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2009-05-23Merge branch 'ixp4xx' of ↵Russell King
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chris/linux-2.6 into devel
2009-05-23IXP4xx: support for Goramo MultiLink router platform.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP42x: Use __fls() in QMgr interrupt handlers.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP42x: Add QMgr support for IXP425 rev. A0 processors.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP42x: add NPE support for IXP425 rev. A0 processors.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP42x: Identify Intel IXP425 rev. A0 processors.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP4xx: Whitespace fixes in the Ethernet driver.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23IXP4xx: Ethernet and WAN drivers now support "high" hardware queues.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-23Merge branch 'for-rmk-devel' of git://git.pengutronix.de/git/imx/linux-2.6 ↵Russell King
into devel Conflicts: arch/arm/Kconfig arch/arm/Makefile
2009-05-20IXP4xx: Add support for the second half of the 64 hardware queues.Krzysztof Hałasa
Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Hałasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
2009-05-18i.MX31: Add support for the CPLD on PDK Debug board.Magnus Lilja
The i.MX31 PDK consists of several boards, one of them is a debug board containing a CPLD which controls some debug leds, switch buttons, an interrupt chip and an Ethernet controller. This patch adds support for detecting if the PDK board is present (during boot) and adds the interrupt chip to the kernel. Signed-off-by: Magnus Lilja <lilja.magnus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2009-05-17mx3fb: Issue prettier log messageSascha Hauer
Without this patch we end up with a log message like "mx3_sdc_fb mx3_sdc_fb: mx3fb: fb registered". That's two fb too much for my taste. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2009-05-16i.MX31: Restructure UART setup for PDK board.Magnus Lilja
Restructure UART pin setup in preparation for adding other pins in later patches. Signed-off-by: Magnus Lilja <lilja.magnus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2009-05-16ARM MXC: Make-sure-ipg_per_clk-is-generated-by-ipg_clk-and-not-usb_pllAlberto Panizzo
From ff1fd9d7015d9b9ad3e0df2016d0415e2719747c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 17:21:21 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Make sure ipg_per_clk is generated by ipg_clk and not usb_pll Signed-off-by: Alberto Panizzo <maramaopercheseimorto@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2009-05-16i.MX31: Add NAND device driver for Litekit board.Magnus Lilja
Signed-off-by: Magnus Lilja <lilja.magnus@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
2009-05-15Linux 2.6.30-rc6Linus Torvalds
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI MSI: Fix MSI-X with NIU cards PCI: Fix pci-e port driver slot_reset bad default return value
2009-05-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6: Bluetooth: Don't trigger disconnect timeout for security mode 3 pairing Bluetooth: Don't use hci_acl_connect_cancel() for incoming connections Bluetooth: Fix wrong module refcount when connection setup fails Another case of me handling the fallout from Davem's unfortunate addiction to shuffleboard. Won't anybody think of the children? Join the anti-shuffleboard league today!
2009-05-15Merge branch 'drm-intel-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel * 'drm-intel-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/anholt/drm-intel: drm/i915: Add new GET_PIPE_FROM_CRTC_ID ioctl. drm/i915: Set HDMI hot plug interrupt enable for only the output in question. drm/i915: Include 965GME pci ID in IS_I965GM(dev) to match UMS. drm/i915: Use the GM45 VGA hotplug workaround on G45 as well. drm/i915: ignore LVDS on intel graphics systems that lie about having it drm/i915: sanity check IER at wait_request time drm/i915: workaround IGD i2c bus issue in kernel side (v2) drm/i915: Don't allow binding objects into the last page of the aperture. drm/i915: save/restore fence registers across suspend/resume drm/i915: x86 always has writeq. Add I915_READ64 for symmetry.
2009-05-15Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev * 'upstream-linus' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristics libata: Report disk alignment and physical block size sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controller sata_fsl: Fix compile warnings [libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handling [libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methods
2009-05-15Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6: iwlwifi: fix device id registration for 6000 series 2x2 devices ath5k: update channel in sw state after stopping RX and TX rtl8187: use DMA-aware buffers with usb_control_msg mac80211: avoid NULL ptr deref when finding max_rates in PID and minstrel airo: airo_get_encode{,ext} potential buffer overflow Pulled directly by Linus because Davem is off playing shuffle-board at some Alaskan cruise, and the NULL ptr deref issue hits people and should get merged sooner rather than later. David - make us proud on the shuffle-board tournament!
2009-05-15libata: Media rotation rate and form factor heuristicsMartin K. Petersen
This patch provides new heuristics for parsing both the form factor and media rotation rate ATA IDENFITY words. The reported ATA version must be 7 or greater and the device must return values defined as valid in the standard. Only then are the characteristics reported to SCSI via the VPD B1 page. This seems like a reasonable compromise to me considering that we have been shipping several kernel releases that key off the rotation rate bit without any version checking whatsoever. With no complaints so far. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15libata: Report disk alignment and physical block sizeMartin K. Petersen
For disks with 4KB sectors, report the correct block size and alignment when filling out the READ CAPACITY(16) response. This patch is based upon code from Matthew Wilcox' 4KB ATA tree. I fixed the bug I reported a while back caused by ATA and SCSI using different approaches to describing the alignment. Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15sata_fsl: Fix the command description of FSL SATA controllerDave Liu
The bit 11 of command description is reserved bit in Freescale SATA controller and needs to be set to '1'. This is needed to make sure the last write from the controller to the buffer descriptor is seen before an interrupt is raised. Signed-off-by: Dave Liu <daveliu@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15sata_fsl: Fix compile warningsKumar Gala
We we build with dma_addr_t as a 64-bit quantity we get: drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c: In function 'sata_fsl_fill_sg': drivers/ata/sata_fsl.c:340: warning: format '%x' expects type 'unsigned int', but argument 4 has type 'dma_addr_t' Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15[libata] sata_sx4: fixup interrupt handlingDavid Milburn
Issuing ATA_CMD_SET_FEATURES (0xef) times out because pdc20621_interrupt ignores command completion since ATA_TFLAG_POLLING flag is set. This has already been fixed for sata_promise: commit 51b94d2a5a90d4800e74d7348bcde098a28f4fb3 Author: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Date: Fri Jun 8 13:46:55 2007 -0700 sata_promise: use TF interface for polling NODATA commands Also, this patch includes Mikael's original patches: http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121135828227724&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-ide&m=121144512109826&w=2 Signed-off-by: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se> Signed-off-by: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15[libata] sata_sx4: convert to new exception handling methodsJeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tytso/ext4: ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extent ext4: Clear the unwritten buffer_head flag after the extent is initialized ext4: Use a fake block number for delayed new buffer_head ext4: Fix sub-block zeroing for writes into preallocated extents
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixes ASoC: DaVinci I2S updates ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixes ALSA: pcsp: fix printk format warning ALSA: riptide: postfix increment and off by one pxa2xx-ac97: fix reset gpio mode setting ASoC: soc-core: fix crash when removing not instantiated card
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: gdb documentation fix kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frame sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collision
2009-05-15Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block: Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads" viocd: needs to depend on BLOCK block: fix the bio_vec array index out-of-bounds test
2009-05-15Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/benh/powerpc: powerpc: Fix PCI ROM access powerpc/pseries: Really fix the oprofile CPU type on pseries serial/nwpserial: Fix wrong register read address and add interrupt acknowledge. powerpc/cell: Make ptcal more reliable powerpc: Allow mem=x cmdline to work with 4G+ powerpc/mpic: Fix incorrect allocation of interrupt rev-map powerpc: Fix oprofile sampling of marked events on POWER7 powerpc/iseries: Fix pci breakage due to bad dma_data initialization powerpc: Fix mktree build error on Mac OS X host powerpc/virtex: Fix duplicate level irq events. powerpc/virtex: Add uImage to the default images list powerpc/boot: add simpleImage.* to clean-files list powerpc/8xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/embedded6xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/86xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/85xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/83xx: Update defconfigs powerpc/fsl_soc: Remove mpc83xx_wdt_init, again
2009-05-15devpts: correctly set default optionsSukadev Bhattiprolu
devpts_get_sb() calls memset(0) to clear mount options and calls parse_mount_options() if user specified any mount options. The memset(0) is bogus since the 'mode' and 'ptmxmode' options are non-zero by default. parse_mount_options() restores options to default anyway and can properly deal with NULL mount options. So in devpts_get_sb() remove memset(0) and call parse_mount_options() even for NULL mount options. Bug reported by Eric Paris: http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/7/448. Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Tested-by: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@gmail.com> Reported-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Reviewed-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-15Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
* fix/asoc: ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixes ASoC: DaVinci I2S updates ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixes pxa2xx-ac97: fix reset gpio mode setting ASoC: soc-core: fix crash when removing not instantiated card
2009-05-15Merge branch 'fix/misc' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
* fix/misc: ALSA: pcsp: fix printk format warning ALSA: riptide: postfix increment and off by one
2009-05-15ext4: Fix race in ext4_inode_info.i_cached_extentTheodore Ts'o
If two CPU's simultaneously call ext4_ext_get_blocks() at the same time, there is nothing protecting the i_cached_extent structure from being used and updated at the same time. This could potentially cause the wrong location on disk to be read or written to, including potentially causing the corruption of the block group descriptors and/or inode table. This bug has been in the ext4 code since almost the very beginning of ext4's development. Fortunately once the data is stored in the page cache cache, ext4_get_blocks() doesn't need to be called, so trying to replicate this problem to the point where we could identify its root cause was *extremely* difficult. Many thanks to Kevin Shanahan for working over several months to be able to reproduce this easily so we could finally nail down the cause of the corruption. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Reviewed-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-05-15kgdb: gdb documentation fixFrank Rowand
gdb command "set remote debug 1" is not valid, change to correct command. Signed-off-by: Frank Rowand <frank.rowand@am.sony.com> Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2009-05-15kgdb,i386: use address that SP register points to in the exception frameJason Wessel
The treatment of the SP register is different on x86_64 and i386. This is a regression fix that lived outside the mainline kernel from 2.6.27 to now. The regression was a result of the original merge consolidation of the i386 and x86_64 archs to x86. The incorrectly reported SP on i386 prevented stack tracebacks from working correctly in gdb. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2009-05-15sysrq, intel_fb: fix sysrq g collisionJason Wessel
Commit 79e539453b34e35f39299a899d263b0a1f1670bd introduced a regression where you cannot use sysrq 'g' to enter kgdb. The solution is to move the intel fb sysrq over to V for video instead of G for graphics. The SMP VOYAGER code to register for the sysrq-v is not anywhere to be found in the mainline kernel, so the comments in the code were cleaned up as well. This patch also cleans up the sysrq definitions for kgdb to make it generic for the kernel debugger, such that the sysrq 'g' can be used in the future to enter a gdbstub or another kernel debugger. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2009-05-15Revert "mm: add /proc controls for pdflush threads"Jens Axboe
This reverts commit fafd688e4c0c34da0f3de909881117d374e4c7af. Work is progressing to switch away from pdflush as the process backing for flushing out dirty data. So it seems pointless to add more knobs to control pdflush threads. The original author of the patch did not have any specific use cases for adding the knobs, so we can easily revert this before 2.6.30 to avoid having to maintain this API forever. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-05-15ASoC: DaVinci EVM board support buildfixesDavid Brownell
This is a build fix, resyncing the DaVinci EVM ASoC board code with the version in the DaVinci tree. That resync includes support for the DM355 EVM, although that board isn't yet in mainline. (NOTE: also includes a bugfix to the platform_add_resources call, recently sent by Chaithrika U S <chaithrika@ti.com> but not yet merged into the DaVinci tree.) Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2009-05-15ASoC: DaVinci I2S updatesDavid Brownell
This resyncs the DaVinci I2S code with the version in the DaVinci tree. The behavioral change uses updated clock interfaces which recently merged to mainline. Two other changes include adding a comment on the ASP/McBSP/McASP confusion, and dropping pdev->id in order to support more boards than just the DM644x EVM. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2009-05-15ASoC: davinci-pcm buildfixesDavid Brownell
This is a buildfix for the DaVinci PCM code, resyncing it with the version in the DaVinci tree. The notable change is using current EDMA interfaces, which recently merged to mainline. (The older interfaces never made it into mainline.) NOTE: open issue, the DMA should be to/from SRAM; see chip errata for more info. The artifacts are extremely easy to hear on DM355 hardware (not yet supported in mainline), but don't seem as audible on DM6446 hardwaare (which does have mainline support). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
2009-05-15powerpc: Fix PCI ROM accessBenjamin Herrenschmidt
A couple of issues crept in since about 2.6.27 related to accessing PCI device ROMs on various powerpc machines. First, historically, we don't allocate the ROM resource in the resource tree. I'm not entirely certain of why, I susepct they often contained garbage on x86 but it's hard to tell. This causes the current generic code to always call pci_assign_resource() when trying to access the said ROM from sysfs, which will try to re-assign some new address regardless of what the ROM BAR was already set to at boot time. This can be a problem on hypervisor platforms like pSeries where we aren't supposed to move PCI devices around (and in fact probably can't). Second, our code that generates the PCI tree from the OF device-tree (instead of doing config space probing) which we mostly use on pseries at the moment, didn't set the (new) flag IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN on any resource. That means that any attempt at re-assigning such a resource with pci_assign_resource() would fail due to resource_alignment() returning 0. This fixes this by doing these two things: - The code that calculates resource flags based on the OF device-node is improved to set IORESOURCE_SIZEALIGN on any valid BAR, and while at it also set IORESOURCE_READONLY for ROMs since we were lacking that too - We now allocate ROM resources as part of the resource tree. However to limit the chances of nasty conflicts due to busted firmwares, we only do it on the second pass of our two-passes allocation scheme, so that all valid and enabled BARs get precedence. This brings pSeries back the ability to access PCI ROMs via sysfs (and thus initialize various video cards from X etc...). Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15powerpc/pseries: Really fix the oprofile CPU type on pseriesBenjamin Herrenschmidt
My previous pach for fixing the oprofile CPU type got somewhat mismerged (by my fault) when it collided with another related patch. This should finally (fingers crossed) fix the whole thing. We make sure we keep the -old- oprofile type and CPU type whenever one of them was specified in the first pass through the function. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15serial/nwpserial: Fix wrong register read address and add interrupt acknowledge.Benjamin Krill
The receive interrupt routine checks the wrong register if the receive fifo is empty. Further an explicit interrupt acknowledge write is introduced. In some circumstances another interrupt was issued. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Krill <ben@codiert.org> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15powerpc/cell: Make ptcal more reliableGerhard Stenzel
There have been a series of checkstops on QS21 related to ptcal being set up incorrectly. On systems that only have memory on a single node, ptcal fails when it gets a pointer to memory on the remote node. Moreover, agressive prefetching in memcpy and other functions may accidentally touch the first cache line of the page that we reserve for ptcal, which causes an ECC checkstop. We now allocate pages only from the specified node, moves the ptcal area into the middle of the allocated page to avoid potential prefetch problems and prints the address of the ptcal area to facilitate diagnostics. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Stenzel <gerhard.stenzel@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15powerpc: Allow mem=x cmdline to work with 4G+Becky Bruce
We're currently choking on mem=4g (and above) due to memory_limit being specified as an unsigned long. Make memory_limit phys_addr_t to fix this. Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce <beckyb@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15powerpc/mpic: Fix incorrect allocation of interrupt rev-mapKumar Gala
Before when we were setting up the irq host map for mpic we passed in just isu_size for the size of the linear map. However, for a number of mpic implementations we have no isu (thus pass in 0) and will end up with a no linear map (size = 0). This causes us to always call irq_find_mapping() from mpic_get_irq(). By moving the allocation of the host map to after we've determined the number of sources we can actually benefit from having a linear map for the non-isu users that covers all the interrupt sources. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-05-15powerpc: Fix oprofile sampling of marked events on POWER7Maynard Johnson
Description ----------- Change ppc64 oprofile kernel driver to use the SLOT bits (MMCRA[37:39]only on older processors where those bits are defined. Background ---------- The performance monitor unit of the 64-bit POWER processor family has the ability to collect accurate instruction-level samples when profiling on marked events (i.e., "PM_MRK_<event-name>"). In processors prior to POWER6, the MMCRA register contained "slot information" that the oprofile kernel driver used to adjust the value latched in the SIAR at the time of a PMU interrupt. But as of POWER6, these slot bits in MMCRA are no longer necessary for oprofile to use, since the SIAR itself holds the accurate sampled instruction address. With POWER6, these MMCRA slot bits were zero'ed out by hardware so oprofile's use of these slot bits was, in effect, a NOP. But with POWER7, these bits are no longer zero'ed out; however, they serve some other purpose rather than slot information. Thus, using these bits on POWER7 to adjust the SIAR value results in samples being attributed to the wrong instructions. The attached patch changes the oprofile kernel driver to ignore these slot bits on all newer processors starting with POWER6. Signed-off-by: Maynard Johnson <maynardj@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Wolf <mjw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>