linux-toradex.git/include/linux/kernel.h, branch v2.6.20.21

[PATCH] fix linux banner format string

2007-01-10T17:33:59+00:00

Revert previous attempts at messing with the linux banner string and
simply use a separate format string for proc.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel 
Acked-by: Olaf Hering 
Acked-by: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Make SLES9 "get_kernel_version" work on the kernel binary again

2006-12-11T19:34:11+00:00

As reported by Andy Whitcroft, at least the SLES9 initrd build process
depends on getting the kernel version from the kernel binary.  It does
that by simply trawling the binary and looking for the signature of the
"linux_banner" string (the string "Linux version " to be exact. Which
is really broken in itself, but whatever..)

That got broken when the string was changed to allow /proc/version to
change the UTS release information dynamically, and "get_kernel_version"
thus returned "%s" (see commit a2ee8649ba6d71416712e798276bf7c40b64e6e5:
"[PATCH] Fix linux banner utsname information").

This just restores "linux_banner" as a static string, which should fix
the version finding.  And /proc/version simply uses a different string.

To avoid wasting even that miniscule amount of memory, the early boot
string should really be marked __initdata, but that just causes the same
bug in SLES9 to re-appear, since it will then find other occurrences of
"Linux version " first.

Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Steve Fox 
Acked-by: Olaf Hering 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] LOG2: Alter roundup_pow_of_two() so that it can use a ilog2() on a constant

2006-12-08T16:28:51+00:00

Alter roundup_pow_of_two() so that it can make use of ilog2() on a constant to
produce a constant value, retaining the ability for an arch to override it in
the non-const case.

This permits the function to be used to initialise variables.

Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel

2006-12-08T16:28:51+00:00

This facility provides three entry points:

	ilog2()		Log base 2 of unsigned long
	ilog2_u32()	Log base 2 of u32
	ilog2_u64()	Log base 2 of u64

These facilities can either be used inside functions on dynamic data:

	int do_something(long q)
	{
		...;
		y = ilog2(x)
		...;
	}

Or can be used to statically initialise global variables with constant values:

	unsigned n = ilog2(27);

When performing static initialisation, the compiler will report "error:
initializer element is not constant" if asked to take a log of zero or of
something not reducible to a constant.  They treat negative numbers as
unsigned.

When not dealing with a constant, they fall back to using fls() which permits
them to use arch-specific log calculation instructions - such as BSR on
x86/x86_64 or SCAN on FRV - if available.

[akpm@osdl.org: MMC fix]
Signed-off-by: David Howells 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Cc: Herbert Xu 
Cc: David Howells 
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

fix spelling error in include/linux/kernel.h

2006-11-30T03:46:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix 'ALIGN()' macro, take 2

2006-11-27T03:05:22+00:00

You wouldn't think that doing an ALIGN() macro that aligns something up
to a power-of-two boundary would be likely to have bugs, would you?

But hey, in the wonderful world of mixing integer types, you have to be
careful.  This just makes sure that the alignment is interpreted in the
same type as the thing to be aligned.

Thanks to Roland Dreier, who noticed that the amso1100 driver got broken
by the previous fix (that just extended the mask to "unsigned long", but
was still broken in "unsigned long long" - it just happened to be the
same on 64-bit architectures).

See commit 4c8bd7eeee4c8f157fb61fb64b57500990b42e0e for the history of
bugs here...

Acked-by: Roland Dreier 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: David Miller 
Cc: Al Viro 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add printk_timed_ratelimit()

2006-11-03T20:27:58+00:00

printk_ratelimit() has global state which makes it not useful for callers
which wish to perform ratelimiting at a particular frequency.

Add a printk_timed_ratelimit() which utilises caller-provided state storage to
permit more flexibility.

This function can in fact be used for things other than printk ratelimiting
and is perhaps poorly named.

Cc: Ulrich Drepper 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] pr_debug: check pr_debug() arguments

2006-10-03T15:04:20+00:00

check pr_debug() arguments

When DEBUG isn't defined pr_debug() is defined away as an empty macro.  By
throwing away the arguments we allow completely incorrect code to build.

Instead let's make it an empty inline which checks arguments and mark it so gcc
can check the format specification.

This results in a seemingly insignificant code size increase.  A x86-64
allyesconfig:

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
25354768        7191098 4854720 37400586        23ab00a vmlinux.before
25354945        7191138 4854720 37400803        23ab0e3 vmlinux

Signed-off-by: Zach Brown 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Add NUMA_BUILD definition in kernel.h to avoid #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA

2006-09-27T15:26:12+00:00

The NUMA_BUILD constant is always available and will be set to 1 on
NUMA_BUILDs.  That way checks valid only under CONFIG_NUMA can easily be done
without #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA

F.e.

if (NUMA_BUILD && ) {
...
}

[akpm: not a thing we'd normally do, but CONFIG_NUMA is special: it is
 causing ifdef explosion in core kernel, so let's see if this is a comfortable
 way in whcih to control that]

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6

2006-09-26T20:07:55+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (225 commits)
  [PATCH] Don't set calgary iommu as default y
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: New Intel feature flags
  [PATCH] x86: Add a cumulative thermal throttle event counter.
  [PATCH] i386: Make the jiffies compares use the 64bit safe macros.
  [PATCH] x86: Refactor thermal throttle processing
  [PATCH] Add 64bit jiffies compares (for use with get_jiffies_64)
  [PATCH] Fix unwinder warning in traps.c
  [PATCH] x86: Allow disabling early pci scans with pci=noearly or disallowing conf1
  [PATCH] x86: Move direct PCI scanning functions out of line
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Make all early PCI scans dependent on CONFIG_PCI
  [PATCH] Don't leak NT bit into next task
  [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder
  [PATCH] Fix some broken white space in ia32_signal.c
  [PATCH] Initialize argument registers for 32bit signal handlers.
  [PATCH] Remove all traces of signal number conversion
  [PATCH] Don't synchronize time reading on single core AMD systems
  [PATCH] Remove outdated comment in x86-64 mmconfig code
  [PATCH] Use string instructions for Core2 copy/clear
  [PATCH] x86: - restore i8259A eoi status on resume
  [PATCH] i386: Split multi-line printk in oops output.
  ...