77535 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Andrew Victor
c6686ff9df [ARM] 4753/1: [AT91] Use DMA_BIT_MASK
Replace hard-coded DMA mask (0xffffffff) with DMA_BIT_MASK(32) as
defined in dma-mapping.h.
Set "dma_mask" field for the UART platform_devices.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
Andrew Victor
884f5a6a8d [ARM] 4752/1: [AT91] RTT, RTC and WDT peripherals on SAM9
Add platform_device and initialization for the RTT (Real Time Timer)
and WDT (Watchdog) integrated in the Atmel AT91SAM9 processors.

For SAM9263, register both RTT peripherals.
   [From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>]

Provide platform_resources for RTT peripherals
  [From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>]

Add support for RTC peripheral on AT91SAM9RL (same RTC peripherals as
AT91RM9200)
  [From: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>]

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
Andrew Victor
e292080235 [ARM] 4751/1: [AT91] ISI peripheral on SAM9263
Add support for the Image Sensor Interface (ISI) peripheral integrated
in the Atmel AT91SAM9263 processor.

Patch from MaLiK

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
Andrew Victor
f06e656fb4 [ARM] 4750/1: [AT91] STN LCD displays on SAM9261
Add support for STN LCD displays on Atmel AT91SAM9261-based boards.

Patch from Nicolas Ferre.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
David Brownell
a50d49dbb7 [ARM] 4734/1: at91sam9263ek: include IRQ for Ethernet PHY
On the at92sam9263ek board, tell the MACB driver the IRQ used
by its PHY.  This patch is taken from Andrew Victor's 2.6.23-at91
patchset; it matches board schematics.  (But it's currently a NOP
since the MACB driver doesn't yet use PHY irqs.)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
David Brownell
5248c65789 [ARM] 4646/1: AT91: configurable HZ, default to 128
This makes HZ configurable on AT91, following the model used on OMAP.

It defaults to a power of two on AT91rm9200 chips, avoiding rounding
errors which come from dividing a 32 KiHz clock to generate scheduler
irqs; and uses 100 on AT91sam926x chips, using MCK/16 (multi-MHZ).

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Remy Bhmer <linux@bohmer.net>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:31 +00:00
Marc Pignat
156864f806 [ARM] 4688/1: at91: speed-up irq processing
Save N instructions on every interrupt processing (where N is the
number of interrupts processed in any one IRQ exception).

Signed-off-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
Acked-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Andrew Victor
9ebbec27da [ARM] 4657/1: AT91: Header definition update
Add definitions of registers / bits found on some AT91SAM9 processors

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Andrew Victor
7cbed2b507 [ARM] 4656/1: AT91: Tweak interrupt priorities
Slight tweaking of the default interrupt priorities (AIC) for the
integrated peripherals on the AT91RM9200, AT91SAM9260, AT91SAM9261 and
AT91SAM9263 processors.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Guennadi Liakhovetski
87fee013a2 [ARM] 4647/1: at91rm9200: Remove redundant machine-type verification and manipulation
AT91RM9200 needlessly verifies machine-type numbers of
supported / known platforms and overwrites it for unknown
ones. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@denx.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Andrew Victor
5170874816 [ARM] 4610/2: AT91: Support for STN LCD on SAM9261-EK board.
Add STN LCD support on the Atmel AT91SAM9261-EK board.
Uses a black and white screen from Hitachi: SP06Q002.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Andrew Victor
b66545e7ae [ARM] 4602/3: AT91: debugfs interface to view GPIO pin state
This patch adds a debug interface (if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is selected) to
display the basic configuration and current state of the GPIO pins on
the Atmel AT91 processors.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 15:00:30 +00:00
Gordon Farquharson
b696b6b448 [ARM] 4770/1: GLAN Tank: correct physmap_flash_data width field
This patch is required, in conjunction with the patch submitted to
linux-mtd [1], to access the flash memory device in the GLAN Tank.

Without the patches, the boot log shows

physmap platform flash device: 00080000 at f0000000
...
physmap-flash physmap-flash.0: map_probe failed

whereas with the patches, the boot log shows

physmap platform flash device: 00080000 at f0000000
Found: ST M29W400DB
physmap-flash.0: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 16-bit bank
number of JEDEC chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
...
cmdlinepart partition parsing not available
Searching for RedBoot partition table in physmap-flash.0 at offset 0x70000
No RedBoot partition table detected in physmap-flash.0

The change made by this patch is required because the ST M29W400DB
flash memory chip in the GLAN Tank is used in 16 bit bus mode (~BYTE
pin is high when the board is powered on).

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2008-January/020291.html

Signed-off-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:58:55 +00:00
Lucas Woods
1d7d4f54b1 [ARM] remove duplicate includes
Signed-off-by: Lucas Woods <woodzy@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:07 +00:00
Sascha Hauer
ddf4e42c6a [ARM] CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
In early 2.6 days stack utilization instrumentation was made
configurable. Seems that arm misses the DEBUG_STACK_USAGE option.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:06 +00:00
Nicolas Pitre
70b6f2b4af [ARM] 4689/1: small comment wrap fix
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:05 +00:00
George G. Davis
7b544c99e0 [ARM] 4687/1: Trivial arch/arm/kernel/entry-common.S comment fix
Make the comment match the code

Signed-off-by: George G. Davis <gdavis@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:04 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
d2936b1976 [ARM] 4666/1: ixp4xx: fix sparse warnings in include/asm-arm/arch-ixp4xx/io.h
Don't lose __iomem in casts.  Use __force to cast __iomem addresses to
integers.  Use __force to cast u32 to __le32 and vice versa.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:03 +00:00
Robert P. J. Day
e173dbf688 [ARM] remove reference to non-existent MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS
The CONFIG variable MTD_OBSOLETE_CHIPS was deleted in commit
ba7cc09c9c9e29a57045dc5bbf843ac1cfad3283.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:02 +00:00
Alan Cox
c5f333831f [SERIAL] 21285: Report baud rate back via termios
Currently reports back the requested rate not the result of the divides
but thats an easy fix for someone with h/w

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:01 +00:00
Jeff Garzik
2a7057e306 [ARM] Remove pointless casts from void pointers,
mostly in and around irq handlers.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:50:00 +00:00
Jeff Garzik
e8f2af1775 [ARM] Misc minor interrupt handler cleanups
mach-integrator/pci_v3.c: no need to reference 'irq' arg, its constant

mach-omap1/pm.c: remove extra whitespace

arch/arm/mach-sa1100/ssp.c: remove braces around single C stmt

arch/arm/plat-omap/mcbsp.c:
	- remove pointless casts from void*
	- make longer lines more readable

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:49:59 +00:00
Jan Altenberg
f1a6de9c7e [ARM] Remove at91_lcdc.h
include/asm-arm/arch-at91/at91_lcdc.h (which is still present in latest
git) has been superseeded by include/video/atmel_lcdc.h, so let's remove
it.

Signed-off-by: Jan Altenberg <jan.altenberg@linutronix.de>
Cc: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@rfo.atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:49:58 +00:00
Alejandro Martinez Ruiz
df1a290320 [ARM] ARRAY_SIZE() cleanup
Signed-off-by: Alejandro Martinez Ruiz <alex@flawedcode.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:49:57 +00:00
Russell King
2fd2b12428 [ARM] Update mach-types
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:47:48 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
b5872db4a2 [ARM] 4584/2: ARMv7: Add Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension support
This patch enables the use of the Advanced SIMD (NEON) extension on
ARMv7. The NEON technology is a 64/128-bit hybrid SIMD architecture
for accelerating the performance of multimedia and signal processing
applications. The extension shares the registers with the VFP unit and
enabling/disabling and saving/restoring follow the same rules. In
addition, there are instructions that do not have the appropriate CP
number encoded, the checks being made in the call_fpe function.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:44:02 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
25ebee020b [ARM] 4583/1: ARMv7: Add VFPv3 support
This patch adds the support for VFPv3 (the kernel currently supports
VFPv2). The main difference is 32 double registers (compared to 16).

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:41:28 +00:00
Catalin Marinas
c98929c07a [ARM] 4582/2: Add support for the common VFP subarchitecture
This patch allows the VFP support code to run correctly on CPUs
compatible with the common VFP subarchitecture specification (Appendix
B in the ARM ARM v7-A and v7-R edition). It implements support for VFP
subarchitecture 2 while being backwards compatible with
subarchitecture 1.

On VFP subarchitecture 1, the arithmetic exceptions are asynchronous
(or imprecise as described in the old ARM ARM) unless the FPSCR.IXE
bit is 1. The exceptional instructions can be read from FPINST and
FPINST2 registers. With VFP subarchitecture 2, the arithmetic
exceptions can also be synchronous and marked by the FPEXC.DEX bit
(the FPEXC.EX bit is cleared). CPUs implementing the synchronous
arithmetic exceptions don't have the FPINST and FPINST2 registers and
accessing them would trigger and undefined exception.

Note that FPEXC.EX bit has an additional meaning on subarchitecture 1
- if it isn't set, there is no additional information in FPINST and
FPINST2 that needs to be saved at context switch or when lazy-loading
the VFP state of a different thread.

The patch also removes the clearing of the cumulative exception flags in
FPSCR when additional exceptions were raised. It is up to the user
application to clear these bits.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:41:28 +00:00
Russell King
d142b6e77d [ARM] sa1100: add clock source support
Add generic clock source support for SA11x0 platforms.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:40:57 +00:00
Arve Hjønnevåg
bfe645adf1 [ARM] msm: dma support for MSM7X00A
Signed-off-by: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
2008-01-26 14:39:14 +00:00
Brian Swetland
9e73c84c89 [ARM] msm: board file for MACH_HALIBUT (QCT MSM7200A)
Add support for the Qualcomm MSM7200A eval board.
Common devices are defined in common.c, to avoid excessive
cut'n'pasting them into other board files.

Signed-off-by: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
2008-01-26 14:39:14 +00:00
Arve Hjønnevåg
3e4ea3728a [ARM] msm: irq and timer support for ARCH_MSM7X00A
- Vectored Interrupt Controller support
- Timer support using the GPT and DGT timers

Signed-off-by: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
2008-01-26 14:39:14 +00:00
Brian Swetland
3042102a28 [ARM] msm: core platform support for ARCH_MSM7X00A
- core header files for arch-msm
- Kconfig and Makefiles to enable ARCH_MSM7X00A builds
- MSM7X00A specific arch_idle
- peripheral iomap and irq number definitions

Signed-off-by: Brian Swetland <swetland@google.com>
2008-01-26 14:39:14 +00:00
Andrew Victor
20118ff978 [ARM] 4603/1: KS8695: debugfs interface to view pin state
This patch adds a debug interface (if CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is selected) to
display the basic configuration and current state of the GPIO pins on
the Kendin/Micrel KS8695 processor.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:38:48 +00:00
Andrew Victor
7d77ce8f67 [ARM] 4601/1: KS8695: PCI support
This patch adds support for the PCI Host controller integrated in the
Kendin/Micrel KS8695 processor.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:38:48 +00:00
Martin Michlmayr
bd7b885863 [ARM] 4732/1: GLAN Tank: register rtc-rs5c372 i2c device
Use the new i2c framework to load rtc-rs5c372 for the GLAN Tank.

Tested-by: Gordon Farquharson <gordonfarquharson@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:57 +00:00
Dan Williams
ecdc902bf8 [ARM] 4708/1: iop: update defconfigs for 2.6.24
* iop13xx, iop33x, iop32x: re-enable the IOP_ADMA driver by default
* iop32x: enable RS5C372 and RTC_CLASS support

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:57 +00:00
Herbert Valerio Riedel
6331acd78f [ARM] 4671/1: ep93xx: remove obsolete gpio_line_* operations
With the new GPIO methods in place the old gpio_line_* methods are redundant,
so this patch finally removes the old legacy gpio_line_* wrappers.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:31 +00:00
Herbert Valerio Riedel
3c9a071d77 [ARM] 4670/1: ep93xx: implement IRQT_BOTHEDGE gpio irq sense type
Having a both-edge sensitive irq trigger type is required for the
generic gpio-keys input driver; alas the ep93xx does not support
both-edge gpio triggers in hardware, so this patch implements them by
switching edge polarity on each triggered interrupt.  This is the same
approach as taken by the Orion SoC both-edge gpio irq support
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:31 +00:00
Herbert Valerio Riedel
7ca7225339 [ARM] 4669/1: ep93xx: simplify GPIO code and cleanups
This patch renumbers the (virtual) GPIO line numbering to have all
irq-capable gpio lines <= EP93XX_GPIO_LINE_MAX_IRQ by swapping the
port f range with the port c range; This simplifies code such as

 #define IRQ_EP93XX_GPIO(x)  (64 + (((x) + (((x) >> 2) & 8)) & 0x1f))

or

 if (line >= 0 && line < 16) {
    /* Port A/B */
 } else if (line >= 40 && line < 48) {
    /* Port F */
 }

considerably; in addition to the renumbering this patch also
introduces macro constants EP93XX_GPIO_LINE_MAX_IRQ and
EP93XX_GPIO_LINE_MAX, and replaces most magic numbers by those and
invocations of gpio_to_irq()/irq_to_gpio().

Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:31 +00:00
Herbert Valerio Riedel
4e9f9fd514 [ARM] 4668/1: ep93xx: implement new GPIO API
Implement new GPIO API for ep93xx platform as defined in Documentation/gpio.txt
and provide transitional __deprecated wrappers for the previous gpio_line_*
functions.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org>
Acked-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-01-26 14:37:31 +00:00
Martin Schwidefsky
9d40d2e395 [S390] replace lock_cpu_hotplug with get_online_cpus
Git commit 86ef5c9a8edd78e6bf92879f32329d89b2d55b5a forgot a few
lock_cpu_hotplug/unlock_cpu_hotplug pairs in arch/s390/kernel/smp.c

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:33 +01:00
Peter Tiedemann
361f494d4e [S390] usage of s390dbf: shrink number of debug areas to use.
Signed-off-by: Peter Tiedemann <ptiedem@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:33 +01:00
Jan Engelhardt
5c81cdbeff [S390] constify function pointer tables.
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:32 +01:00
Hisashi Hifumi
894cdde26b [S390] do local_irq_restore while spinning in spin_lock_irqsave.
In s390's spin_lock_irqsave, interrupts remain disabled while
spinning. In other architectures like x86 and powerpc, interrupts are
re-enabled while spinning if IRQ is not masked before spin_lock_irqsave
is called.

The following patch re-enables interrupts through local_irq_restore
while spinning for a lock acquisition.
This can improve system response.

[heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com: removed saving of pc]

Signed-off-by: Hisashi Hifumi <hifumi.hisashi@oss.ntt.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:31 +01:00
Carsten Otte
dab5209cd8 [S390] add smp_call_function_mask
This patch adds the s390 variant for smp_call_function_mask(). The
implementation is pretty straight forward using the wrapper
__smp_call_function_map() which already takes a cpumask_t argument.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:31 +01:00
Stefan Haberland
7dc1da9ffa [S390] dasd: fix loop in request expiration handling
Add time to the 'expires' value to avoid a loop caused by the cqr
termination function

Signed-off-by: Stefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:30 +01:00
Martin Schwidefsky
028fed8233 [S390] Unused field / extern declaration in processor.h
Remove extern declaration of non-existent last_task_used_math and
remove unused field error_code from the thread_struct.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:29 +01:00
WANG Cong
53360fb196 [S390] Remove TOPDIR from Makefile
This patch removes TOPDIR from arch/s390/kernel/Makefile.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:29 +01:00
Stefan Weinhuber
8e09f21574 [S390] dasd: add hyper PAV support to DASD device driver, part 1
Parallel access volumes (PAV) is a storage server feature, that allows
to start multiple channel programs on the same DASD in parallel. It
defines alias devices which can be used as alternative paths to the
same disk. With the old base PAV support we only needed rudimentary
functionality in the DASD device driver. As the mapping between base
and alias devices was static, we just had to export an identifier
(uid) and could leave the combining of devices to external layers
like a device mapper multipath.
Now hyper PAV removes the requirement to dedicate alias devices to
specific base devices. Instead each alias devices can be combined with
multiple base device on a per request basis. This requires full
support by the DASD device driver as now each channel program itself
has to identify the target base device.
The changes to the dasd device driver and the ECKD discipline are:
- Separate subchannel device representation (dasd_device) from block
  device representation (dasd_block). Only base devices are block
  devices.
- Gather information about base and alias devices and possible
  combinations.
- For each request decide which dasd_device should be used (base or
  alias) and build specific channel program.
- Support summary unit checks, which allow the storage server to
  upgrade / downgrade between base and hyper PAV at runtime (support
  is mandatory).

Signed-off-by: Stefan Weinhuber <wein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2008-01-26 14:11:28 +01:00