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Michael Ellerman
79165121bc [NET]: Add is_multicast_ether_addr() in include/linux/etherdevice.h
This patch adds is_multicast_ether_addr() to go along with
is_valid_ether_addr() and friends. It then changes
is_valid_ether_addr() to use the new macro, and fixes up the comment
on that function to move implementation details out of the API doco.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:24:30 -07:00
Harald Welte
8f937c6099 [IPV4]: Primary and secondary addresses
Add an option to make secondary IP addresses get promoted
when primary IP addresses are removed from the device.
It defaults to off to preserve existing behavior.

Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 20:23:46 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
79158229b0 Automatic merge of 'misc-fixes' branch from
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
2005-05-29 19:30:03 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
81e8157583 [BRIDGE]: make dev->features unsigned
The features field in netdevice is really a bitmask, and bitmask's should
be unsigned.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 14:14:35 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
d8a33ac435 [BRIDGE]: features change notification
Resend of earlier patch (no changes) from Catalin used to provide
device feature change notification.

Signed-off-by: Catalin BOIE <catab at umbrella.ro>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-29 14:13:47 -07:00
d582c4ea30 Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch use-after-unmap 2005-05-29 14:24:57 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
45b30105e7 Automatic merge of 'for-linus' branch from
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input
2005-05-29 10:40:13 -07:00
Vitaly Bordug
a6dbba77a9 [PATCH] ppc32: Support for 82xx PQII on-chip PCI bridge
This patch adds on-chip PCI bridge support for the PQ2 family.  The
incomplete existent code is updated with interrupt handling stuff and
board-specific bits for 8272ADS and PQ2FADS; the related files were renamed
(from m8260_pci to m82xx_pci) to be of more generic fashion.  This is
tested with 8266ADS and 8272ADS, should work on PQ2FADS as well.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:15 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
8e21683bb4 [PATCH] uml: remove jail mode + other leftovers
This var is currently useless, as it's apparent from reading the code. Until
2.6.11 it was used in some code related to jail mode, in the same proc.:

        if(jail){
		while(!reading) sched_yield();
	}

jail mode has been dropped, together with that use, so let's finish dropping
this.

Also, remove some other useless definitions I met.

Acked-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:14 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
8f28e8fa46 [PATCH] irq code: Add coherence test for PREEMPT_ACTIVE
After porting this fixlet to UML:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@41791ab52lfMuF2i3V-eTIGRBbDYKQ

, I've also added a warning which should refuse compilation with insane values
for PREEMPT_ACTIVE...  maybe we should simply move PREEMPT_ACTIVE out of
architectures using GENERIC_IRQS.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:14 -07:00
Paul Mundt
37053cc84d [PATCH] sh: PREEMPT_ACTIVE fix
Port Paulus's ppc64 fix to sh:

  When the generic IRQ stuff went in, it seems that HARDIRQ_BITS got bumped
  from 9 (for ppc64) up to 12.  Consequently, the PREEMPT_ACTIVE bit is now
  within HARDIRQ_MASK, and I get in_interrupt() falsely returning true when
  PREEMPT_ACTIVE is set, and thus a BUG_ON tripping in arch/ppc64/mm/tlb.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:13 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
affac4bcbb [PATCH] uml: fix PREEMPT_ACTIVE
This is a continuation for UML of:

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@41791ab52lfMuF2i3V-eTIGRBbDYKQ

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:13 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
b3461034d7 [PATCH] uml: stack dump fix
Copy (and adapt) to UML the stack code dumper used in i386 when
CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:13 -07:00
Jeff Dike
b9e0d0696c [PATCH] uml: fix a couple of warnings
Eliminate an unused variable warning in ptrace.c and a size mismatch warning
by adding a cast to __pa.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-28 16:46:11 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
668d1e6093 Input:
This patch adds dummy gameport_register_port, gameport_unregister_port
and gameport_set_phys functions to gameport.h for the case when a driver
can't use gameport.

This fixes the compilation of some OSS drivers with GAMEPORT=n without
the need to #if inside every single driver.

This patch also removes the non-working and now obsolete SOUND_GAMEPORT.

This patch is also an alternative solution for ALSA drivers with similar
problems (but #if's inside the drivers might have the advantage of
saving some more bytes of gameport is not available).

The only user-visible change is that for GAMEPORT=m the affected OSS
drivers are now allowed to be built statically (but they won't have
gameport support).

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2005-05-28 02:11:12 -05:00
Len Brown
25be5e6ccc [PATCH] VIA IRQ quirk
Delete quirk_via_bridge(), restore quirk_via_irqpic() -- but now
improved to be invoked upon device ENABLE, and now only for VIA devices
-- not all devices behind VIA bridges.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-27 08:15:04 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
aa8f0dc6c3 libata: Fix use-after-iounmap
Jens Axboe pointed out that the iounmap() call in libata was occurring
too early, and some drivers (ahci, probably others) were using ioremap'd
memory after it had been unmapped.

The patch should address that problem by way of improving the libata
driver API:

* move ->host_stop() call after all ->port_stop() calls have occurred.

* create default helper function ata_host_stop(), and move iounmap()
call there.

* add ->host_stop_prewalk() hook, use it in sata_qstor.c (hi Mark).
sata_qstor appears to require the host-stop-before-port-stop ordering
that existed prior to applying the attached patch.
2005-05-26 21:54:27 -04:00
Roland McGrath
d68b8622cc [PATCH] i386: fix prevent_tail_call
We fixed this bug before, but it didn't take.  It may have been the case
that the problem was first noticed to occur in a CONFIG_REGPARM compile.
But it's not regparm functions that need not to make tail calls, it's
asmlinkage functions called with a user pt_regs frame on the stack
supplying their arguments.  prevent_tail_call probably doesn't do anything
at all in regparm functions (your argument registers are going to be
clobbered, period).  It was a braino to conditionalize that definition in
the first place.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-26 16:16:16 -07:00
Michael Chan
b6016b7673 [BNX2]: New Broadcom gigabit network driver.
A new driver bnx2 for Broadcom bcm5706 is available.

The patch also includes new 1000BASE-X advertisement bit definitions in
mii.h

Thanks to David Miller and Jeff Garzik for reviewing and their valuable
feedback.

Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-26 13:03:09 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
c6b3365391 [TOKENRING]: be'ify trh_hdr, trllc, rif_cache_s
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-26 12:59:05 -07:00
Hideaki YOSHIFUJI
92d63decc0 From: Kazunori Miyazawa <kazunori@miyazawa.org>
[XFRM] Call dst_check() with appropriate cookie

This fixes infinite loop issue with IPv6 tunnel mode.

Signed-off-by: Kazunori Miyazawa <kazunori@miyazawa.org>
Signed-off-by: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-26 12:58:04 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
0dca51d362 [PKT_SCHED] netem: allow random reordering (with fix)
Here is a fixed up version of the reorder feature of netem.
It is the same as the earlier patch plus with the bugfix from Julio merged in.
Has expected backwards compatibility behaviour.

Go ahead and merge this one, the TCP strangeness I was seeing was due
to the reordering bug, and previous version of TSO patch.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-26 12:55:48 -07:00
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
8604affde9 [PATCH] convert IDE device drivers to driver-model
* add ide_bus_match() and export ide_bus_type
* split ide_remove_driver_from_hwgroup() out of ide_unregister()
* move device cleanup from ide_unregister() to drive_release_dev()
* convert ide_driver_t->name to driver->name
* convert ide_driver_t->{attach,cleanup} to driver->{probe,remove}
* remove ide_driver_t->busy as ide_bus_type->subsys.rwsem
  protects against concurrent ->{probe,remove} calls
* make ide_{un}register_driver() void as it cannot fail now
* use driver_{un}register() directly, remove ide_{un}register_driver()
* use device_register() instead of ata_attach(), remove ata_attach()
* add proc_print_driver() and ide_drivers_show(), remove ide_drivers_op
* fix ide_replace_subdriver() and move it to ide-proc.c
* remove ide_driver_t->drives, ide_drives and drives_lock
* remove ide_driver_t->drivers, drivers and drivers_lock
* remove ide_drive_t->driver and DRIVER() macro

Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@elka.pw.edu.pl>
2005-05-26 14:55:34 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bef9c55884 Merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6 2005-05-25 18:01:26 -07:00
Alexander Nyberg
4f60fdf613 [PATCH] x86_64: CONFIG_BUG=n fixes
Fixes some !CONFIG_BUG warnings:
include/asm/mmu_context.h: I funktion `switch_mm':
include/asm/mmu_context.h:57: varning: implicit declaration of function `out_of_line_bug'

Signed-off-by: Alexander Nyberg <alexn@telia.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25 15:31:28 -07:00
David S. Miller
4b463f7858 Merge of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/.git/ 2005-05-25 14:58:04 -07:00
Stephen Rothwell
d0e8e29100 [PATCH] ppc64 iSeries: fix boot time setting
For quite a while, there has existed a hypervisor bug on legacy iSeries
which means that we do not get the boot time set in the kernel.  This
patch works around that bug.  This was most noticable when the root
partition needed to be checked at every boot as the kernel thought it
was some time in 1905 until user mode reset the time correctly.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-25 10:13:43 -07:00
David S. Miller
6df16d0c35 Merge of davem@nuts.davemloft.net:/disk1/GIT/sparc-2.6/.git/ 2005-05-24 18:08:07 -07:00
blaisorblade@yahoo.it
7e43c84e3e [PATCH] Cleanup DEFINE_WAIT
Use LIST_HEAD_INIT rather than doing it by hand in DEFINE_WAIT.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-24 17:05:20 -07:00
David S. Miller
816242da37 [SPARC64]: Add boot option to force UltraSPARC-III P-Cache on.
Older UltraSPARC-III chips have a P-Cache bug that makes us disable it
by default at boot time.

However, this does hurt performance substantially, particularly with
memcpy(), and the bug is _incredibly_ obscure.  I have never seen it
triggered in practice, ever.

So provide a "-P" boot option that forces the P-Cache on.  It taints
the kernel, so if it does trigger and cause some data corruption or
OOPS, we will find out in the logs that this option was on when it
happened.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 15:52:08 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
205902ecc7 [NET]: netdevice.h: be'ify packet_type
Everybody does

	struct packet_type foo_packet_type = {
		.type = __constant_htons(ETH_P_FOO);
	};

5 introduced warnings will be properly fixed later.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 13:09:19 -07:00
Xose Vazquez Perez
d8659255c5 [TG3]: Add 5752M device ID.
Add 0x1601 as 5752M, it's a 5752 but for mobile PCs.
Stolen from Broadcom bcm5700-8.1.55 driver.

Someone forgot to add it to tg3 ;-)

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 12:54:51 -07:00
Jon Mason
82d1542c1d [NET]: include/linux/if_tr.h clean-up
I removed the ethernet definitions (which were commented out) and
cleaned up the tabs.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com>
2005-05-23 12:53:14 -07:00
David S. Miller
deaf2622bd [NET]: Kill stray reference to sock->passcred.
That struct member was deleted, but a comment
was not updated to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-23 12:45:26 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1808caffaf Merge of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-mmc.git 2005-05-21 15:27:09 -07:00
Samuel Thibault
10f02d1c59 [PATCH] spin_unlock_bh() and preempt_check_resched()
In _spin_unlock_bh(lock):
	do { \
		_raw_spin_unlock(lock); \
		preempt_enable(); \
		local_bh_enable(); \
		__release(lock); \
	} while (0)

there is no reason for using preempt_enable() instead of a simple
preempt_enable_no_resched()

Since we know bottom halves are disabled, preempt_schedule() will always
return at once (preempt_count!=0), and hence preempt_check_resched() is
useless here...

This fixes it by using "preempt_enable_no_resched()" instead of the
"preempt_enable()", and thus avoids the useless preempt_check_resched()
just before re-enabling bottom halves.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-21 10:46:48 -07:00
Pierre Ossman
912490db69 [PATCH] MMC: Proper MMC command classes support
Defines for the different command classes as defined in the MMC and SD
specifications.

Removes the check for high command classes and instead checks that the
command classes needed are present.
Previous solution killed forward compatibility at no apparent gain.

Signed-of-by: Pierre Ossman
2005-05-21 10:27:02 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
9636273dae Automatic merge of rsync://www.parisc-linux.org/~jejb/git/scsi-for-linus-2.6.git 2005-05-20 17:21:03 -07:00
Andi Kleen
7856dfeb23 [PATCH] x86_64: Fixed guard page handling again in iounmap
Caused oopses again.  Also fix potential mismatch in checking if
change_page_attr was needed.

To do it without races I needed to change mm/vmalloc.c to export a
__remove_vm_area that does not take vmlist lock.

Noticed by Terence Ripperda and based on a patch of his.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20 15:48:20 -07:00
Jeff Dike
ba9950c820 [PATCH] uml: small fixes left over from rc4
Some changes that I sent in didn't make 2.6.12-rc4 for some reason.  This
adds them back.  We have
	an x86_64 definition of TOP_ADDR
	a reimplementation of the x86_64 csum_partial_copy_from_user
	some syntax fixes in arch/um/kernel/ptrace.c
	removal of a CFLAGS definition in the x86_64 Makefile
	some include changes in the x86_64 ptrace.c and user-offsets.h
	a syntax fix in elf-x86_64.h
Also moved an include in the i386 and x86_64 Makefiles to make the symlinks
work, and some small fixes from Al Viro.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20 15:48:17 -07:00
James Bottomley
62a8612972 [SCSI] implement parameter limits in the SPI transport class
There's a basic need not to have parameters go under or over certain
values when doing domain validation.  The basic ones are

max_offset, max_width and min_period

This patch makes the transport class take and enforce these three
limits.  Currently they can be set by the user, although they could
obviously be read from the HBA's on-board NVRAM area during
slave_configure (if it has one).

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-05-20 15:54:32 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
1c7878f024 Remove some left-over empty files
Hopefully the addition of -E to my applypatch script
will mean that I won't have these kinds of leftovers
in the future.
2005-05-20 13:36:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
07ab67c8d0 Fix get_unmapped_area sanity tests
As noted by Chris Wright, we need to do the full range of tests regardless
of whether MAP_FIXED is set or not, so re-organize get_unmapped_area()
slightly to do the sanity checks unconditionally.
2005-05-19 22:43:37 -07:00
Jamal Hadi Salim
1eda339e76 [PKT_SCHED]: Fixup simple action define.
Make it consistent with other net/sched files

Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-05-19 12:42:39 -07:00
David Brownell
0b405a0f7e [PATCH] Driver Core: remove driver model detach_state
The driver model has a "detach_state" mechanism that:

 - Has never been used by any in-kernel drive;
 - Is superfluous, since driver remove() methods can do the same thing;
 - Became buggy when the suspend() parameter changed semantics and type;
 - Could self-deadlock when called from certain suspend contexts;
 - Is effectively wasted documentation, object code, and headspace.

This removes that "detach_state" mechanism; net code shrink, as well
as a per-device saving in the driver model and sysfs.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-17 14:54:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
ad542ef5b2 Automatic merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-2.6.git 2005-05-17 08:55:00 -07:00
Johannes Stezenbach
fdc53a6dbf [PATCH] dvb: modified dvb_register_adapter() to avoid kmalloc/kfree
Modified dvb_register_adapter() to avoid kmalloc/kfree.  Drivers have to embed
struct dvb_adapter into their private data struct from now on.  (Andreas
Oberritter)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:33 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
5418b6925c [PATCH] kill <asm/ioctl32.h>
These days <linux/ioctl32.h> handles everything, no need for an asm
header on just two architectures.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:21 -07:00
Andi Kleen
751521149a [PATCH] x86_64: Collected NMI watchdog fixes.
Collected NMI watchdog fixes.

- Fix call of check_nmi_watchdog

- Remove earlier move of check_nmi_watchdog to later.  It does not fix the
  race it was supposed to fix fully.

- Remove unused P6 definitions

- Add support for performance counter based watchdog on P4 systems.

  This allows to run it only once per second, which saves some CPU time.
  Previously it would run at 1000Hz, which was too much.

  Code ported from i386

  Make this the default on Intel systems.

- Use check_nmi_watchdog with local APIC based nmi

- Fix race in touch_nmi_watchdog

- Fix bug that caused incorrect performance counters to be programmed in a
  few cases on K8.

- Remove useless check for local APIC

- Use local_t and per_cpu variables for per CPU data.

- Keep other CPUs busy during check_nmi_watchdog to make sure they really
  tick when in lapic mode.

- Only check CPUs that are actually online.

- Various other fixes.

- Fix fallback path when MSRs are unimplemented

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:16 -07:00
Andi Kleen
312df5f1a1 [PATCH] x86_64: Add pmtimer support
There are unfortunately more and more multi processor Opteron systems which
don't have HPET timer support in the southbridge.  This covers in particular
Nvidia and VIA chipsets.  They also don't guarantee that the TSCs are
synchronized between CPUs; and especially with MP powernow the systems are
nearly unusable because the time gets very inconsistent between CPUs.

The timer code for x86-64 was originally written under the assumption that we
could fall back to the HPET timer on such systems.  But this doesn't work
there.

Another alternative is to use the ACPI PM timer as primary time source.  This
patch does that.  The kernel only uses PM timer when there is no other choice
because it has some disadvantages.

Ported over from i386.  It should be faster than the i386 version because I
dropped the "read three times" workaround, but is still considerable slower
than HPET and also does not work together with vsyscalls which have to be
disabled.

Cc: <mark.langsdorf@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17 07:59:15 -07:00