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Patrick McHardy
15db34702c [NETFILTER]: Fix crash in ip_nat_pptp
When an inbound PPTP_IN_CALL_REQUEST packet is received the
PPTP NAT helper uses a NULL pointer in pointer arithmentic to
calculate the offset in the packet which needs to be mangled
and corrupts random memory or crashes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:30 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
bb94aa169e [NETFILTER]: net/ipv[46]/netfilter.c cleanups
Don't wrap entire file in #ifdef CONFIG_NETFILTER, remove a few
unneccessary includes.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:29 -08:00
Kris Katterjohn
d3f4a687f6 [NET]: Change memcmp(,,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr()
This changes some memcmp(one,two,ETH_ALEN) to compare_ether_addr(one,two).

Signed-off-by: Kris Katterjohn <kjak@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:28 -08:00
Stephen Hemminger
770cfbcffd [INET]: congestion and af_ops can be const
The congestion ops and af_ops in the inet_connection_sock
can be const.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-01-10 12:54:26 -08:00
Alan Cox
49cd619c69 [PATCH] moxa serial: add proper capability check
This requires the proper capabilities for the moxa bios update ioctl's.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:45:36 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
19dbaf6f6f [PATCH] m68knommu: save reg a5 on context change
Fix a5 register corruption when processing user space signals handlers.
We need to save a5 through each contenxt change.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
3960f2faaf [PATCH] m68knommu: fix find_next_zero_bit in bitops.h
We're starting a number of big applications (memory footprint app.
1MByte) on our Arcturus uC5272.  Therefore memory fragmentation is a
real pain for us.  We've switched to uClinux-2.4.27-uc1 and found that
page_alloc2 fragments the memory heavily.

Digging into it we found a bug in the find_next_zero_bit function in the
m68knommu/bitops.h file.  if the size isn't a multiple of 32 than the
upper bits of the last word to be searched should be masked.  But the
functions masks the lower bits of the last word because it uses a right
shift instead of a left shift operator.

Patch submitted by Sascha Smejkal <s.smejkal@centersystems.at>

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
845884d332 [PATCH] uclinux: delay binfmt_flat trace
Modify the initial trace output (which is based on flags in the binary
header) so that it is not done until after the magic number check.  This
may well not be a flat format binary, so the flags could be invalid.
(Prime example, running a script).

Changes prompted by patches from Stuart Hughs.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
082f2c1cc7 [PATCH] m68knommu: set irq priority/level different for each ColdFire serial port
Set the hardware interrupt priority to a different value for each
attached ColdFire serial port.  According to the CPU documentation you
should not use the same combination of level/priority on more than one
device.  People have reported odd serial port behavior with them set the
same.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
892b62527f [PATCH] m68knommu: allow configure of FEC for M520x CPU family
Allow the ColdFire FEC ethernet driver to be enabled on the M520x CPU
family.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
694d855fbc [PATCH] m68knommu: fix ram length of m5208evb board
Adjust length of M5208EVB ram define.  It should size up to 32MB after
adding in the dBUG reserved 128k.

Problem pointed out be Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:27 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
01829e7212 [PATCH] m68knommu: fix a5 reg corruption in signal handlers
This is a patch adapted from a posting by Andrea Tarani which was
pointed out to me by Bernardo Innocenti.  Thanks to both of them for
their help and patience.

The original posting is here:
  http://mailman.uclinux.org/pipermail/uclinux-dev/2005-July/033543.html

The problem first manifest itself as busybox ping terminating with an
"Illegal instruction".  I reduced this to a test case and found that
variable size arrays allocated on the stack could lead to stacks not
aligned on 32 bit boundaries.  For the Coldfire this proved fatal.

Having been pointed out this patch by Bernardo, I applied it and it
fixed the first test case.  I then went back to busybox's ping.  This
still failed with "Illegal instruction", but in a different way.  Before
it depended on the size allocated for the ping buffer, now it happened
every time.  I also found it depended on optimisation level (gcc-3.4.0)
-Os was okay but not -O2.

After a lot of looking, it turned out that register a5 was being
corrupted by the signal handler (after applying the patch).  I re-worked
the patch a bit to save/restore a5 and now all seems well.

Patch submitted by Stuart Hughs <stuarth@freescale.com>

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
afc7cd8950 [PATCH] m68knommu: fix mangled 'truct' in ptrace.c
Fix broken "truct" -> "struct" in arch_ptrace() parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
db10cb8e99 [PATCH] m68knommu: don't set gcc optimizer flags
Don't specify compiler optimization flags in the m68knommu Makefile.
Let the top level Makefile/config set it.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
8240979985 [PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from memory.c
Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Greg Ungerer
7ba6b5ece3 [PATCH] h8300: remove MAGIC_ROM_PTR from k8300_ksyms.c
Remove obsolete MAGIC_ROM_PTR code from h8300 architecture.

Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 09:31:26 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d936cfc720 Merge branch 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus 2006-01-10 09:00:55 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4f47707b05 Fix rpc shutdown event condition bug
We want to wait for the cl_users to go down to zero, not for it to stay
positive.  Quoth Trond (who wasn't even the author, but acked the wrong
version): "Argh! I need to increase my daily caffeine dosages."

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:56:39 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
a9c828155a [PATCH] rcu: fix hotplug-cpu ->donelist leak
Pointed out by Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>.

rcu_do_batch() stops after processing maxbatch callbacks
on ->donelist leaving rcu_tasklet in TASKLET_STATE_SCHED
state.

If CPU_DEAD event happens remaining ->donelist entries are
lost, rcu_offline_cpu() kills this tasklet.

With this patch ->donelist migrates along with ->curlist
and ->nxtlist to the current cpu.

Compile tested.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:49:47 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov
69a0b31579 [PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state
This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
the parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:42:50 -08:00
Andrey Borzenkov
c0400dc507 [PATCH] ide-cd: clear random-write capability it not supported
Add CDC-RAM to capability mask. This prevents udev incorrectly reporting
RAM capabilities for device.

Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:38:19 -08:00
Jens Axboe
daef265f15 [PATCH] dm: don't enable bouncing by default
DM doesn't need to bounce bio's on its own, but the block layer defaults
to that in blk_queue_make_request(). The lower level drivers should
bounce ios themselves, that is what they need to do if not layered below
dm anyways.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:37:08 -08:00
Jens Axboe
00d6da9b4d [PATCH] cdrom: kill "open failed" error message
This triggers all the time with the various polled event programs,
change it to CD_OPEN so it's supressed by default.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:37:08 -08:00
Jens Axboe
4ff57935ad [PATCH] ide: preserve errors for failed requests
To preserve the ->errors values for requests that failed, use the normal
completion path for that.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:37:07 -08:00
Anton Blanchard
c8d52465f9 [PATCH] Work around ppc64 compiler bug
In the process of optimising our per cpu data code, I found a ppc64
compiler bug that has been around forever. Basically the current
RELOC_HIDE can end up trashing r30. Details of the bug can be found at

  http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25572

This bug is present in all compilers before 4.1. It is masked by the
fact that our current per cpu data code is inefficient and causes
other loads that end up marking r30 as used.

A workaround identified by Alan Modra is to use the =r asm constraint
instead of =g.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
[ Verified that this makes no real difference on x86[-64] */
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:32:35 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
115b2ce1c3 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2006-01-10 08:30:29 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
dd49f96777 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2006-01-10 08:28:53 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
a62e68488d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc-merge 2006-01-10 08:28:32 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
ab396e91bf Merge ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
Fix up some trivial conflicts in {i386|ia64}/Makefile
2006-01-10 08:21:33 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
9979ead5d1 [PATCH] fs/hfsplus/: remove the hfsplus_inode_check() debug function
This patch removes the hfsplus_inode_check() debug function.

It also removes the now obsolete last_inode_cnt and inode_cnt from struct
hfsplus_sb_info.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:03 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
f346f4b373 [PATCH] let MAGIC_SYSRQ no longer depend on DEBUG_KERNEL
I know several people using MAGIC_SYSRQ not for kernel debugging but for
trying to do a halfway normal shutdown in case of problems.

Since there's no technical reason why MAGIC_SYSRQ would have to depend on
DEBUG_KERNEL, I'm therefore suggesting to drop this dependency.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4c29c4c5f2 [PATCH] include/linux/sched.h: no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype
There's no need to guard the normalize_rt_tasks() prototype with an #ifdef
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
d974837ae0 [PATCH] kernel/resource.c: __check_region(): remove pointless __deprecated
If a __deprecated is desired it should go to the prototype in the header
(where it currently isn't).

But at this place it's pointless.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
51d53bd3eb [PATCH] video/matrox/matroxfb_misc.c: remove dead code
The Coverity checker spotted this dead code.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
ca5ed2f5c7 [PATCH] include/asm-sh64/: "extern inline" -> "static inline"
"extern inline" doesn't make much sense.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
e0795cf46d [PATCH] selinux: Remove unneeded k[cm]alloc() return value casts
Remove redundant casts of k*alloc() return values in
security/selinux/ss/services.c

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:02 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
792db3af38 [PATCH] fs/binfmt_elf: Remove unneeded kmalloc() return value casts
Remove unneeded casts of kmalloc() return value in binfmt_elf.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
352d768b19 [PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in multipath.c
Decrease the number of pointer derefs in drivers/md/multipath.c

Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jesper Juhl
3795e1616f [PATCH] Decrease number of pointer derefs in exit.c
Decrease the number of pointer derefs in kernel/exit.c

Benefits of the patch:
 - Fewer pointer dereferences should make the code slightly faster.
 - Size of generated code is smaller
 - improved readability

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
a547dfe956 [PATCH] char/isicom: More whitespaces and coding style
Wrap all the code to 80 chars on a line.
`}\nelse' changed to `} else'.
Clean whitespaces in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
e65c1db19f [PATCH] char/isicom: Firmware loading
Firmware loading via hotplug added.
Cleanup firmware old-way fields in header file.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:01 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
9ac0948b20 [PATCH] char/isicom: Pci probing added
Pci probing functions added, most of functions rewrited because of it (some
for loops were redundant).  Used PCI_DEVICE macro.  dev_* used for printing
wherever possible.  Renamed some functions to have isicom_ in the name.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Riffard <laurent.riffard@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
aaa246ea78 [PATCH] char/isicom: Other little changes
Move some code from one place to another.  Get rid of ugly ifdefs in code in
next p[patches, so here create functions and macros to enable it.  Rename some
functions and align some code to 80 chars.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
8070e35c65 [PATCH] char/isicom: Type conversion and variables deletion
Type which is needed to have accurate size was converted to [us]{8,16}.
Removed void * cast.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Jiri Slaby
d8d16e4744 [PATCH] char/isicom: Whitespace cleanup
Trailing spaces and tabs and space used for indentation deleted.  Indented
content of structures.  Switch/case indent.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <xslaby@fi.muni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Alan Cox
d9e39538ce [PATCH] clean up computone remaining cli use
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Grant Coady
c58cbb6cbb [PATCH] n_hdlc.c: remove unused declaration
drivers/char/n_hdlc.c:194: warning: `n_hdlc_tty_room' declared `static' but
never defined

Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:02:00 -08:00
Alan Cox
33f0f88f1c [PATCH] TTY layer buffering revamp
The API and code have been through various bits of initial review by
serial driver people but they definitely need to live somewhere for a
while so the unconverted drivers can get knocked into shape, existing
drivers that have been updated can be better tuned and bugs whacked out.

This replaces the tty flip buffers with kmalloc objects in rings. In the
normal situation for an IRQ driven serial port at typical speeds the
behaviour is pretty much the same, two buffers end up allocated and the
kernel cycles between them as before.

When there are delays or at high speed we now behave far better as the
buffer pool can grow a bit rather than lose characters. This also means
that we can operate at higher speeds reliably.

For drivers that receive characters in blocks (DMA based, USB and
especially virtualisation) the layer allows a lot of driver specific
code that works around the tty layer with private secondary queues to be
removed. The IBM folks need this sort of layer, the smart serial port
people do, the virtualisers do (because a virtualised tty typically
operates at infinite speed rather than emulating 9600 baud).

Finally many drivers had invalid and unsafe attempts to avoid buffer
overflows by directly invoking tty methods extracted out of the innards
of work queue structs. These are no longer needed and all go away. That
fixes various random hangs with serial ports on overflow.

The other change in here is to optimise the receive_room path that is
used by some callers. It turns out that only one ldisc uses receive room
except asa constant and it updates it far far less than the value is
read. We thus make it a variable not a function call.

I expect the code to contain bugs due to the size alone but I'll be
watching and squashing them and feeding out new patches as it goes.

Because the buffers now dynamically expand you should only run out of
buffering when the kernel runs out of memory for real.  That means a lot of
the horrible hacks high performance drivers used to do just aren't needed any
more.

Description:

tty_insert_flip_char is an old API and continues to work as before, as does
tty_flip_buffer_push() [this is why many drivers dont need modification].  It
does now also return the number of chars inserted

There are also

tty_buffer_request_room(tty, len)

which asks for a buffer block of the length requested and returns the space
found.  This improves efficiency with hardware that knows how much to
transfer.

and tty_insert_flip_string_flags(tty, str, flags, len)

to insert a string of characters and flags

For a smart interface the usual code is

    len = tty_request_buffer_room(tty, amount_hardware_says);
    tty_insert_flip_string(tty, buffer_from_card, len);

More description!

At the moment tty buffers are attached directly to the tty.  This is causing a
lot of the problems related to tty layer locking, also problems at high speed
and also with bursty data (such as occurs in virtualised environments)

I'm working on ripping out the flip buffers and replacing them with a pool of
dynamically allocated buffers.  This allows both for old style "byte I/O"
devices and also helps virtualisation and smart devices where large blocks of
data suddenely materialise and need storing.

So far so good.  Lots of drivers reference tty->flip.*.  Several of them also
call directly and unsafely into function pointers it provides.  This will all
break.  Most drivers can use tty_insert_flip_char which can be kept as an API
but others need more.

At the moment I've added the following interfaces, if people think more will
be needed now is a good time to say

 int tty_buffer_request_room(tty, size)

Try and ensure at least size bytes are available, returns actual room (may be
zero).  At the moment it just uses the flipbuf space but that will change.
Repeated calls without characters being added are not cumulative.  (ie if you
call it with 1, 1, 1, and then 4 you'll have four characters of space.  The
other functions will also try and grow buffers in future but this will be a
more efficient way when you know block sizes.

 int tty_insert_flip_char(tty, ch, flag)

As before insert a character if there is room.  Now returns 1 for success, 0
for failure.

 int tty_insert_flip_string(tty, str, len)

Insert a block of non error characters.  Returns the number inserted.

 int tty_prepare_flip_string(tty, strptr, len)

Adjust the buffer to allow len characters to be added.  Returns a buffer
pointer in strptr and the length available.  This allows for hardware that
needs to use functions like insl or mencpy_fromio.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:59 -08:00
Andrew Morton
6ed80991a2 [PATCH] tty-layer-buffering-revamp: jsm is broken
Looks like JSM will be uncompilable after the TTY layer rework is merged into
Linus's post-2.6.15 tree.

It was complex to fix - the maintainers were notified in September.

Cc: Wendy Xiong <wendyx@us.ltcfwd.linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:57 -08:00
Paul Jackson
7e91c55b32 [PATCH] Serial: disable jsm in ppc64 defconfig
Changes to the serial driver to remove flip buffers have broken the serial
jsm driver.  It doesn't even compile anymore.  The jsm driver was enabled
in only one defconfig - ppc64.  In order to keep defconfigs building,
disable CONFIG_SERIAL_JSM for the time being.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-01-10 08:01:57 -08:00