dann frazier [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:39 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
old buffer overflow in moxa driver
I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.
The issue is described here:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504
Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon.
(akpm: it's a privileged operation)
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andreas Schwab [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:38 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
Fix error handling in HDIO_GETGEO compat wrapper
Don't clobber error from sys_ioctl in HDIO_GETGEO compat wrapper.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Zach Carter [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:35 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
laptop-mode URL update
Signed-off-by: Zach Carter <linux@zachcarter.com>
Cc: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michal Piotrowski [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:32 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
doc: fix oops-tracing duplicate
Remove duplicate 'U' entry -- fix mis-merge.
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Mollett [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:31 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
udf: decrement correct link count in udf_rmdir
It appears that a minor thinko occurred in udf_rmdir and the
(already-cleared) link count on the directory that is being removed was
being decremented instead of the link count on its parent directory. This
gives rise to lots of kernel messages similar to:
UDF-fs warning (device loop1): udf_rmdir: empty directory has nlink != 2 (8)
when removing directory trees. No other ill effects have been observed but
I guess it could theoretically result in the link count overflowing on a
very long-lived, much modified directory.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Mollett <molletts@yahoo.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
OGAWA Hirofumi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:28 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
fat: fix VFAT compat ioctls on 64-bit systems
If you compile and run the below test case in an msdos or vfat directory on
an x86-64 system with -m32 you'll get garbage in the kernel_dirent struct
followed by a SIGSEGV.
The patch fixes this.
Reported and initial fix by Bart Oldeman
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
struct kernel_dirent {
long d_ino;
long d_off;
unsigned short d_reclen;
char d_name[256]; /* We must not include limits.h! */
};
#define VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH _IOR('r', 1, struct kernel_dirent [2])
#define VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_SHORT _IOR('r', 2, struct kernel_dirent [2])
int main(void)
{
int fd = open(".", O_RDONLY);
struct kernel_dirent de[2];
while (1) {
int i = ioctl(fd, VFAT_IOCTL_READDIR_BOTH, (long)de);
if (i == -1) break;
if (de[0].d_reclen == 0) break;
printf("SFN: reclen=%2d off=%d ino=%d, %-12s",
de[0].d_reclen, de[0].d_off, de[0].d_ino, de[0].d_name);
if (de[1].d_reclen)
printf("\tLFN: reclen=%2d off=%d ino=%d, %s",
de[1].d_reclen, de[1].d_off, de[1].d_ino, de[1].d_name);
printf("\n");
}
return 0;
}
Signed-off-by: Bart Oldeman <bartoldeman@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Guennadi Liakhovetski [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:25 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
dma_declare_coherent_memory wrong allocation
dma_declare_coherent_memory() allocates a bitmap 1 bit per page, it
calculates the bitmap size based on size of long, but allocates bytes...
Thanks to James Bottomley for clarifications and corrections.
Signed-off-by: G. Liakhovetski <g.liakhovetski@gmx.de>
Acked-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
akpm@linux-foundation.org [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:22 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
Driver for the Maxim DS1WM, a 1-wire bus master ASIC core
Cc: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: kconfig update]
Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Evgeniy Polyakov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:20 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
w1: allow bus master to have reset and byte ops
Signed-off-by: Matt Reimer <mreimer@vpop.net>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Evgeniy Polyakov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:19 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
W1 printk format warning fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alistair John Strachan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:15 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
Move LOG_BUF_SHIFT to a more sensible place
Several people have observed that perhaps LOG_BUF_SHIFT should be in a more
obvious place than under DEBUG_KERNEL. Under some circumstances (such as the
PARISC architecture), DEBUG_KERNEL can increase kernel size, which is an
undesirable trade off for something as trivial as increasing the kernel log
buffer size.
Instead, move LOG_BUF_SHIFT into "General Setup", so that people are more
likely to be able to change it such a circumstance that the default buffer
size is insufficient.
Signed-off-by: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:14 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings
Eliminate 19439 (!!) sparse warnings like:
include/linux/mm.h:321:22: warning: constant 0xffff810000000000 is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 56 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:248:16: warning: constant 0xffffffff80000000 is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 5 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c:49:13: warning: constant 0xfffffffffff00000 is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 23 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:551:37: warning: constant 0xffffc20000000000 is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 6 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c:49:13: warning: constant 0xffffffff88000000 is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 23 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:552:6: warning: constant 0xffffe1ffffffffff is so big it is unsigned long
Eliminate 3 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c:186:17: warning: constant 0x3fffffffffff is so big it is long
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:11 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
consolidate asm/const.h to linux/const.h
Make a global linux/const.h header file instead of having multiple,
per-arch files, and convert current users of asm/const.h to use
linux/const.h.
Built on x86_64 and sparc64.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix include/asm-x86_64/Kbuild]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Parag Warudkar [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:09 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
tpm: fix sleep-in-spinlock
flush_scheduled_work() can sleep, and we're calling it under spinlock.
AFAICS, moving flush_scheduled_work before spin_lock() should not cause any
problems.
Reason being - The only thing that can race against tpm_release is tpm_open
(tpm_release is called when last reference to the file is closed and only
thing that can happen after that is tpm_open??) and tpm_open acquires
driver_lock and more over it bails out with EBUSY if chip->num_opens is
greater than 0.
I also moved chip->num_pending-- to after deleting timer and setting data
pending as it looks more correct for the paranoid although it probably doesn't
matter as it is guarded by driver_lock. None the less this change should not
cause problems.
While I was at it I noticed a missing NULL check in tpm_register_hardware
which is fixed with this patch as well.
Signed-off-by: Parag Warudkar <parag.warudkar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jesper Juhl [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:06 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
Fix chapter reference in CodingStyle
commit
226a6b84aaaf1fac7a5d41cf4e7387fd9ba895d5 renumbered Chapter 11 in
Documentation/CodingStyle to Chapter 12, but it didn't update the reference
to that chapter further down in the file. This patch corrects the chapter
reference.
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kara [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:04 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
ext3: copy i_flags to inode flags on write
Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc. from i_flags into
ext2-specific i_flags. Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different
interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
OGAWA Hirofumi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:01 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32
It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented. Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly.
This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default. (instead, add "usefree"
for forcing to use it)
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jarek Poplawski [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:31:00 +0000 (00:31 -0700)]
lockdep: removed unused ip argument in mark_lock & mark_held_locks
It looks like a remainder from designing...
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao@o2.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Gibson [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:57 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Clean up mostly unused IOSPACE macros
Most architectures defined three macros, MK_IOSPACE_PFN(), GET_IOSPACE()
and GET_PFN() in pgtable.h. However, the only callers of any of these
macros are in Sparc specific code, either in arch/sparc, arch/sparc64 or
drivers/sbus.
This patch removes the redundant macros from all architectures except
sparc and sparc64.
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Borislav Petkov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:54 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
kill warnings when building mandocs
This patch shuts warnings of the sort:
make -C /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build \
KBUILD_SRC=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6 \
KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Makefile mandocs
make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=Documentation/DocBook mandocs
SRCTREE=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/ /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build/scripts/basic/docproc doc /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl >Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml
if grep -q refentry Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml; then xmlto man -m /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl -o Documentation/DocBook/man Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml ; gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9; fi
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative sppp_close
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version sppp_close
Note: Writing sppp_close.9
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative sppp_open
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version sppp_open
by adding a RefMiscInfo xml tag in the form of the current kernel version
to the function, struct and enum definitions in files included by
kernel-doc when building 'mandocs'. However, the version string appears
truncated on the manpage due to some constraints in the xml DTD for the man
header, I believe, for the troff output is truncated too.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:52 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
drivers/char: use __set_current_state()
use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*,
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:51 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
reiserfs: use __set_current_state()
use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*, in
fs/reiserfs
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Adrian Bunk [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:49 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
The scheduled -EINVAL for invalid timevals in setitimer
As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jean Delvare [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:46 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Clean up mutex_trylock noise
Ingo Molnar's semaphore to mutex conversions left some noise on a few
trylock calls. Clean it up.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelianov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:42 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
jbd: check for error returned by kthread_create on creating journal thread
If the thread failed to create the subsequent wait_event will hang forever.
This is likely to happen if kernel hits max_threads limit.
Will be critical for virtualization systems that limit the number of tasks
and kernel memory usage within the container.
(akpm: JBD should be converted fully to the kthread API: kthread_should_stop()
and kthread_stop()).
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Miklos Szeredi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:40 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
check privileges before setting mount propagation
There's a missing check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in do_change_type().
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Egmont Koblinger [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:37 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
console UTF-8 fixes
The UTF-8 part of the vt driver suffers from the following issues which are
addressed in my patch:
1) If there's no glyph found for a particular valid UTF-8 character, we try
to display U+FFFD. However if this one is not found either, here's what
the current kernel does:
- First, if the Unicode value is less than the number of glyphs, use the
glyph directly from that position of the glyph table. While it may be a
good idea in the 8-bit world, it has absolutely no sense with Unicode
in mind. For example, if a Latin-2 font is loaded and an application
prints U+00FB ("u with circumflex", not present in Latin-2) then as a
fallback solution the glyph from the 0xFB position of the Latin-2
fontset (which is an "u with double accent" - a different character) is
displayed.
- Second, if this fallback fails too, a simple ASCII question mark is
printed, which is visually undistinguishable from a real question mark.
I changed the code to skip the first step (except if in non-UTF-8 mode),
and changed the second step to print the question mark with inverse color
attributes, so it is visually clear that it's not a real question mark,
and resembles more to the common glyph of U+FFFD.
2) The UTF-8 decoder is buggy in many ways:
- Lone continuation bytes (section 3.1 of Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 stress
test) are not caught, they are displayed as some "random" (taken
directly form the font table, see above) glyphs instead the replacement
character.
- Incomplete sequences (sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the stress test) emit no
replacement character, but rather cause the subsequent valid character
to be displayed more times(!).
- The decoder is not safe: overlong sequences are not caught currently,
they are displayed as if these were valid representations. This may
even have security impacts.
- The decoder does not handle D800..DFFF and FFFE..FFFF specially, it
just emits these code points and lets it be looked up in the glyph
table. Since these are invalid code points, I replace them by U+FFFD
and hence give no chance for them to be looked up in the glyph table.
(Assuming no font ships glyphs for these code points, this change is
not visible to the users since the glyph shown will be the same.)
With my fixes to the decoder it now behaves exactly as Markus Kuhn's
stress test recommends.
3) It has no concept of double-width (CJK) characters. It's way beyond the
scope of my patch to try to display them, but at least I think it's
important for the cursor to jump two positions when printing such
characters, since this is what applications (such as text editors)
expect. Currently the cursor only jumps one position, and hence
applications suffer from displaying and refreshing problems, and editing
some English letters that are preceded by some CJK characters in the same
line is a nightmare. With my patch an additional space is inserted after
the CJK character has been printed (which usually means a replacement
symbol of course). (If U+FFFD isn't availble and hence an inverse
question mark is displayed in the first cell, I keep the inverted state
for the space in the 2nd column so it's quite easy to see that they are
tied together.)
4) There is a small built-in table of zero-width spaces that are not to be
printed but silently skipped. U+200A is included there, but it's not a
zero-width character, so I remove it from there.
Signed-off-by: Egmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Oliver Neukum [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:34 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
CodingStyle: start flamewar about use of braces
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Kara [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:33 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
ext3: copy i_flags to inode flags on write
A patch that stores inode flags such as S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc. from
i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when inode is written to disk. The same
thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl.
Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for
sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly propagated
into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and users were
wondering...).
Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc. from i_flags into
ext3-specific i_flags. Hence, when someone sets these flags via a
different interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tom Alsberg [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:31 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
CPU time limit patch / setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, 0) cheat fix
As discovered here today, the change in Kernel 2.6.17 intended to inhibit
users from setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0 (as that is equivalent to unlimited) by
"cheating" and setting it to 1 in such a case, does not make a difference,
as the check is done in the wrong place (too late), and only applies to the
profiling code.
On all systems I checked running kernels above 2.6.17, no matter what the
hard and soft CPU time limits were before, a user could escape them by
issuing in the shell (sh/bash/zsh) "ulimit -t 0", and then the user's
process was not ever killed.
Attached is a trivial patch to fix that. Simply moving the check to a
slightly earlier location (specifically, before the line that actually
assigns the limit - *old_rlim = new_rlim), does the trick.
Do note that at least the zsh (but not ash, dash, or bash) shell has the
problem of "caching" the limits set by the ulimit command, so when running
zsh the fix will not immediately be evident - after entering "ulimit -t 0",
"ulimit -a" will show "-t: cpu time (seconds) 0", even though the actual
limit as returned by getrlimit(...) will be 1. It can be verified by
opening a subshell (which will not have the values of the parent shell in
cache) and checking in it, or just by running a CPU intensive command like
"echo '65536^
1048576' | bc" and verifying that it dumps core after one
second.
Regardless of whether that is a misfeature in the shell, perhaps it would
be better to return -EINVAL from setrlimit in such a case instead of
cheating and setting to 1, as that does not really reflect the actual state
of the process anymore. I do not however know what the ground for that
decision was in the original 2.6.17 change, and whether there would be any
"backward" compatibility issues, so I preferred not to touch that right
now.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:28 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
serial_txx9: zap changelog from source code
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Atsushi Nemoto [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:26 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
serial_txx9: Use assigned device numbers
The serial_txx9 driver have abused device numbers (major 4, minor 128) if
CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL was not set. This patch makes the driver use
proper device numbers assigned for it (major 204, minor 196-203). I
suppose a typical user of this driver set CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL to Y
(i.e. use "ttyS0"), so this patch would not cause big compatibility issue.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Scott Wiersdorf [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:25 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
getdelays.c: fix overrun
A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w.
Cc: <matt@bluehost.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Michael Ellerman [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:22 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Document SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED deprecation
Apparently it's not cool anymore to use SPIN/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED. There's
some mention of this in Documentation/spinlocks.txt, but that only talks
about dynamic initialisation.
A comment in the code mentioning the preferred usage would be good IMHO.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add reason for deprecation]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelianov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:19 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Introduce a handy list_first_entry macro
There are many places in the kernel where the construction like
foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);
are used.
The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro
list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
list_entry((head)->next, type, member)
Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code.
If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to
inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:17 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
pnpbios: convert to use the kthread API
This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start with ktrhead_run
not kernel_thread and deamonize. Doing this makes the code a little
simpler and easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric W. Biederman [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:15 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
smbfs: remove unnecessary allow_signal
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:13 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Taskstats: fix getdelays usage information
Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jarek Poplawski [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:12 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
lockdep: lookup_chain_cache comment errata
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:10 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup in drivers/serial
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:09 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup in drivers/char/keyboard
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:08 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup in init_task.h
SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen M. Cameron [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:05 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
Documentation: cciss: detecting failed drives
Document how to detect drive failures for cciss
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:03 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
highres/dyntick: prevent xtime lock contention
While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to
one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during
development.
Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due
to several CPUs trying to update jiffies.
Add the single CPU assignement back. In the dyntick case this needs to be
handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the
assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active.
Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Stephen Cameron [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:30:02 +0000 (00:30 -0700)]
cciss: include scsi/scsi.h unconditionally
Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h, because of the use of
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN and SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alan Cox [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:58 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
apm: fix incorrect comment
HZ has not always been 100Hz for some time.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:57 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
EFI: warn only for pre-1.00 system tables
We used to warn unless the EFI system table major revision was exactly 1.
But EFI 2.00 firmware is starting to appear, and the 2.00 changes don't
affect anything in Linux.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andi Kleen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:55 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Add keyboard blink driver
Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded. Useful for
checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Miguel Ojeda [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:54 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Add webpages' URL and summarize 3 lines.
CREDITS:
- Summarize 3 lines into one.
- Add webpage.
MAINTAINERS:
- Add auxdisplay drivers/tree webpages.
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:51 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
kernel-doc: html mode struct highlights
Johannes Berg reported that struct names are not highlighted
(bold, italic, etc.) in html kernel-doc output. (Also not in
text-mode output, but I don't see that changing.)
This patch adds the following:
- highlight struct names in html output mode
- highlight environment var. names in html output mode
- indent struct fields in the original struct layout
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeffrey Layton [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:48 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
make iunique use a do/while loop rather than its obscure goto loop
A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be
cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that,
turning the strange goto loop into a do/while.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Johansen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:44 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Remove redundant check from proc_sys_setattr()
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.
Alan sayeth
This is a behaviour change on all of these and limits some behaviour of
existing established security modules
When inode_change_ok is called it has side effects. This includes
clearing the SGID bit on attribute changes caused by chmod. If you make
this change the results of some rulesets may be different before or after
the change is made.
I'm not saying the change is wrong but it does change behaviour so that
needs looking at closely (ditto all other attribute twiddles)
Signed-off-by: Steve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Johansen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:41 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Remove redundant check from proc_setattr()
notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.
Signed-off-by: Tony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:39 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
fix hotplug for legacy platform drivers
We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style
platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support.
The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the
driver model. They assume a role that should be the responsibility of
infrastructure code: creating device nodes.
The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those
roles into different modules. The lack of this split causes the problems.
When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug
event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS"
step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the
result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ... badness.
This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add"
events. (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can
hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather
than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to
one bit, saving a word in "struct device".
So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy
drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform
drivers.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Borislav Petkov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:36 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
kernel-doc: generate main index page when building 'htmldocs'
A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like
index.html page after building 'htmldocs'
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Miller (OS Dev) [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:34 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
cciss: set rq->errors more correctly in driver
Set rq->errors more correctly in cciss driver. Previously we had set it
synonymously with the meaning of the last parameter of end_that_last_request
and complete_buffers (the "uptodate" parameter) and had gotten away with it
for all this time because nobody ever looked at rq->errors.
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND looks at rq->errors, so now it matters that it be
right.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Miller (OS Dev) [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:32 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
cciss: add SG_IO ioctl to cciss
For all of you that think cciss should be a scsi driver here is the patch that
you have been waiting for all these years. This patch actually adds the SG_IO
ioctl to cciss. The primary purpose is for clustering and high-availibilty.
But now anyone can exploit this ioctl in any manner they wish.
Note, SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND doesn't work with this patch due to rq->errors
being set incorrectly. Subsequent patch fixes that.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mike Miller (OS Dev) [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:29 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
cciss: reformat error handling
Reformat some error handling code to reduce line lengths a bit.
Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Martin Peschke [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:26 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
proc: cleanup: use seq_release_private() where appropriate
We can save some lines of code by using seq_release_private().
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Martin Peschke [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:25 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
kallsyms: cleanup: use seq_release_private() where appropriate
We can save some lines of code by using seq_release_private().
Signed-off-by: Martin Peschke <mp3@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Hellwig [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:21 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
cleanup compat ioctl handling
Merge all compat ioctl handling into compat_ioctl.c instead of splitting it
over compat.c and compat_ioctl.c. This also allows to get rid of ioctl32.h
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Looks-good-to: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Robert P. J. Day [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:20 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
audit: add spaces on either side of case "..." operator.
Following the programming advice laid down in the gcc manual, make
sure the case "..." operator has spaces on either side.
According to:
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.2/gcc/Case-Ranges.html#Case-Ranges:
"Be careful: Write spaces around the ..., for otherwise it may be
parsed wrong when you use it with integer values."
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Akinobu Mita [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:18 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
dtlk: fix error checks in module_init()
This patch fixes two things in module_init.
- fix register_chrdev() error check
Currently dtlk doesn't check register_chrdev() failure correctly.
register_chrdev() returns a errno on failure.
- check probe failure
dtlk ignores probe failure and allows the module loading without
such device. I got "Trying to free nonexistent resource" message
by release_region() when unloading module without device.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix error code return]
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Pallotta <chris@allmedia.com>
Cc: Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Philippe De Muyter [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:15 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
partition: add support for sysv68 partitions
Add support for the Motorola sysv68 disk partition (slices in motorola
doc).
Signed-off-by: Philippe De Muyter <phdm@macqel.be>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ravikiran G Thirumalai [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:13 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Pad irq_desc to internode cacheline size
We noticed a drop in n/w performance due to the irq_desc being cacheline
aligned rather than internode aligned. We see 50% of expected performance
when two e1000 nics local to two different nodes have consecutive irq
descriptors allocated, due to false sharing.
Note that this patch does away with cacheline padding for the UP case, as
it does not seem useful for UP configurations.
Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran@scalex86.org>
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim <shai@scalex86.org>
Cc: "Siddha, Suresh B" <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pavel Emelianov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:10 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
Lockdep treats down_write_trylock like regular down_write
This causes constructions like
down_write(&mm1->mmap_sem);
if (down_write_trylock(&mm2->mmap_sem)) {
...
up_write(&mm2->mmap_sem);
}
up_write(&mm1->mmap_sem);
generate a lockdep warning about circular locking dependence.
Call rwsem_acquire() with trylock set to 1.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Christoph Hellwig [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:07 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
merge compat_ioctl.h into compat_ioctl.c
Now that there is no arch-specific compat ioctl handling left there is not
point in having a separate copat_ioctl.h, so merge it into compat_ioctl.c
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Borislav Petkov [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:05 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
kernel-doc: handle arrays with arithmetic expressions as initializers
In a different approach here's a patch that handles the special case of
composite arithmetic expressions in array size initializers. With it,
prior to pushing the split strings on the @first_arg array, I split the
keywords before the array name as before and then keep the array name along
with the subscript expression as a single whole element which gets pushed
last. In this manner, kernel-doc produces correct output without removing
whitespaces which makes the array subscripts unreadable in the docs.
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:03 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/smbfs/request.c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use ALIGN
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:02 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
ROUND_UP macro cleanup in fs/(select|compat|readdir).c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use,ALIGN or DIV_ROUND_UP where ever appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:29:01 +0000 (00:29 -0700)]
parport_serial: fix PCI must_checks
drivers/parport/parport_serial.c:402: warning: ignoring return value of 'pci_enable_device', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:59 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
i386: sched.h inclusion from module.h is baack
linux/module.h
-> linux/elf.h
-> asm-i386/elf.h
-> linux/utsname.h
-> linux/sched.h
Noticeably cut the number of files which are rebuild upon touching sched.h
and cut down pulled junk from every module.h inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Milind Arun Choudhary [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:57 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/char/lp.c
ROUND_UP macro cleanup use DIV_ROUND_UP
Signed-off-by: Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:56 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Deprecate SA_xxx interrupt flags -V2
The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:
> This is going to break a lot of external stuff. We should have found
> a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
> warning) to warn people of impending doom. But I can't immediately
> find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
> suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months. It's
> going to get ugly out there. We shall see...
Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
so a warning is emitted on compile time.
Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thomas Gleixner [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:52 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Replace deprecated SA_xxx interrupt flags
Fix the last users of the deprecated SA_xxx interrupt flags.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Bert Wesarg [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:50 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
kernel/params.c: fix lying comment for param_array()
This fixes the comment for the function param_array. Which lies that it
only *temporarily* mangle the input string @val.
Signed-off-by: Bert Wesarg <wesarg@informatik.uni-halle.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:47 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Fix race between cat /proc/slab_allocators and rmmod
Same story as with cat /proc/*/wchan race vs rmmod race, only
/proc/slab_allocators want more info than just symbol name.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:43 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Fix race between cat /proc/*/wchan and rmmod et al
kallsyms_lookup() can go iterating over modules list unprotected which is OK
for emergency situations (oops), but not OK for regular stuff like
/proc/*/wchan.
Introduce lookup_symbol_name()/lookup_module_symbol_name() which copy symbol
name into caller-supplied buffer or return -ERANGE. All copying is done with
module_mutex held, so...
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:41 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Simplify kallsyms_lookup()
Several kallsyms_lookup() pass dummy arguments but only need, say, module's
name. Make kallsyms_lookup() accept NULLs where possible.
Also, makes picture clearer about what interfaces are needed for all symbol
resolving business.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:39 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Fix race between rmmod and cat /proc/kallsyms
module_get_kallsym() leaks "struct module *" outside of module_mutex which is
no-no, because module can dissapear right after mutex unlock.
Copy all needed information from inside module_mutex into caller-supplied
space.
[bunk@stusta.de: is_exported() can now become static]
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Alexey Dobriyan [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:38 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Simplify module_get_kallsym() by dropping length arg
module_get_kallsym() could in theory truncate module symbol name to fit in
buffer, but nobody does this. Always use KSYM_NAME_LEN + 1 bytes for name.
Suggested by lg^WRusty.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@sw.ru>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:35 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
PNPACPI sets pnpdev->dev.archdata
Teach PNPACPI how to hook up its devices to their ACPI nodes, so that
pnpdev->dev.archdata points to the parallel acpi device node. Previously
this only worked for PCI, leaving a notable hole.
Export "acpi_bus_type" so this can work.
Remove some extraneous whitespace.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kalash nainwal [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:31 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
(re)register_binfmt returns with -EBUSY
When a binary format is unregistered and re-registered, register_binfmt
fails with -EBUSY. The reason is that unregister_binfmt does not set
fmt->next to NULL, and seeing (fmt->next != NULL), register_binfmt fails
with -EBUSY.
One can find his way around by explicitly setting fmt->next to NULL after
unregistering, but that is kind of unclean (one should better be using only
the interfaces, and not the interal members, isn't it?)
Attached one-liner can fix it.
Signed-off-by: Kalash Nainwal <kalash.nainwal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:27 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Kprobes: print details of kretprobe on assertion failure
In certain cases like when the real return address can't be found or when
the number of tracked calls to a kretprobed function is less than the
number of returns, we may not be able to find the correct return address
after processing a kretprobe. Currently we just do a BUG_ON, but no
information is provided about the actual failing kretprobe.
Print out details of the kretprobe before calling BUG().
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ingo Molnar [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:26 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
enhance initcall_debug, measure latency
enhance the initcall_debug boot option:
- measure the time the initcall took to execute and report
it in units of milliseconds.
- show the return code of initcalls (useful to see failures and
to make sure that an initcall hung)
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix printk warning]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jan Engelhardt [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:24 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness
Fix kevent's childs priority greediness. Such tasks were always scheduled
at nice level -5 and, at that time, udev stole us the CPU time with -5.
Already posted at http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/1/10/85
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add comment]
Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Simon Horman [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:22 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
kdump/kexec: calculate note size at compile time
Currently the size of the per-cpu region reserved to save crash notes is
set by the per-architecture value MAX_NOTE_BYTES. Which in turn is
currently set to 1024 on all supported architectures.
While testing ia64 I recently discovered that this value is in fact too
small. The particular setup I was using actually needs 1172 bytes. This
lead to very tedious failure mode where the tail of one elf note would
overwrite the head of another if they ended up being alocated sequentially
by kmalloc, which was often the case.
It seems to me that a far better approach is to caclculate the size that
the area needs to be. This patch does just that.
If a simpler stop-gap patch for ia64 to be squeezed into 2.6.21(.X) is
needed then this should be as easy as making MAX_NOTE_BYTES larger in
arch/asm-ia64/kexec.h. Perhaps 2048 would be a good choice. However, I
think that the approach in this patch is a much more robust idea.
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ken Chen [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:20 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
remove artificial software max_loop limit
Remove artificial maximum 256 loop device that can be created due to a
legacy device number limit. Searching through lkml archive, there are
several instances where users complained about the artificial limit that
the loop driver impose. There is no reason to have such limit.
This patch rid the limit entirely and make loop device and associated block
queue instantiation on demand. With on-demand instantiation, it also gives
the benefit of not wasting memory if these devices are not in use (compare
to current implementation that always create 8 loop devices), a net
improvement in both areas. This version is both tested with creation of
large number of loop devices and is compatible with existing losetup/mount
user land tools.
There are a number of people who worked on this and provided valuable
suggestions, in no particular order, by:
Jens Axboe
Jan Engelhardt
Christoph Hellwig
Thomas M
Signed-off-by: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Russell King [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:17 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Make /dev/port conditional on config symbol
Instead of having /dev/port support dependent in multiple places on a
string of preprocessor symbols, define a new configuration directive for
it. This ensures that all four places remain consistent with each other.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
John Feeney [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:12 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Fix 82875 PCI setup
The 82875 EDAC driver enables an otherwise-hidden PCI device, but doesn't
register it as a PCI device properly. Therefore, the device list in
/proc/bus/pci/devices is different than the tree in /sys/bus/pci. This
usually manifests as the X server failing to start, since it expects the
two lists to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Adam Jackson <ajackson@redhat.com>
Cc: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlap [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:08 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
header cleaning: don't include smp_lock.h when not used
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.
Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:05 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs()
Add touch_all_softlockup_watchdogs() to allow the softlockup watchdog
timers on all cpus to be updated. This is used to prevent sysrq-t from
generating a spurious watchdog message when generating lots of output.
Softlockup watchdogs use sched_clock() as its timebase, which is inherently
per-cpu (at least, when it is measuring unstolen time). Because of this,
it isn't possible for one CPU to directly update the other CPU's timers,
but it is possible to tell the other CPUs to do update themselves
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Acked-by: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jeremy Fitzhardinge [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:28:02 +0000 (00:28 -0700)]
Ignore stolen time in the softlockup watchdog
The softlockup watchdog is currently a nuisance in a virtual machine, since
the whole system could have the CPU stolen from it for a long period of
time. While it would be unlikely for a guest domain to be denied timer
interrupts for over 10s, it could happen and any softlockup message would
be completely spurious.
Earlier I proposed that sched_clock() return time in unstolen nanoseconds,
which is how Xen and VMI currently implement it. If the softlockup
watchdog uses sched_clock() to measure time, it would automatically ignore
stolen time, and therefore only report when the guest itself locked up.
When running native, sched_clock() returns real-time nanoseconds, so the
behaviour would be unchanged.
Note that sched_clock() used this way is inherently per-cpu, so this patch
makes sure that the per-processor watchdog thread initialized its own
timestamp.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Dan Hecht <dhecht@vmware.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Chris Lalancette <clalance@redhat.com>
Cc: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
john stultz [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:59 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
Move timekeeping code to timekeeping.c
Move the timekeeping code out of kernel/timer.c and into
kernel/time/timekeeping.c. I made no cleanups or other changes in transit.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Eric Dumazet [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:57 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
time: SMP friendly alignment of struct clocksource
struct clocksource is a critical data structure.
Most of its fields are read only, some of them are heavily modified at each
timer interrupt.
It makes sense to separate those fields and make sure they all share one
cache line, or at least the minimum for machines with small cache lines.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Acked-by: John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ahmed S. Darwish [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:55 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
IRQ: check for PERCPU flag only when adding first irqaction
An irqaction structure won't be added to an IRQ descriptor irqaction list if
it doesn't agree with other irqactions on the IRQF_PERCPU flag. Don't check
for this flag to change IRQ descriptor `status' for every irqaction added to
the list, Doing the check only for the first irqaction added is enough.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Ralf Baechle [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:52 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
<linux/sysdev.h> needs to include <linux/module.h>
sysdev.h uses THIS_MODULE so should include <linux/module.h>.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: couple of fixes]
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Venki Pallipadi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:47 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
Add a new deferrable delayed work init
Add a new deferrable delayed work init. This can be used to schedule work
that are 'unimportant' when CPU is idle and can be called later, when CPU
eventually comes out of idle.
Use this init in cpufreq ondemand governor.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Venki Pallipadi [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:44 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
Add support for deferrable timers
Introduce a new flag for timers - deferrable: Timers that work normally
when system is busy. But, will not cause CPU to come out of idle (just to
service this timer), when CPU is idle. Instead, this timer will be
serviced when CPU eventually wakes up with a subsequent non-deferrable
timer.
The main advantage of this is to avoid unnecessary timer interrupts when
CPU is idle. If the routine currently called by a timer can wait until
next event without any issues, this new timer can be used to setup timer
event for that routine. This, with dynticks, allows CPUs to be lazy,
allowing them to stay in idle for extended period of time by reducing
unnecesary wakeup and thereby reducing the power consumption.
This patch:
Builds this new timer on top of existing timer infrastructure. It uses
last bit in 'base' pointer of timer_list structure to store this deferrable
timer flag. __next_timer_interrupt() function skips over these deferrable
timers when CPU looks for next timer event for which it has to wake up.
This is exported by a new interface init_timer_deferrable() that can be
called in place of regular init_timer().
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Privatise a #define]
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
David Brownell [Tue, 8 May 2007 07:27:42 +0000 (00:27 -0700)]
layered parport code uses parport->dev
Update some of the layered parport_driver code to use parport->dev:
- i2c-parport (parent of i2c_adapter)
- spi_butterfly (parent of spi_master, allowing cruft removal)
- lp (creating class_device)
- ppdev (parent of parportN device)
- tipar (creating class_device)
There are still drivers that should be updated, like some of the input
drivers; but they won't be any worse off than they are today.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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