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#
# Top-level generic files
#
tags
vmlinux*
System.map
Module.symvers
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include/linux/compile.h
include/linux/version.h

# stgit generated dirs
patches-*
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S: USA

N: Philip Gladstone
E: philip@raptor.com
E: philip@gladstonefamily.net
D: Kernel / timekeeping stuff
S: Carlisle, MA 01741
S: USA

N: Jan-Benedict Glaw
E: jbglaw@lug-owl.de
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S: Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Paris

N: Jamie Lokier
E: jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie
E: jamie@shareable.org
W: http://www.shareable.org/
D: Reboot-through-BIOS for broken 486 motherboards
D: Some parport fixes
S: 11 Goodson Walk
S: Marston
D: Parport fixes, futex improvements
D: First instruction of x86 sysenter path :)
S: 51 Sunningwell Road
S: Oxford
S: OX3 0HX
S: OX1 4SZ
S: United Kingdom

N: Mark Lord
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P: 1024D/FCE635A4 88E8 F32F 7244 68BA 3958 5D40 99DA 5D2A FCE6 35A4
D: V4L driver for W996[87]CF JPEG USB Dual Mode Camera Chips
D: V4L2 driver for SN9C10x PC Camera Controllers
D: V4L2 driver for ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers
D: V4L2 driver for ZC0301 Image Processor and Control Chip
S: Via Liberta' 41/A
S: Osio Sotto, 24046, Bergamo
S: Italy
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D: Miscellaneous kernel fixes

N: Alessandro Zummo
E: azummo@ita.flashnet.it
W: http://freepage.logicom.it/azummo/
E: a.zummo@towertech.it
D: CMI8330 support is sb_card.c
D: ISAPnP fixes in sb_card.c
D: ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus driver
D: RTC subsystem
S: Italy

N: Marc Zyngier
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Table of contents
=================

Last updated: 20 December 2005

Contents
========

- Introduction
- Devices not appearing
- Finding patch that caused a bug
-- Finding using git-bisect
-- Finding it the old way
- Fixing the bug

Introduction
============

Always try the latest kernel from kernel.org and build from source. If you are
not confident in doing that please report the bug to your distribution vendor
instead of to a kernel developer.

Finding bugs is not always easy. Have a go though. If you can't find it don't
give up. Report as much as you have found to the relevant maintainer. See
MAINTAINERS for who that is for the subsystem you have worked on.

Before you submit a bug report read REPORTING-BUGS.

Devices not appearing
=====================

Often this is caused by udev. Check that first before blaming it on the
kernel.

Finding patch that caused a bug
===============================



Finding using git-bisect
------------------------

Using the provided tools with git makes finding bugs easy provided the bug is
reproducible.

Steps to do it:
- start using git for the kernel source
- read the man page for git-bisect
- have fun

Finding it the old way
----------------------

[Sat Mar 2 10:32:33 PST 1996 KERNEL_BUG-HOWTO lm@sgi.com (Larry McVoy)]

This is how to track down a bug if you know nothing about kernel hacking.
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because Linux snapshots will let you do this - something that you can't
do with vendor supplied releases.

Fixing the bug
==============

Nobody is going to tell you how to fix bugs. Seriously. You need to work it
out. But below are some hints on how to use the tools.

To debug a kernel, use objdump and look for the hex offset from the crash
output to find the valid line of code/assembler. Without debug symbols, you
will see the assembler code for the routine shown, but if your kernel has
debug symbols the C code will also be available. (Debug symbols can be enabled
in the kernel hacking menu of the menu configuration.) For example:

objdump -r -S -l --disassemble net/dccp/ipv4.o

NB.: you need to be at the top level of the kernel tree for this to pick up
your C files.

If you don't have access to the code you can also debug on some crash dumps
e.g. crash dump output as shown by Dave Miller.

> EIP is at ip_queue_xmit+0x14/0x4c0
> ...
> Code: 44 24 04 e8 6f 05 00 00 e9 e8 fe ff ff 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00
> 00 00 55 57 56 53 81 ec bc 00 00 00 8b ac 24 d0 00 00 00 8b 5d 08
> <8b> 83 3c 01 00 00 89 44 24 14 8b 45 28 85 c0 89 44 24 18 0f 85
>
> Put the bytes into a "foo.s" file like this:
>
> .text
> .globl foo
> foo:
> .byte .... /* bytes from Code: part of OOPS dump */
>
> Compile it with "gcc -c -o foo.o foo.s" then look at the output of
> "objdump --disassemble foo.o".
>
> Output:
>
> ip_queue_xmit:
> push %ebp
> push %edi
> push %esi
> push %ebx
> sub $0xbc, %esp
> mov 0xd0(%esp), %ebp ! %ebp = arg0 (skb)
> mov 0x8(%ebp), %ebx ! %ebx = skb->sk
> mov 0x13c(%ebx), %eax ! %eax = inet_sk(sk)->opt

Another very useful option of the Kernel Hacking section in menuconfig is
Debug memory allocations. This will help you see whether data has been
initialised and not set before use etc. To see the values that get assigned
with this look at mm/slab.c and search for POISON_INUSE. When using this an
Oops will often show the poisoned data instead of zero which is the default.

Once you have worked out a fix please submit it upstream. After all open
source is about sharing what you do and don't you want to be recognised for
your genius?

Please do read Documentation/SubmittingPatches though to help your code get
accepted.
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Axel Boldt, Alessandro Sigala, and countless other users all over the
'net).

The latest revision of this document, in various formats, can always
be found at <http://cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/kaboom/linux/Changes-2.4/>.

Feel free to translate this document. If you do so, please send me a
URL to your translation for inclusion in future revisions of this
document.

Smotrite file <http://oblom.rnc.ru/linux/kernel/Changes.ru>, yavlyaushisya
russkim perevodom dannogo documenta.

Visite <http://www2.adi.uam.es/~ender/tecnico/> para obtener la traducci�n
al espa�ol de este documento en varios formatos.

Eine deutsche Version dieser Datei finden Sie unter
<http://www.stefan-winter.de/Changes-2.4.0.txt>.

Chris Ricker (kaboom@gatech.edu or chris.ricker@genetics.utah.edu).

Current Minimal Requirements
============================

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"mydev: 24-bit DMA addressing not available.\n");
goto ignore_this_device;
}
[Better use DMA_24BIT_MASK instead of 0x00ffffff.
See linux/include/dma-mapping.h for reference.]

When pci_set_dma_mask() is successful, and returns zero, the PCI layer
saves away this mask you have provided. The PCI layer will use this
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DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \
procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \
sis900.xml kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml

###
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###
# The targets that may be used.
.PHONY: xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs
PHONY += xmldocs sgmldocs psdocs pdfdocs htmldocs mandocs installmandocs

BOOKS := $(addprefix $(obj)/,$(DOCBOOKS))
xmldocs: $(BOOKS)
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#man put files in man subdir - traverse down
subdir- := man/


# Declare the contents of the .PHONY variable as phony. We keep that
# information in a variable se we can use it in if_changed and friends.

.PHONY: $(PHONY)
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</para>
</sect1>

<sect1>
<title>ISA legacy functions</title>
<para>
On older kernels (2.2 and earlier) the ISA bus could be read or
written with these functions and without ioremap being used. This is
no longer true in Linux 2.4. A set of equivalent functions exist for
easy legacy driver porting. The functions available are prefixed
with 'isa_' and are <function>isa_readb</function>,
<function>isa_writeb</function>, <function>isa_readw</function>,
<function>isa_writew</function>, <function>isa_readl</function>,
<function>isa_writel</function>, <function>isa_memcpy_fromio</function>
and <function>isa_memcpy_toio</function>
</para>
<para>
These functions should not be used in new drivers, and will
eventually be going away.
</para>
</sect1>

</chapter>

<chapter>
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<programlisting>
void (*set_piomode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
void (*set_dmamode) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *);
void (*post_set_mode) (struct ata_port *ap);
void (*post_set_mode) (struct ata_port *);
unsigned int (*mode_filter) (struct ata_port *, struct ata_device *, unsigned int);
</programlisting>

<para>
Hooks called prior to the issue of SET FEATURES - XFER MODE
command. dev->pio_mode is guaranteed to be valid when
->set_piomode() is called, and dev->dma_mode is guaranteed to be
valid when ->set_dmamode() is called. ->post_set_mode() is
command. The optional ->mode_filter() hook is called when libata
has built a mask of the possible modes. This is passed to the
->mode_filter() function which should return a mask of valid modes
after filtering those unsuitable due to hardware limits. It is not
valid to use this interface to add modes.
</para>
<para>
dev->pio_mode and dev->dma_mode are guaranteed to be valid when
->set_piomode() and when ->set_dmamode() is called. The timings for
any other drive sharing the cable will also be valid at this point.
That is the library records the decisions for the modes of each
drive on a channel before it attempts to set any of them.
</para>
<para>
->post_set_mode() is
called unconditionally, after the SET FEATURES - XFER MODE
command completes successfully.
</para>
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</sect2>

<sect2><title>Private tuning method</title>
<programlisting>
void (*set_mode) (struct ata_port *ap);
</programlisting>

<para>
By default libata performs drive and controller tuning in
accordance with the ATA timing rules and also applies blacklists
and cable limits. Some controllers need special handling and have
custom tuning rules, typically raid controllers that use ATA
commands but do not actually do drive timing.
</para>

<warning>
<para>
This hook should not be used to replace the standard controller
tuning logic when a controller has quirks. Replacing the default
tuning logic in that case would bypass handling for drive and
bridge quirks that may be important to data reliability. If a
controller needs to filter the mode selection it should use the
mode_filter hook instead.
</para>
</warning>

</sect2>

<sect2><title>Reset ATA bus</title>
<programlisting>
void (*phy_reset) (struct ata_port *ap);
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