1. 30 1月, 2008 2 次提交
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      x86: various changes and cleanups to in_p/out_p delay details · 6e7c4025
      Ingo Molnar 提交于
      various changes to the in_p/out_p delay details:
      
      - add the io_delay=none method
      - make each method selectable from the kernel config
      - simplify the delay code a bit by getting rid of an indirect function call
      - add the /proc/sys/kernel/io_delay_type sysctl
      - change 'io_delay=standard|alternate' to io_delay=0x80 and io_delay=0xed
      - make the io delay config not depend on CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      Tested-by: N"David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
      6e7c4025
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      x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override. · b02aae9c
      Rene Herman 提交于
      x86: provide a DMI based port 0x80 I/O delay override.
      
      Certain (HP) laptops experience trouble from our port 0x80 I/O delay
      writes. This patch provides for a DMI based switch to the "alternate
      diagnostic port" 0xed (as used by some BIOSes as well) for these.
      
      David P. Reed confirmed that port 0xed works for him and provides a
      proper delay. The symptoms of _not_ working are a hanging machine,
      with "hwclock" use being a direct trigger.
      
      Earlier versions of this attempted to simply use udelay(2), with the
      2 being a value tested to be a nicely conservative upper-bound with
      help from many on the linux-kernel mailinglist but that approach has
      two problems.
      
      First, pre-loops_per_jiffy calibration (which is post PIT init while
      some implementations of the PIT are actually one of the historically
      problematic devices that need the delay) udelay() isn't particularly
      well-defined. We could initialise loops_per_jiffy conservatively (and
      based on CPU family so as to not unduly delay old machines) which
      would sort of work, but...
      
      Second, delaying isn't the only effect that a write to port 0x80 has.
      It's also a PCI posting barrier which some devices may be explicitly
      or implicitly relying on. Alan Cox did a survey and found evidence
      that additionally some drivers may be racy on SMP without the bus
      locking outb.
      
      Switching to an inb() makes the timing too unpredictable and as such,
      this DMI based switch should be the safest approach for now. Any more
      invasive changes should get more rigid testing first. It's moreover
      only very few machines with the problem and a DMI based hack seems
      to fit that situation.
      
      This also introduces a command-line parameter "io_delay" to override
      the DMI based choice again:
      
      	io_delay=<standard|alternate>
      
      where "standard" means using the standard port 0x80 and "alternate"
      port 0xed.
      
      This retains the udelay method as a config (CONFIG_UDELAY_IO_DELAY) and
      command-line ("io_delay=udelay") choice for testing purposes as well.
      
      This does not change the io_delay() in the boot code which is using
      the same port 0x80 I/O delay but those do not appear to be a problem
      as David P. Reed reported the problem was already gone after using the
      udelay version. He moreover reported that booting with "acpi=off" also
      fixed things and seeing as how ACPI isn't touched until after this DMI
      based I/O port switch I believe it's safe to leave the ones in the boot
      code be.
      
      The DMI strings from David's HP Pavilion dv9000z are in there already
      and we need to get/verify the DMI info from other machines with the
      problem, notably the HP Pavilion dv6000z.
      
      This patch is partly based on earlier patches from Pavel Machek and
      David P. Reed.
      Signed-off-by: NRene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
      b02aae9c
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  12. 19 10月, 2007 1 次提交
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      serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time option · 8f4ce8c3
      Andres Salomon 提交于
      Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop
      the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes
      to sleep.  This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related
      things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be
      incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC).  There are plenty of times that we
      want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial
      console to be suspended.
      
      This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel
      boot parameter (no_console_suspend).  By default, the serial console will
      be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing
      'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain
      alive during suspend.
      
      For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be
      applied to make this work for things like netconsole.
      Signed-off-by: NAndres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
      Acked-by: N"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
      Acked-by: NPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
      Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
      Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
      Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      8f4ce8c3
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