linux/drivers/misc, branch v2.6.19

[PATCH] Fix for LKDTM MEM_SWAPOUT crashpoint

2006-11-06T09:46:23Z

The MEM_SWAPOUT crashpoint in LKDTM could be broken as some compilers inline the call to shrink_page_list() and symbol lookup for this function name fails. Replacing it with the function shrink_inactive_list(), which is the only function calling shrink_page_list(). Signed-off-by: Ankita Garg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] lkdtm: cleanup headers and module_param/MODULE_PARM_DESC

2006-11-03T20:27:56Z

Fix module_param/sysfs file permission typo. Clean up MODULE_PARM_DESC strings to avoid fancy (and incorrect) formatting. Fix header includes for lkdtm; add some needed ones, remove unused ones; and fix this gcc warning: drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: 'struct buffer_head' declared inside parameter list drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: Ankita Garg Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ioc4: fix printk format warning

2006-10-28T18:30:53Z

Fix printk format warning: drivers/misc/ioc4.c:213: warning: long long int format, u64 arg (arg 3) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Acked-by: Brent Casavant Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] missing includes of io.h

2006-10-25T05:01:11Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] IOC4 should depend on PCI

2006-10-25T05:01:11Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] ioc4: Enable build on non-SN2

2006-10-17T15:18:42Z

The SGI PCI-RT card, based on the SGI IOC4 chip, will be made available on Altix XE (x86_64) platforms in the near future. As such it is now a misnomer for the IOC4 base device driver to live under drivers/sn, and would complicate builds for non-SN2. This patch moves the IOC4 base driver code from drivers/sn to drivers/misc, and updates the associated Makefiles and Kconfig files to allow building on non-SN2 configs. Due to the resulting change in link order, it is now necessary to use late_initcall() for IOC4 subdriver initialization. [akpm@osdl.org: __udivdi3 fix] [akpm@osdl.org: fix default in Kconfig] Acked-by: Pat Gefre Acked-by: Jeremy Higdon Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

MSI S270 Laptop support: backlight, wlan, bluetooth states

2006-10-14T05:48:29Z

Create a driver to support the platform-specific features of MSI S270 laptops (and maybe other MSI laptops). This driver implements a backlight device for controlling LCD brightness (/sys/class/backlight/msi-laptop-bl/). In addition it allows access to the WLAN and Bluetooth states through a platform driver (/sys/devices/platform/msi-laptop-pf/). Signed-off-by: Lennart Poettering Cc: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Len Brown

[PATCH] tifm __iomem annotations, NULL noise removal

2006-10-09T21:19:08Z

Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

IRQ: Maintain regs pointer globally rather than passing to IRQ handlers

2006-10-05T14:10:12Z

Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the Linux kernel. The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path (ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()). Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception handling. Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing. I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers. I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile with minimal configurations. This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy. Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one: struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); And put the old one back at the end: set_irq_regs(old_regs); Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ(). In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary: - update_process_times(user_mode(regs)); - profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs); + update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs())); + profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING); I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself, except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode(). Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers: (*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in the input_dev struct. (*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs pointer or not. (*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type irq_handler_t. Signed-Off-By: David Howells (cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)

[PATCH] mmc: driver for TI FlashMedia card reader - Kconfig/Makefile

2006-10-04T14:55:14Z

Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov Cc: Daniel Qarras Acked-by: Pierre Ossman Cc: Russell King Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds