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  1. Feb 03, 2008
    • Mathieu Desnoyers's avatar
      Add HAVE_OPROFILE · 42d4b839
      Mathieu Desnoyers authored 
      

Linus:
On the per-architecture side, I do think it would be better to *not* have
internal architecture knowledge in a generic file, and as such a line like

        depends on X86_32 || IA64 || PPC || S390 || SPARC64 || X86_64 || AVR32

really shouldn't exist in a file like kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation.

It would be much better to do

        depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES

in that generic file, and then architectures that do support it would just
have a

        bool ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                default y

in *their* architecture files. That would seem to be much more logical,
and is readable both for arch maintainers *and* for people who have no
clue - and don't care - about which architecture is supposed to support
which interface...

Changelog:

Actually, I know I gave this as the magic incantation, but now that I see
it, I realize that I should have told you to just use

        config ARCH_SUPPORTS_KPROBES
                def_bool y

instead, which is a bit denser.

We seem to use both kinds of syntax for these things, but this is really
what "def_bool" is there for...

Changelog :

- Moving to HAVE_*.
- Add AVR32 oprofile.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
      42d4b839
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    • Christoph Lameter's avatar
      [PATCH] Set CONFIG_ZONE_DMA for arches with GENERIC_ISA_DMA · 5ac6da66
      Christoph Lameter authored 
      

As Andi pointed out: CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA only disables the ISA DMA
channel management.  Other functionality may still expect GFP_DMA to
provide memory below 16M.  So we need to make sure that CONFIG_ZONE_DMA is
set independent of CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA.  Undo the modifications to
mm/Kconfig where we made ZONE_DMA dependent on GENERIC_ISA_DMA and set
theses explicitly in each arches Kconfig.

Reviews must occur for each arch in order to determine if ZONE_DMA can be
switched off.  It can only be switched off if we know that all devices
supported by a platform are capable of performing DMA transfers to all of
memory (Some arches already support this: uml, avr32, sh sh64, parisc and
IA64/Altix).

In order to switch ZONE_DMA off conditionally, one would have to establish
a scheme by which one can assure that no drivers are enabled that are only
capable of doing I/O to a part of memory, or one needs to provide an
alternate means of performing an allocation from a specific range of memory
(like provided by alloc_pages_range()) and insure that all drivers use that
call.  In that case the arches alloc_dma_coherent() may need to be modified
to call alloc_pages_range() instead of relying on GFP_DMA.

Signed-off-by: default avatarChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      5ac6da66
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  23. Dec 08, 2006
    • David Howells's avatar
      [PATCH] LOG2: Implement a general integer log2 facility in the kernel · f0d1b0b3
      David Howells authored 
      

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: default avatarDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka@toxygen.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      f0d1b0b3
    • Judith Lebzelter's avatar
      [PATCH] use generic BUG for ppc · a8605aef
      Judith Lebzelter authored 
      

Switch ppc over to using the generic BUG implementation.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJudith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      a8605aef
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    • Matt LaPlante's avatar
      Attack of "the the"s in arch · 4b3f686d
      Matt LaPlante authored 
      

The patch below corrects multiple occurances of "the the"
typos across several files, both in source comments and KConfig files.
There is no actual code changed, only text.  Note this only affects the /arch
directory, and I believe I could find many more elsewhere. :)

Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc: Remove powermac support from ARCH=ppc · a7fdd90b
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      

This makes it possible to build kernels for PReP and/or CHRP
with ARCH=ppc by removing the (non-building) powermac support.
It's now also possible to select PReP and CHRP independently.
Powermac users should now build with ARCH=powerpc instead of
ARCH=ppc.  (This does mean that it is no longer possible to
build a 32-bit kernel for a G5.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      a7fdd90b
  47. Jan 11, 2006
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  51. Dec 05, 2005
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      ppc: Build in all three of powermac, PREP and CHRP support · b6d78157
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      

This reverts commit da0825fd, making
it so that if you select CONFIG_PPC_MULTIPLATFORM you get support
for PMAC, PREP and CHRP built in.

The reason for not allowing PMAC, PREP and CHRP to be selected
individually for ARCH=ppc is that there is too much interdependency
between them in the platform support code.  For example, CHRP uses
the PMAC nvram code.

Configuring with ARCH=powerpc does allow you to select support for
PMAC and CHRP separately.  Support for PREP is not there yet but
should be there soon.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
      b6d78157
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    • David S. Miller's avatar
      [LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock() · 4db2ce01
      David S. Miller authored 
      

Several implementations were essentialy a common piece of C code using
the cmpxchg() macro.  Put the implementation in one spot that everyone
can share, and convert sparc64 over to using this.

Alpha is the lone arch-specific implementation, which codes up a
special fast path for the common case in order to avoid GP reloading
which a pure C version would require.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      4db2ce01
  63. Sep 10, 2005
    • Paul Mackerras's avatar
      [PATCH] ppc32: support hotplug cpu on powermacs · 31139971
      Paul Mackerras authored 
      

This allows cpus to be off-lined on 32-bit SMP powermacs.  When a cpu
is off-lined, it is put into sleep mode with interrupts disabled.  It
can be on-lined again by asserting its soft-reset pin, which is
connected to a GPIO pin.

With this I can off-line the second cpu in my dual G4 powermac, which
means that I can then suspend the machine (the suspend/resume code
refuses to suspend if more than one cpu is online, and making it cope
with multiple cpus is surprisingly messy).

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
      31139971