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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>DMI: allow omitting ident strings in DMI tables</title>
<updated>2010-01-28T23:01:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-04T18:24:19+00:00</published>
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commit 75757507e014fa074d25d2883c4ab604999584bd upstream.

The purpose of dmi-&gt;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.

[needed for DMI table changes that need to be done by later patches - gkh]

Acked-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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commit 75757507e014fa074d25d2883c4ab604999584bd upstream.

The purpose of dmi-&gt;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.

[needed for DMI table changes that need to be done by later patches - gkh]

Acked-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dtor@mail.ru&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</entry>
<entry>
<title>iSCSI/iBFT: use proper address translation</title>
<updated>2009-10-05T19:05:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@novell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-10-02T15:12:39+00:00</published>
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In virtual environments (namely, Xen Dom0) virt &lt;-&gt; phys and
virt &lt;-&gt; isa-bus translations cannot be freely interchanged (and
even outside such environments it is not really correct to do so).
When looking at memory below 1M, the latter translations should
always be used.

iscsi_ibft_find.c part from: Martin Wilck &lt;martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;ketuzsezs@darnok.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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In virtual environments (namely, Xen Dom0) virt &lt;-&gt; phys and
virt &lt;-&gt; isa-bus translations cannot be freely interchanged (and
even outside such environments it is not really correct to do so).
When looking at memory below 1M, the latter translations should
always be used.

iscsi_ibft_find.c part from: Martin Wilck &lt;martin.wilck@ts.fujitsu.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Jones &lt;pjones@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk &lt;ketuzsezs@darnok.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>mm: don't use alloc_bootmem_low() where not strictly needed</title>
<updated>2009-09-22T14:17:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jan Beulich</name>
<email>JBeulich@novell.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-09-22T00:03:06+00:00</published>
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Since alloc_bootmem() will never return inaccessible (via virtual
addressing) memory anyway, using the ..._low() variant only makes sense
when the physical address range of the allocated memory must fulfill
further constraints, espacially since on 64-bits (or more generally in all
cases where the pools the two variants allocate from are than the full
available range.

Probably the use in alloc_tce_table() could also be eliminated (based on
code inspection of pci-calgary_64.c), but that seems too risky given I
know nothing about that hardware and have no way to test it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since alloc_bootmem() will never return inaccessible (via virtual
addressing) memory anyway, using the ..._low() variant only makes sense
when the physical address range of the allocated memory must fulfill
further constraints, espacially since on 64-bits (or more generally in all
cases where the pools the two variants allocate from are than the full
available range.

Probably the use in alloc_tce_table() could also be eliminated (based on
code inspection of pci-calgary_64.c), but that seems too risky given I
know nothing about that hardware and have no way to test it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich &lt;jbeulich@novell.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>driver model: constify attribute groups</title>
<updated>2009-09-15T16:50:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>David Brownell</name>
<email>dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-24T17:06:31+00:00</published>
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Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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Let attribute group vectors be declared "const".  We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell &lt;dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi: extend dmi_get_year() to dmi_get_date()</title>
<updated>2009-09-09T01:17:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>htejun@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-16T12:02:36+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi: fix date handling in dmi_get_year()</title>
<updated>2009-09-09T01:17:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-08-16T12:01:22+00:00</published>
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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 &gt;= 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &gt;= 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 &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Pull for-2.6.31 into release</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T16:35:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tony Luck</name>
<email>tony.luck@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-17T16:35:24+00:00</published>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[IA64] Convert ia64 to use int-ll64.h</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T16:33:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Wilcox</name>
<email>matthew@wil.cx</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-22T20:49:49+00:00</published>
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It is generally agreed that it would be beneficial for u64 to be an
unsigned long long on all architectures.  ia64 (in common with several
other 64-bit architectures) currently uses unsigned long.  Migrating
piecemeal is too painful; this giant patch fixes all compilation warnings
and errors that come as a result of switching to use int-ll64.h.

Note that userspace will still see __u64 defined as unsigned long.  This
is important as it affects C++ name mangling.

[Updated by Tony Luck to change efi.h:efi_freemem_callback_t to use
 u64 for start/end rather than unsigned long]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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It is generally agreed that it would be beneficial for u64 to be an
unsigned long long on all architectures.  ia64 (in common with several
other 64-bit architectures) currently uses unsigned long.  Migrating
piecemeal is too painful; this giant patch fixes all compilation warnings
and errors that come as a result of switching to use int-ll64.h.

Note that userspace will still see __u64 defined as unsigned long.  This
is important as it affects C++ name mangling.

[Updated by Tony Luck to change efi.h:efi_freemem_callback_t to use
 u64 for start/end rather than unsigned long]

Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck &lt;tony.luck@intel.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>firmware_map: fix hang with x86/32bit</title>
<updated>2009-06-17T02:47:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yinghai Lu</name>
<email>yinghai@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-06-16T22:31:16+00:00</published>
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Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13484

Peer reported:
| The bug is introduced from kernel 2.6.27, if E820 table reserve the memory
| above 4G in 32bit OS(BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000120000000
| (reserved)), system will report Int 6 error and hang up. The bug is caused by
| the following code in drivers/firmware/memmap.c, the resource_size_t is 32bit
| variable in 32bit OS, the BUG_ON() will be invoked to result in the Int 6
| error. I try the latest 32bit Ubuntu and Fedora distributions, all hit this
| bug.
|======
|static int firmware_map_add_entry(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
|                  const char *type,
|                  struct firmware_map_entry *entry)

and it only happen with CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set.

it turns out we need to pass u64 instead of resource_size_t for that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Reported-and-tested-by: Peer Chen &lt;pchen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Addresses http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13484

Peer reported:
| The bug is introduced from kernel 2.6.27, if E820 table reserve the memory
| above 4G in 32bit OS(BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000120000000
| (reserved)), system will report Int 6 error and hang up. The bug is caused by
| the following code in drivers/firmware/memmap.c, the resource_size_t is 32bit
| variable in 32bit OS, the BUG_ON() will be invoked to result in the Int 6
| error. I try the latest 32bit Ubuntu and Fedora distributions, all hit this
| bug.
|======
|static int firmware_map_add_entry(resource_size_t start, resource_size_t end,
|                  const char *type,
|                  struct firmware_map_entry *entry)

and it only happen with CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT is not set.

it turns out we need to pass u64 instead of resource_size_t for that.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Reported-and-tested-by: Peer Chen &lt;pchen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu &lt;yinghai@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin &lt;hpa@zytor.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[libata] ahci: Restore SB600 SATA controller 64 bit DMA</title>
<updated>2009-06-10T15:05:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Shane Huang</name>
<email>shane.huang@amd.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-05-27T07:04:43+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;shane.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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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 &lt;shane.huang@amd.com&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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