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Michal Schmidt 46dacba52a [PATCH] swsusp: prevent disks from spinning down and up
Stop the disks from spinning down and up on suspend.

Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:16 -07:00
Pavel Machek 583a4e88db [PATCH] fix pm_message_t stuff in -mm tree
This should bits from -mm tree that are affected by pm_message_t
conversion.  [I'm not 100% sure I got all of them, but I certainly got all
the errors on make allyesconfig build, and most of warnings, too.  I'll go
through the buildlog tommorow and fix any remaining bits].

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:16 -07:00
Pavel Machek ca078bae81 [PATCH] swsusp: switch pm_message_t to struct
This adds type-checking to pm_message_t, so that people can't confuse it
with int or u32.  It also allows us to fix "disk yoyo" during suspend (disk
spinning down/up/down).

[We've tried that before; since that cpufreq problems were fixed and I've
tried make allyes config and fixed resulting damage.]

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:16 -07:00
Pavel Machek 829ca9a30a [PATCH] swsusp: fix remaining u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion
Fix remaining bits of u32 vs.  pm_message confusion.  Should not break
anything.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:15 -07:00
Karsten Wiese a1740913ca [PATCH] via vt8237 apic bypass deassertion quirk
The VIA VT8237's IOAPIC sends 'APIC De-Assert Messages' by default, causing
another CPU interrupt when the IRQ pin is de-asserted.  This feature is
switched off by the patch to get rid of doubled ioapic level interrupt
rates.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Wiese <annabellesgarden@yahoo.de>
Tested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:10 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 59df6bbf38 [PATCH] mips: kludge envdev to build for 64-bit MIPS with 32-bit compat
Extend the compat mode kludgeology in envdev to cover MIPS as well.

Or why we should need something like is_compat_task() ...

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:08 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 875d43e72b [PATCH] mips: clean up 32/64-bit configuration
Start cleaning 32-bit vs. 64-bit configuration.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:06 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa 466adc66cf [PATCH] fix warning of TANBAC_TB0219 in drivers/char/Kconfig
$ make menuconfig
scripts/kconfig/mconf arch/i386/Kconfig
drivers/char/Kconfig:847:warning: 'select' used by config symbol
'TANBAC_TB0219' refer to undefined symbol 'PCI_VR41XX'

Here is a patch for this warning fix.

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:04 -07:00
Yoichi Yuasa 63b799f9de [PATCH] mips: add TANBAC VR4131 multichip module
This patch has added TANBAC VR4131 multichip module in arch/mips/Kconfig

Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yuasa@hh.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:04 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 7901c79982 [PATCH] DEC PMAGB B framebuffer update
Revive HX frame buffer support for 2.6.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:03 -07:00
Ralf Baechle af690a948c [PATCH] DEC PMAG BA frame buffer update
Rewrite PMAG BA frame buffer driver for 2.6.

Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:03 -07:00
Ralf Baechle 61838ffeee [PATCH] DEC PMAG AA framebuffer update
Get it working again.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:06:03 -07:00
Kumar Gala 39cdc4bfb5 [PATCH] ppc32: Cleaned up global namespace of Book-E watchdog variables
Renamed global variables used to convey if the watchdog is enabled and
periodicity of the timer and moved the declarations into a header for these
variables

Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:57 -07:00
Kumar Gala b0531b9b32 [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix baseaddress for SMC 1 and 2
Base addess register for SMC 1 and 2 are never initialized.  This means
that they will not work unless a bootloader already configured them.

The DPRAM already have space reserved, this patch just makes sure the base
addess register is updated correctly on initialization.

Signed-off-by: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:56 -07:00
Kumar Gala 638861d54e [PATCH] cpm_uart: use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to schedule
use schedule_timeout instead of direct call to schedule

Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:56 -07:00
Kumar Gala 0d8ba1a979 [PATCH] cpm_uart: Fix 2nd serial port on MPC8560 ADS
The 2nd serial port on the MPC8560 ADS was not being configured correctly
and thus could not be used as a console.  Updated the defconfig for the
board to configure the proper SCC channel for the 2nd serial port.

Signed-off-by: Roy Zang <tie-fei.zang@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:56 -07:00
Kumar Gala a2f40ccd29 [PATCH] ppc32: Added support for the Book-E style Watchdog Timer
PowerPC 40x and Book-E processors support a watchdog timer at the processor
core level.  The timer has implementation dependent timeout frequencies
that can be configured by software.

One the first Watchdog timeout we get a critical exception.  It is left to
board specific code to determine what should happen at this point.  If
nothing is done and another timeout period expires the processor may
attempt to reset the machine.

Command line parameters:
  wdt=0 : disable watchdog (default)
  wdt=1 : enable watchdog

  wdt_period=N : N sets the value of the Watchdog Timer Period.

  The Watchdog Timer Period meaning is implementation specific. Check
  User Manual for the processor for more details.

This patch is based off of work done by Takeharu Kato.

Signed-off-by: Matt McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <kumar.gala@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:56 -07:00
Martin Hicks c07e02db76 [PATCH] VM: add page_state info to per-node meminfo
Add page_state info to the per-node meminfo file in sysfs.  This is mostly
just for informational purposes.

The lack of this information was brought up recently during a discussion
regarding pagecache clearing, and I put this patch together to test out one
of the suggestions.

It seems like interesting info to have, so I'm submitting the patch.

Signed-off-by: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:49 -07:00
Marcel Selhorst e8a650150b [PATCH] tpm_infineon: Bugfix in PNPACPI-handling
This patch corrects the PNP-handling inside the tpm-driver
and some minor coding style bugs.
Note: the pci-device and pnp-device mixture is currently necessary,
since the used "tpm"-interface requires a pci-dev in order to register
the driver. This will be fixed within the next iterations.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Selhorst <selhorst@crypto.rub.de>
Cc: Kylene Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:37 -07:00
Michael Krufky e770e85061 [PATCH] dvb: saa7134-dvb must select tda1004x
Please apply this to 2.6.14, and also to 2.6.13.1 -stable.  Without this
patch, users will have to EXPLICITLY select tda1004x in Kconfig.  This
SHOULD be done automatically when saa7134-dvb is selected.  This patch
corrects this problem.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-05 00:05:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds f505380ba7 Merge refs/heads/ieee80211-wifi from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-02 02:01:35 -07:00
Jeff Garzik 504be3aa09 [wireless hostap] automatically select ieee80211 dependency in Kconfig 2005-09-02 04:44:25 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 138307b475 Merge HEAD from master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-09-02 00:53:36 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5d8c397f30 Merge refs/heads/ieee80211-wifi from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-02 00:48:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 44757223cd Merge refs/heads/upstream from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 2005-09-02 00:46:53 -07:00
Jeff Garzik ceeec3dc37 /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch 'ieee80211' 2005-09-01 18:02:27 -04:00
Jeff Garzik e3ee3b78f8 /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch 'master' 2005-09-01 18:02:01 -04:00
Linus Torvalds 712fbdd333 Merge refs/heads/release from master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6 2005-09-01 10:58:18 -07:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 8085ce084c [PATCH] Fix PCI ROM mapping
This fixes a problem with pci_map_rom() which doesn't properly
update the ROM BAR value with the address thas allocated for it by the
PCI code. This problem, among other, breaks boot on Mac laptops.

It'ss a new version based on Linus latest one with better error
checking.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-01 10:50:29 -07:00
Adrian Bunk 7eaa414ee8 [PATCH] Add missing select's to DVB_BUDGET_AV
This fixes the following compile error:

	...
	  LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
	drivers/built-in.o: In function `frontend_init':
	budget-av.c:(.text+0xb9448): undefined reference to `tda10046_attach'
	budget-av.c:(.text+0xb9518): undefined reference to `tda10021_attach'
	drivers/built-in.o: In function `philips_tu1216_request_firmware':
	budget-av.c:(.text+0xb937b): undefined reference to `request_firmware'
	make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Acked-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-01 10:43:33 -07:00
Russell King bc49a661e6 [SERIAL] Move serial8250_*_port prototypes to linux/serial_8250.h
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-01 15:56:26 +01:00
Russell King f8dd49fa05 [SERIAL] mwave is no longer broken
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-09-01 14:25:45 +01:00
Jouni Malinen fbff868db3 [PATCH] hostap: Fix null pointer dereference in prism2_pccard_card_present()
local->hw_priv was initialized only after the interrupt handler was
registered. This could trigger a NULL pointer dereference in
prism2_pccard_card_present() that assumed that local->hw_priv is always
set (and it should have been). Fix this by setting local->hw_priv before
registering the interrupt handler.

Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline@cc.hut.fi>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:48:39 -04:00
Michael Ellerman ee05f031ec [PATCH] iseries_veth: Be consistent about driver name, increment version
The iseries_veth driver tells sysfs that it's called 'iseries_veth', but if
you ask it via ethtool it thinks it's called 'veth'. I think this comes from
2.4 when the driver was called 'veth', but it's definitely called
'iseries_veth' now, so fix it.

To make sure we don't do it again define DRV_NAME and use it everywhere.

While we're at it, change the version number to 2.0, to reflect the changes
made in this patch series.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:43:42 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 59f17aebab [PATCH] iseries_veth: Remove studly caps from iseries_veth.c
Having merged iseries_veth.h, let's remove some of the studly caps that came
with it.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:43:42 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 642d1a4c36 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Incorporate iseries_veth.h in iseries_veth.c
iseries_veth.h is only used by iseries_veth.c, so merge the former into
the latter.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:43:42 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 07a5c1727d [PATCH] iseries_veth: Add sysfs support for port structs
Also to aid debugging, add sysfs support for iseries_veth's port structures.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:42:46 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 76812d8123 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Add sysfs support for connection structs
To aid in field debugging, add sysfs support for iseries_veth's connection
structures. At the moment this is all read-only, however we could think about
adding write support for some attributes in future.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:42:46 -04:00
Michael Ellerman db5e8718ea [PATCH] iseries_veth: Fix bogus counting of TX errors
There's a number of problems with the way iseries_veth counts TX errors.

Firstly it counts conditions which aren't really errors as TX errors. This
includes if we don't have a connection struct for the other LPAR, or if the
other LPAR is currently down (or just doesn't want to talk to us). Neither
of these should count as TX errors.

Secondly, it counts one TX error for each LPAR that fails to accept the packet.
This can lead to TX error counts higher than the total number of packets sent
through the interface. This is confusing for users.

This patch fixes that behaviour. The non-error conditions are no longer
counted, and we introduce a new and I think saner meaning to the TX counts.

If a packet is successfully transmitted to any LPAR then it is transmitted
and tx_packets is incremented by 1.

If there is an error transmitting a packet to any LPAR then that is counted
as one error, ie. tx_errors is incremented by 1.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:42:45 -04:00
Michael Ellerman e0808494ff [PATCH] iseries_veth: Simplify full-queue handling
The iseries_veth driver often has multiple netdevices sending packets over
a single connection to another LPAR. If the bandwidth to the other LPAR is
exceeded, all the netdevices must have their queues stopped.

The current code achieves this by queueing one incoming skb on the
per-netdevice port structure. When the connection is able to send more packets
we iterate through the port structs and flush any packet that is queued,
as well as restarting the associated netdevice's queue.

This arrangement makes less sense now that we have per-connection TX timers,
rather than the per-netdevice generic TX timer.

The new code simply detects when one of the connections is full, and stops
the queue of all associated netdevices. Then when a packet is acked on that
connection (ie. there is space again) all the queues are woken up.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:42:45 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 24562ffa8b [PATCH] iseries_veth: Add a per-connection ack timer
Currently the iseries_veth driver contravenes the specification in
Documentation/networking/driver.txt, in that if packets are not acked by
the other LPAR they will sit around forever.

This patch adds a per-connection timer which fires if we've had no acks for
five seconds. This is superior to the generic TX timer because it catches
the case of a small number of packets being sent and never acked.

This fixes a bug we were seeing on real systems, where some IPv6 neighbour
discovery packets would not be acked and then prevent the module from being
removed, due to skbs lying around.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:42:45 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 48683d72f8 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Remove TX timeout code
The iseries_veth driver uses the generic TX timeout watchdog, however a better
solution is in the works, so remove this code.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:39:43 -04:00
Michael Ellerman f0c129caa3 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Use kobjects to track lifecycle of connection structs
The iseries_veth driver can attach to multiple vlans, which correspond to
multiple net devices. However there is only 1 connection between each LPAR,
so the connection structure may be shared by multiple net devices.

This makes module removal messy, because we can't deallocate the connections
until we know there are no net devices still using them. The solution is to
use ref counts on the connections, so we can delete them (actually stop) as
soon as the ref count hits zero.

This patch fixes (part of) a bug we were seeing with IPv6 sending probes to
a dead LPAR, which would then hang us forever due to leftover skbs.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:39:43 -04:00
Michael Ellerman ec60beebed [PATCH] iseries_veth: Make init_connection() & destroy_connection() symmetrical
This patch makes veth_init_connection() and veth_destroy_connection()
symmetrical in that they allocate/deallocate the same data.

Currently if there's an error while initialising connections (ie. ENOMEM)
we call veth_module_cleanup(), however this will oops because we call
driver_unregister() before we've called driver_register(). I've never seen
this actually happen though.

So instead we explicitly call veth_destroy_connection() for each connection,
any that have been set up will be deallocated.

We also fix a potential leak if vio_register_driver() fails.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:39:43 -04:00
Michael Ellerman cbf9074cc3 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Only call dma_unmap_single() if dma_map_single() succeeded
The iseries_veth driver unconditionally calls dma_unmap_single() even
when the corresponding dma_map_single() may have failed.

Rework the code a bit to keep the return value from dma_unmap_single()
around, and then check if it's a dma_mapping_error() before we do
the dma_unmap_single().

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:39:43 -04:00
Michael Ellerman b08bd5c0a3 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Replace lock-protected atomic with an ordinary variable
The iseries_veth driver uses atomic ops to manipulate the in_use field of
one of its per-connection structures. However all references to the
flag occur while the connection's lock is held, so the atomic ops aren't
necessary.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:39:43 -04:00
Michael Ellerman d7893ddd1b [PATCH] iseries_veth: Remove redundant message stack lock
The iseries_veth driver keeps a stack of messages for each connection
and a lock to protect the stack. However there is also a per-connection lock
which makes the message stack lock redundant.

Remove the message stack lock and document the fact that callers of the
stack-manipulation functions must hold the connection's lock.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:37:57 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 2a5391a122 [PATCH] iseries_veth: Fix broken promiscuous handling
Due to a logic bug, once promiscuous mode is enabled in the iseries_veth
driver it is never disabled.

The driver keeps two flags, promiscuous and all_mcast which have exactly the
same effect. This is because we only ever receive packets destined for us,
or multicast packets. So consolidate them into one promiscuous flag for
simplicity.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:37:57 -04:00
Michael Ellerman 58c5900bda [PATCH] iseries_veth: Try to avoid pathological reset behaviour
The iseries_veth driver contains a state machine which is used to manage
how connections are setup and neogotiated between LPARs.

If one side of a connection resets for some reason, the two LPARs can get
stuck in a race to re-setup the connection. This can lead to the connection
being declared dead by one or both ends. In practice the connection is
declared dead by one or both ends approximately 8/10 times a connection is
reset, although it is rare for connections to be reset.

(an example here: http://michael.ellerman.id.au/files/misc/veth-trace.html)

The core of the problem is that the end that resets the connection doesn't
wait for the other end to become aware of the reset. So the resetting end
starts setting the connection back up, and then receives a reset from the
other end (which is the response to the initial reset). And so on.

We're severely limited in what we can do to fix this. The protocol between
LPARs is essentially fixed, as we have to interoperate with both OS/400
and old Linux drivers. Which also means we need a fix that only changes the
code on one end.

The only fix I've found given that, is to just blindly sleep for a bit when
resetting the connection, in the hope that the other end will get itself
sorted.  Needless to say I'd love it if someone has a better idea.

This does work, I've so far been unable to get it to break, whereas without
the fix a reset of one end will lead to a dead connection ~8/10 times.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:37:56 -04:00
Michael Ellerman abfda4719c [PATCH] iseries_veth: Remove a FIXME WRT deletion of the ack_timer
The iseries_veth driver has a timer which we use to send acks. When the
connection is reset or stopped we need to delete the timer.

Currently we only call del_timer() when resetting a connection, which means
the timer might run again while the connection is being re-setup. As it turns
out that's ok, because the flags the timer consults have been reset.

It's cleaner though to call del_timer_sync() once we've dropped the lock,
although the timer may still run between us dropping the lock and calling
del_timer_sync(), but as above that's ok.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-08-31 22:37:56 -04:00