Dan Williams [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 16:04:31 +0000 (11:04 -0500)]
[patch] ipw2100: support WEXT-18 enc_capa v3
This patch allows ipw2100 driver to advertise the WPA-related encryption
options that it does really support. It's necessary to work correctly
with NetworkManager and other programs that actually check driver & card
capabilities.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Denis Vlasenko [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:45:47 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix a few "warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used"
These warnings are emitted if non-modular network drivers are built.
Fixes just move cleanup_card() definitions into #ifdef MODULE region.
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/wd.c:131: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/3c503.c:152: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/ne.c:216: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/hp.c:106: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/hp-plus.c:142: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/smc-ultra.c:172: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/e2100.c:144: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/es3210.c:159: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/lne390.c:149: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/lance.c:313: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
/.1/usr/srcdevel/kernel/linux-2.6.15-rc7.src/drivers/net/ac3200.c:127: warning: 'cleanup_card' defined but not used
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Ayaz Abdulla [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:45:45 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] forcedeth: TSO fix for large buffers
This contains a bug fix for large buffers. Originally, if a tx buffer to
be sent was larger then the maximum size of the tx descriptor, it would
overwrite other control bits. In this patch, the buffer is split over
multiple descriptors. Also, the fragments are now setup in forward order.
Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Olaf Hering [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:45:45 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove bouncing mail address of mv643xx_eth maintainer
Remove bouncing mail address of mv643xx maintainer.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Adrian Bunk [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 06:45:41 +0000 (22:45 -0800)]
[PATCH] drivers/net/Kconfig: indentation fix
This patch fixes a wrong indentation.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Eric Paris [Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:57:11 +0000 (11:57 -0500)]
[PATCH] update bonding.txt to not show ip address on slaves
ifenslave, as of abi version 2, does not set the ip address on the slave
interfaces. The documentation example however still shows that the
ensalved interfaces should have the same IP as the master. The patch
simply removes the lines from the example which should no longer appear.
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
bonding.txt | 2 --
1 files changed, 2 deletions(-) Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] tulip: enable multiport NIC BIOS fixups for x86_64
A BIOS bug affecting some multiport tulip NICs requires an irq fixup
in tulip_core.c. This has only been enabled for i686, but it is
needed for x86_64 as well.
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Andrew Chew [Thu, 5 Jan 2006 03:13:04 +0000 (19:13 -0800)]
[PATCH] sata_nv, spurious interrupts at system startup with MAXTOR 6H500F0 drive
This patch works around a problem with spurious interrupts seen at boot time when
a MAXTOR 6H500F0 drive is present. An ATA interrupt condition is mysteriously
present at start of day. If we took too long in issuing the first command,
the kernel would basically get tired of the spurious interrupts and turn the interrupt
off. Issuing the first command essentially causes the interrupt condition to
get acknowledged.
I haven't seen this happen with any other drives.
What I basically do is ack ATA status by reading it regardless of whether we're
expecting to have to handle an interrupt. This clears the start-of-day anomalous
interrupt condition, and keeps the kernel from disabling that interrupt due to
too many spurious interrupts.
Also, I fixed a bug where hotplug interrupts weren't getting acknowledged as handled
in the ISR. This was not the cause of the spurious interrupts, but it's the right
thing to do anyway.
Signed-Off-By: Andrew Chew Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Eugene Surovegin [Tue, 27 Dec 2005 20:36:41 +0000 (12:36 -0800)]
[PATCH] PPC44x EMAC driver: disable TX status deferral in half-duplex mode
Disable TX status deferral (EMACx_MR[MWSW=001]) in half-duplex mode.
I have two reports when EMAC stops transmitting when connected to a
hub. TX ring debug printouts show complete mess when this happens,
probably hardware collision handling doesn't work quite well in this
mode.
This is relevant only for SoCs with EMAC4 core (440GX, 440SP, 440SPe).
Tested on 440GX.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Johannes Berg [Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:35:20 +0000 (11:35 +0100)]
[PATCH] ieee80211: enable hw wep where host has to build IV
This patch fixes some of the ieee80211 crypto related code so that
instead of having the host fully do crypto operations, the host_build_iv
flag works properly (for WEP in this patch) which, if turned on,
requires the hardware to do all crypto operations, but the ieee80211
layer builds the IV. The hardware also has to build the ICV.
Previously, the host_build_iv flag couldn't be used at all for WEP, and
not alone (with both host_decrypt and host_encrypt disabled) because the
crypto algorithm wasn't assigned. This is also fixed.
I have tested this patch both in host crypto mode and in hw crypto mode
(with the Broadcom chipset).
[resent, signing digitally caused it to be MIME-junked, sorry]
Signed-Off-By: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] sk98lin: error handling on dual port board
Sk98lin driver error recovery on two port boards is bad.
If it fails the second allocation, it will not release resources
properly. Also it registers the second port in the pci driver data
If second port fails, might as well go with one port.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Sk98lin 64bit memory handling is wrong. It doesn't set the
highdma flag; i.e. the kernel always does bounce buffers.
It doesn't fallback to 32 bit mask if it can't get 64 bit mask.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
[PATCH] sk98lin: routine called from probe marked __init
Sk98lin driver has a routine marked __init that is called from
the probe code. If using pci hotplug, this could be called after
the initialization so it needs to be marked __devinit.
So if you hot added a sk98lin board, the kernel would crash.
I don't have hot plug hardware to actually try this feat.
Also, there are two routines, only called from SkGeBoardInit that can
be marked __devinit.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Jens Axboe [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:03:35 +0000 (16:03 +0100)]
[IDE] Use the block layer deferred softirq request completion
This patch makes IDE use the new blk_complete_request() interface.
There's still room for improvement, as __ide_end_request() really
could drop the lock after getting HWGROUP->rq (why does it need to
hold it in the first place? If ->rq access isn't serialized, we are
screwed anyways).
Jens Axboe [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 15:02:34 +0000 (16:02 +0100)]
[BLOCK] ll_rw_blk: Enable out-of-order request completions through softirq
Request completion can be a quite heavy process, since it needs to
iterate through the entire request and complete the bio's it holds.
This patch adds blk_complete_request() which moves this processing
into a dedicated block softirq.
Jens Axboe [Mon, 9 Jan 2006 14:30:20 +0000 (15:30 +0100)]
[BLOCK] Kill blk_attempt_remerge()
It's a broken interface, it's done way too late. And apparently it triggers
slab problems in recent kernels as well (most likely after the generic dispatch
code was merged). So kill it, ide-cd is the only user of it.
Matt Mackall [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:26 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make vm86 support optional
This adds an option to remove vm86 support under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Saves
about 5k.
This version eliminates most of the #ifdefs of the previous version and
instead uses function stubs in vm86.h. Also, release_vm86_irqs is moved
from asm-i386/irq.h to a more appropriate home in vm86.h so that the stubs
can live together.
$ size vmlinux-baseline vmlinux-novm86
text data bss dec hex filename 2920821 523232 190652 3634705 377611 vmlinux-baseline 2916268 523100 190492 3629860 376324 vmlinux-novm86
Signed-off-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ben Collins [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:13 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] kconf: Check for eof from input stream.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Nathan Lynch [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:12 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix workqueue oops during cpu offline
Use first_cpu(cpu_possible_map) for the single-thread workqueue case. We
used to hardcode 0, but that broke on systems where !cpu_possible(0) when
workqueue_struct->cpu_workqueue_struct was changed from a static array to
alloc_percpu.
Commit id bce61dd49d6ba7799be2de17c772e4c701558f14 ("Fix hardcoded cpu=0 in
workqueue for per_cpu_ptr() calls") fixed that for Ben's funky sparc64
system, but it regressed my Power5. Offlining cpu 0 oopses upon the next
call to queue_work for a single-thread workqueue, because now we try to
manipulate per_cpu_ptr(wq->cpu_wq, 1), which is uninitialized.
So we need to establish an unchanging "slot" for single-thread workqueues
which will have a valid percpu allocation. Since alloc_percpu keys off of
cpu_possible_map, which must not change after initialization, make this
slot == first_cpu(cpu_possible_map).
Dave Jones [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:09 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] Make apm buildable without legacy pm
APM doesn't _need_ the PM_LEGACY junk, so remove it's dependancy from
Kconfig, and ifdef the junk in the code. Whilst the ifdefs are ugly, when
the legacy stuff gets ripped out so will the ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Jan Blunck [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:07 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] Eliminate __attribute__ ((packed)) warnings for gcc-4.1
Since version 4.1 the gcc is warning about ignored attributes. This patch is
using the equivalent attribute on the struct instead of on each of the
structure or union members.
GCC Manual:
"Specifying Attributes of Types
packed
This attribute, attached to struct or union type definition, specifies
that
each member of the structure or union is placed to minimize the memory
required. When attached to an enum definition, it indicates that the
smallest integral type should be used.
Specifying this attribute for struct and union types is equivalent to
specifying the packed attribute on each of the structure or union
members."
Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Marko Kohtala [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:06 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] parport: bring back an unused phase for ppdev ioctl
Earlier fix removed unused phase, but that changed the values for other
phases. Since these are exposed to userspace through ppdev, it is safer
not to change them. Restore the unused phase value.
Signed-off-by: Marko Kohtala <marko.kohtala@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dave Jones [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:05:02 +0000 (01:05 -0800)]
[PATCH] fix gcc4.1 build failure on xconfig
scripts/kconfig/qconf.h:25: error: extra qualification â\80\98ConfigSettings::â\80\99 on member â\80\98readSizesâ\80\99
scripts/kconfig/qconf.h:26: error: extra qualification â\80\98ConfigSettings::â\80\99 on member â\80\98writeSizesâ\80\99
scripts/kconfig/qconf.h:127: error: extra qualification â\80\98ConfigList::â\80\99 on member â\80\98updateMenuListâ\80\99
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] v9fs: handle kthread_create failure, minor bugfixes
- remove unnecessary -ENOMEM assignments
- return correct value when buf_check_size for second time in a buffer
- handle failures when create_workqueue and kthread_create are called
- use kzalloc instead of kmalloc/memset 0
- v9fs_str_copy and v9fs_str_compare were buggy, were used only in one
place, correct the logic and move it to the place it is used.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
v9fs_create doesn't manage correctly the fids when it is called to create a
directory.. The fid created by the create 9P call (newfid) and the one
created by walking to already created file (wfidno) are not used
consistently.
This patch cleans up the usage of newfid and wfidno.
Signed-off-by: Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net> Cc: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@ericvh.myip.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
If a 9pfs server crashes, v9fs_fd_close() is called. Subsequently, in
cleaning up by performing a umount() on the FS that was provided by this
server v9fs_fd_close() is called again, and uses the old, freed valus of
trans->priv. This patch ensures that trans->priv can be freed only once,
otherwise this function bails early.
Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> 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>
[PATCH] fs/smbfs/proc.c: fix data corruption in smb_proc_setattr_unix()
This patch fixes a data corruption in smb_proc_setattr_unix()
(smb_filetype_from_mode() returns an u32, and there are only four bytes
reserved for it in data.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] PTRACE_SYSEMU is only for i386 and clashes with other ptrace codes of other archs
PTRACE_SYSEMU{,_SINGLESTEP} is actually arch specific, for now, and the
current allocated number clashes with a ptrace code of frv, i.e.
PTRACE_GETFDPIC. I should have submitted this much earlier, anyway we get no
breakage for this.
CC: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:36 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] shrink struct page
Reduce the size of the pageframe for NR_CPUS>4, CONFIG_PREEMPT back to the
minimal size by unionising both ->private and ->mapping with the pagetable
lock.
It uses an anonymous struct and hence requires gcc-3.x.
[PATCH] aio: reorder kiocb structure elements to make sync iocb setup faster
Reorder members of the kiocb structure to make sync kiocb setup faster. By
setting the elements sequentially, the write combining buffers on the CPU
are able to combine the writes into a single burst, which results in fewer
cache cycles being consumed, freeing them up for other code. This results
in a 10-20KB/s[*] increase on the bw_unix part of LMbench on my test
system.
* The improvement varies based on what other patches are in the system,
as there are a number of bottlenecks, so this number is not absolutely
accurate.
Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <benjamin.c.lahaise@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Akinobu Mita [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:29 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] modules: mark TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD correctly
Currently TAINT_FORCED_RMMOD is totally unused. Because it is marked as
TAINT_FORCED_MODULE instead when user forced a module unload. This patch
marks it correctly
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Ashutosh Naik [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:25 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] modules: prevent overriding of symbols
Ensure that an exported symbol does not already exist in the kernel or in
some other module's exported symbol table. This is done by checking the
symbol tables for the exported symbol at the time of loading the module.
Currently this is done after the relocation of the symbol.
Signed-off-by: Ashutosh Naik <ashutosh.naik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Anand Krishnan <anandhkrishnan@yahoo.co.in> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Dmitry Torokhov [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:22 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] Sonypi: convert to the new platform device interface
Do not use platform_device_register_simple() as it is going away, implement
->probe() and -remove() functions so manual binding and unbinding will work
with this driver.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Cc: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Bjorn Helgaas [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:13 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] /dev/mem: validate mmap requests
Add a hook so architectures can validate /dev/mem mmap requests.
This is analogous to validation we already perform in the read/write
paths.
The identity mapping scheme used on ia64 requires that each 16MB or
64MB granule be accessed with exactly one attribute (write-back or
uncacheable). This avoids "attribute aliasing", which can cause a
machine check.
Sample problem scenario:
- Machine supports VGA, so it has uncacheable (UC) MMIO at 640K-768K
- efi_memmap_init() discards any write-back (WB) memory in the first granule
- Application (e.g., "hwinfo") mmaps /dev/mem, offset 0
- hwinfo receives UC mapping (the default, since memmap says "no WB here")
- Machine check abort (on chipsets that don't support UC access to WB
memory, e.g., sx1000)
In the scenario above, the only choices are
- Use WB for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because it causes attribute
aliasing with the UC mapping for the VGA MMIO space.
- Use UC for hwinfo mmap. Can't do this because the chipset may not
support UC for that region.
- Disallow the hwinfo mmap with -EINVAL. That's what this patch does.
Andrew Morton [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:09 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] remove gcc-2 checks
Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:07 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] Abandon gcc-2.95.x
There's one scsi driver which doesn't compile due to weird __VA_ARGS__ tricks
and the rather useful scsi/sd.c is currently getting an ICE. None of the new
SAS code compiles, due to extensive use of anonymous unions. The V4L guys are
very good at exploiting the gcc-2.95.x macro expansion bug (_why_ does each
driver need to implement its own debug macros?) and various people keep on
sneaking in anonymous unions, which are rather nice.
Plus anonymous unions are rather useful.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Andy Isaacson [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:04:00 +0000 (01:04 -0800)]
[PATCH] block/stat.txt
I couldn't find any docs explaining the contents of /sys/block/<dev>/stat,
so I wrote up the following. I'm not completely sure it's accurate - Jens,
could you give a yea or nay on this?
In particular, the counts of read/write IOs and read/write sectors are
incremented in different places - it looks like they both increment as the
request is being finished, but I'm not completely sure of that.
Oren Laadan [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:51 +0000 (01:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] fork: fix race in setting child's pgrp and tty
In fork, child should recopy parent's pgrp/tty after it has tasklist_lock.
Otherwise following a setpgid() on the parent, *after* copy_signal(), the
child will own a stale pgrp (which may be reused); (eg. if copy_mm()
sleeps a long while due to memory pressure). Similar issue for the tty.
Signed-off-by: Oren Laadan <orenl@cs.columbia.edu> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Mike Miller [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:50 +0000 (01:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] cciss: adds MSI and MSI-X support
This creates a new function, cciss_interrupt_mode called from
cciss_pci_init. This function determines what type of interrupt vector to
use, i.e., MSI, MSI-X, or IO-APIC.
One noticeable difference is changing the interrupt field of the controller
struct to an array of 4 unsigned ints. The Smart Array HW is capable of
generating 4 distinct interrupts depending on the transport method in use
during operation. These are:
#define DOORBELL_INT 0
Used to notify the contoller of configuration updates. We only use
this feature when in polling mode.
#define PERF_MODE_INT 0
Used when the controller is in Performant Mode.
#define SIMPLE_MODE_INT 2
Used when the controller is in Simple Mode (current Linux implementation).
#define MEMQ_INT_MODE 3
Not used.
When using IO-APIC interrupts these 4 lines are OR'ed together so when any
one fires an interrupt an is generated. In MSI or MSI-X mode this hardware
OR'ing is ignored. We must register for our interrupt depending on what
mode the controller is running. For Linux we use SIMPLE_MODE_INT
exclusively at this time. Please consider this for inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Kylene Jo Hall [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:48 +0000 (01:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] tpmdd: remove global event log
Remove global event log in the tpm bios event measurement log code that
would have caused problems when the code was run concurrently. A log is
now allocated and attached to the seq file upon open and destroyed
appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Kylene Jo Hall <kjhall@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Don't attempt to power off if power off is not implemented
The problem. It is expected that /sbin/halt -p works exactly like
/sbin/halt, when the kernel does not implement power off functionality.
The kernel can do a lot of work in the reboot notifiers and in
device_shutdown before we even get to machine_power_off. Some of that
shutdown is not safe if you are leaving the power on, and it definitely
gets in the way of using sysrq or pressing ctrl-alt-del. Since the
shutdown happens in generic code there is no way to fix this in
architecture specific code :(
Some machines are kernel oopsing today because of this.
The simple solution is to turn LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_POWER_OFF into
LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_HALT if power_off functionality is not implemented.
This has the unfortunate side effect of disabling the power off
functionality on architectures that leave pm_power_off to null and still
implement something in machine_power_off. And it will break the build on
some architectures that don't have a pm_power_off variable at all.
On both counts I say tough.
For architectures like alpha that don't implement the pm_power_off variable
pm_power_off is declared in linux/pm.h and it is a generic part of our
power management code, and all architectures should implement it.
For architectures like parisc that have a default power off method in
machine_power_off if pm_power_off is not implemented or fails. It is easy
enough to set the pm_power_off variable. And nothing bad happens there,
the machines just stop powering off.
The current semantics are impossible without a flag at the top level so we
can avoid the problem code if a power off is not implemented. pm_power_off
is as good a flag as any with the bonus that it works without modification
on at least x86, x86_64, powerpc, and ppc today.
Andrew can you pick this up and put this in the mm tree. Kernels that
don't compile or don't power off seem saner than kernels that oops or
panic. Until we get the arch specific patches for the problem
architectures this probably isn't smart to push into the stable kernel.
Unfortunately I don't have the time at the moment to walk through every
architecture and make them work. And even if I did I couldn't test it :(
From: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Add pm_power_off() for build fix of arch/m32r/kernel/process.c.
From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
UML build fix
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Hayato Fujiwara <fujiwara@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
[PATCH] Extend RCU torture module to test tickless idle CPU
This patch forces RCU torture threads off various CPUs in the system
allowing them to become idle and go tickless. Meant to test support for
such tickless idle CPU in RCU.
Dave Jones [Sun, 8 Jan 2006 09:03:41 +0000 (01:03 -0800)]
[PATCH] Add tainting for proprietary helper modules
Kernels that have had Windows drivers loaded into them are undebuggable.
I've wasted a number of hours chasing bugs filed in Fedora bugzilla only to
find out much later that the user had used such 'helpers', and their
problems were unreproducable without them loaded.
Acked-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>