- 07 4月, 2009 40 次提交
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由 Serge E. Hallyn 提交于
The mqueuefs filesystem will use this helper as well. Proc's main get_sb could also be made to use it, but that will require a bit more rework. Signed-off-by: NSerge E. Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Michal Januszewski 提交于
Update the uvesafb documentation to accurately reflect the default options used by the driver. Signed-off-by: NMichal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Guennadi Liakhovetski 提交于
1. check for errors returned from clk_get() 2. fix "Unbalanced enable for IRQ 160" 3. fix transmit descriptor handling in panning 4. clean frame buffer on blank - useful for OLED displays 5. formatting clean up Signed-off-by: NGuennadi Liakhovetski <lg@denx.de> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Krzysztof Helt 提交于
Read DDC information from a connected monitor and use it to select initial mode (if the mode is not specified). Also, use the information to protect against modes outside the monitor specs. Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Tested-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Krzysztof Helt 提交于
The I2C functionality provided by the i2c-voodoo3 driver is moved into the tdfxfb (frame buffer driver for Voodoo3 cards). This way there is no conflict between the i2c driver and the fb driver. The tdfxfb does not make use from the DDC functionality yet but provides all the functionality of the i2c-voodoo3 driver. Signed-off-by: NKrzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Acked-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Add disable/enable_kretprobe() and disable/enable_jprobe(). Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Add disable_kprobe() and enable_kprobe() to disable/enable kprobes temporarily. disable_kprobe() asynchronously disables probe handlers of specified kprobe. So, after calling it, some handlers can be called at a while. enable_kprobe() enables specified kprobe. aggr_pre_handler and aggr_post_handler check disabled probes. On the other hand aggr_break_handler and aggr_fault_handler don't check it because these handlers will be called while executing pre or post handlers and usually those help error handling. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Rename kprobe_enabled to kprobes_all_disarmed and invert logic due to avoiding naming confusion from per-probe disabling. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Fix comment style in kprobes.h. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Clean up positions of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL in kernel/kprobes.c according to checkpatch.pl. Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Masami Hiramatsu 提交于
Currently, kprobes can disable all probes at once, but can't disable it individually (not unregister, just disable an kprobe, because unregistering needs to wait for scheduler synchronization). These patches introduce APIs for on-the-fly per-probe disabling and re-enabling by dis-arming/re-arming its breakpoint instruction. This patch: Change old_p to ap in add_new_kprobe() for readability, copy flags member in add_aggr_kprobe(), and simplify the code flow of register_aggr_kprobe(). Signed-off-by: NMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: NAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Rapoport 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Rapoport 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Rapoport 提交于
Some SPI controllers have restrictions on DMAable buffers alignemt. Currently if the buffer supplied by protocol driver is not properly aligned, the controller silently performs transfer in PIO mode. Addition of dma_alignment field to spi_master allows protocol drivers to perform proper alignment. Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Rapoport 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMike Rapoport <mike@compulab.co.il> Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Eric Miao 提交于
Most SPI peripherals use GPIOs as their chip selects, introduce .gpio_cs for this. Signed-off-by: NEric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.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>
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由 Roel Kluin 提交于
With a postfix decrement limit will reach -1 rather than 0, so the warning will not be issued. Also, add a cpu_relax() into the busy-wait loop. Signed-off-by: NRoel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Mariusz Ceier <mceier@gmail.com> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Wolfgang Muees 提交于
1. Rewrite of the non-dma data transfer functions to use only ONE mode of TIMOD (TIMOD=0x1). With TIMOD=0, it was not possible to set the TX bit pattern. So the TDBR = 0xFFFF inside the read calls won't work. 2. Clear SPI_RDBR before reading and before duplex transfer. Otherwise the garbage data in RDBR will get read. Since mmc_spi uses a lot of duplex transfers, this is the main cause of mmc_spi failure. 3. Poll RXS for transfer completion. Polling SPIF or TXS cannot guarantee transfer completion. This may interrupt a transfer before it is finished. Also this may leave garbage data in buffer and affect next transfer. [Yi Li <yi.li@analog.com>: add a field "u16 idle_tx_val" in "struct bfin5xx_spi_chip" to specify the value to transmit if no TX value is supplied.] Signed-off-by: NWolfgang Muees <wolfgang.mues@auerswald.de> Signed-off-by: NYi Li <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Michael Hennerich 提交于
Add support for GPIO controlled SPI Chip Selects. To make use of this feature, set chip_select = 0 and add a proper cs_gpio to your controller_data. struct spi_board_info .chip_select = 0 struct bfin5xx_spi_chip .cs_gpio = GPIO_P### There are various SPI devices that require SPI MODE_0, and need to have the Chip Selects asserted during the entire transfer. Consider using SPI_MODE_3 (SPI_CPHA | SPI_CPOL) if your device allows it. Signed-off-by: NMichael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Fix NULL pointer crash when cleaning up from invalid platform resources Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Do this because when things crash, we get simple names like "setup" and "start_queue" which is pretty difficult to trace back to the real thing: the spi driver Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Yi Li 提交于
According to comments in linux/spi/spi.h: * All SPI transfers start with the relevant chipselect active. Normally * it stays selected until after the last transfer in a message. Drivers * can affect the chipselect signal using cs_change. * * (i) If the transfer isn't the last one in the message, this flag is * used to make the chipselect briefly go inactive in the middle of the * message. Toggling chipselect in this way may be needed to terminate * a chip command, letting a single spi_message perform all of group of * chip transactions together. * * (ii) When the transfer is the last one in the message, the chip may * stay selected until the next transfer. On multi-device SPI busses * with nothing blocking messages going to other devices, this is just * a performance hint; starting a message to another device deselects * this one. But in other cases, this can be used to ensure correctness. * Some devices need protocol transactions to be built from a series of * spi_message submissions, where the content of one message is determined * by the results of previous messages and where the whole transaction * ends when the chipselect goes intactive. Signed-off-by: NYi Li <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Yi Li 提交于
This bug can be observed when two SPI devices are sharing the spi bus: One device is set as SPI CS 7, another one is using SPI CS 4. In spi_bfin5xx.c: cs_active(), cs_deactive() are used to control SPI_FLG register. From the debug bellow: cs_active: flag: 0x7f91, chip->flag: 0x7f80, cs: 7 cs_active: flag: 0xef91, chip->flag: 0xef10, cs: 4 When device A (cs_7) activate CS 7, SPI_FLG is set as 0x7f91 (however, SPI_FLG should be set as 0x7f80, or 0x6f91 if in broadcast mode). Due to some HW bug (very possibly), if SPI_FLG is set as 0x7f91, SPISSEL7 is asserted, however SPISSEL4 will be asserted too (I can see this using the scope). This is unreasonable according to HRM. Signed-off-by: NYi Li <yi.li@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Without this change, SPI DMA is not reliably under stress tests. Obiviously it's a hardware issue which is not addressed by any document. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
The "while" endless loop will cause the system hang if hardware error, so we add timeout control to make the system alive. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
When using a BF533-STAMP here with a W25X10 SPI flash. It works fine when enable_dma is disabled, but doesn't work at all when turning DMA on. We get just 0xff bytes back when trying to read the device. Change the code around so that it programs the SPI first and then enables DMA, it seems to work a lot better ... Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
- remove duplicated definition MAX_SPI_SSEL - remove unnecessary array size Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
use the properl BIT_CTL_... defines rather than the internal driv er CFG_SPI_... defines Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
We only need to check SPI error when DMA failes, cause that is the DMA IRQ handling routine. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Because of DMA hardware issue, we were trying to use software workaround. This patch add some useful debug messages to help us debugging the DMA code. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Blackfin's related DMA callback API doesn't need void * cast, so drop it. And this driver is for all Blackfin processors not only for BF53x, we update the DMA request label for more meaningful information. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
For DMA TX/RX operation in pump_transfers, DMA contriguration code in TX and RX paths are almost the same. This patch unify the duplicated DMA code to make it more readable. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
If the SPI bus registers a receive overflow error, pass the result back up to the higher levels. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
Use len_in_bytes when we care about the number of bytes transferred rather than the number of spi transactions. (this value will be the same for 8bit transfers, but not any other sizes) Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Mike Frysinger 提交于
We already moved bfin_addr_dcachable() and friends into the cacheflush header where it belongs, so don't need to include <asm/cplbinit.h> here. Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Michael Hennerich 提交于
Fix erroneous SPI Clock divisor calculation. Make sure SPI_BAUD is always >= 2. Writing a value of 0 or 1 to the SPI_BAUD register disables the serial clock. Signed-off-by: NMichael Hennerich <michael.hennerich@analog.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Acked-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Vitja Makarov 提交于
Flush or invalidate caches before doing DMA transfer, if needed. [Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>: add comment to address the issue "Full duplex only works for non-DMA transfers".] Signed-off-by: NVitja Makarov <vitja.makarov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: NBryan Wu <cooloney@kernel.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Herbert Valerio Riedel 提交于
This controller can be found on the D-Link DNS-323 for instance, where it is to be configured via static i2c_board_info in the board-specific mach-orion/dns323-setup.c; this driver supports only the new-style driver model. Tested-by: NMartin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: NHerbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: NMatthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> Signed-off-by: NLaurie Bradshaw <bradshaw.laurie@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki 提交于
Recently, it's argued that what proc/pid/maps shows is ugly when a 32bit binary runs on 64bit host. /proc/pid/maps outputs vma's pgoff member but vma->pgoff is of no use information is the vma is for ANON. With this patch, /proc/pid/maps shows just 0 if no file backing store. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] [kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by: NKAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com> Reported-by: NYing Han <yinghan@google.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Peter W Morreale 提交于
Add /proc entries to give the admin the ability to control the minimum and maximum number of pdflush threads. This allows finer control of pdflush on both large and small machines. The rationale is simply one size does not fit all. Admins on large and/or small systems may want to tune the min/max pdflush thread count to best suit their needs. Right now the min/max is hardcoded to 2/8. While probably a fair estimate for smaller machines, large machines with large numbers of CPUs and large numbers of filesystems/block devices may benefit from larger numbers of threads working on different block devices. Even if the background flushing algorithm is radically changed, it is still likely that multiple threads will be involved and admins would still desire finer control on the min/max other than to have to recompile the kernel. The patch adds '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_min' and '/proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads_max' with r/w permissions. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_min is 1 and the maximum value is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_max. This minimum is required since additional thread creation is performed in a pdflush thread itself. The minimum value for nr_pdflush_threads_max is the current value of nr_pdflush_threads_min and the maximum value can be 1000. Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt is also updated. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix comment, fix whitespace, use __read_mostly] Signed-off-by: NPeter W Morreale <pmorreale@novell.com> Reviewed-by: NRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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