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Russell King
6fff3da998 ARM: PNX4008: get i2c clock rate from clk API
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-12 17:32:39 +00:00
Russell King
0321cb83e1 ARM: PNX4008: move i2c clock start/stop into driver
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-12 17:32:39 +00:00
Russell King
a0dcf19f59 ARM: PNX4008: move i2c suspend/resume callbacks into driver
Acked-by: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-12 17:32:38 +00:00
Suresh Siddha
2225a122ae ptrace: Add support for generic PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET
Generic support for PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET commands which
export the regsets supported by each architecture using the correponding
NT_* types. These NT_* types are already part of the userland ABI, used
in representing the architecture specific register sets as different NOTES
in an ELF core file.

'addr' parameter for the ptrace system call encode the REGSET type (using
the corresppnding NT_* type) and the 'data' parameter points to the
struct iovec having the user buffer and the length of that buffer.

	struct iovec iov = { buf, len};
	ret = ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET/PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_XXX_TYPE, &iov);

On successful completion, iov.len will be updated by the kernel specifying
how much the kernel has written/read to/from the user's iov.buf.

x86 extended state registers are primarily exported using this interface.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.886724710@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Acked-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-11 15:08:33 -08:00
Suresh Siddha
5b3efd5008 x86, ptrace: regset extensions to support xstate
Add the xstate regset support which helps extend the kernel ptrace and the
core-dump interfaces to support AVX state etc.

This regset interface is designed to support all the future state that gets
supported using xsave/xrstor infrastructure.

Looking at the memory layout saved by "xsave", one can't say which state
is represented in the memory layout. This is because if a particular state is
in init state, in the xsave hdr it can be represented by bit '0'. And hence
we can't really say by the xsave header wether a state is in init state or
the state is not saved in the memory layout.

And hence the xsave memory layout available through this regset
interface uses SW usable bytes [464..511] to convey what state is represented
in the memory layout.

First 8 bytes of the sw_usable_bytes[464..467] will be set to OS enabled xstate
mask(which is same as the 64bit mask returned by the xgetbv's xCR0).

The note NT_X86_XSTATE represents the extended state information in the
core file, using the above mentioned memory layout.

Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100211195614.802495327@sbs-t61.sc.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hongjiu Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-11 15:08:17 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
9d288dffe3 netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: add T.38 FAX support
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-11 12:30:21 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
48f8ac2653 netfilter: nf_nat_sip: add TCP support
Add support for mangling TCP SIP packets.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-11 12:29:38 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
f5b321bd37 netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: add TCP support
Add TCP support, which is mandated by RFC3261 for all SIP elements.

SIP over TCP is similar to UDP, except that messages are delimited
by Content-Length: headers and multiple messages may appear in one
packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-11 12:26:19 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
3b6b9fab42 netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: pass data offset to NAT functions
When using TCP multiple SIP messages might be present in a single packet.
A following patch will parse them by setting the dptr to the beginning of
each message. The NAT helper needs to reload the dptr value after mangling
the packet however, so it needs to know the offset of the message to the
beginning of the packet.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-11 12:23:53 +01:00
Magnus Damm
8f8be2439c Input: sh_keysc - update the driver with mode 6
Add mode 6 support to the sh_keysc driver. Also update the KYOUTDR mask
value to include all 16 register bits.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-02-10 23:04:18 -08:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
15682bc488 ethtool: Introduce n-tuple filter programming support
This patchset enables the ethtool layer to program n-tuple
filters to an underlying device.  The idea is to allow capable
hardware to have static rules applied that can assist steering
flows into appropriate queues.

Hardware that is known to support these types of filters today
are ixgbe and niu.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-10 20:03:05 -08:00
Li Zefan
66655de6d1 seq_file: Add helpers for iteration over a hlist
Some places in kernel need to iterate over a hlist in seq_file,
so provide some common helpers.

Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-10 11:12:06 -08:00
Patrick McHardy
a8c28d0515 Merge branch 'master' of git://dev.medozas.de/linux 2010-02-10 17:56:46 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
e3eaa9910b netfilter: xtables: generate initial table on-demand
The static initial tables are pretty large, and after the net
namespace has been instantiated, they just hang around for nothing.
This commit removes them and creates tables on-demand at runtime when
needed.

Size shrinks by 7735 bytes (x86_64).

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-10 17:50:47 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
2b95efe7f6 netfilter: xtables: use xt_table for hook instantiation
The respective xt_table structures already have most of the metadata
needed for hook setup. Add a 'priority' field to struct xt_table so
that xt_hook_link() can be called with a reduced number of arguments.

So should we be having more tables in the future, it comes at no
static cost (only runtime, as before) - space saved:
6807373->6806555.

Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
2010-02-10 17:13:33 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
42107f5009 netfilter: xtables: symmetric COMPAT_XT_ALIGN definition
Rewrite COMPAT_XT_ALIGN in terms of dummy structure hack.
Compat counters logically have nothing to do with it.
Use ALIGN() macro while I'm at it for same types.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-10 15:03:27 +01:00
Alexey Dobriyan
0a02604628 netfilter: xtables: consistent struct compat_xt_counters definition
There is compat_u64 type which deals with different u64 type alignment
on different compat-capable platforms, so use it and removed some
hardcoded assumptions.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-10 15:00:32 +01:00
Michael Poole
90a006abf8 HID: Export hid_register_report
The Apple Magic Mouse (and probably other devices) publish reports that are not
called out in their HID report descriptors -- they only send them when enabled
through other writes to the device.  This allows a driver to handle these
unlisted reports.

Signed-off-by: Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-10 14:57:30 +01:00
Patrick McHardy
9ab99d5a43 Merge branch 'master' of /repos/git/net-next-2.6
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2010-02-10 14:17:10 +01:00
Jeremy Kerr
087f79c48c of/flattree: endian-convert members of boot_param_header
The boot_param_header has big-endian fields, so change the types to
__be32, and perform endian conversion when we access them.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-09 08:34:10 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr
2e89e685a8 of: use __be32 for cell value accessors
Currently, we're using u32 for cell values, and hence assuming
host-endian device trees.

As we'd like to support little-endian platforms, use a __be32 for cell
values, and convert in the cell accessors.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-09 08:34:10 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr
1406bc2f57 of/flattree: use callback to setup initrd from /chosen
At present, the fdt code sets the kernel-wide initrd_start and
initrd_end variables when parsing /chosen. On ARM, we only set these
once the bootmem has been reserved.

This change adds an arch hook to setup the initrd from the device
tree:

 void early_init_dt_setup_initrd_arch(unsigned long start,
				      unsigned long end);

The arch-specific code can then setup the initrd however it likes.

Compiled on powerpc, with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y and =n.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-09 08:34:10 -07:00
Jeremy Kerr
8cfb3343f7 of: make set_node_proc_entry private to proc_devtree.c
We only need set_node_proc_entry in proc_devtree.c, so move it there.

This fixes the !HAVE_ARCH_DEVTREE_FIXUPS build, as we can't make make
the definition in linux/of.h conditional on this #define (definitions in
asm/prom.h can't be exposed to linux/of.h, due to the enforced #include
ordering).

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jeremy.kerr@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2010-02-09 08:34:10 -07:00
Grant Likely
51975db0b7 of/flattree: merge early_init_dt_scan_memory() common code
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze architectures.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-02-09 08:33:10 -07:00
Grant Likely
71a157e8ed of: add 'of_' prefix to machine_is_compatible()
machine is compatible is an OF-specific call.  It should have
the of_ prefix to protect the global namespace.

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
2010-02-09 08:33:00 -07:00
Grant Likely
fcdeb7fedf of: merge of_attach_node() & of_detach_node()
Merge common code between PowerPC and Microblaze

Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2010-02-09 08:32:42 -07:00
Paul Mundt
7896cd0f5a Merge branch 'sh/intc-extension' 2010-02-09 18:24:14 +09:00
Magnus Damm
d519095344 sh: extend INTC with force_enable
Extend the shared INTC code with force_enable support to
allow keeping mask bits statically enabled. Needed by
upcoming INTC SDHI patches that mux together a bunch of
vectors to a single linux interrupt which is masked by
a priority register, but needs individual mask bits
constantly enabled.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-02-09 18:23:58 +09:00
Magnus Damm
577cd7584c sh: extend INTC with struct intc_hw_desc
This patch updates the INTC code by moving all vectors,
groups and registers from struct intc_desc to struct
intc_hw_desc.

The idea is that INTC tables should go from using the
macro(s) DECLARE_INTC_DESC..() only to using struct
intc_desc with name and hw initialized using the macro
INTC_HW_DESC(). This move makes it easy to initialize
an extended struct intc_desc in the future.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
2010-02-09 18:23:57 +09:00
Kashyap, Desai
f7c95ef02b [SCSI] mpt2sas: Added raid transport support
Adding support for raid transport layer.  This will provide sysfs attributes
containing raid level, state, and resync rate.

MPT2SAS module will select RAID_ATTRS.

Signed-off-by: Kashyap Desai <kashyap.desai@lsi.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Moore <eric.moore@lsi.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@suse.de>
2010-02-08 18:19:41 -06:00
Anton Blanchard
0c9cf2efd7 percpu_counter: Make __percpu_counter_add an inline function on UP
Even though batch isn't used on UP, we may want to pass one in
to keep the SMP and UP code paths similar. Convert
__percpu_counter_add to an inline function so we wont get
variable unused warnings if we do.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:57:36 +01:00
Ingo Molnar
6d3e0907b8 Merge branch 'sched/urgent' into sched/core
Merge reason: Merge dependent fix, update to latest -rc.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-08 08:55:46 +01:00
Paul Mundt
2e18e04798 Merge branch 'sh/dmaengine'
Conflicts:
	arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-sh.c
2010-02-08 11:34:03 +09:00
Mimi Zohar
9bbb6cad01 ima: rename ima_path_check to ima_file_check
ima_path_check actually deals with files!  call it ima_file_check instead.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-07 03:06:22 -05:00
Mimi Zohar
8eb988c70e fix ima breakage
The "Untangling ima mess, part 2 with counters" patch messed
up the counters.  Based on conversations with Al Viro, this patch
streamlines ima_path_check() by removing the counter maintaince.
The counters are now updated independently, from measuring the file,
in __dentry_open() and alloc_file() by calling ima_counts_get().
ima_path_check() is called from nfsd and do_filp_open().
It also did not measure all files that should have been measured.
Reason: ima_path_check() got bogus value passed as mask.
[AV: mea culpa]
[AV: add missing nfsd bits]

Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2010-02-07 03:06:22 -05:00
Mike Travis
95a8b6efc5 pci: Update pci_set_vga_state() to call arch functions
Update pci_set_vga_state to call arch dependent functions to enable Legacy
VGA I/O transactions to be redirected to correct target.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: make pci_register_set_vga_state() __init]
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
LKML-Reference: <201002022238.o12McE1J018723@imap1.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2010-02-05 14:05:41 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
56dca4ceb7 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  [libata] Call flush_dcache_page after PIO data transfers in libata-sff.c
  ahci: add Acer G725 to broken suspend list
  libata: fix ata_id_logical_per_physical_sectors
  libata-scsi passthru: fix bug which truncated LBA48 return values
2010-02-05 07:58:21 -08:00
Stephen Rothwell
2938429501 percpu: add __percpu for sparse
This is to make the annotation of percpu variables during the next merge
window less painfull.

Extracted from a patch by Rusty Russell.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-02-05 07:35:05 -08:00
Magnus Damm
c54a42b19f clocksource: add suspend callback
Add a clocksource suspend callback.  This callback can be used by the
clocksource driver to shutdown and perform any kind of late suspend
activities even though the clocksource driver itself is a non-sysdev
driver.

One example where this is useful is to fix the sh_cmt.c platform driver
that today suspends using the platform bus and shuts down the clocksource
too early.

With this callback in place the sh_cmt driver will suspend using the
clocksource and clockevent hooks and leave the platform device pm
callbacks unused.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-05 14:54:10 +01:00
Magnus Damm
17622339af clocksource: add argument to resume callback
Pass the clocksource as an argument to the clocksource resume callback. 
Needed so we can point out which CMT channel the sh_cmt.c driver shall
resume.

Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2010-02-05 14:54:10 +01:00
Sridhar Samudrala
bfd5f4a3d6 packet: Add GSO/csum offload support.
This patch adds GSO/checksum offload to af_packet sockets using
virtio_net_hdr. Based on Rusty's patch to add this support to tun.
It allows GSO/checksum offload to be enabled when using raw socket
backend with virtio_net.
Adds PACKET_VNET_HDR socket option to prepend virtio_net_hdr in the
receive path and process/skip virtio_net_hdr in the send path. This
option is only allowed with SOCK_RAW sockets attached to ethernet
type devices.

v2 updates
----------
Michael's Comments
- Perform length check in packet_snd() when GSO is off even when
  vnet_hdr is present.
- Check for SKB_GSO_FCOE type and return -EINVAL
- don't allow tx/rx ring when vnet_hdr is enabled.
Herbert's Comments
- Removed ethernet specific code.
- protocol value is assumed to be passed in by the caller.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04 20:24:10 -08:00
Paul Mundt
8e04221029 Merge branch 'sh/stable-updates' 2010-02-05 12:16:39 +09:00
Linus Torvalds
aa16cd8d12 Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  futex: Handle futex value corruption gracefully
  futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
  futex_lock_pi() key refcnt fix
  softlockup: Add sched_clock_tick() to avoid kernel warning on kgdb resume
2010-02-04 16:07:41 -08:00
Sriramakrishnan
ad021ae886 TI Davinci EMAC : Abstract Buffer address translation logic.
When programming the DMA engine, the next pointers must be
programmed with physical address as seen from the DMA master
address space. This address may be different from physical
address of the buffer RAM area. This patch abstracts the
buffer address translation logic.

Signed-off-by: Sriramakrishnan <srk@ti.com>
Acked-by: Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
2010-02-04 13:29:53 -08:00
Sriramakrishnan
01a9af36cd TI Davinci EMAC : add platform specific interrupt enable/disable logic.
On certain SOCs, the EMAC controller is interfaced with a wrapper logic
for handling interrupts. This  patch implements a platform
specific hook to cater to platforms that require custom interrupt
handling logic

Signed-off-by: Sriramakrishnan <srk@ti.com>
Acked-by: Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
2010-02-04 13:29:51 -08:00
Sriramakrishnan
8ee2bf9ab7 TI Davinci EMAC : Re-use driver for other platforms.
The davinci EMAC peripheral is also available on other TI
platforms -notably TI AM3517 SoC. This patch modifies the
config option and the platform structure header files so that
the driver can be reused on non-davinci platforms as well.

Signed-off-by: Sriramakrishnan <srk@ti.com>
Acked-by: Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com>
2010-02-04 13:29:50 -08:00
Jiri Pirko
f8f76db1db libphy: add phy_find_first function
Many drivers do this in them manually. Now they can use this function.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04 10:23:02 -08:00
Jiri Pirko
6683ece36e net: use helpers to access mc list V2
This patch introduces the similar helpers as those already done for uc list.
However multicast lists are no list_head lists but "mademanually". The three
macros added by this patch will make the transition of mc_list to list_head
smooth in two steps:

1) convert all drivers to use these macros (with the original iterator of type
   "struct dev_mc_list")
2) once all drivers are converted, convert list type and iterators to "struct
   netdev_hw_addr" in one patch.

>From now on, drivers can (and should) use "netdev_for_each_mc_addr" to iterate
over the addresses with iterator of type "struct netdev_hw_addr". Also macros
"netdev_mc_count" and "netdev_mc_empty" to read list's length. This is the state
which should be reached in all drivers.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-02-04 10:22:25 -08:00
David S. Miller
10be7eb36b Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-02-04 08:58:14 -08:00
Stephane Eranian
447a194b39 perf_events, x86: Fix bug in hw_perf_enable()
We cannot assume that because hwc->idx == assign[i], we can avoid
reprogramming the counter in hw_perf_enable().

The event may have been scheduled out and another event may have been
programmed into this counter. Thus, we need a more robust way of
verifying if the counter still contains config/data related to an event.

This patch adds a generation number to each counter on each cpu. Using
this mechanism we can verify reliabilty whether the content of a counter
corresponds to an event.

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <4b66dc67.0b38560a.1635.ffffae18@mx.google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-04 09:59:50 +01:00