linux-toradex.git/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c, branch v3.4.2

drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: make dmi_name_in_vendors more focused

2011-11-16T00:41:51+00:00

The current implementation of dmi_name_in_vendors() is an invitation to
lazy coding and false positives [1].  Searching for a string in 8 know
what you're looking for, so you should know where to look.  strstr isn't
fast, especially when it fails, so we should avoid calling it when it
just can't succeed.

Looking at the current users of the function, it seems clear to me that
they are looking for a system or board vendor name, so let's limit
dmi_name_in_vendors to these two DMI fields.  This much better matches
the function name, BTW.

[1] We currently have code looking for short names in DMI data, such as
"IBM", "ASUS" or "Acer".  I let you guess what will happen the day other
vendors ship products named, for example, "SCHREIBMEISTER", "PEGASUS" or
"Acerola".

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Jesse Barnes 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

x86, dmi, debug: Log board name (when present) in dmesg/oops output

2011-02-15T03:20:57+00:00

The "Type 2" SMBIOS record that contains Board Name is not
strictly required and may be absent in the SMBIOS on some
platforms.

( Please note that Type 2 is not listed in Table 3 in Sec 6.2
  ("Required Structures and Data") of the SMBIOS v2.7
  Specification. )

Use the Manufacturer Name (aka System Vendor) name.
Print Board Name only when it is present.

Before the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: /ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2170, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #3 /ProLiant DL380 G6

After the fix:
  (i) dmesg output: DMI: HP ProLiant DL380 G6, BIOS P62 01/29/2011
 (ii) oops output:  Pid: 2278, comm: bash Not tainted 2.6.38-rc4+ #4 HP ProLiant DL380 G6

Signed-off-by: Naga Chumbalkar 
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc:  # .3x - good for debugging, please apply as far back as it applies cleanly
LKML-Reference: <20110214224423.2182.13929.sendpatchset@nchumbalkar.americas.hpqcorp.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

dmi: log board, system, and BIOS information

2010-10-28T01:03:05+00:00

Put basic system information in the dmesg log.  There are lots of dmesg
logs on the web, and it would be useful if they contained this information
for debugging platform problems.  "BOARD/PRODUCT" format copied from
show_regs_common(), which is used in the oops path.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PCI: export SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label to sysfs

2010-07-30T16:36:01+00:00

This patch exports SMBIOS provided firmware instance and label of
onboard PCI devices to sysfs.  New files are:
  /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../label which contains the firmware name for
the device in question, and
  /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../index which contains the firmware device type
instance for the given device.

Signed-off-by: Jordan Hargrave 
Signed-off-by: Narendra K 
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn

drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c: use %pUB to print UUIDs

2009-12-15T16:53:33+00:00

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Cc: Jeff Garzik 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

DMI: allow omitting ident strings in DMI tables

2009-12-05T06:10:59+00:00

The purpose of dmi->ident is twofold - it may be used by DMI callback
functions when composing log messages; it is also used to determine
end of DMI table in dmi_check_system() and dmi_first_match(). However,
in case when callbacks are not interested in using ident at all it just
wastes memory. Let's make entries with empty first match slot serve as
end-of-table markers instead.

Acked-by: Jean Delvare 
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov

dmi: extend dmi_get_year() to dmi_get_date()

2009-09-09T01:17:48+00:00

There are cases where full date information is required instead of
just the year.  Add month and day parsing to dmi_get_year() and rename
it to dmi_get_date().

As the original function only required '/' followed by any number of
parseable characters at the end of the string, keep that behavior to
avoid upsetting existing users.

The new function takes dates of format [mm[/dd]]/yy[yy].  Year, month
and date are checked to be in the ranges of [1-9999], [1-12] and
[1-31] respectively and any invalid or out-of-range component is
returned as zero.

The dummy implementation is updated accordingly but the return value
is updated to indicate field not found which is consistent with how
other dummy functions behave.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

dmi: fix date handling in dmi_get_year()

2009-09-09T01:17:47+00:00

Year parsing in dmi_get_year() had the following two bugs.

* "00" is treated as invalid instead of 2000 because zero return from
  simple_strtoul() is treated as error.

* "0N" where N >= 8 is treated as invalid of 200N because the leading
  0 is considered to specify octal.

Fix the above two bugs by using endptr to detect invalid number and
forcing decimal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

[libata] ahci: Restore SB600 SATA controller 64 bit DMA

2009-06-10T15:05:00+00:00

Community reported one SB600 SATA issue(BZ #9412), which led to 64 bit
DMA disablement for all SB600 revisions by driver maintainers with
commits c7a42156d99bcea7f8173ba7a6034bbaa2ecb77c and
4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0.

But the root cause is ASUS M2A-VM system BIOS bug in old revisions
like 0901, while forcing into 32bit DMA happens to work as workaround.
Now it's time to withdraw 4cde32fc4b32e96a99063af3183acdfd54c563f0
so as to restore the SB600 SATA 64bit DMA capability.
This patch is also adding the workaround for M2A-VM old BIOS revisions,
but users are suggested to upgrade their system BIOS to the latest one
if they meet this issue.

Signed-off-by: Shane Huang 
Cc: Tejun Heo 
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik