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  1. Oct 24, 2007
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband · 0b776eb5
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  mlx4_core: Increase command timeout for INIT_HCA to 10 seconds
  IPoIB/cm: Use common CQ for CM send completions
  IB/uverbs: Fix checking of userspace object ownership
  IB/mlx4: Sanity check userspace send queue sizes
  IPoIB: Rewrite "if (!likely(...))" as "if (unlikely(!(...)))"
  IB/ehca: Enable large page MRs by default
  IB/ehca: Change meaning of hca_cap_mr_pgsize
  IB/ehca: Fix ehca_encode_hwpage_size() and alloc_fmr()
  IB/ehca: Fix masking error in {,re}reg_phys_mr()
  IB/ehca: Supply QP token for SRQ base QPs
  IPoIB: Use round_jiffies() for ah_reap_task
  RDMA/cma: Fix deadlock destroying listen requests
  RDMA/cma: Add locking around QP accesses
  IB/mthca: Avoid alignment traps when writing doorbells
  mlx4_core: Kill mlx4_write64_raw()
      0b776eb5
    • Linus Torvalds's avatar
      Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest · 0d681009
      Linus Torvalds authored 
      * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: (45 commits)
  Use "struct boot_params" in example launcher
  Loading bzImage directly.
  Revert lguest magic and use hook in head.S
  Update lguest documentation to reflect the new virtual block device name.
  generalize lgread_u32/lgwrite_u32.
  Example launcher handle guests not being ready for input
  Update example launcher for virtio
  Lguest support for Virtio
  Remove old lguest I/O infrrasructure.
  Remove old lguest bus and drivers.
  Virtio helper routines for a descriptor ringbuffer implementation
  Module autoprobing support for virtio drivers.
  Virtio console driver
  Block driver using virtio.
  Net driver using virtio
  Virtio interface
  Boot with virtual == physical to get closer to native Linux.
  Allow guest to specify syscall vector to use.
  Rename "cr3" to "gpgdir" to avoid x86-specific naming.
  Pagetables to use normal kernel types
  ...
      0d681009
    • Herbert Xu's avatar
      Fix synchronize_irq races with IRQ handler · a98ce5c6
      Herbert Xu authored 
      

As it is some callers of synchronize_irq rely on memory barriers
to provide synchronisation against the IRQ handlers.  For example,
the tg3 driver does

	tp->irq_sync = 1;
	smp_mb();
	synchronize_irq();

and then in the IRQ handler:

	if (!tp->irq_sync)
		netif_rx_schedule(dev, &tp->napi);

Unfortunately memory barriers only work well when they come in
pairs.  Because we don't actually have memory barriers on the
IRQ path, the memory barrier before the synchronize_irq() doesn't
actually protect us.

In particular, synchronize_irq() may return followed by the
result of netif_rx_schedule being made visible.

This patch (mostly written by Linus) fixes this by using spin
locks instead of memory barries on the synchronize_irq() path.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: default avatarBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      a98ce5c6
  3. Oct 23, 2007