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Steffen Klassert
c635696c7c padata: Pass the padata cpumasks to the cpumask_change_notifier chain
We pass a pointer to the new padata cpumasks to the cpumask_change_notifier
chain. So users can access the cpumasks without the need of an extra
padata_get_cpumask function.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-31 19:53:05 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
65ff577e6b padata: Rearrange set_cpumask functions
padata_set_cpumask needs to be protected by a lock. We make
__padata_set_cpumasks unlocked and static. So this function
can be used by the exported and locked padata_set_cpumask and
padata_set_cpumasks functions.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-31 19:53:04 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
e6cc117076 padata: Rename padata_alloc functions
We rename padata_alloc to padata_alloc_possible because this
function allocates a padata_instance and uses the cpu_possible
mask for parallel and serial workers. Also we rename __padata_alloc
to padata_alloc to avoid to export underlined functions. Underlined
functions are considered to be private to padata. Users are updated
accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-31 19:53:04 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
cc74f4bc11 crypto: pcrypt - Dont calulate a callback cpu on empty callback cpumask
If the callback cpumask is empty, we crash with a division by zero
when we try to calculate a callback cpu. So we don't update the callback
cpu in pcrypt_do_parallel if the callback cpumask is empty.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:59 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
7424713b83 padata: Check for valid cpumasks
Now that we allow to change the cpumasks from userspace, we have
to check for valid cpumasks in padata_do_parallel. This patch adds
the necessary check. This fixes a division by zero crash if the
parallel cpumask contains no active cpu.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:58 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
b89661dff5 padata: Allocate cpumask dependend recources in any case
The cpumask separation work assumes the cpumask dependend recources
present regardless of valid or invalid cpumasks. With this patch
we allocate the cpumask dependend recources in any case. This fixes
two NULL pointer dereference crashes in padata_replace and in
padata_get_cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:58 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
fad3a906d3 padata: Fix cpu index counting
The counting of the cpu index got lost with a recent commit.
This patch restores it. This fixes a hang of the parallel worker
threads on cpu hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-26 14:13:57 +08:00
Peter Huewe
1fb1defbb0 crypto: geode_aes - Convert pci_table entries to PCI_VDEVICE (if PCI_ANY_ID is used)
This patch converts pci_table entries, where .subvendor=PCI_ANY_ID and
.subdevice=PCI_ANY_ID, .class=0 and .class_mask=0, to use the
PCI_VDEVICE macro, and thus improves readability.

Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:21 +08:00
Dan Kruchinin
a3fb1e330d pcrypt: Added sysfs interface to pcrypt
Added sysfs interface to pcrypt. Now pcrypt subsystem creates two
sysfs directories with corresponding padata sysfs objects:
 /sys/kernel/pcrypt/[pencrypt|pdecrypt]

Signed-off-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:20 +08:00
Dan Kruchinin
5e017dc3f8 padata: Added sysfs primitives to padata subsystem
Added sysfs primitives to padata subsystem. Now API user may
embedded kobject each padata instance contains into any sysfs
hierarchy. For now padata sysfs interface provides only
two objects:
    serial_cpumask   [RW] - cpumask for serial workers
    parallel_cpumask [RW] - cpumask for parallel workers

Signed-off-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:19 +08:00
Dan Kruchinin
e15bacbebb padata: Make two separate cpumasks
The aim of this patch is to make two separate cpumasks
for padata parallel and serial workers respectively.
It allows user to make more thin and sophisticated configurations
of padata framework. For example user may bind parallel and serial workers to non-intersecting
CPU groups to gain better performance. Also each padata instance has notifiers chain for its
cpumasks now. If either parallel or serial or both masks were changed all
interested subsystems will get notification about that. It's especially useful
if padata user uses algorithm for callback CPU selection according to serial cpumask.

Signed-off-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-19 13:50:19 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
2197f9a16d padata: update documentation
This patch updates the padata documentation to the changed
API of padata_start/padata_stop and padata_do parallel.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:30 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
5f1a8c1bc7 padata: simplify serialization mechanism
We count the number of processed objects on a percpu basis,
so we need to go through all the percpu reorder queues to calculate
the sequence number of the next object that needs serialization.
This patch changes this to count the number of processed objects
global. So we can calculate the sequence number and the percpu
reorder queue of the next object that needs serialization without
searching through the percpu reorder queues. This avoids some
accesses to memory of foreign cpus.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:30 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
83f619f3c8 padata: make padata_do_parallel to return zero on success
To return -EINPROGRESS on success in padata_do_parallel was
considered to be odd. This patch changes this to return zero
on success. Also the only user of padata, pcrypt is adapted to
convert a return of zero to -EINPROGRESS within the crypto layer.
This also removes the pcrypt fallback if padata_do_parallel
was called on a not running padata instance as we can't handle it
anymore. This fallback was unused, so it's save to remove it.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
33e5445068 padata: Handle empty padata cpumasks
This patch fixes a bug when the padata cpumask does not
intersect with the active cpumask. In this case we get a
division by zero in padata_alloc_pd and we end up with a
useless padata instance. Padata can end up with an empty
cpumask for two reasons:

1. A user removed the last cpu that belongs to the padata
cpumask and the active cpumask.

2. The last cpu that belongs to the padata cpumask and the
active cpumask goes offline.

We introduce a function padata_validate_cpumask to check if the padata
cpumask does intersect with the active cpumask. If the cpumasks do not
intersect we mark the instance as invalid, so it can't be used. We do not
allocate the cpumask dependend recources in this case. This fixes the
division by zero and keeps the padate instance in a consistent state.

It's not possible to trigger this bug by now because the only padata user,
pcrypt uses always the possible cpumask.

Reported-by: Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
ee83655512 padata: Block until the instance is unused on stop
This patch makes padata_stop to block until the padata
instance is unused. Also we split padata_stop to a locked
and a unlocked version. This is in preparation to be able
to change the cpumask after a call to patata stop.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:29 +08:00
Steffen Klassert
4c87917029 padata: Check for valid padata instance on start
This patch introduces the PADATA_INVALID flag which is
checked on padata start. This will be used to mark a padata
instance as invalid, if the padata cpumask does not intersect
with the active cpumask. we change padata_start to return an
error if the PADATA_INVALID is set. Also we adapt the only
padata user, pcrypt to this change.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:29:28 +08:00
Justin P. Mattock
7e3de7b1be crypto: hifn_795x - Remove unused ctx variable
The below patch gets rid of an unused variable ctx reported by
GCC when building the kernel.
  CC [M]  drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.o
drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: In function 'hifn_flush':
drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c:2021:23: warning: variable 'ctx' set but not used
drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c: In function 'hifn_process_queue':
drivers/crypto/hifn_795x.c:2142:23: warning: variable 'ctx' set but not used

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-14 20:11:39 +08:00
Kulikov Vasiliy
8b9cfdca9c hwrng: n2-drv - remove casts from void*
Remove unnesessary casts from void*.

Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-07-05 21:25:06 +08:00
Lee Nipper
5e833bc416 crypto: talitos - fix ahash for multiple of blocksize
Correct ahash_process_req() to properly handle cases
where the total hash amount is a multiple of the blocksize.
The SEC must have some data to hash during the very last
descriptor operation; so up to one whole blocksize
of data is buffered until the final hash.

Signed-off-by: Lee Nipper <lee.nipper@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-16 15:29:15 +10:00
Joachim Fritschi
5b04fc1703 crypto: twofish: Rename twofish to twofish_generic and add an alias
This fixes the broken autoloading of the corresponding twofish assembler
ciphers on x86 and x86_64 if they are available. The module name of the
generic implementation was in conflict with the alias in the assembler
modules. The generic twofish c implementation is renamed to
twofish_generic according to the other algorithms with assembler
implementations and an module alias is added for 'twofish'. You can now
load 'twofish' giving you the best implementation by priority,
'twofish-generic' to get the c implementation or 'twofish-asm' to get
the assembler version of cipher.

Signed-off-by: Joachim Fritschi <jfritschi@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-03 21:02:51 +10:00
Alexander Shishkin
0b767f9616 crypto: testmgr - add an option to disable cryptoalgos' self-tests
By default, CONFIG_CRYPTO_MANAGER_TESTS will be enabled and thus
self-tests will still run, but it is now possible to disable them
to gain some time during bootup.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-03 20:53:43 +10:00
Herbert Xu
bc94e59662 crypto: pcomp - Fix illegal Kconfig configuration
The PCOMP Kconfig entry current allows the following combination
which is illegal:

ZLIB=y
PCOMP=y
ALGAPI=m
ALGAPI2=y
MANAGER=m
MANAGER2=m

This patch fixes this by adding PCOMP2 so that PCOMP can select
ALGAPI to propagate the setting to MANAGER2.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-03 20:33:06 +10:00
Dan Carpenter
749d811f10 padata: add parenthesis in MAX_SEQ_NR macro
MAX_SEQ_NR is used in padata_alloc_pd() like this:

        pd->max_seq_nr = (MAX_SEQ_NR / num_cpus) * num_cpus - 1;

It needs parenthesis or the divide by num_cpus takes precedence over the
subtraction.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-06-03 20:19:28 +10:00
Herbert Xu
50d1e9302b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/crypto-2.6 2010-05-26 11:36:58 +10:00
Dan Carpenter
7cc2835083 crypto: mv_cesa - fixup error handling in mv_probe()
The error handling in mv_probe() was a bit messed up.  There were some 
gotos to the wrong labels so it ended up releasing stuff that that hadn't
been aquired and not releasing stuff that was meant to be released.  I
shuffled it around a bit to fix it and make it clearer.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26 10:45:22 +10:00
Andrea Gelmini
026c8ec69d crypto: des_s390 - Checkpatch cleanup
arch/s390/crypto/crypto_des.h:18: ERROR: do not use C99 // comments

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gelmini <andrea.gelmini@gelma.net>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26 10:41:03 +10:00
Huang Weiyi
0efbaabd1e crypto: omap - remove unused #include <linux/version.h>
Remove unused #include <linux/version.h>('s) in
  drivers/crypto/omap-sham.c

Signed-off-by: Huang Weiyi <weiyi.huang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26 10:37:52 +10:00
David S. Miller
dc4ccfd15d n2_crypto: Add HMAC support.
One note is that, unlike with non-HMAC hashes, we can't support
hmac(sha224) using the HMAC_SHA256 opcode.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:17 -07:00
David S. Miller
3a2c034697 n2_crypto: Make ahash parameterization explicit.
All of the ahash ->digest() ops do essentially the same thing, just
using different parameters.

So instead, have a single n2_hash_async_digest() and use an
n2_ahash_alg container that provides the parameters.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:17 -07:00
David S. Miller
38511108a3 n2_crypto: Log algorithm success/failure in kernel log.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:16 -07:00
David S. Miller
65a23d6706 n2_crypto: Kill n2_base_ctx and helpers.
Unused, and we'll do this via the request context.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:16 -07:00
David S. Miller
c9aa55e527 n2_crypto: Plumb fallback ahash requests properly.
Do this by putting the async fallback request at the end of an n2
specific ahash request context, then properly adjusting the request
private size in our ahash ->cra_init().

We also need to put the writable state bits into the n2 request
private instead of the n2 cra_ctx.

With help from Herbert Xu.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:15 -07:00
David S. Miller
527b952525 n2_crypto: Fix MAU kmem_cache name.
Both the CWQ and MAU caches unintentionally had that same name.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:15 -07:00
David S. Miller
ff6c7341e0 n2_crypto: Fix build after of_device/of_platform_driver changes.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 17:37:08 -07:00
Julia Lawall
8db050786a crypto: Use ERR_CAST
Use ERR_CAST(x) rather than ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x)).  The former makes more
clear what is the purpose of the operation, which otherwise looks like a
no-op.

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
type T;
T x;
identifier f;
@@

T f (...) { <+...
- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ x
 ...+> }

@@
expression x;
@@

- ERR_PTR(PTR_ERR(x))
+ ERR_CAST(x)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
2010-05-26 10:36:51 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
b1cdc4670b Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (63 commits)
  drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast.
  be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.
  proc_dointvec: write a single value
  hso: add support for new products
  Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close()
  ath9k: remove VEOL support for ad-hoc
  ath9k: change beacon allocation to prefer the first beacon slot
  sock.h: fix kernel-doc warning
  cls_cgroup: Fix build error when built-in
  macvlan: do proper cleanup in macvlan_common_newlink() V2
  be2net: Bug fix in init code in probe
  net/dccp: expansion of error code size
  ath9k: Fix rx of mcast/bcast frames in PS mode with auto sleep
  wireless: fix sta_info.h kernel-doc warnings
  wireless: fix mac80211.h kernel-doc warnings
  iwlwifi: testing the wrong variable in iwl_add_bssid_station()
  ath9k_htc: rare leak in ath9k_hif_usb_alloc_tx_urbs()
  ath9k_htc: dereferencing before check in hif_usb_tx_cb()
  rt2x00: Fix rt2800usb TX descriptor writing.
  rt2x00: Fix failed SLEEP->AWAKE and AWAKE->SLEEP transitions.
  ...
2010-05-25 16:59:51 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ce7d022619 Merge branch 'alpha-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha-2.6
* 'alpha-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha-2.6:
  alpha: simplify and optimize sched_find_first_bit
  alpha: invoke oom-killer from page fault
  Convert alpha to use clocksources instead of arch_gettimeoffset
2010-05-25 16:53:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b142ebb61c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6:
  driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
2010-05-25 16:51:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
218ce73514 Revert "module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization."
This reverts commit 480b02df3a, since
Rafael reports that it causes occasional kernel paging request faults in
load_module().

Dropping the module lock and re-taking it deep in the call-chain is
definitely not the right thing to do.  That just turns the mutex from a
lock into a "random non-locking data structure" that doesn't actually
protect what it's supposed to protect.

Requested-and-tested-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-05-25 16:48:30 -07:00
David S. Miller
f925b1303e drivers/net/usb/asix.c: Fix pointer cast.
Stephen Rothwell reports the following new warning:

drivers/net/usb/asix.c: In function 'asix_rx_fixup':
drivers/net/usb/asix.c:325: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/net/usb/asix.c:354: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size

The code just cares about the low alignment bits, so use
an "unsigned long" cast instead of one to "u32".

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:24:03 -07:00
Sarveshwar Bandi
dd131e76e5 be2net: Bug fix to avoid disabling bottom half during firmware upgrade.
Certain firmware commands/operations to upgrade firmware could take several
seconds to complete. The code presently disables bottom half during these
operations which could lead to unpredictable behaviour in certain cases. This
patch now does all firmware upgrade operations asynchronously using a
completion variable.

Signed-off-by: Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwarb@serverengines.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:16:32 -07:00
J. R. Okajima
563b046710 proc_dointvec: write a single value
The commit 00b7c3395a
"sysctl: refactor integer handling proc code"
modified the behaviour of writing to /proc.
Before the commit, write("1\n") to /proc/sys/kernel/printk succeeded. But
now it returns EINVAL.

This commit supports writing a single value to a multi-valued entry.

Signed-off-by: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Reviewed-and-tested-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:10:14 -07:00
Filip Aben
dd7496f217 hso: add support for new products
This patch adds a few new product id's for the hso driver.

Signed-off-by: Filip Aben <f.aben@option.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:09:23 -07:00
Rémi Denis-Courmont
e513480e28 Phonet: fix potential use-after-free in pep_sock_close()
sk_common_release() might destroy our last reference to the socket.
So an extra temporary reference is needed during cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-05-25 16:08:39 -07:00
Matt Turner
a75f5f0f0a alpha: simplify and optimize sched_find_first_bit
Search only the first 100 bits instead of 140, saving a couple
instructions. The resulting code is about 1/3 faster (40K ticks/1000
iterations down to 30K ticks/1000 iterations).

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
2010-05-26 00:40:28 +02:00
Nick Piggin
1cb3d8e2c8 alpha: invoke oom-killer from page fault
As explained in commit 1c0fe6e3bd, we want to call the architecture
independent oom killer when getting an unexplained OOM from
handle_mm_fault, rather than simply killing current.

[mattst88: kill now unused 'survive' label]
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
2010-05-26 00:40:28 +02:00
John Stultz
9ce34c8f44 Convert alpha to use clocksources instead of arch_gettimeoffset
Alpha has a tsc like rpcc counter that it uses to manage time.
This can be converted to an actual clocksource instead of utilizing
the arch_gettimeoffset method that is really only there for legacy
systems with no continuous counter.

Further cleanups could be made if alpha converted to the clockevent
model.

CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
CC: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Acked-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Tested-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
2010-05-26 00:40:27 +02:00
Kay Sievers
578454ff7e driver core: add devname module aliases to allow module on-demand auto-loading
This adds:
  alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-05-25 15:08:26 -07:00
David S. Miller
7466a38478 Merge branch 'wimax-2.6.35.y' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax 2010-05-25 14:05:24 -07:00