linux-stable/drivers
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 187cfc439f hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends
The hvcs and hvsi backends both set tty->low_latency to one, along
with more or less scary comments regarding bugs or races that would
happen if not doing so.

However, they also both call tty_flip_buffer_push() in conexts where
it's illegal to do so since some recent tty changes (or at least it
may have been illegal always but it nows blows) when low_latency is
set (ie, hard interrupt or with spinlock held and irqs disabled).

This removes the setting for now to get them back to working condition,
we'll have to address the races described in the comments separately
if they are still an issue (some of this might have been fixed already).

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-03-11 10:44:26 +11:00
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accessibility
acpi Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-12011', 'bugzilla-12632', 'misc' and 'suspend' into release 2009-02-21 22:01:43 -05:00
amba
ata [libata] pata_legacy: for VLB 32bit PIO don't try tricks with slop 2009-02-25 15:30:23 -05:00
atm ATM: misplaced parentheses? 2009-02-18 17:41:38 -08:00
auxdisplay
base PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up], fix 2009-02-22 22:09:33 +01:00
block xen/blkfront: use blk_rq_map_sg to generate ring entries 2009-02-26 10:45:48 +01:00
bluetooth
cdrom
char hvc_console: Remove tty->low_latency on pseries backends 2009-03-11 10:44:26 +11:00
clocksource
connector
cpufreq [CPUFREQ] Make ignore_nice_load setting of ondemand work as expected. 2009-02-05 12:25:26 -05:00
cpuidle
crypto crypto: ixp4xx - Fix qmgr_request_queue build failure 2009-03-04 08:01:22 +08:00
dca dca: redesign locks to fix deadlocks 2009-02-02 23:26:57 -08:00
dio
dma [ARM] fix lots of ARM __devexit sillyness 2009-03-03 21:04:04 +00:00
edac powerpc: More printing warning fixes for the l64 to ll64 conversion 2009-01-28 17:15:52 +11:00
eisa
firewire firewire: core: Remove card from list of cards when enable fails 2009-02-01 11:17:24 +01:00
firmware Bernhard has moved 2009-02-18 15:37:56 -08:00
gpio gpiolib: fix request related issue 2009-01-29 18:04:43 -08:00
gpu drm/i915: Fix use-before-null-check in i915_irq_emit(). 2009-03-03 09:53:05 +10:00
hid HID: move tmff and zpff devices from ignore_list to blacklist 2009-02-17 13:25:01 +01:00
hwmon lis3lv02d: add axes knowledge of HP Pavilion dv5 models 2009-02-18 15:37:54 -08:00
i2c Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-03-03 14:12:41 -08:00
ide ide: fix refcounting in device drivers 2009-02-25 20:28:24 +01:00
idle
ieee1394 Make ieee1394_init a fs-initcall 2009-02-26 10:32:31 -08:00
infiniband
input Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2009-03-02 15:43:03 -08:00
isdn ISDN: fix sc/shmem printk format warning 2009-02-20 00:54:44 -08:00
leds
lguest lguest: Fix a memory leak with the lg object during launcher close 2009-01-30 11:34:11 +10:30
macintosh
mca
md md: avoid races when stopping resync. 2009-02-25 13:18:47 +11:00
media Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2009-03-02 15:43:03 -08:00
memstick
message [SCSI] mpt: fix disable lsi sas to use msi as default 2009-02-22 08:51:07 -06:00
mfd mfd: Fix sm501_register_gpio section mismatch 2009-02-17 09:48:05 +01:00
misc hpilo: new pci device 2009-02-27 16:26:22 -08:00
mmc sdhci: Add NO_BUSY_IRQ quirk for Marvell CAFE host chip 2009-03-02 21:48:20 +01:00
mtd Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-03-03 14:12:41 -08:00
net Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-03-03 14:12:41 -08:00
nubus
of
oprofile
parisc Documentation: move DMA-mapping.txt to Doc/PCI/ 2009-01-29 18:19:29 -08:00
parport m68k: atari - Rename "mfp" to "st_mfp" 2009-02-22 09:23:02 -08:00
pci Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 2009-02-26 14:43:42 -08:00
pcmcia
platform fujitsu-laptop: Use RFKILL support bitmask from firmware 2009-02-21 21:59:55 -05:00
pnp
power pcf50633_charger: Fix typo 2009-02-02 19:53:02 +03:00
ps3
rapidio
regulator leds: Fix bounds checking of wm8350->pmic.led 2009-01-30 21:50:49 +00:00
rtc rtc: t reaches -1, tested 0 2009-02-11 14:25:36 -08:00
s390 [S390] fix "mem=" handling in case of standby memory 2009-02-19 15:19:19 +01:00
sbus
scsi [SCSI] fix ABORTED_COMMAND looping forever problem 2009-02-21 20:29:38 -06:00
serial Merge branch 'sh/for-2.6.29' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lethal/sh-2.6 2009-02-27 16:40:00 -08:00
sh
sn
spi spi-gpio: sanitize MISO bitvalue 2009-02-18 15:37:56 -08:00
ssb
staging Staging: w35und: fix usb_control_msg() error handling in wb35_probe() 2009-02-27 12:56:24 -08:00
tc
telephony
thermal
uio
usb USB: musb: fix srp sysfs entry deletion 2009-02-27 14:40:51 -08:00
uwb uwb: lock rc->rsvs_lock with spin_lock_bh() 2009-01-23 12:57:20 +00:00
video Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-03-03 14:12:41 -08:00
virtio virtio-pci: do not oops on config change if driver not loaded 2009-02-02 19:17:56 -08:00
w1 w1: add missing Kconfig/Makefile entries for DS2431 slave driver 2009-02-27 16:26:21 -08:00
watchdog Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm 2009-02-19 09:52:12 -08:00
xen PM: Split up sysdev_[suspend|resume] from device_power_[down|up] 2009-02-22 10:33:44 -08:00
zorro
Kconfig
Makefile