linux-sg2042/arch/sparc64
David S. Miller c7754d465b [SPARC64]: Add hypervisor API negotiation and fix console bugs.
Hypervisor interfaces need to be negotiated in order to use
some API calls reliably.  So add a small set of interfaces
to request API versions and query current settings.

This allows us to fix some bugs in the hypervisor console:

1) If we can negotiate API group CORE of at least major 1
   minor 1 we can use con_read and con_write which can improve
   console performance quite a bit.

2) When we do a console write request, we should hold the
   spinlock around the whole request, not a byte at a time.
   What would happen is that it's easy for output from
   different cpus to get mixed with each other.

3) Use consistent udelay() based polling, udelay(1) each
   loop with a limit of 1000 polls to handle stuck hypervisor
   console.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-15 20:23:02 -07:00
..
boot [SPARC64]: Add .gitignore file for sparc64 boot images. 2006-02-05 00:15:11 -08:00
kernel [SPARC64]: Add hypervisor API negotiation and fix console bugs. 2007-05-15 20:23:02 -07:00
lib [SPARC64]: store-init needs trailing membar. 2007-03-19 13:27:33 -07:00
math-emu [SPARC64] math-emu: Delete debugging printk left by previous commit. 2006-03-20 01:13:53 -08:00
mm [SPARC64]: Spelling fixes. 2007-05-11 21:39:21 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] Move Kprobes and Oprofile to "Instrumentation Support" menu 2005-11-07 07:53:35 -08:00
prom [SPARC]: Kill prom_getname, unused and not implemented properly. 2006-07-21 14:17:55 -07:00
solaris header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
Kconfig [SPARC64]: Kill LARGE_ALLOCS and update defconfig. 2007-05-11 21:39:19 -07:00
Kconfig.debug [SPARC64]: Add irqtrace/stacktrace/lockdep support. 2006-12-10 02:39:09 -08:00
Makefile [SPARC64]: Stop putting -finline-limit=XXX into CFLAGS 2005-12-20 14:53:05 -08:00
defconfig [SPARC64]: Update defconfig. 2007-05-14 04:19:01 -07:00