* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/ide-2.6:
ide: memory overrun in ide_get_identity_ioctl() on big endian machines using ioctl HDIO_OBSOLETE_IDENTITY
ide: fix resume for CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEACPI=y
ide-cd: handle fragmented packet commands gracefully
ide: always kill the whole request on error
ide: fix ide_kill_rq() for special ide-{floppy,tape} driver requests
commit 2f0d0fd2a6 ("ide-acpi: cleanup
do_drive_get_GTF()") didn't account for the lack of hwif->acpidata
check in generic_ide_suspend() [ indirect user of do_drive_get_GTF()
through ide_acpi_exec_tfs() ] resulting in broken resume when ACPI
support is enabled but ACPI data is unavailable.
Fix it by adding ide_port_acpi() helper for checking if port needs
ACPI handling and cleaning generic_ide_{suspend,resume}() to use it
instead of hiding hwif->acpidata and ide_noacpi checks in IDE ACPI
helpers (this should help in preventing similar bugs in the future).
While at it:
- kill superfluous debugging printks in ide_acpi_{get,push}_timing()
Reported-and-tested-by: Etienne Basset <etienne.basset@numericable.fr>
Also-reported-and-tested-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The new fsnotify infrastructure (starting at 90586523) causes an oops in
spufs, where we populate a directory with files before instantiating the
directory itself. The new changes seem to have introduced an assumption
that a dentry's parent will be positive when instantiating.
This change makes it once again possible to d_instantiate a dentry
with a negative parent, and brings __fsnotify_d_instantiate() into
line with inotify_d_instantiate(), which already has this NULL check.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
be2net: Fix to avoid a crash seen on PPC with LRO and Jumbo frames.
gro: Flush GRO packets in napi_disable_pending path
inet: Call skb_orphan before tproxy activates
mac80211: Use rcu_barrier() on unload.
sunrpc: Use rcu_barrier() on unload.
bridge: Use rcu_barrier() instead of syncronize_net() on unload.
ipv6: Use rcu_barrier() on module unload.
decnet: Use rcu_barrier() on module unload.
sky2: Fix checksum endianness
mdio add missing GPL flag
sh_eth: remove redundant test on unsigned
fsl_pq_mdio: Fix fsl_pq_mdio to work with modules
ipv6: avoid wraparound for expired preferred lifetime
tcp: missing check ACK flag of received segment in FIN-WAIT-2 state
atl1*: add device_set_wakeup_enable to atl1*_set_wol
Phonet: generate Netlink RTM_DELADDR when destroying a device
Phonet: publicize the Netlink notification function
Revert "veth: prevent oops caused by netdev destructor"
cpmac: fix compilation failure introduced with netdev_ops conversion
ipsec: Fix name of CAST algorithm
This patch fixes an imbalance message as reported by J.R. Okajima.
The IMA file counters are incremented in ima_path_check. If the
actual open fails, such as ETXTBSY, decrement the counters to
prevent unnecessary imbalance messages.
Reported-by: J.R. Okajima <hooanon05@yahoo.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.31' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm:
KVM: shut up uninit compiler warning in paging_tmpl.h
KVM: Ignore reads to K7 EVNTSEL MSRs
KVM: VMX: Handle vmx instruction vmexits
KVM: s390: Allow stfle instruction in the guest
KVM: kvm/x86_emulate.c toggle_interruptibility() should be static
KVM: ia64: fix ia64 build due to missing kallsyms_lookup() and double export
KVM: protect concurrent make_all_cpus_request
KVM: MMU: Allow 4K ptes with bit 7 (PAT) set
KVM: Fix dirty bit tracking for slots with large pages
* 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
x86, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier
x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h>
x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h>
x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned
x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error
x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization
x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit
x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch()
x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space
x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter
x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it
x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias()
x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix
x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage
x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path
percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing
x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
* 'timers-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
timer stats: Optimize by adding quick check to avoid function calls
timers: Fix timer_migration interface which accepts any number as input
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds:
leds: Futher document blink_set
leds: Add options to have GPIO LEDs start on or keep their state
leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip
leds: pca9532 - Indent using tabs, not spaces.
leds: Remove an orphan Kconfig entry
leds: Further document parameters for blink_set()
leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS
leds: leds-gpio - fix a section mismatch
leds: add the sysfs interface into the leds-bd2802 driver for changing wave pattern and led current.
leds: change the license information
leds: fix led-bd2802 errors while resuming
make_all_cpus_request contains a race condition which can
trigger false request completed status, as follows:
CPU0 CPU1
if (test_and_set_bit(req,&vcpu->requests))
.... if (test_and_set_bit(req,&vcpu->requests))
.. return
proceed to smp_call_function_many(wait=1)
Use a spinlock to serialize concurrent CPUs.
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
* Use blk_rq_bytes() instead of obsolete ide_rq_bytes() in ide_kill_rq()
and ide_floppy_do_request() for failed requests.
[ bugfix part ]
* Use blk_rq_bytes() instead of obsolete ide_rq_bytes() in ide_do_devset()
and ide_complete_drive_reset(). Then remove ide_rq_bytes().
[ cleanup part ]
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: (28 commits)
drm: remove unused #include <linux/version.h>'s
drm/radeon: fix driver initialization order so radeon kms can be builtin
drm: Fix shifts which were miscalculated when converting from bitfields.
drm/radeon: Clear surface registers at initialization time.
drm/radeon: Don't initialize acceleration related fields of struct fb_info.
drm/radeon: fix radeon kms framebuffer device
drm/i915: initialize fence registers to zero when loading GEM
drm/i915: Fix HDMI regression introduced in new chipset support
drm/i915: fix LFP data fetch
drm/i915: set TV detection mode when tv is already connected
drm/i915: Catch up to obj_priv->page_list rename in disabled debug code.
drm/i915: Fix size_t handling in off-by-default debug printfs
drm/i915: Don't change the blank/sync width when calculating scaled modes
drm/i915: Add support for changing LVDS panel fitting using an output property.
drm/i915: correct suspend/resume ordering
drm/i915: Add missing dependency on Intel AGP support.
drm/i915: Generate 2MHz clock for display port aux channel I/O. Retry I/O.
drm/i915: Clarify error returns from display port aux channel I/O
drm/i915: Add CLKCFG register definition
drm/i915: Split array of DAC limits into separate structures.
...
This patch introduces a new sysctl:
/proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_io_nmi
which defaults to 0 (off).
When enabled, the kernel panics when the kernel receives an NMI
caused by an IO error.
The IO error triggered NMI indicates a serious system
condition, which could result in IO data corruption. Rather
than contiuing, panicing and dumping might be a better choice,
so one can figure out what's causing the IO error.
This could be especially important to companies running IO
intensive applications where corruption must be avoided, e.g. a
bank's databases.
[ SuSE has been shipping it for a while, it was done at the
request of a large database vendor, for their users. ]
Signed-off-by: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Roberto Angelino <robertangelino@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090624213211.GA11291@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Currently the 4th parameter of get_user_pages() is called len, but its
in pages, not bytes. Rename the thing to nr_pages to avoid future
confusion.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* git://git.infradead.org/battery-2.6:
da9030_battery: Fix race between event handler and monitor
Add MAX17040 Fuel Gauge driver
w1: ds2760_battery: add support for sleep mode feature
w1: ds2760: add support for EEPROM read and write
ds2760_battery: cleanups in ds2760_battery_probe()
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (48 commits)
dm mpath: change to be request based
dm: disable interrupt when taking map_lock
dm: do not set QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN if request based
dm: enable request based option
dm: prepare for request based option
dm raid1: add userspace log
dm: calculate queue limits during resume not load
dm log: fix create_log_context to use logical_block_size of log device
dm target:s introduce iterate devices fn
dm table: establish queue limits by copying table limits
dm table: replace struct io_restrictions with struct queue_limits
dm table: validate device logical_block_size
dm table: ensure targets are aligned to logical_block_size
dm ioctl: support cookies for udev
dm: sysfs add suspended attribute
dm table: improve warning message when devices not freed before destruction
dm mpath: add service time load balancer
dm mpath: add queue length load balancer
dm mpath: add start_io and nr_bytes to path selectors
dm snapshot: use barrier when writing exception store
...
* 'audit.b63' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current:
Fix rule eviction order for AUDIT_DIR
Audit: clean up all op= output to include string quoting
Audit: move audit_get_nd completely into audit_watch
audit: seperate audit inode watches into a subfile
Audit: clean up audit_receive_skb
Audit: cleanup netlink mesg handling
Audit: unify the printk of an skb when auditd not around
Audit: dereferencing krule as if it were an audit_watch
Audit: better estimation of execve record length
Audit: fix audit watch use after free
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (72 commits)
asus-laptop: remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency
asus-laptop: use pr_fmt and pr_<level>
eeepc-laptop: cpufv updates
eeepc-laptop: sync eeepc-laptop with asus_acpi
asus_acpi: Deprecate in favor of asus-laptop
acpi4asus: update MAINTAINER and KConfig links
asus-laptop: platform dev as parent for led and backlight
eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default
ACPI: Rename ACPI processor device bus ID
acerhdf: Acer Aspire One fan control
ACPI: video: DMI workaround broken Acer 7720 BIOS enabling display brightness
ACPI: run ACPI device hot removal in kacpi_hotplug_wq
ACPI: Add the reference count to avoid unloading ACPI video bus twice
ACPI: DMI to disable Vista compatibility on some Sony laptops
ACPI: fix a deadlock in hotplug case
Show the physical device node of backlight class device.
ACPI: pdc init related memory leak with physical CPU hotplug
ACPI: pci_root: remove unused dev/fn information
ACPI: pci_root: simplify list traversals
ACPI: pci_root: use driver data rather than list lookup
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6: (23 commits)
switch xfs to generic acl caching helpers
helpers for acl caching + switch to those
switch shmem to inode->i_acl
switch reiserfs to inode->i_acl
switch reiserfs to usual conventions for caching ACLs
reiserfs: minimal fix for ACL caching
switch nilfs2 to inode->i_acl
switch btrfs to inode->i_acl
switch jffs2 to inode->i_acl
switch jfs to inode->i_acl
switch ext4 to inode->i_acl
switch ext3 to inode->i_acl
switch ext2 to inode->i_acl
add caching of ACLs in struct inode
fs: Add new pre-allocation ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy xfs ioctls
cleanup __writeback_single_inode
... and the same for vfsmount id/mount group id
Make allocation of anon devices cheaper
update Documentation/filesystems/Locking
devpts: remove module-related code
...
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6:
bnx2: Fix the behavior of ethtool when ONBOOT=no
qla3xxx: Don't sleep while holding lock.
qla3xxx: Give the PHY time to come out of reset.
ipv4 routing: Ensure that route cache entries are usable and reclaimable with caching is off
net: Move rx skb_orphan call to where needed
ipv6: Use correct data types for ICMPv6 type and code
net: let KS8842 driver depend on HAS_IOMEM
can: let SJA1000 driver depend on HAS_IOMEM
netxen: fix firmware init handshake
netxen: fix build with without CONFIG_PM
netfilter: xt_rateest: fix comparison with self
netfilter: xt_quota: fix incomplete initialization
netfilter: nf_log: fix direct userspace memory access in proc handler
netfilter: fix some sparse endianess warnings
netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix conntrack lookup race
netfilter: nf_conntrack: fix confirmation race condition
netfilter: nf_conntrack: death_by_timeout() fix
helpers: get_cached_acl(inode, type), set_cached_acl(inode, type, acl),
forget_cached_acl(inode, type).
ubifs/xattr.c needed includes reordered, the rest is a plain switchover.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
This patch adds ioctls to vfs for compatibility with legacy XFS
pre-allocation ioctls (XFS_IOC_*RESVP*). The implementation
effectively invokes sys_fallocate for the new ioctls.
Also handles the compat_ioctl case.
Note: These legacy ioctls are also implemented by OCFS2.
[AV: folded fixes from hch]
Signed-off-by: Ankit Jain <me@ankitjain.org>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
When the kernel is configured with CONFIG_TIMER_STATS but timer
stats are runtime disabled we still get calls to
__timer_stats_timer_set_start_info which initializes some
fields in the corresponding struct timer_list.
So add some quick checks in the the timer stats setup functions
to avoid function calls to __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info
when timer stats are disabled.
In an artificial workload that does nothing but playing ping
pong with a single tcp packet via loopback this decreases cpu
consumption by 1 - 1.5%.
This is part of a modified function trace output on SLES11:
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732388 [+ 125]: sk_reset_timer <-tcp_v4_rcv
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732513 [+ 125]: mod_timer <-sk_reset_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732638 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732763 [+ 125]: __mod_timer <-mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177732888 [+ 125]: __timer_stats_timer_set_start_info <-__mod_timer
perl-2497 [00] 28630647177733013 [+ 93]: lock_timer_base <-__mod_timer
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Mustafa Mesanovic <mustafa.mesanovic@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <20090623153811.GA4641@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
There are some broken devices that report multiple DMA xfer modes
enabled at once (ATA spec doesn't allow it) but otherwise work fine
with DMA so just delete ide_id_dma_bug().
[ As discovered by detective work by Frans and Bart, due to how
handling of the ID block was handled before commit c419993
("ide-iops: only clear DMA words on setting DMA mode") this
check was always seeing zeros in the fields or other similar
garbage. Therefore this check wasn't actually checking anything.
Now that the tests actually check the real bits, all we see are
devices that trigger the check yet work perfectly fine, therefore
killing this useless check is the best thing to do. -DaveM ]
Reported-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Looks like I managed to mess up most shifts when converting from bitfields. :(
The patch below works on my Thinkpad T500 (as well as on my PowerBook,
where the previous change worked as well, maybe out of luck...). I'd
appreciate more testing and eyes looking over it though.
Signed-off-by: Michel Dänzer <daenzer@vmware.com>
Tested-by: Michael Pyne <mpyne@kde.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
A number of places in the audit system we send an op= followed by a string
that includes spaces. Somehow this works but it's just wrong. This patch
moves all of those that I could find to be quoted.
Example:
Change From: type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1244666690.117:31): auid=0 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:auditctl_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op=remove rule
key="number2" list=4 res=0
Change To: type=CONFIG_CHANGE msg=audit(1244666690.117:31): auid=0 ses=1
subj=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:auditctl_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023 op="remove rule"
key="number2" list=4 res=0
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Sometimes both acpi video and i915 driver are compiled as modules.
And there exists the strict dependency between the two drivers.
The acpi video bus will be unloaded in course of unloading the i915 driver.
If we unload the acpi video driver, then the kernel oops will be triggered.
Add the reference count to avoid unloading the ACPI video bus twice.
The reference count should be checked before unregistering the acpi video bus.
If the reference count is already zero, it won't unregister it again.
And after the acpi video bus is already unregistered, the reference count
will be set to zero.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13396
Signed-off-by: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* git://git.infradead.org/iommu-2.6:
Intel-IOMMU, intr-remap: source-id checking
Intel-IOMMU, intr-remap: set the whole 128bits of irte when modify/free it
IOMMU Identity Mapping Support (drivers/pci/intel_iommu.c)
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2:
ocfs2/trivial: Wrap ocfs2_sysfile_cluster_lock_key within define.
ocfs2: Add lockdep annotations
vfs: Set special lockdep map for dirs only if not set by fs
ocfs2: Disable orphan scanning for local and hard-ro mounts
ocfs2: Do not initialize lvb in ocfs2_orphan_scan_lock_res_init()
ocfs2: Stop orphan scan as early as possible during umount
ocfs2: Fix ocfs2_osb_dump()
ocfs2: Pin journal head before accessing jh->b_committed_data
ocfs2: Update atime in splice read if necessary.
ocfs2: Provide the ocfs2_dlm_lvb_valid() stack API.
In order to get the tun driver to account packets, we need to be
able to receive packets with destructors set. To be on the safe
side, I added an skb_orphan call for all protocols by default since
some of them (IP in particular) cannot handle receiving packets
destructors properly.
Now it seems that at least one protocol (CAN) expects to be able
to pass skb->sk through the rx path without getting clobbered.
So this patch attempts to fix this properly by moving the skb_orphan
call to where it's actually needed. In particular, I've added it
to skb_set_owner_[rw] which is what most users of skb->destructor
call.
This is actually an improvement for tun too since it means that
we only give back the amount charged to the socket when the skb
is passed to another socket that will also be charged accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Oliver Hartkopp <olver@hartkopp.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To support domain-isolation usages, the platform hardware must be
capable of uniquely identifying the requestor (source-id) for each
interrupt message. Without source-id checking for interrupt remapping
, a rouge guest/VM with assigned devices can launch interrupt attacks
to bring down anothe guest/VM or the VMM itself.
This patch adds source-id checking for interrupt remapping, and then
really isolates interrupts for guests/VMs with assigned devices.
Because PCI subsystem is not initialized yet when set up IOAPIC
entries, use read_pci_config_byte to access PCI config space directly.
Signed-off-by: Weidong Han <weidong.han@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
After the recent changes that went into mm/vmscan.c to overhaul stuff, we
ended up with these warnings on no-mmu systems:
mm/vmscan.c: In function `shrink_page_list':
mm/vmscan.c:580: warning: unused variable `vm_flags'
mm/vmscan.c: In function `shrink_active_list':
mm/vmscan.c:1294: warning: `vm_flags' may be used uninitialized in this function
mm/vmscan.c:1242: note: `vm_flags' was declared here
This is because the no-mmu function defines page_referenced() to work on
the first argument only (the page). It does not clear the vm_flags given
to it because for no-mmu systems, they never actually get utilized. Since
that is no longer strictly true, we need to set vm_flags to 0 like
everyone else so gcc can do proper dead code elimination without annoying
us with unused warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If a kthread happens to use get_user_pages() on an mm (as KSM does),
there's a chance that it will end up trying to read in a swap page, then
oops in grab_swap_token() because the kthread has no mm: GUP passes down
the right mm, so grab_swap_token() ought to be using it.
We have not identified a stronger case than KSM's daemon (not yet in
mainline), but the issue must have come up before, since RHEL has included
a fix for this for years (though a different fix, they just back out of
grab_swap_token if current->mm is unset: which is what we first proposed,
but using the right mm here seems more correct).
Reported-by: Izik Eidus <ieidus@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
There already is a "default-on" trigger but there are problems with it.
For one, it's a inefficient way to do it and requires led trigger support
to be compiled in.
But the real reason is that is produces a glitch on the LED. The GPIO is
allocate with the LED *off*, then *later* when the trigger runs it is
turned back on. If the LED was already on via the GPIO's reset default or
action of the firmware, this produces a glitch where the LED goes from on
to off to on. While normally this is fast enough that it wouldn't be
noticeable to a human observer, there are still serious problems.
One is that there may be something else on the GPIO line, like a hardware
alarm or watchdog, that is fast enough to notice the glitch.
Another is that the kernel may panic before the LED is turned back on, thus
hanging with the LED in the wrong state. This is not just speculation, but
actually happened to me with an embedded system that has an LED which
should turn off when the kernel finishes booting, which was left in the
incorrect state due to a bug in the OF LED binding code.
We also let GPIO LEDs get their initial value from whatever the current
state of the GPIO line is. On some systems the LEDs are put into some
state by the firmware or hardware before Linux boots, and it is desired to
have them keep this state which is otherwise unknown to Linux.
This requires that the underlying GPIO driver support reading the value of
output GPIOs. Some drivers support this and some do not.
The platform device binding gains a field in the platform data
"default_state" that controls this. There are three constants defined to
select from on, off, or keeping the current state. The OpenFirmware
binding uses a property named "default-state" that can be set to "on",
"off", or "keep". The default if the property isn't present is off.
Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
LEDs driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip
http://www.national.com/pf/LP/LP3944.html
This helper chip can drive up to 8 leds, with two programmable DIM
modes; it could even be used as a gpio expander but this driver assumes
it is used as a led controller.
The DIM modes are used to set _blink_ patterns for leds, the pattern is
specified supplying two parameters:
- period: from 0s to 1.6s
- duty cycle: percentage of the period the led is on, from 0 to 100
LP3944 can be found on Motorola A910 smartphone, where it drives the rgb
leds, the camera flash light and the displays backlights.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
The documentation for the parameters of blink_set() was a bit hard
to find so put some where I'd expected to find it.
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
