29 May, 2012

3 commits

  • The number of pages is a dimm property. Move it to the dimm struct.

    After this change, it is possible to add sysfs nodes for the DIMM's that
    will properly represent the DIMM stick properties, including its size.

    A TODO fix here is to properly represent dual-rank/quad-rank DIMMs when
    the memory controller represents the memory via chip select rows.

    Reviewed-by: Aristeu Rozanski
    Acked-by: Borislav Petkov
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
    Cc: Doug Thompson
    Cc: Mark Gross
    Cc: Jason Uhlenkott
    Cc: Tim Small
    Cc: Ranganathan Desikan
    Cc: "Arvind R."
    Cc: Olof Johansson
    Cc: Egor Martovetsky
    Cc: Michal Marek
    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: Joe Perches
    Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Hitoshi Mitake
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: "Niklas Söderlund"
    Cc: Shaohui Xie
    Cc: Josh Boyer
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

    Mauro Carvalho Chehab
     
  • On systems based on chip select rows, all channels need to use memories
    with the same properties, otherwise the memories on channels A and B
    won't be recognized.

    However, such assumption is not true for all types of memory
    controllers.

    Controllers for FB-DIMM's don't have such requirements.

    Also, modern Intel controllers seem to be capable of handling such
    differences.

    So, we need to get rid of storing the DIMM information into a per-csrow
    data, storing it, instead at the right place.

    The first step is to move grain, mtype, dtype and edac_mode to the
    per-dimm struct.

    Reviewed-by: Aristeu Rozanski
    Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov
    Acked-by: Chris Metcalf
    Cc: Doug Thompson
    Cc: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Mark Gross
    Cc: Jason Uhlenkott
    Cc: Tim Small
    Cc: Ranganathan Desikan
    Cc: "Arvind R."
    Cc: Olof Johansson
    Cc: Egor Martovetsky
    Cc: Michal Marek
    Cc: Jiri Kosina
    Cc: Joe Perches
    Cc: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
    Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
    Cc: Hitoshi Mitake
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: James Bottomley
    Cc: "Niklas Söderlund"
    Cc: Shaohui Xie
    Cc: Josh Boyer
    Cc: Mike Williams
    Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

    Mauro Carvalho Chehab
     
  • The way a DIMM is currently represented implies that they're
    linked into a per-csrow struct. However, some drivers don't see
    csrows, as they're ridden behind some chip like the AMB's
    on FBDIMM's, for example.

    This forced drivers to fake^Wvirtualize a csrow struct, and to create
    a mess under csrow/channel original's concept.

    Move the DIMM labels into a per-DIMM struct, and add there
    the real location of the socket, in terms of csrow/channel.
    Latter patches will modify the location to properly represent the
    memory architecture.

    All other drivers will use a per-csrow type of location.
    Some of those drivers will require a latter conversion, as
    they also fake the csrows internally.

    TODO: While this patch doesn't change the existing behavior, on
    csrows-based memory controllers, a csrow/channel pair points to a memory
    rank. There's a known bug at the EDAC core that allows having different
    labels for the same DIMM, if it has more than one rank. A latter patch
    is need to merge the several ranks for a DIMM into the same dimm_info
    struct, in order to avoid having different labels for the same DIMM.

    The edac_mc_alloc() will now contain a per-dimm initialization loop that
    will be changed by latter patches in order to match other types of
    memory architectures.

    Reviewed-by: Aristeu Rozanski
    Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov
    Cc: Doug Thompson
    Cc: Ranganathan Desikan
    Cc: "Arvind R."
    Cc: "Niklas Söderlund"
    Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

    Mauro Carvalho Chehab
     

19 Mar, 2012

1 commit

  • These const tables are currently marked __devinitdata, but
    Documentation/PCI/pci.txt says:

    "o The ID table array should be marked __devinitconst; this is done
    automatically if the table is declared with DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE()."

    So use DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE(x).

    Based on PaX and earlier work by Andi Kleen.

    Signed-off-by: Lionel Debroux
    Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov

    Lionel Debroux
     

30 Oct, 2011

1 commit


19 Apr, 2011

1 commit

  • The kernel already prints its build timestamp during boot, no need to
    repeat it in random drivers and produce different object files each
    time.

    Cc: Doug Thompson
    Cc: bluesmoke-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
    Cc: linux-edac@vger.kernel.org
    Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
    Signed-off-by: Michal Marek

    Michal Marek
     

17 Feb, 2011

3 commits


24 Jan, 2011

1 commit


30 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • …it slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

    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 -> 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 <tj@kernel.org>
    Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

    Tejun Heo
     

29 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • I implemented opstate_init() as a inline function in linux/edac.h.

    added calling opstate_init() to:
    i82443bxgx_edac.c
    i82860_edac.c
    i82875p_edac.c
    i82975x_edac.c

    I wrote a fixed patch of
    edac-fix-module-initialization-on-several-modules.patch,
    and tested building 2.6.25-rc7 with applying this. It was succeed.
    I think the patch is now correct.

    Cc: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake
    Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Hitoshi Mitake
     

20 Jul, 2007

1 commit

  • New EDAC driver for the i82975x memory controller chipset Used on ASUS
    motherboards

    [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix multiple coding-style bloopers]
    Signed-off-by:
    Signed-off-by: Ranganathan Desikan
    Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson
    Cc: Greg KH
    Cc: Alan Cox
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Ranganathan Desikan