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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-05-12T00:09:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-12T00:09:24+00:00</published>
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* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
  i2c: Convert some more new-style drivers to use module aliasing
  i2c: Match dummy devices by type
  i2c-sibyte: Mark i2c_sibyte_add_bus() as static
  i2c-sibyte: Correct a comment about frequency
  i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
  i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
  i2c-piix4: Blacklist two mainboards
  i2c-piix4: Increase the intitial delay for the ServerWorks CSB5
  i2c-mpc: Compare to NO_IRQ instead of zero
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* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6:
  i2c: Convert some more new-style drivers to use module aliasing
  i2c: Match dummy devices by type
  i2c-sibyte: Mark i2c_sibyte_add_bus() as static
  i2c-sibyte: Correct a comment about frequency
  i2c: Improve the functionality documentation
  i2c: Improve smbus-protocol documentation
  i2c-piix4: Blacklist two mainboards
  i2c-piix4: Increase the intitial delay for the ServerWorks CSB5
  i2c-mpc: Compare to NO_IRQ instead of zero
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<entry>
<title>Add new 'cond_resched_bkl()' helper function</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T23:04:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T23:04:48+00:00</published>
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It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.

Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").

But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.

Also make fs/locks.c use it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It acts exactly like a regular 'cond_resched()', but will not get
optimized away when CONFIG_PREEMPT is set.

Normal kernel code is already preemptable in the presense of
CONFIG_PREEMPT, so cond_resched() is optimized away (see commit
02b67cc3ba36bdba351d6c3a00593f4ec550d9d3 "sched: do not do
cond_resched() when CONFIG_PREEMPT").

But when wanting to conditionally reschedule while holding a lock, you
need to use "cond_sched_lock(lock)", and the new function is the BKL
equivalent of that.

Also make fs/locks.c use it.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>i2c: Match dummy devices by type</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T18:37:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jean Delvare</name>
<email>khali@linux-fr.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T18:37:06+00:00</published>
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As the old driver_name/type matching scheme is going away soon, change
the dummy device mechanism to use the new matching scheme.

This has the downside that dummy i2c clients can no longer choose
their name, they'll all appear as "dummy" in sysfs and in log
messages. I don't think it is a problem in practice though, as there
is little reason to use these i2c clients to log messages.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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As the old driver_name/type matching scheme is going away soon, change
the dummy device mechanism to use the new matching scheme.

This has the downside that dummy i2c clients can no longer choose
their name, they'll all appear as "dummy" in sysfs and in log
messages. I don't think it is a problem in practice though, as there
is little reason to use these i2c clients to log messages.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare &lt;khali@linux-fr.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T16:52:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T16:52:45+00:00</published>
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* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] revert new check-ready Status register logic
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* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] revert new check-ready Status register logic
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<entry>
<title>BKL: revert back to the old spinlock implementation</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T03:58:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T03:58:02+00:00</published>
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The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7
(and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic
semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair.  The
latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a
mess of scheduling.

The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the
previous commit 00b41ec2611dc98f87f30753ee00a53db648d662 'Revert
"semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to
instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that
never had any issues like this.

This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the
regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore
hack which still left a couple percentage point regression.

As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency
issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that
respect.  We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the
plan for several years.

These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in
particular) and Alan holds out some hope:

  "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm
   afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in
   tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked."

so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action.

Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@ftp.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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The generic semaphore rewrite had a huge performance regression on AIM7
(and potentially other BKL-heavy benchmarks) because the generic
semaphores had been rewritten to be simple to understand and fair.  The
latter, in particular, turns a semaphore-based BKL implementation into a
mess of scheduling.

The attempt to fix the performance regression failed miserably (see the
previous commit 00b41ec2611dc98f87f30753ee00a53db648d662 'Revert
"semaphore: fix"'), and so for now the simple and sane approach is to
instead just go back to the old spinlock-based BKL implementation that
never had any issues like this.

This patch also has the advantage of being reported to fix the
regression completely according to Yanmin Zhang, unlike the semaphore
hack which still left a couple percentage point regression.

As a spinlock, the BKL obviously has the potential to be a latency
issue, but it's not really any different from any other spinlock in that
respect.  We do want to get rid of the BKL asap, but that has been the
plan for several years.

These days, the biggest users are in the tty layer (open/release in
particular) and Alan holds out some hope:

  "tty release is probably a few months away from getting cured - I'm
   afraid it will almost certainly be the very last user of the BKL in
   tty to get fixed as it depends on everything else being sanely locked."

so while we're not there yet, we do have a plan of action.

Tested-by: Yanmin Zhang &lt;yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@elte.hu&gt;
Cc: Andi Kleen &lt;andi@firstfloor.org&gt;
Cc: Matthew Wilcox &lt;matthew@wil.cx&gt;
Cc: Alexander Viro &lt;viro@ftp.linux.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Move ACCESS_ONCE() to &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt;</title>
<updated>2008-05-11T02:51:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-11T02:51:16+00:00</published>
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It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for
non-RCU usage too.  Moving it to &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; will allow some
other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper
function that RCU has used.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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It actually makes much more sense there, and we do tend to need it for
non-RCU usage too.  Moving it to &lt;linux/compiler.h&gt; will allow some
other cases that have open-coded the same logic to use the same helper
function that RCU has used.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>[libata] revert new check-ready Status register logic</title>
<updated>2008-05-09T19:00:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jeff Garzik</name>
<email>jeff@garzik.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-09T19:00:55+00:00</published>
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This behavior differs across multiple controllers, so we cannot use
common logic for all controllers.

Revert back to the basic common behavior, and specific drivers will
be updated from here to take into account the unusual Status return
values.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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This behavior differs across multiple controllers, so we cannot use
common logic for all controllers.

Revert back to the basic common behavior, and specific drivers will
be updated from here to take into account the unusual Status return
values.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc</title>
<updated>2008-05-09T15:06:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-09T15:06:31+00:00</published>
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (23 commits)
  [POWERPC] Remove leftover printk in isa-bridge.c
  [POWERPC] Remove duplicate #include
  [POWERPC] Initialize lockdep earlier
  [POWERPC] Document when printk is useable
  [POWERPC] Fix bogus paca-&gt;_current initialization
  [POWERPC] Fix of_i2c include for module compilation
  [POWERPC] Make default cputable entries reflect selected CPU family
  [POWERPC] spufs: lockdep annotations for spufs_dir_close
  [POWERPC] spufs: don't requeue victim contex in find_victim if it's not in spu_run
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix PCI mem in sequoia DTS
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Add endpoint support to 4xx PCIe driver
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix problem with new TLB storage attibute fields on 440x6 core
  [POWERPC] spufs: spu_create should send inotify IM_CREATE event
  [POWERPC] spufs: handle faults while the context switch pending flag is set
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix concurrent delivery of class 0 &amp; 1 exceptions
  [POWERPC] spufs: try to route SPU interrupts to local node
  [POWERPC] spufs: set SPU_CONTEXT_SWITCH_PENDING before synchronising SPU irqs
  [POWERPC] spufs: don't acquire state_mutex interruptible while performing callback
  [POWERPC] spufs: update master runcntl with context lock held
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix post-stopped update of MFC_CNTL register
  ...
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* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (23 commits)
  [POWERPC] Remove leftover printk in isa-bridge.c
  [POWERPC] Remove duplicate #include
  [POWERPC] Initialize lockdep earlier
  [POWERPC] Document when printk is useable
  [POWERPC] Fix bogus paca-&gt;_current initialization
  [POWERPC] Fix of_i2c include for module compilation
  [POWERPC] Make default cputable entries reflect selected CPU family
  [POWERPC] spufs: lockdep annotations for spufs_dir_close
  [POWERPC] spufs: don't requeue victim contex in find_victim if it's not in spu_run
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix PCI mem in sequoia DTS
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Add endpoint support to 4xx PCIe driver
  [POWERPC] 4xx: Fix problem with new TLB storage attibute fields on 440x6 core
  [POWERPC] spufs: spu_create should send inotify IM_CREATE event
  [POWERPC] spufs: handle faults while the context switch pending flag is set
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix concurrent delivery of class 0 &amp; 1 exceptions
  [POWERPC] spufs: try to route SPU interrupts to local node
  [POWERPC] spufs: set SPU_CONTEXT_SWITCH_PENDING before synchronising SPU irqs
  [POWERPC] spufs: don't acquire state_mutex interruptible while performing callback
  [POWERPC] spufs: update master runcntl with context lock held
  [POWERPC] spufs: fix post-stopped update of MFC_CNTL register
  ...
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<entry>
<title>module: put modversions in vermagic</title>
<updated>2008-05-09T14:45:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rusty Russell</name>
<email>rusty@rustcorp.com.au</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-09T06:23:17+00:00</published>
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Don't allow a module built without versions altogether to be inserted
into a kernel which expects modversions.

modprobe --force will strip vermagic as well as modversions, so it
won't be effected, but this will make sure that a
non-CONFIG_MODVERSIONS module won't be accidentally inserted into a
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Don't allow a module built without versions altogether to be inserted
into a kernel which expects modversions.

modprobe --force will strip vermagic as well as modversions, so it
won't be effected, but this will make sure that a
non-CONFIG_MODVERSIONS module won't be accidentally inserted into a
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS kernel.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell &lt;rusty@rustcorp.com.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[POWERPC] Fix of_i2c include for module compilation</title>
<updated>2008-05-09T10:22:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jochen Friedrich</name>
<email>jochen@scram.de</email>
</author>
<published>2008-05-06T18:40:01+00:00</published>
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Remove #ifdef CONFIG_OF_I2C as this breaks module compilation.
Drivers using this header should depend on OF_I2C anyways, so
there's no need to make this conditional.

Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich &lt;jochen@scram.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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Remove #ifdef CONFIG_OF_I2C as this breaks module compilation.
Drivers using this header should depend on OF_I2C anyways, so
there's no need to make this conditional.

Signed-off-by: Jochen Friedrich &lt;jochen@scram.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@samba.org&gt;
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