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Stefan Richter
a3384067fb ieee1394: sbp2: let nodemgr retry node updates during bus reset series
sbp2 was too quick to report .update() to the ieee1394 core as failed.
(Logged as "Failed to reconnect to sbp2 device!".)  The core would then
unbind sbp2 from the device.

This is not justified if the .update() failed because another bus reset
happened.  We check this and tell the ieee1394 that .update() succeeded,
and the core will call sbp2's .update() for the new bus reset as well.

This improves reconnection/re-login especially on buses with several
disks as they may issue bus resets in close succession when they come
online.

Tested by Damien Benoist.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-08-19 18:47:56 +02:00
Stefan Richter
c921a97457 ieee1394: don't drop nodes during bus reset series
nodemgr_node_probe checked for generation increments too late and
therefore prematurely reported nodes as "suspended".

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11349.  Reported and
tested by Damien Benoist.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-08-19 18:47:55 +02:00
Stefan Richter
6848408abf ieee1394: regression in 2.6.25: updates should happen before probes
Regression since commit 73cf60232e,
"ieee1394: use class iteration api":  The two loops for (1.) driver
updates and (2.) driver probes were replaced by a single loop with
bogus needs_probe checks.  Hence updates and probes were now intermixed,
and especially sbp2 updates (reconnects) held up longer than necessary.

While we fix it, change the needs_probe flag to bool type for clarity.

Tested by Damien Benoist.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-08-19 18:47:55 +02:00
Andrea Righi
27ac792ca0 PAGE_ALIGN(): correctly handle 64-bit values on 32-bit architectures
On 32-bit architectures PAGE_ALIGN() truncates 64-bit values to the 32-bit
boundary. For example:

	u64 val = PAGE_ALIGN(size);

always returns a value < 4GB even if size is greater than 4GB.

The problem resides in PAGE_MASK definition (from include/asm-x86/page.h for
example):

#define PAGE_SHIFT      12
#define PAGE_SIZE       (_AC(1,UL) << PAGE_SHIFT)
#define PAGE_MASK       (~(PAGE_SIZE-1))
...
#define PAGE_ALIGN(addr)       (((addr)+PAGE_SIZE-1)&PAGE_MASK)

The "~" is performed on a 32-bit value, so everything in "and" with
PAGE_MASK greater than 4GB will be truncated to the 32-bit boundary.
Using the ALIGN() macro seems to be the right way, because it uses
typeof(addr) for the mask.

Also move the PAGE_ALIGN() definitions out of include/asm-*/page.h in
include/linux/mm.h.

See also lkml discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/11/237

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_queue.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix v850]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix arm]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix mips]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-dvb.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix drivers/mtd/maps/uclinux.c]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix powerpc]
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-24 10:47:21 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
695794ae0c Driver Core: add ability for class_find_device to start in middle of list
This mirrors the functionality that driver_find_device has as well.

We add a start variable, and all callers of the function are fixed up at
the same time.

The block layer will be using this new functionality in a follow-on
patch.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:47 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
93562b5376 Driver Core: add ability for class_for_each_device to start in middle of list
This mirrors the functionality that driver_for_each_device has as well.

We add a start variable, and all callers of the function are fixed up at
the same time.

The block layer will be using this new functionality in a follow-on
patch.


Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:47 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
f71674a09f device create: ieee1394: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Cc: Ben Collins <ben.collins@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22a37bcb78 Merge branch 'sbp2-spindown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'sbp2-spindown' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: sbp2: spin disks down on suspend and shutdown
  firewire: fw-sbp2: spin disks down on suspend and shutdown
  ieee1394: sbp2: fix spindown for PL-3507 and TSB42AA9 firmwares
  firewire: fw-sbp2: fix spindown for PL-3507 and TSB42AA9 firmwares
  scsi: sd: optionally set power condition in START STOP UNIT
2008-07-15 12:39:44 -07:00
Philippe De Muyter
435f972697 ieee1394: dump mmapped iso buffers in core files
Currently, core files do not contain the mmapped memory of the video1394
or dv1394 devices, which contain the actual video input, making it
impossible to analyse the cause of abnormal program termination for
image analysis or (de)compression software.  Fix that.

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>

Also affects users of the rawiso ioctl API of raw1394.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:06:02 +02:00
Alan Cox
3aea50a379 ieee1394: raw1394: Push the BKL down into the driver ioctls
Actually in this case wrap the function for now.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

Added raw1394_compat_ioctl hunk.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:06:02 +02:00
Stefan Richter
055a7da0bb ieee1394: video1394: reorder module init, prepare BKL removal
This prepares video1394 for removal of the BKL (big kernel lock):
It allows video1394_open() to be called while video1394_init_module()
is still in progress.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:06:02 +02:00
Stefan Richter
fde675fa2a ieee1394: reduce log noise about config ROM CRC errors
This avoids redundant messages about a special and usually harmless
firmware flaw.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:06:02 +02:00
Stefan Richter
82f06e8611 ieee1394: sbp2: spin disks down on suspend and shutdown
This instructs sd_mod to send START STOP UNIT on suspend and resume,
and on driver unbinding or unloading (including when the system is shut
down).

We don't do this though if multiple initiators may log in to the target.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:00:18 +02:00
Stefan Richter
3719122a52 ieee1394: sbp2: fix spindown for PL-3507 and TSB42AA9 firmwares
Reported by Tino Keitel:  PL-3507 with firmware from Prolific does not
spin down the disk on START STOP UNIT with power condition = 0 and start
= 0.  It does however work with power condition = 2 or 3.

Also found while investigating this:  DViCO Momobay CX-1 and FX-3A (TI
TSB42AA9/A based) become unresponsive after START STOP UNIT with power
condition = 0 and start = 0.  They stay responsive if power condition is
set when stopping the motor.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-07-14 13:00:18 +02:00
Stefan Richter
9499fe2b34 ieee1394: Kconfig menu touch-up
Rename and reorder some prompts and modify some help texts.
The result:

  -------------------- IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --------------------
  *** Enable only one of the two stacks, unless you know what you are doing ***
  New FireWire stack, EXPERIMENTAL
    OHCI-1394 controllers
    Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)
  Stable FireWire stack
    OHCI-1394 controllers
    PCILynx controller
    Storage devices (SBP-2 protocol)
      Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2
    IP over 1394
    raw1394 userspace interface
    video1394 userspace interface
    dv1394 userspace interface (deprecated)
    Excessive debugging output

The old prompts for reference:

  -------------------- IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support --------------------
  IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support - alternative stack, EXPERIMENTAL
    Support for OHCI FireWire host controllers
    Support for storage devices (SBP-2 protocol driver)
  IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support
    *** Subsystem Options ***
    Excessive debugging output
    *** Controllers ***
    Texas Instruments PCILynx support
    OHCI-1394 support
    *** Protocols ***
    OHCI-1394 Video support
    SBP-2 support (Harddisks etc.)
      Enable replacement for physical DMA in SBP2
    IP over 1394
    OHCI-DV I/O support (deprecated)
    Raw IEEE1394 I/O support

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-06-19 00:12:36 +02:00
Stefan Richter
93c596f7d6 ieee1394: sbp2: use correct size of command descriptor block
Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> cmd->cmd_len is now guarantied to be set properly at all cases.
> And some commands you want to support will not be set correctly
> by COMMAND_SIZE().

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-05-20 18:24:17 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
886c35fbcf Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  firewire: fw-sbp2: log scsi_target ID at release
  ieee1394: fix NULL pointer dereference in sysfs access
2008-05-01 11:31:38 -07:00
Stefan Richter
07c7224cf7 ieee1394: fix NULL pointer dereference in sysfs access
Regression since "ieee1394: prevent device binding of raw1394,
video1394, dv1394", commit d2ace29fa4:
$ cat /sys/bus/ieee1394/drivers/raw1394/device_ids
triggers a NULL pointer dereference in fw_show_drv_device_ids.
Reported by Miles Lane.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Tested-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
2008-05-01 19:55:23 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
5f3b28781c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6:
  ieee1394: silence defined but not used warning in non-modular builds
  ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle
2008-04-25 12:24:06 -07:00
Tony Breeds
e38649702e ieee1394: silence defined but not used warning in non-modular builds
Currently the kernel will issue the following warning:
drivers/ieee1394/raw1394.c:2938: warning: 'raw1394_id_table' defined but not used
Add #ifdef MODULE guards around the declaration.

Signed-off-by: Tony Breeds <tony@bakeyournoodle.com>

Ditto with dv1394_id_table and video1394_id_table.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
Pieter Palmers
cc9429bcb6 ieee1394: rawiso: requeue packet for transmission after skipped cycle
As it seems, some host controllers have issues that can cause them to
skip cycles now and then when using large packets. I suspect that this
is due to DMA not succeeding in time. If the transmit fifo can't contain
more than one packet (big packets), the DMA should provide a new packet
each cycle (125us). I am under the impression that my current PCI
express test system can't guarantee this.

In any case, the patch tries to provide a workaround as follows:
The DMA program descriptors are modified such that when an error occurs,
the DMA engine retries the descriptor the next cycle instead of
stalling. This way no data is lost. The side effect of this is that
packets are sent with one cycle delay. This however might not be that
much of a problem for certain protocols (e.g. AM824). If they use
padding packets for e.g. rate matching they can drop one of those to
resync the streams.

The amount of skips between two userspace wakeups is counted. This
number is then propagated to userspace through the upper 16 bits of the
'dropped' parameter. This allows unmodified userspace applications due
to the following:
1) libraw simply passes this dropped parameter to the user application
2) the meaning of the dropped parameter is: if it's nonzero, something
bad has happened. The actual value of the parameter at this moment does
not have a specific meaning.

A libraw client can then retrieve the number of skipped cycles and
account for them if needed.

Signed-off-by: Pieter Palmers <pieterp@joow.be>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-25 18:15:45 +02:00
Matthew Wilcox
6188e10d38 Convert asm/semaphore.h users to linux/semaphore.h
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
2008-04-18 22:22:54 -04:00
Philippe De Muyter
a6ca4f7081 ieee1394: limit early node speed to host interface speed
The following patch limits the node speed to the host interface speed,
before using it.

Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>

It should actually suffice to do this only for the local node's
speedcap[].  But there is another bug in the speed calculation:
The local node's speed is not correctly propagated to the speeds
which are to be used to access remote nodes.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.devel/11772/focus=12024

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:31 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
ee2d91e2b3 ieee1394: Remove superfluous calls to kobject_set_name().
Unless you're adding a kobject to the sysfs hierarchy, there is no
point setting its kobject name.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:31 +02:00
Stefan Richter
9508c208aa ieee1394: ohci1394: missing PPC PMac feature calls in failure path
The failure path of ohci1394_pci_probe() reuses ohci1394_pci_remove().
Doing so it missed to call ohci1394_pmac_off() in a few unlikely early
error cases.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:31 +02:00
Stefan Richter
c4e2e02bc9 ieee1394: ohci1394: refactor some printk format strings
to reduce the size of ohci1394.ko.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:31 +02:00
Stefan Richter
d09c680383 ieee1394: ohci1394: unroll a macro with return
We don't want to hide something like return in a preprocessor macro.
Unroll the macro and use a goto, which also reduces the size of
ohci1394.ko.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:30 +02:00
Robert P. J. Day
e351c4d069 ieee1394: Use shorter list_splice_init() for brevity.
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:30 +02:00
Harvey Harrison
b1ce1fd778 ieee1394: replace remaining __FUNCTION__ occurrences
__FUNCTION__ is gcc-specific, use __func__

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:30 +02:00
Stefan Richter
b25d166616 ieee1394: ohci1394: refactor probe, remove, suspend, resume
Clean up shared code and variable names.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:30 +02:00
Stefan Richter
38275ac36d ieee1394: ohci1394: switch on bus power after resume on PPC PMac
The platform feature calls in the suspend method switched off cable
power, but the calls in the resume method did not switch it back on.

Add the necessary feature call to .resume.  Also add the corresponding
call to .suspend to make .suspend's behavior explicitly the same on all
PMacs.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:30 +02:00
Stefan Richter
d2ace29fa4 ieee1394: prevent device binding of raw1394, video1394, dv1394
These drivers don't need to match any unit_directory type device.
They just need the id_table for module autoloading per module alias.

Not binding any of these drivers allows special-purpose drivers with
similar or same IDs to bind to devices.  This currently only benefits
out-of-tree drivers; on the other hand it is in no way detrimental to
in-tree drivers.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:29 +02:00
Marcin Slusarz
63995d4650 ieee1394: be*_add_cpu conversion
replace all:
big_endian_variable = cpu_to_beX(beX_to_cpu(big_endian_variable) +
					expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
with:
	beX_add_cpu(&big_endian_variable, expression_in_cpu_byteorder);
generated with semantic patch

Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:29 +02:00
Stefan Richter
a4b47d62c5 ieee1394: sbp2: relax SCSI DMA alignment
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-04-18 17:55:29 +02:00
Stefan Richter
6e45ef4c7a ieee1394: sbp2: fix for SYM13FW500 bridge (Datafab disk)
Fix I/O errors due to SYM13FW500's inability to handle larger request
sizes.  Reported by Piergiorgio Sartor <piergiorgio.sartor@nexgo.de> for
firewire-sbp2 in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436879

This fix is necessary because sbp2's default request size limit has been
lifted since 2.6.25-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
2008-03-14 00:56:59 +01:00
Stefan Richter
ef774c16a7 ieee1394: sbp2: fix rescan-scsi-bus
rescan-scsi-bus used to add SBP-2 targets which weren't there.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-02-19 19:57:24 +01:00
Stefan Richter
d94a983526 ieee1394: sbp2: add INQUIRY delay workaround
Add the same workaround as found in fw-sbp2 for feature parity and
compatibility of the workarounds module parameter.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>
2008-02-16 15:40:34 +01:00
Stefan Richter
5fcf500058 ieee1394: sbp2: fix bogus s/g access change
sg_dma_len(sg) is invalid before the s/g list is DMA-mapped.

This fixes a post 2.6.24 regression which prevents access to SBP-2
devices on several architectures, introduced by "ieee1394: sbp2: s/g
list access cosmetics", commit 825f1df545.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-02-02 13:48:16 +01:00
Stefan Richter
85c5798b09 ieee1394: ohci1394: don't schedule IT tasklets on IR events
Bug noted by Pieter Palmers:  Isochronous transmit tasklets were
scheduled on isochronous receive events, in addition to the proper
isochronous receive tasklets.

http://marc.info/?l=linux1394-devel&m=119783196222802

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:21 +01:00
Stefan Richter
4e6343a10b ieee1394: sbp2: raise default transfer size limit
This patch speeds up sbp2 a little bit --- but more importantly, it
brings the behavior of sbp2 and fw-sbp2 closer to each other.  Like
fw-sbp2, sbp2 now does not limit the size of single transfers to 255
sectors anymore, unless told so by a blacklist flag or by module load
parameters.

Only very old bridge chips have been known to need the 255 sectors
limit, and we have got one such chip in our hardwired blacklist.  There
certainly is a danger that more bridges need that limit; but I prefer to
have this issue present in both fw-sbp2 and sbp2 rather than just one of
them.

An OXUF922 with 400GB 7200RPM disk on an S400 controller is sped up by
this patch from 22.9 to 23.5 MB/s according to hdparm.  The same effect
could be achieved before by setting a higher max_sectors module
parameter.  On buses which use 1394b beta mode, sbp2 and fw-sbp2 will
now achieve virtually the same bandwidth.  Fw-sbp2 only remains faster
on 1394a buses due to fw-core's gap count optimization.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:21 +01:00
Stefan Richter
3e75b493fb ieee1394: remove unused code
The code has been in "#if 0 - #endif" since Linux 2.6.12.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:20 +01:00
Stefan Richter
c7ea990f87 ieee1394: small cleanup after "nopage"
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:20 +01:00
Nick Piggin
61db81214b ieee1394: nopage
Convert ieee1394 from nopage to fault.
Remove redundant vma range checks (correct resource range check is retained).

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:19 +01:00
Joe Perches
a5c52df8bc ieee1394: Add missing "space"
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:19 +01:00
Stefan Richter
825f1df545 ieee1394: sbp2: s/g list access cosmetics
Replace sg->length by sg_dma_len(sg).  Rename a variable for shorter
line lengths and eliminate some superfluous local variables.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:19 +01:00
Stefan Richter
8c4ac0949f ieee1394: sbp2: prepare for s/g chaining
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2008-01-30 22:22:18 +01:00
Bernhard Kaindl
f212ec4b7b x86: early boot debugging via FireWire (ohci1394_dma=early)
This patch adds a new configuration option, which adds support for a new
early_param which gets checked in arch/x86/kernel/setup_{32,64}.c:setup_arch()
to decide wether OHCI-1394 FireWire controllers should be initialized and
enabled for physical DMA access to allow remote debugging of early problems
like issues ACPI or other subsystems which are executed very early.

If the config option is not enabled, no code is changed, and if the boot
paramenter is not given, no new code is executed, and independent of that,
all new code is freed after boot, so the config option can be even enabled
in standard, non-debug kernels.

With specialized tools, it is then possible to get debugging information
from machines which have no serial ports (notebooks) such as the printk
buffer contents, or any data which can be referenced from global pointers,
if it is stored below the 4GB limit and even memory dumps of of the physical
RAM region below the 4GB limit can be taken without any cooperation from the
CPU of the host, so the machine can be crashed early, it does not matter.

In the extreme, even kernel debuggers can be accessed in this way. I wrote
a small kgdb module and an accompanying gdb stub for FireWire which allows
to gdb to talk to kgdb using remote remory reads and writes over FireWire.

An version of the gdb stub fore FireWire is able to read all global data
from a system which is running a a normal kernel without any kernel debugger,
without any interruption or support of the system's CPU. That way, e.g. the
task struct and so on can be read and even manipulated when the physical DMA
access is granted.

A HOWTO is included in this patch, in Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt
and I've put a copy online at
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/docs/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

It also has links to all the tools which are available to make use of it
another copy of it is online at:
ftp://ftp.suse.de/private/bk/firewire/kernel/ohci1394_dma_early-v2.diff

Signed-Off-By: Bernhard Kaindl <bk@suse.de>
Tested-By: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-01-30 13:34:11 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
9b73e76f3c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (200 commits)
  [SCSI] usbstorage: use last_sector_bug flag universally
  [SCSI] libsas: abstract STP task status into a function
  [SCSI] ultrastor: clean up inline asm warnings
  [SCSI] aic7xxx: fix firmware build
  [SCSI] aacraid: fib context lock for management ioctls
  [SCSI] ch: remove forward declarations
  [SCSI] ch: fix device minor number management bug
  [SCSI] ch: handle class_device_create failure properly
  [SCSI] NCR5380: fix section mismatch
  [SCSI] sg: fix /proc/scsi/sg/devices when no SCSI devices
  [SCSI] IB/iSER: add logical unit reset support
  [SCSI] don't use __GFP_DMA for sense buffers if not required
  [SCSI] use dynamically allocated sense buffer
  [SCSI] scsi.h: add macro for enclosure bit of inquiry data
  [SCSI] sd: add fix for devices with last sector access problems
  [SCSI] fix pcmcia compile problem
  [SCSI] aacraid: add Voodoo Lite class of cards.
  [SCSI] aacraid: add new driver features flags
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k7.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: Issue correct MBC_INITIALIZE_FIRMWARE command.
  ...
2008-01-25 17:19:08 -08:00
Dave Young
73cf60232e ieee1394: use class iteration api
Convert to use the class iteration api.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24 20:40:44 -08:00
James Bottomley
465ff3185e [SCSI] relax scsi dma alignment
This patch relaxes the default SCSI DMA alignment from 512 bytes to 4
bytes.  I remember from previous discussions that usb and firewire have
sector size alignment requirements, so I upped their alignments in the
respective slave allocs.

The reason for doing this is so that we don't get such a huge amount of
copy overhead in bio_copy_user() for udev.  (basically all inquiries it
issues can now be directly mapped).

Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-01-11 18:29:22 -06:00