Adrian Bunk [Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:01:43 +0000 (03:01 -0800)]
[SPARC64] pci_sun4v.c: Section fixes.
WARNING: vmlinux.o(.text+0x39be4): Section mismatch in reference from the function probe_existing_entries() to the function .init.text:page_in_phys_avail()
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 23:29:53 +0000 (15:29 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: (44 commits)
[ARM] 4822/1: RealView: Change the REALVIEW_MPCORE configuration option
[ARM] 4821/1: RealView: Remove the platform dependencies from localtimer.c
[ARM] 4820/1: RealView: Select the timer IRQ at run-time
[ARM] 4819/1: RealView: Fix entry-macro.S to work with multiple platforms
[ARM] 4818/1: RealView: Add core-tile detection
[ARM] 4817/1: RealView: Move the AMBA resource definitions to realview_eb.c
[ARM] 4816/1: RealView: Move the platform-specific definitions into board-eb.h
[ARM] 4815/1: RealView: Add clockevents suport for the local timers
[ARM] 4814/1: RealView: Add broadcasting clockevents support for ARM11MPCore
[ARM] 4813/1: Add SMP helper functions for clockevents support
[ARM] 4812/1: RealView: clockevents support for the RealView platforms
[ARM] 4811/1: RealView: clocksource support for the RealView platforms
[ARM] 4736/1: Export atags to userspace and allow kexec to use customised atags
[ARM] 4798/1: pcm027: fix missing header file
[ARM] 4803/1: pxa: fix building issue of poodle.c caused by patch 4737/1
[ARM] 4801/1: pxa: fix building issues of missing pxa2xx-regs.h
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for pxa3xx static memory controller
[ARM] pxa: add preliminary suspend/resume code for pxa3xx
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for GPIO register saving/restoring
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for IRQ register saving/restoring
...
Linus Torvalds [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 20:14:55 +0000 (12:14 -0800)]
Merge branch 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm
* 'slub-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm:
Explain kmem_cache_cpu fields
SLUB: Do not upset lockdep
SLUB: Fix coding style violations
Add parameter to add_partial to avoid having two functions
SLUB: rename defrag to remote_node_defrag_ratio
Move count_partial before kmem_cache_shrink
SLUB: Fix sysfs refcounting
slub: fix shadowed variable sparse warnings
This change isn't really necessary for correctness, but it prevents lockdep
from getting upset and then disabling itself.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Pekka Enberg [Tue, 8 Jan 2008 07:20:27 +0000 (23:20 -0800)]
SLUB: Fix coding style violations
This fixes most of the obvious coding style violations in mm/slub.c as
reported by checkpatch.
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Add parameter to add_partial to avoid having two functions
Add a parameter to add_partial instead of having separate functions. The
parameter allows a more detailed control of where the slab pages is placed in
the partial queues.
If we put slabs back to the front then they are likely immediately used for
allocations. If they are put at the end then we can maximize the time that
the partial slabs spent without being subject to allocations.
When deactivating slab we can put the slabs that had remote objects freed (we
can see that because objects were put on the freelist that requires locks) to
them at the end of the list so that the cachelines of remote processors can
cool down. Slabs that had objects from the local cpu freed to them (objects
exist in the lockless freelist) are put in the front of the list to be reused
ASAP in order to exploit the cache hot state of the local cpu.
Patch seems to slightly improve tbench speed (1-2%).
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Reviewed-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Russell King [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:54:39 +0000 (17:54 +0000)]
Merge branches 'at91', 'ixp', 'master', 'misc', 'pxa' and 'realview' into devel
* at91:
[ARM] 4802/1: Fix typo and remove vague comment
[ARM] 4660/3: at91: allow selecting UART for early kernel messages
[ARM] 4739/1: at91sam9263: make gpio bank C and D irqs work
* ixp:
[ARM] 4809/2: ixp4xx: Merge dsmg600-power.c into dsmg600-setup.c
[ARM] 4808/2: ixp4xx: Merge nas100d-power.c into nas100d-setup.c
[ARM] 4807/2: ixp4xx: Merge nslu2-power.c into nslu2-setup.c
[ARM] 4806/1: ixp4xx: Ethernet support for the nslu2 and nas100d boards
[ARM] 4805/1: ixp4xx: Use leds-gpio driver instead of IXP4XX-GPIO-LED driver
[ARM] 4715/2: Ethernet support for IXDP425 boards
[ARM] 4714/2: Headers for IXP4xx built-in Ethernet and WAN drivers
[ARM] 4713/3: Adds drivers for IXP4xx QMgr and NPE features
[ARM] 4712/2: Adds functions to read and write IXP4xx "feature" bits
[ARM] 4774/2: ixp4xx: Register dsmg600 rtc i2c_board_info
[ARM] 4773/2: ixp4xx: Register nas100d rtc i2c_board_info
[ARM] 4772/2: ixp4xx: Register nslu2 rtc i2c_board_info
[ARM] 4769/2: ixp4xx: Button updates for the dsmg600 board
[ARM] 4768/2: ixp4xx: Button and LED updates for the nas100d board
[ARM] 4767/2: ixp4xx: Add bitops.h include to io.h
[ARM] 4766/2: ixp4xx: Update ixp4xx_defconfig, enabling all supported boards
* master:
[ARM] 4810/1: - Fix 'section mismatch' building warnings
[ARM] xtime_seqlock: fix more ARM machines for xtime deadlocking
[ARM] 21285 serial: fix build error
* misc:
[ARM] 4736/1: Export atags to userspace and allow kexec to use customised atags
* pxa:
[ARM] 4798/1: pcm027: fix missing header file
[ARM] 4803/1: pxa: fix building issue of poodle.c caused by patch 4737/1
[ARM] 4801/1: pxa: fix building issues of missing pxa2xx-regs.h
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for pxa3xx static memory controller
[ARM] pxa: add preliminary suspend/resume code for pxa3xx
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for GPIO register saving/restoring
[ARM] pxa: introduce sysdev for IRQ register saving/restoring
[ARM] pxa: fix the warning of undeclared "struct pxaohci_platform_data"
[ARM] pxa: change set_kset_name() to direct name assignment for MFP sysclass
* realview:
[ARM] 4822/1: RealView: Change the REALVIEW_MPCORE configuration option
[ARM] 4821/1: RealView: Remove the platform dependencies from localtimer.c
[ARM] 4820/1: RealView: Select the timer IRQ at run-time
[ARM] 4819/1: RealView: Fix entry-macro.S to work with multiple platforms
[ARM] 4818/1: RealView: Add core-tile detection
[ARM] 4817/1: RealView: Move the AMBA resource definitions to realview_eb.c
[ARM] 4816/1: RealView: Move the platform-specific definitions into board-eb.h
[ARM] 4815/1: RealView: Add clockevents suport for the local timers
[ARM] 4814/1: RealView: Add broadcasting clockevents support for ARM11MPCore
[ARM] 4813/1: Add SMP helper functions for clockevents support
[ARM] 4812/1: RealView: clockevents support for the RealView platforms
[ARM] 4811/1: RealView: clocksource support for the RealView platforms
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:45:03 +0000 (17:45 +0100)]
[ARM] 4821/1: RealView: Remove the platform dependencies from localtimer.c
This patch removes the TWD_BASE macro used to set up and configure the
local timers on ARM11MPCore. The twd_base_addr and twd_size variables
are defined in localtimer.c and set from the realview_eb_init function.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:43:02 +0000 (17:43 +0100)]
[ARM] 4820/1: RealView: Select the timer IRQ at run-time
This patch sets the timer IRQ at run-time by moving the sys_timer
structure and the timer_init function to the realview_eb.c file. This
allows multiple RealView platforms to be compiled in the same kernel
image.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:41:01 +0000 (17:41 +0100)]
[ARM] 4819/1: RealView: Fix entry-macro.S to work with multiple platforms
This patch modifies the get_irqnr_preamble macro to work with multiple
platforms at run-time by reading the address of the GIC controller from
the gic_cpu_base_addr variable. This variable is defined in core.c and
intialised in realview_eb.c (gic_init_irq).
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:39:00 +0000 (17:39 +0100)]
[ARM] 4818/1: RealView: Add core-tile detection
This patch adds the core-tile detection and only enables devices if the
corresponding tile is present. It currently detects the ARM11MPCore via
the core_tile_eb11mp() macro.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:36:59 +0000 (17:36 +0100)]
[ARM] 4817/1: RealView: Move the AMBA resource definitions to realview_eb.c
This patch moves the IRQ and DMA definitions from core.h into
realview_eb.c since they are platform-specific. It adds a
realview_eb11mp_fixup function to adjust the IRQ numbers if the
ARM11MPCore tile is fitted. The realview_smc91x_device is also moved
from core.c into realview_eb.c.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:34:58 +0000 (17:34 +0100)]
[ARM] 4816/1: RealView: Move the platform-specific definitions into board-eb.h
This patch moves the platform specific definitions from platform.h into
the board-eb.h file. It drops the INT_* definitions as they are no
longer used in irqs.h (moved to board-eb.h). It renames REALVIEW_*
macros to REALVIEW_EB_* or REALVIEW_EB11MP_* to distinguish between
standard EB and EB + the ARM11MPCore tile. The platform.h file contains
common definitions to the RealView platforms and it is only directly
included in board-*.h files.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:30:57 +0000 (17:30 +0100)]
[ARM] 4814/1: RealView: Add broadcasting clockevents support for ARM11MPCore
This patch adds dummy local timers for each CPU so that the board clock
device is used to broadcast events to the other CPUs. The patch also
adds the declaration for the dummy_timer_setup function (the equivalent
of local_timer_setup when CONFIG_LOCAL_TIMERS is not set).
Due to the way clockevents work, the dummy timer on the first CPU has to
be registered before the board timer.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:28:56 +0000 (17:28 +0100)]
[ARM] 4813/1: Add SMP helper functions for clockevents support
This patch adds the smp_call_function_single and smp_timer_broadcast
functions and modifies ipi_timer to call the platform-specific function
local_timer_interrupt.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:26:55 +0000 (17:26 +0100)]
[ARM] 4812/1: RealView: clockevents support for the RealView platforms
The patch updates the RealView code to the clockevents infrastructure.
The SMP support is implemented in subsequent patches. Based on the
Versatile implementation by Kevin Hilman.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Catalin Marinas [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:24:54 +0000 (17:24 +0100)]
[ARM] 4811/1: RealView: clocksource support for the RealView platforms
The patch updates the RealView platform code to use the generic
clocksource infrastructure for basic time keeping. Based on the
Versatile implementation by Kevin Hilman.
Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: (25 commits)
virtio: balloon driver
virtio: Use PCI revision field to indicate virtio PCI ABI version
virtio: PCI device
virtio_blk: implement naming for vda-vdz,vdaa-vdzz,vdaaa-vdzzz
virtio_blk: Dont waste major numbers
virtio_blk: provide getgeo
virtio_net: parametrize the napi_weight for virtio receive queue.
virtio: free transmit skbs when notified, not on next xmit.
virtio: flush buffers on open
virtnet: remove double ether_setup
virtio: Allow virtio to be modular and used by modules
virtio: Use the sg_phys convenience function.
virtio: Put the virtio under the virtualization menu
virtio: handle interrupts after callbacks turned off
virtio: reset function
virtio: populate network rings in the probe routine, not open
virtio: Tweak virtio_net defines
virtio: Net header needs hdr_len
virtio: remove unused id field from struct virtio_blk_outhdr
virtio: clarify NO_NOTIFY flag usage
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild:
scsi: fix dependency bug in aic7 Makefile
kbuild: add svn revision information to setlocalversion
kbuild: do not warn about __*init/__*exit symbols being exported
Move Kconfig.instrumentation to arch/Kconfig and init/Kconfig
Add HAVE_KPROBES
Add HAVE_OPROFILE
Create arch/Kconfig
Fix ARM to play nicely with generic Instrumentation menu
kconfig: ignore select of unknown symbol
kconfig: mark config as changed when loading an alternate config
kbuild: Spelling/grammar fixes for config DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH
Remove __INIT_REFOK and __INITDATA_REFOK
kbuild: print only total number of section mismatces found
Nick Piggin [Sat, 2 Feb 2008 02:08:53 +0000 (03:08 +0100)]
vm audit: add VM_DONTEXPAND to mmap for drivers that need it
Drivers that register a ->fault handler, but do not range-check the
offset argument, must set VM_DONTEXPAND in the vm_flags in order to
prevent an expanding mremap from overflowing the resource.
I've audited the tree and attempted to fix these problems (usually by
adding VM_DONTEXPAND where it is not obvious).
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Commit c9f6d3d5c6d4f4cd3a53549a69c92951180e2a76 ("[POWERPC] adb: Replace
sleep notifier with platform driver suspend/resume hooks") introduced
compile errors on m68k because <linux/platform_device.h> is not
explicitly included. On powerpc, it's pulled in through <asm/prom.h>.
Because hpet_rtc_interrupt()'s call to get_rtc_time() ends up
resolving to include/asm-generic/rtc.h's (hilariously inlined)
get_rtc_time(), which does spin_unlock_irq() from hard IRQ context.
The obvious patch fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thomas Gleixner [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:07 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: cpa, fix lookup_address
lookup_address() returns a wrong level and a wrong pointer to a non
existing pte, when pmd or pud entries are marked !present. This
happens for example due to boot time mapping of GART into the low
memory space.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Ingo Molnar [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:07 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: AMD Athlon X2 hard hang fix
An Athlon 64 X2 test system showed hard hangs shortly after marking
the kernel text read-only, if we tried to preserve largepages and
changed the PSE entry from RW to RO. The pagetable code itself is
correct, it's the CPU that locked up hard (and not even the NMI
watchdog could punch through that hard hang).
So be conservative and always do splitups - like we did in the past.
Thomas Gleixner [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:05 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: no CPA on iounmap
When an ioremap is unmapped, do not change the page attributes. There might
be another mapping of the same physical address. PAT might detect a conflicting
mapping attribute for no good reason. The mapping is removed anyway.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
x86: use the pfn from the page when change its attributes
When changing the attributes of a pte, we should use the PFN from the
existing PTE rather than going through hoops calculating what we think
it might have been; this is both fragile and totally unneeded. It also
makes it more hairy to call any of these functions on non-direct maps
for no good reason whatsover.
With this change, __change_page_attr() no longer takes a pfn as argument,
which simplifies all the callers.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@tglx.de>
x86: teach the static_protection function about high mappings
Right now, enforcing that the high mapping of the kernel text doesn't
get the NX bit is done deep in the guts of CPA, rather than in the
static_protection() function that enforces all other per-arch sanity
checks.
This patch moves this sanity check into the central static_protection()
function instead, and makes it apply ONLY to the kernel text, not to all
other areas in the high mapping.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Harvey Harrison [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:05 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: add cpu mtrr init function definitions to mtrr.h
mtrr.h was included everywhere needed. Fixes the following sparse
warnings. Also, the return types in the extern definitions were
incorrect.
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/amd.c:113:12: warning: symbol 'amd_init_mtrr' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.c:268:12: warning: symbol 'cyrix_init_mtrr' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/centaur.c:218:12: warning: symbol 'centaur_init_mtrr' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Harvey Harrison [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:04 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: add cpu init function defintions to cpu.h
cpu.h was already included everywhere needed.
Fixes following sparse warnings:
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/amd.c:343:12: warning: symbol 'amd_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c:444:12: warning: symbol 'cyrix_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c:456:12: warning: symbol 'nsc_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/centaur.c:467:12: warning: symbol 'centaur_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/transmeta.c:112:12: warning: symbol 'transmeta_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/intel.c:296:12: warning: symbol 'intel_cpu_init' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/nexgen.c:56:12: warning: symbol 'nexgen_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
arch/x86/kernel/cpu/umc.c:22:12: warning: symbol 'umc_init_cpu' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Remove bogus reference to "Pentium-II erratum A13" and point to the
actual canonical source of information about what requirements x86
processors have for PAE pagetable updates.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Rather than unconditionally reloading cr3, only do so if the pud we're
updating is within the active pgd.
This eliminates TLB flushes most of the time. The
performance-critical uses of pud_clear are during execve and exit, but
in those cases cr3 is referring to some other pagetable. The only
other use of pud_clear is during a large (1Gbyte+) munmap, and those
are sufficiently rare that a couple of cr3 reloads won't hurt.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:00 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
asm-generic/tlb.h: remove <linux/quicklist.h>
Remove unused <linux/quicklist.h> from <asm-generic/tlb.h>; per
Christoph Lameter this should have been part of a previous patch
reversal but apparently didn't get removed.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:00 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86 setup: print missing CPU features in cleartext
Instead of obscure numbers, print the list of missing CPU features in
cleartext. To conserve space, use a host program (mkcpustr.c) to
produce a compact list of mandatory features only.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
H. Peter Anvin [Mon, 4 Feb 2008 15:48:00 +0000 (16:48 +0100)]
x86: unify CPU feature string names
Move the CPU feature string names to a separate file (common to 32
and 64 bits); additionally, make <asm/cpufeature.h> includable by host
code in preparation for including the CPU feature strings in the boot
code.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
the p parameter is an explicit memory reference, and is
enough to prevent gcc to being nasty here. The volatile
seems completely not needed.
This reflects incorrect understanding of the function of the volatile
keyword there. The purpose of the volatile keyword is informing gcc
that it is safe to pass a volatile pointer to this function.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
After /dev/*/cpuid was introduced, Intel changed the semantics of the
CPUID instruction to be sentitive to %ecx as well as %eax. This patch
allows querying of %ecx-sensitive levels by placing the %ecx value in
the upper 32 bits of the file position (lower 32 bits always were used
for the %eax value.)
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>