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<title>kernel/git/stable/linux.git/drivers/char/nozomi.c, branch master</title>
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<updated>2011-02-23T00:14:56+00:00</updated>
<entry>
<title>tty: move a number of tty drivers from drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/</title>
<updated>2011-02-23T00:14:56+00:00</updated>
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<name>Greg Kroah-Hartman</name>
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<published>2011-02-23T00:14:56+00:00</published>
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As planned by Arnd Bergmann, this moves the following drivers from
drivers/char/ to drivers/tty/ as that's where they really belong:
	amiserial
	nozomi
	synclink
	rocket
	cyclades
	moxa
	mxser
	isicom
	bfin_jtag_comm

Cc: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Cc: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: now phase out the ioctl file pointer for good</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T19:59:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-14T16:27:22+00:00</published>
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Only oddities here are a couple of drivers that bogusly called the ldisc
helpers instead of returning -ENOIOCTLCMD. Fix the bug and the rest goes
away.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tiocmset: kill the file pointer argument</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T19:52:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-14T16:26:50+00:00</published>
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Doing tiocmget was such fun we should do tiocmset as well for the same
reasons

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tiocmget: kill off the passing of the struct file</title>
<updated>2011-02-17T19:47:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
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<published>2011-02-14T16:26:14+00:00</published>
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We don't actually need this and it causes problems for internal use of
this functionality. Currently there is a single use of the FILE * pointer.
That is the serial core which uses it to check tty_hung_up_p. However if
that is true then IO_ERROR is also already set so the check may be removed.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>nozomi: Fix warning from the previous TIOCGCOUNT changes</title>
<updated>2010-11-09T22:49:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-10-26T14:56:34+00:00</published>
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Just remove a now unused variable

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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<entry>
<title>tty: icount changeover for other main devices</title>
<updated>2010-10-22T17:20:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Alan Cox</name>
<email>alan@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-09-16T17:21:52+00:00</published>
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Again basically cut and paste

Convert the main driver set to use the hooks for GICOUNT

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;


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<entry>
<title>kfifo: fix kfifo miss use of nozami.c</title>
<updated>2010-08-11T15:59:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Stefani Seibold</name>
<email>stefani@seibold.net</email>
</author>
<published>2010-08-11T01:03:37+00:00</published>
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There are different types of a fifo which can not handled in C without a
lot of overhead.  So i decided to write the API as a set of macros, which
is the only way to do a kind of template meta programming without C++.
This macros handles the different types of fifos in a transparent way.

There are a lot of benefits:

- Compile time handling of the different fifo types
- Better performance (a save put or get of an integer does only generate
  9 assembly instructions on a x86)
- Type save
- Cleaner interface, the additional kfifo_..._rec() functions are gone
- Easier to use
- Less error prone
- Different types of fifos: it is now possible to define a int fifo or
  any other type. See below for an example.
- Smaller footprint for none byte type fifos
- No need of creating a second hidden variable, like in the old DEFINE_KFIFO

The API was not changed.

There are now real in place fifos where the data space is a part of the
structure.  The fifo needs now 20 byte plus the fifo space.  Dynamic
assigned or allocated create a little bit more code.

Most of the macros code will be optimized away and simple generate a
function call.  Only the really small one generates inline code.

Additionally you can now create fifos for any data type, not only the
"unsigned char" byte streamed fifos.

There is also a new kfifo_put and kfifo_get function, to handle a single
element in a fifo.  This macros generates inline code, which is lit bit
larger but faster.

I know that this kind of macros are very sophisticated and not easy to
maintain.  But i have all tested and it works as expected.  I analyzed the
output of the compiler and for the x86 the code is as good as hand written
assembler code.  For the byte stream fifo the generate code is exact the
same as with the current kfifo implementation.  For all other types of
fifos the code is smaller before, because the interface is easier to use.

The main goal was to provide an API which is very intuitive, save and easy
to use.  So linux will get now a powerful fifo API which provides all what
a developer needs.  This will save in the future a lot of kernel space,
since there is no need to write an own implementation.  Most of the device
driver developers need a fifo, and also deep kernel development will gain
benefit from this API.

Here are the results of the text section usage:

Example 1:
                        kfifo_put/_get  kfifo_in/out    current kfifo
dynamic allocated       0x000002a8      0x00000291      0x00000299
in place                0x00000291      0x0000026e      0x00000273

kfifo.c                 new             old
text section size       0x00000be5      0x000008b2

As you can see, kfifo_put/kfifo_get creates a little bit more code than
kfifo_in/kfifo_out, but it is much faster (the code is inline).

The code is complete hand crafted and optimized.  The text section size is
as small as possible.  You get all the fifo handling in only 3 kb.  This
includes type safe fix size records, dynamic records and DMA handling.

This should be the final version. All requested features are implemented.

Note: Most features of this API doesn't have any users.  All functions
which are not used in the next 9 months will be removed.  So, please adapt
your drivers and other sources as soon as possible to the new API and post
it.

This are the features which are currently not used in the kernel:

kfifo_to_user()
kfifo_from_user()
kfifo_dma_....() macros
kfifo_esize()
kfifo_recsize()
kfifo_put()
kfifo_get()

The fixed size record elements, exclude "unsigned char" fifo's and the
variable size records fifo's

This patch:

User of the kernel fifo should never bypass the API and directly access
the fifo structure.  Otherwise it will be very hard to maintain the API.

Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold &lt;stefani@seibold.net&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>Char: nozomi, set tty-&gt;driver_data appropriately</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T20:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-29T09:46:32+00:00</published>
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Sorry, one more fix, this one depends on the other, so this is rather 2/2.
--

tty-&gt;driver_data is used all over the code, but never set. This
results in oopses like:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000130
IP: [&lt;ffffffff814a0040&gt;] mutex_lock+0x10/0x40
...
Pid: 2157, comm: modem-manager Not tainted 2.6.34.1-0.1-desktop #1 2768DR7/2768DR7
RIP: 0010:[&lt;ffffffff814a0040&gt;]  [&lt;ffffffff814a0040&gt;] mutex_lock+0x10/0x40
RSP: 0018:ffff88007b16fa50  EFLAGS: 00010286
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000130 RCX: 0000000000000003
RDX: 0000000000000003 RSI: 0000000000000286 RDI: 0000000000000130
RBP: 0000000000001000 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000130
R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffff88007b16feb4
...
Call Trace:
 [&lt;ffffffffa077690d&gt;] ntty_write_room+0x4d/0x90 [nozomi]
...

Set tty-&gt;driver_data to the computed port in .install to not recompute it in
every place where needed. Switch .open to use driver_data too.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [.34, .35]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;


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<entry>
<title>Char: nozomi, fix tty-&gt;count counting</title>
<updated>2010-08-10T20:47:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jslaby@suse.cz</email>
</author>
<published>2010-07-29T09:09:47+00:00</published>
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Currently ntty_install omits to increment tty count and we get the
following warnings:
Warning: dev (noz2) tty-&gt;count(0) != #fd's(1) in tty_open

So to fix that, add one tty-&gt;count++ there.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jslaby@suse.cz&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@linux.intel.com&gt;
Cc: stable &lt;stable@kernel.org&gt; [.34, .35]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;

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<entry>
<title>include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h</title>
<updated>2010-03-30T13:02:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Tejun Heo</name>
<email>tj@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2010-03-24T08:04:11+00:00</published>
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percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -&gt; slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Cc: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn &lt;Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com&gt;
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