GitHub/mt8127/android_kernel_alcatel_ttab.git
18 years ago[PATCH] x86_64: Increase the variability of the process stack on 64bit architectures
Andi Kleen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:29:09 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Increase the variability of the process stack on 64bit architectures

8MB is not really very random, use 1GB (or more with larger page sizes)
instead.

Also use the low bits of the random generator output now instead of
throwing them away.

Only enabled on x86-64 right now. Other architectures need to add
a suitable STACK_RND_MASK

Cc: mingo@elte.hu
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86-64: Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels
Andi Kleen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:29:06 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86-64: Use -mtune=generic for generic kernels

The upcomming gcc 4.2 got a new option -mtune=generic to tune
code for both common AMD and Intel CPUs. Use this option
when available for generic kernels.

On x86-64 it is used with CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU. On i386 it is
enabled with CONFIG_X86_GENERIC.  It won't affect the base
line CPU support in any ways and also not the minimum supported CPU.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86_64: Use correct PUD for memory hotadd
Jan Beulich [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:29:03 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Use correct PUD for memory hotadd

Memory >39bits has a different PUD.

Cc: "Tolentino, Matthew E" <matthew.e.tolentino@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig
Andi Kleen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:29:00 +0000 (16:29 +0100)]
[PATCH] x86_64: Update defconfig

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:52:23 +0000 (08:52 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] kzalloc conversion for gx-suspmod
  [CPUFREQ] Whitespace cleanup
  [CPUFREQ] Mark longhaul driver as broken.
  [PATCH] cpufreq: fix section mismatch warnings
  [CPUFREQ] Fix the p4-clockmod N60 errata workaround.
  [CPUFREQ] Fix handling for CPU hotplug
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Let cpufreq driver handle affected CPUs
  [CPUFREQ] Lots of whitespace & CodingStyle cleanup.
  [CPUFREQ] Remove duplicate cpuinfo struct
  [CPUFREQ] Silence powernow-k8 warning on k7's.

18 years agoMerge branch 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:51:35 +0000 (08:51 -0800)]
Merge branch 'for-linus' of /linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  IPoIB: P_Key change event handling
  IB/mthca: Fix modify QP error path
  IPoIB: Fix network interface "RUNNING" status
  IB/mthca: Fix indentation
  IB/mthca: Fix uninitialized variable in mthca_alloc_qp()
  IB/mthca: Check SRQ limit in modify SRQ operation
  IB/mthca: Check that SRQ WQE size does not exceed device's max value
  IB/mthca: Check that sgid_index and path_mtu are valid in modify_qp
  IB/srp: Use a fake scatterlist for non-SG SCSI commands
  IPoIB: Pass correct pointer when flushing child interfaces

18 years agoMerge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://oss.oracle.com/home/sourcebo/git/ocfs2
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:50:56 +0000 (08:50 -0800)]
Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://oss.oracle.com/home/sourcebo/git/ocfs2

* 'upstream-linus' of git://oss.oracle.com/home/sourcebo/git/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: finally remove MLF* macros
  ocfs2: don't use MLF* in the file system
  ocfs2: don't use MLF* in dlm/ files
  ocfs2: don't use MLF* in cluster/ files
  [PATCH] ocfs2: dlm recovery fixes
  [PATCH] ocfs2: fix hang in dlm lock resource mastery
  ocfs2: use __attribute__ format

18 years agoMerge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:49:25 +0000 (08:49 -0800)]
Merge branch 'release' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6

* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] New IA64 core/thread detection patch
  [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
  [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
  [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
  [IA64] Increase max node count on SN platforms
  [IA64] Tollhouse HP: IA64 arch changes
  [IA64] cleanup dig_irq_init
  [IA64] MCA recovery: kernel context recovery table
  IA64: Use early_parm to handle mvec_name and nomca
  [IA64] move patchlist and machvec into init section
  [IA64] add init declaration - nolwsys
  [IA64] add init declaration - gate page functions
  [IA64] add init declaration to memory initialization functions
  [IA64] add init declaration to cpu initialization functions
  [IA64] add __init declaration to mca functions
  [IA64] Ignore disabled Local SAPIC Affinity Structure in SRAT
  [IA64] sn_check_intr: use ia64_get_irr()
  [IA64] fix ia64 is_hugepage_only_range

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:48:48 +0000 (08:48 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: (46 commits)
  kbuild: remove obsoleted scripts/reference_* files
  kbuild: fix make help & make *pkg
  kconfig: fix time ordering of writes to .kconfig.d and include/linux/autoconf.h
  Kconfig: remove the CONFIG_CC_ALIGN_* options
  kbuild: add -fverbose-asm to i386 Makefile
  kbuild: clean-up genksyms
  kbuild: Lindent genksyms.c
  kbuild: fix genksyms build error
  kbuild: in makefile.txt note that Makefile is preferred name for kbuild files
  kbuild: replace PHONY with FORCE
  kbuild: Fix bug in crc symbol generating of kernel and modules
  kbuild: change kbuild to not rely on incorrect GNU make behavior
  kbuild: when warning symbols exported twice now tell user this is the problem
  kbuild: fix make dir/file.xx when asm symlink is missing
  kbuild: in the section mismatch check try harder to find symbols
  kbuild: fix section mismatch check for unwind on IA64
  kbuild: kill false positives from section mismatch warnings for powerpc
  kbuild: kill trailing whitespace in modpost & friends
  kbuild: small update of allnoconfig description
  kbuild: make namespace.pl CROSS_COMPILE happy
  ...

Trivial conflict in arch/ppc/boot/Makefile manually fixed up

18 years ago[PATCH] mm: restore vm_normal_page check
Nick Piggin [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 15:20:22 +0000 (16:20 +0100)]
[PATCH] mm: restore vm_normal_page check

Hugh is rightly concerned that the CONFIG_DEBUG_VM coverage has gone too
far in vm_normal_page, considering that we expect production kernels to be
shipped with the option turned off, and that the code has been under some
large changes recently.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpufreq: speedstep-smi asm fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 09:51:51 +0000 (01:51 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpufreq: speedstep-smi asm fix

Fix bug identified by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>: the `out'
instruction depends upon the state of memory_data[], so we need to tell gcc
that before executing it. (The opcode, not gcc).

Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5553

Thanks to Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> for testing.

Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years agoMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:41:09 +0000 (08:41 -0800)]
Merge git://git./linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (21 commits)
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/video/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/parisc/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/block/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in sound/sparc/cs4231.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in lib/swiotlb.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in kernel/cpu.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in ipc/msg.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in block/elevator.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/coda/
  BUG_ON() Conversion in fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in input/serio/hil_mlc.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/dm-hw-handler.c
  BUG_ON() Conversion in md/bitmap.c
  The comment describing how MS_ASYNC works in msync.c is confusing
  rcu: undeclared variable used in documentation
  fix typos "wich" -> "which"
  typo patch for fs/ufs/super.c
  Fix simple typos
  tabify drivers/char/Makefile
  ...

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:39:55 +0000 (08:39 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC]: Try to start getting SMP back into shape.

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:39:20 +0000 (08:39 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NETFILTER] x_table.c: sem2mutex
  [IPV4]: Aggregate route entries with different TOS values
  [TCP]: Mark tcp_*mem[] __read_mostly.
  [TCP]: Set default max buffers from memory pool size
  [SCTP]: Fix up sctp_rcv return value
  [NET]: Take RTNL when unregistering notifier
  [WIRELESS]: Fix config dependencies.
  [NET]: Fill in a 32-bit hole in struct sock on 64-bit platforms.
  [NET]: Ensure device name passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL terminated.
  [MODULES]: Don't allow statically declared exports
  [BRIDGE]: Unaligned accesses in the ethernet bridge

18 years agoMerge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
Linus Torvalds [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 16:37:36 +0000 (08:37 -0800)]
Merge /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (33 commits)
  V4L/DVB (3604): V4l printk fix
  V4L/DVB (3599c): Whitespace cleanups under Documentation/video4linux
  V4L/DVB (3599b): Whitespace cleanups under drivers/media
  V4L/DVB (3599a): Move drivers/usb/media to drivers/media/video
  V4L/DVB (3599): Implement new routing commands for wm8775 and cs53l32a.
  V4L/DVB (3598): Add bit algorithm adapter for the Conexant CX2341X boards.
  V4L/DVB (3597): Vivi: fix warning: implicit declaration of function 'in_interrupt'
  V4L/DVB (3588): Remove VIDIOC_G/S_AUDOUT from msp3400
  V4L/DVB (3587): Always wake thread after routing change.
  V4L/DVB (3584): Implement V4L2_TUNER_MODE_LANG1_LANG2 audio mode
  V4L/DVB (3582): Implement correct msp3400 input/output routing
  V4L/DVB (3581): Add new media/msp3400.h header containing the routing macros
  V4L/DVB (3580): Last round of msp3400 cleanups before adding routing commands
  V4L/DVB (3579): Move msp_modus to msp3400-kthreads, add JP and KR std detection
  V4L/DVB (3578): Make scart definitions easier to handle
  V4L/DVB (3577): Cleanup audio input handling
  V4L/DVB (3575): Cxusb: fix i2c debug messages for bluebird devices
  V4L/DVB (3574): Cxusb: fix debug messages
  V4L/DVB (3573): Cxusb: remove FIXME: comment in bluebird_patch_dvico_firmware_download
  V4L/DVB (3572): Cxusb: conditionalize gpio write for the medion box
  ...

18 years ago[PATCH] git-scsi-misc: min() warning fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:30 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] git-scsi-misc: min() warning fix

drivers/scsi/sd.c: In function `sd_store_cache_type':
drivers/scsi/sd.c:193: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] More corrections to vfs.txt update
NeilBrown [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:29 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] More corrections to vfs.txt update

Thanks "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove pps support
Roman Zippel [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:28 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove pps support

This removes the support for pps.  It's completely unused within the kernel
and is basically in the way for further cleanups.  It should be easier to
readd proper support for it after the rest has been converted to NTP4
(where the pps mechanisms are quite different from NTP3 anyway).

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] serial: merge mpsc.h into mpsc.c
Mark A. Greer [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:28 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] serial: merge mpsc.h into mpsc.c

Merge mpsc.h into mpsc.c because its the only file that #include's mpsc.h.

Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] serial: mpsc driver has definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ below include of serial_c...
Mark A. Greer [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:27 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] serial: mpsc driver has definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ below include of serial_core.h

The definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ must come before #include of serial_core.h.
This patch moves the definition of SUPPORT_SYSRQ to be just after the #include
of config.h to make it consistent with 8250.c.

Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane@artesyncp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] serial: mpsc driver passes bad devname to request_irq()
Mark A. Greer [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:26 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] serial: mpsc driver passes bad devname to request_irq()

The devname passed to request_irq() contained a '/' which is wrong.  At
a minimum, the '/' prevented the devname from showing up in
/proc/irq/<irq>/<devname>.  This patch replaces the '/' with a '-' to
fixes that problem.

Reported-by: Stephane Chazelas <Stephane@artesyncp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix sequencer missing negative bound check
Eugene Teo [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:25 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix sequencer missing negative bound check

'int dev' came out of an 'unsigned char *' - as such, it will not get
a negative value. Thanks Valdis.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] flat binary loader doesn't check fd table full
Luke Yang [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:24 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] flat binary loader doesn't check fd table full

In binfmt_flat.c, the flat binary loader should check file descriptor table
and install the fd on the file.

Convert the function to single-exit and fix this bug.

Signed-off-by: "Luke Yang" <luke.adi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Add SA_PERCPU_IRQ flag support
Dimitri Sivanich [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:23 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add SA_PERCPU_IRQ flag support

Add support for SA_PERCPU_IRQ (only mmtimer.c uses this at this stage).

Signed-off-by: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove needless check in fs/read_write.c
Carsten Otte [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:23 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove needless check in fs/read_write.c

nr_segs is unsigned long and thus cannot be negative.  We checked against 0
few lines before.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove needless check in binfmt_elf.c
Carsten Otte [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:22 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove needless check in binfmt_elf.c

Local variable i is unsigned int and thus cannot be negative.

(akpm: unsigneds shouldn't be called `i'.  This value cannot possibly be
negative anyway).

Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Doc: fix example firmware source code
Randy Dunlap [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:21 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Doc: fix example firmware source code

Fix Documentation/firmware_class/ examples so that they will build.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] udf: remove duplicate definitions
Pekka Enberg [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:21 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] udf: remove duplicate definitions

This patch removes duplicate definitions from include/linux/udf_fs_i.h
which are already defined in fs/udf/ecma_167.h.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EISA: Ignore generated file drivers/eisa/devlist.h
Ralf Baechle [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:19 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] EISA: Ignore generated file drivers/eisa/devlist.h

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearch
Eric Dumazet [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:19 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Use unsigned int types for a faster bsearch

This patch avoids arithmetic on 'signed' types that are slower than
'unsigned'.  This saves space and cpu cycles.

size of kernel/sys.o before the patch (gcc-3.4.5)

    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   10924     252       4   11180    2bac kernel/sys.o

size of kernel/sys.o after the patch
    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   10903     252       4   11159    2b97 kernel/sys.o

I noticed that gcc-4.1.0 (from Fedora Core 5) even uses idiv instruction for
(a+b)/2 if a and b are signed.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Check if cpu can be onlined before calling smp_prepare_cpu()
Ashok Raj [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:18 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Check if cpu can be onlined before calling smp_prepare_cpu()

- Moved check for online cpu out of smp_prepare_cpu()

- Moved default declaration of smp_prepare_cpu() to kernel/cpu.c

- Removed lock_cpu_hotplug() from smp_prepare_cpu() to around it, since
  its called from cpu_up() as well now.

- Removed clearing from cpu_present_map during cpu_offline as it breaks
  using cpu_up() directly during a subsequent online operation.

Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Cc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Li, Shaohua" <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] doc: more serial-console info
Randy Dunlap [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:17 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] doc: more serial-console info

Add info on flow control for serial consoles.  Refer to netconsole option
also.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] direct-io: bug fix in dio handling write error
Chen, Kenneth W [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:16 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] direct-io: bug fix in dio handling write error

There is a bug in direct-io on propagating write error up to the higher I/O
layer.  When performing an async ODIRECT write to a block device, if a
device error occurred (like media error or disk is pulled), the error code
is only propagated from device driver to the DIO layer.  The error code
stops at finished_one_bio().  The aysnc write, however, is supposedly have
a corresponding AIO event with appropriate return code (in this case -EIO).
 Application which waits on the async write event, will hang forever since
such AIO event is lost forever (if such app did not use the timeout option
in io_getevents call.  Regardless, an AIO event is lost).

The discovery of above bug leads to another discovery of potential race
window with dio->result.  The fundamental problem is that dio->result is
overloaded with dual use: an indicator of fall back path for partial dio
write, and an error indicator used in the I/O completion path.  In the
event of device error, the setting of -EIO to dio->result clashes with
value used to track partial write that activates the fall back path.

It was also pointed out that it is impossible to use dio->result to track
partial write and at the same time to track error returned from device
driver.  Because direct_io_work can only determines whether it is a partial
write at the end of io submission and in mid stream of those io submission,
a return code could be coming back from the driver.  Thus messing up all
the subsequent logic.

Proposed fix is to separating out error code returned by the IO completion
path from partial IO submit tracking.  A new variable is added to dio
structure specifically to track io error returned in the completion path.

Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options
Phillip Susi [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:14 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] udf: fix uid/gid options and add uid/gid=ignore and forget options

As Pekka Enberg pointed out, with the if still following the else, you can
still get a null uid written to the disk if you specify a default uid= without
uid=forget.  In other words, if the desktop user is uid=1000 and the mount
option uid=1000 is given ( which is done on ubuntu automatically and probably
other distributions that use hal ), then if any other user besides uid 1000
owns a file then a 0 will be written to the media as the owning uid instead.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code
Oliver Neukum [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:13 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix memory leak in isapnp
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:12 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix memory leak in isapnp

Spotted by the Coverity checker as bug #666

akpm; there are several other `return 1;'s in there which aren't freeing
`dev'.  (A fix which converts this function to single-exit would be
preferred..)

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] OSS: Fix leak in awe_wave, also remove pointless cast.
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:11 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] OSS: Fix leak in awe_wave, also remove pointless cast.

Fix resource leak and remove pointless cast of kmalloc return value.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpumask: uninline any_online_cpu()
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:10 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpumask: uninline any_online_cpu()

           text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
before: 3605597 1363528  363328 5332453  515de5 vmlinux
after:  3605295 1363612  363200 5332107  515c8b vmlinux

218 bytes saved.

Also, optimise any_online_cpu() out of existence on CONFIG_SMP=n.

This function seems inefficient.  Can't we simply AND the two masks, then use
find_first_bit()?

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpumask: uninline highest_possible_processor_id()
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:09 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpumask: uninline highest_possible_processor_id()

Shrinks the only caller (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c) by 174 bytes.

Also, optimise highest_possible_processor_id() out of existence on
CONFIG_SMP=n.

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpumask: uninline next_cpu()
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:09 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpumask: uninline next_cpu()

           text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
before: 3488027 1322496  360128 5170651  4ee5db vmlinux
after:  3485112 1322480  359968 5167560  4ed9c8 vmlinux

2931 bytes saved

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] cpumask: uninline first_cpu()
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:08 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] cpumask: uninline first_cpu()

           text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
before: 3490577 1322408  360000 5172985  4eeef9 vmlinux
after:  3488027 1322496  360128 5170651  4ee5db vmlinux

Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Altix: rs422 support for ioc4 serial driver
Pat Gefre [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:07 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Altix: rs422 support for ioc4 serial driver

Add rs422 support to the Altix ioc4 serial driver.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Gefre <pfg@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Fix sb_mixer use before validation
Eugene Teo [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:07 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] Fix sb_mixer use before validation

dev should be validated before it is being used as index to array.

Coverity bug #871

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i4l/isdn_tty.c: fix a check-after-use
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:06 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] i4l/isdn_tty.c: fix a check-after-use

Fix a check-after-use spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] radix-tree documentation cleanups
Jonathan Corbet [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:05 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] radix-tree documentation cleanups

Documentation changes to help radix tree users avoid overrunning the tags
array.  RADIX_TREE_TAGS moves to linux/radix-tree.h and is now known as
RADIX_TREE_MAX_TAGS (Nick Piggin's idea).  Tag parameters are changed to
unsigned, and some comments are updated.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] compat_sys_nfsservctl(): handle errors correctly
Peter Staubach [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:04 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] compat_sys_nfsservctl(): handle errors correctly

Correct some error handling on the compat version of the nfsservctl()
system.  It was detecting errors while copying in the arguments from user
space, but then attempting to use the arguments anyway.  This didn't seem
so good.

Signed-off-by: Peter Staubach <staubach@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] i2o_dump_hrt() output cleanup
Vasily Averin [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:03 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] i2o_dump_hrt() output cleanup

This patch fixes i2o_dump_hrt output from dmesg:

iop0: HRT has 1 entries of 16 bytes each.
Adapter 00000012: <7>TID 0000:[<7>H<7>P<7>C<7>*<7>]:<7>PCI 1: Bus 1 Device 22
Function 0<7>

Signed-off-by: Vasily Averin <vvs@sw.ru>
Cc: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix alloc_large_system_hash() roundup
John Hawkes [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:02 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix alloc_large_system_hash() roundup

The "rounded up to nearest power of 2 in size" algorithm in
alloc_large_system_hash is not correct.  As coded, it takes an otherwise
acceptable power-of-2 value and doubles it.  For example, we see the error
if we boot with thash_entries=2097152 which produces a hash table with
4194304 entries.

Signed-off-by: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] roundup_pow_of_two() 64-bit fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:01 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] roundup_pow_of_two() 64-bit fix

fls() takes an integer, so roundup_pow_of_two() is busted for ulongs larger
than 2^32-1.

Fix this by implementing and using fls_long().

(Why does roundup_pow_of_two() return a long?)

(Why is roundup_pow_of_two() __attribute_const__ whereas long_log2() is
__attribute_pure__?)

(Why does long_log2() suck so much?  Because we were missing fls_long()?)

Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: John Hawkes <hawkes@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and...
Eric Dumazet [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:08:00 +0000 (03:08 -0800)]
[PATCH] No need to protect current->group_info in sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p()

While doing some benchmarks of an Apache/PHP SMP server, I noticed high
oprofile numbers in in_group_p() and _atomic_dec_and_lock().

rank  percent
  1     4.8911 % __link_path_walk
  2     4.8503 % __d_lookup
*3     4.2911 % _atomic_dec_and_lock
  4     3.9307 % __copy_to_user_ll
  5     4.9004 % sysenter_past_esp
*6     3.3248 % in_group_p

It appears that in_group_p() does an uncessary

get_group_info(current->group_info); /* atomic_inc() */
  ... /* access current->group_info */
put_group_info(current->group_info); /* _atomic_dec_and_lock */

It is not necessary to do this, because the current task holds a reference
on its own group_info, and this reference cannot change during the lookup.

This patch deletes the get_group_info()/put_group_info() pair from
sys_getgroups(), in_group_p() and in_egroup_p() functions.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Tim Hockin <thockin@hockin.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Ext2 flags shouldn't report "nogrpid"
Rob Landley [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:58 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Ext2 flags shouldn't report "nogrpid"

If I mount ext2 "rw", I want it to say "rw", not "rw,nogrpid".

I caught this writing an automated regression test script for the busybox
mount command.  The symptom is
  /dev/loop0 on /images/ext2.dir type ext2 (rw,nogrpid)
instead of:
  /dev/loop0 on /images/ext2.dir type ext2 (rw)

The behavior was introduced by git commit
8fc2751beb0941966d3a97b26544e8585e428c08.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove dead URL
Johannes Stezenbach [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:57 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: remove dead URL

http://mpeg.openprojects.net/ doesn't exist

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Honour AOP_TRUNCATE_PAGE returns in page_symlink
NeilBrown [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:57 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Honour AOP_TRUNCATE_PAGE returns in page_symlink

As prepare_write, commit_write and readpage are allowed to return
AOP_TRUNCATE_PAGE, page_symlink should respond to them.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Update some VFS documentation
NeilBrown [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:56 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Update some VFS documentation

Flesh out the description of the address_space operations.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] indirect_print_item() warning fix
Benoit Boissinot [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:54 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] indirect_print_item() warning fix

fs/reiserfs/item_ops.c: In function 'indirect_print_item':
fs/reiserfs/item_ops.c:278: warning: 'num' may be used uninitialized in this function

(akpm: this is probably just gcc being dumb)

Signed-off-by: Benoit Boissinot <benoit.boissinot@ens-lyon.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove dead address from maintainers list.
Dave Jones [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:53 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove dead address from maintainers list.

Mailing this address gives..  Sorry your message to max_mk@yahoo.com cannot
be delivered.  This account has been disabled or discontinued [#102].
mta129.mail.re4.yahoo.com)

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Remova long-incorrect address for Jamie Lokier
Jamie Lokier [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:53 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Remova long-incorrect address for Jamie Lokier

Nice place isn't it?  I've lived in 7 other houses since then.

Signed-off-by: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c: fix a memory leak
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:52 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c: fix a memory leak

The Coverity checker found this memory leak.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] md/bitmap.c:bitmap_mask_state(): fix inconsequent NULL checking
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:51 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] md/bitmap.c:bitmap_mask_state(): fix inconsequent NULL checking

We dereference bitmap both one line above and one line below this check
rendering this check quite useless.

Spotted by the Coverity checker.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs/xattr_acl.c:reiserfs_get_acl(): make size an int
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:50 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs/xattr_acl.c:reiserfs_get_acl(): make size an int

The Coverity checker wasn't happy seeing a size_t compared with -ENODATA
and -ENOSYS.

Since the only place where size is set is through the result of
reiserfs_xattr_get() which is an int, we could simply make size an int.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] BLK_DEV_INITRD: do not require BLK_DEV_RAM=y
Zdenek Pavlas [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:49 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] BLK_DEV_INITRD: do not require BLK_DEV_RAM=y

Initramfs initrd images do not need a ramdisk device, so remove this
restriction in Kconfig.  BLK_DEV_RAM=n saves about 13k on i386.  Also
without ramdisk device there's no need for "dry run", so initramfs unpacks
much faster.

People using cramfs, squashfs, or gzipped ext2/minix initrd images are
probably smart enough not to turn off ramdisk support by accident.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:48 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] find_task_by_pid() needs tasklist_lock

A couple of places are forgetting to take it.

The kswapd case is probably unimportant.  keventd_create_kthread() was racy.

The whole thing is a bit flakey: you start a kernel thread, get its pid from
kernel_thread() then look up its task_struct.

a) It assumes that pid recycling takes a "long" time.

b) We get a task_struct but no reference was taken on it.  The owner of the
   kswapd and kthread task_struct*'s must assume that the new thread won't
   exit unexpectedly.  Because if it does, they're left holding dead memory
   and any attempt to control or stop that task will crash.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ext3: Fix debug logging-only compilation error
Kirk True [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:47 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] ext3: Fix debug logging-only compilation error

When EXT3FS_DEBUG is #define-d, the compile breaks due to #include file
issues.

Signed-off-by: Kirk True <kernel@kirkandsheila.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kallsyms: handle malloc() failure
Jesper Juhl [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:46 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] kallsyms: handle malloc() failure

This fixes coverity bugs #398 and #397

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Reduce sched latency in shrink_dcache_sb()
Kirill Korotaev [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:45 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Reduce sched latency in shrink_dcache_sb()

This patch reduces scheduling latency in shrink_dcache_sb() noticed during
remounting of big partitions with many cached dentries.  The same latency
fix was applied to select_parent() long ago.

Signed-off-by: Denis Lunev <den@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@sw.ru>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] Move cond_resched() after iput() in sync_sb_inodes()
OGAWA Hirofumi [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:44 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] Move cond_resched() after iput() in sync_sb_inodes()

In here, I think the following order is more cache-friendly.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] freeze_bdev() cleanup
OGAWA Hirofumi [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:44 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] freeze_bdev() cleanup

freeze_bdev() uses a fsync_super() without sync_blockdev().  This patch
makes __fsync_super() and shares it.

Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix messages in fs/minix
Denis Vlasenko [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:42 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix messages in fs/minix

Believe it or not, but in fs/minix/*, the oldest filesystem in the kernel,
something still can be fixed:

printk("new_inode: bit already set");

"\n" is missing!

While at it, I also removed periods from the end of error messages and made
capitalization uniform.  Also s/i-node/inode/, s/printk (/printk(/

Signed-ff-by: Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] make cap_ptrace enforce PTRACE_TRACME checks
Chris Wright [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:41 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] make cap_ptrace enforce PTRACE_TRACME checks

PTRACE_TRACEME doesn't have proper capabilities validation when parent is
less privileged than child.  Issue pointed out by Ram Gupta
<ram.gupta5@gmail.com>.

Note: I haven't identified a strong security issue, and it's a small ABI
change that could break apps that rely on existing behaviour (which allows
parent that is less privileged than child to ptrace when child does
PTRACE_TRACEME).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Ram Gupta <ram.gupta5@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helper
Chris Wright [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:41 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] refactor capable() to one implementation, add __capable() helper

Move capable() to kernel/capability.c and eliminate duplicate
implementations.  Add __capable() function which can be used to check for
capabiilty of any process.

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] add a proper prototype for setup_arch()
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:39 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] add a proper prototype for setup_arch()

This patch adds a proper prototype for setup_arch() in init.h.

This patch is based on a patch by Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications
Davide Libenzi [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:39 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications

Implement the half-closed devices notifiation, by adding a new POLLRDHUP
(and its alias EPOLLRDHUP) bit to the existing poll/select sets.  Since the
existing POLLHUP handling, that does not report correctly half-closed
devices, was feared to be changed, this implementation leaves the current
POLLHUP reporting unchanged and simply add a new bit that is set in the few
places where it makes sense.  The same thing was discussed and conceptually
agreed quite some time ago:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/12/116

Since this new event bit is added to the existing Linux poll infrastruture,
even the existing poll/select system calls will be able to use it.  As far
as the existing POLLHUP handling, the patch leaves it as is.  The
pollrdhup-2.6.16.rc5-0.10.diff defines the POLLRDHUP for all the existing
archs and sets the bit in the six relevant files.  The other attached diff
is the simple change required to sys/epoll.h to add the EPOLLRDHUP
definition.

There is "a stupid program" to test POLLRDHUP delivery here:

 http://www.xmailserver.org/pollrdhup-test.c

It tests poll(2), but since the delivery is same epoll(2) will work equally.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] IRQ: prevent enabling of previously disabled interrupt
Bryan Holty [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:37 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] IRQ: prevent enabling of previously disabled interrupt

This fix prevents re-disabling and enabling of a previously disabled
interrupt.  On an SMP system with irq balancing enabled; If an interrupt is
disabled from within its own interrupt context with disable_irq_nosync and is
also earmarked for processor migration, the interrupt is blindly moved to the
other processor and enabled without regard for its current "enabled" state.
If there is an interrupt pending, it will unexpectedly invoke the irq handler
on the new irq owning processor (even though the irq was previously disabled)

The more intuitive fix would be to invoke disable_irq_nosync and
enable_irq, but since we already have the desc->lock from __do_IRQ, we
cannot call them directly.  Instead we can use the same logic to disable
and enable found in disable_irq_nosync and enable_irq, with regards to the
desc->depth.

This now prevents a disabled interrupt from being re-disabled, and more
importantly prevents a disabled interrupt from being incorrectly enabled on
a different processor.

Signed-off-by: Bryan Holty <lgeek@frontiernet.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] irq: uninline migration functions
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:36 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] irq: uninline migration functions

Uninline some massive IRQ migration functions.  Put them in the new
kernel/irq/migration.c.

Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ads7846 build fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:35 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] ads7846 build fix

sparc32:

drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c: In function `ads7846_read12_ser':
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `disable_irq'
drivers/input/touchscreen/ads7846.c:208: warning: implicit declaration of function `enable_irq'

Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] tpm: sparc32 build fix
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:35 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] tpm: sparc32 build fix

In file included from drivers/char/tpm/tpm_nsc.c:23:
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h: In function `tpm_read_index':
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h:92: warning: implicit declaration of function `outb'
drivers/char/tpm/tpm.h:93: warning: implicit declaration of function `inb'

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] collie: fix missing pcmcia bits
Pavel Machek [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:34 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] collie: fix missing pcmcia bits

This adds missing bits of collie (sharp sl-5500) PCMCIA support and
MFD support.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] fix hardcoded values in collie frontlight
Pavel Machek [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:33 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix hardcoded values in collie frontlight

In frontlight support, we should really use values from flash-ROM instead
of hardcoding our own.  Cleanup includes.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] remove MAINTAINERS entry for rtlinux
Adrian Bunk [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:32 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove MAINTAINERS entry for rtlinux

It's already big enough and there's no reason to list maintainers of
external patches.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers
Jan Beulich [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:31 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers

The /dev/mem and /dev/kmem write handlers weren't fully POSIX compliant in
that they wouldn't always force the file pointer to be updated when
returning success status.

The /dev/port write handler was inconsistent with the /dev/mem and
/dev/kmem handlers in that when encountering a -EFAULT condition after
already having written a number of items it would return -EFAULT rather
than the number of bytes written.

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] smbfs: Fix debug logging-only compilation error
Kirk True [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:30 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] smbfs: Fix debug logging-only compilation error

When SMBFS_DEBUG_VERBOSE is #define-d, the compile breaks:

fs/smbfs/inode.c:217: error: aggregate value used where an integer was expected

This is a simple matter of using the .tv_sec attribute of struct time_spec.

Signed-off-by: Kirk True <kernel@kirkandsheila.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 9p: update documentation
Eric Van Hensbergen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:30 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] 9p: update documentation

Fix documentation to match current implementation.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems
Eric Van Hensbergen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:29 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] 9p: fix name consistency problems

There were a number of conflicting naming schemes used in the v9fs project.
The directory was fs/9p, but MAINTAINERS and Documentation referred to
v9fs.  The module name itself was 9p2000, and the file system type was 9P.
This patch attempts to clean that up, changing all references to 9p in
order to match the directory name.  We'll also start using 9p instead of
v9fs as our patch prefix.

There is also a minor consistency cleanup in the options changing the name
option to uname in order to more closely match the Plan 9 options.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergevan <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: update license boilerplate
Eric Van Hensbergen [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:28 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: update license boilerplate

Update license boilerplate to specify GPLv2 and remove the (at your option
clause).  This change was agreed to by all the copyright holders (approvals
can be found on v9fs-developer mailing list).

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: fix vfs_inode dereference before NULL check
Eugene Teo [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:27 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: fix vfs_inode dereference before NULL check

__getname, which in turn will call kmem_cache_alloc, may return NULL.

Coverity bug #977

Signed-off-by: Eugene Teo <eugene.teo@eugeneteo.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: add extension field to Tcreate
Latchesar Ionkov [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:26 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: add extension field to Tcreate

Implement a new way of creating special files.  Instead of Tcreate+Twstat,
add one more field to Tcreate that contains special file description.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: print 9p messages
Latchesar Ionkov [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:25 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: print 9p messages

Print 9p messages.

Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>
Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: rename tids to tags to be consistent with Plan 9 documentation
Russ Cox [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:24 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: rename tids to tags to be consistent with Plan 9 documentation

The code talks about these things called tids, which I eventually figured
out are tags.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] v9fs: consolidate trans_sock into trans_fd
Russ Cox [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:23 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] v9fs: consolidate trans_sock into trans_fd

Here is a new trans_fd.c that replaces the current trans_fd.c and
trans_sock.c.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:22 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options

The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always
seemed a bit confusing.  Change them to:

CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations"
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations"

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] amiga: fix driver_register() return handling, remove zorro_module_init()
Bjorn Helgaas [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:20 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] amiga: fix driver_register() return handling, remove zorro_module_init()

Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver.  In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.

zorro_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices.  That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because zorro_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero).  So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.

This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] EISA: tidy-up driver_register() return value
Bjorn Helgaas [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:19 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] EISA: tidy-up driver_register() return value

Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver.  In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Acked-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] hp300: fix driver_register() return handling, remove dio_module_init()
Bjorn Helgaas [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:17 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] hp300: fix driver_register() return handling, remove dio_module_init()

Remove the assumption that driver_register() returns the number of devices
bound to the driver.  In fact, it returns zero for success or a negative
error value.

dio_module_init() used the device count to automatically unregister and
unload drivers that found no devices.  That might have worked at one time,
but has been broken for some time because dio_register_driver() returned
either a negative error or a positive count (never zero).  So it could only
unregister on failure, when it's not needed anyway.

This functionality could be resurrected in individual drivers by counting
devices in their .probe() methods.

Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Cc: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: use balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in reiserfs_file_write()
Alexander Zarochentsev [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:16 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: use balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in reiserfs_file_write()

Use the new balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr in reiserfs "largeio" file
write.

Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] initcall failure reporting
Andrew Morton [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:15 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] initcall failure reporting

We presently ignore the return values from initcalls.  But that can carry
useful debugging information.  So print it out if it's non-zero.

It turns out the -ENODEV happens quite a lot, due to built-in drivers which
have no hardware to drive.  So suppress that unless initcall_debug was
specified.

Also make the warning message more friendly by printing the name of the
initcall function.

Also drop the KERN_DEBUG from the initcall_debug message.  If we specified
inticall_debug then we obviously want to see the messages.

Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] reiserfs: cleanups
Vladimir V. Saveliev [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:15 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] reiserfs: cleanups

Clean up several places where gcc issues warnings when -W is specified.
Thanks to Neil for finding that.

Signed-off-by: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] parport: move PP_MAJOR from ppdev.h to major.h
Rene Herman [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:13 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] parport: move PP_MAJOR from ppdev.h to major.h

Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing anything in
drivers/parport register char-major-99.  Having PP_MAJOR in
include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that it
was the ppdev driver driving these.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] block/floppy: fix section mismatch warnings
Sam Ravnborg [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:13 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] block/floppy: fix section mismatch warnings

In latest -mm a number of section mismatch warnings are generated for
floppy.o like the following:

WARNING: drivers/block/floppy.o - Section mismatch: reference to    \
.init.data: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x6976) and \
'cleanup_module'

The warning are caused by a reference to floppy_init() which is __init from
init_module() which is not declared __init.  Declaring init_module() _init
fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] ide: fix section mismatch warning
Sam Ravnborg [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:11 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] ide: fix section mismatch warning

In latest -mm ide-code.o gave a number of warnings like the following:

WARNING: drivers/ide/ide-core.o - Section mismatch: reference to    \
.init.text: from .text between 'init_module' (at offset 0x1f97) and \
'cleanup_module'

The warning was caused by init_module() calling parse_option() and
ide_init() both declared __init.

Declaring init_module() __init fixes the warnings.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
18 years ago[PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry
Nick Piggin [Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:07:09 +0000 (03:07 -0800)]
[PATCH] inotify: lock avoidance with parent watch status in dentry

Previous inotify work avoidance is good when inotify is completely unused,
but it breaks down if even a single watch is in place anywhere in the
system.  Robin Holt notices that udev is one such culprit - it slows down a
512-thread application on a 512 CPU system from 6 seconds to 22 minutes.

Solve this by adding a flag in the dentry that tells inotify whether or not
its parent inode has a watch on it.  Event queueing to parent will skip
taking locks if this flag is cleared.  Setting and clearing of this flag on
all child dentries versus event delivery: this is no in terms of race
cases, and that was shown to be equivalent to always performing the check.

The essential behaviour is that activity occuring _after_ a watch has been
added and _before_ it has been removed, will generate events.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>