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Tony Luck
8cf60e04a1 Auto-update from upstream 2006-06-23 13:46:23 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
37224470c8 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (65 commits)
  ACPI: suppress power button event on S3 resume
  ACPI: resolve merge conflict between sem2mutex and processor_perflib.c
  ACPI: use for_each_possible_cpu() instead of for_each_cpu()
  ACPI: delete newly added debugging macros in processor_perflib.c
  ACPI: UP build fix for bugzilla-5737
  Enable P-state software coordination via _PDC
  P-state software coordination for speedstep-centrino
  P-state software coordination for acpi-cpufreq
  P-state software coordination for ACPI core
  ACPI: create acpi_thermal_resume()
  ACPI: create acpi_fan_suspend()/acpi_fan_resume()
  ACPI: pass pm_message_t from acpi_device_suspend() to root_suspend()
  ACPI: create acpi_device_suspend()/acpi_device_resume()
  ACPI: replace spin_lock_irq with mutex for ec poll mode
  ACPI: Allow a WAN module enable/disable on a Thinkpad X60.
  sem2mutex: acpi, acpi_link_lock
  ACPI: delete unused acpi_bus_drivers_lock
  sem2mutex: drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c
  ACPI add ia64 exports to build acpi_memhotplug as a module
  ACPI: asus_acpi_init(): propagate correct return value
  ...

Manual resolve of conflicts in:

	arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
	arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.c
	include/acpi/processor.h
2006-06-23 07:52:36 -07:00
Jean-Luc Leger
1e11d2782b [PATCH] clean up default value of SCHED_SMT
Default values for boolean and tristate options can only be 'y', 'm' or 'n'.
This patch removes wrong default for SCHED_SMT.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Luc Leger <jean-luc.leger@dspnet.fr.eu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-23 07:43:03 -07:00
Kenji Kaneshige
b7bb575c3f [IA64] Make PCI Express support selectable
When I tried to use PCI Express Hotplug driver on my ia64 box, I
noticed that "PCI Express support" is not even selectable on ia64.
This patch makes PCI Express support selectable.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-06-21 14:42:24 -07:00
Len Brown
1465887cfe Pull Kconfig into release branch 2006-06-15 15:35:57 -04:00
Brent Casavant
c1311af12c [IA64] IOC4 config option ordering
SERIAL_SGI_IOC4 and BLK_DEV_SGIIOC4 depend upon SGI_IOC4, and
SERIAL_SGI_IOC3 depends upon SGI_IOC3.  Currently the definitions
are out of order in the config sequence.

Fix by including drivers/sn/Kconfig immediately after SGI_SN,
upon which SGI_IOC4 and SGI_IOC3 depend.

Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-04-21 10:59:00 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
c80d79d746 [PATCH] Configurable NODES_SHIFT
Current implementations define NODES_SHIFT in include/asm-xxx/numnodes.h for
each arch.  Its definition is sometimes configurable.  Indeed, ia64 defines 5
NODES_SHIFT values in the current git tree.  But it looks a bit messy.

SGI-SN2(ia64) system requires 1024 nodes, and the number of nodes already has
been changeable by config.  Suitable node's number may be changed in the
future even if it is other architecture.  So, I wrote configurable node's
number.

This patch set defines just default value for each arch which needs multi
nodes except ia64.  But, it is easy to change to configurable if necessary.

On ia64 the number of nodes can be already configured in generic ia64 and SN2
config.  But, NODES_SHIFT is defined for DIG64 and HP'S machine too.  So, I
changed it so that all platforms can be configured via CONFIG_NODES_SHIFT.  It
would be simpler.

See also: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=114358010523896&w=2

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11 06:18:39 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
1300124f69 ACPI: Kconfig: ACPI should depend on, not select PCI
Otherwise, illegal configurations like X86_VOYAGER=y, PCI=y are
possible.

This patch also fixes the options select'ing ACPI to also select PCI.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2006-04-01 21:07:42 -05:00
Akinobu Mita
2875aef8bd [PATCH] bitops: ia64: use generic bitops
- remove generic_fls64()
- remove find_{next,first}{,_zero}_bit()
- remove ext2_{set,clear,test,find_first_zero,find_next_zero}_bit()
- remove minix_{test,set,test_and_clear,test,find_first_zero}_bit()
- remove sched_find_first_bit()

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:57:12 -08:00
Matt Domsch
3ed3bce846 [PATCH] ia64: use i386 dmi_scan.c
Enable DMI table parsing on ia64.

Andi Kleen has a patch in his x86_64 tree which enables the use of i386
dmi_scan.c on x86_64.  dmi_scan.c functions are being used by the
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c driver for autodetecting the ports or
memory spaces where the IPMI controllers may be found.

This patch adds equivalent changes for ia64 as to what is in the x86_64
tree.  In addition, I reworked the DMI detection, such that on EFI-capable
systems, it uses the efi.smbios pointer to find the table, rather than
brute-force searching from 0xF0000.  On non-EFI systems, it continues the
brute-force search.

My test system, an Intel S870BN4 'Tiger4', aka Dell PowerEdge 7250, with
latest BIOS, does not list the IPMI controller in the ACPI namespace, nor
does it have an ACPI SPMI table.  Also note, currently shipping Dell x8xx
EM64T servers don't have these either, so DMI is the only method for
obtaining the address of the IPMI controller.

Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Acked-by: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-26 08:56:54 -08:00
Jack Steiner
b354a83888 [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
Add a configuration option to allow the maximum
number of nodes to be configurable for GENERIC or SN
kernels.

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-03-24 13:14:03 -08:00
Tony Luck
536ea4e419 Pull bsp-removal into release branch 2006-03-21 08:16:21 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
add2b6fdae Make Kprobes depend on modules
Commit 9ec4b1f356 made kprobes not compile
without module support, so just make that clear in the Kconfig file.

Also, since it's marked EXPERIMENTAL, make that dependency explicit too.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-26 20:24:40 -08:00
Tony Luck
41db6112a5 Pull sgi-drivers-makefile-cleanup into release branch 2006-02-02 13:30:59 -08:00
Kyle McMartin
af14aca90e [IA64] Remove stale comment from ia64/Kconfig
Somehow I doubt this comment is meant to be here anymore... It's
been floating after the L1_CACHE_SHIFT entry since before Linux
moved to bitkeeper.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-02-02 13:23:55 -08:00
Jes Sorensen
466575f4e9 [PATCH] drivers/sn/ must be entered for CONFIG_SGI_IOC3
Actually I think this is more appropriate so we don't end up with 17
cases that add drivers/sn to the build lib.
Include drivers/sn when CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN2 or CONFIG_IA64_GENERIC
is enabled.

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-26 13:22:03 -08:00
Ashok Raj
ff741906ad [IA64] support for cpu0 removal
here is the BSP removal support for IA64. Its pretty much the same thing that
was released a while back, but has your feedback incorporated.

- Removed CONFIG_BSP_REMOVE_WORKAROUND and associated cmdline param
- Fixed compile issue with sn2/zx1 due to a undefined fix_b0_for_bsp
- some formatting nits (whitespace etc)

This has been tested on tiger and long back by alex on hp systems as well.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2006-01-05 10:24:20 -08:00
Yasunori Goto
ff9569bc55 [PATCH] Fix Kconfig of DMA32 for ia64
I realized ZONE_DMA32 has a trivial bug at Kconfig for ia64.  In
include/linux/gfp.h on 2.6.15-rc5-mm1, CONFIG is define like followings.

#ifdef CONFIG_DMA_IS_DMA32
#define __GFP_DMA32	((__force gfp_t)0x01)	/* ZONE_DMA is ZONE_DMA32
*/
       :
       :

So, CONFIG_"ZONE"_DMA_IS_DMA32 is clearly wrong.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-12-12 08:57:45 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
4060994c3e Merge x86-64 update from Andi 2005-11-14 19:56:02 -08:00
Andi Kleen
d1e3dfdc2c [PATCH] x86_64: Set compatibility flag for 4GB zone on IA64
IA64 traditionally had a 4GB DMA32 zone. Set the compatibility flag
to keep old drivers working.

For new drivers it would be better to use ZONE_DMA32 now.

Cc: tony.luck@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-14 19:55:13 -08:00
Robin Holt
837cd0bdf5 [IA64] 4-level page tables
This patch introduces 4-level page tables to ia64.  I have run
some benchmarks and found nothing interesting.  Performance has
consistently fallen within the noise range.

It also introduces a config option (setting the default to 3
levels).  The config option prevents having 4 level page
tables with 64k base page size.

Signed-off-by: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-11 09:37:29 -08:00
Tony Luck
0ad3a96f8a Auto-update from upstream 2005-11-07 09:05:22 -08:00
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
cd6b0762a0 [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu
Andrew Morton suggested to move kprobes from kernel hacking menu, since
kernel hacking menu is in-appropriate for the Kprobes.  This patch moves
Kprobes and Oprofile under instrumentation menu.

(akpm: it's not a natural fit, but things like djprobes and the s390 guys'
statistics library need a home)

Signed-of-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Philippe Elie <phil.el@wanadoo.fr>
Cc: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
Dean Nelson
f79b348856 [IA64] restrict CONFIG_SGI_SN_XP to IA64_GENERIC or IA64_SGI_SN2
Restrict CONFIG_SGI_SN_XP to IA64_GENERIC or IA64_SGI_SN2 kernels.

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-11-03 15:10:58 -08:00
Tony Luck
c7fb577e2a manual update from upstream:
Applied Al's change 06a544971f
to new location of swiotlb.c

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-31 10:51:57 -08:00
Tony Luck
c87ff94333 Pull sparsemem-v5 into release branch 2005-10-28 14:32:56 -07:00
Tony Luck
9cec58dc13 Update from upstream with manual merge of Yasunori Goto's
changes to swiotlb.c made in commit 281dd25cdc
since this file has been moved from arch/ia64/lib/swiotlb.c to
lib/swiotlb.c

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-20 10:41:44 -07:00
Bob Picco
da9577c531 [PATCH] V5 ia64 SPARSEMEM - Kconfig and Makefile
The patch modifies the Kconfig file to introduce the new memory model
options and other related SPARSEMEM changes.  There is also a minor change
in the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-10-04 13:19:30 -07:00
John W. Linville
6c654b5fdf [PATCH] swiotlb: move from arch/ia64/lib/ to lib/
The swiotlb implementation is shared by both IA-64 and EM64T. However,
the source itself lives under arch/ia64. This patch moves swiotlb.c
from arch/ia64/lib to lib/ and fixes-up the appropriate Makefile and
Kconfig files. No actual changes are made to swiotlb.c.

Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-29 14:42:42 -07:00
Jack Steiner
54703d3678 [IA64] Increase max NR_CPUS on IA64 from 512 to 1024
This patch increases the maximum number of cpus supported on IA64
to 1024. No changes are made to the default SSI size. The patch
simply allows specifying up to 1024p.

There are certainly scaling (& other) issues that also need to be
addressed!!!  Additional patches will follow.....

Signed-off-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 11:51:27 -07:00
David S. Miller
4db2ce0199 [LIB]: Consolidate _atomic_dec_and_lock()
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: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-14 21:47:01 -07:00
Tony Luck
344a076110 [IA64] Manual merge fix for 3 files
arch/ia64/Kconfig
	arch/ia64/kernel/acpi.c
	include/asm-ia64/irq.h

Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-08 14:27:13 -07:00
Len Brown
64e47488c9 Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6 2005-09-08 01:45:47 -04:00
Ashok Raj
54d5d42404 [PATCH] x86/x86_64: deferred handling of writes to /proc/irqxx/smp_affinity
When handling writes to /proc/irq, current code is re-programming rte
entries directly. This is not recommended and could potentially cause
chipset's to lockup, or cause missing interrupts.

CONFIG_IRQ_BALANCE does this correctly, where it re-programs only when the
interrupt is pending. The same needs to be done for /proc/irq handling as well.
Otherwise user space irq balancers are really not doing the right thing.

- Changed pending_irq_balance_cpumask to pending_irq_migrate_cpumask for
  lack of a generic name.
- added move_irq out of IRQ_BALANCE, and added this same to X86_64
- Added new proc handler for write, so we can do deferred write at irq
  handling time.
- Display of /proc/irq/XX/smp_affinity used to display CPU_MASKALL, instead
  it now shows only active cpu masks, or exactly what was set.
- Provided a common move_irq implementation, instead of duplicating
  when using generic irq framework.

Tested on i386/x86_64 and ia64 with CONFIG_PCI_MSI turned on and off.
Tested UP builds as well.

MSI testing: tbd: I have cards, need to look for a x-over cable, although I
did test an earlier version of this patch.  Will test in a couple days.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
Grudgingly-acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@lovecn.org>
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-07 16:57:15 -07:00
Kenji Kaneshige
697eaad417 [IA64] Minor cleanups - remove CONFIG_ACPI_DEALLOCATE_IRQ
The config option 'CONFIG_ACPI_DEALLOCATE_IRQ' is no longer
needed. This patch removes it.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-07 14:00:08 -07:00
Len Brown
129521dcc9 Merge linux-2.6 into linux-acpi-2.6 test 2005-09-03 02:44:09 -04:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
4db8699bcf [IA64] Add ACPI based P-state support
Patch to support P-state transitions on ia64. This driver is based on ACPI,
and uses the ACPI processor driver interface to find out the P-state support
information for the processor. This driver plugs into generic cpufreq
infrastructure.

Once this driver is loaded successfully, ondemand/userspace governor can be
used to change the CPU frequency dynamically based on load or on request from
userspace process.

Refer :
ACPI specification -
      http://www.acpi.info
P-state related PAL calls -
      http://developer.intel.com/design/itanium/downloads/24869909.pdf

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-26 15:09:24 -07:00
Len Brown
eb7b6b3264 [ACPI] IA64-related ACPI Kconfig fixes
Build issues were mostly in the ACPI=n case -- don't do that.
Select ACPI from IA64_GENERIC.
Add some missing dependencies on ACPI.

Mark BLACKLIST_YEAR and some laptop-only ACPI drivers
as X86-only.  Let me know when you get an IA64 Laptop.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-08-25 12:14:20 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
85f265d887 [IA64] update CONFIG_PCI description
The current one doesn't even make sense anymore on i386 where it
apparently came from.

Follow-up wordsmithing by Matthew Wilcox and Tony Luck.


Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-08-15 15:03:12 -07:00
Tony Luck
99ad25a313 Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linus 2005-07-13 12:15:43 -07:00
Greg Edwards
60a762b6a6 [IA64] remove CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM
This patch removes the CONFIG_IA64_SGI_SN_SIM option entirely, allowing
any kernel bootable on sn2 to also be booted in the simulator.

Boot tested on Altix and HP rx2600.

Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-12 14:13:08 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
d5950b4355 [NET]: add a top-level Networking menu to *config
Create a new top-level menu named "Networking" thus moving
net related options and protocol selection way from the drivers
menu and up on the top-level where they belong.

To implement this all architectures has to source "net/Kconfig" before
drivers/*/Kconfig in their Kconfig file. This change has been
implemented for all architectures.

Device drivers for ordinary NIC's are still to be found
in the Device Drivers section, but Bluetooth, IrDA and ax25
are located with their corresponding menu entries under the new
networking menu item.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-11 21:03:49 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
b5d23e5b8c [PATCH] ia64: Selectable Timer Interrupt Frequency
It allows a selectable timer interrupt frequency of 100, 250 and 1000 HZ.
Reducing the timer frequency may have important performance benefits on
large systems.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:10 -07:00
Dave Hansen
3f22ab276b [PATCH] make each arch use mm/Kconfig
For all architectures, this just means that you'll see a "Memory Model"
choice in your architecture menu.  For those that implement DISCONTIGMEM,
you may eventually want to make your ARCH_DISCONTIGMEM_ENABLE a "def_bool
y" and make your users select DISCONTIGMEM right out of the new choice
menu.  The only disadvantage might be if you have some specific things that
you need in your help option to explain something about DISCONTIGMEM.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23 09:45:02 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
fb7a0e3653 Merge kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6.git
Do arch/ia64/defconfig by hand.
2005-06-22 12:22:12 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
65ed0b337b [PATCH] SN2 XPC build patches
This patch contains the bits to make the XPC code use the uncached
allocator rather than calling into the mspec driver.  It also includes the
mspec.h header which is required to build the XPC modules.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:18 -07:00
Jes Sorensen
f14f75b811 [PATCH] ia64 uncached alloc
This patch contains the ia64 uncached page allocator and the generic
allocator (genalloc).  The uncached allocator was formerly part of the SN2
mspec driver but there are several other users of it so it has been split
off from the driver.

The generic allocator can be used by device driver to manage special memory
etc.  The generic allocator is based on the allocator from the sym53c8xx_2
driver.

Various users on ia64 needs uncached memory.  The SGI SN architecture requires
it for inter-partition communication between partitions within a large NUMA
cluster.  The specific user for this is the XPC code.  Another application is
large MPI style applications which use it for synchronization, on SN this can
be done using special 'fetchop' operations but it also benefits non SN
hardware which may use regular uncached memory for this purpose.  Performance
of doing this through uncached vs cached memory is pretty substantial.  This
is handled by the mspec driver which I will push out in a seperate patch.

Rather than creating a specific allocator for just uncached memory I came up
with genalloc which is a generic purpose allocator that can be used by device
drivers and other subsystems as they please.  For instance to handle onboard
device memory.  It was derived from the sym53c7xx_2 driver's allocator which
is also an example of a potential user (I am refraining from modifying sym2
right now as it seems to have been under fairly heavy development recently).

On ia64 memory has various properties within a granule, ie.  it isn't safe to
access memory as uncached within the same granule as currently has memory
accessed in cached mode.  The regular system therefore doesn't utilize memory
in the lower granules which is mixed in with device PAL code etc.  The
uncached driver walks the EFI memmap and pulls out the spill uncached pages
and sticks them into the uncached pool.  Only after these chunks have been
utilized, will it start converting regular cached memory into uncached memory.
Hence the reason for the EFI related code additions.

Signed-off-by: Jes Sorensen <jes@wildopensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21 18:46:18 -07:00
Greg Edwards
a35f1e03b8 [IA64] enable SGI simulator for generic kernels
Allow the SGI simulator (medusa) to work on generic kernels.  There is
no inherent dependency on an sn2-specific kernel.

Boot tested on Altix, medusa and HP rx2600.

Signed-off-by: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-06-21 14:17:43 -07:00
Anton Blanchard
7d12e522ba [PATCH] ppc64: remove hidden -fno-omit-frame-pointer for schedule.c
While looking at code generated by gcc4.0 I noticed some functions still
had frame pointers, even after we stopped ppc64 from defining
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.  It turns out kernel/Makefile hardwires
-fno-omit-frame-pointer on when compiling schedule.c.

Create CONFIG_SCHED_NO_NO_OMIT_FRAME_POINTER and define it on architectures
that dont require frame pointers in sched.c code.

(akpm: blame me for the name)

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:32 -07:00
Dean Nelson
b0d82bd5df [IA64-SGI] SGI Altix cross partition functionality (2nd
This patch contains the shim module (XP) which interfaces between the
communication module (XPC) and the functional support modules (like XPNET).

Signed-off-by: Dean Nelson <dcn@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-05-03 12:16:52 -07:00