user of such a setup cannot expect deterministic behavior
anyway.  The Kconfig help and the migration guide at
ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org recommend blacklist entries when a dual
IEEE 1394 stack build is being used.  (The coexistence period of the two
stacks is planned to end soon.)

Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-09-17 00:12:52 +02:00
Paul Mundt
bbcf6e8b66 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
	arch/sh/include/asm/Kbuild
	drivers/Makefile

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-08-16 13:32:24 +09:00
John Stultz
592913ecb8 time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME
Now that all arches have been converted over to use generic time via
clocksources or arch_gettimeoffset(), we can remove the GENERIC_TIME
config option and simplify the generic code.

Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <1279068988-21864-4-git-send-email-johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
ae9b12c72f dmaengine: initialise DMA engine before MMC
To use DMA engine based DMA with MMC in a non-modular build, the DMA
engine has to initialise before MMC.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-07-02 13:09:15 +09:00
Len Brown
2671717265 intel_idle: native hardware cpuidle driver for latest Intel processors
This EXPERIMENTAL driver supersedes acpi_idle on
Intel Atom Processors, Intel Core i3/i5/i7 Processors
and associated Intel Xeon processors.

It does not support the Intel Core2 processor or earlier.

For kernels configured with ACPI, CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=y
allows intel_idle to probe before the ACPI processor driver.
Booting with "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" disables intel_idle
and the system will fall back on ACPI's "acpi_idle".

Typical Linux distributions load ACPI processor module early,
making CONFIG_INTEL_IDLE=m not easily useful on ACPI platforms.

intel_idle probes all processors at module_init time.
Processors that are hot-added later will be limited
to using C1 in idle.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2010-05-28 14:26:20 -04:00
Stijn Tintel
e2dbe06c27 virtio: initialize earlier
Move initialization of the virtio framework before the initialization of
mtd, so that block2mtd can be used on virtio-based block devices.

Addresses https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15644

Signed-off-by: Stijn Tintel <stijn@linux-ipv6.be>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-07 14:01:17 -07:00
Russell King
988addf82e Merge branch 'origin' into devel-stable
Conflicts:
	arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.c
	arch/arm/mach-mx2/devices.h
	sound/soc/pxa/pxa-ssp.c
2010-03-08 20:21:04 +00:00
Magnus Damm
13d605de2e sh: Build drivers/sh for ARM-based SH-Mobile CPUs.
Build drivers/sh in the case of ARM-based SH-Mobile CPUs.
Shared code for the interrupt controller (INTC) and
the gpio/pinmux (PFC) is located there.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-02-08 12:45:47 +09:00
Michael S. Tsirkin
3a4d5c94e9 vhost_net: a kernel-level virtio server
What it is: vhost net is a character device that can be used to reduce
the number of system calls involved in virtio networking.
Existing virtio net code is used in the guest without modification.

There's similarity with vringfd, with some differences and reduced scope
- uses eventfd for signalling
- structures can be moved around in memory at any time (good for
  migration, bug work-arounds in userspace)
- write logging is supported (good for migration)
- support memory table and not just an offset (needed for kvm)

common virtio related code has been put in a separate file vhost.c and
can be made into a separate module if/when more backends appear.  I used
Rusty's lguest.c as the source for developing this part : this supplied
me with witty comments I wouldn't be able to write myself.

What it is not: vhost net is not a bus, and not a generic new system
call. No assumptions are made on how guest performs hypercalls.
Userspace hypervisors are supported as well as kvm.

How it works: Basically, we connect virtio frontend (configured by
userspace) to a backend. The backend could be a network device, or a tap
device.  Backend is also configured by userspace, including vlan/mac
etc.

Status: This works for me, and I haven't see any crashes.
Compared to userspace, people reported improved latency (as I save up to
4 system calls per packet), as well as better bandwidth and CPU
utilization.

Features that I plan to look at in the future:
- mergeable buffers
- zero copy
- scalability tuning: figure out the best threading model to use

Note on RCU usage (this is also documented in vhost.h, near
private_pointer which is the value protected by this variant of RCU):
what is happening is that the rcu_dereference() is being used in a
workqueue item.  The role of rcu_read_lock() is taken on by the start of
execution of the workqueue item, of rcu_read_unlock() by the end of
execution of the workqueue item, and of synchronize_rcu() by
flush_workqueue()/flush_work(). In the future we might need to apply
some gcc attribute or sparse annotation to the function passed to
INIT_WORK(). Paul's ack below is for this RCU usage.

(Includes fixes by Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>,
David L Stevens <dlstevens@us.ibm.com>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@redhat.com>)

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-01-15 01:43:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a7c367b95a Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6
* git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6: (58 commits)
  mtd: jedec_probe: add PSD4256G6V id
  mtd: OneNand support for Nomadik 8815 SoC (on NHK8815 board)
  mtd: nand: driver for Nomadik 8815 SoC (on NHK8815 board)
  m25p80: Add Spansion S25FL129P serial flashes
  jffs2: Use SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN for jffs2_raw_{dirent,inode} slabs
  mtd: sh_flctl: register sh_flctl using platform_driver_probe()
  mtd: nand: txx9ndfmc: transfer 512 byte at a time if possible
  mtd: nand: fix tmio_nand ecc correction
  mtd: nand: add __nand_correct_data helper function
  mtd: cfi_cmdset_0002: add 0xFF intolerance for M29W128G
  mtd: inftl: fix fold chain block number
  mtd: jedec: fix compilation problem with I28F640C3B definition
  mtd: nand: fix ECC Correction bug for SMC ordering for NDFC driver
  mtd: ofpart: Check availability of reg property instead of name property
  driver/Makefile: Initialize "mtd" and "spi" before "net"
  mtd: omap: adding DMA mode support in nand prefetch/post-write
  mtd: omap: add support for nand prefetch-read and post-write
  mtd: add nand support for w90p910 (v2)
  mtd: maps: add mtd-ram support to physmap_of
  mtd: pxa3xx_nand: add single-bit error corrections reporting
  ...
2009-09-23 10:07:49 -07:00
Sudhakar Rajashekhara
9289d4ef06 driver/Makefile: Initialize "mtd" and "spi" before "net"
On TI's da850/omap-l138 EVM, MAC address is stored in SPI flash.

This patch changes the initialization sequence of the drivers
by moving mtd and spi ahead of net in drivers/Makefile thereby
enabling da850/omap-l138 ethernet driver to read the MAC address
while booting.

Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
2009-09-19 13:21:10 -07:00
Feng Tang
6ae6996a46 SFI: add platform-independent core support
drivers/sfi/sfi_core.c contains the generic SFI implementation.
It has a private header, sfi_core.h, for its own use and the
private use of future files in drivers/sfi/

Signed-off-by: Feng Tang <feng.tang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-08-28 19:57:33 -04:00
Rodolfo Giometti
eae9d2ba0c LinuxPPS: core support
This patch adds the kernel side of the PPS support currently named
"LinuxPPS".

PPS means "pulse per second" and a PPS source is just a device which
provides a high precision signal each second so that an application can
use it to adjust system clock time.

Common use is the combination of the NTPD as userland program with a GPS
receiver as PPS source to obtain a wallclock-time with sub-millisecond
synchronisation to UTC.

To obtain this goal the userland programs shoud use the PPS API
specification (RFC 2783 - Pulse-Per-Second API for UNIX-like Operating
Systems, Version 1.0) which in part is implemented by this patch.  It
provides a set of chars devices, one per PPS source, which can be used to
get the time signal.  The RFC's functions can be implemented by accessing
to these char devices.

Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-18 13:04:04 -07:00
Florian Fainelli
55e331cf7e drivers: add support for the TI VLYNQ bus
Add support for the TI VLYNQ high-speed, serial and packetized bus.

This bus allows external devices to be connected to the System-on-Chip and
appear in the main system memory just like any memory mapped peripheral.
It is widely used in TI's networking and multimedia SoC, including the AR7
SoC.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Konev <ejka@imfi.kspu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-16 19:47:52 -07:00
Sergey Lapin
8459464f07 ieee802154: add simple HardMAC driver sample
fakehard is a really simple driver implementing only necessary
callbacks and serves the role of an example of driver for HardMAC
IEEE 802.15.4 device.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sergey Lapin <slapin@ossfans.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-09 05:25:34 -07:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
a357482a1e V4L/DVB (11561a): move media after i2c
Currently drivers/media drivers are linked very early - directly after
base, block, misc, and mfd and before ata, scsi, ide, input, firewire,
usb, and i2c. This breaks static build of video4linux drivers, that use
generic CPU i2c adapter drivers and the v4l2-subdev subsystem, because
during video4linux probing the v4l2-subdev core requires a struct
i2c_adapter context, which cannot be satisfied before the i2c subsystem is
initialised. Moving drivers/media after drivers/i2c fixes this problem.

The best way to trigger action is by submitting a patch:-) So, let's see
what comes out of it - on the one hand I don't see any reason why media
has to be linked this early, and nobody was able to give me one yesterday
as this problem has been discussed on linux-media, OTOH, maybe indeed it
would be better to move i2c the whole way up above media, but that'd be
much bigger of a change, I think.
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Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-04-29 15:41:13 -03:00
Arjan van de Ven
0c406263f0 ide/net: flip the order of SATA and network init
this patch flips the order in which sata and network drivers are initialized.

SATA probing takes quite a bit of time, and with the asynchronous infrastructure
other drivers that run after it can execute in parallel. Network drivers do tend
to take some real time talking to the hardware, so running these later is
a good thing (the sata probe then runs concurrent)

This saves about 15% of my kernels boot time.

Both Dave and Jeff acked this patch and suggested it should go via the async
tree.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2009-03-28 13:06:16 -07:00
Len Brown
d97c0defba Merge branch 'drivers-platform' into release
Conflicts:
	drivers/misc/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2009-01-09 04:56:56 -05:00
David Brownell
9f4dab49e5 regulator: init/link earlier
Move regulator earlier in link sequence.

The regulator core currently initializes as a core_initcall() to be
available early ... but then it links way late, throwing away that
benefit, so regulators available at e.g. subsys_initcall() are not
available to subsystems which need to use them.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
2009-01-08 20:10:32 +00:00
David Brownell
b8da8677d4 USB: move isp1301_omap to drivers/usb/otg
This moves the isp1301-omap driver from the drivers/i2c/chips
directory (which will be shrinking) into a new drivers/usb/otg
directory (which will grow, with more drivers and utilities).

Note that OTG infrastructure needs to be initialized before
either host or peripheral side USB support, and may be needed
before for pure host or pure peripheral configurations.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-01-07 10:00:02 -08:00
Len Brown
41b16dce39 create drivers/platform/x86/ from drivers/misc/
Move x86 platform specific drivers from drivers/misc/
to a new home under drivers/platform/x86/.

The community has been maintaining x86 vendor-specific
platform specific drivers under /drivers/misc/ for a few years.
The oldest ones started life under drivers/acpi.
They moved out of drivers/acpi/ because they don't actually
implement the ACPI specification, but either simply
use ACPI, or implement vendor-specific ACPI extensions.

In the future we anticipate...
drivers/misc/ will go away.
other architectures will create drivers/platform/<arch>

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-12-19 04:42:32 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
eba966a4e7 Merge branch 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb
* 'for-upstream' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dvrabel/uwb:
  uwb: build UWB before USB/WUSB
2008-10-26 16:35:46 -07:00
David Vrabel
ae5d82cb8d uwb: build UWB before USB/WUSB
The WHCI-HCD driver in drivers/usb/host/ depends on the umc driver in
drivers/uwb/.

Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
2008-10-24 16:46:22 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
765426e8ee Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (123 commits)
  dock: make dock driver not a module
  ACPI: fix ia64 build warning
  ACPI: hack around sysfs warning with link order
  ACPI suspend: fix build warning when CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=n
  intel_menlo: fix build warning
  panasonic-laptop: fix build
  ACPICA: Update version to 20080926
  ACPICA: Add support for zero-length buffer-to-string conversions
  ACPICA: New: Validation for predefined ACPI methods/objects
  ACPICA: Fix for implicit return compatibility
  ACPICA: Fixed a couple memory leaks associated with "implicit return"
  ACPICA: Optimize buffer allocation procedure
  ACPICA: Fix possible memory leak, error exit path
  ACPICA: Fix fault after mem allocation failure in AML parser
  ACPICA: Remove unused ACPI register bit definition
  ACPICA: Update version to 20080829
  ACPICA: Fix possible memory leak in acpi_ns_get_external_pathname
  ACPICA: Cleanup for internal Reference Object
  ACPICA: Update comments - no functional changes
  ACPICA: Update for Reference ACPI_OPERAND_OBJECT
  ...
2008-10-23 10:20:36 -07:00
Len Brown
057316cc6a Merge branch 'linus' into test
Conflicts:
	MAINTAINERS
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c
	arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
	drivers/acpi/Kconfig
	drivers/pnp/Makefile
	drivers/pnp/quirks.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-10-23 00:11:07 -04:00
Andy Henroid
27471fdb32 i7300_idle driver v1.55
The Intel 7300 Memory Controller supports dynamic throttling of memory which can
be used to save power when system is idle. This driver does the memory
throttling when all CPUs are idle on such a system.

Refer to "Intel 7300 Memory Controller Hub (MCH)" datasheet
for the config space description.

Signed-off-by: Andy Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
2008-10-21 23:58:41 -04:00
David Vrabel
61e0e79ee3 Merge branch 'master' into for-upstream
Conflicts:

	Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-usb
	drivers/Makefile
2008-10-20 16:07:19 +01:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
3504558913 Staging: add Kconfig entries and Makefile infrastructure
This hooks up the drivers/staging directory to the build system

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-10 15:31:06 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
2f86c3e67d uwb: add the UWB stack (build system)
The Kbuild and Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com>
2008-09-17 16:54:25 +01:00