When we allocate/change the IRQ informations, we do not
need to use spinlocks. We can use a mutex (which is
what the generic IRQ code does for allocations/changes).
Fixes a slew of:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at /linux/kernel/mutex.c:271
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 3216, name: xenstored
2 locks held by xenstored/3216:
#0: (&u->bind_mutex){......}, at: [<ffffffffa02e0920>] evtchn_ioctl+0x30/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
#1: (irq_mapping_update_lock){......}, at: [<ffffffff8138b274>] bind_evtchn_to_irq+0x24/0x90
Pid: 3216, comm: xenstored Not tainted 3.1.0-rc6-00021-g437a3d1 #2
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81088d10>] __might_sleep+0x100/0x130
[<ffffffff81645c2f>] mutex_lock_nested+0x2f/0x50
[<ffffffff81627529>] __irq_alloc_descs+0x49/0x200
[<ffffffffa02e0920>] ? evtchn_ioctl+0x30/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
[<ffffffff8138b214>] xen_allocate_irq_dynamic+0x34/0x70
[<ffffffff8138b2ad>] bind_evtchn_to_irq+0x5d/0x90
[<ffffffffa02e03c0>] ? evtchn_bind_to_user+0x60/0x60 [xen_evtchn]
[<ffffffff8138c282>] bind_evtchn_to_irqhandler+0x32/0x80
[<ffffffffa02e03a9>] evtchn_bind_to_user+0x49/0x60 [xen_evtchn]
[<ffffffffa02e0a34>] evtchn_ioctl+0x144/0x3a0 [xen_evtchn]
[<ffffffff811b4070>] ? vfsmount_lock_local_unlock+0x50/0x80
[<ffffffff811a6a1a>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x9a/0x5e0
[<ffffffff811b476f>] ? mntput+0x1f/0x30
[<ffffffff81196259>] ? fput+0x199/0x240
[<ffffffff811a7001>] sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
[<ffffffff8164ea82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Reported-by: Jim Burns <jim_burn@bellsouth.net>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The patch "xen: use maximum reservation to limit amount of usable RAM"
(d312ae878b) breaks machines that
do not use 'dom0_mem=' argument with:
reserve RAM buffer: 000000133f2e2000 - 000000133fffffff
(XEN) mm.c:4976:d0 Global bit is set to kernel page fffff8117e
(XEN) domain_crash_sync called from entry.S
(XEN) Domain 0 (vcpu#0) crashed on cpu#0:
...
The reason being that the last E820 entry is created using the
'extra_pages' (which is based on how many pages have been freed).
The mentioned git commit sets the initial value of 'extra_pages'
using a hypercall which returns the number of pages (if dom0_mem
has been used) or -1 otherwise. If the later we return with
MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES as basis for calculation:
return min(max_pages, MAX_DOMAIN_PAGES);
and use it:
extra_limit = xen_get_max_pages();
if (extra_limit >= max_pfn)
extra_pages = extra_limit - max_pfn;
else
extra_pages = 0;
which means we end up with extra_pages = 128GB in PFNs (33554432)
- 8GB in PFNs (2097152, on this specific box, can be larger or smaller),
and then we add that value to the E820 making it:
Xen: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen: 0000000100000000 - 000000133f2e2000 (usable)
which is clearly wrong. It should look as so:
Xen: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Xen: 0000000100000000 - 000000027fbda000 (usable)
Naturally this problem does not present itself if dom0_mem=max:X
is used.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
PV spinlocks cannot possibly work with the current code because they are
enabled after pvops patching has already been done, and because PV
spinlocks use a different data structure than native spinlocks so we
cannot switch between them dynamically. A spinlock that has been taken
once by the native code (__ticket_spin_lock) cannot be taken by
__xen_spin_lock even after it has been released.
Reported-and-Tested-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
We have hit a couple of customer bugs where they would like to
use those parameters to run an UP kernel - but both of those
options turn of important sources of interrupt information so
we end up not being able to boot. The correct way is to
pass in 'dom0_max_vcpus=1' on the Xen hypervisor line and
the kernel will patch itself to be a UP kernel.
Fixes bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=637308
CC: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
If vmalloc page_fault happens inside of interrupt handler with interrupts
disabled then on exit path from exception handler when there is no pending
interrupts, the following code (arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S:112):
cmpw $0x0001, XEN_vcpu_info_pending(%eax)
sete XEN_vcpu_info_mask(%eax)
will enable interrupts even if they has been previously disabled according to
eflags from the bounce frame (arch/x86/xen/xen-asm_32.S:99)
testb $X86_EFLAGS_IF>>8, 8+1+ESP_OFFSET(%esp)
setz XEN_vcpu_info_mask(%eax)
Solution is in setting XEN_vcpu_info_mask only when it should be set
according to
cmpw $0x0001, XEN_vcpu_info_pending(%eax)
but not clearing it if there isn't any pending events.
Reproducer for bug is attached to RHBZ 707552
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Use the domain's maximum reservation to limit the amount of extra RAM
for the memory balloon. This reduces the size of the pages tables and
the amount of reserved low memory (which defaults to about 1/32 of the
total RAM).
On a system with 8 GiB of RAM with the domain limited to 1 GiB the
kernel reports:
Before:
Memory: 627792k/4472000k available
After:
Memory: 549740k/11132224k available
A increase of about 76 MiB (~1.5% of the unused 7 GiB). The reserved
low memory is also reduced from 253 MiB to 32 MiB. The total
additional usable RAM is 329 MiB.
For dom0, this requires at patch to Xen ('x86: use 'dom0_mem' to limit
the number of pages for dom0') (c/s 23790)
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Steven Rostedt says we should use CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING.
Cc:Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fix regression for HVM case on older (<4.1.1) hypervisors caused by
commit 99bbb3a84a
Author: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Date: Thu Dec 2 17:55:10 2010 +0000
xen: PV on HVM: support PV spinlocks and IPIs
This change replaced the SMP operations with event based handlers without
taking into account that this only works when the hypervisor supports
callback vectors. This causes unexplainable hangs early on boot for
HVM guests with more than one CPU.
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/791850
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Tested-and-Reported-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
The order-based approach is not only less efficient (requiring a shift
and a compare, typical generated code looking like this
mov eax, [machine_to_phys_order]
mov ecx, eax
shr ebx, cl
test ebx, ebx
jnz ...
whereas a direct check requires just a compare, like in
cmp ebx, [machine_to_phys_nr]
jae ...
), but also slightly dangerous in the 32-on-64 case - the element
address calculation can wrap if the next power of two boundary is
sufficiently far away from the actual upper limit of the table, and
hence can result in user space addresses being accessed (with it being
unknown what may actually be mapped there).
Additionally, the elimination of the mistaken use of fls() here (should
have been __fls()) fixes a latent issue on x86-64 that would trigger
if the code was run on a system with memory extending beyond the 44-bit
boundary.
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
[v1: Based on Jeremy's feedback]
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Fix build errors (found when CONFIG_SYSFS is not enabled):
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL'
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:446: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'MODULE_LICENSE'
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:485: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
with CONFIG_XEN and CONFIG_FTRACE set we get this:
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:22: error: ‘__HYPERVISOR_console_io’ undeclared here (not in a function)
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:22: error: array index in initializer not of integer type
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:22: error: (near initialization for ‘xen_hypercall_names’)
arch/x86/xen/trace.c:23: error: ‘__HYPERVISOR_physdev_op_compat’ undeclared here (not in a function)
Issue was that the definitions of __HYPERVISOR were not pulled
if CONFIG_XEN_PRIVILEGED_GUEST was not set.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
WARN message should not complain
"Failed to release memory %lx-%lx err=%d\n"
^^^^^^^
about range when it fails to release just one page,
instead it should say what pfn is not freed.
In addition line:
printk(KERN_INFO "xen_release_chunk: looking at area pfn %lx-%lx: "
...
printk(KERN_CONT "%lu pages freed\n", len);
will be broken if WARN in between this line is fired. So fix it
by using a single printk for this.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Use correct format specifier for unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Apparently we wanted CONFIG_FTRACE rather the CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER.
Reported-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Tested-by: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Without enabling CONFIG_XEN_TMEM we get this:
drivers/xen/xen-selfballoon.c:461: undefined reference to `tmem_enabled'
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
With a specific enough .config file compile errors show
for missing workqueue declarations.
Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
* 'at91/cleanup' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc:
at91: add arch specific ioremap support
at91: factorize sram init
at91: move register clocks to soc generic init
at91: move clock subsystem init to soc generic init
at91: use structure to store the current soc
at91: remove AT91_DBGU offset from dbgu register macro
at91: factorize at91 interrupts init to soc
at91: introduce commom AT91_BASE_SYS
* 'next/dt' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm/linux-arm-soc: (21 commits)
arm/dt: tegra devicetree support
arm/versatile: Add device tree support
dt/irq: add irq_domain_generate_simple() helper
irq: add irq_domain translation infrastructure
dmaengine: imx-sdma: add device tree probe support
dmaengine: imx-sdma: sdma_get_firmware does not need to copy fw_name
dmaengine: imx-sdma: use platform_device_id to identify sdma version
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: add device tree probe support
mmc: sdhci-pltfm: dt device does not pass parent to sdhci_alloc_host
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: get rid of the uses of cpu_is_mx()
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: do not reference platform data after probe
mmc: sdhci-esdhc-imx: extend card_detect and write_protect support for mx5
net/fec: add device tree probe support
net: ibm_newemac: convert it to use of_get_phy_mode
dt/net: add helper function of_get_phy_mode
net/fec: gasket needs to be enabled for some i.mx
serial/imx: add device tree probe support
serial/imx: get rid of the uses of cpu_is_mx1()
arm/dt: Add dtb make rule
arm/dt: Add skeleton dtsi file
...
When commit 4e34e719e4 ("fs: take the ACL checks to common code")
changed the xyz_check_acl() functions into the more natural
xyz_get_acl() interface, we grew two copies of the
#define ext2_get_acl NULL
define for the non-acl case.
Remove the extra one.
Reported-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
My previous commit left the file empty and present in the
Makefile, which is a bit dirty and caused problems with
'make distclean', as pointed out by David Howells.
This hopefully cleans it up the right way.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com>
instead of reading the registers everytime
the current implementation respect the following constrain:
- allow 1 to n soc to be enabled
- allow to have a virtual cpu type and subtype
- always detect the cpu type and subtype and report it
- detect if the soc support is enabled
- prepare for sysfs export support
- drop soc specific code via compiler when the soc not enabled
(via cpu_is_xxx)
Today if we read the exid we will have the same value for 9g35 and 9m11
and we will need to check the cidr too
with the new implementation we just need to check the soc subtype
this will also allow to have specific virtual subtype for rm9200 which the
board will have to specify via at91rm9200_set_type(int) as we have no way to
detect it.
this implementation is inspired by the SH cpu detection support
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Patrice Vilchez <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com>
they are the same except the default priority
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Patrice Vilchez <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com>
On all at91 except rm9200 and x40 have the System Controller starts
at address 0xffffc000 and has a size of 16KiB.
On rm9200 it's start at 0xfffe4000 of 111KiB with non reserved data starting
at 0xfffff000
This patch removes the individual definitions of AT91_BASE_SYS and
replaces them with a common version at base 0xfffffc000 and size 16KiB
and map the same memory space
Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Cc: Patrice Vilchez <patrice.vilchez@atmel.com>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc:
n2_crypto: Attach on Niagara-T3.
n2rng: Attach on Niagara-T3.
sparc: Detect and handle UltraSPARC-T3 cpu types.
sparc: Don't do expensive hypervisor PCR write unless necessary.
sparc: Add T3 sun4v cpu type and hypervisor group defines.
sparc: Don't leave sparc_pmu_type NULL on sun4v.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (32 commits)
tg3: Remove 5719 jumbo frames and TSO blocks
tg3: Break larger frags into 4k chunks for 5719
tg3: Add tx BD budgeting code
tg3: Consolidate code that calls tg3_tx_set_bd()
tg3: Add partial fragment unmapping code
tg3: Generalize tg3_skb_error_unmap()
tg3: Remove short DMA check for 1st fragment
tg3: Simplify tx bd assignments
tg3: Reintroduce tg3_tx_ring_info
ASIX: Use only 11 bits of header for data size
ASIX: Simplify condition in rx_fixup()
Fix cdc-phonet build
bonding: reduce noise during init
bonding: fix string comparison errors
net: Audit drivers to identify those needing IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING cleared
net: add IFF_SKB_TX_SHARED flag to priv_flags
net: sock_sendmsg_nosec() is static
forcedeth: fix vlans
gianfar: fix bug caused by 87c288c6e9
gro: Only reset frag0 when skb can be pulled
...
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md: (75 commits)
md/raid10: handle further errors during fix_read_error better.
md/raid10: Handle read errors during recovery better.
md/raid10: simplify read error handling during recovery.
md/raid10: record bad blocks due to write errors during resync/recovery.
md/raid10: attempt to fix read errors during resync/check
md/raid10: Handle write errors by updating badblock log.
md/raid10: clear bad-block record when write succeeds.
md/raid10: avoid writing to known bad blocks on known bad drives.
md/raid10 record bad blocks as needed during recovery.
md/raid10: avoid reading known bad blocks during resync/recovery.
md/raid10 - avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 3
md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 2
md/raid10: avoid reading from known bad blocks - part 1
md/raid10: Split handle_read_error out from raid10d.
md/raid10: simplify/reindent some loops.
md/raid5: Clear bad blocks on successful write.
md/raid5. Don't write to known bad block on doubtful devices.
md/raid5: write errors should be recorded as bad blocks if possible.
md/raid5: use bad-block log to improve handling of uncorrectable read errors.
md/raid5: avoid reading from known bad blocks.
...
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6:
sound: oss: rename local change_bits to avoid powerpc bitsops.h definition
ALSA: hda - Fix duplicated DAC assignments for Realtek
ALSA: asihpi - off by one in asihpi_hpi_ioctl()
ALSA: hda - Fix Oops with Realtek quirks with NULL adc_nids
ALSA: asihpi - bug fix pa use before init.
ALSA: hda - Add support for vref-out based mute LED control on IDT codecs
A small modification was necessary since in the machine description
for 'n2cp' and 'ncp' nodes, there no longer is an 'intr' property.
That's OK because this property was always nothing more than an
array of integers '1' ... 'nr_inos + 1' so we can just compute it
in-place.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
And stop referring to Victoria Falls, as the attribute we're
talking about is whether the rng is multi-unit capable which
applies to several chip variants now.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add min_timeout (minimum timeout) and max_timeout
values so that the framework can check if the new
timeout value is between the minimum and maximum
timeout values. If both values are 0, then the
framework will leave the check for the watchdog
device driver itself.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Add support for extra ioctl calls by adding a
ioctl watchdog operation. This operation will be
called before we do our own handling of ioctl
commands. This way we can override the internal
ioctl command handling and we can also add
extra ioctl commands. The ioctl watchdog operation
should return the appropriate error codes or
-ENOIOCTLCMD if the ioctl command should be handled
through the internal ioctl handling of the framework.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Add support for the nowayout feature to the
WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
This feature prevents the watchdog timer from being
stopped.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Add support for the Magic Close feature to the
WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
This part add's the WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT and WDIOC_GETTIMEOUT ioctl
functionality to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
This part add's the WDIOC_SETOPTIONS ioctl functionality
to the WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
This part add's the WDIOC_KEEPALIVE ioctl functionality to the
WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. Please note that the
WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING bit has to be set in the watchdog_info
options field.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
This part add's the basic ioctl functionality to the
WatchDog Timer Driver Core framework. The supported
ioctl call's are:
WDIOC_GETSUPPORT
WDIOC_GETSTATUS
WDIOC_GETBOOTSTATUS
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
The WatchDog Timer Driver Core is a framework
that contains the common code for all watchdog-driver's.
It also introduces a watchdog device structure and the
operations that go with it.
This is the introduction of this framework. This part
supports the minimal watchdog userspace API (or with
other words: the functionality to use /dev/watchdog's
open, release and write functionality as defined in
the simplest watchdog API). Extra functionality will
follow in the next set of patches.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
This patch is required to enable hpwdt to work on next generation HP servers
with iLO.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
