02 Mar, 2011

1 commit

  • Commit 0d5ff566779f894ca9937231a181eb31e4adff0e (libata: convert to iomap)
    removed all checks of ATA_FLAG_MMIO but neglected to remove the flag itself.
    Do it now, at last...

    Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

    Sergei Shtylyov
     

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
     

25 Mar, 2009

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05 Aug, 2008

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20 May, 2008

1 commit


25 Apr, 2008

1 commit

  • Since 43cc71eed1250755986da4c0f9898f9a635cb3bf, the platform modalias
    is prefixed with "platform:". Add MODULE_ALIAS() to the hotpluggable
    ATA and IDE platform drivers, to re-enable auto loading.

    NOTE: both ata/pata_platform.c and ide/legacy/ide_platform.c claim
    to provide "the" platform_pata driver, and there's no build-time
    mutual exclusion mechanism. This means that configs which enable
    both drivers will make some trouble when hotplugging...

    [dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net: more drivers, registration fixes]
    Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers
    Signed-off-by: David Brownell
    Cc: Tejun Heo
    Acked-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

    Kay Sievers
     

18 Apr, 2008

4 commits

  • SFF functions have confusing names. Some have sff prefix, some have
    bmdma, some std, some pci and some none. Unify the naming by...

    * SFF functions which are common to both BMDMA and non-BMDMA are
    prefixed with ata_sff_.

    * SFF functions which are specific to BMDMA are prefixed with
    ata_bmdma_.

    * SFF functions which are specific to PCI but apply to both BMDMA and
    non-BMDMA are prefixed with ata_pci_sff_.

    * SFF functions which are specific to PCI and BMDMA are prefixed with
    ata_pci_bmdma_.

    * Drop generic prefixes from LLD specific routines. For example,
    bfin_std_dev_select -> bfin_dev_select.

    The following renames are noteworthy.

    ata_qc_issue_prot() -> ata_sff_qc_issue()
    ata_pci_default_filter() -> ata_bmdma_mode_filter()
    ata_dev_try_classify() -> ata_sff_dev_classify()

    This rename is in preparation of separating SFF support out of libata
    core layer. This patch strictly renames functions and doesn't
    introduce any behavior difference.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Tejun Heo
     
  • libata lets low level drivers build ata_port_operations table and
    register it with libata core layer. This allows low level drivers
    high level of flexibility but also burdens them with lots of
    boilerplate entries.

    This becomes worse for drivers which support related similar
    controllers which differ slightly. They share most of the operations
    except for a few. However, the driver still needs to list all
    operations for each variant. This results in large number of
    duplicate entries, which is not only inefficient but also error-prone
    as it becomes very difficult to tell what the actual differences are.

    This duplicate boilerplates all over the low level drivers also make
    updating the core layer exteremely difficult and error-prone. When
    compounded with multi-branched development model, it ends up
    accumulating inconsistencies over time. Some of those inconsistencies
    cause immediate problems and fixed. Others just remain there dormant
    making maintenance increasingly difficult.

    To rectify the problem, this patch implements ata_port_operations
    inheritance. To allow LLDs to easily re-use their own ops tables
    overriding only specific methods, this patch implements poor man's
    class inheritance. An ops table has ->inherits field which can be set
    to any ops table as long as it doesn't create a loop. When the host
    is started, the inheritance chain is followed and any operation which
    isn't specified is taken from the nearest ancestor which has it
    specified. This operation is called finalization and done only once
    per an ops table and the LLD doesn't have to do anything special about
    it other than making the ops table non-const such that libata can
    update it.

    libata provides four base ops tables lower drivers can inherit from -
    base, sata, pmp, sff and bmdma. To avoid overriding these ops
    accidentaly, these ops are declared const and LLDs should always
    inherit these instead of using them directly.

    After finalization, all the ops table are identical before and after
    the patch except for setting .irq_handler to ata_interrupt in drivers
    which didn't use to. The .irq_handler doesn't have any actual effect
    and the field will soon be removed by later patch.

    * sata_sx4 is still using old style EH and currently doesn't take
    advantage of ops inheritance.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Tejun Heo
     
  • libata lets low level drivers build scsi_host_template and register it
    to the SCSI layer. This allows low level drivers high level of
    flexibility but also burdens them with lots of boilerplate entries.

    This patch implements SHT initializers which can be used to initialize
    all the boilerplate entries in a sht. Three variants of them are
    implemented - BASE, BMDMA and NCQ - for different types of drivers.
    Note that entries can be overriden by putting individual initializers
    after the helper macro.

    All sht tables are identical before and after this patch.

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Tejun Heo
     
  • ->irq_clear() is used to clear IRQ bit of a SFF controller and isn't
    useful for drivers which don't use libata SFF HSM implementation.
    However, it's a required callback and many drivers implement their own
    noop version as placeholder. This patch implements ata_noop_irq_clear
    and use it to replace those custom placeholders.

    Also, SFF drivers which don't support BMDMA don't need to use
    ata_bmdma_irq_clear(). It becomes noop if BMDMA address isn't
    initialized. Convert them to use ata_noop_irq_clear().

    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Tejun Heo
     

03 Feb, 2008

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02 Dec, 2007

1 commit

  • Several fixes for the AVR32 PATA driver:

    * Updated to use new AVR32 SMC timing API. This removes the need for "magic"
    constants in signal timing.

    * Removed the ATA_FLAG_PIO_POLLING, the driver should use interrupts.

    * Removed .port_disable and .irq_ack as these are no longer needed.

    * Improved some comments.

    Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

    Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen
     

13 Oct, 2007

1 commit

  • Updated and simplified driver. Use only register transfer timing for both
    data and register transfers. This gives poorer performance in PIO1 and 2,
    but should not be a problem in PIO3 and 4, correct me if I'm wrong :)

    The driver works very we'll but I still wonder about the interrupts. I have
    an interrupt line, that works nicely when POLLING flag is not set. The
    problem is the number of interrupts that eat away my CPU cycles.

    When using the POLLING flag there seem to be some interrupts that dosen't get
    cleared. Furthermore the device dosen't drive INTRQ high, it stays at 2.5 volts
    and generates a lot of interrupts due to ripple / noise. What to do?

    Signed-off-by: Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen
    Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik

    Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen